The Koschman report issued by Dan Webb and his team is a must-read for all of law enforcement whose job it is to serve and protect the public. But for all the rich, factual detail in the report about Koschman's death after a punch by R.J. Vanecko, the former mayor's nephew, what I found most instructive was what was not in the report: Where was that everyday law enforcement hero?
Where was that person who believed that it was his or her job to get to the bottom of the facts of this difficult "heater" case in order that justice could be done?
2.) In heater cases, law enforcement cannot allow the investigation to be adversely influenced by the identity of the suspect or, for that matter, the identity of the victim.
When I had the privilege to work in law enforcement, the very best investigators I knew took ownership of their cases and treated the heater cases with professionalism and passion. If an agent found out that the suspect was politically connected, that made the agent more determined — not less — to get to the bottom of the matter.
For example, in the investigation into licenses for bribes at the secretary of state's office, I vividly recall how the actions of dedicated line agents like Russ Sonneveld (now deceased) led to breakthroughs. Indeed, without them, there would have been no cases to bring. When their investigation turned into a heater case unpopular with some of their politically connected superiors, they did not shrink from their task. They were the everyday heroes the Koschman case seems to have lacked.
Think for a moment if the identities in the Koschman case were switched: What if the victim was related to a public figure and the suspect was a "nobody." Without the intervention of any public official, it's reasonable to assume that the law enforcement community would redouble its efforts to get to the bottom of the wrongdoing and proactively seek charges if the facts warranted them. Yet, that does not appear to have happened here.
Instead, the Webb report paints a picture of a collective law enforcement community concerned too little with the aggressive gathering of facts and too much with the "what if" consequences of an investigation of a politically connected suspect. The end result: A difficult case was under-investigated, and in the place of facts and evidence, individuals substituted theories, biases and otherwise positioned the case for a particular outcome.
As it was obligated to do, the Webb Report analyzed whether any members of law enforcement committed a criminal act. Yet, the lasting lessons for most of the law enforcement community are not lessons about the contours of criminal liability. There is something much more fundamental at stake.
When tough but important cases are presented to law enforcement for investigation, the investigative team has to be objective and fearless. There is no room for the investigator to concern himself with the identity of the suspect or potential consequences depending on the results of the factual investigation.
Most important, we need law enforcement to be our everyday heroes — both for the communities in which we live and for the victims of the offenses.
Patrick Collins is a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in Chicago.


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Stjernen (in English: The Star) was a Nebraskan newspaper published in the Danish language, founded in either 1884 or December 1885, and ran until 1896. At the time, it was the only newspaper in Danish in the state.

Published and edited by Peter Ebbesen (when he was between 24 and 26 years old), Stjernen was founded in St. Paul, Nebraska, before being moved to Dannebrog in 1886. It concerned itself primarily with the county of Howard, but there is evidence it circulated in other parts of the state, nearby states, and Denmark. Because many of its readers were farmers of Danish descent, agriculture and Danish affairs were central aspects of the paper. For farming, there were agronomical advertisements, deals reached between farm cooperatives and the paper, and pricing information for crops. And as for issues relating to Denmark, Stjernen published information relating to Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup's ministry.

Due to a shortage of money, it had suspended operations in 1894, and after a fire, it closed two years later. According to Ebbesen, while there was demand for the paper to return following its closure, it would not return a profit, so he declined to revive it.

