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ESEA Renewal a Priority, White House Adviser Says
By Alyson Klein on November 12, 2010 4:04 PM
If you're getting an early start on crafting your 2011 State of the Union drinking game, you may want to include these words: "education," "college," "ESEA," and "reauthorization."
Melody Barnes, who leads President Barack Obama's Domestic Policy Council, told an audience at an Education Week event today in Washington that President Obama is going to make reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act a "top" priority in the new year. And he wants both Democrats and Republicans on board.
She told attendees at "Reform, Money, and Politics: The Post-Election Outlook for American Education" that renewing the bill in a bipartisan way "gives us the ability to build on the reform momentum" spurred by Race to the Top and other programs. And she said that the public is not going to tolerate "partisan tussling and dead-end ideological debates" when it comes to overhauling our schools.
But it's unclear whether the political climate will be ripe for reauthorization. Earlier in the day, Carmel Martin, the assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the current version of ESEA, the No Child Left Behind Act, is outdated. And two key Capitol Hill aides generally agreed with that assessment.
All expressed cautious optimism about a reauthorization, particularly given that the Democratic and Republican leaders involved have a history of reaching across the aisle. But none seemed to think it would be a slam-dunk, although everyone cautioned it's too early to read the political tea-leaves. The newly elected (more conservative) Congress hasn't even arrived in Washington yet.
But other 2011 predictions were less sunny. A definite possibility, according to Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin: A government shutdown over spending issues.
"Our politics have gotten exponentially more polarized," he said.
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Art and Fear by Virilio, Paul
By Virilio, Paul
Paul Virilio is one in all modern Continental thought's most unique and provocative serious voices. His imaginative and prescient of the effect of contemporary expertise at the modern worldwide situation is strong and anxious, ranging over paintings, technological know-how, politics and war.
In artwork and worry, Paul Virilio lines the dual improvement of artwork and technology over the 20th century. In his provocative and not easy imaginative and prescient, artwork and technological know-how vie with one another for the destruction of the human shape as we all know it. He strains the connections among the way in which early 20th century avant-garde artists twisted and tortured the human shape ahead of making it vanish in abstraction, and the blasting to bits of fellows who have been not more than cannon fodder i nthe trenches of the good battle; and among the German Expressionists' hate-filled snap shots of the damned, and the 'medical' experiments of the Nazi eugenicists; and among the mangled messages of worldwide ads, and the service provider of worldwide terrorism.
Now, firstly of the twenty-first century, technological know-how has eventually left paintings in the back of, as genetic engineers organize to show themselves into the worst of expressionists, with the individual the uncooked fabric for brand new and titanic sorts of life.
Art and worry is key examining for an individual thinking about the place paintings has long past and the place technological know-how is taking us.
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As suitable this day as while it initially released, THE OUTSIDER explores the attitude of characters who exist at the margins, and the artists who take them there.
Published to huge acclaim, THE OUTSIDER helped to make well known the literary suggestion of existentialism. Authors like Sartre, Kafka, Hemingway, and Dostoyevsky, in addition to artists like Van Gogh and Nijinsky delved for a deeper knowing of the human of their paintings, and Colin Wilson's landmark publication encapsulated a personality stumbled on time and time back: the outsider.
How does he impact society? and the way does society impact him? It's a query as suitable to today's iconic characters (from Don Draper to Voldemort) because it used to be whilst at the beginning released. Wilson's seminal paintings is a must have if you happen to love books and are interested by that the majority obscure of characters.
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34 Silence on Trial 'Remaining silent, now there's a lesson for you! ', Paul Valery noted in 1938, shortly before the tragedy of the camps, the silence of the lambs ... To speak or to remain silent are they to sonority what to show or to hide are to visibility? What prosecution of meaning is thus hidden behind the prosecution of sound? Has remaining silent now become a discreet form of assent, of connivance, in the age of the sonorization of images and all audio-visual icons? Have vocal machines' powers of enunciation gone as far as the denunciation of silence, of a silence that has turned into MUTISM?
From that moment, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU became a research laboratory undoubtedly unique in the world, the laboratory of the 'Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics'. The name of Professor Verschuer's assistant was Josef Mengele. 20 As recently as 1998, the British medical weekly The Lancet condemned the initiatives of the European Union and the United States in trying to 28 A PITILESS ART introduce a total ban on the practice of human cloning. A year later, the editors were still arguing that 'the creation of human beings' had become 'inevitable', regardless.
Having broken the taboos of suffocating bourgeois culture, we are now supposed to break the being, the unicity of humankind, through the impending explosion of a genetic bomb that will be to biology what the atomic bomb was to physics. You don't make literature out of warm and fuzzy feelings, they say. And they are probably right. But how far do we go in the opposite direction? As far as SNUFF LITERATURE, in which the conformism of abjection innovates 29 ART AND FEAR an academicism of horror, an official art of macabre entertainment?
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Double centurion Kane Williamson, NZ spinners put Pakistan under pressure
The hosts go into the final day two down and still trailing by 97 runs
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Kane Williamson finished with an unbeaten double-century.
Pakistan 438 and 77 for 2 (Imam 45*, Sodhi 1-17) trail New Zealand 612 for 9 dec (Williamson 200*, Latham 113, Conway 92, Abrar 5-205) by 97 runs
The fifth double hundred by Kane Williamson in Test cricket helped New Zealand pile up a mammoth 612 for 9 before Tim Southee declared the innings with his side 174 ahead in the first Test in Karachi. By stumps, the visitors had struck twice, leaving Pakistan 77 for 2, still 97 behind.
Having relinquished the red-ball captaincy, Williamson came into this game with questions over his form. His away record in the last few years too didn't paint a great picture; since the start of 2019, he had just 233 runs in eight away Tests, at an average of 15.53 with a best of 48.
But on Thursday, he demonstrated tremendous patience, great control, and exemplary footwork against spin to almost double that tally. He scored an unbeaten 200 off 395 balls; according to ESPNcricinfo's logs, he was in control 93% of the time. On multiple occasions he skipped down the track to Abrar Ahmed and Nauman Ali, but instead of looking to hit the ball for a six, he focused on chipping it over the bower's head for four. In all, he struck 21 fours and a six.
Along with Ish Sodhi, who scored a career-best 65, Williamson added 159 for the seventh wicket. The two overnight batters kept Pakistan wicketless in the first session, which seemed to have borrowed the laziness from a winter morning. In 32 overs in that session, New Zealand added just 79 runs, with Sodhi's contribution being more than Williamson's.
But post-lunch, both batters, especially Williamson, increased the scoring rate. Sodhi brought up his half-century with a four off Abrar. In the next over, Williamson steered Mir Hamza to the deep-third boundary to get to his 150. Shortly afterwards, Williamson first whipped Nauman to the fine-leg boundary and then used his feet to loft him over mid-on for another four. The change in the approach meant the first ten overs after lunch fetched New Zealand 47 runs.
To stem the flow of runs, and to break through, Mohammad Wasim bowled a barrage of short balls to Sodhi, starting around the wicket and then switching to over. He even hit Sodhi on the helmet. But the batter pulled the very next ball, another short one, to the square-leg boundary.
From the other end, Nauman switched to over the wicket and started bowling outside leg stump. Williamson countered that with the reverse sweep, picking up back-to-back boundaries to keep the scoreboard moving.
Sodhi went past his previous best of 63 but fell soon after, miscuing Abrar to mid-off. Southee didn't last long either and was also taken at mid-off, off Nauman. In the next over, Abrar dismissed Neil Wagner to complete his five-for as New Zealand lost three wickets in two runs.
Williamson was on 186 at that point, and with No. 11 Ajaz Patel for company, farmed the strike as much as possible. On 195, he skipped down the track to Abrar and chipped him wide of long-off for four. A single on the next ball, took him to the double-hundred. New Zealand declared once he reached the milestone.
Kane Williamson and Ish Sodhi added 159 for the seventh wicket•
In response, Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique started solidly against a new, turning-from-the-rough ball. Throughout the 31 overs New Zealand bowled in the evening, they had spin at least from one end, mostly from both. Ajaz shared the new ball with Southee, who bowled only three overs in his first spell before throwing ball to Michael Bracewell.
It was Bracewell who eventually broke the 47-run opening stand when Shafique skipped down the track and hit one straight to mid-on. Sodhi dealt a late blow, trapping Shan Masood lbw for 10. At stumps, Imam was batting on 45, nightwatchman Nauman keeping him company on 4.
In the morning, Sodhi was mainly focused on protecting his wicket. He tried to score only when the bowlers really erred in their lines and lengths. Wasim pitched one short and wide, and Sodhi cut it through point for four. When spinners dropped it short and strayed down the leg side, he went for the pull but on a sluggish pitch, the timing eluded him.
Wasim played around with his field. At one point, he had a leg gully, a catching backward square leg, and two catching short midwickets for Sodhi. He went slightly round-arm, searching for the reverse-swinging yorker, but couldn't get his length right, and Sodhi faced little trouble blocking those. One such delivery found Sodhi's inside edge and thudded into his pads. Aleem Dar ignored the stifled appeal for lbw, but Babar Azam, more in hope than anything else, ended up burning Pakistan's final review over that.
Abrar, meanwhile, mixed his legbreaks with googlies. He varied his pace as well, tossing it up as slow as 70kph to darting in as fast as 90. But nothing bothered Williamson and Sodhi. After almost procrastinating for the first 11 overs of the day when he scored just six runs off 29 balls, Williamson skipped down the ground to Abrar and punched him over his head for four.
With little happening for the bowlers, Pakistan took the third new ball as soon as it became available. Hamza got produced a chance immediately, inducing an outside edge of Sodhi's bat but it flew for four through the vacant second-slip region. The one that carried into Sarfaraz Ahmed's gloves shortly afterwards, off the same bowler, no one seemed to notice. That was the second life for Sodhi; Sarfaraz had earlier dropped him down the leg side off Nauman.
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The Beaux Arts style (1885-1930), named for the premier French school of architecture, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, was introduced to the USA by architects like Richard Morris Hunt who attended the prestigious school in the late-19th century.
Hunt designed the Newport, Rhode Island mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 'The Breakers', in this style in 1892. The Beaux Arts style was most often seen in places where turn-of-the-century wealth was concentrated, major urban centers and resort communities.
The popularity of this style was advanced by the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. With its grandiose treatment of classic architectural forms, the Beaux Arts style was seen as an ideal expression of both corporate and civic pride. Buildings of this style are both formal and monumental with abundant and opulent decorative details.
The Beaux Arts style is especially suited for public buildings designed to deliver a strong symbolic message, such as libraries, museums, court houses, train stations, college buildings, post offices, schools, and government offices. Privately-owned Beaux Arts style mansions delivered a message as well, one of personal wealth.
The Beaux Arts style uses formal symmetry, Italian Renaissance form, and classical Greek and Roman decorative elements like columns, pediments and balustrades to create a grand and imposing architectural statement. Exterior decorative details include may include quoins, balconies, terraces, porches, and porticoes as well as ornamental windows and grand entrances. This style also featured lavish interiors including pilasters, arched openings, elaborate chandeliers, coffered ceilings, or marble fireplaces.
Flat or low pitched roof.
Wall surfaces with decorative garlands, floral patterns or shields.
Grand and imposing in size and scale.
Columns on porches and porticoes.
The State Capitol Building in Harrisburg (see image below), completed in 1906 and designed by Joseph Huston, is a penultimate example of this style. Envisioned as a "palace of art," the Capitol building has opulent detail and classically inspired design. Described by President Theodore Roosevelt at its 1906 dedication as "the handsomest State Capitol I ever saw," the State Capitol is Beaux Arts style architecture at its most extravagant.


