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UGC NET Library and Information Science December 2009 Solved Paper 2 Questions 41-50 with Answers
41. Match the following:
List-I
(a) Little Science, Big Science
(b) Documentation
(c) The Third Wave
(d) The Information Society
List-II
(i) S.C. Bradford
(ii) William Martin
(iii) Eric J de Solla Price
(iv) Alwin Toffler
Codes :
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(a) Key Word Indexing
(b) Citation Indexing
(c) Uniterm Indexing
(d) SLIC Indexing
(i) J. R. Sharp
(ii) H. P. Luhn
(iii) E. Garfield
(iv) M. Taube
(A) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(C) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
(D) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(a) Web Navigation Element
(b) Shift + Tab
(c) ANSI Standard
(d) TELNET
(i) Telecommunication
(ii) SQL
(iii) Hyperlink
(iv) Select the previous link
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(a) Mcfee
(b) Directory
(c) Personal Web pages
(d) Amazon.com
(i) DOAJ
(ii) Antivirus
(iii) Vendor on Internet
(iv) Blogs
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(a) Theory of Knowledge
(b) IS : 1553-1960
(c) Resource Sharing
(d) TEI
(i) Farmington Plan
(ii) Metadata Format
(iii) Library Building
(iv) Epistemology
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
Read the passage given below, and answer the questions based on your understanding of the passage:
Rolland Munro describes accountability as an informal giving that is part of everyday conversation, as well as more formal transactions generally involving some sort of documentary artifact (what we archivists refer to as a "record"). He notes that the authors move "between accounts as stories, explanations and reasons for conduct on the one hand and accounts as coded representations, records, often in the form of numbers, on the other hand". Each of these modes mediates the other in what he refers to as "accountability relationships." "Distributions of materials and devices are as much as effect of the giving and calling for accounts, as they are integral to the business of producing and consuming accounts". Records are both intermediaries in the accountability process and evidence of it.
In our daily language we often refer to accountability as something that must be achieved, rather than as something that is done informally yet continuously. The difference here is between viewing accountability as a thing represented by an artifact, such as a record, and thinking about accountability as a process in which people and records must interact to achieve accountability. In this latter view, the focus on accountability becomes an analysis of the methods people use to engage in accountability relations.
46. Rolland Munro described accountability as
(A) Classified documentary artifacts
(B) Formal artifacts only
(C) Unpublished and published documents
(D) Informal, formal and documentary records
47. The phrase 'record keeping' is associated with
(A) Computer programmers
(B) Archivists
(C) Chartered Accountants
(D) Office Managers
48. What integral components Munro has identified for accounting in the business?
(A) Records and Codes
(B) Documentary archives
(C) Materials and devices
(D) Legal Regulations
49. In general usage accountability means
(A) Something done informally
(B) Something achieved
(C) Something done continuously
(D) All of the above
50. Accountability, which is represented by an artifact, includes
(A) Process, Records, People
(B) Theory, Practice, Records
(C) Theory, Practice, People
(D) People, Records, Accounts


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OSLO PILOT The Giver, the Guest and the Ghost: The Presence of Art in Public Realms
Morten Wintervold, GATE RÅMELKAS BOUQUET, Oslo, 2016. © OSLO PILOT. Photo: Niklas Lello.
By News Editor 08 Oct 2016
A symposium by OSLO PILOT curated by Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, organized in collaboration with Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO)
OSLO PILOT and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts are pleased to announce a three-day symposium entitled The Giver, the Guest and the Ghost: The Presence of Art in Public Realms. Curated by Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, this symposium is organized by OSLO PILOT, a two-year project investigating the role of art in and for the public realm, and to lay ground for a future periodic art event in public space. OSLO PILOT's research development revolves around four interconnected concepts: Reactivation, Periodicity, Disappearance, and Public. These concepts, each underpinned by a reflection on time, set out to examine the life cycle of the artwork in public space, and to generate ideas of "temporal-specificity" in a field that has otherwise privileged the examination of site. They serve as starting points for many of the works and projects produced by OSLO PILOT across different channels, which include publishing, commissioned artworks, public actions, talks, presentations, seminars and live events.
The three figures included in the title—the Giver, the Guest and the Ghost—announce a discussion about the changing conditions, positions and potentials of the work of art in public space. In the symposium, the same figures will act as guides in a discussion of the changing roles involved in public art practices.
The Giver reflects an idea of art as a form of contribution or opportunity offered to the public, questioning the roles of giver and receiver, and the role played by the artist in such a model. The Guest reflects the idea of the artwork as partially independent from the site and context it inhabits; what responsibility—if any—lies with the guest? The Ghost points to the unmanifested presences and shadows that surround the artwork. What follows in the footsteps of the artwork and what is left behind when the artwork disappears, either physically, or because it becomes obsolete, irrelevant, or normalized?
The symposium will be structured through a series of four case studies of singular artworks by Mette Edvardsen (Norway), Dora García (Spain), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland) and Rahraw Omarzad (Afghanistan). Each of the four works will be discussed with the artists themselves via three different formulae: conference plenary sessions, workshops and one-to-one conversations. In the plenary sessions, the artists and several speakers from different backgrounds and fields of expertise will hold a broad-based debate. The workshops will be structured for smaller groups in unique formats that examine particular aspects of each case in depth. In the one-to-one meetings, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in conversations with the artists and speakers directly, and approach the works in a more personal way.
The Giver, the Guest and the Ghost aims to investigate the four works of art through qualitative analysis to produce findings specific to different time frames: how the works operate over a short period, in the long term, or as works in progress. From experience comes knowledge, and so the works will be approached via these different formulae so that the audience can take part in diverse experiences and exchanges of knowledge. As an interpretative form of research, the symposium intends to examine and consider the details of meaning and experience, rather than to postulate a series of hypotheses a priori. In this way, we hope to generate a range of pertinent and enriching insights through the detailed examination and contextualization of these four cases.
OSLO PILOT is a two-year research-based project investigating the role of art in and for the public realm. Developed by curators Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk in order to lay the groundwork for a future art biennial. OSLO PILOT is initiated and financed by the City of Oslo, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Norway. Further funding is generously provided by Norsk kulturråd and KORO.
To register for the symposium and for further information please visit oslopilot.no
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Hello my friends, welcome to the first One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop of the year! We are all super excited to be sharing with you the wonderful projects created by each blog hop member. Each month we have a different themed hop where we share a card and a Dimensional project, that comes to you the second Thursday each month. We all love sharing with you our creations, and hope that you enjoy each as you hop along.
This month's theme was No Rules New Year: I found this to be a hard one to come up with. I kept thinking of your typical New Year things and it just wasn't right. I wanted something that was a little different for me. So here's a look at the projects that I came up with.
I went back and forth with what to create and what products to use (since there are so many great products in the new Occasions catalog). I finally settled with the new Lift Me Up Bundle (in the Occasions catalog), and the Carried Away Designer Series Paper (from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure). I find it a little easier to create the dimensional project this time and then create the card, normally I work in reveres. Once I figured out what I wanted to use the project came easy. I had been thinking about this table decor since I saw this bundle at OnStage Local in Atlanta.
We all need decor for parties. We need decor for New Year's Eve, birthdays, all sort of parties. When you paper craft you can create your own decor to match the handmade cards that you created (and you save money). Here's the table decor that I created for a New Year's/Birthday Party.
I created the box and added the Designer series paper to the outside to decorate and to carry the theme. I added the paper of the ariel images to the bottom of the box and the clouds on the open flaps. I wanted to place the paper this way to give the feel of the hot air balloons floating through the sky. This was not created to have the items in the sky pop up but to be up all the time since it was created as table decor. The hot air balloons are all suspended using window sheet pieces so that they look like they are floating. I did this also with the cards and numbers.
Here are a few different views of the table decor.
For my card I used the same Lift Me Up bundle and the Carried Away designer series paper. I wanted to create a card that was similar but not the exact same as the table decor. Here's a look at my card.
I used the same colors as I did on the box, which I pulled the color scheme from the Carried Away Designer Series paper. Watermelon Wonder, Mint Macaron, Whisper white, Basic Black, Night of Navy, and Peekaboo Peach. As you all know Watermelon Wonder is one of my favorite colors and I am going to be very sad when it retires in June.
The colors in the paper are a great mix of neutrals, subtels, Regals, and brights. It's the perfect combination of colors.
Adding the black mats around the stamped panel and the cloud dsp draw attention to those areas. See how the front pops off the page with these additions. Let's look at the inside of the card where I didn't use the black.
Notice how the front of the card pops more than the inside. I did this because I wanted the attention more on the Happy Birthday sentiment. I didn't want to use basic black ink to achieve this but I wanted to use the darkest colors in the grouping. By using the Night of Navy it was dark enough to draw attention to the sentiment but not as dark as the basic black that you are drawn only to the words and not the stamped images.
Thanks for dropping by today if you would like to purchase any of these products you can pick them up in my online store by clicking here, by clicking on the shop tab above, or by clicking on the product in the product list below the list of hoppers. Please hop along to the next blog and the rest of the way through to check out the great projects everyone else created. You will find the next button and the list of hoppers below my signature. As always thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful day.
WOW! The centerpiece is fantastic! What a great wayto welcome in the new year!
Wow, Rick! Such great projects…I love the way you've used the DSP…and the card is AMAZING!
Thank you Sue. It was very fun todo.
Rick, Wow, Wow, and Wow again! I love your card and that card in a box is over the top gorgeous! The hot air balloons are my fav out of the occasions catty.
Your projects are both a big wow!!! Just got this set yesterday. Now I have some inspiration. Thanks!
Wow! I haven't bought this set yet and your card & project sold me on it!
Megan it's one of the best sets I've used. I love it.
What a fun centerpiece idea!
What a fun project! Love it!


