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Q: How to create icon on desktop Now these days I am customizing Ubuntu and I want some icons on my desktop in customizes OS like

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*My computer

*Home

*Trash

How can I create these icons on my desktop. And I am in chroot environment so I can use only terminal to do any thing with my customize OS. So please tell me how can I do that with the help of terminal.


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Tag "miscarriage"
New draft guideline outlines best practice for treating recurrent miscarriage
A new medical guideline has been published for consultation by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, bringing together all the available evidence on possible risks and causes of recurrent
UK Government urged to tackle toll of miscarriage
UK pregnancy charity Tommy's is calling for changes to care and support nationwide, with over 120,000 signatures on its petition for the Government to overhaul a system that currently denies
New research highlights the importance of the thymus in successful pregnancies
How the immune system adapts to pregnancies has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, findings from an international group of researchers, led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, reveal important
Post-traumatic stress experienced by partners following miscarriage
One in 12 partners experience post-traumatic stress after miscarriage, suggests a new study. The research, led by Imperial College London, surveyed over 100 couples who had experienced early stage pregnancy
Pregnancy complications linked to heightened risk of heart disease and stroke in later life
Along with several other factors, including starting periods early, use of combined oral contraceptives, and early menopause Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, diabetes in pregnancy (gestational diabetes) and pre-term
Study provides biological insights into miscarriage and preterm birth
Among the holy quests of serious and mysterious medical challenges that doctors and research scientists strive to vanquish is preventing miscarriages, stillbirth and other pregnancy complications including preterm births. "We
Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy may trigger long-term post-traumatic stress
One in six women experience long-term post-traumatic stress following miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. This is the finding of the largest ever study into the psychological impact of early-stage pregnancy loss, from
Women should be offered a choice of treatment options for miscarriage
Women experiencing miscarriage should be offered a choice in the treatment they receive, argues a new study from the University of Warwick that compares all treatment options for the first
Couples' pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk
Couples' pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk A woman is more likely to miscarry if she and her partner drink more than two caffeinated beverages a day during the

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ITALIA DI GUSTO srl was born with the aim to promote the GOOD ITALIAN LIVING which represents the real 'value-added' of our country towards the world.
This is the only and the best guarantee that ITALIA DI GUSTO wants to offer to its customers.We have already selected the best products among DOP Cheese, Salami and pork meats, Goose salami, Chianina meat salami, Wild boar salami, the best italian Parmigiano, the best jam and marmalade, the best Olive oil.
Sicilian black pig ham » Sicilian black pig ham (Nebrodi).
Sicilian black pig ham (Nebrodi).
A festival entirely dedicated to Italian high quality food and beverage. Organized by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, the "Italian Food Festival"
It 'a great satisfaction to see that as a major newspaper La Stampa, in its foreign pages, write the inauguration of our shop and in particular our shop in Ridgewood.
Even Italia di Gusto of Rome in web projects of "Botteghiamo"
For us it will always be our "Botteghe" and that's because this is the way we want to represent us and show the world our "Knowing how to live Italian"
Italia di Gusto team makes a new purchase to protect quality.
Here is the article published in the Corriere della Sera that talks about the opening of our new shop in via Cornalia, 2 in Milan. Good reading.
Italia di Gusto opens in Milan. the new shop In via Cornalia 2.
Below is the interview with Matteo and Francesca Ronzio, affiliates Italia di Gusto in the process of starting a new venture in Boston. Good reading.
From next June 21 Italia di Gusto dresses as "Botteghiamo"
Friday whit friends of Italia di Gusto.
A journey through the flavors of Italian cheeses and the aroma of the wines from Friuli.
Italia di Gusto S.r.l. acquires 100% of Solo Management s.l.


Data recovery is an important asset for data disaster management. When backups fail and nothing is left, the only thing to do is to recover whatever of it remains. Today, in my article I'm going to review a data recovery tool for Windows, named MiniTool Power Data Recovery made by the programmers at MiniTool Solution Ltd. If you have been following Techno FAQ all along, you may have noticed that I have reviewed MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional in the past. I will try to be as detailed and lucid as possible as last time and I hope that you will like it. So without further ado, lets move on to the review.
Installing MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a piece of cake.
Once we're done with the installation you get to see a limited free version of the tool that allows you to recover files upto 1GB in size. To get past this limitation, you need to buy the full version. Once you have the key, click the 'Register' button and fill in the key and click 'Register'.
Our product is now fully activated and all features are unlocked.
Once done, we have a home screen which show the options, namely, Undelete Recovery, Digital Media Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, CD/DVD Recovery and Damaged Partition Recovery.
From the first looks, it feels like MiniTool Power Data Recovery has more than enough options for an average Windows user for data recovery. The UI is well designed and pretty much a mix of Windows 7 and 8's design schemes.
First we proceed to perform an Undelete Recovery. This feature tries to recover files that have been marked as permanently deleted by the OS, but the files themselves remain on the disk on a healthy partition. On clicking the button, we get the option to select the drive to recover from.
The scanning takes a while and after that we get a list of files we can recover. We can save files individually by right clicking and selecting "Recover", or in a group by checkmarking the needed files and clicking "Save".
We then try to perform a Digital Media Recovery. In the same manner as before, we select the drive. The scanning takes longer than what we previously experienced before. This time the tool only reports media files (like audio and video) and documents. The results page shows a preview of the scanned lost files, which can be recovered in a similar manner as the previous method.
After that, we give Lost Partition Recovery a try. This option scans for files on partitions that are no longer on the partition table on the disk but their traces still remain. The scanning takes much longer to complete compared to any of the other options. The files can be recovered as in any of the previous options. The Lost Partition Recovery works on missing FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and HFS+ partitions.
As you can see, it detects some lost files from my Hackintosh's HFS+ partition that was resized to a smaller size.
Then we have CD/DVD recovery, but I could not test this out as I do not have a scratched or damaged DVD. So, for I'm skipping this out for the purposes of the review.
Finally, we have Damaged Partition Recovery, which recovers files from partitions which still exist in the partition table, but are unreadable. The scan is surprisingly faster than Lost Partition Recovery, but still manages to show missing files properly and list them. Like the previous options, files can be recovered in a similar manner.
Also, the tool has an inbuilt previewer for files. It can read text, display file details in hexadecimal, and if it is an image previewer, it can display an image.
The tools is quite effective in recovering files we've tested so far. However, your actual mileage can vary, as the percentage of recoverable files depends on how less the data on the affected drive is overwritten. So it is definitely not a substitute to regular backups, but more of an insurance.
The only issue I found in MiniTool Power Data Recovery is that some of the messages and text strings in the application have typos. It makes the application look less professional. However, it is just a cosmetic distraction and won't cause issues in functionality. I hope MiniTool Solutions takes this into account and rectifies the problem.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery can be downloaded for free from here. However, for access to all features, you need to purchase a full version license from here. The personal edition is priced at $69, the server edition at $119 and the unlimited edition at $299.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an effective tool and has proven to work so far in the tests we've performed. It is a good recovery solution to have for Windows PCs.
What is your favourite data recovery tool? Let us know in the comments below.
Thank you, was looking for all-in-one tool like this. Does this support EXT4 filesystem ?
No, this tool doesn't support EXT4.


