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Futures: Asynchronous Programming with Dart

      Posted on May 20, 2020 in Dart

Target Audience: Beginner

Introduction

This article is a part of three part series focused on asynchronous Programming with Dart. This article covers Futures in Dart to execute program asynchronously.

Part-1 (Current) Futures: Asynchronous Programming with Dart

Part-2 Streams: Asynchronous Programming with Dart

Part-3 Types of Streams: Asynchronous Programming with Dart

Checkout the YouTube video:

Futures

"Futures" are Future objects that represent the results of asynchronous operations. Asynchronous operations don't block the thread and their processing finishes at a later time. Asynchronous operations results are returned as Futures. Functions that do expensive work should use asynchronous model for executing their work. Future object is represented as Future<T>, where T is the type of results returned from the expensive operation.

Asynchronous operations in Dart can be achieved in two ways:

Using await and async

Using Future API.

await and async

The await and async keywords are used together. The function that supposed to be doing the expensive work is marked with keyword async. Inside the function, the expensive call is prefixed by keyword await. Program suspends when await is called or function return or reaches at the end of the function.

Let's see in following code snippet how async and await keywords are used. await can only be called in function which is marked/declared as async. Future keyword before the function makeDataCall() means that this function will be executing  asynchronously and will be suspended when come across await.

// Expensive function could be a function that takes
// long time to process data and return results.
// Assume this function takes long time to return in real-world
String getExpansiveData() {
  return "I'm expansive data";
}

// This is the asynchronous function that makes the expensive
// data call and prints the results.
Future<void> makeDataCall() async {
  var data = await getExpansiveData();
  print(data);
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#1.
  makeDataCall();
}

The makeDataCall() returns a Future of type void because there's nothing returned by this function. It simply prints the results using print() function.

Output:

I'm expansive data

Note: You can run this code in DartPad by copy and pasting above code as is.

Source Code is available here- Example#1.

Error Handling (Try/Catch Block)

In this section, we'll see how to handle exceptions thrown in the long running asynchronous operations. When await keyword is used, asynchronous call behaves like a synchronous one. In such cases, error handling for asynchronous and synchronous code is handled similar way.

The asynchronous call prefixed with await keyword is wrapped in a try/catch block. When an exception is thrown in the try block, the catch block executes its code.

Let's add the try/catch block in previous code, and see how it'll look like now. Let's name this function as makeDataCallWithException(). This function throws an Exception at purpose in try block to demonstrate the point here.

//Example#2. Demonstrating handling exception thrown in asynchronous operations

//Expansive operations ended up throwing exception
String getExpansiveDataWithException() {
  throw Exception("Error occurred in fetching data");
}

//Asynchronous function that makes the expensive data call
Future<void> makeDataCallWithException() async {
  try {
    await getExpansiveDataWithException();
  } catch (e) {
    print(e.toString());
  }
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#2.
  makeDataCallWithException();
}

Output:

Exception: Error occurred in fetching data

Source Code is available here- Example#2.

Sequencing Function Calls

It's possible to control the order of execution of asynchronous functions using sequencing with help of await and async. Let's see how this is done in example below. In this example, there are three functions getDataA(), getDataB(), and getDataC(). We want them to execute one after another. The await keyword does exactly that. It executes the function synchronously until it comes across await, and wait there for it to finish before execute next line, in this case another await call.

//Example#3. Sequencing order of asynchronous calls

void getDataA() {
  print("dataA");
}

void getDataB() {
  print("dataB");
}

String getDataC() {
  return "dataC";
}

//Entry point function
Future<void> sequencingOperations() async {
  //Order matters.
  //Functions will execute in the order they were called.
  await getDataA();
  await getDataB();

  //getDataC() will execute first and will
  //pass its data into print() function
  print(await getDataC());
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#3.
  sequencingOperations();
}

Output:

Each of the above methods will execute one by one starting from getDataA() and finishing executing getDataC().

dataA
dataB
dataC

Source Code is available here- Example#3.

Future API

Another way to execute asynchronous operations is to use Future API. In the Future API, the then() method is used to register a callback, which fires up on the completion of Future.

Let's see two variant of using Future API.

Future<String>: Future returning String data type .

Future<void>: Future returning void.

Future<String>

Example below transforms our earlier example code of await and async into a Future API implementation. Lookout for the use of then() in mainWithFutureAPI() function. In this example, Future is returning String.

//Using Future API (Future is returning String type)

//Future with String data is being returned.
//This function returns the instance of
//Future and not the actual data.
Future<String> makeDataCallFutureString() async {
  return await getExpansiveData();
}

// Assume this function takes long time to return in real-world.
String getExpansiveData() {
  return "I'm expansive data";
}

void mainWithFutureAPI() {
  var theFuture = makeDataCallFutureString();

  //then() is called at the instance of Future
  theFuture.then((value) {
    print(value);
  });
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#4.
  mainWithFutureAPI();
}

Output:

I'm expansive data

Source Code is available here- Example#4.

Future<void>

Let's look at another example of Future API. In this example, Future doesn't return anything and looks like Future<void>. In such case, then() callback will use an unused argument, represented as _ by convention. Checkout the code snippet below to see it in action.

//Example#5. Using Future API (Future is returning void type)

// Assume this function takes long time to return in real-world.
String getExpansiveData() {
  return "I'm expansive data";
}

//Future doesn't return anything
Future<void> makeDataCallFutureVoid() async {
  await getExpansiveData();
}

void mainWithFutureAPIVoid() {
  var theFuture = makeDataCallFutureVoid();
  //then() uses underscore as unused argument.
  theFuture.then((_) {
    //_ is not used
    print("There's nothing to be printed here. Work is already done.");
  });
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#5.
  mainWithFutureAPIVoid();
}

Output:

There's nothing to be printed here. Work is already done.

Source Code is available here- Example#5.

Error Handling - Future API

Future API uses chaining to handle exceptions. Error is caught and handled in catchError() block. The catchError() is chained with then() method.

// Example#6. Future API - Error Handling

// Assume this function takes long time to return in real-world.
String getExpansiveData() {
  return "I'm expansive data";
}

// Future with String data is being returned.
// This function returns the instance of
// Future and not the actual data.
Future<String> makeDataCallFutureAPIError() async {
  var data = await getExpansiveData();
  throw Exception("Error occurred in making data call: $data");
}

void mainWithFutureAPIError() {
  var theFuture = makeDataCallFutureAPIError();

  //Error is caught and handled in catchError block
  theFuture.then((value) {
    print(value);
  }).catchError((error) {
    print(error);
  });
}
//----END----//

// Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#6.
  mainWithFutureAPIError();
}

Output:

Exception: Error occurred in making data call: I'm expansive data

Source Code is available here- Example#6.

Usage of Future.wait()

The Future.wait() is used when multiple asynchronous functions needs to be executed before calling another function. This could be useful when data from multiple sources/functions is needed to be able to take next step.
In another version, we're using Future API to accomplish what we did using async & await in 'Example#3' above.

//Example#7. Using `</span><span class="n">Future</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">wait</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="err">`

Future<String> getData(data) {
  return data;
}

Future<String> getDataAFuture() async {
  return await getData("dataA");
}

Future<String> getDataBFuture() async {
  return await getData("dataB");
}

Future<String> getDataCFuture() async {
  return await getData("dataC");
}

mainWithFutureAPIWait() async {
  //Chaining Futures in order
  await Future.wait([
    getDataAFuture(),
    getDataBFuture(),
    getDataCFuture(),
  ])
      .then(
        (List responses) => print(responses),
      )
      .catchError((error) => print(error));
}
//----END----//

//Entry point function
void main() {
  //Run Example#7.
  mainWithFutureAPIWait();
}

Output:

[dataA, dataB, dataC]

Source Code is available here- Example#7.

Summary

In this article, we saw how to use Futures to perform asynchronous operations in Dart. We explored await/async and Future API approaches to do so. Futures are like promises, which return results whenever they are complete. However, there's another approach to access asynchronous events using Streams. Streams provide results as they come until processing is finished. We'll explore Streams in the next article.

