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Q: Impersonate a user on another domain, one way trust I am attempting to impersonate a user on another domain, for the purpose of querying that domain. See Accessing user info from a one way trust for some background.
My impersonation works correctly when I'm using a local domain user. When I specify the target domain, which is also over LDAPS port 636, it doesn't work. My impersonation returns null.
My Impersonation Code
public static WindowsImpersonationContext ImpersonateUser(ConnectionCredentials user)
    {
        WindowsIdentity tempWindowsIdentity;
        IntPtr token = IntPtr.Zero;
        IntPtr tokenDuplicate = IntPtr.Zero;

        if (RevertToSelf())
        {
            if (LogonUser(user.UserName, user.Domain, user.Password, LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
                LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, ref token) != 0)
            {
                if (DuplicateToken(token, 2, ref tokenDuplicate) != 0)
                {
                    tempWindowsIdentity = new WindowsIdentity(tokenDuplicate);
                    impersonationContext = tempWindowsIdentity.Impersonate();
                    if (impersonationContext != null)
                    {
                        CloseHandle(token);
                        CloseHandle(tokenDuplicate);
                        return impersonationContext;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        if (token != IntPtr.Zero)
            CloseHandle(token);
        if (tokenDuplicate != IntPtr.Zero)
            CloseHandle(tokenDuplicate);
        return impersonationContext;
    }

Any ideas?
Thanks.

A: My issue was that I was sending in the user name as username@domain, AND specifying the domain name. In the event the user name contains the domain name, the domain name for LogonUser needs to be null
if (LogonUser(user.UserName, null, user.Password, LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
                LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, ref token) != 0)

Thanks!


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When I run the program having the simulation I have found that the EViews giving message !TRW not defined and is illegal command.Hrnce, I cannot complete the procedure. I am attaching the output for reference.
Itamar wrote: Ok, following Gareth's advice, I added a command option for the rtadf add in (in a quick and dirty way but it seems to work). Note that this is still experimental and it might have some bugs I missed. For it to work, you will need to replace the current rtadf.prg and rtadfsim.prg files which are in your EViews Addins\RTadf library with the attached new files.
will run a SADF test on y where the initial window size is set to 0.3 with a test equation specified with a constant and a trend and with one fixed lag. In addition, it will show a spool which holds the test statistic and a graph.
One caveat I have here is that, at least for now, the command cannot perform the test and the simulation automatically. However, if you wishe to preform the same test to several series having the same sample size and the same window, all you need to do is to do the simulation once, keep the critical values, and then run the same command for the remaining series (with the "sim" option shut off) via a loop.
I'll be happy to get your comments!
PS, the addin now enables the user to specify the deterministic terms of the test equation, both in the test dialog and in the simulation dialog. In addition, the add in now calculates the p-value of the test statistic (according to the simulated distribution of the test statistic), but this is still an experimental feature.
I do get the same error as jchomicki, where a warning Message pops up that TStat_max is not defined.
Has there been any fix yet I didn't see?
Thank you Itamar, i will try it and let you know!
Xiaohui (Sharon) Wu, an rtadf user, has finally found the source for the annoying "tstat_max" bug.
I see several posts on the Eviews forum mentioned the "TStat_max_max is not defined" error, which I encountered myself too. After looking at the codes, I find the Matlab function says "function [ tstat_max, radf_cv ] = SIM_RADF( obs, win, rep, d, eta ,beta )", while in the RTADFSIM_MATLAB file, it says "xrun "[tstat_max sadf_cv]=SIM_SADF(T,t1,rep,delta,eta,beta,adfspec);"". So, there is one more input in the .prg file than in the .m file, namely the "adfspec". When I delete "adfspec" in the .prg file, everything works fine.
The latest version of the addin (https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v081c01) solves this issue by adding the "flag" term to the Matlab SIM_*ADF function. However, the version that appeared in the EViews addin repository was outdated and contained that annoying bug. Thanks to Sharon and Gareth, the latest version of the addin has been uploaded to the EViews repository and should work just fine.
Please let me know about any new bugs you find.
Just tried it. Worked perfectly fine! Great job!


