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Q: It doesn't display message if room is valid or not Please look at this create_session.php application: Application
When you open the application you will see a CourseId textbox. Type in 'info101' in the textbox then click submit.
It should display all of the features below. Don't type anything in, click on the "Prepare Questions" button at the bottom. You should see a lot of red messages. This is the validation stating what you need to do for each form input.
Now fill in all of the features but for the "Room" Textbox, please enter in "CN10/10". This is an incorrect value. After all details are filled then click on the "Prepare Questions" button, all the red messages should go but it should of displayed a message under the "Room" textbox as the value is incorrect, but no message is dislayed. It should of displayed the message "This Room is Invalid".
Now if you type in the correct value in the "Room" textbox 'CW5/10' and click on the "Prepare Questions" button, then it should show no message (which it does because I believe it is not using the Json correctly), but also a confirmation box should appear but this also doesn't happen.
So what my question is that why is it not doing what it is suppose to do for the room textbox. Why are the messages not appearing for the room textbox and when all features are correctly entered in, why is it not showing the confirmation box?
Below is the relevant code (not whole code,, just important code)
   function postback(callback){
        if(validation()){
            $.getJSON(
       '/u0867587/Mobile_app/create_session.php',
                {"room_no":$("#room").val()},
                function(json){
                    $("#roomAlert").html(json.msg);
                    callback(json.msg);
            });
        }
    } // should show message from php if room is valid or not

                 function showConfirm(){

             var confirmMsg=confirm("Make sure that your details are correct, once you proceed after this stage you would not be able to go back and change any details towards your Session." + "\n" + "\n" + "Are you sure you want to Proceed?" + "\n" );

             if (confirmMsg==true)
             {
             submitform();
         }
    }

<form action="QandATable.php" method="post" id="sessionForm">

10: Room: <input type="text" id="room" name="roomChosen" value="<?php echo $roomChosen; ?>" />

11: <input class="questionBtn" type="submit" value="Prepare Questions" name="prequestion" onClick="myClickHandler(); return false;"/>

</form>

<?php

if (isset($_POST['prequestion'])) {
    $roomquery = "
                 SELECT Room
                 FROM Room
                 WHERE
                 (Room = '".mysql_real_escape_string($roomChosen)."')
                 ";

    $roomnum = mysql_num_rows($roomresult = mysql_query($roomquery));
    mysql_close();

    if($roomnum ==0){
        $msg = "This Room is Invalid";
    } else {

        $msg = "";
    }

    $d = array("msg" => $msg);
echo json_encode($d);

} // checks to see if room value in textbox matches any value in database or not

?>

There is nothing wrong with the Sql. The name of the table is "Room" but the name of the field is also known as "Room". I have working sample of having a valid or invalid room in the room.php file application , it just doesn't work in my create_session.php file. Again test it by typing in 'CW5/10' for valid room and anything else for invalid room

A: I think there is an error in your SQL request.
You should probably check the Room.id or Room.name, not just the Room, which seems to be your table name. Try your request directly in phpMyAdmin.
[edit]
If the request is not good, you may have an error/warning from your php file and the response is not in JSON format


...so, that Tsunami scare was thankfully VERY uneventful! You can never tell, though... My Mom was living right on the beach in Hilo when the huge Tsunami of 1946 hit and all those people were killed. She told me that she was late for school that day and my aunt was upset with her, BUT thank goodness they were late that day! They were close enough to home that they could run back and get to higher ground - they actually watched the Tsunami from the roof of their neighbor's house. Lots of the people around them weren't so lucky. She always reminds me of this whenever there are Tsunami warnings... you always have to take them seriously.
And VERY, very quickly, in other news.... Saw Chad's FB user photo and immediately knew I'd be seeing a Bryan tweet... and sure enough. Bryan went on for Chad in both shows today.
Again, thank you all for your sweet messages!! ♥ And thank goodness that the day was as uneventful as it was!! HUGS!!
Yes, VERY thankful, it could've been much, much worse! And yikes about your friend on the cruise... Thankfully the only thing we seemed to get was higher tides.
I am so relieved that it was very uneventful. I was worried about you guys and relieved when the warning was lifted.
Out here the beaches were all closed off - although people still flocked to them to watch for the tsunami. People are morons!
Thanks, Andrea for all your concern!! We had people here who parked on either side of the Pali to watch the Tsunami - which is not a dangerous area - but then they'd walk down the middle of the street like it was closed off. It wasn't... How dangerous! They could've easily gotten hit! It's a HIGH speed highway! Some people... Sheesh.
Awwww, thanks so much!! ♥ BTW, can't wait to see you in April! And I'm still looking for discounts for the 2 shows we're seeing. :) HUGS!!
I was very glad to hear that the tsunami turned out smaller than expected! The earthquake was enough of a disaster!
Glad you are all safe and sound!
Thanks so much for your comment! HUGS!
I had heard something briefly about that... but didn't know what was going on. I'm glad you're safe.
Thanks for your comment, Chandra!! It was pretty much the entire day of waiting around and listening for news. Thankfully it didn't turn out to be anything, but thankful that everyone was prepared in case it was something disastrous. Thanks again for your comment! HUGS!
So glad y'all are ok!


