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Q: Why is this simple multithreaded program freezing in eclipse - mingw32/gdb? The program below keeps hanging/freezing in GDB 7.4 (MinGW32, Eclipse, Windows) absolutely randomly, estimating about every 5 or 6 runs. It is most easily found by mashing the debug button in eclipse and then checking the debug instances that haven't terminated. You can of course do the same thing by running it like a normal person and likely will get the same result quite soon.
The sample never freezes when not attached to GDB. Ever. I also could not expose the same issue under VC++ Express (it was a different sample but really just the same idea).
It hangs mostly around thread creation, thread deletion, and program termination. Also worth of note is that even though main returns -1 as exit code, when attached to GDB whenever the program doesn't freeze it exits with code 0.
Another interesting fact - when I uncomment the "Sleep(1)" call it stops hanging 80% of the time. When it does freeze however, it freezes after it prints "Return -1\n".
All other terminations continue to return 0 (except when ran w/o gdb).
Without further ado, the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <process.h>

void __cdecl callback(void *arg)
{
    int count = 0;

    while(count < 10)
    {
        printf("Thread 2(%i): looping %i\n", (int)arg, count);
        count++;
    }

    printf("Ending thread...\n");
    _endthread();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    // Mingw32 on windows w/ eclipse - fix console output not showing up until the app terminates
    setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
    setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0);

    bool runMain = true;

    int runCount = 0;

    while(runMain == true)
    {
        if(runCount == 5)
        {
            printf("Thread starting... ");
            int result = _beginthread(callback, 0, (void*)5);
//          Sleep(1);

            if(result == 0)
                printf("[FAILURE]\n");
            else
                printf("[SUCCESS]\n");
        }

        printf("Thread 1: %i\n", runCount);
        runCount++;

        if(runCount == 20)
            runMain = false;
    }

    printf("Return -1\n");
    return -1;
}

What do you think is causing this, and more importantly - how do I fix it?

A: There is no solution. There was a bug in GDB #17247 related.
Sending a SIGCONT signal to gdb or to your application makes it work again.
Try run this command next time:
killall -s SIGCONT <gdb | your application process name>

or
kill -18 <gdb pid|application pid>


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El poble de Tarroja de Segarra, es troba en un coster, en la vall mitjana del Sió, que travessa el terme municipal en direcció SE-NW, i en la confluència d'aquest riu amb el torrent de Valls.

Història
El lloc és esmentat ja el 1015 i apareix inicialment sota la forma «Turre Rubea», que donà la forma catalana Torroja, amb què es denomina el llinatge al qual el poble donà nom; en la documentació local posterior apareix també sota la forma «Terroja» o «Terrogie» i en la més tardana, «Tarroja», que ha prevalgut en el topònim. Pel que fa al lloc i al castell, el primer esment és de l'any 1040, en l'acta de consagració de Santa Maria de la Seu d'Urgell. Tarroja és un dels castells situats dins l'antic terme de Guissona que són propietat de la catedral. L'any 1044 Adelaida, esposa del vescomte de Girona Sunifred, donà el castell de Tarroja a la catedral d'Urgell però anys després apareix en mans de la família Torroja, dita també Solsona.

Quan Ecard Miró, casat amb Magència feu testament (1085) el castell apareix com a possessió familiar, que passà al fill, Bernat Ecard de Torroja. Aquest, en el seu testament del 1142, deixà part de la vila de Tarroja a Santa Maria de Solsona i la resta de la vila i el castell al seu fill Ramon. Entorn del 1167, era senyor de l'indret Ramon II de Torroja, casat amb Gaia de Cervera. Mort el 1195 Ramon II de Torroja i el seu successor Ramon III, el castell passà a la filla d'aquest últim, Agnès de Torroja, esposa del vescomte Ramon Folc de Cardona, el 1227. Des d'aleshores la població fou de la jurisdicció del poderós llinatge dels Cardona.

L'any 1269, en la disputa entre el rei Jaume I i el vescomte de Cardona i altres nobles, la vila de Tarroja va ser compromesa com a garantia. Aquest mateix any, Ramon de Cardona donava als pobladors de la vila diverses franqueses. Tarroja fou dels Cardona i dels seus successors fins a senyors fins a l'abolició dels senyorius jurisdiccionals al .

Arquitectura
La defensa de la població s'efectuà amb una muralla que l'encerclava de la qual encara en resta algun testimoni. Al sud, un portal amb arc de mig punt fet de dovelles ben treballades. Al nord, un altre portal semblant, amb les dovelles centrals enfonsades. Les noves construccions han fet que solament restin els dos arcs i de les dues portes i el traçat urbà com a evidències de la vila closa nascuda en un estratègica cruïlla de camins. Vora l'església parroquial de Sant Salvador hi ha un edifici de planta quadrangular que es devia bastir el  aprofitant una construcció anterior. La paret exterior del mur meridional conserva un parament de 4 m d'alçària fet de carreus allargats i s'hi obren una finestra espitllerada i una portalada adovellada d'arc de mig punt ara tapiada, lleugerament enlairada, aproximadament 1 m per sobre del terra actual damunt la qual es bastí el campanar. Les portes de la vila són clarament baixmedievals. Les restes de l'edifici poden correspondre una construcció del . Potser una fortificació o castell aixecat al mig del nucli urbà.

Coetani a la construcció de la muralla podria ser el pont de pedra d'un sol arc d'una amplada d'uns 3 m encarat a la porta de migjorn sobre el riu Sió si bé l'estructura que en resta deu correspondre a una refacció postmedieval.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Enciclopèdia.cat Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

Tarroja
Edificis de Tarroja de Segarra

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Nicklaus News – Week of June 18th
Jack Revisits Shinnecock… and Much More!
After a memorable weekend with family in Washington D.C., receiving the Lincoln Medal, Jack Nicklaus embarked on a busy schedule for U.S. Open week. He started the week by traveling to New York to open the new clubhouse at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point. The clubhouse overlooks the dramatic 18th hole of the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, with stunning views of the New York City skyline.
The Golden Bear then headed to Dayton, Ohio, to support Speedway and its premier fundraising event for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals which raised close to $2.5 million and celebrated 40 "Miracle Children" representing 32 CMN Hospitals nationwide. Barbara Nicklaus, who serves on the Board of CMNH, joined Jack to speak to the audience of supporters, children and families.
Jack returned to New York and Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton to work on renovations to the course he designed and opened in 2006. Jack reviewed progress on the work being done on four greens as part of an overall greens renovation project. After his site work at Sebonack, Jack moved over to Shinnecock Hills to attend the inaugural USGA Celebration of Champions and serve as Honorary Starter for the four-hole exhibition featuring champions from the previous year's USGA events
The following evening, Jack and Barbara had the pleasure of introducing their friend, Dennis Walters, who received the Bob Jones Award—the USGA's highest honor, which recognizes those who demonstrate character, respect and integrity in golf. Barbara and Jack have each won the Bob Jones Award and remain the only couple to have received the honor in separate years.
Brooks Koepka, who grew up nearby the Nicklaus' North Palm Beach home and learned to play golf at Bear Lakes Country Club, which features two Jack Nicklaus Signature Course layouts, became only the seventh player in history to repeat as U.S. Open Champion. He was presented the Jack Nicklaus Medal on Sunday after a grueling four days at Shinnecock.
Nicklaus Design Dominating in Asia
After an extensive trip this month through Asia, Asia Pacific President, Paul Stringer reports on ever-increasing progress in the company's most flourishing market. "Trips to Asia are both exhausting and exhilarating at the same time," explained Stringer. "There is so much business and growth for Nicklaus Design in this market; it is sometimes a challenge to keep up with it, but that is what makes it exciting and dynamic. Having local personnel from Nicklaus Design on the ground in Asia enables us to deliver the highest quality work that our clients demand for each project."
Stopping first in Nanning, China, Paul reviewed the property at Guilin Li River, a golf course being designed by Jack Nicklaus II with daily field support by Design Associate Jim Wagner. Paul then ventured to Jakarta, Indonesia, to work on the construction timeline for the Jack Nicklaus II Signature Design at Puncak, West Java. From there, he made his way to Bangkok, Thailand, and evaluated renovation progress on Laem Chabang International Country Club, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course with work being overseen by Design Associate, Sean Quinn. Paul made additional stops in Hengdian and Beijing, China, where he signed a new redesign agreement with Wuhan International CC. The trip concluded in Hanoi, Vietnam, to visit with Madame Nga and the BRG Group which has contracted for ten Nicklaus Design golf courses, with the first four already underway. Nicklaus Design prides itself on being the leading golf design firm with local team members who work closely with clients in all corners of the world.
Sneak Peek I: New Nicklaus Video Content Coming Soon
The Nicklaus Companies recently captured new video content for its website, digital media and YouTube platforms that will soon be released. The idea behind the content is to tell the Nicklaus Companies' story through the lens of the company's leadership and its talented team assembled over the past five decades. In addition to the Golden Bear himself, you will hear from Executive Chairman Howard Milstein, CEO John Reese, Nicklaus Design President Jack Nicklaus II and others. This new initiative provides a platform for audiences around the world to connect more closely with the Nicklaus Team and gain a better understanding of the businesses and the vision for the future. Here is a sneak peek at one clip!
Sneak Peek II: The Jack Nicklaus Apparel Photo Shoot
The new Jack Nicklaus lifestyle apparel line was photographed this past week before it hits the shelves this fall. The collection combines an energetic lifestyle direction with a fashion-forward golf inspiration.
The photo shoot was staged in our backyard at Trump National Golf Club-Jupiter, one of the 35 Nicklaus Design golf courses in Florida. The male and female models showcased each collection against the picturesque backdrop of the golf course as well as distinct architecture features that surround the famous community. Jim Mandeville, Director of Photography for the Nicklaus Companies, commented, "When photographing our clothing, I always try to set scenes that highlight an active lifestyle feel because that is the inspiration behind both the men's and women's collections. With this beautiful property, we had tremendous settings to use and an extensive variety of unique shots to showcase both the products and the brand."
Enjoy the Summer with Jack Nicklaus Suncast Tumblers and Coolers at Lowe's and Bed Bath & Beyond
Find your way into a Lowe's store and pick up your own piece of the Jack Nicklaus drinkware collection. Lowe's carries the complete collection including different sized coolers, water bottles, tumblers, wine bottles and wine chillers! As part of this exciting development in the relationship between the Nicklaus Companies and Suncast Corporations, Lowe's is bringing Suncast's Jack Nicklaus collection to its retail stores and to the online shop. You can also buy the drinkware on Bed Bath & Beyond's website. For more information on the products visit the Jack Nicklaus Collection website and get your drinkware today!