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serves Fairfield & Southport
Norwalk Man Charged With Selling Crack
Daily Voice
A 22-year-old Norwalk man was charged with selling crack after a three-month investigation, according to the Hour Photo Credit: File photo
NORWALK, Conn. — A Norwalk man was charged with selling crack cocaine after a three-month investigation, according to the Hour.
Police told the Hour that members of the Special Services Division received information that 22-year-old Dashawn Hall was selling drugs in South Norwalk. During the course of their investigation, they made multiple controlled purchases of crack from Hall, according to the Hour.
A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was taken into custody on Monday, according to the Hour. He was charged with a number of drug violations, including possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell, and possession within 1,500 feet of a school, according to the Hour.
Click here to read the Hour story.
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Acute Stress Disorder In Teens
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Over 200 mln needed USD to treat dioxin pollution by 2020
Vietnam needs over 200 million USD to treat 240,000 cubic metres of dioxin-contaminated soil and deposits at Bien Hoa airport by 2020, heard a workshop in the southern province of Dong Nai on October 29.
Co-hosted by the office of the national steering board on the consequences of toxic chemicals during the war in Vietnam (Office 33) and the provincial People's Committee, the event was meant to raise public awareness on preventing exposure to Agent Orange/dioxin.
According to Office 33, the country has three dioxin hotspots, including Phu Cat, Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports.
Between December 1969 and March 1970, at least four AO spills occurred at Bien Hoa airport, posing the greatest risk of dioxin exposure.
The Ministry of National Defence has buried 94,000 cubic metres of contaminated soil and deposits to date.
Deputy head of Office 33 Le Ke Son said top officials from the US International Development Programme and the US Embassy in Vietnam recently inspected the level of dioxin pollution at Bien Hoa airport. The US side will announce its environmental assessment plan as it committed.
Office 33 and the provincial Department of Health were requested to call on households, fishermen, farmers and those living near Bien Hoa airport to choose safe food, and educate them on ways to reduce dioxin exposure and farming chemicals that potentially contain AO deposits.-VNA
When it comes to traditional Vietnamese outfits, many will think of the "ao dai", the traditional long dress. However, Vietnam has a wide range of outfits bearing the cultural imprint of every period of history. With growing interest among many young people and the development of films and historical art projects, Vietnam's ancient outfits have come back into the spotlight.
Hanoi to restore tourism when pandemic under control
Vietnam expects to have 28 airports by 2030
Tuyen Quang: Man detained for anti-State propaganda
Police in northern Tuyen Quang province have arrested a 52-year-old man for making, storing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under Article 117 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Bach Long Vi island district get aid prior to Lunar New Year
The High Command of the Vietnam Coast Guard Region 1 has organised several activities to the tune of 200 million VND (8,800 USD) to support local residents in Bach Long Vi island district on the occasion of Tet (Lunar New Year).
VSS works to ensure rights, interests of people amid COVID-19
Vietnam Social Security (VSS) made efforts to complete its tasks while effectively rolling out policies in support of employees and employers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic last year.


I like to think that I am liberal in the original sense of being generous and tolerant.
I like to think that I am conservative in the original sense of being careful and having a desire to conserve those things that are important.
I do not think either label is particularly applicable to today's political parties.


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import execa from "execa";
import fs from "fs-extra";
import log from "npmlog";
import path from "path";
import pathExists from "path-exists";

// mocked or stubbed modules
import PromptUtilities from "../src/PromptUtilities";

// helpers
import callsBack from "./helpers/callsBack";
import initFixture from "./helpers/initFixture";
import updateLernaConfig from "./helpers/updateLernaConfig";
import yargsRunner from "./helpers/yargsRunner";

// file under test
import * as commandModule from "../src/commands/ImportCommand";

const run = yargsRunner(commandModule);

jest.mock("../src/PromptUtilities");

// silence logs
log.level = "silent";

const lastCommitInDir = (cwd) =>
  execa.stdout("git", ["log", "-1", "--format=%s"], { cwd });

describe("ImportCommand", () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    PromptUtilities.confirm = jest.fn(callsBack(true));
  });

  afterEach(() => jest.resetAllMocks());

  describe("import", () => {
    let testDir;
    let externalDir;
    let lernaImport;

    beforeEach(async () => {
      const [extDir, basicDir] = await Promise.all([
        initFixture("ImportCommand/external", "Init external commit"),
        initFixture("ImportCommand/basic"),
      ]);

      externalDir = extDir;
      testDir = basicDir;
      lernaImport = run(testDir);
    });

    it("creates a module in packages location with imported commit history", async () => {
      const packageJson = path.join(testDir, "packages", path.basename(externalDir), "package.json");
      await lernaImport(externalDir);

      expect(await lastCommitInDir(testDir)).toBe("Init external commit");
      expect(await pathExists(packageJson)).toBe(true);
    });

    it.skip("works with --max-buffer", async () => {
      await lernaImport(externalDir, "--max-buffer=1");
      // TODO: this test kinda sucks, should never have to read instance properties
      // expect(importCommand.execOpts).toHaveProperty("maxBuffer", ONE_HUNDRED_MEGABYTES);
      // expect(importCommand.externalExecOpts).toHaveProperty("maxBuffer", ONE_HUNDRED_MEGABYTES);
    });

    it("supports moved files within the external repo", async () => {
      const newFilePath = path.join(testDir, "packages", path.basename(externalDir), "new-file");

      await execa("git", ["mv", "old-file", "new-file"], { cwd: externalDir });
      await execa("git", ["commit", "-m", "Moved old-file to new-file"], { cwd: externalDir });

      await lernaImport(externalDir);

      expect(await lastCommitInDir(testDir)).toBe("Moved old-file to new-file");
      expect(await pathExists(newFilePath)).toBe(true);
    });

    it("exits early when confirmation is rejected", async () => {
      PromptUtilities.confirm = jest.fn(callsBack(false));

      await lernaImport(externalDir);

      expect(await lastCommitInDir(testDir)).toBe("Init commit");
    });

    it("allows skipping confirmation prompt", async () => {
      const { exitCode } = await lernaImport(externalDir, "--yes");

      expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
      expect(PromptUtilities.confirm).not.toBeCalled();
    });

    it("errors without an argument", async () => {
      try {
        await lernaImport();
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.message).toBe("Not enough non-option arguments: got 0, need at least 1");
      }
    });

    it("errors when external directory is missing", async () => {
      const missing = externalDir + "_invalidSuffix";

      try {
        await lernaImport(missing);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toBe(`No repository found at "${missing}"`);
      }
    });

    it("errors when external package.json is missing", async () => {
      await fs.unlink(path.join(externalDir, "package.json"));

      try {
        await lernaImport(externalDir);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toMatch("package.json");
        expect(err.code).toBe("MODULE_NOT_FOUND");
      }
    });

    it("errors when external package.json has no name property", async () => {
      const packageJson = path.join(externalDir, "package.json");

      await fs.writeFile(packageJson, "{}");

      try {
        await lernaImport(externalDir);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toBe(`No package name specified in "${packageJson}"`);
      }
    });

    it("errors if target directory exists", async () => {
      const targetDir = path.join(testDir, "packages", path.basename(externalDir));
      const relativePath = path.relative(testDir, targetDir);

      await fs.ensureDir(targetDir);

      try {
        await lernaImport(externalDir);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toBe(`Target directory already exists "${relativePath}"`);
      }
    });

    it("infers correct target directory given packages glob", async () => {
      const targetDir = path.join(testDir, "pkg", path.basename(externalDir));
      const relativePath = path.relative(testDir, targetDir);

      await fs.ensureDir(targetDir);

      await updateLernaConfig(testDir, {
        packages: ["pkg/*"],
      });

      try {
        await lernaImport(externalDir);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toBe(`Target directory already exists "${relativePath}"`);
      }
    });

    it("errors if repo has uncommitted changes", async () => {
      const uncommittedFile = path.join(testDir, "uncommittedFile");

      await fs.writeFile(uncommittedFile, "stuff");
      await execa("git", ["add", uncommittedFile], { cwd: testDir });

