If Locke was the most influential philosopher in the swirling debates of fin de siècle Holland, the most prolific writer and educator was Pierre Bayle, whom Voltaire called "the first of the skeptical philosophers." He might also be called the first of the encyclopaedists, for he was more publicist than philosopher, eclectic in his interests, information, and ideas. The title Nouvelles de la république des lettres (1684–87) conveys the method and ideal of this superior form of journalism. Bayle's Historical Dictionary (1697) exposed the fallacies and deceits of the past by the plausible method of biographical articles. "The grounds of doubting are themselves doubtful; we must therefore doubt whether we ought to doubt." Lacking a sound criterion of truth or a system by which evidence could be tested but hating dogma and mistrusting authority, Bayle was concerned with the present state of knowledge. He may have been as much concerned with exposing the limitations of human reason as with attacking superstition. Translated and abridged, as, for example, by order of Frederick II of Prussia, the Dictionary became the skeptic's bible. The effect of Bayle's work and that of others less scrupulous, pouring from the presses of the Netherlands and Rhineland and easily penetrating French censorship, could not fail to be broadly subversive.
Bayle's seminal role in the cultural exchange of his time points to the importance of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century. Because Holland contributed little to science, philosophy, or even art at the time of the philosophes, though enviable enough in the tranquil lives of many of its citizens, its golden 17th century tends to be overlooked in traditional accounts of the Enlightenment. Wealth derived from trade, shipping, and finance and the toleration that attracted Sephardic Jews, Protestants from Flanders and France, and other refugees or simply those who sought a relatively open society combined to create a climate singularly favourable to enterprise and creativity. It was urban, centring on Amsterdam, and it was characterized by a rich artistic life created by painters who worked to please patrons who shared their values. It was pervaded by a scientific spirit. Pieter de Hooch's search for new ways of portraying light, Spinoza's pursuit of a rational system that would comprehend all spiritual truth. Antony van Leeuwenhoek's use of the microscope to reveal the hidden and minute, Hermann Boerhaave's dissection of the human corpse, Jan Blaeuw's accuracy in the making of maps or Huygens' in the new pendulum clock—each represents that passion for discovery that put 17th-century Holland in a central position between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, with some of the creative traits of both periods. Its spirit is epitomized in the university of Leiden, which attracted students from throughout Europe by its excellence in medicine and law and its relative freedom from ecclesiastical authority.
Allied to that confidence in the power of reason was a prejudice against knowledge that might distort argument. Blaise Pascal had perfectly exemplified that rationalist frame of mind prone to introspection, which in his case—that of mathematical genius and literary sensibility in rare combination—produced some of the finest writing of his day. But the author of the Pensées (1669) was reluctant to travel: "All the ills that affect a man proceed from one cause, namely that he has not learned to sit quietly and contentedly in one room." Again, the object of the protagonists of the prevailing classicism had been to establish rules: for language (the main role of the Académie), for painting (as in the work of Nicolas Poussin), even for the theatre, where Jean Racine's plays of heightened feeling and pure conflict of ideal or personality gain effect by being constrained within the framework of their Greek archetypes.


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Majorities of Men, Seniors and Independents View Trump Unfavorably With Less Than 10 Days to Election Day: Poll
By Jason Lemon On 10/25/20 at 9:09 AM EDT
U.S. Joe Biden Donald Trump Republican Democrat
With less than 10 days to Election Day, majorities of men, Americans over 65, and independent voters view President Donald Trump unfavorably, new polling shows.
Trump has trailed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who served as vice president under former President Barack Obama, in every major national poll since early September. Now that there are just nine days until Election Day on November 3, polling by ABC News/Ipsos shows that the majority of Americans (57 percent) view Trump unfavorably. Just 35 percent view the president favorably.
The survey found that Trump has a deficit among several key demographics of voters that helped propel him to victory in 2016. Among men, 53 percent view the president unfavorably, while 53 percent of those over 65 years of age and 57 percent of independents also view the president negatively.
Meanwhile, only 43 percent of Americans view Biden unfavorably while 44 percent view him favorably. Although the Democratic nominee's favorability is relatively low, it's still 9 percentage points higher than that of Trump. Biden's unfavorability with men and independents is lower than Trump's as well, standing at 49 percent and 48 percent respectively.
This combination of photos shows President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during the final debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee on October 22 JIM WATSON,BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty
Notably, Trump's favorability among Republican voters stands significantly lower than Biden's favorability among Democratic voters. While 90 percent of Democrats have a positive view of the former vice president, just 74 percent of Republicans view Trump favorably.
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The current RealClearPolitics average of national polls shows Biden with a lead of about 8 percentage points over Trump—with nearly 51 percent of likely voters backing the Democrat compared to less than 43 percent who support the incumbent Republican. The FiveThirtyEight polling average gives Biden a slightly stronger edge, with a lead of 9 percentage points—or about 52 percent as opposed to just 43 percent for Trump.
Although all recent polling suggests Biden will easily win the popular vote, all eyes are on key battleground and swing states. In 2016, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won nearly 3 million more individual votes than Trump, but the president pulled off a series of narrow wins in swing states, giving him a big win in the Electoral College.
Recent polls suggest Biden is well-positioned to win in several swing states—particularly Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These states went for Obama in 2008 and 2012 before flipping red for Trump in 2016. But the current RealClearPolitics averages show Biden leading by just over 5 percentage points in Pennsylvania, nearly 8 points in Michigan, and by more than 4 percentage points in Wisconsin. The Democrat is narrowly favored to win in Florida as well, another state that went blue in 2008 and 2012 before flipping for Trump in the last presidential election.

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The kit itself is simply the best model kit I have ever worked with. By that I don't mean my finished result, I mean the raw components contained within the box. The finish, moldings, panel lines, cockpit & wheel-well detail and overall fit were literally flawless.
The Aires set was a little vague when it came to instructions but I managed to sort most of it out by trial & error. The main potential technical problem is the fit of the bulkhead framing which is provided as a large single photo-etched piece. Perhaps it was my ineptitude, perhaps the result of using a piece designed for an Academy kit on a Tamiya kit - perhaps a bit of both - but I couldn't make it work so ultimately I cut it into several components and secured each on in place sequentially using cyano. The main potential artistic problem was that despite the beautifully rendered engine, I wanted to show the checkered cowl in all of it's glory so opted ultimately to open only part of the forward fuselage. I intentionally kept the yellow-chromate finish simple and minimally weathered, wanting mostly to provide a "sense" of what lay beneath.
The main challenge for me was my first attempt at a natural metal finish and frankly I failed dismally at first. I executed a nice aluminum coat, only to mask the next round of panels using yellow Tamiya tape. I thought I'd played it safe by repeatedly tearing the tape strips off the back of my hand in order to reduce their "tackiness" but I was unprepared for the experience of literally tearing my underlying paintjob to shreds as I removed the strips after the second coat. The only positive outcome was that based on my ability to speak a couple of languages I might have set some sort of multicultural profanity record!!!
I left the entire disaster overnight and reluctantly tackled it again the next day, sanding and polishing every inch, all the while fully expecting to toss the lot into the trash at any moment. In this frame of mind, I decided to just coat everything with a cheap tin of Humbrol "metal coat" (as opposed to array of more expensive metalizers which I had purchased). Most aircraft finishes are exceptionally unforgiving when it comes to showing underlying blemishes but this stuff literally covered and smoothed out my earlier mistakes like some sort of magical, superfine, surfacing product! I could barely believe my eyes as I airbrushed a couple of coats into place and can't recommend this product highly enough. Now, both encouraged at being back in the game and "once bitten" by the original taping disaster, I took some advice and used soft office "post-its" to mask a few panels before changing to a different metal-finish. This worked perfectly, not lifting a single spot of underlying paint. Hopefully others will benefit from my painful learning curve - use "post-its" not tape!
I glossed the airframe and decided to use (Aeromaster) decals to mark the attractive invasion stripes. Biblical amounts of setting solution were required to allow them to settle around several fuselage and wing shapes but ultimately they worked out fairly well. Next time, however, I think I'll mask and spay them. One issue was the way they "smothered" the fine panel lines on the upper wing surfaces. Once firm, I addressed this by using a soft plastic ruler and extremely fine lead pencil to "trace the panel lines back into place". A light panel-wash, minimal "Mig" pigment weathering, a light flat-coat and the final attachment of prop, canopy etc using white-glue concluded the project. Overall I'm pleased with the result and decided to place the finished model alongside one of its adversaries in my office (convenient, since the 109 is so much smaller than the P-47 in the same scale). Hope you enjoy the pictures.
On a final note, this weekend I made it to the IPMS nationals in Phoenix where I like to think I personally helped keep both the CMK and Aires trade-stands in business! There were also some beautiful decal sets available in 1/48 scale (notably the eastern block "Hi-Decal" line and the SAM Publications "End of an Era" Sea Harrier set. Now I have to decide whether to tackle an F-117, an F-22, a Mig-29, a SHAR2 or a flanker next (all of which are waiting patiently on my shelf)?


