Some bacteria enter the intestine live, survive the acidic environment of the stomach, and then produce a harmful toxin inside the human digestive system.
The toxin is produced in the intestine and it is the toxin that really cause the illness.
An example of an organism that causes foodborne illness in this manner is Clostridium perfringes.
Like many bacteria, this organism is widely distributed in the environment in soil, water, dust and in the intestine of domestic and wild animals.
Large numbers of the bacteria, usually in the millions, need to be ingested to cause illness.
These bacteria produce a spore, which is a dormant form of the organism. Vegetative cells may form a spore when the conditions for survival are not optimal for the cell, such as high heat or lack of water and food.
Heat does not destroy spores. Once the conditions are conducive to growth again, the spore will again become a vegetative cell. A typical case of food borne illness occurs when a piece of meat is cooked, but the spore survive.
Then, if the meat is not cooled properly the spores revert back to their non-dormant vegetative form and reproduce to high numbers.
When the food contaminated with Clostridium perfringes is eaten, the organism grows in the small intestine and produces a toxin that causes illness.


Many parents find their teenage girls to be difficult and unpleasant. The media and our culture support the idea that teenage girls are horrible and "crazy." But the truth is that the daughters we love in childhood and adulthood are still there in adolescence and still need us to love them and like them through the transition to adulthood. Parents can learn a lot about accepting their teenage girls from this book.


Using sport swords--the foil, epee and saber--fencers score points by trying to touch one another with the tip of the sword while moving back and forth at high speed on an area called a piste.
Fencing is a relatively safe combat sport as participants wear face masks, gloves and protective jackets.
The growth of interest in fencing in recent years is due in the main to a wider recognition of the many advantages of fencing as a modern sport. As a competitive sport it is enjoyed by people around the world.
Fencing provides concentrated physical exercise in a short space of time, independent of the weather, the need for large numbers of players and apparatus.
Fencing develops coordination of mind and body in the highest degree and exercises every part of the body, developing quick thinking, poise, balance and muscular control.
Fencing is a sport enjoyed equally by women and men and both sexes can fence together.
It can be started at an early age and can be continued practically all one`s life.
Fencing offers regular participants many benefits from agility to stamina and fosters quickness and flexibility.
Just wear some comfortable sportswear on the day of training, all fencing equipment is supplied by our club.


This video demonstrates the BIPRO-9004 indoor / outdoor infrared security camera. There are two video clips. The first uses the BIPRO-9004 to capture surveillance video outdoors in daylight operations. The second video sample captures surveillance video in complete darkness indoors using the camera's built in IR illumination.
IMPORTANT: For the best viewing experience, start playing the video, then select the highest video quality setting by clicking on the video settings button in the player above. You should be able to select 480p for this video. If you do not select this video quality, you will not experience how the sample video was captured.
This video contains two sample surveillance video clips captured using the BIPRO-9004 bullet infrared security camera. One of the clips is captured during the day in normal lighting conditions and the other is captured in complete darkness.
The daytime video was captured outdoors.
The man in the video is initially positioned 20 feet away and walks to a position 10 feet away.
The next clip was captured indoors so that we could create a zero light environment to show how effective the cameras build in infrared illuminators are.
Here is the day time outdoor sample one more time.
Here is the zero light infrared sample one more time.
The BIPRO-9004 is a weatherproof camera that can be used for indoor or outdoor CCTV surveillance applications. This camera has a fixed 3.6mm lens which captures a 90 degree field of view. The built in infrared LEDs are rated to illuminate up to 80 feet. The tri-axis cable through body mount completely conceals the video and power cable and allows the camera to be ceiling or wall mounted at any angle.
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Q: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file [spring-test] Issue
I tried setting up spring test environment. but cannot figure out the solution below error messages.
I think the problem is that has no jndi datasource.
web.xml included connection informations of resource-ref tag.

Error Messages
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext

at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:103)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:122)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:109)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:75)
at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:321)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:211)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:284)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:88)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137)
at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:68)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:51)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:242)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonController': Injection of resource dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonService': Injection of resource dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonServiceDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession com.lfmw.service.dao.WebCommonServiceDAO.sqlSession; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSession' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:307)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1148)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:636)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:934)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:120)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractGenericContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractGenericContextLoader.java:60)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.delegateLoading(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:102)
at org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.loadContext(AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader.java:246)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:69)
at org.springframework.test.context.CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:95)
... 24 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonService': Injection of resource dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonServiceDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession com.lfmw.service.dao.WebCommonServiceDAO.sqlSession; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSession' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:307)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1148)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.autowireResource(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:449)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.getResource(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:423)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$ResourceElement.getResourceToInject(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:551)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata$InjectedElement.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:169)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:304)
... 40 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'webCommonServiceDAO': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession com.lfmw.service.dao.WebCommonServiceDAO.sqlSession; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSession' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:298)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1148)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:195)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.autowireResource(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:449)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.getResource(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:423)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$ResourceElement.getResourceToInject(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:551)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata$InjectedElement.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:169)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:304)
... 53 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession com.lfmw.service.dao.WebCommonServiceDAO.sqlSession; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSession' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:531)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:295)
... 66 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSession' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments(ConstructorResolver.java:637)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:145)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1077)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:981)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:487)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:921)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:864)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:779)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:503)
... 68 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dataSource' while setting bean property 'dataSource'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:334)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1419)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1160)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)
... 83 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in class path resource [test-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1514)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)
... 93 more
Caused by: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:307)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:344)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate$1.doInContext(JndiTemplate.java:154)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.execute(JndiTemplate.java:87)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.lookup(JndiTemplate.java:152)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.lookup(JndiTemplate.java:178)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiLocatorSupport.lookup(JndiLocatorSupport.java:104)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectLocator.lookup(JndiObjectLocator.java:105)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean.lookupWithFallback(JndiObjectFactoryBean.java:231)
at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(JndiObjectFactoryBean.java:217)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1573)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1511)
... 100 more

Sources
Test Code
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"classpath:test-context.xml"})
@WebAppConfiguration
@Transactional
public class WebLoginControllerTests {

@Mock
private WebLoginService webLoginService;

    @Test
    public void testFetchCustomer() throws Exception {
        String id = "yourId";
        String password = "12341234";

        Customer customer = webLoginService.getInfo(id, password);

        assert customer.getCustomerId().equals(51009302);
    }
}

JNDI Bean
public class JndiBean {

    public JndiBean() {
        try {
            DriverAdapterCPDS cpds = new DriverAdapterCPDS();
            cpds.setDriver("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
            cpds.setUrl(CONNECTION_URL);
            cpds.setUser(CONNECTION_USER);
            cpds.setPassword(CONNECTION_PASSWORD);