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Vintage Sci-Fi Trifecta: Gene Wolfe
In each Vintage Sci-Fi Trifecta I read three short stories by a classic science fiction author I've never experienced before in order to get a feel for their style.
This month's selection was voted on by subscribers to my monthly email newsletter from a short list I provided. Wolfe was first published in 1965, and quickly established himself as a regular in Damon Knight's Orbit anthologies. (A quick word on Knight. Although I was not terribly impressed by his fiction, the man had impeccable taste when putting together original anthologies. If you ever come across an issue of Orbit do yourself a favor and give it a read.) Orbit stories tended to be avant-garde, which made them somewhat controversial among science fiction fans. (It didn't take the advent of Star Trek, Star Wars, or the internet to make science fiction fans argumentative.) Through the 1970s, Wolfe's style got more sophisticated and weird. His most famous work, The Book of the New Sun series, is a four book extended science fantasy novel, and is considered a stand-out of the genre.
But I've never read any of that.
For my first Gene Wolfe readings I picked two stories with neat sounding titles, concluded by one of Wolfe's award winning novellas.
Originally published in Orbit 3 (1968)
Read in same
In Damon Knight's introduction to this story in Orbit 3 he writes, "In my book of critical essays… I made a distinction between stories that make sense and those that mean something. I am unable to "make sense" out of this one – to make it add up neatly and come out even – but I strongly feel that it means something, just as Kafka's The Trial or Shirley Jackson's The Lottery does." I got a kick out of that because I've often been confused by stories in Orbit, which was at the forefront of New Wave science fiction characterized by more "literary" stories that experimented with form and style, often focused on "soft" as opposed to "hard" science fiction elements, and overall guided by a rejection of the pulp establishment. You might think that as a scientist I prefer hard science fiction, but honestly I love them both. My favorite kind of science fiction is heavy on metaphor and social commentary (which tends to occur more in "soft" science fiction), but I also love Asimov, who was one of the "hard" science fiction adherents (and often a dick about it).
The Changeling is absolutely great. We get a nice setup of a disgraced soldier returning to his home town for lack of any better options. His parents have long since passed away, but he runs across the family of a childhood friend who insist on housing him for a while, and that's where things get weird. I don't want to give anything else away, because the complete unpredictability of the story was part of what I really liked, but suffice it to say that – like Damon Knight – at the end I don't think I really understand what happened, but whatever it was I dig it.
How the Whip Came Back
I picked this one because I was intrigued as to what the title could mean, and was surprised at how dark it turned. Like in the first story, Wolfe drops you into a world with little introduction, and you spend a good percentage of the story just finding your footing. Even in this, his most straightforward science fiction tale of the three I read, his writing has an unsettling quality where you are always left questioning the very nature of the world. Sadly, the world he described in 1970 is shockingly similar to the one in which we all now live. The story centers around only two characters, both "observers" with ceremonial rolls at the United Nations. The main character is a woman that represents the largest international charity organization in existence. The supporting character is the Pope of the Catholic church, which is essentially the last of the dying religions. The short narrative describes a single scene with our two characters discussing a proposed global law that will turn all prisoners into slaves, available for lease until their prison sentences are up. All nations are in agreement and support of the idea, but they would like the ceremonial support of these two individuals that, quite frankly, form the moral wing of the organization. To put it bluntly, "how the whip came back" refers to how the slave trade, long since abolished, returns with enthusiasm.
It is worth noting that the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed slavery in the nation, reads in part, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." That legal loophole has been exploited to great success to this day as prisoners are routinely forced to perform work for the profit of the state and private business, receiving a paltry wage of pennies an hour for their efforts. Despite what you might have been told, slavery is still big business in the United States, and its existence is adamantly justified by those that believe that punishment is the sole purpose of incarceration.
In all fairness, it didn't take a great prescient mind to look at forced prison labor and extrapolate it to its logical end. What it did take was someone who gave a shit about it in 1970, and for that simple fact I'm really starting to like Gene Wolfe.
The Death of Doctor Island
Originally published in Universe 3 (1973)
Read in Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction
Chronologically, this is where I suspect Wolfe had fully come into his weird (some would say "literary") style. This story won both the Nebula and Lotus awards for Best Novella in 1974, so you'd be right to suspect that it is good. Though it does feel a bit 1970s sci-fi, I'd go so far as to say it holds up to modern standards. (As a counterpoint, How the Whip Came Back felt outdated to modern standards in that it lacked any metaphor in its oral argument, and The Changeling would read as cliché if it was published today.) Once again Wolfe throws us into a confusing world, this time one where up is literally down, and leaves us to find our own way for a good chunk of the story. Since this is a novella, that chunk is a lot of pages, and it is only through Wolfe's skill to intrigue me that I was interested in continuing to read until more was revealed. This is a story of what lengths a society will go to in order to fix those with potential, at the ultimate expense of those with none. In that respect it is similar to How the Whip Came Back in that there is an element of society working to exploit those on the bottom to benefit those at the top, something that I suspect Wolfe touched on throughout his stories given its presence in these two (and to a small extent in the first one as well, contained in the reason for the soldier's disgrace). The Death of Doctor Island is an outstanding novella, and definitely one of the best I've ever read, classic or modern.
Gene Wolfe flew under my radar for a long time, despite being well known even until his death in 2019 at the age of 87. Wolfe's last book, published posthumously in 2020, was submitted to his publisher shortly before his death and is a sequel to his 2015 novel The Borrowed Man, and both seem to have been well received. It's always nice to hear of a "vintage" author still finding a modern audience through new work that they are able to keep fresh.
Vintage Sci-Fi Trifecta: C. M. Kornbluth
A number of vintage science fiction writers well worthy of renown are undergoing a period of rediscovery, and Cyril M. Kornbluth is yet another example. Frequently writing with his childhood friend and fellow science fiction author Frederik Pohl, Kornbluth's solo publications were mostly short stories. Pohl and Kornbluth had been friends since they were teenagers, when Pohl lived in Brooklyn just down the street from Isaac Asimov's parent's candy store; the same store where Asimov himself first read a science fiction magazine off the rack. (New York City in the 1920 was a major nexus point of science fiction, but even knowing that it's a bit of a shock to learn that Asimov, Pohl, and Kornbluth knew each other as teens.)
Kornbluth is another example of an author I knew before I knew him, because one of my absolute favorite Night Gallery episodes was based on one of his short stories. The ability to convert a 1950 story into an early-1970s TV show gives you some idea how forward thinking Kornbluth was. The tone and quality of his stories would easily fit into the 1960s-1970s, and one has to keep in mind that he mostly wrote from 1940-1958 to appreciate his skill. Kornbluth passed away suddenly at the age of 34 of a heart attack when racing to catch a train that was to take him to a job interview for potentially taking over editorial duties for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I wonder what direction Kornbluth could have taken such a venerable publication, and it's a shame we'll never know what he could have accomplished, as he was clearly just getting started.
It's hard to not assign at least partial blame for Kornbluth's death to his personal habits. Even his friends (Pohl and Asimov among them) testify that he was a very odd man. Supposedly he never brushed his teeth, to the point that they were actually green. This fact struck me as there has long been a connection between oral hygiene and heart health. At a time of strange characters writing science fiction, Kornbluth was clearly one of the strangest.
The Rocket of 1955
Originally published in the fanzine Escape, August 1939
Read in The Best of C. M. Kornbluth
This was Kornbluth's first solo story publication, and appeared in a fanzine. Any time I have an author's first story I like to add it to the Trifecta along with a later story to see any evolution. I might not have picked this story if I'd known how short it was – about a page and a half – but it did give me an indication of what seems to be a hallmark for Kornbluth, which is a vague hinting at what is happening rather than hitting the reader upside the head. Kornbluth wants the reader to think their way through the evidence he provides in the story to figure out what is happening, rather than putting it in plain black-and-white. This is something a lot of modern science fiction writers still don't do (but I find is common in horror); there is always that drive to provide for the lowest common denominator of reader. Kornbluth seemed perfectly happy to swing above a reader's head, which was definitely an uncommon approach in 1939 sci-fi. I have to admit that I was a little confused by this story and gave it a reread to pick up on it, and I think I got it the second time. Quite simply, this story tells the sordid tale of the world's first rocket launch to space, which doesn't go exactly as the passenger expects. Definitely worth a read, and you can do so online.
The Little Black Bag
Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1950
This one probably has to be Kornbluth's best based on its accolades. It won the 2001 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novelette (of 1951), and has been adapted into at least three television episodes, including one of my favorite episodes of Rod Serling's Night Gallery. This is the story of a drunk, disgraced doctor and a medical bag from the future so advanced that it is almost magical. The story is fairly similar to the Night Gallery episode, except that the sidekick character is a woman in the original story, which I think actually plays a lot better. Both the story and the episode are worth your time, especially since the episode stars the incomparable Burgess Meredith as the protagonist. It looks like Escape Pod has the story available online, as well as an audio version, if you're into that kind of thing.
The Marching Morons
Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1951
I came across several mentions of this story when researching Kornbluth, and it is cited as a sequel to The Little Black Bag, so I had to give it a read. This story is notable because Kornbluth not only revisits the future world that created the titular "black bag" of the previous story, but he also utilizes the same vague hinting around that he did in The Rocket of 1955, though he makes it a bit clearer at the last moment here. I don't know if Kornbluth originated the idea at the core of the film Idiocracy (I suspect he didn't), but it is too similar to not have been an inspiration for the film. Kornbluth latches onto the idea that idiots have more kids than well educated people do, to the point that evolution basically splits the human species. The vast majority of the world is populated by barely functioning morons who are fooled by the super-intelligent, but numerically inferior, super-humans, into thinking that they run the world. Meanwhile the super-humans are at the mercy of the idiot masses, working themselves to death just to try to keep the world from going boom. In walks a cryogenically preserved "average man" of our time (yeah, it's almost verbatim the same setup as Idiocracy) who the super-humans hope can find a solution to The Problem. Mild spoiler here, but The Problem they struggle to solve is essentially "How the fuck do we get rid of all these morons?!" Our man-from-the-present has a way, and it's something none of the super-humans would ever think of. It's an interesting read, and is considered by some to be one of the best science fiction novellas published before 1965. Since it first appeared in Galaxy this is yet another story you can read for free online. (See, I take good care of you, fine reader. All three stories this month are available just a click away.)
I think Pohl described his friend best when he wrote "Cyril was a wise as well as a talented man. He was also a sardonic soul. The comedy present in almost everything he wrote relates to the essential hypocrisies and foolishness of mankind. His target was not always Man in the abstract and general. Sometimes it was one particular man, or woman, thinly disguised as a character in a story – and thinly sliced, into quivering bits. Once or twice it was me."*
I have a feeling I would have got along really well with Kornbluth. Except maybe for his epically bad breath.
*From Pohl's introduction to The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, published 1976.
Dr. Andrew Porwitzky is a scientist and freelance writer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, scientific articles, and essays.
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Finally, it is all about you
ANNE KINGSTON June 16 2008
Finally, it is all about you ANNE KINGSTON June 16 2008
Why parental death for adults is the new psychic Freedom 55
ANNE KINGSTON
Parental sacrifice once followed a contained trajectory: changing diapers, sleepless nights, attending school recitals, paying college
tuition. Now, its summit has been raised to cosmic levels. The most positive sacrifice parents can make for their adult offspring? Die.
That's the provocative claim of the new book Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life for the Better. "The death of your parents can be the best thing that ever happens to you," writes Jeanne Safer, a Manhattan psychotherapist who marshals as evidence personal experience and that of 60 of her patients. Safer isn't referring to the relief often felt after the death of a cruel, critical, or long-suffering parent. The demise of any parent—even the most beloved—can
inspire personal growth, she writes: "Nothing else in adult life has so much unrecognized potential to help us become more fulfilled human beings—wiser, more mature, more open, less afraid."
Once, such words would have been sacrilege. But Safer is at the vanguard of new thinking about the salubrious effects of parental death on adults, a passage traditionally regarded as sad, if inevitable. It was the natural order of things, and, as such, didn't invite the scrutiny devoted to the traumatic effect of a parent's death on a child or the sudden death of a spouse. An adult whose parent died was expected to grieve, then get over it. Now, however, like divorce and menopause, the death of a parent in adulthood is being seized as an opportunity for mid-life transformation—not about loss but gain, not about them but you.
Death Benefits is the latest entry to a new genre targeted at the "mid-life orphan," the titles of which telegraph a similar silver-lining sensibility: Losing Your Parents, Finding Your-
self: The Defining Turning Point of Adult Life; Never the Same: Coming to Terms With the Death of a Parent; Nobody's Child Anymore; Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone; The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change after the Death of Our Parents.
Despite this emerging market for adultorphan self-help, Safer had trouble finding a publisher. The idea that children could benefit from parental death was seen as unseemly, she says. Some assumed "benefit" had to be financial. "I really had to fight for the title," she adds. "Death is a hard sell."
That's changing, Safer believes. "Death is the new sex," she jokes. Debra Umberson, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the first scholars to investigate the effects of parental death on adults, concurs. She has seen a decided increase in interest in the topic since her book Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity was published in 2003. "Now that boomers are finally experiencing it, there's much more openness," she says.
Credit the attitude shift in part to longer lifespans. Now that life expectancy for Canadian women is close to 83 years and 78 years for men, the child-parent relationship can extend more than 60 years (just look at 71year-old John McCain on the hustings with his 96-year-old mother). Statistics Canada doesn't tabulate numbers on the topic, but in the U.S., one-third of Americans 50 and over still have a father and two-thirds have a mother. By the time they turn 60, only twothirds will be parentless.
Longer life brings a longer time frame to play out increasingly blurry parent-child dependencies. Once, children were expected to be out of the nest by 21. Now, they remain in, or return to, their parents' homes into their 20s, 30s, even 40s, a development that prompted the American Psychiatric Association to announce in 2005 that adolescence officially ends at age 34. Amped-up parental involvement is also reflected in "helicopter" parents, the term used to describe the hovering that can take place into university and beyond. Extended longevity has ushered in a new life stage—the adult child caregiver— which further complicates the dynamic, says psychiatrist Irving Yalom, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine: "I know people who wait for their parents to die; they've been nursing them and paying for them for so many years, and the parents have overstayed their due."
Sociologist Michael Kearn, a professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who is studying the prolongation of adolescence, sees a causal relationship between a Peter Pan culture and parental longevity. Parental
death is now the major maturational milestone, he says: "The new marker of entry into adulthood and of maturity isn't becoming a parent but having one's parents die."
