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Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is the most accurate for calculating radiation dose distribution and determining patient dose. In MC simulations of the therapeutic accelerator, the characteristics of the initial electron must be precisely determined in order to achieve accurate simulations. However, It has been computation-, labor-, and time-intensive to predict the beam characteristics through predominantly empirical approach. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between electron beam parameters and dose distribution, with the goal of simplifying the MC commissioning process.
The Varian Clinac 2300 IX machine was modeled with the Geant4 MC-toolkit. The percent depth dose (PDD) and lateral beam profiles were assessed according to initial electron beam parameters of mean energy, radial intensity distribution, and energy distribution.
The PDD values increased on average by 4.36% when the mean energy increased from 5.6 MeV to 6.4 MeV. The PDD was also increased by 2.77% when the energy spread increased from 0 MeV to 1.019 MeV. In the lateral dose profile, increasing the beam radial width from 0 mm to 4 mm at the full width at half maximum resulted in a dose decrease of 8.42% on the average. The profile also decreased by 4.81% when the mean energy was increased from 5.6 MeV to 6.4 MeV. Of all tested parameters, electron mean energy had the greatest influence on dose distribution. The PDD and profile were calculated using parameters optimized and compared with the golden beam data. The maximum dose difference was assessed as less than 2%.
The relationship between the initial electron and treatment beam quality investigated in this study can be used in Monte Carlo commissioning of medical linear accelerator model.
Modern radiation therapy techniques that use a linear accelerator (LINAC), such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), enable the dose distribution to better conform to the target volume with a small subfield sequence. To predict the patient dose, computerized treatment planning systems (TPS) have been used in the clinic. Most TPS use the pencil beam (PB) convolution algorithm, which obtains patient dose distributions using dose kernels consisting of previously calculated dose maps. This algorithm accelerates the dose calculation. However, the uncertainty of PB-based dose calculation has been reported to be high in heterogeneous tissue and in small-field beams due to the limited lateral scatter calculation [1–3]. For special cases requiring very accurate dose assessment, the TPS-based dose distribution must be verified with an independent dose evaluation method [1–3].
The Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is based on the premise that modeling is highly accurate. Thus, it has been regarded as the most accurate dose calculation method for radiation beams delivered into patients because it calculates the dose by considering each transported particle. This approach enables highly accurate dose calculation using a process similar to that of the actual beam delivery [2–5]. In this regard, the MC method is an important verification tool in the clinic.1) However, its high computational burden has hindered its adoption, and the MC method is not currently available in the clinic [3, 6–8].
MC simulations for dose calculation begin by producing the accelerated electrons delivered to the target and the x-ray beam generated through the bremsstrahlung process. However, it is very difficult to determine the characteristics of the electron beam of interest. For example, (1) manufacturers do not provide standardized information about the initial electron beam, (2) the electron beam in the vacuum head cannot be directly measured, and (3) electron beams differ even when produced by the same model and also differ because of the aging effect [9–11]. To address these issues, indirect beam commissioning has been employed. This approach modifies various parameters of the initial electron beam to match the simulated MC beam quality with the measured quality by comparing the percent depth dose (PDD) and the lateral beam profile .
In previous studies for LINAC beam commissioning, initial beam spot size and mean electron energy  were chosen empirically by matching the simulated beam to the measurement by changing the electron characteristics [13, 14]. While this simple method is the most commonly used method in beam commissioning [12–14], the results and conclusions reached with this method depend significantly on the researcher. To accurately and efficiently determine the characteristics of the electron beam, it is important to understand the relationship between the initial electron and the following Bremsstrahlung photon. This relationship is affected by the treatment head and is used as a decision-making standard during beam commissioning.
Tzedakis et al. previously investigated the initial electron effect on the 6 MV treatment beam. Tzedakis and colleagues based their work on the study by Bjork on the LINAC initial electron characteristics [9, 10] and used the Electron Gamma Shower 4 (EGS4) code for the Philips SL LINAC model. However, for 4D simulation with IMRT and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), Geometry And Tracking 4 (Geant4) is the preferred tool because Geant4 provides a flexible simulation setup including geometries and DICOM import for patient dose calculation, in addition to providing the same information as the TPS [15, 16]. Moreover, precise modeling of the multileaf collimator (MLC), which determines the fluence map, is difficult without Geant4 because of the complex geometry of this instrument.
The purpose of this study was to simplify the beam commissioning procedure and develop an accurate and efficient process for determining the optimal parameters for MC commissioning. To this end, the dose distributions, PDD values, and lateral profiles of the Varian Clinac 2300 IX machine were evaluated according to the characteristics of the initial electron beam using the Geant4 toolkit.
The Geant4 toolkit (ver. 4.9.6.p02), developed with the C++ language, was employed to simulate a 6 MV photon beam produced by a Varian Clinac 2300 IX machine. The major components of the LINAC head, including the target, primary collimator, Beryllium window, flattening filter, ion chamber, mirror, jaws, and MLC, were modeled as shown in Figure 1. To achieve detailed modeling of the treatment head, blueprint supported by the machine vender was used as the reference when modeling the geometry.
To investigate the influence of (a) mean energy, (b) radial intensity distribution, and (c) energy spread on curve attributes such as depth of the maximum dose (dmax) on the PDD and profile dose flatness, the PDDs and lateral dose profiles were calculated and analyzed with different initial electron beam conditions.
To investigate the effect of mean energy on the PDD and the lateral beam profile, simulations were carried out while varying the mean initial electron beam energy from 5.6 MeV to 6.4 MeV in increments of 0.2 MeV. To evaluate only the influence of the mean electron energy on the dose distribution, the pencil beam was used, and the standard deviation of the energy was set to zero.
In a LINAC, the initial electron beam has a radial intensity distribution and an angular distribution because of the bending magnet, steering coils, and focusing coils in the electron transport system. The electron distribution was assumed to have a two-dimensional (2-D) Gaussian distribution, as suggested by the Keall et al. study. In this study, the distributions of the initial electrons generating the bremsstrahlung photon in the target were defined . Karzmark et al. recommended that the electron angle should range from 0.06 to 0.3 degrees for the initial electron beam transport, which is close to zero.2) Therefore, we assumed that the beam was parallel to the beam axis and only varied the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the radial distribution (1 mm increments from 0 mm to 4 mm). To assess the effect of electron beam radial width, the mean electron energy and energy spread were fixed at 6 MeV and 0 MeV, respectively.
The energy spread of the initial electron can be estimated with different waveguide types, and energy slits in the bending magnet orbit [9, 18]. The electron spread from the accelerating waveguide has been reported to assume a Gaussian distribution according to Tanabe and Hamm's measurement .
We modeled the energy distribution of the initial electron as a Gaussian distribution and varied the FWHM from 0 MeV to 1.019 MeV in 0.127 MeV increments. A pencil beam was used, and the mean electron energy was set to 6 MeV.
To evaluate the relationships between the initial electron characteristics and the LINAC photon beam dose distributions, the PDDs and profiles of the various initial electron conditions were compared with those of the reference initial electron beam. The reference conditions of the initial electron beam were set to a mean energy of 6 MeV, a radial intensity of 0 mm at the FWHM, and an energy spread of 0 MeV.
The simulated PDDs and profiles were normalized to the dose values at dmax and the distribution center, respectively. The PDD was assessed at 2 mm intervals at depths ranging from 0 to 50 mm to observe the dose distribution in build-up region and dose distribution nearby dmax. For depths greater than 50 mm, the depth dose was assessed at 15 mm intervals for depths greater than 50 mm to reduce the statistical fluctuation. The depth before dmax was not considered in the PDD comparison for treatment beam modeling because electron equilibrium was not reached, and statistically significant fluctuation occurs in that region. Moreover, electron contamination affects the dose distribution before dmax.
In the simulation, G$EmStandardPhysics_option3 was used because it is suitable for calculating transportations of photon and electron in medical applications [19, 20]. To reduce the calculation time, variance reduction techniques were applied to components of the LINAC head, e.g., bremsstrahlung splitting in the target and Russian roulette in the downstream collimators. In addition, the phase space files containing information on the particles reaching the MLC (position, direction, kinetic energy, and particle type) were used to reduce the simulation time. The photon beam produced by more than 2.8×109 initial electrons was recorded in the phase space files and then used repeatedly four times to obtain the dose distribution with reduced statistical fluctuation.
In the simulation, the source-to-surface distance (SSD) was set to 100 cm. The beam was delivered into a box-shaped voxelized water phantom measuring 50×50×40 cm3. Each voxel measured 5×5×2 mm3.
The PDD was calculated with a field size of 10×10 cm2, which is generally considered to be the reference size for assessing the effects of initial electron parameters, while the profile was calculated at dmax with a field size of 40×40 cm2. Since the profile with the larger beam field is more heavily impacted by changes to the initial electron conditions such as mean electron energy, energy spread, and beam radial width , the largest field size was selected for the profile assessment. Finally, the optimal parameters were determined by comparing the PDDs and profiles of golden beam data (GBD) achieved with beams of 4×4 cm2, 10×10 cm2, and 30×30 cm2 fields.
Figure 2 shows the PDDs and lateral dose profiles according to the initial electron energy. It also displays their differences compared to the reference initial electron beam. The electron beam with a mean energy of 5.8 MeV showed a minimum PDD difference of about 0.24% from the reference electron beam, which had a mean energy of 6 MeV. Increasing the initial energy of the electron beam also increased the PDD values after dmax. Specifically, the dose values increased on average by 4.36%, while the mean energy increased from 5.6 to 6.4 MeV. This finding indicates that the overall PDD curve moved toward the beam direction with the higher electron energy, even though the reference parameters of the initial electron beam were the same.
In the lateral dose profile, the relative dose differences from the reference condition were decreased on average by 4.81% as the electron beam energy increased from 5.6 MeV to 6.4 MeV. The maximum dose difference in the horn with the reference energy of the electron beam, 6 MeV, was approximately 9.21% compared to that with the 6.4 MeV electron beam. Under the initial electron reference conditions, the minimum difference in average dose between the two profiles was 0.56% and was found when the mean electron energy was 5.8 MeV (Figure 2). Figure 2 indicates that the average initial electron energy is more sensitive to the lateral dose profile then the PDD, because dose difference change according to the mean electron energy increased more with the profile.
