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5 Groundbreaking Technologies We Will Witness In The Coming Years
If we are to talk about significant changes to the world, technology will always be a part of the discussion.
Technology has always played a vital role in our lives and will continue to do with innovative tools. Whether it is chatbots, blockchain, or self-driving cars, its continuous prevalence has assured that technologies will shape the future.
The pandemic is a prime example as it disrupted the physical business environment, forcing companies to shift many aspects of their day-to-day operations online. The pandemic played the role of a catalyst in a world that was already heading towards mass digitalization and automation.
Now companies realize the capabilities of employing the right technological tools to empower their operations and grow to new heights. It is quite fascinating to see how far we have come in this technologically advanced world. Moreover, this advancement will continue to revolutionize our lives with new and innovative technologies that we do not usually see.
With that said, let's discuss five groundbreaking technologies we will witness in the coming years.
1. Seamless Internet of Things
With the internet becoming a basic necessity of our lives, we will experience a boom in IoT in the coming years. The latest developments in technology will usher the smart devices that will provide "Anywhere Computing" services.
The Internet has significantly improved our lifestyle with innovations. After making quite an impression on smartphones and TV, it is now making its way into many other items in your house. This means now you can enjoy Pizza Weekends just by setting up your refrigerator to order for you every weekend.
Moreover, many researchers are working on intelligent toothbrushes that will regularly record your data and send them to your dentist. Not just that, but the dependence on the internet is giving rise to the work from home setup.
Gone are the days for traditional work environments as the pandemic keeps people from getting together in large numbers. Most businesses acknowledge the unsustainable factors of the traditional working environment and look for flexible alternatives from technology.
From VoIP (Voice over Internet protocols) to cloud technologies, groundbreaking tech tools are paving the way for remote-working. Businesses still need to beef up their systems to maintain the productivity of the employees.
To do so, they can find various service providers like Synergy-UK to set up cloud systems and boost the productivity of employees working from home. These technologically advanced tools are just a start, and we will get to see more in the coming years.
AI is already setting its ground globally, but the field will look very different in the coming years. Some people believe that AI will positively change the landscape of technology in the future. In comparison, some think it will create an environment devoid of human emotion.
Today, AI is no longer a science-fiction theme. It has replaced several blue-collar jobs previously carried out by living beings and is now heading up the ladder.
However, whether bad or good, the simple fact is that AI will be more widespread and common in the future than it is today. Healthcare will harness AI to study the patterns of disease and finding the cure. Let's take the example of the COVID-19 pandemic once more.
During the pandemic's early days, scientists and healthcare professionals had very little knowledge about the virus and the disease. It led to an overwhelming global crisis, causing many problems. But AI helped to speed-up the research process and discover suitable preventative measures.
3. Electric aviation
Artificial Intelligence is a never-ending buzz, but environmentally friendly fuel is an important topic today. Recently, we witnessed the emergence of electric-powered vehicles that minimize pollution.
This technology is expected to expand into the aviation world, significantly cutting fuel costs and carbon emissions into the air. NASA and Airbus are working on the project to make this possible, with a significant investment.
Researches are underway to develop the batteries to reach up to speeds of about 400 km per minute. Moreover, this range can double in the coming years making electric aviation possible. The main reason behind the idea is to minimize carbon emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels.
Regular planes release approximately 500 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. Therefore, scientists and businesses are coming forward to create eco-friendly jets and airplanes to reduce global warming.
4. Intelligent Wi-Fi
Our old and sluggish Wi-Fi is now Wi-Fi 6. And this is probably one of the best and most timely innovations to surface based on recent events.
The Great Isolation of 2020 has increased the importance of Wi-Fi networks' efficiency for both businesses and individuals. Since most people worked from home, the internet speeds slowed down because of the immense traffic.
This accelerated the need for robust and intelligent Wi-Fi connections. Apart from connecting users to the internet, Wi-Fi 6 can reach a speed of up to 9.6 Gbps. That means you will be able to achieve equal bandwidth on all devices rather than hogging all networks over a single device.
Cybersecurity is a serious concern all around the globe. With the hackers always lurking around the businesses to steal confidential information, security measures are indispensable to keep the safe side from these threats. The sudden prevalence of the internet and digital transformation are the key factors behind the increase in cybercrimes.
Moreover, these are expected to grow in the coming year because of the ongoing digital transformation. The future will use AI to mitigate the effects of cybersecurity and save vital data. AI will allow businesses to efficiently discover vulnerabilities and implement measures to counter potential cyber-attack.
From digital payments to software solutions for small and large businesses, technology is becoming a core component of every aspect of our life. What seems like something you'd see in a sci-fi flick is now a reality.
However, it is essential to question the extent to which we should depend on tech innovations. Should we let AI enslave us, or should we retain the human element in customer relationship management? Tech innovations are promising; they make our lives simpler in many ways. But every coin has a flip side. Know your tech and use it wisely.
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Dr. (HC) Ir. Ciputra, founder of several companies in Indonesia starting from Jaya Group, Metropolitan Group, and Ciputra Group, celebrated its 87th Anniversary. The celebration was held solemnly and simply at Dian Ballroom, Raffles Hotel Jakarta, attended by all family members, business partners, and company management. The celebration this year was also more special because Mr. Ciputra was awarded two international awards, namely the Brand Life Hall of Fame – the Lifetime Achievement Brand Icon Leadership Award and The Brand Life Book of World Records. In addition to two international awards, Mr. Ciputra was also awarded two national awards namely the Property and Empu Industry Industry, Artpreneurship, from the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI).
"Prayer and gratitude I endlessly pray to God for all the gifts given to me, my family and company because everything can work well. In the 87th period which resulted in young prices again, I still had dreams, hopes, and strong determination to create more of this beloved family, community and nation, "said Mr. Ciputra.
Mr. Ciputra also conveyed several ways how he would maintain his daily health. According to Mr. Ciputra, the principle to maintain health is 5 D namely Prayer to God, Doctor who is expert, Life discipline, Regular diet, and last is Fund or money. He further explained that prayer is a form of gratitude and hope to God. If God wants someone to do long, then it happens clearly.
An expert doctor is also needed so that someone can know correctly about his health condition. Then about the third principle, namely Life Discipline, Mr. Ciputra explained the importance of discipline in life because disciplinary lifestyles correlate with the level of health, for example the discipline of exercise. Mr. Ciputra also always applies a regular diet, especially about food. Then the last principle, namely funds or money, he gave that money for everything, but money was also needed to support a healthy lifestyle.
Meanwhile, the celebration of the 87th Anniversary was enlivened by the awarding of two international awards, namely the Brand Life Hall of Fame – the Lifetime Achievement Brand Icon Leadership Award and the Brand Life Book of World Records. The award was given by an international organization The Asia Pacific Brand Foundation and received directly by Mr. Ciputra.
According to Chew Bee Peng, CEO of The Asia Pacific Brand Foundation, giving awards to Mr. Ciputra has produced various kinds of independent goods. Related indicators that are used to build and build brands that build in the economy and social, and positive dissemination in building the community.
Since its establishment in 2005, The Asia Pacific Brand Foundation has awarded awards to world leaders who have backgrounds as entrepreneurs, statesmen, writers, social activists, sports athletes and others. People who have been awarded with awards include Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba), Mark Zuckerberg (Found Facebook), Nelson Mandela (former President of South Africa), JK Rowling (author), Jeff Bezoz (Amazon Store), Sir Alex Fergusson (football coach) , Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore), and other figures.


Ferroptosis is an emerging type of cell death mode that is dependent on iron. Unfortunately, the detailed analysis of the function of organelle labile Fe(II) in oxidative damage and lethality of the cells has not been demonstrated so far, mainly due to the lack of efficient methods to visualize labile Fe(II) at the targeted organelles. We have recently reported a series of Fe(II)-selective fluorescent probes, i.e., Ac-MtFluNox, Lyso-RhoNox, and ER-SiRhoNox, which can detect Fe(II) specifically in the mitochondria, lysosomes, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER), respectively. These probes demonstrate similar reaction rates and off/on contrasts with various colours and intracellular distributions, enabling simultaneous multi-colour imaging that allows the monitoring of labile Fe(II) levels at each targeted organelle. In this paper, by using a cocktail of these probes, we successfully visualised the aberrant elevation of labile Fe(II) in the lysosomes and ER prior to HT1080 cell death induced by erastin, which is an inducer of ferroptosis.