      try {
        await lernaImport(externalDir);
      } catch (err) {
        expect(err.exitCode).toBe(1);
        expect(err.message).toBe("Local repository has un-committed changes");
      }
    });
  });
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Chapter 132 – Too Luxurious!
Purple radiance burst out in an instant, the Undying Divine Wings extended from Xiao Chen's back. The purple divine wings were as clear as the jade, they were almost transparent, and yet, they contained a powerful force. These were not merely divine wings capable of flight, but also a terrifying weapon! They were far from comparable to Yan Qing Cheng's Fifth Celestial Layer Undying Divine Wings at that time. The Undying Divine Wings at the peak of Eighth Celestial Layer had already become a very terrifying and powerful weapons. They were comparable to the sharp blade of a divine weapon.
Of course, these wings were completely materialized with his energy, he could control them however he wished.
Lightly spreading out the divine wings, Xiao Chen arrived at the courtyard like a purple lightning. After that, he transformed into a purple light again and entered the mountain woods in front for a test flight.
Everything was so perfect, after mastering the Undying Divine Wings, Xiao Chen's speed had increased to an unfathomable level. He could extend his sphere of activities to the sea and the sky hereafter, he didn't need to limit himself to the ground anymore when engaging in a fierce battle. It could be said that with the divine wings in his possession, those Spell Master and Psychic that could fly will no longer hold any advantage over him. He will inevitably become those people's bane.
Standing beside the water well, Xiao Chen lifted the cask over and over to wash his body, his mood was undoubtedly joyful.
The food in the room had cooled off a long time ago, Xiao Chen was in closed-door training for three days already, the kitchen staff come and go several times but didn't disturb him, he only set the food down quietly. Perhaps this was some kind of unwritten rule in this sect.
Although he was eating cold food, Xiao Chen felt as though he was enjoying a luxurious meal. This was because he was spiritually satisfied, half a year of bitter training finally paid off, these period of training could be said to be a huge success.
The three skeletons also seemed to have felt his joyous occasion. They walked in from another room and moved their jaws to generate the "clacking" sound, as if they were congratulating him.
He hadn't seen the snow-white little critter and tough little dragon for a while now, Xiao Chen strode across the road with agile steps and headed towards the back mountain.
Yan Qing Cheng was currently sitting quietly among the fragrant turf. A hazy radiance enveloped her surroundings. The pleasant birdsong lingered in the flower trees nearby. It was very peaceful. A beauty blending into the picturesque nature, it was indeed a vivid and harmonious scene.
Xiao Chen quietly watched from the sidelines for a moment, he didn't break this beautiful scene and continued forging ahead after passing through this area. Only until he distanced himself did Yan Qing Cheng open her beautiful eyes to take a quick look before she shut it again.
After passing through the waterfall area, the sound of a fierce battle could be heard coming from the front. As expected, the tough little dragon was having yet another fierce battle in the vicinity of the dragon cave. Xiao Chen was shocked to find that its speed seemed to have somewhat increased, and its battle skill seemed more refined than ever, but it appeared to be relying on brute force for the most part.
He finally understood after a long time, Xiao Chen already knew, it was not that the tough little dragon was being impulsive. More like, it was intentionally challenging the strong, seemingly trying to toughen its physical body at all costs. It did not hesitate to get serious injury every time, as if it was trying to arouse the potential hidden in the dragon's body. As far as the battle technique was concerned, it seemed to possess an outstanding gift. Even though it wasn't used frequently, it was already getting more adept. It was just as the Winged Dragon couple had said, it had grasped some legendary dragon martial skill. That was because its battle style every time was so profound and brilliant.
At this moment, the one fighting the tough little dragon was the little Winged Dragon's father. He transformed into human and personally practiced with it. Of course, he was holding back and used just enough power to strike every inch of the tough little dragon's body. The dragon force penetrated it unceasingly, the black little dragon's scales were already stained by blood. Although it was seriously hurt, it was not to the point of life threatening.
The tough little dragon seemed to be very pleased with this kind of battle. It displayed a series of movements Xiao Chen had never seen before, it left one after another afterimages on the battleground. Its battle style was very eccentric and extremely effective. Although it was impossible to injure the little Winged Dragon's father, it still displayed an out of ordinary battle skill.
Xiao Chen could see some gateway, it was truly suitable to be named the dragon's battle skill. The tough little dragon seemed to be repaying the Winged Dragon couple for personally training it since the past few days. Although this little guy was uncommunicative, it was level-headed. It knows what should be done and what not to be done.
Although the little Winged Dragon who watched the battle at sidelines had a dark expression, its somewhat excited eyes had already betrayed its gradually changing mood.
After the battle was over, the tough little dragon dragged its injured body towards the little Winged Dragon. It actually extended a dragon claw and pointed it towards the little Winged Dragon's forehead.
The little Winged Dragon was so young and yet it was able to speak human tongue, it was clearly out of the ordinary. The little Winged Dragon stared blankly for a moment, but it still lowered its head in the end, otherwise the tough little dragon couldn't reach due to the difference in height.
A speck of light emitted from the tough little dragon's claw, it rushed forth like water ripples and actually blended into the little Winged Dragon's forehead.
"That's right, that's right. I was almost driven crazy by it." The little Winged Dragon whispered to itself.
Xiao Chen went after the tough little dragon, by the time he left, he seemed to have heard the little Winged Dragon's father muttered the few words, "Dragon King". Could they be talking about the tough little dragon? Unlikely. Could it be that he wanted his child to evolve into a Dragon King? That…… was an audacious way of thinking. However, that seemed to be very possible, that little Winged Dragon didn't look like any ordinary dragon no matter how he looked at it. It already knew how to speak human tongue at such young age.
He quickly caught up to the seriously hurt tough little dragon, the little guy just coolly nodded towards Xiao Chen as usual and continued forging ahead without changing its expression.
Returning to that underground cave, the tough little dragon silently washed the bloodstain in the hot spring. While enduring those throbbing pain all over the body, it began to gobble up the cloudfire fruits to restore its three energies.
little critter. There were only a few stalks remaining on the wall.
Maybe the rate of the tough little dragon's improvement had to do with these. Every time after it was seriously hurt, it would use this kind of spiritual fruits to replenish its physical body at high speed, which helped it to unleash the body's potential one step further.
At the same time, Xiao Chen also noticed there were some other fruits in the cave. After a careful examination, it actually looked very much like an amethyst pear. He knew it was impossible for this tough little dragon to go and search by itself, because this little guy only know how to fight and train all day long. He was sure that it wouldn't go out its way to find food to satisfy its desire.
Xiao Chen immediately thought of Keke, that little thing was indeed the bane of all spiritual item. Most of the good thing in the vicinity couldn't escape from the hollow of its palm. At the corner, Xiao Chen even discovered more than half of the amethyst reishi mushroom missing. That's such a waste, it's really too wasteful, this kind of rare treasures were actually wasted like this.
Keke always appeared and disappeared unpredictably recently, Xiao Chen hadn't seen the little critter for a really long time already. But now it seems like the little critter was exploring this mountain of immortals like a fish back in water.
Xiao Chen waited here for roughly three days before the snow-white little critter showed up. The little critter was carrying a super big ginseng that looked like radish as it returned. However, it threw the ginseng to the tough little dragon uncaringly, as if it was throwing a Chinese cabbage.
Keke's fur was brighter than ever, it was as clear as a finely crafted divine jade. Its pair of glittering big eyes seemed to be brimming with more intelligence, it could even be said to be covered with spiritual energy from head to toe. Of course, it was a also little fatter. It was easy to imagine how it treated these kind of spiritual item as food on a daily basis. This made Xiao Chen stare at it blankly, it was really too extravagant!
Seeing that Xiao Chen had come, the snow-white little critter's expression changed slightly. It looked fishy no matter how he looked at it.
It shook its head strongly, then the snow-white little critter threw the radish-like ginseng over. That means it wanted to let Xiao Chen enjoy it, there was some implication of winning his favor by fawning on him.
Xiao Chen became speechless immediately. He knew without asking, according to its personality, it must have went to other people's medicinal garden and treated their precious land as its own vegetable garden.
The snow-white little critter thought about it seriously, then it extended one little beast paw.
The snow-white little critter turned its little paw over, with the hollow of the palm facing downward.
The little paw flipped over again.
Xiao Chen was at a loss for words.
The little paw flipped over one more time.
Xiao Chen could feel his face turning pale ⌈2⌋. Seeing how it still wanted to flip the little paw, he hastily stopped it.
The snow-white little critter blinked its glittering big eyes, it then scratched its head embarrassedly.
Xiao Chen felt an intense headache.
Wrecking havoc at an important location of the Undying Faction ———— the medicinal garden. This is a pretty big disaster.
However, the snow-white little critter was hardly fearful, it was gesticulating a little proudly. After communicating with it attentively, Xiao Chen finally understood what it meant.
Keke told him it didn't left any clue behind, and that the medicinal garden was really big. It pulled one over here and another one over there. As for the fruits, it picked one from this tree, two from that tree, harvesting them evenly.
The snow-white little critter was no longer feeling pleased with itself, it hanged its head dejectedly to express that it had understood. Then it pointed at the tough little dragon without any code of brotherhood.
The haughty and cool tough little dragon also felt apologetic, it was indeed enjoying much of these spiritual items. Xiao Chen felt completely helpless.
After a further enquiry, Xiao Chen didn't know whether to laugh or to get angry. He found out the reason why Keke went missing frequently, always appearing and disappearing unpredictably. It had taken residence in the medicinal garden and treated that place as its comfortable recess.
"Looks like we have no choice but to leave the Undying Faction now." In fact, even if this had not happened, Xiao Chen had also thought about leaving this place soon. He had been at this place for half a year already, the disputes between the Dragon King should have ceased already, and he already got enough benefits at this place. It was about time to change the training environment.
Before leaving this place, he thought it might be a good idea to pass the scripture found in this cave to the Undying Patriarch. After all, he will definitely put the Undying Divine Wings to full use in the future. It wouldn't be good if people thought he went to the Undying Faction to steal their techniques. If he passed this book over openly, it may be assumed that the Undying Patriarch wouldn't go as far as taking back the Undying Divine Wings he mastered. After all, he had a certain "friendship" with the so-called founder of the Demon Sect. Like this, there wouldn't be much problem if he used the Undying Divine Wings.
Out of Xiao Chen's expectation, when he was having an audience with the Undying Patriarch, he actually already knew about Xiao Chen practicing the Undying Divine Wings. This made Xiao Chen quite shocked, looking at that illusory old man who seemed like he was in another dimension, he felt deep in the heart that it was unfathomable.
Next, Xiao Chen expressed his desire to leave, he wanted to temper himself by exploring every corners of the immortal's mainland.
In the end, just when Xiao Chen was thinking how should he take his leave, the Undying Patriarch's words made him blank out immediately. He spit out the tea he just drank a moment ago.
Please post the correct chapter!!!!!!! Please!!!!
This is the wrong link.