The PDD and lateral dose profile were calculated according to various electron beam radial intensity distributions. Differences from those of the reference electron beam are shown in Figure 3. For the PDD, the electron beam with a radial width of 1 mm at the FWHM showed a maximum difference after dmax of 0.49% from the reference condition. Moreover, the minimum dose difference from the reference beam (0.26%) was observed with the beam with a 3 mm radial width at the FWHM. In addition, no significant difference was observed between the PDD curves with respect to beam radial width (Figure 3).
The lateral profile showed an increased horn as the electron beam radial width at the FWHM decreased (Figure 3). Figure 3 also shows that the initial electron beam radial distribution is inversely proportional to the profile dose values. Compared with the reference beam, the average dose difference in the horn region increased from 1.49% to 15.10% as the beam radial width increased from 1 mm to 4 mm at the FWHM. The maximum and minimum differences in the horn were estimated at 23.67% and 3.28% from the reference beam when the FWHM of the beam width was 4 mm and 1 mm, respectively. In addition, the overall profile dose values decreased on average by 8.42% when the radial width increased from 0 mm to 4 mm at the FWHM. The results are in agreement with those of previous studies reporting that the radial distribution of the electron beam was inversely proportional to beam flatness and affected the PDD less than the profile [9, 10].
Figure 4 shows the changes in PDD and lateral dose profile as the initial electron energy spread was varied. Similar to the results described in section Results 1), the PDD values for regions deeper than dmax increased as the energy spread broadened. The electron beam with an energy spread of 1.019 MeV at the FWHM showed the largest average difference from the reference beam, 2.77%. The minimum difference was 0.17% and was found with an energy spread of 0.127 MeV at the FWHM.
For the lateral profile, the curves showed dose differences averagely about 3% compared with the reference beam (FWHM of 0 MeV), which are comparable to the results of the other electron parameters (Figure 4). Among the energy spread conditions, the beam with an energy spread of 0.51 MeV at the FWHM showed the maximum average relative difference of 3.18% from the reference condition. The minimum difference of 1.48% was observed when the beam had an energy spread of 0.127 MeV at the FWHM. The beam with the largest energy spread in this study, an FWHM of 1.019 MeV, resulted in a difference of 2.51% on the average from the reference condition, which corresponded to the median of the energy spreads. The differences between the energy spreads could represent statistical fluctuation in the simulation, considering the dose differences shown in Figure 4. These findings indicate that the energy spread cannot significantly affect the lateral dose distribution.
Figure 5 presents the beam commissioning results carried out for field sizes of 4×4 cm2, 10×10 cm2, and 30×30 cm2. A total of 2.8×108, 5.6×108 and 5.6×108 initial electrons, respectively, were generated by beams with field sizes of 4×4 cm2, 10×10 cm2, and 30×30 cm2. The calculation of the dose distributions for the three field sizes required 39, 270, and 860 hours, respectively, with a single CPU.
The initial electron characteristics were determined by matching the PDD and the lateral profile with those of the GBD. Since the mean energy affects both the PDD and the lateral profile simultaneously, the mean electron energy was determined first, and all other parameters were determined later. The optimized initial electron parameters were 5.9 MeV, 2.5 mm, and 0.8268 MeV for the electron energy, beam radial width, and energy spread, respectively.
To evaluate the availability of the beams commissioned in this study, the maximum local dose difference from the GBD was calculated for each field size (Figure 5). The build-up region was not included in the PDD comparison due to its high statistical fluctuation in the MC simulation. When comparing the lateral dose profiles, the penumbra and dose fall-off region were not considered. The profile depth was set to 10 cm from the phantom surface, according to the recommendations in the AAPM Task Group No. 51 (TG-51) report . Maximum local dose differences between the commissioning results and the GBD results were assessed to be less than 2% for both the PDDs and the lateral profiles.
To accurately simulate photon beams from a LINAC head and calculate the dose distribution, it is important to determine the appropriate initial electron parameters. The quality of the initial electron beam depends on the geometric accuracy of the LINAC model. The initial electron characteristics can even differ because of minor differences in the geometry. The geometry information offered by vendors is sufficient to satisfy the required geometric similarity between the MC LINAC model and the actual LINAC machine. However, little information is available regarding the initial electron beam properties, which hinders decision-making for initial electron parameters.
Electron parameters are typically decided through empirical approaches, which are time-consuming. Since each initial electron parameter is optimized separately in the beam commissioning process, the lack of parameter knowledge complicates this process. Thus, for accurate and efficient beam commissioning, the effects of various electron parameters on beam quality should be determined. In this study, we assessed the influence of three initial electron characteristics (mean energy, energy spread, and radial intensity distribution) on PDD and lateral dose profile. We also outlined a process for electron parameter determination. Based on our results, we commissioned the initial electron beam of the Geant4-modeled LINAC.
At depths deeper than dmax, PDD increased when the mean electron energy and the FWHM of the energy spread increased. The higher mean energy of the initial electron generates higher bremsstrahlung photon energy in the target, enabling the photons to produce secondary electrons that penetrate water more efficiently and can deliver their energy to deeper locations along the beam direction. Depths shallower then dmax, which corresponded to the dose difference from the reference condition, showed larger statistical uncertainty compared to deeper locations. In the case of the energy spread, larger energy spread indicates a higher likelihood of producing electrons with both higher and lower energies. Electrons with lower energies produce relatively low energy bremsstrahlung photons in the target that consists of tungsten. They showed less effect on the PDD compared to the photons generated by higher energy electrons because most of them cannot penetrate the target and reach the phantom, even though larger energy spread results in electron production with much broader energy variation than smaller energy spread. With this respect, a larger energy spread results in increased PDD values only in the region deeper than dmax. However, the dose differences from the reference condition as the energy spread was varied were smaller than those observed when the mean electron energy was varied, even though the mean energy was not varied in a wider range than that of the energy spread. Potential explanations for the findings include: (a) the energy spread follows a Gaussian distribution; (b) the majority of electrons had energy near the mean value; and (c) the mean electron energy of the spread was not changed, although the standard deviation of the energy distribution changed. The PDD was changed insignificantly according to the change of the intensity distribution of the electron beam. While changing the initial electron distribution on the target surface results in changes of the treatment beam width, it does not affect the energy of the bremsstrahlung photons produced in the target. Since the depth dose distribution is mainly affected by the bremsstrahlung photon energy, the radial intensity distribution of the initial electron beam could not have any significant effect on the PDD.
For the lateral dose profile, the lateral dose horn was inversely proportional to both the mean electron energy and the radial beam width. Compared with the reference initial electron beam, the dose values in the horn region decreased. The average dose values of the overall profiles were also decreased due to the increased mean electron energy and radial width. The increased initial electron beam energy delivered a decreased dose near the region at the edge of the field, referred to as the horn. One potential explanation for this finding is that the higher energy photons tend to be less scattered in the flattening filter and to deliver higher intensity energy in the middle of the dose profile than in the horn region. In contrast, the energy spread of the initial electron could not remarkably affect the shape of the dose profile. A broader energy spread indicates an increased initial electron energy range. As mentioned above, however, the energy spread follows a Gaussian distribution, and many of the electrons delivered into the target have an energy near the mean energy, even though there is an increased possibility that electrons are produced with high or low energies that are far from the center value.
Our results indicate that mean electron energy is the most important factor in determining the dose distribution; that is, the mean energy simultaneously affects the entire PDD shape and the profile. Thus, we recommend matching the overall PDD shapes and profile to the desired measurement by adjusting the mean electron energy and correcting the other details using the beam radial width and energy spread.
The optimal electron parameters determined through the MC beam commissioning process were as follows: mean energy, radial width, and energy spread; 5.9 MeV, 2.5 mm at the FWHM, and 0.8268 MeV at the FWHM, respectively. The dose distribution of the commissioned beam was compared with that of the GBD to demonstrate the dose availability. As shown in Figure 5, the maximum local difference from the GBD was less than 2%, indicating that the beam yielded an available dose distribution on the MC simulation.
In this study, we investigated the relationship between the characteristics of the initial electron and the dose distribution of the LINAC beam. Our findings could be applicable for MC-based modeling of LINAC beams in the same model and also in other models. Based on these results, future studies will focus on developing more efficient beam commissioning protocols in MC simulations. In addition, the beam modeled in this study can be used for cutting-edge radiation therapy techniques using LINAC beams, such as IMRT and VMAT.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2015R1C1A1A02036331).
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Relative dose differences of percent depth dose (A) and lateral dose profile (B) from the reference initial electron beam according to average initial electron beam energy.
Relative dose difference of percent depth dose (A) and lateral dose profile (B) by initial electron beam radial width compared to the reference initial electron beam.
Relative dose difference from the GBD for percent depth dose (A) and lateral profile (B) according to initial electron beam energy spread.
Comparison of the commissioned percent depth dose (A) and lateral dose profile (B) with those of the GBD.
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Josh is the Guest Experience Evangelist at Roller Software and brings more than 16 years of experience working for some of the top tourism destinations in the world, including Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, and has consulted for organizations such as Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula, Montage, and Rosewood.
Discussions about customer service have always interested me - not so much because of the practical application of removing friction points in the operation, but because of turning theory into practice. It's one thing to say we need to improve service. It's a whole other thing to recognize the soft skills at play in many levels of the organization that will either help or hurt your efforts.
That's what this episode tries to uncover - how do you improve customer service with an eye on empowerment, training and meaningful data collection.
Josh brings a tremendous amount of insight and knowledge to this episode that will certainly light a path in your own efforts.
Josh Liebman is the Guest Experience Evangelist for ROLLER Software. With more than 16 years of experience in hospitality and tourism, Josh specializes in guest experience, including service standards, complaint resolution, and guest feedback. Josh's background includes operations, guest service communications, quality assurance consulting, consumer analytics, and guest experience training. Josh has worked for some of the top tourism destinations in the world, including Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, and has consulted for organizations such as Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula, Montage, and Rosewood.
Website: https://www.roller.software
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshualiebman/