References

Dart Futures Code Lab

Dart Future

Dart Streams

Official Flutter Channel

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Influencing the timing of parenteral nutrition initiation in the pediatric intensive care unit
Collin R. Anderson http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9441-3663
Jennifer Lueckler http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-5216
Jared A. Olson http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3281-9614
Keywords: Parenteral Nutrition, Infant, Time Factors, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric, Pharmacists, Nutritionists, Consensus, Length of Stay, Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Utah
Background: Lack of benefit and potential harm of early parenteral nutrition (PN) initiation in critically ill children was highlighted in the 2016 published results of a large multicenter, randomized controlled trial.
Objectives: The purpose of this project was to implement a process to delay PN initiation for up to five days after admission to our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Methods: Patients greater than thirty days of age, admitted to the PICU beginning July 1, 2016 were included in the analysis of the healthcare improvement initiative to decrease early PN initiation. A meeting was held with PICU fellows, attending physicians, dietitians, and pharmacists to reach a consensus to delay initiation of parenteral nutrition until PICU day five. The dietitian, with pharmacist support, reiterated recommendations on rounds and in formal notes.
Results: A total of 2333 patients were identified in the pre-intervention group and a total of 2491 patients in the post-intervention group. The percentage of patients receiving PN prior to day five within the PICU was 5.5% in the pre-intervention group versus 3.1% in the delayed PN group (p<0.001). PICU patients receiving PN less than or equal to three days decreased from 2.6% pre-intervention to 1.5% post-intervention (p=0.01). For the subset of patients who were initiated on PN after admission to the PICU, median PICU length of stay was 7 days versus 6 days in the pre-intervention versus post-intervention group (p=0.26).
Conclusions: Decrease in PN utilization was seen in the pre and post-intervention groups as assessed by percentage of patients initiated on PN prior to day five of PICU admission. Consensus among practitioners with consistent recommendations from the frontline dietitian and pharmacist, with nutrition support team collaboration, contributed to the evidence based quality initiative results. Delaying PN did not adversely affect length of stay pre versus post-intervention.
Casaer M, Mesotten D, Hermans G, Wouters PJ, Schetz M, Meyfroidt G, Van Cromphaut S, Ingels C, Meersseman P, Muller J, Vlasselaers D, Debaveye Y, Desmet L, Dubois J, Van Assche A, Vanderheyden S, Wilmer A, Van den Berghe G. Early versus late parenteral nutrition in critically ill adults. N Engl J Med. 2011;365(6):506-517. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1102662
McClave SA, Taylor BE, Martindale RG, Warren MM, Johnson DR5, Braunschweig C, McCarthy MS, Davanos E, Rice TW, Cresci GA, Gervasio JM, Sacks GS, Roberts PR, Compher C; Society of Critical Care Medicine; American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition support therapy in the adult critically ill patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.). JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2016;40(2):159-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148607115621863
Fivez T, Kerklaan D, Mesotten D, Verbruggen S, Wouters PJ, Vanhorebeek I, Debaveye Y, Vlasselaers D, Desmet L, Casaer MP, Garcia Guerra G, Hanot J, Joffe A, Tibboel D, Joosten K, Van den Berghe G. Early versus late parenteral nutrition in critically ill children. N Engl J Med. 2016;374(12):1111-1122. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1514762
Li Y, Huang Y. Early versus late parenteral nutrition in critically ill children. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(4):384-385. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1605395
Mehta N, Parenteral Nutrition in Critcally Ill Children. N Engl J Med. 2016;374(12):1190-1192. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMe1601140
Mehta N, Skillman H, Irving S, Coss-Bu JA, Vermilyea S, Farrington EA, McKeever L, Hall AM, Goday PS, Braunschweig C. Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition support therapy in the pediatric critically ill patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2017;41(5):706-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148607117711387
Jiminez L, Mehta N, Duggan C. Timing of the initation of parenteral nutrition in critically ill children. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2017;20(3):227-231. https://doi.org/10.1097/MCO.0000000000000369
Vanhorebeek I, Verbruggen S, Casaer M, Gunst J, Wouters PJ, Hanot J, Guerra GG, Vlasselaers D, Joosten K, Van den Berghe G. Effect of early supplemental parenteral nutrition in the paediatric ICU: a preplanned observational study of post-randomisation treatments in the PEPaNIC trial. Lancet Respir Med 2017;5:475-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(17)30186-8
Puffelen E, Vanhorebeek I, Joosten K, Wouters PJ, Van den Berghe G, Verbruggen SC.Early versus late parenteral nutrition in critically ill, term neonates: a preplanned secondary subgroup analysis of the PEPaNIC multicenter, randomized controlled trial. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018;2(7):505-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30131-7
Verstraete S, Verbruggen S, Hordijk J, Vanhorebeek I, Dulfer K, Güiza F, van Puffelen E, Jacobs A, Leys S, Durt A, Van Cleemput H, Eveleens RD, Garcia Guerra G, Wouters PJ, Joosten KF, Van den Berghe G. Long-term developmental effects of withholding parenteral nutrition for 1 week in the paediatric intensive care unit: a 2-year follow-up of the PEPaNIC international, randomized, controlled trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2019;7(2):141-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30334-5
Anderson CR, Lueckler J, Olson JA. Influencing the timing of parenteral nutrition initiation in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pharm Pract (Granada) [Internet]. 2019Jun.6 [cited 2019Jul.19];17(2):1416. Available from: https://pharmacypractice.org/journal/index.php/pp/article/view/1416

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Q: Java File Upload using socket,Percentage of uploded file required? Hii i am uploading a file to server using socket and i need the percent of file loaded?how can i do that?i have the maximun value i.e the file length ,how can i get how much file has been uploaded?
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fil);
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                while ((i = in.read()) != -1) {
                    publishProgress(???);
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I need to pass the length of file uploded in the publishProgress method.

A: using buffered copying
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fil);
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(skt.getOutputStream());

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    //passing a double value from 0-1 to say how much is transmitted (length is length of file)
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A: Below is your modified code. written holds the number of ints written to the socket.
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fil);
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
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A: To do this you need to do one of a couple of things:

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*Use a Flash uploader such as swfupload (see http://demo.swfupload.org/Documentation/) as these typically provide access to upload progress of this sort.

*Provide a back channel of your own: perform the form submit with Ajax and then while the form submit occurs you run a javascript timer that hits a URL on the server with a key of some kind that corresponds to the upload. The URL on the server looks up how much of the file has been uploaded and returns that number and you pass that through to your uploadProgress method.