            SharedPoolDataSource dataSource = new SharedPoolDataSource();
            dataSource.setConnectionPoolDataSource(cpds);
            dataSource.setMaxActive(30);
            dataSource.setMaxWait(10000);

            SimpleNamingContextBuilder builder = new SimpleNamingContextBuilder();
            builder.bind("java:comp/env/jdbc/lfms", dataSource);
            builder.activate();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

test-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
             xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
             xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.lfmw.web"/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.lfmw.service"/>

    <beans:bean id="jndi" class="com.lfmw.web.JndiBean" lazy-init="false"/>

    <tx:annotation-driven/>

    <beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
        <beans:property name="jndiName" value="jdbc/lfms"/>
        <beans:property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="sqlSessionFactory" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean">
        <beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        <beans:property name="mapperLocations" value="classpath:com/lfmw/mapper/**/*.xml"/>
        <beans:property name="configLocation" value="/WEB-INF/spring/mybatis-config.xml"/>
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="sqlSession" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionTemplate" destroy-method="clearCache">
        <beans:constructor-arg index="0" ref="sqlSessionFactory"/>
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
        <beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    </beans:bean>
</beans:beans>

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Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are studied by various scientific disciplines—such as information theory, electrical engineering, mathematics, linguistics, and computer science—for the purpose of designing efficient and reliable data transmission methods. This typically involves the removal of redundancy and the correction or detection of errors in the transmitted data.
Data compression attempts to remove redundancy from the data from a source in order to transmit it more efficiently. For example, Zip data compression makes data files smaller, for purposes such as to reduce Internet traffic. Data compression and error correction may be studied in combination.
Error correction adds extra data bits to make the transmission of data more robust to disturbances present on the transmission channel. The ordinary user may not be aware of many applications using error correction. A typical music CD uses the Reed-Solomon code to correct for scratches and dust. In this application the transmission channel is the CD itself. Cell phones also use coding techniques to correct for the fading and noise of high frequency radio transmission. Data modems, telephone transmissions, and the NASA Deep Space Network all employ channel coding techniques to get the bits through, for example the turbo code and LDPC codes.
In 1948, Claude Shannon published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", an article in two parts in the July and October issues of the Bell System Technical Journal. This work focuses on the problem of how best to encode the information a sender wants to transmit. In this fundamental work he used tools in probability theory, developed by Norbert Wiener, which were in their nascent stages of being applied to communication theory at that time. Shannon developed information entropy as a measure for the uncertainty in a message while essentially inventing the field of information theory.
The binary Golay code was developed in 1949. It is an error-correcting code capable of correcting up to three errors in each 24-bit word, and detecting a fourth.
Richard Hamming won the Turing Award in 1968 for his work at Bell Labs in numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. He invented the concepts known as Hamming codes, Hamming windows, Hamming numbers, and Hamming distance.
The aim of source coding is to take the source data and make it smaller.
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Entropy of a source is the measure of information. Basically, source codes try to reduce the redundancy present in the source, and represent the source with fewer bits that carry more information.
Data compression which explicitly tries to minimize the average length of messages according to a particular assumed probability model is called entropy encoding.
Various techniques used by source coding schemes try to achieve the limit of Entropy of the source. C(x) ≥ H(x), where H(x) is entropy of source (bitrate), and C(x) is the bitrate after compression. In particular, no source coding scheme can be better than the entropy of the source.
Facsimile transmission uses a simple run length code. Source coding removes all data superfluous to the need of the transmitter, decreasing the bandwidth required for transmission.
The purpose of channel coding theory is to find codes which transmit quickly, contain many valid code words and can correct or at least detect many errors. While not mutually exclusive, performance in these areas is a trade off. So, different codes are optimal for different applications. The needed properties of this code mainly depend on the probability of errors happening during transmission. In a typical CD, the impairment is mainly dust or scratches.
CDs use cross-interleaved Reed–Solomon coding to spread the data out over the disk.
Although not a very good code, a simple repeat code can serve as an understandable example. Suppose we take a block of data bits (representing sound) and send it three times. At the receiver we will examine the three repetitions bit by bit and take a majority vote. The twist on this is that we don't merely send the bits in order. We interleave them. The block of data bits is first divided into 4 smaller blocks. Then we cycle through the block and send one bit from the first, then the second, etc. This is done three times to spread the data out over the surface of the disk. In the context of the simple repeat code, this may not appear effective. However, there are more powerful codes known which are very effective at correcting the "burst" error of a scratch or a dust spot when this interleaving technique is used.
Other codes are more appropriate for different applications. Deep space communications are limited by the thermal noise of the receiver which is more of a continuous nature than a bursty nature. Likewise, narrowband modems are limited by the noise, present in the telephone network and also modeled better as a continuous disturbance. Cell phones are subject to rapid fading. The high frequencies used can cause rapid fading of the signal even if the receiver is moved a few inches. Again there are a class of channel codes that are designed to combat fading.
The term algebraic coding theory denotes the sub-field of coding theory where the properties of codes are expressed in algebraic terms and then further researched.
Linear block codes have the property of linearity, i.e. the sum of any two codewords is also a code word, and they are applied to the source bits in blocks, hence the name linear block codes. There are block codes that are not linear, but it is difficult to prove that a code is a good one without this property.
dmin is the minimum hamming distance for the code.
Block codes are tied to the sphere packing problem, which has received some attention over the years. In two dimensions, it is easy to visualize. Take a bunch of pennies flat on the table and push them together. The result is a hexagon pattern like a bee's nest. But block codes rely on more dimensions which cannot easily be visualized. The powerful (24,12) Golay code used in deep space communications uses 24 dimensions. If used as a binary code (which it usually is) the dimensions refer to the length of the codeword as defined above.
The theory of coding uses the N-dimensional sphere model. For example, how many pennies can be packed into a circle on a tabletop, or in 3 dimensions, how many marbles can be packed into a globe. Other considerations enter the choice of a code. For example, hexagon packing into the constraint of a rectangular box will leave empty space at the corners. As the dimensions get larger, the percentage of empty space grows smaller. But at certain dimensions, the packing uses all the space and these codes are the so-called "perfect" codes. The only nontrivial and useful perfect codes are the distance-3 Hamming codes with parameters satisfying (2r – 1, 2r – 1 – r, 3), and the [23,12,7] binary and [11,6,5] ternary Golay codes.
Another code property is the number of neighbors that a single codeword may have. Again, consider pennies as an example. First we pack the pennies in a rectangular grid. Each penny will have 4 near neighbors (and 4 at the corners which are farther away). In a hexagon, each penny will have 6 near neighbors. When we increase the dimensions, the number of near neighbors increases very rapidly. The result is the number of ways for noise to make the receiver choose a neighbor (hence an error) grows as well. This is a fundamental limitation of block codes, and indeed all codes. It may be harder to cause an error to a single neighbor, but the number of neighbors can be large enough so the total error probability actually suffers.
Properties of linear block codes are used in many applications. For example, the syndrome-coset uniqueness property of linear block codes is used in trellis shaping, one of the best known shaping codes. This same property is used in sensor networks for distributed source coding.
The idea behind a convolutional code is to make every codeword symbol be the weighted sum of the various input message symbols. This is like convolution used in LTI systems to find the output of a system, when you know the input and impulse response.
So we generally find the output of the system convolutional encoder, which is the convolution of the input bit, against the states of the convolution encoder, registers.