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Nike Basketball 1992-2012 – Air Penny (1995)
Nike's summer of basketball, in which the brand profiles "20 Designs that Changed the Game," has taken us to the Air Force 180 Low, Air Flight Huarache, Air Raid, Air Max2 CB, and now the Air Penny, originally released in 1995. Penny Hardaway's distinctive style of play, highlighted by a combination of both explosive speed and strength, gave rise to the birth of the Uptempo line. Lead designer Eric Avar recalls, "We had Flight and Force and we were looking at trying to dimensionalize the basketball line around this notion of versatility and that's kind of what Uptempo was." The shoe was equipped with a Max Air heel unit and the newly developed Tensile Air up front, which would later be known as Zoom Air. Meanwhile, the shoe's 1 Cent logo and crystal Swoosh gave nod to the player's confidence and uniqueness. As Avar explains, "I studied Penny's style, his game and the product just took shape from there."
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Warning. This page, although still useful, is somewhat out of date. There have been multiple forks in this space. We currently use MSYS2 instead of MSYS(1) and MinGW-W64 instead of the original MinGW. And Cygwin is no longer supported for building GHC.
The build system is built around UNIX Makefiles. Because it's not native, the Windows situation for building GHC is a little confusing. This section tries to outline the situation for building GHC on Windows.
If you are already familiar with using UNIX build tools on Windows and simply want to build GHC the jump to build preparation.
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) is a native port of GCC to windows such that it can be used to compile and produce native windows programs that have no reliance on third party DLLs. The tools distributed include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binary Utilities (Binutils), GNU Debuger (GDB) and some other utilities.
MinGW doesn't provide a UNIX shell environment though so by itself can't be used to build GHC as we rely on GNU Make, a UNIX Shell and the standard UNIX utilities.
MSYS MSYS provides a bare bones UNIX like environment, including GNU Bash, GNU Make, GNU Autoconf, SSH and GNU Coretuils. Its enough so that in combination with MinGW you can build native windows tools using the GNU build chain and utilities. MSYS is managed by the MinGW project.
Cygwin aims to provide a POSIX API and environment on windows. The price is that executables built against Cygwin must be dynamically linked with the Cygwin DLL. It is also a little more of an abstracted (from Windows) environment to work in. Cygwin does provide far more of a UNIX like environment than MSYS does though, even offering X Windows for example.
GHC does invoke a C compiler, assembler, linker and so on, but we ensure that it only invokes the MinGW tools, not the Cygwin ones. That means that the programs GHC compiles will work on any system, but it also means that the programs GHC compiles do not have access to all of Posix. In particular, they cannot import the (Haskell) POSIX library; they have to do their input output using standard Haskell I/O libraries, or native Win32 bindings. We will call a GHC that targets MinGW in this way GHC-mingw.
To make the GHC distribution self-contained, the GHC distribution includes the MinGW gcc, as, ld, and a bunch of input/output libraries.
So GHC targets MinGW, not Cygwin. It is in principle possible to build a version of GHC, GHC-cygwin, that targets Cygwin instead. The up-side of GHC-cygwin is that Haskell programs compiled by GHC-cygwin can import the (Haskell) Posix library. We do not support GHC-cygwin, however; it is beyond our resources.
While GHC targets MinGW, that says nothing about how GHC is built. We use both MSYS and Cygwin as build environments for GHC; both work fine, though MSYS is rather lighter weight.
In your build tree, the compiler you build uses the gcc that you specify using the --with-gcc flag when you run configure (see below). The makefiles are careful to use the right gcc, either via the in-place ghc or directly, to compile any C files, so that we use correct gcc rather than whatever one happens to be in your path. However, the makefiles do use whatever ld and ar happen to be in your path. This is a bit naughty, but (a) they are only used to pull together .o files into a bigger .o file, or a .a file, so they don't ever get libraries (which would be bogus; they might be the wrong libraries), and (b) Cygwin and MinGW use the same .o file format. So its ok.
the MSYS shell will actually call foogle with argument -Bc:/tmp/baz.
Cygwin programs have a more complicated mount table, and map the lettered drives as /cygdrive/c/tmp/foo. The Cygwin shell does no argument processing when invoking non-Cygwin programs.


