On October 19th, Justin Trudeau was elected to become the next Prime Minister of Canada. Trudeau, a liberal, succeeded a string of conservatives. Trudeau campaigned in Canada on the promise of change, similar to the campaign run by Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. election. Trudeau is wasting little time trying to make a difference!
Under Trudeau's predecessor Stephen Harper, new "tough-on-crime" legislation was quickly passed through the House of Commons and refugees saw their benefits and voting rights greatly reduced. These were two of the many issues that Trudeau promised to change, and has already begun to work on.
The executive director of Canadian Council for Refugees Janet Dench also expects the new government to drop the appeal in the Tories' 2012 case.
What's more, Trudeau's election has given the cannabis industry hope of national marijuana legalization in Canada, something Trudeau promised he would address "right away" after becoming elected.
While change can certainly be good, too much change at a very quick rate can be too much to handle.
Prior to Trudeau's 4 international meetings in the coming month (the G20 Leaders Summit, APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Commonwealth heads of Government Meeting, United Nations Climate Change Conference), former Canadian diplomat and Vice-President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Colin Robertson is recommending patience as Trudeau goes out to meet the world's leaders.
It will be exciting to see how Trudeau's sweeping changes will impact Canada, and whether any of his policies (namely, the potential for nationalized marijuana legalization) will impact the international community at large—especially us here in the U.S.


Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world's most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face. As a parent, what should you look for in your children's education? How can you tell if their school is right for them and what can you do if it isn't? In this important new book, he offers clear principles and practical advice on how to support your child through the education system, or outside it if you choose to homeschool or un-school. Dispelling many myths and tackling critical schooling options and controversies, You, Your Child, and School is a key book for parents to learn about the kind of education their children really need and what they can do to make sure they get it.
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD, is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human potential. He advises governments, corporations, education systems, and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. The videos of his famous talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been watched by an estimated 300 million people in over 150 countries. Lou Aronica is the author of two novels and coauthor of several works of non-fiction, including The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille) and The Element.


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WE WERE GONNA HAVE A BABY, BUT WE HAD AN ANGEL INSTEAD
Pat Schwiebert, Author, Taylor Bills, Illustrator , illus. by Taylor Bills. Grief Watch $7.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-9724241-1-0
A small boy gazes into an empty bassinet on the cover of this psychologically astute book, which helps children cope with prenatal death or stillbirth. The narrator briefly recalls how he had looked forward to having a sibling, imagining the two of them "building a fort and playing tricks on our parents," and recalling how he had loved listening to the baby inside his mother. "But something happened," he reports, his trusty basset hound mirroring his sad, dejected expression. "The baby died. Our baby is not going to live with us." With admirable economy and sensitivity, Schwiebert (previously teamed with Bills on Tear Soup ) touches on a broad range of feelings without intruding on those of readers in a similar position: at the end, the child says, "If this just happened to you, I'm sorry you got an angel instead of a baby. I think having a baby would have been more fun." There's no explicit discussion of angels or heaven, but, after the baby's death is mentioned, Bills's cartoon illustrations introduce the baby as a smiling, winged figure with a halo, invisible to the grief-stricken figures around him—readers can interpret this as they choose. Most useful of all may be the endnotes for parents, which provide insightful and practical suggestions on aiding similarly bereaved children. Nobody wants to need this book, but those who do need it will be grateful to have it. Ages 2-up. (Feb.)

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Jessica Lewis is a student at Georgia Southern who, just like everyone at her university last week, was preparing to leave Statesboro ahead of Hurricane Irma.
On Thursday afternoon, she had just one class left, (a Political Science seminar) and already had her stuff packed and in her car, so she could head home to Atlanta straight away as her class the next day was cancelled. But there was one outstanding issue: her dog Luna.
"I was trying to figure out the easiest and quickest way to her because obviously I wasn't leaving her there, and I was doing my best to get ahead of the traffic because all of Florida and Coastal Georgia was evacuating north/west," she told Mashable.
Lewis also attached several pictures of Luna to win him over with her cuteness. As it turned out, there was no need.
Her teacher, Prof Joshua Kennedy, is a dog lover and replied with a positive response: "He responded in literally a minute and I pretty much screamed and ran outside to show my roommate," Lewis, a double major in Political Science and Arabic, said.
So Luna went, and she behaved pretty well. She's such a good doggo!
"She's actually awful on a leash and we've had a hard time training her with it, so she dragged me across campus on the way there, but once we got there and she was in the classroom no one had a single complaint about her. She loved it," Lewis recalled.
"She just walked around the classroom and got pets from everyone and made friends. The students were overall pretty excited about it when they saw her. They just took notes while they petted her and we all laughed together (professor included) when she did something funny," Lewis added.
At the moment, Lewis is in a small town outside of Atlanta, as Georgia Southern University decided not to resume classes until Monday.
"There was no damage to my family's home up here and as far as I know my apartment in Statesboro is safe and we haven't been given many updates on the actual condition of the school, but considering classes will resume Monday, I can't imagine it's too bad at all.


Another couple of busy weeks that seem to have just flown by. On the 21st we were astounded by the wonderful performance of 'Private Peaceful' at the 'Letchworth Broadway Theatre. At the time of seeing this, we were half way through the novel by Murpurgo. Even though we know how the story ends we have continued to work on various purposes for writing.I have to say, they are as moving as the story is. At the end of term we shall be writing a range of work out to go on a display, as we are in the process of purple polishing and editing our work.
It was lovely seeing so many parents at both parent appointments and pleased to share how well your children have been working.
At the end of a long week I appreciated the lovely range of cakes from Class 5 at their cake sale.I was also blown away by the wonderful class assembly that they delivered today. Being next door I have been able to see, close up, some of their wand designs.
On Monday it was my favourite collective worship, and as you will have seen from the earlier blog by Mrs Peddie it was Stir Up! The children sat watching the creation unfold infront of them and the smell in the hall was delicious. I can't wait, along with Class 6, to have a little taste.
I was so proud of all the children in my class with their recent sporting acheivements both inside and outside of school. The footballers returned extremely happy after their win on Tuesday morning. By the afternoon they were back in and back to learning with comprehension and our history topic of The Mayans.
Carrying on with the preparation of festive events each class was busy creating their traditional christmas hoops. Helpful volunteers were at the ready and now they are up they look beautiful. The christmas treats continued this week after school on the Wednesday. A range of fantastic activities were on offer and such a lovely atmosphere in the hall.
So amongst all of this creative curriculum, we still have managed to squeeze in wonderful writing, great geometry, deeper thinking in RE (sharing this with Revd Ginni),history and PE this week. Apologises for the state of the PE kits that should have arrived home with you. I made sure that the children took them home, along with trainers, as some of them had not taken them as requested on the Wednesday. As I explained, it was important to take them or the kits may get home on their own if left to the end of term.
I do hope you have a lovely weekend and no doubt some of you shall be helping your parents put up Christmas decorations and opening your advent calendars tomorrow.
On Monday we shall sort out the rota for Christmas post delivery slots as the postbox opens, along with planning this years task of Class 6 christmas stalls for the fair on the 14th.
PE kit washed and returned for PE in the week.
Last week of clubs next week.


