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Q: C GTK+ segfault if call gtkfilechooser after calling any function Linux IBM370 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)
ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu20) 2.15
GTK+  2.24.13-0ubuntu2 and 3.2.4-2 - the same behavior

There are some report in Gnome bugzilla:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2012-June/msg00017.html
The problem is gtkfilechooser crash application on second call or even the first one
GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 'pthread_setspecific': Invalid argument.  Aborting.
Aborted (core dumped)

I found that the problem raises when I have background thread running.
g_thread_new("vm refresh thread", get_vm_list, (gpointer) session);

Here is file chooser function
char *
gtk_select_dir(char *label)
{
    GtkWidget *select_dir;
    char *dirpath=NULL;
    select_dir = gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new(label, GTK_WINDOW(main_window),
                                          GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER, GTK_STOCK_CANCEL, GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL,
                                          GTK_STOCK_OPEN, GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT, NULL );

    if (gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG (select_dir) ) == GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT)
    {
        dirpath = gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (select_dir) );
    }
    gtk_widget_destroy(select_dir);
    return (dirpath);
}

Everything is ok while no threads are running. While threads are running, calling this function from main thread lead to crash. After thread finished and exited any call to this function leads to segfault. Here is gdb output
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x00007f7d4aff6425 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1  0x00007f7d4aff9b8b in __GI_abort () at abort.c:91
#2  0x00007f7d4b9ed95d in g_thread_abort (status=<optimized out>, function=function@entry=0x7f7d4baad358 "pthread_setspecific")
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./glib/gthread-posix.c:76
#3  0x00007f7d4ba58215 in g_private_set (key=key@entry=0x7f7d4a192ce0 <current_cancellable>, value=0x1c21a80)
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./glib/gthread-posix.c:1024
#4  0x00007f7d49e75400 in g_cancellable_push_current (cancellable=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./gio/gcancellable.c:203
#5  0x00007f7d49e9c224 in io_job_thread (data=0x1fe1ba0, user_data=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./gio/gioscheduler.c:158
#6  0x00007f7d4ba3ee62 in g_thread_pool_thread_proxy (data=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./glib/gthreadpool.c:309
#7  0x00007f7d4ba3e645 in g_thread_proxy (data=0x1c0b320) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./glib/gthread.c:797
#8  0x00007f7d4b386e9a in start_thread (arg=0x7f7d3e240700) at pthread_create.c:308
#9  0x00007f7d4b0b3cbd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

This issue totally blocks me from using threads... is it bug as described or I did something wrong?

A: The answer is inproper use of libxml2

Based on the libxml2 document (http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html), we
  should only call xmlInitParser() in the "main" thread, but we are
  calling xmlInitParser() multiple times. The proper way to use
  xmlCleanupParser should be calling immediately before exiting and only
  once. But we are calling xmlCleanupParser multiple times.

