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Genealogy Success Story: Hurt-filled, but important revelations
Actual orphanage record of Aaron Haber.
Marilyn Macklin's story as told by Gloria Green
"My Jewish Roots" Workshops, sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Orlando (JGSGO) continue in February with the workshop: "The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe."
If you've seen Neil Simon's brilliant comedy, "Brighton Beach Memoirs," you will likely remember the character Kate saying "Max Green will be at our table. He's the one whose wife died of 'tuberculosis' (said in a whisper)."
Imagine looking into your family history and finding this painful clue as to what marked the core of a quiet, enigmatic member of the family-your father.
That is what happened when Marilyn Macklin began researching her father's family history three years ago, with help from several "mavens" at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando (JGSGO).
Macklin's father, Aaron Haber, was born in May of 1914 in Philadelphia to Max and Fannie Haber. Aaron was their only child.
Macklin knew that in 1916, her father's father had left his family in Philadelphia, but it was not known why or where he went. Family lore was that when Aaron's mother died a few years later, he was left in the care of his grandfather, who was unable to take care of his 5-year-old grandson. The boy's uncle, Izzie, placed Aaron in an orphanage around 1919.
At the end of the 19th century, tuberculosis was dubbed the "Jewish disease" or the "tailor's disease." Aaron's maternal grandfather, Harris Levy, was a tailor.
Macklin's first discovery in her research was that her father's mother, Fannie Haber, had died in 1918. The assumption was that she had died as a result of the Swine Flu Epidemic that killed 20 million people throughout the world that year. Tracking down Fannie's death certificate, Macklin found that her grandmother had died at the young age of 26 of lobar pneumonia. According to Wikipedia "Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the tubercle bacillus, may also cause lobar pneumonia if pulmonary tuberculosis is not treated promptly." A death certificate for Fannie's sister, Rose Levy, indicated Rose had died two years earlier in 1916 at age 23, also of tuberculosis! And then Macklin recently found a record showing details of the death of Max, Fannie's husband/Aaron's father. When he left the family in 1916, it was to go for treatment for tuberculosis in Colorado. The dry, fresh mountain air began attracting people with tuberculosis to Colorado beginning in the late 19th century. Max landed at National Jewish Health, an academic medical research facility located in Denver, which was founded in 1899 to treat tuberculosis and other diseases. Whatever treatment Max had obviously didn't work, or was too late, and he died in May of 1917.
Orphaned five-year-old Aaron was taken in by his grandfather after his mother died in October of 1918. That placement lasted only a short time as his grandfather also died in December of that year. In January 1920, Aaron's Uncle Izzie placed Aaron in an orphanage-The Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia. The "Home" was established as "an institution wherein the orphans or the children of indigent Israelites may be rescued from the evils of ignorance and vice, comfortably provided for, instructed in moral and religious duties and thus prepared to become useful members of society." While the children attended public schools, Orthodox religion was practiced in the Home.
Macklin always knew her father had grown up in an orphanage. During a research trip to Philadelphia she discovered the original building was still standing, and she was able to access the archives. Amazingly, they still had the original books in which the children had been signed in and out and which kept track of family status. In 1929, when Aaron was 15, family in Newark, New Jersey, took him in and he worked in the family's grocery store. In time, he managed to earn his GED, met and married his wife. Aaron worked for ITT in New Jersey for over 25 years. He passed away in Winter Park in 2005 at the age of 91.
"It was a journey of heartbreak, but knowing what my father went through as a child is a relief," Marcklin explained. "I now know why father thought and did some of the things he did. Trauma left its scars, but made him a better, kinder person."
You can learn how to access many important resources at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando's (JGSGO) "My Jewish Roots" workshops. The next one is "The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe" featuring International Association of Genealogical Societies expert Hal Bookbinder on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at The Roth Jewish Community Center, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland, Fla. The workshop is free and open to the public. Bring your own laptop to participate in the lab portion. It is also possible to attend via the Internet. Pre-registration is required. Pre-register for either in-person or online participation at http://www.jgsgo.org/MyJewishRoots.


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Sampled rootstocks were split lengthwise, photographed under controlled illumination in an imaging tent and analysed using Root Estimator for Shovelomics Traits (REST). A set of 33 diverse maize hybrids, grown at 46 and 192 kg N ha-1, was used to evaluate the method and software.
Splitting of the crowns enhanced soil removal and enabled access to occluded traits: REST-derived median gap size correlated negatively (r=-0.62) with lateral root density based on counting. The manually measured root angle correlated with the image-derived root angle (r=0.89) and the horizontal extension of the root system (r=0.91). The heritabilities of RSAT ranged from 0.45 to 0.81, comparable to heritabilities of plant height and leaf biomass.