The idea of parental death as an adult benchmark isn't new. Auberon Waugh, the son of eclipsing father Evelyn, once mused, "Perhaps nobody is completely grown up until both of his parents are dead." The death of one's parents was viewed as an inescapable mortality wake-up call, an existential reminder that you're on your own and next in line.
But in an arrested-development culture, the death of the parents of adults can cause the same dislocation felt by children when parents die. "You've lost your biographic anchor, someone who knows you through and through, someone who has been there for you through most of your life," Kearn says. He points to adults' adoption of the pathos-filled "orphan" to describe themselves, a reference that summons the image of a paunchy Oliver Twist. "It's just weird," he says. But Toronto poet Molly Peacock, who regards herself as an orphan at age 61, says society doesn't appreciate the effect parental death has on middle-aged children. "People say, 'Oh, she was old anyway.' Or, it happens to everyone, so you'll get over it,' " she says. "But when my mother died, I wanted to go back to Victorian times and wear a black arm band. I wanted my dry cleaner to know."
In May, the Los Angeles Times devoted an entire section to the "mid-life orphan" that included a profile of Larry Gräber, a Santa Monica psychotherapist who took up African djembe drumming as a therapeutic tool after his parents' deaths. Gräber, the son of second-generation immigrants, spent his life trying to please his parents by working hard and living modestly. When they became ill, he was their devoted caregiver for two years. Six months after he was orphaned, Gräber began organizing "drum circles" at caregiver retreats, an activity of which his parents would have disapproved. Free of parental judgment, he pursued other interests. When he went to buy a motorcycle, he splurged on a high-end model. "Now that my parents are dead, it's just one more indicator that there's no reason for me not to live the life I want," he told the paper.
Umberson's research, which tracked more than 3,000 people over eight years, found the death of a parent often provided a catalyst for self-change "in order to revive, revere, escape, or reject the parent." Many of her subjects reported improved emotional and psychological well-being following a parent's death, though it was most common for those who grew up with an extremely overbearing parent. She also found longer-term heath improved, though the average person experienced a
decline in health for the first three years after a parent's death-often due to depression and increased drinking. Returning to the data eight years later, she found adults who lost a parent exhibited more improved health than those who had not. With parental death comes the final shedding of childish identity, Victoria Secunda writes in Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself. Most of the 95 people she interviewed said relationships with their children improved, while childless adults often paid new attention to nieces and nephews or became mentors. Most reported intensified friendships, many winnowed away those who didn't "add meaning to their lives."
Yalom, whose latest book is the recently published Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, is uncomfortable making generalizations about parental death. "Everyone
is different," he says. "I've worked with patients who wish they could have done more, who wish there are things their parents could have told them. Then there are those things that existed between themselves and their parents that no longer exist; there's no one left to share it with." He says he finds himself often reaching for the telephone to call his mother even though she died 10 years ago.
In presenting parental death as the bestthing that can happen to an adult, Safer is for-
ging a new frontier in the self-help conceit that parental baggage can be transcended and then repacked, a blame-the-folks-for-everything sensibility reflected in titles like Actually, It Is Your Parents' Fault: Why Your Romantic Relationship Isn't Working, and How to Fix It. "I'm not saying one doesn't lose something when a parent dies," says Safer from her New York office. "You lose a part of yourself, you lose part of your own history. But it's also an opportunity for seismic shifts in who you are and who you are vis-à-vis that parent." The book evocatively chronicles Safer working through her own complicated 57-year relationship with her mother, a formidable and distant woman who instilled anxieties in her daughter. Safer outlines her conscious examination of her mother's emotional legacy after she died at age 92, referring to it as "psychological inventory" not unlike sorting a parent's belongings and deciding to toss the La-Z-Boy and keep the silver. "I can modify those parts of the inheritance that hold me back," says Safer, displaying her classical Freudian train-
ing. On the discard pile went her mother's perfectionism and inability to forgive others or provide solace. She kept her mother's creativity, her exuberance for life and took up her hobby of swimming.
Her patients also provided a parade of postparental-death metamorphoses. Some broke bad habits, others exited corrosive relationships, many pursued new passions or careers. One man left an unhappy marriage he stayed in for 39 years to please his father. Another pursued his dream of being a writer, and published a novel about his troubled relationship with his father. One woman finally felt free to marry. The central motif of finally taking centre stage in one's own life was literally embodied in a woman who became an actor after her overbearing mother died. Arguably, examples culled from a group in analysis for
£1 know people who wait for their parents to die; they've been nursing and paying for them for so many years and the parents have overstayed their due'
unresolved issues, many arising from controlling, dependent parental relationships, doesn't constitute a sound, scientific sample. Catherine Gildiner, a Toronto therapist and author, observes that people who've had a healthy relationship with their parents cope more easily with their deaths. "But if they had a dependent relationship or that parent never gave them what they needed, then they treat it as an abandonment," she says. "It's not their fault; the parent has given the message T will only love you if you remain dependent on me.' But the whole point of parenting is to make people independent."
Changing careers and getting divorces were not typical in Umberson's survey. Instead, change was manifest in smaller ways. "People might decide to be more like the parent—to become more religious, or become a better teacher, or parent, or to try to enjoy life more," she says. Not all change was for the better. Umberson was surprised by the extent of marital instability. "It's a real time of vulnerability," she says, citing the case of a doctor
who left his wife and three children because he felt his father should have left his mother but never did. "He thought it was a positive but he wreaked a lot of havoc." Underwriting many of the radical transformations outlined by Safer is a more tangible parental death benefit: financial inheritance. "People see their parents as their pension plans," says one Toronto-area lawyer who receives calls from children while their parents are still alive who want to know how they've been provided for in the will. Safer agrees money can make a difference. "I think it's okay to say that one of the things my parents did was to leave me enough money to do things," she says. "I don't think money should be left out of equation. But money tends to be obvious. What's less obvious is the other legacies that can change you." Openly discussing the upside of parental death—a topic not far from voicing a parental death wish—shatters a long-standing social taboo. But the mainstreaming of family dysfunction—everywhere from Arrested Development to the proliferation of bad-parent memoirs like Augusten Burroughs' latest, A Wolf at the Table—has left zero stigma attached to admitting ambivalence toward one's parents. Diane Rehm, a host on National Public Radio, admitted to Safer during an interview about Death Benefits that the death of her own parents when she was 19 was key to her personal growth, though it took years for her to figure it out. Toronto writer R.M. Vaughn is candid about the serenity he felt after his father, who suffered from mental illness, died three years ago. "My father was a troublesome person, very difficult to get along with," he says. "It's not that I wanted him to die, but once he was gone I realized how much stress he created on a daily basis." Afterwards, Vaughn says, he finally felt free to take extended trips. His experience confirms Safer's contention that the death of even one parent can lead to positive re-calibration of familial relationships. "I enjoy my family now," Vaughn says. "The first Christmas after my father passed we were all sitting around the dinner table and there was this moment of kind of unacknowledged recognition where we all realized, 'Oh, this is pleasant, no one is worried, there's no tension,' and there was this collective sigh when I realized life without him is so much better." Peacock says she felt an unexpected buoyancy after becoming the sole survivor of her nuclear family. "I felt as if I were a balloon that someone had let go of," she says. "And I was rising into the atmosphere, floating without any fingers to anchor me. At the same time there's a certain type of relief and exhilaration in that." Peacock says she adored her parents, though admits they could be difficult. Her father, who died in 1984, was
an alcoholic; her mother, whom Peacock cared for during her last year of life in 1992, suffered from depression. Peacock uses the analogy of a giant tree fallen in a forest to describe parental death. "It's a terrifying image. But then, things that never could have grown in that shade begin to grow." After her mother died, Peacock, at age 45, began writing prose for the first time, she said. "It was my mother's death that said, 'It's time to really get serious.' " She now has a fuller sense of herself and the decisions she makes, she says. "There's nowhere to run for advice and that's not such a bad thing."
With death, parents become mortal, and thus human. Vaughn says his father's death permitted him to feel empathy for him for the first time. "I have more sympathy for him because I don't have to deal with him," he says. "But I also have an idea of the wholeness of his life. I can feel sorry for him. And that released me from anger."
Detachment is the greatest death benefit, Safer believes. Of her own mother she writes: "Now I could see us together from a therapeutic distance—beyond blame, beyond the
frantic need to get through or justify myself, beyond disappointment, beyond rage—beyond fear." She promotes the notion of rewriting the parental-child relationship after a parent's death—on the child's terms. As she puts it: "All further communication is unilateral, which makes it far easier to understand." No one should be surprised to learn her relationship with her mother is far better now. Peacock says her relationship with her mother remains vivid. "You keep internalizing the parent and the parent keeps changing inside you," she says. "I have a vital relationship with my mother, although she's entirely dead."
The idea that the parent-child relationship evolves in the child's mind after death is backed by research. A landmark 1999 study by psychologist Dov Shmotkin of Tel Aviv University that polled hundreds of Israeli adults aged between 17 and 77 revealed that many people whose parents were dead felt as close a bond with them as people did with parents who were alive. Many said their relationship with their parents developed following their deaths. Children whose parents were alive, on the other hand, reported greater ambivalence toward them.
Gildiner rejects the idea that relationships can be re-calibrated. "That's wacky; it's just a fantasy," she says. "You just need to come to terms with what a toxic parent is, and that you're not going to have the type of relationship you wanted and you're going to have to take out things that were good." Secunda echoes her point, noting that those who made the most progress as "adult orphans" recognized that "whatever they did or didn't get from their parents now was moot."
Gildiner is equally skeptical about a parent's death being an agent of life change. "What alters things is when you're willing to give up that parent's expectations, and that can happen before they die or after they die," she says. "Ifyou have to wait for your parents to die to be free you're not going to be any more free when they're dead." A 56-year-old Toronto designer who put his wanderlust on hold for several years to tend to his parents before they died in their mid-90s sees it another way. Watching his parents' decline provided acute consciousness of mortality, he says. But their deaths proved liberating. "It made me feel more immortal," he says. "I'm thinking, well, now I have 50 more years." M
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It can be difficult to remember all of the usernames and passwords that you use to log in to various websites across the internet, so why force users to create a new username for your web site? It's easier on everyone to simply combine the username and email address fields. It also cleans up your registration form a bit.
These two modules are mutually exclusive— they are not compatible with each other, so you'll have to pick one. I prefer to use Email Registration, and I'll explain why.
Email Registration simplifies the user registration form by removing the 'username' field. By default, the module will automatically generate a username for a new user based upon the first part (before the @) of his/her email address. For example, if I registered for a new account with email address [email protected], I would end up with username madmatter23.
Adding a similar snippet to your own custom module will give you complete control. That's all there is to it!
This module still forces users to choose their own username during registration. However, after they're registered, it will allow them to login using either their username or their email address. Hence my preference for Email Registration.
Redirect 403 to User Login — 'nuff said.
Rules — this can be used to do a variety on the login or registration events, including a redirect.
Using this method does have at least one major drawback: you no longer have the option to display a user's username while preserving the privacy of their email address. However, this problem can easily be circumvented by simply using an optional 'alias' field, or by utilizing a programmatically applied handle for users based on other field values.
However, It did not work for me for D7.
I have created an issue here: http://drupal.org/node/1389080.
Clear your caches after adding the hook.
Add the hook to a custom module rather than to your template.php file.
I have read so many article of this site in which some of them were very intresting and inspiring.This article has good title with good description.
Nice description of the available options.
I'd encourage anyone interested in seeing this functionality in Core to visit http://drupal.org/node/111317 where there is a patch needing review.
The patch allows admins of Drupal 8.x sites to choose how users can log in (email only, username only, email or username).
My solution in the past has been to use LoginToboggan to allow e-mail logins, then use String Override to rename the "Username" field to "Full Name". As Drupal supports spaces in usernames, a name like "Gareth Price" is valid and can be safely displayed to the public.
What do you do when the second John Smith tries to register on the site?
The email registration module will ensure that user account names are kept unique by applying an integer to the end of the user name string.
This has always been my solution too.
The vast majority of sites I've worked on have fallen under the category of no need for a username.
No one wants to remember a username, when you can just use your email and a password.
BTW: There is also Shared Email if you like to allow people to create multiple accounts (not be stopped by re-using an email for sales lead reasons).
A username is generated and assigned based on the user name part of the email address. Subsequent users who have the same name (email prefix) are numbered sequentially. For example, "[email protected]" would be assigned username "johndoe", "[email protected]" would be assigned "johndoe001" and so forth.
In practice, however, the username ends up being a random string.
i was looking for auto generation of a "random name" 'or "number" (not UID)and assign it to user during registration or after registration (like Avtar) , my intention is to protect identity of the user when user is participating in discussion forums or groups.By no means user should be able to disclose the identity, if i allow user to create user name almost 50% of users will choose a name will choose with their first name or lat name or name resembling to either of them, i want to prevent that.
Thank you for the informative review! I've also decided to go with Email Registration.
The separate username field should really be optional in Drupal core.
I was able to use these modules together. First enable LoginToboggan and configure how you like, EXCEPT you need to Disable using the e-mail address on the login screen. After that, you can enable Email Registration. It worked great for me.
Using email registration + code snippet above, it's possible to create users with illegal user names. When this user is updated, an error is reported.
email registration + code snipped above + pathauto can take care of puncuations as @ and . at admin/config/search/path/settings.
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If you're like me, you're sick of scouring the internet trying to find the latest and best surfing videos of surf competitions from the WCT and QS; free surfing parts from exotic overseas locales; and big wave surfing in spots like Mavericks and Teahupoo. I personally got sick of searching "surf hawaii" and coming up someone's vacation videos from 10 years ago of their kids "bodyboarding."
Surf Scavenger. Then I found out that my buddy Quinn had started up a website with exactly what I was looking for: all the best surf videos in 1 place. That place is Surf Scavenger. Instead of having to do the scavenging yourself, his website is like a private YouTube of all surf videos.
simple interface - no other junk that you have to deal with to get to the videos.
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Q: Convergence of $\sum^\infty_{n=1} \frac {e^{2ni}}{n\sqrt n}$ Does $$\sum^\infty_{n=1} \frac {e^{2ni}}{n\sqrt n}$$
Converge?
What test would you use to study the convergence of this series?