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Group picture taken at the Scotiabank Arena before the NBA game of Raptors vs. Hawks (Raptors won! 104:101) on Jan. 8, 2019
PI: Yu Sun
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Inst. of Biomedical Engineering (jointly appointed)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (jointly appointed)
Dept. of Computer Science (jointly appointed)
Founding Director, UofT Robotics Institute
Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute
Visiting Scholars:
Dahai Li (Metrology and Robotics), from Xi'an Aerospace Propulsion Test Technique Institute
Weiran Yao (Robotics and Automation), from Harbin Institute of Technology
Mahmoud Salah Hosny Abdelkarim (Microfluidics), from Assiut University, Egypt
Postdoctoral Associates:
Dr. Xin, Liming (Instrumentation for Heart Perfusion); Ph.D. from Shenyang Inst. Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Xingjian Liu (Metrology and Robotics); Ph.D. from Huazhong U. of Science and Technology
Dr. Jiangfan Yu (Magnetic Micromanipulation); Ph.D. from Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Zhuoran Zhang (Medical Robotics); Ph.D. from University of Toronto
Graduate Students (Research Assistants):
Chen, Wenyuan (Computer Vision) - from Huazhong U. of Science and Technology
Chu, Lap-Tak (Robotics) - from University of British Columbia
Cui, Teng (Nanomechanics) - from University of Toronto
Dai, Changsheng (Microrobotics) - Connaught International Scholarship; from Harbin Insitute of Technology
Dou, Wenkun (BioMEMS) - CSC Scholarship; from Dalian University of Technology
Du, Linghao (Nanoinstrumentation) - from South China University of Technology
Gong, Zheyuan (Robotics) - from Beihang University
Huang, Zongjie (Microfluidics) - from Soochow University
Law, Junhui (Robotics) - Ontario Trillium Scholarship; from City University of Hong Kong
Liu, Hang (Computer Vision) - CSC Scholarship; from Shanghai University
Luo, Bonnie (Intracellular Mechanics) - from University of Toronto
Madhusudanan, Harikrishnan (Metrology and Robotics) - from SRM University, Chennai, India
Shan, Guanqiao (Robotics) - Connaught International Scholarship; from Beihang University
Tang, Wentian (Robotics) - from Harbin Institute of Technology
Wang, Xian (Nuclear Mechanics) - MITACS Scholarship; from Tianjin University
Zhang, Kaiwen (Tissue Mechanics) - from University of Toronto
Zhu, Min (Cell Mechanobiology); from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Current Undergraduate Research Students:
Yuchen Lu, Mechanical Engineering, UofT
Yining Wang, Mechanical Engineering, UofT
Avelyn Wong, Mechanical Engineering, UofT
John Lee, Engineering Science, UofT
Dr. Xian Wang, Ph.D. student (2015-2020). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children
Dr. Min Zhu, Ph.D. student (2015-2020). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children
Dr. Teng Cui, Ph.D. student (2016-2020). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Dr. Changsheng Dai, Ph.D. student (2016-2020). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Dr. Zhuoran Zhang, Ph.D. student (2014-2019). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Dr. Zhensong Xu, Ph.D. student (2014-2018). First position after AMNL: Engineer, Toronto
Dr. Haijiao Liu, Ph.D. student (2013-2018). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Jun Chen, Ph.D. student (2013-2018). First position after AMNL: Engineer, China
Dr. Jun Liu, Ph.D. student (2011-2016). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University; now Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Changhong Cao, Ph.D. student (2011-2016). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT; now Assistant Professor at McGill University
Dr. Yi Zheng, Ph.D. student (2010-2014). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Dr. Brandon Chen, Ph.D. student (2009-2013). First position after AMNL: Entrepreneur in Toronto
Dr. Yong Zhang, Ph.D. student (2007-2011). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Dr. Jian Chen, Ph.D. student (2007-2011). First position after AMNL: Assistant Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Dr. Xinyu Liu, Ph.D. student (2005-2009). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; now Associate Professor at University of Toronto
Dr. Chris Moraes, Ph.D. student (2005-2010). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan; now Assistant Professor at McGill University
Dr. Yali Gao, Ph.D. student (2006-2008). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Toronto
Dr. Keekyoung Kim, Ph.D. student (2004-2008). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University; now Assistant Professor at University of Calgary
Dr. Jianfan Yu, postdoctoral fellow (2019-2020). First position after AMNL: Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Dr. Xingjian Liu, postdoctoral fellow (2018-2020). First position after AMNL: Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr. Liming Xin, postdoctoral fellow (2016-2020). First position after AMNL: Professor, Shanghai University
Dr. Qili Zhao, postdoctoral fellow (2015-2018). First position after AMNL: Assistant Professor, Nankai University, China
Dr. Wang, Li, postdoctoral fellow (2016-2018). First position after AMNL: Associate Professor, Qilu University of Technology, China
Dr. Gong, Zheng, postdoctoral fellow (2012-2015). First position after AMNL: Senior Software Engineer, Toronto
Dr. Chaoyang Shi, postdoctoral fellow (2014-2015). First position after AMNL: Associate Professor, Tianjin University
Prof. Qinmin Yang, visiting professor (2014-2015). Associate Professor, Zhejiang University
Prof. Chao Zhou, visiting professor (2014-2015). Associate Professor in the Institute of Automation (Beijing), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Luke MacQueen, postdoctoral fellow (2011-2013). First position after AMNL: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Dr. Graham Ferrier, postdoctoral fellow (2011-2012).
Dr. Zhe Lu, postdcotoral fellow and research associate (2009-2012). First position after AMNL: Senior Engineer, Toronto
Prof. Xuezhong Wu, visiting professor (2011-2012). Professor at the University of National Defense Technology, China
Prof. Jun Luo, visisting professor (2010-2011). Professor at Shanghai University
Dr. Yanliang Zhang, postdcotoral fellow (2010-2011). First position after AMNL: Senior Research Scientist, MathWorks Inc. in Boston
Dr. Xuping Zhang, postdcotoral fellow (2009-2011). First position after AMNL: Engineer, Toronto; now Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr. Mohamed Abdelgawad, postdcotoral fellow (2008-2010). First position after AMNL: Assistant Professor, Assiut University, Egypt
Dr. Changhai Ru, postdoctoral fellow (2009-2010). Professor at Soochow University, China
Dr. Jianhua Tong, postdoctoral fellow (2005-2008). First position after AMNL: Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Wenhui Wang, postdoctoral fellow (2005-2007). First position after AMNL: Assistant Professor, U. Canterbury, New Zealand; now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
Harikrishnan Madhusudanan, Master student (2018-2020). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Linghao Du , Master student (2018-2020). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Bonnie Luo, Master student (2017-2019). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Devin Luu, Master student (2014-2016). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Wes Johnson, Master student (2014-2016). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Mark Cachia, Master student (2014-2016). First position after AMNL: graduate student at Univ. of Western Ontario
Jun Wen, Master student (2013-2015). First position after AMNL: graduate student at Univ. California - Berkeley
Yuan Wei, Master student (2012-2015). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
John Nguyen, Master student (2012-2014). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Derek Pyne, Master student (2011-2013). First position after AMNL: engineer at Baylis Medical Company
Ehsan Shojaei, Master student (2010-2012). First position after AMNL: engineer at ATS Automation in Cambridge
Xutao Ye, Master student (2010-2012). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Qingyuan Tan, Master student (2010-2012). First position after AMNL: graduate student at U. of Windsor
Haijiao Liu, Master student (2010-2012). Continued for Ph.D. at AMNL, U. of Toronto
Bogdan Beca, Master student (2009-2012). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Leung, Clement, Master student (2009-2011). First position after AMNL: engineer in Toronto
Steven To, Master student (2009-2011). First position after AMNL: engineer in Edmonton
Jason Li, Master student (2009-2011). First position after AMNL: Ph.D. student in School of Pharmacy, U. of Toronto
Eric Wu, Master student (2007-2009). First position after AMNL: engineer in Ottawa
Brandon Chen, Master student (2007-2009). Continued for Ph.D. at AMNL, U. of Toronto
Nate Lipkowitz, Master student (2006-2008)
Pablo Neiman, Master student (2005-2007). First position after AMNL: engineer, NexJ Systems Inc.
Ayman Afanah, Master student (2004-2005). First position after AMNL: engineer, Microsoft
James Huang, undergraduate research student (2017), NSERC Scholarship
Clement Ho, undergraduate research student (2017), NSERC Scholarship
Neel Bhatt, undergraduate research student (2016), NSERC Scholarship
Ningrui Xu, undergraduate research student (2016), MIE Summer Award
Matthew Halat, undergraduate research student (2015), NSERC Scholarship
Paul Xu, undergraduate research student (2014), NSERC Scholarship
Matthew Ng, undergraduate research student (2013), NSERC Scholarship
Dan Litovitz, undergraduate research student (2013), NSERC Scholarship
Amardeep Ranu, undergraduate research student (2012-2013)
ZongYi Yang, undergraduate research student (2012-2013)
Jun Wen, undergraduate research student (2012-2013)
Justin Wee, undergraduate research student (2012), NSERC Scholarship
Derek Yang, undergraduate research student (2012)
Kathryn Tang, undergraduate research student (2011-2012), NSERC Scholarship
John Nguyen, undergraduate research student (2011-2012), NSERC Scholarship
David Biancolin, undergraduate research student (2011), NSERC Scholarship
David Xue, undergraduate research student (2010-2011), Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Award
Steven Chen, undergraduate research student (2010-2011)
Jack Liang, undergraduate research student (2009-2010)
Mario Moscovici, undergraduate research student (2009-2010)
Nika Shakiba, undergraduate research student (2009-2010), NSERC Scholarship
Andy Wu, undergraduate research student (2009-2010)
Lyndia Wu, summer undergraduate research student (2009), NSERC Scholarship
Suthakar Sabapathy, undergraduate research student (2008-2009)
Vidya Amenon, undergraduate research student (2007-2008), NSERC Scholarship
Soo Baek, undergraduate research student (2007-2008), NSERC Scholarship
Robert Cicoria, undergraduate research student (2007-2008), M.D. student, Case Western
Prathit Bugnait, undergraduate research student (2007-2008)
John Barboza, undergraduate research student (2007-2008)
Vishvajit Singh, undergraduate research student (2007-2008), Engineer, Koei Co.
Steven Boland, undergraduate research student (2007), NSERC Scholarship
Eric Wu, undergraduate research student (2006-2007), NSERC Scholarship; Master student, U. Toronto
Cosmin Laslau, undergraduate research student (2005-2007); Engineer, Nanomaterials Texas
Ben Mahar, undergraduate research student (2005-2006)
Yifei Wang, undergraduate research student (2006-2007), NSERC Scholarship; M.D. student, U. Western Ontario
Egor Sanin, undergraduate research student (2006-2007); Master student, U. Toronto
Jason Lai, undergraduate research student (2006), NSERC Scholarship
Ali Hashemi, undergraduate research student (2005-2006)
Bob Lansdorp, undergraduate research student (2005-2006); Engineer, Micronit Microfluidics, Netherlands
Raymond Choi, undergraduate research student (2004-2005)
G.Q. Shan completed his Ph.D. defense. (09/2022)
M. Zhu was awarded a SickKids RESTRACOMP postdoctoral fellowship. (08/2022)
MARSS'22 was held July 25-28 in Toronto, hosted on the campus of UofT. (07/2022)
Y. Sun received the IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award. (06/2022)
Z.J. Huang completed his Ph.D. defense; Y. Sun chaired the ETH MSRL 20th anniversary symposium in Zurich. (05/2022)
T. Cui was awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. (02/2022)
W.K. Dou was awarded a SickKids RESTRACOMP postdoctoral fellowship. (01/2021)
Y. Sun was awarded an NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation. (12/2021)
Y. Sun was elected to be a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. (11/2021)
Y. Sun started his term as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering. (10/2021)
D.K. Dou completed his Ph.D. defense. (09/2021)
X. Wang was awarded a prestigious Dunn Brain Tumor Research Fellowship. (08/2021)
Z.R. Zhang started his Assistant Professor position at CUHK-Shenzhen. (07/2021)
Y. Sun was Program Chair of IEEE ICRA'2021 that was held in Xi'an, with 4,056 submissions from 59 countries. (06/2021)