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ISLAMBERG FOUNDER IRATE OVER NEWS REPORTS, BLAMES "JEWISH CONSPIRACY"
April 16, 2010 sheikyermami	2 Comments
Don'tcha know, them Jooozzz were behind that "inside job" that brought down the twin towers on 9/11 which were such a great victory for the Muslims……?
BLAMES JEWISH CONSPIRACY
THREATENS LEGAL ACTION
PAUL L. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
Sheikh Mubarik Gilani, the founder of Islamberg and other Jamaat ul-Fuqra paramilitary compounds throughout the country, claims that he and the residents of his compounds are victims of "false accusations and horrendous lies."
Gilani further says that he has initiated legal action against the Christian Action Network (CAN), which produced a documentary about the ul-Fuqra camps, to check "their illegal activities."
The imam, who resides within a fortress in Lahore, Pakistan, maintains that CAN has been working "around the clock" to bring about "a clash between Muslims and Christians in the U.S.A."
But Martin Mawyer, president of CAN, maintains that he has never received legal notice from Gilani or any of his associates.
Mawyer says that he wants Gilani to sue his organization so that CAN can gain access to the internal documents of the organizations from which Gilani operates in the U.S., including The Muslims of the Americas, The International Quranic Open University, and Jamaat ul-Fuqra (community of the impoverished.
In a long, rambling letter, Gilani also compares himself to Saddam Hussein, whom he sees as an innocent victim of Zionist aggression.
The controversial imam further argues that Osama bin Laden and members of al Qaeda took no part in the attacks of 9/11 – – attacks, which he insists, were conducted by sinister Israelis.
According to Gilani, the Israelis engineered the 9/11 attacks to divert the world's attention from "the cold blooded murder of thousands of Muslim men, women, and children in Palestine at Sabra and Shatilla."
The American people, the Islamic leader proclaims, remain "the virtual slaves of the Zionist world order."
Regarding the reports of this investigator, Gilani says that "Paul Williams never set foot in Islamberg" and his other compounds.
But photographs from this reporter prove otherwise. They provide evidence that training in guerilla warfare takes place at his compounds; that the compounds have elaborate underground bunkers; and thatbodies are buried on the Gilani properties.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, under Gilani's leadership, has been involved in more terror attacks on American soil (thirty and counting) than all the other terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, combined. It has and sponsored assassinations, kidnappings, mass murder, grand theft, and fraud. It was largely responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
Associates of this organization include Clement Rodney Hampton-El (who took part in the 1993 WTC bombing), blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (who engineered the 1993 attack), Richard Reid ("the shoe bomber"), and John Allen Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper.
In December 1993, Gilani became an honored guest at an international gathering of jihadis at the residence of Hassan al-Turabi in Khartoum. The meeting attracted leaders of al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine. In the midst of the proceedings, Sheikh Gilani and Osama bin Laden were caught on film chanting, "Down, down with the USA!" "Down, down with the CIA," and "Death to the Jews."
The film, which remains in the "Alec File" – – the CIA's file on bin Laden, proved empirical proof the close ties between the leaders of ul Fuqra and al Qaeda.
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2 thoughts on "ISLAMBERG FOUNDER IRATE OVER NEWS REPORTS, BLAMES "JEWISH CONSPIRACY""
On one hand terrorists claim responsibility for 9/11/2001,
but on the other hand they blame the jews,
so why were so many "islamics" celebrating in the streets on 9/11/01?
Far too many people stay out far too long in the desert sun!
Robert Laity says:
Soon to be in a neighborhood near YOU. Islamberg is near Binghamton,NEW YORK:
http://jihadwatch.org/archives/016411.php
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/HR6975.pdf


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module Cobrato
  module Entities
    class Payer < Base
      attribute :id,                       Integer
      attribute :national_identifier_type, String
      attribute :national_identifier,      String
      attribute :name,                     String
      attribute :zipcode,                  String
      attribute :city,                     String
      attribute :state,                    String
      attribute :neighbourhood,            String
      attribute :number,                   String
      attribute :complement,               String
      attribute :street,                   String