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The Blue Series continues to produce some of the very best music in jazz. These recordings are of rare quality; the momentum of this important series continues to build.
CMJ 2003 Year in Jazz
Nils Petter Molvær, Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, who takes multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly reshapes them into unique and dramatic soundscapes of deep intensity.
His remarkable ease in handling the often-contrary conventions of pop, rock, funk, and modern jazz ensured a strong interest in both acoustic and electric music. This chameleon-like ability soon established him as a much sought-after musician in Oslo, which ultimately led to his a colourful and diverse curriculum vitae as a sideman. During his time with acclaimed jazz combo, Masqualero, NPM was introduced to Manfred Eicher, who welcomed him into his prestigious and much-lauded roster. Alongside the three ECM Masqualero releases, NPM recorded many classic studio sessions for ECM with artists such as Robyn Schulkowsky, Marilyn Mazur, Jon Balke's Oslo 13, and Sidsel Endresen. However, NPM wanted to do something different, both in terms of composition, and trumpet technique.
A trumpet that knows how to capture both the polar ice caps and the burning desert sand, that can portray surging crowds just as well as total solitude, that loses itself but always finds the way back again. Molvaer has his own very individual sound, influenced as much by the poetry of Scandinavian nature as by electronic calculation, and last but not least by colleagues like Miles Davis and Jon Hassell. But more than anything else, Molvaer has himself. Listening to him play, it's easy to forget that his instrument is a trumpet.
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Firefox 默认使用 ~/Desktop 作为上传和下载目录。按 XDG user directories 中的说明修改 XDG_DESKTOP_DIR.
在 about:config 取消 dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled 设置.
注意对于 Firefox 安装的词典插件来说,符号是 en-GB,而对于 hunspell 词典来说,符号是 en_GB.
当你只有 hunspell 词典时, Firefox 可能不会保存你默认的词典语言设置。要解决这个问题,你可以添加至少一个 词典 插件. 注意现在附加组件中也会有词典栏.
你需要一些数学字体,比如 Latin Modern Math 和 STIX (查看这个 MDN 页面: ) 以正确的显示 MathML.
在 Arch Linux 中,texlive-core 和 texlive-fontsextra 提供了这些字体,但是默认情况下设置字体却无法使用它们. 详情参见 TeX Live#Fonts[broken link: invalid section]. 你也可以尝试 Math fonts.
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Q: PostGIS (Postgres 9.6) - order bounding box query results by date (large table) I'm querying database entries using a bounding box with ST_MakeEnvelope and intersecting that with a coordinates column (type GEOMETRY), consisting of simple POINT(lng, lat) entries. I've created a GiST index on the coordinates column, and clustered the table on the index - which sped up the queries significantly. The table has about 20M+ rows, and will grow to hundreds of millions of rows in the future.
The current query looks something like this - i changed some naming to be more generic.
The lngMin/latMin/lngMax/latMax/offset/limit values are filled in with JS on the Node.js server:
SELECT id, ST_X(coordinates) as longitude, ST_Y(coordinates) as latitude
FROM table
WHERE (table.type = 'something'
  AND ST_MakeEnvelope(lngMin, latMin, lngMax, latMax, 4326) ~ geometry(coordinates))
OFFSET offset
LIMIT limit;

Query performance is somewhat acceptable (limit=10000, offset=0):
Limit  (cost=302.64..21222.41 rows=10000 width=44) (actual time=731.236..750.139 rows=10000 loops=1)
   ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on table  (cost=302.64..44236.25 rows=21001 width=44) (actual time=731.236..749.501 rows=10000 loops=1)
         Recheck Cond: ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geometry ~ coordinates)
         Filter: (type = 'something'::text)
         Heap Blocks: exact=198
         ->  Bitmap Index Scan on table_gix  (cost=0.00..301.59 rows=21001 width=0) (actual time=699.359..699.359 rows=6634519 loops=1)
               Index Cond: ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geometry ~ coordinates)
 Planning time: 0.107 ms
 Execution time: 750.604 ms

I want to order the results based on created_at (desc), so that i can batch request all coordinates, returning newest entries first. (first request: offset=0, second request: offset=limit+offset, etc..)
But by simply adding ORDER BY created_at DESC, the query becomes really slow (with e.g. limit 1000).
Limit  (cost=36591.17..36969.67 rows=1000 width=44) (actual time=3662.597..3664.364 rows=1000 loops=1)
   ->  Result  (cost=36591.17..44540.05 rows=21001 width=44) (actual time=3662.595..3664.291 rows=1000 loops=1)
         ->  Sort  (cost=36591.17..36601.67 rows=21001 width=44) (actual time=3662.562..3662.642 rows=1000 loops=1)
               Sort Key: created_at DESC
               Sort Method: top-N heapsort  Memory: 127kB
               ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on table (cost=302.64..36360.88 rows=21001 width=44) (actual time=924.050..2823.598 rows=6634433 loops=1)
                     Recheck Cond: ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geometry ~ coordinates)
                     Filter: (type = 'something'::text)
                     Heap Blocks: exact=122911
                     ->  Bitmap Index Scan on table_gix  (cost=0.00..301.59 rows=21001 width=0) (actual time=890.864..890.864 rows=6634433 loops=1)
                           Index Cond: ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geometry ~ coordinates)
 Planning time: 0.196 ms
 Execution time: 3664.934 ms

I've tried creating a multicolumn GiST index using:
CREATE INDEX table_coordinates_and_created_at_gix
ON table
USING GIST (coordinates, created_at);

I've VACUUM and ANALYZE'd the table after creating the indexes, but it didn't help.
How can I speed up the queries?
I am new to Postgres/PostGIS. I'm also not sure if i should VACUUM the DB once in a while.
I have not had the chance to dive deeply into the documentation.