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Finnair traffic grew 10 percent in 2008
HELSINKI, Finland —
A record 1.3 million passengers flew Finnair on Asian routes last year, increasing the carrier's traffic to the region by 16.5 percent, the Finnish carrier said Thursday.
In all, Finnair traffic grew 10 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year.
In October, Finnair warned of cuts and layoffs after reporting a third-quarter net loss of euro17 million ($22 million), down from a profit of euro40 million a year earlier.
Despite tough competition and rising costs, the airline said it will continue with plans to modernize its long-haul fleet. It is increasingly attracting "gateway" passengers flying between Europe and the Far East and has ordered 12 wide-bodied Airbus aircraft to go into service in 2007-2011.
"Our successful Asian strategy will be an essential part of our scheduled traffic also in the future," Finnair spokesman Christer Haglund said.
Separately, the airline announced Thursday that the Danish government had entered a two-year deal to use Finnair exclusively for all flights from Denmark to Finland and Thailand.
Finnair PLC, which is 56 percent government-owned, flies to 50 destinations with a fleet of 60 aircraft. Last year, 8.3 million passengers flew Finnair.
https://www.finnair.com


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Q: Using RestKit to map Login Responses Been working with RestKit for a while now, but I am running into a difficult problem with ObjectMapping.  I hav a login API that requires me to post 2 key values as follows:
 {"fb_access_token":"123456789.....",
 "fb_user_id":"1234..."}

It returns:
 {"message":"logged in"}

I created the following classes to map the POST submission and the response in the following gist:
https://gist.github.com/2764803
I can post and login without mapping the response as in this gist:
https://gist.github.com/2764823
What is the best way to map a post and response like this?

A: You need to use RKObjectManager instead of RKClient in order to make proper use of the elegant object mapping mechanisms. All you need is explained in this RestKit wiki page. If you have further questions after reading, please ask away.