      %i[national_identifier name].each do |method|
        define_method method do |*args|
          puts "Warning: '#{self.class.name}##{method}' is deprecated. See API docs for more info."
          super(*args)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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China In Africa: Implications For Australia
April 26, 2021 FN Arena 0 Comments
One does not have to be a financier or policy wonk to recognise the substantial implications for the African region and the People's Republic of China in deepening ties between the two. But the impact of an ever-increasing closeness certainly isn't confined to Africa and China. Australia's economic future could have a huge stake in it too.
As China continues its rapid economic growth and builds the influence that comes with such clout, it can find in Africa not only an opportunity to enhance trade ties, but also diversify its import sources. In an era in which Australian-Chinese relations are at the lowest they've been in decades, Australia now needs to prepare for years ahead where Beijing may find in Africa an opportunity to shore up strength at home while diminishing existing trade ties with Australia.
The core takeaways from The Economist webinar considered alongside broader trends in Australian-Chinese relations illustrate the time is ripe for a substantial recalculation. For a re-think among Australian political and business circles regarding the future of its trade ties with the world's most populous nation. In particular, as it concerns iron ore. Read More.
The US wants to reset its economic ties with Africa
TRIPS meet: India, S Africa to rework patent proposal


There is a tendency of some animals (including people!) to be "copy-cats" and try to imitate members of their own, and sometimes other, species.
The most obvious example is a parrot copying human speech. Humans also try to copy the speech of their parents when they are little. "ma-ma, da-da"
The less obvious examples, I'm not even really sure are occurring. Like when a gorilla at the zoo assumes the same posture as a person sitting on just the other side of the glass. Like my cat, who tries to chew on bones similar to the two dogs we have.
I'm sure there are more/better examples I'm not aware of.
What is it that creates this behavior? Is it something that was learned, or is it some natural tendency? Is there such a thing as behaviors that are "encoded in the dna"?
Mimicry, in biology, phenomenon characterized by the superficial resemblance of two or more organisms that are not closely related taxonomically. This resemblance confers an advantage—such as protection from predation—upon one or both organisms through some form of "information flow" that passes between the organisms and the animate agent of selection.
1) Mutations at genes of major effect first allow a phenotypic leap achieving an approximate resemblance to a particular model.
2) Once these mutations have increased in the population, resemblance can be enhanced through the gradual selection of epistatic modifiers.
Considering the case of butterflies, the working of two step mechanism evolved through different types of natural selection process. Experiments show that birds associate certain patterns in the butterfly wings to identify the specie and generalize those features, but a small deviation from the exact pattern is neglected. The increased resemblance is advantageous to species having imperfect mimics. So the species which displays/perform imperfect mimics can some how fall under the list of rejection and manages to survive, thereby passing genes to next generation.
"Largesse of the Genome", an idea put forward by J.R.G.Turner states that, it is believed that the modification of a trait can be achieved by so many different genes that some of them will inevitably happen to be linked.Amoung the many possible combinations of the loci, selection could simply sieve out the ones that involve linked genes.
Although the exact mechanisms of mimicry is still a questionable area, experiments are giving hopes regarding the two step mechanism and more over natural selection is the predominant factor which makes a mimicry successful.
This link describes insect mimicry and two step mechanism in detail.
My intuition would be that this has to do with the neuroscience of social behavior. Many animals, especially those that live and travel in groups (eg. humans), have a great deal of brain "wiring" dedicated to engaging in social behavior with other members of their group. This is an advantage from an evolutionary perspective, since it helps with cooperation, exchange of information, establishment of social hierarchy, etc., which confers survival advantages. In the absence of other members of their group (for example, in captivity), there are documented cases of animals imitating human behavior, which is thought to be a carry-over of the social bonding behaviors they typically engage in.
There was a NYTimes article that mentioned this phenomenon in relation to parrots imitating human speech, which came to mind when I saw your question (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/what-does-a-parrot-know-about-ptsd.html )--not a very scientific source, I know!
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Pogba: I'm thinking of a new challenge
Paul Pogba could ready to end his second spell at Old Trafford
Paul Pogba has cast doubt over his future at Manchester United after revealing he is considering "a new challenge".
Speculation on a possible move to Real Madrid or a return to former club Juventus has been mounting since a season in which Pogba faced criticism at times for his performances with United.
The 26-year-old told reporters in Tokyo while attending an event held by sponsors Adidas that it could be time to leave Old Trafford.
Paul Pogba, right, was sold by United to Juventus in 2012 for £1.5million (Nick Potts/PA)
"Like you said, there is a lot of talking and a lot of thinking as well," the France midfielder said.
"For me I have been for three years in Manchester and have been doing great; some good moments and some bad moments, like everybody. Like everywhere else.
"After everything that happened this season, with my season being my best season as well… I think for me it could be a good time to have a new challenge somewhere else.
"I am thinking of this: to have a new challenge somewhere else."
United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made clear he will start to rebuild his squad this summer, but Press Association Sport understands the club expect Pogba to still be their player next season.
Pogba was re-signed by United in the summer of 2016 from Juventus for a then world record transfer fee of £89million.
He had spent four years with the Italian club after being sold to them by United for £1.5m in 2012.


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Is Apple prepping an 8GB iPad 2 to launch March 7?
A new report from Digitimes says Apple will follow its earlier iPhone move and offer a cheaper iPad 2 to flank the iPad 3 on store shelves.
Don Reisinger
March 1, 2012 5:43 a.m. PT
Apple might be following its earlier iPhone strategy with next week's iPad 3 announcement, according to a new report.
Citing sources, Digitimes is reporting today that Apple could unveil an 8GB iPad 2 at its iPad 3 event on March 7. The move, the publication's sources say, would allow it to "cover different segments" of the market, including those currently controlled by cheaper alternatives, like the Amazon Kindle Fire or Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S in October, the company also said that it would offer an 8GB iPhone 4 for $99 with a two-year agreement. The iPhone 4, which previously came in 16GB and 32GB flavors, was on sale for $199 prior to that announcement.
iPad 3 is old news: 7.85-inch model due in Q3, says report
Apple's next iPhone makes its debut
CNET's review of the iPhone 4
CNET's review of the iPad 2
With new pressure from cheap alternatives, it only makes sense for Apple to offer a more affordable iPad to those who want it. If the company follows its iPhone model, it'll offer the iPad 3 at full price and some sort of iPad 2 at a discounted rate. The question, then, is will it be the 8GB model Digitimes claims will launch or something else?
At first glance, 8GB of storage seems awfully minimal on a tablet that can house a user's music, movies, apps, and other content. The iPad 2 currently comes in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB models. Why Apple wouldn't just discount those options rather than develop an 8GB option is unknown.
Of course, there's always a chance Apple might do something else. The company could finally launch that long-rumored 7-inch iPad at a discount. It might also decide against a cheaper iPad altogether and only offer the iPad 3.
Given Apple's penchant for secrecy, it's unlikely the company will even come close to divulging its plans, but CNET has reached out to the iPhone maker for comment. Expect to wait until next week to find out once and for all what Apple has planned for tablet customers this year.
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Q: Complex interpolation on an FPGA I have a problem in that I need to implement an algorithm on an FPGA that requires a large array of data that is too large to fit into block or distributed memory. The array contains complex fixed-point values, and it turns out that I can do a good job by reducing the total number of stored values through decimation and then linearly interpolating the interim values on demand.
Though I have DSP blocks (and so fixed-point hardware multipliers) which could be used trivially for real and imaginary part interpolation, I actually want to do the interpolation on the amplitude and angle (of the polar form of the complex number) and then convert the result to real-imaginary form. The data can be stored in polar form if it improves things.
I think my question boils down to this: How should I quickly convert between polar complex numbers and real-imaginary complex numbers (and back again) on an FPGA (noting availability of DSP hardware)? The solution need not be exact, just close, but be speed optimised. Alternatively, better strategies are gladly received!
edit: I know about cordic techniques, so this would be how I would do it in the absence of a better idea. Are there refinements specific to this problem I could invoke?
Another edit: Following from @mbschenkel's question, and some more thinking on my part, I wanted to know if there were any known tricks specific to the problem of polar interpolation.
In my case, the dominant variation between samples is a phase rotation, with a slowly varying amplitude. Since the sampling grid is known ahead of time and is regular, one trick could be to precompute some complex interpolation factors. So, for two complex values a and b, if we wish to find (N-1) intermediate equally spaced values, we can precompute the factor
scale = (abs(b)/abs(a))**(1/N)*exp(1j*(angle(b)-angle(a)))/N)

and then find each intermediate value iteratively as val[n] = scale * val[n-1] where val[0] = a.
This works well for me as I need the samples in order and I compute them all. For small variations in amplitude (i.e. abs(b)/abs(a) ~= 1) and 0 < n < N, (abs(b)/abs(a))**(n/N) is approximately linear (though linear is not necessarily better).
The above is all very good, but still results in a complex multiplication. Are there other options for approximating this? I'm interested in resource and speed constraints, not accuracy. I know I can do the rotation with CORDIC, but still need a pair of multiplications for the scaling, so I'm adding lots of complexity and resource usage for potentially limited results. I don't really have a feel for the convergence of CORDIC, so perhaps I just truncate early, or use lots of resources to converge quickly.

