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Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs
By Erica Machulak
Humanities: The Magazine of the NEH
If King Tut were around today, could he send a text in Egyptian hieroglyphics? Yes, with the right font and keyboard. That's because the writing system of the pharaohs has already been included in the Unicode Standard, meaning that a character like the Eye of Horus has a code point, 13080, that will render the same way on a tablet in Cairo and a smartphone in Beijing. Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K'inich Janaab' Pakal would have to stick to emoji—but that's about to change.
Unicode is the international encoding standard that makes it possible for users to read, write, and search in a wide range of written languages on all manner of devices without technical miscommunication. Made up of a mix of academics, stakeholders, and interested volunteers, the Unicode Consortium has encoded 139 of the writing systems, technically known as scripts, ever to have existed. Given that alphabets like Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari serve more than 60 languages each and that 500 languages use the Latin alphabet, Unicode makes electronic communication possible in almost a thousand languages. But there are more than a hundred writing systems to go.
In June 2017, the Unicode Consortium rolled out its tenth version in 26 years, which included four scripts as well as the Bitcoin sign and 56 new emoji. The scripts introduced this year include Nüshu, a writing system that was developed by women in the Hunan Province of nineteenth-century China as a workaround when they were denied formal education. Also newly available is Zanabazar Square, created by a Mongolian monk in the seventeenth century to write spiritual texts in Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. Crucial as these steps toward cultural empowerment may be, it is the textable faces, socks, mermen, and the like that have brought this global standard into the limelight.
As Michael Erard, writer-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, recently pointed out in the New York Times, the incorporation of emoji into Unicode is a double-edged sword for those interested in preserving ancient and minority languages. While, on the one hand, emoji eat up the time of the already strapped volunteers who could be working on other scripts, customer demand for emoji also incentivizes voting members of the Unicode Consortium like Microsoft, Apple, and Google's Alphabet to update their systems with each new version that Unicode releases. Each version includes entirely new writing systems, along with additional letters and symbols for already encoded ones, meaning that, when devices update to get the newest emoji, they also gain access to any other new or revised characters that the Unicode team has developed.
While these companies are in theory supportive of making the scripts of lower-profile languages available, consumer demand for emoji plays a large part in keeping the Unicode Standard updated. "The thing about the emoji is that they are so wildly popular," says Deborah Anderson, a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. "People really want those—well, not the broccoli—but they really want some of these emoji on their phones."
Anderson leads Berkeley's Script Encoding Initiative, a project that helps those who want new scripts encoded to draw up compelling proposals and make their writing systems as ready for the transition into the Unicode Standard as possible. The SEI has shepherded nearly 100 scripts into the Unicode Standard, with many more on the horizon. Encoded writing systems include newly minted scripts like Adlam, an alphabet created in the 1980s for the 40 million speakers of Fulani across Africa, as well as ancient writing systems like Coptic, the Egyptian language that has been pivotal for biblical studies. Anderson, who is also a Unicode technical director, joined the cause in 2001, when her work on a publication for Indoeuropean languages at UCLA led her to a roadblock. Trying to write characters in an ancient language from the Italic peninsula, "I found out, 'Well, you can't, for an HTML page.' You couldn't do it because they weren't yet in Unicode." Anderson linked up with the Unicode technical director at the time and the current technical vice president, Ken Whistler and Rick McGowan, respectively, who asked her to be their advocate for historical scripts.
Since every detail of a writing system has to be debated and approved before it can even begin to be encoded, getting a script into the Unicode Standard takes a minimum of two years. Any user in the world can propose a change to a pending writing system, and the pace of progress is dictated, in large part, by the time it takes to reach a global consensus on issues like the script's name and the details of its characters. Disagreements about whether to call a writing system "Old Hungarian" or "Székely-Hungarian Rovás," for example, caused the encoding process to drag on for 17 years from the date of the first proposal. In the case of Gurmukhi, a writing system that was originally used for Sikh scriptures and is written today by speakers of Punjabi, some argued that the shape and pronunciation of a particular letter's current form were unfaithful to the original religious texts.
More than 70 writing systems have made it into the Unicode Standard thanks to NEH, which began funding the SEI's Universal Scripts Project in 2005. "If it wasn't for NEH support," says Anderson, "it would really slow the whole process down and a lot of the scripts would not have been encoded."
Just as the Library of Congress's cataloging system assigns a string of numbers and letters to each book, the Unicode Standard links each character from every included writing system to a specific code point. Unlike a library, however, where the number of books is limited by the availability of shelf space, Unicode has enough slots left to cover the 136,690 characters already included, every unencoded script ever written, and room to spare for many more to come. The encoding process is held back by rigorous proposal reviews and the politics of reaching a worldwide consensus on how to represent each script, but less so by technical difficulties. At this point, the Unicode Standard has incorporated both Japanese Kanji, in which characters can represent whole words rather than sounds, and Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which characters are arranged in clusters. The ironing-out of these writing systems has paved the way for Mayan hieroglyphs, which pose both of these challenges and many others.
Carlos Pallán Gayol, an archaeologist and epigrapher at the University of Bonn, is working with Anderson to get this mind-bending writing system into the Unicode Standard. Mayan hieroglyphs are logosyllabic, meaning that they include signs that indicate words, signs that indicate syllables, and signs that indicate both words and syllables. A word like "mountain"(witz) can be written by a single sign representing the word, linked signs indicating its syllables, or a combination of signs indicating both the word and its syllables. To create meaning, up to seven signs are arranged in a cluster, or logogram, in which they can attach to each other on all sides like barnacles, and can even eclipse each other. Rather than being read vertically or horizontally, these clusters are arranged in columns of two, which are then read in a downward zigzag, beginning with the top left cluster and ending with the bottom right. Add to this mix the additional variable that the signs evolved over a period of 2,000 years, and one can scratch the surface of the confusion with which Mayan hieroglyphs have taunted linguists for centuries.
The long line of code-breakers to take on Mayan hieroglyphs started with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth century. A bishop named Diego de Landa convinced a Mayan scribe, Gaspar Antonio Chi, to match, letter for letter, the signs of the Mayan script and the Spanish alphabet. When the scribe heard the Spanish pronunciation of the letter 'b,' says Pallán, he wrote the sign for bih, which means "road." The scribe's frustration with de Landa is evident in the last exercise that he completed for the bishop. Asked to pen any sentence in Mayan hieroglyphs, Chi wrote: "I don't want to."
Early European efforts to create a global standard for writing Mayan languages have enabled the preservation of great works of literature like the Popol Vuh and Chilam Balam, but the initial attempts were fraught with miscommunications and rivalries. Garry Sparks, an assistant professor at George Mason University who received funding from NEH for his research on texts written by some of the first Spanish priests to reach the Mayan highlands, discovered competing systems for writing Mayan languages in the sixteenth-century Kislak Manuscript 1015. Along with his colleague Frauke Sachse of the University of Bonn, he has identified multiple dialects and languages in the same handwritten book. Each of these languages required the Spaniards to adapt their Latin alphabet.
Although the Franciscan friar Francisco de la Parra had already developed a standard for writing the new sounds, it seems that the Dominicans wanted to "have their own stamp on it," says Sparks. They adapted letters from the Arabic alphabet and created new shorthands, much in the way that tech companies in the days before Unicode each used a different encoding standard. "We're not always clear why they're deviating," says Sparks. "Is it for political reasons, they want to have their 'own' alphabet, or, as they're moving into other languages, do they feel they need to modify the alphabet in order to customize it to these new languages?"
Decoders of Mayan hieroglyphs today face a different set of problems, many of which Unicode is poised to solve. The end of the Cold War, when Western scholars first became aware of discoveries made by the Soviet epigrapher Yuri Knorosov, ushered in an era of what specialists call "modern decipherment." Facing an illustrated, centuries-long "Fill-in-the-Blank" puzzle, Knorosov figured out the connection between an image of a dog and a nearby cluster of signs that represented the sounds for "dog" (tzul). This breakthrough enabled him to decode a longer swath of text, and it was the catalyst for code-crackers around the world to shift into high gear.
These days, says Pallán, epigraphers are unriddling new signs every month or so. Depending on how you count them, scholars have decoded approximately 85 percent of the surviving Mayan hieroglyphs. Progress has been made because of both human ingenuity and technology, since artificial intelligence, machine vision, and other methods from the digital humanities have been used to isolate signs and make connections between them.
"All of the easy decipherments are already taken," says Pallán, "the easy ones are gone." Now that the last and hardest signs to be unraveled rear their ugly heads, epigraphers face the problem that, over the last several decades, code-crackers around the world have used different methods to keep track of their discoveries. Without a shared standard, epigraphers cannot learn from each other's findings, so that someone working in Paris may spend years on a cryptic sign that a Russian has already figured out.
"What you see here is literally the tower of Babel—it's pure chaos," says Pallán. That is why he is months away from completing a database that will catalog every surviving Mayan hieroglyph. He has started with the Dresden Codex, one of the three surviving texts that scholars generally agree contain authentic examples. Crucially, this database makes sense of the multiple coding systems that scholars all over the world have used in isolation to catalog their findings. The new lingua franca? Unicode.
Assigning a Unicode code point to each Mayan hieroglyph will make it possible for scholars in China, Germany, and Mexico to add to the database and collaborate on new discoveries in real time. They will be able to read and translate Mayan hieroglyph texts, meaning that those who analyze Mayan literature preserved with the Spanish alphabet can trace the origins of the literary tradition and make connections between past and present Mayan culture. As Pallán says, encoding the writing system will "build a bridge so that people won't be talking about two separate traditions any longer. . . . It's going to be one and the same, spanning 2,500 years."
In time, Pallán hopes that Mayan speakers will use the hieroglyphs to write the sounds of their language more accurately than has been possible since the colonists arrived. "We want it to be as universal as possible, as open-access as possible. In essence, to democratize access," he says. "That's one of the main reasons that attracted scholars like me to collaborate with Unicode."


