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The Importance of Companionship in avatar
posted by zanhar1
So I was lectura a post on tumblr that got me thinking. Basic gist is that someone dicho Azula couldn't do anything on her own. My initial thought was to dispute that but then I kind of thought about it and realized this person was kind of right. But not just about Azula. After really thinking about it I realized that none of the characters really can! Hear me out guys; I'm not saying that the avatar characters are useless on their own, but they are so much stronger when they have others to help them out. In fact I'd like to argue that this is an intended theme in Avatar. Like these characters are strong por their lonesomes. But goodness they are so much stronger together. Not only are all of the avatar characters are at their best when they are with friends and enamorados but I would like to say that they are all at their worst when they are alone. From start to finish it was pretty clear that these characters were never meant to accomplish anything huge totally on their own. And no, this isn't a bad thing at all. In fact I think it's kind of amazing. There are so many shows and cine that feature characters doing everything unassisted and the main character defeating the bad guys on their own, but in avatar we have many characters who know they are at their best when with others. And it really works because avatar is about a war and war isn't something that one person can be in alone, no matter how far the person is from the front lines.
So lets get started shall we? Zuko, Aang, and Azula are my biggest examples of this. So I'll start with Aang because his solitude had the most profound affect on the world of Avatar. One of the biggest catastrophes happened because Aang ran away. He found out that he was the avatar and instead of relying on the monks and his other friends for support he took off on his own and found himself trapped in the iceberg. Because of this the war had a chance to get awful.
In fact, all of Aang's worst mistakes seem to have been when he chose to try to face things alone. The only exception being his parts during the comment, but even then his friends were helping from afar. Times like when he ran away during the awakening; he ran off to go fight the fuego Nation alone in the middle of a storm. This only left him helpless and venerable and feeling más useless and ashamed than he had before. He didn't really have an ounce of fight left in him and barely weathered the storm por his lonesome. por the end of the episode, the rest of the gaang are por his side again and pull him into a group hug. Thus a tone of hope is set once again.
There was also that that time in season one when he thought Sokka and Katara would leave him if they found their father. I believe that this episode was 'Bato of the Watertribe'. For much of the episode when Katara and Sokka were interacting with Bato, Aang felt alone and jealous. This prompts him to hide information about Hakoda's rendezvous point, further isolating him. The más alone Aang felt the weaker he was. He ended up getting cornered por June, Iroh, and Zuko alone for a little bit. He almost lost, if I recall correctly, and was saved por the surprise appearance of Katara and Sokka.
Aang also had the opportunity to work with Zuko early on. I'm talking about The Blue Spirit. Aang probably wouldn't have made it out of Zhao's grasp without Zuko. Which is pretty wild because the mostrar is displaying that even working with an foe to defeat a common enemy is más effective than barging into a fight alone.
So speaking of Zuko: of all of the characters he seemed to have had the most alone time. But even season one Zuko always had help from Iroh and the closer he was to true solitude the worse he got. Zuko was arguably at his weakest when he división, split ways with Iroh, even then his uncle was tailing not too far behind him. So let's just start with Zuko alone. Obviously we see that he's capable of handling himself, but he's having a much rougher time; he went hungry más often and got angry más quickly. Iroh wasn't there to keep his anger in check.
The Chase is another good example. For most of it, Iroh was not with him. When he went up against Azula and Aang I'm wanting to say that he lost quicker than he ever had–and not just because he was fighting two people at once. In general he was actuación far más impulsively than he would have normally. Without guidance from Iroh he was very lost. Like all of the other characters, he needs companionship to be at his best.
This is shown again in that episode where Zuko is trying to registrarse Team Avatar. He was very alone and very awkward.The longer he spent alone the más frustrated he seemed to get. Zuko only started to become his best person after he found himself a whole group of people who cared about him.
Zuko is amazing for proving how important friendship is in getting things accomplished because he has worked on so many teams. Like about that episode where he teamed up with the Freedom Fighters. Allied with the group he was able to get himself, Iroh, and others better comida than the gruel they had initially been forced to eat while traveling to Ba Sing Se. On his own he probably wouldn't have been able to do so.
Hell he even worked better with Azula than he did on his own. When the two of them fought together in Crossroads of Destiny he was kicking major ass. Point is, no matter who he is working with, Zuko is always much better at what he does when he is working with another person over working solo.
Now that Azula has been brought up let's talk about her. Because she has perhaps one of the most interesting connections to this theme, and in a very different way than Zuko. What the two have in common is that (surprise!) Azula is also at her best when she has people to help her out. Just like all of the other characters Azula can definitely handle herself on her own. Azula was totally on her own in The Chase so I feel like it's objectively wrong to say that she can't do anything por herself. That whole fight was she por her lonesome and she was kicking culo up until she found herself crazily out numbered. She worked mostly solo (with some help from the Dai Li) in día of Black Sun. Eventually though she was totally on her own and she still won that battle.
But lets back up again; she still had the Dai Li. If they weren't there, she probably wouldn't have gotten as far. In general Azula has these huge elaborate plans that a single person cannot possibly hope to execute alone. Azula is well aware that she needs support; she was the one who confessed to needing Zuko in the Crossroads episode. And por God, were they a force to reckon with!
Just like Zuko, Azula is willing to work with people she doesn't like, people like Long Feng. To a point she needed him. Without his support and the Dai Li he controlled, her plan would never work. Bonus; Long Feng is another character who can't do things alone–he realized that he needed help from Azula just as much as she needed his assistance.
Azula is also the one who outright vocalizes that, "if I want to catch my prey, I must be agile, nimble. I need a small, elite team. It's time to visit some old friends." And thus Mai and TyLee come into the picture. It took until typing this to realize that one of Azula's biggest (and most overlooked) strengths is that she realizes that she needs help, which was something that season 1 & 2 Zuko didn't and it really hurt him.
Azula relied a lot on Mai and TyLee and they relied on her as well. The Drill and The Chase demonstrate this pretty well. So lets start with The Chase; for the first half of the episode all three were fighting very closely together–literally side por side. They were dominating it at that point. Though they put up quite a fight, Mai and TyLee lost their battle to Sokka and Katara after splitting up. Naturally this left Azula alone; as mentioned before she was just as hard to defeat as her friends but when it came down to it, she had to surrender. Now imagine if Mai and TyLee had been there and the playing field were más level.
And then tu have the Drill. This was probably one of Azula's harshest defeats (save for the final agni kai). The missing link was Mai. TyLee was all alone and unable to handle Sokka, Katara, and Toph. Between the fact that Katara had más support and teamwork on her side and the fact that TyLee was alone, she was pretty easy to handle. Azula fared better but it was más of a one on one. In the end, having no assistance she ended up losing despite a pretty tough fight. Have another bonus: Aang wasn't completely alone during that battle, he had help from Momo! While that sounds silly, Momo was the one who flew him back atop the drill after Azula slid into him and knocked them both off. Momo carrying him back to the parte superior, arriba was what gave him the time to deliver the final blow–Azula was still climbing whilst he did that. Like Momo is the reason he beat Azula to the parte superior, arriba of the drill. Literally even animal companionship is más effective than going solo in the Avatarverse.
Where as in Omashu Azula, Mai, and TyLee made much más progress. The trio was all together and they came much closer to capturing Aang than they had in the other two episodes. They were also working together in Ba Sing Se; this is what led to its downfall. Not just Azula alone, but Azula with help from Mai and TyLee. While Azula was the one with the master plan and doing most of the work she needed Mai and TyLee to spring the trap in the first place…and to keep Katara at bahía when she made an appearance.