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Q: Java Serialization with respect to different Contexts I am little confused with respect to Serialization as to what it mean with respect to different contexts.
Serialization as I understand (simple terms) -> Converting the object to a form wherein it can be transferred to network / storage.
Now, i was reading JSON, and again concept of "Serialization" appeared; which said transforming Java Object -> JSON as Serialization; and vice-versa as Deserialization.
I am slightly confused at the applicability of Serialization / Deserialization with reference to different contexts.

A: Both technologies allow to serialize Java-objects to network/storage, but use different formats.
Java serialization produces a binary format, while JSON serialization produces JSON-Strings. The former one is faster but tied to Java, the later one ist slower but you can use it to exchange informations with systems not written in Java.

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IN THE PAPERS - Monday, March 25: Papers react to the Mueller investigation's conclusion that there was 'no Trump-Russia conspiracy'. Left wing papers call for the full report to be released, while the conservative Wall Street Journal welcomes the end of the Russia collusion 'conspiracy theory'. We also look at fears of an 'ethnic cleansing' in Mali, reports of a coup against Theresa May, and a presidential candidate in Ukraine who is using his campaign to find a wife, Bachelor-style.


The date for the annual car show held by B&M Performance Products and Hurst Shifters can now get circled on your calendar: March 21, 2010. Held at the B&M/Hurst factory in Chatsworth, CA, this event will include a car show, trophies, prizes, great food and even other performance companies displaying their wares. We highly suggest you check out the show if you can - this will be the perfect Sunday afternoon for anyone with a love of cars.
There will be over 55 trophies given away to the different class winners. If you are bringing some friends from your local car club, be sure to sign up to be eligible for the different club trophies and prizes. You just have to make sure there is at least 10 or more member cars. The entry fee is $25 per vehicle, if registered before March 21, and $30 for anyone who register on the day of the show. Included in the registration is a free show t-shirt.
And special bonus - if anyone brings an original Hurst car they will receive free entry into the show along with the free show T-shirt.
Spectators of all ages are welcome, and are admitted free into the show along with free parking as well. A raffle will be held with prizes consisting of many different automotive products and other cool prizes for you to load up and take home. You could just spend the day checking all the muscle cars - both old and new, street rods, rat rods, and classic cars expected to attend.
If you are interested in the show, find out more information and register Here.
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LUCI World Tour 2016 és la sisena edició de l'UCI World Tour. Inclou 28 proves, les mateixes que en l'edició del 2015 després de la desaparició del Tour de Pequín.

Els 18 equips que tenen llicència World Tour tenen el dret i l'obligació de participar en totes les curses del calendari.

Evolució del calendari
Si bé les curses programades són les mateixes que en la darrera edició, hi ha nombrosos canvis en les dates en què es disputen. Per culpa dels Jocs Olímpics de Rio la Volta a Polònia passa a disputar-se al juliol, coincidint amb el Tour de França, en comptes de l'agost. Alhora l'Eneco Tour és desplaçat de l'agost al setembre. La Volta a Llombardia no tancarà la temporada, sinó que ho farà la contrarellotge per equips del Campionat del món de ciclisme que es disputa a Qatar.

Equips

Calendari i resultats

Classificacions

Classificació individual

Ciclistes amb el mateix nombre de punts es classifiquen per nombre de victòries, i si persisteix l'empat pel nombre de segons llocs, tercers llocs, i així successivament, en les curses World Tour i les etapes.

 235 ciclistes han aconseguit puntuar. 34 altres ciclistes han finalitzat en posicions de punts, però no han estat compatibilitzats per no formar part d'equips amb categoria World Tour.

Classificació per equips
La classificació per equips es calcula per la suma de la posició dels cinc millors ciclistes de cada un dels equips.

Classificació per país
La suma dels punts dels 5 primers ciclistes de cada país de la classificació individual dona lloc a la classificació per país. Aquesta classificació és la que determina, en finalitzar la Clàssica de Sant Sebastià, el nombre de ciclistes que poden participar en la cursa en ruta dels Mundials de Ciclisme.

 Ciclistes de 35 països han puntuat.

Referències

Enllaços externs
   Web oficial de l'UCI
   Web oficial de l'UCI World Tour


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My friend just came from Seoul few weeks ago, but then he told me that they weren't too keen to be adventurous in trying out the restaurants, so he was game for another Korean lunch today. There's several new restaurants, seriously more and more Korean restaurants here and there. But we don't really know which place is okay. I even tried searching online for some recommendations, but to no avail. So we ended up looking for the restaurant with most diners/cars parked, so trivial eh.;-D Lucky, we didn't strike out on our choice.
We opted to go for the authentic experience.
Ttukbaegi Bulgogi is a bulgogi variant that is marinated in sweet soy sauce, cooked with vegetables and glass noodles for Php 280. No surprise here. It's the usual variant that we also enjoy in the other restaurants.
Instead of getting the usual samgyupsal (grilled pork belly), the server recommended that we try the Daeji Galbi. Lettuce comes in unlimited servings too, so we wrapped everything with it. We're stuffed. ;-D I'll definitely go back for the Daeji Galbi because they don't have that in the other restaurants that we frequent in the area. But I'm such a fan of dipping sauces, so I missed the oriental vinaigrette dressing from both Cheongwadae and Single Bungle. And also the complimentary Doenjang Jjigae soup. It's just great to try something new once in a while.
Adjacent dining area. It's more cozier and private.
This dining area side has a sort of private wall. It's this side where the keepsakes are displayed.
Royal Palace Korean Restaurant is located along the Korea Town, Friendship Road, Angeles City. It's in a hotel building with 7-Eleven.
What an Amazing Night Out! I wish I lived there :-) just to try this restaurant.
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Explanation: Horse logging competitions ("slajs" or "straparijade") are held in Lic in Gorski Kotar, Baške Ostarije and in other parts of Lika-Senj Couty, Karlovac County, Bater near Novi Vinodolski and other parts of Croatia. For the purpose of these events, they obtain logs up to one tone heavy, and individually or in pairs, horses carry these enormous logs, very often through deep mud. At these events, horses are severely abused by being whipped till blood, stabbed with sticks with metal spikes and hand beaten. Exclusively for peoples' entertainment, these horses are exposed to completely unnecessary physical exertion, roaring and shouting crowds, car noise, heat, strong sun before and during the competition, owners' children's abusing, who whip them and pull their tails while the horses are harnessed. Having very sensitive hearing, exposure to noise causes for horses panic and fear. Integral part of these events is also illegal betting which involves tens of thousands of euros.
In addition to general provisions of the Animal Protection Act, which prohibits causing animals pain, suffering, injury and intentional exposure to fear; forcing animals to perform things that cause them pain, suffering, injury and fear, and exposing animals to adverse temperatures and weather conditions, it is forbidden to use animals for shows or competitions "in which animals are forced to behave unnaturally, or are subject to pain, suffering, injury or fear" (Art 4, para. 2, pt. 11 ).
Since the horses are exposed to maltreating and forced into unnatural behavior which causes them pain, suffering, injury and fear, horse logging competitions, even when reported, are conducted illegally.
Moreover, we emphasize that in terms of the load horses have to pull, this practice cannot be compared to the competitions in ploughing, etc. Horses are not used as working animals, nor these competitions have any educational value, but these events are being held solely for entertainment.
It is the best interest of the Ministry of Agriculture, animal protection organizations, as well as of all the citizens of Croatia for this to be prohibited. In practice, it is impossible for veterinary inspection to ban each individual horse logging competition, especially due to the fact that they are being held without asking for permission. Therefore, it is of great importance for this cruel practice to be explicitly forbidden.
This proposal from Animal Friends for this change in the Animal Protection Act is from 2015/2016.