X.J. Liu started his Associate Professor position at Dalian University of Technology. (03/2021)
L.M. Xin started his Professor position at Shanghai University. (02/2021)
AMNL won the UofT Connaught Innovation Award. (01/2021)
X. Wang received the L.C. Tsui Fellowship from the Hopital for Sick Children. Z.Y. Gong received a J.H. Weber and E.C. Mariano Graduate Scholarship. (12/2020)
C.S. Dai's paper was accepted by Nature Reviews Urology. Y. Sun received the CSME Mechatronics Medal. (11/2020)
Led by Z.R. Zhang, AMNL was awarded first prize for technical achievement by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). (10/2020)
T. Cui and M. Zhu passed their Ph.D. defenses. X.J. Liu received a PDF Fellowship from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. (09/2020)
H. Madhusudanan and L.H. Du passed M.A.Sc. defenses; X. Wang and C.S. Dai passed their Ph.D. defenses. (08/2020)
UofT labs reopened with measures taken to ensure safety. (07/2020)
M. Zhu received a prestigious Medicine by Design postdoctoral fellowship. (06/2020)
AMNL alumnus, Changhong Cao accepted an offer of assistant professor from McGill University. (05/2020)
Liming's paper was selected as an Editors' Choice by Science Translational Medicine. (04/2020)
UofT and AMNL are closed due to COVID-19. (03/2020)
M. Zhu's paper on stiffness mapping deep in tissue was published in PNAS. (02/2020)
T. Cui's paper on Fatigue of Graphene was published in Nature Materials. (01/2020)
Y. Sun attended the new fellow induction ceremony of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). (11/2019)
Y. Sun was elected Fellow of AIMBE (American Institute of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering). (10/2019)
W.K. Dou again received a Ph.D. fellowship from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research Education Fund. Congrats! (08/2019)
Y. Sun gave a plenary talk at MARSS'2019 (Int. Conf. on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales). MARSS'2020 will be held in Toronto. (07/2019)
AMNL won the Michael R. Freeman Innovation Award together with Toronto General Hospital. (06/2019)
AMNL presented three papers at IEEE ICRA'19 in Montreal. C.S. Dai's paper won the Best Paper Award in Automation. (05/2019)
Y. Sun gave a plenary talk at IEEE NEMS'2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. (04/2019)
X. Wang's Science Robotics paper and M. Zhu's Nature Communications paper were accepted for publication. (03/2019)
NSERC CREATE Heathcare Robotics (HeRo) was granted by NSERC. (02/2019)
Lab rennovation, funded by Canada foundation for innovation (CFI), was completed. (01/2019)
Y. Sun was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). (12/2018)
AMNL presented three papers at MicroTAS'2018 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (11/2018)
Y. Sun gave an invited seminar in the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. (10/2018)
C.H. Cao headed to MIT for his postdoctoral research. AMNL team wishes him the best. (09/2018)
W.K. Dou received a pretigious Ph.D. fellowship from the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research Education Fund. (08/2018)
AMNL won the Best Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) in Nagoya, Japan. (07/2018)
Y. Sun accepted the role of Editor for the Elsevier journal, Sensors & Acutators A: Physical. (06/2018)
AMNL presented three papers at IEEE International Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Brisbane, Australia. (05/2018)
J.H. Law won the Ontario Trillium Scholarship; G.Q. Shan won the Connaught International Scholarship; Y. Sun gave an invited seminar at the Univerity of Pennsylvania. (04/2018)
AMNL won the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award. (03/2018)
C. Cao won an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. His paper in Science Advances was accepted for publication. (02/2018)
AMNL won the UofT Connaught Innovation Award; H.J. Liu won the UPenn postdoctoral fellowship. (01/2018)
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An Interview with Aaron Gustafson on Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
Aaron Gustafson share his thoughts on progressive enhancement, advice for web designers, and how the Web will be changing in the next year.
Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition
Peachpit: There are a number of books out on progressive enhancement and adaptive web design. What makes yours different?
Aaron: There are a good number of books out there that mention progressive enhancement, but only two are wholly focused on the subject, Adaptive Web Design being one of them. Designing with Progressive Enhancement (also from New Riders and written by the amazing team at Filament Group) is more developer-focused, and most web design books are very technique-driven. Adaptive Web Design is not a technique book, it's a philosophy book. It's about understanding the medium of the Web at a fundamental level, which will make you a better web designer.
Peachpit: How has this second edition evolved from the first edition?
Aaron: I've actually written at length about the differences. The second edition could easily have new book—it's about 95% new material—but I wanted to update AWD because it has a strong following and deserved a refresh. In addition to new material, I've adjusted the framing of the subject and overall organization quite a bit. I also got the opportunity to address single-page apps and Responsive Web Design, which weren't really a "thing" when I wrote the first edition.
Peachpit: Can you summarize the key benefits of adaptive web design?
Aaron: The adaptive approach (a.k.a. progressive enhancement) has a number of benefits: 1) your sites will be more resilient to the harsh realities of delivering experiences on the Web; 2) what you build will be accessible to more people, regardless of the device, browser, or network they happen to rely on; and 3) you'll save time and money in the process!
Peachpit: Tell us what you're now doing at Microsoft as a web standards advocate with their browser team.
Aaron: The majority of my work centers around educating web designers and developers about web standards and accessibility through my writing, conference talks, and workshops. I also provide best practices guidance to internal teams and I coach colleagues on writing and provide editorial assistance to any of my colleagues who'd like it.
Peachpit: What aspects of progressive enhancement do you think people find the most challenging?
Aaron: Progressive enhancement is often mischaracterized as being solely concerned with offering a "no-JavaScript" experience, so many people write it off as "too hard" or "too limiting" because they want to use JavaScript and can't see how it might be possible to accomplish the interactions they desire without it. Progressive enhancement isn't just about a no-JavaScript scenario, however; it's part of it, but only part. Progressive enhancement recognizes that things can go wrong out on the open Web and guides us in building sites in a way that ensures that our customers can do what they came to our site to do, no matter what. Thinking about how to enable users to accomplish key tasks with a minimal number of dependencies, requires thinking progressively—layering additional features, affordances, and so on without compromising a highly usable core experience. In doing that, you guarantee your users will always have an experience, even if it isn't the ideal experience.
Peachpit: Can you give an example or two of a site that you think does progressive enhancement very well? What about a site that doesn't do it well (or at all)?
Aaron: I think that the Boston Globe is a testament to progressive enhancement. I think the BBC has also done some great work in this area. The Government Digital Services in the UK have also done a bang-up job with it on gov.uk and 18F has made it a cornerstone of the work being done within the US government as well.
I don't really like to call out sites for doing a poor job, but Dan Mall maintains a Tumblr title "Sigh, JavaScript" that includes some common mistakes people make when it comes to relying too heavily on one technology.
Peachpit: How, where, and when did you first get started in web design?
Aaron: I came to the Web from print in the mid-'90s. I was running a small entertainment magazine and wanted to bring it online. A friend helped me with the first iteration of the site, but then I took over and decided to rebuild it. Later, I taught myself PHP and built a custom content management system to run the site. Eventually, I quit the magazine and began building websites full-time.
Peachpit: You've worked with start-ups, large corporations, and government agencies. What has working with all of these different cultures taught you, and what one piece advice would you give to web designers to help them flourish in any environment?
Aaron: I think the biggest piece of advice I can give to web designers is to truly know your medium. Get intimately familiar with each aspect of web design (including how back-ends work, even if you have no interest in building them) and see how they come together to create the user experience. Seeing all the moving parts and being able to provide guidance on how they should fit together will make you a trusted and invaluable member of any team.
Peachpit: How do you see the web changing in the next year? How will we use it differently and what challenges will that bring for Web designers?
Aaron: I think the next big thing for the Web is voice. We currently think a lot about what websites should look like and even how they should adapt across different screen sizes, but few of us think about how they should sound. With technologies like Siri, Cortana, Google Now, and Echo creating opportunities for users to have an experience with a "headless" UI, voice interactions will become even more important. To prepare for that eventuality, I highly recommend folks spend some time listening to their sites via screen readers. Does the source order make sense? Can you move around the site quickly and easily? Can you fill out key forms and complete crucial tasks? These are important questions to ask.
Peachpit: What five websites do you visit every day?
Aaron: The only site I probably hit every day in the browser is Gmail. I do read a lot via RSS feeds though and some of my favorite news sources include A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, Ars Technica, and Wired.
Peachpit: What is the one tool all Web designers should use/master?
Aaron: I'm not a big tool guy to be honest. If I was to pick one, I would say the text editor. Learn how to do things by hand so you know what the various other tools are doing for you. That skill is incredibly helpful when things don't go quite right and you need to peek under the hood.
Peachpit: Where are you speaking this year and which event are you the most excited to attend?
Aaron: I am quite excited about the first EnhanceConf in London. It's a conference dedicated to progressive enhancement. I'll be there in early March, speaking and giving a workshop based on the book. I'm also thrilled to be back at An Event Apart again and to be taking the stage at Smashing Conference this year.
Peachpit: Other than your book, what other resources would you recommend to web designers?
Aaron: There are so many great articles, books, and blog posts out there it's tough to pick just a few to highlight. I included a pretty substantial reading list as an appendix in Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition. Some of my faves include Designing with Web Standards, 3rd Edition by Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte and Nicely Said by Nichole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee. Both are from New Riders. And you really can't go wrong with the offerings from A Book Apart and Five Simple Steps either.
Peachpit: What's the most fun thing to do in Chattanooga, TN?
Aaron: There are so many fun things to do in Chattanooga, it's hard to say. Eating out is a big one. We have a lot of amazing local farms and many of the local restaurants source their produce and meats from them. It makes everything so fresh and flavorful!
Apart from food, I am completely in love with our aquarium. It's small when compared to the Shedd in Chicago or the Boston Aquarium, but it has two buildings, one of which is entirely freshwater. Even though I am a huge fan of ocean-dwelling fish, corals, and (especially) cephalopods, the freshwater building fascinates me. They have paddlefish, gar, sturgeon, and a ton of other amazingly unique fish, amphibians, reptiles, and such from the world's streams, rivers, and lakes. It makes for a truly unique aquarium experience.
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Q: Push-pull circuit structure I came across this circuit which is part of a magnetic levitation system and can't understand a piece of the circuit. What are the roles of Q2 and Q4 ? And the different resistors ?
I am used to see typical push-pull circuit with Q10 and Q11 collectors directly connected to Vcc/Gnd.
The LM324 comparator inputs are connected to sensors and reference voltages, to produce a bidirectional current in L3 and L4.
Thanks.