A: javax.swing.ProgressMonitorInputStream

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Lodged in an imposing Palace that took 30 years to build, the Madrid Archeological Museum is a marvel of contemporary architecture inside, contrasting with the artifacts it shows. The cases holding the unbelievably old pieces — some as old as 5-8 millions years old– are well-lighted and informative, the arrangements of artifacts is pleasing to the eye and dust-free, and the progression from room to room is smooth and logical. The museum has virtual reality stations dotted throughout its time periods, giving the visitor an idea of how people lived during a particular era. It also has tactile stations for the visually impaired –and the curious– to get an idea of what the artifacts "looked" like to the touch.
The museum was founded in 1867 by Queen Isabel II of Spain, to represent Spanish history from prehistory to today. The museum offers a panorama of all the ancient civilizations that, at one point, lived in the country. Almost all empires, from the Punic to the Norman and beyond have conquered Spain and lived in its varied regions.
The visit begins with prehistory where there are truly amazing pieces, including skulls and bones of pre- Homo Erectus. What surprised me was that, as soon as the early people were confident they could survive, they began to make art, drawing on tools, making toys, painting caves. This happened way before a religion was established. The need for expression has been a force from our own beginnings.
Moving on through time, the museum has an impressive collection of Roman mosaics, extracted from Roman villas established in Spain, sculptures such as the luminous Dama de Elche or the superb statue of the Roman Empress Livia, a magnificent crown from the Visigoth treasure of Guarrazar, perfect examples of Mozarabic and Arabic sculpting techniques shown in ivories, inlays,arches, windows and ceilings, all installed in the museum itself.
The museum is a delight that seemingly never ends. It's also fairly empty of visitors, which is a shame in a way but does let you take your time. I would carve out a good two hours if you want to visit. It is, by far, the best museum I've ever seen. It's a must.
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Pianist John Medeski has an upcoming residency at the Stone from Feb 18 through 23 with sets at 8 and 10 PM featuring a diverse cast of characters, mostly a series of trio performances. While it's a safe assumption that some of those sets will to some extent reprise the kind of grooves he made a name for himself with in Medeski Martin & Wood, recent years have seen Medeski play with a depth that transcends anything he ever did with MMW. In other words, Medeski is at the absolute peak of his career right now as both a composer and performer. His latest album A Different Time, the first release on the recently revived OKeh label, is a highly improvised solo piano quasi-suite that draws on influences as diverse as noir piano legend Ran Blake, Erik Satie, Ravel and the early Modernists as well as later 20th century minimalism.
The backstory is interesting: Medeski thought he had the album in the can until producer Henry Hirsch encouraged Medeski to try his studio's 1924 Gaveau piano, built in a nineteenth century style that allows (and in fact requires) more nuance than the Steinway model that was being used to track the album. A little messing around turned out to be a revelation, so Medeski ended up re-cutting the tracks on the Gaveau, in the process adding a lot of unplanned material.
Medeski teases the listener as the cinematic, neoromantic prelude I'm Falling slowly morphs into a fullscale ballad. He adds clever palindrome effects to a quirky reinterpretation of the spiritual His Eye Is on the Sparrow, then offers a homage to Blake – with whom Medeski studied at New England Conservatory – via a careful march that defiantly resists any resolution even as it hints at the blues. Graveyard Fields works suspenseful allusions to Asian melody and a moody waltz, while Luz Marina, an elegy for an orphan girl, references both the blues and a Satie Gymnopedie, coalescing with a Brad Mehldau-like vividness.
Medeski follows the gospel-tinged miniature Waiting at the Gate with Lacrima, whose morose insistence matches its spaciousness, again echoing Blake at his most moody and pensive. The album ends with an ironically elegaic, resonant, allusively bluesy remake of Otis, a track from MMW's debut album. Is this jazz improvisation? Definitely. Classical music? Why not? And it testifies powerfully to the kind of literally transcendent results you can get when you defamiliarize and throw yourself into an unexpected situation.
When she was invited up to the McDowell Colony last year to compose, alto saxophonist Sarah Manning was not in a good place, she alluded between songs at her show Saturday night at I-Beam. But her time in the New Hampshire woods turned out to be exactly what she needed to reboot, and she showed off several of the kinetic, sometimes achingly intense compositions she'd come up with there, taken from her brilliant new album Harmonious Creature. Onstage, Manning's tone is less brassy and more nuanced than it tends to be in the studio; attackwise, she went from a wail to a wisp and often back up again, precise and purposeful. For whatever reason, maybe because she has an album release show coming up at 8:30 PM on Feb 20 at Cornelia St. Cafe, this gig was more about tunes than pyrotechnics or jousting.
Bassist Rene Hart's hypnotic, pulsing circular lines often held the center as drummer Allison Miller ornamented the songs with a misterioso, John Hollenbeck-like pointillism. What's it like to watch Miller play quietly? Infrequent, let's say – but she finally hit a long cyclotron rumble which was just plain classic, and worth the price of admission all by itself. Meanwhile, guitarist Jonathan Goldberger and violist Fung Chern Hwei alternated between resonant atmospherics and incisive solo passages. Goldberger used his sustain pedals for almost clarinet-like tone that built with the viola to a magical, enveloping mist on the night's elegantly waltzing opening number, Copland on Cornelia St. Then Manning led the band with a hypercaffeinated drive through the bitingly catchy Don't Answer to the Question.
Grey Dawn Red Fox worked a similar dynamic, Miller's insistent implied clave paired with Manning's dancing lines against a lingering grey-sky backdrop. Tune of Cats saw Manning airing out her lower register, Miller matching her unease, throwing elbows everywhere versus the rest of the band's resolute calm. They worked a tight push-pull on the acerbic Radish Spirit and then backed away through a considerably more acidic reworking of Neil Young's On the Beach. The enigmatic, brooding Three Chords for Jessica was a highlight, as was the second set's closing number, What the Blues Left Behind. Manning explained it as an illustration of the flush of contentment – hopefully without your ears ringing too hard – that you get after a good set or a good night watching somebody play one. The long series of false endings at the end wound up this eclectic and intriguing evening on an aptly reflective note.
Jazz guitar legend Peter Leitch once joked grimly that in order to get steady work, maybe he should don a straw hat and play nothing written after, say, 1930. Seth Kessel and the Two Cent Band embody that esthetic, with their own original tunesmithing – and get a lot of work in the process. Their latest album is the aptly titled In the Golden Days, streaming at their Bandcamp page. Kessel plays energetically and eclectically on a hollowbody electric, straight through his amp without effects, alongside Gabriel Yonkler on soprano and tenor sax, Jackson Hardaker on trombone and tuba, Jason Bertone on bass and either Yaeir Heber or Hironori Momoi behind the drums. Kessel is also an excellent singer with an unaffectedly wry delivery and writes clever, funny lyrics in the spirit if not exactly the vernacular of the hot jazz he obviously loves so much.
The title track hints that it's going to go in a noir direction but instead becomes a sardonic, lickety-split circus rock shuffle: the golden days when "we sat in the street, drank malt liquor and didn't eat" had their ups and downs. The kiss-off swing anthem Don't Contact Me is a lot of fun: "You know what, I take back that apology, you never bothered putting money down at Milk and Honey after getting paid for helping a friend, and all the while expecting to get laid," Kessel relates. Southern Fried splices a twistedly noisy rock guitar solo onto a period-perfect Louis Jordan-style jump blues. They give the old standard Some of These Days a droll circus intro, a rapidfire, mandolin-like Kessel solo and then speed it up at the end – it sounds like a big concert favorite.
The strongest tune here might be Theme Song for Gregory Sallust, a moody, Romany-tinged waltz with biting soprano sax and a trombone solo that goes from blippy to brooding at the drop of a dime. The Chuck Berry-ish Let That Train Roll By looks back on one of the ones that got away – this one was definitely somebody to avoid, Yonkler's smoky tenor sax handing off to Kessel's noisy gutbucket solo. "I was hardly sober when you screwed me over," Kessel muses in the wry but understatedly vengeful Goodbye July, lit up by jaunty soprano sax, a guitar solo that mixes C&W and the blues, and a low, somewhat tongue-in-cheek one from the trombone.
They reinvent the old blues ballad After You've Gone as lickety-split swing, sly lowdown tombone grounding it in reality. In the Early Night is an amusingly telling look at one aspect of a Brooklyn musician's life in 2014, getting hit on by rich gentrifier girls and not minding the influx of cash with mysterious origins. The conspiratorially cinematic instrumental Kestrel's Revolution works a hi-de-ho theme with Balkan tinges. Turn the Heavens, a steady, shuffling ode to nocturnal entertainment of the adult variety, reminds that while this band may not do dixieland as tightly as some others do, they definitely have the spirit. The album winds up with an apprehensively scurrying oldtimey folk number. Kessel plays in a lot of projects; this band currrently doesn't have anything on the calendar, but you can catch his duo show with Pete Matthiesen every Tuesday at 9 at Arcane, 111 Ave. C between 9th and 10th Sts.
Solo albums made on instruments that typically don't play more than a single pitch at a time are usually of interest only to people who play those instruments. Doug Wieselman's warmly ambient, thoughtful, vinyl-only new solo album From Water is the exception to that rule. It's a minimalist mix of loopmusic played on both clarinet and bass clarinet, occasionally flashing the dry, puckish wit that is one of Wieselman's signature traits. The other is lyricism, which explains why he's been one of New York's most in-demand reedmen for well over a decade with acts from the legendary Kamikaze Ground Crew to Lou Reed and the Dimestore Dance Band. The longtime denizen of the original Knitting Factory/Tonic/Stone scene is playing the album release show for this one, presumably solo, on Feb 4 at 10:30 PM at the Poisson Rouge for $10.
The compositions' unifying theme is melody influenced by the sound of water and wind, a close listen to the sounds of the earth and what they might imply and an elegantly shifting counterpart to what Handel did over 200 years ago. A handful of the works here are miniatures, the rest of them fairly brief, around five minutes or less. The opening piece sets long, layered tones over a quietly looping traintrack rhythm, Wieselman developing a rather plaintive melody with a clear, crystalline sostenuto. On a couple of other tracks, Wieselman's pulsing, corkscrew loops evoke bagpipes, especially where he utilizes close harmonies, spinning them back through the mix with a kaleidoscopic swirl. In many of these numbers, he deftly orchestrates a calm/animated dichotomy, with spirals, trills and tersely melismatic motives set against a drone or a calmly circular phrase. Jazz is rarely if ever referenced here, the blues only distantly, although there are several nostalgic, folksy interludes and a long vamp with more than a hint of vintage 60s soul music.
There's a pastorale where you might pull off your headphones to see if a certain sound is coming from your radiator, and also a choral version of that work, seemingly an arrangement for two voices recorded live. While there are a handful of passages where Wieselman utilizes his vaunted technique for some lickety-split arpeggios and trills, the album's overall effect is soothing and contemplative. Turn on, drop the needle in the groove, you know the rest.
Vibraphonist Mark Sherman and tenor saxophonist Bob Franceschini are old friends from the NYC scene since their days as classmates at the High School of Music and Art, dreaming of having a band together and doing whatever other things up-and-coming jazz guys did back in the 70s. At last, now they have that band, wryly calling themselves Project Them, and an interesting and rewardingly tuneful album out from Miles High that follows what was by all accounts an energetic and well-received European tour. The crew here also includes Mitchel Forman on piano and organ, Martin Djakonovski on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums, You might not expect such lyricism as there is here from a bunch of guys with reps as hardbop heavy-hitters with virtuoso chops and intellectual rigor to match.
Nussbaum's We 3 begins as a balmy ballad and picks up with sunny sax over lingering vibes and a slowly dancing rhythm. Solitude, by Sherman, considers the upside to being alone, calm and catchy with hints of Steely Dan and Pat Metheny.The South Song, by Djakonovski, works understated, tersely modal territory, Froman's spacious guitarlike piano chords handing off to Sherman's meticulously expansive solo and then a similarly considered, upper midrange, woodtoned one from the composer. Franceschini's Minor Turns brings back the jaunty syncopation of the second track, Froman switching to organ behind the sax's lively clusters.
They do Johnny Mandel's Close Enough for Love with almost a reggae pulse, and then a couple of numbers with Italian pianist Paolo di Sabatino, who contributes Short Swing – a funky minor blues in disguise – and Ma Bo's Waltz, which nicks a very, very familiar theme immortalized by Coltrane. The album ends up with Sherman's Angular Blues, an organ tune that raises the ante with the album's most vigorous departure into the bop that these guys have in their fingers.