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Repub leaders choose virus over their own employees
Bruce Maples
Let's start with some facts that everyone knows, even if they don't acknowledge them:
COVID cases are rising again.
The Delta variant is becoming the dominant strain of COVID.
The Delta variant is much more contagious than earlier strains. And, it appears it is also much more deadly.
Being vaccinated does not guarantee you will not get this new variant, but it will keep you from getting as sick.
Being vaccinated AND wearing a mask is the best way to protect yourself from getting COVID.
And finally, wearing a mask also protects those around you – which is especially important, as recent data indicates that vaccinated people can still be a carrier for the Delta variant.
Those are all facts. You can dispute them, you can whine about them, but COVID doesn't care.
So, in light of the facts above, the CDC has gone back to recommending masks for everyone in public places, and for children in school (since they can't be vaccinated). Our governor, in response, followed the science and the CDC recommendations and said that state employees had to wear masks inside their offices, whether or not they are vaccinated.
Unfortunately, three of our state officials — all Republican, of course — have chosen to support the virus over their own employees.
As noted by the Courier-Journal, Ryan Quarles (Ag), Mike Harmon (Auditor), and Allison Ball (Treasurer), have all said that they will not follow the mask mandate in their offices.
It's worth noting that Harmon has already announced he will run for governor in 2023, and Quarles is considering it.
Here are the explanations those three offered for their decisions:
Quarles: "It's time to end the mandates as the voluntary vaccines offer the best protection from COVID-19 and the Delta variant. It's an individual choice."
Harmon: "The majority of employees who regularly work [in their Frankfort office] are vaccinated and can also social distance in their individual workspaces."
Ball: "The Treasury has a very high rate of vaccination among its employees, and the staff has been extremely responsible both in monitoring their own health, and in not placing their fellow employees at undue risk."
Apparently, protecting their fellow workers from the Delta variant is not that important to these three Repubs.
Asked about these responses, Beshear said, "I care more about my people than my popularity. I've got the backbone to do what's right for them. I wish other people did, too."
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Hard Proof Afrobeat: Honoring Its Moniker
Local horns rile the Continental Club Thursdays in August
By Andy Bianculli, 3:15PM, Wed. Aug. 7, 2013
You'd think that the music of Hard Proof Afrobeat, a local act with the genre to which it pays homage firmly imbedded in its name, would be easy to pin down. Think again. A cursory overview of afrobeat leads readers through a labyrinth of African history that transcends music, borders, language, and politics.
The best place to start remains Fela Kuti, afrobeat's most famous composer and the man who coined the term. The music the Nigerian funk orchestrator created throughout the Seventies set the mold for what the genre would become in the decades to follow.
Given the music's rich history, I wasn't surprised that Hard Proof drummer Stephen Bidwell and trumpeter Derek Phelps arrived to our conversation well-versed and passionate about the music that inspired them. Unlike those of us whose musical obsessions fall a bit closer to home, I was curious how, in a time before Spotify and YouTube, a fan of afrobeat – or better yet, an aspiring composer of the sound – got started, and what first attracted them to the music.
"I started to seek this music out in the mid-Nineties," explains Bidwell. "A lot of reissues and compilations made things easier. Many of Fela's records got released on CD, and there was the extensive Ethiopiques series. Actually seeing any of this stuff on vinyl was kind of rare, and I say that having spent most of my free time in record stores back then.
"Things are much more available now, obviously. Aside from big names that westerners might know – Fela, Mulatu Astetke, King Sunny Ade, Ebo Taylor – the more obscure stuff ends up being one track someone emailed you with a name you can't pronounce and can't find any other songs by the artist.
"The first song we learned when we were assembling this group was 'Muziqawi Silt' by the Walias Band, and I don't know that I've heard anything else of theirs. I started buying these records when I was studying traditional folkloric drumming back as an undergrad at a world music school. When we started this band five years ago there was a lot of audio passed around.
"I recall a Pitchfork compilation called Africa 100 that was a good primer; blogs like Awesome Tapes from Africa and Voodoofunk can save you from a lot of crate digging and find some really cool stuff.
"I also had a friend who DJ'd an African night for years; he gave me about eight gigabytes of stuff he had gotten from pen pals in Africa and other DJs. I've still barely made a dent in listening to that stuff. The African continent really is bottomless when it comes to its pop music.
"Take a country like Ghana. Ghana isn't that big, but within that country there's something like 60 to 80 different spoken languages. Think about that and imagine that everyone has their own subset of pop music or deviation. It's bottomless."
Austin Chronicle: With all that to consider, do you make distinctions between your blend and what can be called traditional afrobeat?
Derek Phelps: Well to start, we don't have a vocalist and we aren't overtly political.
Stephen Bidwell: Also, a lot of our music – even our covers – isn't based necessarily on this afrobeat music that came from Nigeria in the Seventies. We almost immediately starting playing other stuff like Ethiopian music and Ghanaian music and the many flavors of African pop music. We inadvertently took a Pan-African approach according to what we liked. I know Jason is into Mulatu Astetke, whose music is famously in the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers. So sometimes when he's writing, he dips into that.
AC: Is there a clear cut line that makes something afrobeat?
SB: People say highlife kind of begat afrobeat in a way, more or less, but there's a funny debate between Nigerians and Ghanaians. If you ask a Nigerian, they'll tell you they invented everything. Ghanaians will tell you highlife made afrobeat because Fela had a highlife band before he started calling it afrobeat, and it just gets into funny arguments about origination.
DP: It's interesting, because I always thought of afrobeat as a sort of funk music brought from James Brown. You hear so much of James Brown in afrobeat with the shouting and the feels. So that's interesting because highlife is almost calypso or Caribbean or Latin.
SB: I'm sure there was something in the diaspora, the back and forth between the New World and Africa, when the State Department no doubt sent over a bunch of Harry Belafonte records, which got lifted and incorporated.
AC: How exactly do you compose, since it seems rhythmically inspired? Are you developing grooves first and forming the horn parts or melodic lines around it?
DP: I guess everyone writes differently. We have a lot of songwriters in the band. Almost everybody has written a song or multiple songs.
AC: How does that usually start?
DP: That depends, because as a trumpet player, I think of melody first. That's changing, because recently I've been thinking of grooves.
SB: I can't think of too many times where songs came out of jamming, because there's 10 guys and just getting in a room and jamming usually ends in us cracking up laughing. But usually, someone will bring in a chart and won't have everything, so something is left up to the rest of us.
AC: How democratic is that process? Does some stuff not make the cut, or are there situations when there are just too many cooks in the kitchen?
SB: We made a message board with a thread for each song so anyone that wanted to participate and make their opinion heard jumped onto that, and I thought that was a pretty good way to work. We attempt to be a democracy, and I think for the most part we achieve that.
AC: I'm assuming that a lot of your music is directed towards enhancing the live show. Was it difficult to get into the studio and keep that energy?
SB: We ended up using a lot of live stuff, but we overdubbed percussion and a lot of guitars as well. But we used a lot of original horn takes directly to tape.
AC: Because there aren't lyrics or vocalists, are the songwriters using song titles to insinuate themes or meanings of the songs?
DP: It's either a vaguely political title or a bad pun. Usually a bad pun.
SB: More often a bad pun, but usually 80 percent of what comes out of Derek's mouth is a bad pun.
AC: Any plans to get back into the studio?
SB: We're making a single with Jim Eno at Public HI-FI, and we're going to attempt to do that entirely live and completely analog from top to bottom. And we will be releasing it as a 12-inch 45 rpm single and we'll hopefully track that in October. Also, we're talking about doing a recording collaboration with Zorch, which runs a venue on the East Side called the Museum of Human Achievement.
AC: I heard about that place. It used to be an old sex shop or factory or something.
SB: I haven't heard that, but it makes the name Museum of Human Achievement that much more brilliant. Hopefully we will do that in the winter. We're getting prolific again with the writing, so hopefully we will have an album to track by next spring.
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Who like Surfing and Motorcycles? Well over the past several years we have seen the surfing culture mix with the motorcycle scene. One of the major pioneers of this movement has been Deus Ex Machina. They have a created a culture and business that mixes Surfing, Motorcycles and Bicycles in perfect symbiotic relationship. Their store are the perfect hangout for surfers and motorcyclists alike. In my opinion, it doesn't get much better then that other than opening one up over here in Long Beach, New York.
Since this beautiful marriage of culture, Deus Ex Machina has produced some of the coolest motorcycles with a surfing twist on them. One of the first bikes that we saw them build for the surf culture was the Dover's Dog. A cool little Yamaha SR500 thats ready to get you out there on the waves. A simple, lightweight machine with a surfboard carrier that should be a must for any surfer.
Deus Ex Machina pumped out another cool surf bike named the "Red Pill". Build around one of their main models, the Yamaha W650, this bike is ready to rip of the back roads of Australia with your surfboard along side. Done in a traditional cafe racer style up front and more Brat style seat in the rear, this thing is a must have for any Australian surfer.
On to my favorite Deus Ex Machina build the D-Side. A Yamaha XV960 that not only carries your surfboard but has a side car to take that surfer chick in your life with you. This thing has so many cool features from the boat inspired side car to the custom hand made wood carrier in the rear to hold all your beach stuff. If I had to own one, this would be the bike on the top of my list.
Since the rise in these custom made surf inspired motorcycles, some professional surfers have taken notice. Chippa Wilson being one of them when he commissioned a custom made Triumph Bonneville by British Customs. Chippa did an interview with BC and talked about his passion to just ride and explore Australia on the open with his surfboard. This has allowed him to explore to ground and areas to ride the waves.
Another new comer to the surf bike scene is Sol Invictus Motorcycle Company. Their model called the "Mercury Neptune" is the perfect bike to going whipping around the coast with your surfboard. Designed to be simple yet functional, they have created a design that can be carried over to just about any motorcycle for someone looking to build one. Go check out there Neptune build on their website listed above.
So if you are a lover of Surfing and Motorcycles, I suggest you check out some of the builders at the below links. They have combined the surfing and motorcycle cultures perfectly while creating beautiful custom machines to help you get to the waves.