Fundamentally, convolutional codes do not offer more protection against noise than an equivalent block code. In many cases, they generally offer greater simplicity of implementation over a block code of equal power. The encoder is usually a simple circuit which has state memory and some feedback logic, normally XOR gates. The decoder can be implemented in software or firmware.
The Viterbi algorithm is the optimum algorithm used to decode convolutional codes. There are simplifications to reduce the computational load. They rely on searching only the most likely paths. Although not optimum, they have generally been found to give good results in low noise environments.
Convolutional codes are used in voiceband modems (V.32, V.17, V.34) and in GSM mobile phones, as well as satellite and military communication devices.
Cryptography or cryptographic coding is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties (called adversaries). More generally, it is about constructing and analyzing protocols that block adversaries; various aspects in information security such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation are central to modern cryptography. Modern cryptography exists at the intersection of the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Applications of cryptography include ATM cards, computer passwords, and electronic commerce.
Cryptography prior to the modern age was effectively synonymous with encryption, the conversion of information from a readable state to apparent nonsense. The originator of an encrypted message shared the decoding technique needed to recover the original information only with intended recipients, thereby precluding unwanted persons from doing the same. Since World War I and the advent of the computer, the methods used to carry out cryptology have become increasingly complex and its application more widespread.
A line code (also called digital baseband modulation or digital baseband transmission method) is a code chosen for use within a communications system for baseband transmission purposes. Line coding is often used for digital data transport.
Another concern of coding theory is designing codes that help synchronization. A code may be designed so that a phase shift can be easily detected and corrected and that multiple signals can be sent on the same channel.
Another application of codes, used in some mobile phone systems, is code-division multiple access (CDMA). Each phone is assigned a code sequence that is approximately uncorrelated with the codes of other phones. When transmitting, the code word is used to modulate the data bits representing the voice message. At the receiver, a demodulation process is performed to recover the data. The properties of this class of codes allow many users (with different codes) to use the same radio channel at the same time. To the receiver, the signals of other users will appear to the demodulator only as a low-level noise.
Another general class of codes are the automatic repeat-request (ARQ) codes. In these codes the sender adds redundancy to each message for error checking, usually by adding check bits. If the check bits are not consistent with the rest of the message when it arrives, the receiver will ask the sender to retransmit the message. All but the simplest wide area network protocols use ARQ. Common protocols include SDLC (IBM), TCP (Internet), X.25 (International) and many others. There is an extensive field of research on this topic because of the problem of matching a rejected packet against a new packet. Is it a new one or is it a retransmission? Typically numbering schemes are used, as in TCP. "RFC793". RFCs. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). September 1981.
Group testing uses codes in a different way. Consider a large group of items in which a very few are different in a particular way (e.g., defective products or infected test subjects). The idea of group testing is to determine which items are "different" by using as few tests as possible. The origin of the problem has its roots in the Second World War when the United States Army Air Forces needed to test its soldiers for syphilis. It originated from a ground-breaking paper by Robert Dorfman.
Information is encoded analogously in the neural networks of brains, in analog signal processing, and analog electronics. Aspects of analog coding include analog error correction, analog data compression and analog encryption.
Neural coding is a neuroscience-related field concerned with how sensory and other information is represented in the brain by networks of neurons. The main goal of studying neural coding is to characterize the relationship between the stimulus and the individual or ensemble neuronal responses and the relationship among electrical activity of the neurons in the ensemble. It is thought that neurons can encode both digital and analog information, and that neurons follow the principles of information theory and compress information, and detect and correct errors in the signals that are sent throughout the brain and wider nervous system.
Spatial diversity coding is spatial coding that transmits replicas of the information signal along different spatial paths, so as to increase the reliability of the data transmission.
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My setup is Kentico CMS 7.0.83 using SQL Server 2012 for session state. Note that the behavior in question does not occur when using InProc session state. And that I have only tested SQL Server and InProc.
CMSContext.CurrentUser password is not updated when the current user's password is changed via UserInfoProvider.SetPassword. It is pretty easy to reproduce. See the code below. You can also split the SetPassword and IsUserPasswordDifferent calls into multiple postbacks (and possibly multiple requests) and get the same result.
My use case is that the if the user changes his or her password twice in a row, it bombs out on the second try. My workaround is to load the current user's UserInfo seperately through UserInfoProvider.GetUserInfo, and then pass that into IsUserPasswordDifferent.
I dotPeeked into CMS.SiteProvider and found that UserInfo.GetValue("UserPassword"), which returns the hashed password, is what appears to be out of sync.
Why isn't CMSContext.CurrentUser updated? And why does this only happen when I'm using SQL Server for session state?
Is there a best practice way to do what I'm trying to do?
Is there a chance the CurrentUser isn't updated because they would then be invalidated and required to log in again? So maybe it's cached?
// If session state is InProc, passwordHash1 and passwordHash2 are the same.
// Both = the new password (set by the UserInfoProvider.SetPassword call).
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Plane #1 (first plane) hit the North Tower (Also known as "Tower One", but; Tower One was the Second to Collapse.
Plane #2 (second plane) hit the South Tower (also known as "Tower Two"), but; Tower Two was the First to Collapse.
QUESTION: Where did all the mass that was the Twin Towers go?
"Click Here For: Dr. Judy Wood Site"
"Click HERE For: Dr. Judy Wood Archives"
"Click Here For: 911 Cliff Notes"
9-11-1922: Sun News Pictoral (Melbourne, Australia Newspaper) established by Sir Keith Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch's Father).
9-11-1991: President Bush the Elder Uses the Phrase: "New World Order" in televised Speech.
9-10-2001: Secretary Defense Rumsfeld tells Congress that $2 Trillion dollars is missing & unaccounted for from the U.S. Treasury ...the next morning; the World Trade Center is Attacked.
In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR's declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4, 1941 warned, "In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii."
Historian and acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, author of the just released December 1941, doesn't blame FDR for blowing it, but instead tells Whispers that it "does suggest that there were more pieces to the puzzle" that the administration missed. The 70th anniversary of the attack is next month.
In fact, he compares the missed signals leading up to Japan's attack to 9/11, which government investigations also show that the Clinton and Bush administrations missed clear signals that an attack was coming.
The Events of 911 were announced in advance, through the Solar Eclipse Chart which preceded it; The Total Solar Eclipse of June 21, 2001. Information on this Eclipse & how it forecast "911" was posted on Lois Rodden's AstroDataBank.
The Event Forecast as actually stated, said:.
. & listed NYC & WDC as possible locales.
& did so five months in advance.
The June 21st Solar Eclipse Chart World Chart.
This June 21st Solar Eclipse was not just "any Eclipse".
It was an Eclipse that was within 10' of the World Axis.
When an Eclipse occurs on the World Axis; Major World Events Occur that are Life Changing in ways that other Eclipse Events are not; no matter how huge the other Eclipse Events will be locally; it takes a World Axis Eclipse to Change World Events to such an extent as did the Events of "911".
This particular Solar Eclipse indicated an "End to "Peace & Prosperity".
The World is still dealing with its AFTERMATH to this day.
In the USA Natal Chart: The Mars/Uranus Midpoint is at 44� 57'.
affected the USA Natal Chart .
Mars/Uranus indicates: "Sudden Attack or Injury".
H I S T O R I C A L L Y ?
The Solar Eclipse of: Feb. 26th 1979 at 07� Pisces 30'.
Exactly conjunct the World Axis thru the Semi-Octile.
Thus; in the Prior World Eclipse Sadaam Hussein becomes the President of Iraq; & later becomes a "player" with Iraq a "staging area" for the events that were to play out in the Successive World Eclipse that heralded "911".
BUT... they were Lunar Eclipses NOT Solar Eclipses.
Pan Am 727 Jet (Flight #759) crashed in Kenner, LA killing all 146 aboard and 8 more on the ground.
Eclipse Paths CAN indicate the areas they will affect by the Path of their Shadows falling upon the Earth... but this is NOT one of them.
Is the Eclipse Path of the Total Solar Eclipse of "911". It passes nowhere near New York City.
The method for determining all the events that occur during an Eclipse depends upon more than only the Path of its Shadow.