Using ST_Intersects query performance improves quite a bit (advice by John Barça!). This is great for batch requesting all results in the bounding box. It doesn't use the coordinates index though.
No update on improving querying with ORDER BY yet.
Query:
SELECT id, ST_X(coordinates) as longitude, ST_Y(coordinates) as latitude
FROM table
WHERE (table.type = 'something'
  AND ST_Intersects(ST_MakeEnvelope(4.2134, 50.1234, 4.6345, 50.8734, 4326), table.coordinates::geography))
LIMIT 10000
OFFSET 10000;

Plan:
Limit  (cost=13233.27..25466.54 rows=10000 width=44) (actual time=61.063..118.786 rows=10000 loops=1)
   ->  Gather  (cost=1000.00..1713707.82 rows=1400041 width=44) (actual time=0.386..117.567 rows=20000 loops=1)
         Workers Planned: 1
         Workers Launched: 1
         ->  Parallel Seq Scan on table  (cost=0.00..1356521.10 rows=823554 width=44) (actual time=0.577..110.212 rows=10000 loops=2)
               Filter: ((type = 'something'::text) AND ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geography && (coordinates)::geography) AND (_st_distance('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geography, (coordinates)::geography, '0'::double precision, false) < '1e-05'::double precision))
 Planning time: 0.177 ms
 Execution time: 120.591 ms

Using WHERE (table.type = 'something' AND ST_MakeEnvelope(4.2134, 50.1234, 4.6345, 50.8734, 4326) && table.coordinates::geography) instead of ST_Intersects gives better performance. I'm not sure which is the better convention. Also the planner is using Seq Scan now instead of an Index Scan.
Plan:
Limit  (cost=4837.07..9674.14 rows=10000 width=44) (actual time=24.995..50.306 rows=10000 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on table  (cost=0.00..2031628.90 rows=4200123 width=44) (actual time=0.027..49.091 rows=20000 loops=1)
         Filter: ((type = 'something'::text) AND ('0103000020E6100000010000000500000098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB6F49407D3F355EBA891240C7293A92CB0F494098DD938785DA1040C7293A92CB0F4940'::geography && (coordinates)::geography))
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 Execution time: 50.687 ms

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The ProCamera team is always excited about new iPhone generations. Still, the introduction of the iPhone 7 Plus was special. It's the first iPhone to boast a dual camera setup.
Incorporating controls for the two cameras into ProCamera meant a lot of work for our developers, but it also brings a multitude of new possibilities for our users.
Currently, the iPhone 7 Plus is the only iOS device with a built-in dual lens camera system. Therefore, all feature descriptions in this post solely relate to this device, showcasing the status quo of late 2016.
As information from two sensors is combined and processed, RAW capture is not supported in Dual cam mode. When switching to Dual, RAW file format will automatically be changed to JPEG – when switching back to a mode that supports RAW capture, the active file format will automatically be changed back to RAW. You can always check/change the current file format in the bottom left corner of the Control Panel.
The following unedited comparison photos were both taken under the same shooting conditions using the same device. The 100% view clearly reveals the benefits of optical zoom – or to be more precise of "optical enlargement". The Wide photo was digitally zoomed in to 2x, the Dual shot is an "optical enlargement" at the natural 2x factor of the Tele lens. The Dual and Tele photographs looked nearly identical (white balance variations) – so there was no need to switch to the single Tele lens for this photo.
Both photos were shot at 2x magnification in a low light situation (car park). In this case, Dual camera mode only utilized the Wide lens (digitally zoomed in to 2x), because the scene was too dark for the optical enlargement of the "Tele" system. In 100% view, you will see that the left photo (Wide/Tele) is a little speckled due to the digital zoom – but overall it's looking good, given the extreme light situation.
After switching to the Tele camera system, the scene was captured a lot darker, because it was already working at its limits. Keep in mind, it has a smaller built-in aperture (= less light falling onto the sensor) and the sensor is a little smaller. The 100% view of the Tele lens shows a lot less detail and is noisier.
Comparing both photos, it is apparent that the system was right to only utilize the Wide lens, even though it had to digitally zoom.
An interesting finding of our Dual Camera test photos was the effect of the zoom factor on the image quality around 2x magnification. If possible, use the standard 2x magnification in Dual mode, instead of decimals like 1.8x or 1.9x. You can quickly switch to 2x by tapping the zoom factor icon above the main shutter button. In 100% view, you can see that 2x provides sharper images.
Having access to a second lens that provides an optical enlargement is a big step forward. It increases the quality of zoomed photos, and since it comes built-in to the device, it's quick and handy.
Dual mode is great for straightforward shooting. You can fully concentrate on your subject and the composition. The camera will take care of the rest.
However, if you want to have full control over camera settings, the utilized lens, or intend to shoot RAW photos, you can choose each individual lens system in ProCamera. A lot of effort went into providing the Wide, Dual, and Tele modes. So, the choice is up to you: Easy shooting in Dual mode, or full control in Wide and Tele.
Thanks for this article. I think it confirmed what I already knew and have been pushing the app though as you already know, I am probably your most non-technical user.
Thank you so much for all the years of hard work. People talk about other camera replacement apps but truly none of them come close.
Thanks for those very detailed tips regarding one of the best cameras on iOS!
I must be thick or something, but am so far unable to access the lens selection options using ProCamera 10.3.2 on a new iPhone 8 Plus. Those options simply don't appear at the bottom of the screen, (as shown in your images above.) Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I'm a big fan of ProCamera and really wan tot take advantage of this system to use (Moment) add-on lenses with the built-in "tele" (56mm) lens. Thanks!
To elucidate slightly on my comment/plea above, my assumption is that ProCamera is coded to recognize *only* the 7 Plus as having the second camera that supports the feature, so shows those buttons only on that specific model, (the 7 Plus). The iPhone 8 Plus is therefore recognized simply as *some other* iPhone that does not have the two cameras. If so, I like to believe an update should be forthcoming and should be easily implemented. – Thanks again!
Alan, you are absolutely right. A free update is on its way. Among other things, it will bring lens selection (Wide, Tele, Dual) to the newest generation iPhones!
That's great to hear (and confirm). Thank you.
That's great news. I'm assuming there will Be the addition of lowlight plus as well in the next update. Thanks for the hard work, it's paying off. You honestly have created the best camera app available for iOS.
Yes, LowLight Plus will also be available on the newest generation iPhones. For the HDR mode, we will still need to fine-tune the capture process for the new camera systems – these optimizations will come in another free update.
Just grabbed the update now and look forward to taking full advantage of it. Thanks for keeping ProCamera right out there in front of everything else available for shooting on the iPhone!
So the wide is not available on Iphone 7? only 7+? please let me know and thank you in advance. I am interested in using the wide angle for real estate photos.
Thanks for asking: The iPhone 7 is not a dual lens device, but this means it is only equipped with the WIDE lens. It does not have the TELE lens.
The wide lens of the iPhone 7 is highly suitable for real estate photography.


Edward Allison (top right in the photo above) bought Dunhouse Quarry in 1926 and the business has been passed down through three generations since then.
Dunhouse Quarry is part of WM Allison & Sons Ltd, a family owned group of companies specializing in the Stone Masonry industry. We quarry and process high quality masonry stone from our factory in the North East of England.
Investment in new machinery has been necessary to keep pace with the latest technological innovation and growth in new building methods. The latest CNC machinery allows production of complicated masonry with the minimum labour input, thus minimizing health, safety and environmental issues, whilst providing competitive and aesthetically pleasing features for the building industry.
Dunhouse Quarry is recognized as one of the market leaders for supplying bespoke masonry projects in the UK and our expertise and capacity has secured projects across Europe, USA and the Middle East.


