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'Kostbares Perd' oder 'elegantes Mädchen' – ausgewählte Aspekte der Übersetzung deutscher Markennamen ins Chinesische
Author(s): Jarosław Aptacy / Language(s): German Issue: 31/2022
The aim of the article is to present selected aspects of the translation of German brand names into Chinese. First, the concept and functions of the brand are described, then the question of whether brand names should be local or global. Features of the Chinese language and writing, relevant to the translation of brand names, are also discussed. In the analytical part, linguistic and graphic features of Chinese brand names are characterized and methods of translating foreign names into Chinese are presented. These are (i) direct translation, (ii) free translation without regard to the original pronunciation, (iii) mixed translation, which takes into account both the pronunciation and the meaning of the original name. Of the 27 brand names examined, 11 were translated using method (i), 8 using method (ii) and 8 using method (iii).
"Kalba žmogaus ir mašinos eroje": visų žemynų mokslininkai vienija jėgas, kad prognozuotų, kaip naujos technologijos pakeis mūsų kalbas ir bendravimą
Author(s): / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 28/2021
Pranešimą "Žmogaus ir mašinos eros aušra" galite rasti čia: https://lithme.eu/publications. jį parašė 52 tyrėjai ir redagavo lithmE pirmininkas dave'as sayersas (juveskiulės universitetas, suomija), pirmininko pavaduotoja sviatlana höhn (liuksemburgo universitetas, belgija) ir lithmE Kompiuterinės kalbo-tyros darbo grupės pirmininkė rui sousa silva (porto universitetas, portugali-ja). sužinoti daugiau apie lithmE veiklą galite čia: https://lithme.eu
Онтология на ситуациите за състояние – лингвистично моделиране. Съпоставително изследване за български и руски
Author(s): Svetla Koeva,Elena Yu. Ivanova,Yovka Tisheva,Anton Zimmerling,Galina Ivanovna Kustova ,Maxim Stamenov,Marina Dzhonova,Alexander Letuchiy,Svetlozara Leseva,Ivelina Stoyanova,Maria A. Ovsyannikova,Tsvetana Dimitrova,Maria Todorova,Valentina Stefanova,Hristina Kukova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Russian
The collective monograph "Ontology of Stative Situations - Linguistic Modeling. A Contrastive Bulgarian-Russian Study" includes research carried out within the project of the same name "Ontology of stative situations – linguistic modeling. A contrastive Bulgarian-Russian study", supported by the "Scientific Research" Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science in Bulgaria (№ КП-06-РУСИЯ / 23) and from the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (No. 20-512-18005).
Особености на публицистичния стил на изданията на българските езикови общности в чужбина (в съпоставка с пресата в България)
Author(s): Slavka Keremidchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016
The development is useful with its conclusions for defining the degree of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Bulgarian linguistic community in Austria as a part of Bulgarianlinguistic communities in the European diaspore. The purpose of this research is not only theregistration of the numbers of regularly published editions around the world, mainly inAustria, but it is also a trial to analyze the most important specifications of their publicisticstyle in comparison with the language and style of the periodicals published in Bulgaria.
Перевод метатерминологии аппарата Евфалия в древнеславянских списках Апостола XII–XVI веков
Author(s): Maria Olegovna Novak / Language(s): Russian Issue: 21/2021
The article focuses on Old Slavonic versions of Euthalian chapter-lists to Acts and Epistles considering meta-communicative terms, such as παραίνεσις or προοίμιον. The author aims to evaluate the level of accuracy of Slavonic translations and their exegetical potential, which makes the content of the main text of Acts and Epistles clear. The analysis reveals two tendencies prevailing in Slavonic sources from the 12th–16th centuries: first, there are phenomena of lexical variability, as results of applying various translation strategies, more or less successful in terms of the accuracy and clarity of the resulting text (calques, periphrastic constructions, and text expansion). Second, there is a tendency towards unification, suggesting a universal Slavonic term for several Greek correlates. Authoritative dictionaries, including academic ones, do not record some lexemes. There is no dependence of the chapter-lists lexicon on the main text vocabulary.
ПЕРЕХОДНОСТЬ СМЫСЛОВОГО ГЛАГОЛА В ЯПОНСКИХ БЕНЕФАКТИВНЫХ КОНСТРУКЦИЯХ В СВЕТЕ КОРПУСНЫХ ДАННЫХ
Author(s): Natalia A. Solomkina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 02 (41)/2021
Benefactive constructions in the languages of the world allow main verbs with different transitivity levels. In this article we are taking in account Japanese benefactives (analytic constructions with so-called directionality verbs) in typological context, and we examine restrictions that these constructions impose on transitivity level of the main verb. We survey the data from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) and the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). Using the quantitative analysis, we prove that in our datasets there is a significant statistical difference between the distribution of valency classes of the main verbs in benefactive constructions and the distribution of valency classes across randomly selected verb forms. To put it differently, the choice of a main verb depends on the restrictions imposed on the transitivity level by the benefactive construction. We also demonstrate that benefactive constructions lean toward monotransitive main verbs but are not confined to them. Our data confirm the preceding assumption that intransitive verbs with 'give' auxiliaries are acceptable if the receiver is not overtly expressed. But for 'receive' auxiliaries we do not find any limitations linking the transitivity of the main verb with the overt encoding of a benefactor or a beneficiary.
По-русски: в диалоге культур
Author(s): Nadya Cherneva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2016
The paper presents an example of intercultural training as a model of interaction in foreign language teaching. The focus is put on the similarities and differences in different ethnic values and sociolinguistic behavior and their influence on the development of tolerance in intercultural communication. Special attention is paid to the terms' minimum of theoretical base.
Проблемно обучение, електронно учене и мобилни технологии при изучаването на чужд език
Author(s): Maria Neikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017
The article focuses on the role and place of problem-based learning in foreign language teaching. Its practical application creates the necessary conditions for the students to become active, autonomous subjects of their own learning. Problem-based learning is mostly implemented in the context of the traditional in-person form of education but it can function successfully in the context of e-learning as well. As a result, problem-based learning online strengthens its positions in FLT today. Mobile technologies are successfully integrated in the process of language learning and allow the students to overcome the restrictions of time and place in their own learning.
Рецепция на два български превода на "Алиса в страната на чудесата" от Луис Карол – езиковите подходи
Author(s): Vanya Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2020
This text has a chapter about "The boot in the Bulgarian literary fashion" – a research of Daria Karapetkova in which she gives models of criticising and analising Italian literature's translations into Bulgarian, made from 1878 to 1989. She describes how they were accepted in Bulgaria. The main subject of the text is in the chapter, where two of Bulgarian translations of "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" are presented. Some passages are selected and put together, and linguistic approaches in them are compared. The reception of two translations is commented on the base of the previously mentioned models.
Сентимент-анализ читательского комментария: автоматизированная vs ручная обработка текста
Author(s): Gulnara Kamilevna Gimaletdinova,Emily Khamzatovna Dovtaeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2021
The verbal and structural features of the reader comment, a genre of Internet communication, were studied. The method of sentiment analysis (ParallelDots API) was used to reveal and measure the emotive component of the reader comments (N = 3000) in the English and Russian languages. The results obtained were verified by the manual linguistic text analysis. The experts were specialists in the field of philology of the English and Russian languages (N = 6), students of philology, as well as native speakers of the Russian language for whom English is a foreign language, i.e., their level of proficiency is C1 (N = 4). As a result of the comparison of the data collected through the automated and manual text processing, a number of factors that reduce the reliability of the results of automated sentiment analysis of the reader comments were singled out. Difficulties hindering the objective determination of the sentiment by the program were found in the reader comments in both analyzed languages. This is indicative of the structural similarities between the English and Russian reader comments at the lexical and syntactic levels. The feasibility of the mixed automated and manual text processing in order to obtain more detailed and objective data was demonstrated. The results of this work can be used for comparative studies of two or more languages performed by the method of sentiment analysis, as well as for drawing parallels between the lexical, grammatical, and cultural components of languages.