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Article| November 01 1961
On The Mechanism of Spontaneous Impulse Generation in the Pacemaker of the Heart
Wolfgang Trautwein,
Wolfgang Trautwein
From the Department of Medicine, University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Donald G. Kassebaum
Dr. Trautwein's present address is the Department of Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Copyright, 1962, by The Rockefeller Institute Press
Wolfgang Trautwein, Donald G. Kassebaum; On The Mechanism of Spontaneous Impulse Generation in the Pacemaker of the Heart . J Gen Physiol 1 November 1961; 45 (2): 317–330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.45.2.317
Rhythmic activity in Purkinje fibers of sheep and in fibers of the rabbit sinus can be produced or enhanced when a constant depolarizing current is applied. When extracellular calcium is reduced successively, the required current strength is less, and eventually spontaneous beating occurs. These effects are believed due to an increase in steady-state sodium conductance. A significant hyperpolarization occurs in fibers of the rabbit sinus bathed in a sodium-free medium, suggesting an appreciable sodium conductance of the "resting" membrane. During diastole, there occurs a voltage-dependent and, to a smaller extent, time-dependent reduction in potassium conductance, and a pacemaker potential occurs as a result of a large resting sodium conductance. It is postulated that the mechanism underlying the spontaneous heart beat is a high resting sodium current in pacemaker tissue which acts as the generator of the heart beat when, after a regenerative repolarization, the decrease in potassium conductance during diastole reestablishes the condition of threshold.
Effects of Epinephrine on the Pacemaker Potassium Current of Cardiac Purkinje Fibers
J Gen Physiol (September,1974)
Spontaneous Activity in Isolated Somata of Aplysia Pacemaker Neurons
Differences between Pacemaker and Nonpacemaker Neurons of Aplysia on Voltage Clamping
J Gen Physiol (October,1969)


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Q: 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.2.xsd', because the root element of the document is not  While starting my application am getting the following Error.

WARNING: Ignored XML validation warning
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A: The mistake is this line doesn't recognize the XML header, specifically in the namespace's part. Or you have an error on the line that you describe or must successfully add the required package in your package manager(maven, gradle).
Try adding these lines to your pom.xml and try after to do a mvn clean install
<properties>
    <spring.batch.version>2.2.0.RELEASE</spring.batch.version>
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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
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For Enthusiasts of Sticks of Butter
June 4, 2014 Marc Abrahams
Two items, one old, one new, for enthusiasts of sticks of butter. First, a patent:
"Combined storing and slicing device for a stick of butter or margarine or the like," US patent #4513501, granted to Jong S. Lee, April 30, 1983. The patent document explains: "The present invention relates to a combined storing and slicing device for a stick of butter or margarine or the like…. More specifically, the device according to the present invention may be manipulated with one hand, does not necessitate the handling of the butter and is capable of slicing the butter while held in the user's hand."
Now, an unrelated, but butter-stick-centric, video. A while ago, Julian Petschek was a precocious young child who operated the shoulder-mounted videocam in several of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony live webcasts. Julian has just graduated from CalArts. This animation, whose protagonist is a stick of butter (the banana shown here is of secondary importance), was Julian's final student project:
[vimeo]97088156[/vimeo]
BONUS: US patent #5035056, the famous banana slicer patent:
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Q: How to factorize specific columns in a data.frame in R using apply I have a data.frame called mydata and a vector ids containing indices of the columns in the data.frame that I would like to convert to factors. Now the following code solves the problem
for(i in ids) mydata[, i]<-as.factor(mydata[, i])

Now I wanted to clean this code up by using apply instead of an explicit for-loop.
mydata[, ids]<-apply(mydata[, ids], 2, as.factor)

However, the last statement gives me a data.frame where the types are character instead of factors. I fail to see the distinction between these two lines of code. Why do they not produce the same result?
Kind regards,
Michael

A: That is because apply() works completely different. It will first carry out the function as.factor in a local environment, collect the results from that, and then try to merge them in to an array and not a dataframe. This array is in your case a matrix. R meets different factors and has no other way to cbind them than to convert them to character first. That character matrix is used to fill up your dataframe.
You can use lapply for that (see Andrie's answer) or colwise from the plyr function.
require(plyr)
Df[,ids] <- colwise(as.factor)(Df[,ids])

A: The result of apply is a vector or array or list of values (see ?apply).
For your problem, you should use lapply instead:
data(iris)
iris[, 2:3] <- lapply(iris[, 2:3], as.factor)
str(iris)

'data.frame':   150 obs. of  5 variables:
 $ Sepal.Length: num  5.1 4.9 4.7 4.6 5 5.4 4.6 5 4.4 4.9 ...
 $ Sepal.Width : Factor w/ 23 levels "2","2.2","2.3",..: 15 10 12 11 16 19 14 14 9 11 ...
 $ Petal.Length: Factor w/ 43 levels "1","1.1","1.2",..: 5 5 4 6 5 8 5 6 5 6 ...
 $ Petal.Width : num  0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 ...
 $ Species     : Factor w/ 3 levels "setosa","versicolor",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

Notice that this is one place where lapply will be much faster than a for loop.  In general a loop and lapply will have similar performance, but the <-.data.frame operation is very slow.  By using lapply one avoids the <- operation in each iteration, and replaces it with a single assign.  This is much faster.