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Afrika
 Ägypten
 Khedive: Ismail Pascha (1867–1879)

 Äthiopien
 Kaiser: Tekle Giyorgis II. (1868–1871)

 Buganda
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 Bunyoro
 König: Kabalega (1869–1898)

 Burundi
 König: Mwezi IV. Gisabo (1852–1908)

 Dahomey
 König: Glélé (1856–1889)

 Liberia
 Präsident: James Spriggs Payne (1868–1870)
 Präsident: Edward J. Roye (1870–1871)

 Marokko
 Sultan: Sidi Mohammed IV. (1859–1873)

 Ruanda
 König: Kigeri IV. (1853–1895)

 Kalifat von Sokoto
 Kalif: Ahmad Rufa'i (1867–1873)

 Südafrikanische Republik
 Präsident: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1864–1871)

 Zulu
 König: Mpande ka Senzangakhona (1840–1872)

Amerika

Nordamerika

 Kanada
 Staatsoberhaupt: Königin Victoria (1867–1901)
 Generalgouverneur: Lord John Young (1869–1872)
 Regierungschef: Premierminister John A. Macdonald (1867–1873)

 Mexiko
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Benito Juárez (1861–1864, 1867–1872)

 Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)

Mittelamerika

 Costa Rica
 Staats- und Regierungschef:
 Präsident Jesús Jiménez Zamora (1842–1844, 1846–1847, 1863–1866, 1868–27. April 1870)
 Präsident Bruno Carranza Ramírez (27. April–8. August 1870)
 Präsident Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez (10. August 1870–1876, 1877–1882)

 Dominikanische Republik
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Buenaventura Báez (1849–1853, 1856–1858, 1868–1873, 1876–1878)

 El Salvador
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Francisco Dueñas (1852–1854, 1863–1871)

 Guatemala
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Vicente Cerna (1865–1871)

 Haiti
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Nissage Saget (1869–1874)

 Honduras
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident José María Medina (1863–1872)

 Nicaragua
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Fernando Guzmán (1867–1871)

Südamerika

 Argentinien
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1868–1874)

 Bolivien
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Mariano Melgarejo (1864–1871)

 Brasilien
 Herrscher: Kaiser Peter II. (1831–1889)

 Chile
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident José Joaquín Pérez (1861–1871)

 Ecuador
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Gabriel García Moreno (1869–1875)

 Kolumbien
 Staats- und Regierungschef:
 Präsident Santos Gutiérrez (1868–1. April 1870)
 Präsident Eustorgio Salgar (1. April 1870–1872)

 Paraguay
 Staats- und Regierungschef:
 Präsident Francisco Solano López (1862–1. März 1870)
 Triumvirat Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Carlos Loizaga, José Díaz de Bedoza (1. März–10. Dezember 1870)
 Präsident Cirilo Antonio Rivarola (10. Dezember 1870–1871)

 Peru (umstritten)
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident José Balta (1868–1872)

 Uruguay
 Staats- und Regierungschef: Präsident Lorenzo Batlle y Grau (1868–1872)

 Venezuela
 Staats- und Regierungschef:
 Präsident José Ruperto Monagas (1868–1870)
 Präsident Guillermo Tell Villegas (1870)
 Präsident Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1870–1884, 1886–1888)

Asien
 Abu Dhabi:
 Emir: Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (1855–1909)

 Adschman:
 Scheich: Humaid I. (1838–1841, 1848–1872)

 Afghanistan
 Emir: Shir Ali Khan (1867–1879)

 Bahrain:
 Emir: Isa I. (1869–1932)

 China (Qing-Dynastie):
 Kaiser: Tongzhi (1861–1874)

 Britisch-Indien
 Vizekönig: Richard Southwell Bourke (1869–1872)

 Japan:
 Kaiser: Mutsuhito (1867–1912)

 Korea:
 König: Gojong (1864–1897)

 Kuwait:
 Emir: Abdullah II. (1866–1892)

 Oman:
 Sultan: Azzan ibn Qais (1868–1871)

 Persien (Kadscharen-Dynastie)
 Schah: Naser od-Din Schah (1848–1896)

 Thailand
 König: Chulalongkorn, König von Thailand (1868–1910)

Australien und Ozeanien
 Hawaii
 König: Kamehameha V. (1863–1872)

Europa
 Andorra
 Co-Fürsten:
 Kaiser von Frankreich: Napoléon III. (1848–1870)
 Bischof von Urgell: Josep Caixal i Estradé (1851–1879)

 Baden
 Großherzog: Friedrich I. (1852–1907)

 Bayern
 König: Ludwig II. (1864–1886)

 Belgien
 Staatsoberhaupt: König Leopold II. (1865–1909)
 Regierungschef:
 Ministerpräsident Walthère Frère-Orban (1868–2. Juli 1870, 1878–1884)
 Ministerpräsident Jules d'Anethan (2. Juli 1870–1871)

 Dänemark
 Staatsoberhaupt: König: Christian IX. (1863–1906)
 Regierungschef:
 Ministerpräsident Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1865–28. Mai 1870)
 Ministerpräsident Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg (28. Mai 1870–1874)

 Frankreich
 Kaiser: Napoléon III. (1851–1870)

 Griechenland
 König: Georg I. (1863–1913)

 Italien
 König: Viktor Emanuel II. (1861–1878)

 Monaco
 Fürst Charles III. (1856–1889)

 Montenegro (bis 1878 unter osmanischer Suzeränität)
 Fürst: Nikola I. Petrović Njegoš (1860–1918) (ab 1910 König)

 Neutral-Moresnet
 König: Leopold II. (1865–1909)
 König: Wilhelm I. (1861–1888)
 Bürgermeister: Joseph Kohl (1859–1882)

 Niederlande:
 König: Wilhelm III. (1849–1890)