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Brute Force Hits The Silver Screen!
Brute Force,the Smile Assistor in Cleveland, with Daughter of Force at Pat's In The Flats
http://www.flickr.com/photos/parmapaula/sets/72157629451801927/
BRUTE DOCUMENTARY AT SXSW
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12430
Brute's Brit Buds B Jammin'
Misty's Big Adventure – Where Do Jam Jars Go At Xmas Time?
Excellent music video for Misty's Big Adventure's song "Where Do Jam Jars Go At Xmas Time?"
King of Fuh Alive In The Material World!!
In the biography, George Harrison Living In The Material World, by Olivia Harrison, George writes about a day in his life in his diary from Jan. 10, 1969, and King of Fuh was included! The diary entry also appears in the documentary of the same title, directed by Martin Scorsese, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOWUle0grm8, with the words read by George's son, Dhani.
An article by Paul Theroux in Newsweek Magazine of 10/03/11 describes that day in George's life:
"Harrison's departure from the Beatles was abrupt and without regret. Scorsese has footage of some singular bickering between George and Paul. In what seems just another detail in a busy day, George writes in his diary for Jan. 10, 1969, 'Got up went to Twickenham rehearsed until lunchtime—left the Beatles—went home, and in the evening did King of Fuh at Trident studio, had chips later,' as we learn in the film."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/scorsese-s-new-documentary-on-inscrutable-beatle-george-harrison.html
Thanks to George for including the Fuh King in his diary.
BRUTE IN MUSICAL
Brute plays a vendor who sells drug laced sweets in a society
where people must wear barcodes on their wrist so the law
and business can keep track of them.
Extemp Audience Expanded!
Brutefan Owen Maercks and Vivian
Brute's new performance shoes and socks
…purple Converse sneaks and bright yellow socks…
Brute meets Barry
Brute and Barry Pearl of Grease fame,
currently in Broadway's Baby It's You
Blog #2
To summer-ize…Something's missing.
The partay is over. New Year's confetti is now disappearing in a landfill and the world is waiting for the next shoe to drop,
vis a vis the wars. Although night is still night. Day remains day. The sun is stubbornly resolute and constant. Oceans seem pretty full. Wind hasn't died down. Rain persists in falling from above. Above, by the way, is still above. The Earth is being chewed up slowly, mine by mine, as block by block developers take time away from their next martini to package people in boxes of concrete and metal, and trumpet progress.
However, the small universe of bacteria really gave the New Year a pass. They just grew and almost held the progress of medical science in disdain as they become stronger. Now going to an emergency ward or staying overnight in a hospital has become an invitation to get a serious infection, at least enough to make the accounts receivable office smile.
Yet something is amiss. Something which I feel an obligation to relate, less we all go pell mell off a cliff or stay huddled in the corner of an attic, or wait on some line…not really cognizant of what is happening. And that thing which is amiss amidst all of this? Well, as we hear the news, read the newspaper, or the latest Internet News report, see the outrage on TV, we are missing something. That something is quite invisible and so it's comforting in a way to know that we're missing something but yet we can't see what we're missing. Yet one has to crawl out of bed in the morning, and peek through the venetian blinds. What does one see? Oh…it's only the backyard!
To consider that all the progress, the hustle and bustle, the Election, the News, and of course the Ignorance that is the War and Cruelty, is occurring in our backyard, our Homeland Planet Earth, all at the same time that we are traveling thru space, is a worthy consideration. All this goes on as we hurtle and spin towards an unknown destination. And not even The Buddha, Allah, Hashem, Moses, Krishna, Mohammed, Jah, Jesus Christ, Zoroaster, Lao Tse, or Brahma, Reverend Al, Mayor Mike or all of the Nobel Peace Prize winners or losers ( might as well mention Britney), know the Unknown Destination toward which we travel.
Yet, that's not the unsettling part of all this. It's that this complete, idiotic, unconscious bloody mayhem continues after all the thousands and millions of years, all the time our kind has inhabited Earth, and continues in a relatively minuscule space, when comparing Earth to the size of the Universe. Kind of like having a rodeo in a comfy bed and breakfast.
It cries out for one to step back from all of this for just a moment or two, to step back and see one's apartment or home, to step back and see the block where one lives, then to step back and see the state, and country, then stepping back further to see the planet, see the planet in one's mind's eye and then to fly back, away from the planet, to see our homeland Earth disappear into the black of space, then to realize that while not even seen the Earth is engulfed in madness… to travel with the mind beyond our solar system, our galaxy, and then to remember one is still at home in the kitchen, that the patina of aggression and madness is continually occurring, that you just hear a gunshot a few blocks away, that the Prince of Darkness has wed the Maiden of Light , and all of this goes on on a small, teensy bit of rock in an endless universe, while people profess to know answers, and all the time the cycles of cruelty upon cruelty are played out in ritual.
And that is what leaves one to feel that something is amiss.
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Guest Post: Michelle Orihel, "A Pamphlet War In Song: Teaching Revolutionary Print Culture with the Musical, Hamilton"
May 12, 2016 By The Junto Moderator in Pedagogy, Public History Tags: Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, Hamilton: An American Musical, pedagogy, Public History, Samuel Seabury 7 Comments
We are pleased to share this guest post from Michelle Orihel, an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Utah University. Dr. Orihel received her doctorate from Syracuse University and is currently working on a book manuscript about Democratic-Republican Societies in the post-revolutionary period.
When I first listened to the Hamilton soundtrack last fall, the song "Farmer Refuted" caught my attention. The song stages a pamphlet war that began in November 1774 between Samuel Seabury, an Anglican minister in Westchester County, New York, and Alexander Hamilton, then an upstart New York college student. Their war of words over the First Continental Congress carried on for nearly four months and encompassed several tracts.[1]
Pamphlets were the social media of the American Revolution. They gave people a place to talk, argue, complain, and gossip about current issues, particularly during times of controversy or crisis. The publication of one pamphlet sometimes prompted another pamphleteer to respond in print, which often provoked a counter-response, and another, and so forth. These pamphlet wars reflected and shaped the arguments that people had in everyday life—in their households and in taverns, coffeehouses, and other public places. If the Revolution had a soundtrack, pamphlets were it.[2]
It is not surprising, then, that Hamilton's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda framed a song as a pamphlet war. As a print culture historian, I knew that I had to bring that song and those pamphlets into my classroom. So, this spring, my students and I addressed that topic in an upper-level course on early American history.
Students prepared for class by reading the first two tracts from the Seabury-Hamilton dispute. In class, I lectured on pamphlets and the print media in early America and we listened to "Farmer Refuted." Then, the students divided themselves into Hamilton's supporters and Seabury's supporters. Each group of students aimed to understand the logic of their respective pamphleteer's argument. The debate that followed set the stage for our discussion of what had been gained and/or lost in the transformation from revolutionary pamphlet war to Broadway musical number.
