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Are you Thinking of Launching your Own Video Surveillance Service? You Must Read this story
It is no secret to anyone that the video surveillance in the Cloud industry is constantly growing and that, in addition to attracting subscribers for its unique capabilities, it is generating high interest in public and private companies that are now seeking to develop new business models and launch a video surveillance service by subscription on the Internet.
In this article, we want to tell the story of how one of our clients, with our help, managed to launch a successful video surveillance service for its customers. We will talk about what problems they faced, what were the benefits, and why this customer chose our solution. At the request of our client, we will use a fictitious name to protect the business identity.
This company based in Moscow, which for the purpose of this article we will call "Good Telecom Operator", has been working with Flussonic for several years now. This company hired Flussonic services to structure its OTT service before. In 2017, this client decided to launch a new service for its subscribers: video surveillance in the cloud.
At that time, we were developing Flussonic Watcher, a software to run video surveillance services, and naturally we decided to offer it to that particular client. In addition to us, as is very common, the client began to look at other proposals in the market and organized a bidding competition between suppliers of similar solutions. Unfortunately on that occasion we lost, obtaining a total of 75 competitive points out of 100 possible and remaining behind the winner by only 6 points.
After the licitation process was over, "Good Telecom Operator" acquired servers, software licenses from our competitors, hired engineers to provide the service and, at the end of 2017, officially launched a cloud video surveillance service for its subscribers.
We maintained communication with "Good Telecom Operator" and we learned that the launch of the service with the other provider cost around $50,000, of which $25,000 went for the purchase of equipment, $15,000 for the purchase of software and about $10,000, monthly, were necessary to hire and train system administrators, on whose shoulders rested the responsibility that everything should work as planned.
For approximately six months, the "Good Telecom" operator employed a Marketing Director, a Video Surveillance Manager, a Chief Engineer, and a couple of software developers. The system was designed to connect 600 CCTV cameras in the first stage. Naturally, the possibility of further expansion of the system was raised. Our partner took about 8 weeks to launch the video surveillance service.
Time passed and in 2018 we did not communicate at all with the telecommunications operator. However, at the end of that year our executive who had worked with this company previously decided to go to congratulate his company's peers for the New Year and learned many intimacies of the launch. This information surprised everyone here at our office: The average price for a 2-week archive was $ 15 per camera per month. Even worse, they only had 20 subscribers, around 100 cameras connected, and the price of ach device was $150.
We were not surprised that the employee responsible for such results in "Good Telecom Operator" was preparing for an inevitable dismissal. We knew he was a good guy and we decided to get his bosses support and admiration again.
The next day we went to see him and his superiors for a second time. We understood immediately the reasons for such results and concluded that the cost resulting from the service for subscribers was the reason for the failure. This cost was not calculated at the stage of preparation of the project and nobody was ready for it. The video surveillance service of "Good Telecom Operator" assumed a monthly fee of $ 15 per camera per month for a 2-week archive in the cloud while the average market price was about 8 dollars.
Naturally, we were interested in what would happen if the service were relaunched with our software. At that time, we offered this company our server and presented a turnkey service, which included the use of our servers, maintenance and support, implementation of SLA, support and update of our software, brand of mobile applications and interface service web In general, our package offer included all turnkey equipment, the operator only had to deal with sales and marketing to actively attract subscribers.
In terms of price, we offer our partner a price of $4 per camera per month for the same 2 weeks of continuous archiving. At such cost, our partner could easily support the price level of $8 per month for the camera for 2 weeks archive.
After those 14 days, we considered that we were ready to reach our partner with a second offer and we scheduled another meeting. We proposed new conditions under which we provide all "turnkey" brand services with payment by connected subscribers. Therefore, the costs of the preparatory part of the project to launch a video surveillance service for our partner were reduced to almost zero. The project manager was beaming with joy when he saw us as an opportunity to look good in front of management after a failed attempt to launch a video surveillance service in the past.
The next day, we signed a contract and prepared our client for the installation of Flussonic Watcher in our cloud. The installation preparation process is automated, so it took less than 10 minutes to prepare Watcher for our client. Another two days were spent marking the mobile application in a separate order. The brand of the mobile application is the only direct cost incurred by our partner in the reworking of the project.
With our help, "Good Telecom operator" has begun to reintroduce the cloud video surveillance service in the market. The results soon arrived and were great. Together we were able to reach the first hundred connected cameras in just 2 months of the launch and the number of subscribers continues to grow.
When we take care of all the technical part, our partner only had to devote himself to marketing and increasing sales.
From this story, we have drawn several conclusions and we try to transmit them to those clients who wish to launch: It is very important at the stage of the idea to calculate the costs of the project of  developing a new video surveillance service. As the case described showed, our partner could have saved $ 50,000 if he had initially decided to work with us.
The launch of a video surveillance service involves risks that someone has to assume or find a way to block those risks. That is why we recommend testing the idea of launching a subscription service with our turnkey solution. The success of the project to launch a video surveillance service does not depend on the amount of software functions, but on the quality of the commercial offer aimed at the market, which is based on the solution of basic tasks to play video from cameras, file playback and work with events.
By the way, we have included in the package of our turnkey video surveillance service also a complete billing for the convenience of agreements with subscribers, but that is another story that we will tell you in upcoming blog posts.
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#include "QUICPinger.h"

void
QUICPinger::request(QUICEncryptionLevel level)
{
  if (!this->_is_level_matched(level)) {
    return;
  }
  ++this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(level)];
}

void
QUICPinger::cancel(QUICEncryptionLevel level)
{
  if (!this->_is_level_matched(level)) {
    return;
  }

  if (this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(level)] > 0) {
    --this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(level)];
  }
}

bool
QUICPinger::will_generate_frame(QUICEncryptionLevel level, ink_hrtime timestamp)
{
  if (!this->_is_level_matched(level)) {
    return false;
  }

  return this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(QUICTypeUtil::pn_space(level))] > 0;
}