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Hanoi aims to create supermarket coalition to reduce single-use plastic bags
Hanoi is working on the formation and operation of a supermarket coalition to minimise plastic shopping bags, thus cutting plastic waste and protecting the environment.
Efforts made to reduce plastic waste in oceans
Plastic products must be used in sustainable way: Deputy PM
Movement against plastic waste reviewed
Workshop seeks way to raise SMEs' awareness in plastic waste management
Co.opmart supermarket encourages consumers to use environmentally-friendly bags (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Hanoi is working on the formation and operation of a supermarket coalition to minimise plastic shopping bags, thus cutting plastic waste and protecting the environment.
The effort is part of an initiative conducted with support from the EU and the German Government.
According to Fanny Quertamp from Expertise France, the project is a chance for Vietnam to take specific action to cut plastic waste, and she expressed her hope that the project will receive the active engagement of supermarkets around the country.
According to a representative from Lotte Mart Ba Dinh, foreign customers strongly support the scheme and are willing to pay for environmentally-friendly shopping bags. Many Vietnamese customers, however, are not happy, so stronger communication campaigns are needed to raise public awareness.
A BigC representative said the scheme should be introduced at all supermarkets to ensure fairness and proposed legal regulations on reductions to plastic waste and single-use plastic bags.
In order to minimise the use of such bags, the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade held a working session with the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
According to the department, 140 out of 170 supermarkets and trade centres in Hanoi have switched from plastic shopping bags to bio-degradable bags and multi-use shopping bags.
The majority of facilities use food packaging materials made of bagasse and natural materials.
Meanwhile, many retail and distribution businesses have offered promotions to customers who use their own shopping bags.
The VinCommerce General Commercial Service JSC, the owner of VinMart and VinMart , has been among the pioneers in encouraging green shopping habits by implementing the "Three green" programme - Green VinMart, Green Customers, and Green Suppliers - to protect the environment. It has 2,200 retail points around the country, including 850 in Hanoi.
Environmental experts, however, said the habit of using plastic bags continues among a large number of shoppers, especially at traditional markets./.
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The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on January 16 inaugurated the first phase of a sea dyke project to prevent saline intrusion running through the districts of Binh Dai, Ba Tri and Thanh Phu.
Vietnam witnesses 10-15 flash floods each year
Vietnam records from 10-15 flash floods each year, mostly in the northern mountainous, central, Central Highlands and southeastern regions, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Vu Duc Long said on January 15.
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BRAINE Project press release
BRAINE Project Consortium will help to position Europe at the forefront of the intelligent edge computing field
By lowering the barriers for utilizing edge computing for artificial intelligence applications, BRAINE will open the door for European SMEs to leverage state of the art technologies, driving their development and growth as industry leaders in their sectors.
Pisa, Italy – May 2020
The consortium comprises 27 partners from 14 European countries including leading vendors, vertical industries, and research institutes and universities: Italy , (CNIT, Wind Tre, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italtel), Poland (IS-Wireless), Denmark (Comcores), The Netherlands (HIRO-MicroDatacenters, Eindhoven University of Technology, Helder-ID, Synano), Israel (Mellanox Technologies), Ireland (EMC Information Systems (DELL), University College Cork), Hungary (PCB Design, Budapest University), Germany (NEC Laboratories Europe, Leibniz Universität Hannover, eccenca GmbH, Infineon AG), France (Secure-IC, Sma-RTy), Slovakia (IMC- Industrial Management Consult), Bulgaria (VMware Bulgaria), Switzerland (JJcool), Finland (MarshallAI), and Czech Republic (Czech Technical University Prague, Factorio Solutions).
The 36-month project, which started on 1st May 2020, has a total budget of 16.3M€. It receives funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 876967. The JU receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and from the National Authorities of Italy, Poland, Nederland, Israel, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, and Czech Republic.
The BRAINE project's overall aim is to boost the development of the Edge framework and, specifically, energy efficient hardware and AI empowered software systems, capable of processing Big Data at the Edge, supporting security, data privacy and sovereignty. BRAINE's overall aim will be reached by targeting five fine-grained goals:
Devising an EC infrastructure that offers control, computing, acceleration, storage, and 5G networking at the Edge and excels in scalability, agility, security, data privacy, and data sovereignty in Big Data and AI for low latency and mission-critical applications.
Developing a future-proof Edge security framework and associated infrastructure. based on the latest software and hardware security technologies.
Developing a distributed and partly-autonomous system that takes data privacy and sovereignty into account on each and every decision regarding workload placement, data transfer, and computation, while guaranteeing interoperability with the environment.
Developing a heterogeneous, energy efficient Edge MicroDataCenter, suitable for stationed, mobile, and embedded autonomous applications, that goes beyond the current hardware and software architectures and offers Big Data processing and AI capabilities at the Edge.
Testing and demonstrating the effectiveness and generality of the BRAINE approach by evaluating multiple real-world use cases and scenarios that exhibit the required scalability, security, efficiency, agility, and flexibility concerns.
BRAINE provides a new vision for utilizing edge resources by providing novel network-edge workload distribution schemes. Predicting resource availability and workload demand, identifying trends, and taking proactive actions are all aspects of the novel workload distribution. The workload distribution technology developed in the context of BRAINE can be transferred to many other edge/fog computing environments to achieve different goals. Last but not least, BRAINE will have an important positive impact on the environment. Through BRAINE, edge computing can reduce this projected energy consumption by offloading many of the AI functions next to the end-users.
BRAINE will demonstrate edge computing enabling AI through four use cases: healthcare assisted living (case 1), hyperconnected smart city (case 2), robotics in Factory 4.0 (case 3) and supply chain Industry 4.0 (case 4); the use cases are supported by organizations with specific domain expertise.
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How long until The Ashes start?
If you're anything like me then you'll know exactly when it starts, I've had the date listed on my calendar for over six month now. If not, then you'll be pleased to know it starts exactly one month today on November 23rd, when both teams will enter the field of play at The Gabba in Brisbane.
England of course will be without one of their main men, Durham's Ben Stokes. The all-rounder was arrested after an incident in Bristol last month after an evening out at a nighclub with friends. Since then The ECB have confirmed he will not be travelling down under with England captain Joe Root and the rest of the squad. It is a gutting loss for England but a huge bonus for the Australians as he is one of the key men that they surely feared. Is it the correct decision to leave him out though? Well, I'm afraid it has to be as they do not really have much choice with a police investigation still pending.
The last time England played down under they were well and truly beat in a 5-0 whitewash to the aussies. Going into this tour I don't think we had much chance but the last will just have to regroup and get on with it. Speaking of which, I came across the quiz earlier today, I'm ashamed to say I only got 50% correct in three minutes of The Cricketer magazine's quiz on how many of England's 18-man squad from 2013/14 can you name? See how you can do.
In the meantime there is still plenty of other cricket going on around the globe to keep your addiction to our great sport going, so check out the fixtures below. Not listed below though is the Women's Ashes and that has already started with Australia beating England on Sunday just gone.


