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Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization
Peter B. Illei, Helen D. Feiner, William F. Symmans, Julie S. Mitnick, Daniel F. Roses, Mary Ann Perle
Nonrandom numerical chromosomal abnormalities (NCA) are frequent in invasive breast cancer, but little is known about such changes in microscopic precursor lesions. Mammographically detected 'suspicious' breast lesions were localized by specimen radiology of sliced breast tissue. The slices containing the lesion were imprinted onto coated slides by gentle scraping. The corresponding hematoxylin and eosin stained histologic sections and Diff- Quik stained imprints were used for classification as ductal hyperplasia (DH), atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Additional slide imprints were evaluated for copy number of chromosomes 7, 18, and X by using fluorescent in situ hybridization with alpha satellite probes. NCA were detected in 1 of 9 (11%) cases of DH, in 2 of 8 (25%) cases of ADH, and in 14 of 16 (87%) cases of DCIS. There was selective loss (chromosome 18) in one case of DCIS; all other cases with NCA had a gain of at least one chromosome. There is a progressive increase in incidence of NCA in DH, ADH and DCIS. The majority of NCA are chromosomal gains.
Breast Journal
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-4741.1998.440252.x
Aneusomy
Atypical ductal hyperplasia
Ductal hyperplasia
Fluorescent in situ hybridization
Interphase cytogenetics
10.1046/j.1524-4741.1998.440252.x
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Illei, P. B., Feiner, H. D., Symmans, W. F., Mitnick, J. S., Roses, D. F., & Perle, M. A. (1998). Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Breast Journal, 4(4), 252-257. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-4741.1998.440252.x
Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization. / Illei, Peter B.; Feiner, Helen D.; Symmans, William F. et al.
In: Breast Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1998, p. 252-257.
Illei, PB, Feiner, HD, Symmans, WF, Mitnick, JS, Roses, DF & Perle, MA 1998, 'Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization', Breast Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 252-257. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-4741.1998.440252.x
Illei PB, Feiner HD, Symmans WF, Mitnick JS, Roses DF, Perle MA. Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Breast Journal. 1998;4(4):252-257. doi: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.1998.440252.x
Illei, Peter B. ; Feiner, Helen D. ; Symmans, William F. et al. / Numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 7, 18, and X in precancerous breast disease defined by fluorescent in situ hybridization. In: Breast Journal. 1998 ; Vol. 4, No. 4. pp. 252-257.
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This is an area of unique habitat immediately to the south of Kilcoole's railway station. This site is studied and maintained by Birdwatch Ireland, and acknowledged as one of the best places in Ireland for viewing wild birds. It supports a tremendous variety, and is a wintering ground for flocks of endangered Greenland white-fronted geese, besides many more species.
Rare exotics such as the Gyr Falcon, Marsh Harrier, Squacco Heron and Cattle Egret have been recorded in recent years.
The delta is a perfect place to see the Wicklow Mountains from afar and take landscape photographs. It is also a very beautiful area in its own right, and a habitat for Otters. It is extremely popular with birdwatchers, who park their cars at either Kilcoole station carpark or Newcastle station, and walk to the Breaches. Kilcoole Station is closer and provides better parking. It also features more regular and consistant terrain for walking or cycling on.


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Jay Nicholas Anania (1959) is een Amerikaans diplomaat. Hij was van 2012 tot 2015 ambassadeur in Suriname.

Biografie
Jay Anania studeerde af met een bachelorgraad van het Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, en een master van de universiteit van North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Hij maakte vanaf 1984 een loopbaan bij het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken en diende op meer dan dertig ambassades en consulaten rondom de wereld. Hij kwam verschillende malen terug om functies uit te oefenen in Washington D.C. Tot 2012 werkte hij op de ambassade in Bagdad in Irak, van waaruit hij ook taken uitvoerde voor consulaten in Basra, Erbil en Kirkuk.

Hij was van 15 november 2012 (benoeming op 5 juli) tot 2 oktober 2015 ambassadeur in Suriname. Tijdens de herdenking van de staatsgreep van 25 februari 1980 op het Plein van de Revolutie haalde president Desi Bouterse uit naar Anania, zonder zijn naam te noemen. Volgens Bouterse zou de ambassadeur zich hebben gemengd in binnenlandse zaken, door te stellen dat de verkiezingen uitgesteld zouden moeten worden omdat de andere presidentskandidaat niet klaar is, waarmee Chan Santokhi zou zijn bedoeld. Bouterse dreigde Anania het land uit te zetten als hij niet met een bevredigend antwoord zou komen. Minister Winston Lackin besloot daarop om Anania niet op het matje te roepen maar uit te nodigen. Nog voordat dat gesprek plaatsvond werd de zaak bijgelegd. Het "gewroet van scalians" in het stuwmeer in het zicht van iedereen terwijl politici niets doen, noemde Anania really ongelooflijk. Aan het eind van zijn termijn in september 2015 drukte hij Bouterse voor zijn vertrek de hand.