 Norddeutscher Bund
 Preußen:
 König: Wilhelm I. (1861–1888)
 Hessen-Darmstadt
 Großherzog: Ludwig III. (1848–1877)
 Präsident des Gesamt-Ministeriums: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk (1850–1871)
 Mecklenburg-Schwerin
 Großherzog: Friedrich Franz II. (1842–1883)
 Präsident des Staatsministeriums: Henning von Bassewitz (1869–1885)
 Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 Großherzog: Friedrich Wilhelm (1860–1904)
 Staatsminister: Wilhelm von Hammerstein (1868–1872)
 Oldenburg
 Großherzog: Nikolaus Friedrich Peter (1853–1900)
 Staatsminister: Peter Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Rössing (1851–1874)
 Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
 Großherzog – Carl Alexander (1853–1901)
 Anhalt
 Herzog: Leopold IV. (1863–1871)
 Herzogtum Braunschweig
 Herzog: Wilhelm (1830–1884)
 Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen
 Herzog: Georg II. (1866–1914)
 Sachsen-Altenburg
 Herzog: Ernst I. (1853–1908)
 Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha
 Herzog: Ernst II. (1844–1893)
 Staatsminister: Camillo von Seebach (1849–1888)
 Lippe
 Fürst: Leopold III. (1851–1875)
 Reuß ältere Linie
 Fürst: Heinrich XXII. (1867–1902)
 Reuß jüngere Linie
 Fürst: Heinrich XIV.
 Sachsen:
 König: Johann I. (1854–1873)
 Vorsitzender des Gesamtministeriums: Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1866–1871)
 Schaumburg-Lippe
 Fürst: Adolf I. Georg (1860–1893)
 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 Fürst: Georg I. Albert
 Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 Fürst: Günther Friedrich Carl II.
 Waldeck und Pyrmont (seit 1968 durch Preußen verwalten)
 Fürst: Georg Viktor (1845–1893)
 Preußischer Landesdirektor: Adalbert von Flottwell (1868–1872)

 Norwegen
 König: Karl IV. (1859–1872) (identisch mit Karl XV. von Schweden; Norwegisch-Schwedische Personalunion)

 Osmanisches Reich:
 Sultan: Abdülaziz (1861–1876)

 Österreich-Ungarn
 Kaiser und König: Franz Joseph I. (1848–1916)

 Portugal
 König: Ludwig I. (1861–1889)

 Rumänien (bis 1878 unter osmanischer Suzeränität)
 Staatsoberhaupt: Fürst Karl I. (1866–1914) (ab 1881 König)
 Regierungschef:
 Ministerpräsident Dimitrie Ghica (1868–1870)
 Ministerpräsident Alexandru G. Golescu (1870)
 Ministerpräsident Manolache Costache Epureanu (1870, 1876)
 Ministerpräsident Ion Ghica (1866–1867, 1870–1871)

 Russland
 Kaiser: Alexander II. (1855–1881)

 Schweden
 König: Karl XV. (1859–1872) (1859–1872 König von Norwegen)

 Serbien (bis 1878 unter osmanischer Suzeränität)
 Fürst: Milan Obrenović IV. (1868–1889) (ab 1882 König)

 Spanien
 Regent Francisco Serrano Domínguez (1869–1871) (1868–1869 Präsident der provisorischen Regierung, 1874 Präsident)

 Ungarn
 König: Franz Joseph I. (1848–1916) (1848–1916 König von Böhmen, 1848–1916 Kaiser von Österreich)

 Vereinigtes Königreich
 Staatsoberhaupt: Königin Victoria (1837–1901) (1877–1901 Kaiserin von Indien)
 Regierungschef: Premierminister William Ewart Gladstone (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)

 Württemberg
 König: Karl (1864–1891)
 Staatsminister: Karl Freiherr von Varnbüler (1864–1870)
 Vorsitzender des Geheimen Rats: Hermann von Mittnacht (1864–1870) (ab 1976 Ministerpräsident)

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Q: How to handle 'self' argument with Python decorators I am trying to setup some decorators so that I can do something like:
class Ball(object):
    def __init__(self, owner):
        self.owner = owner

class Example(CommandSource):
    @command
    @when(lambda self, ball: ball.owner == self)
    def throwBall(self, ball):
        # code to throw the ball
        pass

e = Example()
ball = Ball(e)
commands = e.listCommands(ball)  # commands = [ 'throwBall' ]

This currently doesn't work, as when the validation lambda is called, there is no self argument passed.
Now something like this works fine:
class Example(CommandSource):
    @command
    @when(lambda ball: ball.is_round)
    def throwBall(self, ball):
        pass

But this also doesn't work:
class Example(CommandSource):
    def verify_owner(self, ball):
        return ball.owner == self

    @command
    @when(verify_owner)
    def throwBall(self, ball):
        pass

The intent is to be able to mark methods in a class as a 'command', and the get a list of commands that are valid to run. Actually running the method is unchanged. I would like to use decorators here as it seems the least klunky way to do this. In effect I am trying to setup a little DSL using Python.
But I'm having difficulty, especially with the self argument. Here is my current implementation of command, when and CommandSource:
def command(cmd):
    if getattr(cmd, 'command', False): return cmd

    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        return cmd(*args, **kwargs)

    wrapper.validators = []
    wrapper.command = True

    return wrapper

def when(predicate):
    def createCommand(cmd):
        newcmd = command(cmd)
        newcmd.validators.append(predicate)
        return newcmd
    return createCommand

class CommandSource(object):
    def listCommands(self, *args, **kwargs):
        commands = []
        for command in dir(self.__class__):
            func = getattr(self, command, None)

            if func == None or getattr(func, 'command', False) == False:
                continue
            valid = True
            for validator in func.validators:
                if not validator(*args, **kwargs):
                    valid = False
                    break
            if valid:
                commands.append(command)
        return commands

A: Change your CommandSource as follow:
class CommandSource(object):

    def listCommands(self, *args, **kwargs):
        commands = []
        for command in dir(self.__class__):
            func = getattr(self, command, None)
            if func == None or getattr(func, 'command', False) == False:
                continue
            for validator in func.validators:
                if not validator(self, *args, **kwargs):
                    break
            else:
                commands.append(command)
        return commands

and use your very first code.

A: You need to pass an instance reference to your validator function:
for validator in func.validators:
    if not validator(self, *args, **kwargs):
        valid = False
        break