The job of buying restaurant equipment can truly be daunting. You could be planning to buy a refrigerator but be lost in the many variations and brands available. The budget has to be maintained and it would be easier to find a supplier whose reputation erases all doubts in your mind about the kind of mess on the internet when it comes to conmen.
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There are so many things to consider when you think of buying equipment for your restaurant. The budget, quality and availability of the items are some of the common priorities. When you have done your research on the kind of items you want you will go out to the shop or order them online. No matter which shop you buy from there are a few constants required.
This is a must for most companies that will sell their products online. A good company will offer free or discounted shipping for the items. Their transportation means will be top notch because the equipment used in a restaurant is extremely sensitive. Before choosing the company to buy from check on the shipping.
Nothing is more fulfilling than having all your purchases arriving on the same day. A good restaurant equipment company will be versatile and will have all you need under one roof. Though this is not a necessity it really does help and is very convenient when all you need is in one place. This way you can shop for your ovens for baking your bread and get a few glass pieces for the bar in a go. It really helps to keep track of one order rather than a bunch of different invoices from different companies.
This must be the most important thing when it comes to buying kitchen equipment. You need to buy from a supplier you trust. You must then trust them to deliver high quality products right at your doorstep. If you do not trust your supplier you will be suspect of the products that they are offering and eventually feel unsatisfied with the equipment when it arrives.
Remember that equipment is meant to make the job easier not cook all the food to perfection. You cannot just pop in some ingredients and wait for a well-served and cooked meal. The effort goes both ways you can either choose to struggle buy hand whisking or buy a mixer to save on time and lessen the load. This is one of the things to keep in mind when you decide that you are off to buy some kitchen equipment. If you buy from a low quality brand expect poor results. Your restaurant equipment can only do so much. DO not resort to blaming the store owner if things go south.


In the wake of eruptions in Indonesia, Paul Tritschler wanders through the mad dream that is our existence, and weaves through the cosmic and volcanic forces that might easily tip our fragile climatic balance.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say, but still they come. Boulders ejected from the planet's surface by asteroid impacts hurtle towards Earth as though flicked by the miscreant children of gods. Most miss, are drawn to Jupiter, or disintegrate on entry, but they need only be lucky once, whilst we must be lucky every day. One such boulder resides in the Natural History Museum in London, a crumb of once-molten meteoric iron resembling a man hunched up in a womb-like position. I visit the old man from time to time, as one would a grave, to ground myself in the heavens.
There are potentially millions of boulders in the universe stamped with destination Earth. One boulder, burning three times brighter than the sun, shot across the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. Ten thousand tons travelling at forty-two thousand miles per hour, it released thirty times more energy than the bomb dropped over Hiroshima, but only became visible shortly before it burst, and only burst owing to its angle of entry – around twenty miles up, narrowly avoiding global devastation. Miraculously, no one was killed, though two thousand attended hospital with temporary blindness, or with cuts from windows bursting across the city, and one woman had her back broken. People looked on helplessly – the imminent danger of death alters one's priorities – but when there was nothing left hanging in the air but the smell of sulphur, the fearful spectators became emboldened speculators, rushing to gather the many meteorite fragments to sell them to the highest bidder.
Though it took 66 million years to make the news, our most famous boulder was six miles wide, and brought mega-tsunamis, planet-wide wildfires, shockwaves, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and decades of dust, debris, darkness and global cooling. It left a big impression down Mexico way, 12 miles deep by 110 miles wide, and brought to an end life that had successfully evolved over a period of 150 million years, most strikingly the dinosaurs and the pterosaurs – flying reptiles the size of Spitfires. Their unfortunate demise cleared the path for other species to evolve, notably mammals and Homo sapiens; our species could not have co-existed with dinosaurs, just as many species cannot thrive alongside ours – a situation likely to worsen given our growth rate: there are currently over 7 billion of us, three times the level of the 1960s.
Boulders wiped out some species, but they ensured the survival of others; many scientists, in fact, consider them the most likely source of organic life on this planet. Several geneticists applied Moore's Law of the development of microprocessors to the progression of life from our prokaryotic predecessors – our unicellular selves – and estimated life in all its complexity to be ten billion years old – twice the age of the Earth. It raises the question of what pebble we peopled, albeit in embryonic form, and its point of origin: is there life elsewhere? Perhaps in the scale of things we are as yet in something comparable to the amoeboid state, unable to know what we are unable to know, like a bug hopelessly unaware of why it is being shunted back and forth on a car window wiper. We might require another billion years before lights turn on.
Progress is slow. We have moved from worshipping the Earth to the realisation we should worship it more. Even the shiny ball in the sky has been gradually gaining renewed respect in recent years, though opinion is divided with regard to how much influence it actually wields over us. This difference was reflected recently in a forecast of 'space weather', cheerfully announced over the radio: 'no need to bring the washing in – the sun is merely belching gas, and at worst the city lights might conk out for a bit'. Others were not so insouciant about such solar storms, stressing the hazardous consequences of geomagnetic activity, volcanic effects, and severe weather changes. Some astronomers took the opportunity to state a possible connection between the solar inertial motion (gravitational effects caused by some movement of the sun), and climate change – a view championed by Czech astronomer, Ivanka Charvátová, though she has been struggling to have it aired among the CO2 obsessed.
Within a parallel orbit, the realm of cerebral as opposed to celestial mechanics, scientists have been considering the impact magnetic storms have on the brain. Research has revealed rates of clinical depression are highest in high latitudes: places where the amplitude of magnetic disturbances is greater. Oleg Shumilov carried out a study of peaks in geomagnetism over a fifty year period, and found they correlated with peaks in the suicide rate in the high latitude city of Kirovsk. This fits with research findings published in 1994 in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Ronald Kay, at that time a consultant psychiatrist in Falkirk, Scotland, who found psychiatric hospitals typically admitted a sharp increase of over 36 per cent during or soon after peak periods of geomagnetic storms.
Positive indications that the brain responds to magnetic storms are shown by the use of magnetic field modulators to induce sleep. Similarly, coils that generate electromagnetic fields have triggered muscular twitches when placed over a person's skull, and some people suffering from depression have found their mood elevated after exposure to the electromagnetic fields generated by an MRI scanner. There is, in addition, correlational evidence of marked disturbances in the heart rate of foetuses during periods of high geomagnetic activity, and tests have shown that the pineal gland – essential to regulating our body clock and sleep rhythms – is sensitive to geomagnetism.
It would seem, then, that there are points of convergence between solar motions and climatic effects, and also support for possible points of convergence between geomagnetic storms and mental states. Quite by chance, some evidence of both possibilities surfaced during my foray into the works of Mary Shelley.
When Frankenstein was released in 1818, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine published a review of the book by Walter Scott. I was keen to learn how it was received at the time, and this was the earliest publication I could find. Though far from perfect, Frankenstein was fertilised with the ideas of the ultra-radicals, Godwin, Paine, Wollstonecraft – the greatest minds of their time – and emerged from debates about the development of consciousness of self. I was also curious about whether Godwin's 1799 gothic novel about immortality, 'St. Leon', had been considered an influence on his daughter's Frankenstein – as it undoubtedly was on her later work, 'Mortal Immortal', in 1833. Given that the novel was anonymous, it was hardly surprising Scott assumed the author was male, and I believed it a vain hope that he would make the connection to Godwin. But in fact, he did just that: 'Frankenstein is a novel upon the same plan with Saint Leon' – Scott even went so far as to suggest the author might be Shelley (though Percy Bysshe, not Mary).
In the course of my quest, a chance glance at the volume's contents led me to an account of a case that occurred two years earlier, in Baden-Württemberg, between a young patient and Doctor Johann Tritschler, who was from a branch of my Black Forest ancestry. It gave me a shiver. The article was as much about a paranormal experience as it was about animal magnetism – a sort of cross between hypnotism and reiki – and it was difficult to shake off the feeling that something more than mere coincidence was at work.
It all began on a dreary night of November 1816. Whilst Mary Shelley was drawing energy from freak electrical storms and sudden weather changes to build Frankenstein at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, a family in a small Black Forest village on the other side of the Alps called on Doctor Johann Tritschler to give his medical opinion on the condition of a thirteen-year-old boy named Matheus Schurr. The boy, according to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, was tormented by dreams and physical ailments: 'His speech was rapid and loud, his face was pale and with an expression of anxiety, he complained often of violent pains in his body, of headache, sickness, and an inclination to vomit, and he not only trembled when he attempted to move, but had constant convulsions'.
Medicine proved ineffective, and over the next few days the boy got much worse; he spoke with a rapidity that showed he had as little control over his tongue as over the muscles of his limbs. However, while the doctor was admonishing his patient to be more quiet and composed, by mere accident he stroked the boy's face once or twice with his hand, and immediately the wildness in his looks vanished. To his astonishment, the boy became calm and spoke gently, and he discovered that the healing process lay not in the medicine he prescribed, but the hands, especially the movement of the hands over the body without actually touching. After several visits the boy was cured – or he recovered, which of course isn't necessarily the same thing – and the Doctor reluctantly conceded that the cure might be the 'existence of an imperceptible agent acting by means of magnetical influence'. Thereafter, with regard to Doctor Tritschler's casebook, it was consigned to the medical archive.
1816 was a dark year. Solar events created prolonged geomagnetic storms, and it is likely they contributed to the climatic mood swings. They may also have contributed to the mood swings of a section of the world's population: the eminent Scottish scientist, David Brewster, invented the kaleidoscope in that year, and before he even reached the patent office there was mass demand for this brief but spectacular break from the gloom – a demand met through numerous copycat versions. No doubt a coincidence, it was the year the Scottish Enlightenment dimmed and, with the death of Adam Ferguson, the year it was extinguished. It was the year of swift weather shifts from calm to chaos, of blinding bursts and deafening blasts from freak electrical storms. It was the year Frankenstein was born, though he didn't actually toddle into the bookshops until he was two. It was the year of 'blood or bread' riots, of the heavy midsummer hail that flattened crops, of mass migrations and the death of tens of thousands. It was the year the volcanic eruptions of Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, caused cataclysmic climate changes by draping a veil around the Earth. It was the year without a summer.
Fuelled by climate chaos, there was widespread apocalyptic concern in 1816. Millions were plunged into prolonged winter hardship, hunger and upheaval, and for almost everyone it was a strange and unsettling world – red mist emerged in major cities, including New York, rendering it possible to see sun spots with the naked eye. And then there were the magnetic storms; they are studied today for possible links with profoundly disturbed sleep and affective disorders, irregular heart rhythms and cardiovascular problems, unfocused anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. In the case of Matheus Schurr perhaps there was, after all, an 'imperceptible agent acting by means of magnetical influence'.
Two hundred years on from the year without a summer, the world is once more in a perilous state: rising sea levels and global temperatures, heat waves causing tens of thousands of deaths, failing wheat crops, more frequent and more severe hurricanes, storms, droughts, floods and fires. Running parallel are the ever increasing risks of hunger, disease, poverty, homelessness and political unrest – some populations are already there – and whilst we can conceivably go on for decades retreating, rebuilding and shoring up after each freak flood or hurricane, whilst we can continue pushing to the back of our collective mind the plight of those suffering in the poorest continents, or in the poorest quarters of the wealthiest ones, what remains unchanged is the ecological catastrophe facing us: a petrol spill advancing towards a flame.
Scientists believe we have reached tipping point with regard to climate change, and that we should now combine our energies internationally to prepare planet-wide defence strategies against naturally occurring catastrophes. Given our fragile climate, the chance of recovering quickly from a Tambora-type tragedy today would be remote, and far less likely if an asteroid hit the planet – even the gravitational pull from an asteroid passing at close range could trigger a chain of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes to cause devastation on a global scale.
Many continue to dismiss climate change and asteroid impacts as the stuff of Hollywood, ignoring the fact of rising sea levels, and even the fact that one particular boulder – though ultimately it blazed a path for the evolution of humans – already wiped out life that had been around for tens of millions of years; it is somewhat ironic that in the last minute or so, relatively speaking, our species has almost wrecked the joint. The system on which the world is hooked, the productivist logic of capitalist industrial development, may well destroy itself and take everyone down with it. For Noam Chomsky, 'We are now heading, eyes open, towards an environmental catastrophe that might end the human experiment just as it is wiping out species at a rate not seen since 65 million years ago when a huge asteroid hit the earth – and now we are the asteroid'.
Nothing could have prevented the catastrophic effects of 1816: the geomagnetic storms, the inertial solar motion, and the most powerful volcanic eruption in 10,000 years. But it is possible to imagine a world where the reason and compassion of thinkers such as Godwin and Paine prevailed as common sense, and where the possibility of millions exposed to hunger and hardship was an insane prospect. It is possible to imagine that world today, one free of inequality and exploitation, one that forms globally coordinated plans to counter or respond to natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and Chelyabinsk-style boulders – disasters that may render unstable this already fragile global climate. Poised on the edge of ecological catastrophe, it is crucial that we imagine it.
Later in the day of my excursion into the tumultuous year of 1816 – via Frankenstein, the Black Forest, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine – I found myself in the Tate Britain in Pimlico. In a bit of a dwam, I sat on a solitary bench in front of a painting of angels in armour wielding swords to defend a version of life on Earth – would they have flak jackets and machine guns today? A Japanese party got between me and the angels, and so I got up and began to wander. I found myself drawn to an uncharacteristic Turner – oil and graphite on paper, according to the elegantly spaced but minute typeface on the wall. It was hardly cheerful, but my curiosity was piqued by the dark tonalities deployed to pull the gaze into a bleak ravine, a place called Gordale Scar. I looked more closely and saw the year: 1816.


SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 10, 2015 — Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Audience Marketplace, a new data exchange in Adobe Audience Manager, the company's data management platform (DMP). Audience Marketplace is a private data marketplace that connects advertisers and content publishers to buy and sell second and third-party data without the time-consuming challenges of setting up individual partnership agreements. The data exchange also enables companies to scale their high-value audience segments for personalized and targeted content across marketing channels.
Strong Partner Ecosystem – Audience Marketplace customers benefit from integrations with leading data providers, all vetted and qualified by Adobe to ensure they are adhering to standard data privacy and security policies. The extensive network of leading data partners offers large volumes of high-value audience data for more accurate and valuable insights. The ecosystem also removes the complexity associated with managing different rules for data supply and demand.
360° View – Audience Marketplace allows advertisers and content publishers to create more granular, high-value audience segments that are scalable and more accurate than ever before. First-party data (directly owned by an organization) and third-party data (aggregated data, such as demographic information, purchased from other sources) can now be merged with second-party data (another company's first-party data that can be shared). For example, companies with look-alike audiences, such as an airline and a hotel, can exchange data since both audiences have similar consumer profiles associated with travel.
Flexibility and Transparency – When it comes to audience data, sellers expect flexibility and buyers want transparency. Audience Marketplace provides flexible pricing options and an infrastructure that makes data sharing more seamless and transparent. The data exchange also provides insights into how audience segments are performing in real-time, which maximizes marketing ROI.


SAN FRANCISCO (FORTUNE) - General Motors will take the occasion of the Winter Olympics in Italy to begin telling Americans about a topic that has nothing to do with skiing or bobsledding. Believe it or not, the once-great automaker will stake its position as a friend of the environment and as a promoter of ethanol, specifically a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline called E85.
One could question GM's timing on a lot of things. Pay attention to the message though. GM (Research) is onto something really big, namely how we as a country can finally begin weaning ourselves off gasoline.


Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 2018 Offline Installer - The web browser is arguably the most vital item of software on your computer. You invest much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, conversation, e-mail, shop, financial institution, reviewed the information, and see videos online, you often do all this using a browser.
Google Chrome 2018 is a browser that integrates a very little design with advanced modern technology to make the web much faster, much safer, and less complicated. Make use of one box for every little thing-- type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your leading websites allow you access your preferred web pages instantaneously with warp speed from any new tab. Desktop faster ways allow you to release your favored Web apps directly from your desktop. Chrome has several useful features built in, including automated full-page translation and access to hundreds of applications, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Shop.
Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 2018 Offline Installer update has actually been released by the company and this secure develop is available for Windows, Mac and Linux customers. The Chrome 64 update comes with solution for the Disaster and Specter susceptabilities as it was assured when Google's Protection group has first disclosed details concerning the safety and security imperfections. The Chrome 64.0.3282.119 upgrade likewise includes a variety of solutions and enhancements.
Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 2018 Offline Setup update additionally brings some vital features like the capacity to mute whole internet sites. Presently Google Chrome lets users silence specific tabs, however now users will certainly be able to permanently mute a web site.
The Google Chrome 64.0 upgrade comes with a series of insect solutions for susceptabilities. It likewise consists of a repair for Windows and Mac users versus the Disaster and Shade vulnerabilities. Customers that are on Chrome should upgrade quickly to the new version of the browser. Google currently has a log up of all the pest solutions, which are consisted of with this Chrome upgrade.
The article states, "We would certainly also want to thank all security scientists that dealt with us throughout the advancement cycle to stop protection insects from ever getting to the steady channel." It also explains that the upgrade includes 53 protection fixes. The Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 2018 Free Download update has begun turning out for individuals on the systems and it ought to be visible soon.
Google Chrome is just one of the best remedies for Internet browsing giving you high degree of safety, speed and terrific functions.