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Do you love working with people? Are you a problem solver? Do you love the idea of bettering the personal and corporate conditions of a company?
Then being a Human Resource Manager may be for you. It's an important job, one that determines the culture, happiness, and viability of a company.
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Human Resource managers have a breadth of responsibilities, from cultivating economical and effective organizational structures to consulting with management and executives on strategic company planning. HR managers are employed in most industries and represent a crucial role in the health of an organization.
For this reason, their role is indispensable as they work closely with employees, from recruitment through hiring into negotiations and the creation of a satisfying working environment.
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What are the most affordable human resource management online degrees?
As a Human Resource Manager you can anticipate an annual salary of over $60,000 (this info is based off the averages provided by PayScale). And this is for those with a Bachelors degree. If you decide to go on and pursue an advanced degree after a couple years of experience, you can expect a salary increase of 73 percent. On average, HR directors make 104,440, according to the national averages provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Part of the Apollo Education Group, a for-profit corporation that owns and operates three other universities and colleges, Western International University specifically serves adult learners. They have online programs across all academic levels, from certificates and bachelor degrees to advanced degrees, and they are most known for their emphasis on and expertise of the technology and business fields.
The online Bachelor of Arts in Human Resources Management degree through Western International University takes less than four years to complete (approximately, three-and-a-half years), and it was designed to meet the industry standards set by the HR Certification Institute. Students in West's program will learn both theory and praxis: they will be able to gauge, and thus incentivize, human motivation as well as implement effective negotiation and mediation skills. Additionally, students learn to manage workplace operations, design corporate training, analyze corporate practices, enact safety measures, and much more. Not only is West the most affordable BA in Human Resources program in the country, it will undeniably prepare you for a career in HR.
Western International University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
A land-grant, space-grant, research university and the flagship school in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas is located in Fayetteville, though it also offers many online programs too. There are approximately 26,000 enrolled students, most of whom are undergrads, and over 200 programs of study across all academic levels. Forbes, Washington Monthly, U.S. News & World Report, Times Higher Education, and more, have recognized the university for both its academic standing, its contributions to research, and its affordability.
The online bachelor's degree in Human Resources and Workforce Development Education can be completed in under four years through the a traditional fifteen-week fall and spring semester schedule. There are also optional summer classes offered in two five-week sessions. Once students complete their core requirements, they will take over fifty credit hours (approximately seventeen classes) on career development, organizational development, and training and development. Upon graduation, students are prepared to integrate counseling, management, analysis, and evaluation to improve both corporate and individual productivity and satisfaction. This program also fully prepares students for further, advanced education.
A major public research university located in Miami, Florida International University is comprised of nearly 200 programs of study across twenty-three colleges and schools. The largest university in south Florida, and the second largest in the state, FIU enrolls nearly 40,000 undergraduate and grad students. In addition to its research reputation, FIU also consistently ranks as one of the most affordable choices for residents, and it has been reported that its students are among those with the least debt in the nation.
The R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate School of Business at FIU offers a BBA in Human Resource Management degree that can be completed fully online. The program is notably flexible, as students can begin in either fall, spring, or summer, and they can move at their own pace through the curriculum. Unique to FIU's program is their emphasis on mentorship: each online student is paired with an academic coach, ensuring success throughout his or her education. The curriculum emphasizes development, meaning students are prepared to create both the big picture aspects and details of HR systems, practices, and processes.
Florida International University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission.
Granite State College is part of the University System of New Hampshire and boasts eleven campuses throughout the state as well as a broad online learning platform. Its stated mission is to deliver accessible and affordable education to adult learners, whether those students are in school for the first time or returning. The college is also recognized, and has earned national ranking, for its affordability, academic standing, and reputable online programs.
The Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Administration degree at Granite State can be taken online or as a hybrid, meaning online and on campus. Students who are interested in the program can start by acquiring an associate's degree and then move seamlessly into the bachelor program. Graduates from the program have gone to become HR coordinators, managers, directors, and analysts, as the curriculum fully trains its students on all sectors and at all levels of HR administration. As a student you can expect classes on psychosocial dimensions in organizations, global workforce dynamics, ethics and legal practices, advanced HR objectives, and much more.
Granite State is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
One of the few private schools on our list, Wilmington University is a non-profit institution that still seeks to make its education affordable to its students. Comprised of many schools, including technical, liberal arts, science, and business, Wilmington has something for everyone. Not only are there a breadth of programs and degree options, but many of the faculty are renowned for their research contributions to both academia and their respective industries.
The online Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management program at Wilmington meets the national standards set by the Society for Human Resource Management. Offered through the College of Business, this program is for those who wish to combine business management with a focus on human resources. Students are trained to recruit and staff employees, to develop compensation and benefit packages, mediate between employees and employers, and more. As a student you can expect to take approximately forty core credits and then split the rest of the coursework between business and human resource management.
Wilmington University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The flagship university in the Colorado State University system, this public research university enrolls over 32,000 students spread across its eight colleges and fifty-five academic departments. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado State University boasts over 150 programs of study and receives dozens of rankings for its academic performance. Most notably, both Business Week and The Princeton Review have named CSU's business school as among the best in the country.
CSU offers an online Bachelor's in Human Resource Management that is aligned with the Society for Human Resource Management's HR curriculum guidebook. Unique to Colorado State's program is that it gives the option of specializing among sixteen different concentrations. For students who wish to explore human resources in a defined field, CSU is perhaps the most streamlined option. Specializations include (though in no way are limited to): healthcare management, computer programming, criminology, IT, marketing, non-profit management, and much more.
Colorado State University is accredited by the Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges.
A highly selective (with an acceptance rate of around 21 percent), independent, and non-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts, Fisher College enrolls just 2,500 students in a range of specialized degree programs, though it was originally founded as a business school. It still maintains that emphasis and focus, in addition to leadership, criminal justice, and security. Fisher also has satellite campuses throughout Massachusetts, and has been a prominent player in online education since the late 1990s.
At Fisher College you can earn an online Bachelor of Science in Management with a concentration in Human Resource Management. If you're looking for a broader approach to administration, the program at Fisher may be the best fit. The curriculum combines the fundamentals of management with psychology, ethics, organizational behavior, and contemporary issues in HR. Fisher's program is also distinctly broad in its application: students take classes on sport, international, and facility and event management. Finally, as a student you should expect to supplement your studies with an internship.
Fisher College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
McKendree University is a liberal arts college located in Lebanon, Illinois and is the oldest college in the state. It is also one of the smallest schools on our list with only 2,300 enrolled students. Comprised of an Arts and Science College, a business school, a professional health school, and a school of education, McKendree also offers online programs that are designed to provide the quality McKendree education experience to those unable to attend on campus.
McKendree's fully online Human Resource Management degree introduces students to the foundations of HR theory and application, bringing together core business principles, personnel management and retention, labor relations, and diversity management. Classes are offered over an eight week period, with many students taking two courses during each session. Graduates from McKendree's program are prepared for advanced education, while many others have gone on to work in recruitment, retention, employee relations, organizational management, and more.
McKendree University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Over 10,000 students are enrolled in the undergraduate and graduate programs of private, non-profit Bellevue University, located in Bellevue, Nebraska. From its initial founding in the 1960s, Bellevue has sought to provide affordable and accessible education to adult learners; over 80 percent of students are aged twenty-five and older. Their online platform has been an extension of this initial ambition, and has received numerous accolades. U.S. News & World Report ranked Bellevue's online programs as among the best in the country.
In full accordance with the Society for Human Resource Management HR curriculum, the fully online Bachelor of Science in Management of Human Resources degree program at Bellevue trains its students to apply legal and legislative practices, assess personal and professional career needs, develop sustainable organizational structures, and more. In addition to general education classes, students will take forty credits of business and administration classes and forty electives. Bellevue's program distinguishes itself with its emphasis on hands-on learning, infusing theory with real-world application.
Bellevue University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
For those looking for a faith-based education experience, Limestone College is the best choice. Limestone is a non-denominational Christian, liberal arts College, and the third oldest school in the state. Located in Gaffney, South Carolina, Limestone's student population is comprised of 3,500 undergraduates, over half of whom are part of the distance learning program, called Extended Campus. Additionally, Limestone has multiple branch campuses throughout South Carolina.
The online Bachelors in Human Resource Management degree offered through Limestone's Extended Campus prepares students for HR positions such as benefit manager, compensation manager, human resources recruiter, training and education manager, or a labor relations specialist. Limestone also offers students the opportunity to receive grants through the corporate partnership program; Limestone maintains relationships with many regional corporations that make funds available for eligible students. So, though the most expensive school on our list, its credit hour rate is still extremely affordable relative to national rates and is made even more affordable through its grant initiatives.
Limestone College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.