When I was 5 years old my parents enrolled me in a ballet class to improve my posture. Since then, dance has become a big part of my life. It makes me laugh and cry and brings so much joy into my life that it has become as essential to my being as breathing. My name is Masha Shcherbyna and this is my first year as a grade nine student at Canada's National Ballet School. The very school that hosted an amazing event called Assemblée Internationale (AI 13) in April-May 2013.
The last time I saw so many dancers in one room was in a ballet competition. AI 13 has a different philosophy. Dancers from all around the world are not competing but showcasing their choreography skills and learning from world-renowned ballet teachers and choreographers as well as from each other. Over a hundred dancers assembled for seven days to learn, teach and experience dance. It's a brilliant idea of bringing dance, world-level teachers and cultures together.
They say: "When you are having fun, the time flies by in a second." We had a time of our lives participating in AI 13. Too bad it ended so quickly. I remember Monday morning just as if it were yesterday. The anticipation was heating up as we woke up and headed down to have our breakfast. Our excitement had reached its peak when we saw these beautiful dancers from different schools come into Currie Hall for their breakfast. They all came in groups proudly representing their countries.
At NBS, only grade 10 to grade 12 students were included as participants in AI 13. However, we were allowed to observe the classes that were taught by various teachers from all parts of the globe. It was a very enlightening experience because students from all different schools took the classes and all of them had such distinguished styles. While watching the classes, I discovered that sitting for two hours is much more tiresome than you think. But, most importantly, we were incredibly moved and inspired by the effort and artistry of the dancers. These hours of watching talented dancers rehearse and take ballet classes definitely translated into our extra efforts to point our feet and align our postures in our regular ballet classes that week. I felt very proud to be a part of Canada's National Ballet School that managed to bring together the entire dance world in one Canadian city.
Before AI 13, I decided that from each class I would take at least one thing away for me to put towards my training. I carefully watched technical styles and paid attention to tricks that teachers were showing. Then I would create analogies that would help me to correct myself. After watching classes taught by representatives of different schools, I can now really tell what each school focuses on and what kind of style they are looking for. It is invaluable knowledge to have for any dancer going into auditions and we are very fortunate to be exposed to this when we are just 14.
Of course each class I watched was absolutely breathtaking and amazing in its own way, but there was one class that really stood out for me. It was taught by Claudio Munoz, from the Houston Ballet Academy. In his class all of the dancers were so comfortable and motivated to DANCE! Everybody started out class looking tired and jet lagged, but Mr. Munoz managed to get everybody relaxed and laughing. I felt so happy watching the students respond to Mr. Munoz's funny comments and my mood was lifted for the whole day afterwards.
I took away something really special from this particular teacher. He was very focused on bringing out the personality of each dancer. Everybody can develop good technique, but how do you stand out in auditions with a hundred other dancers? This teacher really focused on making sure that young dancers were comfortable and helped them express their artistry through dance and smile. He got everyone to smile even if they didn't felt like it that morning. By the end of the class, everyone wanted to smile, including us, jealous ninth graders observing this wonderful class.
Thinking about this experience I thought how lucky we are. We had a chance to see the future of our ballet generation which AI 13 brought together in our school. These dancers are yesterday's students and tomorrow's principals. It was an amazing feeling, witnessing how dancers become choreographers and how they improve in less than a week. If I were to choose one word to describe AI 13 it would be "inspirational." I took away so much and I'm just so glad I was a part of this unbelievable event. As Anna Pavlova, one of my favorite ballerinas once said: "No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius." Assemble Internationale is a beautiful example of how important "real work" is to become a "beyond talented" dancer. Every ballet class counts! My whole experience at Assemblée Internationale was truly eye opening and changed my attitude towards every day efforts and what it takes to be a dancer.
Guest Blogger, Masha Shcherbyna is a Grade 9 student at Canada's National Ballet School.