Last week I wrote about the beginnings of my love affair with poetry. This week I thought I'd show you 3 poems I love – you can see if you like them too.
The first, written by Emily Dickinson, captures how wonderful hope is. I delight in the feeling hope creates, this marvelously uplifting eager anticipation of something good on the verge of happening. I feel the pleasures of hope often and am immensely grateful that it springs eternal.
The second poem was written by Theodore Roethke to his wife. Powerful love. Powerful wish.
And the third poem, by William Butler Yeats of Ireland, is best read out loud (as possibly all poetry is, but this one truly demands it). I find it unspeakably vulnerable and tender.
In truth, we all spread our dreams under the feet of others and wish them to tread softly.
May others tread softly on your dreams. I know I certainly will.
This is beautiful- thanks for writing and sharing.


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1. Tropic Thunder - $26M - $37M
2. The Dark Knight - $16.7M - $471.1M
3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - $15.5M - $15.5M
4. Mirrors - $11.1M - $11.1M
5. Pineapple Express - $10M - $62.9M
6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - $8.6M - $86.6M
7. Mamma Mia! - $6.4M - $116.4M
8. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 - $5.9M - $32.1M
9. Step Brothers - $5M - $90.8M
10. Vicky Christina Barcelona - $3.7M - $3.7M
After four weeks in the top spot, The Dark Knight drops down a place but still manages to see off two wide opening new releases in the guise of Mirrors and The Clone Wars (more later). Our number one movie this weekend is the Ben Stiller directed comedy Tropic Thunder, about a group of highly strung actors who have to use their boot camp training when they find themselves in a real war zone. Robert Downey Jnr. adds another set of good reviews to the ones he scored with Iron Man earlier in the year and the film generally impressed critics.
Thunder, like Pineapple Express last week, opened on a Wednesday, perhaps to avoid the five other releases debuting this weekend. It's Wednesday take was well below the par of Pineapple Express too but unlike that film, had a higher Friday than its day of release. Going into the weekend the film scored $8.3M and combined with its Wednesday & Thursday total has done pretty well, but perhaps on the lower end of expectations.
Tropic Thunder wasn't cheap to produce, with a rumoured budget of between $100-150M, so it needs subsequent strong weekends to keep it shored up. It should easily become Ben Stiller's biggest grossing film as a director, with only The Cable Guy ($60M life time gross) offering any competition in that area, but won't trouble some of his bigger films as an actor. Where does it go from here? It'll face off against four wide opening releases next weekend so it needs a weekend-weekend drop of less than 50%, something it might not achieve if its as heavily front loaded as it seems, so Stiller will be relying on some good word of mouth to help out. I can't imagine the recent controversy over the 'Simple Jack - Full Retard' topic has damaged the film in any serious way, though Stiller's critics may disagree.
The Dark Knight might have dropped a place but is still performing ridiculously well in its fifth weekend of release. It's officially the 2nd biggest grossing movie of all time in North America, having overtaken Star Wars some time on Saturday. (Though it's worth noting that that Star Wars gross includes ALL releases of the film, including its 1982 reissue and the retooled version in 1997) It's widely admitted that the film won't best Titanic now but should go on to see $500M by the end of its run. Internationally the film is sitting on over $275M and still has a large number of foreign locales awaiting the release of the film. Expect a global total of over $1 billion.
Speaking of Star Wars, the animated The Clone Wars is our second new release this weekend but isn't seeing the kind of numbers usually associated with the franchise. In fact, given it's the only animated family movie in the top ten, that relatively low gross might have been inflated further by parents just looking for a film for the kids to see. The Clone Wars is said to sit in the same time frame as the 2003 series with the same name - somewhere between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. It's also being seen as a lead in for the (new) TV series set to debut later this year. It marks the first time that Fox haven't distributed a Star Wars related films, this one being handled by Warner Bros. Critics savaged the film (something it shares with the Star Wars Prequels) and given its low start and the four new films released next weekend, it won't be hanging around long. The film should perform well on DVD, but it'll be interesting to see how successful the TV show ends up being. George Lucas won't worry though, he's said to be prepping Star Wars 3D.
Mirrors is Alexandre Aja remake of the Korean film Into the Mirror and features Kiefer Sutherland as a security guard patrolling a department store, recently ravaged by fire, that used to be a psychiatric hospital involved in schizophrenia experiments. From that description you can kind of see it won't be a pseudo-sequel to Night at the Museum. We've not seen much horror in recent weeks (save for The Love Guru) so fans of the genre have turned out in their droves, and having Kiefer Sutherland star hasn't harmed the film either. Less bloody than Aja's The Hills Have Eyes remake or Haute Tension, it's still pretty grisly and served as perfect alternate programming to Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express. It should finish up around $35M (recouping its budget) and do well as an unrated DVD release.
Pineapple Express, faced with the Wednesday release of Tropic Thunder, is off 57% in its second frame of release. Having lost out on the top spot last weekend thanks to its Wednesday release hampering its overall weekend total, the film has been crushed somewhat by Thunder and the other new releases (not to mention The Dark Knight). All that said, the film has already almost doubled its production budget so no one is worrying to much about the quick dropoff of this release.
The Mummy 3's international take is more than making up for its poor perfomance domestically. It should just about make $100M in the US before the end of its theatical run but on the international stage the film is already sitting on over $145M. It should overtake Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which has dropped from the top ten and shed around a 1000 locations this weekend. Sisterhood 2 comes off a bit better than its release counterpart, Pineapple Express, but like that film, it's already in profit. A second straight to dvd sequel is not out of the question.
This week should see Mamma Mia! cross the $300M mark in total global sales, over $110M of that in North America. It'll surpass Hairspray's $118M within the next ten days. The Abba themed movie has been in profit from some time and will no doubt clean up on DVD at Christmas. Step Brothers won't see $100M before leaving the top ten but it shouldn't take many more weeks to reach that level, making it Ferrell's fourth $100M+ movie of his career (while he was in Wedding Crashers, it was only in cameo role so has not been included in his $100M movies).
Woody Allen, whose last top ten entry was 2000s Small Time Crooks, just about sneaks in with Vicky Christina Barcelona, the success of which appears to be based solely on a same-sex kissing scene between Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson (Allen's current muse who has featured in three of his last four films). Expect a number one for Allen if his next film is called Scarlett Does Penelope.


I ran as hard as I could. In fact, I hobbled past two people in the last two laps. I was 13th, and way off a PR, but I hit the goal I had set for myself. I absolutely never gave up in the race.
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Pontianus (, ) (alternatively anglicized as Pontian) was a second century Christian martyr. He was martyred during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is honored as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church,  the Old Catholic Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Spoleto, Italy, he is invoked for protection against earthquakes.

Life
According to a Passio preserved in the Cathedral of Spoleto, Pontianus was a young man from a local noble family of Spoleto, 18 years of age, who had been denounced as a Christian to the Roman authorities. Brought before a judge named Flavian, he chose torture and death rather than renounce his faith. He was condemned to death and beheaded on 14 January 175.

Veneration

Basilica of San Ponziano
Pontianus' body was buried in the local cemetery, called di Sincleta, outside the city walls. The Basilica of San Ponziano was eventually built over his grave as a shrine to his memory. He has become the patron saint of that city. A monastery was built attached to the basilica for a community of Benedictine monks to administer it. Over the centuries, the monks were replaced by nuns of the same order. The monastery was suppressed in 1810 during the occupation of Italy by Napoleonic forces.

Every year a festival is held in the city to honor Pontianus, its patron. Various services are held starting on the eve of the feast, which culminate in a procession through the streets of the city. Pontianus' skull, preserved in the basilica, is processed for veneration by the people of the city.

Today the complex of basilica and monastery is operated by a community of Canonesses Regular of the Lateran. The canonesses operate the ancient monastery as a religious guesthouse, open to all.

Patron saint of Utrecht
Devotion to Pontianus grew throughout the region. In 966, Bishop Balderic of Utrecht travelled to Rome to present an account of his administration, as required by Church law. He took the opportunity to tour various churches and monasteries, from which he obtained numerous relics of the saints for the churches of his diocese. In the course of this journey, he obtained one of Pontianus' arms, which he had enshrined in his cathedral. As a result, Pontianus was named a co-patron of the diocese.

At the time that the Protestant Reformation took hold in Utrecht, Calvinist mobs attacked the Catholic cathedral there. Members of the Old Catholic Church, headquartered in that city, sought to protect his relics, which they were given and then preserved.

In 1994 the Primate of the Old Catholic Church returned this relic in a solemn manner to the abbess of the monastery which administers the basilica.

Protection against earthquakes
In Spoleto, Pontianus is invoked for protection against earthquakes. This developed from an ancient tradition that, before his death, the young martyr had predicted that "Spoleto will shake but not will collapse".