So then we get to the Boiling Rock. Things where actually going pretty well for Azula in the beginning. She, Mai, and TyLee were fending off Team avatar rather expertly. It wasn't until Mai turned on Azula that things went south. Which is where lack of companionship comes in. Among other things, her lack of support and friendships were part of why Azula fell so far back in the end. She had zero companions nor support. Again, Azula can accomplish a lot por herself, she's a strong character. But she took a huge blow in losing people to help her out. Remember when I dicho that one of Azula's biggest strengths was knowing when she needed other people? She completely loses this during Sozin's Comet. In this episode she decides that she's a strong independent firebender who ain't need no help. Not only did she sever her connection to Mai and TyLee but she rid herself of the support the Dai Li provided as well as that of the twins and even her servants. She literally had no one standing por to step in if things took a bad turn. And the took a bad turn alright. Had she not banished her guard personal Zuko and Katara probably could have been stopped before they started.
What drives really drives the point inicial is just the whole dynamic of the fight. It was a one on one and both were pretty evenly matched to begin with. But in the end Zuko fell. Which is where friendship comes in. Unlike Azula, he was never truly alone during that fight. If worse came to worst (and it did) Katara was willing to step in. Ultimately, the fact that Zuko had Katara were together is what led them to victory. What's wilder is that (however minor) this is another way he and Azula swapped roles. Zuko admitted that he needed help to defeat Azula; legit when Azula decided that she didn't need other people, Zuko realized that he did!
So lets take it a bit further and look at The Search. This is another instance where Zuko and Azula realized they needed each other and ended up working together. Zuko needed Azula for information and she needed him for physical freedom. While they were lectura the same book, they clearly weren't on the same page. Zuko accomplished his goal of finding his mother because he had the gaang on his side. Once again, Azula was alone so she didn't fare that well.
Azula didn't start to get it together until Smoke and Shadow. What's different about S&S? She had friends (or at least a team) again. She found the Kemurikage. Together these ladies terrorized the town and Azula had her first victory in awhile. Not only that, but she was in a much better place mentally–probably because she found people like her that she could connect with.
I won't just leave it at Azula though. Mai displays this need for people. Arguably her strongest moment happened during the Boiling Rock. Her companionship with Zuko pushed her to act and TyLee helped her get through the encounter. Even a más minor character like Mai serves to highlight how important companionship is in Avatar.
And how about Toph? I can't leave her out because she had the most in your face example of this. Teamwork > solor is literally a huge theme for bryke; they make a point of explicitly saying that people don't have to fight alone and they do this with Toph and Iroh.
"Toph: I know what you're thinking … I look like I can't handle being por myself.
Iroh: I wasn't thinking that.
Toph: tu wouldn't even let me pour my own cup of tea!
Iroh: I poured your té because I wanted to and for no other reason.
Toph: People see me and think I'm weak. They want to take care of me, but I can take care of myself, por myself.
Iroh: tu sound like my nephew, always thinking tu need to do things on your own, without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who amor tu help you. Not that I amor you, I just met you.
Toph: So where is your nephew?
Iroh: I've been tracking him actually.
Toph: Is he lost?
Iroh: Yes, a little bit. His life has recently changed and he's going through very difficult times. He's trying to figure out who he is and he went away.
Toph: So now you're following him.
Iroh: I know he doesn't want me around him right now, but if he needs me, I'll be there."
I had to post all of the dialog because pretty much all of it is important. It starts out with Toph wanting to do everything por herself and Iroh quickly telling her that she doesn't have to. "Always thinking tu need to do things on your own, without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who amor tu help you." Is probably the most crucial quote regarding the companionship theme. It really doesn't get any clearer than that. This is kind of why when I saw the comentario on how Azula can't do things alone I started dwelling on it. Because Iroh is right; though a character like Azula can do things on her own; she doesn't have to and shouldn't have to. I think that this moment is where admitting when tu need a shoulder to cry on becomes such a big theme.
My final main example is the entire episode 'Great Divide'. I know you're all probably laughing because this one is filler™ but it really does demonstrate how important working together is. The whole time those two groups (I can't remember their names at the moment) were feuding it up and this only served to set them back. It was only when they came together and started to depend on each other that they made it out of the canyon.
So looping it back to the original statement that prompted this speculation. I don't think that Azula was any less capable than the other characters at all. Sure there is a lot she couldn't do on her own. But she did accomplish a lot por her lonesome. All of the characters have. One of the huge themes of avatar is that tu don't have to go into things on your own and that teamwork (cliche as that is) accomplishes much más than a one man army. This is why Azula crumbled in the end; because she pushed everyone away and was forced to take on things that would break the most independent person. Things no one should have to handle alone. While she has done a lot single handedly, she's no different than the other characters in that she was at her best when she had people to rely on.
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Part 3: Sokka
Hello everybody! Sokka, here! Pretty corny to start, but, I have to tell tu this, so...yeah. Hah!
Anyways, it was after school when I waited for Katara outside the school building por my beloved '50s Chevy Truck. Yeah...what a beauty! I was admiring my car when that jerk-hole Jet came laughing.
"Ha, hah!" laughed Jet(that jerk). "Man, Sokka, tu still riding that junk?"
"Hey, watch it, jerk-hole!" I snapped at him(pretty impressive, huh?). "Why don't tu go bother someone your own size?"
"Daaaaaannnggg, chill, bro!" dicho Jet, with a bit of slang. "I ain't gonna bother, ya."
"Whatever,...
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The future of team avatar (Taang, Zutara)
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10 years from now Zuko the fuego lord, and katara, his wife are having té in the garden. They have a set of triplets, 3 boys. And a daughter who is the eldest and named Kida. The triplets are Zuko Jr., Kuzon, and Lee. Kida is a fuego bender like her father. The problem with the 9 año old boys is that zuko and Kuzon are fuego benders, while Lee is a water bender like his mother.
Being the runt of the family, Lee was always getting beat up por his older brothers Zuko and Kuzon. At least his sister and parents were kind to him. Thing is, Kida, Lee's older sister, was kind to everyone, and his mother...
the gaang on the real world (they can bend) part 1:another día of hell!
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ok guys! here's my segundo fanfic. i hope tu like it. i just got some ides from our school and i wanted to share it to you. enjoy!
"SOKKA!" I shouted."we're late for school!"
"coming!"sokka said.
sokka is so lazy! i can't belive i had to put up with him everyday!!
i walked to our cocina and i found dad,cooking.
"hi dad" i said
"moring katara" dad said
"let's go katara!" sokka said. i grabbed the emparedado, sándwich de dad made me,said goodbye to dad,and jumped to my car. if youre wondering why i have a car,i was allowed cause sokka is a lousy driver. he didn't pass his driver's test.
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Alright! I'm doing this special for NightFrog! Right now I should be having cake and ice cream (but I amor the internet dearly), so I'm not going to! NightFrog answered these quicker than Vee o I did! So I like her for that! Enough about me!
Q-1: What is your favorito! time of the year? Why do tu like this time of the año so much?
A-1: Fall, because of the colors, and it contains the holiday of Halloween.
Q-2: What is your favorito! band/musician/singer? What type of música genre do tu like most?
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Q-3: Any sports o hobbies you...
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Read the first six parts of the story to understand. Then, comentario on each article.
Everything for the siguiente 3 days was normal even for a bender. I grew closer to my buds, we got into text arguments on the avatar series, on silly stuff like Kataang o Zutara. My grades were going good, I didn't do as many big stunts just small things here and there. I kept thinking of the talk I had with Aang 3 days ago. I wasn't sure what to expect, how long did I have to wait to meet the Avatar?? However it was Saturday and I wasn't about to have this... strange duty interfere with me and a Barnes and Noble....
Sorry it took so long guys! I was so bussy I forgot all about this fanfic! EXTREMLY SORRY! Don't know when I'm gonna write the siguiente one, hopefully soon! Sorry again :'(
Part 4: Yue
As I was walking through the park, I spot a guy staring at me. It was weird because I thought he was a creep, but as I got a better look at him, he wasn't.
He looked about my age, a short ponytail, white camisa, camiseta with a blue hoodie chaqueta with cut off sleeves, jeans, and adias flip flops with socks underneath. He kept staring and smiling at me, I smiled back.
That's when it happened.
His face light up and walked right up...
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Q: Jquery show or hide children link if it is available I have a question on Jquery. If I click on Link1, which does not have any ul.children and the class current_page_item will be added(not shown in this code as it will be added automatically by Wordpress), then ul.children in Link2 should be hidden.
If i click on Link 2, which will have both class page_item_has_children current_page_item, in this case ul.children should be shown. I have tried my code bellow, which is i know it is absolutely wrong. Please give me your advices. Many thanks.

