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Q: How to integrate Apache Camel into a Java Spring 3.0 web application to import data I'm developing a web application based on the Spring 3.0 framework.
No I want to integrate Apache Camel to import data via CSV files into the database. I managed to run Camel and doing the import in the database following the Apache Camel Spring Configuration example.
But now I want to integrate Camel into the web application so it starts up together. But I'm not sure how to do this. At the moment it seems as if Camel is started beside the web application and uses it's own context. Especially it seems to be started before the web application as the an exception is thrown when Camel tries to auto wire a database repository which is part of the web application.
10:57:36.730 [main] ERROR o.s.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'routeConfiguration': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.springframework.data.neo4j.repository.GraphRepository com.isarsoftware.ysura.config.RouteConfiguration.graphRepository; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userRepository' defined in class path resource [com/isarsoftware/ysura/config/GraphDBConfig.class]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public org.springframework.data.neo4j.repository.GraphRepository com.isarsoftware.ysura.config.GraphDBConfig.userRepository()] threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: ApplicationEventMulticaster not initialized - call 'refresh' before multicasting events via the context: Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Fri Nov 16 10:57:35 CET 2012]; root of context hierarchy

I must admit that I'm far away from being a Spring pro. But till now I managed to get everything working by reading blogs and tutorial. But for this problem I couldn't find any guidance yet.
Can anyone suggest me a tutorial or example on who to solve my problem?

A: see http://camel.apache.org/tutorial-on-using-camel-in-a-web-application.html
basically, just add spring listener to your web.xml file
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

then, create a /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml file with your CamelContext
<beans...>
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        <route>
          <from uri="seda:foo"/>
          <to uri="mock:results"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</beans>


Warning: this assignment is out of date. It may still need to be updated for this year's class. Check with your instructor before you start working on this assignment.
The final project is due on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Late days are not allowed for this assignment.
Analyze your results- is it better than similar/existing approaches? What more could be done?
Motivate the problem you are trying to solve or question you are trying to answer, and why crowdsourcing is an especially good fit for solving/answering it.
Give a quick background on related problems. Have others tried to solve the same problem? What makes your approach different/better?
Demo your solution/product. If you built an app, show it off in all its glory; if you conducted a scientific study, explain your procedure and demo the crowd-facing components.
Describe your method/algorithm. Make sure you address the issues of incentives, quality control, and aggregation. Which components you focus on will differ depending on your project, so you don't have to give each one equal weight. Touch on each one, but focus on the part that was the most challenging or required the most creativity.
Discuss your results. Convince us that what you did "worked". What is the take-away?
Your video should be able to stand alone; someone with no knowledge of the class should be able to watch it and understand what you did and why it was a worthwhile thing to do. This will make it a more rewarding capstone of your work this semester.
Every project is different- focus on what makes yours cool/interesting/exciting/impressive. If yours was engineering-heavy, spend the majority of the time on step (3). If yours was more scientific, you should spend the majority of the video on (5).
Show, don't just tell. Demos of working apps or figures of analyzed results are gold. Don't just use your voice-over to read words off of a slide.
Five minutes is short, and we want you do use your video to showcase what is great about what you did. So to make sure you still get credit for all the obligatory parts, and because it is only fitting, we will have you fill out a detailed final questionnaire. This questionnaire is broken into two parts here and here. The questions will look familiar - its okay to reiterate points you made on past checkpoints, but highlight what about your original plan changed in your final product.
Did you project work? How do you know so? Analyze some results, discuss some positive outcomes of your project.
What are the biggest challenges you had to deal with? What changed between your original plan and your final product?
What are some limitations of your product. If yours is an engineering-heavy project, what would you need to overcome in order to scale (cost/incentives/QC…)? If yours was a scientific study, what are some sources of error that may have been introduced by your method. If you results deviate from previous work, why might that be?
The questionnaire has questions asking you to do a deeper analysis of the individual components of your project. You should pick two of the sections to do a deeper analysis on. For the two deeper analyses, we ask you to create a graph using your visualization skills. Which questions you should pick depends on where the balance of your team's effort went. Some people are building really complex system that require a lot of engineering. Other people's focus is on analyzing data. If your focus is on analysis, then you should generate more in-depth graphs.
The final project presentations will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2016 from 09:00AM to 11:00AM in two locations: in LRSM Auditorium and in Skirkanich Auditorium (Berger Auditorium room 101). We will play your videos and have a short amount of time for you to answer questions from the audience.
Below are the questions that you will be asked to answer about your final project. lease submit your answers via the questionnaires here and here. (Note that the questionnaire is broken into two parts! Make sure you submit both!). We recommend that you save your survey answers in a file on your own computer, rather than typing them directly into the Google form, so that you can have a copy to use when you do your video profile. You won't be able to access your answers from Google after you press submit.
You must answer the questions in all of the sections below, but you only need to create graphs for 2 sections.
Give a one sentence description of your project. Please use the name of the project in your description.
Logo for your project. Create a PNG file, save it in your github repo, give its URL.
How does your project work? Describe each of the steps involved in your project. What parts are done by the crowd, and what parts will be done automatically.
Provide a link to your final presentation video. Give the full path to your Vimeo video, and the password, if it is not public.
Who are the members of your crowd?
For your final project, did you simulate the crowd or run a real experiment?
If the crowd was simulated, how did you collect this set of data?
If the crowd was simulated, how would you change things to use a real crowd?
If the crowd was real, how did you recruit participants?
How many unique participants did you have?
What motivation does the crowd have for participating in your project?
How do you incentivize the crowd to participate? Please write 1-3 paragraphs giving the specifics of how you incentivize the crowd. If your crowd is simulated, then what would you need to do to incentivize a real crowd?
Did you perform any analysis comparing different incentives?
If you compared different incentives, what analysis did you perform? If you have a graph analyzing incentives, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
What does the crowd provide for you?
Is this something that could be automated?
If it could be automated, say how. If it is difficult or impossible to automate, say why.
Did you train a machine learning component from what the crowd gave you?
If you trained a machine learning component, describe what you did.
Did you analyze the quality of the machine learning component? For instance, did you compare its quality against crowd workers using an n-fold cross validation?
If you have a graph analyzing a machine learning component, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
Did you create a user interface for the crowd workers? Answer yes even if it's something simple like a HTML form on CrowdFlower.
If yes, please give the URL to a screenshot of the crowd-facing user interface. Save the screenshot as a PNG file, and put it in your github repo. Include the full path to your image (prefix with https://github.com/). You can include multiple screenshots, one per line.
Describe your crowd-facing user interface. This can be a short caption for the screenshot. Alternately, if you put a lot of effort into the interface design, you can give a longer explanation of what you did.
Do your crowd workers need specialized skills?
What sort of skills do they need?
Do the skills of individual workers vary widely?
Did you analyze the skills of the crowd?
If you analyzed skills, what analysis did you perform? How did you analyze their skills? What questions did you investigate? Did you look at the quality of their results? Did you analyze the time it took individuals to complete the task? What conclusions did you reach?
Do you have a graph analyzing skills? If you have a graph analyzing skills, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
Is the quality of what the crowd gives you a concern?
How do you ensure the quality of the crowd provides?
If quality if a concern, then what did you do for quality control? If it is not a concern, then what about the design of your system obviates the need for explicit QC? This answer should be substantial (several paragraphs long).
Did you analyze the quality of what you got back? For instance, did you compare the quality of results against a gold standard? Did you compare different QC strategies?
What analysis did you perform on quality?
What questions did you investigate? What conclusions did you reach?
Do you have a graph analyzing quality? If you have a graph analyzing quality, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
How do you aggregate the results from the crowd?
Did you analyze the aggregated results?
What analysis did you perform on the aggregated results? What questions did you investigate? Did you compare aggregated responses against individual responses? What conclusions did you reach?
Do you have a graph analyzing the aggregated results? If you have a graph analyzing the aggregated results, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
Did you create a user interface for the end users to see the aggregated results? If yes, please give the URL to a screenshot of the user interface for the end user. Save the screenshot as a PNG file, and put it in your github repo. Include the full path to your image (prefix with https://github.com/). You can include multiple screenshots, one per line.
Describe what your end user sees in this interface. This can be a short caption for the screenshot. Alternately, if you put a lot of effort into the interface design, you can give a longer explanation of what you did.
What is the scale of the problem that you are trying to solve?
Would your project benefit if you could get contributions from thousands of people?
What challenges would scaling to a large crowd introduce?
Did you perform an analysis about how to scale up your project? For instance, a cost analysis?
Do you have a graph analyzing scaling? If you have a graph analyzing scaling, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
Did your project work? How do you know? Analyze some results, discuss some positive outcomes of your project.
Do you have a graph analyzing your project? If you have a graph analyzing your project, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
What were the biggest challenges that you had to deal with?
Where there major changes between what you originally proposed and your final product?
If so, what changed between your original plan and your final product?
What are some limitations of your product? If yours is an engineering-heavy project, what would you need to overcome in order to scale (cost/incentives/QC…)? If yours was a scientific study, what are some sources of error that may have been introduced by your method.
Did your results deviate from what you would expect from previous work or what you learned in the class?
If your results deviated, why might that be?
Did your project require a substantial technical component? Did it require substantial software engineering? Did you need to learn a new language or API?
If project required a substantial technical component, describe the largest technical challenge you faced.
How did you overcome this challenge? What new tools or skills were required? Feel free to nerd out a bit, to help us understand the amount of work that was required.
Do you have any screen shots or flow diagrams to illustrate the technical component you described? If so, include a link to a PNG file of the graph here.
Is there anything else you'd like to say about your project?
If you have additional information about your project that didn't fit into the above questions, put it here.
This assignment is worth 20 points of your overall grade in the course. The rubric for the assignment is given below.
10 points will be allocated based on a hollistic evaluation of your project (video+questionnaire), with special attention to how well you address the major themes of the course.