Marte is out of the lineup for Friday's game against the Padres.
Marte went 2-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI in Friday's 15-8 victory over the Red Sox.
Marte is starting in center field and hitting second Wednesday against the Padres.


Warm Graves are a three-piece Sci-Fi-delic-Rockband whose members, originally from the US, Italy and Germany, came together in Leipzig in 2012. With their debut "Ships will come", Warm Graves present a concept album that is in terms of content closely related to dystopic Sci-Fi literature.
The band manages to create a surreal cosmos with a somnambulistic atmosphere that is supported by impulsive, repetitive rhythms while a distant choir takes over the role of the lead vocals.
"Ships will come", an album that is consciously putting the collective into focus, can be seen as an opposition to today's times where almost every product is addressed to the person as an individual. The result: Seven songs that are not only related in terms of content but are also linked to each other through long cross fades and together develop the character of a soundtrack.
The musical references are far-reaching: From the cool mood of the Cave rock bands to the grandiloquence of an Arcade Fire Song or the weirdness of the Flaming Lips. Warm Graves manage to combine these elements in a harmonious way. Sometimes it even resembles the chants of a sect – with a beat that makes you think of NEU! Sacred Bones would be very amused! Ha ha!


Fabulous executive home on stunning marsh lot with eastern exposure. Stately entrance with circular drive and four car side entry garage and barrel tile roof. Travertine flooring throughout main living areas, volume ceilings and wide-open views. Lovely formal dining room and living room with coffered ceiling. True gourmet kitchen with large island with five burner gas range all open to family room. Luxurious master suite with fireplace and sitting area, office and guest suite on first level. Upstairs features two ensuite bedrooms, fifth bedroom, full bathroom, billiard room, home theater and glass enclosed evening deck. Impressive two story screened pool.


Visit the most beautiful islands of the stunning La Maddalena archipelago during a day trip with the 22-metre-long ship Lady Luna. Explore the natural park and swim and lounge on the breathtaking beaches of Budelli and La Maddalena.
Having embarked on the Lady Luna in the port of Palau you'll sail to the beautiful Budelli Island. Don't forget to bring your camera to take a picture of the pink beach Spiaggia Rosa and the Roccia del Coccodrillo ("alligator rock") along the way. You can enjoy a refreshing dive in the natural pool of Piscine Naturali. After this first stopover you can enjoy the pasta lunch. The tour continues to Santa Maria and Sparghi. En route you can dive in the Mediterranean to cool down multiple times. The final stopover will be at the La Maddalena island, where during a visit to the town you can stroll through the picturesque alleys, to various shops and the port of Cala Cavetta. On your way back you can spot the island of Santo Stefano and Caprera.
The comfortable Lady Luna is provided with a lounge with tables and chairs, an observation deck, ladder and a bridge to dive off of. The experienced crew and their commander with over 30 years of experience in the marittime sector will make sure you will enjoy a safe, carefree, relaxed and memorable day on board.
Nice. The luck is that we are still a bit in the preseason.
We highly recommend booking a boat trip!
Mooie excursie, vriendelijke mensen op de boot die hun best doen het ons naar de zin te maken. Geen klachten.


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Disney+ releases new series, "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier"
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By Evan Madden || Staff Writer
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the second new Marvel series released on Disney+, following the conclusion of the generally well-received first season of WandaVision. Like Wandavision, the show puts fan-favorite supporting characters from the Avengers film franchise front and center and aims to flesh out their own stories as it follows their lives after the events of Endgame.
Although there is a movie-level, high-velocity action scene near the start of the pilot, the majority of the first episode takes on a more somber and reflective tone, as it focuses on setting up greater emotional depth in its characters. In many ways, the more emotional and character-driven moments stood out much more than the action in these first two episodes. Marvel clearly saw the opportunity to develop members of its ever-growing cast in its weekly series to an extent that they simply did not have time to fit into the films.
The reintroduction of Sam Wilson/Falcon gives a nod to the scene in Endgame, when Steve Rodgers passes the iconic shield of Captain America on to him. In the film, we see his reluctance to take on the role of Captain America when he admits, "It feels like it's someone else's." The question of how Sam will carry the torch forward and overcome his self-doubt will be a central storyline in the show.
We are also introduced to the other members of Sam's family and learn of their troubled financial situation. Through this portion of the story, the show addresses an incredibly relevant issue: the disconnect between the superficial praise given to veterans and the lack of actual assistance available to them. Another storyline, which is briefly introduced in the second episode, also seems intent on expanding upon this issue, specifically concerning the historical treatment of veterans of color.
Bucky Barnes is similarly reintroduced as a simple man navigating his way forward in the chaotic post-Endgame world. He is realistically still dealing with trauma and guilt over his actions as a brainwashed assassin of the sinister organization Hydra. Sebastian Stan does an outstanding job portraying Bucky, who struggles with PTSD and seeks to atone for his dark past.
The natural chemistry between Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, first seen when the two were paired together in promotional interviews for Captain America: Civil War, resulted in viral clips of their banter. That chemistry comes through in the second episode, in which their characters are brought together by the unintended consequences of Sam's reluctance to carry Captain America's shield. The dynamic between their characters provides both humorous and emotionally poignant moments, quickly becoming the most endearing element of the show.
The organization that serves as the antagonists of the show so far, while seeming somewhat generic, is set up to be more nuanced than the maniacal, more one-dimensional villains in some of the MCU films. In the second episode, we gain a little more insight into their motivations, and a few moments help to humanize them a little more. It will be interesting to see how their run-in with the heroes of the show is handled, especially with a potential secondary antagonist thrown into the fray.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier retains both the high-budget action and the character-focused heart that fans have come to expect from Marvel. Fans of the franchise, especially of the titular characters, will be interested to see what direction the show will take as it seeks to give them greater depth going forward.
First-year Evan Madden is a Staff Writer. His email is emadden1@fandm.edu.
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Q: Relational database with Kafka-like durability/caching implementation When reading about Kafka I found it really interesting how they are providing durability, especially in comparison to databases:

*

*Kafka - never writes synchronously to disk, provides durability by replicating to other servers (and getting their confirmation); the added benefit is that it can reuses filesystem cache instead of rolling out your own

*relational database - flush log to disk to guarantee durability.

From what I was reading the Kafka approach results in a better performance so I was wondering if there is anything in particular that makes this approach infeasible for relational database? Or maybe some of the "NewSQL" guys are doing it and I'm just unaware?
Sources about Kafka mechanisms I'm talking about:
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#persistence
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#replication

A: Let's examine statements in your question in some detail.
You say:

Kafka - never writes synchronously to disk, provides durability by replicating to other servers (and getting their confirmation); the added benefit is that it can reuses filesystem cache instead of rolling out your own

That is true inasmuch we understand "durability" as it is understood by the Kafka developers. They say in their documentation:

each partition in Kafka has a single leader and zero or more followers[...] All reads and writes go to the leader of the partition[...]

and

All data is immediately written to a persistent log on the filesystem without necessarily flushing to disk. In effect this just means that it is transferred into the kernel's pagecache.

Dirty pages will be written out by the flusher threads after a configurable interval that on Linux defaults to, I believe, 5 seconds, during which time Kafka thinks the data are durable while in fact they are not at all.
Oh wait, replication!

We generally feel that the guarantees provided by replication are stronger than sync to local disk

Fair enough. How does that work?

Followers consume messages from the leader just as a normal Kafka consumer would and apply them to their own log[...] a follower [...] must replicate the writes happening on the leader and not fall "too far" behind.

Followers will make their logs "durable" subject to the same pagecache flush logic. And what is "not too far behind"? It's controlled by the setting replica.socket.timeout.ms, which defaults to 30 seconds1. In other words, data on followers may not be persisted to disk for up to 35 seconds after it was written (to the pagecache) on the leader.
All this means that in the worst failure scenario you might lose anywhere between 5 and 35 seconds' worth of data.
And it can be just fine for Kafka, which is a messaging system. After all, the source can always resend the data it has, can't it2?
A database, on the other hand, is by definition is a system of record; a "durability guarantee" of the sort "meh, you might lose about 30 seconds of transactions, so what!" won't buy you much credibility.
So, Kafka developers "feel" that the probability of disk failure is higher than the probability of network or process failure (however, see footnote 1 for some incongruity). They don't support their statement by any data, but my experience tells me quite the opposite is true, especially when you fashionably run your workloads "in the cloud" or on a container platform.

You also say:

relational database - flush log to disk to guarantee durability

Most of them do, for the reason indicated above: somebody has to remember the data in order to allow you to resend them when Kafka loses some. Typical transaction log buffer flush latency on modern hardware is in the range of 2-4 ms, so performance penalty is very small and at most you lose a single transaction. That is certainly more durable.
Some databases, e.g. MySQL, allow you to control when the log buffer is flushed, which offers you essentially the same trade-off as Kafka.
Databases also offer replication capabilities, but they are there to improve availability, not durability of data.