Система на диатезите в български
Author(s): Svetla Koeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0
The current study is based on the model of Igor Melchuk for a formal description of voice, which is transferred to cases in which the verb diatheses result in a propositional change. Such diatheses may be due to a change in the semantic relations of the arguments to the predicate or to a change (reduction) in the number of arguments. We establish the inventory of diatheses with propositional change. Complementary, the verb alternations described by Beth Levin (if they are valid for Bulgarian), as well as the language-specific alternations are checked whether they belong to any of the identified diatheses. The reflection of the alternations at the morphological and syntactic level are described. It is also shown in which cases the diatheses lead to a transformation from a dynamic to a stative eventuality type.
Словотворчеството в компютърно опосредстваната комуникация
Author(s): Bilyana Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018
The aim of the paper is to present some new words used in bg-mamma forums platform. These words are a result of the two main linguistic principles of the informal CMC (computer-mediated communication) – the tendencies to the lexical economy and language expressiveness. The most typical means for the new word invention are observed – abbreviation, composition, word shortening, suffixation, etc. Some of the most expressive suffix uses and their function in the texts are discussed as well.
СТАТУСОТ НА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ ЈАЗИК ВО РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА
Author(s): Simona Gruevska Madžoska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 58/2011
The question about the status of the Macedonian language manifests itself for the first time in the 19th century, but its resolution starts with the codification of the Macedonian language after World War II. The Macedonian language is then declared as an official language in the Macedonian republic and equal amongst the other languages in SFR Yugoslavia. However, the official language in SFR Yugoslavia (the language of international communication, military dealings, one of the core subjects in all elementary schools etc.) was the Serbo-Croatian language. With the formation of an independent Republic of Macedonia, the Macedonian language became the only official language until the peace deal Ohrid Framework Agreement was signed, when the language of the largest ethnic minority- the Albanian language- gains the status of an official language. The issue of interest of this article is whether the Macedonian language has changed its status and to what extent, what are the terms of legislation for it and the real situation in which it is found in the Republic of Macedonia.
СЪВРЕМЕННИ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ В РАЗВИТИЕТО НА ДИГИТАЛНАТА КУЛТУРА. ДИГИТАЛИЗИРАНЕ НА КИРИЛИЦА
Author(s): Hristo Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020
Bulgaria has been constantly part of the European cultural community and the country itself is a connection for the transfer of cultural influences. We have presented this link to other countries and people who use and used the Cyrillic alphabet. The contemporary information technologies, the creation of e learning software platforms allow the integration of the Bulgarian educational programs with the European and world ones in the virtual educational space. The education through electronic and television media again brings ahead the graphical vision of the products offered, as well as the need for greater presence of the Bulgarian Cyrillic in these products.
Терминология в палеославистике и создание сети между существующими цифровыми корпусами
Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 18/2018
The paper discusses problems and points of view related to set up networking between Scripta Bulgarica project (http://www.scripta-bulgarica.eu/bg), Repertorium of Old Bulgarian literature and letters (http://repertorium.obdurodon.org/), and also other corpuses (e.g. Codex Suprasliensis from the 10th century: http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/, etc.) for further improvement of linking between data bases. The proposed networking will connect transcribed texts with terminology in palaeoslavistics, and other on-line resources, such as electronic editions of individual sites, electronic dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographic arrays and so on. The networking will decided a number of problems that can not yet solve in a satisfactory way. The results will be useful not only for the palaeoslavists but also for librarians, teachers, and students, representatives of mass media and the general public interested in Slavic literacy.
Труднощі перекладу лексичної складової комп'ютерного дискурсу
Author(s): Maya Sergienko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 11/2017
The study is devoted to enlightening the difficulties of translation of the computer discourse vocabulary into the Ukrainian language. The work describes the main problems encountered by translators, users of the PC or the Internet, and identifies the appropriate ways to solve the problem, depending on the area of the taxonomy using.
Условное деепричастие в лесном диалекте энецкого языка: корпусное исследование системы употреблений
Author(s): Maria A. Ovsyannikova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 02 (45)/2022
This corpus-based study examines the functions of the conditional converb in Forest Enets and investigates the differences in its use between two generations of Enets speakers. In line with the previous descriptions, independent clauses with conditional converbs are used as self-addressed questions (yes/no, special, and alternative questions). The conditional converb of the verb ɛ 'be' when used with numerals is developing into a marker of approximation. Dependent clauses with conditional converbs include protases of conditional and concessive conditional constructions as well as complement clauses. This study discusses the diachronic relation between independent clauses with conditional converbs and the protasis of conditional constructions and concludes that either of the two directions of development is possible. Complement clauses with conditional converbs include, first, irrealis complements to negative propositional attitude predicates (dʲɔxara 'not know', dʲurta 'forget'), which, showing signs of relatively recent grammaticalization, have hitherto received scant attention by scholars, and, second, sentential subjects in modal constructions with such predicates as sɔjza 'good', bɔɔ 'bad' etc. To compare the use of the Enets conditional converb across types of clauses and generations of speakers, this paper analyses the occurrence of the future tense marker on the converb, the order of clauses in multi-clause constructions, the range of verbs in the main and in the dependent clauses. Many of these parameters can be interpreted as the signs of the growing level of clause integration in the process of grammaticalization of polypredicative constructions.
ФОНЕТСКИ АЛАТИ И ПРОГРАМИ У САВРЕМЕНОЈ НАСТАВИ И НАУЦИ
Author(s): Nataša A. Spasić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 58/2015
In the first part of this paper attention is focused on the life and education in the information society and the necessity of acquiring basic computer literacy and training students to use computers in their further education and future work. E-learning is a new pedagogical branch that reshape the theory and practice of teaching and learning by using computers and Internet. In the second part, we have tried to present a brief development and use of specific tools (ACTOR and CSLU) and programs (Praat and SFS) for phonetic analysis and synthesis of speech that today the most applicable. The aim of this paper was to present analytical methods of acoustic / instrumental phonetics to the students of phonetics. By following the provided steps, students will be able to analyse the recorded material independently: the segmentation of signal, the analysis of signal intensity change, duration, movement of the fundamental frequency, tone pitch of signal and amplitude.
Функционална субституция на средните гласните [e–ɛ] и на широката гласна [e] в устната практика на френския и българския език
Author(s): Veska Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021
The present study examines the manifestation of some functional substitution processes occurring with the French vowels [e], [ɛ] and with the Bulgarian vowel [e] in the oral practice of the French and Bulgarian languages. The aim of the research is not only to describe the observed processes, but also to establish the substitutes of the vowels under discussion, the phonetic factors determining the substitution course and the pronunciation tendency it leads to in both languages.
Цветообозначения в устойчивых сочетаниях со значением благопожелания и проклятия в балканославянских языках в сопоставлении с албанским и румынским
Author(s): Alexandra Chivarzina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2022
The peoples living in the Balkans significantly have been influencing each other, borrowing numerous cultural and linguistic phenomena. In the course of convergent development it determined the formation of the Balkan cultural and linguistic landscape. The idioms with the meaning of blessing and curse in the Balkan Slavic languages in comparison with the non-Slavic Albanian and Romanian ones are in the centre of the analysis. The correspondences demonstrate a high degree of interlingual and intercultural interaction of the neighboring peoples, although there are significant differences in the forms of the corresponding idioms in different Balkan languages.