A: you could try something like this
Making a post to API with RKParams and mapping the response with RKObjectMapping using RestKit
I tried the solution posted here but it didn't work so well for me.

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The past week I worked on a full re-write of lsru (Landsat Surface Reflectance Utils), a python package to order, query and download Landsat surface reflectance data.
Unprocessed Landsat data (Top of atmosphere radiance) can be downloaded directly without the need to place an order; manually or using packages like Landsat-util. Surface reflectance refers to data that have been corrected for atmospheric effects; one way to obtain surface reflectance Landsat data is via the ESPA on demand pre-processing platform. It is what lsru helps you do, programmatically, from python.
The initial version I had written for a rather specific research project of my friend Simon was mostly command line oriented, without a really usable API, and broke a long time ago when the USGS changed its naming conventions for Landsat with the release of collection 1. I therefore decided to give it a complete overhaul.
The new version of lsru has a fully functional and documented API, online documentation, support both python 2 and 3, and can be installed directly from pypi (pip install lsru).
If you use it and discover a bug or think of additional features don't hesitate to let me know by raising an issue on github or by sending me an e-mail.


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Q: How do I make my radio buttons checked I have a table, that generates rows dynamically. I have used radio buttons for each row. I want the radio button to be checked even after I click my submit button.
This is body of my table:
<form action="" method="POST">

Date

Status

          <?php for($i=$start;$i<$end;$i++)
          {
            $add=$ARRAY[$i]['source_address'];
            $Status=$ARRAY[$i]['Status'];
            $total=$add.$Status;
          ?>

      <input type="radio" name="ID[]" value="<?php echo $total; ?>"/>
      <?php
      echo''.$ARRAY[$i]['escl_date'].'	';
      echo''.$ARRAY[$i]['escl_status'].'	';
      ?>

     <?php }?>

<input type="submit" name="details" value="details" />

How Can I make the radio button selected even after clicking on submit button? Please help me.

A: You can try this, You need a condition to check with reference value and add checked attribute.
Here your reference value is your POST of ID value.  Add this into your radio tag <?php echo $_POST['ID'][0]==$total ? 'checked':'';?>
<input type="radio" name="ID[]" value="<?php echo $total; ?>"   <?php echo $_POST['ID'][0]==$total ? 'checked':'';?>  />

A: The correct HTML attribute you are looking for is checked.
Note to other answer: readonly is not necessary, nor is it what OP is asking for.
Since you're doing it in PHP, let's say you're passing something with an HTML markup name of foobar, as follows:
<form><input type="radio" name="foobar"></form>
To make sure that the value is retained even after it is submitted, you could add a code like this (get or post depending on your purpose):
<form><input type="radio" name="foobar" <?php if(isset($_GET[foobar])){ echo "checked"; ?>></form>
This is to make sure that it would be checked if the name was passed in the form.
Note that this is just an example.