In 1703, the first of a series of devastating earthquakes occurred on his feast day. It affected the entire region of Italy, lasting nearly three weeks. While thousands of people died as a result, there were no deaths in Spoleto.

Artwork
Pontianus is one of the 140 saints whose statues adorn St. Peter's Square on top of Bernini's colonnades.

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156 births
175 deaths
People from Spoleto
2nd-century Romans
Executed Italian people
Burials in Umbria
Italian Roman Catholic saints
2nd-century Christian martyrs


No one would argue that corporate governance is unimportant to businesses. By setting the framework for monitoring the actions and performance of management, it protects both the future of the business and the interests of its owners and investors.
However, when we talk of corporate governance, it is often assumed that we are talking about large, listed companies; the term itself suggests that unincorporated or family-owned businesses need not apply.
Greater protection from fraud, theft, or financial mistakes because internal controls are stronger.
The problem for the SME sector in general, though, is that even those companies that want to improve their corporate governance are hampered by the fact that existing frameworks and guidelines have been developed with large, listed companies in mind. However, a new report by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)—Governance for All: The Implementation Challenge for SMEs—aims to open the debate about what corporate governance means for SMEs. The report draws extensively on material discussed during a 2014 seminar organized by the Economic and Social Research Council and hosted by ACCA, as well as the views of the ACCA Global Forum for SMEs.
The report points out that it is inevitable that corporate governance frameworks will vary from one company to the next, depending on their set-up and needs. It proposes a number of essential elements of well-governed SMEs, including clear reporting lines and clarity about how decisions are made and risks controlled, appropriate internal controls that are related to key risks, and a framework that promotes understanding of roles and responsibilities and the limits of authority.
One of the most interesting points made in the report is that businesses do not exist in a static state, but are constantly evolving. This is especially true for the SME sector and I think that this is the key to understanding what SMEs need from a corporate governance framework. By nature, SMEs are heterogeneous, so any corporate governance framework for SMEs has to be adaptable and flexible in its application.
This is where we come in as SME advisors. We, along with other interested international institutions, need to make the case for why corporate governance matters to SMEs. We need to explain clearly how they can benefit from strong corporate governance, and why the benefits will exceed the costs. And we need to show that we consider corporate governance to be as important for small businesses as for the largest.
Rosana Mirkovic is head of SME policy at ACCA. Ms. Mirkovic sits on numerous SME groups; Diversity and Inclusion Business Council, Enterprise Research Centre Advisory Group, OECD Business and Industry Advisory Committee SME Task Force and was a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Small Business Development and Corruption. Prior to joining ACCA, Ms. Mirkovic worked in the Private Office of a Cabinet Minister; she was a member of the United Kingdom Delegation at the European Union Working Group relating to mutual legal assistance and international cooperation; and together with her partner has set up a small business selling organic foods, which now trades across Europe.


Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino), the largest truck and heavy vehicle manufacturer in Japan, selected Farmington Hills, Michigan as the site of its U.S. Headquarters and Sales Service Training Center, called Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. (HMM). "In moving our U.S. headquarters to the heart of the automobile industry, we place ourselves in an excellent position to further expand our market share and better coordinate our manufacturing operations in the United States," said Hideichiro Chikahiro, President of HMM.
Our job was to plan a world-class grand opening celebration of the brand new 34,000 square foot facility and create widespread media attention in July 2005.
Numerous team meetings were held at Hino to plan the grand opening. We worked with Hino on all the grand opening details – catering, ceremonial ribbon cutting, invitations and registration, audio/visual and staging needs, event photography, special gifts for guests, program speakers, brochures, and all media relations.
We positioned Derek Kaufman, Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing for Hino Motor Sales, as the point person to speak with the media.
Hundreds of auto suppliers, Hino and Toyota staffers, and government officials were invited to the event.
We created a colorful, informative brochure that addressed Hino's products, design, manufacturing, environmental research, and safety technology components.
Our extensive planning and outreach to local dignitaries and area media was a success. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm took part in the grand opening celebration. "This new facility represents the continuation of a partnership with Hino and Toyota that strengthens our state's position as the leader in the automotive industry. Hino's investment and the jobs it will create are very welcome and appreciated here in Michigan." Other dignitaries present included Farmington Hills Mayor Vicki Barnett, Japanese Consul General Yoshiyuki Sadaoka, and United Auto Group CEO Roger Penske.
Numerous media outlets were present at the event, including The Detroit News, The Free Press, The Oakland Press, and The Automotive News. Crain's Detroit Business, The Oakland Business Review, and Autobeat Daily also ran articles about the grand opening.


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CVS Health expands national partnership with the Arthritis Foundation to help advance arthritis advocacy, research and patient support
WOONSOCKET, R.I., 2015-10-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced today, in advance of World Arthritis Day on October 12, the expansion of a national partnership with the Arthritis Foundation to help advance arthritis advocacy, research and patient support. As part of the partnership, CVS/specialty, the specialty pharmacy of CVS Health, will be designated an Arthritis Foundation 'Partner for Better Living'(SM) and be its first and only specialty pharmacy partner. The distinction recognizes CVS/specialty's commitment to helping people with arthritis and joint pain, and builds on the longstanding relationship between the two organizations. CVS/pharmacy is currently the exclusive retail drugstore partner of the Arthritis Foundation.
"Our expanded partnership with the Arthritis Foundation will allow us to extend our purpose of helping people on their path to better health by supporting an organization dedicated to advancing education, access to care, advancements in science and community connections for people with arthritis," said Alan Lotvin, MD, executive vice president of specialty pharmacy for CVS/caremark, the pharmacy benefits manager of CVS Health. "CVS/specialty is a different kind of pharmacy with services that offer convenience, care and support for our patients with complex conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis, so they have the freedom to focus on every part of their lives, not just their condition."
As an Arthritis Foundation 'Partner for Better Living,' CVS/specialty is helping people with certain forms of arthritis take control of managing their complex condition by supporting them with specialized tools, personalized care and convenient access to medications. In fact, the unique model of CVS/specialty is focused on making it easier for patients with a range of complex conditions to start and stay on their prescriptions.
"We're pleased to expand the important work we're doing with CVS Health as the Arthritis Foundation continues to help people living with arthritis conquer every day battles," said Ann M. Palmer, president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Foundation."We know that access to information and treatment is crucial for people living with arthritis, and with CVS/specialty as a 'Partner for Better Living,' we are now able to better support the millions of Americans with arthritis, including the 1.5 million with rheumatoid arthritis requiring specialty medicines."
CVS/specialty offers the support of a Care Team comprised of pharmacists and nurses who specialize in chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and insurance specialists who work to find assistance for those with a financial hardship. Patients also have access to personalized specialty infusion care conveniently provided in the home or at an alternative infusion suite. In addition, CVS/specialty simplifies getting started on therapy by offering patients the choice of pickup at their local CVS/pharmacy, or delivery to their home, office or other location. Patients have access to online tools and a free mobile app where they can order refills, track deliveries and get reminders to help them stay on track. For more information about CVS/specialty, visit www.cvsspecialty.com
Since 2014, CVS/pharmacy has been an Arthritis Foundation 'Partner for Better Living' and a one-stop-shop for arthritis-related products, services and resources in-store and online. As part of the partnership, many CVS/pharmacy locations across the country house the Arthritis Solutions Center, which features products and resources to help better support people living with arthritis. By expandingthe national partnership with the Arthritis Foundation, CVS Health can better support the full spectrum of people living with arthritis and joint pain.
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is a pharmacy innovation company helping people on their path to better health. Through its more than 7,800 retail drugstores, nearly 1,000 walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 70 million plan members, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the Company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable, effective ways. This unique integrated model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs. Find more information about how CVS Health is shaping the future of health at www.cvshealth.com.
About Arthritis Foundation
The Arthritis Foundation is the Champion of Yes. Leading the fight for the arthritis community, the Foundation helps conquer everyday battles through life-changing information and resources, access to optimal care, advancements in science and community connections. The Arthritis Foundation's goal is to chart a winning course, guiding families in developing personalized plans for living a full life and making each day another stride towards a cure. The Foundation also publishesArthritis Today,the award-winning magazine that reaches 4million readers.
Christina Beckerman
christina.beckerman@cvshealth.com
Mary Alfieri
mary.alfieri@cvshealth.com
SOURCE: CVS Health
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Gov. John Kasich on Friday delayed eight executions while an appeals court determines whether the state's lethal injection method is constitutional.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Executions for eight Ohio inmates have been rescheduled following a federal court decision barring the state's lethal injection protocol and staying the next three executions.
The revised schedule released Friday by Gov. John Kasich sets the next execution for May 10 instead of Wednesday. The delays are needed, according to a Kasich administration press release, to allow the judicial process to come to a full resolution.
On Jan. 26, a federal magistrate judge found the state's three-drug injection cocktail to be unconstitutional and stayed the next three executions. The state appealed the decision.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is not expected to issue its ruling before Wednesday, when Akron killer Ronald Phillips was to be put to death.
Phillips is now scheduled to die May 10.
Gary Otte of Cuyahoga County, from March 15 to June, 13.
Raymond Tibbetts of Hamilton County, from April 12 to July 26.
Alva Campbell, Jr. of Franklin County, from May 10 to Sept. 13.
William Montgomery of Lucas County, from June 13 to Oct. 18.
Robert Van Hook of Hamilton County, from July 26 to Nov. 15.
Jeffrey A. Wogenstahl of Hamilton County, from Sept. 13 to April 17, 2019.
Melvin Bonnell of Cuyahoga County, from Oct. 18 to April 11, 2018.
Ohio hasn't executed anyone since January 2014, when killer Dennis McGuire took 25 minutes to die after receiving a new combination of execution drugs. Witnesses said he appeared to gasp several times during his execution and made loud snorting or snoring sounds.
McGuire was administered a cocktail that included midazolam.
Death row inmates sued the state, and executions were put on hold until the state picked a new lethal-injection drug combination of midazolam, rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride last October.
"The Court concludes that use of midazolam as the first drug in Ohio's present three-drug protocol will create a 'substantial risk of serious harm' or an 'objectively intolerable risk of harm' as required by (Supreme Court precedent)," Magistrate Judge Michael Merz of Dayton wrote in the January opinion.