A: Note that $\vert e^{in \theta} \vert = 1$. Hence, we have
$$\left \vert \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \dfrac{e^{in\theta}}{n\sqrt{n}}\right \vert \leq \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \dfrac{\left \vert e^{in\theta}\right \vert}{n\sqrt{n}} =  \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \dfrac1{n\sqrt{n}} = \zeta(3/2)$$

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Background: Due to excellent properties such as degradability, high strength, and biocompatibility, polylactic acid (PLA) has received enormous attention recently as a promising potential candidate material to replace petroleum-based polymers. However, PLA shows high brittleness as well as low toughness which may limit its application.
Objective: In this work, PLA was melt blended with thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and then filled with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to produce environmentally friendly polymeric materials with improved mechanical properties.
Method: The specimens were prepared by using an internal mixer, followed by compression molding. Morphology of the matrix and particles dispersion state in the composite was investigated by using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), while mechanical properties were evaluated via impact and tensile tests.
Results: Observation from SEM's micrograph showed that two distinct phases were present in the blend, with selective localization of CNTs at one of the phases in the system. Thermodynamic calculation using Owen and Wendt's equation predicted that the CNTs were preferably dispersed at TPU phase. As CNTs content increased, the toughness of TPU/CNT and TPU/PLA/CNT composites increased whereas the toughness of PLA/CNT composite decreased, that might be ascribed to the phenomenon of selective localization of the CNTs. Other than that, the elongation at break of PLA/CNT, PLA/TPU/CNT and TPU/CNT also increased with the addition of CNT. The incorporation of TPU in the TPU/PLA blends also imparted ductility to the blends.
Conclusion: In conclusion, the selective localization prediction is in line with the trends observed in mechanical properties of PLA/TPU/MWCNT composites.
Keywords: Selective localization, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, polylactic acid, thermoplastic polyurethane, polymer blends, toughness enhancement.
Keywords:Selective localization, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, polylactic acid, thermoplastic polyurethane, polymer blends, toughness enhancement.
Abstract:Background: Due to excellent properties such as degradability, high strength, and biocompatibility, polylactic acid (PLA) has received enormous attention recently as a promising potential candidate material to replace petroleum-based polymers. However, PLA shows high brittleness as well as low toughness which may limit its application.