In 2017 werd Anania coo (operationeel directeur) voor buitenlandse betrekkingen bij Buchanan & Edwards.

Amerikaans ambassadeur in Suriname

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Or rather, these — the amplifier is new as well.
During the spring, I was remixing a few Eponymous 4 songs, laying down guitar tracks on my beginner's Fender Stratocaster, and I came to the conclusion that I really don't like playing that guitar. My usual go-to guitar is my acoustic, and the Strat I have sounds really bad if I don't attenuate the pressure of my fingers. Also, the fretboared is a bit narrow for my pianist fingers.
So I went down to Guitar Center and chatted up one of the salespeople, who steered me in the direction of Gibson. I tried a few and decided, yes, I would like to get a Gibson guitar. But not right then and there. I was still paying off the acoustic-electric I bought the previous year.
I told the salesperson it would have to be a Christmas gift to myself.
Welcome to Musicwhore.org, a vanity music blog where I tell an un-listening world what has been occupying the most time on my player. It tends to be heavy on Japanese indie rock and modern classical music, but I do make room for classic college rock (think Fugazi, the Smiths), and an occasional pop artist from time to time.
In the past, I thought it was my job to proselytize, to convince you that hey, what I'm writing about is cool and you'd like it. I don't think that any more.
I like what I like, and you like what you like. And if you get bored with what you like, you might find something in what I like to make it something you might like.
What isn't my job is finding what will be hot and make you cooler than everybody else. I leave that to other blogs to care about that kind of thing.
Instead, I write about music that at times may be hard to understand — especially if you don't speak Japanese — and more often harder to acquire. And if you're the adventurous type, you just might discover a whole ecosystem of listening that you may not have realized existed.
And if that happens, then perhaps I've done my job.
I've been pretty mum about the situation in Japan, mostly because there isn't anything much I can add to what's already been said. I've also tried to avoid reading and watching coverage of the quake because it would just break my heart.
So I instead donated $50 to the Red Cross, although Steve over at Engrish.com suggests making donations directly to the Red Cross in Japan through a special landing page by Google.
As for the tsunami that hit Hawaiʻi as a result of the quake, I can report none of my family were affected by it. My mom's house is located inland, and I doubted she would be up at 4 a.m. walking by the beach. Still, I was up at 7 a.m. in Austin, watching the news coverage on the web as the waves struck Honolulu.