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Lee is available for:
Personal gatherings
Media and on-air appearances
Team-building exercises through cooking
Would you like to book Lee for your next event?
Contact Lee directly at:
lee@seasonedkitchen.com
Television and Radio Appearances Include:
Colorado's Everyday Show
Good Day LA
KUSA 9News (NBC)
KMGH Channel 7 (ABC)
KWGN's Daybreak (CW2)
Vail's TV 8
KOTA TV Scottsbluff, NE (ABC)
The Gabby Gourmet Show on KHOW Radio
Angie Austin Radio
What's Cookin' on CRN Digital Talk Radio
The Good Life on 1330 KNSS
What's Cookin' with Luca on WKBK Radio
America's Dining & Travel Show on Business Talk Radio OntheMenuRadio.com
KNEB-AM and KCMI-FM radio in Scottsbluff, NE
Cooking with Marilyn on 55KRC Radio in Cincinnati, OH
Speaking Engagements, Demos and Cooking Classes Include:
A Taste of Colorado
Cherry Creek North Food & Wine Festival
Christian Living Communities
Denver Food & Wine Classic
Denver Botanic Gardens
Douglas County Libraries
EVOO Marketplace
Seasoned Chef Cooking School (Denver, CO)
CSG International
Monday Forum
The Assistance League of Cincinnati
Various Garden Clubs
For over 25 years, Lee Clayton Roper was a successful cable television executive attending to high profile projects around the world. She oversaw the creation and launch of numerous new products, negotiated large deals and was frequently invited to speak at national and international conventions, conferences and corporate gatherings. But in her heart, she never strayed far from the family kitchen—where she always found comfort and strength. In 2009 she made the move from the corporate world to pursue her passion for cooking and entertaining.
Today, Lee is an award-winning cookbook author, cooking instructor, public speaker and TV personality. Her first book, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen®, co-written with her mother Sally Clayton, received numerous rave reviews, and is often featured in local and national press. In 2010, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen® achieved national acclaim, winning the prestigious "Living Now" gold medal. With Fresh Tastes, published in November 2015, Lee expands the A Well-Seasoned Kitchen® collection, serving up fresh, delicious and sophisticated dishes guaranteed to inspire creativity in kitchens everywhere.
At every appearance, Lee delivers a pinch of practical advice and a healthy serving of inspiration.
Lee shares her passion with others via public speaking. Leveraging her previous experience as a masterful corporate speaker, Lee has honed her on-stage presence, messages and style. She is dynamic, engaging and charming as she delivers motivational keynotes about her experiences—both in and out of the kitchen. In addition to sharing her expertise on the cooking and entertaining lifestyle, she has become a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of leadership, entrepreneurship—and more personally, the loving story of Lee and her mother's personal journey that inspired the A Well-Seasoned Kitchen® cookbook collection. Her stories about following her heart leave audiences inspired and encouraged to reflect upon their own lives.
Subjects Lee speaks about:
The loving story behind the development of her first book, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen®, and how she created a more meaningful relationship with her aging mother as they wrote the cookbook together
Lessons learned—both in and out of the kitchen—from people and places that have inspired her
Finding the courage to change careers and pursue your passion
Lee's 10 Key Ingredients for a Successful Career
Stress-Free Entertaining—Tips, Menus and Recipes
Kitchen How-To—Cooking with Fresh Herbs, Easy Grilling Techniques and More
How to Write and Publish a Cookbook
Lee was wonderful. She is an excellent speaker whom the audience loved. We were very fortunate to have her at our event.
Books & Brunch Committee
Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati
Lee took the time to know and understand our organization and our goals with our special event. She then took that information and related it to her own experiences. The result was a wonderful evening of meaningful storytelling and sharing of Lee's personal experiences and expertise that captivated and entertained our guests while at the same time supporting our mission of enriching the lives of seniors. As an additional bonus Lee worked with the hotel chef and we were able to have a few items from her cookbook prepared for our more than 400 guests. Thanks to Lee, the evening was a home run!
Pam Sullivan
Associate Executive Director, Marketing and Development, Christian Living Communities
The Crestmoor Park Garden Club had the pleasure of hosting Lee Clayton Roper, co-author of A Well-Seasoned Kitchen®, as a speaker and guest chef. Her warm personality and wonderful cooking demonstration made for one of our best (and tastiest) meetings!
Missy Eliot
Working with Lee to speak at one of our Women's Networking Events was an absolute pleasure. Not only was she flexible while scheduling the event, but her presentation was greatly enjoyed by all who attended. The messaging was beautifully adapted to relate to the targeted audience and helped to drive key points home in a fun and memorable format. The attendees found her interactive presentation a great change of pace and of course the food was delicious. Thanks for making the afternoon memorable!
Julie Wohlers
Communications Manager, CSG international
Contact Lee directly at lee@seasonedkitchen.com or 303.733.2681


