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Caesalpinioideae
Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily.[4] The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics, but include such temperate species as the honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It has the following clade-based definition:
Royal Poinciana, Delonix regia
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
DC. 1825
Type genus
Clades
Cercidoideae Burmeist. 1837
GCM Clade Marazzi et al. 2012[1]
MCC Clade Doyle 2011[2][3]
Mimosoideae DC. 1825
Chamaecrista absus
The most inclusive crown clade containing Arcoa gonavensis Urb. and Mimosa pudica L., but not Bobgunnia fistuloides (Harms) J. H. Kirkbr. & Wiersema, Duparquetia orchidacea Baill., or Poeppigia procera C.Presl[5]
In some classifications, for example the Cronquist system, the group is recognized at the rank of family, Caesalpiniaceae.
Distinguishing characters:
Specialised extrafloral nectaries often present on the petiole and / or on the primary and secondary rachises, usually between pinnae or leaflet pairs
Leaves commonly bipinnate
Inflorescences globose, spicate
Aestivation valvate
Anthers often with a stipitate or sessile apical gland
Pollen commonly in tetrads, bitetrads or polyads
Seeds usually with an open or closed pleurogram on both faces
Root nodules variably present and indeterminate
TaxonomyEdit
Caesalpinieae Clade
Main article: Caesalpinieae
Cassieae Clade
Batesia Spruce
Cassia L.
Chamaecrista Moench
Melanoxylum Schott
Recordoxylon Ducke
Senna Mill.
Vouacapoua Aubl.
Dimorphandra Group A
Burkea Benth.
Campsiandra Benth.
Dimorphandra Schott pro parte
Dinizia Ducke
Mora Benth.
Stachyothyrsus Harms
Dimorphandra Group B
Diptychandra Tul.
Erythrophleum Afzel. ex R.Br.
Moldenhawera Schrad.
Pachyelasma Harms
Sympetalandra Stapf
Mimosoid clade
Peltophorum Clade
Bussea Harms
Colvillea Bojer ex Hook.
Conzattia Rose
Delonix Raf.
Heteroflorum M. Sousa
Lemuropisum H.Perrier
Parkinsonia L.
Peltophorum (Vogel) Benth.
Schizolobium Vogel
Tachigali Clade
Arapatiella Rizzini & A.Mattos
Jacqueshuberia Ducke
Sclerolobium Vogel
Tachigali Aubl.
Umtiza Clade
Acrocarpus Wight & Arn.
Arcoa Urb.
Ceratonia L.
Gleditsia L.
Gymnocladus Lam.
Tetrapterocarpon Humbert
Umtiza Sim
Pterogyne Tul.
PhylogeneticsEdit
Caesalpinioideae, as it was traditionally circumscribed, was paraphyletic. Several molecular phylogenies in the early 2000s showed that the other two subfamilies of Fabaceae (Faboideae and Mimosoideae) were both nested within Caesalpinioideae.[6][7][8][9] Consequently, the subfamilies of Fabaceae were reorganized to make them monophyletic.[5] Caesalpinioideae, as currently defined, contains the following subclades:[5]
Faboideae (outgroup)
Pterogyne
Dimorphandra group B (including the mimosoid clade)
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^ Marazzi B, Ané C, Simon MF, Delgado-Salinas A, Luckow M, Sanderson MJ (2012). "Locating evolutionary precursors on a phylogenetic tree". Evolution. 66 (12): 3918–3930. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01720.x. PMID 23206146. S2CID 8336248.
^ Doyle JJ (2011). "Phylogenetic perspectives on the origins of nodulation". Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 24 (11): 1289–1295. doi:10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0114. PMID 21995796.
^ Doyle JJ (2012). "Polyploidy in legumes". In Soltis PS, Soltis DE (eds.). Polyploidy and genome evolution. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 147–180. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31442-1_9. ISBN 978-3-642-31441-4.
^ a b c The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
^ Bruneau A, Forest F, Herendeen PS, Klitgaard BB, Lewis GP (2001). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae) as Inferred from Chloroplast trnL Intron Sequences". Syst Bot. 26 (3): 487–514. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.487 (inactive 2021-01-14). CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
^ Bruneau A, Mercure M, Lewis GP, Herendeen PS (2008). "Phylogenetic patterns and diversification in the caesalpinioid legumes". Botany. 86 (7): 697–718. doi:10.1139/B08-058.
^ Manzanilla V, Bruneau A (2012). "Phylogeny reconstruction in the Caesalpinieae grade (Leguminosae) based on duplicated copies of the sucrose synthase gene and plastid markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (1): 149–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.035. PMID 22699157.
^ Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wykd B-E, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S. Afr. J. Bot. 89: 58–75. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001.
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Q: Uploading Several of the Most Recent Files in a Folder I am aware of how to upload the most recent file in a folder using the mtime column from the file.info function:
# Create the example data frame

Name <- c('AAA_2019_01_15.csv', 'AAA_2019_01_16.csv', 'AAA_2019_01_17.csv', 'BBB_2019_01_15.csv', 'BBB_2019_01_16.csv', 'BBB_2019_01_17.csv', 'CCC_2019_01_15.csv', 'CCC_2019_01_16.csv', 'CCC_2019_01_17.csv')
size <- as.numeric(1:9)
isdir <- rep(FALSE, 9)
mode <- rep(666, 9)
mtime <- as.POSIXct(c("2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28"))
ctime <- as.POSIXct(c("2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28"))
atime <- as.POSIXct(c("2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28", "2019-01-15 18:07:28", "2019-01-16 18:07:28", "2019-01-17 18:07:28"))
exe <- rep("no", 9)
All_Files <- data.frame(size, isdir, mode, mtime, ctime, atime, exe)
All_Files$mode <- as.octmode(All_Files$mode)
rownames(All_Files) <- Name

# Upload the most recent file from the working directory

All_Files <- file.info(list.files(pattern = ".csv", full.names = TRUE), value = TRUE)
Most_Recent_File <- rownames(All_Files)[which.max(All_Files$mtime)]
Most_Recent_File <- read.table(Most_Recent_File, skip = 1, stringsAsFactors = F, sep = ",", na.strings = "NAN")

I'd like to upload the most recent file containing the character string "AAA", the most recent file containing the character string "BBB", and the most recent file containing the character string "CCC" using the mtime column from  the file.info function.
Is there a way to do this without doing a separate uploading step for each character string? For example, can I create a character vector c("AAA", "BBB", "CCC") and use it to upload the most recent file of each type? In real life, I have a lot more than 3 files to upload, so an efficient way to do this would be appreciated. Thanks!