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Who Am I? - Dave's Daily Devo - April 10
"What's My Line" ran on CBS from 1950-1967. Celebrity panelists got to question a contestant trying to determine what he or she did. Each week a famous mystery guest would also come on the show, the panelists would be blindfolded, and then they would try to guess the celebrity's identity by asking "yes-no" questions. The show was syndicated and even generated clones in countries from Australia to Sweden to Brazil.
As readers, Mark invites us to play his version of "What's My Line", only he lets us in on the secret right at the beginning. He told us Jesus' line in his first sentence. He's the Messiah, the Son of God (1:1). But both Jesus' followers and his enemies don't know the secret and we get to watch as different groups and individuals get to ask questions and look at the evidence. When Jesus sent his disciples out all over northern Israel, the territory ruled by King Herod, and Jesus' name became as well-known as his own, Herod had to come to some conclusions of his own about who Jesus was. So do we.
"Now King Herod heard about the impact Jesus and his disciples were making, for Jesus' name had become well known, and they were saying, 'John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That explains these powerful miracles being done by him.' Others said, 'It's Elijah.' But others were saying, 'He's a prophet like one of the prophets of old.' But when Herod heard, he said, 'It's John, who I beheaded, he has been raised!'" Mark 6:14-16
Mark lets us feel the impact of the two by two mission Jesus' disciples carried out all over Herod's territory by letting us in on the discussions trying to determine what Jesus' line actually was. Some have come to the conclusion that Jesus is the Elijah-like prophet who was supposed to herald the coming of the Messiah. Others are more general and simply declare that Jesus is a prophet like Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Hosea. But Herod has come to a firm conclusion. Jesus is John the Baptist raised from the dead. Like a lot of self-serving politicians, his conclusion is dead wrong, but it does reveal that no one was disputing the fact that Jesus did incredible miracles, and that belief in a bodily resurrection, even after a beheading, is an accepted possibility in the first century. In tomorrow's Devo we'll go on and let Mark show us why Herod is so fixated on John the Baptist.
LORD, thanks for how Mark honestly lays out the debate about Jesus' identity during his earthly ministry. Cause many who are reading this Devo to see the power Jesus has over demonic activity, disease, death, and even the powers of nature, and realize that he definitely is a prophet, but far greater than any other.
For more from Dave Wyrtzen please visit TruthEncounter.com!

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Q: Pandas is not working after installing pandas it still giving module problem The code is
import data as data
import pandas as pd
data
pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Chitresh\Desktop\jkl.csv')
df = pd.DataFrame (data, colums = ['Roll'])
print(df)

And this is the problem
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\Desktop\LPU\python\objectoriented programming\csv.py", line 2, in <module>
    import pandas as pd
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pandas\__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from pandas.core.api import (
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pandas\core\api.py", line 27, in <module>
    from pandas.core.arrays import Categorical
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pandas\core\arrays\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pandas.core.arrays.categorical import Categorical
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pandas\core\arrays\categorical.py", line 3, in <module>
    from csv import QUOTE_NONNUMERIC
  File "C:\Users\Chitresh\Desktop\LPU\python\objectoriented programming\csv.py", line 4, in <module>
    pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Chitresh\Desktop\jkl.csv')
    ^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'pandas' has no attribute 'read_csv' (most likely due to a circular import)

I have tried some websites but cannot find what is wrong

A: Your python file is called csv.py and you're trying to read a .cvfile. This can cause some problems like the circular import.
Change the name of your python file.
Probably you'll find the same problem if the call your python file pandas.py.
Edit:
As you edited your post, let me correct your code:
import pandas as pd
pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Chitresh\Desktop\jkl.csv')
...

import data as data it's an unnecessary step. pandas has what you need to do what you want. Furthermore, when you import a module you don't need to add as ... if you will use the same name of the module. In your thrid line you've databut that variable isn't doing anything.