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The Great War and modern amnesia: Imperialism still coming home to roost
By Rich Broderick (Ground Zero) | June 29, 2014
Exactly 100 years ago, on the morning of June 28, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife Sophie were assassinated when two bullets were fired at them at close range. At the moment, the couple were riding through the streets of Sarajevo in an open car when the vehicle stalled while the driver attempted to turn around.
The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was one of a team of killers on the trail of the Archduke that day. All were Serb nationalists who laid claim to all regions of the Balkans inhabited by ethnic Serbs, including places that were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Princip and the others were also members of a terrorist organization called the Black Hand founded by the head of Serbia's military intelligence.
At the time, little was made of the killings. Virtually no one in the public sphere thought the event would lead to anything more cataclysmic than another round of fighting between Austria and Serbia. As we now know, of course, the assassinations precipitated a chain of events that, within six weeks, plunged Europe – and eventually the rest of the world – into the bloodiest conflict in history up to that time.
The leading politicians, journalists and public intellectuals who did not foresee the outbreak of war were equally shortsighted about the course that war would take once it erupted. It was going to be short. A few weeks, a few months at most. Everyone home by Christmas. Everyone in the know was familiar with the deadliness of mechanized weaponry, from machine guns to aerial bombardment to heavy artillery. But until then, such armaments had mostly been used against poorly armed tribes or native insurrectionists in "uncivilized" lands colonized by a European state. In 1914, the best and brightest of the day fully expected that enemy troops would be routed by "our side" as easily as villagers in North Africa or tribal warriors in Southeast Asia.
Once again, we now know different. But who could blame the European powers for their undue optimism? In current parlance, the leaders of those nations lived in a bubble. They were only told what those around them thought they wanted to hear, and they only listened – like elites everywhere, including Washington, D.C. – to those willing to tell them what they wanted to hear.
In the run-up to the Great War's centenary, the already capacious library of books published about the conflict, like Paul Fussell's early masterpiece The Great War and Modern Memory, has swelled considerably, including Christopher Clark's magisterial 700 page The Sleepwalkers.
Among the newer books – it was published in 2011 – The Russian Origins of World War I by Sean McMeekin should have special value for us in the United States. Not only does it offer an alternative, and convincing, take on who the most villainous player was in the lead up to hostilities in 1914, its examination of Russian policies before and during the war offers critical lessons for America, especially in the Middle East. There our current leaders seem doomed to keep making the same kinds of mistakes Tsarist Russia made in pursuing policies that were simultaneously fickle, feckless, and brutal, based upon premises that were little more than self-delusion. Epistemic cloture is a term currently in vogue for describing the echo chamber in which, for example, the GOP leadership seems to be operating. Epistemic cloture is also a good term for describing the milieu in which Russian leaders operated in the early 20th century. It is an equally apt term for the milieu in which American leaders operate, not just when it comes to the Middle East and Central Asia but, indeed, throughout all of the developing, non-Western world.
The Russian Origins of World War I is a study of the unintended calamitous consequences that inevitably follow misguided decisions in the fields of foreign policy and war. Not only did the Tsar's secret service collude with Serbian intelligence in helping fund and train the Black Hand, but Russia's military leaders urged the Serbs to resist Austria's demands that it be allowed to participate in the investigation of the Archduke's murder, promising the Serbs in return slices of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Balkans domain – territory that Russia was also promising to other nations. Most critical of all, it was news of Russia's secret general mobilization of its military nearly a week before Germany or Austria that enabled the German staff to overcome Kaiser Wilhelm's reluctance to rush to war.
Russia's aim in all this was for France and England, its partners in the Triple Entente, to pin down Germany and Austria long enough for Russia to achieve its real strategic goals – dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and seizure of Constantinople, which Russia planned to rename Tsargrad.
In a shameful episode that bears a striking similarity to what happened to Iraq's Kurds and southern Shia when we abandoned them to Saddam Hussein's revenge following the 1991 Gulf War, McMeekin describes Russia's key role in triggering the course of events that resulted in the forced relocation and subsequent death of 600,000 Armenians living under Turkish rule. This humanitarian disaster was set in motion by Russia's decision to arm and train Armenian militia in 1914. When Turkey responded, Russia walked away from its pledge of military support for the Armenians. The Turks, facing an internal uprising along the border with its traditional enemy, reacted, as we know, with unrestrained brutality.
Whatever its proximate cause, however, and whichever nation bears the greatest responsibility for setting it off, WWI was ultimately European Imperialism come home to roost: a homecoming that in 1939 would see the "scientific racism" concocted in the 19th century to justify the conquest of "lesser peoples" reach its apogee with Hitler's attempt to exterminate Europe's Jews, Gypsies and Slavs.
As McMeekin's book shows, the war was also the coming home to roost of the Great Game Europe had played throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries with the lives and territories of people living in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The ISIS horror show currently on display in Syria and Iraq is yet another consequence of Europe casually divvying up the Middle East without regard to the region's ethnic or sectarian realities – a Pandora's Box the U.S. obligingly pried open with its ill-fated decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Over the course of the century since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Europe would – at the cost of more than 100 million European lives – come to see the error of its ways, turning away from armed conflict as the primary means of advancing national interests.
But if the decades following the Second World War have demonstrated anything, it is that the United States still hasn't learned the lessons so painfully absorbed on the battlefields of Flanders and the killing fields of Auschwitz and Dachau. We continue to blunder along trying to impose our "civilizing" mission — now termed "nation building" and "democratization" — on lesser peoples, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia (think Afghanistan).
Tsarist Russia, to its ultimate cost, found out how self-destructive its fantasies of hegemony in this part of the world proved to be. Would that we took note of Russia's fate in 1917 and acted accordingly.
Not that I'm holding my breath. Even now, there is an assassin waiting for us to come into range. Only this time the name of the assassin isn't Gavrilo Princip. It's us.
And the gun we hold is aimed at our own heads.
Rich Broderick


A professional is a member of a profession. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform the role of that profession.
What this quote from Wikipedia is saying is true, a professional is basically a person playing a structured role in a profession, but for my first post on this blog, i want to describe it as something more.
For me, a role or part in a structured theme is only part of the picture. The professional needs to be me. I need to be a major player personally, in the world i choose to stake my claim in. There should be very little difference between who i am personally and how i approach my work.


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Parashat Shelach Lecha 5779, 2019: "Spies and Tears"
Dedicated to the sacred memories of my mother, Miriam Tovah bat Aharon Hakohen, father-in-law, Levi ben Yitzhak, sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra bat Yechiel, sister, Shulamit bat Menachem, Chana bat Shmuel, Yehonatan Binyamin ben Mordechai Meir Halevi, Shoshana Elka bat Avraham, Tikvah bat Rivka Perel, Peretz ben Chaim, the Kedoshim of Har Nof and Pittsburgh, and the refuah shlaimah of Yakir Ephraim ben Rachel Devorah, Mordechai HaLevi ben Miriam Tovah, and the safety of our brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world.
Imagine that we live in a world of universal peace and harmony, in which war is simply unknown and there is no avodah zarah (idol worship). Moreover, picture a time when the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple) stands in all its glory, Israel is governed by Jewish Law (Halacha), the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court) renders ultimate judgment and anti-Semitism is not even a thought. As Chazal (our Sages of blessed memory) teach us in multiple sources, the beginning of our parasha offers the possible fulfillment of these messianic visions. In theory, Moshe could have been Mashiach (the Messiah), led our people into Eretz Yisrael and built the eternal Beit HaMikdash. Then, the entire world would have recognized the truth of monotheism and our people's singular role as Hashem's chosen nation.
What exactly took place that brought these magnificent plans to a screeching halt? In his Commentary on the Torah, the Ramban zatzal (Nachmanides, 1194-1270) suggests that this was a direct result of the people's reaction to the Meraglims' (Spies') report concerning the seeming impossibility of conquering Eretz Yisrael as found in our parasha. In addition, we must remember that Chazal teach us that this poignant episode transpired on the night of Tisha b'Av:
The entire community raised their voices and shouted, and the people wept on that night. All the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the entire congregation said, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this desert. Why does the L-rd bring us to this land to fall by the sword; our wives and children will be as spoils. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?" They said to each other, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt!" (Sefer Bamidbar 14:1-4, translation, The Judaica Press Complete Tanach)
Rabbi Isaac ben Moses Arama (known as the Akeidat Yitzhak, 1420-1494) was a great Spanish exegete. In his Torah commentary on our parasha, Akeidat Yitzhak, Rav Arama suggests that the final verse of our passage contains the key for understanding the completely negative valence of our forebears' response:
They [the people] rejected the Land of Divine promise. It is this rejection of the land which has been our undoing throughout the ages. On account of it, we were exiled from our country, divorced from our soil, and became a reproach to our neighbors, a scorning and a derision to those round about us. There is no way of restoring our integrity other than by returning unto it. (This and the following translations, Aryeh Newman in, Nehama Leibowitz, Studies in Bamidbar, pages 145-146)
At this juncture, Rav Arama asks, and answers, a powerful question as to why our ancestors' behavior eventuated in the permanent ban on the men of this generation — though not the continuously loyal women — from entering Eretz Yisrael. In so doing, he helps us understand our seemingly never-ending years of Galut (Exile):
What was the reason for the terrible wrath of the Almighty in giving forth this irrevocable decree? What should it matter to the Holy One blessed be He that they rejected a goodly land, a land flowing with milk and honey? Surely all these goods are only transitory!
But the truth is that it was not [only] these earthly things that they rejected, rather they rejected Hashem, they despised the Holy One of Israel who granted them life and its joys, surrounded by the precepts of the Torah...They retreated saying, "We cannot go up," implying that they did not desire to scale the heights of spiritual perfection, the ladder to which was the Holy Land itself, but preferred to choose a leader and go back to Egypt, descending to an impure land. (With my emendations)
Based upon Rav Arama's trenchant insights, we can now summarize the two-part sin of the Meraglim and the people's response to their report: the rejection of the Land of Divine promise, and the repudiation of Hashem and His holy Torah. In a very real sense, our forbears' rejection of the land represented the worst form of kafui tovah — rejection of the good. Finally, the moment was at hand and Eretz Yisrael was all-but in our grasp. Hashem's beneficence was boundless, and His rachamim (mercy) unending, yet we rejected both our Creator and His unlimited chesed (kindness).
Beyond a doubt, our ancestors cried for no reason, and it is precisely these causeless bitter tears that have stained our relationship with the Almighty until today. May the Master of the Universe help us truly appreciate the untold wonder of our beloved land, and give us the wisdom to once again cry unto Him: "Cause us to return to You Hashem so that we may return, and renew our days as they were in earlier times." (Megillat Eichah 5:21, translation my own) May this time come soon, and in our days, v'chane yihi ratzon.
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A high percentage of children who are bedwetting past the age of five have been shown to have a non-integrated Galant. The following is a list of the primitive reflexes seen in infants and the time frame associated with each one: Help your child cross one foot over the other and lift their arms above their head.
No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. Each primitive reflex provides essential responses to the world and why children with normal development naturally move into adult reflexes or replacement reflexes.
Nowadays, it is more likely triggered by more complex worries such as job interviews, an exam or social situations.
Kids who retain this reflex may have poor concentration, be clumsy, wet the bed beyond the age of five and find pants that are snug or not elastic waistband very uncomfortable. Because of the changing environment, procedures, and lack of tummy time, more children are not integrating this reflex.
Some of the exercises seem strange at first. This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Primary Menu Skip to content. Palmer Reflex: STNR or the crawling reflex divides the body along the midline to assist with crawling.
Their palms are often very sensitive to touch. It develops to help protect the baby from danger sensed through the sensory system and take the first breath of life. A 2012 study from the Czech Republic published in a journal for Neurocognitive Research showed that children with ADHD have high occurrences of retained primitive reflexes.
But, in other cases, it may only concern one particular reflex, and the effects can range from mild to severe. The child should swing towards that side. The instincts babies are born with are fascinating. It was important for me to write to you and thank you, not because I'll be the first to have done so, and not because I have a child who has benefited from your work. That instinctive spatial awareness was totally new to him and I realized in that moment just how much the exercises were helping.
This reflex, like the palmar grasp reflex, often spontaneously integrates once the moro, ATNR and Galant reflexes are integrated.
This article explains what primitive reflexes are, their role in development, what can potentially happen if they are not properly integrated, and what can potentially be done about that. Drugs, supplements, and natural remedies may have dangerous side effects.