1 - It used to be 10 seconds but was increased "for improved resiliency in typical network environments".
2 - Often it can not.

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I would like to thank you for hosting Make A Wish yesterday at the airshow. It was a special day for my boys. I loved seeing my sons's smile and have a day where they can forget about cancer. Thank you again!
Atlas Disposal is efficient in their trash and recycling off-hauls from our jobsite. Once we make the call for a pick-up, their drivers are quickly onsite picking up and replacing large containers of construction debris. Their office staff is very communicative and helpful as well. Any questions on size or function options for onsite waste containment can be answered by most of the office personnel, and if there is any continued inquiry, they find the answer. I was contacted by the President of Atlas Disposal on a couple occasions to clarify some questions I had. In addition, with the industry leaning toward Green Building and environmentally conscious construction practices, Atlas Disposal provides, on a monthly or as-needed basis, a report of all off-hauled material from the jobsite. This report lists each type of material leaving the job, be it metal, cardboard, drywall, wood, or mixed trash, and then calculates what percentage of the materials were recycled and diverted from landfills. If you're attempting certain LEED credits, this is a great tool for your record keeping.
I use Atlas Disposal at all of my properties. They offer extremely competitive rates with a high quality of services. I recommend them to anyone in the multifamily industry who is looking to save their owners money without sacrificing their expectations. They are definitely worth the call.
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After 5 days of strike action, the striking cleaners and porters of St Barts Hospital Trust will be marching from the Royal London Hospital through the East End to Mile End hospitals. Featuring speeches from the strikers and also the striking cleaners from LSE.
For more information on the strike see the video below.
This demonstration is organised by Unite the Union. War on Want stands in solidarity with the more than 700 largely black and migrant hospital cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters who are on strike in east London to demand 30p an hour pay rise. Their employer SERCO profits from both running migrant detention centres and from exploiting migrant labour in outsourced NHS services.
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During a recent trip to San Francisco, we booked a cheap coach trip to Muir Woods to see the Californian Redwood trees, and what a spectacular morning it turned out to be.
We started off by driving across the Golden Gate bridge, whilst our tour guide offered us a wealth of information about Alcatraz and San Francisco. Within just 30 minutes of Fishermans Wharf, we were at Muir Woods and among some of the most beautiful trees you can imagine.
The main path through the woods has a boarded walkway for easy access, and the visitor leaflet contains details of which routes to take (including how far it is to walk and how long it should take you). We opted for the 1 mile walk as we only had an hour in the woods before having to be back at our coach, although I wish we could have spent longer there.
It was such a peaceful walk through the woods, and it reminded me just how much I love walking through forests and being out in the countryside. Where's your favourite place to wander?
This was my first opportunity to see Redwood trees, and I wasn't disappointed. Although I am reliably informed that these Redwoods are not as large as those found elsewhere in the USA, I thought they were incredible.
I will let you in on a secret when I was photographing the trees – I used my panoramic feature to scale upwards to see the full height of the trees; and I got some pretty cool effects! Who says panoramas should only be used horizontally?!
There are a few companies offering tours to Muir Woods from San Francisco. We booked ours with Grayline Tours and I would certainly recommend them. Our tour guide was friendly, humorous and full of knowledge. He could even tell us lots about the Eucalyptus trees we were passing on the way to Muir Woods, which smelled divine by the way.
This particular tour ended with a trip to Sausalito for a quick bite to eat and some ice cream from Lapperts Ice Cream. We were told this was the best ice cream in California, and I'm pretty sure it lived up to its accolade. It was so delicious, that I thought it deserved its very own blog post!


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The following is an Op-Ed to "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", and "The Dallas Morning News" that explains how U.S. Government fraud has caused the Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington, TX to make a really, really bad decision to build another baseball field!
The "news media" has an ethical responsibility to inform the general public of how the U.S. Government is committing fiscal and accounting fraud to cheat the general public and the rest of the planet so they can "feather their own nests" and "dramatically feather the nests of their upper-class friends".
Today's Dallas Morning News had a front page article by Loyd Brumfield featuring the ground breaking next week of the new Texas Rangers baseball field named "Globe Life Field".
This new baseball field for the Texas Rangers is a $1.1 Billion financial debacle!
Dear Mr. Brumfield
CC James Moroney Publisher Dallas Morning News
You and the Dallas Morning News would be a lot more effective as a public communications vehicle if you would inform the City of Arlington that they are entering into major financial debacle by building a new baseball park whose financial viability is based on a massive financial fraud that is being perpetrated by the U.S. Government.
This fraud is not just a problem of causing the City of Arlington to make a really, really bad financial decision. This fraud is causing dramatic inequality between the haves and the have-nots.
The Dallas Morning News needs to inform the U.S. general public that the U.S. Government is cheating them so the U.S. upper class can have nice things like big houses, big cars, country club living, and a plush air-conditioned environment for their baseball entertainment!
The Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington have made a very, very bad financial decision to build another baseball park. This will prove to a major financial debacle for the Texas Rangers and especially for the City of Arlington, TX! The City of Arlington should be spending their money on a lot more productive projects. They should be spending their money on things that benefit the general public not just the fraudulently elite U.S. upper class. This project will prove to be a major financial debacle!
The U.S. Government is perpetrating a fiscal and financial fraud that is appearing to make this new baseball field financially feasible. This U.S. Government fraud has fraudulently borrowed $107.6 Trillion from the future Americans to enrich current Americans so they can afford to spend a lot of money being entertained by professional sports. This fraud has made it appear to be possible for professional athletes to get paid $Millions and appear to make many of these professional sports franchises worth $Billions.
The U.S. Government has fraudulently borrowed $107.6 Trillion from the future Americans to enrich the U.S. upper class, to enrich professional athletes by paying them $Millions, to enrich the owners of these professional sports franchises by making their franchises appear to be worth $Billions, and to entice the cities hosting these sports franchises to build arenas for these sporting activities!
Which government, the U.S. Government or the City of Arlington Government, is most at fault for this financial debacle? Which government is the most incompetent? The U.S. Government for committing this accounting fraud or the City of Arlington Government for being fooled by this accounting fraud?
I contend that the U.S. Government is the dominant offender for perpetrating this accounting fraud!
The U.S. Government is corrupt! The U.S. Government is perpetrating a financial fraud by using Cash Accounting rather than the proper GAAP Accounting. This has created a classic Ponzi scheme (USAPonzi) that has undertaxed the U.S. upper class by $107.6 Trillion making them appear to be very, very rich! This is not a small fraud! This a massive $107.6 Trillion fraud!
The City of Arlington, TX has already made two colossal mistakes by building Globe Life Park and AT&T Stadium because of this same U.S. Government accounting fraud. They do not need to make a third such financial blunder!
The U.S. Government is committing the biggest crime ($107.6 Trillion) in the history of the planet to enrich themselves, to enrich their upper class friends, and to enrich the players and owners of professional sports teams! The U.S. Government is creating imaginary-counterfeit money, $107.6 Trillion so far, out of "thin air" so the current upper-class Americans can spend lavishly on their entertainment!
This is just what Ponzi schemes do, they tend to create an ever-increasing pool of phantom assets for the early participants while accruing an ever-increasing pool of unpayable liabilities for the late participants. The U.S. upper class and the players and owners of professional sports teams are fraudulently getting richer and richer because the U.S. Government is assuming more and more unpayable public liabilities for the future Americans.
The U.S. Government is digitally printing counterfeit money and giving it to the current Americans by using fraudulent accounting!
The U.S. Government is committing fiscal and accounting fraud to enrich themselves, to colossally enrich the U.S. upper class, and to colossally oppress the U.S. Common Man!
The U.S. Government is creating money, I call it imaginary-counterfeit money, out of "thin air" to enrich the current Americans by borrowing money from the future Americans, that the future Americans do not have, and giving it to the current Americans. As of September 22, 2017, the U.S. Government has borrowed/stolen $107.6 Trillion (US Unfunded Liabilities (GAAP)) from the future Americans and given it to the current Americans. Every day the U.S. Government fraudulently borrows another $15.1 Billion from the future Americans and gives it to the current Americans (GAAP Deficit in FY2017 = $5.51T/365 days = $15.1B per day).
The "Dallas Morning News" needs to have a serious and capable investigative reporter study and report on this problem so that they can help stop this U.S. Government fiscal and accounting fraud. But because of this U.S. Government fraud, the Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington are building an unaffordable new baseball park when they already have an outstanding and also unaffordable baseball park. This U.S. Government fraud is causing Americans to buy and build a lot of physical assets that we cannot afford!
This U.S. Government fiscal and accounting fraud is causing bubbles in essentially all asset classes!
The rich in America are not really rich, they are faux rich, because the U.S. Government is corrupt! The U.S. upper class is appearing to get rich because the U.S. Government is borrowing/stealing imaginary-counterfeit money, $107.6 Trillion so far, from the future Americans and giving it to the U.S. upper class! The professional athletes are being dramatically overpaid because the U.S. Government has given the current Americans, primarily the U.S. upper class, $107.6 Trillion of imaginary-counterfeit money of pocket change so they can pay a lot of money to go to baseball games.
The Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington, TX are going to experience a massive financial debacle because they are building a baseball field with imaginary-counterfeit money produced by a U.S. Government fiscal and accounting fraud! The Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington, TX are moving forward with a plan to build Globe Life Field with just a little dab ($1.1 Billion) of the $107.6 Trillion of imaginary-counterfeit money that the U.S. Government has fraudulently borrowed from the future Americans!
The U.S. economy is all a hoax created by a corrupt U.S. Government!
The U.S. Government has got to start telling the financial truth!
The "Dallas Morning News" has got to start reporting the financial truth!
Source: www.usdebtclock.org Sep 22, 2017
This U.S. Government fraud can only be equitably eliminated by the adoption of GAAP Accounting and a commitment to a balanced GAAP basis budget by the U.S. Government.
I have published a website www.usaponzi.net that explains how this fraud works to create a massive global wealth and income gap between the haves and the have-nots and to create false wealth and prosperity for the current Americans. The www.usaponzi.net website is an introduction to my more detailed website www.usaponzi.com and my books "USAPonzi" (Nov 22, 2015) and "USAPonzi2" (May 1, 2017) which are available on Amazon to better explain this fraud/Ponzi scheme.
This is the biggest ($107.6 Trillion) financial fraud ever perpetrated, I call it "USAPonzi: The Ultimate Government Fraud" and it is "The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on the Planet"!