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Following the announcement that New Belgium Brewing would be sold to a subsidiary of Kirin Holdings, I spoke with employee ownership expert Joseph Blasi. Professor Blasi is the director of the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, as well as co-author of The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2014). The comments below have been edited for brevity and clarity.
Why is it so difficult for successful ESOPs, like New Belgium, to remain employee-owned companies?
Blasi: Let's start with cooperatives. Anyone who knows the history of worker cooperatives, knows that they are sometimes victims of their own success. If the cooperative is successful, the price of the shares goes up. It becomes very costly for new, younger workers to buy in. Additionally, there have been cases where worker-owners, recognizing the value of shares in their company, would push family members to buy in, creating a nepotism problem.
ESOPs solved this set of problems, because workers don't have to buy into the plan. When a new employee joins the firm, they automatically join the ESOP. But high-performing ESOPs have other problems related to success:
When a firm becomes majority employee owned, especially S corporations, they benefit from worker and manager motivation and problem solving. As with New Belgium, they often become highly effective companies, which can dramatically increase in value. As a result, the firm starts getting buy-out offers, and workers must decide whether to turn the value they've created into immediate wealth. But if the most successful ESOP firms become candidates for sale, how do we make ESOPs a bigger part of our economy?
Since ESOPs are retirement plans, regulated under ERISA [the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974] and managed by a trust, there must be an independent trustee. There is a legal question as to whether certain offers — offers that would clearly benefit the workers financially — need to be seriously considered or accepted. I have heard from a variety of experts that trustees may be too conservative when interpreting this issue. Some observers say, an offer is a chance to monetize wealth for the workers, and thus, its obligatory to seriously explore. Others have observed that keeping a successful company as an ESOP, where value can grow, may be a bigger long-term wealth opportunity for the workers.
Are there ways to put more protections in place, so that a successful ESOP would not necessarily be obligated to sell to the highest bidder?
Blasi: Some firms have tried to insulate themselves from the most conservative position of trustees — the belief that the obligation to maximize value for the workers overrides more long-term considerations — by becoming B Corps or otherwise embedding a multi-stakeholder mission into their articles of incorporation. New Belgium became a B Corp but that act was not itself sufficient (and I want to make clear I don't know all the factors that contributed to the decision to sell). Therefore, I believe three responses are in order:
Senior ESOP trustees need to get together with legal experts and determine what their obligation is when a buy-out offer is on the table. Perhaps there is more legal room than trustees perceive around this issue.
To strengthen the position of trustees, there could be amendments to ERISA, such as a carve out that would provide a safe harbor for trustees who choose not to sell.
More ESOP companies should go B Corp route — despite New Belgium's experience — and strengthen their multi-stakeholder mission by embedding it in their articles of incorporation.
Other actions could also protect employee ownership over the long-term. For example, firms could:
Sell part of the company — a minority stake — to a patient investor to secure a "wealth event" (a payout) for employees and, then, do another leveraged ESOP to slowly buyout the investor.
Distribute more of the value of the firm in short-term cash profit sharing to give employees annual wealth events.
Consider incorporating as a non-ERISA perpetual employee ownership trust, a model common in the UK.
Consider embedding majority or 100 percent employee-owned firms in a federation to insulate them from being bought by mega-corporations. This would be similar to the Mondragon model in the Basque region of Spain. Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, founded in 1956, is a federation of over 100 cooperative businesses, employing over 73,000 people.
Any final thoughts?
Blasi: This is a case where success of an individual company, can turn into a broader issue for the entire sector. One doesn't want to take away from New Belgium's employee-owners who have created a successful firm and tremendously increased its value. The bigger issue is, can majority-owned firms that deliver high-quality jobs and significant wealth stay employee-owned, if that is what the workers want?
Karen Kahn is the editor of Employee Ownership News.