A: There is probably a more elegant way to do things but here is a method using tidyverse and regex patterns.
library(tidyverse)

files <- c('AAA_2019_01_15', 'AAA_2019_01_16', 'AAA_2019_01_17',
                 'BBB_2019_01_15', 'BBB_2019_01_16', 'BBB_2019_01_17',
                 'CCC_2019_01_15', 'CCC_2019_01_16', 'CCC_2019_01_17')

dates <- str_extract_all(files, pattern = "[0-9]{4}_[0-9]{2}_[0-9]{2}", simplify = T) %>%
  lubridate::ymd()

file_type <- str_extract_all(files, pattern = "AAA|BBB|CCC", simplify = T)

tibble(file_type, dates) %>%
  mutate(file_names = files) %>%
  group_by(file_type) %>%
  arrange(desc(dates)) %>%
  filter(row_number() == 1)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 3
#> # Groups:   file_type [3]
#>   file_type[,1] dates      file_names
#>   <chr>         <date>     <chr>
#> 1 AAA           2019-01-17 AAA_2019_01_17
#> 2 BBB           2019-01-17 BBB_2019_01_17
#> 3 CCC           2019-01-17 CCC_2019_01_17

Created on 2019-01-15 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)

A: I figured out how to do it:
First, create the character vector of character strings in the file names you wish to get the most recent file of:
Unique_Character_Strings_of_Files_to_Upload <- c("AAA", "BBB", "CCC")

Then, generate the data frame of file information:
All_Files <- file.info(list.files(pattern = ".csv", full.names = TRUE), value = TRUE)

Then, generate a list where the first component of the list contains all files containing the character string "AAA", the second component contains all files containing "BBB", and the third component contains all files containing "CCC":
List_of_Files <- lapply(Unique_Character_Strings_of_Files_to_Upload, function(x) {List_of_Files <- All_Files[grep(x, rownames(All_Files)), ]})
names(List_of_Files) <- Unique_Character_Strings_of_Files_to_Upload

Then, get the most recent file from each component of the list:
Most_Recent_Station_Files <- lapply(List_of_Files, function(x) {return(x[which.max(x$mtime), ])})

Then, select only the file names from this new list:
List_of_Names_of_Files_to_Upload <- lapply(Most_Recent_Station_Files, function (x) rownames(x))

Then, convert this new list into a character vector:
Names_of_Files_to_Upload <- unlist(List_of_Names_of_Files_to_Upload, use.names = FALSE)

Then, upload the files you want:
List_of_Files <- lapply(Names_of_Files_to_Upload, function(x) {read.table(x, skip = 1, stringsAsFactors = F, sep = ",", na.strings = "NAN")})
names(List_of_Files) <- Unique_Character_Strings_of_Files_to_Upload

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The group hopes to maintain its goal of transparency at the future meeting, according to Malina, and he and DeStefano "look forward to that meeting being scheduled."
Since 2012, CJC has drafted several resolutions that have circulated through shared governance and been presented to the University president.
Last summer, CJC, S.A. members, and other members of social justice organizations wrote a resolution that was later rejected by President Pollack in November that asked for the Board of Trustees to "assemble an investment responsibility committee within their investment committee to improve Cornell's STARS rating," Kapuvari said.
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System quantifies universities' sustainability performance, and Cornell scores a 0.13 out of 7 when it comes to its investments in fossil fuel companies.
"Divestment is an issue that we need to have communication with the administration on," Xie said. "If that's not something that they're willing to do, then obviously we have to look into other ways to move forward that may not include working within the system."
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Activists Call On Cornell to Clarify Environmental Impacts of North Campus Housing Project
By Matthew McGowen and Aaran Leviton September 26, 2018
Several individuals from Climate Justice Cornell spoke out, citing concerns about the plan's failing to account for upstream methane gas emissions and the University's lack of transparency.
Climate Justice Cornell Demands More Comprehensive Environmental Report on North Campus Expansion
By Miguel Soto September 23, 2018
CJC plans to attend a public hearing at the Ithaca Town Hall on Tuesday and submit the comments from its petition to the Ithaca Planning Board.
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The Olympia Youth Flute Choir was an idea long discussed among the members of the Northwest Flute Consort, but it had never been realized until 2009. When Ninee P.Wolff first moved to Olympia, a few prominent members of the Consort had asked her to organize a youth flute choir with the goal of improving the youth flute program around Puget Sound. With help from local organizations and colleagues, she gradually gathered materials and and organized the event. Students from all around the Puget Sound have come to participate. OYFC performs bi-annually.
This ensemble is a registered member of the National Flute Assiociation (NFA).
Click here for pictures from the past seasons.
OYFC is currently on hiatus. Future updates will be announced on this page and on our Facebook page.


The Senate Committee on Works on Thursday recommended an increase in the pump price of petrol from N145 to N150 for the implementation of the proposed National Roads Fund (NRF).
A copy of the report obtained by Daily Trust Newspaper revealed that 12 out of the 15 members of the committee have endorsed it.
The report has been distributed to senators.
This recommendation is coming a year after President Muhammadu Buhari raised the pump price of fuel from N87 to N145 per litre.
Taliban ba God go kill first.
una nor go pray make this people die?
Even U Common Sense? U Are Hypocrite .
God will judge all of them. In their own wisdom this hardship is not enough, for every penny added to petrol cost amounts to high cost of food and living. Even the one who claim to have common sense too has lost it to the fear of prosecution by the ruling party! God deh!
Is that d common sense?, (mr ben) but why?.