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Servius Tullius
Figures & Events
Mythology & Religion
The 6th King of Rome
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by N.S. Gill
N.S. Gill is a Latinist, writer, and teacher of ancient history and Latin. She has been featured by NPR and National Geographic for her ancient history expertise.
During the legendary period, when kings ruled Rome, the future sixth king was born in Rome. He was Servius Tullius, the son of a leading man from the Latin town of Corniculum, or perhaps King Tarquinius Priscus, the first Etruscan king of Rome, or more wishfully than likely, the god Vulcan/Hephaestus.
Before Servius Tullius was born, Tarquinius Priscus seized Corniculum. According to Livy (59 B.C. - A.D. 17), the Etruscan-born queen of Rome, Tanaquil, took the pregnant captive mother (Ocrisia) into the Tarquin household where her son would be raised. Tanaquil was well-versed in Etruscan divination practices which led her to interpret omens about Servius Tullius very favorably. An alternative tradition, attested by Emperor Claudius, makes Servius Tullius an Etruscan.
Women taken in ancient battles were generally slaves, so Servius Tullius was taken by some to be the son of a slave, although Livy is at pains to explain that his mother did not act as a servant, which is also why he stresses that the Latin father of Servius Tullius was a leader of his community. Later, Mithradates was to mock the Romans who had a slave as king. The name Servius may refer to his servile status.
Servius Tullius succeeded Tarquin as king of Rome (r. 578-535) in some unclear illegal manner. As king, he did many things to improve the city, including enlarging it and building monuments. He also took the first census, re-ordered the military and fought against neighboring Italic communities. T. J. Cornell says he is sometimes called the second founder of Rome.
He was murdered by Tarquinius Superbus or his ambitious wife, Tullia, Servius Tullius' daughter.
Servius Tullius Reforms
Servius Tullius is credited with making constitutional reforms and performing a census, increasing the number of tribes, and adding many people to the category of those eligible to participate in the voting assemblies.
Servian Military Reforms
The Servian reform of the citizen body affected the military as well since Servius added a number of new bodies to the count. Servius divided the men into centuries, which were military units. The familiar centurion figure in the Roman legions is associated with these centuries. He divided the centuries into older and younger divisions so that there would be about half the number of men to stay and guard the home front while the other half went off to fight the almost incessant Roman wars.
The Roman Tribes
We don't know whether Servius Tullius created more than the four urban tribes, but his re-alignment of the citizens into geographic rather than family-based units led to the creation of 35 tribes. The tribes voted in the tribal assembly. After the number 35 was set as the final figure, new citizens were added to those groups, and the geographic character of the affiliation was diminished. Some tribes became relatively more crowded which meant that individuals' votes counted for proportionately less since only the vote of the group counted.
The Servian Wall
Servius Tullius is credited with enlarging the city of Rome, and building the Servian Wall connecting the Palatine, Quirinal, Coelian, and Aventine hills, and the Janiculum. He is credited with building the Temple of Diana on the Aventine (Diana Aventinensis) to serve as a center for the cult of Diana for the Latin League. Sacrifices for the Secular Games were made to Diana Aventinensis. Archaeologists believe the walls and temple were built somewhat later. Servius Tullius also associated with the goddess Fortuna to whom he built several shrines, including the one on the Forum Boarium.
Comitia Centuriata
Servius put in place the Comitia Centuriata, the voting assembly based on the division of the people of Rome into centuries based on their economic class.
This Is How the Romans Voted in the Roman Republic
Biography of Tarquin the Proud, Last Etruscan King of Rome
Learn About the Seven Early Kings of Rome
From Kings to Slaves: Explore Roman Class Structure
Who Was Tarquin of Rome According to the Roman Historian Livy?
The Roman Republic's 3 Branches of Government
Learn About the Power Structures of Early Rome
Learn About the 7 Hills of Rome
What Role Did the Tiber River Play in the History of Rome?
Early Rome and the Issue of Kings: Romans Avoid the Title King
Check out These Awe-Inspiring Landmarks of Ancient Rome
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Roger repairs a mouldy shower that shouldn't need any attention given that it's only 10 years old. This shower is falling apart because regular plasterboard has turned to mush. It happens all the time but it shouldn't happen at all because there is a proven method of avoiding it. Roger isn't happy and he's going to do the job properly with Abacus Elements board and do a 'belt and braces' job.


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Home/APPLE STOCK/AAPL Vs. AMZN: Jim Cramer chose the right one
AAPL Vs. AMZN: Jim Cramer chose the right one
Naveen Kumar Send an email 1 week ago
In the last season of earnings, in late October 2021, Jim Cramer was determined: after looking at the financial performance of each company, he found that Apple shares (AAPL) – Download the report from Apple Inc. would be a better choice than Amazon (AMZN) – Download report from Amazon.com, Inc..
Below I explain why he was right for the best performer so far. Then I talk about whether AAPL shares will continue to outperform in 2022.
Figure 1: Apple and Amazon logo.
(Read more from Apple Mavena: Apple stocks: this will prove to be a buying opportunity)
Jim Cramer on the AAPL against AMZN
During a panel on CNBC, the head of Mad Money indicated that, in the face of Big Tech, he would rather hold shares in the Cupertino company than the shares of his colleagues:
"Apple is much better than Amazon. Amazon has become structurally too big to deliver what Prime does at no cost. "
Since that day, the AAPL has surpassed AMZN considerably: 10 percentage points in less than three months, as shown in the chart below.
Figure 2: AAPL compared to AMZN performance in the last 3 months.
Stock Rover
Jim Cramer was obviously right about his preferences. Interestingly, however, Amazon shares were better off almost a month after the interview, suggesting that third-quarter earnings week isn't exactly why the market deteriorated at AMZN and excited about AAPL later in the fourth quarter.
As I said about a month ago, Apple has recovered strongly to briefly reach a $ 3 trillion market capitalization starting in mid-November. The most likely reasons for the increase were (1) the excitement of the 2022-2025 growth potential in the metaverse and autonomous vehicles, and (2) the strength of consensus in the iPhone segment through the holiday season and beyond.
How about 2022?
Recently, Jim Cramer re-entered the mega-cap technology space. It is clear that he still sees the growth of Apple shares at the beginning of the new year.
In fact, the famous investor listed AAPL as the top 5 legacy technology stocks it will own in 2022 – though I bet some Apple investors would question the term "legacy" here. According to Jim, the attractiveness of these companies in an environment of rising rates is as follows:
"While most software stocks in the cloud that are losing money are now out of bounds, there are many technology names that do real things and make real profits."
Cramer backed his bullish stance toward Apple not only on his broader views summarized above, but also on the small window of opportunity revealed by the sale in early January. He also expressed confidence that demand will strengthen with the end of the supply chain crisis.
What do you say to AMZN?
The same arguments can be used to support the purchase of Amazon shares: "real things and real profits"; normalization of demand as supply bottlenecks are addressed; and lower valuation – in the case of AMZN, the shares have not recorded all-time highs since July 2021.
For these reasons, I still think AMZN will surpass the AAPL in 2022, even though the latter has already won the pedestrian race in early January (see below).
However, that doesn't mean I wouldn't own Apple shares at the current level. In fact, I think both big tech names will continue to make lavish market gains in the long run.
Twitter speaks
Jim Cramer was right when Apple said it was a better choice than Amazon after its third-quarter earnings season. Do you think this is still the case, ahead of earnings in Q4?
(Read more from Apple Maven: Apple Stock: Be careful with big technology in 2022, says this expert)
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This article serves as an index - as complete as possible - of all the honorific orders or similar decorations received by the Terengganu Royal Family, classified by continent, awarding country and recipient.

The Sultan of Terengganu and members of the Sultan's family have received many honours from different states of Malaysia and from other nations.