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Internationally Sollatek now has offices in 14 countries and an active distribution network in 24 more. Sollatek has grown rapidly to become a truly global power management and solar products company. The AVS was the first in what has become a complete family of products designed to deal effectively with electrical disturbances, such as low and high voltage, spikes, surges and backsurges that are increasingly common in the mains electricity supply that can damage or even destroy your valuable electrical equipment.
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To bring our after sales and warranty backup services closer to the end-user, we have established Service Centers in various parts of the region. Currently, we have service centers manned by qualified Sollatek engineers in Nairobi (2), Mombasa, Kisumu, Meru, Dar Es Salaam, Arusha and Kampala.
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In 2013, 2015, 2017, Sollatek Electronic (Kenya) was named one of the Kenya's Top 100 Mid-Size companies in East Africa by KPMG Kenya and Nation Media Group.


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Dihidrobenzofenantridin oksidaza (, dihidrobenzofenantridinska oksidaza) je enzim sa sistematskim imenom dihidrobenzofenantridin:kiseonik oksidoreduktaza. Ovaj enzim katalizuje sledeću hemijsku reakciju:

 (1) dihidrosanguinarin + O2  sanguinarin + -{H}-2O2
(2) dihidrohelirubin + O2  helirubin + -{H}-2O2
(3) dihidromakarpin + O2  makarpin + -{H}-2O2

Ovaj enzim je prisutan kod viših biljki koje formirmaju oksidovane forme benzofenantridinskih alkaloida.

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De Berner Oberland was een internationale trein tussen Zwitserland, Duitsland en Nederland en is genoemd naar het Berner Oberland, het gebied ten zuiden van Interlaken.

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De Berner Oberland werd op 2 juni 1991 als tweede EuroCity tussen Nederland en Zwitserland in gebruik genomen. De trein , onder de nummers EC 104 en EC 105 volgde ten noorden van Basel dezelfde route als EC Rembrandt, in Zwitserland werd van en naar Interlaken gereden. De Berner Oberland werd gereden met EC-90 materieel van de SBB per 31 mei 1992 aangevuld met een EC-90 panoramarijtuig. Tussen 29 mei 1994 en 30 mei 1999 was het noordelijke eindpunt Schiphol in plaats van Amsterdam CS. Op 5 november 2000 werd de vertrektijd uit Amsterdam met 10 minuten vervroegd. Op 14 december 2002 werd EC Rembrandt uit de dienstregeling genomen en kreeg de Berner Oberland de vrijgekomen nummers EC 2 en EC 3. In 2003 werd de InterCityExpress verbinding tussen Amsterdam en Basel in gebruik genomen en de route van de EC Berner Oberland veranderde dan ook per 14 december 2003. De trein reed niet langer naar Amsterdam, maar naar Hamburg en Kiel. De trein kreeg hierbij vier treinnummers, EC 100 voor de trein van Interlaken naar Hamburg op maandag t/m zaterdag, EC 102 voor de zondagse rit van Interlaken naar Kiel, EC 101 voor de rit van Hamburg naar Interlaken op dinsdag t/m zondag en EC 103 voor de rit van Kiel naar Interlaken op maandagen. Vanaf 12 december 2004 is de treindienst naamloos voortgezet. Op 11 december 2005 verviel de verlenging naar Kiel en werd aan de zuidkant de route gewijzigd in Basel - Chur in plaats van Basel - Interlaken.

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Home » Business » Japanese banks scrap peer-to-peer payments, focusing on crypto instead
Japanese banks scrap peer-to-peer payments, focusing on crypto instead
Business 6 February 2019
A group of Japanese banks that had been working on a mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) remittance service have announced they have scrapped their efforts and are working on developing their own cryptocurrencies instead, Nikkei Asian Review reported.
The three banks, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, had been working in partnership to develop a blockchain-powered system that would facilitate money transfers between users based on their mobile phone numbers.
The cancelled payments system would have allowed users to access payments through virtual currency accounts tied to their deposit accounts, lined to their mobile phone number or email address. The platform was built and trialed in 2017, with further test running on an ongoing basis through 2018.
However, with each of the banks working on their own cryptocurrencies, doubts had been circling about the project's future, and whether there was any need for the platform they were developing.
Each bank is separately working on their own cryptocurrency projects, such as the Mizuho J-Coin and the MUFG Coin, which ultimately aim to offer their customers the ability to transact in cryptocurrency tied to their bank accounts.
According to a MUFG spokesperson, the MUFG Coin will improve on existing cryptocurrencies to offer a "highly useful" alternative, noting that the "[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group will] overcome issues of [existing] virtual currencies and create a highly useful currency."
The cancellation was revealed at the Financial Services Agency public-private council, a meeting chaired by the Mizuho Bank CEO Koji Fujiwara. With the announcement, the banks pledged to redouble efforts on their own developments.
The decision represents a significant u-turn from the banks, which had been expected to push forward with plan to roll out the technology.
However, the Japanese payments landscape is already populated with a number of competitors, including apps allowing peer to peer payments by QR code and phone number, as well as popular phone-linked payment services from companies such as PayPal and Line.
With competition intense and the practical use case questionable, the bank's decision to change course represents a shift towards taking cryptocurrencies more directly to a mainstream audience.
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Cruickshank: Infighting caused our defeat
Lack of money and in-fighting were major contributors to the defeat that the New Democratic Party (NDP) suffered at the hands of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) in the 2005 general elections.{{more}}
"We just didn't have the amount of money they (the ULP) had at their disposal, and some our guys were not prepared," said Allan Cruickshank, the NDP's campaign manager during the last election.
Cruickshank, who was elected unopposed as the new General Secretary of the party, after the incumbent, Senator Daniel Cummings, resigned due to work commitments overseas, also echoed the belief of many in his party that some impropriety took place.
He, however, noted that despite the alleged impropriety, the finance and in-fighting issues contributed strongly to the defeat.
He told SEARCHLIGHT that in several constituencies there were disagreements over who the candidates should be.
"We tried to do things democratically, but what happened is like what is taking place with the Democratic Party in the United States right now; while the other side is ready for the election, they are still fine tuning who their candidate will be," Cruickshank explained.
As he starts his tenure as General Secretary, however, Cruickshank said that he is confident that the NDP will be ready to take the fight to the ULP and win the next General Election.
So what about him, would he be contesting the next general elections?
Word on the ground at the party convention, which took place on April 20, was that some people feel that he is one of the members of the old guard who still have something to offer to the electorate.
"Everywhere I go I get that, everywhere I go, but I don't think at this time …I haven't decided if that (elected representation) is a priority," the former Minister of Education, Health, Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture, among others, said.
Cruickshank, who served in government from 1984 to 2001 during the heyday of the NDP, said his priority right now is to build and unite the party.
"My priority is to unite the former, the present and the future of this party."
"I have no dream to contest the next election," he said, but hastily added "but in politics…you know it's funny, I will leave it to the people."
He told SEARCHLIGHT that he believes that there may be some surprise candidates in the NDP's slate in the next elections. He said that the will of the people may foster these surprises.
"Even a lot of former candidates are doing well on the ground," Cruickshank said.
At last month's convention, Dr Linton Lewis was re-elected unopposed as party chairman, along with Dr Godwin Friday and Senator St Clair Leacock, who were elected first and second Vice President, respectively.
Cameron 'Dinky' Balcombe and Vynette Frederick were returned as Treasurer and Public Relations Officer, respectively. Architect Maxim James resoundingly beat former Health Minister Burton Williams to be the Assistant General Secretary.
The five persons elected to the Central Committee of the party were Amos Cruickshank, Harvey Graham, Bert François, Monica Ross and Burton Williams, while party president Arnhim Eustace selected Brian Alexander, Cleve Lewis and John Mc Clean to serve as committee members.
The post of party president was not up for election.
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Q: Recover files from hardware failed ssd I have an ssd that has had a hardware failure of some kind, I can rma it as it is still under warranty but their service does not include data recovery. I have collected my work files from it but my personal files and plugins are still there and I would like to recover them.
The catch...
Bandwidth and total copy size seams to be an issue. Read too much and the drive crashes.
Reports bad sectors everywhere (false) or shuts down the whole os.
So I have since put the drive in an external case so I can hot swap it as I suspect the memory buffer is the issue.
I thought of using rsync with a bandwidth limit as per another question here, but I believe I would need to stagger the copy process to either let the buffer clear itself or cool down.
I am in need of some script or tool to recover my lost data.