if($(.navigation).hasClass(page_item_has_children)){
  (.navigation .page_item_has_children .children).hide();
}else if( $(.navigation).hasClass(page_item_has_children) && $(.navigation).hasClass(current_page_item)){
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A: How about simply hiding all nested UL elements, then simply showing the children of the clicked one?

$(".navigation li").each(function() {
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    $(this).children("ul").hide();
  if (localStorage.menuNumber) {
    $(".navigation li").eq(localStorage.menuNumber).children().show();
    }
  })
  .on("click", function() {
  // When any top-level ul is clicked, hide the
  //  nested menus then show the current one.
    $(this).parent().children().find("ul").hide();
    $(this).children().show();
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  //  should the user refresh...
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Edited it so that when it initially loads, all nested uls are hidden. Hope this helps! And edited again, to store the clicked menu in local storage. Sadly, for security reasons, this won't work here. See it as a fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/snowMonkey/fnuvvLwb/

A: This solution is a bit more towards your scenario (edited based on comment):

$(".navigation li").on("click", function() {
  if ($(this).hasClass("page_item_has_children") && $(this).hasClass("current_page_item")) {
    $(".navigation .children").show();
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    $(".navigation .children").hide();
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Q: Using psftp to upload and download files Hello I am trying to upload and download files from my desktop to my server. Now after some search I did download psftp. I used to use filezilla earlier, but I cannot install it on my desktop due to a few reasons. Since psftp (similar to putty) is just an executable for file transfer.
So now after going through this link http://www.math.tamu.edu/~mpilant/math696/psftp.html. I understood that put and get are two commands I would use to download and upload files. Now when I logon to the server and say get filename, it actually is throwing back an error
"local: unable to open filename". I tried that with other files too, and I end up getting the same error.
Am I making a mistake or is it a problem with this executable?
I did not find relevant tags for this topic, could somebody suggest me the right forum for this issue.

A: Alright sorry for  troubling you guys, my folder was locked down, so I did not have write access to the destination folder.

A: if you're starting psftp by double-clicking the .exe, it will have a local working directory of whatever folder/directory you'd started it in. Unless the file you're uploading is also in there, you'll have to use lcd (local change directory) to switch to that other directory:
 c:\this\and\that\psftp.exe   <---working directory of c:\this\and\that
 c:\upload\file\is\here\file.txt <--where you keep the file to upload

 c:\this\and\that> psftp
 psftp> lcd \upload\file\is\here
 psftp> put file.txt

should do the trick.

A: It looks like you might be trying to fetch (non-existent) local files.  Posting the full trace of the session might help.