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I was fortunate enough to be at BlizzCon when Blizzard announced their new game, Overwatch. Even before they showed the cinematic trailer, I felt something rise in my chest. I wanted it to be a superhero game. A good one.
It's a multiplayer shooter, so it plays very much like Team Fortress 2. Which is fine, in and of itself, but it wasn't the superhero game I wanted.
Which is weird, because the roster of characters reads very much like a superhero game.
This is the line-up of the first fifteen characters. Currently, they've shown 12 of them in-game. The cinematic trailer itself shows many more characters.
So, I was excited by the game, but now wish it was so much more than what it actually is.
Oh well, at least it inspired me to create some Zodiac Overwatch in the City of Heroes costume creator.
Ubisoft: "Women Are Too Difficult To Animate"
Blizard: Here's 5 playable women characters and a gorilla with glasses. You're welcome.
I do like the ideas and designs of the characters. It holds that comicy feel to it that should appeal to people - espeically now in this age of all things comics. I'm a little disappointed that everyone seems to be tech oriented.
Reaper's Ultimate Ability looks awfully familiar.
I don't know why Blizzard gets to use a sentient robot named Bastion when we had to change ours to Citadel. I'M NOT BITTER OR NOTHING.
Every one is tech because of the near-future setting in the "real world". They are staying away from fantasy and magic, that belongs to Warcraft. Although, an argument can be made that Winston is super-science. And there's definitely something mystical about Zenyatta and Hanzo. I love the idea of Zenyatta, a Zen monk android.
Like I said, I made some Zodiac Overwatch. But, I didn't follow the official uniform colors. As I used blue, white and gold a lot. Like a whole lot.
Still, it looks that the heroic characters in Overwatch are all uniquely designed anyway. With maybe the uniform guys as only common troopers, e.g. grunts.
The character designs to vary widely, like any good superhero team should.
I figured it was a deliberate decision and that alone wouldn't keep me from liking things. I do like my variety though. Thanks a lot Justice League and Avengers. Overwatch sort of reminds me of that supergroup ULTRA where it was human normals only and there was a lot of tech-tech reasons for the different abilities.
Despite my only critique against the all-tech origins, I love the diversity in character designs.
I'm partially excited as it seems like it's really built around teamwork and adaption. The ability to switch out to a new character after death seems like it's designed to allow your team to adjust to counter theirs or to mix up strategies mid game to keep them guessing.
I've never played TF2 but am going to be keeping an eye on this.
Minor critique! The boots you used for Reaper don't mesh well with other costumes. You can see a gap at the knees. I might never have ever noticed if I hadn't used them myself if I hadn't tried them on my time traveling Widow.
I don't think I can do either Bastion or Rheinhardt justice, unfortunately.
My son got it for his birthday. He was enjoying it, even if half the time he barely knew what was going on.


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Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance (Paperback)
BP-BROT-HOE
The subject of assurance is one of the most important elements in Christian experience. Heaven on Earth exposes that there is no higher privilege than to be a child of God and to know it, for assurance brings joy to worship and prayer, and provides strength and boldness to our witness. Correspondingly, failure and weakness in all these areas can often be traced back to a lack of assurance, or even false assurance. This work of Thomas Brooks, first published in 1654, deals with all of these aspects of assurance in a way that is both biblical and pastoral. Brooks 'scatters stars with both his hands' wrote C.H. Spurgeon. His teaching is clear, thorough and greatly needed in the present spiritual climate. Brooks both explains what true assurance is and guides the reader in how it may be fully experienced.
'All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth; some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth. That saints might enjoy two heavens is the project of this book.' — Joseph Caryl
The scant amount of information known about him comes largely from his writing. Born in 1608, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1625. He spent several years at sea, perhaps as chaplain, and was licensed as a preacher by 1640. After England's Civil War, Brooks served as pastor of London's Thomas Apostle; in 1648, he preached before the House of Commons. He later became the subject of controversy when he refused baptism and the Lord's Supper to people that weren't walking faithfully with the Lord. Thomas Brooks books include a six-volume set titled The Works of Thomas Brooks, with each book also available individually. Other books include Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (written to help people resist Satan's seductive power), The Secret Key to Heaven ( which emphasizes the importance of private prayer) and Heaven on Earth, which reminds people there is no greater privilege than to be a child of God.
Author Thomas Brooks
Publisher Banner of Truth
Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life (Paperback)
Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ is Essential (Paperback)
The Essential Trinity (Paperback)
Church Leadership & Strategy: For the Care of Souls (Paperback)
Let's Study Philippians (Paperback)
Prayer (Puritan Paperbacks)
Justified By Faith Alone (Paperback)
The Bible Study Hour Anthology (USB Drive with Index LC-BSHA)
Zeal for Godliness (Hardcover)
A Christian Guide to the Classics (Paperback)
Christian Dogmatics (Paperback)
A Christian Primer (Paperback)
Christian Worldview: A Student's Guide (Paperback)
The Happy Christian (Paperback)


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using namespace boost::interprocess;

// From the boost documentation.
typedef allocator<char, managed_mapped_file::segment_manager> CharAllocator;
typedef basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, CharAllocator> MyShmString;
typedef allocator<MyShmString, managed_mapped_file::segment_manager>
  StringAllocator;

template <typename ValueType>
class PersistentVector {
  typedef allocator<ValueType, managed_mapped_file::segment_manager>
    PersistentVectorAllocator;
  typedef set<ValueType, std::less<ValueType>, PersistentVectorAllocator>
    InnerPersistentVector;
  public:
  PersistentVector(
    const std::string& vectorname, std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file>& segment,
    bool create) :
    vectorname_(vectorname),
    segment_(segment),
    allocator_(segment_->get_segment_manager()) {
    Init(create);
  }

  void Init(bool create) {
    if (create) {
      vector_ = segment_->construct<InnerPersistentVector>(vectorname_.c_str())
        (std::less<ValueType>(), allocator_);
    } else {
      vector_ = segment_->find<InnerPersistentVector>(vectorname_.c_str()).first;
    }
  }
  InnerPersistentVector* getVector() const { return vector_; };

private:
  std::string vectorname_;
  std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file> segment_;
  PersistentVectorAllocator allocator_;
  vector<ValueType, PersistentVectorAllocator>* vector_;
};

template <typename ValueType>
class PersistentSet {
  typedef allocator<ValueType, managed_mapped_file::segment_manager>
    PersistentSetAllocator;
  typedef set<ValueType, std::less<ValueType>, PersistentSetAllocator>
    InnerPersistentSet;

public:
  PersistentSet(
    const std::string& setname, std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file>& segment,
    bool create) :
    setname_(setname),
    segment_(segment),
    allocator_(segment_->get_segment_manager()) {
    Init(create);
  }