With chronic pain and fibromyalgia, we often overlook out emotional wellbeing in favor of our physical wellbeing. That is to say, we do a great deal to try and handle our physical pain and other symptoms which do take a great deal of attention. We believe emotional distress of any sort is a natural result of the difficulties associated with living with chronic pain, which is entirely true. It is no walk in the park and emotionally it can be quite the roller-coaster ride. It only makes sense then that we ought to take the time to maintain or consider our emotional wellbeing. How we are handling our coping process and how we are handling obstacles and life overall. Do we need to take any special care to help with our emotional needs? There is always the risk we might fall into a depression or develop an anxiety disorder from the burden of coping with pain so if we can prevent that from happening all the better.
Some people think it is absurd to think so-called 'positive thinking' is any solution to chronic pain, but it should not be tossed away off hand. It is a matter, literally, how you look at things. Or specifically how you react to things, stimulus, your environment. How you react without thinking at times. If in those habitual responses you react negatively or have negative thought patterns then positive thinking may very well help change your worldview a bit. Changing your worldview a bit may ease the stress of coping with pain. Anything that makes coping a little easier to handle is a good thing. Often cognitive therapy is used to help with depression but it may be just the sort of thing people need to help with long-term chronic pain. We have a great deal of emotional strain, at times depression, anger, frustration, pure drained numbness and any number of emotions from dealing with such pain constantly. Therefore, the same methods might uncover similar thought patterns.
Ignoring the positive: We tend to notice the negatives in our lives and remember them. We then fail to notice the overall positives to an experience, even if it outnumbers the negatives by far. This leads to such things as assuming the worst is bound to happen since your negative history suggests that. For example, someone may know from experience treatments have failed and make the assumption all treatments will fail in the future.
Minimizing the positive: When we manage to achieve something, despite the obstacles of our health, we make little of the achievement because clearly if we were in perfect health it would have been easier or not such a great achievement.
Skills: We can make a long list of things we are not good at, or character flaws without acknowledging the fundamental power we have to alter them, and therefore we acknowledge our failures as par the course. Yet cannot name anything we are actually good at. We make compromises for our health and sometimes people see them as failures or they see the things they can no longer to as well, or as effectively as failures. We fail to acknowledge anything that we can actually do well, despite our disability.
Overgeneralizing: Just because a situation went down badly once, does not mean it will always go down the same way. While this seems self-explanatory think of all the times you say 'this is always the case'. Sometimes we believe after trying many treatments that we never will find a treatment. Or if we are in a bad work situation we feel it must always be this way that we must suffer this way forever.
Self-talk: This is crippling to a depressed person because negative self-talk sets you up for failure so that when said failure occurs, you expect it… in an attempt to save yourself from disappointment. When confronted with a problem instead of saying 'This is going to be a challenge. I better get right on it.', someone might say 'There is no way I can do this.' For someone with chronic pain it might be, 'I cannot do this, it will hurt too much'. Or with fibromyalgia, it could be 'I want to do this but I'm too tired.' or 'I wish I could do this but I wouldn't be able to think straight'. Immediately it shuts down the possibility without even thinking of ways around the problem.
Self-evaluation: The depressed mind it an overly critical one. We don't give ourselves any slack. We make any sort of error and automatically we think 'I'm worthless', 'I shouldn't have tried', 'I'm useless', and 'it's hopeless'. As such we blame ourselves for everything wrong and credit others when things go well. We have to avoid black and white thinking. With a chronic health condition we tend to blame ourselves for our illness. No matter what happened or any other factors or people involved, we blame ourselves because we are not 100% healthy and therefore not as effective as we could have been.
Automatic thoughts: We have more than enough time to have programmed ourselves to think and react a certain way. So when something happens in a situation we have a knee-jerk response that is often negative. Anything that involves statements with should, must, always, never. Often we have rigid standards we hold ourselves to, impossible to hold to… like: 'I have to succeed or I am worthless'.
All or nothing thinking: Thinking in black or while. 'I used to have a social life but now I am a complete hermit and never go out.' 'I used to want to have a career but now I know it is impossible to achieve.' It is never all or nothing. There are always shades of grey and many options in the middle. We know we are capable of social events with preparation, proper environment, and recovery time and with the understanding, we are willing to take an increase in pain in the short term for some events. With compromise and acclamation, we can achieve some work goals as well.
All this negative background noise accumulates and can compromise any coping strategy. It can be beneficial to work on what irrational underlying assumptions are made when these thoughts, statements or automatic thoughts occur to us so we can reflect on them, break them down and realize they do not make any logical sense. Then comes in the positive thinking aspect or replacing those thoughts with rational responses. A sort of way to reprogram the brain and is an effective way to have these thoughts occur less and less when the same stimulus is presented. Call it positive thinking or mindful introspection, either way, it is like the brain is a broken record singing the same tune it has been told by experience to sing until you override it with something more realistic and functional.
It is not a process that occurs right away. There are some of these negative thought patterns you will catch right away and as time goes on you will notice more and more of them once you begin to pay attention to them. You will find they occur more often than you think. The first step is to merely record what negative thought occurred to you and what situation caused it and then to think about what assumptions that thought was based on. One example is: 'I can't seem to work full time with my illness, but if I can't work then I'm not even a functional part of society anymore and am useless. I'm a liability, not an asset.' At times with a chronic illness, we struggle with our jobs and keeping our jobs. A job holds a great deal of our self-worth since it holds part of our identity, our income, and our independence. When it is threatened we can feel worthless, ashamed, a failure or useless or fill in the blank here. Using the above example what assumption makes this true? That self-worth is dependent on what the person can do while suffering pain and when they can no longer do that they have no worth at all anymore? This is an irrational belief because our self-worth, or our worth as a person overall, is not merely dependent on what we do for a living.
Once you can pinpoint these sorts of beliefs and thoughts and the irrational beliefs and assumptions that hold them together you are halfway there. Then it is simply deconstructing what and why you have that belief. Record your understanding of why you hold that belief and why it is irrational. Why you know it makes no sense. Writing these things down and working them out on paper is a very good way to work through the process.
Here is where the positive self-talk comes in. Once you have picked out your list of negative talk, then every time during the day you have one of those knee-jerk thoughts, you simply pause and think the opposite. You know the negative thought is irrational, so you counter the thought with a positive truth and think it clearly and distinctly. Every time you actively counter these automatic thoughts the more your brain absorbs the new patterns the more it becomes your new habitual thought pattern. Using our example if the thought was 'If I can't work then I am worthless' the replacement could be 'No, my self-worth is not dependant on my work alone and my worth to others has little to do with it. I am worthy.' Self-talk is not a new trick or something new you are going. Stream consciousness is a flow that includes a lot of self-talk. It is just a matter of paying attention and choosing how that conversation is going. Feeding it something new to replace the negative influence.
If I fail partly, it is as bad as if I fail completely.
I should be happy all the time.
I ought to be able to solve my problems quickly and without a lot of effort.
I'm making progress in my health.
Today I can do what I need to do for my recovery.
Every day is a new day and what pain there was yesterday may not persist today. I can treat myself with the same sort of love and attention I would a loved one.
I am beginning to understand what I need to do to take care of my body.
I focus on positive actions I can take to begin a health plan with my doctors.
I will begin a slow stretching and exercise regimen.
I can accept each day as a new day.
I will see positive support for my FM and avoid negative people.
I believe every day has the potential to be better than the last.
I will use slow and easy breathing techniques to keep oxygen throughout my body and reduce stress.
I will try to keep my muscles relaxed throughout to the day or pause to ease the tension in them with gentle stretching exercises.
I will take the time during the day to pause and relax my muscles and refresh myself.
The reason this sort of introspection process works is because the brain is a sponge. Feed it those positive reaffirmations over and over and it will become the new habitual automatic thoughts. Coping with chronic pain and fibromyalgia is already a long difficult road. You might want to consider that road to have a lot of cracks in the pavement that our psyche has already put there from our own experiences in life and from the years of pain we have already coped with. This sort of emotional work can help pave over some of those cracks. In fact, if you find yourself to be depressed and overwhelmed a therapist will use similar methods to help talk you through some of the more problematic areas on the road to help you cope better. Any of those cracks you can pave over will help smooth the coping process which let's face it is a bumpy road as it is. This article is hardly sufficient to cover everything there is to the process but enough for you to begin the process. There are self-help books out there based on the cognitive therapy model used for chronic pain or depression that are excellent to help guide you along in your process. A psychologist as well if you wish to have one can also guide you through the process. What is important is that we take care of our emotional health in order to help with our coping.