The problem was in imported source code that ignored it

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(OPride) – In early 1960s, Oromo dissidents from the Bale province in southeastern Ethiopia organized a small band of combatants to end the repressive and exploitative Amhara settler rule and the unscrupulous expropriation of Oromo land by absentee landlords.
It proved to be one of the biggest landmarks in Oromo people's struggle for freedom and equality.
As noted in Ethiopia: Power and Protest by Gebru Tareke, the Bale province was only incorporated into the Ethiopian empire "in the late 188os after a brutal campaign mainly directed against the Awetu and Rayitu of Arsi Oromol clan." Even then, Tareke contends that there was little cross-cultural contact between the chauvinistic Amhara-christian northerners and the predominantly Muslim Bale Oromos.
The launch of Bale uprising, in early 1960s, by revolutionary Oromo fighters under the leadership of General Waqo Gutu Usu marks a major turning point. It signifies the beginning of a coordinated Oromo armed resistance to unshackle the masses from Ethiopia's feudalist and absolutist rule, according to Hangasu Waqo Lugo, 58, who joined the movement at a tender age of 8.
This extraordinary decade – otherwise known as the Sixties – saw tremendous social transformation among the broader Oromo populace including the founding of the Macha Tulama Association, the birth of Afran Qallo musical troupe, and several disconnected resistance movements around Oromia, the Oromo homeland.
The methods may be different but the grievances that spurred Oromo resistance in various locales were the same: to see an end to the feudal lordship which had usurped their land and dispossessed the peasantry. The Oromo, Ethiopia's single largest ethnic group, make up about 50 percent of 92 million Ethiopian population.
To commemorate the 50th year of this movement's beginning and its far reaching legacy, Oromo activists are organizing a grand event on Oct. 20 at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minn. While many of the movement's pioneers, including its leaders General Waqo Gutu, Haji Adam Jilo Webo, Musa Bati and countless others have passed away, next week's event is expected to feature, for the very first time, prominent revolutionaries like Colonel Aliyi Chiri who ignited the flame of Oromo emancipation.
A watershed event in the history of Oromo struggle, the Bale Oromo movement began with a simply motto: to uproot injustice for once and all, or raise a generation of revolutionaries to fight on. The rallying cry, which captured the imagination of a whole generation, was the seizure of farmland back from feudal landholders and making the state cognizant of the masses growing social and political discontents.
The start of a guerilla warfare against a heavily armed feudal state did not have an auspicious start per se. First, this was unthinkable considering the fact that Haile Selassie was regarded as Elect of God and the whole country prostrate before him – as if in worship – let alone challenge his regime with a poorly equipped band of a peasant army. Second, the largely uneducated militants did not have access to modern weapons or military training. Rooted in local grievances, the movement weathered early setbacks to become one of the long drawn-out armed confrontations in Ethiopia.
Historical accounts differ, but sometime in the early 1960s, Waqo Gutu and few companions embarked on a mission to neighboring Somalia to acquire military training and modern weapons. Shortly after, they returned to Madda Walabuu, about 600kms south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, to militarily challenge feudal landlords. Incidentally, this makes Madda Walabuu – the cradle of Oromo civilization – also the birthplace of modern Oromo armed resistance.
The Oromo rebels, even if poorly trained, registered early momentous victories against Haile Selassie's imperial army, the largest in all of sub-Saharan Africa at the time, forcing the regime to redouble its offensive. According to Lugo, one of the organizers of next week's commemorative event, several subsequent battles took place in Oborso, Madda Walabuu, Welmal, Dayyuu, Cirrii, Hangeetu, Dalloo Bunaa, Bulluq, Harana, Malka Amana, Saweena, Gindhir, Bidiree, Biddime, Shaawwee, Meexxii, Barbaree, Rayitu, and etc.
In one of the landmark battles at Malka Anna near Ganale River in 1963, the Oromo combatants took down two military helicopters using a vintage non-automatic rifle called Dhombir. Hence, the period from 1963 to 1970 is locally known as "Towra/Sowra Dhombir" – the Dhombir war – after the gun used by Oromo fighters. The battle of Dhombir at Malka Anna was critical in that the Oromo rebels were able to capture and take a lot of weapons from the enemy – boosting their defensive capabilities. The band of rebel fighters proved their mantle. Forced to the wall, they fought like lions and to the death to defend their children, wives, and cattle.
Waqo Gutu, the legendary leader of Oromo armed resistance, was born in 1924 near Madda Walabuu, at the village of Odaa. A member of traditional sacred Oromo spiritualists, Qallu, he grew up witnessing the dispossession of Oromo farmers, the heavy taxation paid to the state, and the humiliation of Oromo people as second-class citizens in their own homeland. By custom, a Qallu was not supposed to raise arms. His doing so spoke of the depth of grievance and desperation.
One key aspect of this movement absent from the mainstream Oromo literature is the movement's broad support base among the Borana, Guji, Sidama, and Somali pastoralists. At the height of this movement, the Oromo fighters controlled or made vast swaths of land in Bale and Sidamo provinces virtually ungovernable.
By the end of that extraordinary decade, unable to squash this generational revolt, Haile Selassie sought to personally negotiate an armistice to end the Bale Oromo uprising. In 1969, Somalia cut off military aid for the rebels making it difficult to sustain the campaigns. A year later, the emperor travelled to Bale to sign a truce with the rebels where he also appointed two Oromo generals Wolde Selassie Baraka and Jagama Kello as provincial governor and military commander to pacify Oromo nationalist sentiments.
The Bale Oromo uprising along with other disparate upheavals elsewhere in the country, no less the student protests of 1960s, served as "the prelude to the 1974 revolution which swept away altogether monarchical absolutism and feudalism," according to Tareke. The Dergue regime, which inherited the emperor's rule by promising social economic and political changes, largely maintained the the imperial ways and structures of the Ethiopian state. While the rest of Africa saw a radical political reformation in 1970s, with almost all countries gaining independence from their European colonial masters, the marginalized colonial subjects in Ethiopia saw little change.
Oromo revolutionaries would only have a window dressing, including the appointment of few governors who spoke Afan Oromo and the rural land proclamation of 1975 which sought to redistribute the land formerly held by feudal officialdom to the peasants. Absent satisfactory political changes, Waqo and his comrades reignited the torch of their struggle against autocratic state, structural and otherwise.
Five decades later, the Oromo movement have achieved several irreversible gains: the adoption of Afan Oromo as a working language in Oromia; a state of Oromia with clearly marked borders; the Oromo today doesn't have to pay hefty prices for court interpreters; the Oromo culture and art is being revitalised anew.
In spite of these achievements, the Oromo remain the most persecuted political group in Ethiopia. For the victories already won and unwon battles that require a steadfast commitment of today's youth – the ever resourceful and indomitable Qubee generation – the Bale Oromo movement shines as a bright example of Oromo resistance against political oppression, cultural subjugation, and economic exploitation.