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Toles began his career at The Buffalo Courier-Express, and has also been the editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, The New York Daily News, U.S. News and World Report and The New Republic. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Toles has received the National Headliners Award, the Overseas Press Club Thomas Nast Award, the John Fischetti Award and the H.L Mencken Free Press Award. He has been named Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine, The National Cartoonists Society and The Week magazine.
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Q: Reading lines from a txt file into variables in batch I am trying to figure out how to read IP addresses from a file named "IPList.txt) into individual variables in a batch script. Here's what I have so far.
:DEFINITIONS
set LOGFILE=IPScript.log
set IPLIST=C:\IPLIST.txt
echo Script Started >> %LOGFILE%
goto SetIP

:SetIP
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (%IPLIST%) do (
set FirstIP=%%a
)
echo The first IP is %FirstIP% >> %LOGFILE%
exit

The output I'm getting in "IPscript.log" is "The First IP is: " with no IP listed, just a space. Also, is there a way for me to set multiple IPs like this, in just one for loop?

A: Here's a quick example to assist you:
@Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion

:DEFINE_LOCAL_VARIABLES
Set "IPLIST=C:\IPLIST.txt"
Set "LOGFILE=IPScript.log"

:CHECK_SOURCE_EXISTS
For %%G In ("%IPLIST%") Do If "%%~aG" Lss "-" (
    Echo The file %IPLIST% does not exist.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
) Else If "%%~aG" GEq "d" (
    Echo Expected a file, but %IPLIST% is a directory.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
)

:UNDEFINE_LOCAL_VARIABLES
For /F "Delims==" %%G In ('"(Set IP[) 2> NUL"') Do Set "%%G="

:START_MAIN
Set "i=1000"
(
    Echo Script Started
    For /F UseBackQ^ Delims^=^ EOL^= %%G In ("%IPLIST%") Do (
        Set /A i += 1
        SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
        For %%H In ("!i:~-3!") Do (
            EndLocal
            Set "IP[%%~H]=%%G"
            Echo IP[%%~H] is %%G
        )
    )
) 1> "%LOGFILE%"

:CHECK_IP_VARIABLES_EXIST
If Not Defined IP[001] (
    Echo %IPLIST% had no readable file content.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
)

:VIEW_IP_VARIABLES
Set IP[

Pause & GoTo :EOF

If you have an existing %LOGFILE%, and you intend to append to it, (as opposed to overwrite/create one), change 1> "%LOGFILE%" to 1>> "%LOGFILE%".
If you didn't really need %LOGFILE%, e.g. it was used by you just for testing, it would look a little more like this:
@Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion

:DEFINE_LOCAL_VARIABLES
Set "IPLIST=C:\IPLIST.txt"

:CHECK_SOURCE_EXISTS
For %%G In ("%IPLIST%") Do If "%%~aG" Lss "-" (
    Echo The file %IPLIST% does not exist.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
) Else If "%%~aG" GEq "d" (
    Echo Expected a file, but %IPLIST% is a directory.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
)

:UNDEFINE_LOCAL_VARIABLES
For /F "Delims==" %%G In ('"(Set IP[) 2> NUL"') Do Set "%%G="

:START_MAIN
Set "i=1000"
Echo Script Started
For /F UseBackQ^ Delims^=^ EOL^= %%G In ("%IPLIST%") Do (
    Set /A i += 1
    SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
    For %%H In ("!i:~-3!") Do (
        EndLocal
        Set "IP[%%~H]=%%G"
    )
)

:CHECK_IP_VARIABLES_EXIST
If Not Defined IP[001] (
    Echo %IPLIST% had no readable file content.
    Echo Press any key to end this script.
    Pause 1> NUL
    GoTo :EOF
)

:VIEW_IP_VARIABLES
Set IP[

Pause & GoTo :EOF

The last line in both examples is for display purposes. If you're testing/running this script from within cmd.exe, you may omit it.

A: FOR /f "tokens=1*delims=:" %%a IN ('findstr /n /r ".*" "%filename1%"') DO set "IP%%a=%%b"
)
set IP

findstr reads the file in filename1 and produces a list of the format n:content of line n.
The for /f reads this list, and partitions it using 2 tokens - %%a gets the first token (1) and %%b the remainder of the line (*) using : as a delimiter.
So simply set the IP variables from there.
set ip displays all variables that start ip
Probability is that your file contains empty line(s) after the last IP. Your original code would have reported the LAST IP, not the FIRST as the value in firstip is overwritten on each iteration, so it would be cleared by being set to nothing when the empty lines are read.
The solution above would simply execute (eg) set "IP6=" under these circumstances, clearing the variable.
You could have obtained the first IP by using
if not defined firstip set "FirstIP=%%a"

I'm assuming a clean environment here - that is, that each batch you run includes a setlocal after the @echo off (which restores the initial environment when the batch finishes) and the variables used are known-empty.
Bonus:
changing the set command to
set "IP%%a=%%b"&if "%%b" neq "" set "ipmax=%%a"

would set ipmax to the number of the last non-empty line, as %%b is empty for an empty line.

A: The batch file could have following command lines:
@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "LOGFILE=%~dp0IPScript.log"
set "IPLIST=%~dp0IPLIST.txt"
set "AddressCount=0"
echo Script started>"%LOGFILE%"

for /F "delims==" %%I in ('set IP_Address_ 2^>nul') do set "%%I="
if exist "%IPLIST%" for /F "useback delims=" %%I in ("%IPLIST%") do (
    set /A AddressCount+=1
    call set "IP_Address_%%AddressCount%%=%%I"
)

if not %AddressCount% == 0 (
    if %AddressCount% == 1 (
        echo The IP address is:
    ) else echo The IP addresses are:
    echo/
    set IP_Address_
) >>"%LOGFILE%"
endlocal

The batch file first two command line define the execution environment which means:

*

*Disable command echo mode.