We concluded that the song conveyed the essence of the dispute between Seabury and Hamilton, but it did not situate that pamphlet war fully within its historical context. Nonetheless, it captured the competitive world of revolutionary print culture.
In 1774, the Continental Congress devised a policy of non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption for resisting the Coercive Acts, which Parliament had recently passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. This policy entailed cutting off all trade with the mother country. Through the Articles of Association, Congress established committees in local communities to enforce this boycott, in effect attempting to govern people's everyday actions.[3]
Seabury's first pamphlet, Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, argued that the measures of Congress would bring economic ruin to the colonies. Congress, the minister asserted, did not possess the authority to enforce such measures because it was an illegitimate assembly. In the musical, Seabury sings to his listeners/readers:
Heed not the rabble who scream revolution
They have not your interests at heart.
Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution
Don't led them lead you astray
This Congress does not speak for me.
They're playing a dangerous game.
These lines effectively communicate the fear that Congress was pushing the colonies toward an unnatural rebellion against the mother country. As extra-constitutional bodies, Congress and the local committees acted outside of the authority of established colonial governments. According to Seabury's pamphlet, these "upstart lawless Committeemen" did not represent the colonists. Instead, they threatened to bring, as the song says, the "chaos and bloodshed" of a civil war to the British Empire.[4]
While Seabury repeatedly sings the above verses, Hamilton disruptively raps over the minister:
He'd have you all unravel at the
Sound of screams but
The have-nots are gonna win this.
Hamilton's lines convey the often unstated ambitions of men like himself who used extra-constitutional organizations like the local committees and the Congress as a means for advancing themselves politically and socially, a way for men without power—"the have-nots"—to rise in status.
However, in Hamilton's response to Seabury, A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, he argued that Congress sought merely to restore the rights of British subjects rather than launch a revolution against Great Britain. By pushing the action forward to 1776 rather than depicting the historical moment of the winter of 1774-1775, the song falls into the whig history trap of assuming the inevitability of a certain historical outcome—in this case, the success of the American Revolution.
Indeed, Miranda's Hamilton makes Seabury seem ridiculously out of step with that revolutionary future. "It's hard to listen to you with a straight face," Hamilton mocks the minister. Even the musical styles in which the competing pamphleteers sing—Seabury in a minuet variation and Hamilton in a rap—reinforces that contrast between the British, colonial past and the progressive, American future sung to a hip hop tune.[5]
Eventually, Hamilton's rap drowns out Seabury's voice and, in the song, Hamilton wins the pamphlet war. After all, he is the star of the show. Yet, reading the actual pamphlets and learning about the historical moment of their publication enabled my students to recognize that Hamilton's victory wasn't the only possible outcome of that war of words. My students acknowledged that Seabury's warnings of economic ruin, disorder, and civil war would have resonated with many colonists in 1774 and 1775 and that the future of British North America was highly uncertain at that time.
Despite these criticisms about chronology and historical inevitability, "Farmer Refuted" illustrates well the combative world of print culture in the late eighteenth century—pamphleteers using print to fight for readers' attention, trading insults, and turning each other's words against them. In the musical, a reader responds to the first lines of Seabury's song/pamphlet with "Oh my God. Tear this dude apart," a sentiment which was probably not far removed from the reactions of many patriots who wanted another pamphleteer like Hamilton to counter Seabury's argument.
In the end, the discussion of "Farmer Refuted" successfully captured student interest. Originally, I had devoted one class period to this discussion, but the students engaged with the subject so thoroughly that our discussion stretched into two sessions. Hamilton inspired me to address the subject of revolutionary pamphlet wars in class, and I suspect the musical motivated the students to read those pamphlets more intensively than they might have otherwise been inclined. By analyzing a song from Hamilton in light of the primary sources on which it was based, students had an opportunity to think about number of important issues: the relationship between old and new media, the role of extra-constitutional organizations in the coming of the revolution, and the importance of context and chronology in history. In my experience this past semester, Hamilton helped me start a valuable conversation with my students about how we tell the story of the American Revolution and what it means to us in the present.
[1] For great accounts of the Seabury-Hamilton pamphlet war and its larger context, see Benjamin H. Irvin, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 52-70; Philip Gould, "Wit and Politics in Revolutionary British America: The Case of Samuel Seabury and Alexander Hamilton," Eighteenth-Century Studies 41, no. 3 (2008): 383-403.
[2] The classic work on pamphlets during the American Revolution is, of course, Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967). On the links between old and new social media, see Ariel Ron, "Rediscovering the Pamphlisphere," The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, September 12, 2013.
[3] For recent interpretations of the significance of the turn to extra-legal organizations in 1774 and 1775, see T.H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (New York: Hill and Wang, 2011); Ray Raphael and Marie Raphael, The Spirit of '74: How the American Revolution Began (New York: The New Press 2015); Irvin, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty.
[4] The quotation "upstart lawless Committee-men" is from Samuel Seabury, Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774 (New York, printed; London: reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, 1774), 23.
[5] Alexander Hamilton, "A Full Vindication Of the Measures of the Congress &c, [15 December] 1774," Founders Online, National Archives (http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0054. Source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 45–78. For the classic critique of Whig history, see Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1965). Christopher Minty and Nora Slonimsky make the point about the Seabury-Hamilton pamphlet war being set in 1776 in their review of the musical. See "Historians Attend Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: An American Musical," The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, August 7, 2015.
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rechtsgeschiedenis says:
Thanks for posting this contribution. Perhaps you can add to the second footnote the link to the 2013 post by Ariel Ron at The Junto, https://earlyamericanists.com/2013/09/12/guest-post-rediscovering-the-pamphlisphere/, and also add some relevant tags, such as Pamphlets and/or Print culture. Thanks in advance!
Otto Vervaart
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Excellent article. Thank you for sharing the books at the end and links to the Hamilton pamphlet. I have now added the book recommendations to my already extensive reading.
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Q: How to stream depth image from a basic ToF camera module with Point Cloud Library(PCL) Inforamtion:

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*I have a simple ToF(Time of Flight) camera module provided by a vendor that only contains a Depth Node.

*I've already setup the PCL environment and can compile and execute the sample code it provides.

*The ToF camera module comes with a source code shows how to get depth raw data(the x, y, z value) from the hard device, but doesn't tell how to stream it as both point cloud image and depth image.

*Win 7 64bit, Visual Studio 2008, PCL all-in-one 32bit.
As a result, I plan to use PCL to show the Point cloud image and depth image with the x, y, z data I can get from that camera module, further more, if streaming is possible.
However, as far as I know right now is that PCL tends to store all the point cloud data as a .pcd file, and then reads it thus output a point cloud image and a depth image.
It is obviously too slow to do the streaming in such way if I have to savePCD() and readPCD() every time in each frame. So I studied the "openni grabber" and "openni range image visualization" sample code and tried execute them, sadly "No device connected." is all I got.
I have a few ideas to ask for advises before I try:

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*Is there a way to use Openni on a device except Kinect, Xtion and PrimeSense? Even if it's just a device with no name and only has a depth node?

*Can PCL show point cloud image and depth image without accessing a .pcd file? In other words, can I just assign the value of each vertex and construct a image?

*Can I just normalize all the vertices and construct a image with barely Opencv?

*Is there any other method to stream that ToF camera module in point cloud image and depth image?

A: 1) Changing the OpenNI grabber to use your own ToF camera will be much more work than to just use the example from the camera in a loop shown below.
2) Yes PCL can show point cloud image and depth without accessing a .pcd file. What the .pcd loader does is to parse the pcd-file and place the values in the cloud format. You can do this directly from your camera data as shown below.
3) No idea what you mean here. I propose you try to use the pcl visualizer or cloud viewer as proposed below.
You can do something like:
pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>::Ptr cloud (new pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>);
cloud->isDense = true;
cloud->width = widthOfTOFsensor;
cloud->height = heightOfTOFsensor;
cloud->size = cloud->width * cloud->height;

//Create some loop

    //grabNewFrame from TOFsensor

    for(int pointIndex=0;pointIndex<cloud->size();pointIndex++)
    {
        cloud->points[pointIndex].x = tofSensorData[pointIndex].x; //Don't know the tofData format, so I just guessed something.
        cloud->points[pointIndex].y = tofSensorData[pointIndex].y;
        cloud->points[pointIndex].z = tofSensorData[pointIndex].z;
    }

    // Plot the data using pcl visualizer or cloud viewer, see:

http://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/cloud_viewer.php#cloud-viewer
http://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/pcl_visualizer.php#pcl-visualizer


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Juliet Cesario (* 14. Juli 1967 in Phoenix, Arizona) ist eine US-amerikanische Synchronsprecherin und Schauspielerin.

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Cesario absolvierte die University of Findlay, Ohio mit einem Bachelor of Arts in Theaterschauspiel und studierte Schauspiel am Playwrights Horizons, New York City. Bereits im Alter von vier Jahren sprach sie ihre erste Rolle in der Kinderserie Sesamstraße. Im englischsprachigen Raum ist sie für ihre Anime-Sprechrollen Belldandy in Oh! My Goddess (1993–1994), Sarah Bryant in Virtua Fighter (1995–1996), Miyuki Kobayakawa in You're Under Arrest! (1996–1997) und Peorth in Ah! My Goddess (2006) bekannt. Als Schauspielerin trat sie in über 50 Bühnenstücken auf. Im Fernsehen war sie unter anderem als Lt. Baji in zwei Staffeln der Science-Fiction-Serie Raumschiff Enterprise – Das nächste Jahrhundert (1988–1989) und in verschiedenen Rollen in One Tree Hill (2005–2009) zu sehen. Sie ist ebenfalls als Maskenbildnerin in der Film-, Fernseh- und Werbeindustrie tätig.

Cesario war von 1995 bis 2009 mit dem Synchronsprecher Scott Simpson verheiratet und ehelichte 2015 T. Scott Leuenberger.

Filmografie

Als Synchronsprecherin
 1983: Kurasshâ Jô …als Alfin
 1989: Âshian …als Takako (Miniserie)
 1989: Kurasshâ Jô …als Alfin (Miniserie)
 1990: AD Police Files …als Iris (Miniserie, eine Folge)
 1993–1994: Oh! My Goddess …als Belldandy (Aa! Megamisama!, Miniserie, 5 Folgen)
 1995: Yôsei Hime Rên …als Rane
 1995–1996: Virtua Fighter …als Sarah Bryant (Fernsehserie, 14 Folgen)
 1996: Tokumu sentai Shinesman …als Ms. Kasahara (Miniserie)
 1996–1997: You're Under Arrest! …als Miyuki Kobayakawa (Taiho Shichau zo, Fernsehserie, 47 Folgen)
 1997: Clamp School Detectives …als Nokoru Imonoyama (Fernsehserie)
 1997: Voogie's Angel …als Shiori Tachibana (Kurzfilm)
 1997: You're Under Arrest! – Specials …als Miyuki Kobayakawa (Taiho Shichau zo Special, Miniserie)
 1997: Legend of the Last Labyrinth …als Rouge
 1998: Blue Submarine No.6 …als Mutio/Villager (Miniserie)
 1999: Taiho Shichau zo: The Movie …als Miyuki Kobayakawa (Taiho shichauzo!)
 1999: A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve …als Iris/Ilia (Fernsehserie)
 2006: Ah! My Goddess …als Peorth (Aa Megamisama: Sorezore no tsubasa, Fernsehserie, 22 Folgen)
 2010: Maggie Tales …als Maggie (Kurzfilm)
 2013: Zombies VS. Ninjas: The Web Series …als Juliet (Fernsehserie, eine Folge)
 2015: House Arrest …als Zooey D (Kurzfilm)