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Baker v. Fales (1820)
By John R. Vile
Related cases in Church Property and Governance
A dispute in Dedham, Massachusetts, resulted in an 1820 Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that illustrates some of the issues faces by states with established churches. In this case, members of the congregation who broke away wanted to continue to own the church property given by the state instead of it going to the "new congregation" under a pastor they had rejected. (Photo of one of the historical churches in Dedham, Massachusetts, First Church and Parish, by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
The case of Baker v. Fales, 16 Mass. 488 (1820) illustrates some of the problems that states that retained established churches faced prior to their abolition in 1833. During this period, churches were expected to fulfill both secular and religious purposes.
Court had to decide which congregation owned church property
The case arose out of a dispute in Dedham, Massachusetts, that resulted when a local parish appointed a Unitarian pastor (a Mr. Lamson) that his congregation rejected. After the majority that rejected this appointment left the congregation to form a new one and elect a new group of deacons, the court had to decide whether or not the first congregation, or the newly formed one, owned the property that had originally been given to the church.
Court said original congregation were the owners
The decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court was issued by Chief Justice Isaac Parker. Parker noted that the church at Dedham was originally the only one in the parish and that those who contributed to it likely did so because of their associations with that specific church.
Further referencing the manner in which the pastor was responsible for providing education to all citizens of the entire parish, Parker observed that "public sentiment was gradually verging towards the broad and liberal principle, which was adopted in the constitution; a principle, in reference to religious privileges, correspondent with that which was established in relation to civil rights, that the citizen who contributed towards the support of the government should have a share in the election of those who were to administer the government" (p. 520).
Commenting generally on the role of the church, Parker observed that:
"The authority of the church should be of that invisible, but powerful nature, which results from superior gravity, piety, and devout example. It will then have its proper effect upon the congregation, who will cheerfully yield to the wishes of those who are best qualified to select the candidate. But as soon as it is challenged as a right, it will be lost."
Parker further observed that those who had broken away from the Dedham church could join "any other church and society, or they may initiate a new society; so that they are neither obliged to hear not to pay a minister, in whose settlement they did not concur." He added that "It is true, if there are any parish funds, they will lose the benefit of them by removal; but an inconvenience of this sort will never be felt, when a case of conscience is in question."
Giovan Venable observes that in holding "that the title holder of any church property was the territorial parish, which taxed its inhabitants in order to support itself" the "courts in Massachusetts treated Massachusetts Congregationalism much like British courts had treated the Anglicanism from which the Bay Colonists had liberated themselves" (1989, p. 721).
Modern cases like Maryland and Virginia Eldership of the Churches of God v. Church of God at Sharpsburg (1970) reflect the modern doctrine that in resolving disputes over church property, courts should not examine doctrinal matters.
John Vile is professor of political science and dean of the Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. This article was originally published in 2017.
Barnes v. First Parish in Falmouth (1810)
Established Churches in Early America
Maryland and Virginia Eldership of the Churches of God v. Church of God at Sharpsburg (1970)
Venable, Giovan Harbour. "Courts Examine Congregationalism." Stanford Law Review 41 (1989): 719-749.
Wright, Conrad. "The Dedham Case Revisited." The Massachusetts Historical Society 100 (1988): 15-39.
John R. Vile. 2017. Baker v. Fales (1820) [electronic resource]. The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University (accessed Jan 20, 2022). http://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1534/baker-v-fales


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Ramon Maria Casanyes (Barcelona - 1954) és un il·lustrador i autor de còmics català que es va formar a l'editorial Bruguera.

Biografia
Ramon Maria Casanyes comença la seua trajectòria professional a l'editorial Bruguera, on entraria a treballar amb 21 anys, l'any 1975. Allà treballava realitzant pàgines anònimes de Mortadel·lo i Filemó, a l'equip de Blas Sanchis Bonet. Poc després, Casanyes abandona l'editorial, si bé tornaria de nou en 1977, en acabar el servei militar.

Davant la negativa de l'editorial en publicar-li un personatge propi, mentre li demanaven 10 pàgines de personatges creats per Francisco Ibáñez, però propietat de l'editorial, Casanyes va decidir contractar un equip perquè l'ajudara a portar endavant el seu treball amb Bruguera mentre ell cercava una manera de promocionar-se com a autor de còmics. Si bé a principis dels anys 80, Casanyes va publicar a revistes dirigides a públic adult com El Papus o Hara-Kiri, prompte va deixar eixes col·laboracions per continuar treballant a Bruguera, on el salari era millor. Casanyes tornaria a publicar a revistes per a públic no-juvenil com Cimoc, Rambla o Titánic, a partir del moment en què fóra acomiadat de Bruguera en 1982, quan l'editorial començava a mostrar la fluixa situació econòmica que la portaria a fer fallida en 1986. En 5 anys, Casanyes i el seu equip havien dibuixat més de 2.000 pàgines, una part important (però no la totalitat) de la producció de personatges de Francisco Ibáñez realitzada a iniciativa de l'editorial que posseïa els drets en exclusiva sense consentiment de l'autor. La col·laboradora que més temps va romandre a l'equip de Casanyes, Lourdes Martín Gimeno, hauria col·laborat posteriorment amb el mateix Ibañez.

Amb el tancament de l'editorial Bruguera, Casanyes aconseguiria per fi publicar historietes de personatges creats per ell. Paco Tecla y Lafayette van ser els protagonistes de la sèrie homònima que es publicaria a "Garibolo", revista de curta durada que ell i la seua creació liderarien l'any 1986. Cal tenir en compte que aquestos personatges els havia creat per a l'Editorial Bruguera, on Casanyes tornà a publicar per un breu període en 1986, poc abans de la seua fallida.

Mentre encara existia Garibolo, a Casanyes se li encarregà treballar en un projecte nou, una sèrie animada de televisió sobre les futures Olimpíades de Barcelona 92, la sèrie s'anomenà Hermes, mensajero de los dioses, i els drets per realitzar la sèrie van ser comprats per una productora temps després de la realització dels jocs olímpics.