Set of 3 adorable and perfectly sized notebooks feature a beautiful bird on the cover sporting what else-- a bright crown of flowers! Just what you need to keep all your thoughts and doodles organized stylishly! Beware, these notebooks are guaranteed to get you noticed and encourage daydreaming. These look great on a coffee table or bookshelf, for an added dose of cute!
Each cover features a different image of a beautiful colorful bird!


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Q: Faker for Laravel Seeder I have a table users in a one-many relationship with a table called videos. I want to seed the two table without loosing data integrity. This is what I did below:
$factory->define(App\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
    'name' => $faker->name,
    'email' => $faker->email,
    'username' => $faker->unique()->userName
];
});

$factory->define(App\Video::class, function(Faker\Generator $faker){
    $user = factory(App\User::class)->create();
    return [
        'title' => $faker->city,
        'link' => $faker->domainName,
        'user_id' => $user->id,
        'description' => $faker->sentence(40)
    ];
});

So now all I have to do is create a VideoTableSeeder and run the amount I want. I feel like the way I am handling it is not good enough so I would like to know what better way I can do it. Especially, I want the videos to be more than users rather than the same amount, in the one I had done they will all be the same amount.

A: Checkout the documentation the section Adding Relations to Models

Adding Relations To Models
You may even persist multiple models to the database. In this example,
  we'll even attach a relation to the created models. When using the
  create method to create multiple models, an Eloquent collection
  instance is returned, allowing you to use any of the convenient
  functions provided by the collection, such as each:
$users = factory(App\User::class, 3)
             ->create()
             ->each(function($u) {
                  $u->posts()->save(factory(App\Post::class)->make());
              });


I'm in a E2E green filed implementation for a construction Industry. We have a unique reqmt. there are three different activity types for a single activity in PS,we want the costs for all these activity types to be shown as plan. s it possible in SAP. Please let me know.
Yes you can do this by using the activity 'element' functionality.
In this way a single activity can have 3 different 'resources' or elements...each costed separately.
Types of activity elements include: internal, external, cost, and service....just as if they were an activity.
The main difference is the activity elements cannot be separately scheduled.
They can only be offset to the start or finish date of the activity they are linked to.
Thanks for your immediate reply. We saw this option aswel. But the problem in this option that we faced is that, the activity has a different unit of measure and the activity types have different unit of measure. so while confirming that activity we have a problem. one more thins is that, in the project we have around 100 activities and for each activity there will be 3 activity elements which will be difficult from PS side to budget and do other things.


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Q: Chrome & Safari setInterval working slow (1Hz & 2Hz) on Active Tab
Goal: creating animation updated at 100Hz.

My animation updates the background-position property. Current background-position is calculated by a function that is supposed to fire 100 Times per second to create an illusion of smooth movement.

Problem: animation is not smooth in Chrome and Safari.

It behaves as if "updated background-position" function was fired only once per second in Chrome and only twice per second in Safari.

Additional information:

*

*my code works fine in Firefox 4 / Internet Explorer 8 and higher / Opera 11.10
(didn't test previous versions)

*I am using setInterval( function() { //do stuff here } , 10 ) to update my animation

*I am aware how Chrome handles JS in inactive tabs - the problem occurs on active tab

*I am using jQuery 1.7

I am sure there's gotta be a way to create smooth animations in Safari/Chrome. Please help.

Edit: I cannot use .animate() because I am tracking mouse movement and calculating current background position depending on where mouse points. For that I have to check mouse position every 10 milliseconds (and I must use setInterval for it).

A: Because you wan't to animate, and you are using jQuery, why do you put a setInterval at 10MS? While jQuery has an .animate function which will handle the animations? And this function has a Interval setting, where you can put the FPS.
$(element).animate(
        {backgroundPosition:"(0 -250px)"},
        {duration:500})
    })

More information about background animations: http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/jquery-bg-image-animations


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This paper examines the ethical, economic, and social considerations regarding what constituted "fair competition" during the NIRA and analyzes the role of industry members, workers, and consumers in these arguments.
Marcketti, Sara B., "Codes of Fair Competition: The National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933-1935 and the Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel Industry" (2009). Apparel, Events and Hospitality Management Conference Proceedings and Presentations. 25.


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Born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1907, Doris Hall studied painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts with the noted American artist Charles Hawthorne (1872 – 1930). She later returned to Ohio where she graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1928. Hall subsequently studied printmaking with Kalman Kubinyi, founder of the Cleveland Print Makers Club, whom she married in 1933.
Doris Hall first began to experiment with enameling in 1941, firing the enamels in a kiln her husband had built in their home. Fundamentally a colorist, Hall was attracted to the medium's richly varied palette and its potential to suggest visual depth through layers of transparent and opaque enamels.
While Hall is most often acknowledged as the creative artist, she frequently collaborated with her husband on both the design and construction of her pieces. Kubinyi typically hammered out the metal forms that Hall decorated with her highly experimental designs. In 1950, the Kubinyis left Cleveland, the center of enameling in the mid-20th century, to move to Gloucester, Massachusetts where they established a workshop and studio. Hall died in New York in 2000.