A: The LM324 is an op-amp, not a comparator (though it can be used as one.) Each op-amp has a negative feedback path from its corresponding driver pair.
The drivers themselves are just current gain boost, in two stages. They use a Sziklai connection as opposed to a Darlington type. Sziklai pairs are non-inverting. (Q3 and Q4 seem to have their collector and emitter swapped.)

A: The odd looking scheme is valid because the output can swing closer to the rails wasting less power and allowing a lower operating voltage .Q3Q4 seem to be a misprint .

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Q: Staticfiles for Django cannot be located on IIS 8 I have a Django 1.7 website configured on IIS 8 platform. The staticfiles are kept in a folder generated after running collectstatic command. As mentioned in the tutorials I have made that folder a virtual directory and deleted the django handler from it.
Everything worked well till the point I added a new file in my static directory and ran collectstatic again. Now my static files give a 404 error saying The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I don't understand why would this happen as I have not changed any of my prior settings.

A: My url for the staticfiles was broken. I add the code below to my urlpatterns.
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Some recent, some older, stories beneath are among my newspaper digging pieces from over the years.
"Inspiration gives no warnings."
As rail deaths mounted, industry stymied life-saving technology (click to read)
Connecticut Post and other Hearst newspapers June, 2014
WASHINGTON -- On a Connecticut summer evening 45 years ago, Edward May was operating a northbound commuter train in Darien when the lights of another train suddenly appeared on the tracks, 600 feet away and closing fast.
It was Penn Central commuter train N-48. Its engineer, running late, disregarded a message to yield to May's train.
"He just kept coming at me," May, 82, of Waterford, recently recalled.
The two trains, each traveling 30 mph, collided with such force that N-48 telescoped halfway through May's locomotive. Three crew members and one passenger died and 43 passengers were injured.
Rescuers spent five hours cutting May from the wreckage.
The engineer who struck May's train had known about the order to pull onto a side track; a copy of it was found on his body. Investigators never learned why he failed to yield.
By rail-disaster standards, the Aug. 20, 1969 crash on the New Canaan Line wasn't the most tragic or horrific of the era. But it stands as a milepost in rail safety history: the beginning of the National Transportation Safety Board's drive to install technology to remove human error from railroad operation.
After investigating the Darien wreck, the NTSB issued its first formal recommendation to the Federal Railroad Administration to "study the feasibility of requiring a form of automatic train control at points where passenger trains are required to meet other trains."
Positive Train Control, as the technology would become known, monitors and controls train movements with a digital communications network that links locomotives with control centers. It is designed to prevent collisions by automatically slowing or even stopping trains that go too fast, miss a stop signal, enter a zone with maintenance workers on the track, or encounter other dangers.
Indisputably, PTC saves lives. "The equivalent of air traffic controllers," U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, said of PTC.
A Hearst Newspapers investigation found that the NTSB's push for PTC encountered a long and twisting road.
The rail industry resisted implementing the system to preserve profits and the FRA went along, backing the industry it regulated by arguing against the safety standard and ignoring repeated NTSB recommendations to mandate its implementation, the Hearst review found.
Over the decades, the NTSB classified 139 crashes on America's rails as PTC-preventable. Those wrecks resulted in 288 deaths, 6,500 injuries and nearly $300 million in property damages, federal safety records show.
The Spuyten Duyvil Metro-North crash in the Bronx the day before I went to work at Hearst triggered my year-long dig into rail safety.
Illegal Chinese garlic imports slam U.S. industry
"The Chinese are laughing at us." San Francisco Chronicle -- 2014
SAN FRANCISCO -- Gilroy, Calif. calls itself "the garlic capital of the world." These days, not so much.
In little more than a year, a single Chinese company has flooded the U.S. market with 60 million pounds of garlic, almost half of it through the Port of Oakland, in a scheme to avoid penalties that protect domestic growers.
The dumping of Chinese garlic has severely hurt the U.S. industry. Half of California's biggest garlic packers have disappeared in the past decade, says industry leader Bill Christopher of Gilroy.
The Chinese operation unraveled in December, thanks to detective work by customs agents. It was a rare success for U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, which is struggling to contain fraud in the flood of all sorts of Chinese goods arriving at U.S. ports.
Foreign companies and their partners on U.S. soil have routinely flouted U.S. trade law, evading penalties designed to protect domestic industries, a Hearst Newspapers investigation has found.
Tainted Asian shrimp invade depressed U.S markets
Discoveries raise doubts about whether the speed of global trade has outpaced the ability to keep food safe.
San Antonio Express-News; Houston Chronicle -- 2015
BAYTOWN, Texas -- Worrying about bills and plummeting shrimp prices, Dwayne Harrison stopped to apply for a mowing job one morning recently before dropping his nets in the Houston Ship Channel.
The 65-cents-a-pound he was getting last week for small, head-on wild shrimp is one-third the price of a year ago, and less than his catch brought in 1998, the year he bought his 50-foot vessel, Angel Lady.
Harrison, 51, is among Gulf shrimpers who say they're leaving the business or are barely afloat, and many blame imports, which make up more than 90 percent of the shrimp market in the United States. Last year, imports rose by 143 million pounds and are up another 2 percent in 2015.
While driven to the brink, shrimpers in Texas also are driven to anger by the indifference of American consumers buying foreign, farm-raised shrimp that might be tainted with antibiotics.
"In those restaurants," Harrison pointed out, "people will be watching our boats come in while being served shrimp from half way around the world that are fed antibiotics to keep them alive."
Foreign competition and the rise of aquaculture to fill the world's seafood needs are familiar stories. But illegal antibiotics in farm-raised Asian shrimp is a lesser-known story, one that Gulf shrimpers have begun telling.
Food and Drug Administration records suggest they have reason to sound warnings.
GMO experiments draw little USDA scrutiny
"It's harder to make up some Frankenstein scenario where this is terrible when the outcome of not doing it is that people die." San Francisco Chronicle 2014.
WASHINGTON -- At a secret location among the vineyards of California's Central Coast, a plot of genetically engineered corn is producing proteins for industrial and pharmaceutical uses, including an experimental vaccine for hepatitis B.
The altered corn is growing with federal approval 100 feet from a steelhead stream in San Luis Obispo County, in designated critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog. Agriculture Department inspectors have reported two "incidents" at the site, including conventional corn sprouting in a 50-foot fallow zone, but the findings did not rise to the level of a fine or even to a formal notice of noncompliance for the company that planted it, Applied Biotechnology Institute Inc.
Details of Applied Biotechnology's inspections and hundreds of other field trials with genetically modified plants were obtained by Hearst Newspapers under Freedom of Information laws. The inspection reports and other Agriculture Department records present a picture of vast, swiftly expanding outdoor experimentation and industry-friendly oversight of those experiments.
The founder and president of Applied Biotechnology, John A. Howard, previously founded another company that was permanently banned from trials of genetically modified organisms - GMOs - after creating such contaminated messes in the Midwest that a half-million bushels of soybeans and more than 150 acres of corn had to be destroyed.
"Very well, I will marry you. As long as you promise to not make me eat eggplant."
The biggest damn dam boondoggle ever. Anywhere.
"The decision to do this project in-the-wet was a disaster...The dynamic at play here is reputation."
Michael Toohey
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2013
OLMSTED, Ill. • Last December, a 5,000-ton concrete shell named SS5 was in the water ready to be dropped into the Ohio River like a giant Lego piece by the world's largest catamaran barge.
Then the river rose. The swift waters threatened to sabotage dam building and endanger divers working 50 feet down with 3-inch visibility.
So the Army Corps of Engineers canceled the operation, yet another in a string of setbacks that has plagued construction of Olmsted Locks and Dam for more than 20 years.
"It was heartbreaking to make that call," recalled Brad Bradley, resident engineer at Olmsted.
Eight months later, SS5 remains perched on the shoreline along with partially built shells, evidence of a failure that haunts taxpayers and ripples across the nation's inland waterway system.
A Post-Dispatch review of thousands of pages of documents and more than two dozen interviews reveal a project plagued by cost overruns, delays and engineering challenges stemming largely from the corps' stubborn insistence on an innovative construction method that met its match in the unruly Ohio River.
A project that should have been completed years ago has quadrupled in cost because of management failures for which the Corps of Engineers has yet to be held accountable.
And the price tag keeps rising.
In 1988, Congress authorized spending $775 million to replace two 1920s-era Ohio River dams 17 miles from the Mississippi River, at the busiest inland shipping hub in America.
A quarter-century later, the projected cost has ballooned to $3.1 billion.
In Nigeria, fraudsters mining your "recycled" computers
San Diego Tribune-McClatchy News Service 2007
LAGOS, NIGERIA -- In this cyber-crime capital of the world, vendors sell used computers that still hold private and revealing files about Americans.
Old computers from the United States are sold at a market in Lagos, Nigeria. Some may still contain personal information from the previous owner.
Computers from California tell tales of students with learning disabilities. Many scored low on tests. One suffered a brain injury as a child, and another ran with gangs, according to school records that include names, birth dates and family details.
More computer files, these from an elementary school in Virginia, contain what a security expert called "the Holy Grail" for identity thieves seeking to score: teachers' Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers.
All of this sensitive information was discovered in this unlikely place, where discarded computers are resold.
Unbeknown to their former owners, tens of thousands of discarded American computers are shipped to Nigeria and other developing nations each month.
In an ongoing investigation into the fate of electronic waste, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch bought several old American computers that had been exported to Nigeria. Computer experts in the United States later analyzed their contents.
They contained school records, private messages, photographs, financial information and other revealing materials discarded by people who were taken aback when later told of the newspaper's findings. (Read more.)
In this Nigerian computer market, some fellows were eager to find what Americans left on their hard-drives.
A goat wondered what I find so interesting in a Lagos dump.
Dangerous Chinese imports flood U.S. markets
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 3, 2008
BEARDSTOWN, Ill. — On the last Saturday in April, Amber Donnals was sitting on her porch when she heard an
explosion, followed by screams.
She turned to see her son, Bryan, 6, running toward her, his clothes on fire, and flames shooting up at
the rear of the Donnalses' mobile home.
He'd been riding his newly minted, Chinese-made ATV — sold "to be used by children age 6 to 12" — when
suddenly it sped up and raced out of control, according to an account by the boy and his family.
The red, 110cc four-wheeler barely missed a propane tank before crashing into the trailer and catching
fire. Bryan spent five weeks in a pediatric burn unit at Shriners Hospital for Children in Cincinnati
after he was transferred by jet from St. Louis Children's Hospital. The family was told that he would need
skin grafts and regular treatment for many years.
The accident with the all-terrain vehicle was one of many occurring in the United States almost every day
— nearly 150,000 accidents involving injuries yearly.
But the Donnalses' accident in Illinois' Fayette County, about 80 miles east of St. Louis, represents a
new threat: the arrival of hundreds of thousands of cheaply made Chinese-made ATVs, an import flood
transforming a $3.5 billion industry and challenging an overburdened U.S. regulatory system that relies on
voluntary standards for safety. (Read more)