Nerdio releases tools and guides to help MSPs monetize managed Microsoft Azure cloud services. The effort spans Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), server management, Hosted RDS, and full IT stack (ITaaS).
Generally speaking, managed services providers (MSPs) are eager to offer cloud services to their clients, as the technology is currently driving growth for many MSPs. Sometimes, due to lack of knowledge or resources, it can be difficult for MSPs to figure out the best way to include these services in their portfolios.
Eager to fill that void, Nerdio recently announced another way for MSPs to capitalize on so-called digital transformations. Or more specifically, Nerdio is promoting four ways for MSPs to monetize Azure-oriented managed cloud services. The effort involves Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), server management, Hosted RDS, and full IT stack (ITaaS).
The offering includes high-level guides for MSPs. The guides feature use cases, sample deployments, implementation steps, and customer pricing recommendations — with margins ranging from 40 percent to 57 percent. MSPs can then offer any of these packages to customers, and use Nerdio for Azure to easily provision, manage, and optimize these environments, the company claims.
DaaS: Eliminate management of local end-user devices by migrating desktops and integrating them with Office 365, SaaS and client/server applications, and provide users with always-on Windows desktop access from any internet connected device.
According to LogicMonitor's Future of the Cloud survey, while Microsoft Azure is currently trailing AWS among cloud adopters, that gap will become significantly smaller by 2020. Perhaps services like this from Nerdio will assist in Azure's growth over the next couple years, especially among small businesses.
While it may still be difficult to provision DaaS through AWS, simplifying the process for MSPs to allow them to offer these services through Azure could be beneficial to Microsoft, Nerdio, the MSP and their clients.