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Deis
Background & Personality
Skills & Abilities
Full Name: Deis (DAY-iss)
Alias: Bleu, The Devil, That Naked Chick In the Ruins
Occupation: The Laziest Goddess
Series: Breath of Fire III
Threat Level: City Smasher
Alignment: Neutral Good
Species: Endless
Short Description: Statuesque blue-haired woman with purple eyes
Misc: First summoned with her sister Myria by the humans of her world, Deis served as a goddess of magic and secrets. But when Myria's "children", the people of Caer Xhan, wiped themselves out through infighting, Myria decided that she'd need to eradicate anything that could possibly pose a threat to her people. This included a race of mostly-peaceful Dragons called "The Brood". Deis began to openly work against her sister then; it didn't take long for Myria to send her faithful to imprison Deis. Centuries later, one of the surviving Brood freed her and she assisted him in defeating Myria. She expected to be sent back to their original world when she and her sister fell... but she woke up in Twisted!
Age: Ageless Birthdate: Unknown
Height: 5'11" (180cm) Weight: ♥ ♥ ♥
Deis looks just slightly different depending on what form she's in. In whatever form she's in she has long blue hair and purple eyes. She wears a pair of golden bracers, golden bangles around her upper arms, a golden necklace around her neck, and golden drop earrings. A sleeveless purple tunic with a large keyhole at the center leaves her arms uncovered; the garment is closed at her waist with an ornate golden belt.
If she's in human form, she looks like... a human. A shapely human female with long blue hair, her legs covered by a flowing skirt. In her true form however, her lower half... is a green serpent! The scales are a pale green where they join to her body, but darken as they travel down to the end of her tail. Her snake half has an underbelly, too; it's a uniform pale cream color. Her join is covered by the bottom hem of her tunic.
For all her age and great power, Deis is remarkably lazy. She tends to use the least amount of effort to accomplish whatever it is she needs to do, and to put off taking care of problems until she physically cannot ignore them anymore. Additionally, Deis has been known to fall asleep -- on her own, with no sealing-up or curse to blame -- for centuries at a time. While she's asleep and not paying attention, things can get incredibly bad. And when she wakes up, she may find herself in a seriously bad situation!
Being that she was summoned to the world she came to Twisted from to be a goddess of magic and secrets, Deis has a lot of power at her disposal. The problem with this is that it means the atmosphere around her tends to be rather creepy. Her jovial attitude, ironically, tends to strike an 'uncanny valley' kind of juxtaposition to it, thus making things worse. It's not really enough to actively put people off, but it makes it dang near impossible to hide.
Deis is biologically part-serpent, and thus, she tends to dislike the cold. She won't willingly go where it's sub-zero temperatures unless she has a very good reason (i.e., someone she cares about it lost in the snow), and she will not willingly fight an opponent with ice abilities unless she has no choice.
Deis, along with her "sister" Myria, are extra-dimensional beings summoned to the world of humans to serve as gods. They were summoned by desert dwellers, dying in the parched lands and unable to spread beyond the oases, who wished to be able to advance as well as survive. Over the centuries after their summoning, Deis and Myria settled into the roles that had rather been thrust upon them. Deis wanted to let humans advance through hard work and achievement, but Myria disagreed. They were already in the middle of a desert and humans had struggled this long. Weren't they summoned to make life easier for humans, she countered?
Over Deis's objections, Myria soon built an orbital station with the technology from the two goddess's world, and gave her people a sprawling, advanced machine city where no one had to work. She had given her people a utopia. But, as Deis cautioned Myria they would do, her people squandered it. They began to fight amongst themselves for the blessings of Myria rather than work together. And so the city, Caer Xhan, fell into disrepair and the desert swallowed it up.
After this, Myria took what few humans survived and brought them to the other side of the world, where life overflowed. But on this side of the world was Yggdrasil. He too was an Endless, summoned to keep the world green and protect it from the encroaching desert from the other side. He took the form of a massive tree. However, he refused to allow Myria to take over the green part of the world. Deis cautioned Myria to leave Yggdrasil be. But Myria ignored her.
When Myria made her desire to take control at all costs known, Yggdrasil did not fight her, fearing for the world if their power were to be unleashed. And so she separated Yggdrasil's essence into six trees, placing five all around the green world and one on the barren side of the world. This kept him forever unable to consolidate his power again.
With Yggdrasil out of the way, Myria created a huge ocean, later called the Outer Sea, to separate the desert from the green part of the world. Then she wiped the memories of the remaining humans from the barren side of the world and placed them into the green world to live. This too was done over Deis's objections -- if they didn't remember their mistakes, she said, they would repeat them.
With Deis always criticizing Myria's actions, and Myria unwilling to listen to her sister goddess, a rift began to grow between the two. This eventually led to Deis leaving the orbital station. Deis made herself a lair in Mt. Zublo, an active volcano, and from there she watched Myria's vision for the world take shape.
A handful of people Myria had once granted wishes to far back had not disappeared from the world, though. They used the power granted to them to become Dragons, and their descendents, the Brood, still existed. Convinced that humans would destroy her now tiny world if they were allowed to keep this power, Myria decided to destroy the Brood. She chose four of her most loyal Urkan warriors and embued them with draconic powers. Then she sent them on a crusade to destroy the Dragons.
By and large Deis had stayed out of her sister's business; these were her mistakes to make. But when Myria's warriors began to destroy the Brood, she emerged from her lair and tried to speak reason. She tried to explain to the Guardians, Myria's dragon warriors, that they were doing wrong, but they took her words as blasphemy. And then they used their own powers to seal Deis in an underground room in Angel Tower. There she slept away the rest of the Great War against the Brood. Much as Yggdrasil had done, the Dragons didn't fight back, for fear that the world would be harmed. And so the Brood were mostly destroyed.
Five hundred years passed, and the Brood were mostly forgotten. In that time, history was rewritten by the Urkan people, and the Brood were cast as devils that tried to destroy the world, but were vanquished through the might of the Guardians. Deis was cast as an evil witch that had assisted the Brood, but she too had been vanquished by Myria's holy power.
But not all of the Brood had been destroyed. Some of the Brood had given up their powers and fled to the barren side of the world. Those who kept their powers conceived children and went into a deep sleep underground. Some of these children were destroyed, but one survived. His name was Ryu. he went on a journey to discover the truth about his people, the Brood, and what had really happened to them.
Along the way, Ryu awakened Deis. Deis was shocked to see Guardian Garr, and struck him several times before she found out that Garr was /helping/ Ryu rather than trying to kill him, so she decided to help. Now freed, she went back to her lair at Mt. Zublo, where a slab of stone with ancient inscriptions had been erected. There she waited for Ryu, and when he arrived, gave him the ability to sense Myria's general location. Before she was imprisoned she would have been able to take them right to where Myria was, she said, but this would have to do for now.
Deis continued to serve as occasional advisor and teacher to Ryu throughout his journey. Deis didn't show herself again until Ryu and his friends had defeated Myria. As she descended into the bowels of her orbital station, myria called out for guidance. And Deis appeared before her. She said again that Myria had gone too far with things in her attempt to destroy the Brood. But that she was sure humans would be able to figure things out themselves. That said, Deis took her place beside her sister as they descended.
However, something separated them. Deis wasn't sure what it was, but she was suddenly in another place. A city that had all kinds of people in it! Not just people, either. She had ended up in Twisted somehow. And she had no idea if her sister had come here as well...
Deis is essentially a goddess of magic. She possesses some of the strongest magic in her world, and is actually one of the sources from which magic originate in her world. After a five-hundred year sleep, she's a little weaker than she was back before the Great War, but she's still no slouch. Magic comes as naturally to her as breathing.
Her physical capabilities are nothing to be ashamed of either. Even in her weakest form, right after waking up from a five-hundred year imprisonment, she's strong enough to uppercut a six-hundred pound creature about fifteen feet away from her. In her true form she possesses the lower half of a serpent, and her strength only increases. She can easily crush a full-grown human with her serpent half. Not just suffocate, the way a real-life constrictor does. But literally CRUSH a man to death in her coils.
She's also been alive for longer than human civilization has existed in her world. Several thousand years at least. The technology that Myria used to create her orbital station came from their world, so it's reasonable to assume her technology is pretty advanced. However, that also means that she's unable to figure out simpler technology. So while her command of a super-advanced, magitech-powered supercomputer might be second to none, she'd struggle with things like modern personal computers, cellular phones, and vehicles.
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Godrej Properties had earlier announced an expansion in Bengaluru and Gurgaon markets by adding two housing projects comprising 1.6 million square feet of saleable area.
New Delhi: This Group has acquired land in Gurgaon for an undisclosed amount. Godrej Properties, the real estate arm of the Godrej group, announced that it has acquired a land parcel measuring about 14.8 acres in Sector 106, Gurgaon. The company plans to develop a high-end residential housing project comprising 1.5 million sq ft area. "This project will be developed in partnership with Godrej Residential Investment Program II. This is the fourth project under GRIP II, the $275 million funds which were announced in March 2016," the Mumbai-based developer said in a statement.
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"This fits well with our strategy of building our presence in the country's leading real estate markets. We look forward to delivering an outstanding project," said Pirojsha Godrej, the company's executive chairman.
Earlier this week, Godrej Properties had announced an expansion in Bengaluru and Gurgaon markets by adding two housing projects comprising 1.6 million square feet of saleable area.
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Sheba, Baby è un film del 1975 diretto da William Girdler, con protagonista Pam Grier.

Fa parte del filone della blaxploitation, sottogenere dell'exploitation in voga negli anni settanta e omaggiata da Quentin Tarantino con il film Jackie Brown, la cui protagonista è sempre l'attrice nera di culto Pam Grier.

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Sheba Shayne, investigatrice privata di Chicago, torna nella sua città d'origine nel Kentucky per aiutare suo padre, un imprenditore locale, a difendersi da un'organizzazione criminale che lo perseguita. Durante la sua missione Sheba troverà un prezioso alleato nel suo ex fidanzato Brick.