A: Try this, it works:
<input type="radio" checked>


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Willie Morris and Donald Barthelme
I just finished reading Willie Morris's North Towards Home and the biography of Donald Barthelme, Hiding Man, by Tracy Daugherty. The two writers, so distinct in what they wrote, also had interesting similarities. Willie Morris was a journalist and editor whose reputation largely lies in his editing of Harper's Magazine from 1967 to 1971, during which time he was one of the editors responsible for what later became known as "new journalism," a personal, literary approach to journalism. Donald Barthelme is generally considered one of the giants of postmodern fiction in the U.S., and wrote frequently for The New Yorker. His genre was the short story (he wrote four novels, but my impression is that they aren't held in the same esteem as his short stories). They were both literary men in New York City during the 60s, but as far as I can tell, had little if any contact with one another.
The two men were born in the early 1930s, and both grew up in the South (Yazoo City, Mississippi, for Morris, Houston for Barthelme). They both distinguished themselves editing innovative publications at their respective universities. Morris was editor of The Daily Texan, where he raised holy hell with his liberal crusading, especially in favor of intellectual freedom on campus. He was brutally clamped down on by the U.T. regents, and his means for fighting back was classic--blank editorials and editorials on transparently trivial subjects like "Let's Water the Pansies" that signaled to the reader that something had been censored. Barthelme edited a short-lived (1956 to 1960) interdisciplinary journal called Forum at the University of Houston. There, too, he fought with the faculty editors who didn't get where he was coming from. Nonetheless, he published amazing things--he was the first person to publish Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is the Message" and he published a chapter of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer before the novel was published, among many other pieces by great writers and thinkers of the day. Not surprisingly, the University of Houston had no idea what it had.
Both Morris and Barthelme took their next steps of their careers in the same towns where they'd done their college editing. Morris, after getting a Rhodes scholarship, ended up back in Austin editing The Texas Observer, and Barthelme ended up as the second director of the Contemporary Arts Association (it's amazing to think there was a time when college dropouts like Barthelme and Walter Hopps were allowed to run museums). But eventually both writers, hemmed in or burnt out by the limited opportunities in Austin and Houston respectively, moved to New York, where each really made his reputation.
Barthelme was close to the cutting edge writers of his day. Thomas Pynchon lived downstairs from him, for example. His tenure at The New Yorker was therefore strange (The New Yorker isn't exactly an avant garde literary magazine), but for whatever reason, Roger Angell fell in love with Barthelme's writing, and The New Yorker paid his bills for the next 20 years or so (even if they did reject his most experimental short stories).
Morris had a strong relationship with a group of Texas journalists who had literary aspirations and the need to get the hell out of Texas--at least for a while. These included Larry L. King (think "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas") and Edwin "Bud" Shrake. For all of these guys, the model--and counter-model--was Billy Lee Brammer, who published a more-or-less forgotten classic novel, The Gay Place, in 1961. He pulled up stakes and lived all over, but never published another book. And he returned home to Austin and lived a marginal existence until he died in 1978 of a drug overdose. All of these guys returned home--Morris eventually back to Mississippi (long after North Toward Home was published in 1967) and Barthelme back to Houston.
Part of the reason was that as these guys got older, they needed some more stability in their lives than being a freelance writer provided. It may be too much to say that they moved home for insurance, but both ended up at universities where such benefits were standard. Morris taught at Old Miss (a place he ridiculed in North Towards Home--and a place his father told him to avoid, advising the teenaged Morris to go to UT instead). Barthelme returned to U.H.
They are both also somewhat forgotten men today. Sure, people know who they are, but their books haven't all remained in print, and as time passes, their memory grows dimmer. Barthelme's story is particularly interesting to me because of his Houston roots--it's weird to think one of the great American writers came from Houston. But would you know Barthelme had been from Houston if you were to take a tour of the city? Is there a plaque on his childhood home, a street named after him, a school named after him, or a giant David Addickes bust of him in some city park? Nope. Barthelme deserves better.
Labels: books, Donald Barthelme, Houston, Willie Morris
posted by Robert Boyd at 12:18 PM
Floyd said...
Enjoyed this post. Wasn't aware of "Hiding Man". I guess I should go finish "The Ironist Saved From Drowning" before I go order it.
Wit said...
Interesting post on Don B. I'm writing part of my thesis on him, so I'm always interested to hear what other people have to say.
The Daugherty book is good! A lot of useful work - and a more valuable testiment than a giant concrete head! You're right, though - Barthelme does deserve better. It's a crime that so much of his work is out of print (I'm not certain, but I think everything is out print except 60 stories, 40 stories, the 2 posthumous collections and perhaps three or four of the novels, though I'm not sure about the novels). Costs a lot of money to get hold of copies of his short story collections now days.
If you're at all interested, I wrote a conference paper on Don B recently, posted at:
witackman.wordpress.com
It's a bit of a strange line of argument, but I think it accords with a lot of his texts. Unfortunately, because I only had 20mins, I only talk about "The Balloon".
Anyway, all best,
Robert Boyd said...
Thanks for your comment. I don't claim to be an expert on Barthelme--I haven't read all his stories (60 Stories is on my bookshelf calling to me--along with a hundred or so other unread books). I'm from Houston and have a perhaps perverse desire to see Houston honor its relatively few great artists in permanent and grandiose ways. I'd like to see larger than lifesize statues of Barthelme and Lightnin' Hopkins in prominent places in town. I would be especially amused to see something like that for Barthelme, given his exquisite little clockwork stories.
By the way, artist Gary Panter was in town last year and gave a rambling slideshow/lecture in which he identified barthelme as one of his favorite writers, comparing him to the Abstract Expressionists (!). He thought Barthelme did for stories what they did for paintings...
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Nuñez's slider: A secret to his success?
This afternoon on the Miami Herald's website, I read this story, featuring an interesting note at the bottom.
Catcher John Baker said Nuñez has been more effective this season because he has added a third pitch to his arsenal, a slider that has kept opponents "off balance."
"I think last year, guys could just wait on one kind of speed," Baker said. "Now he has three speeds going."
Now, when I read this, I have to admit I could not all season remember Leo Nuñez throwing a slider (upon further review, I actually did recall one, and not in a good way, but more on that later). I have taken note of his live fastball and his exceptional change-up, but I did not recall a slider this season.
So, I took to FanGraphs to see if Leo has been using a slider this year, and lo and behold, he was.
According to FG, so far this year Leo has thrown his fastball 52.9 percent of the time and his change-up 39.4 percent of the time. And his third pitch, the slider is thrown about 7.6 percent of the time, which equates to at this point in the season just 16 pitches.
However, according to FG, Nuñez hasn't "added" anything this year. He's featured a slider since coming into the majors, using it on a whopping (relative to now) 19.9 percent of the time in 2007. If anything, Nuñez has nearly phased out his slider since joining the Fish, as he is throwing it less often (so far, though that is a small sample size, of course) this season than he ever had, and last year he only threw it 8.5 percent of the time.
Still, this can be a simple misunderstanding, either on my side or on the side of the Herald. No big deal.
That might have been enough to satisfy me usually, as I would've just made a personal note to look for it in the future. However, just before I closed the window, I noticed this: The average speed of Nuñez's slider in 2010 was 84.9 mph. The average speed of his change-up? 86.3 mph.
Now, I'm not a major league hitter or a coach, but I know it is common knowledge that a change-up should be about 8-12 mph slower than a fastball in order to be effective (in that it could be misread as a heater). That leads me to believe that the 1.5 mph difference in speed between Nuñez's change-up and slider is enough to challenge, if not discredit, the second half of Baker's quote on Nuñez, as realistically, Leo is throwing at essentially two speeds.
Now this is really getting interesting, so lets got the full nine yards and take a look at his slider with Pitch F/X via Joe Lefkowitz's awesome site.
Here is a chart of Leo's 2010 Horizontal vs. Vertical movement on his pitches thus far this year.
If you don't totally understand this chart, its worth reading up on, but suffice to say that for a right-handed pitcher like Leo, he'd want to see a spread looking something like this.
Now, looking at Leo's chart we can see that four of these sliders are not exactly what Randy Johnson was throwing. As a comparison, former Marlin Ryan Dempster (also a righty, making him a better comparison for Leo) has long had one of the best sliders in the game. Here is what his HvV chart looks like:
Now you have to look closely, but you can tell that Dempster's bunch is tighter, and is closer to 0 more consistently on the vertical front, while maintaining a horizontal cut away from the right-handed batter consistently. Those sliders that you see that are shown moving towards the right-handed hitter are the fabled "back-up slider" that is referenced during games occasionally, and while I don't understand the physics behind them, I know they are not a good thing.
So, when you look at Nuñez's complete HvV chart this season, next to the "best case scenario" chart showing where pitches should be, you can see that Nuñez's fastball and change-up are right where they should be and his slider seems to be closer to the inside edge of the chart's projection.
Based off of that information, you might be tempted to think that Leo's fastball and change-up are better than his slider.
And FanGraphs would back that up, especially since joining the Marlins. This season Leo's Fastball is 3.37 runs above average per 100 pitches, and his change-up is 6.05 runs above average/100 pitches.
The slider, over just 16 pitches mind you, is currently at negative-9.47 runs above average.
All right, so all signs seem to be pointing to Leo's slider not being very good, or very helpful right now. But since there have have been 16 thrown so far, let's look at them individually.
While I'd love to have a chart for you here, I couldn't make one easily enough, so you'll just have to trust me on this.
Of the 16 sliders Nuñez has thrown, all come against right-handed batters. Only two were thrown when Leo was behind in the count (both times 1-0) and he hasn't thrown any when he has more than one ball. So that should tell you his general confidence in the pitch.
Now of the 16 sliders, only four went for strikes, with none being the strikeout pitch.
Eleven of the sliders went for balls, including four out of five he threw against the Mets in his season-opening disaster (three walks).
The other slider? You might remember it better (as I did) if I told you that Aaron Rowand was the recipient of it.Yeah, it was that tying 2-out gopher ball Leo coughed up in the first game against San Francisco. Interestingly enough, both pitches that Nuñez threw to Rowand were sliders. The first was to the lower-outside corner and was borderline, called a ball. the next caught a nice bit of the plate, and you know what happened.
I think its fair to say that Leo's two worst appearance this year were the aforementioned New York Mets and San Francisco Giants games. And in those games his slider accounted for four of the 12 balls he threw in three critical walks in New York, and then the dreaded homer to Rowand.
The sample size is simply too small to draw any decisive conclusions, but the information available to us and to John Baker seem to go against his quoted opinion.
The speed difference probably isn't all that helpful in "adding and subtracting" as they say, while he clearly didn't "start" throwing the pitch this season (though Baker never intimated as much, from we we can tell from the except).
While it is true that opposing batters might have to keep Leo's slider in the back of their mind, its probably not keeping them up nights worrying about it.
Nuñez's strong start to the season seems to be more a product of his increased K-rate and ground ball rate thus far.
Both of those are probably a product of his outstanding and improved change-up, which is probably really the pitch that we and Baker should be talking about.