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Host Loni Love, who channeled Oprah, called the media mogul a "living legend."
By Kimberley Richards
The hosts of "The Real" paid homage to the "greatest female talk show hosts" on Halloween in a real way.
On Wednesday's episode of the show, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Jeannie Mai, Loni Love and Adrienne Houghton all dressed up to celebrate women who have made waves on daytime TV.
"We pay homage to some of the greatest female talk show hosts!" a caption for "The Real" Instagram page read.
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Love dressed up as media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
″Thank you [Oprah] for being an inspiration to me and so many," she wrote on Twitter. "Because of you paving the way, I am an Emmy and NAACP Image award winning talk show host.. you are a living legend!!!"
Thank you @Oprah for being an inspiration to me and so many. Because of you paving the way, I am an Emmy and NAACP Image award winning talk show host.. you are a living legend!!! #therealS5 pic.twitter.com/wxQ8bAwvlf
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Q: Как в проверке указать любое значение? Доброго времени суток
Мне нужно в этой проверке
if (window.location.href != "http://example.ru/") {alert(1)} else {alert(0)}

указать что после http://example.ru/ может быть любое значение, проверять только поддомен ( типа http://krasnoyarsk.example.ru/), не знаю как реализовать по неопытности


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From the Guardian:
While the plan doesn't not recommend "deorbiting" the 1990s-vintage space station, which is currently contracted to Boeing and costs Nasa more than $3bn a year, the Nasa documents say "it is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform".
"Nasa will expand international and commercial partnerships over the next seven years in order to ensure continued human access to and presence in low Earth orbit," the documents state.
Just last week, former astronaut Mark Kelly penned a prescient editorial in the New York Times discussing the possibility of Trump ending government funding of the ISS, warning that cutting it off abruptly would result in the operation shutting down:
"As the cost of access to low earth orbit continues to decline, more opportunities for commerce in space will emerge, with the International Space Station at the nexus and the United States at the helm," he wrote.
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What gives you the right to do these things? Who told you that you could do this?
These two questions come from the book of Mark. In chapter 11 verse 28 the chief priest, the scribes and the leaders ask Jesus these two questions. Why did they ask Him? Because they did not approve of who He was or what He was doing there. In your own life, there will be people who will not approve of who you are or what you are doing. But you must remember that Jesus didn't answer their questions, he didn't try to prove who he was, but simply continued being who God had made Him to be. He continued to teach with parables to anyone who would listen. He continued to live out his purpose on the earth.
We too must move past what others say about us. We must continue on our journey, despite their criticism, we must continue to live out God's calling on our lives.
We have God's approval; as we live with love, as we live to serve, and as we live to share the good news. So don't be discouraged, don't answer the criticism, simply live in your calling. God is proud of you. He loves you. And He loves watching you live out your God given dreams.


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With a look as fresh as the recipes themselves, New Vegetarian is full of modern, flavorful food for the 30 million Americans (more every day ) who are vegetarians. More than 75 delicious and simple dishes span a wide range ofcuisines and cultures--from Vietnamese Pho with Tofu to Baked Creamy Squash Pasta with Arugula. Best of all, the dessert chapter includes goodies so luscious even the most die-hard dairy fans wont suspect these sweet treats arevegan.
Robin Asbell is a chef, food writer, and cooking teacher specializing in natural foods. She is author of The New Whole Grains Cookbook. Yvonne Duivenvoorden is a Toronto-based food, garden, and lifestyle photographer.


The port of Hong Kong, located by the South China Sea, is a deepwater seaport dominated by trade in containerised manufactured products, and to a lesser extent raw materials and passengers. A key factor in the economic development of Hong Kong, the natural shelter and deep waters of Victoria Harbour provide ideal conditions for berthing and handling all types of vessels. It is one of the busiest ports in the world, in the three categories of shipping movements, cargo handled and passengers carried.
Hong Kong's container port currently has eight container terminals consisting of 18 berths, with an average of 11.5 million TEUs (20-ft equivalent units) throughput capacity per year. The port's impressive efficiency and capacity has won Hong Kong the title as the busiest container port in the world for five consecutive years.


I am currently on the lookout for a strong Sous Chef to join a fresh food café based in tourist museum on the outskirts of Darlington towards Barnard castle. The property is a popular tourist attraction in the area that holds a busy fresh for Café, the food offering is a pleasing mix of both traditional British and continental dishes and utilising local suppliers for guests to enjoy.
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The salary for this role is up to £19,000 per annum working of a 37 hour working week contract.
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Duszniki-Zdrój ( Dušníky
nebo  Lázně Dušníky, německy Bad Reinerz či Reinerz Bad) je lázeňské město v jihozápadním Polsku, v Dolnoslezském vojvodství, na řece Bystrzyca Dusznicka (Dušnická Bystřice). Město se nachází v západním Kladsku, blízko česko-polské hranice. V roce 2004 měly Dušníky 5 150 obyvatel.

Dušníky, stejně jako blízká Chudoba, jsou významným lázeňským městem. Ekonomika města je založena především na turistice a lázeňství. Mezi turistické cíle patří zdejší muzeum papírnictví.