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Q: When allowed to start service not in foreground mode I want to start a service when the application has the first activity started. When all activities are stopped the service should be stopped too. I implemented this behavior using ActivityLifecycleCallbacks.
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Title: 50 Years of Solo Performing Art in Nigeria
Author: Greg Mbajiorgu, Amanze Akpuda
Publisher: Kraft Book, Ibadan
Pagination: 614
Reviewer: Henry Akubuiro
2016 is a remarkable year for the subgenre of monodrama in Nigeria: it marked its fiftieth year of enactment on stage. In the intervening years, new performers have emerged and new techniques have been innovated. But, how do we aggregate this data yet present a compendium that would serve as a reference point for the golden jubilee? Step in Greg Mbajiorgu and Amanze Akpuda, and the rest is history!
Thanks to the two scholars, the documentation of 50 Years of Solo Performing Art in Nigeria has become a reality, and fills a yawning gap in this area of theatrical scholarship. First, the idea for this book was nursed by the lead editor, Greg Mbajiorgu, who, himself, is a solo performer, in 2014, when he wanted to organise a confab to celebrate 48 years of solo performing art in Nigeria. He was to collaborate with Dr. Amanze Akpuda, an enthusiast of solo performing art, to make the dream of the book crystillise.
Monodrama, as a theatrical form, features a single actor on stage, who plays multiple roles streamlined in the plot of a script. It, however, takes genius to execute this enactment, which is why solo performance is not for all-comers in the make-believe world. From ancient griots, masquerades to modern-day comedians, monodrama has evolved in this part of the world, which this book, in part, validates.
50 Years of Solo Performing Arts in Nigeria is segmented into nine sections. While the first four sections are exegetical testaments of the evolution of monodrama in Nigeria, the last five chapters are essays and interviews on specific monodrama practitioners and their works. This offers us a rare opportunity to juxtapose or approximate each of major practitioners and also explore the possible synthesis.
While the first section dwells on the theoretical and proto-historical/pre-generic foundations of monodrama, the second section focuses on meta-theoritical, comparative, analytical and generic studies. In the third section, a searchlight is beamed on pioneer Nigerian soloists like Betty Okotie, Tunji Sotimirin and Funso Alabi; while, in the fourth section, there is a focus on directing the monodrama script.
The works of four major practitioners studied by different scholars in the concluding sections of this book include Greg Mbajiorgu's The Prime Minister's Son, Inua Ellams' The 14th Tale and Untitled, Binebai's My Life in the Burning Creeks and Karina's Cross, and Akpos Adesi's Whose Daughter am I?
These playwrights, as well as Tunji Sotimirin and Tunde Awosanmi, inspired lengthy conversations on their fidelity to monodrama all these years. The youngest of the practitioners, Ndubuisi Nwokedi, who goes by the stage name, Mbem Ijele, equally contributes a chapter on his emergence as a one-man solo performer. Thus, what we have here is a hybrid of solo performers with intrinsic nutmegs and variegated nuances.
Contributors to this publication include some of the best scholars in theatre and literature. The big names include Professors Kalu Uka, Ahmed Yerimah, Chimalum Nwankwo, Ademola Da Sylva and Emeka Nwabueze. Other notable contributors include Onyebuisi James Ile, Chike Okoye, Ben Tomoloju, Amanze Akpuda, Awosanmi Tunde, among others. In all, there are 36 contributors to the first edition of 50 Years of Solo Performing Art in Nigeria.
Moses Idowu's essay on "Words of Power, and the Power of Words: The Spoken Word as a Medium of Vital Force in African Cosmology" is the opening discourse in the book, followed by Emeka Nwabueeze's "The Griot as Solo Artiste: Aesthetics of Performance in African Folk Art" and Chike Okoye's "The Igbo Mask as Solo Performer" in the first section of this unique whooper. The historical basis of these essays situate the matrix of the Nigerian soloist from the pristine, with forerunners in the griots, masquerades and ritual folk art.
Griots, announces Prof Nwabueze, exist in almost all African societies, but are quite predominant among the Mandinka, Bambara, Hausa, Igbo, Tukulor, Wolof, Dagoniba, and the Mauritanian Arabs. As he reveals, "The griot is not only a repository of knowledge … but he embodies many things at the same time: historian, storyteller, singer, poet, musician, traditional leader, social adviser, satirist, or political commentator" (p.22).
The talent and tradition of the solo performer is the preoccupation of Professor Kalu Ukah in the second chapter of the book, "Meta-theoretical, Comparative, Analytical and General Studies". In tracing the tradition of performative art in Africa, he cites African Dances, a book by Geoffrey Gorer, an English anthropologist, who travelled across the length and breadth of West Africa in early 20th century, and relives the ritual dance of Dahomey women, entrance and transported to a spiritual realm. Pointing out the basic characteristics of the performative arts in Africa, Ukah says, as a group art, it usually involves crowds on stage, in the dance, in the carnival.
In "The Nigerian Responses to the Monodramatic Tradition and the Culture of Solo Performance", Amanze Akpuda offers the proto-history and origins of solo performance and monodrama in Europe and Africa, while isolating the areas of dissonance from the Homeric precursors to the modern.
Chimalum Nwankwo's "The Colony and Post-Colony, Monodrama and Minimalism: Reflections" is also illuminating. From the deployment of bastard imaginaries by the west in its ambiguous, forceful civilisation of Africa, which he locates at the beginning of his essay, he substantiates minimalist intervention in art, for instance, with American musicians of the 1960s to the domestication by Mbajiorgu, of ideological forms in many faces of the necessary reconstruction and firming up required to fill up the utilitarian desiderata in African politics. Needless to say, this is just a fraction of what is contained in this seminal tome, which bellows attention.
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The Comcast offer also challenges Disney's deal in December to buy film and international assets from Twenty-first Century Fox — including its Sky stake — for $52 billion in stock.
Fox responded to Comcast's bid by saying it's sticking to its offer of December 2016 to buy Sky's remaining shares — even though its proposed take-out price is 14 percent lower than Comcast's bid.
Disney and Comcast both see Sky as a way to expand their international footprints as they gear up for heightened competition from Netflix and new players like Apple and Amazon.
Before Comcast made its bid for Sky, Disney hinted that it is more interested in Fox's TV and movie content than it is in Fox's 39 percent stake in Sky, a source told The Post.
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Jefferies' John Janedis said "the path of least resistance" would be for Disney to bid against Comcast for the Sky stake Fox doesn't own, as that would reduce any issue UK regulators might have with Fox.
Sensing a bidding war, investors sent Sky's shares up more than 20 percent for the day — 8 percent above Comcast's bid price.