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Ewing: 'We cannot afford any more cuts'
LAS CRUCES — Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Greg Ewing says the district simply cannot endure any more cuts from Santa Fe.
Ewing: 'We cannot afford any more cuts' LAS CRUCES — Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Greg Ewing says the district simply cannot endure any more cuts from Santa Fe. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2k4vtiD
Damien Willis, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 2:51 p.m. MT Feb. 8, 2017 | Updated 6:50 p.m. MT Feb. 8, 2017
Greg Ewing(Photo: Courtesy photo)
Speaking Tuesday at the LCPS school board meeting, Ewing said the district's cash reserves for the current year are down to about $3.5 million, after returning nearly $7 million to the state. That includes a $2.7 million reduction in the State Equalization Guarantee — the per-student funding the district receives from the state. It also includes a $3.5 million sweep of the district's cash balance, a $500,000 reduction in transportation funding, and approximately $190,000 that was budgeted for instructional materials.
In January, Gov. Susana Martinez signed into law Senate Bill 114, part of a package of three bills that will plug a projected $67 million deficit in the state budget for the current fiscal year. Under SB 114, school districts with cash balances larger than 3 percent of their annual budget — such as LCPS — faced budget reductions. Martinez called these districts' cash reserves "slush funds" and said the funds "are not being used in the classrooms." In response, Ewing said he disagreed with the governor's assertion.
On Tuesday, Ewing sought to reassure district employees that at this time, he has "no intention of recommending to the board that we furlough any employees, that we lay off any employees or that we ask any employees to take a pay deduction.
"We will simply use attrition, and we will be good stewards of the money that we have," he said.
However, Ewing stressed that the cuts would be felt in classrooms across the district.
"I do need to say that these cuts are going to impact the classroom, they're going to impact instruction, and they're going to impact children," Ewing said. "And we cannot afford any additional cuts."
Ewing said legislators are now considering the state's Fiscal Year 2018 budget, and any further cuts to education could cripple the district.
"If they were to take another 2 percent reduction, that would be another $3.6 million," Ewing said. "We would be insolvent if that were to occur."
The district feels "safe where we are," Ewing said, and district officials are monitoring expenses on a daily basis. The district will review each expenditure, one by one, before approving anything, he added.
Cameron Castillo, a sophomore at Centennial High School and chairman of the Student Advisory Council, had even more pointed remarks.
"I think I can get away with saying this — you guys, maybe not so much. But I'm 15 years old, what are they going to do?" Cameron said. "I think it's very disappointing that our governor, Susana Martinez, who has been in office for six and a half years … described a school district's cash reserves as a 'slush fund.' That is a very ignorant and ill-advised statement."
He said the governor's remarks — and her willingness to sweep the cash balances from districts around the state — reveal a lack of basic understanding.
"I'm 15 years old and I know enough to say that these cash reserve funds for the district are vital to our everyday operations," Cameron said. "And by calling them a slush fund, you show that your care for the everyday operations of a school district is not where it needs to be as the chief executive of the state."
The school board also revealed Tuesday a calendar of meetings scheduled for the board's Finance Advisory Committee. The first will be on Tuesday, Feb. 14, and the committee will continue to meet monthly through June.
"I think this has been a long time in coming, to (make this process) open" said Board President Maria Flores. "The public is invited, and it (will be) posted, and it keeps us in compliance. I'm very happy about this change."
Damien Willis may be reached at 575-541-5468, dawillis@lcsun-news.com or @damienwillis on Twitter.
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PLNU Community Reacts to Border Closing Threats
Jessica Fernandez
Trump threatening to close the border may not be new, but many students still don't know the implications of a border shut-down.
Mexico and the United States are a part of the United States-Mexico-Canada- Agreement. This agreement has been signed but is not officially valid, and is basically a new NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). This deal is meant to protect intellectual property and harmonize regulatory systems and e-commerce.
For over 20 years, Mexico and the United States have lived by each other and done business together. U.S. firms have established maquiladoras, which are U.S. business-owned factories that manufacture in Mexico because of free tariff rates. We get many of our avocados from Mexico and employ Mexicans because of low labor costs.
According to International Business professor Randal Schober, "The implications of a new threat is very polarizing. It rarely has a positive effect on the economy. Trump uses a fear-based tactic to maneuver his way through the current political environment."
Trump's threats also bring implications to communities at Point Loma. Jack Shin, a Ministry with Mexico leader, shakes his head at the mere idea of a threat. "As a team, we usually think, 'Oh! There he goes again!'…but it really does affect our trips. Many people ask if it's safe to go. On our last trip, we were stuck at the border for seven hours coming back into the U.S. Offering encouragement, I would urge others to ask about what's going on. Get information from somewhere or someone that actually knows."
For others at Loma, Trump's threats hit closer to home. Zabdiel "Zab" Dominguez is what is known as an "anchor baby": one who is born in the U.S. with two Mexican parents.
"It's not uncommon for people who live in border towns to have an anchor baby. I crossed the border all the time when I was younger," Dominguez says. "I've thought about crossing more recently, but if I'm stopped, it might not be worth the time. Some people have been stopped for anywhere between seven to 24 hours…who's to say it won't be more?"
Dominguez goes on to say, "For a lot of President Trump's candidacy, I have felt threatened for just being Latino. I'm proud to be Mexican, but fear goes through my mind, and a lot of people have never had that thought."
The implications of the threat of a shut-down largely affect the economy, but also the ministry of someone and the family life of another. Professor Schober, who was born in Australia, understands the need for immigration reform.
"Reform is needed," says Schober. "But Trump is polarizing people. It's important to understand the origin of the threat, then to assess the nature of the threat, and then calculate the percentage of it actually happening and multiplying it by the magnitude of the loss. It shouldn't be one group versus another; the common group is found when the world comes to peace despite differences."
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Reprinted from my Tumblr blog.In an earlier post, I mentioned how our perceptions can be colored, leading to false assumptions. In the yoga tradition, when these tinted, biased thoughts (klishta) form disturbances in our mind (vrtti), we bring about our own suffering. Part of the practice of yoga is training your mind to observe the causes of these discolorations. According to the earliest text to provide a step-by-step practical description of this internalized, philosophical practice, the Yoga Sutra, all of these biases can be traced back to a klesha, one of the five primal causes of suffering.
Just as we have a regular, continual practice of asana, the physical pose-based practice, yoga tradition asks us to maintain a reflective, philosophical practice to observe these klesha-s. Over time, as we observe them, we are able to avoid get "sucked in" to the biases more and more and avoid identifying our whole sense of self with one tiny aspect. Two klesha-s in particular form a binary between two magnetic poles, continually pushing and pulling people between them: raga and dvesha.
Raga is the draw and lure of past pleasures, sometimes translated as attachment. We recall happy memories, past friends, long-gone experiences and in doing so are drawn to avoid new experiences for fear they won't be as good, or try to recreate a moment that only existed because of the factors present in the past. As Thomas Wolfe (and Ella Winter) famously said, "You Can't Go Home Again," and yet humans keep trying.
Dvesha, on the other pole, is the clinging to suffering and dwelliing in past grievances. Just as raga prevents you trying new things for fear of disappointment, dvesha can hold you back for fear of repeating a past negative experience. Dvesha's pull is more subtle and complicated because it acts both in the same way as a magnet pulling toward a complementary as well as a magnet repelling an opposing pole. Dvesha is both translated as clinging to a past suffering, such as when you recall a grudge, or aversion from something that has caused you pain, such as a fear dating back to a negative experience in childhood. Either way, it is holding on to the past and sustaining the pain inside of you that dictates your direction, rather than your mind itself.
The way to gradually free yourself from this magnetic field is to reduce the power these klesha-s have over your thoughts through reflection and practice. There are many jokes about doctors and the word "practice", but in yoga the word "practice" is apt. There is a recurring, sometimes ritualized system of thoughts, behaviors, and perspectives that we repeat frequently and regularly with varying degrees of success. But we keep repeating them, keep trying them, keep pulling ourselves up off the floor and standing back up when we fall, because over time those thoughts and behaviors become instinctual. Jon-Kabat Zinn wrote Full Catastrophe Living, his text for a clinical, secular form of meditation based in the Buddhist vipassana tradition he called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. In it he says that we practice repeatedly and continually, reprogramming ourselves ritually and maybe even mechanically or by rote, because we are weaving a parachute that will be ready for us when we need it.