Historie
První zmínka o Dušníkách je z roku 1324. Městská práva získaly roku 1346. Přes město procházela obchodní cesta propojující Čechy a Slezsko, která napomohla městu k rozvoji. Rozvíjela se produkce tkaných látek a papíru, dále i železa, ale lokální doly se rychle vyčerpaly. Roku 1584 zde byla postavena radnice a roku 1605 papírna. Město bylo poničeno husity a za třicetileté války. Roku 1669 se zde zastavil polský král Jan Kazimír II. Vasa po jeho odstoupení. Dušníky, stejně jako celé Kladsko, náležely k Českému království. Spolu s celým Kladskem bylo město roku 1742 postoupeno Prusku a následně se stalo součástí Německa. Po druhé světové válce oblast nárokovalo Československo. Nakonec byla ale celá sporná oblast přičleněna k Polsku. Dnes Dušníky obývají Poláci, přistěhovalí především ze středního a východního Polska.

Roku 1949 bylo dočasně přijato 1 500 řeckých uprchlíků řecké občanské války, většinou ženy a děti, než jim byly nalezeny nové domovy v jiných městech.

Lázně
Roku 1748 se zde uskutečnil první výzkum minerálních pramenů a roku 1751 začala první lázeňská léčba. Roku 1769 dostalo město status lázeňského města. Roku 1822 byla postavena čerpací místnost. Roku 1826 navštívil lázně šestnáctiletý skladatel Fryderyk Chopin, byl zde vyléčen. Poté byl vystavěn památník šedesátého výročí od Chopinova pobytu.

Lázně se využívají na různá onemocnění, mezi ně patří například kardiologická a gastroenterologická. Dále je zde několik zařízení s balneoterapií a také centrum pro léčení osteoporózy.

Ekonomie
Ekonomie je zde založena na turismu, stovky tisíc lidí město navštěvují každý rok. Dále je zde několik továren na balenou minerální vodu, tradiční tvorbu papíru a také výrobce křišťálových šperků.

Galerie

Partnerská města
  Orlické Záhoří, Česko
  Olešnice v Orlických horách, Česko
  Sedloňov, Česko
  Bad Sulza, Durynsko, Německo
  Deštné v Orlických horách, Česko

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
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Města v Dolnoslezském vojvodství
Okres Kladsko
Kladsko
Lázně v Polsku
Česká sídla v Polsku

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Tennessee Education Report | This is Success?
What happens when legislators stand up for their local public schools and also support accountability in charter schools?
That's exactly what happened when two Republican lawmakers opposed Governor Bill Lee's proposal to allow charter schools to circumvent local school boards.
Supposedly non-partisan group Tennesseans for Student Success immediately went on the attack against Mark Cochran and Chris Hurt.
Apparently, being for student success also means being ok with outright lies and deliberate deception in order to advance an agenda detrimental to the actual success of our state's public schools.
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Buy now off the plan with registration expected in Mid 2018.