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This is an extract from the first chapter of Living by the Words of Bhagavan. The words in roman are Annamalai Swami's. The explanations of philosophical or cultural topics that appear as paragraphs in italics are my [David Godman's] editorial comments:
Sometime in 1928, when I was twenty-one years old, a wandering sadhu passed through the village. He gave me a copy of Upadesa Undiyar that contained a photo of Sri Ramana Maharshi. As soon as I saw that photo, I had the feeling that this was my Guru. Simultaneously, an intense desire arose within me to go and see him.
Upadesa Undiyar is a thirty-verse philosophical poem written by Ramana Maharshi in Tamil. It was first published in 1927, about a year before Annamalai Swami got to see it. Upadesa Saram is Sri Ramana's Sanskrit rendering of the same work. Some of the English translations which appear under the title Upadesa Saram are actually translations of Upadesa Undiyar, the original Tamil work.
That night I had a dream in which I saw Ramana Maharshi walking from the lower slopes of Arunachala to the old hall. At the threshold of the old hall he washed his feet with the water that was in his water pot. I came near him, prostrated at his feet, and then went into a kind of swoon because the shock of having darshan was too much for me. As I was lying on the ground with my mouth open, Bhagavan poured water from his pot into my mouth. I remember repeating the words 'Mahadeva, Mahadeva' [one of the names of Siva] as the water was being poured in. Bhagavan gazed at me for a few seconds before turning to go into the hall.
The terms 'hall' and 'old hall' refer to the building in which Sri Ramana lived and taught between 1928 and the late 1940s. Bhagavan is a Sanskrit word meaning 'Lord'. Most devotees addressed Sri Ramana as 'Bhagavan'. They would also use this title when they referred to him in the third person.
When I woke the next morning I decided that I should go immediately to Bhagavan and have his darshan. After informing my parents that I was planning to leave the village, I went to the Bhajan Math to say goodbye to all the people there. Several of them began to cry because they had a strong suspicion that I would not return. I asked for their permission to leave, received it, and left the village that evening. I never went back. Some of the devotees, realising that I had no funds to support myself, collected some money and gave it to me as a parting present.
I had decided to walk twenty-five miles to a nearby town called Ullunderpettai because I had heard that there was a train from there to Tiruvannamalai, the town where Ramana Maharshi lived. However, before I began my journey, a convoy of twelve bullock carts passed through the village on their way to Ullunderpettai. The devotees in the village talked to one of the cart drivers and arranged for me to get a ride in his cart. The journey took all night but I was much too excited to sleep. I spent the entire night sitting in the cart, thinking about Bhagavan.
In Ullunderpettai I shared my food with the cart drivers before boarding the train for Tiruvannamalai. I had originally intended to go straight there, but when one of the passengers informed me that the Sankaracharya was camping near one of the towns on the train route, I decided to see him first and get his blessings. I got down at Tirukoilur [fifteen miles south of Tiruvannamalai] and made my way to Pudupalayam, the village where the Sankaracharya was staying. I found the Sankaracharya, did namaskaram to him and told him that I had had his darshan in Vepur.
A namaskaram is either a prostration or a gesture of respect in which one puts the palms of one's hands together with the thumbs on the breastbone. Whenever the term occurs in this book it is used in the former sense.
The Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram
The Sankaracharya gazed at me for a few seconds. Then, with a smile of recognition he said, 'Yes, I remember you'.
'I am on my way to see Ramana Bhagavan,' I told him. 'Please give me your blessings.'
The Sankaracharya seemed very pleased to hear the news. 'Very good!' he exclaimed.
He turned to one of his attendants and asked him to give me some food. After I had finished eating, the Sankaracharya put some vibhuti on a plate and put his palm on it to bless it. He then put half a coconut and eleven silver coins on the plate and presented it to me. I took the money, the vibhuti and the coconut before returning the plate to him.
Feeling that I had now got the blessings which I had sought, I prostrated to him, left the village, and continued my journey to Tiruvannamalai. On my arrival in Tiruvannamalai I was told that there was another great saint there called Seshadri Swami and that it would be very auspicious if I could have his darshan before proceeding to Sri Ramanasramam, the ashram where Ramana Maharshi lived.
Seshadri Swami, like Ramana Maharshi, came to Arunachala in his youth and stayed there till his death. In his wanderings around the town of Tiruvannamalai he generally behaved in such an eccentric way, many people thought he was mad. However, he redeemed himself in the eyes of the local people by having an astonishing array of supernatural powers which he openly flaunted. Though some of his power was used in traditional ways such as performing miraculous cures, he was more inclined to display it in a bizarre and unpredictable fashion. For example, he would sometimes vandalise shops in the Tiruvannamalai bazaar as an act of blessing. Shop owners welcomed his destructive behaviour because they had found from experience that the damage would be more than paid for in the weeks that followed by either a vast increase in profits or by the repayment of long-forgotten loans.
When Ramana Maharshi came to Tiruvannamalai in 1896, Seshadri Swami was one of the first people to recognise his greatness. He tried to protect Bhagavan from unwanted disturbances and sometimes referred to him as his younger brother.
Bhagavan held Seshadri Swami in high esteem. After Annamalai Swami had told Bhagavan about his meeting with Seshadri Swami (which is described in the next few paragraphs of Annamalai Swami's account) Bhagavan commented, 'There is not a single place in this town that has not been visited by Seshadri Swami, but he was never caught in maya [illusion]'.
Seshadri Swami died in January 1929, a few months after Annamalai Swami arrived in Tiruvannamalai. His samadhi, which still attracts large crowds, is about 400 metres from Sri Ramanasramam.
In his account of their meeting Annamalai Swami mentions that he met Seshadri Swami in a mandapam. A mandapam is a Hindu architectural structure, usually a hall supported by stone pillars. A mandapam always has a roof but the sides are generally open.
Seshadri Swami
Seshadri Swami did not stay in any particular place but I soon managed to locate him in a mandapam which was near the main temple. He was easy to find because there was a crowd of about 40-50 people outside the mandapam waiting for him to come out. He had apparently locked himself in. When I peeped in through one of the windows I saw him continuously circling one of the pillars inside. After doing this for about ten minutes, he came outside, sat on a rock, and crossed his legs. I had brought a laddu [a large spherical sweet] which I wanted to give him but I wasn't sure what to do with it. Seshadri Swami must have sensed my indecision because he looked at me and indicated by a gesture that I should place the laddu on the ground in front of him.
Seshadri Swami had obviously been chewing betel nut for some time. A mixture of the red juice and his saliva was dribbling out of his mouth, soaking his beard, and dripping onto the ground.
Betel is a hard, dark-red nut. Its juice is supposed to aid digestion. It is often eaten along with a lime-coated green leaf. In this combination it is known as 'pan'.
Seshadri Swami picked up my laddu, smeared it with the saliva-and-betel juice that was staining his beard, and threw it onto the nearby road. As it broke on the ground, the crowd raced towards it and collected the pieces as prasad. I also managed to collect and eat a piece.
Anything which is offered to a deity or a holy man becomes prasad when it is returned to the donor or distributed to the public. Food is the most common form of prasad.
A group of local people appeared to be angry with Seshadri Swami. He silenced them by tossing some stones in their direction. These stones, instead of following a normal trajectory, bobbed and danced around their heads like butterflies. The men he had thrown the stones at got afraid and ran away. They clearly didn't want to tangle with a man who possessed supernatural powers of this kind.
When I went back and stood before Seshadri Swami again, he started to shout at me in a very abusive way.
'This fool came to Tiruvannamalai! Stupid man! What did he come here for?'
He carried on in this vein for some time, implying that I was wasting my time coming to Tiruvannamalai. I thought that I must have committed a great sin to have a great saint insult me like this. I started to cry because I thought that I had been cursed.
Eventually a man called Manikka Swami, who was Seshadri Swami's attendant, came up to me and consoled me by saying, 'Your trip to Tiruvannamalai will be successful. You will get whatever you have come for. This is Seshadri Swami's way of blessing you. When he abuses people like this he is really blessing them.'
Manikka Swami then took me to a hotel which was owned by a devotee of Seshadri Swami.
He told the owner, 'Seshadri Swami has just showered his blessings on this man. Please give him a free meal.'
I was not feeling particularly hungry, but when the owner insisted I sat down and ate some of his food. When I had eaten enough to satisfy him, I got up and walked the remaining distance to Sri Ramanasramam.
Annamalai Swami is on the right. Madhava Swami is standing behind Bhagavan.
I arrived there at about 1 p.m. As I approached the hall, part of the dream I had had in my village repeated itself in real life. I saw Bhagavan walk down the hill, cross the ashram and pause outside the hall while he washed his feet with water from his kamandalu [water pot]. Then he went inside. I sprinkled some of this water on my head, drank a little, and then went inside to meet him. Bhagavan was sitting on his couch while an attendant called Madhava Swami dried his feet with a cloth. Madhava Swami went out a few minutes later, leaving Bhagavan and me alone in the hall. I had bought a small packet of dried grapes and some sugar candy to give him. I placed them on a small table that was next to Bhagavan's sofa and prostrated to him. When I stood up I saw that Bhagavan was eating a little of my offering. As I watched him swallow, the thought came to me that my offering was going directly into Siva's stomach.
I sat down and Bhagavan gazed at me in silence for about 10-15 minutes. There was a great feeling of physical relief and relaxation while Bhagavan was looking at me. I felt a wonderful coolness pervade my body. It was like immersing myself in a cool pool after being outside in the hot sun.
I asked for permission to stay and this was readily granted. A small hut was given to me and for the first week I stayed there as a guest of the ashram. During those first few days I either gathered flowers for the ashram's pujas or just sat with Bhagavan in his hall.
Annamalai Swami is standing on the left of the back tow. Chinnaswami is sitting on the right at the front.
As the days passed I became more and more convinced that Bhagavan was my Guru. Feeling a strong urge to settle down in the ashram, I asked Chinnaswami, Bhagavan's younger brother, if I could work in the ashram. Chinnaswami granted my request and said that I could serve as Bhagavan's attendant. At that time Madhava Swami was doing the job by himself.
Chinnaswami told me, 'Madhava Swami is the only attendant at the moment. Whenever he goes out of the hall or goes for a rest you should stay with Bhagavan and attend to all his needs.'
About ten days after my arrival I asked Bhagavan, 'How to avoid misery?'
This was the first spiritual question I ever asked him.
Bhagavan replied, 'Know and always hold on to the Self. Disregard the body and the mind. To identify with them is misery. Dive deep into the Heart, the source of being and peace, and establish yourself there.'
I then asked him how I could attain Self-realisation and he gave me a similar answer: 'If you give up identifying with the body and meditate on the Self, which you already are, you can attain Self-realisation.'
As I was pondering on these remarks Bhagavan surprised me by saying, 'I was waiting for you. I was wondering when you would come.'
As a newcomer I was still too afraid of him to follow this up by asking him how he knew, or how long he had been waiting. However, I was delighted to hear him speak like this because it seemed to indicate that it was my destiny to stay with him.
A few days later I asked another question: 'Scientists have invented and produced aircraft which can travel at great speeds in the sky. Why do you not make and give us a spiritual aircraft in which we can quickly and easily cross over the sea of samsara?'
Samsara is the seemingly endless cycle of birth and death through different incarnations. It can also be taken to mean worldly illusion or entanglement in worldly affairs.
'The path of self-enquiry,' replied Bhagavan, 'is the aircraft you need. It is direct, fast and easy to use. You are already travelling very quickly towards realisation. It is only because of your mind that it seems that there is no movement. In the old days, when people first rode on trains, some of them believed that the trees and the countryside were moving and that the train was standing still. It is the same with you now. Your mind is making you believe that you are not moving towards Self-realisation.'
Philosophically, Bhagavan's teachings belong to an Indian school of thought which is known as Advaita Vedanta. (He himself, though, would say that his teachings came from his own experience, rather than from anything he had heard or read.) Bhagavan and other advaita teachers teach that the Self (Atman) or Brahman is the only existing reality and that all phenomena are indivisible manifestations or appearances within it. The ultimate aim of life, according to Bhagavan and other advaita teachers, is to transcend the illusion that one is an individual person who functions through a body and a mind in a world of separate, interacting objects. Once this has been achieved, one becomes aware of what one really is: immanent, formless consciousness. This final state of awareness, which is known as Self-realisation, can be achieved, in Bhagavan's view, by practising a technique he called self-enquiry.
This technique needs to be explained in some detail since it is mentioned several times in Annamalai Swami's narrative. The following explanation summarises both the practice and theory behind it. It is taken from No Mind – I am the Self, pp. 1-15.
It was Sri Ramana's basic thesis that the individual self is nothing more than a thought or an idea. He said that this thought, which he called the 'I'-thought, originates from a place called the Heart-centre, which he located on the right side of the chest in the human body. From there the 'I'-thought rises up to the brain and identifies itself with the body: 'I am this body.' It then creates the illusion that there is a mind or an individual self which inhabits the body and which controls all its thoughts and actions. The 'I'-thought accomplishes this by identifying itself with all the thoughts and perceptions that go on in the body. For example, 'I' (that is, the 'I'-thought) am doing this, 'I' am thinking this, 'I' am feeling happy, etc. Thus, the idea that one is an individual person is generated and sustained by the 'I'-thought and by its habit of constantly attaching itself to all the thoughts that arise. Sri Ramana maintained that one could reverse this process by depriving the 'I'-thought of all the thoughts and perceptions that it normally identifies with. Sri Ramana taught that this 'I'-thought is actually an unreal entity, and that it only appears to exist when it identifies itself with other thoughts. He said that if one can break the connection between the 'I'-thought and the thoughts it identifies with, then the 'I'-thought itself will subside and finally disappear. Sri Ramana suggested that this could be done by holding onto the 'I'-thought, that is, the inner feeling of 'I' or 'I am' and excluding all other thoughts. As an aid to keeping one's attention on this inner feeling of 'I', he recommended that one should constantly question oneself 'Who am I?' or 'Where does this "I" come from?' He said that if one can keep one's attention on this inner feeling of 'I', and if one can exclude all other thoughts, then the 'I'-thought will start to subside into the Heart-centre.
This, according to Sri Ramana, is as much as the devotee can do by himself. When the devotee has freed his mind of all thoughts except the 'I'-thought, the power of the Self pulls the 'I'-thought back into the Heart-centre and eventually destroys it so completely that it never rises again. This is the moment of Self-realisation. When this happens, the mind and the individual self (both of which Sri Ramana equated with the 'I'-thought) are destroyed for ever. Only the Atman or the Self then remains.
The following practical advice was written by Bhagavan himself in the 1920s. Taken from Be As You Are (1992 ed., p. 56) it encapsulates his basic teachings on the subject. All new visitors were encouraged to read the essay (entitled Who am I?) that this extract is taken from. It was published as a pamphlet and Bhagavan encouraged the manager of the ashram to sell it cheaply in many languages so that all new people could have an affordable and authoritative summary of his practical teachings.
The mind will subside only by means of the enquiry 'Who am I?' The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts, will itself be finally destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre. If other thoughts arise one should, without attempting to complete them, enquire, 'To whom did they rise?' What does it matter how many thoughts rise? At the very moment that each thought rises, if one vigilantly enquires, 'To whom did this rise?', it will be known 'To me'. If one then enquires 'Who am I?', the mind will turn back to its source and the thought which had risen will also subside. By repeatedly practising thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases.
In the years that followed I had many other spiritual talks with Bhagavan but his basic message never changed. It was always, 'Do self-enquiry, stop identifying with the body and try to be aware of the Self which is your real nature'.
Prior to these early conversations I had been spending several hours each day performing elaborate pujas and anushtanas.