The yoga tradition includes the idea of "kriya-yoga," something that has come to mean a variety of things in a number of yoga traditions in the 2000 or so years since the Yoga Sutra was compiled. In the sutra, this refers to a tripartite practice of self-reflection & study (svadyaya), a continual, regular, determined practice (tapas), and the surrender of control (ishvara pranidhana), sometimes translated as "devotion to the Lord" in non-secularized practices. Over time this continual practice of looking inward, svadyaya, fueled by tapas, while maintaining an attitude of acceptance & observation rather than judgement or a rush to "fix" everything, ishvara pranidhana, can help you alter the power of these klesha-s.
At the beginning of the day, maybe 5 minutes before you get out of bed, reflect on the prior day's events. Think about what may have thrown you off course. Allow yourself the space to feel any emotions that arise. Emotions, like thoughts, are just noises in your head, so don't feel like you have to engage or identify with them— imagine you are watching a weather forecast. These are events that happened, regardless of how they made you feel, and ignoring whether it was rainy or sunny entirely doesn't change reality!
As you observe an emotion, see if you can mutate it, rather than attach to it (raga) or avoid it (dvesha). Can you reinterpret it? Is the cause of your extreme response really just an assumption or innocent misunderstanding? Does this perspective ultimately serve you and your intentions? Or does holding on to the emotional burden weigh you down and keep you from feeling fulfilled?
Notice the quality of the emotion: is it active and strong when you relive the memory? Is it cut off from you, in that you don't experience it in this moment, but still attached to the experience itself? Is it dormant and sleeping, waiting for the right fertilizer to spring up? Does it feel attenuated, weakened (i.e., "Beneath the stains of time, the feeling disappears…")?
If the feeling is weakening, your practice is easier. If the feeling still arises, ask yourself why you are holding onto a memory with such conviction. What need does it fill? What aspect of your self is being served, and is that an aspect of yourself that you want to have control your responses?
If the feeling is fresh, sit with it and try to build up a tolerance, confident in the knowledge that it will pass and you don't have to identify with it. Use your breath, slowing down and elongating the exhalation, to maintain your internal stability as you revisit these disruptive areas. Cultivate the opposite response, trying to look at the situation from new angles until you can see the humanity in the circumstance: If you see enemies, try to find the friendly intentions that led to an unskillful outcome. If you see grievances, try to reflect on how you may have unintentionally caused harm and work to practice forgiveness and compassion. If you find your own grievance or grudge, try to find a way to be happy for the other person as independent of yourself. Being happy for someone else doesn't mean you are invalidating your own feelings and experiences— it means you are rising above them.
If it is challenging to be able to do this on your own, use a meditation that works for you. (Here is some more info on one that works for me…) Over time, you may find it helpful to engage in the same reflective practice in the evening, and perhaps add on a 5 minute self-check in the afternoon, etc. until it becomes a continual, background self-observation.
When we have a klesha that is active, it can be a challenge to overcome. Similarly, however, we may have many, many dormant, low-level klishta-s we have identified but are unable to weaken their hold. Sometimes it can be an element of our self-care practice to set an intention of overcoming them. Because this can be emotionally draining, it is important to make this a long-term practice and give yourself plenty of opportunities to recharge your emotional battery.
Suppose you observe a fear in yourself that is hindering you. Obviously this fear is not useful, by our own definition. If it is not serving us, why should we keep holding onto it? When we have reached the conclusion that the fear is irrational, and not actually protecting us from harm, it frees us up to overcome it. We can determine steps to take up small challenges which allow up to build up our confidence. Over time, as we have less negative experiences with the object (whether a physical object or a concept) we are less likely for its magnetic pull to draw us off course.
When I observe resistance to something in myself, whether it be an action on my part or something a friend likes and I don't, I work to flip the feeling and see what it would feel like to be attracted toward it. When my fear of flying arises, I think about why my husband (a pilot's son) loves the freedom of travel and the view from the sky. When I hear a song I can't stand, I ask the person who loves it to explain why and genuinely try to understand. I've taken a singing class because I had no rational reason to be terrified of singing in public, and pursued a degree of respectable competency in fields and subjects I hated and skipped in high school.
When taking on Dvesha, one starts from a position of tapas, the fiery determination that keeps you going. When taking on Raga, one stays grounded in ishvara pranidhana, surrender of control. Our clinging to pleasured experiences and our attachment to objects is sometimes an effort to recreate an experience that is long gone. Surrendering this sense of control and realizing we can never successfully recreate a moment allows us to discover new moments fully.
Like many westernized kids who grew up in the materialistic 80s, I have an unhealthy attachment to stuff. Objects, like the TVs that raised us or the Right Jeans/Shoes that bribed kids to be nice, held symbolic values that can be challenging to overcome. Just as our quiet reflection allows us to attenuate our aversions, we can use our reflections to rechannel energies away from symbolic objects and toward the long-past sources that need to be disconnected from our behavior.
One meditation that can be extremely helpful, IMO, is a meditation on the nature of the self. What are you? If your objects were not here, would you still be you? If you ceased playing the roles your play, would you still be you? If your appearance were different, if you did something else, if you lived somewhere else or in a different time, would you still be you? If your beliefs changed, your likes and dislikes changed, would you still be you? If your lost one or more of your senses, would you still be you?
By practicing this simple exercise, I find I detach from the false identifications we are all plagued with in our society. I am not merely one thing, nor do the objects in this world define me, but actually reminding myself of that on a daily basis prevents developing some of these mis-attributions to begin with. Those of us who have attachment to food, money, addition, or relationships that do not serve us can sometimes forget that even after all of those things fade or decay, as they inevitably do, whatever it is that makes us our "self", whatever it is that has been behind our eyes this whole time, will remain.
But what if your Aversion is to the process of Letting Go?
Sometimes we avoid practicing self-study and acceptance because we are afraid of what muck we will find as we dig into our own soil. Sometimes we avoid letting go because we are afraid we will forget our hard-won lessons. Sometimes we are afraid of forgiving because we don't want to repeat history or have our good graces abused. If we begin to value our suffering, we can become not only attached to it and identify with it, but become complacent to its continual presence.
My personal attachment to attachment was based in the fear that if I accept things as they are, I will lose the drive to improve them. Over the course of my life I have always been a very passionate person, and I noticed others often didn't work to change themselves or their world in the same ways I did, which made me fear becoming someone who quit caring. I frequently brought up this idea in my teacher training, to no avail: Where is the line between practicing non-attachment and not speaking out when we need to?
Does it serve me? Does it serve my intention? Does it serve what I perceive my purpose to be in this moment? Can I still stand as a warrior for social justice, freedom from intolerance and oppression, and the change I wish to see in the world if I accept that all of the things I am fighting against have happened and exist? Of course.
Almost exactly twenty years ago I knew someone who used to say "Acknowledge; Move on." Part of the reason I wouldn't want to interact with this person now is how this philosophy tainted and manifested in bad behavior. Acknowledging that it rained and then moving on does not prepare you for future storms any more than accepting the fact it rained makes every future rain a storm of the century, or any more than ignoring the fact makes it less likely to rain again. The act of "moving on" was not an empowered overcoming, but a suppressed avoidance of the pattern itself.
Accepting that it rained neither approves of it or discourages it. Accepting it means you acknowledge not the experience or moment but the fact it happened and you can't do anything about it anymore. It also acknowledges the fact that your experience of a moment is mediated by perception, and that your perception of a moment is not necessarily reality or truth for everyone. It is also accepting that events will come and go, that change is inevitable and if you don't like the weather, all you have to do is wait a little while. You don't have control over what comes and goes around you: you only control your own response or reaction to it.
According to my understanding at this time, my practice of acceptance is like watching the weather report calmly, knowing that I can't keep it from raining on my parade the next day, but also not resenting the people who live in briefly sunny spots or wallowing in the loss of my imagined sunny expectations. I know now that if I lose my equanimity to those useless emotional quagmires, I'll forget my umbrella, leaving myself temporarily open to the fleeting, damp chill while waiting for the inevitable break in the clouds to come. Of course, when I do forget, I always survive the discomfort, but how much easier it is when I use the protection I can control instead of investing all of my attention in the things I can't.
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namespace media {
class AudioDecoderConfig;
class VideoDecoderConfig;
}