When organizers for the global technology event consulted with Facebook's Solutions Engineering on the best way to implement automated ads, they came away with the knowledge, tools and support to transform their advertising.
Since its inaugural gathering in Dublin in 2010, the annual Web Summit has become one of the world's most popular tech events, bringing together some of the most high-profile names in the technology, startup, business, media and culture worlds. Web Summit attracts over 42,000 attendees from 134 countries across 21 specialist summits. Its formula has been successfully applied to other events across the U.S. and Asia, including Collision and RISE.
Web Summit tickets are sold entirely online through a staged model, with prices increasing as the event draws nearer, so the company must constantly evolve how its tickets are advertised online. It often runs multiple trials simultaneously to create new approaches to targeting and bidding, and scales up its activity in the best-performing areas to get optimal results in the most cost-effective way.
Ticket sales are always open for one or more Web Summit events, and Facebook marketing is an ongoing activity. The digital team was manually managing ad campaigns across events, but to effectively run, test and scale concurrent campaigns for multiple audiences and events, it needed to automate this process.
Facebook's Solutions Engineering proposed that Web Summit use Facebook's Marketing API to build an ad automation solution that would allow it to seamlessly evolve its ad activity without missing a beat. Because the Marketing API provides programmatic access to the ads platform, this integration gave Web Summit the ability to automatically generate hundreds of versions of each ad from predefined parameters such as country, age, location, interest and ad creative.
The API also makes ad statistics readily available, allowing the team to monitor performance in real time and optimize campaigns at any point. Solutions Engineering helped Web Summit get maximum benefit from this tool and showed how to run split testing on ad creative. It also helped merge Facebook's stats data with Web Summit's data to help the team accurately adjust campaigns based on performance metrics.
The Web Summit's Marketing API implementation was up and running after just a few weeks of work with Facebook's Solutions Engineering team, allowing the company to start reaping the benefits of a fully automated advertising solution.
Web Summit is now able to scale, optimise and easily control event advertising, allowing it to achieve its attendance goals. The integration process has helped its teams build on their existing API knowledge and integration experience, enhancing their expertise and honing their marketing approach. Web Summit is now able to run parallel campaigns for multiple events and can run more ads, more efficiently, than ever before.


The Brazilian has always been linked with Liverpool and Real Madrid, but Chelsea are close to agreeing a $81.4 million fee.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had earlier reported that former Spain coach Julen Lopetegui became new manager at Real Madrid.
The Blues are closer to Roma in their evaluation of Alisson.
The 25-year-old has also established himself at worldwide level as he's been selected as Brazil's first choice goalkeeper ahead of Manchester City's Ederson and has helped the Samba Boys book their place in the last-16 after topping their group.
Earlier this week, the Serie A club's Roma sporting director Monchi suggested that the Brazilian could be sold this summer.
'The flawless answer would be to say that he's unsellable, but I can't say that because such a player doesn't exist'.
Telemadrid's report discusses a €50m bid for Asensio in 2017, which was obviously rejected by Real Madrid. They know that the player prefers a move to the Bernabeu.
Between then and the UEFA Champions League final in May, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and AC Milan are said to have approached Ronaldo's agent Jorge Mendes to inform him they could meet that smaller clause, as well as offer the forward a net salary of €40 million.
However, it's fair to say they've already got their money's worth on him since signing him from Manchester United for £80 million in 2009.
Good news for Chelsea but not too bad for Real Madrid either.
Chelsea have been exploring potential replacements for Courtois and Alisson has emerged as one of their first choices. The Belgian has always been linked with a move to Madrid and one way or other Florentino Perez will be getting a new goalkeeper to replace Keylor Navas.