Sultanate of Terengganu

They have been awarded:

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu :
  Grand Master and recipient of the Supreme Royal Family Order of Terengganu (DKT, since 15 May 1998)
  Founding Grand Master and recipient of the Royal Family Order of Terengganu (DKR, 6 July 2000)
  First Class (DK I, 9 March 1981) and Grand Master (since 15 May 1998) of the Family Order of Terengganu
 Order of Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu :
  Founding Grand Master and Knight Grand Companion (SSMZ, 6 July 2001)
  Funding Supreme class (SUMZ, 26.5.2005)
  Member Grand Companion (SSMT, 12 Feb. 1989) and Grand Master (since 15 May 1998) of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu
  Knight Grand Commander (SPMT, 6 March 1982) and Grand Master (since 15 May 1998) of the Order of the Crown of Terengganu
Sultanah Nur Zahirah :
  First Class of the Family Order of Terengganu (DK I, 16.1.1999)
  Knight Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (SSMZ, 6.7.2001)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT, 9.7.1998)
Tengku Muhammad Ismail, Heir Apparent :
  Member of the Royal Family Order of Terengganu (DKR, 14.12.2011)
  First Class of the Family Order of Terengganu (DK I,12.12.2006)
  Knight Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (SSMZ)
 Y.T.M. Tengku Dato' Mustafa Kamil, Tengku Sri Bendahara Raja (Sultan's 1st younger brother) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT, 29.4.1991)
 Y.T.M. Tengku Dato' Sri Badr ul-Zaman, Tengku Sri Panglima Raja (Sultan's 2nd younger brother) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT)
 Y.A.M. Tengku Dato' Badr ul-Hisham [Bahar ud-din], Tengku Sri Temenggong Raja (Sultan's 3rd younger brother) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT)
 Y.A.M. Dato' Hajjah Tengku Amira Zahara Farah Qurashiyah , Tengku Kamala Putri (Sultan's elder sister) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT)
 Y.A.M. Tengku Nur Rohana Fathia Putri [Tengku Ana] (Sultan's 1st younger sister) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT)
 Y.A.M. Tengku Dato' Rahima Putri (Sultan's 2nd younger sister) :
  Second Class (DK II)
  Member Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu (SSMT)

Malaysia, sultanates and states

Malaysia

They have been awarded :

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (as Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 13 December 2006 until 12 December 2011) :
  Grand Master (2006-2011) and Recipient (DKM, 5.4.2007) of the Order of the Royal House of Malaysia
   Recipient (DMN, 27 February 1999) and Grand Master (2006-2011) of the Order of the Crown of the Realm
  Grand Commander (SMN, 27.2.1999) and Grand Master (2006-2011) of the Order of the Defender of the Realm
  Grand Master of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (2006-2011)
   Grand Master of the Order of Merit of Malaysia (2006-2011)
  Grand Master of the Order for Important Services (Malaysia) (2006-2011)
  Grand Master of the Order of the Royal Household (2006-2011)
 Sultanah Nur Zahirah :
  Order of the Crown of the Realm  (DMN, 5.4.2007, as Consort of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
 Y.A.M. Dato' Hajjah Tengku Amira Zahara Farah Qurashiyah , Tengku Kamala Putri (Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin's elder sister) :
According to Royal Ark : DMN (27.2.1999) but it is strange as she is not a ruler's wife, so maybe PMN ...
 either  Recipient of the Order of the Crown of the Realm (DMN, 27.2.1999)
 or  Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (PMN, 27.2.1999)

Sultanate of Johor
 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  First Class of the Royal Family Order of Johor (DK, 8 April 1986)
  Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown of Johor (SPMJ, 8 April 1986)

Sultanate of Kedah

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  Member of the Royal Family Order of Kedah (DK, 21.1.2002)
 Sultanah Nur Zahirah :
  Member of the Royal Family Order of Kedah (DK)

Sultanate of Kelantan

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  Recipient of the Royal Family Order or Star of Yunus (DK, 30.3.2002)

Sultanate of Negeri Sembilan

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  Member of the Royal Family Order of Negeri Sembilan (DKNS, 19.7.2001)

Sultanate of Pahang

 Y.T.M. Tengku Dato' Mustafa Kamil, Tengku Sri Bendahara Raja (Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin's 1st younger brother):
  Grand Knight (or Datuk Sri) of the Order of the Crown of Pahang (SIMP, 26.10.2003)

Sultanate of Perak

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  Recipient of the Royal Family Order of Perak (DK)

Sultanate of Perlis

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  Recipient of the Perlis Family Order of the Gallant Prince Syed Putra Jamalullail (DK, 28 May 1998)

Sultanate of Selangor

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
  First Class of the Royal Family Order of Selangor (DK, 10.4.2003)

Asian honours

Far East

Brunei
See also List of Bruneian Honours awarded to Heads of State and Royals

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
 Recipient of the Royal Family Order of the Crown of Brunei (DKMB)

Indonesia
 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
 First class (or Adipurna) of the Order of the Republic of Indonesia (17.10.2011)

Thailand
See also List of Thai Honours awarded to Heads of State and Royals

 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
 Knight of the Order of Rajamitrabhorn (9.3. 2009)
 Sultanah Nur Zahirah :
 Grand Cordon Of the Order of Chula Chom Klao

Middle East

Qatar
 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
 Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence of Qatar (13.12.2010)

To be completed if any other ...

American  honours

Chile
 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. : 12/2006-12/2011):
 Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Merit of Chile

To be completed if any other ...

European honours

France
Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (Sultan : since 15 May 1998 - Y.d-P.A. 12/2006-12/2011):
 Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour

To be completed if any other ...

African honours

To be completed if any ...