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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

#include "nsToolkit.h"
#include "nsAppShell.h"
#include "nsWindow.h"
#include "nsWidgetsCID.h"
#include "prmon.h"
#include "prtime.h"
#include "nsGUIEvent.h"
#include "nsIServiceManager.h"
#include "nsComponentManagerUtils.h"
#include <objbase.h>
#include <initguid.h>

#include "nsUXThemeData.h"

// unknwn.h is needed to build with WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <unknwn.h>

nsToolkit* nsToolkit::gToolkit = nullptr;
HINSTANCE nsToolkit::mDllInstance = 0;
static const unsigned long kD3DUsageDelay = 5000;

static void
StartAllowingD3D9(nsITimer *aTimer, void *aClosure)
{
  nsWindow::StartAllowingD3D9(true);
}

MouseTrailer*       nsToolkit::gMouseTrailer;

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// constructor
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
nsToolkit::nsToolkit()
{
    MOZ_COUNT_CTOR(nsToolkit);

#if defined(MOZ_STATIC_COMPONENT_LIBS)
    nsToolkit::Startup(GetModuleHandle(NULL));
#endif

    gMouseTrailer = &mMouseTrailer;

    mD3D9Timer = do_CreateInstance("@mozilla.org/timer;1");
    mD3D9Timer->InitWithFuncCallback(::StartAllowingD3D9,
                                     NULL,
                                     kD3DUsageDelay,
                                     nsITimer::TYPE_ONE_SHOT);
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// destructor
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
nsToolkit::~nsToolkit()
{
    MOZ_COUNT_DTOR(nsToolkit);
    gMouseTrailer = nullptr;
}

void
nsToolkit::Startup(HMODULE hModule)
{
    nsToolkit::mDllInstance = hModule;
    nsUXThemeData::Initialize();
}

void
nsToolkit::Shutdown()
{
    delete gToolkit;
    gToolkit = nullptr;
}

void
nsToolkit::StartAllowingD3D9()
{
  nsToolkit::GetToolkit()->mD3D9Timer->Cancel();
  nsWindow::StartAllowingD3D9(false);
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Return the nsToolkit for the current thread.  If a toolkit does not
// yet exist, then one will be created...
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// static
nsToolkit* nsToolkit::GetToolkit()
{
  if (!gToolkit) {
    gToolkit = new nsToolkit();
  }

  return gToolkit;
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
MouseTrailer::MouseTrailer() : mMouseTrailerWindow(nullptr), mCaptureWindow(nullptr),
  mIsInCaptureMode(false), mEnabled(true)
{
}
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
MouseTrailer::~MouseTrailer()
{
  DestroyTimer();
}
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
void MouseTrailer::SetMouseTrailerWindow(HWND aWnd)
{
  if (mMouseTrailerWindow != aWnd && mTimer) {
    // Make sure TimerProc is fired at least once for the old window
    TimerProc(nullptr, nullptr);
  }
  mMouseTrailerWindow = aWnd;
  CreateTimer();
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
void MouseTrailer::SetCaptureWindow(HWND aWnd)
{
  mCaptureWindow = aWnd;
  if (mCaptureWindow) {
    mIsInCaptureMode = true;
  }
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
nsresult MouseTrailer::CreateTimer()
{
  if (mTimer || !mEnabled) {
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Patrick Vincent Duffy ARHA, RHA
Active: 1854 - 1871
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor, stone carver
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The Great Cross at Monaster Boice, modelled from the original in the Dublin Industrial Exhibition
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1853
Multiple works
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected to membership of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
ARHA in 1860 and RHA 1861.
Officer of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
Keeper of RHA from 1871 to
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1854 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
'Patrick Vincent Duffy ARHA, RHA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1202818542, accessed 21 Jan 2022]


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Sources: Key task force not convened during Benghazi consulate attack
◼ CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG). - Sharyl Attkisson/CBS News
"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."
Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
The circumstances of the attack, including the intelligence and security situation there, will be the subject of a Senate Intelligence Committee closed hearing on Nov. 15, with additional hearings to follow....
Absent coordination from Counterterrorism Security Group, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official says the response to the crisis became more confused. The official says the FBI received a call during the attack representing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and requesting agents be deployed. But he and his colleagues agreed the agents "would not make any difference without security and other enablers to get them in the country and synch their efforts with military and diplomatic efforts to maximize their success."
Another senior counter terrorism official says a hostage rescue team was alternately asked to get ready and then stand down throughout the night, as officials seemed unable to make up their minds.
◼ Special ops halted from responding to Benghazi attacks, U.S. diplomat says - Ernesto Londoño/Washington Post
...The account is certain to reignite a debate over whether the Obama administration has been sufficiently forthcoming in its public accounting of the events and missteps that resulted in the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in a generation.
When it was all over and the jets had not been scrambled and the troops not dispatched, an American lieutenant colonel in Tripoli who commanded the four-man special ops team told Hicks he was sorry his men had been held back.
"I've never been so embarrassed in my life that a State Department officer has bigger balls than someone in the military," the officer told Hicks, according to the diplomat's account. Hicks called that "a nice compliment."...
◼ The hearing will explore why the State Department never activated its Foreign Emergency Support Team. - USA Today
Labels: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Investigations, Leon Panetta, President/candidate Obama, Scandals, Sharyl Attkisson
Sources: Key task force not convened during Bengha...


Fedora 10 has finally been released. Thus I can finally get rid of the countdown script I had that was messing with my page's ability to validate as HTML 4.01 Strict.
The most exciting thing about Fedora 10 for me is that my wireless card works now, just automatically. I installed it on my laptop, logged in, and before my GNOME panels even slid into view, the balloon from the network applet was already visible telling me there were wireless networks nearby. :-D So no longer do I have to fsck with the kernel or use MadWifi patches to get the wireless to work.
Also, Fedora 10 is just really pretty. I actually downloaded a leaked copy of the DVD image the day before it was officially released, to install it in a virtual machine and play around with it (I wanted to wait for it to be officially released so I could verify the sha1sum of the DVD image before installing it on any real PCs). On the virtual machine there was no graphical boot screen, only a text-mode one that had a text-mode progress bar at the bottom. But on my laptop the boot screen was pretty awesome. It had the supernova picture that's part of Fedora 10's theme and it had solar flare animations coming off it.
Current Mood: Excited like omg.