Current coverage — Those who now have employer-provided coverage or are insured through Medicare, Medicaid or the Veterans Administration wouldn't be required to change their plans or their physicians.
Cost — About $900 billion over 10 years.
How it'd be paid for: By finding "savings within the existing health care system," mostly by trimming waste and rooting out fraud. Also, insurers would be charged a fee for their most expensive policies.


sewing – Page 2 – It's a T-Sweets day!
Do you have a SWEET little someone who likes to color? Sometimes waiting for mom or dad is just a bit much for smaller children. Too often we take out our cell phones or tablets and let the computer entertain our children in the doctor's office or at the store. But there is an alternative. How about having a few crayons and a pad of paper handy in a neat little caddy all ready to entertain and inspire?
The ladies at my church are joining together to make bags filled with goodies for children in the foster care system. One of the ladies had a cute little crayon caddy that she asked me to make a pattern for so the ladies could make a bunch up to put in the bags. Of course I said yes!
It really isn't hard and can be made with materials you probably already have around your house. Do you want to try? Ready, Set, …here we go!
Fold 5.75" x 3" piece in half widthwise with the right sides together making a 3" x 2.5" square.
Sew along the sides leaving the bottom edge open for turning. Be sure to back stitch!
Sew the hook side of the hook and loop tape 1/2" from the finished edge.
On one of the pockets, measure 1.25" down from the top and draw a line using your chalk or Frixion pen or even a VERY light pencil.
Continue marking 1 1/8" from each of these lines for a total of (5) lines. This will make holders for six crayons.
Fold the fabric in half lengthwise to mark the center.
Fold lining in half length wise to mark the center.
Center the flap piece over the marked fold with the hook tape toward the lining over the crayon holder side.
With right sides together, pin the main outer fabric to the lining making sure the side with the loop tape is not over the flap.
Sew 1/4" all around starting at the bottom mark and stopping at the top mark. Be sure to back stitch at the beginning and end.
Check to make sure you have sewn all of the layers of fabric on the back. Don't worry if you haven't – just sew around again taking a slightly bigger seam allowance.
Turn the caddy inside out from the opening on the side. It will be stiff. Just go slowly.
Flip the large pocket to the lining side.
Press, folding the open edges in to match the seams.
Edge stitch 1/8" around the entire caddy.
FINISHED! Now that wasn't too hard!
Thank you for stopping by today:). I hope you have fun making this crayon caddy. I can't wait to hear how it goes!


Cemeteries in Central Otago are either administered by Council or by a Trust. There are a total of 22 cemeteries including one burial ground in the district. For all cemetery enquiries, including enquiries about cemetery records, please contact one of the staff below.
Council maintains eight cemeteries across the district that are still operating.
Eleven cemeteries within the Central Otago District are managed by Trusts.
Council maintains three closed cemeteries - Hamiltons, Litany Street and Manuherikia cemeteries.