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Reports bad sectors everywhere (false)

"sectors" is not a thing that exists on SSDs. "blocks" do, and if your drive reports them as bad that means, because there's nothing to fail mechanically:

*

*Asserted the address lines to get these bits of the block

*Read out the memory cells, which means "gotten a vector of voltage readoutss"

*Tried to convert these to bits, by applying a rather complicated soft-input error correcting code on them

*Return (success and data) or (error):

*

*Success when trying to decode them (iteratively) yielded an error term ("syndrome" in decoder speak) that was zero at some point

*Error when the soft values never actually can be massaged and error corrected to yield a word that has no error

So, you get an error. That means the thing cannot be read out. There's no "the SSD is wrong about the data being unrecoverable": It always reads some voltages, no matter how broken everything is, and checks whether these pass a check, and corrects them, if necessary, and possible.
Therefore:

Reports bad sectors everywhere

You'll have to trust your SSD on that – it literally cannot read the data. The only thing you can change to "globally" make reading hard although the memory cells (which, by the way, are small capacitors charged to some voltage) are intact is if you "shift" the reference voltage of the ADC that converts the analog voltages to digital values. Then, you get incorrect soft input for your decoder, even if the actual memory was OK.
But that voltage is generated within the very same die as the ADC is (so, within your flash memory chip) and should be quite resilient to changes in e.g. supply voltage.
So, maybe it's a thermal thing, really, or some silicon mode failure.
Either way, it would sound to me like you would not want to use rsync, or any file-system level tool, to get data from the drive. That requires the operating system to be able to access the same data spots very frequently, just to understand what data is in which file.
What you'd need to do is make block-device level copy, and to it in small steps. Read (for example) 16 MB into an image file. Wait a while. Read 16 MB… and so on.
This could be done in a ZSH/bash shell script with a loop that reads these blocks sequentially with dd, then calls sleep to wait, then reads the next and such, or in a few lines of Python. Don't forget to check for errors reading on the way, and abort the procedure when they happen, to restart it at the same point later.
Because an actual prepared solution is asked for:
#!/usr/bin/zsh
# Copyright 2022 Marcus Müller
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
# Find the license text under https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html
# THIS SCRIPT IS UNTESTED AND COMES WITH NO WARRANTIES, FOLKS.

IN_DEVICE=/dev/yoursource_ssd
BACKUP_IMG=myimage
LOGFILE=broken_mbs.txt

# get size, round up to full MB
size_in_bytes=$(blockdev "${IN_DEVICE}")
size_in_MB=$(( ( ${size_in_bytes} + 2**20 - 1) / 2**20 ))
#check whether size > 0
if [[ ! ${size_in_MB} -gt 0 ]]; then
  logger -p user.crit "Nope, can't determine size of ${IN_DEVICE}. I'm outta here."
  echo "Failure on input" >&2
  exit -1
else
  logger -p user.info "Trying to back up ${IN_DEVICE}, size ${size_in_MB} MB"
fi

if fallocate -l "${size_in_MB}MiB" "${BACKUP_IMG}" ; then
  logger -p user.info "preallocated ${BACKUP_IMG}"
else
  logger -p user.crit "failed to preallocate ${BACKUP_IMG}"
  echo "failure on output" >&2
  exit -2
fi

failcounter=0
MB=$((2**20))
for i in {0..$((${size_in_MB}-1))}; do
  if \
    dd \
      "if=${IN_DEVICE}" \
      "of=${BACKUP_IMG}" \
      "ibs=${MB}" "obs=${MB}" \
      "skip=${i}" "seek=${i}" ; \
  then
    echo "backed up MB nr. ${i}"
  else
    failcounter=$(( ${failcounter} + 1 ))
    echo "${failcounter}. error: couldn't backup MB nr. $i" > &2
    echo "${i}" >> ${LOGFILE}
    logger -p user.err "couldn't backup MB nr. $i"
  fi
  sleep 0.5
done
echo "Got ${failcounter} failures"
exit ${failcounter}

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The tiny town of Nobby has a really excellent camping spot opposite Rudd's Pub.
Steele Rudd, of Dad and Dave fame used to live in Nobby and apparently penned some of his short stories here in the pub.
Personally I found the front verandah of the pub was the perfect place to sit and write, chat and just generally relax with a cup of coffee and a pumpkin scone (a Queensland specialty). I met this lovely couple who farm nearby and were enjoying an outing on their motorbikes with a stopover at their favourite pub.
The pub has quite an eclectic decor with lots of bush memorabilia.
The town's free camping spot is just opposite Rudd's Pub and next to the now obsolete railway station which is a tourist information and craft centre. There are barbecues and picnic tables available and if you want/need power it's available for a gold coin donation (just pay at the pub). Most folks patronise the pub which is renowned for their lamb shanks — a small serving is more than enough — they must have giant sheep in this area as the shanks were ENORMOUS.
This is an excellent location and a good example to other tiny towns of how providing a place for grey nomads to camp can bring extra business and life into a town.


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Továrna na absolutno je první antiutopistický román Karla Čapka. Poprvé byl vydán v roce 1922. Druhé vydání z roku 1926 bylo doplněno o předmluvu autora. Původně však dílo vycházelo na pokračování v Lidových novinách ve formě fejetonů.
Děj románu líčí události kolem vynálezu zvláštního karburátoru, který dokonalým spalováním hmoty uvolňuje nejen elektrony, ale i tajemné všeovládající absolutno – boha.

Zajímavosti
Dílo mělo mnoho kritiků, kteří autorovi vyčítali, že se nejedná o román se souvislým dějem. Některé kapitoly jsou viditelně protahované, což se projevuje na gradaci děje. V předmluvě ke druhému vydání Čapek kritiku přijímá a vysvětluje, že původně měl v plánu po dokončení R.U.R. napsat fejeton do novin. Ten se nakonec rozrostl na šest fejetonů, které po odevzdání do novin a otištění postupně doplňoval o další kapitoly, vycházející na pokračování. Tak vznikl, jak Čapek sám říká, "fejetonový seriál".

V reakci na Čapkovo dílo napsal Jiří Haussmann román Velkovýroba ctnosti, který vyšel také v roce 1922.

Příběh
Inženýr Marek vynalezne zázračný stroj "Karburátor", který dokáže získávat energii rozkládáním hmoty. Vedlejším produktem tohoto procesu je vytvoření Absolutna, esence, která působí na lidi kolem. Ti se vlivem účinku této božské síly obracejí na víru, konají zázraky, chovají se ušlechtile a jsou šťastní. Brzy se tento stroj začne šířit po celém světě, kde nastává ohromný nárůst výroby a náboženské víry. Po čase se ale vše obrátí a kvůli nadbytku výrobků se hroutí světový trh. Snaha lidí zarputile prosazovat svou víru skončí krvavými náboženskými válkami a nastává všeobecný světový chaos, tzv. "Největší válka", do které je zapojen celý svět. Lidé se postupně snaží svět od záhadných karburátorů očistit, válka však nemá jasného vítěze.