Is thetruthabout just the facts? Or is italso about the person telling you those facts? People in the workplace as well as the courtroom are of course concerned with complete accuracy in theory, but research shows that it is not clear that the memory system of humans has accuracy as its primary goal in everyday life. In short, after an important event, you tell a story about it, and you eventually come to believe your own story. But there is the subterranean world beneath the surface where sometimes the truth resides. As I reflect on below the surface places, Coleridge's great poem Kubla Khan came to mind and I drew some images of caves and their mysterious similarity to the truth.
Caves are cool. Tennessee is full of caves. I had several favorites as a kid but it would have been a real mission to have explored all 8.500 of them that lie beneath the rolling hills of this state. Caves are chocked full of interesting things that you do notoften get to see above the ground like, bats, salamanders, crayfish, and all sorts of invertebrates. That made My Nature Conservancy Newsletter this month hit home as it reminded me that we have 44 rare and some of them endangered species living in Tennessee caves. Now rare to me means precious and precious means something valuable and to be prized. Wealth may be more about an ugly albino crayfish living in a hole in the ground than a piece of paper with green and black ink on it, though I am not opposed to having ample quantities of each. I am after all a capitalist environmentalist not ashamed to say I like the adventures that money affords me. Over three hundred years ago, Thomas Haynes Bayly wrote Friends depart and memory takes them/ To her caverns, pure and deep. That has me thinking that it is but at the same time it isn't just about caves. Nothing that happens to you is exactly about what is happening to you but is far more profound and is far beneath thetop layer like a grotto. This life we experience is a campus designed for our higher education. Caves have and will always be an allegory for that truth for me and but one of many classrooms that the SupremeSpelunker has prepared. Quite simply, we can learn the lessons that our lives present to us or we can refuse them. What we can not do is evade the penalty of our "actions" made in the instant of choice. The truth can be diverted but it can't be denied in the end. At the core of what I believe is that "all things must pass". I want caves filled with the richness and diversity of creation to be until their time is over and likewise the same for me in terms of my worldly life along with them.But know this about me. I choose to allow that coming day of my fated "death" to claim me but until then I am learning to undress myself of whatever this old planet demands of me with all of its fears. I arrived here buck naked, crying and kicking without a single possession. I will take my final nap here wearing nothing but a smile. Then I will awaken and continue my journey.
The entrance to Bunkum Cave in Tennessee.


text:
package run

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	"os/user"
	"path/filepath"
	"regexp"
	"strings"

	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/coordinator"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/logger"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/monitor"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/monitor/diagnostics"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pkg/tlsconfig"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/collectd"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/continuous_querier"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/graphite"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/httpd"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/meta"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/opentsdb"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/precreator"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/retention"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/subscriber"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/udp"
	itoml "github.com/influxdata/influxdb/toml"
	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/tsdb"
	"golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode"
	"golang.org/x/text/transform"
)

const (
	// DefaultBindAddress is the default address for various RPC services.
	DefaultBindAddress = "127.0.0.1:8088"
)

// Config represents the configuration format for the influxd binary.
type Config struct {
	Meta        *meta.Config       `toml:"meta"`
	Data        tsdb.Config        `toml:"data"`
	Coordinator coordinator.Config `toml:"coordinator"`
	Retention   retention.Config   `toml:"retention"`
	Precreator  precreator.Config  `toml:"shard-precreation"`

	Monitor        monitor.Config    `toml:"monitor"`
	Subscriber     subscriber.Config `toml:"subscriber"`
	HTTPD          httpd.Config      `toml:"http"`
	Logging        logger.Config     `toml:"logging"`
	GraphiteInputs []graphite.Config `toml:"graphite"`
	CollectdInputs []collectd.Config `toml:"collectd"`
	OpenTSDBInputs []opentsdb.Config `toml:"opentsdb"`
	UDPInputs      []udp.Config      `toml:"udp"`

	ContinuousQuery continuous_querier.Config `toml:"continuous_queries"`

	// Server reporting
	ReportingDisabled bool `toml:"reporting-disabled"`

	// BindAddress is the address that all TCP services use (Raft, Snapshot, Cluster, etc.)
	BindAddress string `toml:"bind-address"`

	// TLS provides configuration options for all https endpoints.
	TLS tlsconfig.Config `toml:"tls"`
}

// NewConfig returns an instance of Config with reasonable defaults.
func NewConfig() *Config {
	c := &Config{}
	c.Meta = meta.NewConfig()
	c.Data = tsdb.NewConfig()
	c.Coordinator = coordinator.NewConfig()
	c.Precreator = precreator.NewConfig()

	c.Monitor = monitor.NewConfig()
	c.Subscriber = subscriber.NewConfig()
	c.HTTPD = httpd.NewConfig()
	c.Logging = logger.NewConfig()

	c.GraphiteInputs = []graphite.Config{graphite.NewConfig()}
	c.CollectdInputs = []collectd.Config{collectd.NewConfig()}
	c.OpenTSDBInputs = []opentsdb.Config{opentsdb.NewConfig()}
	c.UDPInputs = []udp.Config{udp.NewConfig()}

	c.ContinuousQuery = continuous_querier.NewConfig()
	c.Retention = retention.NewConfig()
	c.BindAddress = DefaultBindAddress

	return c
}

// NewDemoConfig returns the config that runs when no config is specified.
func NewDemoConfig() (*Config, error) {
	c := NewConfig()

	var homeDir string
	// By default, store meta and data files in current users home directory
	u, err := user.Current()
	if err == nil {
		homeDir = u.HomeDir
	} else if os.Getenv("HOME") != "" {
		homeDir = os.Getenv("HOME")
	} else {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to determine current user for storage")
	}

	c.Meta.Dir = filepath.Join(homeDir, ".influxdb/meta")
	c.Data.Dir = filepath.Join(homeDir, ".influxdb/data")
	c.Data.WALDir = filepath.Join(homeDir, ".influxdb/wal")

	return c, nil
}

// FromTomlFile loads the config from a TOML file.
func (c *Config) FromTomlFile(fpath string) error {
	bs, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fpath)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Handle any potential Byte-Order-Marks that may be in the config file.
	// This is for Windows compatibility only.
	// See https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1378 and
	// https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8965.
	bom := unicode.BOMOverride(transform.Nop)
	bs, _, err = transform.Bytes(bom, bs)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return c.FromToml(string(bs))
}