  void Init(bool create) {
    if (create) {
      set_ = segment_->construct<InnerPersistentSet>(setname_.c_str())
        (std::less<ValueType>(), allocator_);
    } else {
      set_ = segment_->find<InnerPersistentSet>(setname_.c_str()).first;
    }
  }
  InnerPersistentSet* getSet() const { return set_; };

private:
  std::string setname_;
  std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file> segment_;
  PersistentSetAllocator allocator_;
  set<ValueType, std::less<ValueType>, PersistentSetAllocator>* set_;
};

template <typename KeyType, typename ValueType>
class PersistentMap {
  typedef std::pair<const KeyType, ValueType> PairType;
  typedef allocator<PairType, managed_mapped_file::segment_manager>
    PersistentMapAllocator;
  typedef map<KeyType, ValueType, std::less<KeyType>, PersistentMapAllocator>
    InnerPersistentMap;
public:
  PersistentMap(const std::string& filename, bool create) :
    filename_(filename),
    mapname_("map"),
    segment_(new managed_mapped_file(open_or_create, filename.c_str(),
      1ul << 24)),
    allocator_(segment_->get_segment_manager()) {
    Init(create);
  }

  PersistentMap(
    const std::string& mapname, std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file>& segment,
      bool create) :
      filename_(""),
      mapname_(mapname),
      segment_(segment),
      allocator_(segment_->get_segment_manager()) {
    Init(create);
  }

  void Init(bool create) {
    if (create) {
      map_ = segment_->construct<InnerPersistentMap>(mapname_.c_str())
        (std::less<KeyType>(), allocator_);
    } else {
      map_ = segment_->find<InnerPersistentMap>(mapname_.c_str()).first;
    }
  }

  InnerPersistentMap* getMap() const { return map_; }

  std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file>& getSegment() { return segment_; }
private:
  std::string filename_;
  std::string mapname_;
  std::shared_ptr<managed_mapped_file> segment_;
  PersistentMapAllocator allocator_;
  map<KeyType, ValueType, std::less<KeyType>,
    PersistentMapAllocator>* map_;
};

#endif // PERSISTENTMAP_HPP


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Glenn Hampson
abortion, framing, misinformation
Science Communication Institute > Interest > Re-framing the abortion debate
Who in their right mind is anti-life? The way the abortion debate is currently framed, you might think there are valiant forces of heaven-sent armies who favor life, pitched in epic battle against dark, evil forces who are opposed to life. Like so many contentious issues in today's world—think "my body my choice" anti-vaxxers, for example—how we frame our debates ends up driving how we debate and what we debate about. It's the old loaded question trick that politicians and pundits have used since forever to put their opponents on the defensive instead of debating the pros and cons of issues. In the case of abortion rights, the more honest and accurate approach—although this suggestion is about 50 years too late—should be for the pro-choice side to reject this framing and instead insist on pro-choice versus anti-choice.
Why choice instead of life? There are two reasons.
The first is that science and society don't have a hard and fast definition of "life." The process of life begins at conception. The key word in this sentence is "process," not "conception." For humans, this process begins with the joining of sperm and egg, and ends with the birth of a fully developed being, with myriad in-between steps that mark various stages of human development.
Which leads us to the second reason: We can't argue that governments have a compelling interest in protecting all life (through the entire process) all the time. If so, then every miscarriage or egg that fails to implant in the wall of the uterus would be protected and parents would be subject to manslaughter charges; every loss of human "potential" would be actionable (my parents didn't sing to me in the womb, which harmed my chances of becoming a musician, and therefore I've been injured); and every induced abortion would be murder, even in cases where the mother would die if she carried her baby to term.
Science doesn't have an answer to all this, nor does religion. Science keeps improving our knowledge about fetal development, and our ability to fertilize eggs outside the womb and grow babies in incubators keeps improving year by year. But there is no hard and fast science that says a fetus is less than fully human at week x and then fully human by week y. And despite what you might think given the decades of protest on this issue, religion doesn't know the answer either. Different religions have different opinions, and there are different opinions within each religion.
There are cultural differences as well, based on observations and traditions of when pregnancy becomes more about a baby than a pregnancy. The "quickening" has been the milepost used by many cultures throughout history—the time at around four months into a pregnancy when the fetus begins moving in the womb.
What we do know is that worldwide, according to the World Health Organization and other reliable medical sources, there are currently about 213 million pregnancies every year. About half of these pregnancies are planned, and the other half are unplanned. Six out of ten the unplanned pregnancies end with an induced abortion, as do three out of ten planned pregnancies, totaling about 73 million induced abortions every year. The rate of unplanned pregnancies has been declining in higher income countries due to better access to contraception and family planning services. Globally, the abortion rate has decreased in countries where it is legal, but not decreased in countries where it is illegal (due to higher rates of unplanned pregnancies; the same countries that restrict abortion also restrict family planning). In these settings, women must take legal and physical risks to seek abortion care. In countries where safe abortions aren't available, more women die from unsafe abortion procedures, to the extent that unsafe abortions are the third leading cause of maternal mortality. It is important to note as well that globally, unintended pregnancy and abortion are experiences shared by women across regions, incomes, ethnicities and legal status.
In the US, the most recent survey data available through the Center for Disease Control shows that about 630,000 legal induced abortions were reported in 2019, at a rate of about 195 abortions per 1,000 live births (or 19.5%, compared globally to 73 million abortions per 140 million live births, or about 52%). This rate has generally been dropping over time, consistent with global patterns. About 93% of abortions in the US take place prior to 13 weeks, 6% from 14-20 weeks, and fewer than 1% at 21-weeks plus (due to fetal complications or maternal health risks).
In the US, the leading reason (40%) for why women seek abortions is a lack of financial preparedness. Around 36% seek an abortion because their pregnancy was unplanned (not the right time), followed by 31% who have partner-related reasons (their partner is abusive, relationship is bad, etc.), 29% who need to focus on their other children, 20% who worry that another child will interfere with their future opportunities, 19% who feel emotionally unprepared, 12% who have health-related reasons, and 12% who want a better life for their baby than they can provide. There are other reasons as well, and many women have multiple reasons. Although the percentage of women who seek a legal abortion due to rape and incest are low in terms of annual reported totals (and reported is a key word here), almost three million women in the US have experienced a rape related pregnancy in their lifetime. Barriers to getting an immediate abortion include not knowing about the pregnancy (40%), trouble deciding what to do (33%), not having the money (31%), and not knowing where to go for help (18%).
So to recap, science doesn't have a definitive answer for when "life" begins. Religion doesn't either. And regardless, abortion is a safe (where legal) and common procedure that all women everywhere will continue to access regardless of the legality or convenience of this procedure, and for a wide variety of personal reasons.
Why is it such a political issue then? Because a small and vocal group of individuals have decided that life begins at conception and that we should all submit to their reasoning?
To their credit, anti-choicers do have a point. This point just isn't being expressed correctly. Science and religion don't support their position, but they are correct that we shouldn't be cavalier about abortion (if we were before), and it's good that they've raised this issue and promoted it. This kind of activism is how we evolve and improve as a society, raising awareness and developing solutions.
Unfortunately, we don't hear or see nearly as much parallel action in this movement about how we can help more women avoid unwanted pregnancies (by improving family planning funding, for instance, which usually gets cut by the same movement), improve adoption options, and make sure young women have strong networks to support them through pregnancy and beyond. The anti-choice point seems to begin and end with insisting that the union of egg and sperm results in a "life" or "potential life" that is instantly of interest to the state. And unfortunately, this position simply isn't legally sustainable—again, think in terms of police reports and prosecutions for early term miscarriages.
What about the argument that the state should have an interest in life once it starts developing recognizable physical attributes? This approach is also problematic, mired in guesswork and motivated reasoning. Take the current fetal heartbeat standard being used by several states. In fact, the human fetus at eight weeks doesn't have a heart at all, but simply a collection of cells that emit radio signals detectable on an ultrasound. The human heart is fully developed by 16 to 18 weeks, not eight. Many other similar standards have been debated—fingernails, face, brain waves, and so on.
What isn't guesswork is that every decade, the age of fetal viability—the ability of a child to survive outside the womb—decreases by one week. This age was 28 weeks in the 1970s and is 23-24 weeks today (even though the 22 week mark may be on the horizon, babies delivered at this age are at high risk for a lifetime of complications). This 23-24 week mark, then, is the age at which most governments that permit abortion begin expressing a legal interest in protecting life. In the US, legal abortions performed after this date need to be due to fetal complications or to save the life of the mother. And this is consistent with the data we see. Less than 1% of US abortions are performed after 21 weeks, and less than 0.02% after 26 weeks (320 cases in total), with no abortions performed close to birth.
Which brings us back to the "my body my choice" framing used by anti-vaxxers. If this framing makes sense for vaccines, why not for abortions as well? (It actually makes no sense for vaccines, but all the sense in the world for abortions.) Ultimately, there are so many personal factors, interpretations and decisions involved. Why should the state be able to decide for all women everywhere how they will handle their pregnancy? What right do they have to do this? How is this approach better than letting women make these decisions in consultation with their families, friends, faith and physicians, as they do today?
And importantly, what positive outcome is expected by removing the right of women to make this decision themselves? More live births? If history and statistics are a guide, this won't happen. What will happen instead is that more women will seek unsafe or illegal ways to obtain an abortion, and that legal providers will continue to disappear to the point where safe abortions will become increasingly unobtainable, particularly for younger women and women of lesser financial means. The legal and societal nightmare will be on full display as well as states incarcerate rape victims who take a morning after pill, arrest women who visit the ER due to complications from an illegal and unsafe abortion, and do nothing to help 15 year old girls navigate a lifetime of struggle after they drop out of high school to care for an unplanned pregnancy (while at the same time expecting nothing of the boy involved).
This is a course of action driven entirely by the emotion of how this debate has been framed over the years—pro-life versus anti-life. Everyone wants to be pro-life; pro-choice sounds utterly selfish and immoral by comparison. When we frame this debate as pro-choice versus anti-choice, however, we take some of the knee-jerk "pro-life" reaction out of the equation and have an easier time seeing where common ground might exist between these two positions.
Of course, framing isn't everything. Even if we put the debate on more equal footing, there's still the small matter of legal opinions, and here, for now, both sides are batting zero. The Supreme Court still hasn't described a scientifically sound reason for why any state or federal government should have a compelling interest in a protecting the rights of a fertilized egg—a life form with only the potential for full human life—and at the same time the Court is poised to strike down Roe on the basis that the right to an abortion is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Of course it isn't. The right of Black Americans to be free from slavery isn't described in the Constitution either. Nor is the right of women to vote or own property. Or the right of children to get an education. Or the right of people with disabilities to avoid state sponsored discrimination.
Our founding fathers were brilliant, but they didn't foresee everything. Many of the rights and liberties we depend on today were read into the Constitution and built up over years and decades of legal rulings as our society has matured and evolved. If a bench suddenly filled with originalists is going to start dismantling the protections upon which our modern society has been built, and instead punt these protections to elected officials who might enact these protections one year and retract them the next like some sort of civil rights whack-a-mole game, the next generation will live in a society defined by chaos and polarization, experiencing a constant battle between those who think the world should be recast in their image, and those who realize instead that the world is a complex place better governed by understanding and compromise than by what often comes across as ignorance and intolerance.
Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides next month, abortions in the US will continue to occur, and abortions around the world will continue to occur. This isn't a moral or ethical yay or nay either way—just a statement of fact. And in policy matters like this that are at the intersection of science and society, it serves us better to focus on facts than on the vaguely aspirational and unknowable. In this case, the facts are that abortion is commonplace, personal, and safe, and doesn't involve terminating a life that the state could have any realistic interest in protecting. The aspirational and unknowable is that abortion terminates potential life and that, of course, abortion should be eliminated altogether, but both of these positions are bridges too far in the policy world.
This doesn't mean stalemate. Instead, both sides can and should work together to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies and improve the financial and decision support for women experiencing pregnancy—these two moves alone could make a significant reduction in abortion. If we focus on this end of the issue instead of on the question of when life begins, we are much more likely to find common ground and create better outcomes for all involved.
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Q: adding a success page in angular2 I want to add a success page with a message after a user has successfully filled a form. One way I can do it is by making new components for every success page I have, but this can add a lot of, not so useful, components. Is there any other way I can do that and I want to dedicate an entire page for the success message and not display a popup?