*Push current command extension state on stack and enable command extensions.

*Push current delayed expansion state on stack and disable delayed environment variable expansion.

*Push path of current directory on stack.

*Push pointer to current list of environment variables on stack and create a copy of the entire current environment variables list to use next.

The third and fourth line define two environment variables with the name of the log file and the name of the IP address list file with full qualified file name. The file path of both files is defined as path of the directory containing the batch file referenced with %~dp0. This path always ends with \ and for that reason no additional backslash is needed on concatenating this path with the two file names.
The fifth line define the environment variable AddressCount with value 0.
The sixth line creates the log file in current directory with overwriting an already existing log file. There is no space left to redirection operator > as this space would be output by command ECHO and therefore written as trailing space also into the log file.
The first FOR command with option /F starts in background with %ComSpec% /c one more command process with the command line between ' appended as additional arguments. So executed is in background with Windows installed into C:\Windows:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c set IP_Address_ 2>nul

Windows creates a copy of current list of environment variables for the command process started in background. The background command process runs command SET to output all environment variables with name, an equal sign and the string value assigned to the variable line by line of which name starts with IP_Address_. This output to handle STDOUT of background command process is captured by FOR respectively the command process which is processing the batch file. The error message output by SET on no environment variable define with a name starting with IP_Address_ is redirected from handle STDERR to device NUL to suppress this error message.
Read the Microsoft documentation about Using command redirection operators for an explanation of 2>nul. The redirection operator > must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded dir command line with using a separate command process started in background.
FOR processes the captured output line by line after started background command process closed itself after execution of command SET. Empty lines are always ignored by FOR which can be ignored as there are no empty lines output by SET.
FOR would split up by default the current line into substrings using normal space and horizontal tab as delimiters. This default line splitting behavior is not wanted here. The option delims== defines the equal sign as string delimiter to split the line on = which is the character between variable name and variable value.
FOR would next ignore the line if the first substring would start with a semicolon which is the default end of line character. The command SET outputs only lines starting with IP_Address_ and for that reason the default eol=; can be kept in this case.
FOR assigns just the first substring to the specified loop variable I as tokens=1 is the default. That is exactly the wanted behavior in this case.
So FOR assigns one environment variable name starting with IP_Address_ to loop variable I and runs next the command SET to delete this environment variable in current list of environment variables of command process processing the batch file.
In other words the first FOR is for deletion of all environment variables of which name starts with IP_Address_ defined by chance outside the batch file.
The next line first checks if the file with the list of environment variables exists at all in directory of the batch file. In this case once again FOR is used to process lines, but this time read line by line from the specified list file instead of captured output of a background command process. The usage of " instead of ' with the option usebackq makes the difference.
There is used the option delims= to define an empty list of delimiters resulting in getting each non-empty line not starting with ; assigned completely to the specified loop variable I.
For each string assigned to loop variable I the current value of environment variable AddressCount is incremented by one using an arithmetic expression evaluated by command SET.
This value is used on next command line to define an environment variable of which name starts with IP_Address_ and has appended the current address count value with line read from file assigned to the environment variable.
There is usually used delayed expansion for such tasks on which the second command line in command block of second FOR loop would be:
set "IP_Address_!AddressCount!=%%I"

But the code above uses the alternative method with command call to parse set "IP_Address_%%AddressCount%%=%%I" a second time which was already modified to set "IP_Address_%AddressCount%=%I" before the IF condition left to FOR was executed at all.
The next IF condition checks if any line was read from the list file with the IP addresses. In this case first an information line is output depending on having read exactly one line from the file or more than one line. Then an empty line is output and last all environment variables of which name starts with IP_Address_ with = and the line (IP address) assigned to the environment variable. All this output is appended to the log file.
The last command restores previous execution environment which means:

*

*Discard the current list of environment variables and pop from stack the pointer to initial list of environment variables resulting in restoring the initial list of environment variables. In other words all environment variables defined or modified by the batch file after command SETLOCAL in second command line are lost forever.

*Pop path of current directory from stack and make this directory again the current directory. The current directory between setlocal and endlocal was not changed by the code between and so this does not matter here.

*Pop delayed expansion state from stack and enable or disable delayed environment variable expansion accordingly to restore initial delayed expansion behavior.

*Pop current command extension state from stack and enable or disable command extensions accordingly to restore initial command extension behavior.

For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.

*

*call /?

*echo /?

*endlocal /?

*for /?

*if /?

*set /?

*setlocal /?
See also:

*

*Variables are not behaving as expected

*How does the Windows Command Interpreter (CMD.EXE) parse scripts?

*Microsoft's documentation for the Windows Commands

*SS64.com - A-Z index of Windows CMD commands

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What is Google Daydream?
We explain everything you need to know about Google Daydream, Google's virtual reality platform
by: Clare Hopping
It would seem almost every tech company has seen the opportunity offered by virtual reality, with many of the big names acquiring smaller companies with VR focus and making it one of their priorities for the future.
Google is no different, launching Google Daydream, its virtual reality platform and Daydream View, its very own virtual reality headset for taking a peep at the virtual worlds. Although Google hasn't positioned its VR offering at any particular market (HTC Vive, for example takes aim at the gaming market with its tie up with Steam), that could be a good thing, keeping the platform just as open as its Android operating system.
We explain everything you need to know about the technology and why it's taking on the big players like Oculus (now owned by Facebook) .
Google Daydream history
Google Daydream was announced at the Google I/O developer conference in May 2016, with the Daydream View launched in November.
But, like all good things, the platform took quite a while to get to the point it could launch as a
serious virtual reality platform. You may remember Google Cardboard - the company's first attempts at getting augmented reality into the mainstream. Well, Google Daydream is the follow on from that and Google has applied lots of key learnings, including the lightweight headset and the need for a good apps store to go with it.
As a result of its efforts with Google Cardboard, the company opened up its platform to third party developers to bring their apps to the platform too back in January, hoping to make it as popular as its Android App Store.
What does Google Daydream do?
Google Daydream brings together Android-powered smartphones and virtual reality, making it simple for users to access content on their device and turn it into a virtual world with a viewer.
Google Daydream also includes a store where you can download for free and buy various apps for your Daydream View and content, such as videos. Everything can be accessed while wearing a VR headset, so it's not surprising the UI is pretty impressive.
At present, the true scope of Google Daydream hasn't really been explored, with more developers saying they will be launching apps and games in the future. However, any early adopters will be able to take advantage of some of the biggest apps around, including Google's own YouTube, Google Maps Street View, Google Play Movies & TV, and Google Photos. Netflix is also available on the platform and Ubisoft has been onboarded as a partner too, meaning we can expect some awesome gaming action too.
Google Daydream compatibility
Google Daydream will only work with selected devices at the moment, and unsurprisingly, they're all Android-powered devices. At the time of writing (April 2017), Google Daydream is available for use with the Google Pixel and Pixel XL, Motorola Moto Z, Asus SenFone AR and ZTE Axon 7, although Asus and Motorola devices need to be upgraded to Android Nougat before they'll work.
Similarly, the only VR device that will stream content from your device to in front of your eyes is the Daydream View, although it's likely other Android device manufacturers, will launch their own in the future. Huawei is the most hotly tipped to release their version alongside a flagship smartphone in future.
The DayDream View is, at the moment, the only headset for use with Google's Daydream VR technology. Compatible devices just slip into the front compartment and then the VR content can be viewed through the goggle-like facepiece.
It's a lightweight headset in comparison to other on the market and because it's made from fabric rather than plastic or rubber, it's less likely to get you sweaty if you keep it on for a long time. To suit most tastes, it's available in a Slate grey, Crimson red or Snow White finish.
It hooks up to a smartphone using NFC and capacitive nubs to make connecting a breeze.
Alongside the headset, Google also launched the Daydream Controller, a wireless device for controlling the headset. It integrates proximity sensors to detect where the user's hands are and features a touchpad, circular buttons, volume buttons and a status light.