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Jon Moxley Competing In Bloodsport Fight
BY Thomas Hall – ON September 19, 2020 IN AEW, Indies, News
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Share the wealth. AEW has gone from non-existent to one of the biggest wrestling promotions in the world in a pretty short amount of time. They have had more success than could have reasonably been expected and that is very impressive. A lot of that is due to the talent that they have on their roster, but a good number of them are not under exclusive contracts. That will be on display soon.
Back at Double Or Nothing 2019, Jon Moxley, formerly known as Dean Ambrose in WWE, made his debut at the end of the show and became one of the biggest stars AEW had. It was a heck of a coup for the company and Moxley went on to become the company's second, and longest reigning, World Champion. However, AEW is not going to be the only place that you can see him.
Josh Barnett has announced that Moxley will be fighting at Bloodsport 3 on October 11. The event will feature a series of no ropes, submission or knockout only fights between various wrestlers. There is no word on who Moxley will be facing. The event is being held in October as a replacement event after the original card, scheduled over WrestleMania weekend, was canceled.
Oct 11th, @jonmoxley is going to FIGHT in Josh Barnett's: Bloodsport.
Order the PPV from @FiteTV https://t.co/Qo9sxz7it2@GCWrestling_ #Bloodsport pic.twitter.com/S1tEKRdK1G
— ??? ????????? (@JoshLBarnett) September 19, 2020
I'd be interested. Check out a trailer for Moxley's appearance:
https://media.wrestlingrumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/19234418/Jon-Moxley.mp4
Opinion: This is the kind of thing that Moxley seemed interested in doing before he left WWE and if this is what he wants to do then good for him. AEW seems to be cool with the idea and if they are all on the same page with it, hopefully Moxley has some fun with the idea. He is a rather talented wrestler and if he gets to switch things up a bit, maybe he can do something he has wanted to do for a long time.
What do you think of Moxley appearing? How long will he be AEW World Champion? Let us know in the comments below.
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Recently, I wrote a blog about the Wreaths Across America program and my trepidation about visiting a cemetery. Ironic. The week of Christmas found my family at the hospital with my 90-year-old grandma whose health was rapidly declining. We were certain that a holiday trip to the cemetery was looming. Given our extreme sadness, no one in my family felt much in the holiday spirit.


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Q: is there some way to deliver some function or operators as parameters? Is there any way to bring some functional programming to C++ , I want deliver some LAMBDA function or operators as parameter to another function.
for example :
void test(DWORD foo)
{
  try { __asm { call foo; } }  // very weird way, don't think that could work
  catch (...) { () }
}

or :
void test2(DWORD foo)
{
  someconnection.Open();
   __asm { call foo; }  // very weird way, don't think that could work
  someconnection.Close();
}

and usage alike :
int main ()
{
  ...
  dosomething();
  ...
  void operator()(int n) // lambda expression, not sure if that correct way creating them
  {
     dosomething();
     dosomethingelse();
  }
  test ( *operator(5) ) // here is what I want
  test2 ( *operator(10) ) // here is what I want
  ...
  dosomethingelse();
  ...
}

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and not sure if I can use C++0x there but I can use boost if that can do what I want to do.
So is there some ways to make it ?