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Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation Explained
Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.
DEC was a leading vendor of computer systems, including computers, software, and peripherals. Their PDP and successor VAX products were the most successful of all minicomputers in terms of sales.
DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors. DEC was a major player overseas where Compaq had less presence. However, Compaq had little idea what to do with its acquisitions, and soon found itself in financial difficulty of its own. The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in May 2002. some of DEC's product lines were still produced under the HP name.
See main article: History of Digital Equipment Corporation.
From 1957 until 1992, DEC's headquarters were located in a former wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts (since renamed Clock Tower Place, and now home to many companies). DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in May 2002. Some parts of DEC, notably the compiler business and the Hudson, Massachusetts facility, were sold to Intel.
Initially focusing on the small end of the computer market allowed DEC to grow without its potential competitors making serious efforts to compete with them. Their PDP series of machines became popular in the 1960s, especially the PDP-8, widely considered to be the first successful minicomputer. Looking to simplify and update their line, DEC replaced most of their smaller machines with the PDP-11 in 1970, eventually selling over 600,000 units and cementing DEC's position in the industry.
Originally designed as a follow-on to the PDP-11, DEC's VAX-11 series was the first widely used 32-bit minicomputer, sometimes referred to as "superminis". These systems were able to compete in many roles with larger mainframe computers, such as the IBM System/370. The VAX was a best-seller, with over 400,000 sold, and its sales through the 1980s propelled the company into the second largest computer company in the industry. At its peak, DEC was the second largest employer in Massachusetts, second only to the Massachusetts State Government.
The rapid rise of the business microcomputer in the late 1980s, and especially the introduction of powerful 32-bit systems in the 1990s, quickly eroded the value of DEC's systems. DEC's last major attempt to find a space in the rapidly changing market was the DEC Alpha 64-bit RISC instruction set architecture. DEC initially started work on Alpha as a way to re-implement their VAX series, but also employed it in a range of high-performance workstations. Although the Alpha processor family met both of these goals, and, for most of its lifetime, was the fastest processor family on the market, extremely high asking prices[1] were outsold by lower priced x86 chips from Intel and clones such as AMD.
DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.[2] At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors. DEC was a major player overseas where Compaq had less presence. However, Compaq had little idea what to do with its acquisitions, and soon found itself in financial difficulty of its own. The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in May 2002., some of DEC's product lines were still produced under the HP name.
Beyond DECsystem-10/20, PDP, VAX and Alpha, DEC was well respected for its communication subsystem designs, such as Ethernet, DNA (DIGITAL Network Architecture: predominantly DECnet products), DSA (Digital Storage Architecture: disks/tapes/controllers), and its "dumb terminal" subsystems including VT100 and DECserver products.[3]
DEC's Research Laboratories (or Research Labs, as they were commonly known) conducted DEC's corporate research. Some of them were operated by Compaq and are still operated by Hewlett-Packard. The laboratories were:
Western Research Laboratory (WRL) in Palo Alto, California, US
Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, California, US
Network Systems Laboratory (NSL) in Palo Alto, California, US
Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Paris Research Laboratory (PRL) in Paris, France
MetroWest Technology Campus (MTC) in Maynard, Massachusetts, US
Some of the former employees of DEC's Research Labs or DEC's R&D in general include:
Gordon Bell: technical visionary, VP Engineering 1972–83; Microsoft Research
Leonard Bosack
Mike Burrows
Luca Cardelli
Dave Cutler: led RSX-11M and VAX/VMS operating systems development; then led Windows NT development at Microsoft
Ed deCastro: co-founder of Data General Corporation
Alan Eustace
Jim Gettys: early developer of X Window System
Henri Gouraud
Alan Kotok
Leslie Lamport
Butler Lampson
Louis Monier
Isaac Nassi
Radia Perlman
Marcus Ranum
Brian Reid
Paul Vixie
Some of the former employees of Digital Equipment Corp who were responsible for developing Alpha and StrongARM:
Daniel W. Dobberpuhl
Jim Keller
Rich Witek
Some of the work of the Research Labs was published in the Digital Technical Journal,[4] which was in published from 1985 until 1998.[5]
Accomplishments and legacy
DEC supported the ANSI standards, especially the ASCII character set, which survives in Unicode and the ISO 8859 character set family. DEC's own Multinational Character Set also had a large influence on ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and, by extension, Unicode.
The first versions of the C language and the Unix operating system ran on DEC's PDP series of computers (first on a PDP-7, then the PDP-11's), which were among the first commercially viable minicomputers, although for several years DEC itself did not encourage the use of Unix.
DEC produced widely used and influential interactive operating systems, including OS-8, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, and OpenVMS. PDP computers, in particular the PDP-11 model, inspired a generation of programmers and software developers. Some PDP-11 systems more than 25 years old (software and hardware) are still being used to control and monitor factories, transportation systems and nuclear plants. DEC was an early champion of time-sharing systems.
The command-line interfaces found in DEC's systems, eventually codified as DCL, would look familiar to any user of modern microcomputer CLIs; those used in earlier systems, such as CTSS, IBM's JCL, or Univac's time-sharing systems, would look utterly alien. Many features of the CP/M and MS-DOS CLI show a recognizable family resemblance to DEC's OSes, including command names such as DIR and HELP and the "name-dot-extension" file naming conventions.
The MUMPS programming language, with its built-in database, was developed on the PDP-7, 9, and 15 series machines. MUMPS is still widely used in medical informations systems, such as those provide by Meditech and Epic Systems.
VAX and MicroVAX computers (very widespread in the 1980s) running VMS formed one of the most important proprietary networks, DECnet, which linked business and research facilities. The DECnet protocols formed one of the first peer-to-peer networking standards, with DECnet phase I being released in the mid-1970s. Email, file sharing, and distributed collaborative projects existed within the company long before their value was recognized in the market.
DEC, Intel and Xerox through their collaboration to create the DIX standard, were champions of Ethernet, but DEC is the company that made Ethernet commercially successful. Initially, Ethernet-based DECnet and LAT protocols interconnected VAXes with DECserver terminal servers. Starting with the Unibus to Ethernet adapter, multiple generations of Ethernet hardware from DEC were the de facto standard. The CI "computer interconnect" adapter was the industry's first network interface controller to use separate transmit and receive "rings".
DEC also invented clustering, an operating system technology that treated multiple machines as one logical entity. Clustering permitted sharing of pooled disk and tape storage via the HSC50/70/90 and later series of Hierarchical Storage Controllers (HSC). The HSCs delivered the first hardware RAID 0 and RAID 1 capabilities and the first serial interconnects of multiple storage technologies. This technology was the forerunner to architectures such as Network of Workstations which are used for massively cooperative tasks such as web-searches and drug research.
The LA36 and LA120 dot matrix printers became industry standards and may have hastened the demise of the Teletype Corporation.
The VT100 computer terminal became the industry standard, implementing a useful subset of the ANSI X3.64 standard, and even today terminal emulators such as HyperTerminal, PuTTY and Xterm still emulate a VT100 (or its more capable successor, the VT220).
The X Window System, the network transparent window system used on Unix and Linux, and also available on other operating systems, was developed at MIT jointly between Project Athena and the Laboratory for Computer Science. DEC was the primary sponsor for this project, which was a contemporary of the GNU Project but not associated with it.
In the period 1994–99 Linus Torvalds developed versions of Linux on early AlphaServer systems made available to him by the engineering department. Compaq software engineers developed special Linux kernel modules.[6] A well-known Linux distribution that ran on AlphaServer systems was Red Hat 7.2.[7] Another distribution that ran on Alpha was Gentoo Linux.
Notes-11 and its follow-on product, VAX Notes, were two of the first examples of online collaboration software, a category that has become to be known as groupware. Len Kawell, one of the original Notes-11 developers later joined Lotus Development Corporation and contributed to their Lotus Notes product.
DEC was one of the first businesses connected to the Internet, with dec.com, registered in 1985,[8] being one of the first of the now ubiquitous .com domains. DEC's gatekeeper.dec.com was a well-known software repository during the pre-World Wide Web days, and DEC was also the first computer vendor to open a public website, on 1 October 1993.[9] The popular AltaVista, created by DEC, was one of the first comprehensive Internet search engines. (Although Lycos was earlier, it was much more limited.)
DEC invented Digital Linear Tape (DLT), formerly known as CompacTape, which began as a compact backup medium for MicroVAX systems, and later grew to capacities of 800 gigabytes.
Work on the first hard-disk-based MP3-player, the Personal Jukebox, started at the DEC Systems Research Center. (The project was started about a month before the merger into Compaq was completed.)
DEC's Western Research Lab created the Itsy Pocket Computer. This was developed into the Compaq iPaq line of PDAs, which replaced the Compaq Aero PDA.
Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU) is a credit union which was chartered in 1979 for employees of DEC. Today its field of membership is open to existing family members, over 900 different sponsors, several communities in Massachusetts and several organizations. DCU has over 700 different sponsors, including the companies that acquired pieces of DEC.
DEC once held the Class A IP address block 16.0.0.0/8.[10]
User organizations
Originally the users' group was called DECUS (Digital Equipment Computer User Society) during the 1960s to 1990s. When Compaq acquired DEC in 1998, the users group was renamed CUO, the Compaq Users' Organisation. When HP acquired Compaq in 2002, CUO became HP-Interex, although there are still DECUS groups in several countries. In the United States, the organization is represented by the Encompass organization; currently Connect.
(Present), "Digital Equipment Corporation: Nineteen Fifty-Seven to the Present", DEC Press, 1978
Book: David Donald Miller. Open Vms Operating System Concepts. 1997. Elsevier. 978-1-55558-157-2.
Book: Alan R. Earls. Digital Equipment Corporation. 2004-06-30. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-3587-6.
Book: Edgar H Schein. with P. DeLisi. P. Kampas. M. Sonduck. DEC is dead, long live DEC. 2003-07-01. Berrett-Koehler Pub. 978-1-57675-225-8.
Book: Jamie Parker Pearson. Digital at work: snapshots from the first thirty-five years. September 1992. Digital Press. 1-55558-092-0.
Book: Glenn & George Harrar Rifkin. George Harrar. The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation. 1988. McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. 978-0-8092-4559-8.
Book: C. Gordon Bell. J. Craig Mudge. John E. McNamara. Digital Equipment Corporation. Computer engineering: A DEC view of hardware systems design. 1978. 0-932376-00-2.
GBell's CyberMuseum for Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
Rise and Fall of Digital (Equipment Corporation), a company chronicle at a German computer museum
Ken Olsen, New England Economic Adventure
http://alasir.com/articles/alpha_history/dec_collapse.shtml Alpha: The History in Facts and Comments - The Collapse of DEC
Web site: Schultz. Randy. Compaq to buy DEC. CNN Money. 19 June 2017.
For in-depth articles regarding DEC technologies, refer to the archived Digital Technical Journal
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/past.htm Digital Technical Journal – Online Issues
At least some of the research reports are available online at [ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/ ftp.digital.com], in the subdirectories WRL, SRC, NSL, CRL, PRL (see Research section). Verified July 2006
http://www.informatica.co.cr/linux/research/1999/0302-a.htm Compaq was actively participating during the period 1994–99 into the Linux development
http://www.informatica.co.cr/linux/research/2002/0108.htm Red Hat and Compaq Announce Port of Red Hat Linux 7.2 to Compaq's Alpha Processors (8 January 2002)
http://research.microsoft.com/Users/gbell/Digital/timeline/1985-6.htm dec.com
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9402&L=dectei-l&T=0&P=200 DECTEI-L Archives – February 1994 (#2)
[List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks]
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Frank lives in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood. He has been a homeowner for 30 years and works as a community organizer and researcher. Active in his neighborhood association, he heard too many stories from neighbors who suffered from automobile smash-and-grabs and home burglaries. Working with crime victims and neighborhood leaders, he helped found Stop Crime SF in 2016 to do something about it. Frank's first success was helping Westside neighbors in District 7 win a grant from City Hall to fund crime prevention tools such as security cameras and tracking devices. His next success was working with Supervisor Norman Yee on legislation to reduce rental car break-ins and the accessory crime they attract to neighborhoods. Frank is also heading an initiative to promote more accessible and transparent crime statistics in San Francisco — because he believes there's some truth to the saying, "if you can't measure it, you can't improve it." Frank is always thinking about what's next for Stop Crime SF.
Joel lives in the Lakeshore neighborhood near Stonestown Mall. Joel writes an award-winning column for the San Francisco Examiner. He also works for a firm that helps tech start-ups market their ideas and products. Joel has been a San Francisco resident for 20 years after growing up in the Midwest. The rise in property crime hit home for Joel when two bicycles were stolen from his garage and when his car window was smashed. Since then, he has met others who had their cars and homes broken into. He regularly sees the tell-tale shards of glass on sidewalks and curbs. Joel joined Stop Crime SF after writing about it in his Examiner column. He was impressed with the grassroots approach and the focus of regular citizens holding every part of law enforcement accountable — the police, the prosecutors, the judges and the politicians. Joel helped Stop Crime SF craft its mission statement and gives presentations to community groups about Stop Crime SF's programs.
Libby moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s and lives in the diverse District 10 — in a neighborhood bordering the Mission near Franklin Square Park. Living life at the heart of San Francisco's gentrification crisis has given Libby a strong sense of the relationship between growing income inequality and the problem of property crime by career criminals across the city. This experience led her to serve on the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury from 2015 to 2016. She investigated and reported on the epidemic of auto burglaries, among other public safety issues. Libby joined Stop Crime SF to build upon her work with regular citizens who are committed to holding every part of the criminal justice system accountable and endorsing elected officials who consider public safety a priority. Libby holds a BA from the University of New Mexico and and MBA from Golden Gate University.
Nancy has lived in many neighborhoods in San Francisco since 2001 and currently resides in SOMA. She is passionate about protecting victims of crime and ensuring public safety while recognizing the need to ensure fundamental fairness and balance the rights of the accused in the criminal justice system. Nancy was a San Francisco prosecutor for nearly 11 years, working on cases involving violent crime, domestic violence, stalking, public corruption and consumer protection. Prior to that, Nancy was a Deputy Attorney General in San Francisco arguing criminal cases in state and federal courts. Currently, Nancy is an Alameda County prosecutor. As a Director At-Large for Stop Crime SF, Nancy brings a detailed understanding of criminal law and the interaction between law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the courts. She has seen first hand how crime impacts victims and hopes to help this group represent the interests of victims and the broader community.
Jane lives in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood. She worked with her community to beautify the area by turning a public stairway into a mosaic of artistic tiles and creating gardens on the surrounding hillsides. But what was once a safe neighborhood saw a sudden and severe surge in crime. Jane and her neighbors wondered if flaws in the judicial system were to blame. So she became a founding member of Stop Crime SF. "I volunteer with Stop Crime SF because nothing will improve if you don't become involved," Jane says. She lets the District Attorney's office know which court cases Stop Crime SF wants to follow and then confirms the dates for the group's volunteer court watchers. She also gets crime updates from local police stations. Jane looks forward to meeting and working with new volunteers. An excellent baker, she's always ready to greet newcomers with a smile and an apple tart!