namespace IPC {

template <>
struct ParamTraits<media::AudioDecoderConfig> {
  typedef media::AudioDecoderConfig param_type;
  static void Write(Message* m, const param_type& p);
  static bool Read(const Message* m, PickleIterator* iter, param_type* r);
  static void Log(const param_type& p, std::string* l);
};

template <>
struct ParamTraits<media::VideoDecoderConfig> {
  typedef media::VideoDecoderConfig param_type;
  static void Write(Message* m, const param_type& p);
  static bool Read(const Message* m, PickleIterator* iter, param_type* r);
  static void Log(const param_type& p, std::string* l);
};

}  // namespace IPC

#endif  // CHROMECAST_COMMON_MEDIA_CMA_PARAM_TRAITS_H_

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class Solution {
public:
    int minHeightShelves(vector<vector<int>>& books, int shelf_width) {
        vector<int> dp(books.size()+1, 0);

        for (int i = 0; i < books.size(); i++) {
            int minimum_h = 1001*1001;
            int current_shelf_height = -1;
            int n_elements = 0;
            int current_shelf_width = 0;
            for (int j = i; j >= 0; j--) {
                n_elements++;
                current_shelf_width += books[j][0];
                if (current_shelf_width > shelf_width) break;
                current_shelf_height = max(current_shelf_height, books[j][1]);
                minimum_h = min(minimum_h, dp[j] + current_shelf_height);
            }

            dp[i+1] = minimum_h;
        }

        return dp.back();
    }
};

class Solution {
public:
    int dfs(vector<vector<int>>& books, int shelf_width, int ind, int remain_width, int current_height, map<pair<int, int>, int>& cache) {
        if (ind == books.size()) {
            return current_height;
        }
        auto it = cache.find({ind, remain_width});
        if (it != cache.end()) return it->second;

        // 1) we can put current book on a new shelf.
        int minimum_height = INT_MAX;
        minimum_height = current_height + dfs(books, shelf_width, ind+1, shelf_width - books[ind][0], books[ind][1], cache);
        // 2) If we have plenty width in current shelf, we can also put in current shelf.
        if (books[ind][0] <= remain_width) {
            current_height = max(current_height, books[ind][1]);
            minimum_height = min(minimum_height, dfs(books, shelf_width, ind+1, remain_width - books[ind][0], current_height, cache));
        }
        return cache[{ind, remain_width}] = minimum_height;
    }
    int minHeightShelves(vector<vector<int>>& books, int shelf_width) {
        map<pair<int, int>, int> cache; // {ith_book}, {how many width remained in current shelf}
        // This cache means when I process ith book and in a w position, how many remain minimum height I need for remaining books in that state.
        return dfs(books, shelf_width, 0, shelf_width, 0, cache);
    }
};