Complete Mobile Dentistry, Inc. (CMD) and Complete Dental Staffing (CDS) are proud to support both local and National Charities with our time and money. Since our existence we have donated over $118,000 and many hours of our time to a variety of charities, many of which are listed below.
CMD and CDS awarded two scholarships to students in the dental field attending Madison College. Jennefer Thoreson received $1,500 and Quinnel Furselth was awarded $1,000.
Recently Complete Mobile Dentistry donated their mobile dental van to a charity called Kars 4 Kids. Kars 4 Kids is a great organization that takes funds they raise from vehicle donations and put them towards positively impacting children's lives. The organization focuses on mentoring children and increasing education.
HHC provides complete care for the children of the Kay Anj D'ayiti (Angel House of Haiti) in Dekle, Haiti. HHA is dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished children by helping them become successful members of their communities. Recently, Complete Mobile Dentistry connected with this organization and donated over 130 pounds of dental supplies to the orphanage to help support their care.
Helping Neighbors. Helping Kids… A Sun Prairie Tradition. Sunshine Place is a single point of access to social services that Sun Prairie residents may need to help support themselves in times of need.
The mission of Tellurian UCAN and the Tellurian Family of Services has remained unchanged since the founding of Tellurian in 1971… "to provide a safe and nurturing environment to all those afflicted with substance abuse, addiction, mental illness, and homelessness, a broad range of innovative programs, treatment and services designed to allow each individual the opportunity to rebuild their life and re-enter the community as a productive member of society." Each year, the Tellurian Family of Services provides much needed help and assistance to more than 8500 people via treatment, a wide range of support services, and housing.
REACH's Mission is to collect and provide books and drawstring backpacks to help First Responders comfort children-in-crisis.
Camp Yellow Ribbon provides a fun and educational outlet for children in military families, from all service branches. The goal of this specialized camp is to help them to learn how to cope with the challenges of having a family member who is deployed or has returned from overseas.
'Cause kids need to eat. Norski Nibbles provides free sack lunches to De Forest area children under the age of 18 during the summer months.
Helping People Help Animals. Dane County Humane Society is an open admission shelter saving all of the healthy and treatable animals who come into our care.
Complete Mobile Dentistry provided money and our team gave their time to build homes for families in Sun Prairie in 2013 and 2014.
Complete Mobile Dentistry is a major contributor; both in time and money. CMD, along with Dental City, sponsored two golf teams.
Complete Mobile Dentistry (CMD) and Complete Dental Staffing in Windsor, WI has once again given back for the holidays. 2015 marks the sixth year that CMD has taken their staff on a shopping spree for children in the Sun Prairie and De Forest communities. This year, armed with 40 names from the Deforest Area Needs Network, CMD staff divided into teams and purchased gifts for area children. CMD received an email directly from DANN in late fall, with the request to once again help out. 'The Christmas holiday is a wonderful time of year and if we can help put a smile on some young faces, we have done our job. I am proud of the fact that we not only buy the gifts, but include our entire staff to participate. It really gives us a sense of joy.' says Lisa Hartig, Owner of CMD.
This summer (2016) Complete Mobile Dentistry staff volunteered to hand out sack lunches for kids in De Forest.
Staff donated time to assist at the yearly camp for the military children with parents who have been, are currently, or will be deployed.