/**
 * @param connection_credit This is not used. Because PING frame is not flow-controlled
 */
QUICFrame *
QUICPinger::generate_frame(uint8_t *buf, QUICEncryptionLevel level, uint64_t /* connection_credit */, uint16_t maximum_frame_size,
                           ink_hrtime timestamp)
{
  QUICFrame *frame = nullptr;

  if (!this->_is_level_matched(level)) {
    return frame;
  }

  if (this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(level)] > 0 && maximum_frame_size > 0) {
    // don't care ping frame lost or acked
    frame                                        = QUICFrameFactory::create_ping_frame(buf, 0, nullptr);
    this->_need_to_fire[static_cast<int>(level)] = 0;
  }

  return frame;
}

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Biografia
Nata nel New Jersey da genitori inglesi emigrati negli Stati Uniti alla fine del 1800, è educata in casa nei primi anni ed in seguito in diverse scuole fino ad ottenere, volendo diventare un'artista, una borsa di studio presso la School of Art dei Pratt and Carnegie Institutes.

Per esigenze di lavoro del padre, nel 1907 la famiglia si trasferisce a San Francisco dove lei frequenta il liceo e in seguito l'Università di Berkeley studiando arte. Ma presto capisce che il suo vero interesse è l'educazione fisica e il sostegno alle donne per valorizzarne le potenzialità. Ancora studentessa, crea una palestra femminile (Berkeley Women's Gymnasium) e dà vita ad un Gruppo femminile di escursionismo in cui molte donne sotto la sua guida iniziano a fare lunghe passeggiate sulle colline di Berkeley, alcune portando un fucile da caccia per la presenza di serpenti. Pochi anni dopo consegue il diploma in Physical Culture, poi denominato Health and Physical Education. Dedica la sua vita all'insegnamento dell'attività fisica per la salute del corpo e della mente rivolto ai giovani e in particolare alle donne. Si adopera in molte associazioni professionali per rappresentare l'identità femminile e sviluppare il potenziale delle donne. Muore a Danville nel 1979.

Gli studi e la professione
Già al suo secondo anno di studi universitari inizia a insegnare educazione fisica agli studenti più giovani, adoperandosi per la creazione di dipartimenti di educazione fisica a Oakland. Combatte con decisione e con un certo successo contro la disparità di salario delle insegnanti di educazione fisica rispetto a quello percepito dagli uomini. Nel 1916 ottiene il diploma di laurea presso l'Università della California ed è subito assunta nel Distretto scolastico di Berkeley ove rimane fino al 1954. Una serie di tappe segnano i suoi successi per la diffusione dell'educazione fisica: la creazione di corsi obbligatori per bambini e giovani, maschi e femmine, la direzione del Dipartimento di educazione fisica dell'intero Distretto scolastico di Berkeley, l'insegnamento in corsi di sicurezza in acqua presso la Croce Rossa americana.

Vita associativa

Soroptimist
Per la sua attività dedicata al benessere fisico e mentale delle donne e allo sviluppo del loro potenziale, nel 1921 le viene chiesto di entrare in una organizzazione di donne professioniste dedicate ad attività di servizio. Vi aderisce solo con l'assicurazione che tale organismo avrebbe operato in ambito internazionale, in uno spirito di comunità allargata al mondo intero.
Questa organizzazione è il nucleo da cui dà vita il 3 ottobre 1921, a Oakland, con altre 80 donne professioniste, al primo club Soroptimist International, di cui è nominata presidente, divenendo così la fondatrice dell'Associazione Soroptimist International. Il Club è denominato Soroptimist Association of Alameda County. La creazione di un club riservato esclusivamente a donne rappresenta un evento unico anche se nell'America del Nord agli inizi del 1920 le donne avevano ottenuto il diritto di voto ed erano entrate nel mondo del lavoro come professioniste all'indomani della prima guerra mondiale. Da quel momento si adopera alla creazione di altri club Soroptimist in California, in altre parti degli Stati Uniti, in Canada. Seguono ben presto i club della Gran Bretagna, Francia, Italia (nel 1949) e di numerosissimi altri paesi.
Fra i primi progetti intrapresi dal Club figura la salvaguardia delle sequoie nei boschi della California: il Club opera presso le autorità pubbliche per evitare l'abbattimento, confrontandosi con le imprese incaricate del disboscamento e ottenendo il consenso dell'opinione pubblica per la conservazione di questi preziosi alberi, tuttora viventi.
Per onorarla, la Regione Fondatrice del Soroptimist International consegna il Violet Richardson Award a giovani donne di età compresa tra i 14 e 18 anni per azioni di volontariato come la lotta alla droga, la criminalità e la violenza, la pulizia dell'ambiente e il lavoro per porre fine alla discriminazione e alla povertà.