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Debora LMP2 refers to a series of Le Mans Prototypes built by Debora:

Debora LMP200, used between 2001 and 2003.
Debora LMP201, used in 1995.
Debora LMP294, used in 1994.
Debora LMP295, used in 1995.
Debora LMP296, used between 1996 and 1999.
Debora LMP297, used between 1997 and 1998.
Debora LMP299, used between 2000 and 2002.
Debora LMP2000, used in 2000.

Debora vehicles


In many application fields, data analysts have to deal with datasets that contain many expressions per item. The effective analysis of such multivariate datasets is dependent on the user's ability to understand both the intrinsic dimensionality of the dataset as well as the distribution of the dependent values with respect to the dimensions. In this paper, we propose a visualization model that enables the joint interactive visual analysis of multivariate datasets with respect to their dimensions as well as with respect to the actual data values. We describe a dual setting of visualization and interaction in items space and in dimensions space. The visualization of items is linked to the visualization of dimensions with brushing and focus+context visualization. With this approach, the user is able to jointly study the structure of the dimensions space as well as the distribution of data items with respect to the dimensions. Even though the proposed visualization model is general, we demonstrate its application in the context of a DNA microarray data analysis.


Twenty-eight day/night of the London Blitz.
On Friday 4th October 1940, Delayed Action bombs landed either side of Harrow-on-the Hill station; service reversed at Rayners Lane, Pinner, and Wembley Park. Through running was resumed at 18:25.
Services resumed between Kings Cross and Farringdon Street stations.
At 21:35, High Explosive (HE) bombs exploded adjacent to the up fast line at Willesden Green station, so trains were diverted onto the local line. The line re-opened for traffic at 05:22 the next day, although with a 15 mph (24 kph).
HEs at Neasden station at 22:05 damaged high-tension cables, and demolished the Engineer's office. Services suspended until 23:10, when current was restored.
Shuttle service Camden Town to Hamsptead - tunnel damage 28/09, repairs to be finished 11/10.
Suspended Queen's Park to Watford - bridge damage Harlseden 28/09, repairs to be finished 07/10.
Farringdon Street to Moorgate suspended - damaged buildings at Farringdon STreet, repairs in seven days or less.
Suspended since 07/09 - opening freight exchange at weekend, for passenger service later.
1. Surrey Docks 24/09 - prevents repairs to previous damage.
2. Neasden Depot 30/09 - no interference.
3. Harrow-on-the-Hill 04/10 - service suspended.


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Q: javac command prompt parameters I installed java on my machine and I wanted to compile this group of source code. But when I opened up the command prompt and typed in javac, the command prompt said it was an unknown parameter. The same thing happened when I wanted to build something with ant (I had the build.xml if you are wondering) and the same thing happened. How can I set the javac and ant command to be used in any directory?

A: First of all you have to be sure you installed JDK and not only JRE
Secondly it depends on your operating system:

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*windows: you have to reach environment variables by using My Computer (manage->advanced->something here)

*linux/osx: you have to export variables with export command or by using a .profile file in user directory

Then you need to set two things:

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*adding /jdk_1.6.../bin/ to your PATH variable

*setting JAVA_HOME to your root of java installation ( /java_1.6..../ ) (maybe this is not required by java itself but many frameworks use it)

One note: on OSX, and maybe Linux too you have to split paths in PATH variable with double colon ':' instead that semicolon ';'

A: Add the directory the executable is in to the PATH environment variable.

A: Guessing that you are using Windows. Right click My Computer and click Manage. Then, in the Advanced tab, select Environment Variables. In the new window, under System variables, find Path and append the full path to the binaries (javac and ant) at the end, separated by semicolons.


It's not that University of Richmond Professor Ernesto Semán, a native of Argentina, wanted to defend the POTUS, of course. A glance at his Twitter feed reveals all the "social justice" themes popular with the Left. Rather, Semán's attack on Summers seeks to defend Juan Perón â€" and that requires a revisionist historical narrative of the Argentinian dictator's rule and his still-potent Perónist party.
This is familiar territory for Semán. Last year he published a book-length Perónist apologetic â€" perhaps to help his old boss, former President Cristina Kirchner, achieve her goal of retaking the presidency of Argentina from incumbent center-right President Mauricio Macri.
The late President Nestor Kirchner and his wife Cristina established their own brand of Perónism â€" Kirchnerismo â€" during their 12 years in power (2003-2015). For most of that time, Semán held a series of high-level posts in their Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Semán also worked for the Center for Legal and Social Studies (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales â€" CELS), a think tank in Buenos Aires. According to Matias Nardi, a conservative Argentinian political analyst, the Kirchners used studies by CELS to discredit rivals, co-opt the domestic human rights debate to focus only on abuses alleged to have been committed by their political opponents (and not their own), justify the erosion of strong but independent Argentine political institutions, and cast themselves as the only way the country could hope to achieve the mythical Rawlsian goals of equality and fairness.
In other words, N ardi alleges, CELS indulged in biased analysis. And bias would seem to be the only explanation for the intellectual jujitsu Semán employs in his book (summarized here in a sympathetic review). How else can one explain his assertion that Juan Perón was not and never had been a fascist?
That would have come as a news flash to thousands of former Nazi party members and SS officers to whom Perón, according to Christopher Klein, offered safe haven in the years following the fall of the Third Reich.
It would also be strongly disputed by Spruille Braden, America's ambassador to Argentina during Perón's early years in power. A clear-eyed member of "the greatest generation," Braden was staunchly anti-Fascist and anti-Communist. He also harbored no illusions about caudillo ("strongman") populists like Juan Perón.
Watching as Colonel Perón seized power in a 1943 military coup, Braden reported that he and his henchmen in Argentina's lef tist labor unions â€" all admirers of Hitler and Mussolini â€" deployed the same fascist tactics and goon squads to consolidate their power.
As Semán notes in his book, Perón cynically tapped into the ever-lurking anti-Yanqui sentiments in Argentina and literally campaigned against Braden, who had made no secret in Buenos Aires of his dislike for Perón.
After Perón managed to secure ratification of his military dictatorship by a slim majority of voters in a 1946 presidential election, he built a sprawling welfare state to purchase future voter loyalty. He went on to construct the brutally effective Perónist political machine that has de facto ruled Argentina for most of the subsequent seven-plus decades.
In the process, Perón nationalized industries, established inefficient and corrupt state-owned enterprises, imposed Marxist-inspired "import substitution" policies, created a government monopoly to control all exports, jailed political opponen ts, and censored media critics.
Semán claims that gringoes like Larry Summers have given Perón a bad rap â€" that his actions were actually inspired by FDR's New Deal. But Perón's role models for using the central government to drive industrialization were more likely to have been Hitler and Stalin.
After the defeat of the Axis powers, Perón reoriented his general ideological compass toward Moscow, although he bitterly opposed the Soviet Union's most threatening provocateur in the Western Hemisphere: Fidel Castro. As Perón knew, taking a hardline stand against Castro would also make him less distasteful to Washington.
Argentine journalist Matias Ruiz reports that Perón literally took pages from the propaganda leaflets of the Nazis, Italian fascists and Russian Bolsheviks as he fashioned Perónism â€" a nationalistic and populist synthesis of all three that revolved around … Juan Perón. That explains why Perón, during his first decade in power, bl ocked several attempts by the communists to infiltrate unions and Argentine society as a whole.
It is also why Perón created a brutally effective Argentine counterintelligence agency to launch a vicious clandestine war against the "Montoneros," the Cuba-funded, communist guerrilla group inspired by Castro's comrade-in-arms â€" Argentina-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Nevertheless, as James R. Whelan has reported, Ambassador Braden later estimated that Juan Perón implemented 85 percent of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto to-do list. In the process he and his cronies vastly enriched themselves and their families.
Argentina's long slide in the annual Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom reflects the tremendous economic harm inflicted by Perónism. Yet Semán highlights only the admittedly substantial short-term gains Perón was able to deliver to his political base â€" by redistributing the wealth that had been built up over decades in wha t had been, until Perón took over, one of the world's wealthiest countries.
If Semán's goal is to convince Argentinians (and Americans) that it would be good for them to return to the bad old days of authoritarian Perónism, that will be a tough sell back home. The voters there got fed up and voted the Perónists out of power in 2015.
Twelve years of Kirchner rule … left this country bankrupt, both institutionally and financially. The Kirchners jailed political opponents, confiscated private property, nationalized businesses, gagged media critics, fomented street mobs, falsified government statistics, and destro yed the central bank's independence. Kirchnerismo bloated the government and left the economy in shambles.
Mr. Macri will face his next big test when the government negotiates salary increases with the teachers unions in March. In anticipation of that showdown, union activists â€" Mrs. Kirchner's most important constituents â€" have organized a nationwide mobilization for late February. They hope to paralyze the country, push wages to match current inflation, quash Mr. Macri's agenda and add his name to the Peronist list of interrupted presidencies.
Given its motto, "Democracy Dies in Darkness," it is ironic The Washington Post should feature Semán's call for a return to darkness. Argentinian democracy was, at best, on life support during the Perón dictatorship. It was extinguished completely during the "Dirty War" years that followed, a war caused in part by Perón's venal mismanagement and his weakening of the country's institutions.
Democracy will face dark skies again if Perón's political progeny manage to make a comeback.