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Bazwaya (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraqi forces advanced to within a few hundred metres of Mosul on Monday, moving within striking distance of a city they lost to the Islamic State group two years before.
Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) faced mortar fire as they pushed from the Christian town of Bartalla towards Mosul's eastern suburbs, AFP correspondents at the front said.
As an aircraft struck a suspected IS mortar position in the distance, a convoy of Humvees sprayed gunfire across the arid plain toward jihadist positions as they advanced.
Lieutenant Colonel Muntadhar Salem said the CTS had recaptured Bazwaya, one of two IS-held villages that had been standing between Iraqi forces and the eastern edges of Mosul.
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The voice of Colonel Mustafa al-Obeidi came sputtering over the radio as his men advanced cautiously through Bazwaya, sidling along walls and scanning the empty streets with their rifles raised.
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I can identify with this an awful lot – Wright really speaks to my heart on this one. I have the exact same dilemma.
Trevin Wax: Why is it that you have never pursued exclusively an academic post? Why have you chosen to remain so connected to the local church?
N.T. Wright: It's a good question. When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide. Either you're going to be an academic or you're going to be a pastor. You can't be both." I remember thinking, Rats! I want to be both! Why are you telling me I can't do these two things?And so I have kind of oscillated to and always wanted to do both.
When I've had sabbatical time when I've really had the whole of sort of three months to organize entirely as I want, I could stay in the library or at the desk all the time, but by the middle of the day, I'll find myself wandering downtown and going and sitting in a café with a notebook just to get the buzz of some people. So I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.
For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition (going back to people like Lightfoot and Westcott and so on) gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!" And looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.
Of course, that means that there's lots of stuff that I can't do. I don't do much book-reviewing, for instance, which ordinary scholars do quite a bit. I've just had to say to myself, I haven't got time to do that. And I miss that. I should be doing that, but I'm not. So, it's a choice.
In terms of personality type… I don't know if you know the Eneogram and that sort of thing, but on the Eneogram, I'm a number 7. One of the images for number 7 is the butterfly – the little creature that hops from plant to plant because it's so fascinated by this one, and then it's so excited by that one, and then it really likes that one too. And that's very much who I am.
From Trevin Wax's interview with Wright.
Definitely lots to relate to there. I find myself drawn in more directions than one person could ever accomplish.
Yes, and especially the affirmation of hearing him say he can't do everything – such as in the case of the book reviews.
I really identify with his butterfly image too – I've never taken the Eneogram, but I suspect I'd be one of those too.
And he does have a point – until comparatively recently in history the great teachers and scholars of the church have generally been monks and priests and bishops. They didn't see a great conflict between the two, in fact I suspect they would have seen a connection.