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Q: Binary Search or Btree index update issue Imagine that you are handed a new book everyday from an author.
The book is a work in progress.
He does not tell you what he has changed or added.
Your job is to identify the changes and additions, and pass ONLY these along to the publisher (who does not have time to read the entire book everyday)
For the purposes of this problem, the book is comprised of 1m lines of ascii text and growing (actually a MySQL backup file).
My current idea is to make a secure hash (SHA256 for example) of each line (1k Chars) and store it on HD. Since the hash is only 32bytes the file is only 32MB.
Then when we get the next file tomorrow, we go through it line by line, creating a new hash for each line and comparing it to the hash from the previous day.
When the process is finished we overwrite the hash file ready for the next day.
The comparison uses a binary search method of string compare ( > < operands)
This returns a result in an average of four iterations.
I have not coded a btree index solution yet, but how would you tackle this?

A: I would use diff.
If I needed to implement it within my own program, I would use one of the algorithms for finding the longest common subsequence of two sequences, treating each file as a sequence of lines.

A: "Then when we get the next file tomorrow, we go through it line by line, creating a new hash for each line and comparing it to the hash from the previous day."
Got it: 1m lines of today's hash values compared with 1m lines of yesterday's values.
Do lines get inserted or removed?  If not, this is a simple set of parallel reads to see if the hashes are different.
If there are adds or removals, you'll have to use the diff algorithm to determine the scope of the change.
All that's fine.  Not too difficult to implement.
In that context, the following makes no sense.

The comparison uses a binary search
  method of string compare ( > <
  operands) This returns a result in an
  average of four iterations.

Is there some kind of ordering to the hash values?  Or some tree structure?

A: A book of 1 million lines is huge: there are perhaps 30 - 50 lines per page, so let's be generous and assume 100 lines per page, which means 10,000 pages in the book.
Lines of 1 KB are also much larger than is normal; basic readability suggests nowhere near that many characters per line.  Do you intend to hash lines of up to 1 KB, or chunk the file in 1 KB chunks?  One problem with your scheme is that any repeated lines would have a repeated hash; you could never identify when one of those lines was added or deleted.
You would, presumably, need to notify the publisher of deleted lines too.
As with Glomek, I would use diff on the file.  If you keep the file under RCS or CVS control, you would have just current version of the file and the diffs between prior versions stored.  With this, you would be able to provide cumulative diffs over a week or month too.
And I probably wouldn't develop my own B-Tree indexing.

A: the solution you describe is somewhat similar to the rsync algorithm.  one important point is that rsync has to recognize existing chunks anywhere in the target file, at any offset from original.
if your files are really record-structured, you can simplify a bit like you propose.  if not, you need a rolling checksum.
also, do you have to recognize reorderings? or only insertions/deletions/replacements?
the most generic case is the full rsync algorithm, which goes like this:

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*parameters definition:

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*choose a block size 512, or 1k usually work ok.

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*choose a 'strong' checksum.  something like from MD4 or so.  64bits are plenty.

*choose a 'weak' rolling checksum. one that lets you 'substract' the tail byte and 'add' a head byte to get the checksum of a block 1-byte forward.  usually a 16-bit checksum works ok.

*signature of old file:

*

*traverse the whole old file, at each block calculate both weak and strong checksums.  with 16 and 64 bits checksums, and 512byte blocks that means 10bytes per block, or 20KB per megabyte.  this is the 'signature'

*create 'patch' with new file, and signature of old file:

*

*load the signature of the old file, the best is a hash table, with the weak checksums as keys, the strong checksums and block position are the values.

*

*read the first block of the new file

*calculate the weak checksum of loaded block

*check the hash table to see if the weak checksum is there.

*if found, calculate the strong checksum and compare with the one found in the hash

*if both checksums match, mark as 'got it' with the block reference in the hash, advance one whole blocksize and go back to step 3

*if the strong checksum didn't match, or if the weak checksum wasn't in the hash, 'roll' the weak checksum, that is, 'add' the next byte after the bloc, and 'substract' the first byte from the tail.

*add the byte 'substracted' from the tail to the list of 'new' bytes in the patch

*go back to step 4

*apply patch to old file

*

*the 'patch' is the list of 'new' bytes that dropped off while rolling the checksum, plus the list of 'got it' blocks that match on the old file.

A: This is a technique used for incremental loading on a data warehouse.  In the situation where you do not have the ability to identify changed data within a source system, you can take out a snapshot of the data and compare it with your last snapshot to identify the differences.  This technique even gets a mention in Ralph Kimball's book on the subject and is used in an application I was involved in the design of.
You need a hashing algorithm with a very wide key as this approach is vulnerable to birthday attacks.  MD5 or any of the SHA family would be good.  It also cannot detect deletions without a post-process that goes through the difference looking for missing natural keys.  This computation actually needs to be aware of the table structure.

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One problem with your scheme is that any repeated lines would have a repeated hash; you could never identify when one of those lines was added or deleted

Very good point, but not an issue. A repeated line is a duplicate and all duplicates are deleted in the next stage of processing. So yes you are right, but it is not an issue.
"diff" link takes me to a page with a description of what I assume is an application?
There is no download link, there is no code in any language... What am I missing here?
Some of you have talked about byte level granularity. This is not needed. only line level granularity is required because if anything on the line has been changed, the entire line (record) must be reprocessed becasue any change within the line affects the whole line.
So we are comparing lines of approx 1000 chars (no binary), in two files (todays snapshot and yesterdays snapshot) that are each approx 1m lines.
So using a secure hash like SHA256 (MD5 has collisions and is slow by comparison) I can process about 30MB/sec on my HO laptop. The server of course will chew through it a lot faster.
So if the file is arond 1GB, then making all the hases takes about 33sec, and reading 1Gb file using windows page memory takes about 30sec. Not horrific
Now we have two arrays of hashs representing the lines in each file.
If we sort them, we can now use a binary search, so we iterate our way through the new files hashs looking for a match in the old files hashs. If we dont find it, that line is added to the changes file.
Keep in mind that the book of lines (legacy database) is unknown in every aspect. There is no guarantee of order of lines, location of changes, type of changes.
The suggestions of reading foreward page by page is good, but assumes that the two files are in the smae order up untill the first change. This cannot be assumed. The lines (rows) could be in any order. Also choosing an arbitrary blocksize violates the granularity of a line. For the purposes of this task, lines are immutable.
From that excellent link on invrementa loading:
File Comparison Capture: This method is also known as the snapshot differential method. This method works by keeping before and after images of files that are of concern to the data warehouse. Records are compared to find changes, and record keys are compared to find inserts and deletes. This technique is most appropriate in the case of legacy systems due to the fact that triggers typically do not exist and transaction logs are either non-existent or in a proprietary format. Since most legacy databases have some mechanism for dumping data into files, this technique creates periodic snapshots and then compares the results to produce change records. Certainly, all the problems of static capture are present here. Added complexity is introduced by the challenge of comparing entire rows of information and by key identification and matching. This technique is complex in nature and typically not desirable but, in some cases, may be the only solution.
This is most relevant here:
As we proceed into the realm of terabyte data warehouses, the ability to rebuild the data warehouse from scratch on a nightly basis will go the way of the dinosaur. The logical and efficient approach to updating the data warehouse involves some form of incremental update strategy.
So I guess I am on the right track then? A btree index would not afford an advantage?