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by Maggie Manson
In the TRIP 2017 Faculty Survey, scholars in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon were asked "What are the three most important foreign policy problems facing [Respondent Country] today?" A significant issue that was present in each country's top three response options was the issue of regional disintegration, with 100% of scholars noting this issue in Egypt, 60% in Jordan, and 25% in Lebanon. Regional disintegration refers to a lack of cohesion or shared identity between states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Regional integration has been very important in the ancient and modern political history of the MENA, and the region's current lack thereof is clearly an issue of great importance to scholars in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. To understand the extent and importance of this disintegration, I'll analyze past attempts at regional cohesion throughout MENA, possible reasons for current disintegration, and offer my thoughts on what a potential regional conglomerate could look like in the future.
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Historic integration of the region stems from the first Islamic state: the Rashidun Caliphate, which ruled the region from 632, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, to 661 CE. The three other most prominent Caliphates include the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Ottoman Caliphates, with the Ottoman being the last, collapsing in 1923 under the pressure of Western interference post-world war one. The roots of modern regional integration in the MENA begin in 1928 with the founding of the Islamist group: the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Egyptian teacher Hassan al-Banna. The organization rejected western influence and imperialism, seeking the rise of a free Islamic state as the solution to regional instability. However, with the rise of the Free Officers Movement in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was coopted by the movement as they provided support for the 1952 coup d'etat but then were forcibly secularized once Free Officer Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power. Nasser's political movement of Pan-Arabism, which integrated concepts of Arab nationalism and socialism, advocated for unity between Arab states against western influences. While the movement originated from the Syrian Ba'ath Party, it was popularized by Nasser who made Pan-Arabism policy in Egypt and helped to spread the movement throughout the region through diplomatic partnerships and alliances with other MENA countries. With the fall of Nasser in 1970, the subsequent end of Pan Arabism, and extensive foreign intervention in the region, a fractured MENA has emerged and scholars in three of these countries clearly see this as a significant foreign policy issue.
Previous bodies that have strived to create unity between Arab or MENA states include but are not limited to the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Maghreb Arab Union, the Pan-Arab Free Trade Agreement, and the Agadir Agreement. The Arab League¹ was founded in 1945 with the primary goal to strengthen relationships and coordinate policies between the MENA countries. The goals of this body have not been achieved due to two major roadblocks; arguments over leadership, and conflicts between member countries due to the large scale of the group. The Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC)², a smaller more homogenous group, was founded in 1981 as a political and economic alliance between Gulf states. The GCC can be seen as one of the most successful regional bodies in the MENA, due in part to the close geographic proximity, similar governments, and similar socioeconomic situations of member states. The Maghreb Arab Union³, founded in 1989, sought to achieve policy coordination, a shared identity, and free movement of people, goods, and services between member states. It was ultimately ineffective in achieving these goals due to Morocco-Algeria tensions, Libya-Mauritania tensions, and the continuing issue of Western Sahara sovereignty. The Pan-Arab Free Trade Agreement⁴, founded in 1997, aimed to decrease barriers to trade between countries to improve their economies, but despite increasing inter-regional trade, it ultimately had little impact on each of the countries' individual economies. The Agadir Agreement⁵ founded in 2004 acted as a free trade agreement with the main goals included establishing free trade between member states and eventually creating a Mediterranean-European Free Trade Area by cooperating with the EU. These goals have not been achieved due to member state conflicts and blockades to a free trade area by the US.
Regional Membership of Surveyed Countries
In recent years any semblance of regional integration can be seen to be split down the middle with many states in the MENA taking sides in the Iran v. Saudi proxy conflict, that has primarily played out in the Yemeni civil war. To provide context for this regional rivalry, Iran (a majority Shia Islam country) and Saudi Arabia (a majority Sunni Islam country) have an ongoing sectarian-based conflict that has yet to devolve into all-out warfare directly against each other but has resulted in neighboring countries picking sides and regional meddling in order to exert influence. The Arab Spring uprisings in a few countries have exerted significant influence over this proxy conflict, as they have often acted as battlegrounds for this conflict to play out. In Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen, Iran and Saudi Arabia have aided and armed opposing sides of each uprising, arguably contributing to the escalation from protest movements to full-blown civil wars in some cases. This rivalry is also another major barrier to full regional integration that will need to be overcome to foster future collaboration.
The future of MENA regional integration may look grim, but there remains great potential for strong economic regional cooperation. A key economic suggestion for overcoming historical obstacles to large-scale collaboration would be for Arab countries to work on coordinating a cohesive trade policy for intraregional and interregional trade. Intraregional trade policy should focus on essentially eliminating all tariffs, quotas, and non-tariff barriers to trade between these countries, while still fostering some protection of vulnerable industries within the region from competition with more developed countries on global markets. Any Arab trade conglomerate would hopefully not advocate solely for protectionism which would be to their detriment, but instead, advocate for strategic protectionism that still allows consumers access to global markets, but still allows Arab industries to compete (think infant industry protection- A. Hamilton). Additionally, Arab states should strive to form a strong voting/negotiating coalition among them for World Trade Organization rounds/ ministerial conferences in order to approach these meetings with common regional stances, allowing them to actually pass rules/treaties that favor Less Developed Countries/benefit the region. Solutions across economic dimensions do not necessarily solve the barrier to integration that is the Saudi/Iranian rivalry, based on religious/cultural divides. However, I believe that focusing on full economic integration first would help eliminate barriers to further integration such as the aforementioned conflict and commitment problems, as well as facilitate future collaboration through issue-linking and regulating repeating interactions between states. There is still much work to be done in order for these states to actualize integration, but the legacies of the Caliphate, Pan-Arabism, and contemporary economic collaboration, regional integration is both possible and realistic in the Middle East and North Africa.
¹Member countries include Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen
²Member countries include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
³Member countries include Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia
⁴Member countries include Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
⁵Member countries include Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia
Maggie Manson is a junior at William & Mary, majoring in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. She began working at TRIP in September 2019. Her research interests include Border Disputes, Colonialism, Global Development, International Security, Middle Eastern Politics, Nuclear Politics, and Political Islam. On campus Maggie is Assistant Chair of Administration for the Undergraduate Honor Council, a research assistant for Professor Grewal's Armed Responses to Mobilization Or Revolution (ARMOR) project, and Political Correspondent for the Flat Hat student newspaper.
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Iran manager warns England ahead of World Cup opener
By IFP Media Wire
Iran boss Dragan Skocic has warned Gareth Southgate, English Football Manager: "I know we can beat you."
The Croatian, who will take inspiration from his homeland's World Cup semi-final win over England in 2018, has told his players they will not be in the squad for Qatar if they do not believe it, too.
Asia's leading team will meet Southgate's Three Lions for the first time in the second game of this winter's World Cup, at the Khalifa International Stadium.
Skocic insists: "There is no reason we should not think we can beat England. Why not?"
"Remember, I am Croatian, so I know we can beat England," he stated.
"People might look at the game and say Iran beating England would be one of the greatest shocks in the history of the World Cup. OK. They can think that. But football is unpredictable," he said.
"We are not playing 15 games, we are playing one game. And anything can happen in one game," he noted.
Iran are ranked 21st by FIFA, 16 places below England, and their squad includes ex-Brighton man Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Porto's Mehdi Taremi.
Skocic added: "Maybe we'd have preferred not to play England in the first game but it is what it is."
"We are ready to play any time, any team," he said.
"Of course they believe they can beat England and qualify. They must believe it. Because I believe it and I have already transferred this to the players. So they must believe it. And if they don't believe it, they are not for this level of the sport," he added.
Skocic suggested Iran's desire is to make a point on behalf of their countrymen in a group that also sees the 'mother of all battles' against the US.
He stated: "Sometimes in Europe, the Asian teams are under-appreciated."
"The real advantage we have is a lot of players who will be in their second or third World Cup. What is important is we have our best players fit. And I know we have the spirit of the Iranian people," he noted.
"But we have a lot of players who are playing in Europe and also they can fight, with total respect for others, but they can fight to get through and qualify from this group," Skocic said.
"People will also try to say we know conditions in Qatar better and that will be an advantage," he continued, adding, "But the real advantage we have is that we have a lot of players who will be in their second or third World Cup. We are ranked No 1 in Asia but this is not important."
"What is important is that we have our best players fit. And I know we have the spirit of the Iranian people," he noted. "It means so much for these boys to play for their country," he stated.
The FIFA World Cup draw was announced on Friday in Doha, Qatar. Iran will be in a group with England, the US and the European playoff winner in the 2022 Qatar World Cup competitions. The final member of Group B will be a either Wales, Ukraine or Scotland.
SourceThe Sun
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Iranian footballer arrested for "instigating unrest"
Queiroz back in Iran as head coach of natl. football team ahead of World Cup
Carlos Queiroz appointed as head coach of Iran national football team
Sources: Queiroz's return to Iran before World Cup highly likely
Shahriari becomes 1st female Iranian football manager to join FIFA
Mehdi Taj becomes head of Iran's Football Federation
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var browserSync = require('browser-sync');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var eslint = require('gulp-eslint');
var postcss = require('gulp-postcss');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var babelify = require('babelify');
var watchify = require('watchify');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var del = require('del');
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  require('postcss-import'),
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  require('cssnano'),
  require('stylelint')(),
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    clearMessages: true
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];