References

Notes

Terengganu

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We're Number 1! North Americans least green in world
May 8th 2008 @ 2:06PM
Filed under: News, Polit-eco
North Americans may talk the green talk, but we're apparently too lazy to walk the walk. The US and Canada came in first and second respectively in a survey which measured the environmental unfriendliness of consumers around the world. The study, conducted for the National Geographic Society, asked people in 14 countries about their lifestyles, including questions on housing, food, and transport, and then gave them a green score on a scale of one to a hundred.
Reasons for the low marks in North America had to do with things like large houses, a preference for driving over public transit, and (not surprisingly in Canada) considerable use of home heating. Developing countries showed a smaller environmental footprint, probably because poverty, which usually involves tiny houses and nonexistent cars, is far less energy-intensive than wealth.
Beside the US and Canada, countries measured in the survey were Brazil, India, China, Mexico, Hungary, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Spain, Japan and France.
via [CBC News]
It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 08, @01:10PM
from the transcend-potholes dept.
waderoush writes "Aviation enthusiasts have been dreaming of flying cars since the 1940s. But in an old machine shop in Woburn, MA, a team of MIT aero/astro grads is building what could be the first practical airplane that's also certified for highway driving. Angel-funded startup Terrafugia, headed by 2006 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich, hopes to have its first full-scale proof-of-concept vehicle ready to show off at July's AirVenture aviation festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin."
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 08, @11:51AM
from the next-year-these-will-be-everywhere dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own! The end result was a rolling system capable of long-distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road, serving as an Internet hot spot or a low-power pir8 radio station, as well as recording your favorite TV program so you don't miss Lost because you are lost. If that's not over the top enough, you can actually drive your scooter to, say, the Grand Canyon, plug in your electric guitar and perform live over the Web at a whim!"
HIPerSpace monitor wall makes a great Grand Theft Auto IV canvas
by Darren Murph, posted May 8th 2008 at 9:34AM
Rolling around jacking up innocents and tossing Molotov cocktails is pretty enthralling on your vanilla 46-inch HDTV, but can you even imagine the rush of swiping a hot dog, burning out in someone else's whip and then snagging a new pair of kicks on this? Researchers (and gamers, obviously) down at UC San Diego have re-engineered their middleware to enable such masterpieces as this to be played on the big monolithic HIPerSpace screen, and needless to say, we can't imagine much real work getting done with this new functionality coming to light. Head on down to the gallery to see what you're missing -- science, research and 4.0 GPAs are such beautiful things.
id Software Announces Doom 4
from the this-time-it's-yours dept.
spoco2 writes "The id Software site has announced that work has begun on the next sequel to their most famous game, Doom. Will they be able to resurrect the series after what many considered to be a serious misstep with Doom 3? Oh... and they're hiring for the team, so maybe you can steer them in the right direction?"
[+] games, announcement, fps, slashdotted (tagging beta)
Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan
from the when-childhood-goes-wrong dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."
[+] mozilla, news, security (tagging beta)
Firehose:Firefox infected with trojan! by Anonymous Coward
CO2 is poisoning cute Koalas
May 8th 2008 @ 9:00AM
According to the research of Sydney University's Ian Hume, rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere can turn eucalyptus leaves -- the Koala's favorite food -- into a toxic salad of death. Apparently, the heightened level of carbon dioxide not only saps the nutrients from the leaves that Koalas need to survive, but it also increases production of toxic "anti-nutrients" in the eucalyptus plant. Bummer.
The Koala's eucalyptus diet is notoriously low in nutritional value as it is, and they've adapted to it by sleeping nearly 20 hours a day. Now with strange anti-nutrients blocking the digestion of the few proteins in the leaves, the Koala is faced with any even greater uphill battle. With the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere, Hume expects a steady decline in Koala population over the next 50 years due to a lack of edible eucalyptus leaves. This is obviously bad news for one of Australia's national symbols. At least the kangaroos are mating like rabbits.
Green Scorecard for some major businesses
This is a neat score card showing which companies have a green philosophy than others. They are encouraging consumers to use this info to make purchasing decisions. How do your favorite companies rate? BTW, Darden Reastraunts is a holding company for Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, and Seasons 52.
Green company pocket guide
PEAK PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel is amazing, disgusting
by Nilay Patel, posted May 8th 2008 at 5:02AM
Okay, so we're not exactly doctors, but we couldn't help but be intrigued by PEAK Surgical's announcement today that its PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel had completed preclinical testing with positive results. Unlike traditional electrosurgery tools like the bovie cutter, the PlasmaBlade operates at low temperatures, using pulsed plasma energy to cut tissue and control bleeding. Then, stupidly, we watched the video. Let's just say now that it no longer matters to us that surgeons using the PEAK PlasmaBlade produce "minimal collateral damage" to tissue and that bleeding was reduced. Sure, it's great for the surgeons, but our eyes? Not going to be the same.
[Via MedGadget]
Read - PEAK PlasmaBlade press release
Watch - PEAK PlasmaBlade demo video (WARNING: not for the squeamish, we mean it!)
NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe
from the now-featuring-walls dept.
TangAddict writes "Dr. Alan Weston, who previously invented bungee jumping, led a team of scientists at NASA Ames Research Center to build a $4 million dollar spacecraft in less than two years. The Modular Common Spacecraft Bus is designed to accept payloads of up to 50kg. and can be used for a variety of missions including a rendezvous with asteroids, orbiting Earth or Mars, and landing on the moon. When NASA officials saw the first flight test, they offered Weston and his team $80 million to use their design for the LADEE mission, which will gather dust and atmosphere samples from the moon in 2011."
[+] nasa, space, technology (tagging beta)
DOE Pumps $126.6 Million into Carbon Sequestration
from the out-of-sight-out-of-mind dept.
RickRussellTX writes "The DOE awarded $126.6 million in grants today to projects that will pump 1 million tons of CO2 into underground caverns at sites in California and Ohio. Environmental groups call carbon sequestration "a scam", claiming that it is too expensive and uncertain to be competitive with non-coal alternatives like wind and solar. I just hope nobody drops a Mentos down the wrong pipe."
[+] carboncapture, energy, environment, greenwashing, sequestration (tagging beta)
MTI Micro testing feasibility of fuel cells in digicams
by Darren Murph, posted May 7th 2008 at 3:32PM
The ever-boastful MTI Micro is back again, just days after showing off a fuel cell-powered GPS prototype in Atlanta. This go 'round, the company is announcing a newfound partnership with an elusive Japanese developer of digicams in order to "evaluate the feasibility, development and production" of Mobion products. The love affair will enable the two to work together in evaluating and adapting the aforesaid technology for use in "various precision imaging applications, including digital cameras." Best of all, work is apparently already ongoing, and MTI Micro is expected to deliver prototypes later this month. Going from prototype form to the store shelf, however, will be the hard part.
Global warming to kill off insects
Filed under: News, GreenFinance, Climate Change
Say goodbye to your ant farm - climate change may prove to be a more powerful pesticide than DDT. New research shows that even relatively minor fluctuations in temperature could have devastating effects on insects, especially in the world's tropical regions.
An article in the Independent quotes Curtis Deutsch, a professor from UCLA who co-authored the study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as saying that although temperatures are not expected to increase as much in the tropics as at the poles, even a 1C or 2C jump could be fatal for insects already surviving at their edge of their climactic comfort zone.
While that doesn't look like it's all downside, especially for anyone who's been up north during blackfly season, the repercussions could be pretty ugly. Insects in warm climates are key to a healthy environment, pollinating flowers and plants, carrying away organic waste (read: eating crap) and serving as dinner for various birds and animals. If the bugs fail to adapt to a changing climate, the consequences will be felt all the way up the food chain.
Does The Brain Control Muscles Or Movements?
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — One of the major scientific questions about the brain is how it can translate the simple intent to perform an action--say, reach for a glass--into the dynamic, coordinated symphony of muscle movements required for that action. The neural instructions for such actions originate in the brain's primary motor cortex, and the puzzle has been whether the neurons in this region encode the details of individual muscle activities or the high-level commands that govern kinetics--the direction and velocity of desired movements.
Germany says biofuels aren't to blame for food prices
Filed under: News, Polit-eco, Alternative Energy
As the debate about biofuels rages on, German ministers are sticking to their guns when it comes to renewable energy targets. Despite pressure from the UN to cut back on crop fuels, Germany's environmental minister Sigmar Gabriel says that Germany should go ahead with its plans to use 10% biofuels by 2020.
According to Gabriel, the spike in food prices is coming from a variety of sources like poor harvests, increased global demand, and huge growth in commodities investment. The real culprit in the global food crunch isn't the growing market for biofuels, he says. Instead, it's speculators that have driven commodity prices to astronomical levels, breaking down the normal relationship between supply and demand. Of course, the same can be said about the price of oil.
Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists Say
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground.
Shark-powered surfing
by Jonathon Morgan
Filed under: Travel and Vacation
Sharks aren't doing too well. Humans have been using them for food and cosmetics (or just accidentally killing them) for far too long, which has left over 200 shark species in danger of extinction. Even if you're not a big fan of large, scary-looking sea monsters that can slice you open with their teeth, it's important to remember that sharks are a vital part of the ocean's fragile eco-system (not to mention that they make for really awesome nature documentaries!).
So, any attempt to bring attention to this endangered animal is commendable.
However, I'm not sure that's what this guy had in mind. The above video shows some lunatic surfer as he first baits a shark with raw , bleeding meat, and then proceeds to take a ride on his surfboard -- pulled by the flesh-eating fish.
Spawn of climate change: the grolar bear
by Rebecca Onion
Filed under: Climate Change
If grizzly bears keep getting forced further north by the adverse affects of climate change, scientists say that we may see more and more grolar bears - hybrid offspring of the polar bear and the grizzly. (What was wrong with "pizzly"? I think I would have chosen that over "grolar.")
Mixed polar/grizzly bears have already been spotted, namely one which a hunter killed in April 2006. The unfortunate bear, which biologists said must have been a hybrid offspring of a male grizzly and a female polar bear, was confirmed by DNA tests to carry genetic material from both types. The bear was mainly white, with a few fuzzy brown patches. (Next up: a kids' book which explores how the poor grolar bear is an outcast at his school, because he's different...)
Some point out that at least if polar and grizzly bears mate, we won't end up losing polar bear DNA altogether - a serious threat if the ice that supports polar habitats disappears, as it well may. That seems to me to be a major case of straining to see the silver lining...
Via ENN
Do you make these 6 common recycling mistakes?
May 7th 2008 @ 11:06AM
Filed under: Home
I was given few rules from the company that takes my recycling and didn't know how to avoid common mistakes. I knew that they take a bunch of my recyclable materials including plastics one through seven, cans, and paper products. When I ended up with a sheet of plastic with the number four stamped on it inside the recycle symbol, I plopped it in the bin. After two pickups, the workers seemed to be ignoring my plastic. When I asked during the following visit, the owner of the company told me, "we can take it but it'll just end up in the trash." Apparently, despite the markings, my number four piece of plastic was not recyclable in my area.
It's not just some plastics that end up in the trash after getting picked up from people's homes. Cardboard, metals and other items get tossed regularly. Small measures can be taken on your end to prevent your dutifully sorted recyclables from ending up in the landfill.
Broken glass is difficult to sort and will most likely end up in the trash so it's best to take care of it safely on your end or reuse it.
Food stained paper products are no good! This includes pizza boxes. If the bottom of the box is a greasy, soiled mess but the top cover is pristine, toss the bottom into the trash and recycle the remainder.
Other common paper products that can't be recycled are waxed paper and cardboard, oil soaked paper, carbon paper, sanitary products or tissues, thermal fax paper, stickers and plastic laminated paper, juice boxes, and pet food bags.
Unless told otherwise, you do not have to remove staples from paper or cardboard that is to be recycled.
Remove caps from bottles before recycling as they are often made from a different type of plastic and can contaminate the batch.
Don't bother peeling labels off from metals and glass. The recycling process will due this on its own ... but thanks for the effort!
Bald eagle to get bionic beak
Imagine trying to eat a bowl of marbles with one chopstick -- pretty frustrating, right? Welcome to a day in the life of Beauty the bald eagle. The top side of her beak was shot off by some treasonous idiot near Anchorage (what would Stephen Colbert think about that?), where she was later found trying to survive by eating trash at the local landfill. Since then she's been hand fed everyday by Jane Cantwell at her raptor recovery center in Idaho, but that could soon change thanks to the help of a prosthetic beak.
For the last two years, Jane has be rounding up a team of engineers to design a bionic beak so that Beauty can once again eat without assistance. A dentist, veterinarian, and other volunteers are developing a nylon composite replacement to be glued on to what's left of Beauty's disfigured upper beak.
Since the beak won't be strong enough to tear up prey, Beauty can't be released back into the wild, buy she will be able to drink water and eat the food provided at the raptor ranch. Her life expectancy with the new beak is about 50 years -- I had no idea that eagles lived that long. If you like animal recovery stories, you should check out Jonathon's post about the bionic turtle.
We had an EATHQUAKE yesterday!
Magnitude 2.0 at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. I was at Wilton Woods and felt it with 3 others who were sitting next to me and heard what I suppose was the building move. How exciting! Here is a map of where they think the Epicenter was as of this morning. They say these happen about every 10 years on average in this section of the country but this is the first one I have felt. It is a little disconcerting that I HEARD the building and the three of us thought it was a clap of thunder. Oh well, I guess alls well that ends well:)
First Caller-ID Spoofers Punished
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 07, @08:14AM
from the what-do-not-call-means dept.
coondoggie plugs a NetworkWorld story that begins, "The first telemarketers charged with transmitting false Caller IDs... to consumers were fined and barred from continuing their schemes by a New Jersey District Court judge.... [T]wo individuals and one corporate defendant have been barred from violating the agency's Telemarketing Sales Rule and its Do Not Call requirements... They were also found liable for $530,000 in damages... [T]he case was the first brought by the Commission alleging the transmission of phony caller ID information or none at all."
Ultrasound Can Drain The Color From Toxic Dyes
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally benign way.
Not All Fat Created Equal: Certain Body Fat Reduces Insulin Resistance
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — It has long been known that type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity, particularly fat inside the belly. Now, researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have found that fat from other areas of the body can actually reduce insulin resistance and improve insulin sensitivity.
It Might Be True That 'Men Marry Their Mothers'
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — Whether a young man's mother earned a college degree and whether she worked outside the home while he was growing up seems to have an effect years later when he considers his ideal wife, according to a study by University of Iowa sociologist Christine Whelan.
Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons
from the many-moons-ago dept.
fyc writes "A new study from NASA's Ames Research Center has suggested that the collision of Earth and a Mars-sized object that created the Moon may also have resulted in the creation of tiny moonlets on Earth's Lagrangian points. 'Once captured, the Trojan satellites likely remained in their orbits for up to 100 million years, Lissauer and co-author John Chambers of the Carnegie Institution of Washington say. Then, gravitational tugs from the planets would have triggered changes in the Earth's orbit, ultimately causing the moons to become unmoored and drift away or crash into the Moon or Earth.'" The longest-lasting of such Trojans could have persisted for a billion years. They would have been a few tens of kilometers in diameter and would have appeared in the sky like bright stars.
Tesla coils seen wowing onlookers, cooking hot dogs
Believe it or not, tesla coils are good for more than just creating lighting, protecting one's laptop or cranking out a sweet tune -- and the folks watching a dazzling demonstration at Maker Faire 2008 can attest to that. Apparently a group of prototype (1 / 12 scale, no less) coils were seen sparking up the evening in San Mateo, California, but it wasn't the visual energy or unmistakable hum that caused all that saliva to form in the mouths of onlookers. Oh no, it was the fact that a dozen hot dogs were simultaneously roasted and made ready for safe consumption. Check out a video of the action right after the break.
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 05, @10:09AM
from the just-drink-a-lot-of-beer dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Water is the most abundant solid material in space. But although astronomers see it on planets, moons, in comets and in interstellar clouds, nobody has been able to show how it forms. In theory, it should form easily when oxygen and atomic hydrogen meet. The problem is that there is not enough of it floating around as gas in interstellar dust clouds. So instead, the thinking is that water must form when atomic hydrogen interacts with frozen solid oxygen on the surface of dust grains in these clouds. Now Japanese astronomers have demonstrated this process for the first time in the lab in conditions that simulate interstellar space. That's cool because all the water in the solar system, including almost every drop you drink on Earth today, must have formed in exactly this way more than 5 billion years ago in a pre-solar dustcloud (abstract)."
[+] science, space (tagging beta)
100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
from the annoying-as-heck-if-heck-is-like-hell dept.
distefano links to a story on Computerworld, excerpting: "E-mail users are receiving an increasing number of bounceback spam, known as backscatter, and security experts say this kind of spam is growing. The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: 'Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,' 'UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.' You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer? Nope, you're just getting a little backscatter — bounceback messages from legitimate e-mail servers that have been fooled by the spammers."
[+] communications, security, spam (tagging beta)
The Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign
from the sometimes-they-come-back dept.
davidmwilliams writes "I've been rallying against Microsoft's so-called 'Get the Facts' site for the last fortnight in my blog. Rather than give any legitimate comparison facing off Windows Server vs similarly spec'd Linux options, the Microsoft spin doctors opt for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that don't have any substance underneath. Here's the state of play, including an update on my request to Microsoft PR to do something about the blatant lack of integrity displayed. I also go over the latest case study put up by Microsoft: they promise to show why people are choosing Windows Server 2008 over Linux using the City of Uppsala as an example."
[+] business, linuxbusiness, microsoft, windows (tagging beta)
Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power
from the you-should-return-for-a-refund-if-it-doesn't dept.
Wired has a timely story about putting more of the automated and non-automated decisions behind the use of electrical power into and around households. From the summary: "If the electric grid stops being just a passive supplier of juice, consumers could make choices about how and when to consume power. Power providers and tech companies are working to redesign the grid so you can switch off your house when high demand strains the system, or program your house or appliances to make that move." A similar story is featured right now on PhysOrg, highlighting a particular pilot project involving "smart meters" in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
[+] power, technology, upgrades (tagging beta)
Solar Images Show Green And Blue Flashes
ScienceDaily (May 5, 2008) — Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as of the so-called 'Gegenschein', are real cases in point.
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Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon
Posted by timothy on Sunday May 04, @06:11PM
from the sure-makes-me-sleep-better dept.
Mike writes "British defence giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and snakes that could become the eyes and ears of soldiers on the battlefield, helping to save thousands of lives, and they claim that prototypes could be on the front line by the end of the year. A fascinating development to be sure, but who thinks this won't be misused domestically for spying and evidence gathering?" Included in the story is a link to a creepy little (scripted, rendered) demo video of these robots in action.
[+] military, robot, security, technology (tagging beta)
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I have a confession to make. Ready? Seriously, you better sit down first.
I don't make my Christmas cards. GASP!!
I used to...really I did. but life has become a whirlwind of things to do and something had to go. I do, however, make a few special ones to send to family so I was thrilled when the Ribbon Lady challenged us to a Christmas card hop. I miss my paper and ink.
I decided to go elegant in ivory and gold for this one. Super simple, super easy. My card base is 5" square ivory card stock, corners rounded and the front spritzed with ImagineCRAFTS Pssst! Sheer Shimmer Gold Spritz. I think I'm in love. I sponged the edges with Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz.
I created the wreath by first cutting a circle with a Spellbinders Circle die then glued May Arts XL30 Gold Leaves. The wreath circle is popped up with foam tape.
The paper flowers were sponged with gold ink and pearl swirl was muted with some Versafine Sepia ink so they wouldn't be so white against the ivory card stock both came from my stock. I stamped the sentiment with the same gold ink.
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What an elegant card. So gorgeous in ivory and gold and that wreath with the ribbon leaf, gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.