This ebook deals a comparative standpoint on language schooling coverage and perform in Africa. members to the amount draw from their educating and examine reports in Botswana, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zimbabwe. one of the concerns mentioned are: language guidelines in Africa and the way they impact school room perform; the significance of making an allowance for the social, monetary and political contexts that underpin language coverage in schooling whilst discussing language difficulties in African schooling; the necessity to strengthen an interdisciplinary method of either instructing and examine; and the necessity for a severe standpoint on instructing and studying language in Africa.
4 And Marcel Broodthaers declared that he became an artist in an attempt to become insincere. To be sincere means precisely to remain repetitive, to reproduce one's own already existing taste, to deal with one's own already existing identity. Instead, radical modern art proposed that artists get themselves infected with exteriority, become sick through the contagions of the outside world, and become an outsider to oneself. Malevich believed that the artist should become infected through technique.
But basically, you're acting like Cupid, trying to make relationships between the artists. I tried to set up things where something might happen. You know, like I assigned David Salle to drive Daniel Buren around. It might just be dead in the water, but then again sometimes something happens. It's certainly not just about us as teachers. MCM: That's what I say—you put something together. I mean, you build a school on the social circumstances that exist at any one time, and schools change in response to what the situation is.
1 And it is at the heart of this milieu, this scene and its institutions, that art schools exist today. The art schools best suited to the current world—and, no doubt, the best schools—are those that deliberately underscore that they consider themselves part of the artworld establishment. And so in the late 1970s, there was nscad (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in Halifax; in the 1980s, CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) in Valencia, near Los Angeles, and Goldsmiths College in London; in the 1990s, the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the Villa Arson in Nice.


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package de.hbrs.aspgen.merger.diff;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.Matchers;

import de.hbrs.aspgen.ajparser.AspectJ6Parser;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.api.ast.JavaClass;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.api.ast.JavaFactory;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.api.generator.GeneratorManager;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.api.parser.AspectJParser;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.api.parser.JavaParser;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.jparser.Java6Parser;
import de.hbrs.aspgen.jparser.factory.Java7Factory;

public class AspectJDiffManagerDeletedToStringTest {
    private AspectJDiffCreator aspectJDiffManager;
    private GeneratorManager generatorManager;

    @Before
    public void init() {
        generatorManager = mock(GeneratorManager.class);
        final AspectJParser ajParser = new AspectJ6Parser();
        final JavaParser javaParser = new Java6Parser();
        final JavaFactory javaFactory = new Java7Factory();
        aspectJDiffManager = new AspectJDiffCreator(
                ajParser, javaParser, generatorManager, javaFactory,
                new MethodDiffManager(ajParser, generatorManager, javaFactory),
                new ConstructorDiffManager(ajParser, generatorManager, javaFactory),
                new AdviceDiffManager(ajParser, generatorManager, javaFactory),
                new FieldDiffManager(ajParser, generatorManager, javaFactory),
                new DeclareDiffManager(ajParser, generatorManager, javaFactory));    }

    @Test
    public void noChanges() throws IOException {
        final String fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString.aj"));
        final String generatedFromJavaFile = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString_Original.aj"));
        final String generatedFromJavaFile2 = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString.aj"));

        final ArgumentCaptor<JavaClass> argument = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(JavaClass.class);
        when(generatorManager.generateContentForGenerator(argument.capture(), Matchers.anyString())).thenReturn(generatedFromJavaFile, generatedFromJavaFile2);
        assertNull(aspectJDiffManager.createDiff(fileContent, "").getAspectJClassDiff());
    }

    @Test
    public void changedBlock() throws IOException {
        final String fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString_Deleted_Block.aj"));
        final String generatedFromJavaFile = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString_Original.aj"));
        final String generatedFromJavaFile2 = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/ajdiff/deleted/tostring/Person_ToString.aj"));

        final ArgumentCaptor<JavaClass> argument = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(JavaClass.class);
        when(generatorManager.generateContentForGenerator(argument.capture(), Matchers.anyString())).thenReturn(generatedFromJavaFile, generatedFromJavaFile2);

        final AspectJDiffImpl result = aspectJDiffManager.createDiff(fileContent, "");

        assertEquals("{newIdClass}", result.getAspectJClassDiff().getAnnotationData().getId());
        assertEquals(1, result.getAspectJClassDiff().getAnnotationData().getDeleted().size());
        assertEquals("ToString2", result.getAspectJClassDiff().getAnnotationData().getDeleted().get(0));
    }
}