Altre associazioni
È stata componente dell'American Association of University Women, della Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) e di molte altre associazioni di insegnanti accademici, adoperandosi per l'avanzamento della professionalità delle donne e per lo sviluppo di metodi e di attività di collaborazione e solidarietà umana.

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Rowing Recruits
Row at Iowa
Experienced Rowers Questionnaire
Department Recruiting Info
Head coach Andrew Carter
Beckwith Boathouse
Kathryn Raver
High School Ankeny
2017-18 — Appeared in two competitions on the III N8 crew…placed fourth (22:25.276) at the Head of Des Moines on September 30…placed 10th (15:48.38) at the Jayhawk Jamboree on October 22…appeared in three competitions on the II N8 crew…fell to No. 18 Michigan State (7:41.74) on April 7…fell to No. 6 Michigan (7:40.14) on April 7…placed seventh (7:43.859) at the Big Ten Championship on May 13.
Before Iowa…Was a member of the swim team in high school…Received three academic letters.
Personal…Born February 18, 1999…Human Physiology major.
Why Iowa…For the pre-med program
My favorite aspect of rowing is…I love that the team gets along well and that everyone is supportive of one another.
What made you want to become a rower…I knew I wouldn't be able to continue swimming but I still wanted to be involved in athletics. I had a few upperclassmen friends who suggested rowing.

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Q: Удалить уникальный элемент из массива Всем привет такая проблемма, не могу понять где ошибка в моём коде.
Задача заключается в том, что нужно вернуть массив, состоящий только из неуникальных элементов данного массива. Мой код работает но почему-то не доконца правильно.

function nonUniqueElements(array) {

    var new_array = [];
//    var count = 0;

    for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < array.length; j++)
            if (array[i] !== array[j]) {
                array.splice(array[i], 1);
                return array;
            }

    }

    return array;
}

console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 1, 3]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([5, 5, 5, 5, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8]));

Если посмотреть в консоль то 1 и 3 -й варианты получаются правильно, но остальные нет.

A:

function nonUniqueElements(array) {
  var counts = {};
  array.forEach(item => counts[item]? counts[item]++ : counts[item] = 1);
  return array.filter(item => counts[item] > 1);
}

console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 1, 3]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([5, 5, 5, 5, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8]));

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function nonUniqueElements(array) {
  return array.filter((el, i, arr) => arr.indexOf(el) != arr.lastIndexOf(el));
}

console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 1, 3]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([5, 5, 5, 5, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8]));

A: Всё немного сложнее чем кажется, вы допустили много ошибок, во первых у вас удаляется один элемент, после которого цикл завершается возвратом массива, во вторых вы удаляете элемент с неправильной позиции используя значение array[i], вместо i, также при удалении элемента из массива, нужно учитывать, что индексы сдвигаются, поэтому необходимо вернуть индекс на один назад.
Вот решение, если текущий элемент единственный, то он удаляется:

function nonUniqueElements(array) {

    for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
       if(array.filter(item => item == array[i]).length == 1){
          array.splice(i, 1);
          --i;
       }
    }

    return array;
}

console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 1, 3]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([5, 5, 5, 5, 5]));
console.log(nonUniqueElements([10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8]));