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 Dílo v elektronické podobě na webu Městské knihovny v Praze
 Referáty-seminárky.sk
 Český jazyk
 www.capek.misto.cz

Díla Karla Čapka
České romány
Česká vědeckofantastická literární díla
Knihy z roku 1922
Antiutopie


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Eleven Israeli athletes gave their lives in the 1972 Munich Olympic games; yet the government of Israel did not withdraw from the Olympics despite the grave danger that participation poses to its athletes. Nor did the Israeli athletes, themselves, flinch from participation.
The Soviet and the Third World goal are to have Israel down to membership in fewer than five athletic federations by 1980, thus disqualifying Israel from the Olympics. We cannot stand by and permit the Soviet Union and her allies to bar Israel from the athletic arena.
Therefore, Women's League for Conservative Judaism urges its members to:
Write to the United States Olympic Committee commending it for its strong efforts on behalf of Israel's participation in the 1980 Olympics and urging that it continue in these efforts;
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When I heard about the Planted+ 24/7 series that offers color and intensity control, I knew it would be worth looing into as an upgrade option.
The main selling point of the Planted+ 24/7 SE aquarium light is it's ability to vary both intensity and color. It is at the core a LED fixture very similar to the Planted+ model in that it mixes white LED's and 660nm red LED's. It adds color changing RGB LED's to add the ability to change the resulting color output of the fixture.
The 20" version has the following LED count: 24 white LED's, 12 660nm red LED's, and 16 color change LED's.
24/7 mode: This setting simulates lighting changes through the day from natural sunlight. It varies the light intensity and color though a 24 hour cycle starting with warm and dim light at dawn, peaking at full intensity at mid day, and reverting to warm and dim for sunset. The 24/7 cycle now (with this 'SE' version) goes to full darkness for 4 hours every night.
There are four other lighting modes: Cloudy, Thunderstorm, Sunset, and Starry Moon Night.
There are four memory buttons that let you dial in your own custom intensity and color.
The light mount tilts to move the light out of the way, allowing easier access to the water (for feeding, maintenance, etc.).
All light options are controlled with an IR remote. The receiver is separated from the light fixture and located at the end of a wire.
Minimum glass mounting span: unlimited – the mounts slide full length so you can go very narrow.
For this fixture, all measurements were at the 'Max' setting. This sets all LED's to their highest output.
These results don't make sense compared to any other fixture I have tested. Generally, PAR (and light intensity in general) are highest at the center, directly below the fixture, and is reduced as you move away from center. In this case, the center location PAR value of 82 is less than the corner PAR values (which average 105 PAR). The results were so unexpected that I setup and performed the test again thinking I had confused recording the results. The re-test resulted in almost exactly the same results.
At the 9.5″ depth, PAR values are very even throughout. The center location is measured as slightly more intense than the corners, but not by much. Even light is a very good thing – it means that your plant layout will not be hindered by dark places at the edges and corners.
The PUR light curve (left hand graph) is nice and fat, especially over the red spectrum. This confirms the fixture's use of plant specific 660nm red LED's. The Kelvin readings in the 7,000 range are a little 'cooler' than desired and are confirmed by my eyes. However, remember that this fixture has the color change LED's. You can adjust downward the blue range (thus making the red's and green's appear more intense).
The PAR values confirm this fixture works well in a high light (high tech) planted tank. You can read my Basics of Planted Aquariums page to get a better understanding of how to match a light fixture's PAR output to your tanks needs. What makes this fixture great is the ability to make a custom setting that matches the light intensity needs of your tank. With a custom setting dimmed down, this light fixture would be a great match for a medium or even low light plant setup.
I initially found the 'blind spot' observed (low measured PAR at the center, 5″ depth position) to be troubling. However, for most users in most aquarium geometries, this probably wouldn't be an issue. At increasing depths, the fixture appears to have even light spread.
The major selling feature of the Planted+ 24/7 series of lights is the automated night to daytime light cycle. I did try this feature out for a day or two. It is a neat feature and I can see how lots of people would want to use it. For lights that are not adjustable (like our Finnex Planted+) the light operation is one mode – it only has a single light intensity and color and is truly on/off in operation. I can only run that fixture for so many hours – in our case an 8 hour duration from 12:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The automated 24/7 feature adds many more hours of interest. In the morning and late evening you add times of very beautiful sunrises and sunsets. This creates a new dimension of enjoyment for your tank's operation.
With this added benefit, unfortunately, also comes with many negatives – at least from my perspective. When you select the fixture to operate in 24/7 mode, nothing is adjustable. You can't change the total duration, you can't change any of the light coloration (specifically, it would be nice to change the mid-day colors to personal preference). Most importantly, you cannot change the maximum light intensity that the fixture achieves. It works well for a high light tank, but the mid-day light intensity is too high for a low or medium light planted tank.
Further, I find the constantly changing light intensity to be problematic when paired with a pressurized CO2 system. CO2 is injected at a (mostly) constant rate during it's 'on' cycle. With a traditional light operation, the light intensity is also constant. With the 24/7 operation, however, the light intensity is constantly changing. Ideally, the CO2 bubble rate would need to ramp up and down to match the changing light intensity. This level of CO2 control is not feasible given current equipment available. It is for these reasons that the 24/7 operation is not a mode I find desirable for our planted aquarium.
I think the build of this fixture is very good. The extruded aluminum construction is very nice. The LED array is thoughtfully arranged and seems high quality. They improved on the old Planted+ model by adding a plug on the cord connection to the transformer box (from the light fixture). This can help those that are mounting and routing lights from a storage box or aquarium stand.
The mounts offer good adjustment and look attractive; I say this with one caveat – the light width and the size of the mounts seem optimized for the larger lengths of this series (30″ and longer). On this smallest 20″ model the fixture seems a bit too wide and the mounts are excessively large and overly complex. I will discuss this more later when I talk about fitment on a Fluval Spec V.
I consider the remote to be a negative. Technically it gets the job done, but the design and styling reminds me of something you would find in a 1980's Radio Shack store (only American's of a certain vintage will get this reference).
Looking at the remote makes me think of how I'd actually like the 24/7 feature to operate. I'd like to be able to customize the ramp up (sunrise phase), the mid-day phase, and the ramp down (sunset) phase. As an example, have the sunrise phase around 3 hours, have the mid-day phase be a custom setting (example – blue's turned down a bit, overall intensity tweaked down to 80% of max), and sunset phase around 2 hours. The big reason you couldn't achieve this level of adjustment is because of the limited remote – it would take an LCD screen of sorts and many more buttons.
So why not ditch the remote entirely and replace with a bluetooth communication chip, develop phone apps, and allow all adjustments and programming through your phone or tablet. That would be cool! I'm almost hesitant to suggest this as the cost may be too high (although it wouldn't have to be – bluetooth communication chips are not expensive) and I'm not sure Finnex has what it takes to pull this off.
The biggest con of this light fixture, and it is a big shortfall, is the remote sensor they provided with the light. Inexplicably, Finnex decided to place the remote receiver not on the unit, but at the end of a long cord that comes out the end of the fixture opposite the power cord.
I have no idea what they were thinking on this one. I can't imagine a scenario where it's ascetically the best option to have the remote receiver arranged like this. It looks awkward having a cord hanging off the end. They should have built the IR receiver into the top or end of the fixture. Maybe this would limit the angles that would receive signals from the remote; that is fine and would have been better than what they came up with.
I will cut to the chase. This fixture doesn't work well at all on a Fluval Spec V aquarium. I had high hopes, but it has several shortfalls that make it incompatible and undesirable.
The stand provided is especially too bulky on this small 20″ size. The stand puts the fixture up higher than necessary (in my opinion) but the bigger issue is the stand seems overly complicated – visually too much going on.
Then there is the issue of the remote sensor dongle / cord coming off the end of the fixture. One thing I love about the Spec V is that there are three sides that you can view the tank: front, back, and end. With cords on opposite ends, one of them will obscure the 'end' view (opposite the pump/filter section). This looks horrible on the Spec V. It might not be as bad if they had both cords (power and sensor) coming out the same end (which you would put on the pump/filter end of the tank).
There is a bigger issue that develops from the very large stands. The plastic stand is so wide that it conflicts with the divider between the pump and filter media sections making the light sit off-center and off-level.
Are getting one of the larger sizes (30″, 36″, 48″) as the stands and width don't work with the small scale of the 20″ model.
Want adjustability of the light intensity and colors – this is the fixtures best feature.
Or, you like the automated 24/7 feature to simulate the changing light of a full day.
You can deal with the stupid remote sensor cord coming out the end.
If the above criterion don't fit, backing up to the older (and simpler) Planted+ may be a better fit. It is still in use as our light.
There is a lot going on in their description, but I gather it offerrigs a greater level of customization for the 24/7 mode and implements many of the features I would want to use it every day in a planted tank.
Even better is the next model introduced, the Finnex Planted+ 24/7 V2. This model has the 'CC' features but also has a very intreaging hardware improvement – they eliminated the remote sensor cord / dongle! In it's place is a remote sensor built into the end of the fixture. Exactly what they should have done in the first place.
All of that to say if you are considering the older Planted+ 24/7 SE I'd forego it in favor of the newer Planted+ 24/7 V2 as it is seems to be improved in every way. I hope to get ahold of one to test in the near future.
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I picked this fixture up on Amazon. I was looking for a cheaper alternative to a Finnex light and had also read some negative reviews on their reliability. So far I'm pretty impressed after a months use. Maybe think about checking it out.
Interesting! I like the price.
The 24/7 CC is the same light with better mounting. It also has the IR receiver built into the light and the individual led intensity can be controlled throughout the day cycle. It seems to solve most of your issues with the light although it would be nice if it were bluetooth controlled via an app. Thank you for your par reviews. If you find yourself needing something to do I would really like to see in water par ratings at the substrate level.
As I understand it, the V2 has the features you mention (receiver in endcap). The PAR results I posted are in water. Thanks!
You have the best reviews! Very thorough and easy to understand. I got the Spec V and will be receiving the 24/7 V2 in a few days.
Very good! I need to get one myself to see improvements are on the mark.
I just bought a spec v, but It is the version 1, I plan to breed red shrimp in This tank.
I see you have done PAR testing, what can I grow with the v1 spec v light as it is? There must be some plants that will thrive with the stock lights.
Thrive? If you put it by a window your plants may have a chance. Just search for low light plants and that's the best I can offer. The V1 light puts out almost no PAR.
Hahah , Ill start saving for a new lamp. I want java moss, and fern to grow. That finnex light is too pricy, ill start with a sansi led 15 watt growblamp above the tank for now.
Any reason to believe the CC V2 PAR levels would be drastically different from the SE? I am just getting started with CO2 injection and I think this would be a good next level light.
Have you heard anything about the PAR from the Fluval planted 3.0. Seems like very similar capabilities but adds Bluetooth control vs the vintage remote.
I suspect the Finnex CC V2 has the exact same performance as the light reviewed here.
The Fluval Planted 3.0 looks like a great alternative (on paper). They are too big for the Spec V (emphasis of this site) so not sure I will get one to test.