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# Configuration

The CAS authentication process is primarily controlled by an authentication manager, which orchestrates a collection of authentication handlers.

## Authentication Manager
CAS ships with a single yet flexible authentication manager which performs authentication according to the following contract.

For each given credential do the following:

1. Iterate over all configured authentication handlers.
2. Attempt to authenticate a credential if a handler supports it.
3. On success attempt to resolve a principal.
  1. Check whether a resolver is configured for the handler that authenticated the credential.
  2. If a suitable resolver is found, attempt to resolve the principal.
  3. If a suitable resolver is not found, use the principal resolved by the authentication handler.
4. Check whether the security policy (e.g. any, all) is satisfied.
  1. If security policy is met return immediately.
  2. Continue if security policy is not met.
5. After all credentials have been attempted check security policy again and throw `AuthenticationException`
if not satisfied.

There is an implicit security policy that requires at least one handler to successfully authenticate a credential.

To see the relevant list of CAS properties, please [review this guide](Configuration-Properties.html).

## Authentication Handlers

There are a variety of authentication handlers and schemes supported by CAS. Use the menu to navigate around the site and choose.

Default Credentials
To test the default authentication scheme in CAS,
use casuser and Mellon as the username and password respectively. These are automatically
configured via the static authencation handler, and MUST be removed from the configuration
prior to production rollouts.

## Principal Resolution
Please [see this guide](Configuring-Principal-Resolution.html) more full details on principal resolution.

### Principal Transformation

Authentication handlers that generally deal with username-password credentials
can be configured to transform the user id prior to executing the authentication sequence.

To see the relevant list of CAS properties, please [review this guide](Configuration-Properties.html).

## Long Term Authentication

CAS has support for long term Ticket Granting Tickets, a feature that is also referred to as _"Remember Me"_
to extends the length of the SSO session beyond the typical configuration.
Please [see this guide](Configuring-LongTerm-Authentication.html) for more details.

## Proxy Authentication

Please [see this guide](Configuring-Proxy-Authentication.html) for more details.

## Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

Please [see this guide](Configuring-Multifactor-Authentication.html) for more details.

## Login Throttling

CAS provides a facility for limiting failed login attempts to support password guessing and related abuse scenarios.
Please [see this guide](Configuring-Authentication-Throttling.html) for additional details on login throttling.

## SSO Session Cookie

A ticket-granting cookie is an HTTP cookie set by CAS upon the establishment of a single sign-on session.
This cookie maintains login state for the client, and while it is valid, the client can present it to CAS in lieu of primary credentials.
Please [see this guide](Configuring-SSO-Session-Cookie.html) for additional details.

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GoldenEye 007 Releasing on Switch, Xbox Soon
Nintendo confirmed that GoldenEye 007 was coming to the Switch during the September 2022 Direct, which was then followed by an announcement stating it was headed to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, too. And now after a long wait, Xbox and Nintendo have finally announced its release date: January 27.
GoldenEye is releasing as a part of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. This version will have online multiplayer in addition to widescreen support, as shown in the trailer Nintendo put out.
And even though they are slated for the same day, the Xbox versions are a bit different. It only supports offline split-screen multiplayer, so those who want to play online are out of luck. It is coming to Xbox Game Pass, though, and will support alternate control options and achievements and run at 4K at a native 16:9 resolution. Those who own a digital copy of 2015's Rare Replay, a compilation full of the team's games, will also get GoldenEye 007 for free.
Rare originally created GoldenEye 007 and released it in 1997, which was only five years before Microsoft purchased the studio. Eurocom reimagined the shooter in 2010 for the Wii and then released an enhanced port for the PS3 and Xbox 360 a year later. A remaster of the N64 game was supposed to come out in 2007 on Xbox Live Arcade, but was canned. Footage of the unreleased title later leaked online in 2021, which was a fair bit before an achievement list hit the Xbox servers. This port has also allegedly been a long time coming, as evidenced by Head of Xbox Phil Spencer's recent tweet about this trailer.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton honoured Prince Philip's 100th birthday with an emotional tribute
The late Duke of Edinburgh would have turned 100 this week.
Jenny Proudfoot 11/06/2021 9:32 am
Thursday marked what would have been Prince Philip's 100th birthday, with the Duke of Edinburgh tragically passing away in April.
To pay tribute to the Duke and his 100 years, the internet has seen a wave a tributes, with multiple throwback pictures of Prince Philip making headlines.
Royal staff were not exempt, with Prince Philip reportedly being the most popular royal within the Palace walls. But it was unsurprisingly royal family members whose tributes made the most news, from Princess Eugenie to Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Among the first to pay tribute to the royal were Prince William and Kate Middleton, who took to social media to mark the day with an emotional message.
'Today we remember His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, on what would have been his 100th birthday,' the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge posted to Twitter. 'Last week, The Queen was gifted a Duke of Edinburgh rose by
@The_RHS, of which Her Majesty is Patron.'
The Queen also took to social media to mark the day, opening up about the touching Duke of Edinburgh rose that she received in her late husband's memory.
'Last week, The Queen was given a Duke of Edinburgh rose to mark what would have been The Duke's 100th birthday,' the royal family posted to social media.
Last week, The Queen was given a Duke of Edinburgh rose to mark what would have been The Duke's 100th birthday. 🌹
The rose was gifted by @The_RHS, of which The Queen is Patron.
Named in The Duke's memory, the rose is planted in the East Terrace Garden, Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/d4EMelKvHO
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) June 10, 2021
'The rose was gifted by @The_RHS, of which The Queen is Patron. Named in The Duke's memory, the rose is planted in the East Terrace Garden, Windsor Castle.'
The post continued: 'In 1956 His Royal Highness founded The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme which he described as a "do-it-yourself growing up kit."
'For every Duke of Edinburgh Rose sold, a donation will be made to The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Living Legacy Fund.
'The Fund will give a million more young people, from all circumstances and backgrounds, the opportunity to achieve a DofE Award. Each rose purchased will help establish new DofE centres, deepen existing support, and train thousands more Leaders and volunteers.'
Our thoughts remain with the royal family.
Prince William and Kate Middleton look set to move into The Queen's 'forgotten castle'
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Q: CheckTokenMembership in VB6 - Crashing on FreeSID on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 I am using the CheckTokenMembership Windows API to check if the user is an Administrator.
Here's the code:
Option Explicit