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> Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition
> Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope
Covenant & Conversation Family Edition
Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope
Vayeshev • 5779
MAIN ESSAY
The Parsha in a Nutshell
The story now shifts from Yaakov to his children. The tension we have already sensed between Leah and Rachel is transferred to the next generation in the form of the rivalry between Yosef and his brothers, the story whose twists and turns take us to the end of the book of Beishit. Yosef is Yaakov's favourite son, firstborn of his beloved Rachel. The envy and antagonism of his brothers leads them to sell Yosef into slavery in Egypt, an act that will many years later result in the entire family, by then a nation, being enslaved.
A common thread running through the parsha is the power of the story to confuse our expectations. Reuben, the firstborn, seems to suffer self-doubt that robs him of the courage to take decisive action. Yaakov's endless grief hides a refusal to give up hope. Tamar turns out to be a model of morals and courage. Two unlikely women play a part in the lineage of David, Israel's greatest king. Part of the continuing power of these stories lies in their refusal to play out the way we would expect. You can never predict in advance, the Torah seems to suggest, where virtue is to be found.
The Core Idea
The deception has taken place. Yosef has been sold into slavery. His brothers dipped his coat in blood. They bring it back to their father, saying: "Look what we have found. Do you recognise it? Is this your son's coat or not?" Yaakov recognises it and replies, "It is my son's coat. A wild beast has devoured him. Yosef has been torn to pieces." We then read:
Yaakov tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned his son for a long time. His sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "I will go down to the grave mourning for my son." (Gen. 37:34-35)
There are laws in Judaism about the limits of grief – shiva, sheloshim, a year. There is no such thing as a bereavement for which grief is endless. The Talmud says that God rebukes one who weeps beyond the appointed time. And yet Yaakov refuses to be comforted.
A Midrash gives a remarkable explanation. "One can be comforted for one who is dead, but not for one who is still living," it says. In other words, Yaakov refused to be comforted because he had not yet given up hope that Yosef was still alive. That, tragically, is the fate of those who have lost members of their family (the parents of soldiers missing in action, for example), but have as yet no proof that they are dead. They cannot go through the normal stages of mourning because they cannot abandon the possibility that the missing person is still capable of being rescued. Their continuing anguish is a form of loyalty; to give up, to mourn, to be reconciled to loss is a kind of betrayal. In such cases, grief lacks closure. To refuse to be comforted is to refuse to give up hope.
Questions to Ponder
1. Why do you think Judaism has specific time periods for different levels of mourning, such as shiva (the first week after the death of a loved one), shloshim (the first 30-day period of mourning), and the completion of the first year?
2. Do you think the pain is greater for the loss of a child, or when a child is missing presumed dead?
3. Do you know of any stories of parents who refused to give up hope that their child may still be alive? What can we learn from Yaakov and these other parents?
It Once Happened…
A legend is told of Napoleon, the French Emperor in the early nineteenth century, taking a stroll through the streets of Paris with his advisors one Tisha B'Av during his reign. As his entourage passed a small synagogue they heard wailing and crying coming from within. Puzzled by the commotion, Napoleon sent an aide inside to inquire as to what had happened.
The aide returned after a few minutes and told Napoleon that the Temple of the Jews had been destroyed and they were in mourning over its loss. Napoleon was outraged! "How can it be I have no knowledge if this event? Where in the Empire did this occur? When did this befall the Jews of that community and who were the perpetrators?"
The aide responded, "Sir, the Temple was lost in Jerusalem on this date more than 1,700 years ago."
Napoleon stood in silence and shock. " A people who can mourn for Jerusalem so long, will one day have it restored to them!", he said.
1. What is the message of this story? How is it connected to the story of Yaakov's grief and refusal to give up hope?
2. What do you think would have happened if we had moved on after the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70CE? Why are Jews so obsessed with remembering history?
Thinking More Deeply
On what basis did Yaakov continue to hope that Yosef was still alive? Surely he had recognised Yosef's blood-stained coat – he said explicitly, "A wild beast has devoured him. Yosef has been torn to pieces." Do these words not mean that he had accepted that Yosef was dead?
The late David Daube made a suggestion that I find convincing. The words the sons say to Yaakov – haker na, literally "identify please" – have a quasi-legal connotation. Daube relates this passage to another, Exodus 22:10-13, with which it has close linguistic parallels. The issue discussed is the extent of responsibility borne by a guardian (shomer). If an animal is lost through negligence, the guardian is at fault and must make good the loss. If there is no negligence, merely force majeure, an unavoidable, unforeseeable accident, the guardian is exempt from blame. One such case is where the loss has been caused by a wild animal. The wording in the law – tarof yitaref, "torn to pieces" – exactly parallels Yaakov's judgment in the case of Yosef: tarof toraf Yosef, "Yosef has been torn to pieces."
An elder brother carried a similar responsibility for the fate of a younger brother placed in his charge, as, for example, when the two were alone together. That is the significance of Cain's denial when confronted by God as to the fate of Abel: "Am I my brother's guardian [shomer]?" (Gen. 4:9).
We now understand a series of nuances in the encounter between Yaakov and his sons upon their return without Yosef. Normally they would be held responsible for their younger brother's disappearance. To avoid this, as in the case of later biblical law, they "bring the remains as evidence." If those remains show signs of an attack by a wild animal, they must – by virtue of the law then operative – be held innocent. Their request to Yaakov, haker na, must be construed as a legal request, meaning, "Examine the evidence." Yaakov has no alternative but to do so, and by virtue of what he has seen, to acquit them. A judge, however, may be forced to acquit someone accused of a crime because the evidence is insufficient to justify a conviction, while still retaining lingering private doubts. So Yaakov was forced to find his sons innocent, without necessarily trusting what they said. In fact Yaakov did not believe it, and his refusal to be comforted shows that he was unconvinced. He continued to hope that Yosef was still alive. That hope was eventually justified: Yosef was still alive, and father and son were ultimately reunited.
The refusal to be comforted sounded more than once in Jewish history. The prophet Jeremiah was sure that Jews would return to Israel because they refused to be comforted – meaning, they refused to give up hope (Jeremiah 31:15-17). So it was during the Babylonian exile, as articulated in one of the most paradigmatic expressions of the refusal to be comforted: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept, As we remembered Zion…"
Jews are the people who refused to be comforted because they never gave up hope. All the evidence of Jewish history may seem to signify irretrievable loss, a decree of history that cannot be overturned, a fate that must be accepted. Jews never believed the evidence because they had something else to set against it – a faith, a trust, an unbreakable hope that proved stronger than historical inevitability. It is not too much to say that Jewish survival was sustained in that hope. And that hope came from a simple – or perhaps not so simple – phrase in the life of Yaakov. He refused to be comforted. And so – while we live in a world still scarred by violence, poverty and injustice – must we.