It's probably asking too much at this point, but I wish they would sell some of the missing stages as separate DLC like Orbital Gate Assault or Pyrosphere. Orbital Gate is the one that stings the most to me, I never owned Smash Wii U so I didn't get much mileage out of it and only played on that stage a couple of times. And since Sakurai said that that stage took a year to complete, it would be a shame to see that work go to waste.
Same. I don't have Smash for Wii U, and the lack of some stages is frustrating. Rainbow Road and Pac-Maze (which could have easily been just a bit modified) are especially iconic.
The background in Battlefield is gorgeous! I would love to see a game where you can explore those islands.
While Battlefield and Final Destination do look marvelous, I wish there was a BF/FD skin toggle (separate toggles for Battlefield and Final Destination) in the options menu so that the player could fight on prior incarnations. I would have mine on Melee Battlefield and either SSB64 or Melee Final Destination.
I would have mine on Smash 4 for the 3DS with Battlefield, and Smash Brawl with Final Destination.
I do not like it that Omega Version of Big Battlefield has not the size of Melee FD. Since Brawl all FDs are far to little.
I wish the stages were unlockable. We could have begun with the eight original ones, like the characters, and unlock the rest. Easily, like 'play three times in Peach's Castle 64 to unlock Peach Castle Melee', 'play one versus match as Luigi to unlock Luigi's Mansion', and so one.
To be fair, the unlocking criteria for stages in Smash 4 was a nightmare, so it's not terrible that we get them all from the start.
True, but there was just something about having to unlock stuff instead of just having a massive dump from the start. Maybe it's just me, but I found that exciting and fun. Sort of like waiting for your Birthday to open presents as a kid.
I wish that Dracula's Castle featured the actual Kid Dracula and not just his shadow.
That stage was dissapointing to me overall.
I only had Smash for 3DS, and... almost every stage (and all the characters) were available from the beginning, if I remember well? I only remember unlocking Kirby's Dreamland GB: I had no clue it existed, and since it was the very first game I finished when I was a child, the nostalgia hit me totally by surprise!
In order to unlock Pac Land, you had to play Smash Tour on every map.
FD shouldn't be a Starter. Puts many characters at a disadvantages. Maybe replace with Hazardless Mario Bros U.
But Smash Tour is on the Wii U version, isn't it?
Yes, WiiU version. But the bottom line is the same: Having to do stupid stuff to unlock everything.
I like having all stages available.
More motivation to not play Smash Tour then. Playing it too often unlocks the worst stage in the game.
I swear, if the new stage isn't a morph stage that goes into Shujin academy to Kamoshida's palace i'll riot.
but for now, my favorite stage is Great Bay.
I don't like the direction stages have taken since Brawl, especially the transforming ones. I'm kind of disappointed with the lack of customization in regards to stages, too. I get that they tried to do that with disable-able level hazards (and I'm glad they took that step), I just think they missed the mark on what that should mean on so many stages. For example: I like the swinging cage on Find Mii and I like the moving platforms on Wily's Castle. I don't like the big disruptive boss enemies that appear on both stages. Moving platforms on the whole I don't think should have been disabled with level hazards.
I also wish we could pick which stage of transforming stages we could play on. Like the boat part on... what is it? Wuhu Island? Or the spire islands on Isle Delfino. There are some interesting stages in there, but they're buried under these stupid transformations on other terrains I don't want to play on.
...also, no Miis in the background of Tomodachi Life FD/Battlefield. I was very sad about that.
I literally just registered to smashboards solely for this reason lol. I'm an idiot for not getting a screen capture. Can anyone confirm seeing this stage?
The only stages that are like that would be the completely flat boss stages. Bowser in particular is fought on Final Destination, no special stage.
Check this video out. Is that stage what you were referring to? I can tell you from memory that the stage in the video is part of Mushroom Kingdom U. The stage is playable in normal matches. The version of it you see here was modified to always be a certain segment. Other fights do this with certain stages as well. To name one example, Kapp'n's Spirit Battle does this with Wuhu Island. It's probably less noticable with these two, but Galeem is fought on Final Destination, and the background is locked to always show a specific segment.
The same Final Destination background lock happens when fighting Dharkon.
I decided to make smashville have hazards on because I like that the platform moves back and forth during matches, and I thought keeping hazards on for smashville would be nice for anyone who played Project M.
If only you could set hazards on and off on a stage-by-stage basis.
Better yet, if only moving platforms weren't hazards because movement is fun and not a hazard.
Unfortunately, neither of these things are true, and realistically no one in a tournament setting is going to back out to change rulesets and turn hazards on/off every single stage pick.
You're right. Hopefully though Sakurai will give us the option to switch that setting on and off from the stage selection screen.
Edit: I only wanted the platform in smashville to move for project m players that liked it.
Bucket 3 is, what I assume, you would call a second counterpick. Stages in bucket 3 tend to give a slight, though not overwhelming, advantage for certain characters over others, more than bucket 2 does.
Thanks Xelrog for helping me understand some issues with my first stage list.
Where is Planet Zebes? It is the only original map that is not in the game.
I would say it is about as similar to Brinstar as Dream Land is to Green Greens.
At least we can be happy that its music is in the game.
True, but they call it "Brinstar 64." It's like they want us to forget it ever existed.
I always liked the sound it makes when someone is touching the lava. Nowadays it's just a boring burning sound, back then, it was truly IN YOUR FACE.
Planet Zebes, while absolutely fun, is basically a bigger version of Brinstar/Brinstar is a smaller version of Planet Zebes. It should have been in the game, and maybe it will return if Silux gets in, but it would NEVER be tournament legal or even considered at a tournament. Turning off its hazards would make the lava stop but the stage is much to big so even if it was considered it would be for doubles only.
It would be nice to have it back, but it is very similar to Brinstar and I don't quite see past stages being DLC. I would love to be proven wrong and we get some stand alone DLC stages outside of the fighter pack. This one, Pac-Maze and Rainbow Road are the only three stages I do miss not having.
Stage morph can be set to on or off but only if each player wants it on and it can't be used with counterpicks.
I've decided to remove bucket 3 and change the stage list a little bit, now it's based off of ZeRo's and mine. I've decided to leave hazards off with some stages and on with others the way I think they should be respectively. Any feedback on this is appreciated and wanted, but I won't be changing this stage list for awhile.


Addenbrooke came from a church family in Staffordshire and was admitted to St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1697.
He was a successful scholar, being elected a Fellow of the College in the year before he achieved his MA. It's not clear how he entered medical studies, which were a very small element in Cambridge at that time, but he was teaching a small group of students from 1705. He became an extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1706, and took his own MD degree in 1712. He was observed to be a tall, thin man and, in his last years at least, of slightly odd habits.
Addenbrooke married a niece of the Master of St Catharine's, which meant resigning his Fellowship, and he went to London to practice medicine, until prevented by ill health when still only in his mid-thirties. He retired to Buntingford where he died in 1719. He was buried in St Catharine's College chapel, and left his medical library and instruments to the College.
In his will he left provision for the Hospital that was to bear his name. Cambridge had had no hospital since around 1500, despite proposals to establish one. The sick were the responsibility of their families, with the help of doctors and apothecaries, if they could afford them. If too poor or alone, they depended on their parish Overseers of the Poor for support. Addenbrooke left about £4000 'to hire, fit-up, purchase or erect a building fit for a small physical hospital for poor people'.
The Trustees of the fund, St Catharine's, gradually obtained further support from the town and the University, and Addenbrooke's Hospital was opened in Trumpington Street in 1766. It ran as a charitable trust, with donations and fund-raising events, until the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.
The original house, for up to 40 patients, was expanded several times on that site until moving around 1970 to its present site off Hills Road. It has become the focus for the Bio-Medical Campus being developed for a wide range of research institutes, as well as the University's Clinical School for medical students.