The lack of a small screen Apple notebook has been the only thing stopping me from purchasing one.
I have a 11.1" Sony vaio TT. Conciously bought instead of a Netbook. It was daftly priced too. Didnt stop me.
I've been waiting years for Apple to come out with a smaller laptop and ended up getting the 13" Macbook just before the Air was released. I've thought about moving to the Air, but the MBP 13" is so much better and not really that much heavier or bigger, so why Air? If they come out with a smaller Air, well then, all bets are off and this definitely has my attention! Will be very interesting to see if this one is true!
For me the biggest advantage to the Air form factor is the lack of an optical drive - they just aren't needed 100% of the time so why do we have to lug this thing around all the time, give us an option of a model without one integrated but have an option to plug an external in the one or two times a year (if that many!) I need one.
11.6" is basically the 12" ultraportable form factor that's been around a lot longer than netbooks. An Air using a low voltage Core i5 or similar is very much an ultraportable... shame it'll probably be twice the price of something like an Acer 1830T.
Just because some have stuck an Atom in an 11.6" chassis doesn't make it a netbook, really a crap ultraportable, back in the day would have used to use single core Celerons.
I can absolutely see the point of going smaller.
Three 13.3 incher is one too many. However i wouldn't go all the way down to 11.6 inch.
Probably 12 would be the best fit.
It would bring back the original powerbook 12 size and could justify the "new air" moniker.
I wish they shrink the price a bit two...and add one USB plug.
A gem of a machine and it was sad to see it go. Best machine Apple have ever made for travelling, it was small enough to throw into a bag, and unlike most computers, tough enough to survive the tender care of airlines and the TSA.
I loved my 12in PB for those very reasons. But, I have to say, my Air makes a worthwhile successor. It's a darn sight lighter too.
What figures do you have from where for the flop you describe?
I am not a fan of Apple's increasing arrogance but I have to admit that the MBAir is a great device for the 95% of my requirements. It has been ultra-reliable, and still gives 4+ hours on a charge 3 years later. It hits a sweet spot of just enough screen to work at for long periods and a full size keyboard - necessary for full time working.
Only let down is the lack of wired ethernet.
I have tried the new 13.3" MBP in it's place but despite the same screen, the extra heft is really noticeable.
It fails in YOUR eyes.
Why make a small CHEAP netbook when you can make and successfully sale a thin, large, light notebook at a higher value? They're not flying off the shelves like some of their other products (it wasn't meant to be) but modestly none-the-less. If you can't afford it, move on 'cause there's someone right behind you who can. You forgot they made that sub-notebook PowerBook G4 back in 2003? -and that had aluminium keys! -how cool was that? What makes you think Apple got their 'strategy completely and utterly wrong' if they'er on the 2nd generation?
Sound alot like a netbook to me. Sorry, Apple won't be doing netbooks so it must be something else.
I wonder if you'll need palstic surgery on your hands in order to use it?
Will the wifi/3G/bluetooth antenna's be part of the case?
I have a rev A. Macbook Air that I bought the day they came out, and take it with me everywhere I go. I'm an I.T. Admin and visit multiple clients every day. The Air is a perfect machine. Light enough for carrying around, but big enough to RDP into a server and work comfortably. A netbook is just too small for that task.
I would not recommend it as a primary computer, but for those of us who travel it's fantastic. Just because it doesn't suit your needs doesn't mean it's a failure.


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Have you had enough time to evaluate the set-up?
Sign me up. That was a pretty ingenious lay-out man!
Your secret is safe with me Superman!!
Sounds good Robert. We'll get together and see when and how we can make this happen.
setup? what setup, i dont know nothin abut no setup, no way man, no way friggin way!
It's fair to say the secret is safe with all of us!