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"There is nothing as practical as a good theory."
- Kurt Lewin
Traditional behavioral sciences positivistic paradigm based on experiments and empirism is sub-optimal since it reveals only descriptive causal relations. The goal of computational psychology is to develop mathematical models to advance the behavioral sciences. When simulated with computer these models describe the cognitive processes of individuals. Computational psychology is all about building psychologically plausible mathematical models, which incorporate all the current knowledge and thus describe cognitive processes instead of simple causalities or correlations.
There has been some research carried out by physicists such as Tamas Vicsek, who has simulated the features of the escape panic and studied the synchronization of applause in a concert hall. Another example the physicists' efforts to study of social networks lead by Albert Laszlo-Barabasi. These studies are interesting and valuable examples of applying methods of physics to collective phenomena. However, the challenge is that human phenomena is treated as statistically with the methodology of statistical physics and all the existing psychological knowledge is ignored in these studies and replace with adhoc common sense solutions. In this way one cannot really understand, interpret or explain of social phenomena, which are the goals of social science. For understanding simple modeling of action does not help - we must study the causes of action. The ability to interpret, explain and understand human behavior comes from understanding and modeling the underlying cognitive processes.
The field theory
In the 1930's one of the most eminent psychologist of all time Kurt Lewin published the books Principles of topological psychology (1936) and The conceptual representation and the measurement of psychological forces (1938). In the latter book he presented his field theory, which states that human behavior is determined by goal-directed psychological forces in a topological space as the function of both the person and the environment: B=f(P,E). This was ground-breaking since most of the psychology at the time was carried out by behaviorists. The scientific community did not adopt the paradigm then and after the second world war the rise of postmodernism and social constructionism overrode Lewin's subtle ideas, which required a lot of mathematical rigor not typical for psychologists neither then nor now.
Stochastic theory of social interaction
The first Finnish professor of social psychology Kullervo Rainio has corrected some deficiencies in Lewin's assumptions and revised the field theory to stochastic theory of social interaction. The theory can be found summarized in the book Cognitive process and behavior - conceptual framework and simulations. In Rainio's theory, the cognitive states are vertices of a graph and the change of the cognitive state is determined by transition probabilities (which vary based on previous behavior, learning or interaction). The decision to take action is made based on the present cognitive state and the action is never deterministic. This process can be easily simulated in discrete time and Rainio has shown that it estimates simple behavior in laboratory circumstances quite well. However, theoretical psychology still remains outside the mainstream behavioral and psychological scientific community, perhaps even more so than before.
I think that both Lewin and Rainio have made pioneering work in developing theoretical social psychology as a counterbalance to theoretical physics. The problem is that those, who are interested in psychology cannot typically calculate much without SPSS and thus there is a threat that these complex mathematical theories requiring knowledge about graph theory, stochastic processes and group theory may be forgotten soon. One should note that Lewin's and Rainio's theories are holistic, i.e., the human being is seen as a whole, whereas modern psychology is specializing more and more (e.g. neuropsychology).
I am interested in developing the holistic theory of human behavior further with methods of physics and mathematics, however, without forgetting the essential psychological framework. I am going to suggest a new methodological paradigm for behavioral science and establish a conceptual and mathematical framework for methodological and theoretical development of computational psychology. In additon, I will show how many well-known psychological theories can be exploited computational modeling of individual and group phenomena. These computational studies have applications ranging from epidemological prediction to business strategy.
My work on this
Modeling language competition
Article I co-authored with Marco Patriarca, published in Physica A 338, 296-299 (2004). Cited 25 times. [View]
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Q1) The principal of a school conducts an interview session of teachers and students with a view to explore the possibility of their enhanced participation in school programmers. This endeavor may be related to which type of research?
Q2) In doing action research what is the usual sequence of steps?
Q3) Which sequence of research steps is logical in the list given below?
Problem formulation, Analysis, Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Collection of data, Arriving at generalizations and conclusions.
Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Problem formulation, Data analysis, Arriving at conclusions and data collection.
Problem formulation, Hypothesis making, Development of a Research design, Collection of a Data; Data analysis and formulation of generalizations and conclusions.
Q5) The issue of 'Research ethics' may be considered pertinent at which stage of research?
At the stage of reporting the findings.
Q6) In which of the following, reporting format is formally prescribed?
The last Great War, which nearly shook the foundations of the modern world had little impact on Indian Literature beyond aggravating the popular revulsions against violence and adding to growing disillusionment with the 'humane pretensions' of the Western World. This was eloquently voiced in Tagore's poems and his last testament, "Crisis in Civilization". The Indian intelligentsia was in a state of moral dilemma. On the one hand, it could not help but sympathize with the England's dogged courage in the hour of peril, with the Russians fighting with their backs on the wall against ruthless Nazi hordes, and with the China groaning under the heel of Japanese militarism; on the other hand their own country was practically under the military occupation of their own soil and the Indian army under Subhas Bose was trying from the opposite camp to liberate their country. No creative impulse could issue from such confusion of loyalties. One would imagine that the achievement of Indian independence in 1947, which came in the wake of the Allies victory and was followed by collapse of colonialism in the neighboring countries of South East Asia, would have released an upsurge of the creative energy. No doubt it did, but it was soon submerged in the great agony of partition with the inhuman slaughter of innocents and the uprooting of the millions of the people from their homeland followed by the martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi. These tragedies along with Pakistan's Invasion of Kashmir and its later atrocities in Bangladesh, did indeed provoke a pregnant writing, particularly in the languages of the regions most affected Bengali, Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu. Both poignant or passionate writing does not by itself make great literature. What reserves of enthusiasm and confidence served these disasters have been mainly absorbed in the task of national reconstruction and economic development. Great literature has always emerged out of chains of convulsions. Indian literature is richer today in terms of volume, range and variety than it ever was in past.
Q7) What was the impact of the last great war on Indian literature?
Q8) What did Tagore articulate in his last testament?
Q9) What was the stance of Indian intelligentsia during the period of great war?
Q10) Identify the factor responsible for the submergence creative energy in India literature.
Q11) What was the aftermath that survived tragedies in Kashmir and Bangladesh?
Q26) If two standard form categorical propositions with the same subject and predicate are related in such a manner that is one is undermined the other must be undetermined, what is their relation?
Q30) If the statement 'None but the brave wins the race' is false, which of the following statements can be claimed to be true?
Q31) In 2015, approximately what percent of total revenue come from books?
Q34) How many female students are excellent?
Q35) What proportion of female students are good?
Q36) Approximately, what proportion of good students are male?
Q37) Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE?
Q39) Which of the following correctly lists computer memory types from highest to lowest speed?
Q40) Which of the following is a characteristic of Web2.0 applications?
Multiple users schedule their time to use Web2.0 applications one by one.
Web2.0 applications are focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.
Web2.0 applications provide users with content rather than facilitating users to create it.
Web2.0 applications use only static pages.
Q43) Assertion (A): Sustainable development critical to well being of human society.
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Q45) Which of the following is not a water-borne disease?
Q47) In which country, the recent international agreement on phasing out Hydro Fluoro Carbons (HFCs) was signed?
Q48) Which of the following natural hazards is not hydro-meteorological?
Q49) Which of the following are the demerits of globalization of higher education?
Q50) Which of the following statements are correct about deemed universities?
Cultural practices prevailing in the society.
Religious and moral practices and instructions.
Q52) Which of the following statements are correct?
Q53) Which of the following are not necessarily the immediate consequences of the proclamation of the President's Rule in a State?
Q54) Instead of holding the office during the pleasure of the President who among the following hold (s) office during good behavior?
Q55) Which of the following set of statements represents acceptable propositions in respect of teaching-learning relationships? Choose the correct code to indicate your answer.
Q56) Assertion (A): Learning is a life long process.
Q58) In which teaching method learner's participation is made optimal and proactive?
Q60) Assertion (A): Formative evaluation tends to accelerate the pace of learning.
Reason (R): As against summative evaluation, formative evaluation is highly reliable.