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Trump fans up early for Wilmington rally
By Tom Barr - tbarr@civitasmedia.com
Wilmington College students lined up for Thursday's rally for Donald Trump at the Roberts Centre, from left, Molly Harshbarger of De Graff, Ohio, Laura Swinehart of Lancaster and Nick Yirak of Springfield.
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Youngsters from Wilmington attended the Trump rally to be a part of history, including, clockwise from top, Jenna Victor, 15, Jared Tissot, 13, Ashley Tissot, 15, and Samantha Achtermann, 15.
Sue Ann Fields of Piketon, Ohio was first in line at the Trump rally Thursday, arriving at 5:30 a.m.
From left, Kenneth Kidd and Dustin Peters of Cincinnati and Kalani Ayres of Phillipsburg, Ohio were near the front of the line early Thursday morning.
Highland Countians at the Trump rally Thursday in Wilmington included, from left, Chris Toller of Lynchburg and Jim Grove and Randy Abbott of Hillsboro.
Clinton County Sheriff's deputies stand watch over the crowds forming for Thursday's rally.
Madison Wilkins, 15, and Logan Schroer, 16, of Germantown attended the Trump rally in Wilmington.
Clinton County Sheriff's deputies provided security at the Roberts Centre early Thursday, along with strategically placed semi-trailers.
WILMINGTON — Three friends are so intent on supporting Donald Trump for president that they showed up at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Roberts Centre for the noon Thursday rally. They were asked to leave by security, so they booked a hotel room and were second in line by about 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
"Our country has lost touch; we're too politically correct and we're losing our standing in the world," said Kalani Ayres, of Phillipsburg, Ohio, as he and his friends Dustin Peters and Kenneth Kidd, both of Cincinnati, stood second in line around 7 a.m. Thursday.
Ayres, a U.S. Army veteran, said U.S. policies have become so soft that we've "lost our backbone" and he feels Trump will restore respect for America in the world — and instill a little fear in countries that don't respect America anymore.
No protestors or anti-Trump sentiment were noticeable as the first 150 attendees were lined up between 7 and 8 a.m.
Sue Ann Fields of Piketon, Ohio was first in line at 5:30 a.m. Thursday. Not far behind were enthusiastic Wilmington Schools students Jenna Victor, Ashley Tissot, Samantha Achtermann, all 15, and Jared Tissot, 13. "We want to see Trump," said Samantha, "We want to meet him!"
Carol Trimmer of Dublin, Ohio came with sons Jared and Justin. Justin, who is in a wheelchair, said he supports Trump and "it's because of Obamacare that I'm in this wheelchair."
U.S. military veterans Dave Fyffe and Brian Fyffe, who are both in wheelchairs, said they came to show their support for Trump. "He will make us better," said Dave, 71.
Madison Wilkins, 15, and Logan Schroer, 16, both of Germantown, came to the rally because, as Logan said, Trump "is not a politician. He says what he thinks; he's not politically correct."
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"America needs to be set on the right track," he said, "and I think Trump will do that."
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Harshbarger-Swinehart-Flesher-3.jpgWilmington College students lined up for Thursday's rally for Donald Trump at the Roberts Centre, from left, Molly Harshbarger of De Graff, Ohio, Laura Swinehart of Lancaster and Nick Yirak of Springfield. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Victor-Tissott-Achtermann-and-Jared-3.jpgYoungsters from Wilmington attended the Trump rally to be a part of history, including, clockwise from top, Jenna Victor, 15, Jared Tissot, 13, Ashley Tissot, 15, and Samantha Achtermann, 15. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Fields-3.jpgSue Ann Fields of Piketon, Ohio was first in line at the Trump rally Thursday, arriving at 5:30 a.m. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Kidd-Peters-Ayres-3.jpgFrom left, Kenneth Kidd and Dustin Peters of Cincinnati and Kalani Ayres of Phillipsburg, Ohio were near the front of the line early Thursday morning. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Toller-Grove-Abbott-3.jpgHighland Countians at the Trump rally Thursday in Wilmington included, from left, Chris Toller of Lynchburg and Jim Grove and Randy Abbott of Hillsboro. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Deputies-3.jpgClinton County Sheriff's deputies stand watch over the crowds forming for Thursday's rally. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_Wilkins-Schroer-3.jpgMadison Wilkins, 15, and Logan Schroer, 16, of Germantown attended the Trump rally in Wilmington. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/09/web1_trailers-security-3.jpgClinton County Sheriff's deputies provided security at the Roberts Centre early Thursday, along with strategically placed semi-trailers. Tom Barr | Wilmington News Journal
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Today, we're going back in time to a Sunday morning 20 something years ago. It's about 9 or 10 am. My family just had breakfast. We're sitting in the living room, glued to the TV screen. Laughter fills the house. We're watching our favorite Haitian comedian of the time.
TNH, Haiti's National Television, is airing Languichatte.
Languichatte is part of our Sunday ritual. No one can take us away from the screen when his skits are on. We cannot and will not miss one second of that show. We enjoy it that much.
Yet, my sister and I cannot wait for the commercial break.
Friday afternoon, we had handpicked pomegranates from the tree in front of our grandmother's house. The time had finally come to savor them. And for some reason, we had chosen to eat them at show time, during the breaks of course.
As soon as the first ad comes on, we rush outside to the terrace. Filled with excitement, we challenge each other to eat as much of the pomegranate as possible before the end of the break. The faster we eat, the more chance we have of getting our hands on a second or third fruit.
Being the youngest, I know I am at a disadvantage. I want a second fruit, but I do not want to lose any seeds in the rush either. They are simply too sweet and juicy for me to waste them.
Using my tiny child fingers, I try my best to remove the inner membrane that separates pomegranate seeds from one another without dropping them. Unfortunately, being the clumsy 8 year-old that I am, I lose many seeds, to my despair.
Today, I couldn't tell you whether the above story is that of one Sunday or of many Sundays. All I know is, as far as I can remember, I have always linked the two: Languichatte and pomegranates. In my mind, one doesn't exist without the other.
A perfect Languichatte Sunday is sweetened with pomegranates. That's just how it works.
And there's no way I can verify that my memory is accurate. Perhaps, I would have to watch episodes of Languichatte with and without pomegranates to check. Unfortunately, that won't be possible.
Things have changed a lot since then. Languichatte is no longer aired. And we no longer have access to the pomegranate tree from my childhood. I couldn't even tell you whether it is still standing or not.
If I were to relive that experience, I would probably have to buy my pomegranates from the grocery store. And that in itself would be a new experience.
Globally, pomegranates seem to be different, the commercialized ones that is. They're bigger and of a totally different shade from the ones I grew up eating. They're red-purple.
In contrast, as pictured above, the pomegranates I grew up with were small and had a yellow husk with seeds wrapped with a golden yellow or slightly pink pulp. If and when the fruit showed signs of being pink, it was just a slight shade of pink, never the dark reddish color they are today.
Fortunately, our local pomegranates seem to remain that way. I don't get to eat them as often anymore, however. Though we do have a tree in our orchard, it has yet to bear fruits.
Perhaps pomegranate trees are like our stingy plum trees. They take years to bear their first fruits?