A: You can, by making the parameter of e.g. test a std::tr1::function:
void test(std::tr1::function<void(DWORD)> func) {
    func(0);
}

You can call this with a function, a member function or even a lambda:
test([](DWORD param) { return; });

A: Look into function objects(functors): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object
and lambda in boost: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_0/doc/html/lambda.html

A: There's tons of stuff in boost for that.
However, I'd generally advise against getting too deep into it. The problem is that the implmenetation of things like lambdas in boost gets insanely complicated. I've seen compilations with VS take several minutes for a single source file, and if you do something wrong you get ludicrously long unreadable error messages.
Well, actually the messages are readable in a way, but only if you are very familiar with the implementation of all the boost objects involved. IMHO a client of a facility should not have to know that much about the internals of how a facility is coded to use it.

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Differentiate between Stochastic and Deterministic model ?
Here the output of the model is fully determined by the parameter values and initial conditions. This model assumes that its outcome is certain if input is fixed. No matter how many times one recalculates, one obtains exactly the same result.
Good example is Linear programming. If we want to minimize the cost by selecting the decision how you want to transport the goods from one place to another , then you are dealing with deterministic model for every data.
Stochastic models possess some inherent randomness. The same set of parameter values and initial conditions will lead to different outputs. Every time you run the model , you will get the different result.
When you roll a die, you will get different results.
Calculate the probabilities for the events of interest.