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Q: Can I use "here" when I am not physically in a place? Let's say I am on a trip (in France) and I am telling a story, in some place from this history I say:

I lived in Alabama for about a year and worked as a musician but last year I moved to New York; here the people speak really fast and sometimes I do not understand them.

If I am speaking over that specific time. Is that here right? Or should it be there?

A: You can sometimes use it in storytelling.  Even if your story is taking place elsewhere. For example:
After training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and gaining a Diploma in Community Theatre Arts and Theatre in Education in 1983, I worked as a freelance actor/teacher for 10 years. Here I met my first Guru, Brian Bishop, who was then team leader of Theatre in Education at Belgrade Theatre Coventry and is now Education Director at Warwick Arts Centre.
or another example:
My "I love you moment"—like any sense memories from my teenage years of 1996-98—mostly revolves around my bedroom. Here I hid from the feeling that I didn't fit in at my high school...

A: I can't remember the term for the style of writing, but if you wrote in the present tense you might say: "I'm living in Alabama for a year, working as a musician. But I don't like it so I move to New York.  Here the people speak really fast and sometimes I don't understand them."
But this style of writing is difficult at best, and requires careful consistency to "flow" pleasantly and not seem awkward.

A: If you are visiting France and telling a story, it would be better to say:

"I lived in Alabama for about a year and worked as a musician but last year I moved to New York; there the people speak really fast and sometimes I do not understand them."

A: In this case, probably not. But close!
If you were telling this story but instead you were using a form of present tense throughout (something like the simple present or present perfect), then it could work.  Example: "I live/I'm living in Alabama for a year, working as a musician. But I don't like it so I move to New York. Here the people speak really fast and sometimes I don't understand them."
I'd say it would be best to use "there" instead of "here" to avoid any confusion, or change the tense to be consistently in the present.


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AOC Awards Highest Honour to Governor-General
AOC: The AOC awarded its highest honour, the Order of Merit, to outgoing Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), at a ceremony in Sydney overnight.
The award, which recognises remarkable merit in Australians sporting achievement and contribution to sport, acknowledges the Governor-General's outstanding contribution to the development of sport, support of the Australian Olympic team and athletes throughout his career.
The event brought together Olympic champions across generations including Dawn Fraser AC, Ian Thorpe AM, Steve Hooker OAM, Kim Brennan AM, Jared Tallent OAM, Catherine Skinner OAM and Mack Horton OAM, to show their appreciation for the Governor-General's ongoing support and advocacy for the Olympic movement.
AOC President John Coates AC, in awarding the Order of Merit, noted the Governor-General had shown his support across the years, including addressing the Rio 2016 team at the Team farewell function and hosting the team at Admiralty House on their return home.
"We are very much indebted to Sir Peter, who has shown tremendous interest in our athletes and in the Olympic movement," Mr Coates said. "Sir Peter is the first governor-General to receive the Order of Merit and it highlights his long-time support for all Olympic athletes."
Three-time Olympian and Rio 2016 rowing champion Kim Brennan gave a vote of thanks on behalf of the Olympic athletes.
"We're here to say thank you to Lady Cosgrove and His Excellency for their wonderful service to sport," she said. "He's given so much to sport and the Olympic movement over very many years. He has been an exceptional support, including speaking with our team before we went to Rio.
"As a rower I feel we have a closer bond, as Lake Burley Griffin, our training ground is essentially his backyard pond - on some training sessions when we'd want to push ourselves even further past our normal training course we'd row up to the "G-G's" house."
In accepting the award, the Governor-General recognised the importance of sport to Australia and the impact Olympians can have.
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle," he said. "The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. What a recipe for life.
"Every child out at little athletics or at other junior sports, wants to be an Olympian. In a nation that loves its sport, we rely on you, Olympians, for that synergy and emotional bond you have with the sport to show that Australian people have what it takes.
"I am so honoured to have received this award tonight. [Lady Cosgrove and I] will retire and move onto other things. But rest assured, if you're competing in an Olympic venture, we will be there supporting you and cheering you on, thinking isn't this one of the best enterprises in all of Australia."
Highlighting the power of sport above and beyond the field of play, champion swimmer Ian Thorpe invited footballer Hakeem al-Araibi as his guest.
"It was great to be able to bring Hakeem with me tonight," Thorpe said. "As part of the sporting community that led helping get him back to this country and putting pressure on governments to do what is right, it was good to be able to give him the opportunity to share with some of Australia's sporting champions, and also share in an event that shows what sport means to Australians."
Olympic swimming champion John Devitt AM also presented the Governor-General with his book, Cecil Healy: an Autobiography. Acknowledging the Governor-General's extensive military experience, Devitt was honoured to present the book which tells the story of Australia's only Olympic gold medallist to die in combat.
"In 1912, Cecil won gold for our team," Devitt said. "In 1915 he joined your team, and made the ultimate sacrifice for Australia."
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The reviewer borrowed a copy of the book from her school library.
Jason Chin's book, Redwoods, was well received by readers and reviewers when it was published in 2009. Combining elements of fantasy with facts about redwood forests was an imaginative way to share a nonfiction story. Chin's new book is created in the same style, and it's sure to delight readers.
From first glance at the title page, you know it's going to be good. A girl reaches onto a shelf in a library and pulls out a book titled Coral Reefs. As the girl opens the nonfiction book and begins to read, coral mysteriously appears on the library tables. She is so engrossed in the book that she doesn't even notice the reef that is growing around her until water and marine creatures rush through the library window. Soon the girl is swimming with tropical fish. Each page transports readers deeper and deeper into the coral reef.
As in Redwoods, the text is written in an expository form instead of a narrative. The story takes on a whimsical feel because of the illustrations while the text sticks to the facts. Although the picture book format will appeal to younger readers, the text is more accessible to upper elementary readers.
"Many of the relationships are between predator and prey. Corals eat plankton, tiny organisms that float through the water. The polyps use their tentacles to catch the plankton so they can eat it."
Chin's watercolor illustrations are amazing. Readers will want to linger on each page to appreciate the details: the fish painted on the library's ceiling, the crab sitting at the girl's feet, the sharks pictured from a distance through the library windows. The depth and richness of illustrations will make readers feel as if they are swimming in a coral reef.
In an author's note in the back, Chin explains that he traveled to Belize to do research for the book. As the book concludes, even the end papers feature illustrations of coral reef creatures. Coral Reefs is a beautiful book that will take readers on a real adventure.