From the Thought of Rabbi Sacks
In the Hebrew Bible, a new concept of time was born… Time, for ancients, was cyclical, a matter of the slow revolving of the seasons and the generations, an endlessly repeated sequence of birth, growth, decline and death… Mythic time is not historical but anti-historical time: time in which nothing really changes… Until Israel appeared on the scene, all cultures were like that. Some still are.
Cyclical time is time as it appears in nature. All that lives, dies, but life itself lives on. Winds, storms, floods and drought wreak devastation, but nature recovers, homes are rebuilt, fields are replanted, and the cycle begins again. The dream of myth is order, and its perennial fear is chaos. Life is an ongoing struggle between these two opposites, which reflect the struggles of the gods, told in the endless stories of myth itself… The permutations are endless, but the basic plot is the same. First, there is order, then it is disturbed by a force of chaos: there is a battle and finally order is restored. So it was in ancient myth, and so it is today in its cinematic equivalents: Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and the rest.
The Hebrew Bible is a radical break with this way of seeing things. God is to be found in history, not just in nature. Things do change. Human life is an arena of transformation. Abraham leaves the world of the Mesopotamian city-states to
begin a new way of serving God. Moses and the Israelites leave Egypt to found a new social order. They are about to build a future unlike the past. That was the revolution. Without it, we would simply not have the key words we have come to accept as obvious, words like progress, development, advance, creativity, originality. Until Abraham and Moses, no one thought of time as a journey in which where you are tomorrow will not be where you were yesterday. The concept of change as progress would have been equally incomprehensible. For the ancients, change was a challenge to the established order. That too exists in some cultures and individuals today… in Judaism a new concept was born, of a future substantively different from the past.
Future Tense, p. 234-236
1. How did Judaism introduce the idea to the world that the future can be different from the past, and we can have hope in a better world?
2. What do you think is the source of the obstinate Jewish refusal in history to give up hope?
Around the Shabbat Table
Why do you think Yaakov refused to give up hope that Yosef was still alive?
Can you think of examples from Jewish history of when the Jewish people refused to give up hope? What do you think is the source of this refusal to give up hope?
What can other people of the world learn from the Jewish refusal to give up hope in the face of adversity?
Educational Companion
Jewish law strives to create a healthy outlet for grief while at the same time ensuring grief does not become crippling, and overwhelm the mourner. It does this through these various stages of bereavement. Judaism ordains a precisely calibrated sequence of grief, from the initial, numbing moment of loss itself, to the funeral and the return home, to the period of being comforted by friends and members of the community, to a more extended period during which one does not engage in activities associated with joy. The more we learn about the psychology of bereavement and the stages through which we must pass before loss can be healed, so the wisdom of Judaism's ancient laws and customs has become clearer. However, in our parsha, Yaakov refuses to allow himself to pass through these stages of grief because deep down he still had faith that Yosef was alive.
The pain is unimaginable in both cases. However, one could imagine that as long as there is a chance the child is still alive, in the absence of proof to the contrary, then there can be a glimmer of hope that perhaps can distract from the pain.
In Israel there are several stories of parents and families of soldiers missing in action who refused to give up hope until they were given absolute proof of the death of their child. These parents did everything in their power to influence governments and other agencies to bring back their children, or at least bring proof of their death, and bring back their bodies. Never giving up hope can achieve very powerful and meaningful results.
The message of this story is the impressive emotional connection that Jews have to their history. So much so that these Jews still mourned the destruction of their Temple 1700 years ago as if it had just happened. Their refusal to be consoled over the centuries that had passed impressed Napoleon so much that he was convinced they would merit as a nation to see Jerusalem restored to them.
If Jews over the centuries had given up their hope of returning as a sovereign nation to their land and moved on with their national life, then it is hard to see how the re-emergence of the Jewish national movement in the late 19th century that ultimately led to the establishment of the State of Israel would have happened. In fact, some historians believe that this unbreakable hope and will is one factor that ensured the existence of the Jewish people in exile for so many generations, as opposed to the narratives of so many other conquered ancient nations who assimilated into host societies and no longer exist.
In his book Future Tense (p.231-241),Rabbi Sacks identifies 4 features of Jewish faith that distinguish Jews and Jewish thought, and encouraged them to always believe that the future can be better than the present:
a. God reveals His name to Moshe at the burning bush as Ehyeh asher ehyeh (Shemot 3:14) – literally "I will be what I will be". God's name is in thefuture tense.
b. A Jewish sense of time is a radical break with the ancient concept of time, which was merely cyclical. In Judaism, "Human life is an arena of transformation".
c. Jewish narrative in the Bible and in history breaks the rules of narrative form. Jewish history is a story without ending. Its conclusion is yet to be fulfilled.
d. Judaism's "golden age" is always in the future – the Messiah has not yet come.
Perhaps hope is written into Jewish DNA because of the 4 factors written in the question above. Perhaps it is a steadfast faith in the existence of a God who acts for the good of the Jewish people and humanity in history.
The love a parent has for their child is so strong that until incontrovertible proof is presented to prove there is no hope, the parent will refuse to be consoled, stop grieving, and give up hope of reuniting with their child.
The whole of Jewish history is a story of refusing to give up hope. In the face of profound adversity, the Jewish people have refused to give up their religion and their age-old dream of returning to their land. The Jewish dream of a world of peace and redemption in a Messianic Age is also a dream they have refused to give up on. Historians have struggled to explain this aspect of Jewish history. Perhaps the only explanation is a steadfast faith in the existence of a God who acts for the good of the Jewish people and humanity in history.
Life for both the individual and on a national level, can often be difficult and challenging, and despair and loss of hope are easy to understand. The Jewish story can inspire and be an antidote to this. Few peoples can compare their national suffering and pain or point to quite so many tragic and dark periods in their history. Yet the Jews refused to despair or lose hope. In a world that still suffers great moments of darkness, they continued to have belief in a better future for humanity.
Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks' weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Edition is aimed at connecting teenagers with his ideas and thoughts on the parsha.