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Gakh Georgian State Drama Theatre
In Gakh (is a district in the north of Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia) district Alibehkli village culture house was founded Georgian drama circle, in 1981. According to the decision of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan Collective got ``People Theatre`` status in 1985. According to the order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on 16 december 2004 and According to the executive order of the Council of Ministers on 22 February 2005 Theatre got State Status.


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Learn how to make a zine with the Young Producers at City Arts! Flip through and download our pre-made zine, or create your own following Alma Solarte-Tobón's step-by-step guide.
The Young Producers are a group of creatives, aged 18-30, who work together to support and encourage each other's artistic and creative practice. Since 2015, they have come together to generate new and exciting creative opportunities, including workshops, exhibitions and international exchanges.
For their mini-festival WORD PLAY, part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival in April 2017, the group ran a zine making workshop for the public. For this 'treat' we have created a special zine higlighting some of the Young Producers' achivements over the the past few years. Flip through it, download it and turn it into a zine using the instructions below, or create your own zine and show us the results.
Follow these easy step-by-step instructions to create your own publication. All you will need is: A3 paper, scissors, and anything you'd like to decorate/create content for your zine (collage materials, pens, paint, glue etc.).
1. Fold you paper in half, then in half again.
2. Fold it in half another time.
3. Unfold and mark your layout with pencil.
4. Cut along the middle, up to the halfway point, so there is a slit in the middle when you open it.
5. At this point you can create content for your zine using the materials you have chosen. Once you have finshed designing your zine you can make photocopies to make more publications.
6. To finish creating the folds, fold your zine in half with the slit at the top.
7. Now the tricky bit! Start popping the pages out gently, making sure you use your folds as a guide.
8. Once the pages have popped out, gently push the zine together so it folds into an 'x' shape.
9. Arrange your pages so that the front and back covers are in the appropriate place.
Here are some examples of zines that people have created in the Young Producers' workshops.