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The New Year make a resolution to release Snow , their first new album in 9 years The New Year make a resolution to release Snow, their first new album in 9 years
By Adam Rothbarth https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/adam+rothbarth · March 16, 2017	2017-03-16T17:13:31-04:00
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Whoa, the snowy-white NEWNESS of it all! Those old Kadane brothers are newly back after a nine-year absence, and they're bringing a new-tacular new album with them. The New Year's new album is called Snow , and it comes out in all its snow-white newness April 28 on Undertow Music.
Accordingly, the new New Year album's first new single "Recent History" — a hard-driving, "is this indie rock or post-rock?"-style jam with pounding drums and fuzzy, interlocking guitars — has been recently (i.e., newly) released. You can listen to it below; and then, if you want to, refresh it and listen to it…anew.
Check out the brand new album trailer and newly completed album's full tracklist down there while you're at it, too; and pre-order the album here. Or, if you're just SO FLUSH with cash (but weirdly low on clothes) and want to get a $62 version of the same album that also comes with a new shirt — plus a bunch of other new goodies — you can do that instead.
Snow tracklisting:
01. Mayday
02. Snow
03. Homebody
04. Recent History
05. The Last Fall
06. Myths
07. The Party's Over
08. Amnesia
09. The Beast
10. Dead and Alive
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Publicis' creative talent to make Google ads more convincing, more lucrative
Eric Eldon
Publicis, a leading advertising conglomerate, and Google (stock ticker pictured, above)are planning to work together, the companies announced today.
Through this partnership, Publicis could help Google make even more money out of its online advertising operations, through creating ads that convince you to buy more — especially on relatively untapped Google properties, such video site YouTube. If this effort works, it will result in Google ads making more money for a wide range of small web publishers.
Paris, France-based Publicis will provide creative talent such as web designers and graphic artists while Google will provide its broad range of ad formats, that reaches most of the web. The partnership is non-exclusive.
Online advertising itself is expected to rise to $27.5 billion this year, up 28.5 percent from 2007. Google needs to figure out how to make more money from its advertising, despite its unmatched success to date, because the increasingly likely recession would result in less advertising spending, and lower revenues for the company. As you can see from the stock price (pictured), some investors are apparently thinking about this already.
"Google is many things, but one thing we are not is creative. We're a bunch of programmers, basically," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in reference to Publicis' focus on creating advertising.
Google is a technology company, and doesn't have a large in-house ad-creation team. Google Adsense and AdWords ads prove text-based or third-party video ads, although it does have an in-house AdWords creative team, as commenter Don notes below. Meanwhile, Publicis has not bought its way into online advertising. It has not invested in online advertising companies as heavily as rivals like WPP and others, HipMojo notes.
Many advertisers and their agencies, including Publicis, are still struggling to figure out which types of online ads can promote them most effectively. This is especially notable in online video, as online video distributor and video ad agency Broadband Enterprises told me last week.
Google has a relatively untapped goldmine in online video advertising, through its booming video site, YouTube. Publicis may have the chance to perfect video advertising that monetizes through its relationship with Google, and its access to YouTube.
YouTube has found ad overlays — ads that appear on a lower part of a video as it plays — to be popular with users, as PaidContent points out in a good summary of the latest survey data on video formats that people like (or hate).
Also, YouTube keeps distancing itself from competitors. 74 million people watched 39 videos each on average in November, according to comScore. That month, YouTube and Google Video generated nearly a third of all video views on the new, at 31.3 percent. Number two Fox Media Interactive came in at 4.4 percent.


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from Intel Newsroom
Inaugural Group of Startups Selected for Intel Education Accelerator
Via Intel Newsroom
Intel Capital to Invest up to $100,000 Each in Eight Innovative Companies
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 3, 2015 – A company that can turn a park bench into a piano. A Copenhagen startup that lets children as young as age 3 create and share their own e-books. A woman-founded partnership that teaches teen girls to code through a social medium they love. These are just three of the first cohort of startups selected to take part in the Intel Education Accelerator.
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's global investment organization, and Intel Education in April announced the formation of the accelerator, a specialized program to help ed-tech startups transform education for student success. After beating out nearly 200 other applicants – half of them from overseas – the selected startups on Monday will begin a rigorous and enriching four-month program that will provide them with working capital, veteran mentorship and dedicated workspace in the heart of Silicon Valley.
"We had a really strong global response during the application process, and we are extremely happy with the eight diverse companies that will be a part of our inaugural cohort," said Intel Vice President John Galvin, general manager of Intel Education. "These companies are eager to grow and make an impact on education, just as Intel has been committed to throughout our history. Together with our 50 mentors, we can't wait to work with these impressive startups."
The Intel Education Accelerator lets selected companies receive guidance from technology, business and education experts; secure investments of up to $100,000 each from Intel Capital; and leverage Intel's global relationships with educators and governments in more than 100 countries.
Participants in the accelerator – housed at GSVlabs of Redwood City, California – will receive access to weekly classes, coaching and opportunities to pilot their products in schools. Judges and mentors for the program include Tom Kalinske, former CEO of LeapFrog, Sega and Mattel; Intel Capital President Arvind Sodhani; veteran Silicon Valley journalist and entrepreneur John Battelle; Ronald Chandler, former chief information officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District; Genevieve Bell, vice president of Intel Labs; and high-ranking officials from AT&T, Coursera, Goldman Sachs, the International Society for Technology in Education* (ISTE), Silicon Valley Bank, VICE Media and the Walt Disney Co.*
The four-month program culminates in a Dec. 2 "pitch day" for the program's entrepreneurs in front of prospective funders.
The accelerator is open to both K-12 and higher-ed startups, with special consideration for companies focused on data analytics and adaptive learning. Members of the inaugural cohort are:
BeeLine* (Woodside, California), whose digital reading tools help students learn to read faster and help those with dyslexia and other learning differences read more fluently.
Echelon Creative* (New York City), which replaces normal words in text messages with advanced synonyms, teaching a user new vocabulary words in context.
GotIt!* (Menlo Park, California), an on-demand knowledge platform that lets students post photos of schoolwork problems and instantly connect with a study expert who can provide detailed explanations. The parallel ranking, bidding and matching engine was founded by Vietnam native Hung Tran, who previously led an international effort to build an open courseware program for millions of college students in his homeland.
Griti* (San Francisco), which produces fast, on-demand video help that supports college students using on-campus peer networks of subject experts.
Myriad Sensors* (Mountain View, California), maker of a wireless sensor called PocketLab* that connects to a smartphone, tablet or Chromebook and instantly streams measurement data similar to that of expensive lab equipment. PocketLab helps educators and students bring science, technology, engineering and math to real-world settings.
ToneTree* (Troy, New York), which combines a small hardware unit with intelligent software to transform nearly any surface into an interactive musical instrument for innovative audio/visual education.
Vidcode* (New York City), founded by software developers and educators Alexandra Diracles and Melissa Halfon to teach computer programming to teen girls by enabling them to upload their mobile videos to Instagram* and customize them with code.
WriteReader* (Copenhagen, Denmark), a literacy-based learning platform for children to create and share their own storybooks and improve their reading and writing skills through big data and adaptive learning.
Over the past decade, Intel Education has helped more than 300 million students and 15 million teachers in 100 countries obtain locally relevant solutions, hardware, software and tools for learning and creating a more vibrant, interactive learning environment. During that time, Intel and the Intel Foundation have invested more than US$1 billion in education programs and technology access efforts for youth around the globe.
To learn more about the Intel Education Accelerator, visit www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/accelerator/intel-education-accelerator.html. ** **
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Q: What is the correct way to use g_signal_connect() in C++ for dynamic unity quicklists? I want to make my application use dynamic unity quicklists. For building my application I am using C++ and the QtCreator IDE. When a menu action is triggered I want to be able to have access to a non-static function of my MainWindow class so as to be able to update the Graphical User Interface which can be accessed from inside 'normal' MainWindow's functions.
So, I am building up my quicklist like this (mainwindow.cpp):
void MainWindow::enable_unity_quicklist(){
    Unity_Menu = dbusmenu_menuitem_new();

    dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_bool (Unity_Menu, DBUSMENU_MENUITEM_PROP_VISIBLE, FALSE);

    Unity_Stop = dbusmenu_menuitem_new();
    dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set(Unity_Stop, DBUSMENU_MENUITEM_PROP_LABEL, "Stop");

    dbusmenu_menuitem_child_append (Unity_Menu, Unity_Stop);

    g_signal_connect (Unity_Stop, DBUSMENU_MENUITEM_SIGNAL_ITEM_ACTIVATED, G_CALLBACK(&fake_callback), (gpointer)this);

    if(!unity_entry)
        unity_entry = unity_launcher_entry_get_for_desktop_id("myapp.desktop");

    unity_launcher_entry_set_quicklist(unity_entry, Unity_Menu);

    dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_bool(Unity_Menu, DBUSMENU_MENUITEM_PROP_VISIBLE, true);
    dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_bool(Unity_Stop, DBUSMENU_MENUITEM_PROP_VISIBLE, true);
}

void MainWindow::fake_callback(gpointer data){
    MainWindow* m = (MainWindow*)data;
    m->on_stopButton_clicked();
}

void MainWindow::on_stopButton_clicked(){
   //stopping the process...
}

mainwindow.h:
private slots:
   void enable_unity_quicklist();
   void on_stopButton_clicked();
public slots:
   static void fake_callback(gpointer data);

This suggestion was taken from http://old.nabble.com/Using-g_signal_connect-in-class-td18461823.html
The program crashes immediately after I choose the 'Stop' action from the Unity Quicklist. Debugging the program shows that I am not able to access anything MainWindow related inside the on_stopButton_clicked() without crashing. For example, it crashes when doing this check (which is the first 2 lines of code inside this function):
if (!ui->stopButton->isEnabled())
        return;

I have also tested lots of other things that I found at the internet, but nothing of them worked. One interesting solution would be to use gtkmm (http://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-connecting-signal-handlers.html.en) but I am not used at all working on GTK applications (I work solely in Qt) and I don't know if this even suits to my occasion.

A: Edit: okay, after a fair amount of investigation (which involved running valgrind), I have finally managed to figure out what's going on here. Your callback's signature isn't correct.
The signature for the static method should be:
void MainWindow::fake_callback(DbusmenuMenuitem *, guint, gpointer data)
{
    //...
}

Notice the addition of DbusmenuMenuitem * and guint. The first is a pointer to the DBus menu item emitting the signal and the second is a timestamp. Both must be present in the signature even if you don't use them.
g_signal_connect is invoked at runtime and has no way of knowing what parameters your function accepts and blindly just pushes the parameters on the stack assuming that the signatures match. (This differs from what you are probably used to in Qt where the MOC (Meta Object Compiler) generates enough information to know when you are trying to connect a signal to a slot with an incompatible signature.)

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← THE QUESTIONS WE ASK, PART II. . .
I will use Greenleaf's 'Best Test for the Servant' and his 'Credo' as my guides.
I will begin with Greenleaf's 'Best Test' [for the Servant]: Do those being served grow as persons: do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society; will she or he benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived? No one will knowingly be hurt by the action, directly or indirectly.
Consider, Gentle Reader, that 'Serving becomes Immoral' when I choose to serve – and then serve – in ways that directly hinder, block or deplete the other's health. I am thinking of the other's physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual (or spirit) health. The 'one serving' is an individual AND is any organized group of two or more folks who are serving the other(s).
I am, for example, partnering with the leader of a health-care system. He is developing a wellness program for all of the employees. He discerned that although the system was effective in helping the 'patient' and the 'patient's family' – serving them so they could become healthier – that the system was harming (think: burning out, for example) the employees. When a system contributes to burning folks out each of these four dimensions is being burned out. There is also a fifth dimension that is burning out: Relationships. He is discovering that there are cultural norms and values that contribute to employees burning out. If 'wellness' is to become the 'norm' and 'value' then aspects of the culture must change.
Consider, Gentle Reader, that perhaps the greatest gift we can give is to serve so that the one being served – and the one serving – becomes healthier.
Consider also that the serving-person acts immorally when he or she serves in a way that results in his or her becoming a 'martyr.' Being a martyr is engaging in a 'sin' of hubris (the greatest sin of Pride). This is not a simple concept for we know that there are martyrs who serve so that the other(s) grow as persons (think: spiritual growth, for example).
Consider, Gentle Reader, that my serving also becomes immoral when 'I' (remember the 'I' can be a person or can be any organized group of two or more persons) directly hinder or block the one being served from becoming wiser (think: keeping a person dependent upon you – some therapists do this with their clients and some parents do this with their children) or freer or more autonomous (again, some parents do this or some 'authority figures' do this – there are many ways that a person can become a 'slave' to an authority figure).
As is his wont, Greenleaf ups the ante by bringing the 'least privileged in society' into the test. Serving becomes immoral when 'I' consciously choose to deprive them or deprive them further. Consider this: It is possible, today, in our Country to provide adequate health care for everyone and, as a Country, we choose not to do so.