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"Who Gets to Be a Girl Is Contested": Alice Bolin Talks Dead Girls and Women's Pain
Alan Scherstuhl June 18, 2018 6:00AM
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession is a collection written by Alice Bolin. Book cover image courtesy of William Morrow
Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (William Morrow, $15.99) hits bookstores on June 26.
Dead Girls, the first collection by critic and essayist Alice Bolin, would stand as one of this year's essential reads even without that striking, of-the-moment title. The book kicks off with the indispensable essay "Toward a Theory of a Dead Girl Show," which with great wit and skepticism examines the phenomenon of TV (and film and novel and true-crime) narratives that center on the murder or kidnapping of a beautiful white teen. It's urgent, necessary criticism, but don't think that's all Dead Girls offers. Like the shows she's considering, Bolin soon expands out from comely corpses to survey a wider world, in this case many of her pop obsessions: Swedish mystery novels; the work of Joan Didion, Shirley Jackson and Toni Morrison; Britney Spears; the treatment in true-crime literature of murders that have long fascinated her hometown of Moscow, Idaho.
Dead Girls finds the author making sense of our darkest interests, shining a light on uncomfortable truths. It's also as engaging as it is insightful, the kind of book you might steal a couple of minutes with at work when you think nobody's watching.
I recently spoke to Bolin by phone.
You note in the book that by using the title Dead Girls, you are in a way part of the same Dead Girls machine that profits off our culture's fascination with dead girls. Why is the word "girl" or "girls" in so many titles?
The word is slippery. Who gets to be a girl is something that's contested in our culture and is really wrapped up in whiteness and also sexuality and innocence and the contradictions between them. All that is probably why so many thrillers have that word in them. There's dead girl shows but not dead woman shows. Laura Palmer [of Twin Peaks] is a girl who dies at seventeen, but she doesn't really look like a girl. She's sexually mature. Amy in Gone Girl is like 37 years old or something.
You write that Amy — in the book and the film — is a construction that resembles no woman who has ever existed, but that what the story suggests is that there's something scarier to our culture than women being abused or killed or going missing.
Right. Gone Girl really plays to these nightmare scenarios that even sort-of decent men entertain about being misunderstood or accused of something they didn't do. It ties into all of these me-too boogeyman fears where the idea of a woman being victimized is less terrifying than the thought of a man being falsely accused.
You write about the masculine fantasy of control that is at the root of a lot of these narratives. When a girl like Laura Palmer is dead, she's no longer out of control.
There are these dual myths in a funny way between control and innocence. Innocence is something that white people believe that they have, and that in a lot of stories men believe that they have. I think about something James Baldwin said, that in a noir story, the man is the innocent and the femme fatale the guilty party, even if the man is some gangster who's killed a million people. That idea of innocence is something that privileged people hold on to really tightly. Being questioned or revealed as less innocent than we are is something that makes privileged people feel out of control. So I think that is something that leads to a lot of the ugliness that we see in real-life violence and in on-screen and fictional violence — attempts to recapture that control and all that being innocent and pure and beautiful affords us.
Writing about the dead girls who launch pop narratives like Twin Peaks or Veronica Mars, you describe a "sanctifying haze" around them. Does the dead girl — the Black Dahlia or Lilly Kane — come to be seen as more innocent because of her death?
Oh, yes. Greil Marcus writes the best about all the different versions of Laura Palmer, how she's not the same character at all from Twin Peaks to Fire Walk With Me to The Return, and that David Lynch doesn't even really try to make all the details line up. But we know that like Britney Spears, she's not that innocent. Her death absolutely is what absolves her and makes her a symbol of purity. Lilly Kane in Veronica Mars is also a bad girl. For them, becoming a dead girl is both a kind of punishment and also a merciful honor-killing sort of act.
You describe the dead girl's opposite, the femme fatale, as a problem to be solved.
Quite often with the femme fatale, if you strip away the writers' disdain, you'll see she's just a woman who has survived. A woman who has not ended up as a dead girl becomes a femme fatale because there's a sort of fundamental level of manipulation at the heart of these characters. Lilly Kane and Laura Palmer both have the femme fatale hallmarks of manipulating men, being too crafty and clever for their own good, being a little bit mysterious, being attracted to older men.
You get at some of these same points in your chapter on Britney Spears, who you just mentioned. You write about how, despite having known the song for years, the cry of loneliness at the heart of "Baby One More Time" didn't penetrate your brain until recently. Why is it easy in this culture to miss the pain that a Britney is expressing?
I think it's two things. These Max Martin Swedish-generated lyrics from that era of pop music, maybe '98 to 2001, really make no sense. There's "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely," by the Backstreet Boys, where they sing, "Loneliness has always been a friend of mine." The word lonely was sort of in the lexicon and being regenerated by the pop-lyric computer. So there's that. As for Britney singing "Hit me baby one more time," well, what does she mean? Is she playing blackjack? Is it a sadomasochism thing? That's something that has never been resolved.
But there is a level where we don't really want to extend compassion to these female icons. I think there's a reason why women like Cher or Britney Spears or even Lindsay Lohan have been in a way rescued by the gay community, where they're appreciated for their talent and glamour, but also as human beings who have felt pain. But this patriarchal uber-culture is reluctant to acknowledge women's pain, especially of women who are young and successful.
One argument in the book stunned me. You write about the character of the profiler, who in so many mysteries teases out all the highly specific odd traits of the killer. The fictional profiler's profiles are at odds with what's actually the truth in most real-life murders of women — that the husband did it. You suggest that our pop narratives' insistence on the killer not being the obvious person makes it hard for us to recognize the profile in real life.
I have a lot of skepticism about the whole mindhunter thing that is really common in the true-crime genre. They'll say, "The killer is probably a Marine, probably [5-foot-8]," like they have a psychic ability to identify the murderer. It speaks to this ideal of a detective who has essentially supernatural abilities and also our trust in forensic psychology. Even our ideas of what a sociopath or psychopath is remains wrapped in a lot of doubt and prejudices we have about crime, and are not as scientific as what we want them to be. So, that's something I have trouble with. It makes it easy to shake off the people we don't want to suspect. A lot of time the actual profile would be, "He's a man, a white man who probably has some privilege. You might not have guessed that it's him, but it is."
There's a type of dead woman I see in entertainment a lot, one you don't look at at length in the book. That's the dead wife, whose murder in movies like Upgrade or Deadpool 2 gives the hero an excuse to avenge her. She's less an object of fascination than she is a narrative device.
It happens all the time. In the show 24, the president's wife is murdered. The detective in so many books has lost his daughter. But we don't really hear about the daughter or the wife; they're not really important other than as a wrinkled snapshot in his wallet. She's a wrinkle in his psyche. Even in that horrible recent Godzilla movie, isn't it Juliette Binoche who gets killed? Even though the dead girl has a mystique about her and propels the narrative, it's really not that different. The thing that all these narratives are invested in is making women less human, using them as plot devices and making sure that we are slightly saddened by her death but that we never empathize with her. It's all part and parcel of the same shit. The dead girl is just a little bit more symbolically fertile. The wife is a pretty stale image for us; the teenage girl has a lot more to work with.
Alan Scherstuhl is film editor and writer at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
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Cars, Boats... Now a Hovercraft?
At the California Marine Academy in Vallejo, the Class of 2003 was instructed to complete a project to finish the year. Three of the students, Cameron Clark, Shawn Lee, and Lester Frank, came up with the idea to build a full-size working hovercraft.
With the help of TAP Plastics (El Cerrito) and other sponsors, they took on the task.
The body is 1/8" plywood reinforced with Knytex #1708m and the seams reinforced with 4" Knytex tape. X-30 Foam filled the cavity. The resin used is "B" Bond Coat Resin, and finished with Marine Grade Epoxy System with #109 Hardener and Red Opaque Pigment.