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# options

buildexternalsfromsource=

usage(){
cat << EOF
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Build C/C++ code for $APPNAME using Android NDK

OPTIONS:
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-h	this help
EOF
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while getopts "sh" OPTION; do
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s)
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;;
h)
usage
exit 0
;;
esac
done

# read local.properties

_LOCALPROPERTIES_FILE=$(dirname "$0")"/local.properties"
if [ -f "$_LOCALPROPERTIES_FILE" ]
then
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    _PROPERTIES=`sed '/\./d' "$_LOCALPROPERTIES_FILE"`
    for line in "$_PROPERTIES"; do
        declare "$line";
    done
fi

# paths

if [ -z "${NDK_ROOT+aaa}" ];then
echo "NDK_ROOT not defined. Please define NDK_ROOT in your environment or in local.properties"
exit 1
fi

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
# ... use paths relative to current directory
COCOS2DX_ROOT="$DIR/../../../.."
APP_ROOT="$DIR/.."
APP_ANDROID_ROOT="$DIR"

echo "NDK_ROOT = $NDK_ROOT"
echo "COCOS2DX_ROOT = $COCOS2DX_ROOT"
echo "APP_ROOT = $APP_ROOT"
echo "APP_ANDROID_ROOT = $APP_ANDROID_ROOT"

# make sure assets is exist
if [ -d "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT"/assets ]; then
    rm -rf "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT"/assets
fi

mkdir "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT"/assets

# copy resources
for file in "$APP_ROOT"/Resources/*
do
if [ -d "$file" ]; then
    cp -rf "$file" "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT"/assets
fi

if [ -f "$file" ]; then
    cp "$file" "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT"/assets
fi
done

if [[ "$buildexternalsfromsource" ]]; then
    echo "Building external dependencies from source"
    set -x
    "$NDK_ROOT"/ndk-build -C "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT" $* \
        "NDK_MODULE_PATH=${COCOS2DX_ROOT}:${COCOS2DX_ROOT}/cocos2dx/platform/third_party/android/source"
else
    echo "Using prebuilt externals"
    set -x
    "$NDK_ROOT"/ndk-build -C "$APP_ANDROID_ROOT" $* \
        "NDK_MODULE_PATH=${COCOS2DX_ROOT}:${COCOS2DX_ROOT}/cocos2dx/platform/third_party/android/prebuilt"
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Each year, Microsoft hosts its premier developer conference in the spring, typically in San Francisco or Seattle, and 2019 appears to be no different. The company is planning the event for early May and like last year, it will be located near the company's corporate offices.
While the company has not formally announced the dates for the event, thanks to the terms and conditions for a hackathon the company is hosting, the details have been spilled. According to the rules posting here, the first place prize for the contest includes "a free pass to Microsoft Build on May 7-9, 2019 in Seattle, WA".
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This shouldn't be a huge surprise to anyone who has been attending these events for the past couple of years as they are typically held around the same time. And considering Microsoft typically secures venues for three years at a time, this will be the third year in a row that the event is being held in Seattle.
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How to Know When to Replace Serpentine Belt & Other Belts?
byMike Carr
Things to Look for when Replacing Serpentine Belts:
1. Visual inspection
2. High mileage
3. Squealing, chattering, or chirping
4. Burning-rubber smell
5. Stiff steering
6. Overheating
7. Electrical and battery issues
Belts are a key maintenance item in any car.
These simple components look like oversized rubber bands, and can range in size from about a foot to six feet or more.
They're found on all cars, and are used to transfer power from the engine to other rotating devices needed for the car to function.
Included among the devices that may use belts to drive them are the power-steering pump, alternator, air-conditioning compressor, and water pump.
Most cars newer than the 1980's drive several of these accessories off of one long belt, called a Serpentine belt, instead of separate smaller belts.
No matter what the particular configuration your car uses to drive its various systems, belts are critical components. Without them, your vehicle won't go very far. And like most consumable parts, belts wear out and need re placement from time to time.
One of the surest indications that a belt needs replacing is how it looks Overtime, belts get hard from the heat, flexing, and general stresses of operation.
This can cause cracking. In more extreme cases, chunks can come out of the belt.
If you see either of these signs on a belt it should be replaced as soon as possible, even if you haven't observed any of the other symptoms described in this article.
In some cases – for engine timing belts in particular the belt can't easily be inspected visually. And timing belts don't really give off any signs that they' re about to fail.
Worst of all, when the timing belt breaks, it typically causes expensive internal damage to the engine.
For this reason, the only practical way to judge when it's time to replace the timing belt is by how many miles the car has on it. In most cases, engine-timing belts should be replaced at about 100,000 miles.
But every automaker has its own specific mileage they recommend to re place this belt.
To find out exactly when yours should be re placed, check your owner's manual or discuss the matter with a qualified mechanic.
If you're hearing shrill, high-pitched noises from under the hood, it's possible that you have a problem with one or more of your belts.
These sounds are simply the noise being made when the belt slips on the pulley.
It generally indicates a loose belt, whether from stretching, improper adjustment, or broken components.
If a belt is slipping, or rubbing on other components, the friction will cause it to heat up.
This creates a burning-rubber smell. In extreme cases, the belt can heat up to the point where it's giving off grayish-blue colored smoke.
Most cars built before approximately 2006 have hydraulically boosted power steering.
In this type of system, a belt transfers power to a pump, which sends pressurized fluid to the steering system to amplify the driver's efforts and make the steering wheel easier to turn.
If the belt is slipping, the pump won't provide as much pressure and the steering wheel will become more difficult to move.
This is often accompanied by the squealing noise described earlier.
The pump that circulates water through the engine to cool it is driven by a belt.
As with other belt-driven systems, if the belt is slipping or as become disconnected, it will compromise the system.
In this case, if the water pump isn't turning as fast as it should, the engine can overheat.
A belt running off the engine turns the alternator, which generates power to charge the battery.
If the belt that drives the alternator is in bad condition, it can slip, reducing how much power the alternator will generate.
This can cause dim headlights, trigger a warning light on the gauge panel, or cause the battery to weaken or die.
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When I play MIDI keyboard(iRig KEYS), I can't play 'G3' with 'B2'.
Also, 'F3' with 'A2', 'G#3' with 'C3', etc. A note with 8 chromatic upper note can't play.
This happens a note is within G#2-D#3.
When I watch 'MIDI console', two note-on-maeesages merge one line!
When I play iRig KEYS in GarageBand, I can play those two notes pair normally.
Is this a Jazz-plugin error or iRig KEYS error?
Re: Is this a error?
I believe I've fixed a very similar bug on Mac recently. Are you using the latest plugin version?
Hi, sema. I installed Jazz-Plugin v1.4 and using Mac OSX 10.9.5, Safari 7.1.2, Chrome 40, but I can't play 'G3' with 'B2'.
'G#3' with 'B2' is OK, 'Gb3' with 'B2' is OK too. When I press 'G3' with 'B2', both notes don't sound.
As you fixed similar bug, it might be a bug in the plugin. Isn't there still similar bug?
I've made many programs with Jazz-Plugin. I cheer Jazz-Plugin very much!
Can you please share the 'MIDI Console' output?
This is 'MIDI Console' log.
39-3a-3b-3c-3d-3e-3f-40-41 --2 lines are merged!
3b-3c-3d-3e-3f-40-41-42-43 --2 lines are merged!
3c-3d-3e-3f-40-41-42-43-44 --2 lines are merged!
I think some sorce of 'midiProc' function includes bug. Because it doesn't happen when I play MIDI file.
Hi, I've made new program!
This program is for Sound Module NSX-39(Pocket-Miku) including XG effect, but can use PC sound module.
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I would like to show the text of some testimonials on my side bar, and have them rotate automatically to the next tutorial (or have the user click an arrow to see the next one). Do you have a plugin that will be able to assist me?
You could use our CustomPress plugin, this can be used to create a Custom Post Type (like your post and page, but for whatever you need).
Ohh and if you want people to submit them direct then Gravity Forms or Formidable Pro support Custom Post Types.