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Tony Coletta, chef at the Coal Baron Restaurant on Route 40 east, is a man who has learned his tradethe hard way Coletta, 52, of Hopwood, began his training in his native Italywhen hewas just 20 years old. In 1943, at the age of 23, he as already prepar- ing meals at the American Embassy in Rome. The American ambassador at the time,he remembers proudly, was Mario Taylor. After spending some time on the embassy staf , Tony worked in several private residences, then in 1949 he got himself assigned to the Ita- lian embassy in Havana, Cuba. He stayed in Cuba for six years, whe
n he moved to the United States. His ncle own-ed a restaurant Pittsburgh called, strangely enough, "Frenchys." Tony took over as chef at the restaurant in 1955. He later moved on to other positions in the Pittsburgh area as well as New York-City. Tony settled in Uniontown in 1961,
when he became head chef at the
Venetian Restaur-ant, hich was located on Fayette Street. He Stayed there for 16 years, and came to the Coal Baron a year-and-a-half ago. Tony said of his early days : "I did everything in the kitchen. Scrub floors, clean up. Then one day, the chef said I could help prepare the salad...It's no good goin to school.You have to learn your trade in the kitchen." Tony prepares a variety of delicious treats at the Coal Baron.Some of his favorite dishes nclude stuffed ifloun der, veal parmigiana and a special sauce all his own. Tony, who became naturalized American citizen in1958,is the ifloun der, veal parmigiana and a special sauce all his own. Tony, who became naturalized American citizen in1958,is the Coal Baron.