Private Const SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID       As Long = &H20
Private Const DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS           As Long = &H220

Private Declare Function AllocateAndInitializeSid Lib "advapi32.dll" (pIdentifierAuthority As Any, ByVal nSubAuthorityCount As Byte, ByVal nSubAuthority0 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority1 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority2 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority3 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority4 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority5 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority6 As Long, ByVal nSubAuthority7 As Long, lpPSid As Long) As Long
Private Declare Sub FreeSid Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal pSid As Long)
Private Declare Function CheckTokenMembership Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hToken As Long, ByVal pSidToCheck As Long, pbIsMember As Long) As Long

Private Type SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY
    Value(0 To 5)            As Byte
End Type

Private Function pvIsAdmin() As Boolean
    Dim uAuthNt         As SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY
    Dim pSidAdmins      As Long
    Dim lResult         As Long

    uAuthNt.Value(5) = 5
    If AllocateAndInitializeSid(uAuthNt, 2, SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID, DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, pSidAdmins) <> 0 Then
        If CheckTokenMembership(0, pSidAdmins, lResult) <> 0 Then
            pvIsAdmin = (lResult <> 0)
        End If
        Call FreeSid(pSidAdmins)
    End If
End Function

Problem is that on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 SP2, the call to FreeSID is causing the app to crash. The crash is intermittent.
Has anyone encountered this problem?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I just rechecked my code and I found out that I declared FreeSID as such:
Private Declare Sub FreeSid Lib "advapi32.dll" (pSid As Long)

As compared to the above code, the pSid parameter here is not flagged as ByVal. I added the ByVal flag and the problem is no longer present. Somehow, I am not convinced that this fixed the problem. Can this possibly have fixed the problem?

A: Separate pvIsAdmin in a completely separate module and copy function declarations verbatim from the snippet. In AllocateAndInitializeSid lpPSid is ByRef. In FreeSid param is ByVal.


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On Saturday, September 27th, 8th grade students from D. R. Hill and Florence Chapel are invited to attend the Old English Festival Marching Band Contest in Rock Hill, SC. This trip is OPTIONAL and limited to the first 60 students who return their permission forms. The only money your child will need will be for dinner on Saturday evening. $15 should be plenty. Please read through the schedule below. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Mrs. Cotter (@DRH) or Mrs. Crutchlow (@FloChap).
You may sign the electronic permission form below or turn in a paper copy (given out in class on 9/10/14).
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Volume 70, Issue Supplement_1
LB: Exercise| June 01 2021
30-LB: Effect of Intense Lifestyle Therapy in People with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
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https://doi.org/10.2337/db21-30-LB
MIHOKO YOSHINO, JUN YOSHINO, ADAM J. BITTEL, DANIEL BITTEL, DOMINIC REEDS, RICHARD STEIN, DAVID R. SINACORE, WILLIAM T. CADE, ADEWOLE L. OKUNADE, BRUCE W. PATTERSON, SAMUEL KLEIN; 30-LB: Effect of Intense Lifestyle Therapy in People with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes 1 June 2021; 70 (Supplement_1): 30–LB. https://doi.org/10.2337/db21-30-LB
Weight loss and exercise are the cornerstones of therapy for patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, successful compliance with therapy is difficult to achieve. We conducted an 8-month randomized, controlled trial in persons with obesity and T2D to determine the effect of intensive lifestyle therapy (ILT), delivered at a worksite setting, on body weight, cardiometabolic function, and cellular metabolic pathways. Subjects were assigned to Standard Care (SC; n=8, BMI:38±5, fasting blood glucose [FBG]:161±19 mg/dl, HbA1c:7.6±1.1%) or ILT (n=10, BMI:37±6, FBG:150±32 mg/dl, HbA1c:7.0±1.1%), which involved weekly diet-behavior therapy sessions and 4 d/wk of supervised resistance and endurance exercise training. Weight loss was greater in the ILT than SC group (17±7% vs. 1±2%, P<0.05). All cardiometabolic outcomes improved more in the ILT than SC group: i) insulin sensitivity (glucose disposal rate during a hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp increased by 116±78% vs. 15±9%, P<0.05); ii) β-cell function (insulin secretion in response to an oral glucose load relative to insulin sensitivity increased by 194±205% vs. 12±20%, P<0.05); and iii) cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2 peak during cycle ergometer exercise increased by 28±22% vs. -2±15%, P<0.05). The most upregulated biological pathways enriched in differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in skeletal muscle, assessed by RNA-seq, after ILT involved mitochondrial function and sirtuin signaling pathways. Upstream regulators of these DEGs included NAD dependent deacetylase sirtuin-3 (SIRT3) and NAMPT (FDR<0.05). In addition, ILT increased muscle NAD content by 51±46% (P<0.05). FBG and HbA1c decreased to 108±31 mg/dl and to 6.1±0.9%, despite a 60% decrease in the use of diabetes medications after ILT, but did not change with SC. We conclude that marked diet-induced weight loss and exercise training can be achieved in a structured worksite setting and has profound therapeutic cardiometabolic effects in people with obesity and T2D.
M. Yoshino: None. B. W. Patterson: None. S. Klein: Advisory Panel; Self; Altimmune, Merck & Co., Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., ProSciento, Research Support; Self; Janssen Research & Development, LLC. J. Yoshino: None. A. J. Bittel: None. D. Bittel: None. D. Reeds: None. R. Stein: None. D. R. Sinacore: None. W. T. Cade: None. A. L. Okunade: None.
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Police: 16-year-old boy who shot five students at his Los Angeles-area high school has died
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A 16-year-old boy who shot five fellow students — killing two — before turning the gun on himself at a Southern California high school has died.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow died at about 3:30 p.m. Friday at a hospital with his mother present.
Authorities say Berhow pulled a gun from his backpack Thursday at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita, shot five students at random and then shot himself in the head. It was his 16th birthday.
The shooting, captured on security video, took 16 seconds and investigators say they still don't have a motive.
The attack killed 15-year-old Gracie Muehlberger and 14-year-old Dominic Blackwell. Two girls remain hospitalized but are expected to be released this weekend.
Driver crashes into utility pole while fleeing from police, 3 in custody


Who is Your Bakugan Boyfriend?
This is a Quiz about which 3rd series Bakugan Boy you truly would love! I think that personally i would choose Shun, Maybe you like Dan or Marucho? Or maybe Jake OR Ren?
Do you really want to know? Then try this Quiz. For fun, or the true answers. Take this quiz to find out who you'd love if you ended up in Bakugan land with all the Brawlers!
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Shut up your tooo loud!
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Q: Why do I need to touch Hash if assigned via map? When I do this it works (these are the last 4 lines before the end of a method TWEAK. However, my first attempt had no line #3 and failed because %!columns was empty...
    constant @alphi = 'A'..Inf;

    1 if ! %!columns {
    2     @alphi[0..^@!data.first.elems].map( {%!columns{$_} = $++} );
    3     %!columns  #<== have to "touch" %!columns to avoid empty hash
    4 }

I am cool that the issue is fixed by "touching" the attribute ... but seems like magic ... can anyone explain why?