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GE Put Volume Jumps After CEO Shocker
GE option bears are buying to open weekly puts
Andrea Kramer
Mar 6, 2019 at 1:13 PM
The stock is pacing for its worst week of 2019
The shares of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) have taken a beating this week, after CEO Larry Culp yesterday warned on this year's cash flow. As such, J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Stephen Tusa said his $6 price target on GE stock "looks generous," and CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer compared the comments to dropping "a bomb on my head." Against this backdrop, GE shares are down another 7.4% to trade at $9.15, and put options are flying off the shelves.
GE dropped more than 4% on Tuesday, and considering today's plunge, is pacing for its worst week since early November, down more than 10%. The security is now on pace to end a second straight day beneath its 20-day moving average -- a trendline that propelled the industrial conglomerate's shares 76% higher from their Dec. 11 bottom of $6.40 to their Feb. 25 high of $11.29. The $11-$11.50 region, in fact, acted as a layer of support for the stock late last year, but could switch roles to serve as resistance.
As alluded to earlier, General Electric options are more active than usual today, especially on the put side of the aisle. So far, GE has seen roughly 376,000 puts and 205,000 calls change hands -- two times the average intraday amount.
Most active by a mile is the weekly 3/8 8.50-strike put, which has seen close to 65,000 contracts cross the tape. A healthy portion of the activity appears attributable to new buyers, who expect GE stock to breach the $8.50 level by the close on Friday, when the weekly options expire.
Today's appetite for short-term puts is just more of the same, though. GE's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) stands at 7.08, indicating that put open interest exceeds call open interest by a margin of more than 7-to-1, considering options expiring within three months. What's more, this ratio is in the 99th percentile of its annual range, suggesting short-term options traders have rarely been more put-biased in the past year.


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By Selling Shares, Air New Zealand Hopes to Raise $2.2 Billion
Reported by Datchanapriya Thamizharasu March 31st, 2022 at 03:52 pm
In a NZ$2.2 billion recapitalization proposal, Air New Zealand is offering its shareholders the opportunity to acquire two shares for every one they already own.
Air New Zealand has launched a recapitalization plan of NZ$2.2 billion (US$1.53 billion) to help it get back on track.
The news of the recapitalization plan leaked ahead of the official announcement, causing trading in Air New Zealand shares to be temporarily halted on Wednesday.
Existing shareholders will be offered two new shares for every one they possess under the terms of the $1.2 billion rights offer.
Air New Zealand has launched a recapitalization plan of NZ$2.2 billion (US$1.53 billion) to help it get back on track. A pro rata renounceable rights offer of ordinary shares to eligible shareholders to raise NZ$1.2 billion, NZ$600 million in redeemable shares to be granted to the New Zealand Government under such an existing subscription agreement, and a new dedicated unsecured four-year loan of NZ$400 million from the Government are all part of the recapitalisation.
The news of the recapitalisation plan leaked ahead of the official announcement, causing trading in Air New Zealand shares to be temporarily halted on Wednesday on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges. Later in the day, Air New Zealand issued a formal statement.
"When COVID struck in early 2020 we took decisive action. Routes were closed, planes parked, and the number of Air New Zealand employees was reduced by almost a third. Almost overnight, passenger numbers halved and flight demand dropped 95%,"Air New Zealand Chair Dame Therese Walsh stated on Wednesday. "With New Zealand's support, and Crown (New Zealand Government) loan funding, we were able to keep the country connected."
Existing shareholders will be offered two new shares for every one they possess under the terms of the $1.2 billion rights offer. The asking price is NZ$0.53 per share, which is a 61% reduction to Air New Zealand's share price before the trading stoppage on Wednesday. While the government of New Zealand owns 52% of the country's flag airline, many ordinary Kiwis do as well.
Air New Zealand's expected loss for the year ending June 30 was also updated in Wednesday's statement. The airline reported a loss of more than NZ$800 million. That number has since been revised to less than $800 million by Air New Zealand.
Datchanapriya Thamizharasu
Datchanapriya is a journalism and mass communication student from Chennai. Has always been passionate about writing and connecting with people.
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I have to choose between these two Boot to Restore Progs. Any Advice??
We shouldent Start up an A vs B thread.
With these things you should think about what is right for you and what is right for your computer because everyone is different just pick the one that fit best around those 2 things and you should be fine, they are both great programs.
I agree with you; both are good, except DF-one year while SD-life time.
Luckily I have two laptops, I simply use one on laptop A, the other on laptop B.
In your case, I would do head or tail.
SD can activate Shadow mode without restart, wihle DF requires a restart to do so. although SD seems more practical and handy, i think DF is safer.
Software installation or deinstallation Problems could happen with SD.
Before you start using DF or SD, you need a solution for installing-trying-uninstalling new softwares without a trace.
I wasn't talking about FDISR, FDISR is dead, in case you didn't know.
Lets not go there, thank you.
Second define the type of install/deinstall problems, other than maybe the obvious.
In normal mode, i have installed some progs, then activated shadow mode (without restart). Then i rebooted (continuing in shadow mode). The Progs installed just before activating shadow mode appear in the start menu but not in the "add or remove programs" list. Why?
a deinstallation process is also not fine.
DF requires reboot to activate shadow mode. This kind of problem doesn´t exist.
That´s why i think DF is probably safer.
What happens if you install and then reboot before going into Shadowmode. That would seem like a wise thing to do.
You install prog in SD's normal mode then go into shadow mode w/o reboot.
You install prog in DF's thaw mode then reboot, go into frozen state.
If you compare these situations, reboot issue is involved. and IMO this vital " reboot" is the reason you notice the difference between SD and DF.
FYI, SD is safer than DF in terms of low level protections.
On the other hand SD created a mess in his system and that is also unacceptable with or without reboot.
The shadow mode without reboot doesn't seem to work properly in all situations.
SD's job is to keep these installed softwares or to remove them completely, but creating a mess is unacceptable. After all SD is ISR and that means don't screw the system, but recover the system.
This mess can't happen in DeepFreeze of course, but that is logical, DF forces the user to reboot in order to get in frozen or thawed mode. So there is always a reboot in DF.