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Purposes and Authorized Activities of the Corporation; General. The purpose and authorized activities of the Corporation are to assist in the implementation of an integrated program for the preservation, development and promotion of the Chamorro Heritage of Guam, for the public benefit and to provide specific services to the Chamorro people. It is intended that this Corporation be a catalyst in the preservation, development and promotion of language, arts, humanities, historic and cultural preservation, research, restoration, presentation, museum activities and support programs significant to Guam's history and culture, and to enhance the future of the Chamorro people of Guam. It is a further purpose of this Chapter to enable the Corporation to aid private enterprise without unfairly competing with it in the expansion of cultural and historical resources for Guam.
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To develop, promote, and preserve the Chamorro language and culture with all relevant government agencies, institutions and programs.
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5 GCA, Ch. 87 Administration and Support This program oversees, manages and provides administrative support to all programs under Chamorro Affairs. Responsibilities includes correspondence, reports, fiscal accounting, budget, personnel, procurement, legislation, loans and grants.
5 GCA, Ch. 87, Section 87104 (x) Elementary/Intermediate Education To establish a joint appointment program with Guam colleges and universities in the teaching of the Chamorro language, culture and history; and further to establish reciprocal relationships with other institutions.
5 GCA, Ch. 87, Section 87126 (h) Heritage Curriculum To develop articulated curriculum and course text for mandated courses in Guam's schools and institutions of higher learning related to Guam's history, language, and culture; to conduct research, publish and produce multi-media and print materials relating to the Guam heritage; and provide training to promote increased understanding of Chamorro Heritage.
5 GCA, Ch. 87, Section 87136 (a) Geographical and Archaeological Validation To promote increased understanding of Guam's geology, biota, prehistory, history and contemporary culture. Serves as the official repository and custodian of historical artifacts of Guam and to acquire, preserve, and make available for public viewing, artifacts and archival materials relating to the cultural, historical and natural heritage of Guam.
5 GCA, Ch. 87, Section 87130 (a) Heritage Archival Collection To provide for the preservation of all government publications including any printed or processed paper, books, periodicals, pamphlets or maps, originating in or printed with the imprint of, or at the expense and by the authority of the Government of Guam; including public records and other papers not in current use by the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches of the government of Guam and have been determined to have sufficient legal, historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the government of Guam; and also be the custodian of non-governmental historical records that contain significant information about the past or present, and are therefore worthy of long-term preservation and systematic management for historical or other research purposes.
P.L. 28-68, 5 GCA Ch.87, Section 87103 (a) (viii) Chamorro Village, "I Sengsong Chamorro" To operate under its control a public market, or markets, for Guam products at such places or places deem proper. Any such market shall be maintained and operated at all times in a sanitary and orderly manner, beneficial to both producers and patrons alike. Producers and sellers desiring to use space within such market to display or sell their produce shall be levied a uniform fee based upon the amount of space used and period of such use.
5 GCA, Ch. 87, Section 87152 Public Marketing Revolving Fund The Public Market Revolving Fund was created to deposit all funds collected from fees levied pursuant to Ch. 87 of 5 GCA., and to be used exclusively for the administration, operation and maintenance of the I Sengsong Chamorro", the Chamorro Village.
5 GCA, Ch. 83 & 87; 21 GCA, Ch. 76, Section 76114 Guam Museum To service as a depository for certain specimens and objects of natural history and of botanical, ethnological, or archaeological value or interest, and any book, treatise, or pamphlet relating to natural history, botany, ethnology, or archaeology now in possession of the University of Guam, or any territorial department, bureau, or board.


No matter your personal stance on Twitter, the truth is: You can make Twitter work for your business.
Twitter has about 310M active monthly users around the world, and every single day, users are building relationships with brands, founders, and employees at thousands of companies on this platform.
Not sure how to use Twitter for business? In this post, we'll go over some concrete ways you can use this social media platform for your business–not only to drive sales–but to earn loyal customers who become life-long supporters, evangelists, and cheerleaders for you and your business.
Before you start tweeting away, it's a good idea to know a few nuances about this particular platform so you're getting the most out of the time and energy you invest here. Here are a few quick facts that'll tell you how to use twitter effectively (and be more realistic about your expectations).
The average lifespan of a tweet is about 18-20 minutes.
Tweets are limited to 140 characters.
The average user spends 170 minutes on Twitter per month.
80% of Twitter users are accessing the platform from a mobile device.
42% of brands posts 10 tweets per day on average.
Tweets containing image links have 5x higher engagement rates.
Twitter videos are limited to two minutes and 20 seconds.
Overall, this platform is a fast-moving stream of activity. And thanks to features like retweet and reply, users can easily share or reply to any tweets they want to. This is a great place for short blips of information, high quality photos, and short videos–as well as back and forth conversations with audience members.
Now that you know the basics, let's look at some ways you can put Twitter e-commerce to work for your business.
Using Twitter for e-commerce, you can share text, images, and videos that help reinforce your brand and the feeling behind it. Over time, your followers will come to connect the dots between your profile photo and the fantastic, helpful content related to your products and offerings.
For example: Say you own a clothing store that sells high-quality yoga pants. For your Twitter ecommerce strategy, you share images of customers wearing and using your yoga pants at amazing exotic locations around the globe, as well as inspirational quotes that line up with your mind/body wellness brand messaging. Over time, your Twitter following will learn that you're a go-to brand for all their yoga clothing needs.
Take a look at another example below fromYour4Walls. Their Twitter e-commerce tactic is showcasing images of their products in use in a way that builds up their brand persona, communicates their lifestyle brand, and that resonates with their target audience.
Bonus: They're using hashtags to make the content easily found through search queries, and they've included a shortened link that goes directly to the product featured in the tweet.
Twitter is also a great place to have casual back-and-forth conversations with your audience–whether that's past customers, potential buyers with questions, or people who are simply interested in what you're doing.
And because users can mention you with your Twitter handle, you can easily keep tabs on conversations that are happening here around your brand–and jump in with an appropriate response. This shows you're engaged with the users here, you care about what they have to say, and you're proactively monitoring and addressing those conversations.
Helping Rhinos does a good job of this. They use Twitter to promote their supporters who are out fundraising for their cause. By simply retweeting and adding a brief comment about this fundraiser's efforts, they're showing how much they appreciate those who work hard for their organization.
If customers need a quick and easy way to get in touch with you, Twitter is a great channel for that. Leveraging this social platform for customer support means you can respond to those questions that may be keeping a customer from making a purchase (like a question about sizing, re-stocking, color, etc). In doing this, you're increasing opportunities for sales and improving the customer experience.
Plus, since the Twitter mobile app has notifications that can pop up right on your smartphone, you can field these incoming queries from wherever you may go. It's almost like having an on-demand support department right in your pocket and it makes Twitter e-commerce more effective.
See how easy it is to field questions like this one using Twitter? With simple notifications, you can set up your account so you never miss an incoming question that could lead to a sale.
Social proof is a powerful conversion-booster for your sales funnel…so why not showcase it on social media channels like Twitter?
Look at the engagements on this tweet: 14 retweets and 22 likes!
The bottom line: Share your happy stories and remind your followers that you're beloved by those you work with.
You can also test the waters with advertising on Twitter if you're interested. You may have tried some Facebook ads in the past with success, and so now you're ready to give Twitter ads a whirl. If so, here's what you need to know.
Aside from this, there are some other basics to keep in mind. It's not always cheap: Twitter can be about 6x more expensive compared to Facebook advertising, but the click-through rate can be as much as 8x higher. However, according to Hubspot, promoted tweets can boost sales by 29%. You can also create a promoted trend…but that's very expensive. The average 24-hour promoted trend costs about $200K.
It's a good idea to start with a small budget of > $250 and do some testing to see what early results you find compared to ads on other platforms. You may find that your audience is very active on Twitter and it's a fantastic investment, or you might find that your money is better spent elsewhere. Only testing will tell.
Maybe only one of these strategies is particularly effective for your target audience on Twitter. Maybe all of them together help grow your brand to the next tier of success. The point is: You can use Twitter to make your online store more effective and stronger in its online presence.
Give some of these tactics a try and remember to maintain consistency in all of your social media efforts. Over time, you'll earn the trust and respect of your following there.
Let's be friends. Follow Ecwid on Twitter!