A: Without the %!columns on line three, the call to map is lazy and thus never gets evaluated (the %!columns call wants to check the current value of columns, which implies eagerness).
To more explicitly invoke eagerness, either use the eager statement prefix (shown below) or switch to a for loop, which is eager by default.
I think this code will behave the way you want it to:
if ! %!columns {
   eager @alphi[0..^@!data.first.elems].map( {%!columns{$_} = $++} );
}


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United States v. Brock
RONDAL BROCK, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: C. Clifford Shirley, Jr. United States Magistrate Judge
This matter is before the undersigned pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) and by the Order [Doc. 103] of the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, United States District Judge, for disposition or report and recommendation regarding disposition by the District Court as may be appropriate. Defendant Rondal Brock's Motion to Suppress [Doc. 87] and Motion for Motion to Suppress to be Considered as a Motion in Limine [Doc. 119] are presently pending before this Court. The parties came before the Court on June 20, 2007, for a hearing on these motions. Assistant United States Attorneys Cynthia Davison and Greg Weddle were present, representing the government. Attorney Daniel Warlick was present via telephone, representing Defendant, who was not present.
At the outset of the hearing, the Court traced the relevant procedural history of this matter. On May 7, 2007, counsel to Defendant Rondal Brock's then Co-Defendant, Lawanna Brock, and the government engaged in a telephone conference with the undersigned and the Honorable District Judge Thomas W. Phillips. This conference occurred on the eve of trial and regarded the statements on a recording which are at the core of Defendant Rondal Brock's motion to suppress, and were also the subject of then Co-Defendant Lawanna's Brock's pending Motion in Limine [Doc. 89]. Neither Defendant Rondal Brock nor his counsel participated in this telephone conference. On May 8, 2007, District Judge Phillips entered an Order regarding Defendant Lawanna Brock's Motion in Limine [Doc. 99], which states:
Accordingly, the Court advised the parties during the telephone conference that the recording would not be admissible in whole; ordered the government to prepare a transcript and designate only the relevant portions of the CD it intended to use for trial; and informed the parties that pending motions would be taken up at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of the trial.
After the hearing, the undersigned entered an Order [Doc. 96] granting a Joint Motion to Sever Defendant Rondal Brock [Doc. 94]. Defendant Lawanna Brock proceeded to trial on May 14, 2007. On May 14, 2007, District Judge Phillips referred Defendant Rondal Brock's Motion to Suppress [Doc. 103] to this Court.
At the hearing, both the government and Defendant Rondal Brock's counsel conveyed that they were of the general opinion that District Judge Phillips had ruled on Defendant Rondal Brock's Motion to Suppress [Doc. 103]. However, as noted by the procedural history, it is clear that District Judge Phillips did not do so except to the extent noted above. Had District Judge Phillips ruled upon Defendant's motion in its entirety, he would not have subsequently referred the motion to this Court. After tracing the procedural history and querying both parties about what Judge Phillips's earlier ruling established, all parties appeared to concede that it had not been fully ruled upon earlier. Therefore, this matter is properly before this Court for determination.
Before proceeding further, this Court must rule upon Defendant's Motion for Motion to Suppress to be Considered as a Motion in Limine [Doc. 119]. At the hearing, all parties stated they were satisfied that Defendant's Motion to Suppress [Doc. 87] was not actually a motion to suppress, but would be more aptly titled, and treated as, a motion in limine. For good cause shown, Defendant's Motion for Motion to Suppress to be Considered as a Motion in Limine [Doc. 119] is GRANTED. Accordingly, Defendant's Motion to Suppress will be referred to as Defendant's Motion in Limine for the remainder of this Order.
Defendant motion asks the Court to prohibit admission of two telephone conversations between Lawanna Brock and Geneva Renee Gent. [Doc. 87]. In support thereof, Defendant asserts that he was not a participant in the telephone conversations, and that the statements are highly prejudicial and inflammatory, irrelevant to the allegation charged against Defendant, and their introduction into evidence should be prohibited pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 403. Defendant notes the government's position, that Defendant signed a letter, which resulted in his adopting the statements as his own. Defendant then asserts that the facts do not support admitting the conversations under a hearsay exception for admissions against interest. The government never filed a response to Defendant Brock's Motion in Limine.
At the June 20th hearing, Defendant argued consistent with his pleadings. The government argued that the redacted portions of the conversations which District Judge Phillips ultimately ruled admissible against Lawanna Brock (during her trial) should also be admissible against Defendant. [See Doc. 108]. In support thereof, the government asserted that the taped conversations were adoptive admissions of Defendant.
The Court questioned the government about its position. The purported adoptive admission revolves around the fact that Defendant signed a cover letter to a police department which accompanied the recording of the two conversations. This letter alleged that Geneva Renee Gent had engaged in illegal conduct and encouraged the police department to investigate the matter. The cover letter's alleged reference to the recording is "[t]his evidence is in the custody of the NTPD officer Mewhenney[,] and KPD [(Knoxville Police Department)] has an arrest file." The government asserted that evidence was introduced during Lawanna Brock's trial that the recording accompanied the letter mailed to the police department. The government argued that the above statement, along with Defendant's signature, indicates that he adopted whatever was on the tape as true. Defendant's counsel countered by arguing that Defendant's signature on the letter does not indicate, in any way, that he listened to the recordings and adopted the statements made therein.
This Court previously listened to the recordings at issue during the May 7th hearing. As correctly noted by Defendant's counsel, neither Lawanna Brock nor Geneva Renee Gent explicitly state that Defendant engaged in the illegal activity at issue. Admittedly, Lawanna Brock makes statements which can be construed as inculpating Defendant; she says "we" and/or "they" have "taken care of" prescription forging issues in the past. The government asserts this indicates a common scheme to defraud. Defendant asserts no evidence exists that "we" and/or "they" refers to Lawanna Brock and Defendant. Moreover, Defendant notes that he has not been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud or forging prescriptions; he has been charged with one count of [C]ausing to be made and used, a materially false writing and document knowing the same to contain a false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and entry, in that he caused a claim to be submitted to Cigna, a Medicare Fiscal Intermediary, for lab work for patient B.W., an individual insured under the Medicare insurance program when, in fact, the lab work was for blood of another patient not insured by the Medicare insurance program. [Doc. 23]. Upon further questioning from the Court, the government asserted that the evidence was admissible against Defendant under the hearsay exception listed as Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(B).
Rule 801(d)(2)(B) provides that a statement is not hearsay if it is offered against a party and is "a statement of which the party has manifested an adoption or belief in its truth." The Sixth Circuit requires that when a statement is offered as an adoptive admission, "[t]he primary inquiry is whether the statement was such that, under the circumstances, an innocent defendant would normally be induced to respond, and whether there are sufficient foundational facts from which the jury could infer that the defendant heard, understood, and acquiesced in the statement." United States v. Jinadu, 98 F.3d 239, 244 (6th Cir. 1996); Neuman v. Rivers, 125 F.3d 315, 320 (6th Cir. 1997) (citing to and relying on Jinadu). Therefore, to be admissible as an adoptive admission, there must sufficient facts from which the jury can infer that Defendant heard, understood, or acquiesced to the statements made in the recording. Though Defendant clearly adopted the statements in the letter which accompanied the recording to the police department, this Court finds that he did not manifest an adoption or belief in the truth of the statements within the tape. There is not a scintilla of evidence that Rondal Brock even knew a recording, containing potentially inculpatory statements about him, was being sent with this letter.*fn1 Further, there is no evidence from which a jury could infer that Defendant heard, understood, or acquiesced in the statements made in the recordings. As such, this Court cannot find that Defendant manifested an adoption in the belief or truth of the statements, and the statements cannot be admitted into evidence as an adoptive admission.
Additionally, the Court finds that, even if the statements at issue were adopted by Defendant as admissions, the evidence would continue to be inadmissible. All relevant evidence is generally admissible. Fed. R. Evid. 402. However, "although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury. . . ." Fed. R. Evid. 403. The statements made in the recordings cannot be admitted because of the high possibility of confusion of the issues, misleading the jury, or unfair prejudice. Defendant has been charged with falsifying a medical record to get paid for lab work. [Doc. 23]. Whether Defendant previously engaged in a scheme regarding forged prescriptions is not particularly germane to the instant charge, but it is likely to lead to juror confusion and may prove to be highly prejudicial. As such, even if the hearsay exception noted by the government did allow for this evidence to be admitted, it would still be inadmissible under the relevancy doctrine.
Accordingly, Defendant Rondal Brock's Motion for Motion to Suppress to be considered as a Motion in Limine [Doc. 119] is GRANTED, and his ...