// FromToml loads the config from TOML.
func (c *Config) FromToml(input string) error {
	// Replace deprecated [cluster] with [coordinator]
	re := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^\s*\[cluster\]`)
	input = re.ReplaceAllStringFunc(input, func(in string) string {
		in = strings.TrimSpace(in)
		out := "[coordinator]"
		log.Printf("deprecated config option %s replaced with %s; %s will not be supported in a future release\n", in, out, in)
		return out
	})

	_, err := toml.Decode(input, c)
	return err
}

// Validate returns an error if the config is invalid.
func (c *Config) Validate() error {
	if err := c.Meta.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.Data.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.Monitor.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.ContinuousQuery.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.Retention.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.Precreator.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := c.Subscriber.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	for _, graphite := range c.GraphiteInputs {
		if err := graphite.Validate(); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("invalid graphite config: %v", err)
		}
	}

	for _, collectd := range c.CollectdInputs {
		if err := collectd.Validate(); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("invalid collectd config: %v", err)
		}
	}

	if err := c.TLS.Validate(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

// ApplyEnvOverrides apply the environment configuration on top of the config.
func (c *Config) ApplyEnvOverrides(getenv func(string) string) error {
	return itoml.ApplyEnvOverrides(getenv, "INFLUXDB", c)
}

// Diagnostics returns a diagnostics representation of Config.
func (c *Config) Diagnostics() (*diagnostics.Diagnostics, error) {
	return diagnostics.RowFromMap(map[string]interface{}{
		"reporting-disabled": c.ReportingDisabled,
		"bind-address":       c.BindAddress,
	}), nil
}

func (c *Config) diagnosticsClients() map[string]diagnostics.Client {
	// Config settings that are always present.
	m := map[string]diagnostics.Client{
		"config": c,

		"config-data":        c.Data,
		"config-meta":        c.Meta,
		"config-coordinator": c.Coordinator,
		"config-retention":   c.Retention,
		"config-precreator":  c.Precreator,

		"config-monitor":    c.Monitor,
		"config-subscriber": c.Subscriber,
		"config-httpd":      c.HTTPD,

		"config-cqs": c.ContinuousQuery,
	}

	// Config settings that can be repeated and can be disabled.
	if g := graphite.Configs(c.GraphiteInputs); g.Enabled() {
		m["config-graphite"] = g
	}
	if cc := collectd.Configs(c.CollectdInputs); cc.Enabled() {
		m["config-collectd"] = cc
	}
	if t := opentsdb.Configs(c.OpenTSDBInputs); t.Enabled() {
		m["config-opentsdb"] = t
	}
	if u := udp.Configs(c.UDPInputs); u.Enabled() {
		m["config-udp"] = u
	}

	return m
}

// registerDiagnostics registers the config settings with the Monitor.
func (c *Config) registerDiagnostics(m *monitor.Monitor) {
	for name, dc := range c.diagnosticsClients() {
		m.RegisterDiagnosticsClient(name, dc)
	}
}

// registerDiagnostics deregisters the config settings from the Monitor.
func (c *Config) deregisterDiagnostics(m *monitor.Monitor) {
	for name := range c.diagnosticsClients() {
		m.DeregisterDiagnosticsClient(name)
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Deep within a dense and overpopulated city centre, four characters find refuge in a long-forgotten backstreet named Cape Alley. Each night the group meet to create their own blissfully carefree world, turning Cape Alley into a gritty vaudeville that illuminates in a whirlwind of limbs, rhythmic rituals and playful sparring. The four begin to live on the fringe of delirium; as lines between reality and fantasy start to dissolve they find themselves in an illusory trap of their own making.
Cape Alley was commissioned by Dance Village at Bristol Harbour Festival, Pavilion Dance South West, co-produced by Swindon Dance, restaged and supported by Arts Council England. Developed through Breakin' Conventions' Back to the Lab at Sadler's Wells.