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Q: WSL -- Command Not Found I'm running the following command in PowerShell wsl pipenv run python ~/test.py and receive the following error /bin/bash: pipenv: command not found. If I launch WSL/Ubuntu, I can run pipenv run python ~/test.py and get a successful output. In PowerShell and Git Bash, I can run pipenv -h and get proper output. Where does WSL look for this command?
On a related note, I can run python ~/test.py and python3 ./test.py when I launch WSL/Ubuntu and get successful output. But from PowerShell, only wsl python3 ~/test.py works. When I run wsl python ~/test.py I receive the same command not found error. What am I missing?

A: Based on our comments exchange, the problem is that the directory in which the pipenv executable is located - /home/<username>/.local/bin/ -  isn't present in the PATH environment variable when invoking a command non-interactively.
This suggests that it is an initialization file that extends PATH, and it seems that it is ~/.bash_profile in your case; to force an explicit bash invocation to source this file, the -l (--login) option must be passed.
You report that the following command ultimately worked for you:
bash -l -c "cd ~ && pipenv run python ~/test.py"

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*Without a command (executing just wsl.exe or bash.exe), an interactive bash shell is entered, which - in effect - does use -l, and therefore automatically sources ~/.bash_profile (wsl.exe / bash.exe use the alternative mechanism for requesting a login shell: the first entry of the argument array (which you can inspect with echo $0) is set to -bash, and the initial - tells Bash to start a login shell).
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Hall of the Keepers is located inside Uldaman, on the other side of the instance portal from Dig One. Like many other parts of the dungeon, it is crawling with troggs. The hall leads south to Dig Two, and west to the Map Chamber. It is also the location of Uldaman's first boss, Revelosh, who carries [The Shaft of Tsol] needed to release Ironaya, as well as the Remains of a Paladin.
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Peats privileged with City selection
Dyldam Parramatta Eels hooker Nathan Peats has been named in the starting side for the NSW City Origin team in their upcoming clash against the Country Origin side in Wagga this Sunday and the Blue and Gold forward is looking forward to returning to the representative arena.
"I am looking forward to it," Peats said of the week long camp ahead.
"I played in 2013 for City, that was a great week there and I am now looking forward to getting out there on Sunday and trying to have a good game."
After being unable for selection last year due to injury, Peats is looking forward to the week ahead, grateful for another opportunity to play for City.
"It was a good learning experience back then and I'm a bit more experienced now so I'm looking forward to having a second crack at it and hopefully get a good performance on the weekend," he said.
Having already played under NSW City Head Coach Brad Fittler, Peats is excited about playing under his favourite childhood player for a second time.
"He's a great bloke and we have a good laugh," Peats said of Fittler.
"Growing up he was my favourite player because I was a bit of a Roosters fan."
"Freddy's like one of the boys, he has a laugh, so it's a good week….I got the privilege to play under him a couple of years ago and I am looking forward to it again."
Fittler spoke highly of Peats, confident that the Eels hooker would be the man to fill incumbent hooker Robbie Farrah's shoes when he departs.
"Disappointingly last year, Peats was injured coming into this game and he spent a lot of time last year on the bench but he seems to have that real Origin attitude they talk about," Fittler said.
"Hopefully he can get us off the line, he seems to do that really well for Parramatta. You notice when he is not there at Parramatta, they really struggle so he will be important for our game on Sunday" Fitter added.
Spending the back half of the 2014 season on the sideline with injury, Peats said he is slowly regaining his form this year and is getting closer to where he wants to be as a player.
"It's not quite where I want to be at the moment," the hooker said of his form.
"But it's only Round 8 we just played, so I'm starting to get my fitness back which is good and hopefully I can turn out some more better 80 minutes performances with the team as well."
"Consistency is probably the hardest thing in First Grade and we've [Parramatta] been a bit inconsistent as a team. Hopefully we can start to gel and get it together."
Having missed out on selection for State of Origin last season, Peats said that while representative football is great, his current focus is playing well for the Parramatta Eels.
"It's always a goal for every player to play representative footy," he said.