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    console.log('Deleted files/folders:\n', paths.join('\n'));
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  return gulp.src('src/js/app.js')
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The NC board is inserted into the PC. This CNC system plugs in the core functions of the CNC and inserts it into the PC. The PC will implement functions such as user interface, file management and communication. The NC card will be fully responsible for the motion control and switching control of the machine.
The PC board is embedded in the CNC. Many manufacturers are reluctant to give up the traditional mature CNC technology, and they need the flexibility and openness of the PC, so they have adopted a compromise solution: provide a PC front-end interface or directly embed the PC motherboard into the CNC to make its CNC The device has the flexibility of a PC. This approach is used by many large companies. It should be noted that this kind of CNC is a compromise solution. Companies that have achieved certain advantages in numerical control technology are reluctant to give up the performance of their mature technology for commercial interests. But with the development of computer technology, hardware standardization and cost reduction, this approach is likely to be just a transitional form.
Software CNC. The software CNC can be understood as the realization of the functions of the CNC by the concept and means of the PC. The main body of this kind of CNC device is a PC, which makes full use of the continuously increasing operating speed of the PC, the ever-expanding storage capacity and the continuously optimized operating system to realize the motion track control and the logic control of the switch quantity in the machine control. At present, there are still many problems to be solved in this program, so it is mainly in the laboratory research stage. However, it is foreseeable that with the development of computer technology, this form of machine tool controller will have an unbeatable price advantage and scalability, and has a broad future.


Chronic knee and ankle pain can interfere with your daily life, making it difficult to walk or drive, to get to and from work, or to even get out of your house and enjoy time with friends. For those who enjoy to workout, or athletes who depend on their body and their ability to move to make a living, the limitations posed by chronic knee or ankle pain can be incredibly frustrating.
Here are some tips that may help you in overcoming your path and put you on the right path to recovery.
Like is the case with so many forms of chronic pain, knee and ankle pain are often the result of poor motion of the joint, weakness, or decreased proprioception (the body's ability to know where a joint is in space – balance). By addressing these underlying problems, you can alleviate pain and restore better health to your knee or ankle. A physical therapist is the medical expert trained to properly assess the movement of your joints, discovering what is not optimal, and restoring the normal mechanics of your joints.
Are you performing daily stretches for you knee or ankle? Simple stretches to the hamstrings, calf, and quadriceps muscles can help to improve mobility of the joint. When muscles tighten from sitting too long or overactivity, they cause limited joint movement and more compression.
A daily stretching routine, can help to relieve the pressure on your joints. Stretches should be done carefully and gently. One may have a tendency to think that the harder they stretch the better, however longer and gentler stretches help the most.
Try these stretches. However, if you are unsure about your injury or how to perform the exercises correctly, speak to one of our therapists or talk to your physician first.
Improve the range of motion in your kneecap. After injuries, it is quite common for the kneecap to loose some of its ability to glide. Gently grab your kneecap and slightly move it up and down when you are sitting with your leg out straight and relaxed. In addition, try to gently pull the kneecap up. There should be no pain with any of these actions.
The knee itself has no muscles, it is supported by the muscles surrounding it from the hips, hamstrings, quadriceps, and calf muscles. Many people experience chronic knee or ankle pain, because of poor hip and thigh strength. Simple exercises to improve the strength of these muscles, improve the mechanics of the knee and ankle joints, especially when walking or running.
Proprioception is your body's ability to sense where it is in space. There are nerve endings that surround each joint in your body that help your brain sense this. They are especially dense in the knee and ankle joints to help with balance.
With any injury or prolonged inflammation, your ability to balance is affected. In addition, as you age, this sense decreases naturally. The good news is that with the right balance and strengthening exercises, you can restore and enhance this sense.
Unfortunately, once you experience one form of knee or ankle pain, you have only increased your chances of experiencing further injury and thereby further pain. Instability in the knees and ankles makes you more susceptible to falling, and so more susceptible to injury. Having damage to one makes you more likely to compensate by putting unnecessary weight on the other.
The quicker you address an injury and the faster you are able to recover and become free of the pain, the better off you'll be at being able to prevent further injury from occurring.
In many situations, knee and ankle injuries will require surgery to correct any damage to muscles, tendons or ligaments.
Once any existing tears are repaired, the next course of action is to engage in physical therapy. The goal of physical therapy is to help build-up targeted muscles so that they are able to support the injured joint, thus reducing the amount of pressure put upon that joint at impact, and thereby reducing the amount of pain that you experience engaging in even simple tasks, like walking.
Talking with your physical therapist and coming up with a recovery strategy that includes regular PT coupled with on-going personal exercise, and of course guidance and support from your physical therapist as necessary can help you develop the strengthened muscles necessary to be free from ankle and knee pain.