text:
World Islamic State-Linked Fighters Seizing Oil-Rich Land in Libya
Islamic State-Linked Fighters Seizing Oil-Rich Land in Libya
By Brian Bennett and W.J. Hennigan
Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:33 pm | כ"ט שבט תשע"ו
WASHINGTON (Tribune Washington Bureau/TNS) -
As Islamic State forces lose ground in Iraq and Syria, fighters loyal to the group have seized territory in oil-rich Libya, levying taxes at gunpoint and creating sanctuaries to launch possible attacks in North Africa and Europe, U.S. officials say.
The Pentagon has sent special operations teams to gather intelligence and launched at least one airstrike. But the White House so far has resisted calls from some senior aides to escalate the U.S. military role in another Muslim country to counter the potential threat.
Spy satellites and reconnaissance drones have shown the terrorists building fortifications around Surt, on the central Mediterranean coast and on training bases for foreign fighters farther inland, the officials said.
A U.S. intelligence estimate last week concluded that Islamic State has attracted more than 5,000 fighters in Libya, double the official estimate last fall, making it the terror group's largest and most potent affiliate outside Syria and Iraq.
Islamic State threatens to gain a "stranglehold" in Libya and potential "access to billions of dollars of oil revenue," Secretary of State John F. Kerry warned, one of several alarms the administration has raised in recent days.
He spoke at a conference Tuesday in Rome where the United States and 22 other nations agreed to support the formation of a unity government in Tripoli, the capital, in a tenuous effort to restore stability and take on the terrorists.
Libya has had no functioning central government since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign helped to oust ruler Muammar Gadhafi in 2011.
It has faced political chaos and a low-grade civil war nearly ever since, with two rival governments battling for control, and squabbling militias exploiting the power vacuum.
"In the absence of a true government, (militant groups) have grown unchecked," said a U.S. defense official, who was not authorized to speak publicly. "It's like Syria all over again."
Islamic State "has a bad habit of growing in places that are ungoverned," Tina Kaidanow, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator said last week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
She cited an urgency at the White House and among its allies to move quickly before the group expands beyond its current foothold, which extends about 100 miles east and west of Surt.
"We don't want to see the growth of (Islamic State) outpace what will be a long-term effort to build out a successful Libyan government," she said.
The group's rise comes as foreign fighters from Tunisia and elsewhere in Africa have moved to Surt and other strongholds in Libya, rather than to the war zones in Syria and Iraq, where the terrorists have suffered several military setbacks in recent months from the U.S.-led coalition.
The Pentagon wants to ensure that Libya doesn't "get on a glide slope" where Islamic State "gathers a piece of territory from which it's able to tyrannize people and plot operations elsewhere," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters Thursday at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
"That's the situation we want to avoid in Libya," he said.
Any military intervention probably would be led by France and Italy, the former colonial power. Options include sending troops from Italy to help protect the new government, using U.S. and French advisers to train Libyan counterterrorism forces, and launching airstrikes.
For now, British and American special operations teams and intelligence services have focused on identifying Islamic State leaders, assessing their networks and strongholds, and reaching out to local militias willing to fight them, officials said.
But intelligence officials say the militias are unreliable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe, as well as by outside support, the same complex problem that has crippled U.S. attempts to unify opposition groups in Syria.
Islamic State Eyeing Oil Targets Beyond Syria Stronghold
Kurds Celebrate Ousting Islamic State Fighters From Kobani
Syrian Forces Seize IS-Held Town Near Palmyra
Syrian Militia Says Manbij Under Protection of U.S.-Led Alliance
U.S. Tells Anti-IS Coalition to 'Keep Eyes on Prize'


La Terrasse describes itself as a corner of summer paradise, and for the eighth year party organizer Simply Better will provide the decor including palm trees and the cocktails. This weekend (July 1) guests can also play beach volleyball.
Restaurant Vittel is also part of La Terrasse's offering and is open every day, from midday until midnight. La Terrasse is also child-friendly, so the whole family can come. The owners say it's what summer was made for; "Beautiful people in a beautiful location".


I recently spoke with Shoaib Mufti, YarcData Vice President of R&D, about Big Data and Semantic Web technology. YarcData is Cray subsidiary, accustomed to crunching lots of data. YarcData recently joined W3C.
Ian: Why did YarcData join W3C?
SM: YarcData has products, including the Urika data appliance, for manipulating graphs. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we found benefits in existing standards. We also decided to contribute to the significant semantic effort at W3C.
Ian: How do you see Big Data relating to the Semantic Web?
SM: We think that for Big Data you need standards, and that linked data standards fit the bill. What's exciting is the opportunity to find in data something of value that was non-obvious. For this you need tools to join terms, reason and inference, and query. These are the fundamentals for getting value from big data. There are open standards for these capabilities, so we have moved away from proprietary solutions.
Ian: Let's start with a story.
SM: One of our customers is in the financial sector. They are very interested in understanding how changes in one part of their portfolio affect the rest of their portfolio. For example, if a company goes bankrupt, what is the downstream effect on other assets in a mutual fund? What happens to the companies that depended on the now bankrupt company? How should the financial institution reorganize its portfolio based on these events?
SM: The first challenge the financial institution faces is data integration. They want to integrate public and private data, in large amounts. Because the market moves quickly and the financial stakes are enormous, they need fast integration. They cannot afford to wait months for the results of an analysis.
SM: The second challenge relates to query. They have multiple questions to ask over 50 billion triples, and they need to reduce the cost of running those queries. This particular company identified some "forbidden queries" they would lead to a huge performance hit on their servers.
Ian: How did Semantic Web technology help?
SM: It makes them less dependent on database optimization. RDF and SPARQL are schema-less, which makes it much faster and easier to ask ad-hoc questions without the performance hit. The flexibility to do ad-hoc queries efficiently has given this company a big competitive advantage.
SM: The story doesn't end there. Although their initial interest concerned portfolio optimization, the company found another use for the technology. There are legal penalties and public relations nightmares around insider trading. Detecting insider trading is challenging and can happen in many ways (such as someone providing a friend with insider information). This financial institution realized they could use Semantic Web technology to detect insider trading effectively and improve compliance.
Ian: This is the second time in a recent months people have told me about Semantic Web technology and compliance; see my interview with Paul Groth and Luc Moreau.
SM: That example of serendipity is not unique. In 2012 we held a contest — the YarcData Graph Analytics Challenge — for people to solve some Big Data graph problems. The winners, from The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), studied drug repurposing.
Ian: What is drug repurposing?
SM: I'll explain with an example: Viagra. Viagra was originally developed for managing heart problems. The trials revealed an interesting side effect. And so the drug was repurposed.
SM: Drug companies realize that for a number of "failed" projects, there are great opportunities to repurpose the drugs. Our contest winners studied some data sets and found that a particular HIV drug could be repurposed to treat breast cancer. By querying diverse data sets from research literature and clinical trials, they were able to find a common pathway. The whole project took about six weeks, which is astonishing compared to the usual time it takes to develop a drug. What's more, FDA approval time for repurposed drugs is much shorter than for new drugs.
Ian: How have these technologies benefited YarcData?
SM: First, in cost savings. We can use software available in the ecosystem instead of writing proprietary utilities. For instance, we used to convert relational data to graphs with a proprietary tool; now we can use something like d2r. There are many such tools, related to inference and other capabilities.
SM: The second benefit is value. RDF is simpler than our former custom format, and this has made data integration both simpler and faster for us. One of our engineers ran a data integration project using other techniques; the integration required several months. With RDF it took a week. And, we can more easily reuse existing data sets.
SM: I think many organizations face similar data integration challenges. In the enterprise, people use a bunch of heterogeneous systems: email, plain text, unstructured data, and structured data. Managing all of the data is a big challenge for any organization.
Ian: Do any of your customers choose to migrate to RDF after you've worked with them?
SM: Absolutely. People use our appliance on premises since much of their data is sensitive for them. We work with them to convert their data to RDF, which we feed to our appliance. They see firsthand our efficient conversion process and how fast we can do integration. One large clinic with a lot of unstructured data in data warehouses was so impressed they issued a directive that any new data they create will be available in RDF. Once people understand the simplicity, they say "Let's make this the way we do things going forward." Only a few of our customers are doing this now, but we see it increasing.
Ian: Which industries do you see adopting RDF?
SM: I think the farthest along is life sciences, then financial, and then US government.
Ian: Shoaib, thank you very much for sharing those stories!