With most people spending about one-third of their lifetimes in their beds, it's small wonder that mattresses become dirty and stained. Everything from spilled beverages, such as tea and coffee, even juice and wine, to bodily fluids such as blood and urine, can stain the fresh, clean surface of your mattress and shorten its useful life. But don't worry – with a bit of vigilance and stain-removal know-how, you can prolong the life of your mattress and keep it looking and smelling clean and fresh for longer.
Just like when tackling a lot of other stains, fast action is the key, especially to prevent fluids from seeping down into the mattress padding. Unfortunately, a lot of times, a mattress stain is only discovered several days or even weeks later when the sheets are being changed and by then, it is an old, dry one that is much harder to remove. In addition, it may be hard to determine exactly what the stain was caused by in the first place. Don't despair: a bit of trial & error will help determine the type of stain and stain removal needed.
One thing to keep in mind is that no matter which method you use, the most important thing is to keep the mattress as dry as possible and avoid letting any liquids seep into the inner padding. After stain removal treatment, always let the mattress dry completely before covering with sheets again – otherwise moisture left in the mattress can cause the growth of mould and mildew. This cause not only more unsightly stains but are also potentially a serious health hazard. If you have to, you can use a hair dryer or fan to help dry a mattress faster.
When tackling any kind of stain on any surface, it is always best to err on the side of caution and start with the mildest stain removal methods first. A good example of this is a mild solution of dishwashing detergent and water, which can be blotted onto the stained area and then gently wiped away with a damp sponge, followed by blotting the area dry with paper towels. To be even safer, you might like make up some "dry suds": this can be done using a ¼ cup mild detergent powder whisked with 1 cup of warm water, using an electrical mixer or egg beater, until thick, frothy suds form. These suds can then be gently rubbed into the stain using a sponge, until the stain begins to fade. This method allows you to clean the stain, while keeping the mattress as dry as possible. It is most effective on fresh stains, although it can still work on older stains.
Urine stains – particularly common from pets but also from bed-wetting children, this stain is tough because not only the stain but the odour must be removed. Preventing the urine from soaking into the mattress is crucial. Use paper towels to blot up as much of the excess liquid as possible. Then saturate the stained area with white vinegar – an excellent stain and odour-remover. Again, blot up any excess liquid with paper towels and then cover the area with baking soda. Let this sit over night to absorb all odours and then vacuum it all off in the morning. And alternative to using household vinegar and baking soda is to go to a pet store and purchase a urine odour removal agent, and following the instructions given.
Blood stains – blood stains can be one of the most challenging stains to get out of your mattress, particularly if they are old and dried. You can start by trying the mild detergent solution – in some cases, this will work quite well. If your blood stain is stubborn, however, then the best solution may be to get hold of some hydrogen peroxide which is very effective against blood stains. Dab the hydrogen peroxide solution onto the stained area, starting from the outside in, and watch it begin to bubble. Keep applying more hydrogen peroxide and blotting, until the stain has faded. Be careful though – hydrogen peroxide can be a powerful bleaching agent and may easily bleach your mattress fabric so be prepared for some colour loss in the stained area. It is best to do a spot test in a corner first.
If all these DIY home methods do not remove the stains, then it may be time to seek professional help. There are companies which specialise in cleaning mattress – look in your Yellow Pages. Also, check your mattress warranty as some warranty policies may include stain removal. Lastly, prevent future stains by using a mattress cover to protect your mattress.
Great tips! thanks for sharing! would like to know, i spilled coffee and chocolate how would to clean it out?
@raels - You should ask the company can they can try and rectify it, especially if they are a professional cleaning company, if anyone can do it they can. Although, if you have previously tried the damage may have already been done in the first instance and any further attempts are just going to continue to make it worse.


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Q: How Protected Class will behave in c# I can understand how protected modifier will work for class members(methods and variables), but anyone please tell me how Protected class will behave.
eg:-
namespace AssemblyA
{
  Protected class ProClass
  {
     int a=10,b=10;
     public int get()
     {
        return a+b;
     }
  }
}

Can anyone please explain how the protected class will behave.