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Retire in Sebastian, Florida?
Overview: Sleepy Sebastian sits along the Indian River Lagoon on southeastern Florida's Treasure Coast, an area so named because so many Spanish ships lost their treasure along the coast during the early 18th-century.
A quiet, simple place, Sebastian is the site of America's first wildlife refuge, Pelican Island, and it is home to the Indian River Lagoon National Scenic Byway, the most biologically diverse estuary in the country. Needless to say, wildlife is in abundance. The waterfront is clean, grassy and has a modern fishing pier. Surfing, boating and saltwater fishing for redfish, bluefish and Spanish mackerel are favorite pastimes. Restaurants range from cozy, family owned eateries to funky biker dives. Many residents drive to Vero Beach, 13 miles down the road, for services and shopping at the Indian River Mall.
Neighborhoods have a mix of older construction, newer gated communities and spiffy riverfront developments. Six nearby beaches, three with facilities and three without, are often nearly empty on weekdays. Thick, wild and wet, St. Sebastian River Preserve borders the city to the west and is the place for horseback riding, canoeing, hiking and camping.
Population: 24,000 (city proper)
Percentage of Population Age 45 or Better: 50%
Cost of Living: 5% above the national average
Median Home Price: $210,000
Climate: Sebastian has a hot, humid climate. Summer temperatures are in the 80s and 90s, and winter temperatures are in the 60s and 70s. On average, the area receives 55 inches of rain per year.
At Least One Hospital Accepts Medicare Patients? Yes, Sebastian River Medical Center
At Least One Hospital Accredited by Joint Commission? Yes, Sebastian River Medical Center
Public Transit: Yes
Crime Rate: Below the national average
Public Library: Yes
Political Leanings: Conservative
Is Florida Considered Tax Friendly for Retirement? Yes
Cons: The area is vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical storms.
Notes: Sebastian has grown by 12% in the last decade. This fact does not please some long time locals.
Recommended as a Retirement Spot? Yes
Florida:
Named Pascua Florida by Juan Ponce De Leon, the Sunshine State did not enter the Union until March 3, 1845. Balmy mild winters began attracting snowbirds to the state in the late 19th century. Retirees continue to flock to the state. It's not hard to see why tourism has become the leading industry.
International trade and citrus are also major contributors to the state's economy. Eighty percent of the nation's oranges and grapefruits are grown here, and 40 percent of all U.S. exports to Latin America flow through Florida.
Florida's landscape includes uplands and coastal plains. It contains more than 11,000 miles of waterways and about 4,500 islands spread across 10 acres.
The state has 1,250 golf courses, more than any other state in the Union. The 47 mile Pinellas Trail is the longest urban trail on the east coast. Orlando theme parks attract more visitors than any other theme parks in the U.S. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles co-exist is in National Everglades Park.
Florida, particularly the Keys and the Gulf Coast, were struck by Category 4 Hurricane Irma in early September, 2017. Towns will rebuild, perhaps this time with climate change in mind, making them safer and better equipped to handle major hurricanes going forward.
Population - 20,612,439
Persons 65 years old and over - 20%
High school graduates, persons age 25+ - 87%
Bachelor's degree or higher, persons age 25+ - 27%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin - 24%
White persons, not Hispanic - 58%
Median household income - $47,525
Median home value - $159,900
Social Security taxed? No
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Sailing Sydney Harbour in Australia in a 75ft former Americas Cup Racing yacht was a standout highlight of my trip to Sydney – even more so than climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge!
The route of the sail is dependent on weather but will nearly always take you around the Sydney Harbour area, up to Manly and back to Wharf 9 in Darlington Harbour. This included sailing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, past the Opera House, and alongside the massive cruise ships that enter the harbour.
Sun cream and cold drinks are provided throughout the trip, so you are always protected and hydrated in the strong Aussie sun. There is also a nice breeze when sailing, so despite the warm weather, it was a comfortable sail. The pro's are quick to force you down some water and top up on suncream as it is easy to forget about the blaring sun with the nice cool breeze of the sail.
When I first booked the trip I thought it was fairly pricey, but on reflection, it was worth every penny. I would highly recommend this to anyone going on a trip to Sydney, it was phenomenal.