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Q: Why is this segfaulting? Can someone explain the valgrind error? So i have this program that compiles fine on my home machine, but as soon as i go to compile it on the university servers it breaks... :/ which is a massive pain in my ass. I have no idea where or what might be causing the error. Ill first start with the valgrind report from the university.
    ==13527== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==13527== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==13527== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==13527== Command: ./main stock.dat coins.dat
==13527==
==13527== Invalid write of size 8
==13527==    at 0x402762: load_data (in /RMIThome/shr/5/s3234575/Assignments2/main)
==13527==    by 0x4028BE: main (in /RMIThome/shr/5/s3234575/Assignments2/main)
==13527==  Address 0x6172676f72502074 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==13527==
==13527==
==13527== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
==13527==  General Protection Fault
==13527==    at 0x402762: load_data (in /RMIThome/shr/5/s3234575/Assignments2/main)
==13527==    by 0x4028BE: main (in /RMIThome/shr/5/s3234575/Assignments2/main)
==13527==
==13527== HEAP SUMMARY:
==13527==     in use at exit: 4,096 bytes in 19 blocks
==13527==   total heap usage: 19 allocs, 0 frees, 4,096 bytes allocated
==13527==
==13527== LEAK SUMMARY:
==13527==    definitely lost: 1,868 bytes in 8 blocks
==13527==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==13527==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==13527==    still reachable: 2,228 bytes in 11 blocks
==13527==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==13527== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==13527==
==13527== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==13527== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 6 from 6)

So the error is saying it occurs in main? but doesnt show until it reaches the load_data function, or is it the error occurs in load_data which is called in main?
The following code is main.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include "assert.h"
#include <math.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "vm_menu.h"
#include "vm_utility.h"
#include "vm_options.h"
#include "vm_type.h"

#define NUMARGS 3

struct menu_item * displayMenu(struct menu_item * menu, struct vm * vendMachine);
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
    struct vm *vm;
    vm = malloc(sizeof(struct vm));
    struct vm *vend;
      vend = malloc(sizeof(struct vm));
    struct menu_item menu_items[NUM_MENU_ITEMS];
 /*check if there are at least 3 arguments being passed through the command line */

    if(argc!=3)
    {
        printf("Insuffcient arguments \n");
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }
    menu_init(menu_items);
    /* initialise the vm */
    vm_init(vm);

    load_data(vm, argv[1], argv[2]);
    vend->item_list.head = vm->item_list.head;
    BOOLEAN RUNNING = TRUE;

while(RUNNING){

        vm->item_list.head = vend->item_list.head;

    fflush(stdout);
    fflush(stdin);
    displayMenu(menu_items, vm);
}
    read_rest_of_line();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }

I think the error is in the     struct menu_item menu_items[NUM_MENU_ITEMS];  because i havent initialised it to anything. But i am unsure how i can allocate memory to an array of structs using malloc?
the load data file is;
#include "vm_utility.h"

/* print list */
    void print_list(struct vm_node  *root) {
        while (root) {
            printf("%s",root->data->id);
            root = root->next;
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
/*creates a item and initialise the values */

struct stock_item* setupNode(char *line) {
    struct stock_item *root;
    root = malloc(sizeof(struct stock_item));
    char *ptr;
    char *ptrs;
    const char del[2] = "|";
    const char delm[2] = ".";
    char *prices;
    strcpy(root->id, strtok_r(line, del, &ptr)); // returns the ID and stores in in the root node.
    strcpy(root->name, strtok_r(NULL, del, &ptr)); // returns the description and stores it in the root node.
    strcpy(root->description, strtok_r(NULL, del, &ptr)); // returns the description and stores it in the root node.
    prices = strtok_r(NULL, del, &ptr); // returns a string of the price for vm_item.
    char *dols = strtok(prices, delm);
    char *cents = strtok(NULL, delm);
    long int dol = strtol(dols,&ptrs,10);
    long int cent = strtol(cents, NULL, 10);
    root->price.dollars = dol;
    root->price.cents = cent;
    int quantity = strtol(strtok_r(NULL, del, &ptr), NULL, 10); // returns how many items are in stock.
    root->on_hand = quantity;
    return root;

}

/*creates the list within the vm->item_list*/
int addNodeBottom(char *val, struct vm_node *head){

    //create new node
    struct stock_item *data;
    data = malloc(sizeof(struct stock_item));
    data = setupNode(val);

    if (head->data == NULL)
        head->data = data;
    else
    {
        struct vm_node *current = NULL;
        for (current = head; current->next != NULL; current = current->next)
            ;

        current->next = malloc(sizeof(*current->next));
        current->next->data = data;
        current->next->next = NULL;
    }

    return 0;
}

/*creates coin array stores in vm->coins; */
struct coin * addCoins(char *val){
    char *ptr =NULL;
    char *ptrs =NULL;
    const char *deli = ",";
    char *denominations = strtok_r(val, deli, &ptrs);
    char *counts = strtok_r(NULL, deli, &ptrs);

    long int denomination = strtol(denominations, &ptr,10);
    long int count = strtol( counts,NULL, 10);

    struct coin *k;
    k = malloc(sizeof(struct coin));
    k->denom = denomination;
    k->count = count;
    return k;
}

/*
 * Clears the input buffer.
 * */
void read_rest_of_line(void)
{
    int ch;
    while(ch = getc(stdin), ch!='\n' && ch != EOF)
        ;
    clearerr(stdin);

}

/*
 * Initialises the vm data structure declared in main to safe initial
 * values.
 * */
BOOLEAN vm_init(struct vm * vm)
{
    struct vm_node * vmNode;
    vmNode = malloc(sizeof(struct vm_node));
    vmNode->next = NULL;
    vmNode->data = NULL;
    vm->item_list.head = NULL;
    vm->coinsfile = NULL;
    vm->foodfile = NULL;
    return FALSE;
}

/*
 * Loads data from the .dat files into memory.
 * */
BOOLEAN load_data(struct vm * vm, const char * item_fname,
        const char * coins_fname){

    FILE *file;
    file = fopen(item_fname, "r+");
    char buf[256];
    struct vm_node *vmNodes;
    vmNodes = malloc(sizeof(struct vm_node));
    vmNodes->data = NULL;
    vmNodes->next = NULL;

    while (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, file) != NULL) {
        addNodeBottom(buf,vmNodes);
    }
    vm->item_list.head = vmNodes;

    fclose(file);
    /*now open coin file*/

    FILE *fileCoin;
    fileCoin = fopen(coins_fname, "r+");
    char bufCoin[256];
    int i = 0;
    //vmNode->next = NULL;
    struct coin *j;
    while (fgets(bufCoin, sizeof bufCoin, fileCoin) != NULL) {

        j = addCoins(bufCoin);
        vm->coins[i] = *j;
        free(j);
        i++;
    }
    /**/
    /* Test reason for reaching NULL. */
        fclose(fileCoin);

    return FALSE;
}

/*
 * Frees all dynamically allocated data.
 * */
void system_free(struct vm * vm)
{
    /* The UNUSED() function is designed to prevent warnings while your
     * code is only partially complete. Delete this function call once
     * you are using vm in your own code */

}

Also to make life easier ill share the typedefs for all of the structs used.
    typedef enum truefalse
{
    FALSE, TRUE
} BOOLEAN;

/* Each price will have a dollars and a cents component */
struct price
{
    unsigned dollars,cents;
};

/* The different denominations of coins available */
enum denomination
{
    FIVE_CENTS, TEN_CENTS, TWENTY_CENTS, FIFTY_CENTS, ONE_DOLLAR,
    TWO_DOLLARS, FIVE_DOLLARS, TEN_DOLLARS
};

/* Each coin in the coins array will have a denomination (20 cents,
 * 50 cents, etc) and a count - how many of that coin do we have on hand
 */
struct coin
{
    enum denomination denom;
    unsigned count;
};

/* The data structure that holds the data for each item of stock
 */
struct stock_item
{
    char id[IDLEN+1];
    char name[NAMELEN+1];
    char description[DESCLEN+1];
    struct price price;
    unsigned on_hand;
};

/* The data structure that holds a pointer to the stock_item data and a
 * pointer to the next node in the list
 */
struct vm_node
{
    struct stock_item * data;
    struct vm_node * next;
};

/* The head of the list - has a pointer to the rest of the list and a
 * stores the length of the list
 */
struct vm_list
{
    struct vm_node * head;
    unsigned length;
};

/* This is the head of our overall data structure. We have a pointer to
 * the vending machine list as well as an array of coins.
 */
struct vm
{
    struct vm_list item_list;
    struct coin coins[NUMDENOMS];
    char * foodfile;
    char * coinsfile;
};

Valgrind at home:
    ==9814== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==9814== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==9814== Using Valgrind-3.10.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==9814== Command: ./main stock.dat coins.dat
==9814==
Main Menu:
    1. Display Items
    2. Purchase Items
    3. Save and Exit
Administrator-Only Menu:
    4. Add Item
    5. Remove Item
    6. Display Coins
    7. Reset Stock
    8. Reset Coins
    9. Abort Program
Select your option (1-9):

A: Valgrind says that the illegal write is occurring at Address 0x6172676f72502074.
If you look at that address as ASCII characters, it's: argorP t, or converting from little endian: t Progra.
This looks like part of one of your menu items, "9. Abort Program". Maybe the bug is that menu_init() is writing past the end of the menu_items[] array?
I'd guess that stepping through your program in a debugger should find the problem quick enough.