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Do teams need leaders?
Richard Hackman
The team is an indispensable component of the modern organization. Harvard professor Richard Hackman outlines how leaders can set up teams for success.
Q: There is an ongoing debate about how important leaders are to the success of an organization. What is your take?
In the management literature, the assumption is leaders make a huge difference in how well their enterprises do, whether that is a team or a whole organization. The more sociological research literature has questioned the importance of leaders: are they just swept along with broader currents that make it look as if they're making a big difference?
I do think there is a tendency to over-attribute successes and failures to leaders. If an athletic team has a winning season, we say, "What a great coach." And if the team loses, we fire the coach. My colleague Ruth Wageman and I call that the leader attribution error.
What Wageman and I have attempted to do is reframe the issue. We aren't asking, "Is a leader important?", but rather, "Under what conditions is a leader actually able to exercise considerable leverage on how well an enterprise does?" The first question is after a yes or no answer. A more helpful answer comes from asking about what makes it possible for a leader to have significant influence, and what are the things that leaders do that make the most difference.
Q: And what are the conditions that let leaders have an actual impact?
The early stages of entrepreneurial startups, if they've got sufficient capital, have lots of room for leaders to make a difference. As an enterprise becomes more and more institutionalized, that latitude shrinks to the point where sometimes what a leader has to do is to detonate a small explosive device to open up some of the constraints so that she or he can actually make a difference.
Q: A significant part of your work has focused on teams. How is it connected to your work on leadership?
Teams are a good place to start in thinking about constructive change of organizations. Teams are located right at the nexus of the individual and the organization. They're a social system, so it's not like looking at an individual, but they're not as complicated as an organization. You see what's going on with the leadership and in the social system.
Also, you really can't change an organization by working with individuals alone; looking at an individual without taking account of group membership is an exercise in futility. On the opposite end, the cultural inertia in organizations is awe-inspiring. You really can't change the culture of an organization all at once.
You can create change in teams. And if those teams start to operate better, that will have potentially positive influence on the learning and development of individual team members and on the broader organization as the lessons learned expand, laterally or upwards in the organization
Q: Could you give an example of how teams function effectively?
My colleagues and I have done research in the U.S. intelligence community over the last several years trying to understand the challenges in responding quickly and appropriately to threats against the nation. We examined what the most effective leaders of teams in the intelligence community do. The results are in our book, Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems.
One outcome was the 60-30-10 Rule. We found that about 60% of the variance in how well a team actually performs is determined even before the members come together for the first time. That is, in the basic conditions that the leader puts in place.
The next 30% is how well the team is launched. What happens when you bring these people—they are not yet a team—together for the first time? The leader or manager, who has put it together, actually breathes life into it, and the launch turns out to be a huge influence on how well a team does.
The final 10% is how and how well the leader coaches the team as they proceed with their work. That's almost the reverse of what people think leaders actually do. Typically, when we think about a leader's style, it's working with the team in real time and coaching along the way. And that's important, but it's just 10%. And it can't be done well if the basic conditions for success are not in place and if the team has had a poor launch. What the leader ought to do in that circumstance is backspace and say: "How can I get the basic conditions in place that will let us succeed?" and then re-launch as best as possible.
Q: What are the conditions a leader should be putting in place before a team is established?
What sets the stage for a great team, a great organization, or a great nation is not all that different. There are several key conditions in all cases.
• We need to know who we are. If we're a team, we need to know who is on this team. It can't be a team in name only with uncertainty around who is actually participating.
• We need a well-defined purpose. It's absolutely critical to be clear about what we're trying to achieve.
• We need the right people on the team. Do we have the right number of people? The right mix of people?
• We need norms of conduct. What goes and what doesn't go in this enterprise?
• We need a supportive organizational context. Is there a broader context providing the resources, the information, and support that we need to pull this off?
• We need well timed coaching. Do we have people in place to provide coaching to help the enterprise take advantage of those favorable conditions?
I run through that same list whether I'm talking about a small team, a division of an organization, a whole organization—and you can go up from there. Those are conditions of social systems which, when in place, increase the chances that that system will pursue its objectives efficiently and well. When they are not there, then the prospects for success go down.
Q: When is a team actually needed?
There are some tasks that are either so large or so complicated that no heroic individual could possibly do it. We saw this in the intelligence teams. If you have to put together data, operational conditions, political considerations, and then add a military aspect, a law enforcement aspect, and an intelligence aspect, no one person can do that. You need to bring together people who have different skills and perspectives if you want to have a chance of really figuring out what's going on and what to do about it. That's where a team is really called for.