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Jim's story is made possible with generous support from the Wisconsin Humanities Council. To learn more about their important work AND to find out how you can bring Jim to speak in your town, please visit the WHC website.
"I was born in 1950 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. I lived literally between two lakes, a woods, and a swamp. We were on the edge of the city limits, and quite a few of our near neighbors were on small farms.
In my family, we have some Welsh and some Scottish ancestry, but we're mostly Irish. I grew up with a strong sense of heritage, and all of my immigrant ancestors were famine refugees. They were illiterate laborers. From that I got a lifelong sympathy for immigrant and refugee people and for working people, and for anybody who's being oppressed.
Everything turned around in my family - in terms of access to education - when my great-great-aunt, Katie Leary, got a job as a maid for Mark Twain. The Mark Twain. When Twain died, he left some money to Aunt Katie, and then, because of Katie's generosity and the fact that she had no children, my grandfather was able to use some of this money to get an education. I see this money as what kind of got us out of the ditch. It opened the door to higher education for my family.
My grandfather ended up getting a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University. He was in World War One, met a woman from La Crosse, and ended up coming to Wisconsin and getting into the newspaper business. My grandparents had my dad in 1922.
On my other side, my mother grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and was the first person in her family to go to college. She got a scholarship to Columbia University to study journalism, and that's where my folks met. They lived there until 1948, when my grandfather had a heart attack and asked if my dad would come back to Rice Lake, his hometown.
In Rice Lake, my dad worked as the editor and publisher of the Rice Lake Chronotype, the local newspaper. It was hard for my mom at first, being in a small town after NYC, but she persisted. Then, they started to have a bunch of kids, and I think she put a lot of her creative spirit into her kids.
My parents had seven of us kids in total. We were Irish Catholic, and I was raised Catholic. My folks always felt that material things weren't that important. What was important was education and travel and having a broad understanding of human beings. That's why my mother loved hosting exchange students from other countries; and we were fortunate to have students live with us from Germany, Columbia, and Finland.
Rice Lake was an interesting place to grow up; there were lots of people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants, mostly from European countries. Poor people, a lot of them, Norwegians, some Swedes, Germans. There were Italians brought over to work in the woods and then they went to work as scabs, unfortunately, on the railroad, and then started to homestead and stayed. There were French Canadians and Irish who came down through Canada, Polish, Czech people.
So, I grew up in a community where there was a lot of awareness of what was then called nationality. And, by the time I came along, people weren't fighting as much at least about ethnicity as they once were. We'd experience each others' cultures - in the 50's over live radio you could hear polka music, the Polish barn dance, and old-time country music, even Swiss yodeling! There was a recognition that everybody came from somewhere, and there was appreciation of different kinds of food and music."
"I always thought of Rice Lake as the best place in the world to grow up, even thought it was kind of rough and tough and I got into a lot of fights. I have a dead tooth from getting hit in the mouth with a chain during a fight when I was about 12 or 13. Dentists have wanted to take it out or whiten it, but I said, 'No, it's a trademark.' Who would I be if I didn't have my crooked finger or my black tooth?
When I was growing up there were always bullies around, like this older guy, Chester. I played Little League baseball, but in those days it wasn't like now where the parents come with their lawn chairs and you have uniforms and get your picture taken and there are little baseball cards made of you. We had no uniforms, parents were never around. We just rode our bikes to this dusty field, but we did play a lot of baseball. Sometimes I'd have a little money and go to the root beer stand or Dairy Queen for lunch after the games. That's where this Chester would hang out with his lackeys, and they would come and surround you and try to get money from you.
I did my best to avoid him, but once we did fight. He was nineteen or so and I was fourteen. He came into an after school dance with a couple of his friends; they sat down behind me and he started pushing me. I told him off in front of all his friends. When I left later on he was waiting for me in the parking lot.
I was pretty scrappy, and I was able to beat him up. After it was all over, I remember walking away, but while my back was turned he came charging at me like he was going to jump on my back. It was an asphalt parking lot, and he made too much noise. Once I heard him, I jumped aside and stuck my foot out, and he went sprawling. He told me how he was gonna kill me and how I couldn't run from him or whatever, but I thought I had proved my point.
My older brother Mike and I also always fought each other, but my resourceful parents had these creative punishments where if I fought with Mike I would have to write some sort of essay about all the wonderful things about him. I would resist for quite a while, but finally I would do it.
My brother Mike and I, we grew up on a couple of acres. We cut the grass and raked the leaves and changed the storm windows and all that. My mother needed help at home, so I also changed diapers and learned how to do the laundry and I cleaned toilets and scrubbed floors, and I learned how to cook. I was sometimes chided by some of my friends for doing 'woman's' work, but I said, 'All work is work.'
I've always liked to work. I've done warehouse work loading and off-loading trucks for Coca Cola bottling company in my hometown. When I was 14, I started working for a dollar and a quarter an hour, which was minimum wage, stuffing sections of newspapers together for my dad's weekly newspaper in Rice Lake. I worked in a foundry. I made hay piling up square bales in a hay mow.
Later on, when I was in grad school, I did janitorial work. I did a lot of window washing. I was the outside guy on the ladder. I scrubbed floors and cleaned kitchens and bathrooms and did painting, interior and exterior, stuff like that. That was fairly typical of a lot of my friends that I grew up with. People learn to work and get your own money. It was important to me to have my own money so I could buy my own clothes when I was 15 or 16 -- I didn't want to rely on my mother's fashion sense!
That love of work has always stuck with me. These days my heart is in writing and ethnography, but I will always be a laborer."
[Editor's Note: Jim's kids have a pet name for him with his black tooth, crooked finger, and scrappy, hard-working ways. They call him the 'Scruff Master.']
"When I was 16 years old I spent a year as an exchange student in Australia in 1967. We had always taken in exchange students at Rice Lake, so in turn my mother had encouraged me to fill out the application form. I did it with great reluctance because I had my friends, and I was also a wrestler and a football player. If I went, I would miss my senior year, and we'd won the championship the previous year. I was ready to be a big man in the high school.
But my uncle Jim told me that they had rugby out there that was similar, and someone told me that they had good beer and you could go into the taverns without having your ID checked, so I decided to go and miss the second half of my junior year and the first half of my senior year of high school.
That year, 1967, was a time of a lot of turmoil in the United States and also internationally. I had never had the experience of being outside of the United States and viewing the country from afar. Being among people from-the-outside-looking-in expanded my own consciousness. I found Australia to be a kind of multi-ethnic experience too - there were a lot of new Australians. Some were Croatian, some were Spanish, Greek, some Pacific Islanders. Being there opened up my understanding about the world and gave me a new perspective of back home.
I finished high school and followed my dad's footsteps; I went to college at Notre Dame. I was a Literature major, and everyone at Notre Dame also had to get a double minor in Philosophy and Theology. I was a curious person; luckily I was able to learn about all sorts of world religions, and I had this interest in grassroots, culturally plural kinds of expressions.
My freshman year of college I'd started to grow my hair and beard out. There was a priest in every dormitory at Notre Dame, and one night, while I was sleeping I got a phone call from our dorm priest. He told me to come to his office immediately. He accused me of drugging my roommate and called me a 'Goddamn hippie'. Of course I had not drugged my roommate, and I realized that because I was a long haired, scruffy looking guy in 1968, my appearance - and maybe even my curiosity - made people suspicious of me.
That experience with the priest was a turning point for me. I realized that just because someone had authority did not mean they were a good person, or that they were telling the truth. I started to question a lot of institutions that I had grown up with and before had accepted uncritically. I began to re-examine what I valued, and think about the purpose of my life. I started participating in demonstrations and joined the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.
During that time, I met a woman named Suzanne. Suzanne was a grad student at Notre Dame studying English, and I was in my second year of undergrad. At the time I didn't even really know what graduate school was. We got to know each other, and she said 'Given your interests, have you ever thought about studying folklore?' I had no idea that that was a thing I could do.
Suzanne encouraged me continue my education, saying that there are folklore books and journals. So I went and took a look, and was intrigued by what I saw.
Folklore is the traditional set of expressive practices that groups of people do. It's ways of speaking and special expressions - stories, rhymes, songs, games, dances, food traditions, handwork traditions… the things that people share - and modify - as they live. Folklore studies all that.
I began to understand little by little that there is a kind of deep historical and cultural meaning to those practices. They express a lot about a place and a people. In any one place you can find combinations of true stories, exaggerated legends, and outright jokes that paint a local picture. It was fascinating. It just seemed like somebody needed to set that stuff down. Within a year, I was off to graduate school to study folklore."
"Talking with Suzanne had opened up my awareness to folklore as a course of study, and to graduate school; which changed my whole path. And we got married, but it didn't last long. We were both really focused on different things - I needed to move for my PhD, and she wanted to stay to build her career, and frankly, she wanted to take up with other people at the same time. I mean, it was the early seventies, but I couldn't do it. Being involved with one person was enough. You know, I was raised Catholic, church wedding, all this stuff. So my marriage ended. I think I was kind of clinically depressed for awhile. I just sort of felt like maybe I'd gone down the wrong path somehow, and my dreams weren't working out.
When I went away for my PhD in Indiana, I was really fortunate to meet Janet in the folklore program there. Janet had been getting her degree for two years by the time I began, so pretty soon she was ready to go off and do her dissertation fieldwork in Oregon, and… she wanted me to come with her.
As part of my folklore studies, I have always had an interest in cultural stories and jokes. I got really into jokes, which often use stock characters so that people get to know them and their personalities. The characters are usually foolish or with some cunning or boastfulness or whatever. Anyway, there's a famous series of Irish jokes featuring 2 characters, Pat and Mike, and there's one joke in particular that I really felt applied to my situation with Janet.