Another cheap, but functional replacement lens hood, this one is designed for the Canon EF 50MM F/1.8II Lens.
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Here is Bob's birthday cake which was the perfect summery cake. Just a warning that the flavored whipping cream is really tart so if you don't like tart then I would suggest cutting down on the flavoring. The recipe comes from "Lolly Jane".
1 Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 8″ round cake pans.
2 Beat together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil and water for 2 minutes.
3 Divide batter between cake pans. Bake 30 – 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
4 Cool in pans 10 minutes then remove from pans and allow to cool another 10 minutes on cooling racks.
5 Wrap each cake layer in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
6 Beat together whipping cream and drink mix on high for about 3 – 5 minutes or until medium peaks form.
7 Hull and slice about half the strawberries, reserving a little less than half for garnish.
8 Place one cake layer on serving platter. Place slice strawberries on top then top strawberries with half of the whipped cream. Place 2nd cake layer on top of whipped cream and top this layer with remaining whipped cream. Garnish with whole berries.
This cake looks amazing! Yummy!
If you like tart lemon cakes, then this is the cake for you! Thanks!
I can't wait to try this cake! I've made lemon cakes before, but I don't know why I never thought of making it strawberry lemonade! What a perfect summer dessert! Penny, Is there any kind of specific oil you most recommend? Thank you for such a creative recipe!
I always just use vegetable oil when cooking. Thanks for stopping by!!!
I should say when baking I use vegetable oil, when cooking I try to use olive oil whenever possible.


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There are many family-friendly places to visit in Nebraska if you love history or just want to educate while entertaining your children. Pioneer Village has 26 buildings stretching over 20 acres of land, all dedicated to Americana. There are also a wide variety of museums throughout the state.
Do you like the 1940s?
If so, one of the best places to visit in Nebraska is the Fremont Dinner Train.
You can enjoy music from the 40s and eat a delicious dinner while riding for 18 miles.
In Durham you can visit the Henry Doorly Zoo and enjoy Vala's Pumpkin Patch.
FunPlex is a huge waterpark packed with wet and dry rides suitable for the entire family. Don't leave the city with-out visiting the Botanical Gardens and the Children's Museum.
When traveling through Nebraska there are two must see places. The Henry Doorly Zoo located in Omaha, NE and Platte River State Park outside of Omaha.
The Henry Doorly Zoo is one of the best zoos in the country. The Scott Aquarium and Leid Jungle are The Henry Doorly Zoo is one of the best zoos in the country.
The Scott Aquarium and Leid Jungle are two of the best places to visit in the zoo.
The Scott Aquarium has a shark tunnel where you can see the many ocean animals around you.
The penguin exhibit is very interactive, in that the penguins come close to the glass.
The Leid Jungle is three stories with animals that fit all the stories of the rain forest.
Many animals are very close to you as you walk through. Birds fly freely in the area above your head. The zoo is very big and requires an entire day to see all the attractions.
When in Nebraska to get a great park experience visit the Platt River State Park. There are many trails in this area d some are for horses. The best part about the Platt River State Park is the preserved prairie land. In past visits it has been just awing to see the prairie flowers and grass, which can be as high as your waist.
For an even more scenic view one should go closer to the river banks and see the large trees in the area. One can even drive in areas that have buffalo roaming in significant numbers. The animals in this area are very nice to see in a natural habitat.
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The Myths And Facts Of HIV And AIDS
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Today is World AIDS Day and with 35 million people around the world being HIV-positive, it is important to dispel the many myths that surround the subject.
HIV is passed from one person to another when the two exchange bodily fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal and anal secretion and breast milk. This can happen through unprotected sex, injecting drugs with non-sterilized needles, from mother to child, and from infected organ transplants and blood transfusions.
HIV doesn't survive outside the body so you can't get it from touching or hugging someone, from sharing forks, glasses, or even sharing a toothbrush. HIV doesn't spread through coughing, sneezing or spitting and it is not found in urine or feces.
The odds of contracting HIV through oral sex or kissing are extremely low. It's only risky if the people kissing both have large open sores in their mouth or bleeding gums. There has never been a documented case of infection from saliva.
More importantly, thanks to the advances in medical treatment of HIV, people who have an undetectable viral load have literally a zero percent chance of passing on the virus.
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AIDS Is Not HIV And Neither Are A Death Sentence
HIV stands for Human immunodeficiency virus, which infects and attacks the immune system. If it is not treated, and the number of white blood cells falls below 200 per microliter, you will then be diagnosed as having Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the last stage of HIV.
Being HIV+ or having AIDS has not been a death sentence for many years, though. There are over thirty different medications approved by the US government and there are treatments to regain white blood cells.
Although one person has been cured, there's still no cure for HIV and people who believe that the US government or Big Pharma are keeping it a secret are actually making thing worse for the people who have the virus.
HIV is related to a similar virus found in monkeys, called the Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is believed to have mutated into HIV in the early 20th century.
Bushmeat hunters and vendors in sub-Saharan Africa commonly acquire SIV and it is suspected that European colonialism in Africa is responsible for the spread of the virus (and not, to debunk another myth, by a guy having sex with a monkey). The expansion of African cities due to Western interest might have played a significant role in the spread of STIs including HIV.
It's The Ignorance That Kills
There are many ways to stop the spread of HIV. Pregnant women can stop passing the virus onto their offspring by taking treatment drugs called antiretroviral therapy. Blood and organs that are being donated are always screened for HIV. When it comes down to sex, good old fashioned condoms are incredibly effective and so is PrEP, the pre-exposure prophylaxis, which requires you to take a single pill a day to be protected. In case of some at-risk behaviors, people can even take PEP, post-exposure prophylaxis, which prevents the infection taking hold.
So if there are so many ways to prevent the spread, how come there are around 50,000 new infections every year? The main cause is ignorance. People are not aware that they are engaging in risky behavior, they don't know about regular testing, and they are not aware that HIV is manageable.
HIV affects many minority groups. Forty six percent of newly-infected people in the US are African-American and 63 percent are men who have sex with men. The reason why HIV affects marginalized sections of the population more are not to be found in the words of preachers and politicians who claim that it's a punishment but in the societal factors of poverty, education, access to healthcare, racism, and homophobia that bar groups and individuals from getting help.
Ignorance is not just on the people who get infected but also on the rest of society. If people are not taught the basics regarding HIV, how can they understand it? For example, a member of the Northern Irish parliament recently stated that he had no idea that heterosexual people could contract HIV.
"In the United Kingdom, we haven't talked about it in a public information campaign for 27 years," Tom Hayes, Trustee of Saving Lives UK, told IFLScience. "1989 was the last government campaign, while countries like Canada do it almost annually. It is very worrying to see that general public knowledge goes from incredibly limited to non-existent."
Finally, there are people who willingly spread false information regarding the condition, its cause and how to treat it. Their agenda is to make a quick buck by peddling easily disproven conspiracy theories claiming that HIV doesn't exist or that homeopathy can cure it.
Although HIV is a manageable disease, people who live with it are often stigmatized and struggle not with the virus but with other people's misconceptions. So please continue to stay informed, support the research and help fight the stigma.
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I very well realize that your tour is going to bring your satisfaction. Now much is expected from us and we facilitated everything based on your interest because you are expecting a better service.
Thank you Jemal for your knowledge as bigger as our expectation, your patience, smile, friendly approach, punctuality, interesting conversation about many things. we hope to come back again because many places left to see and some friends like you too.
James and Elisabeth Bonjour Jemal, Nous voulons te remercier pour les agréables moments que nous avons passés ensemble, Bravo pour ta grande connaissance de l'histoire de ton pays ainsi que sur la faune et la flore. Il nous reste beaucoup de chose a découvrir sur cet étonnant pays et peut-être que nous nous retrouverons prochainement.