Als Schauspielerin
 1988–1989: Raumschiff Enterprise – Das nächste Jahrhundert (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fernsehserie, 3 Folgen)
 1995: American Gothic – Prinz der Finsternis (American Gothic, Fernsehserie, eine Folge)
 1998: Dawson's Creek (Fernsehserie, eine Folge)
 2000: Bruno
 2003: Dog Nights
 2005: Surface – Unheimliche Tiefe (Surface, Fernsehserie, eine Folge)
 2005–2009: One Tree Hill (Fernsehserie, 5 Folgen)
 2012: Little Red Wagon
 2016: The Kicker (Fernsehfilm)
 2018: Starbucks Lovers (Kurzfilm)
 2019: Will & Grace (Fernsehserie, eine Folge)

Weblinks
 Offizielle Webseite

 Juliet Cesario bei Anime News Network (englisch)
 Juliet Cesario bei behindthevoiceactors.com (englisch)
 Juliet Cesario bei memory-alpha.org (ein Star Trek wiki) (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Synchronsprecher
Filmschauspieler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1967
Frau

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Q: speeding up udf on large data in R/sparkR I use spark 2.1.0 running locally on a single 16-core node with ample of memory.  I loop over ~50 files of 250M lines each.  In the UDF stage I have a  SparkDataFrame of two strings.  I apply an UDF which is just a table lookup, replacing one column (cell) to the corresponding "division" (integer):
cellToDivision <- function(df) {
  ## convert dataframe with cell to the one based on division
  division <- distCell[as.character(df$cell)]
  data.frame(unname(df$msisdn),
             unname(division),
                       # remove names -> otherwise data.frame tries to
                       # use NA for rowname for missings and fails
             stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
             check.rows=FALSE)

}
distCell is a named vector of integers of length ~10000.
My problem is that the code that applies the UDF:
dapply(df, cellToDivision,
    structType(structField("msisdn", "string"),
               structField("division", "integer"))
    )

is terribly slow taking about 2h to run for each dataset.  In case of 250 partitions the code just hangs there, 5000 partitions will run on 4h, 50k partitions in 2h; 500k partitions seems to give me 6h per file.
250M rows by 2 columns should be well within the capabilities of this node.  Do I do something wrong?  Are UDF-s in R always that slow on real-sized datasets?

A: Just for the record--this particular task was easily solved by replacing table lookup in udf by a merge:
cdrDist <- cdr %>%
     merge(cellDistrict, by="cell", all.x=TRUE)

where cellDistrict is a SparkDataFrame containing columns cell and division.  Now it takes <10min to run a dataset.


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Black Population Grows at Faster Rate
The nation's population growth rate is down, and the size of the rural population is in decline. But the African American population has experienced growth in metro American and in most categories of rural counties.
By Tim Marema On Feb 26, 2015
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While the overall rural population has been in decline for the last three years, the African American population has grown in much of rural America over the same period, according to the USDA Economic Research Service.
The chart above tells the story.
It shows the population growth (or decline) by percentage for the overall population (the black column) and for the African American population (the orange column). And it breaks that population change out into different types of metropolitan and rural counties so we can see the geographic trends.
Notice how the orange column outpaces the black column in every case.
The most interesting change occurred in rural counties that are adjacent to metropolitan areas. Traditionally, these counties have been growing at a fast clip, as metropolitan areas expand into surrounding countryside.
But the recession and the housing mortgage crisis slowed that growth, so much so that these formerly booming counties lost population from 2010 to 2013. The drop was slight (0.1 percent).
Even here, while the overall population declined, the African American population increased by 0.8 percent.
There was also a decline in overall population in the counties that are the "most rural" – those that are not adjacent to metro areas and don't have any small cities. (That's the far right set of columns on the chart.) There, the overall population dropped by 0.7 percent. The African American population also dropped, but at a smaller rate of 0.5 percent.
So what's causing the African American population to grow at a faster rate than the overall population? The ERS says it's likely because the black population has a higher fertility rate and a younger average
So what's causing the African American population to grow at a faster rate than the overall population? The ERS says it's likely because the black population has a higher fertility rate and a younger average age.
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Canada Goose's New Sustainable Parka Is Made From Recycled Materials and Reclaimed Fur
A wintertime layer for everyone.
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Canada Goose is leapfrogging over its competition in the quest for more sustainable (and inclusive) outerwear.
The brand best known for its parkas is introducing a new model that builds on what has made the brand so popular over the decades while refashioning nearly every component. Dubbed the Standard Expedition Parka, it incorporates new materials, like an eco-friendly version of its signature Arctic Tech fabric that blends recycled polyester with Organic cotton to be kinder to the environment without sacrificing any of the original's desirable properties. The shell itself is made from 100 percent recycled nylon that riffs on the brand's ripstop material, which is both wind- and water-resistant.
And that shell is left intentionally off-white in color. Though it might appear solely as a nod to the wintry season it was intended for, it also means that dyes, which can pollute waterways during the manufacturing process, weren't necessary for production. The interior is just as thought through and is filled with responsibly sourced down. Overall, this new model produced 30 percent less carbon and uses 65 percent less water than the brand's regular Expedition parka.
The new parka has a genderless and highly functional design. Canada Goose
Most of are used to seeing Canada Goose coats with fur trim along the hood and, although a signature, the brand rethought how it goes about utilizing the material. The Standard is the first model from the brand to be made with reclaimed fur, something Canada Goose pledged to introduce into its supply chain in 2019 as a means of phasing out the use of new fur pelts.
Even how these toppers will be shipped and displayed in-store is planned with an eye toward sustainable practices. No matter if they find themselves in a window in New York City or Shanghai, every element of their display environment will be recyclable, including recycled timber and paint.
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Monitor and review existing performance and identify ways to further enhance or improve operating results.
Initiate and develop reports and tools to improve CP decision making.
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actor: Anders Holm	Elizabeth McGovern	Gail Bean	Michelle Sweeney Abrams
writer: Kris Swanberg
Samantha is a high school science teacher at a low-income school about to close, and she has just found out she's pregnant. Though her boyfriend, John, proposes and is thrilled to begin a new life together, Sam struggles with the idea of halting her career to be a full-time mother. Simultaneously, one of Sam's brightest students, Jasmine, has also become pregnant. Sam makes it her mission to get Jasmine into college and bonds with her over their impending motherhood. Unbeknownst to Sam, Jasmine is wiser than she gives her credit for, and when things don't go exactly according to Sam's plan, she must reexamine what is best for herself and for the people she loves. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]
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Toshiba Reports Sony Battery-Related Notebook Fire
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has listed 16 reports of Sony lithium-ion notebook batteries overheating.
Toshiba on Tuesday reported a Sony battery was responsible for a notebook recently bursting into flames, and said it would redouble its efforts to get customers to return the defective devices, which are the focus of the largest recall in the history of the computer industry.
The fire occurred May 24 and was later linked to a short circuit within the Sony battery pack, Toshiba said. The computer maker has had a recall program in place since late September 2006, when Sony launched a global replacement program.
Nevertheless, the most recent fire involved a notebook with the original Sony battery, and followed a similar incident in April in Japan that stemmed from an unreplaced battery, Toshiba said. As a result, the company has embarked on a new round of efforts to encourage customers to check their PCs and to get the batteries replaced if they're on Toshiba's list of notebooks with potentially defective batteries. Toshiba is replacing batteries without charge.
Acer America is the latest computer maker to join Sony's replacement program, launching a recall of 27,000 batteries in April. In March, rival laptop maker Lenovo voluntarily recalled about 205,000 ThinkPad batteries that could pose a danger to customers. The battery recall was the second for Lenovo in six months.
Sony's first global recall of more than 10 million batteries came last year when power sources used in notebooks from several manufacturers, including Apple and Dell, began showing defects and overheating. It was the largest recall ever in the computer industry.
While the recalls haven't affected the number of notebooks sold, a survey by IDC found that 15% of corporate buyers and consumers would change brands to avoid potential safety problems. Such a change is enough of an impact to sway vendors' market share, IDC said.
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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