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Dr. Jay Lombard Of Genomind Selected To Speak At TEDMED 2012 On "The New Map For Mental Illness"
Genomind Co-Founder and Neurologist Challenges Conventional Thinking about Brain Disorders
CHALFONT, PA – April 12, 2012 – Dr. Jay Lombard of Genomind, a company focused on neuropsychiatric personalized medicine, will speak to the challenges of diagnosing and treating brain disorders at the TEDMED 2012 Conference. The TEDMED 2012 Conference is held at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on April 10-13.
"I'm honored to be among the TEDMED featured speakers this year," said Jay Lombard, DO, chief scientific and medical officer and co-founder of Genomind. Dr. Lombard will discuss the connection between our biological and conscious states as a pathway to discovering the origins of brain disorders that affect millions.
The diagnosis of neurological degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and autism remains a difficult clinical task. Unlike brain lesions such as a tumor or stroke, a specific mental state is inherently qualitative, dynamic and non-localized. While tests such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can reveal loss of brain tissue, there are no definitive diagnostic tests or biomarkers that can help distinguish these diseases reliably.
"While these diseases express emotionally, they originate in biology," said Dr. Lombard. "I believe the pathway to diagnostic progress begins by understanding the connection between our emotional and molecular states."
Dr. Lombard will also discuss the latest advances in genetics, proteomics, epigenetics and brain imaging, including biomarker development with the potential to provide clinicians with more specific diagnostic information on psychiatric disorders and treatment. The potential to discover the underlying disease process that occurs months or years before symptoms of mental illnesses appear will enable earlier diagnosis for patients, and allow clinicians to treat patients therapeutically, rather than symptomatically.
"I believe the sooner we move away from the paradigm that our brains and minds are separate entities and realize that they are interdependent and wholly integrated, the quicker we will find breakthroughs in psychiatric medicine," said Dr. Lombard.
About TEDMED
TEDMED is a community of prominent thought leaders around the world who come from every discipline within the fields of health and medicine, as well as from business, government, technology, academia, media and the arts. Each year, the community gathers at the annual TEDMED Conference to explore the challenges and opportunities facing health and medicine today and in the future. For more information, visit http://www.tedmed.com.
About Genomind
Genomind is a personalized medicine company, comprised of innovative researchers and expert leaders in psychiatry and neurology. Genomind is committed to discovery of the underlying causes of neuropsychiatric disorders and supports the development of personalized medicine that improves patients' lives. Genomind was founded by Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD, a psychiatrist who has devoted his career to improving mental health. Jay Lombard, DO, a neurologist and co-founder of Genomind, is a critically acclaimed author and nationally recognized thought leader in neuropsychiatry practice and research. Learn more at http://www.genomind.com.
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Lahcen Bounader's weblog: The replication of Gali (2010) is now available ! not really available !
The replication of Gali (2010) is now available ! not really available !
In recent collaboration together with Johannes Pfeifer, we replicate the study done by Gali (2010) : Monetary policy and unemployment, which can be found here.
In his paper, Gali builds on the New Keynesian model and relies on the search and literature to integrate the labor market frictions in such a model. The main finding is that labor market frictions matter, both for the shape of the economy and for the design of monetary policy.
But I'm not writing this blog about the paper and the topic of monetary policy and unemployment. This post is more on the experience of replication, what it teaches and what it reveals.
This experience -of replicating other's work- was interesting in more than aspect. First, the deep understanding of a paper cannot be achieved only by reading. More you get involved, more you enhance your understanding. Second, we learn important things: how to build a model with all the difficulties that go with, how to ask a questions about the plausibility of approach used, how to go further and extend the model, etc. Always, when reading an article we tend to have the impression of that we can do the same easily. But when engaged really in the work lot of difficulties arises, which are challenging and of course learning-enhancing.
More interestingly, we found that we cannot replicate exactly the model of Gali (by using his calibration values) due to some inconsistencies in the calibration and in the definition of some variables. Lesson to learn is not to always take the results of paper as granted!
Gali (2010), is it a case of the 'crisis of replication' ?