Abstract: The gastrointestinal tract consumes up to 25% of the total body oxygen consumption, thereby utilizing a large part of total ingested energy. Furthermore, around 35% of this energy is associated with the maintenance of ionic homeostasis (Jessop, 2000). Betaine is believed to reduce energy costs of the ion pump when acting as an organic osmolyte. However, the consequences of such an effect on energy utilization in broiler chickens are not well known. This study examined the effect of betaine supplementation on energy partitioning in broilers using indirect calorimetry. Male broilers (Ross 308 strain, N=36) were randomly assigned into three treatment groups in closed-circuit respiratory chambers (Swick et al., 2012). Each treatment consisted of six replicates of two birds per chamber. A basal diet based on wheat, soybean meal, meat bone meal and canola meal met the Ross 308 nutrient specifications. Betaine was added to the basal diet at 0, 0.75 and 1.50 g/kg of feed. The heat production (HP), apparent metabolisable energy (AME) and net energy (NE) of feed were estimated from 25 d to 27 d. The Brouwer equation was used to calculate the HP via the oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production in the chambers and then estimate the NE (Noblet et al., 2010).


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Finding Balance With the "Five Flavors" How Your Taste Buds Can Guide You to Better Health
by Conan Milner
Think of a well-balanced meal and you'll probably imagine things like vegetables, protein, and sensible portions. But there is another vital variable: taste.
We naturally want food that tastes good, but learning to choose the right flavor, or combination of flavors, can also improve our health.
In all ancient systems of medicine, flavor plays a pivotal role. The flavor of a food or herb doesn't exist merely for our pleasure (or disgust): It can also foretell what the food will do inside the body.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, there are five basic flavors, and each one has an affinity for a particular organ.
Think of the pucker-inducing nature of a lemon. Your liver and gallbladder react with a similar spasm when hit with a sour note. This stimulates bile, which, in turn, helps your body work better at breaking down fats. Greasy, oily, or deep-fried foods notoriously make for a sluggish liver. A squirt of something sour lends this overburdened organ a helpful jolt.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, there are five basic flavors, and each one has an affinity for a particular organ. Sweet goes to the digestive organs (spleen, stomach, and pancreas); salty to the water-bearing organs (kidney and bladder); sour to the detoxifying organs (liver and gallbladder); bitter to the circulatory organ (heart); and pungent (or spicy) to the lungs and large intestine—the assimilation and elimination organs for air and food.
One unusual specimen said to contain every flavor is the schizandra berry, known as wu wei zi (five-flavor berry) in Chinese.
These flavor-organ pairings are based on our body's physiological reactions to taste and the ways our organs operate. This insight is used as a tool to meet the ultimate goal of Chinese medicine: bringing the body into balance. Along with things like meditation, exercise, and acupuncture, food is one of the most accessible ways to find and keep this balance.
The earliest known mention of the five flavors is found in the oldest available text of Chinese medicine, "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic." It states that mindful use of the five flavors can ensure a long, healthy life. However, too much of one taste or not enough of another can result in disease.
For the ancient Chinese, eating the right proportion of flavors is so closely linked to health that they categorized all food according to flavor profile. Some foods, like bananas, are one-note: sweet. But many foods feature two or more flavors—ginseng, for example, is both sweet and bitter. A plum is sweet and sour. One unusual specimen said to contain every flavor is the schizandra berry, known as wu wei zi (five-flavor berry) in Chinese. Today, schizandra is a popular adaptogen because of its ability to stimulate all of the internal organs.
Flavors in Balance
Sweet is considered the most important flavor, but this doesn't mean Chinese medicine condones a steady diet of doughnuts. Nearly everything that we think of as food—vegetables, grains, and meat—is classified primarily as sweet. Take the time to chew your food thoroughly, and the inherent sweetness will shine through.
To our ancestors, a sweet taste identified safe, easy-to-digest, nourishing foods. And since this flavor is so important to the digestive organs, sweetness predominates our menu.
We naturally crave the comfort of sweetness, but it's easy to get too much of a good thing. The sweet flavor runs the gamut from bland to sickeningly saccharine. While the subdued sweetness of rice or broccoli supports our digestive organs, the intense sweetness of soda and fruit juice can injure them.
According to the "Inner Classic," eating too many sweet foods results in "diseases of the flesh," such as obesity and diabetes.
The other flavors play smaller roles in our diet, yet our bodies need all of them to function properly. However, there is no one-size-fits-all prescription when it comes to taste. While we all have the same basic flavor needs, individual imbalances vary. For example, those with a yang energy deficiency may need more spice in their diet to boost immunity and combat cold or dampness in the body.
There is no one-size-fits-all prescription when it comes to taste.
When the grounding, nurturing, sweet flavor builds up in the body, pungent herbs such as cayenne pepper, ginger, and mustard can help move things along. That's why stopped-up conditions, like sinus congestion, constipation, or blood clots, can benefit from a pungent punch.
Contemplating the five flavors isn't like calorie counting or any other food metric obsession. There is no math involved. Rather, it's about simple observation: tuning into how you feel, and considering what flavor combinations will put you back on track. There is wisdom in your cravings.
Salt, for example, helps regulate mineral and fluid balance, which also happens to be a major function of the kidneys. That's why Chinese herbal formulas designed to treat kidney problems are often taken with a little salt. The belief is that the salty flavor works as a vehicle to drive the formula to the desired organ. Salt also helps dissolve hardness. That's why salty seaweed has long been a treatment for goiters.
Again, just like with sweet, too much salt also harms the body. The quantity of any flavor is always an important consideration, and so is the person tasting it. According to Paul Pitchford, author of "Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition," salt must be restricted by those with edema, lethargy, and other "damp" conditions.
Time of year also plays a role in determining what combination of flavors will best suit your body. Each taste is matched with a complementary season. Sour is spring, bitter is summer, sweet is midsummer (harvest time), pungent is fall, and salty is winter. If you're inclined to eat with the seasons, you'll find that many foods naturally feature the taste of the moment.
With the heat of summer, the sour greens of spring give way to more bitter vegetables. Eating bitter foods helps us stay cool inside and out. In Chinese medicine, bitters are recommended for people who suffer from heat-related symptoms: ulcers, mouth sores, anxiety, and insomnia. Extremely bitter herbs—like wormwood and gentian—are used to treat extremely hot conditions. But less severe symptoms can be treated by eating mildly bitter foods like rapini, dandelion greens, bitter melon, and radicchio.
The concept of food as medicine is just beginning to take hold in the modern world, but it has always been a fundamental part of traditional cultures. In ancient Chinese medicine, diet is essential to healing.
"It's a pillar of Chinese medicine. It's the key," said Cindy Mai, owner of a Chinese herbal company called Root & Spring based in Los Angeles. "You don't wait until you're sick to do something to take care of your body. You nourish it and you treat it right, and it will stay healthy for you."
Mai wants to lead people back to this ancient wisdom with comfort food designed to prevent disease. Her vehicle is soup. "Just like how Americans view chicken noodle soup, the Chinese view herbal soup as healing to the mind, body, and soul," she said.
Mai sells what could be called ancient soup mixes—various combinations of Chinese herbs that are used to make a rich, therapeutic broth. The mixes are blended with broth and vegetables to promote detoxification, immunity, and other modern health goals, but they're also meant to taste good. They go back to a time when food and medicine were one.
"If you look at the textbooks of Chinese medicine, these are classic, healing soups that, when cooked and brewed, all their essence comes together," Mai said.
And it's not limited to exotic Chinese herbs—widely available Western ingredients like garlic or cilantro have plenty of benefits, she adds.
"When dishes have a strong scent, like those made with fennel, garlic, or cilantro, that tells me they're going to enliven the spleen and stimulate the appetite. They also refresh the mind," said Mai.
There's a whole world of flavors out there, but many of us keep to a narrow window of familiar tastes. Compared to other cultures, many Westerners tend toward a palate that is predominantly sweet and salty. Sour, and particularly bitter, are often missing from the American diet.
If people can learn to include more of these forgotten flavors into their diet, they may see some of their health problems improve, says Mai.
"I'm often asked how to promote bowel movements, proper digestion, and detoxification. It's because their diets aren't balanced. They're getting too much of one or two flavors. Sour foods and bitter foods naturally have these effects on the body," she said.
Reprinted with permission of the Epoch Times (originally published February 11, 2020).
Conan Milner is a health reporter for the Epoch Times. He graduated from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Figure and landscape painting.
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FOUR unrated underwriters of GAP insurance have gone bust since 2016.
If you buy GAP insurance backed by an unrated insurer, there's an increased chance of you being left without cover, when it's too late to source cover from any other provider.
The FOUR unrated underwriters that have gone bust since 2016 were all offshore companies. Two in Gibraltar and two in Denmark.
Whilst the Financial Services Compensation Scheme offers some protection in the event your insurer goes bust, at best you'll get 90% of your claim value whilst at worst you may just get back 90% of what you paid for your policy. Try replacing your car with that!
Fact: A GAP insurance policy that incorporates a "Market Value" clause is intentionally designed to pay you less money than a GAP insurance policy without such a clause.
GAP insurance policies that incorporate "Market Value" clauses should be avoided at all costs.
GAP insurance policies that do NOT pay out in cash to the policyholder, will see you either being forced to allow the GAP insurer to source your next vehicle or, being forced to use a motor dealer of the GAP insurer's choice.
Some policies will even reduce their payout to you if you're not replacing your vehicle with the funds from the GAP insurance payout.
Don't be dictated to. Choose a policy that pays out in cash and leaves you free to dispose of those funds as you see fit.
After buying a GAP insurance policy, how long do you want to be able to change your mind? The statutory 14-days… the 21 days that some companies offer or… 30 days?
Would you like to be able to get all of your money refunded or, permit the GAP insurer to retain some of what you paid as a penalty for you having had a change of heart?
Stick to policies with at least a 30-day cooling off period within which you can change your mind and get ALL of your money refunded.
Beyond that, watch our for policies that won't give you a daily pro-rata rebate of unused premium if you cancel a policy early.