let lastWaitTimer = undefined;
const wait = (testFunc, launchFunc) => {
	if(lastWaitTimer){
		clearTimeout(lastWaitTimer);
		lastWaitTimer = undefined;
	}
	if(!testFunc()){
		lastWaitTimer = setTimeout(() => { wait(testFunc, launchFunc); }, 3000);
	} else {
		launchFunc();
	}
};
export default class DeskIframe extends Component{
	constructor(props){
		super(props);
	}
	componentDidMount(){
		const domNode = ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this);
		this.contentWindow = domNode.contentWindow;
		domNode.onload = (() => {
			const initPage = () => {
				this.contentWindow.__createPageDesk();
			};
			console.log(this.contentWindow);
			wait(() => this.contentWindow.pageReadyState === 'ready', initPage);
		})();
	}

	render(){
		return (
			<iframe id="mainFrame" style={this.props.style} src="//172.17.10.58:9000/lego-dev/dist/index.html" frameBorder="0"></iframe>
		)
	}
}


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Opinion: Blaine amendments are anti-Catholic. So was Proposal C
Almost 50 years have passed since Michigan approved Proposal C in November 1970, the ballot initiative banning state aid to parochial schools. Though defenders of the ballot initiative argued then (and argue now) that Proposal C was in the spirit of the separation of church and state, the effect of Proposal C — and initiatives across the country known as Blaine Amendments —has been an anti-Catholic agenda.
Studies have since demonstrated that non-public schools save public funds, and public schools have been unable to accommodate the influx coming from closed parochial schools (as indicated by the common grievance over class sizes voiced by public school teachers).
It's been a long time since Proposal C. But it has been even longer since the origin of the Blaine amendments. These were rooted in the attempt by Rep. James Blaine, R-Maine, to pass through Congress a constitutional amendment banning state aid to parochial schools in 1875. The legislation fell short of the necessary two-thirds approval of the U.S. Senate to pass as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Blaine's initiative induced statewide campaigns across the country to enact bans on aid to parochial schools.
Today there are 37 states (including Michigan) that have Blaine amendments. But the days may be numbered for these rules. The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments Jan. 22 in the case of Espinoza v. State of Montana to decide the constitutional test applied to public aid to parochial schools.
The argument against public aid to parochial schools is predictable. It is said that Blaine Amendments prevent government from having a religious preference and that Blaine amendments preserve the secular tradition of government.
The irony is that the original supporters of Blaine amendments in the 19th Century would disagree. By no means secular, the intent of Blaine amendments was to preserve in public schools the de-facto Protestant curriculum (which sanctioned among other traditions the study of the King James Bible). Nor did proponents of the Blaine amendments even try to hide their anti-Catholic bias. For his own part, President Ulysses S. Grant insisted that Blaine amendments were an effort to curb the influence of Irish Catholic immigrants.
Make no mistake: While Catholics today do not face the level of bigotry typical of the 19th century (or the level of bigotry today that other groups face), the roots of Blaine amendments thrive. Two thirds of religious schools in this country are Catholic. Supporters of Blaine Amendments, including the American Civil Liberties Union, would most likely be more amenable to public aid to private schools if the latter weren't so predominantly Catholic.
Of course, government should have no religious preference, and there must be a separation of church and state. But at issue in Espinoza v. Montana (and in the carnage of Proposal C) is not public aid to any specific religion, but public aid to secular facilities to which all schools must subscribe. In the form of tax credits in Montana and elsewhere, proposed aid to parochial schools is earmarked for secular functions.
Not that Espinoza v. Montana should even be argued. The Supreme Court made clear in the 2000 decision of Mitchell v. Helms that public assistance through tax credits for non-religious operations in parochial schools was not a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Should that decision survive the scrutiny of Espinoza v. Montana (and it will), we might finally bury the religious bigotry propagated by the Blaine amendments. We might also bury the noxious legacy of Proposal C.
John O'Neill is an Allen Park freelance writer.


Bird–building collisions in the United States: Estimates of annual mortality and species vulnerability by S.R. Loss, T. Will, S.S. Loss, and P.P. Marra, from the February 2014 issue of The Condor: Ornithological Advances.
Loss and his colleagues reviewed the published literature and acquired unpublished datasets to systematically estimate annual bird mortality from window collisions in the U.S. and identify particularly vulnerable species. They found that 365–988 million birds are killed in such collisions each year, supporting the conclusion that building collision mortality is one of the top sources of human-caused bird mortality in the U.S. A large proportion of all mortality occurs at structures like houses that kill small numbers of birds on a per-building basis but make up a high percentage of all buildings, which suggests that achieving a large overall reduction in mortality will require mitigation measures to be applied across a large number of structures (not just high-rises).
For some species, including Golden-winged Warblers, Painted Buntings, Kentucky Warblers, and Canada Warblers, building collision mortality appears substantial enough to contribute to or exacerbate ongoing population declines. The authors suggest that a feasible long-term approach to reducing mortality would be the continued adaptation of Green Building certification standards to include bird collision risks.
Read the full paper at http://www.aoucospubs.org/doi/full/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1.
Interesting article. It'll take some time to go through. Thanks for the info!


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