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Q: DOM Element.Closest Child When querying the DOM, is there any reason why labels aren't available as children?

var el = document.getElementById("myEl");
var group = el.closest(".form-group");
var ipt =  el.closest(".form-group > input");
var lbl =  el.closest(".form-group > label");
console.log(ipt);
console.log(lbl);

    Name

    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="myEl" value.bind="location.name & validate">

A: You need to select the parent and than look for the child, there is no way to combine it. With your code, it is looking for a parent that is an input or a label.

var el = document.getElementById("myEl");
var group = el.closest(".form-group");
var ipt =  group.querySelector("input");
var lbl =  group.querySelector("label");
console.log(ipt);
console.log(lbl);

    Name

    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="myEl" value.bind="location.name & validate">


Don't say cheese, Mr. Assange.
Click for the original cover.
The ideal style of portraiture for news magazines is something I like to call the mug portrait, or the subjective mugshot.
A key difference between a daily newspaper and a weekly news magazine is that while the former sets a standard of timeliness and objectivity, the latter's goals are topicality and ambivalence. This is a subtle distinction, no doubt, but a crucial one nonetheless.
The newspaper aims to present events as they occur, whereas the news magazine presents the outcome and consequences of those events after they have occurred, aiming to study their mid- to long-term effects. As a result, the news magazine allows critical analysis in its coverage, without the need to make a clear-cut distinction between this editorial material and the hard facts. This journalistically subjective stance is as true of the words as it is of the photography that accompanies them. And this is where the mug portrait comes in.
Some years ago, a certain OJ Simpson was in the United States media's cross-hairs. At the time, much was made of the wildly contrasting depictions of Simpson on the covers of Newsweek and Time, the two leading news magazines back then. That happens often, of course, but what was interesting in this case was that both magazines used the same shot, specifically Simpson's official mugshot, on their respective covers. The result of printing it in an original unaltered form on one cover and of digitally manipulating it on the other, was that one magazine portrayed him as innocent (at least until proven guilty) while the other portrayed him as guilty beyond doubt.
OJ Simpson vs. OJ Simpson.
However, this time the creative license taken with the photograph is much more overt. The shot presents Assange in tasteful black and white (somewhat characteristic of his elusively elegant style), his mouth bound with a full-color American flag. The image leaves very little doubt about its message, underscored by the accompanying title "Do You Want to Know a Secret?". However, the other shoe drops in the smaller title, which reads "Why WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has so many of them… And why it hasn't hurt America").
Is this image groundbreaking? Perhaps not. Is it worth a thousand words? Perhaps not. But the stories leaked by Julian Assange apparently are.
Right on Marshall! After seeing all the eeinvdce against these crooks I cannot believe how they get away with it. The us has been struggling with this for years. Mostly to do with the Fed and Wall Street. In Canada people are starting to wake up as well to the fraud & crime in high places. We are slowly being brainwashed into believing that our politicians are right on top of things and re there to protect and look after us. Bull! Just look at the police state tactics during the G20. Police provocateurs caught red handed in Quebec. Radiation detectors being turned off afterFukashima without reason . And this is just the tip of the iceberg that has been found out. Why is nothing being done to address this. I believe that still the majority of us are asleep and that is why nothing is being done.


To Windsor we go to make the wasteland grow.
We: peaceful people, declare our intention to go and cultivate the disused land of this island; to build dwellings and live together in common by the sweat of our brows.
We have one call: every person in this country and the world should have the right to live on the disused land, to grow food and to build a shelter. This right should apply whether you have money or not. We say that no country can be considered free, until this right is available to all.
With our current system in crisis we need a radically different way of growing our communities. We call on the government and all landowners to let those who are willing, make good use of the disused land. Land that is currently held from us by force. By our actions, we seek to show how we can live without destroying the planet or ourselves. Free from the yoke of debt and rent, our labors can be directed to the benefit of all.
Though we may be oppressed for our actions, we will strive to remain peaceful. But we are committed to our cause and will not cease from our efforts until we have achieved our goal.


SGS-IPS has provided new or modified test method development services for customers' special needs and has also reproduced tests that are described in patent literature for 'right-to-practice' and possible litigation support.
Although industry standard methods are the preferred means of testing when they are both available and applicable, there are many cases where standard tests are not optimized for particular products or materials. In such cases, the use of standard methods will result in data with large confidence intervals and low discrimination power. Modified or custom tests can often help provide more meaningful data, especially for personal care products where there are few published standard test procedures.
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Border control led to protest
The Norwegian government's decision to impose stricter border controls this week got off to a relatively smooth start on Thursday. On Friday, though, a couple of asylum seekers refused to be sent back to Russia, and sat down on the border in protest.
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Friday afternoon that both protesters were eventually arrested and taken into custody. The Independent Barents Observer had earlier reported that police at the border crossing at Storskog couldn't let the asylum seekers keep sitting on the border itself, in freezing temperatures.
Thomas Nilsen of The Independent Barents Observer reported that Russia had refused to take the two asylum seekers back. After discussions between the Norwegian and Russian border commissioners, the Norwegians took in the two asylum seekers, but efforts were to continue to return them to Russia.
Police at border crossings elsewhere around Norway reported few if any problems as they started carrying out orders to check passports and visas of everyone arriving in Norway, by ferry, train, airlines or vehicles. There were some delays as cars rolled off ferries from Denmark and Germany in Oslo, but no complaints. There were no traffic jams at the busiest border crossing on the E6 highway at Svinesund either.
Only four asylum seekers were turned away from boarding a ferry in Denmark bound for Norway. No one was caught in Norway with invalid travel documents. The heightened border controls are due to continue for at least 10 days, aimed at stemming the influx of immigrants who don't qualify for asylum.
Filed Under: BRIEFS Tagged With: asylum, borders, immigration


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Redick's buzzer-beater lifts Clippers past Blazers
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LOS ANGELES — J.J. Redick hit a 21-foot jumper as time expired to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a 96-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night.
With 1.1 seconds left, Chris Paul inbounded the ball to Redick cutting off a screen, and he made the basket from just inside the arc.
Paul and Jamal Crawford each scored 25 points for the Clippers. DeAndre Jordan added 12 points and 13 rebounds for Los Angeles.
Damian Lillard scored 18 points and C.J. McCollum added 17 to lead the Trail Blazers, who lost for the eighth time in 12 games. Ed Davis scored 12 points, Mason Plumlee had 11, and Maurice Harkless added 10 points and eight rebounds for Portland.
The loss cut the Blazers' lead to one game over Dallas and Utah for sixth place in the Western Conference with nine games to play.