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Father, son charged after cache of weapons found in Vadnais Heights home
By Allie Johnson, FOX 9
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (KMSP) - A father whose son allegedly made threats against students at his school has been charged after authorities discovered a cache of weapons, including a machine gun, at their Vadnais Heights, Minnesota home.
On Thursday, the Ramsey County sheriff's office received a report that a student at the Academy of Sciences and Agriculture had made a threat against students at the school. The 13-year-old student was suspended.
According to the criminal complaint, the boy's mother told deputies her son did not have access to weapons and there were no weapons in the home.
On Friday, deputies executed a search warrant at the boy's home and found a cache of firearms, ammunition and possible explosive devices. The boy was home alone when authorities arrived.
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Authorities also found what appeared to be conversion kits for converting weapons to automatic weapons, as well as literature on how to convert a semi-automatic weapon to a fully automatic weapon.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives examined several of the guns and determined that one of the guns "met the legal definition for a machine gun and the other gun met the legal definition for a short-barreled shotgun," the charges say.
Both of the guns are illegal under Minnesota law, and neither were registered and approved for legal possession. A family member claims they are family heirlooms.
Several of the firearms were loaded and located out in the open and were accessible to children in the home.
The boy's father, Christopher Stowe, 41, told authorities the guns were his. Stowe is charged with two felony counts of unlawful possession of a machine gun and a short-barreled gun and one gross misdemeanor count of negligent storage of a firearm in the presence of a child. He will make his first court appearance on Monday afternoon.
The 13-year-old boy has been charged with threats of violence. He will also make his first court appearance on Monday.
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Manager of Parking and Transportation Services, Joe Paradise, came to introduce himself to the Student Senate, as well as to clarify some differences and continuities in the parking policy. One of the many topics of discussion was a potential change to the shuttle system. Paradise relayed that RIPTA is not sufficient enough for campus and he hopes to have a shuttle system that belongs to the University. In addition to this, he wishes to brand them and change the routes as the department deems fit for the benefit of the students. This is predicted to be put into action the beginning of next year.
Parking concerns were also addressed, including an incentive for freshman not to bring cars on campus called the Pilot Program. It entails that any freshman who does not have a vehicle on campus gets a free RIPTA U-pass. This can be used seven days a week. Only 500 students have taken advantage of this.
A big issue the department faces is non-registered vehicles. Any non-registered vehicles will receive a $50 ticket. Parking in the wrong lot, handicapped violations and fire lane violations will all be deserving of a $85 fine. Only two and a half weeks in and parking services has issued 177 tickets.
Also, parking services has said that they intend to incorporate new technology to be more efficient. For next year, they hope to get rid of permits altogether, and institute a virtual permit system. The technology used to enforce this will be license plate recognition. Drones will also be sharing a role in the parking departments efficiency techniques and will take pictures of parking lots to see available spots.
Later in the meeting, a member of External Affairs in the Student Senate, mentioned that residents of neighboring communities have complained about chaotic weekends, unnecessary stress and strain. They claim students are loud and litter on residents' property. They proposed that to amend this relationship between the students and the community there is to be a neighborhood clean up.
One of the last topics on the agenda was the bill to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day globally around campus; the bill passed unanimously. The primary workers on this bill were the Academic and Cultural committee of the Student Senate.


(Lynn Evans, curator of archaeology for Michigan State Historic Parks).
(Dean Anderson, state archaeologist for Michigan).
So when the Head of PAS says our approach is wrong it's water off a duck's back – for we are simply expressing the same outrage about an assault on "the public good" that is voiced by tens of thousands of American archaeologists. A bit of outrage about it from PAS wouldn't come amiss. So far, the only outrage we've ever seen from them has been directed towards conservationists. Come to think of it, the only praise we've ever seen them express has been directed towards artefact hunters!
A good article highlighting the real issues.
Another 1500 Roman and Iron Age sites have just been added to the ARCHI UK database.
This update includes the locations of many more Roman and Iron Age / Celtic coin findspots. These find spots are particularly useful to the field walker because they often indicate that there was Roman and Iron Age / Celtic activity in the surrounding area.
Findspots of Iron Age coins are of particular significance because a knowledge of their distribution can often help to build a picture of the geographical extent of the Iron Age / Celtic tribal areas and therefore contribute to our understanding of the significance of particular ancient British tribes.
Thanks for that. Even they know their product is potentially damaging – why else would they talk about field walkers instead of detectorists?