Thank you so much!! Been wanting the V-day one!
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Yay thanks! The snow one was getting old haha!
Location: (>‿◠)✌ Some where eating bagels and cream cheese.
I hope all of my close friends and YoAngels are doing well! Blessed day all! Love you!
Oh good, I had the Christmas one up still and his Santa hat was driving me mad!!


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As a sample of the song Who'd Have Known by Lily Allen from 2009 was used. The first eight lines of the play in T- Pain's version used as a refrain.
The title was released on September 27, 2011 in the United States in the iTunes Store. In the UK, the piece on December 4, 2011 was issued. 5 O'Clock debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 69 and rose to number 11 5 O'Clock is the last single from T -Pain, which was released on Jive Records.
The music video was filmed for the most part in De Wallen, Amsterdam. Allen could be replaced for the video of a doppelganger, as she was pregnant at the time of rotation.
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does anyone else think that it would be cool if you had a version of rails functioned like a ramp? by this i mean that you could something like under ground belts except in opposite. My base that i am using is huge and i really want to put in a rail system for easy transport but there is no room! So the idea for a ramp/bridge would be that it would elevate your tracks to a level above most buildings (such as the conveyor belts and possibly walls and the assemblers. But not like robo ports and steam engines since they seem a lot bigger.) but to get it to that level the adapter track would take up a lot of space or something. Because then that way even if you have a developed base you can add rails into it, i think that it would be cool because i personally love the train system but i think that it deserves a height modifier like the underground belts in the cause of conveyor belts.
Another possible thing i think would be cool is if there was a turret car for the trains, that way you could ride around shooting biters from the back of a train!
these of course are just crude ideas and could use a lot of refining, but i just wanted to get the idea out there!
The ramp sounds cool, but there would be the typical problem. You wouldn't see the things under it. It would make more sense probably to do some kind of underground rail.
kovarex wrote: The ramp sounds cool, but there would be the typical problem. You wouldn't see the things under it. It would make more sense probably to do some kind of underground rail.
I would love either ramps/bridges or underground tunnels. Would add a lot to the train system even if it is just for aesthetics.
I'm still jonesing for some kind of paving ("soft rail") system to make cars more useful to navigate places other than open deserts.
But this post does bring up a good point.. why can't we traverse puddles? not just trains, but belt-bridges? I don't think we'll see railway overpasses anytime soon, it just wouldn't blend with the tile system.
..why not underground electric lines .. could be cool to connect outpost with main base power safely, better than just putting lots of turrets around poles, cause when its out of range for roboports and i forgot to check and fix it, i feel stupid when i see my outpost beeing destroyed because of that single pole ..
It would make rail Stations/Junctions allot easier to manage.
it's my understanding that there is only 1 surface plane in Factorio. unless the devs add more to the core game we won't have elevated bridges or tunnels.
train overpasses would be awesome.
You can have more surfaces easily. Tricky thing is that trains would need to be aware of that kind of transition - and that can only be coded by devs. Modding it is not possible or would need some very complex workarounds.
Would it be possible then to mod in a subway station? Like, use a new layer underground that only allows train tracks except where there's a subway station. It would sort of act like Factorissimo, but have an infinite layer that that matches up the subway stations.
Belts do not need another surface either. If you could somehow hide the train in the tunnel or overpass, then it could work quite similar.
Something I want to remark is, that this would raise the power of trains remarkably in certain use cases. If you use a general purpose train network it is not big difference. But if you try to use dedicated train lines for different products and point-to-point transport, then this would be a huge help. You could completely decouple and untangle a large number of lines, that require a huge effort in signaling correctly right now. I am trying to build such a system for my current base and its almost like the difference between having underground belts or not for belt-based transport. So it makes the game strictly easier and quite a lot in some cases.
I would certainly like such an addition. If you are really seeking this particular challenge, you can always decide not to use these tunnels/bridges. However, my impression in the bots vs belt discussion was, that most players are not capable to make this sort of a decision (just not to use something, if you believe it makes something too easy). Hence you should think twice before adding something, that eliminates a specific type of challenge from the game.
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I think adding surfaces or bridges is not a good idea (except possibly for bridges over water as a more aesthetically pleasing solution than landfill). They add a large amount of complexity without clearly solving a pressing in-game need.
IMHO, the only real problem that might need solving is non-level rail-rail crossings to allow for higher throughput junction designs. IF this is desired it would require an underground rail, possibly with an aesthetic such as proposed above, that only needs to be able to go under other rail. Alternatively, a rail bridge with three elements (on-ramp, crossing rail, off-ramp) could ensure that it only traverses over existing rail (so there are no occlusion problems), but I'm not convinced that would be prettier than an underground solution.
As an openTtd fan, I would love to see this in the game.
It would be possible with some kind of transparency ? Maybe when the player is under the rail, with a small radius ?
vanatteveldt wrote: I think adding surfaces or bridges is not a good idea (except possibly for bridges over water as a more aesthetically pleasing solution than landfill). They add a large amount of complexity without clearly solving a pressing in-game need.
trains crossing paths is a pretty large pressing need for me. i don't care how well a crossing you make, at some point trains are going to be stopped waiting for the path to be clear.
being able to go over or under another track would help train throughput. yes you would still have trains merging but it would be a hell of a lot better than it is now.
as Elharion (welcome to the forums!) said, you could have a transparency around the player.
like when you are in a house in a top down game and can see through roof.
By the way, the elevated rail should cost a lot of ressources. And it should be limited to the rail itself, no elevated train station as it would add a full layer of elevated building creating a lot of confusion to the readability of the game.
By the way, the elevated rail should cost a lot of ressources.
absolutely. lots of concrete, stone, steel, wood etc. should take a while to build as well.