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Michigan Football As We Know It is Dead
September 24, 2014 by Alex Bean Leave a Comment
The end of the last game was visual metaphor for the entire program. (Image via)
So far this football season I have gone 9-10 in my weekly football prediction column for The Recorder. In the two fantasy football leagues I have a team in I have gone 2-4. Clearly I have some strong opinions about this sport, but am sorely lacking when it comes to successfully converting those opinions into success. Fortunately, there is no blow-back to my mediocrity except some mild bruises to my ego. Such is unfortunately not the case with Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke, the Athletic Director and Head Coach who have overseen the final death and obsolescence of Michigan football as I have known it my entire life.
The Wolverines Have Played Like Shit
Their Wolverines' 2-2 start has looked worse than the .500 record would indicate. It takes some stats to get a sense of just aw terrible they have looked through 4 games. Michigan has a -10 turnover ratio, couching up the ball 12 times while only forcing 2 turnovers of their own. They have failed to reach the Red Zone (inside opponents 20-yard-line) against Power Conference opponents (i.e. teams from the Big Ten, SEC, PAc-12, Big 12, or ACC). When Defensive Tackle Willie Henry intercepted a Utah pass and rumbled 7 yards for a touchdown he outscored his team's entire offensive accomplishments in those 2 full games against Power opponents. Against Utah they gave up a punt return TD while fielding only ten players on the coverage team. Almost no other teams even let their opponents field punts anymore because they deploy the statistically more-effective spread formation that Michigan disdains for no good reason.
Michigan is so Dedicated to Winning the "Right" Way that They're Losing
Even beyond the putrid stats, the past four Michigan teams have been loaded with evidence of bad coaching and a reactionary philosophy. The Head Coach, Brady Hoke insists on using a "pro-style" offense based on under-center running and play-action passes. It's the "traditional" Michigan way, supposedly. (We'll just ignore the fact that Michigan only adopted that offense in the mid-80s). It can be an effective system for physically dominating teams, but it requires players to overpower opponents every down. By contrast, the spread offense that has been adopted by ~80% of other college teams is based on (you guessed it) spreading teams out and making them tackle in space rather than just trying to run them over. As someone who has played football on a very low level, I can tell you tackling in space is much harder than not falling down.
This dedication to old-school offense uses a "statue-esque" Quarterback who stands rarely leaves the pocket and throws like an artillery piece ala former Wolverine Tom Brady. Michigan has been so dedicated to this idea that they have shunned the best quality of their last two starting Quarterbacks: they ability to run. Devin Gardner was a 5-star spread QB in high school and Denard Robinson is the NCAA-record holder for rushing yards by a QB. Yet Hoke's adherance to "Man-ball" is so maniacal that that those incredible athletes saw their talent get negated play after play.
Michigan even disdains simple strategic gambits like "not being mind-meltingly slow." This Wolverines offense is the 2nd-slowest offense in all of Division 1. They burn 30 seconds between each play assembling and then breaking the huddle, often getting lined up for the snap with only seconds left on the play clock. Most other teams eschew the huddle in favor of getting right to the line, which forces defense to with play faster and with fewer at-the-line adjustments. It's like the Air Force ignoring their F-17 fighter jets because of a the philosophical righteousness of the dirigible.
These two have steered the Michigan football program straight into the gutter. (Image via)
Was that a bunch of gobbledegook? My apologies. I am a football nerd, and when my sensibilities are offended I spit and blubber and point at all the obvious failings. To put it bluntly, the hired leadership of the Michigan football program has failed utterly, and that failure has been noticed by fans and rivals alike. Huge swathes of Michigan Stadium sit empty on game day despite ticket prices being at an all-time low on the secondary market. Despite that, season ticket prices and seat-renewal "donations" are at all-time high even though the wait list has evaporated in the past decade. These days, though, even the most passive Walmart Wolverines wouldn't want to spend money watching such a wretched product. Rival teams like Ohio State and Michigan State are poaching recruits by pointing to the team's accumulating losses and fan apathy. Loss of recruits leads to less talent on the field leads to more losses leads to…well, you get it. This is a classic example of a vicious cycle reaching its apocalyptic end.
Michigan Needs to Stop Looking to the Past
It's a cycle that Michigan has been stuck in for nearly a decade. The architect of the modern Michigan program, Bo Schembecchler, died on November 17, 2006. Bo's first Michigan team upset #1 Ohio State, coached by his old mentor Woody Hayes, and played in the Rose Bowl. The subsequent "10-Year-War" between Bo and Woody remains a high-point in both programs' history and set the template that Michigan is still trying to emulate four decade later. Bo's Michigan was based on hard-nosed defense, conservative offense, and moral rectitude. The man himself was irascible and impatient, but genuinely loved his players and school. (Think any role Gene Hackman played.) He coached for 20 years and his opinion or style had dictated every football decision made in Ann Arbor since 1969.
Hey, look! Another visual metaphor. There are so many of them. (Image via)
The day after Bo died, the #2 Wolverines played #1 Ohio State in the most-hyped match in The Game's storied history. The Wolverines lost and haven't looked back since. The following season saw the disastrous Appalachian State loss and Lloyd Carr's retirement. The year after that, Rich Rodriguez became the coach and was run out of town just three years later. He lost more games than fans in were used to, sure, but the program's culture seemed to virulently reject a hillbilly outsider with a twang in his voice. (John U. Bacon's Three and Out is an incredible insight into the Rodriguez era. Ask Bean if you can borrow it!)
Michigan is Failing Because They Hired a Bad Head Coach for the Wrong Reasons
So in 2011, Dave Brandon hired Brady Hoke as Head Coach. Hoke had a career 47-50 record and no conference championships to his name. How did a coach with a career losing record take over college football's winningest program? But he is a "Michigan Man," which was Brandon's lead consideration while hiring. To be anything less would be downright treason. The football coach at Michigan had to think like Bo and coach like Bo and bluster like Bo. Never mind the fact that the university and fanbase only accepted all of those Bo qualities because he won like crazy. That element of logic was lost in the rush to slavishly follow the dictates of a man whose style of football was obsolete even before he retired.
So Hoke postured and bellowed and taunted and even won a lot (in his first season). He molded his teams to look like an idealized version of the Michigan teams he was an assistant on in the 90's. But even at the time those teams played a conservative brand of football. Its success was as much based on mystique and luck as strategy or tactics. By the 2010s the mystique and luck were gone and that football philosophy has directly resulted in all the failures I listed earlier. Hoke's hiring has proven to be an unqualified disaster these past few years and seems to have finally killed the fan's interest in the program that Bo built.
Long Live the New King
Bo was a great coach and a good man. But Michigan needs to move on. (Image via)
Barring a miracle run to the Big Ten title (HA!), Hoke should already be polishing his resume. Brandon's inability to not have a notoroious PR fuck-up every 2 months should see him shit-canned as well. Honestly, he should be fired just for making the Hoke hire. But that's for the best. Bo's revolution in '69 swept out the skeleton of a program that Fielding H. Yost had brought to prominence at the turn of the 20th Century. Michigan won like crazy for a long time under Yost and was a continued success under his hand-picked successors until the magic ran out around 1955 and Michigan stumbled through the woods for a decade until the hiring of Bo in '69 renewed the Mandate of Heaven. It's long past time for another renewal. In order to do that, the current dynasty must be swept aside. With the disastrous start to this season, it has to happen this year or much worse misery beckons.
The King is dead. Long live the new King. Whomever he may be.
A life-long Midwesterner, currently living and working in Chicago. Primarily writes here about television and film (which is what he accrued crushing debt to study in school), but will write about books, sports, video games, or whatever else strikes his fancy. He's the one who thinks baseball is really boring.
Posted in: Football, Sports Tagged: Bo Schembechler, Brady Hoke, Dave Brandon, Michigan Wolverines