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Michiganders work hard to provide for their families. Hard work isn't enough, unfortunately, for those who fail to make an estate plan. Estate planning is not just for the rich; parents with minor children need estate plans, as do people who prefer not to pay more taxes than necessary, and people who like to be in control of decisions regarding their health and assets. In a nutshell, everyone can benefit from an estate plan designed especially for their needs.
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We want to transform this tired, unwelcoming bridge into a fresh, exciting and colourful gateway into our vibrant capital city.
Marc Heatley
What we need to get started
Creating a new landmark for the city
The bridge at the junction of Newport Road and Queen Street is viewed by thousands of residents, commuters and tourists everyday and should engage, excite and represent our city positively. A bilingual public artwork that reflects the best the city has to offer.
Designed by the people
We propose to create a permanent piece of artwork using local, designers, illustrators and artists inspired by different aspects of the city. We believe strongly in supporting the creative industries and so these would be paid commissions, to design a single letter or pair of letters.
We want the people of Cardiff to submit their ideas of what deserves a place in the final design. This would be an open invitation to share what makes the city special for them. We think this a great way to engage the public in the process early on and will provide rich content for promoting the project as it progresses.
We would like to create a schools engagement pack and lesson plans that could include resources for students to design their own "Croeso" bridge. We think there are many subject links that could be explored from Cardiff's role in the Coal industry to sustainable transport for the future.
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Mainers pay final respects to President Bush in Washington, D.C.
Thousands of people came to our nation's capital to pay their final respects to President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday, among them, Mainers.
WASHINGTON D.C. (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- Thousands of people traveled from near and far to say goodbye to our nation's 41st President, George H.W. Bush, including Mainers.
Amanda Laihou grew up in Raymond but has lived in the D.C. for a number of years. She felt it was her duty to come and pay her respects to a man she admired so much growing up.
"It's just a very moving experience to see all these people paying their tributes," Laihou said. "And the respect that people have inside the Rotunda, it's moving."
Kennebunkport residents Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen were also in the crowd of people. The pair formed a very special relationship with both the President and First Lady over the years.
"It was just important to be here and to say goodbye and show our respects." Thorgalsen said.
The two own a general store that the Bush family would often visit.
"We've been friends with them for so long and we didn't know if we would have an opportunity to say goodbye," Clement said. "Well this is it this is a great place to do it."
"Talk about someone who had a great run it was him." Thorgalsen said.


Jimmy is the husband of one of my law partners, and he makes the very best frozen margaritas I've ever had. He has been promising to show me his closely guarded recipe for some time. Recently we all got together for some Mexican food … and some of his terrific frozen margaritas. Jimmy finally showed me his recipe and allowed me to divulge it to you, but only under one condition: that it be followed exactly. So here it is.
Take one 12 oz can of frozen lime juice concentrate and empty one half (6 oz.) into your best blender. Add 4 oz of 100% agave tequila, and 2 oz of Cointreau. This mixture will be light green or maybe dark yellow. Add about 1 oz of Disaronno amaretto liqueur, which is just enough to make it lightly brown.
Fill the blender with ice to the top ice line, and blend it on the crush option.
Once you can no longer hear ice chunks (about 45 seconds to a minute or more), blend it on the liquefy option for about 30 seconds more.
You're ready to pour into glasses.
Pour the margaritas into the cups, garnish with a lime wedge and enjoy!
Take one 12 oz can of frozen lime juice concentrate and empty one half (6 oz.) into your best blender. Add 4 oz of 100% agave tequila, and 2 oz of Cointreau. This mixture will be light green or even darker yellow. Add about 1 oz of Disaronno amaretto liqueur, which is just enough to make it lightly brown.
Once you can no longer hear ice chunks (about 45 seconds to a minute or more), blend it on the liquefy option for about 30 seconds more. You're ready to pour into glasses.


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Q: Change cardinality of item in C# dictionary I've got a dictionary, something like
Dictionary<Foo,String> fooDict

I step through everything in the dictionary, e.g.
foreach (Foo foo in fooDict.Keys)
    MessageBox.show(fooDict[foo]);

It does that in the order the foos were added to the dictionary, so the first item added is the first foo returned.
How can I change the cardinality so that, for example, the third foo added will be the second foo returned? In other words, I want to change its "index."

A: If you read the documentation on MSDN you'll see this:
"The order in which the items are returned is undefined."
You can't gaurantee the order, because a Dictionary is not a list or an array.  It's meant to look up a value by the key, and any ability to iterate values is just a convenience but  the order is not behavior you should depend on.

A: You may be interested in the OrderedDicationary class that comes in System.Collections.Specialized namespace.
If you look at the comments at the very bottom, someone from MSFT has posted this interesting note:

This type is actually misnamed; it is not an 'ordered' dictionary as such, but rather an 'indexed' dictionary. Although, today there is no equivalent generic version of this type, if we add one in the future it is likely that we will name such as type 'IndexedDictionary'.

I think it would be trivial to derive from this class and make a generic version of OrderedDictionary.

A: I am not fully educated in the domain to properly answer the question, but I have a feeling that the dictionary sorts the values according to the key, in order to perform quick key search. This would suggest that the dictionary is sorted by key values according to key comparison. However, looking at object methods, I assume they are using hash codes to compare different objects considering there is no requirement on the type used for keys. This is only a guess. Someone more knowledgey should fill in with more detail.
Why are you interested in manipulating the "index" of a dictionary when its purpose is to index with arbitrary types?

A: I don't know if anyone will find this useful, but here's what I ended up figuring out. It seems to work (by which I mean it doesn't throw any exceptions), but I'm still a ways away from being able to test that it works as I hope it does. I have done a similar thing before, though.
        public void sortSections()
    {
        //OMG THIS IS UGLY!!!
        KeyValuePair<ListViewItem, TextSection>[] sortable = textSecs.ToArray();
        IOrderedEnumerable<KeyValuePair<ListViewItem, TextSection>> sorted = sortable.OrderBy(kvp => kvp.Value.cardinality);

        foreach (KeyValuePair<ListViewItem, TextSection> kvp in sorted)
        {
            TextSection sec = kvp.Value;
            ListViewItem key = kvp.Key;

            textSecs.Remove(key);
            textSecs.Add(key, sec);
        }
    }

A: The short answer is that there shouldn't be a way since a Dictionary "Represents a collection of keys and values." which does not imply any sort of ordering.  Any hack you might find is outside the definition of the class and may be liable to change.
You should probably first ask yourself if a Dictionary is really called for in this situation, or if you can get away with using a List of KeyValuePairs.
Otherwise, something like this might be useful:
public class IndexableDictionary<T1, T2> : Dictionary<T1, T2>
{
    private SortedDictionary<int, T1> _sortedKeys;

    public IndexableDictionary()
    {
        _sortedKeys = new SortedDictionary<int, T1>();
    }
    public new void Add(T1 key, T2 value)
    {
        _sortedKeys.Add(_sortedKeys.Count + 1, key);
        base.Add(key, value);
    }

    private IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<T1, T2>> Enumerable()
    {
        foreach (T1 key in _sortedKeys.Values)
        {
            yield return new KeyValuePair<T1, T2>(key, this[key]);
        }
    }

    public new IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<T1, T2>> GetEnumerator()
    {
        return Enumerable().GetEnumerator();
    }

    public KeyValuePair<T1, T2> this[int index]
    {
        get
        {
            return new KeyValuePair<T1, T2> (_sortedKeys[index], base[_sortedKeys[index]]);
        }
        set
        {
            _sortedKeys[index] = value.Key;
            base[value.Key] = value.Value;
        }

    }

}

With client code looking something like this:
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IndexableDictionary<string, string> fooDict = new IndexableDictionary<string, string>();

        fooDict.Add("One", "One");
        fooDict.Add("Two", "Two");
        fooDict.Add("Three", "Three");

        // Print One, Two, Three
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in fooDict)
            Console.WriteLine(kvp.Value);

        KeyValuePair<string, string> temp = fooDict[1];
        fooDict[1] = fooDict[2];
        fooDict[2] = temp;

        // Print Two, One, Three
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in fooDict)
            Console.WriteLine(kvp.Value);

        Console.ReadLine();
    }

UPDATE: For some reason it won't let me comment on my own answer.
Anyways, IndexableDictionary is different from OrderedDictionary in that

*

*"The elements of an OrderedDictionary are not sorted in any way." So foreach's would not pay attention to the numerical indices

*It is strongly typed, so you don't have to mess around with casting things out of DictionaryEntry structs


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Antonín Petr Příchovský z Příchovic (celým jménem Antonín Petr Filip Augustin Josef hrabě Příchovský z Příchovic, 28. srpna 1707, Svojšín – 14. dubna 1793, Praha) byl český šlechtic a římskokatolický duchovní, biskup královéhradecký (1753–1763) a arcibiskup pražský a primas český (1764–1793).

Život

Pocházel ze starého českého vladyckého rodu Příchovských z Příchovic, podle Příchovic v západních Čechách. Po studiích v Římě a v Praze byl roku 1731 vysvěcen na kněze a získal titul doktora teologie na Karlově univerzitě. 19. listopadu 1752 byl jmenován biskupským koadjutorem a nástupcem, pražským světícím biskupem a tituláním biskupem hemeské diecéze. V letech 1754-1763 byl také biskupem v Hradci Králové.