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    raise ImproperlyConfigured("The 'PUSHIT_CONNECTIONS' setting is required.")
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    raise ImproperlyConfigured(
        "The default alias '%s' must be included in the PUSHIT_CONNECTIONS setting." % DEFAULT_ALIAS)

# Load the connections
connections = loading.ConnectionHandler(settings.PUSHIT_CONNECTIONS)


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The Czech Republic consists of the historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
There are a number of preserved historical structures. Most of them are open to the public. Many historial town centers are well-preserved and have been renovated; for example, the historical hearts of Prague, Český Krumlov, Telč and Kutná Hora, which have been included in the list of the world cultural and natural heritage of UNESCO.
Slightly undulated countryside, planes and mountain ranges in the border areas offer peace and quiet to visitors, as well as relaxation and summer and winter sports. National parks Krkonoše, Šumava and Podyjí protect rare plant and animal species. There are over 1,200 protected areasand nature places in the Czech Republic that lie on more than 10% of the country's territory. The natural disposition of the Czech Republic - 20,000 ponds and lakes and more than 40 water reservoirs - offer many opportunities for hiking and fishing. One-third of the country is formed by a mountainous piece of land full of lovely forests and meadows, inviting guests to stay at family farms within the frame of agrotourism, which has successively become an integral part of the Czech tourist trade.
Thanks to suitable gelogical conditions, there are plenty of mineral springs in the territory of the Czech Republic that have been used for curative purposes for more than 200 years. Spas have a long tradition in the Czech Republic. 36 spas are dispersed across the country. The largest and oldest spas lay in West Bohemia in a so-called triangle, connecting Karlovy Vary, Marianské Lázně and Františkovy Lázně. Most spa towns are situated in beautiful nature localities. A high level of services is a matter of course.
There are many historical towns worth visiting in the Czech Republic. Among the most beautiful are the aforementioned Český Krumlov, which has been preserved as a typical medieval town, and Telč, with its renaissance castle and the unique architecture of its triangle square. Besides Kutná Hora, Prachatice, Olomouc and Kromeříž, one of the most ancient towns to be admired is situated in the territory of West Bohemia - Cheb. The same attention is deserved by České Budějovice, Jindřichův Hradec, Třebon and Tábor in South Bohemia, together with Domažlice and Loket in the west and Litoměřice in North Bohemia. One of the most attractive places for tourists is Jičín, located in Český ráj, or Bohemian Paradise.
No less attractive for visitors are museums of folk architecture (open-air museums), the number of which is quite high in the Czech Republic. Rožnov pod Radhostěm, a small town in North Moravia, boasts the largest and oldest open-air museum in Central Europe that focuses on regional folk architecture of the 17th to 19th centuries. Open-air museums in Vysocina, in Strážnice, in Holašovice (UNESCO) or folk Baroque in South Bohemia represent a few examples of the well-preserved and maintained folk architecture, which teaches visitors about the lifestyles of our ancestors.
Traditional Czech products, which have a centuries-long world reputation, are decorative glass, porcelain and glass bijouterie. An excursion to the plants where these products are made is always very interesting for visitors.
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He is the only man whose intelligence I've ever respected, says Carole Lombard, who, for the first time, tells the inside story of her courtship and marriage and why she believes she's the happiest bride in Hollywood
By: Gladys Hall
If you think that Carole Lombard Powell must be an unusual kind of bride, you are about to discover your error. And if you suppose that William Powell must be a different kind of bridegroom, you're as poor a guesser as a football expert. The only way they are unusual is that they are usually bride-and-groom-ish fora pair of Hollywood newlyweds.
Carole used to be known as rather "hard" and scornful and given to stories NOT for children. Bill was rated everywhere as suave, sophisticated, and polished. But they're through playing those roles. Love has ripped away their superficial surface and they are human, after all. They are a young couple getting the biggest thrill of their lives. They are decidedly Like That. They are languid and longing when apart, and unable to talk about much but one another. They hold hands when together. They stay at home evenings.
There has been quite a bit in print anent the Lombard-Powell romance and marriage — the why and wherefore of it. There is also much that has not been printed. Now that she has had a few weeks in which to think things over, Carole has things to say that she has never said before.
That first meeting of theirs on a studio set — it assumes a proportion now that it didn't have then or even immediately after. She had been a fan of his. (She has neglected to state this before.) She had always through he had a certain something she had never met in any man before. She was a very busy girl without much time to analyze herself, but when she did have time she knew that the Powell personality made her rather — well, restless.
In that moment of their introduction, she declares, they actually and physically felt something click. She fell in love with him for his intelligence, as nearly as she can label it now, looking back over her left shoulder. You see, she had never met an intelligent actor before. She had encountered the wisecracking, smart, with-a-patter type, yes. Intelligence is of different stuff. Bill fell in love with Carole the instant he saw her. He can't say why — even now. He just waves his hands and says, "Oh, everything…" There is nothing about Carole he would change. Not one thing.
Within ten minutes of the first meeting, Bill was saying, "I think marriage is the only ideal state, don't you?"
And he didn't expect that Carole would see through the naiveté he so pitifully tries to make sound slike a casual comment. But she did. She remembers that she did — now. A shrewd and perceptive person, this fair-haired, gray-eyed Lombard lass.
Carole didn't think that marriage was the ideal state for her. She had never been married, but she has those gray eyes, widely set and comprehensive. And she has used them — ever since, when a child of sixteen, she entered a studio and began her evasions of married men. It doesn't make very pleasant hearing — Carole telling about the men. One man, now a star, tried to — well, it took an electrician on the set to call off the dog. It was this sort of thing that developed in Carole a form of protective coloration. She had to pretend to be hard. She had to tell funny stories to ward off amorous advances. She had to be scornful to those who would prey upon softness. Bill was the first man to penetrate her disguise.
She was afraid at first that she and Bill wouldn't get along. They were too different. She was afraid he would be the jealous type. He sorta acted that way. But he persisted and she surrendered, dear…
They wanted to be married quietly, with just the families. Carole thinks Hollywood weddings are in your eye, with cameras parked among the prayer books and things. And, too, Paramount to whom she was, and is, under contract was acting a bit cantankerous about the marriage — like a disapproving parent. They didn't want to give the girl a honeymoon. They didn't want this ascending and potential star to marry at all. Carole said, "No honeymoon, no work." She honeymooned.
The wedding started out to be private. It also started out to be rather comic. When the ring part of the ceremony arrived, for instance, Bill couldn't locate the proper finger for the ring. (No one has ever heard this particular bit of bathos before, so you may consider yourselves in on the nuptials). After he tried a couple of thumbs and forefingers, Carole burst right out laughing. She laughed out loud at the very altar. She couldn't help it. She thrust the legal digit in his face and said, between gasps, This finger, dear!"
As you know, Carole didn't wear the bridal white. She wore a blue afternoon gown and Bill's wedding gift — a perfect platter of a pin, composed of two star sapphires surrounded by diamonds. It would protect her from a machine gun in a front-line trench in any old war! The sapphires, by the way, are the color of Carole's eyes. Maybe you didn't think that didn't occur to Bill!
During the ceremony, jittery enough for Bill as it was, the Press began to ooze in through the doors and windows and floors, as the Press will,. And instantly began to telephone descriptions of the bride and groom to their various sheets before the minister had come to the "I pronounce you man and wife!" In fact, Carole admits now that she isn't quite certain he ever did get to that point, what with her uncontrollable mirth and the assiduities of the Press. She hopes for the best.
Among the Press were some omnipresent photographers. One, a weary, harassed looking lad was especially insistent that they pose for him. They didn't want to, and said so. The lad finally broke down all over the place and confessed that he had just come from Santa Monica, where he had photographed another bride and groom, believing them to be Carole and Bill. If that isn't a laugh I never heard one. Here's a youth who wouldn't know Garbo if he stumbled across her taking a sun bath.
After the excitement, the laughs and the surprise party of the Barthelmesses, Brooks, Torrences, et al, they were off to Honolulu. Carole was impressed with the people there. They were so kind, she says. She thinks the trouble with most of us is that we never take the time to be kind to people. Even when we have the time, we take it for other purposes. I have a hunch that life has been a little difficult with Carole so far as kindness goes. There is nothing soft and blahish about the beauty of Carole. She is no Pollyanna.
When the Bill Powells came back, they found that Mother Peters (Carole was born Carol Jane Peters) had rented a house for them in Beverly Hills. And that they were all moved in, including the colored man who had served Bill so expertly and for so long. They love it. They're as happy as two youngsters.
Carole is finding out that she is domestically inclined — more so than she ever dreamed she would be. She's glad that Bill persuaded her they should have a house, instead of an apartment. She loves to order meals, to count the laundry, to market, to arrange flowers, most of all to see their friends enjoying themselves in their home. And she is a swell cook, if she does say so, which she does. And Bill is "pathetic." He hasn't had a house of his own for so long that he can't get over it. He goes about patting chairs and lamps and things and saying, "Now, this is a cute piece, don't you think?"
As a husband of "many" months, Carole says, he is NOT suave, sophisticated, and polished. He is no Philo Vance except — except when it comes to detecting the things she wants, the things that will make her comfortable and happy, the little tendernesses and considerations precious to all her feminine hearts. In all such matters, his wife says, he would put Philo Vance, Sherlock Holmes and all of Scotland Yard to shame and confusion. He has second sight where she is concerned. With each week of married life this conjugal clairvoyance deepens and intensifies, rather than abates. He is so thoughtful and unselfish that Carole is "divinely happy. I didn't know there could be such happiness as I am having now. I'll never forget it, not one instant of it, so long as I live on this earth." Mind you, this is the wife's story, not the sweetheart's.
Bill writes her little notes almost every day of their lives. Tender little notes. Humorous little notes. On her bridal bouquet, for instance, she found this little billet: "Dear Miss Lombard, will you kindly see that these reach the future Mrs. Powell and that she wears them?"
She says, this old, old, married woman, "I think he is the handsomest man in the world." And Bill isn't jealous. Not one bit. In fact, they kid about things like that. Bill says, "So-and-so kinda on the make for you today, eh, mama?" And Carole retorts in kind.
"The whole explanation of our marriage and our happiness," says Carole, "is that we understand one another. We took time to do it — eight months of going together, every available moment. And where there is understanding, there is no possibility of misunderstanding. How can there be? I can't see the sense in these so-called modern marriage pacts, talking things over, planning what one will do in this or that emergency, making charts of emotions. After all, emotional matters cannot be charted. If there is perfect understanding between two people, what is there to plan about? Bill and I do, and intend to do, what we feel like doing, where and with whom. But — we both know what the other feels like doing, and why. That's all there is to it."
Carole loves her young stepson (William Powell Jr.) and says, happily, that Bill is mad about him. She hopes, some day, to have children of her own. After two or three years more of work, she'll be perfectly content to stop being Carole Lombard in order to be Mrs. William Powell and the mother of Bill's children. She wants two, a boy and a girl.
This is the Bride's story — and I believe she'll stick to it.