One of the greatest challenge of the 21st century will be finding a way to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Greater still will be the challenge of feeding 10 billion people without clearing natural landscapes in the process.
Forest Trends' mission is to ensure the conservation of forests and other ecosystems, and we recognize that those goals can only be achieved by revolutionizing current agricultural practices.
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century will be finding a way to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Forest Trends seeks to transform current agricultural practices so this challenge can be met while forests and other ecosystems can be preserved.
Agriculture alone accounts for over 70 percent in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The majority of this deforestation is tied to the "big four" agricultural commodities – palm, soy, timber & pulp, and cattle – that pervade vast corporate supply chains and end up in virtually every aisle of the grocery store.
In Myanmar, government-granted agribusiness concessions result not only in the widespread clearing of forests, but also force ethnic minority groups off of their lands, inflame old grievances that fuel armed conflict, and destroy critical wildlife habitat.
In Brazil, the ongoing and well-documented pressures on the Amazon rainforest are compounded by emerging threats to the southeast, where the rapid clearance of the Cerrado region's rainforests and savannahs to make way for agricultural expansion threatens to radically alter the water cycle.
And in Ghana, the cocoa sector (itself a major driver of deforestation, historically) is acutely vulnerable to the altered temperatures and precipitation patterns brought about by climate change, endangering the livelihood of about six million Ghaians – 25 to 30 percent of the population.
We work on innovative mechanisms to finance sustainable agriculture on an industrial scale.
For a growing number of companies (currently almost 850) linked to the "big four" agricultural commodities, we track commitments, implementation policies, and progress information related to managing deforestation within their agricultural commodity supply chains.
We track market-based systems that protect water quality through trading and incentives to invest in watershed protection.
We help develop and promote a small-scale, community-driven "rainforest to table" model for agriculture and non-timber forest products that can save Latin American forests and benefit the people who call them home.
Improving the sustainability of agriculture requires transforming financial incentives for farmers and landowners, including scaling up the overall flows of finance toward both improved productivity and greater conservation.
Traditional financial systems fail to factor in the environmental costs of agriculture and often make sustainable practices costlier or unfeasible altogether. But that is slowly changing, thanks to forward-thinking financial institutions, governments, and companies.
These banks, fund managers, corporations, and other investors aren't simply being philanthropic; they're looking for competitive, sensible additions to their portfolios – and they're finding them. Six in 10 of the private investors we surveyed in 2016 expected to see returns of 5 to 15 percent from their investments in sustainable agriculture.
In order for this emerging asset class to continue gaining steam, transparent information is critical. Forest Trends is committed to filling that gap as demand for investable sustainable food opportunities continues to grow.
In Ghana, for example, agriculture employs over half of Ghana's population, but it's under threat as climate change alters temperatures and precipitation patterns. The cocoa industry, which accounts for over a third of the country's GDP, is particularly vulnerable. Working with a broad coalition, we're looking for ways to make "climate-smart agriculture" practices less risky for cocoa farmers by increasing their access to credit and developing specialized insurance products. In doing so, we can turn what has historically been a major driver of environmental harm into a resilient and sustainable source of income for Ghanaian farmers.
And in Brazil, we're finding ways to use international public funding through the UN program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to help Brazil accelerate its transition to more productive and sustainable agriculture. Large-scale performance-based REDD+ payments can be used to unlock more favorable loans for landowners who practice good land stewardship, lower risks borne by the public banks which providing those loans, and attract private investment from food producers looking to meet sustainability goals.
In neighboring Peru, deforestation in the Amazon region accounts for over half of the entire country's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Together with partner organizations and the Peruvian government, we're tackling key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon – supply chains built around coffee, cocoa, and oil palm – by implementing a "Production-Protection Compact" that simultaneously protects forests and benefits small-scale farmers. By making this sustainable development vision a reality, we can replace the vicious cycle of poverty, low productivity, and deforestation with one of prosperity, productive agriculture, and forest conservation – all while helping Peru meet its goal of reducing GHG emissions by 30%.
Governments around the world paid farmers and other private landholders nearly $10 billion in 2015 to reward them for good stewardship of lands critical to watershed health. Our research highlights that the traditional agricultural subsidy model can be successfully retrofitted for the green economies of the future – to focus on long-term landscape health as well as agricultural productivity.
Unlocking conservation finance alone will not ensure a successful transition to sustainable agriculture – not unless businesses on every continent take decisive and comprehensive action to remove environmental and social harms from their supply chains.
Fortunately, companies around the world and across the entire commodity value chain—producers, processors, traders, manufacturers, and retailers – are taking unprecedented action to clean up these supply chains. Often, they're motivated by demands from stakeholders, from consumers to investors to local and national governments an increasing number of whom are no longer willing to tolerate business as usual.
Forest Trends created its Supply Change Initiative to provide freely available news, data, and analysis related to companies' progress toward sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains. The online portal Supply-Change.org tracks supply chain commitments from hundreds of companies – from little-known producers and traders to consumer-facing brands – while comprehensive reports shine light on global trends, business developments, and ongoing challenges.
Are these companies succeeding in meeting their goals? Supply Change's 2017 report analysis found that progress information is available for about half (51%) of the company commitments we tracked, compared with 36% of those tracked in its 2016 report. So, companies are entering new territory with these commitments and are making steady progress on developing ways to meet them.
Commitments that aren't accompanied by transparent progress reporting run the risk of becoming "dormant," leaving stakeholders in the dark about their status. Our research shows that public disclosure continues to lag, with one in five commitments being dormant – all while the number of ambitious new commitments multiplies.
As our research shows, there's much more work to be done, but the good news is that change is happening. Along the way, Forest Trends and our partners will continue to track private sector progress in this context and also serve as a resource to companies as they work toward existing commitments and develop new ones. In the process, we're empowering consumers, investors, governments, and others with the information necessary to hold companies accountable.
At least half of all tropical deforestation in the last decade has been for commercial agriculture to meet the rapidly growing global demand for food, fuel, and fiber. Much of this conversion of forests to agricultural land has been taking place in the context of complex, contradictory, and poorly implemented regulations governing forest areas and surrounding landscapes. Forest Trends calculates that nearly half of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2012 was due to illegal conversion for commercial agriculture – involving corruption in the issuance of licenses, illegal use of fire to clear forests, or unfair compensation to local communities.
Companies at every stage of the supply chain have been making ambitious public commitments to reduce the deforestation impacts of forest risk commodities they source. Measures like voluntary standards and certification schemes have raised the sustainability "ceiling," but they are not enough.
Forest Trends works to raise the "floor" for what constitutes acceptable agricultural practices by devising better policies to govern forests. We do so by working with governments and policy makers to help them consider regulatory options which can support private sector commitments and which also mandate efforts to eliminate deforestation from supply chains.
Establish a global norm that commodities produced on illegally cleared land should not be bought and sold in the open by respectable parties. Our research shows that such import legislation is already succeeding in the EU, UK, and the United States where it keeps illegally harvested wood off the market; such legislation could be adapted for agricultural commodities.
Encourage political leaders and policy makers in forest nations to see illegal forest clearing for agriculture as a threat to their economies, people, and sovereignty; and support them in advancing a shared policy agenda to address the issue.
And on the private sector side, our Supply Change initiative tracks companies' efforts to remove destructive agricultural practices from their commodity supply chains. By increasing access to transparent information, we help stakeholders – investors, businesses, governments, non-profits, and consumers – make informed decisions that can spur more businesses to act.