"But to be honest I'm not really thinking about that. I'm very privileged to play in the City side this week and that's the first step and then obviously back to Parramatta next week."
"There's a lot of players in front of me in the position I play so I am just hoping I can put my hand up and do as good as I can this week."
Peats will play alongside some former teammates this week and the hooker is excited about the opportunity to play with some new and old teammates.
"I played with Wade Graham and Fifita Andrew last time in this City camp and Clarky's one of my good mates who I played at Souths with for years," Peats said.
"It's always good to play in a side where you're playing with a different calibre of players and I'm looking forward to it."


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CS:GO Proxy
Among the many FPS games, few have the staying power and notoriety as CounterStrike. Created as a modification (mod) of Valve Software's Half-Life game, Counter-Strike has evolved from a simple mod to a full-fledged game. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, commonly abbreviated as CS:GO, is one of the most popular iterations of the franchise. While you might not typically think of proxies with CS:GO, you might be surprised at the benefits a proxy can bring to your game.
Want to know most important points about CS:GO Proxy?
About Counter-Strike: Global Offensive How Proxies Play With CS:GO Global Proxies for Global Offensive
S:GO is the first major update from the original Counter-Strike: Source— which itself is a remake of the original Counter-Strike mod for Half-Life; confused yet?
S: Source brought improved graphics and compatibility with modern hardware by porting Counter-Strike to the modern Source engine. CS:GO upgrades the base CS: Source game with many new features.
ounter-Strike: Global Offensive dramatically improves the graphics of CS: Source and includes gameplay tweaks. Players have more health and are generally harder to kill, opting for more strategic combat than CS: Source.
The weapons have also changed from CS:Source to CS:GO, with firing rate and recoil alterations. While these weapon revisions are controversial among players, they add some freshness to further differentiate Global Offensive from Source.
ounter-Strike: Global Offensive is free on Steam, with an additional downloadable (called Operation Riptide) totaling $14.99 at the time of this guide.
You might hesitate at the thought of proxies in FPS games, and some cheats such as RatBot, OGC, and Xania use proxies to perform their dastardly deeds. But don't let those things twist your perspective of the good that proxies provide.
One of the primary proxy advantages is their ability to unblock traffic. Many individuals use proxies to bypass geo-fenced media or shopping sites, and businesses use them to conduct market research. For CS:GO, proxies perform a similar feat, bypassing restrictions of gaming protocols. For example, a college dorm limiting network usage to approved sites will require a proxy to mask gaming traffic.****
Reducing Lag
Proxies are also beneficial for lag. Internet delay, or "lag," is the most dangerous enemy in any online game. When it comes to Counter-Strike, battles can be determined in fractions of a second. You can do several things to improve your lag both in-game and externally.
You can change some settings from inside CS:GO to speed up responsiveness online. The two most critical commands to consider using the CS:GO console are rate and cl_cmdrate.
The rate command sets the value (in bytes) for the total bandwidth the game can use. Under normal circumstances, this should be the highest number possible that your connection can handle. The maximum value for rate is 128000, which is about 1.02 Megabits per second. Most broadband connections can support this speed; therefore, you should set the rate to 128000 unless your connection is slower.
The cl_cmdrate value is similar; it specifies the number of packets per second that your computer sends to the server. Ideally, this should be a number slightly higher than your average frames per second. So if you get 60frames per second in-game, set cl_cmdrate to 64 for optimum efficiency.****
While you might think a proxy would be detrimental to network performance rather than a help, this is not true. A proxy can significantly improve network performance in particular circumstances.
Besides assisting with loading times through smart caching, proxies can improve DNS lookup and efficiently route traffic based on server location. You can experience the best possible CS:GO performance regardless of where you play using an optimized proxy combined with the commands above.
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What is a CS:GO proxy?
CS:GO proxies are relays designed to enhance the network performance of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game.
What are the best proxies for CS:GO?
Both datacenter and residential ISP proxies can work well for CS:GO. What influences compatibility the most are your device's network and firewall settings.