Skyhill: Black Mist is a rogue-like survival game where you explore the vast and varied locations of the haunted condominium, manage your depleting supplies and take part in stealth-oriented encounters.
Control is a third-person action-adventure game combining Remedy's trademark gunplay with supernatural abilities.
Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation is a new adventure/visual novel based off of a popular light novel series from Fujimi Fantasia Bunko.
This Land Is My Land is an open world stealth action game with a living hostile environment which evolves over time independently from player actions.
Pamali is an Indonesian folklore horror game containing four chosen episodes, where you experience various Indonesian taboos and culture that shape the horror itself.
Transport Fever 2 is a tycoon simulation/management game that gives you more than 150 years of real-world transportation technology and history to design and master your own transportation empire.
Infected Shelter is a randomly generated rogue-lite post-apocalyptic action RPG shooter / dungeon brawler.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission takes place in Hero Town, an alternate reality where a Dragon Ball card game is the most popular form of entertainment.
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I'm planning to write a plugin which shows on module level the loaded CVS tag for this module.
The best solution would be to enrich the module nodes in the project tool window to show up the CVS tag information.
Is it possible to provide such feature by implementing a plugin?
The second best solution is to provide a separate tool window showing all modules and the correspondig CVS tags.
I'll ask our UI guy to have a look here as well. He might provide better solution.
Thanks for having a quick look into my problem.
It seems that it is at least possible to implement.
Your solution is to modify the "view". Is there any hook into the lifecycle of the tool window?
I tried this out but when looking deeper in the related code I found an extension called projectViewNodeDecorator. I think this extension let me implement this much easier.
Indeed, this is the proper way.


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Technology has dramatically transformed the media industry over the past decade. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon have turned the traditional media model on its head, and exciting new virtual and augmented-reality capabilities enable audiences to interact with their favorite content like never before.
As impressive and swift as this streaming revolution has been, with millions of viewers every year cutting the cord on traditional cable, its success comes down to one thing: the viewer experience.
Push vs pull media
People want to dictate life on their own terms: there is something liberating in doing what you want, when you want. This is fueling the mass-media migration we see today. Sitting down, bringing up a vast library of content, and finding the perfect show is an empowering experience.
Instead of pushing content out in predetermined blocks and forcing its audiences to make time to watch, these new media titans have flipped the script, pulling viewers in with comprehensive libraries they can access whenever they want. This concept may seem basic, but it is the true differentiator in today's new media age.
Data-fueled engagement
The transition from push to pull represents a profound shift in the media industry, but the real value for media companies lies in something much simpler: data.
When you sign up for, say, Netflix, you gain access to a massive catalog of content. At the same time, Netflix gains the ability to gather data on you. As you watch programs, Netflix takes that data and, in conjunction with demographic information you provided when signing up, builds a complex profile of you. This profile then fuels personalized recommendations, offers, and communications.
These personalization-enabling rich data sets are the holy grail for today's media industry. In sports, for example, our award-winning Capgemini Research Institute found that more than 60% of fans will increase their engagement with a team after having a positive, personalized game-watching experience. With more touchpoints than ever, media organizations need to rely on personalized audience data – not just programming – if they want to find success in this new era.
Building a platform for success
While the streaming giants may have gotten a head start, there is still profound opportunity in today's evolving media landscape for players to transform into personalized, data-centric organizations. Instead of hedging on paywalls and experience-ruining revenue strategies, companies need to invest in understanding their audiences at an individual level.
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Madan Sundararaju is a Vice president and Media Market Segment Leader at Capgemini. For the last 10+ years, he has specialized in digital and emerging trends in broadcast media and implementing core M&E for a number of Fortune 500 companies. For more information, reach out to him at madan.sundararaju@capgemini.com
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I am a change agent and strategic oriented IT executive who is highly effective at developing solutions.
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So this is a new blog of mine. I used to have an old blog by the name of www.mynameisepiccupcake.wordpress.com. It's where I would self-centredly talk about myself constantly. I no longer update it but the content is still there if you want to learn about the dumb stuff I used to do and think.
This blog is a little different. A little. I want to focus more on stuff that's important to me, while also talking about my life and my experiences. I think it's important to log them somewhere at least.
I decided my old blog was too immature, perhaps? It's only been a year or so since I dropped it and yet I feel like I've grown a lot in the time. I definitely have different views and thoughts so it only feels right to start anew.
My name is Michelle, but this is probably (not) the last time I'll mention this. Here I'll go by the name Peanut which is the name for my avatar and how I used to refer to myself on my old blog and in some parts of the internet. I'm a university student studying pharmacy. My favourite colour is maths. My favourite subject is purple. (Wait… hold on a min-). I used to dress like a little boy, but I dress like a big girl now because how else will I get da ladies? I'm a big girl now.
My political standing is centrist, mostly left leaning, but I have a significant conservative side to me. I'm a big critic of feminism which will be something I may mention a lot. I'm very much into the concept of gender and gender differences between men and women and their links to gender roles. I also have an interest in LGBT topics which I'll talk about quite a bit.
I'll also talk about mental health related stuff- particularly to do with social ability, social anxiety and AvPD.
Still haven't written anything science or math related but I hope I get to soon.
I like to write- mostly teen slice of life. BL comics and manga are my guilty pleasure. If I do plan to release anything- I'll likely release it on Tapas so I can make the monies.
Well, that's all I've got for you for now.
Enjoy the blog and see ya soon.
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