A: Just create a SuccessMessageComponent that has your generic success message (or if you want to customize it, then add an input parameter). Then add it to a route like '/success' and when you want to display the success message just redirect the users to this route.

A: Solved it using a service. Added this in the service
getSuccessDetail(info: string) {
  if (info === 'cardApplication') {
    this.message = 'Customer Successfully Registered!';
  }
  if (info === 'addBank') {
    this.message = 'Bank Successfully Added to your Account!';
  }
  if (info === 'addFunds') {
    this.message = 'Funds Successfully Added to your Account!';
  }
}

And called the service from a component
export class CardApplicationComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor(private serverService: ServerService,
          private router: Router) { }
  ngOnInit() {
  }
  onCardSubmit() {
    this.serverService.getSuccessDetail('cardApplication');
    this.router.navigate(['/success']);
  }
}

Used the message property in the service to display in the SuccessComponent  template.
Thank you Everyone for your help.


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Elegy, meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a public personage or of a friend or loved one; by extension, any reflective lyric on the broader theme of human mortality. In classical literature an elegy was simply any poem written in the elegiac metre (alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter) and was not restricted as to subject. Though some classical elegies were laments, many others were love poems. In some modern literatures, such as German, in which the classical elegiac metre has been adapted to the language, the term elegy refers to this metre, rather than to the poem's content. Thus, Rainer Maria Rilke's famous Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies) are not laments; they deal with the poet's search for spiritual values in an alien universe. But in English literature since the 16th century, an elegy has come to mean a poem of lamentation. It may be written in any metre the poet chooses.
A distinct kind of elegy is the pastoral elegy, which borrows the classical convention of representing its subject as an idealized shepherd in an idealized pastoral background and follows a rather formal pattern. It begins with an expression of grief and an invocation to the Muse to aid the poet in expressing his suffering. It usually contains a funeral procession, a description of sympathetic mourning throughout nature, and musings on the unkindness of death. It ends with acceptance, often a very affirmative justification, of nature's law. The outstanding example of the English pastoral elegy is John Milton's "Lycidas" (1638), written on the death of Edward King, a college friend. Other notable pastoral elegies are Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Adonais" (1821), on the death of the poet John Keats, and Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis" (1867), on the death of the poet Arthur Hugh Clough.
Other elegies observe no set patterns or conventions. In the 18th century the English "graveyard school" of poets wrote generalized reflections on death and immortality, combining gloomy, sometimes ghoulish imagery of human impermanence with philosophical speculation.
Representative works are Edward Young's Night Thoughts (1742–45) and Robert Blair's Grave (1743), but the best known of these poems is Thomas Gray's more tastefully subdued creation "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" (1751), which pays tribute to the generations of humble and unknown villagers buried in a church cemetery. In the United States, a counterpart to the graveyard mode is found in William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" (1817). A wholly new treatment of the conventional pathetic fallacy of attributing grief to nature is achieved in Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865–66).


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