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The 78-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Harrisburg Carlisle five minutes from the U.S. Army War College.
MCR, the sixth-largest hotel owner-operator in the United States, has added a new quarterback to its starting lineup: the 78-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Harrisburg Carlisle five minutes from the U.S. Army War College.
In honor of the hotel's proximity to the college — which provides graduate level instruction to military officers and civilians for senior strategic leadership roles — MCR is holding up a foam finger for the Army Black Knights in the highly anticipated 119th Army-Navy game on December 8, 2018. Played at Lincoln Financial Field in nearby Philadelphia, the match will air on CBS at 3 PM ET.
The Army Black Knights boast a 9-2 record this season and are projected by ESPN to clinch a victory. Archrivals the Navy Midshipmen are 3-9. Army's squad will be wearing special, all-black uniforms celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Big Red One, the nickname for the WWI soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division.
One of college football's most beloved traditions, the Army-Navy matchup dates back to 1890. Though the brave defenders fight till the last field goal on the gridiron, comradery rules the day: after the trophy is awarded, the squads sing each other's alma maters and shake hands.
The City of Brotherly Love, hosting the Army-Navy game for the second year in a row, is a natural fit. Fans are invited to bunk at the Residence Inn by Marriott Harrisburg Carlisle's sister property in Langhorne, just 32 miles from Lincoln Financial Field.
Back at the Residence Inn by Marriott Harrisburg Carlisle, the game will be playing on TV screens in the couch-filled lobby, where free breakfast and Wi-Fi are also offered.
"We are proud to serve families of the Army leaders studying at the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks," says Tyler Morse, CEO and Managing Director of MCR and MORSE Development. "This weekend, our Residence Inn hotel staff will be cheering for our boys in black."
The Residence Inn by Marriott Harrisburg Carlisle is located at 1 Hampton Court and features:
78 pet-friendly suites with fully-equipped kitchens
A free full American breakfast
A convenience store
A heated indoor pool and a whirlpool spa
A 24-hour fitness center with cardio equipment and free weights
A 24-hour business center
On-site laundry service
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The AIDS Pandemic
By: James Chin • Alan Gillies
This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President, Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This groundbreaking new book blows apart the myths about who is at risk of getting AIDS and shows how these myths are driven by moral and political pressures. It provides an objective, logical, clear, epidemiologically based analysis on the current situation and situates itself firmly at marked variance with the politically correct position of UNAIDS and most AIDS activists. "The AIDS Pandemic" argues that the story of HIV has been distorted by UNAIDS and AIDS activists in order to support the myth of the high potential risk of HIV epidemics spreading into the general population. In the past, most policy makers and members of the public have uncritically accepted UNAIDS' high prevalence estimates and projections when in fact lower HIV prevalence estimates are more accurate. Time, money and resources are being wasted worldwide. This book is full of fresh analysis for all people working in any capacity in HIV/AIDS programmes. It will be invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students, health and social care professionals and the international media. Policy makers and shapers will find the pioneering information crucial to the future of the AIDS strategy. 'For close to a half century, my work as a public health epidemiologist has involved field research, program management, and teaching, mostly on public health surveillance and prevention and control of communicable diseases. [Since 1981] I have been involved virtually full time with the international response to the AIDS pandemic which is without question one of the most severe infectious disease pandemics in modern times. During my public health career that began in the early 1960s, I have always been considered a part of conventional or mainstream medical science. However, since the mid-1990s, I have found myself swimming upstream against mainstream AIDS organisations. I have, during this period, gradually come to the realisation that AIDS programs developed by international agencies and faith based organizations have been and continue to be more socially, politically, and moralistically correct than epidemiologically accurate.' - James Chin, in the Preface. 'Controversy and differing opinions have been hallmarks of the AIDS epidemic since its onset. The scope of the problem, how to identify high risk groups without increasing the burden of stigma, the safety of blood products, the best balance between prevention and treatment, have all been hot issues sometimes dividing the public health community. The passion and conflicts about how to consider and address the AIDS pandemic reflect the huge impact this disease has had globally and its interplay with macro economic, legal, social, political, national security and ethical domains. Vital, provocative, thoughtful, direct, passionate, rational and willing to challenge conventional wisdom. "The AIDS Pandemic" is filled with information, rational arguments and opinions, often intermingled. It is a rare book on epidemiology that puts so much of the author's personality and viewpoints, along with his knowledge and experience, before the reader. The result is a thought-provoking, likely-to-be-controversial, contribution to the AIDS literature that should engage and stimulate the reader.' - Jeffrey Koplan, in the Foreword.
2007 James Chin
Medicine, Nonfiction,