It goes: Pat and Mike are walking along the seashore, and they see that someone is drowning in the ocean. Pat jumps in and swims out to the guy, but then swims back again to shore. He swims out a second time to the guy and this time brings the guy in. Mike says, 'Why'd you do that?' and Pat says, 'By God, before I could save him I had to save myself!'
I had to say no to going to Oregon with Janet. I still had to finish my own dissertation, and I felt like if I didn't finish I wasn't gonna be worth anything to myself, and if I'm not worth anything to myself, I'm not gonna be worth anything to somebody else. I had to save myself, I had to be alone for a while, and I had to get myself out of the depressed state that I was in.
I was longing to do some fieldwork back in my home territory. Going to graduate school had made me realize two things. One - the stuff that folklorists study - stories, rhymes, songs, games, dances, food traditions, handwork traditions - that stuff was all around the area where I grew up. And two - hardly anybody had done any work in the Upper Midwest, and especially in Wisconsin. My dad gave me fifty bucks, and I spent half on beer, but with the other half I bought a tape recorder, some tapes and a little microphone.
When I first set out to explore the stories and cultures of the Upper-Midwest, I immediately thought of George. George was an amazing storyteller, born in 1885, who I first met when I was five years old.
My relationship with George started with my mother's father, who grew up on a ranch in Nebraska and felt that no boy should grow up without a horse. So my grandfather got my brother and me a horse, and my folks made arrangements with George, a neighbor, to board the horse at his barn.
We'd go down to George's to tend to the horse, and my folks would go down and talk to George about Ireland. George's parents were immigrants, and he had spent years working in the woods as a timber scaler. He knew a lot of humorous anecdotes, and sometimes tragic ones, from growing up in the community where he did. But most of them were funny in some ways. He knew a lot of jokes and stories. I started recording George in 1975.
There's a series of Scandinavian jokes that are pretty common called Ole and Lena jokes, about Ole and his wife, Lena. The first one I ever learned was from George. It goes:
Lena was constantly writing little jingles for a contest to see if she could win something. Finally, she won, and Ole asked what she wrote. 'Vat did you write, Lena?' She says, 'I wrote "Carnation milk is best of all, no tits to pull, no shit to haul." That's the joke. George also told some bawdy stories, and I gotta say I learned a lot from my time talking with him and recording him."
"Doing folklore research in my own area of the Upper-Midwest was so rewarding. It gave me a sense of purpose and pulled me out of the funk I was in. Time helped with that too, and a couple years had passed.
To my delight, soon I started running into Janet - from my folklore program - again. We both were active in the American Folklore Society, and I saw her at some meetings. I had finished my my dissertation, and she finished her fieldwork in Oregon, and I pursued her, let's say. It worked! She checked the stars and found a propitious day and time, and we got married in the summer of 1978.
We decided to try and find work in somewhere that meant something to us. So when I got a year-long grant to record life histories and music from people of different ethnic communities in Wisconsin, we jumped at the opportunity.
Recording stories requires that you hunt around a lot for the right storytellers. I heard about this older Finnish American guy, Bill, who was a piano accordion player. I went and knocked on the door and his wife said, 'He's down in the cellar.' It was an old root cellar that you had to get in through those double doors in the earth. Bill was down there with the canned goods and the cabbages and so forth, playing music.
He was in the root cellar because he was partly going deaf and he had arthritis so he had to play loud, and he was trying to record all of the old Finnish tunes that he knew, before they disappeared. He had a crappy old tape recorder and some cheap tapes and it was dusty down there. When I went down into the basement and told him who I was and what I wanted to do, he said, 'I've been waiting for you.'
I was able to record his music, his life history, and put it in an archive. We had an event where we displayed the recordings to the public, and Bill and his wife came and were able to see everything I had documented. It felt good to me, and I think it felt good to Bill that we were able to not only record and preserve it, but share it.
That's how a lot of my field work went, and in the early years I would go project to project. Sometimes I would teach, or I'd get a job doing field recordings for a CD project. I got to work on something for the Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian. Another time Janet and I both got to be part of a yearlong folk arts survey of Wisconsin that led to a museum exhibit. It was varied and fun, and I did contract work for many, many years.
Little by little I started to get part-time teaching at UW-Madison. Eventually I ended up in the Scandinavian Studies Department as a full professor, which was pretty cool. Once I was there, I was able to find allies, and do bigger projects. One I'm really proud of is co-founding the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. We're a coalition of folklorists and linguists who are interested in research, collections development, and public programs regarding the languages and folklore of diverse people in our region.
We founded it because we really wanted to bridge the gap between the 'ivory tower' of academia and the rest of the world. With the Center, we give students the opportunity to go beyond academic papers and do public work that involves the people you are documenting and gives back to the community. We partner with organizations - labor unions, tribes, immigrant and ethnic groups, whoever we're working with - to collaborate and offer back to the community in the form of some kind of public production.
Fortunately, here in Wisconsin, we have other places that support folklore studies, like the Wisconsin Arts Board, Folklore Village, The Chippewa Valley Museum, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, which is very supportive of work that folklorists do.
I just think that if we want to understand places and people, it's so important to hear the peoples' voices, stories, customs, foodways, songs… any and all of the expressive dimension of their lives. We can't rely on the 'historical record' to capture them, because a lot of times people don't create organized lasting records of their customs. Really it's the task of the folklorists to create a documentary record by engaging with the people who are steeped in the traditions of their places.
So that's what I'm after as a folklorist. I think it comes out of being grounded in Northern Wisconsin and my own little community where I grew up. My parents and friends and neighbors all helped me see what was remarkable about that place, Rice Lake, and I've carried that with me. It's been my guide."
"In terms of my folklore work, I think writing the academic stuff is meaningful but I remember my dad always saying, 'Who's gonna read it?' Or actually he'd say, 'WGAS. Who Gives A Shit?' If you write something that's full of arcane jargon, it's kind of self-serving and narrow, I think. So I've always been drawn to public works - creating a festival, or producing a recording... doing a radio piece or working on a film or doing a museum exhibit. Stuff like that is more accessible to more people than an academic paper, and knowing I could do this was just kind of thrilling.
And, there are plenty of advocates and interpreters out there for 'high culture' - literature and the opera and modern dance… but I think the grassroots practices of regular human beings is of importance, and perhaps of greater importance. Paying attention to people and their expressive ways is the only way to know ourselves and our cultures. I think it begs inquiry.
I've been fortunate to do lots of things in my career, from creating radio shows with Wisconsin Public Radio ('Down Home Dairyland' regarding 'Traditional and Ethnic Music of the Upper Midwest') to making movies ('The Art of Ironworking'). For years, I got to teach a course called Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin where I looked at American Indians, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and European Americans, drawing a lot on fieldwork that I'd done. A lot of what I was trying to do is cut down these barriers between people by having them recognize all the things that they have in common.
A recent really fun thing is that a compilation of my work, 'Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946,' was nominated for a Grammy. It was so cool to see these field recordings from here get recognized. I went to the ceremony in Los Angeles and wore my 'World's Most Dangerous Polka Band' hat.
All in all I don't think of myself as a collector, but rather as a documenter and a kind of co-creator because collecting implies taking things, and I try to also reciprocate and collaborate. I began to understand early on that the lives and experiences I was documenting were very profound. They were ordinary in some ways, but in many ways, everyone is kind of extraordinary. Many of these people were eloquent, sometimes with their words but other times with their food or their dancing or the way they would play a tune. There can be such beauty in such simple ways.
I don't think any one place is better than any other place, but I think every place has its worth and every place is connected in one way or another to every other place. The Upper Midwest is my place. It's where I take my stand."
- Jim Leary, Mount Horeb WI
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by Jes Burns Follow OPB/EarthFix May 18, 2018 6:45 p.m. | Updated: May 23, 2018 9:12 a.m. | Corvallis, Ore.
Juniper were once sparse on the Central and Eastern Oregon landscape. Due to fire suppression and grazing, the trees are 10 times as dense as they were in 1870.
"There were times when I'd bring my laptop, do some homework, check email. And then if (it was) a really dead school time, I'd just Netflix," Miyamoto said.
But there was a purpose. This kind of information about western juniper just wasn't known. With the data Miyamoto gathered, a set of use guidelines — or design values — were created. And this spring, western juniper was added to a publication called the National Design Specifications for Wood Construction – a sort of bible for builders in the United States.
In this situation, they'll likely look for another product. But with the listing of western juniper, it opens up a whole new world for the wood.
Western juniper trees are native to the high desert of the inland Northwest. Most of the range is in Eastern Oregon. But after more than a century of fire suppression, grazing and climate change, they've expanded far beyond their original range.
There's been a push to create a juniper wood products industry to get some of those trees off the landscape. But western juniper processing and sales is still a fledgling industry in the Pacific Northwest.
Up until now, juniper has been relegated to use as firewood, to frame raised garden beds, and for the occasional rural fence post. But with the development of the design specifications, that should change.
Leavengood says juniper has fantastic durability – meaning its well suited for outdoor use. The wood also has high compression strength, something sought out for construction products like sill plates (the piece of lumber that joins a house's foundation with its frame).
OSU researcher Byrne Miyamoto monitors how much weight a piece of Western Juniper can hold.
, a major buyer and seller of juniper based in Portland.
Temple said the industry has been growing at about a 30 percent annual rate since Sustainable Northwest Wood got into the business a decade ago. And the development of design standards for western juniper should help that trend continue.
"As you open up new markets, then you're diversifying the market for the product, which creates more market security and also stabilize the market a little bit," he said.
Temple said he is already seeing a bump in interest in western juniper in connection with the development of the national design values. And within a year, he predicts that interest will start translating to sales.


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