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Soft Robot – A review
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Soft Robot: A Review
Soft robotics is a growing field which relies on mimicking locomotion mechanisms of soft bodies existing in nature to achieve smooth and complex motion. Among those "soft bodies" that can move in complex environments, earthworms, snakes, larval insects, octopus and eels present a large range of different strategies, developed over years, that we can draw inspiration from.
What is a Soft robot?
Soft robots are primarily composed of easily deformable matter such as fluids, gels, and elastomers that enable compliance matching with the environing materials. Compliance matching is the principle that materials that come into contact with each other should share similar mechanical rigidity in order to evenly distribute internal load and minimize interfacial stress concentrations.[1] However, this principle does not apply to rigid robots (E=109Pa) interacting with soft materials (E=102-106Pa), causing damage or mechanical immobilization (where E is the Young's Modulus, which gives a measure of the stiffness of a solid material). These types of interactions with soft materials are widely spread, as for instance with natural skin, muscle tissue, delicate internal organs, but also organisms, artificial replications of biological functionalities, etc… Due to this dramatic mismatch in mechanical compliance, it is easy to conclude that rigid robots are not adapted and even dangerous for intimate human interaction. Therefore, there is a need of robots that match the elastic and rheological properties of materials and organisms found in nature, and this is where soft robots could bring the solution.
Designing soft robots calls for completely new models in their mechanics, power supply and control.[2] However, rethinking materials, design strategies and fabrication techniques should open up new areas of soft robotics in macro and micro length scales in a lot of fields (healthcare, human assistance, field exploration…)
This review addresses the different types of actuations that exist, as well as the principal method of fabrication of these soft robots, before delving deeper into their applications.
How to fabricate and actuate a Soft Robot?
1. Actuation
Pneumatic Networks actuators (PneuNets) are the most common soft robots, and are made up of a soft material, an elastomer, within which pressurized fluids can navigate through a series of channels and chambers. When these chambers are pressurized, the entrapped fluid generates stress from inside the material, causing the material to strain, to deform, and those enabling the motion of the actuator. The nature of this motion is controlled by modifying the geometry of the embedded chambers and the material properties of their walls. Generally, each segment of a fluidic elastomer robot bends, and this bending is due to material strain.
If a robot is composed of a single homogenous elastomer, most expansion will occur on the thinnest structures, and the motion of the robot will thus depend on the geometry of the microfluidic circuit. However, materials with different elastic behaviors can also be used to allow further control over actuator behavior.
For example, this figure illustrates how to obtain a unidirectional bending. This actuator is composed of two layers, one extensible and the other not, but both have the same size, L0. When pressurized, the top surface will become strained so that its new length will be L0+ΔL . Meanwhile, the bottom surface will remain unextended, causing the bending of the actuator. Bending is the basic, primitive motion of the fluidic elastomer robot. Usually, softrobots are composed of two parts like in this example, where the more rigid layer is called « constraint layer », and the layer containing the channels and chambers is called « outer layer ». However, more complex actuators possessing more pieces also exist.
This kind of softrobots exhibiting two materials, are usually made up of two silicone elastomers: the Ecoflex and the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). This two elastomers bond well to each other, present a different but well-suited rigidity, are easy to mold and relatively inexpensive. PDMS has a Shore A hardness* of 50, while Ecoflex has a hardness below the Shore A scale (it fractures only above a maximum strain of 900%).[3] As a result, PDMS is ideally suited for the constraint layer, as it has a limited range of deformation, while Ecoflex is more flexible and therefore more suitable to be used as the outer layer.
Instead of using elastomers with different rigidity, other techniques also allow to control the motion of the actuators. The actuator can be made of one single elastomer, but the constraint layer may contain fiber, paper, or a plastic film to produce the inextensibility property required for actuation[4]. Also, fiber-reinforced actuators exist, and consist of a simple PneuNet actuator wrapped with inextensible reinforcements, which enable to control their motion.
* Shore hardness is a durometer scale which enables to measure the hardness of materials, typically used for polymers, elastomers and rubbers. The A scale is for softer plastics, while the D scale is for harder ones.[5]
Other type of actuation:
The PneuNets actuators use the most developed technology in the domain of soft robotics, but other types of actuation are also explored:
Photosensitive actuators
Photosensitive actuators function with Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (LCEs)[6], a smart materials that can exhibit large shape change under illumination with visible light.
Dielectric elastomers actuators
Dielectric elastomers actuators (DEA)[7] work with electroactive polymers which deform when inducing an electric field. Common design of this type of actuators consists on trapping a soft insulating elastomer membrane between two compliant electrodes. When a voltage is applied between the electrodes, the arising electric field induces a slimming in thickness and an enlargement of the area of the membrane.
Combustion-driven actuators
Combustion-driven actuators (CDAs)[8] use the ignition of combustible mixtures to drive actuation. These actuators function in the same way as pneumatic-based actuators, except that they are powered by gas under pressure, which is directly created within the robot. This pressurized gas is obtained through reactions transforming small amounts of liquid fuel into large amount of pressurized gas. This type of actuation was for instance used to power the octobot[9], developed at Harvard.
2. Fabrication
To create soft robots, the most used manufacturing process consists in soft lithographic molding, which relies on casting elastomer in molds obtained by soft lithography or 3D printing. This fabrication process generally consists of three steps:
The robot is composed of two parts: the outer layer, containing the model of the desired channel structure, and the constraint layer, presenting inextensible property (due to a different rigidity) required for actuation. Each layer is molded by casting pourable silicone rubber in each mold, and cured.
Then, the two cured layers are removed from their molds, joined using a thin layer of uncured elastomer as glue, and cured together.
Finally, once the curing done, the final actuator is unmolded
Obviously, some soft robots are more complex and need more steps for their creation, but the process of fabrication stays the same, broadly speaking.
What are the applications of a Soft Robot
Besides being soft, these robots exhibit a lot of other major assets. Because they are composed of materials that match the compliance of biological matter (such as human skin and tissue), soft robots are mechanically biocompatible and capable of lifelike functionalities. Moreover, soft robots use materials that can change their shape and elastic rigidity, which are lightweight, but also adapted to intimate human contact: comfortable, soft enough to prevent injuries, biocompatible and compliant. These features will potentially lead to plenty of promising new technologies in a broad range of social, scientific, and industrial activities in the future.
Most of these applications should be part of the biomedical field. From large size robots like soft wearable robots, soft prosthetics, co-robots (assistive robots that cooperate with human partners) to miniaturized robots for field exploration, drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery, and medical implants, the number of applications of soft robotics in the medical field is broad.