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Morning Noon and Night - Regan Hutchins on how we spend our hours
Updated / Sunday, 9 Feb 2020 21:55
'I wanted to make a series which is reflective and maybe calming for these days when, I feel, our airwaves are often choked by the fumes of very heavy heavy traffic...' Regan Hutchins writes for Culture about his new RTÉ lyric fm series, Morning Noon and Night - listen to the first episode below:
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One evening, a few years ago, I was visiting my friend Gerald O'Brien in Skibbereen.
Darkness was falling outside and Gerald offered to put on a light. We were sitting by his fire and I told him that I was enjoying the glow and would prefer to talk in the dark.
This got Gerald thinking.
He's in his eighties and his mind travels far back - even to a time before his own. He started to muse on how electricity has changed, maybe destroyed, the meaning of night. Then he told me a story about a woman called The Little Nun who visited his house when his father was a child there and who brought local news and gossip with her in exchange for her lodging.
This got me thinking.
Morning, Noon and Night. We all experience these times of the day but how we go through them is another matter. I decided to make a short series for Lyric FM looking at how some of the people I know spend their waking and sleeping hours.
In the series I talk to family, friends, writers, artists and other fellow human beings about aspects of their day. They tell me stories about ordinary moments in their daily lives which hold some power over them - or moments which they take for granted.
How does breastfeeding a newborn baby change your relationship with the night? How do everyday objects in the shed remind you of someone who is no longer there? How did you travel three miles to school in the 1950s?
Why do our dreams linger in the mornings? Why should we spend our afternoons staring at the flowers? Why do we pray at night?
I didn't set out to make a documentary. There is no true crime or conflict in this series. I wanted to move gently around the clock, listening to people's stories, discovering experiences which are unfamiliar to me or, in some cases, celebrating experiences which are very familiar to me.
I also wanted to make a series which is reflective and maybe calming for these days when, I feel, our airwaves are often choked by the fumes of very heavy heavy traffic. Thankfully Lyric provided me with the space to do this.
I asked several poets to share their work with me and I also asked the a capella group, Landless, to lend their harmonies to some interesting, curious texts which I picked up along the way.
And of course I returned to Gerald O'Brien's house to record his story of The Little Nun.
It's quite possible that when you hear this series you'll think that it bears no resemblance to your life and how you live it. But then, wouldn't it be very dull if all our mornings noons and nights sounded exactly the same?
The Lyric Feature: Morning Noon and Night, Sundays from February 9th - listen back here.
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The hypercoaster, that was recently under construction, is now in testing mode. Empty ride vehicles have been spotted running along the truck. Roller coasters over 200 feet tall are given the designation of hyper coaster.
SeaWorld shared a test ride video of its newest roller coaster Mako, giving people a rider's view of the attraction The video was released on the company's facebook page a few days ago. The video showed off a number of twists and turns from the first person perspective.
The track for Mako, SeaWorld's shark-themed roller coaster, has been completed and the ride is scheduled to open on June 10, 2016. The roller coaster is now in the testing phase. The new SeaWorld's roller coaster will be the tallest, fastest and longest in Orlando when it opens this summer. Mako was announced as SeaWorld's next roller coaster last April.
The 4,760-foot-long ride, inspired by the high speeds of the Mako shark which is one of the fastest sharks in the ocean. The ride will feature a 200-foot drop at a top speed of 73 mph.
SeaWorld has promised several moments of air time, which is the feeling of weightlessness that roller coaster fans look for. Mako will join the other SeaWorld's roller coaster rides, Kraken and Manta, as well as the water thrill ride Journey to Atlantis.


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Dolina Lalek: Tribute to Kryzys vol. 1 – tribute album poświęcony zespołowi Kryzys wydany w 2003 przez wytwórnię Manufaktura Legenda.

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 Karpaty Magiczne – "Mam dość" – 4:42
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 Alians – "Ambicja" – 4:15
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 ID – "Rubinowe Szkło" – 2:29
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 Ssaki – "Małe psy" – 4:20
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Dewhurst Announces Emerging Technology Fund Award at Texas Tech University
Company spun off from technology developed through Texas Tech's International Center for Food Industry Excellence.
Written by Cory Chandler
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst today announced the approval of an Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) award, up to $1.5 million for MicroZAP, a bio-technology company specializing in food safety.
MicroZAP was spun off from patented technology developed through cutting-edge food sterilization research at Texas Tech University's International Center for Food Industry Excellence. Sen. Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) joined Dewhurst for the announcement.
"Not only could this new technology lead to significant advances in food safety for everyone, but also this ETF grant hopefully will help MicroZAP grow into a thriving bio-tech company that creates new jobs and economic development opportunities for Lubbock," Dewhurst said.
MicroZAP uses directional microwaves delivered at varying doses and intensities in order to target disease-causing microorganisms with great precision. The technology has even demonstrated the ability to kill the deadly MRSA bacterium.
"The EFT funds will allow us to move the MicroZap technology forward, thus providing safer food products in the supermarket, which will ultimately reduce the number of food-borne illnesses and lead to safer food on America's dinner tables," said Mindy Brashears, director of the International Center for Food Industry Excellence.
The company has already had discussions with larger corporations regarding new technology applications.
"It's this kind of research, development and commercialization that will help universities like Texas Tech achieve Tier One status in Texas. Creating more Tier One universities is critical to our state's future; not only will they provide greater opportunities in higher education for our fast-growing population, they will lead to more life-saving and life-improving innovation that can be commercialized and create new jobs," Dewhurst said.
Duncan said the announcement reflects an essential step toward advancing Texas" position as a leader in new technology.
"This research presents tremendous potential for our community, our nation's food supply and our university's future Tier One status. I appreciate the leadership of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Gov. Rick Perry and House Speaker Joe Straus and their vision, which recognizes the importance of these programs in Texas."
MicroZAP will receive $500,000 at the beginning of the company's contract with the state. As the company achieves milestones agreed to in the final contract, it may receive up to $1 million in additional ETF award funds. The state will take an equity position in the company for its investment.
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In 2012, the World Bank updated its estimates of global poverty rates. The results for the latest years studied — 2005 to 2008 — indicated that the percentage of people living below the poverty line declined for all six regions studied. This was the first decline over a three-year period since 1981.
The 2005-2008 findings are based on 850 surveys compiled from 130 developing countries; the surveys included 1.23 million households and provided a statistical snapshot of some 90% of the population of the developing world. For the purposes of the estimates, those unable to spend $1.25 a day on consumption (after adjusting for inflation and exchange rates) were classified as poor.
— The number of people living below the $1.25-a-day poverty line declined from 1.94 billion (52% of the population of the developing world) in 1981 to 1.29 billion (22%) in 2008, a 33.5% drop. Those living on less than $2 a day also declined, from 2.59 billion total in 1981 to 2.47 billion people in 2008, a drop of 4.6%.
— East Asia saw the most dramatic declines in poverty rates, from 77% of its population in 1981 to 14% in 2008. The Middle East and North Africa region saw poverty fall from 9.6% in 1981 to 2.7% in 2008. Over the same time period, South Asia saw its population under the poverty measure decline from 61% to 36%.
— China's efforts to alleviate poverty accounted for a significant amount of global reduction, with its rate going from 84% in 1981 to 13.1% in 2008. On average, total poverty in the developing world declined by 1.05 percentage points per year between 2005 and 2008; when China is excluded, the reduction is 0.54 percentage points per year.
— For the first time since 1981, less than half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lived below the $1.25-a-day poverty line. Between 1981 and 2008, the region's population living below the poverty line declined 4 percentage points, to 47%.
— By 2010, using the $1.25 a day poverty measure, developing countries had achieved the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of poverty rates in 1990. Eastern Europe and Central Asia reached this goal in 2008.
— While the number of people living on between $1.25 and $2 a day has nearly doubled — from 648 million in 1981 to 1.18 billion in 2008 — the rate of those earning more than $2 a day has slowed. Those living on between $1.25 and $2 a day remain particularly vulnerable, as they are only covering their most basic expenses and are subject to the risk of slipping under the $1.25 line should they face an adverse income shock.
— Nearly 649 million of those who moved above the $1.25 poverty line had a standard of living that was nevertheless below what would be defined as "poor" in middle-income developing countries and far below that of rich countries.
The report notes that basing poverty calculations solely on consumption expenditures fails to capture spending on health, education and other indicators. These should be considered together with consumption-based poverty measures to gain a more holistic picture of the degree of poverty experienced, they suggest.