Dne 12. listopadu 1755 byl svatovítskou kapitulou zvolen za jejího probošta. Po smrti arcibiskupa Jana Mořice Gustava z Manderscheid-Blankenheimu byl 26. října 1763 zvolen novým pražským arcibiskupem.

Za jeho episkopátu proběhla rozsáhlá přestavba pražského Arcibiskupského paláce v rokokovém stylu, při které získal svou dnešní podobu.

V roce 1770 vyšel jím aktualizovaný a rozšířený Koniášův index nebezpečných knih pod názvem Index librorum prohibitorum et corrigendorum.
Arcibiskup Antonín Petr Příchovský z Příchovic zemřel v Praze den 14. dubna 1793 a byl pochován v katedrále sv. Víta.

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Královéhradečtí biskupové
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Narození 28. srpna
Narození ve Svojšíně
Úmrtí v roce 1793
Úmrtí 14. dubna
Úmrtí v Praze
Pohřbení v katedrále sv. Víta v Praze
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Carrie McGills' freshman class shows their suicide prevention posters with Alisa Merino of Suicide Prevention Network Thursday.
Freshman Trey Alfonso displays his suicide prevention poster.
Emma Jorgenson encourages people to make time to listen with her suicide prevention poster Thursday.
Students drew posters with encouraging phrases to help prevent suicide in Douglas County schools.
When: 6-7:30 p.m. the first Thursday of the month.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teens in the United States. Nevada averaged the 10th highest suicide rate among 10-19 year-olds in the nation from 1999-2009.
To keep those rates at bay in Nevada and Douglas County, Suicide Prevention program coordinator Alisa Merino presented a "Teen Talk" to Douglas High School's Carrie McGill's health class Thursday.
Merino presented the facts about suicide and where and how to get help or what to do if a friend is suffering.
She hopes talking to teens about suicide will save lives, not just at the school, but in the community too.
"I want to give those who don't have a voice, a voice and change lives," said Merino.
During the presentation, Merino showed students a picture of smiling, angry and sad people and asked them to identify the person who was depressed and maybe thinking about suicide.
Many pointed at the people who looked angry or sad.
"They all could be suffering," said Merino. "Not everyone has obvious signs of depression. Anyone could be at risk. To help them, we have to listen and be a friend."
Merino explained the difference of being sad and being depressed.
"Sadness is a normal human reaction to something that we get upset about — not winning the football game, not performing well on a test, a break-up. Depression is an abnormal emotional state that lasts two weeks or longer and affects everyday function and lifestyle."
Students shared what makes them sad, angry and stressed then learned how to manage those emotions in a healthy way.
"Everyone feels sad, depressed or angry sometimes, especially when dealing with the pressures of school, friends and family," said Merino. "Some people may feel sadness or hopelessness that just won't go away, and even small problems may seem like too much to handle."
Students were given advice on how to handle a situation where a friend is considering suicide.
"If you have a friend who is showing warning signs, don't wait to see if they will start to feel better, talk about it; they most likely will want to talk," said Merino. "It will show them that they are cared for and understood and it could provide a chance to ask 'have you been thinking about trying to kill yourself?' Asking if someone is thinking about suicide will not put the idea in their head."
Students also learned not to keep suicide a secret, whether they're the ones suffering or a friend.
"If you have a friend struggling don't keep it a secret even if they ask you to; because if you keep it a secret you are not helping anyone. They might get mad at you, but would you rather them be mad at you or have them dead?" asked freshman Morgan-le-Fae Veatch.
After the presentation students created awareness posters to be put around the high school, middle schools and community to help raise awareness about suicide.
Some read "speak up," "reach out," "make time," "be a friend" and "don't let your story end."
The posters represented what a student would say to a friend in need or what they would want someone to say to them and spreading a message of hope and help.
"I think it's (Suicide Prevention Network) a great resource for myself and someone else to use to help those who need it," said freshman Raven Cuzzort. "A lot of the times these resources are there for the one suffering, but not for the one trying to help. This presentation and the program showed us where we can go to get help and how to help a friend in need."
Suicide Prevention Network is a nonprofit agency that provides the resources to receive help, hope, comfort, understanding and support in a confidential environment while creating awareness in the community.
"There are many resources to receive help, whether it's for you or someone you know. Don't wait for things to get better, reach out," said Merino.
Douglas High School offers a Living Out Loud teen group that meets twice a month and discusses how teens can make a difference. Meetings are held the first and third Wednesday of the month 2:20-3:30 p.m. at the high school.
For more information visit spnawareness.org or 783-1510.


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Nokia and CMCC produced the world's first 5G artificial intelligence powered cloud VR experience. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are now available in 5D for live VR gaming experiences. Join us to find out all about this collaboration and the benefits of such a tech improvement!
Following the latest trends and tech solutions, modern users and gamers have become more demanding. Companies all around the world are trying to improve their user experience and stay on top of the competition by introducing various cutting-edge tech solutions in their business. However, the fastest growing industry brings new trends overnight, and that's the reason why users always want something fresh and more advanced.
As technology grows, something that was a mind-blowing solution a few months ago becomes outdated as soon as something new appears. Following that theory, developers worldwide are trying to perfect the existing solutions and cater to a satisfied audience.
VR Gaming of Today's
Virtual reality and augmented reality games are the most demanding apps that work in real time. However, such apps have been available for a while, but this upgraded solution provides gamers with a much better experience.
Nokia and CMCC joined forces to create an intelligent radio network architecture that can support the usage of edge cloud computing in combination with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.
This novelty will affect all industries across all verticals, but let's find out what their collaboration means and how it will affect the gaming industry.
At the Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC), on February 27, Nokia announced their collaboration with CMCC, where they demonstrated a 5G AI-powered, quality of experience solution for virtual reality gaming applications.
Using the latest O-RSN Alliance edge cloud for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and real-time computing, Nokia and China's Mobile Research Institute managed to ensure the best user experience. Managing and updating machine learning powered models and adapting 5G connection of VR is possible thanks to the open API-based O-RAN RIC architecture.
Chief Scientist at China Mobile Research Institute, Dr. Chih-Lin I, said:
"At this MWC, China Mobile and the partners successfully demonstrated multiple capabilities based on O-RAN architecture, among of which VR gaming QoE use case is the most eye-catching one.
The Optimization of top-level service QoE is one of the most important RIC use cases, in which CMCC and Nokia have been accelerating the research for a long time, and already achieved a series of results, and its broad application prospect is highly expected. "
The foundation for such a project is Nokia's 5G commercial-ready Air Scale base station, a Cloud RAN split CU/DU architecture for 5G networks. However, together with the China Mobile Research Institute, they tested a VR gaming app based on artificial intelligence with machine learning, allowing trained models to learn and improve over time.
Ultra-low latency, enabled by VR video rendering in the cloud, is the first tech improvement of this kind, and Nokia strongly believes that open interfaces and open architecture are crucial for 5G to work as a wide eco-system. Real-time intelligence also ensures correspondence to the highly variable bit rate of virtual reality traffic.
Head of Cloud RAN at Nokia, Michael Clever, said: "This is one of the most exciting 5G Edge Computing demonstrations at MWC. VR gaming on a mobile network combines all the ingredients that make 5G so promising," and then he explained that Nokia is proud to be working closely with CMCC ''to extend the capabilities of the O-RAN architecture.''
Moreover, Michael Clever explained that O-RAN architecture enables them to combine the capabilities of Open Edge Server with the 5G radio network.
How Will This Collaboration Improve the Gaming Industry?
VR gaming apps have become cutting-edge technologies, and the favorite way of entertainment among gamers and modern users. However, as we mentioned above, VR gaming in real time is so complex, and that's why the transmission of the signal isn't always in real time.
The gaming experience over O-RAN eliminates latency, enabling a real-time response. Their algorithms succeed in eliminating connection issues, allowing for automatic, accurate, and almost real-time responses. Latency during VR gaming has a negative impact on user experience, and that's why many gamers disliked virtual reality apps until now.
This cutting-edge technological progress will affect other industries, too. Virtual and augmented reality have already hit various industries, including architecture, real estate, the film industry, and many more. With this improvement, companies among all industries will be able to rely on 5G virtual reality and utilize all the benefits of VR.
Just when we thought that VR technology reached its peak, Nokia and China's Mobile Research Institute have blown our minds with the very first live VR gaming based on artificial intelligence and machine learning over 5G networks. This combination of the most advanced technological solutions will surely grow in the following few years.
We hope that their collaboration will bring even better VR apps, as well as lots of brand new cloud-based services. For now, we should wait until the next Mobile World Congress!


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