Perversely, that example is also a circumstance when it's difficult to get the conditions that are needed for team success in place. In parts of the national security community, organizations have unfriendly or uneasy relationships. Fights may develop within the team that reflect differences in the missions and standard routines of their home organizations. You need the team, but precisely because the team is diverse and members come from different organizations, the leader has to spend a lot of time making sure that all the conditions are tilted as strongly favorably as possible and, critically, that the team has a good launch that helps people see that everybody else is a resource for accomplishing a task that will require interdependence.
Q: What's the most effective relationship between leaders and followers?
We take a functional approach to leadership, and by functional we mean that anybody who completes functions that need to be accomplished in order for the group to do well in its work, or arranges for other people to do that, is exercising leadership. So I make a big distinction between being in a role called "the leader" and actually exercising leadership. With exercising leadership, the rule is the more the better.
The really great people in leadership roles are doing everything they can to increase the degree to which everybody who is involved on the team or in the organization is diagnosing the situation, seeing what needs to be done, taking initiatives to help strengthen the performance conditions or to get problems solved.
When you have shared leadership, which you tend to have when you have a group of people working together interdependently on a highly important task, then you've got more leadership than you would ever have if you had one person sitting in a control center, issuing orders. So shared leadership looks to me to be pretty much an unqualified good, but I take pains to distinguish that from what is sometimes called co-leadership. In many cases you see co-leadership when two organizations have merged and there's a question about who is going to be the CEO. What almost always ensues is a battle to determine who is actually dominant. It's much better to have one person, who is clearly in charge, setting the conditions in place that increase the chances that other people are also going to be able to contribute their talents in providing leadership to the enterprise.
Q: You have presented the idea that the concept of good and bad leadership may not be different ends of the same spectrum, but entirely different activities. Could you talk about that?
We tend to think in terms of continua—very cold to moderate to very hot. But increasingly we're coming to understand that the things that move us from, say, the middle up to better, or from the middle down to worse are actually different things, even in the way the brain works. For example, we process positive affect differently than we process negative affect. We deal differently with the prospect of gains versus the prospect of losses. I would argue the same thing is true, for good versus bad leadership. There are multiple ways to be a good leader and there are multiple ways to be a bad leader.
Being a bad leader is not being the opposite of being a good leader. I first stumbled onto this through the research of Robert Ginnett looking at leadership in airline pilots. He found that each captain did things in their own way, but the good captains all established a team within the cockpit crew, defined the mission, and set norms of conduct that were going to guide the team.
The people who had been assessed by their peers as poor team leaders were technically capable pilots but they didn't do those things. And more than that they had trouble with control. They were too laissez faire with their crews, too dictatorial, or, worst of all, vacillated between being dictatorial and laissez faire. Poor team leaders weren't on the far end of a continuum from the great leaders. Because of the issue with control, they were doing something entirely different.
When a leader tells the team what to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the team loses autonomy. It can't really use all its members' resources. The opposite error is: "Something worrisome is going on, why don't you guys take a look at it?" It's so completely ambiguous that the team can't figure out exactly what it's supposed to do or make reasonable decisions about how it's supposed to do it.
The best statements of direction are clear and insistent about the ends to be achieved, and leaves it to the team to make the decisions about how to carry out the work.
Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Harvard University
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In Art of the World, explore various art methods and mediums from across the globe.
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In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. The incoming Labour government gave the Bank of England independence, it introduced a state of the art system of light-touch regulation; and it signalled that it was happy to see finance let rip.
For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and cheered on by an excitable media, the bankers became the heroes of the age. The City embarked on a giddy programme of innovation, asset prices boomed and Britain seemed at last to have shaken off its post-war malaise. Politicians took to lecturing their European counterparts on the need to deregulate, to focus on shareholder value and to dispense with an outdated and discredited social market model.
And then in the summer of 2007 everything began to collapse. One household name after another - Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley, HBOS - failed or was forcibly merged. Barely a year later the government took controlling stakes in the banking sector and the reputation of the City was in tatters.
In Chasing Alpha Philip Augar tells the extraordinary story of how a major economy tried to reinvent itself as a hedge fund crossed with an offshore tax haven. It is all here: the greed, the guile, the excess. Anyone who worked in finance, and anyone who watched the disaster unfold, will be riveted by this, the first sober history of an intoxicated decade.