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History of the FX Market: The Gold Standard
The term "money" did not always sense that it does now. Today, when we say "money," we mean "currency." A few centuries ago, money and currency meant completely different things. Before the current monetary system, the globe relied on a monetary system known as the "gold standard." To understand today, we must first comprehend where we came from. The article explains the gold standard and leads to the Modern Era of freely floating currencies.
The previous Era
We need to know all trade245 broker minimum deposit that occurred during the 17th-century, exclusively when gold changed hands. As a result, gold was the only worldwide money in existence. It was known and utilized all over the world. Today, an approximate comparable comparison would be the US dollar, widely recognized and used.
In the 18th century and 19th century, when trade was expanding rapidly and carrying so much gold was impractical, employed some form of paper money. On the other hand, the paper money was merely a receipt for the golf. It wasn't money in and of itself. It was a representation, a money receipt.
The gold standard is a financial system in which the price of everything in the economy is regulated by gold. Some economists believe it was the greatest method to govern an economy.
Exchange rates for gold
Gold served as an efficient medium of exchange both individually and nationally. All currencies' prices were set in terms of their weight in gold. For example, if the French franc was worth one ounce of gold and the British pound was worth may easily calculate 1.2 ounces of gold, the de-facto exchange rate between these two currencies mathematically. The names of the currencies under the gold standard represented the promise of governments or private parties to distribute a predetermined weight of gold.
There are no imbalances.
The gold standard was extremely efficient in a variety of ways. One of the ways it fostered efficiency was by not allowing market imbalances to grow. For example, if the two currencies were trading and one was importing a lot from the other, the importing country would have to pay a lot of gold to the other.
The declining amount of gold in the importing country would cause deflation, and prices would inevitably fall, lowering internal prices and making imports appear expensive.
Similarly, the exporting country will see a significant increase in gold inflows. Increased gold in the money supply will cause inflection, which will raise the prices of the product, making exports more expensive.
Before the establishment of the modern world, trade has existed for many centuries. The concept of money evolved in practically all cultures where trade occurred. Money's evolution eventually led them to agree on some form of product that could be used as money. People selected gold and silver as money in practically all civilizations. The causes behind this are numerous and varied, and they extend beyond the scope of this article.