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Tackling Inequality from the Middle
Tackling Inequality from the Middle. Dani Rodrik, December 10, 2019, Opinion, "The rise of populist movements and street protests from Chile to France has made inequality a high priority for politicians of all stripes in the world's rich democracies. But a fundamental question has received relatively little attention: What type of inequality should policymakers tackle?" Link
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Government as a Platform: How Policy Makers Should Think about the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure
Government as a Platform: How Policy Makers Should Think about the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure. David Eaves, 2019, Paper, "Even new headline-grabbing groups such as the United States Digital Service have mainly focused on improving user experiences or putting out fires-and have not
changed the underlying structure of government. Because automation and … " Link
Tags: automation, David Eaves, digital platforms, Innovation, Public Policy
Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections. Rohini Pande, Michael Walton, November 11, 2019, Paper, "In 2010, two years prior to Delhi's municipal elections, we informed a random set of municipal councilors that a newspaper would report on their performance just before the next election. To evaluate this intervention we collected data on the infrastructure spending preferences of slum dwellers and created an index of pro-poor spending for each councilor. In wards dense with slums, the anticipation of future disclosures caused councilors to increase their pro-poor spending by 0.6 standard deviations over the next two years. A cross-cutting intervention that privately provided councilors with information about the state of infrastructure in the slums had no effect, suggesting that only public disclosures incentivize councilors. Party and voter responses support this interpretation: treated councilors were 12 percentage points more likely to receive a party ticket for re-election. The effect was concentrated among councilors who undertook more pro-poor spending in high-slum wards, and translates into a substantially higher vote share." Link
Tags: India, Innovation, Michael Walton, Public Policy, Rohini Pande
The Economic Value of the National Parks
The Economic Value of the National Parks. Linda Bilmes, October 18, 2019, Audio, "The National Parks have been famously called "America's Best Idea," but they may also be "America's Best Investment", thanks to the valuable services they provide such as recreation, carbon storage, and educational programs. In the new book "Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs," John Loomis and Linda Bilmes attempt to sum up the vast value of the National Parks. Linda Bilmes teaches Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and joins Host Steve Curwood in the Living on Earth studios." Link
Tags: Economic Growth, Linda Bilmes, national parks, Public Policy
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle. Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien, Miguel Santos, October 2019, Paper, "Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not exploited available datasets to test across causal explanations. We develop a comprehensive framework to analyze the drivers of low female employment rates in Jordan and systematically test their validity, using micro-level data from Employment and Unemployment Surveys (2008-2018) and the Jordanian Labor Market Panel Survey (2010-2016). We find that the nature of low female inclusion in Jordan's labor market varies significantly with educational attainment, and identify evidence for different factors affecting different educational groups. Among women with high school education or less, we observe extremely low participation levels and find the strongest evidence for this phenomenon tracing to traditional social norms and poor public transportation. On the higher end of the education spectrum – university graduates and above – we find that the problem is not one of participation, but rather of unemployment, which we attribute to a small and undiversified private sector that is unable to accommodate women's needs for work and work-family balance." Link
Tags: Economic Growth, Gender, Inequality, Jordan, Miguel Santos, Public Policy, Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien
Public economics and public policy: The ideas and influence of Martin Feldstein, 1939-2019. Lawrence Summers, September 25, 2019, Paper, "Martin Feldstein, who passed away in June 2019, was one of the most important applied economists of the last half-century. This column, by two of his students and close colleagues, celebrates his intellectual legacy, outlining his seminal contributions on a wide range of topics in public economics and beyond, his pioneering use of large data sets, and his influential voice in US public policy over many decades. As president of the National Bureau of Economic Research for nearly 30 years, Feldstein advanced the conduct and dissemination of economic research, and helped to create the modern economics profession." Link
Tags: economic grrowth, Lawrence Summers, Martin Feldstein, Monetary Policy, Public Policy
Don't Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy
Don't Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy. Ricardo Hausmann, September 1, 2019, Opinion, "Engineering and medicine have in many respects become separate from their respective underlying sciences of physics and biology. Public-policy schools, which typically have a strong economics focus, must now rethink the way they teach students – and medical schools could offer a model to follow." Link
Tags: Economics, Inequality, Public Policy, Ricardo Hausmann, social problems
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies. Nathaniel Hendren, August 2018, Paper, "We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to calculate both the benefit that each policy provides its recipients (measured as their willingness to pay) and the policy's net cost, inclusive of long-term impacts on the government's budget. We divide the willingness to pay by the net cost to the government to form each policy's Marginal Value of Public Funds, or its "MVPF". Comparing MVPFs across policies provides a unified method of assessing their impact on social welfare. Our results suggest that direct investments in low-income children's health and education have historically had the highest MVPFs, on average exceeding 5. Many such policies have paid for themselves as governments recouped the cost of their initial expenditures through additional taxes collected and reduced transfers." Link
Tags: Fiscal Policy, Inequality, job training, Jobs and Unemployment, Nathaniel Hendren, Public Policy, Regulation, Welfare
No Data in the Void: Values and Distributional Conflicts in Empirical Policy Research and Artificial Intelligence
No Data in the Void: Values and Distributional Conflicts in Empirical Policy Research and Artificial Intelligence. Maximilian Kasy, August 2019, Paper, "Decision making based on data – whether by policymakers drawing on empirical research, or by algorithms using machine learning – is becoming ever more widespread. Any time such decisions are made, we need to carefully think about the goals we want to achieve, and the policies we might possibly use to achieve them. Data cannot absolve us of this responsibility. They do not allow us to avoid value judgements, and do not relieve us from taking sides in distributional conflicts. This essay introduces a general framework to clarify this point, and then discusses a series of settings in which the choice of objectives (goals) has far-reaching and maybe unexpected implications." Link
Tags: AI, Innovation, Maximilian Kasy, Public Policy, Technology
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods. Raj Chetty, 10/1/18, Audio, "Does the neighborhood you grow up in determine how far you move up the economic ladder? A new online data tool being made public Monday finds a strong correlation between where people are raised and their chances of achieving the American dream." Link