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Welcome, X-Fans, to another uncanny edition of X-Men Monday at AIPT!
Or… maybe this an adjectiveless edition of X-Men Monday at AIPT, because this week, we welcome legendary X-Writer Fabian Nicieza! I first spoke to Fabian way back in 2018 when we revisited the wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the iconic X-Men #30. Then, we talked again a year later–this time about Scott's space brother that never was, Adam-X the X-Treme! We finally got to meet in person later that year at New York Comic Con 2019, but it's high time Fabian got an X-Men Monday all to himself!
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Fabian Nicieza at New York Comic Con 2019.
Fortunately, Fabian's returned to Marvel's X-Men line to bring us a new, five-part Juggernaut mini-series illustrated by the gifted Ron Garney (who's also appeared in a past edition of X-Men Monday). So, before Cain Marko's new comic hits shelves September 23, get up to speed on all things Juggernaut with the writer behind some of your favorite '90s X-Men and X-Force stories!
AIPT: Welcome to X-Men Monday, Fabian! So, Juggernaut's been a villain, a hero and even a member of the X-Men. What, in your opinion, makes Cain Marko worthy of his own comic (written by you, of course)?
Image Credit: Marvel Comics
Fabian: Well, of course, the last half of your question answers the other part. 😉
I think fans have loved Juggernaut for decades because he is like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. He is such a flawed character, insecure, awkward, sometimes-good-intentions-with-bad-results man-boy but we root for him because he fails so often it's sad.
Plus, he's big and cool-looking and generates a lot of rubble in his wake.
AIPT: So much has changed in the X-Men universe in just a few short months. Where's Juggernaut's head at when this series begins?
Fabian: Good question. His head is at, "So much has changed in the X-Men universe in just a few short months, where's my head at?" He lost his powers and was exiled to Limbo, so how he returned and how he got his powers back seemed a good place to start.
AIPT: As this series is set in a post-House of X/Powers of X world, is it safe to assume we'll get a bit of Juggernaut's take on his step-brother's actions and Krakoa's place in the world? X-Fan Vendetta (@Eman419Boyd) wanted to know.
Fabian: Well, it's a sore subject since Cain would very much like to live on Krakoa, but he isn't allowed to because of that pesky not-being-a-mutant issue. The status of Krakoa, what it means to mutants and what it means to Cain, is a running thread of the series.
AIPT: Adam Reck (@arthurstacy) was wondering, with Black Tom busy on Krakoa, will Juggernaut have a new BFF in your series?
Fabian: Yes! He meets a young powered teenager in the first issue named D-CEL (for "deceleration") who becomes sort of like Arya to Cain's Hound. She's a big social media girl and hanging out with Cain means more clicks for her channel, but it also gives him a purpose to redeem himself in the eyes of the general public.
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AIPT: Good segue to our next question from AIPT's own Content and Media Manager David Brooke (@Nosocialize)! In an interview with Marvel.com, you mentioned something called "RoxTube." Dave was curious to know more about social media's role in the story.
Fabian: As discussed, D-Cel livestreams a lot of the adventures they're on, but it's not really a thematic aspect of the story. But sometimes, the characters don't know if she's talking to them or to her audience.
So, yes, she's kinda that annoying.
AIPT: We know the Hulk is set to appear in Juggernaut #2. Can we expect a few more major guest stars from the Marvel Universe?
Fabian: Major guest stars, I don't know, but familiar faces, yes. Two new characters who work for Damage Control are introduced in issue 1 and run through the series; an old Captain America character appears in issue 3; an old sort-of villain who appeared in New Warriors is in issue 4. If it's me writing, then you can expect some fun dives into the Marvel Universe.
AIPT: Ron Garney's an artist that seems to only get better with age, and you've shared quite a bit of his art from the series on Twitter. What can fans expect from Ron in the visuals department?
Fabian: Ron gives you pretty much what you expect from him: fantastic art, fantastic storytelling, fantastic mood and tone, fantastic, powerful images, fantastic backgrounds and fantastic fun. Ho-hum, right? He's been so excellent for so long that it's almost taken for granted. He has always been amazing, now, he's just more ruggedly handsome with age. And Matt Milla's color art is… fantastic, too!
AIPT: Based on what I've seen, "fantastic" is definitely the right word for it all! I'm curious, do you have a favorite Juggernaut story of all time?
Fabian: Probably Uncanny X-Men #183 by Chris Claremont and JRJR, and also I hear great things about the upcoming Juggernaut limited series.
AIPT: As a legendary X-Writer returning to Marvel's mutants, how does writing an X-Men story today differ from those crazy '90s?
Fabian: I honestly wouldn't know, since this is only tangentially an X-Men story. It is actually more the story of what Cain Marko will do now that he can't be in X-Men stories!
The current X-Writers room is filled with lots of talented writers who seem to have exciting, new ideas and are supervised by a smart editorial guiding hand. I'm glad they're forging stories that are less beholden to the '90s stuff, or the Whedon/Morrison time period.
AIPT: You're no stranger to the convention circuit (at least, back when we had them). Is there an X-Men character X-Fans ask you about more than anyone else?
Fabian: Honestly, outside of Cable and Deadpool, probably Adam-X, because his story was never told and there was a large sub-set of X-Fans who wished it had been, or at least wished it had the chance to have been told to see how it would have played out.
AIPT: While you're here, I'm going to ask you a random question I've always wondered about. In X-Men #30, the wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, the newlyweds' first dance is to "One" by U2. So, are Scott and Jean big U2 fans, OR was a younger Fabian Nicieza just really into U2 back in 1994?
Fabian: Besides that it was a very popular song at the time, it was also a song about Bono's problems in his marriage and I thought its melancholy, knowing, exhausted tone was in perfect synch with the history of Scott and Jean.
AIPT: That's good. I love them, but "exhausting" is very on-brand for those two. Finally, you've been doing a few tutorials on the comics craft and how to succeed in this industry. How does it feel to be an elder statesman of comics that people look up to and turn to for advice?
Fabian: Shut up. My emotional maturity remains at about 16, so I'm hip to that jazzy rock 'n' roll the kids are listening to.
The truth is, I am such a smart, experienced and wonderful person that I'm astonished not that people turn to me for advice, but that so many more people don't turn to me for advice. Maybe they're cowed by my smartness and wonderfulness, is the only reason I could think of.
What kind of way is that to end the interview? Go buy Juggernaut #1 in September. You'll be glad you did and so will Marvel!
AIPT: I'd say that's the perfect way to end this interview! Thanks for stopping by, Fabian–it's always a lot of fun! Remember, X-Fans–Juggernaut #1 goes on sale September 23!
Oh, and one more thing to remember: just two installments of X-Men Monday to go before we hit our milestone 75th-anniversary edition! Here's a live look at Charles Xavier reading my mind for a sneak preview of all the awesomeness to come:
Uh, someone wanna check to make sure he's OK?
Until next time, stay safe–stay out of my mind–and continue to be eXceptional!
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The turning point in the 2012-13 for the Carolina Hurricanes was when goaltender Cam Ward was involved in a collision with defender Justin Faulk and Panthers' forward Jack Skille. At the time of the injury, the Hurricanes led the Southeast Division, and looked to be in a prime spot to continue their success. Ward's knee was sprained and he was sidelined for the remainder of the season. With backup goaltenders minding the net from that point forward, the tailspin occurred.
Every single team in the National Hockey League has to deal with injuries at some point or another. The season is long, grueling, and can push players to the limits on a nightly basis. When a key component (such as Ward) is lost for an extended period of time, many weaknesses are exposed that were covered up by said player. In Carolina's case, the weak defensive unit showed their true colors for much of the remainder of the season.
If the Hurricanes want to be successful next season, they must stay healthy. I know it seems obvious, but with so many question marks surrounding key pieces, one wonders who will be rolled out on which lines on a nightly basis. Along with the injury to Ward, the Hurricanes are worried about the knee of Captain Eric Staal. During this year's World Championships, Staal took a brutal knee-on-knee hit from Sweden's Alex Edler. Much like Ward's injury, Staal sprained his knee and is currently rehabbing. Caniacs held their collective breaths when the injury occurred, and let out sighs of relief when the injury wasn't as serious as it could have been. That being said, Staal has a long road ahead of him if he wants to be fully healthy by October 4th, when the Canes take on the Red Wings in the season opener.
Goaltender Cam Ward involved in a collision with defender Justin Faulk and Panthers' forward Jack Skille.
(Photo: Robert Mayer, USA TODAY Sports)
Another top six forward that the Canes are being careful with is Tuomo Ruutu, who missed most of last year's truncated season recovering from hip surgery. Ruutu returned to the lineup late in the season, but was unable to play with as much physicality as Caniacs are used to seeing.
The Hurricanes were 6th in the league in terms of man games lost due to injury (168) during the 2012-13 season. Again, injuries happen to every team, and the Hurricanes didn't exactly respond well to losing players. Team depth has been an important part of this season's plan, and the Hurricanes have several players that will push for bottom 6 spots in the lineup. They've solidified themselves in net with the signing of goaltender Anton Kudobin. If a slew of injuries were to occur, the Hurricanes seem to be in a better position to survive the season.
However, if all three of Ward, Staal, and Ruutu aren't fully healthy and 100% by the season opener, it could be a long season for the Hurricanes in the newly formed Metropolitan Division.
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Windhoek - The marine and fisheries authorities of Namibia and Indonesia this week signed a five-year plan of action on marine and fisheries resources.
Namibian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Bernard Esau, signed the Plan of Action for Cooperation in Fisheries with his Indonesian counterpart, Susi Pudjiatsusi, in Bali on Wednesday.
The action plan that is expected to run from 2019 to 2021 will see the two nations sharing information and cooperating in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as well as on sustainable aquaculture production.
Speaking during the signing ceremony, Esau said though Namibia and Indonesia are located in different oceans with distinct fisheries, as the largest oceans nations in the world, the two countries have a lot to learn from each other, especially when it comes to sustainable fisheries, ocean-based energy solutions, tourism, new approaches to marine protected areas, and the ocean economy.
"Namibia is keen to learn best practices from Indonesia on fighting IUU fishing, and sustainable aquaculture production, among other aspects," Esau said.
Esau said although Namibia has been a global leader in fisheries management and a host to the Secretariat South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) as well as Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Convention Secretariat, the resources to patrol in the country's waters still pose a challenge. According to well-placed sources, thousands of tonnes of fish, apparently mostly horse mackerel, are being stolen from the Namibian waters by licensed foreign-flagged vessels, who chase their catch up to 60 nautical miles (110 kilometres) into Namibia's exclusive economic zone.
In order for Namibia to improve the ocean governance, Esau said the government is considering the option to share the vessel lists as well as vessel monitoring data.
"It is true to say that being more transparent with our fishery, perhaps by seeking to share our authorised vessel list publicly or pushing for public tracking of fishing vessels, provides the opportunity to have a more in-depth understanding of what is happening," Esau said.
He further said Namibia is keen to open discussions with Global Fishing Watch about the country's consideration to join their transparency platform, following the example of Indonesia, and work with other African nations to support public access to fishing information and Transparency, including possible joining of the Vessels Monitoring System open data system.
Esau, therefore, urged officials from both countries to act with speed to conclude the necessary detailed protocols containing timelines and budgets for specific activities to avoid further delay in the implementation of the Plan of Action, and hence the MoU.
The signing of the plan of action for cooperation follows the MoU signed by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Retno Marsudi, on Marine Affairs and Fisheries Cooperation in Bogor on 30 August 2018.