The field of human motor assistance, using soft wearable robots, could be the first that will be successfully implemented. This new type of robots will assist patients with muscle weakness or patients who suffer from physical or neurological disorders (ex: stroke or traumatic brain injury) for fine motor tasks like moving or grasping.
For example, soft active ankle foot orthotic (AFO) could help prevent foot dragging for patients that suffer gait abnormalities such as drop foot.[10] As with the AFO, soft hand orthotics that contain artificial muscles have begun to be implemented to supply assistive mechanical aid in the fingers and wrist.
Even the domain of cardiac simulators[11], mimicking the motion of the heart, has been explored. These artificial muscles, are based on McKibben actuators[12], composed of an inflating balloon encased in a braided shell of woven inextensible fibers. Such assistive technologies, which effectively function like a second skin[13], compensate missing or impaired motor function by cooperating with the body's healthy tissue. In this way, it gives the patient new opportunities to relearn or discover motor functions for grasping and gait.
McKibben actuator
Speaking of "second skin", the development of some soft exoskeletons has begun, and their fields of application are wide. As mentioned before, this new type of robots would be useful for patients with movement disorders (Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease), for elderly, but also to help soldiers, firefighters, paramedics, and anyone who needs to carry heavy loads.
For decades, exoskeletons have been built with rigid links, in parallel with the biological anatomy, to increase the strength and endurance of the wearer while protecting them from physical stress and injury. However, these robots were not adapted enough to the smooth and complex movements of the human body, were heavy and took up place. Instead, these new types of soft wearable robots use pneumatic air artificial muscles (McKibben actuator) to work, are compliant with human motion and lightweight.
The exosuit, an exoskeleton developed at the Wyss Institute[14], is an example of such a lightweight device, using "soft clothing" and containing no rigid elements. It prevents restrictions for wearer's motion and avoids articulations misalignment encountered with rigid exoskeleton.
Soft exoskeleton: "exosuit"
The advantages that present the materials used in soft robotics (soft, lightweight, biocompatible, compliant) also present an opportunity to create soft prosthetics, powered by artificial and natural muscle, and controlled through cognitive commands, body gestures, and onboard sensing.[15] Some research projects have already begun, like this soft prosthetics hand for amputees[16].
Soft prosthetics hand for amputees
This same properties present good advantages for evolutions in the field of assistive robots. Co-robots have often been imagined, in particular in science-fiction movies, but what would happen if this technology came to appear in real life? These humanoid robots, that must safely cooperate with humans in a broad range of medical, industrial and domestic tasks, could undergo the same universal integration that personal computers underwent. Taking advantage of these properties, these robots could live and interact with humans every day, and could help for applications that require carrying, lifting and other forms of intimate contact (ex: nursing and elderly care).
Of course, soft robots are not limited to large scale applications like humanoids or soft prosthetics, and, in a world where everything tends to be miniaturized, they also present a lot of opportunities at a small scale. Miniaturizing also calls for complexity, and at these length scales, the rheology of all materials used will impact the functionality of these robots. The domain of application of these small size robots is wide, but mostly resides in the capacity to make them completely autonomous. If successful, they will be capable of crawling and swimming in tight spaces that are impossible to navigate with rigid robots. The domain of swimmers (at the surface and underwater) has begun to be explored. They offer the versatility to accomplish a number of basic functions, including moving in tight spaces, climbing walls, grasping items and pushing objects as heavy as ten times their own mass[17]. This versatility comes naturally through actuation mechanisms that provide large forces and displacements.
This type of robots will also have a real role as field robots for search operations. Whether in case of natural disaster relief, for military reconnaissance, for the transportation of hazardous material or for data collection, they will prove to be very good assets.
However, they may also be used to go further in medicine. Knowing their properties of compliance and softness, they should be capable of navigating through the body without damaging vascular walls and tissue for drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery, and medical implants.[18]
Soft robotics presents an extraordinary solution for any application involving intimate human contact, or asking for the versatility and multifunctionality observed in nature. Although they are in their early stages, soft robots should have a myriad of uses in a lot of applications in the years to come.
Comparison of soft robotics vs classic robotics
Advantages Drawbacks
Achieve complex motion
Collision avoidance: absorb impacts, prevent injury
Elastically deformable and soft
Adaptable shape
Compatible for human interaction (biocompatible and compliant)
Same elastic and rheological properties as soft biological matter (compliance matching)
Low cost materials
Difficult to control
Less powerful and precise than rigid robots
Support equipment (hardware) kept off-board: limit motion and autonomy
Today's electronics not adapted (rigid supports)
From rigid and soft robots to hybrid robots
While natural neural tissues are soft and capable of extraordinary computational power, microengineered electronics, even though submicrometric in size, are nowadays constructed with rigid materials. Until the microelectronics are made with soft and elastic materials, soft robots will require rigid microprocessors for actuator control.
As long as this technology does not exist, and if we want soft-robots to be autonomous, they must wear their own support equipment, becoming hybrids robots. For now, these hybrid systems offer a unique solution to fulfilling tasks in real-world environments. With these hardware resources, it is possible to coordinate the two parts of the robots in order to fulfill the goals that either one of them would not be able to achieve alone.[19] This advancement in robotic symbiosis will broaden the use of soft robotics in the years to come.
Written by Wilfried Sire.
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[1] Majidi, "Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future."
[2] Rogóż et al., "Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale."
[3] "According to the Manufacturer's Data Sheet: Ecoflex, www.smooth-On.com (Accessed April 2017)."
[4] Marchese et al., "A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots."
[5] "https://en.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Shore_durometer (Accessed May 2017)."
[7] "http://Softroboticstoolkit.com/Book/Dielectric-Elastomer-Actuators (Accessed May 2017)."
[8]"http://Softroboticstoolkit.com/Book/Combustion-Driven-Actuators (Accessed May 2017)."
[9] "http://News.harvard.edu/Gazette/Story/2016/08/The-First-Autonomous-Entirely-Soft-Robot/ (Accessed May 2017)."
[10] Majidi, "Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future."
[11] "http://Softroboticstoolkit.com/Book/Case-Study-Cardiac-Simulator (Accessed May 2017)."
[12] Klute et al., "McKibben Artificial Muscles: Pneumatic Actuators with Biomechanical Intelligence."
[13] Goldfield et al., "Bio-Inspired Design of Soft Robotic Assistive Devices."
[14] "https://Biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/Soft-Exosuits (Accessed May 2017)."
[16] "https://www.tudelft.nl/io/onderzoek/research-labs/foundational-labs/soft-robotics (Accessed May 2017)."
[17] Rogóż et al., "Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale."
[19] "Soft Robotics Toolkit."
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