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Tax Day 2016: Charts to Explain our Tax System
Today is Tax Day! Our partners at Fix the Debt have republished their annual chartbook to explain federal taxes – including who pays them, what they pay for, and how they are collected. In addition, they look at the $1 trillion plus amount of tax expenditures in the tax code and how the revenue raised fits into the federal budget. We've highlighted a few of the charts below.
Where Tax Dollars Went In 2015
The taxpayer receipt for 2015 shows that a majority of tax dollars go towards Medicare, Social Security, and defense/military benefits. Relatively few tax dollars fund programs like foreign aid and natural resource protection. Notably, for every $100 paid in taxes, more than $6 goes towards the interest payments on the debt, making it the fourth-largest area of the budget. Because the government is running a deficit, federal taxes don't cover all spending; taxpayers would have needed to pay an extra $13 for every $100 they spent in taxes to cover it all.
Where Does The Federal Government's Money Come From?
The federal government collects most of its funds from individual income tax, payroll tax, and deficit financing. Individual income taxes and payroll taxes will cover 70 percent of this spending while 14 percent is deficit-financed. In the coming years, the government will increasingly rely on deficits unless our fiscal course is changed.
Who Pays Federal Taxes?
The top 20 percent of households pay almost 70 percent of federal taxes, with the top 1 percent of earners paying nearly one-quarter. This reflects both the distribution of income and the progressive nature of the current tax code: in 2011, households in the top income quintile received 52 percent of before-tax income and paid about 69 percent of federal taxes, while households in the bottom quintile received 5 percent of before-tax income and paid 0.6 percent of taxes.
Tax Breaks Have Grown Over Time
The size of "tax expenditures" – the various deductions, credits, exclusions and other tax breaks in the current code – has grown over time, and is now twice as much as after lawmakers last reformed the tax code in 1986, after adjusting for inflation.
Many of these tax expenditures are similar to government spending programs. This leads some tax experts to refer to tax expenditures as "spending through the tax code" that obscures the true size of government. If individual and corporate tax expenditures were counted as ordinary spending, they collectively would comprise 25 percent of the federal budget.
Revenues Don't Cover Spending
Historically, revenues have averaged at 17.4 percent of GDP, while spending has averaged at 20.2
percent of GDP. Under current law, spending is expected to grow from 21.1 percent of GDP in 2016 to 23.1 percent by 2026, which is much higher than its historical average. Government will still have to rely heavily on deficit financing to meet its current spending obligations. On the other side, revenues are expected to remain virtually flat at around 18 percent of GDP.
Now that we've paid our taxes, it is worth remembering the basic facts about our current income tax system. And as lawmakers consider whether to overhaul the current tax code, it is important to recognize the tough choices and trade-offs inherent in tax reform.
IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating
End-of-Year Changes Need Offsets
CBO Releases 2022 Budget Options Report


Agency Universal CIT has secured contracts to become preferred supplier for two pharmaceutical companies. Universal CIT managing director Mike Ford said the agency's transatlantic offering helped secure one of the contracts. "With three offices in the USA, we are ideally placed to deliver these client events – both in North America and the rest of the world," said Ford. "We are able to provide clients with a seamless international operation under one contract." The agency is also expanding to deal with its continually growing client base, particularly within its creative services group. This division was launched 18 months ago in response to increased client requirements for production, AV, presentation management and design services. "We're going to be appointing a number of key positions, including that of UK creative services manager, to add to the core in-house creative team," said Ford.


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Dilworth B. Parkinson
Dilworth B. Parkinson was born in Ogden, Utah, and raised along the Wasatch Front. He graduated from Ogden High School and attended BYU as a David O. McKay scholar. Initially called on a mission to Switzerland, after a few months he was sent to serve in Lebanon, where he first became acquainted with the Middle East and the Arabic language.
After returning, he studied Arabic at various universities and then returned to the Middle East to study Arabic intensively for a year in Cairo, Egypt. He received his PhD in Arabic linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1982 and has been at BYU since that time.
He has served as executive director of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and of the Arabic Linguistics Society. He also served as chair of the BYU Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages for six years. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic sociolinguistics and has developed computer programs for teaching Arabic.
He is married to Laura Beth Harline. They have five children.
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Q: Find $\lim \limits_{x,y)\to (0,0)}\left(\frac{\sin(x+y)}{x+y}\right)$ Let $f(x,y) = \dfrac{\sin(x+y)}{x+y}$.
Does this function have a limit when $(x,y)\to {\bf0}$?

A: Define $g(x,y)=x+y$, and it is pretty clear that $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)} g(x,y)=0$. Now
$$
f(x,y)=\frac{\sin g(x,y)}{g(x,y)}=S(g(x,y)),
$$
where
$$
S(t)=\frac{\sin t}{t}
$$
for $t \neq 0$. Since $\lim_{t \to 0} S(t)=1$, the theorem about limits of composition of functions gives that $\lim_{(x,y) \to (0,0)}f(x,y)=1$.

A: Recall that the Taylor series for $\sin(x)$ is $x-\frac{x^3}{3!}+\frac{x^5}{5!}-\frac{x^7}{7!}+\dots$. Based on this,
$$\lim_{x,y\to0}\frac{\sin(x+y)}{x+y}=\lim_{x,y\to0}\frac{(x+y)-\frac{(x+y)^3}{3!}+\frac{(x+y)^5}{5!}-\frac{(x+y)^7}{7!}+\dots}{x+y}$$$$=\lim_{x,y\to0}1 -\frac{(x+y)^2}{3!}+\frac{(x+y)^4}{5!}-\frac{(x+y)^6}{7!}+\dots=1$$

A: If you mean $\lim_{x\to0}\lim_{y\to0}f(x,y)$ (or $x$ and $y$ exchanged) then yes. The limit is $1$ and can be computed either by the taylor's expansion of $\sin$ or via l'Hopitals rule.


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Call Sign: SINGAPORE
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Dubai International Airport (DXE) has 2 flights
Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) has 2 flights
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) has 2 flights
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