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Q: Jquery populate drop down list in mvc I am trying to populate a drop down list an I am still very confused about J query as I am very new to it.
this is my code:
in the controller:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public ActionResult GetTeams(StatisticModel model)
    {
        StatisticModel newModel = new StatisticModel(model.leagueId);
        var teams = newModel.getTeams;
        return Json(teams);
    }

in view:
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.teamIdHome, Model.getTeams, new { @class = "dropdownlistStyle" })%>

the jquery:
$(function() {
$(".dropdownlistStyle").change(function () {
    $.getJSON("/Admin/GetTeams", { FooId: $(".dropdownlistStyle").val() },
       function(fooList) {
           $("#NameList").empty();
           $.each(fooList, function(i, foo) {
               $("#NameList").append(""+ foo.Name + "");
           });
       });
   });

});
At the moment when clicking on the Get Teams button this is the result:

[{"Selected":false,"Text":"Arsenal","Value":"1"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Aston
  Villa","Value":"3"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Cardiff
  City","Value":"20"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Chelsea","Value":"4"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Crystal
  Palace","Value":"22"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Everton","Value":"5"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Fulham","Value":"6"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Hull
  City","Value":"21"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Liverpool","Value":"7"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Manchester
  City","Value":"8"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Manchester
  United","Value":"9"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Newcastle
  United","Value":"10"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Norwich","Value":"11"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Southampton","Value":"13"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Stoke
  City","Value":"14"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Sunderland","Value":"15"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Swansea
  City","Value":"16"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"Tottenham
  Hotspur","Value":"17"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"West Bromwich
  Albion","Value":"18"},{"Selected":false,"Text":"West Ham
  United","Value":"19"}]

I am sure that my jquery is incorrect as I got that from a sample from a forum.
Any help please?

A: This line is your problem:
$("#NameList").append(""+ foo.Name + "");

it needs to be:
$("#NameList").append(""+ foo.Text + "");

since the name of the team you are trying to display is under TEXT property in your JSON string...
I think you need to define what you're trying to do but I will explain to you 2 scenarios.
If you just have 1 drop down list on your page which is supposed to display to you the name of the soccer teams then you don't need to do this with AJAX. You can get the list of your teams in your controller action and then bind that list to your drop down list in the view. So lets say you have a domain model like this:
namespace ProjectName.Models
{
  public class Team
  {
     public int TeamId {get; set; }
     public string TeamName {get; set;}
  }
}

and you have a View model like this:
public class LeagueViewModel
{
   public int LeagueId {get; set; }
   public int SelectedTeamId {get; set;}
   public IEnumerable<ProjectName.Models.Team> Teams {get; set;}
}

then in your controller you have an action like this:
public ActionResult GetTeams()
{
    var model = new LeagueViewModel();
    var model.Teams = TeamsBusinessLogic.GetTeams();
    return ActionResult(model);
}

where TeamsBusinessLogic is an instance of your business logic class that fetches the list of teams from the database (you will have to write this on your own since I have no idea what type of data access layer are you using). Once you have this setup then in your view all you need is:
@model LeagueViewModel

this specifies the underlying type of your model (you need to reference full namespace of the view model here). Then all you need is:
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.SelectedTeamId, (SelectList)Model.Teams, new { @class = "dropdownlistStyle" })%>

Now the drop down list will populate with the list of teams that were fetched from your controller action.
The 2nd scenario is when you have 2 drop down lists and changing the value in one of them trigger the loading in another. This is what you see on the sites that sell cars when you 1st specify the manufacturer and then based on your selection the make and model drop down lists change. For this scenario you will need the ajax loader similar to what you have written. So again suppose we have a domain models like this:
namespace ProjectName.Models
{
  public class Team
  {
     public int TeamId { get; set; }
     public string LeagueId { get; set; }
     public string TeamName { get; set; }
  }

  public class League
  {
     public int LeagueId { get; set; }
     public string LeagueName { get; set; }
  }
}

You will also need a view model like this one:
public class LeagueViewModel
{
   public int SelectedLeagueId {get; set;}
   public IEnumerable<ProjectName.Models.League> LeaguesList {get; set;}
}

once you have those you need an action in your controller that populates available leagues into your LeagueViewModel:
public ActionResult Leagues()
{
    var model = new LeagueViewModel();
    var model.LeaguesList = LeagueBusinessLogic.GetLeagues();
    return ActionResult(model);
}

so now in your view you have the following at the top:
@model LeagueViewModel

and then
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.SelectedLeagueId, (SelectList)Model.LeaguesList, new { @class = "dropdownlistStyle" })%>

and somewhere in there you will have your empty drop down list that needs to be populated:
<select id="LeagueTeams"></select>

once you have that you can write your JQuery as following:
$(function() {
   $(".dropdownlistStyle").change(function () {
   $.getJSON("/Admin/GetTeams", { LeagueId: $(".dropdownlistStyle").val() },
      function(results) {
         $("#LeagueTeams").empty();
         $.each(results, function(i, team) {
            $("#LeagueTeams").append(""+ team.TeamName+ "");
         });
      });
  });

so basically your JQuery will envoke a method on the server called GetTeams in the controller called AdminController and pass it the ID of the selected League. The controller action will return a JSON list of teams. You then loop through this list of teams and append them to the select list.
All you need to write now is the actual controller action that gets you the teams:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult GetTeams(int LeagueId)
{
    var model = TeamsBusinessLogic.getTeams(LeagueId);
    return Json(model);
}

again you will need to write your own business logic that get you all the teams in specific league...


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