En el camp de la publicitat, Casanyes seria l'encarregat de modernitzar la imatge de "Quicky", el conill mascota de la xocolata en pols Nesquik, que Nestlé li va encarregar per tal que el personatge que fóra utilitzat a tot Europa, al contrari de com fins a eixes dates es feia, on hi havia diverses mascotes a cada país. Aquest rediseny es deu a l'èxit que van tenir els tres àlbums amb historietes del personatge que Casanyes va realitzar a partir de 1993, a més de pàgines publicitàries de Nestlé que serien publicades, entre altres, a les revistes d'Edicions B. Actualment Casanyes és el dibuixant oficial de la mascota de Nesquik.

Còmics editats

Mortadel·lo i Filemó
 Las criaturas de cera vivientes
 El caso de los párvulos

Paco Tecla y Lafayette
 Trapicheo en el Cairo
 El caso de los juguetes diabólicos
 Bebitos como bidones

Las aventuras de Quicky
 El misterio de las ortigas
 El impostor
 El carámbano negro

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Pàgina web oficial
 Ramón María Casanyes a Lambiek.net
 Ramon Maria Casanyes  al Diari d'Andorra.
 Casanyes a 13, Rue Bruguera
 La història de Quicky  a nestlé.it
 Índex de treballs acreditats a tebeosfera.com

Dibuixants de còmics barcelonins
Dibuixants de còmics de l'editorial Bruguera
Mortadel·lo i Filemó
Il·lustradors barcelonins


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	args ...interface{}) {

	s.errs = append(s.errs, s.context.ModuleErrorf(logicModule, format, args...))
}

func (s *singletonContext) Errorf(format string, args ...interface{}) {
	// TODO: Make this not result in the error being printed as "internal error"
	s.errs = append(s.errs, fmt.Errorf(format, args...))
}

func (s *singletonContext) Variable(pctx *PackageContext, name, value string) {
	s.scope.ReparentTo(pctx)

	v, err := s.scope.AddLocalVariable(name, value)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	s.actionDefs.variables = append(s.actionDefs.variables, v)
}

func (s *singletonContext) Rule(pctx *PackageContext, name string,
	params RuleParams, argNames ...string) Rule {

	s.scope.ReparentTo(pctx)

	r, err := s.scope.AddLocalRule(name, &params, argNames...)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	s.actionDefs.rules = append(s.actionDefs.rules, r)

	return r
}

func (s *singletonContext) Build(pctx *PackageContext, params BuildParams) {
	s.scope.ReparentTo(pctx)

	def, err := parseBuildParams(s.scope, &params)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	s.actionDefs.buildDefs = append(s.actionDefs.buildDefs, def)
}

func (s *singletonContext) RequireNinjaVersion(major, minor, micro int) {
	s.context.requireNinjaVersion(major, minor, micro)
}

func (s *singletonContext) SetBuildDir(pctx *PackageContext, value string) {
	s.scope.ReparentTo(pctx)

	ninjaValue, err := parseNinjaString(s.scope, value)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	s.context.setBuildDir(ninjaValue)
}

func (s *singletonContext) VisitAllModules(visit func(Module)) {
	s.context.VisitAllModules(visit)
}

func (s *singletonContext) VisitAllModulesIf(pred func(Module) bool,
	visit func(Module)) {

	s.context.VisitAllModulesIf(pred, visit)
}

func (s *singletonContext) VisitDepsDepthFirst(module Module,
	visit func(Module)) {

	s.context.VisitDepsDepthFirst(module, visit)
}

func (s *singletonContext) VisitDepsDepthFirstIf(module Module,
	pred func(Module) bool, visit func(Module)) {

	s.context.VisitDepsDepthFirstIf(module, pred, visit)
}

func (s *singletonContext) AddNinjaFileDeps(deps ...string) {
	s.ninjaFileDeps = append(s.ninjaFileDeps, deps...)
}


If you've been seriously hurt because of a trucking accident that happened after a tire blowout, you're not alone. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) estimates that more than 78,000 crashes and 400 deaths occur each year because of flat tires or blowouts.
When tire blowouts happen on tractor-trailers, 18-wheelers, and other large trucks, the results can be devastating. Read on to learn about how truck tire blowouts happen and how you may be able to get compensation if you've been hurt in a blowout-related crash.
What Are Truck Tire Blowouts, and How Do They Happen?
The term "blowout" usually refers to a tire that bursts and then loses air pressure. Tire blowouts are extremely dangerous because they often cause partial or total loss of control over the vehicle. This can be especially deadly when that vehicle is a big-rig truck that weighs 80,000 pounds.
You might expect truck tire blowouts to happen most often when tires are under too much pressure, like when you overinflate a balloon and it suddenly pops. This is possible, but it happens very rarely since most tire manufacturers make sure their tires can handle additional pressure beyond their stated maximum PSI (pounds per square inch, a measurement of air pressure). If they didn't, you could easily blow a tire apart when filling it up.
Instead, most tire blowouts happen because of too little tire pressure. When a tire is underinflated, it allows the rubber, steel, and fabric in the tire to flex too much under the intense forces of the vehicle and the road. If a tire's components keep flexing this way, they weaken and eventually fail, creating a blowout.
Tire blowouts and the resulting crashes also tend to happen more often in warmer weather. The heat itself can increase friction and damage to tires. People also tend to drive faster when it's nice out. Some mechanics and safety experts refer to the months of May through September as "tire blowout season" because blowouts are so much more common during this time of year.
Who Can I Sue for Injuries Resulting From a Truck Tire Blowout?
A truck tire blowout may seem like an "act of God," but that's rarely the case. More often, these dangerous incidents result from negligent behavior. If you suffered injuries because of a truck tire blowout, you may be able to work with an experienced trucking accident lawyer to hold one or more of the following parties responsible.
External factors like potholes and debris in the road can cause a truck tire blowout, but that doesn't mean the driver bears no responsibility. The truck driver has an obligation to exercise reasonable care and drive defensively. If they hit the pothole or debris because they were driving recklessly, or if their careless actions immediately after the blowout made the crash worse, they could be held liable for the consequences.
Truck drivers also play a role in keeping their truck's tires properly maintained and inflated. If it turns out that the driver failed to properly check the pressure on their truck's tires, for example, a court might hold them responsible for a resulting blowout and any damages it created.
Trucking companies have a legal responsibility to keep their trucks in good working order. Unfortunately, too many companies cut corners on truck inspections and repairs so they can save an extra dollar here and there. If the trucking company's negligent maintenance practices created dangerous conditions that led to the crash that injured you, they're responsible under Oklahoma law for the damages that follow.
Truck tire blowouts can also happen because the trucking company or the shipper dangerously overloaded the truck, placing too much pressure on the tires. In this case, the company that violated weight restrictions and overloaded the truck can be held liable for the resulting damages.
Sometimes, tire blowouts happen because the company that designed or manufactured the product introduced a defect that compromised the tire and caused the blowout. The defect might be a manufacturing issue that led to a weakness in that particular tire, or it might be a design flaw that renders every single tire of that type dangerous. It might even involve the company failing to provide adequate and accurate warnings about the tire's specifications and limitations in product literature and packaging.
Regardless of where and how a product defect originated, companies are liable under the law if they produce and distribute a defective product that hurts someone. If the crash that injured you happened because the truck tire that blew out was defective, then your claim would technically fall under the category of product liability cases.
If you've been hurt in a wreck that resulted from a truck tire blowout, an experienced trucking accident lawyer may be able to help, but it's important to contact an attorney right away so they can start investigating the factors that led to the crash and figuring out who may be held liable for your injuries. Statutes of limitation apply to truck crash cases, and some of the most important evidence in your case may only be available right after the collision, so don't wait to act — get in touch with an attorney who offers free case evaluations right away.
After a serious truck wreck, you or a loved one might feel overwhelmed by serious injuries, lost wages, and unpaid medical bills. At Atkins & Markoff, we fight tirelessly and aggressively to protect the rights of Oklahoma truck accident victims. We're ready to listen to your story, and we'll fight to get you justice and compensation if we're able to take your case.
If you have been seriously hurt or even lost a loved one in a trucking accident, contact Atkins & Markoff today for a free case evaluation by calling 405-607-8757 or filling out our quick and simple online contact form. We handle all personal injury cases on a contingent fee basis, which means you won't pay attorney's fees unless we get you a settlement or win your case in court.
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