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Early one morning in a London neighborhood, a man waits on a park bench for the sun to rise—only, he is no man, but something far older that lurks in the night and feeds upon blood. His mate, as old or possibly older than himself, had committed suicide the week before in the exact same manner on the same bench in the sunlight.
However, in his final moment, something unexpected happens: a mugger tries to take the Old One's money, threatening him with a knife; and although the Old One vanquishes his attacker and lets himself be engulfed by flames, he overlooked one detail: The mugger's knife managed to cut its target.
In the hours and days and weeks following, the knife cuts other people, some by accident and some on purpose, passing the Old One's blood into them . . . and with it, his spirit, soon spreading into an ever-increasing number of hosts as a shared consciousness.
Despite his rebirth, the Old One is only interested in lying low and passing into darkness—but to do so, he must reclaim that knife. And with a growing trail of bodies, the Old One (in his growing number of vessels) is now being hunted by police . . . as well as by someone else.
Yes, this is a vampire novel, but not one which aims for dramatic pathos. These are truly the vampires that stalk the night in the bodies of the dead, haunting and supping upon the blood of the living. Markham manages to treat the vampires of his novel in a classically terrifying sense, while infusing them with brilliant new ideas and themes in this refreshingly original tale.
Throughout the novel, Markham manages to avoid referring to the Old One and his vessels as vampires. In some ways, this enhances the tension, bringing new life into the overdone trope by treating it as a creeping menace—yet without focusing on characters stopping to question and figure out what's going on.
The Truants is very intentionally set in the streets and amongst the inner-city youth of contemporary London, living with poverty, grime, drugs, and gangs. With this gritty backdrop, the gothic tropes of nocturnal bloodlust are redefined into something more akin to the threat of street-level tension, with the horror nicely doubling as a socio-political conversation.
But again, make no mistake about the true nature of this book: It is a horror novel, and it is scary. There are some powerfully unsettling scenes, especially when the Old One's multiple-host presence comes into play. There are merciless deaths of children and women and even animals, as well as of men—and of course, this being a vampire novel, with death comes un-life.
Besides the refreshing take on the mythology and presentation of the vampires, The Truants also showcases some impressive storytelling acrobatics, with the narrative shifting from suspenseful third-person descriptions to moody and ominous first-person accounts from the Old One.
The knife serves the plot as more than a McGuffin; it represents an ongoing dilemma for the Old One and an encroaching force upon the lives of the innocent humans who possess it. In some ways, it is a character unto itself.
There are deliberate shifts back and forth in the timeline of events as the Old One moves (and spreads) about, and as other characters are affected by his actions. At times, these narrative shifts can be a little jarring, disorienting, or even confusing, but it all comes together very organically in the end.


Daktronics helps sports teams around the world keep score. The Brookings company's co-founder Al Kurtenbach, left, is pictured here with South Dakota Magazine publisher Bernie Hunhoff. Photo by Heidi Marsh.
Editor's Note: This story is revised from the July/August 2011 issue of South Dakota Magazine. To order a back issue or to subscribe, call 800-456-5117.
Guidance from a legendary wrestling coach helped turn Daktronics into the world's leading scoreboard builder.
Al Kurtenbach and Duane Sander were electrical engineering teachers at SDSU when they founded Daktronics in 1968 as a medical device manufacturer. They built other projects, like an electronic voting system for state legislatures, but the fate of the business was sealed when Kurtenbach met Warren Williamson for coffee.
Williamson, an SDSU coach, was involved with college wrestling nationally. He told Kurtenbach the scoreboards used for national tournaments were too big and didn't display pertinent information. Kurtenbach and Sander developed a prototype and used it during a meet at SDSU in 1970. Other coaches liked it so they built 17, and with help from Williamson the new boards were used in the national wrestling tournaments that year.
Those were the first of thousands of scoreboards the Brookings company has built over 40 years. As of 2011, Daktronics had equipment in 26 of 30 Major League Baseball parks, 29 of 31 NFL stadiums and 20 of 29 NBA arenas. Early scoreboards used simple incandescent lamps, but today's huge, colorful boards are illuminated by thousands of tiny light emitting diodes, or LEDs. They convert energy to light more efficiently and don't have a filament, so instead of burning out they gradually grow dimmer.
Much of Daktronics' business is sports related, but the company also designs computer software, billboards and the signs along South Dakota interstates displaying road conditions and Amber Alerts.
I think this is the first time I've received a photo credit! It looks good!


Why is it illegal aliens such as New York attorney Cesar Vargas are immune from immigration laws? Deport the SOB NOW and others like him!
Source: Why is it illegal aliens such as New York attorney Cesar Vargas are immune from immigration laws? Deport the SOB NOW and others like him!


Privacy Disaster is a major vulnerability on Android native browser component on the versions below 4.4. It's a critical vulnerability because it shaken the foundation of client side web security: the same origin policy. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could bypass the SOP protection and steal sensitive informations such as cookies and login credentials.
Q: How could a hacker exploit it? What's the consequence?
A: Your Android version must below 4.4 (which occupies more than 75% of market share). If you unfortunately opened a malicious webpage using Android's native browser or apps' webview component, the attacker could extract your cookie from another website, which may contain personal data or login credentials. Also, the attacker is able to embed another good webpage in the malicious page, say Paypal, and manipulate the page's source code to log your username and password when you are logging in.
Those malicious behaviors should never work if the Same Origin Policy mechanism works properly.
Q: What is Same Origin Policy (SOP)?
Unfortunately, the nightmares became the reality, as the SOP on Android browser could be bypassed by "Privacy Disaster" vulnerability.
Q: What caused this vulnerability?
Q: How do I defend against it?
A: The best way is to upgrade your Android to 4.4, however it's not doable for everyone. Moreover, the default browser cannot be uninstalled, neither can you evade the webviews that widely used among apps. It's hard to patch or mitigate, that's why we say 75% users are "abandoned". The best suggestion we could give you is to be careful clicking an untrusted URL or installing a suspicious app. Nevertheless, even the URL points to a trusted source, it is possible that a network attacker hijacks the traffic and redirect your HTTP requests to a malicious source.
Trustlook is still working on the solution via 3rd party security softwares. We'll keep you updated.


Wisconsin residents will now have the right to appoint a person to carry out their final wishes. In the past, a consensus of a deceased person's next of kin was required to determine choices such as cremation, burial, viewing and services, even if it was despite the wishes of the decedent. Cress Funeral service is offering free seminars to help people to appoint a person to make decisions their final disposition. Seminars will feature explanation of new law and form, and help in completing and notarizing the form. Help with the new form is also available at all Cress Funeral Homes, call 608-238-3434 for appointments. Follow the link to view the new form and the new statutes.