These bars have been around forever. We baked a variation of these and served them at our wedding reception back in 1982. I know, 1982? Yes, we had ovens back then.
I believe these were one of Grant's Grandmother's favorites, so we added it to our dessert menu for the reception. We had all kinds of other yummy treats including hundreds of little finger sandwiches that Grandmother Lauder and Great Aunt Mille made the day before the wedding. What a wonderful memory and legacy they left their families of love and service! I still remember those little rolled and layered sandwiches, and the buffet of miniature desserts: Chiffon Nut Bars, Peanut Butter Balls, Shortbread cookies and Hello Dolly Bars.
Most people know this dessert by the name "7 Layer Bars" or Hello Dolly Bars. I tweaked this recipe over the years to include a thicker layer of the filling, and baked it less to make the treats a little less dry, and a little more chewy.
Every Christmas cookie tray needs a bar cookie.
This is it. Crushed cookies and butter. Two types of chocolate. A little butterscotch. A layer of caramel. Coconut and pecans. What more could you ask for in a treat?
Not really. Ill be back tomorrow with another Christmas cookie recipe.
Heat oven 350°F. Spray 13 x 9-inch baking pan lightly with non stick cooking spray.
Pulse crackers in a food processor or finely crush in a bag. Combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter and 1 tablespoon sugar; mix well. Press crumb mixture firmly into bottom of prepared pan.
Top with 2 cups milk chocolate chips.
Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture and milk chocolate chips.
Layer evenly with remaining ingredients; press down firmly with fork.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Loosen from sides of pan while still warm; cool on wire rack. Cut into bars or diamonds. Yield: 2 dozen bars.
-*Veritable Petit Buerre crackers are a plain slightly sweet biscuit-type cracker sold in Europe. I had some in my pantry and used them in this recipe. Don't feel like you need to use up your stash of imported crackers or cookies to make this recipe. Any type of dry, sweet cracker or cookie will work. Or you may use all graham crackers instead of combining two types of cookie.-If you want to make a really thick bar, use a 9x9 pan and bake for an additional 8 minutes on the lower third of the oven.


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At the meeting of the European Council on 12 February 2015, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker presented an Analytical Note – Preparing for next steps on better economic governance in the Euro area, a first step towards the report by Presidents of the European Commission, European Council, European Central Bank and Eurogroup to be presented to the European Council in June. The Note included a list of topical questions on the future of Europe. Here are the answers of the European Federalists to some of the key questions.
We ask members of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments, in particular those working on the future of EMU governance and the European Union institutions, to pledge their support.
- Stronger institutions with the powers to ensure that each Member State achieves a sustainable debt and a competitive economy.
- More economic and political integration for a European economic policy that promotes economic growth.
- A euro area which goes beyond coordination of national policies, towards a European economic policy.
- Institutions able to enforce agreed rules and to directly intervene at national level when rules are not respected.
- Deeper economic and fiscal integration.
- Adequate forms of European taxation and new forms of European debt instruments to gather resources to promote a proactive European economic and social policy and jointly build solidarity and competitiveness.
- Strong European institutions and powers to enforce agreed structural reforms at national level.
- Strong democratic participation and accountability.
- A European Parliament truly involved in the development and monitoring of economic and fiscal measure related to the monetary union.


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Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More
When you ingest a stomach hormone called ghrelin it causes your brain to respond to food the way junkies respond to drugs. You are filled with an intense desire for it, and eating it becomes far more memorable. Researchers at Montreal's McGill University studied people's reactions to food after they had ingested ghrelin, and discovered that it made them crave whatever food they were shown in pictures — even if they had just eaten. Drugs that tamper with ghrelin are just around the corner.
Since ghrelin isn't regulated, a fast food restaurant that wanted to sell more food could easily turn it into an additive in their hamburgers or donuts, essentially "addicting" people to their food. Or making them hungrier so that they buy more.
On the other hand, drugs that tamper with ghrelin could also be made to have the opposite effect. they could be used in diet pills to make you feel less hungry, and make food less memorable or appealing. Reports New Scientist about such drugs:
But they might have unintended behavioural side effects, as well, [researcher Alain] Dagher says. Meddling with ghrelin levels could alter the brain's natural sense of rewards, potentially causing mood changes and even depression.
A diet drug called rimonabant that acts on a similar but separate brain system has been linked to depression and suicide, and although it is on sale in other countries, the US Food and Drug Administration has been slow to approve the pill.
But knocking out ghrelin could help scientists pick apart the hormone's effects on the brain, says Matthias Tschop, an obesity expert at the University of Cincinnati.
"Does the pizza not smell that good anymore? Does the pizza not look as good anymore?" he adds.
Research in mice and rats suggests that the hormone changes how they see and smell food, and the same might be true in humans.
Ghrelin drugs seem pretty much inevitable, though one wonders what the warnings in tiny print will say on the labels. Perhaps: "Warning: This may change your perception of rewards."
Stomach Hormone turns Hungry People into Junkies [New Scientist]
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DRDO: Institutions That Shaped Modern India
An introduction to DRDO, the organization empowering India and its defence forces. The end of colonial rule was an important milestone worth celebrating, but what lay ahead was a long journey towards the making of modern India. The narrative of 'modern India' would be incomplete without the stories of institutions that helped shape India as we know it today. This volume, part of a series on Institutions that Shaped Modern India, offers an in-depth introduction to one such institution—the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It engagingly tells the story of DRDO from its inception to present times. Capturing its history and its evolution, dotted with several remarkable achievements and some equally critical challenges, and offering thought-provoking suggestions too, this book is an ode to an institution that has been a crucial contributor to India's defence needs, equipping it with state-of-the-art indigenous defence technologies, and has played a seminal role in nation-building.


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Q: How to append the keyword "Continued" word with table header in SSRS on all the subsequent pages? I have created RDL using SSRS that has one tablix with 4 fields and I have set the dataset for the tablix. The problem here is when the dataset rows increases then the tablix extends to new pages. Let say for example the table header name is "Employees". When the table extends to new pages because of more rows in the datasets, then we have to repeat the table header in all the new pages when its starts like "Employees continued". By properties we can repeat the table header "Employees" but how to achieve "Employees continued" in all subsequent pages.
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