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I plan to finish the story by Christmas so do let me know what you think.
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Our Volunteer Spotlight is shining on Sue Cade, a true "Girl Friday," who we rely on to help at our office, and who is dedicated to making a difference for the good in the lives of our patients and their loved ones.
fun-loving, volunteers. Throughout the year, they help with various mailings such as labeling postcards for special events, and stuffing envelopes for financial appeals. Sometimes they work several weeks to complete a large project. You can tell they are here when laughter erupts from the conference room. Who knew mailings could be so much fun?
Sue's dedication did not stop with mailings. Over the years, she added answering the office phones during staff meetings, representing Wings of Hope for volunteer recruitment at area Expos, and placing butterflies on the Allegan County Fair Parade Memorial Float. She also supports some of our patients and their loved ones in their home by providing companionship, and giving their caregiver a needed opportunity to run errands.
When our Wings Home opened the fall of 2010, Sue added direct patient care to her many talents. The Wings Home is a four-bedroom residential home where terminally ill Wings of Hope Hospice patients are cared for in the final few weeks of life. This includes making meals, giving medications, washing laundry, housekeeping, assisting with activities of daily living, and encouraging patients along their journey.
No matter which area Sue volunteers, she offers a thoughtful, kind, caring effort. It is a privilege to know her. She has made a genuine difference for our patients, their loved ones, and for Wings of Hope staff.
Thank you Sue! We deeply appreciate you!


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using System;

using NUnit.Framework;

using StandardAnalyzer = Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard.StandardAnalyzer;
using Document = Lucene.Net.Documents.Document;
using Field = Lucene.Net.Documents.Field;
using Directory = Lucene.Net.Store.Directory;
using RAMDirectory = Lucene.Net.Store.RAMDirectory;
using LuceneTestCase = Lucene.Net.Util.LuceneTestCase;

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{

    [TestFixture]
	public class TestDirectoryReader:LuceneTestCase
	{
		protected internal Directory dir;
		private Document doc1;
		private Document doc2;
		protected internal SegmentReader[] readers = new SegmentReader[2];
		protected internal SegmentInfos sis;

		public TestDirectoryReader(System.String s):base(s)
		{
		}

        public TestDirectoryReader() : base("")
        {
        }

		[SetUp]
		public override void  SetUp()
		{
			base.SetUp();
			dir = new RAMDirectory();
			doc1 = new Document();
			doc2 = new Document();
			DocHelper.SetupDoc(doc1);
			DocHelper.SetupDoc(doc2);
			DocHelper.WriteDoc(dir, doc1);
			DocHelper.WriteDoc(dir, doc2);
			sis = new SegmentInfos();
			sis.Read(dir);
		}

		protected internal virtual IndexReader OpenReader()
		{
			IndexReader reader;
			reader = IndexReader.Open(dir);
			Assert.IsTrue(reader is DirectoryReader);

			Assert.IsTrue(dir != null);
			Assert.IsTrue(sis != null);
			Assert.IsTrue(reader != null);

			return reader;
		}

        [Test]
		public virtual void  Test()
		{
			SetUp();
			DoTestDocument();
			DoTestUndeleteAll();
		}

		public virtual void  DoTestDocument()
		{
			sis.Read(dir);
			IndexReader reader = OpenReader();
			Assert.IsTrue(reader != null);
			Document newDoc1 = reader.Document(0);
			Assert.IsTrue(newDoc1 != null);
			Assert.IsTrue(DocHelper.NumFields(newDoc1) == DocHelper.NumFields(doc1) - DocHelper.unstored.Count);
			Document newDoc2 = reader.Document(1);
			Assert.IsTrue(newDoc2 != null);
			Assert.IsTrue(DocHelper.NumFields(newDoc2) == DocHelper.NumFields(doc2) - DocHelper.unstored.Count);
			TermFreqVector vector = reader.GetTermFreqVector(0, DocHelper.TEXT_FIELD_2_KEY);
			Assert.IsTrue(vector != null);
			TestSegmentReader.CheckNorms(reader);
		}

		public virtual void  DoTestUndeleteAll()
		{
			sis.Read(dir);
			IndexReader reader = OpenReader();
			Assert.IsTrue(reader != null);
			Assert.AreEqual(2, reader.NumDocs());
			reader.DeleteDocument(0);
			Assert.AreEqual(1, reader.NumDocs());
			reader.UndeleteAll();
			Assert.AreEqual(2, reader.NumDocs());

			// Ensure undeleteAll survives commit/close/reopen:
			reader.Commit();
			reader.Close();

			if (reader is MultiReader)
			// MultiReader does not "own" the directory so it does
			// not write the changes to sis on commit:
				sis.Commit(dir);

			sis.Read(dir);
			reader = OpenReader();
			Assert.AreEqual(2, reader.NumDocs());

			reader.DeleteDocument(0);
			Assert.AreEqual(1, reader.NumDocs());
			reader.Commit();
			reader.Close();
			if (reader is MultiReader)
			// MultiReader does not "own" the directory so it does
			// not write the changes to sis on commit:
				sis.Commit(dir);
			sis.Read(dir);
			reader = OpenReader();
			Assert.AreEqual(1, reader.NumDocs());
		}

		public virtual void  _testTermVectors()
		{
			MultiReader reader = new MultiReader(readers);
			Assert.IsTrue(reader != null);
		}

        [Test]
		public virtual void  TestIsCurrent()
		{
			RAMDirectory ramDir1 = new RAMDirectory();
			AddDoc(ramDir1, "test foo", true);
			RAMDirectory ramDir2 = new RAMDirectory();
			AddDoc(ramDir2, "test blah", true);
			IndexReader[] readers = new IndexReader[]{IndexReader.Open(ramDir1), IndexReader.Open(ramDir2)};
			MultiReader mr = new MultiReader(readers);
			Assert.IsTrue(mr.IsCurrent()); // just opened, must be current
			AddDoc(ramDir1, "more text", false);
			Assert.IsFalse(mr.IsCurrent()); // has been modified, not current anymore
			AddDoc(ramDir2, "even more text", false);
			Assert.IsFalse(mr.IsCurrent()); // has been modified even more, not current anymore
			try
			{
				mr.GetVersion();
				Assert.Fail();
			}
			catch (System.NotSupportedException e)
			{
				// expected exception
			}
			mr.Close();
		}

        [Test]
		public virtual void  TestMultiTermDocs()
		{
			RAMDirectory ramDir1 = new RAMDirectory();
			AddDoc(ramDir1, "test foo", true);
			RAMDirectory ramDir2 = new RAMDirectory();
			AddDoc(ramDir2, "test blah", true);
			RAMDirectory ramDir3 = new RAMDirectory();
			AddDoc(ramDir3, "test wow", true);