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This book introduces the main theoretical findings related to copulas and shows how statistical modeling of multivariate continuous distributions using copulas can be carried out in the R statistical environment with the package copula (among others).
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Marius Hofert is an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Ulm, Germany in 2010. He then held a postdoctoral research position at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. After guest assistant professorships at the Technical University Munich, Germany and the University of Washington, USA, he joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo in 2014. His main research interests lie in copula modeling, computational statistics, data science and quantitative risk management.
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Notes: Hard work, technique help Flowers bloom
Erik Scalavino
In the first eight games of this season, Trey Flowers had a specific role: coming off the bench in New England's defensive end rotation.
The Patriots then had their bye week, and since then, Flowers has blossomed into a regular starter, mostly at right defensive end, and playmaker. During that span, the second-year man has recorded all seven of his sacks this season, including a trio of two-sack performances (at Buffalo, versus Seattle, and most recently against the Broncos in Denver).
Flowers' role has also evolved in that he is often utilized in the tackle position, to give the Patriots' defense an element of speed and pass rushing threat from the interior of the opposing teams' offensive lines. It's been impressive to watch the 6-2, 265-pound Flowers make plays from that position, considering he's often overmatched physically by the o-linemen he's facing.
"It's just a mindset," he explained. "You have to understand that you might get doubled, or you have to go against guys who are bigger-sized. As long as you have that mindset and use your skillset as an advantage – speed and quickness on the inside – you can be productive."
That mindset was developed at a young age, Flowers went on to say, when he would accompany his father to work on construction sites.
"As a child, I was instilled with that with my father, being on construction sites with him, knowing that you have to work hard. I've always been a hard worker. I have brothers and sisters that push each other to work hard. It came in my blood."
He's not just relying on natural ability and determination, however. Flowers has become so obsessive about refining his mechanics that teammates have taken to nicknaming him "Technique." He chuckled when this fact was revealed to him.
"I think having great technique puts you in the right position to make plays."
"He's a very good technician," fellow DE Rob Ninkovich asserted. "He's great with his hands and his arms are twice the length of mine. He's been doing a phenomenal job for us. He can play outside and inside. It's not easy in there and it's something he excels at and it makes our team better.
"Trey's a really good football player. He works really hard at his technique. He has a good attitude. Last year, I remember saying to myself, 'This kid is going to be a really good football player.' I'm happy to play with him and see his progress as a player. This is just the beginning for him."
Last summer, as a rookie, Flowers started off strong, sacking Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers in New England's 2015 preseason opener. Unfortunately, Flowers was injured on that same play and eventually placed on season-ending injured reserve. This season, he's worked his way into a significant role that may take some observers by surprise – though not Flower himself.
"I wouldn't say I'm surprised just because I feel like I've prepared well. I was just blessed with the opportunity to come out here and put it on display… It's been a blessing to be able to contribute to my team's success."
Pro Bowl Patriots
New England had four players elected to the Pro Bowl on Tuesday: QB Tom Brady, safety Devin McCourty, LB Dont'a Hightower, and special teamer Matthew Slater. This year's game will be played in Orlando, Florida the weekend before the Super Bowl, so, naturally, if the Patriots are in the championship game, their all-stars won't be taking part in the exhibition contest.
Nevertheless, being named one of the best in the league at your position is an honor the players will always accept.
"It's a great honor," declared McCourty, who's now earned Pro Bowl status for the second time as a safety (2014 was the other) and third overall (as a rookie cornerback in 2010).
"I think in my case it speaks volumes to what we've done as a defense, as a team. I think my teammates, and us just playing at a high level, has helped me get nominated, but I think any of our guys in the back end could have got nominated in the same role. So I think it's still an honor to be voted. That's really about it."
Before the voting results were announced last night, Slater told reporters he believed teammate Nate Ebner was deserving of the all-star recognition – a point he reiterated on Wednesday when, like McCourty, he credited his teammates with helping him achieve the individual honor.
"It's very humbling. You think about all the good football players that do what we do that don't necessarily get the recognition, some on this football team. You look at a guy like Nate Ebner, who in my mind has been a Pro Bowl player. He's had a great career for himself. You look at some of the young guys, the Brandon Kings, the Jonathan Joneses, the Brandon Boldens. There are so many good players in this league and on this football team. Hopefully this says something about the culture that we've created here.
"I really believe firmly that we have one of the best groups in the NFL when it comes to the kicking game," added Slater, "and we really push one another. Coach [Bill] Belichick believes in that phase of the game and it's indicative with the way we build our roster every year. I think this is certainly a team recognition for the way that we've played this season and hopefully we can continue that."
Brissett activated
Rookie quarterback Jacoby Brissett is back on the 53-man roster. He's been a regular attendee at practice since Nov. 30, when he became eligible to suit up once again. Today, however, was the league-imposed deadline for New England to decide whether or not to activate the young passer or keep him on the season-ending IR list.
In order to make room for Brissett on the roster, the team had to make a corresponding move, and it appears that rookie DL Woodrow Hamilton was sacrificed. He wasn't at practice Wednesday (nor was veteran WR Danny Amendola because of his ailing right ankle), but it wouldn't be surprising if Hamilton is eventually added to New England's practice squad. The club currently has one spot available on that 10-man unit after LB Trevor Reilly was scooped up by the Miami Dolphins on Monday.


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Opawaka School Site
NE 16-4-7W,
Darlingford area
Designation Date: May 27, 1998
Designation Authority: The R.M. of Thompson
Present Owner: The R.M. of Thompson
Early settlers in this area built a log school in 1886 and, as it sat on a mound, referred to it as Mound School. In 1889 a new wood frame building replaced the log structure, itself replaced in 1919 by the final building, this one called Opawaka School. This evolution of building services was typical of the development of education in Manitoba, from early pioneer structures to sophisticated one-room facilities. Opawaka School was removed in the mid-1990s and a cairn erected to commemorate its history.