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package org.apache.hadoop.io;

import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * Simple implementation of OutputStream, backed by an array of bytes. The
 * capacity of the array expands as needed. Similar to
 * java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream. However, this implementation is not
 * thread-safe, and exposes the underlying byte array directly. Alos implements
 * DataOutput, to be able to write other primitives directly.
 */
public class ArrayOutputStream extends OutputStream implements DataOutput {

  // underlying byte array
  private byte bytes[];
  private int count;
  private DataOutputStream dos;

  /**
   * Creates a new byte array output stream.
   */
  public ArrayOutputStream(int size) {
    bytes = new byte[size];
    dos = new DataOutputStream(this);
  }

  /**
   * Expand the underlying byte array to fit size bytes.
   */
  private void expandIfNecessary(int size) {
    if (bytes.length >= size) {
      // no need to expand
      return;
    }
    // either double, or expand to fit size
    int newlength = Math.max(2 * bytes.length, size);
    bytes = Arrays.copyOf(bytes, newlength);
  }

  /**
   * Writes the given byte into the output stream.
   */
  public void write(int b) {
    expandIfNecessary(count + 1);
    bytes[count] = (byte) b;
    count += 1;
  }

  /**
   * Writes array of bytes into the output stream.
   */
  public void write(byte b[], int off, int len) {
    expandIfNecessary(count + len);
    System.arraycopy(b, off, bytes, count, len);
    count += len;
  }

  /**
   * Clears the buffer.
   */
  public void reset() {
    count = 0;
  }

  /**
   * Return underlying byte array.
   */
  public byte getBytes()[] {
    return bytes;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the current size of the buffer.
   */
  public int size() {
    return count;
  }

  // implement DataOutput methods

  @Override
  public void writeBoolean(boolean v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeBoolean(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeByte(int v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeByte(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeShort(int v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeShort(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeChar(int v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeChar(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeInt(int v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeInt(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeLong(long v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeLong(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeFloat(float v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeFloat(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeDouble(double v) throws IOException {
    dos.writeDouble(v);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeBytes(String s) throws IOException {
    dos.writeBytes(s);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeChars(String s) throws IOException {
    dos.writeChars(s);
  }

  @Override
  public void writeUTF(String s) throws IOException {
    dos.writeUTF(s);
  }
}

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Towson University recognizes that the International Baccalaureate (IB) program represents achievement beyond the standard American high school program and regularly awards advanced standing to students who successfully complete IB course work. Towson University requires a score of 4 or higher to award credit for Higher Level (HL) and Standard Level (SL) courses. A score of 5 or above is required to award credit for the physics HL exam. At least 6 and as many as 8 units will be awarded for each higher level exam completed with a score of 4 or above.
Students will not receive credit for both SL and HL courses in the same discipline. In the case where both have been taken, credit will be awarded according to the Higher Level IB course equivalency chart provided the student earned a score of 4 or higher.
Students who earn an IB Diploma will be awarded 30 units toward the bachelor's degree and receive sophomore standing. Some of these units may be applied toward Towson's Core Curriculum requirements; each student's IB units will be individually evaluated for Core Curriculum applicability.
Students who earn an IB Certificate will be eligible to receive units based on the results of their HL and SL courses.


Affected by global economic crisis, corn grinding mill industry also faces depression. Maize milling technology in China and abroad strikes the market, bringing big economic pressure to corn grinding mill manufacturers.
Faced with depressive market, corn grinding mill manufacturers should improve scientific technology, upgrading products to realize development of corn grinding mill industry. Meanwhile, The government should lend a hand to help the market get over the depressive period. Government should issue solutions to decrease acquisition costs of raw materials for corn grinding mill manufacturers.
The manufacturers should reduce energy consumptions at maximum by bring in advanced machinery, enhancing operation efficiency and decreasing management and financial costs.
It is a network technology era, corn grinding mill manufacturer should also make full use of the platform to enhance market popularity by promoting on the internet.
Only by mutual hard work of the corn grinding mill manufacturer and the government, can the corn grinding mill industry get better development in market depression.
Chinese industry develops, it takes up a large amount of cultivated land, which brings threat to development of corn grinding mill. Reduction of cultivated land will lead to shrink of maize planted land, which will directly affect long last development of Chinese maize processing machinery industry. Hence, China should make sure abundant cultivated land.
Land problem is concerned by everybody, recently the ministry of land and resources announced the number of the second land survey. The area increase of land area has brought a glimmer of light to the development of corn grinding mill. However, the actual arable land is unchangeable. The extra 200 million acres of arable land is mainly affected by investigation standard and technical methods. It is only change of number not the actual land area.


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Is Apple TV+ Available on the Nvidia Shield? Here's Everything You Need to Know
Consider the Nvidia Shield is one of the best and most powerful Android-based streaming devices, it's easy to think Apple would support it. But is Apple TV+ available on the Nvidia Shield? The answer is more of an "it's complicated".
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Apple TV+ on the Nvidia Shield
There is no Apple TV+ app on the Nvidia Shield. However, things are a bit more complicated than that.
Note that the Nvidia Shield runs on the Android TV operating system. Apple has made it a point to not support Android for the Apple TV, as Android phones are its chief competitor. However, the company does offer a supported app for Amazon Fire TV devices which run a modified version of Android.
That being the case, there are some guides across the web offering advice for sideloading Amazon Fire TV apps onto an Nvidia Shield.
Alternatively, as the Nvidia Shield has a Chrome web browser, you may be able to log into the Apple TV+ website and stream from there. This option may not work particularly well, however, as it's not natively supported to run Apple TV+ from an Android-based web browser.
Which Devices Does Apple TV+ Support?
While there's no direct support for the Nvidia Shield, Apple provides TV+ apps or support for the following devices:
Apple TV (and Apple TV 4K)
Apple AirPlay
Newer Samsung Smart TVs
Newer Roku Players and TVs
Apple TV+ supports 6 simultaneous streams per account. You can install it on multiple different devices listed above, making a subscription easily shareable with family and friends.
There's currently no word on when, or if, Apple will provide wider support for non-Apple devices. It's unlikely they'll open the service to native support for most Android devices, however.
If you're in the market for a device, however, you may find it valuable to purchase an iPod, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV, or Mac computer. Apple is currently offering 1 year of Apple TV+ free with the purchase of a new Apple device.


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