			IndexReader[] readers1 = new IndexReader[]{IndexReader.Open(ramDir1), IndexReader.Open(ramDir3)};
			IndexReader[] readers2 = new IndexReader[]{IndexReader.Open(ramDir1), IndexReader.Open(ramDir2), IndexReader.Open(ramDir3)};
			MultiReader mr2 = new MultiReader(readers1);
			MultiReader mr3 = new MultiReader(readers2);

			// test mixing up TermDocs and TermEnums from different readers.
			TermDocs td2 = mr2.TermDocs();
			TermEnum te3 = mr3.Terms(new Term("body", "wow"));
			td2.Seek(te3);
			int ret = 0;

			// This should blow up if we forget to check that the TermEnum is from the same
			// reader as the TermDocs.
			while (td2.Next())
				ret += td2.Doc();
			td2.Close();
			te3.Close();

			// really a dummy assert to ensure that we got some docs and to ensure that
			// nothing is optimized out.
			Assert.IsTrue(ret > 0);
		}

        [Test]
		public virtual void  TestAllTermDocs()
		{
			IndexReader reader = OpenReader();
			int NUM_DOCS = 2;
			TermDocs td = reader.TermDocs(null);
			for (int i = 0; i < NUM_DOCS; i++)
			{
				Assert.IsTrue(td.Next());
				Assert.AreEqual(i, td.Doc());
				Assert.AreEqual(1, td.Freq());
			}
			td.Close();
			reader.Close();
		}

		private void  AddDoc(RAMDirectory ramDir1, System.String s, bool create)
		{
			IndexWriter iw = new IndexWriter(ramDir1, new StandardAnalyzer(), create, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);
			Document doc = new Document();
			doc.Add(new Field("body", s, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
			iw.AddDocument(doc);
			iw.Close();
		}
	}
}

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UNLADTAU
Development, Economics, Better World
« SECURING HAITI'S RAPE SURVIVORS POST-CATASTROPHE
ARE SOUTHERN AFRICANS TURNING INTO CITIZEN-LESS ZOMBIES? »
FUND HIV RESEARCH FIRST!
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Smug! Arrogant! Sadistic! One may quip at the title which makes HIV funding as mandatory.
Let's all face it, fellow global citizens: HIV is tearing down populations, and the reversal towards an HIV-free environment just isn't around the corner yet. The contingency of the moment HIV-wise is to make HIV research as tops in terms of funding.
"Cease not the lab researches till the vaccine for the ailment be found, disseminated and effectively curb the ailment!" would be Ceasar-like directive aimed at shoring up resources for the dreaded disease. Maybe we need such directives sometimes in order to get things moving fast and get over with the pandemic.
Below is a reportage from the scidev.net regarding the subject.
[Philippines, 22 October 2011]
Source: http://www.scidev.net/en/health/hiv-aids/news/vaccine-research-is-top-hiv-aids-funding-priority-.html
Vaccine research 'is top HIV/AIDS funding priority'
Vaccine research and development should be the top funding priority for HIV/AIDS, if global organisations are able to raise US$10 billion over the next five years, according to a panel that included Nobel laureate economists.
A US$100 million per year boost to vaccine research funding — relatively modest, the panel said, and about ten per cent above current levels — could speed up vaccine development, a meeting heard in Washington DC, United States, last week (28 September).
"Even though the vaccine is elusive and we do not have it yet, it's clear that this research has led to an understanding that has enormously improved our ability to fight this disease," said Nobel economist Vernon Smith, of Chapman University, California, United States.
The panel was convened by the RethinkHIV project — funded by the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) — which aims to help policymakers and donors find the most cost-effective ways to tackle the disease in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It commissioned researchers looking at the economics, epidemiology and demography of AIDS to identify a series of cost-effective interventions and then asked the panel of economists, which included three Nobel laureates, to review the researchers' findings and rank them in order of priority.
At last week's meeting, the panel presented its findings to advocacy groups including the Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the US Department of State and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and an international economic advisor, who was not involved with the project, is skeptical of the validity of the Copenhagen Consensus process.
"This … process of evaluation has been misguided and inaccurate from the start on just about every issue. This kind of question, US$2 billion over a year over 5 years, posed in an artificial way to a group of people who may be Nobel laureates but who have no expertise on these issues, has just come up with one misleading issue after the other," said Sachs.
But Bjorn Lomborg, director of the CCC, said some of the world's top economists had showed that there were a lot of "amazing opportunities" to help people have better lives. "HIV/AIDS is not a done crisis," he said.
Link to full article in Nature News Blog
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  Langatte est
       un village
       situé dans le département de Moselle en Lorraine. On dénombrait 472 habitants en 2008.

Si vous envisagez de venir habiter à Langatte, vous pourrez facilement trouver une maison à vendre.

Le parc de logements, à Langatte, se décomposait en 2011 en 15 appartements et 472 maisons soit
 un marché relativement équilibré.

À proximité de Langatte sont situées les villes de
Dolving située à 3 km, 341 habitants,
Barchain localisée à 5 km, 108 habitants,
Kerprich-aux-Bois à 2 km, 127 habitants,
Gosselming à 4 km, 604 habitants,
Imling située à 5 km, 682 habitants,
Haut-Clocher à 1 km, 331 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Langatte est située à seulement cinq km de Sarrebourg.

La ville compte de nombreux  équipements, elle propose entre autres un terrain de tennis, deux terrains de sport, une base nautique et une boucle de randonnée.


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See Chris Evans and His Dog Have the Cutest Reunion After 10 Weeks Apart
Actor Chris Evans arrives at the premiere of Fox Searchlight Pictures' 'Gifted' at Pacific Theaters at the Grove on April 4, 2017 in Los Angeles.
Emma McIntyre—Getty Images
By Melissa Locker
Captain America star Chris Evans just spent 10 long weeks on a movie set, which meant he had to spend 10 long weeks away from his dog. Luckily, dogs are very forgiving.
While Evans was off filming a movie, he regularly posted on Twitter about how much he missed his rescue pup, Dodger, and counted down the days until they could be together again.
Over the weekend, Evans finally got to go home to Dodger and he posted an adorable video of their reunion on Twitter. It's chock-full of tail wagging, face licking and laughing, as it shows two incredibly happy friends who are so excited to be back together at last.
The actor described himself as a "dog lunatic" when he spoke to People back in April. He earned the title after adopting Dodger from a kennel where he was filming a scene for his recent movie Gifted. "I snagged him and he's such a good dog," says Evans. "He's just such a sweetheart, he's such a good boy. He loves dogs, he loves kids, he's full of love." Seems like the feelings are mutual.
[H/T Today]