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Karl Marx was a German philosopher. He was born in 1818 to Jewish parents in a petty-bourgeois family. In his varsity life, he studied law, history, and philosophy. In 1841, he completed his Ph.D. on the philosophy of Epicurus. His life of philosophy is marked by two lines of thought. Initially, he was Hegelian in his views. Later on, an epistemological break led him more towards science.
In 1843, Marx moved to Paris where he met Frederick Engels. Both planned to work together on their Marxist credo and came up with their first substantial work The German Ideology.
The major portion of the work was directed as a response to Feuerbach's materialism. They put forth the concept of the materialist conception of history and critiqued philosophers like Bruno Bauer and Max Stirner. They believed that philosophers have had enough talk on philosophy but were unconcerned to change the world.
In the very book, Marx says, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it." This attitude of Marx led him to formulate Communism as a practical solution to the problem of oppression in society.
Marx's radical views became the reason for his banishment from Paris in 1845. Marx then moved to Brussels where he with Engels joined a secret society, the Communist League. Their association with the society resulted in The Communist Manifesto which was requested in League's Second Congress (1847). The work reflects upon ideas such as materialism, class struggle, tasks of the communists and the revolutionary role of the working class.
Marx uses the materialist concept of history as an approach to the analysis of society. According to this approach, history is considered to be the result of material conditions. The approach is a rejection of the idealist concept of history which holds the view that history is driven by human consciousness.
Marx influenced generations of philosophers through his ideas which as a theoretical approach became Marxism. Marx's view regarding all human civilization is that it is a result of class struggle. He explains it in his The Communist Manifesto, "history of all hitherto existing society is history of class struggles." He sees in society a constant fight between the oppressed class and the oppressor.
Marx in The Communist Manifesto gives a solution to the problems of inequality and oppression in the form of communism. He wants to bring the people of the working-class together so that they do away with the capitalist society and establish a communist system.
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"


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Letter From Northern Italy
By Mario Marcolla
An interior bond ties me to America, where one of my grandfathers is buried. He tried the adventure of emigration, without ever rooting himself in a regular job and without managing to send a penny to the family in Italy, until he died almost certainly in an almshouse. My other grandfather crossed the Atlantic in 1902. He was a lumberman in Michigan, and afterward went to New Jersey to work as a miner. From 1906 to 1912, my father attended elementary school in Trenton and then returned to Trentino, Italy, with his mother and a sister who had been born in the United States. In 1920, the family was united again, even poorer than when they left for America, because the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had destroyed the entire value of their savings on deposit with the Bank of Vienna.
I bring up these personal matters in order to show that the destinies of men are always interconnected, that our vocations stem from the experiences of our own fathers and forefathers. America has always been in my heart, and for that reason I have studied the history of the United States in colonial times, as well as 20th century American conservatism.
On the cultural plain, the bonds between Italy and the United States in the 1850's were very strong, the few Italians living in America notwithstanding. American poets and philosophers kept Italy in mind as an historical example and a source for European literature.
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Kochi Corporation issued building permits in violation of coastal regulations: CAG report
Multi-storey buildings up to 21 floors were allowed along Chilavanoor backwaters without even bothering to obtain clearances from coastal management authority or Union environment ministry
By M Suchitra
Last Updated: Tuesday 07 July 2015
Kochi Corporation has been severely criticised by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for violating building rules under Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms.
An audit report of CAG for 2013 found that the corporation has not complied with Kerala Municipality Building Rules and violated the CRZ norms while issuing permits for construction of buildings.
The audit report on the local self-government institutions which was tabled in the state Assembly on July 14 has observed that the urban local body has failed to comply with the rules and structural plans and compromised on safety and security while issuing permits to builders. According to the report, in the case of 19 buildings, some of them multi-storeyed having up to 21 floors by the side of Chilavanoor backwaters, the corporation gave permission for construction without bothering to obtain the mandatory approvals from the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (CZMA) and environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and the Forests.
In the case of 13 buildings, CZMA had informed the civic body about the violations in February 2011. However, the corporation directed only one construction group not to proceed with the work, observed the report. Despite the corporation's directions to stop work, the construction continued unimpeded.
In some cases, the Kerala Municipality Building rules were violated. The corporation secretary initially refrained from issuing permits but later succumbed to pressure from the Town Planning Standing Committee, noted the report.
Heritage violation
The audit has also found construction activities in Heritage Conservation Zone of Fort Kochi. The Corporation issued permits to the construction groups without the concurrence of the Art and Heritage Commission and no objection certificate from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). ASI had found unauthorized building constructions near St Francis Church, which is a national monument, at Fort Kochi.
Despite ASI's findings of violations, the Kochi corporation failed to take action, said the report.
The civic body's violation of rules has adversely affected ecology and the heritage character of the area, resulting in significant revenue loss to the corporation. Some constructions by the Kerala State Housing Board have also violated the norms, the report said.
The report slammed the local body for not having a centralised database for building permits and unauthorised constructions. The report also noted that Kochi Corporation has not been properly maintaining relevant registers and lacked vigilant monitoring system. For this reason, the civic body failed to exercise its power and control over constructions within its jurisdiction, said the report.
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Q: Limit of Integral of Matrix Exponential I've been trying to evaluate
$\lim_{t\rightarrow\infty}\int_{t'=0}^t e^{-\mathbf{L}(t-t')}yu(t')dt'$
where $\mathbf{L}$ is the graph Laplacian, $y$ is a vector (that doesn't depend on $t'$) and $u(t)$ is the unit step function. This expression is found in the "Methods" section of the following paper
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/18/12/1991.long
and it evaluates to
$\lim_{s\rightarrow 0} s\frac{1}{s}(s\mathbf{I}+\mathbf{L})^{-1}b = \mathbf{L}^{-1}b.$
I thought I could use the Laplace transform to get their answer, but I've been having trouble dealing with the $e^{-\mathbf{L}t}$ term in the integrand. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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Q: Devise nested attributes form field not showing I am having trouble viewing the nested attributes field in my form. I am in the jobs/new view and I want have a User form that creates a job as well as a user.
I have everything in this answer Rails 4.0 with Devise. Nested attributes Unpermited parameters
I have also checked out this Nested attributes not showing up in simple form
But the latter answer already applies to my code and it is not showing up. My Code:
Job Model
belongs_to :user

User Model
has_many :jobs
accepts_nested_attributes_for :jobs

devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable, :confirmable

Jobs/new view
<%= form_for(resource, as: resource_name, url: registration_path(resource_name)) do |f| %>
  <%= devise_error_messages! %>

  <%= f.fields_for :jobs do |builder| %>
    <%= render "job_detail_fields", :f => builder %>
  <% end %>

  <%= f.email_field :email, placeholder: "Enter email", class: "full-width form-field" %>

<% end %>

_job_details_fields
<%= f.text_area :job_description, placeholder: "Job description..." %>

The :job_description text_area is not showing. If I change the nested attributes form to something like f.fields_for :job, it will then show but on submission of the form I get unpermitted paramater job as an error. I am pretty sure jobs is correct but I don't know why it is not showing. Any ideas?

A: Ahh going over the Rails Cast it looks like I need to build the :job_description.
This fixed it 1.times { @resource.jobs.build } in my Jobs controller.
Jobs Controller
def new
    @resource ||= User.new
    1.times { @resource.jobs.build }
end


Young teens who trek to and from school are 27% more active during the rest of the day than those who get a ride. That's what Scottish researchers found after measuring physical activity among 92 adolescents. Even walking just one way appears to increase activity throughout the day.
"Walking to school may 'prime' kids for exercise by giving them more energy," says walking researcher Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD, of Arizona State University. Get your teens going with a "walking school bus," where neighborhood teens walk to and from school following a set, safe route.


This article was first published by Becker's Spine Review.
Artificial intelligence is already playing a role in healthcare delivery, on the clinical and statistical analysis side. Here, 10 leaders of healthcare and IT companies describe what the future could look like when artificial intelligence is more fully integrated.
Kapila Ratnam, PhD. Partner at NewSpring Capital and NewSpring Healthcare (Radnor, Pa.): "In the short term, AI has immediate applicability within the administration and operation of a hospital or healthcare system; more so than in changing how clinical care is delivered. This is predominantly because of how the healthcare ecosystem is regulated; it is one of the most highly regulated industries because it directly impacts individual lives.
Think more in terms of supply chain and inventory management within a hospital; for example, making sure a surgical room is correctly stocked with appropriate inventory based on the series of surgeries to be performed in that room on that day. Having inventory automatically tracked, with an algorithm that is able to assess what the needs are and send instructions to a robot to pick up and deliver appropriate supplies to the surgical room at the beginning of the day. I can also imagine a scenario where an algorithm is able to automatically access cost of supplies from multiple vendors and immediately analyze and assess which vendor delivers the best product at the lowest cost. And follow that up with ordering inventory appropriately, all done without human intervention.
Other applications are in security. For example, assessing whether someone within a health system is inappropriately accessing data and being able to flag that before there is an actual breach of clinical data (there is already a company that has built out an algorithm to do exactly this). Most breaches occur because an insider either deliberately or inadvertently accesses data they should not have."
See all 10 responses here.