A: It will fail to compile, the way you've written it. Only nested classes can be protected - and they're accessible to any classes derived from the outer class, just like other protected members.
class Outer
{
    protected class Nested
    {
    }
}

class Derived : Outer
{
    static void Foo()
    {
        var x = new Outer.Nested(); // Valid
    }
}

class NotDerived
{
    static void Foo()
    {
        var x = new Outer.Nested(); // Invalid
    }
}

A: You will get an error:

Elements defined in a namespace cannot be explicitly declared as
  private, protected, or protected internal


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Analysing sentences
Analysing sentences: An introduction to English syntax. 3rd edn. By Noel Burton-Roberts. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781408233740. $33.
Reviewed by Sabina Halupka-Rešetar, University of Novi Sad
The third, revised edition of the coursebook entitled Analysing sentences offers an excellent introduction to English syntax. Writing in a very accessible and concise manner, Noel Burton-Roberts leads the reader through the essential concepts in syntax, illustrating the points explained in the book with many examples and tree diagrams. The book contains a multitude of exercises designed to check the reader's acquisition of the concepts and structures discussed.
Chs. 1–3 examine phrase structure in English. Ch. 1, 'Sentence structure: Constituents' (1–23), introduces the reader to key concepts such as structure, constituent, and phrase. The terms category and function are presented in Ch. 2, 'Sentence structure: Functions' (24–45), in order to show how function (e.g. subject, predicate) relates to the phrasal category (e.g. NP, VP) and constituency (e.g. functional relations like subject-predicate, modifier-head). Ch. 3, 'Sentence structure: Categories' (46–66), introduces some lexical categories (e.g. N, A, and P) and, very briefly, the phrasal categories associated with them.
Chs. 4–7 introduce English phrase structure. In Ch. 4, 'The basic verb phrase' (67–86), B discusses the general structure of the verb phrase, emphasizing the functional relations between lexical verbs and their complements. B classifies lexical verbs in English into six classes. Ch. 5, 'Adverbials and other matters' (87–110), takes a closer look at the distinction between complements and modifiers in the VP and identifies two types of VP-modifiers: VP-adjuncts (e.g. He spotted the wildcats quite accidentally) and VP-adverbials (e.g. Buster admitted everything frankly). Ch. 6, 'More on verbs: Auxiliary VPs' (111–40), is divided into two parts: in the first part, the author explores the distinction between lexical and auxiliary verbs, while in the second part he examines constructions that depend on auxiliaries (e.g. passives, negative sentences, and do-support). Ch. 7, 'The structure of noun phrases' (141–70), focuses on the internal structure of NPs, taking into account the wide variety of categories that may precede or follow the head noun (e.g. determiners, adjectives, participles), as well as PPs and APs. An appendix to this chapter is devoted to the pro-form one.
Chs. 8–10 focus on more complex structures in English syntax. In Ch. 8, 'Sentences within sentences' (171–95), B introduces complex sentences and considers sentential recursion, paying due attention to the types and functions of complementizers (e.g. that, whether, unless, because). and introducing adverbial clauses. Ch. 9, 'Wh-clauses' (196–223), explores main and subordinate wh-interrogative clauses as well as relative clauses, pointing out the conditions under which the wh-phrase may be ellipted or replaced in the latter. Ch. 10, 'Non-finite clauses' (224–53), offers an account of both the form of non-finite clauses (infinitival and participial) and their function (subject, complement, adverbial).
B concludes this book with a general discussion of the background to and purpose of the analysis presented. The last chapter, 'Languages, sentences and grammars' (254–68), sets the analysis in the context of generative grammar by asking and attempting to answer the key question of what language really is and how we can gain new insights into what it is a speaker knows in knowing a language.
B's clear, reader-friendly style, the numerous in-text exercises and their discussions, the further exercises sections, chapter summaries, and suggested reading list make this textbook interesting and available to anyone interested in exploring the syntactic structure of English.
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