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Enrapt (a) readers have credited literary promethean (b) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) with coining more than 3000 words. Old Bill would create new linguistic expressions by adding prefixes or suffixes, by making varied (c) compounds, by using new cognates, or simply by invention. Shakespeare included lustrous (d) word pictures to intrigue and entertain his audiences as they deduced meanings through verbal and physical contexts. He used this long word honorificabilitudinatibus only once in Love's Labours Lost. Well rooted in academe (e), Francis Bacon, a contemporary of Shakespeare had been knighted and was prolific. About 300 years after their deaths, critics (f) besmirched (g) Shakespeare's reputation by questioning (h) his authorship. They accused (i) that the plays were really written by Francis Bacon. Shakespeare did have a theater company, and it's possible that some other authored works performed there could have been dubbed "Shakespearian." In 1910, Edward Durning-Lawrence attempted to prove that Bacon equals Shakespeare cryptographically. His foregone (j )conclusion: The 'long word' in Love's Labour's Lost "honorificabilitudinitatubus" in an anagram for "hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuite orbi" (Latin for "these plays F. Bacon's offspring preserved for the world.) More importantly (k) it was suggested that Bacon, with a vision of futurity (l,) knew his authorship would not be uncovered until the 1900s. Do you think that when newly uncommored Lionel Richie, used the phrase 'haven't got a clue' in 1983, he could have foreseen that people would still be using that lackluster (m) figure of speech in the next century? (Not to mention Incubus's deafening (n) version of aforementioned tune.) In 1970, John Sladek, came up with another anagram of honorificabilitudo which, although a parody, could translate into a spoof that Shakespeare's works were by Ben Johnson. The word honorificabilitudo wss used long before Shakespeare. It appears in a Latin charter of 1187. According to the Oxford English Dictionary of 1599. it is a medeivil Latin word which denotes (o) 'the state of being able to achieve honors.' But, here's an interesting, albeit gloomy (p) fact about Francis Bacon: He died while trying to invent frozen food. In 1626, while driving a cart in a snow storm, and wondering if frozen food could be marketable (q) , Sir Francis got a chicken and spent an extended amount of time trying to stuff it with snow until it froze completely. Nearly frozen all the way through, himself, Bacon was hospitalized and died from exposure(r), as in swan song (figure of speech for final appearance. Maybe this forward (s) thinker realized that his identity would become unraveled simultaneously with popularity of the TV dinner, as in Swanson (figure of speech for final appearance of conversation.) Frozen food aside, tell me how you really feel. Whether it's zany (t), fashionable (u,) quarrelsome (v,) or tranquil (w), you would not be able to articulate(x) it in quite the same way were it not for Shakespeare.Or is it Bacon? Key to alphabetized word sources: Troilus and Cressida: a,s,t Twelfth Night: d King HenryIV; n Love's Labours Lost; b,e,f,u Richard II; i Henry VI;p Titus Andronicus; c Othello; j,l.w Coriolanus; x As You LIke It; h,m,q,r,v Hamlet; g,o Cymbeline; k Happy Bacon Day YS
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Even the big ticket, well-practiced teams are feeling the rush of time's winged chariot, but no one feels it like the guys at +39. They called us in over the weekend to announce a new cash sponsor, and in the background, almost taking over a time or two, was the roar of power tools—the afternoon shift of a 24 X 7 shore team working to repair their broken mast. If they made any effort to hide their frustration with the German team for their followup to the collision that broke the mast, or with their fellow challengers for voting to make their lives harder rather than easier, I missed it. So I guess we're launched. Coming out of Auckland 2003, Defender and Challenger of Record did such a good job of cleaning up the embarrassing hijinks and spying that the runup to America's Cup 32 has been eerily unruffled. Was eerily unruffled.
This was the scene on day two of Act 13. Now we're at the opening of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger eliminations, and +39 is not fully recovered.
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Not that it's a big deal to the big picture. Just enough to build a buzz ahead of the Owners' Press Conference, where most of the questions from the floor were aimed at the "what next" interplay between those who do and those who do not want to put the next challenger trials on a circuit.
Larry Ellison famously does want to create a circuit, leading to a Cup match on a two-year cycle. Luna Rossa's Patrizio Bertelli does not. He argues that what sets the America's Cup apart is the special role of the defender in setting the stage.
I found it interesting that only 3 of the 12 men on stage raised their hands when asked if they favored a circuit on a two-year cycle. Ernesto Bertarelli was not one of them. But his tactician/skipper on Alinghi, Brad Butterworth, told me last year, "We think that making the Acts part of the event and worth more points would make the game better." And in reading the New York Times online I find Michel Bonnefous, Bertarelli's boyhood friend and now head of America's Cup Management, quoted thus, regarding the Acts: "For the future we have to think of what kind of meaning we give to these pre-competitions. We have connected them to the whole system. Good, but it's a little bit complicated. You have to do a critique. We didn't find a solution this time . . . what we have learned is that the Cup could be run in a different kind of mood, with a more temporary and less secretive structure, with the teams traveling together . . . I think this could open up some window, so tomorrow if we want to do a competition over three stages in three different places, it's possible. "
Being doubtful that Bertarelli and Bonnefous are far apart in their thinking, and having watched the Swiss defender deflect repeated attempts to draw him out on this subject, I interpret his refusal to raise his hand as one more refusal to be drawn.
Here's Bertarelli on the left, Ellison on the right, as captured by Carlo Borlenghi for ACM 2007.
It was Bertarelli, with the 2003 Cup going his way, who invited Ellison to become Challenger of Record, 2007. They cooked up this new-look Cup together, and I figure there's plenty going on behind Bertarelli's genial, just-focusing-on-defending face.
A few other points from the Owners' Press Conference:
Ellison declared his intention to be sailing as part of the crew, "every day until the last day we sail" but not at the helm "unless it's while we're having lunch between races."
Shosholoza and China Team both declared an intent to return.
One after another, different voices agreed that the pre-events had raised the level of sailing for all the teams and helped to tighten the competition by allowing new teams to test themselves against the top players again and again instead of—as in the past—discovering their failings while being eliminated. The same is true at the top, where defender and challengers have the measure of each other in a way that was never true in the past. That's why nobody is expecting a runaway match in June.
Areva's Stephan Kandler weighed in favoring a circuit and a two-year cycle, which is only about choosing a challenger. No matter what, the Deed of Gift states that the America's Cup is a match between a Defender and a Challenger. "The Acts are the best thing that ever happened to the Cup," he said. "They're the only way to attract sponsors because they're the only way to deliver a good return. It doesn't cost more to do that kind of racing because you're seeing other boats and learning from them [instead of doing all development in isolation]. What is special about the Cup is the myth and legend of the match. That won't go away."
Okay, let's go back to +39.
Interesting to visit the camp, which is noticeably downscale from the big-budget teams. Instead of a private club atmosphere on the top floor, they have sofas set up in an honest, open shed with a tin roof and the hospitality area set off by hangings of old sails, still with telltales dangling. A nice touch, actually. They're starting the Louis Vuitton eliminations with a 2003 mast borrowed from Alinghi, a three-spreader job rather than the four-spreader spar under repair, so they have to sew new patches, but otherwise the headsails fit, and so does one of their two mainsails. But fitting the new mast and adapting the rigging was a job in itself.
The mast broke in three places, and all the rod rigging was damaged, so this is a total rebuild along with new running rigging. In the heat of saving the mast tubing, everything else was sacrificed. Technical Coordinator Luca Devoti commented, "The ridiculous decision of the Challenger Commission is proof that somebody thinks we're pretty good."
And in response to the several of you who have asked, the luggage is still out there, somewhere, so I know what shirt I'm wearing to Race One.
With any luck and some more of Sunday's sunshine, the racecourse will be looking a bit like this view, with credit to Nico Martinez/Desafio Español
We're launched.—Kimball


HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The deaths of at least three albatross and the destruction of 15 nests at Kaena Point back in December has prompted state lawmakers to call for heightened security at the remote nature reserve.
"This measure provides funds to help protect Kaena Point. It provides law enforcement to have more of a presence out there with more and better equipment," said state Sen. Will Espero, (D) Ewa Beach.
A pair of bills introduced by both the House and Senate state lawmakers, will require park users to pay entry fees to pay for the additional security and educational staff. Park users will also have sign in at the gate when they visit Kaena Point.
"It's protect the monk seals, the turtles, the albatross, those creatures that need our protection. And sadly, it's the humans and the dogs that are doing the destruction," Espero said.
There were about 75 active Laysan Albatross nests at Kaena Point before the vandalism occurred. The destruction of the nests have devastated the colony.
The vandals allegedly also took cameras and sound equipment meant to monitor the birds.
So far, no arrests have been made but state and federal law enforcement have interviewed several current and former Punahou School students, who were allegedly at the park when the birds were killed.
The Senate Water, Land and Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on its version of the bill on Monday. The House will likely be hear measure later this session.


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In 1882, when part of the area which today makes up Frostproof was platted as Keystone City, the area was covered with long-leaf yellow pine forests, dense swamps and hammocks with undergrowth of brush, vines, briers and palmettos. The nearest substantial town was Fort Meade, a distance of 18 miles over U.S. military roads built 18 years earlier.
In 1886, the Stephen Carson family became the first permanent settlers, and immediately planted citrus. Six years later, two more permanent families joined them: the Hamptons and the Overockers. Before the end of the year, the men petitioned the U.S. government and a post office at Frostproof was established on the south side of town where the three families lived.
At the turn of the century, when cities and towns were seeing improvements in infrastructure and even beautification to encourage tourism, Frostproof's only public improvement was a one-room log cabin schoolhouse.
With the arrival of the first train in January 1912, the face of Frostproof changed forever. Less than a month later, J.E. Milton built a general store on the northeast corner of Wall Street and Scenic Highway. Soon after, the town built up around the railroad. In 1918, the town was incorporated.
Citrus was the main industry, with packing houses dotting the landscape. By 1921, Frostproof was the second largest citrus shipping point in the state, and during the 1924-25, 1925-26 and 1928-29 seasons, Frostproof was in first place! By 1939, the town was the world's largest grapefruit shipping point.
In 1922, Frostproof's first public library was constructed at 210 South Scenic Highway. In 1978, when the Latt- Maxcy Memorial Library was completed, the building became the Frostproof Historical Museum. Since then, it has tripled in size and houses thousands of artifacts, photographs and documents. Drop by for a visit!
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