Date Tasted: 8/14/2018 in our Chicago tasting lab - 94 points out of 100.
Gold color. Spicy, attractive aromas and flavors of peach-apple custard tart, toasted pretzel bread, arugula and kale with a lemon-pepper vinaigrette, and herbs de provence with lavender with a satiny, bright, effervescent, dryish medium body and a warming, layered, medium-long finish with notes of salty butter roasted corn and pepper finish. A supple and well balanced Belgian strong ale with appetizing savoriness.
Bright minutely hazy gold color. Fruity aromas and flavors of orange peel, clove honey, banana creme on pears, and eucalyptus with a velvety, vibrant, finely carbonated, fruity medium body and an interesting, medium-length finish imparting notes of graham crackers in milk, herb biscuit, bubble gum, and peppery arugula finish. A mammoth golden Belgian brew with boatloads of flavor, warmth and texture.
Brilliant sunburst color. Tropical aromas and flavors of spiced bananas, pink peppercorn muffin, caramel buttercream frosted rum cake, and cola float with a satiny, bright, finely carbonated, fruity light-to-medium body and a peppery, charming, medium-length finish displaying notes of panettone, spiced fruits, praline, and sugar snap peas finish. A warming and relaxing Belgian strong ale.
Date Tasted: 8/11/2017 in our Chicago tasting lab - 92 points out of 100.
Minutely hazy gold color. Herbal aromas and flavors of poultry seasoning, schmaltz cookie, panettone, and apple jacks cereal with a supple, vibrant, finely carbonated, dry-yet-fruity medium-to-full body and a warming, intricate, long finish with nuances of toasted zucchini spice bread, sassafras, salted caramel, and pepper finish. A rich, well-balanced Belgian strong ale that will reward patient sipping and cellaring.
Brilliant medium dark reddish mahogany color. Delicate, fruity, nutty musty malty aromas and flavors of dark caramelized nuts, toasted fig-banana dark bread, spiced sour cherry compote, and microgreens with a soft, spritzy, fruity sweet medium-to-full body and a warming, complex, medium-length finish with overtones of baking spices, delicate pepper, and arugula finish. A hearty, warming strong ale with fine poise and subtle complexity.
Date Tasted: 3/7/2016 in our Chicago tasting lab - 91 points out of 100.
Minutely hazy sunburst color. Mild, interesting, savory aromas and flavors of baked soy and steamed rice, dried orange, apple and peach, and schmaltz with a silky, shy, spritzy, fruity sweet medium-to-full body and a warming, subtle, medium-long finish that exhibits notes of toasted panettone, cherry bubblegum, and honeyed lettuces finish. A fun, flavorful strong ale in the Belgian style.
Dark brown color. Interesting, savory aromas of black licorice, malted chocolate toffee, and edamame and tamari with a chewy, finely carbonated, dry-yet-fruity medium-full body and a warming, elegant, very long sherry vinaigrette and craisins on kale, sautéed almonds, dried mushrooms, and mossy earth finish. Lots of enticing umami and sherry notes make this a great dark sour choice for a savory meal or meditative nightcap.


An unusual Android Trojan appears lurking, embedded in a pirated version of a legitimate music app.
The app in question is Jay Z Magna Carta, which is now available on Google Play, and allowed users of certain Samsung devices to listen to the rapper's new album on July 4, three days before the album came out and the rest of the world can hear it, said researchers at McAfee.
The trojanized version is available to download on third party sites, and once installed and run, it doesn't give any indication it might be malicious. Nevertheless, it works in the background and tries to download and install additional malware and attempts to send device info to a remote server each time the phone restarts.
"The image and the service name NSAListener suggest a hacktivist agenda, but we haven't ruled out the possibility that additional malware may target financial transactions or other data," the researchers said.
"Based on the political message and the fact that it was embedded in an app that coincides with the release of Jay Z's latest album, we suspect the Trojan was recently introduced into the wild," they said, and urged users to always be careful when downloading apps from unknown or untrustworthy sources.


A chance encounter with a mysterious character named Goodfellow leads Ryang to a town called 'Faeries' Landing.' Here, Ryang meets Fanta, a faerie who wants nothing more than to stay with him in the human world. Living with a faerie can be especially trying, but also a blessing as Fanta helps Ryang resolve his rocky relationships with women.
Faeries' Landing, Volume 1 4.5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 8 reviews.
Reworking my way through this hilarious series. I hope they've finished it up by now, because there's a ton of books in this series. It's cute, hilarious, and a quick read.
This is one of the greatest mangas out there! It is soo funny. It made me laugh out loud untill I almost cried. Read this if you like manga.
Such A good Manga! The perfect blend of fantasy and anime. I got the first 1st, finished it in an hour and ran out to get the next 3, now I can't stop. For sure a series you'll want to read again and again till your quoting it to all your friends. You must read!
I love this book, if you love manga then trust me and read this book. I read each book 5 times each. Just a book to read to make your day a little brighter.
I am a gigantic Anime and Manga fan. I've been reading for a while and I read lots of stuff. As far as Manga's go, this is pretty corney, but good to. It's pretty enjoyable if you're looking to be entertained and not get to caught up in drama.
This is a funloving series with an underlying streak of drama. It covers all the bases and is still wonderfully entertaining.


(1) The determination of whether a sale or use of property or the provision of services is in this state, in a municipality that has adopted a tax under the Local Option Revenue Act, or in a county that has adopted a tax under section 13-319 shall be governed by the sourcing rules in sections 77-2703.01 to 77-2703.04.
(2) When the property or service is received by the purchaser at a business location of the retailer, the sale is sourced to that business location.
(3) When the property or service is not received by the purchaser at a business location of the retailer, the sale is sourced to the location where receipt by the purchaser or the purchaser's donee, designated as such by the purchaser, occurs, including the location indicated by instructions for delivery to the purchaser or donee, known to the retailer.
(4) When subsection (2) or (3) of this section does not apply, the sale is sourced to the location indicated by an address or other information for the purchaser that is available from the business records of the retailer that are maintained in the ordinary course of the retailer's business when use of this address does not constitute bad faith.
(5) When subsection (2), (3), or (4) of this section does not apply, the sale is sourced to the location indicated by an address for the purchaser obtained during the consummation of the sale, including the address of a purchaser's payment instrument, if no other address is available, when use of this address does not constitute bad faith.
(6) When subsection (2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section does not apply, including the circumstance in which the retailer is without sufficient information to apply the rules in any such subsection, then the location will be determined by the address from which property was shipped, from which the digital good was first available for transmission by the retailer, or from which the service was provided disregarding for these purposes any location that merely provided the digital transfer of the product sold.
(b) For a lease or rental that does not require recurring periodic payments, the payment is sourced the same as a retail sale in accordance with the provisions of subsections (2) through (6) of this section.
This subsection does not affect the imposition or computation of sales or use tax on leases or rentals based on a lump-sum or accelerated basis or on the acquisition of property for lease.
(d) Containers designed for use on and component parts attached or secured on the items set forth in subdivisions (9)(a) through (c) of this section.
(10) For purposes of this section, receive and receipt mean taking possession of tangible personal property, making first use of services, or taking possession or making first use of digital goods, whichever comes first. The terms receive and receipt do not include possession by a shipping company on behalf of the purchaser. For purposes of sourcing detective services subject to tax under subdivision (4)(h) of section 77-2701.16, making first use of a service shall be deemed to be at the individual's residence, in the case of a customer who is an individual, or at the principal place of business, in the case of a business customer.
(11) The sale, not including lease or rental, of a motor vehicle, semitrailer, or trailer as defined in the Motor Vehicle Registration Act shall be sourced to the place of registration of the motor vehicle, semitrailer, or trailer for operation upon the highways of this state or, if no such registration has occurred, the place where such motor vehicle, semitrailer, or trailer is required to be registered, except that the sale of any motor vehicle or trailer operated by a public power district and registered under section 60-3,228 shall be sourced to the place where the motor vehicle or trailer has situs as defined in section 60-349.
(12) The sale or lease for one year or more of motorboats shall be sourced to the place of registration of the motorboat. The lease of motorboats for less than one year shall be sourced to the point of delivery.
Source:Laws 2003, LB 282, § 49; Laws 2003, LB 759, § 13; Laws 2004, LB 1017, § 11; Laws 2005, LB 274, § 275; Laws 2007, LB367, § 16; Laws 2008, LB916, § 16; Laws 2014, LB851, § 11; Laws 2018, LB1030, § 2.
Motor Vehicle Registration Act, see section 60-301.