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                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
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            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsMultipleViewPatternAvailableProperty);
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        public static bool IsOffscreen(this AutomationElement element)
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                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
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        public static bool IsRangeValuePatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsRangeValuePatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsRequiredForForm(this AutomationElement element)
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            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
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            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsRequiredForFormProperty);
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        public static bool IsScrollItemPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsScrollItemPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsScrollPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsScrollPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsSelectionItemPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsSelectionItemPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsSelectionPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsSelectionPatternAvailableProperty);
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        public static bool IsSynchronizedInputPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsSynchronizedInputPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsTableItemPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsTableItemPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsTablePatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsTablePatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsTextPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsTextPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsTogglePatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsTogglePatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsTransformPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
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            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsTransformPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsValuePatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsValuePatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsWindowPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsWindowPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static bool IsVirtualizedItemPatternAvailable(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (bool)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsVirtualizedItemPatternAvailableProperty);
        }

        public static string ItemStatus(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (string)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.ItemStatusProperty);
        }

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        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (string)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.ItemTypeProperty);
        }

        public static object LabeledBy(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.LabeledByProperty);
        }

        public static string LocalizedControlType(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

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        }

        public static string Name(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (string)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.NameProperty);
        }

        public static int NativeWindowHandle(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

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        }

        public static OrientationType Orientation(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

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        }

        public static int ProcessId(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (int)element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.ProcessIdProperty);
        }

        public static int[] RuntimeId(this AutomationElement element)
        {
            if (element is null)
            {
                throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(element));
            }

            return (int[])element.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.RuntimeIdProperty);
        }
    }
}

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For when the library just doesn't cut it.
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void PushUserEvent(int code, void * data1, void * data2)
{
	static SDL_Event event;
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	event.user.code = code;
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	event.user.data2 = data2;
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}


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Campanula erinus is a species of annual herb in the genus Campanula (bellflowers). They have a self-supporting growth form. Individuals can grow to 11 cm tall.

Sources

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Flora of Malta

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What We Achieved for Animals in 2015
Posted by Anne on December 21, 2015 | Permalink
It's been another huge year for helping animals. With your help, we've ended abuse, raised awareness of cruelty and made the high street more humane.
Here's a look back at just some of the many highlights of 2015:
Cruelty in the fashion industry exposed
A series of hard-hitting videos and eyewitness reports opened the world's eyes to how animals are abused and killed for wool, angora, exotic skins and leather.
Victories on local planning applications
Our supporters helped us to speak out against planning applications for horrific factory farms, breeding facilities and other unethical projects all over the country. Victories include the withdrawal of an application for a horrific pig "prison" in Foston and the approval of an application which will close down Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium.
"Reptiles" gave Hermès grief over the cruelty of producing exotic skins outside stores all over the world
A series of striking protests by PETA and our international affiliates raised awareness of how alligators and crocodiles are killed in horrible ways to make handbags and watchstraps for the "luxury" retailer.
International campaigns stop animals from being killed for soy sauce
Kikkoman Corporation vowed to end horrific animal testing after receiving tens of thousands of messages.
Compassionate people unite to oppose fox hunting
When the government threatened to amend the Hunting Act 2004 to make hunting foxes with dogs legal again, people all over the country sprang into action, writing to their MPs, signing petitions and generally making it known that they wouldn't let this cruel pastime return to Britain. Other animal-protection groups, including Save Me, the RSPCA, the League Against Cruel Sports and the Humane Society International, joined us for a huge rally outside Parliament, along with rock legend Brian May. In the face of this pressure, the government shelved the vote.
Bullfighting is left out in the cold
The Spanish people made it clearer than ever that most of them have no interest in bullfights. More than 100 brave activists joined us for a graphic protest against the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona this summer, while towns continued to ban bullfights and races and high-ranking politicians, including the Mayor of Madrid, promised to end support for the cruel tradition. And a historic vote in the European Union, the European Parliament voted to stop EU subsidies being used to breed bulls for fights.
PETA International Science Consortium (PISC) Ltd, of which PETA is a member, walks away with a prestigious Lush Prize
Compassionate PISC scientists received the £25,000 award for their educational training and outreach to promote non-animal testing methods.
Circuses with animals are shunned
Although the government hasn't yet banned wild-animal circuses as it promised, the movement to end this archaic form of cruelty is still going strong, as a whopping 98 per cent of Scots came out in favour of a ban in a government consultation, celebs such as Michael Sheen and Robert Carlyle spoke out, and empty arenas at Thomas Chipperfield's wild cat show in Wales followed a wave of local protests.
The "V" word goes mainstream
More than ever, everybody has been talking about a vegan lifestyle this year. Celebs such as Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus have taken the plunge, helping their millions of fans learn about plant-based eating. IKEA started serving vegan meatballs, Quorn introduced a new vegan range and thousands of compassionate people took our vegan pledge. And every single one of those new vegans is saving animals every time they eat.
Benetton drops angora
Protests, e-mails, social media messages and phone calls from caring PETA supporters eventually persuaded this international retailer to stop selling products made from the wool of angora rabbits – who often have the hair torn from their skin on Chinese farms.
Celebrities go all out for animals
Some of the prominent figures who joined us to raise their voice for animals this year include actor Tom Hardy, whose pro-adoption campaign has reached millions, and singer Leona Lewis, who narrated a hard-hitting video that reveals the full horrors of Bangladesh's leather industry. We also joined forces with The Vamps star James McVey, YouTube sensation Sprinkle of Glitter, soul singer Joss Stone, ballerina Sylvie Guillem, girl group Little Mix and many more.
Protester makes bold move on behalf of mutts at Crufts
When this activist stormed the arena during the "Best in Show", everyone got the message that selectively breeding dogs for their looks – often to the detriment of their health – is not cool.
Innovative ads raise eyebrows and get people talking about animals
We're forever finding new, creative ways to reach more people with the animal rights message. Our biggest-ever London bus ad campaign this December encouraged commuters to make the connection between the animals they share their homes with and the animals they eat, while our thought-provoking video "Labels" asked shoppers to think about where their leather comes from. And in Dublin, a series of furry artworks appeared on the city's streets to raise awareness of cruel fur farms.
We couldn't have achieved any of these victories without our many compassionate supporters, so thank you to everyone who's been there with us during this groundbreaking year.
Here's to an even more epic 2016! Help us be a voice for animals next year and beyond by signing up to our Action Team:
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