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Methamphetamines are an extremely addictive, synthetic, stimulant drug, which can have devastating effects on the user. Because of the highly addictive properties, using meth even one time can lead to a serious addiction.
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Meth is usually found in the form of a white, odorless, bitter-tasting, crystalline powder. Meth is chemically similar to amphetamines, however, unlike prescription amphetamines like Adderall or Ritalin, methamphetamines have no medical use. Street names for this drug include crystal, chalk, beanies, brown, crank, batu, blade, cristy, ice, hot ice, quartz, shabu, stove top, tina, and ventana.
Meth is derived primarily from a legal drug called pseudoephedrine. This drug is most commonly found in decongestants and cold medicines. Other chemicals are added to these over-the-counter medicines to extract the amphetamines. Some of these chemicals include lighter fluid, battery acid, lye, ammonia, drain cleaner, paint thinner, rubbing alcohol, red phosphorous, iodine, brake and engine cleaner, and ether. This cocktail of substances, which may be unknown to the user, compounds the danger of meth use, and makes meth addiction treatment all the more important.
Meth is typically used by smoking, snorting, injecting, or oral ingestion. Smoking or injecting meth results an intense and immediate rush that is experienced as pleasurable. Snorting and oral ingestion produces a similar euphoria, but the high is not as intense. Snorting produces effects within 3 to 5 minutes and oral ingestions produces effects within 15 – 20 minutes.
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A graphic designer believes in starting small
Meet Sam Potts: luminary graphic designer and lover of Post-it® Notes.
Sam Potts has helped design platforms for the New York Times Crossword app, created blogs and websites for celebrated writers and has a rather enviable twitter following. But at the end of the day, he does a lot of his thinking on paper. More specifically, 3 in x 3 in Canary Yellow Post-it® Notes.
Before striking out on his own, he worked for a top design firm where he became well-known for his Post-it® Note prowess. "I used to doodle on Post-it® Notes during conference calls — random words, dumb things. When I left, as a going-away present they gave me a framed collection of Post-it® Notes that I'd doodled on. People wrote messages on them. It was really nice."
Sam marvels at the migratory nature of Post-it® Notes, believing that if the ideas written on them are any good, they won't stay in one place for very long.
"The whole point of Post-it® Notes, at least in the design world, is to keep them moving. To group them and un-group them, to see where they lead."
A self-declared office supply obsessive, Sam has his favorite colours, for sure. "I love the white Post-it® Notes, though they're very hard to find. I also like, I think it's pumpkin, sort of a dark orange, as well as the dark purple ones. But my favorite is the dark pale; it has 5 to 10% gray in it — especially when it's paired with a black Sharpie."
In addition to his current duties at the New York Times, Sam is also designing a dictionary of fictional literary biographies. "At least that's the basic concept," he says.
But much like his Post-it® Notes, Sam is never in one place for long — always learning, always absorbing. He's currently learning how to build bicycle frames. "I'm not sure what I'll do with it. For now it's just an idea. You never know what it will lead to."
You can see more of Sam's work, including his AIGA poster (which, not surprisingly, features a Post-it® Note), his "Tweets on Paper" and a diagram he created of all 200+ characters in the novel Infinite Jest at his website: sampottsinc.com
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Protect Abortion Survivors
The Greatest Special Interest
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We live in a time in politics when a primary punching bag for both major parties, the media and voters everywhere is special interests. It's a vague enough term that I think a definition is in order. Merriam-Webster defines a Special Interest as "a group that tries to influence the people who run a government in order to help a particular business, cause, industry, etc."
Although there are many specials interests with power that should be eliminated, there is one that needs much more support: the right to life for the unborn.
Another term that could describe a special interest is association. The freedom to associate is a right protected by our First Amendment and one that can be traced back to the beginnings of our country. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French historian who travelled throughout the United States in 1831, wrote his now famous Democracy in America, which looks at our form of republican representative democracy and why it is has succeeded. One emphasis of Tocqueville's was on the centrality and necessity of associations in American life:
Aristocratic societies always include within them, in the midst of a multitude of individuals who can do nothing by themselves, a few very powerful and very wealthy citizens; each of these can execute great undertakings by himself. In aristocratic societies men have no need to unite to act because they are kept very much together….
In democratic peoples, on the contrary, all citizens are independent and weak; they can do almost nothing by themselves, and none of them can oblige those like themselves to lend them their cooperation. They therefore all fall into impotence if they do not learn to aid each other freely. [emphasis added]
Americans before, during and since the time of Tocqueville have thrived off of associations. From PTAs to committees to raise funds to build churches, from missionary associations to abolitionist and civil rights societies, from unions to anti-union associations, Americans everywhere have been represented by innumerable associations. Are you a member of the NRA? AARP? PETA? NFIB? All these are special interests.
What Tocqueville said about citizens being independently weak is even truer for the unborn, who are not considered citizens and are not allowed their constitutional rights in our society. That's why it is essential for those of us who would return the right to life to the unborn to associate together in their defense. That's what Oregon Right to Life is—an association of Oregonians (and some Washingtonians too!) who believe everyone deserves an advocate, especially those who can't fight for their own rights. We're a special interest, and we will continue to be interested in the rights of the unborn.
There are many special interest groups and causes out there that are nothing short of evil. Oregonians have several obvious examples from our recent history, such as the fiancé of Oregon's former Governor when she represented special interests who benefited directly from her role at the top of State Government. There's another term for that: corruption.
But just because special interests (like anything else, really) can be used for evil ends, that doesn't mean we should throw them all out. Americans should look to our roots and remember who we are. We are a people with a long history of uniting in non-governmental associations for the greater good. The unborn deserve our united efforts to make sure their interests are once again heard in this country.
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In compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act, each year, all District students will receive Internet safety training which will educate students about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking sites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.


The DesignaKnit Lace Tool is an optional add-on for DesignaKnit 7 or 8. Standard or Professional.
The DesignaKnit Lace Tool is an optional add-on for DesignaKnit 7 or 8 Standard or Professional.
NOTE: You must own DesignaKnit to use this.
This tool takes the agony out of designing lace patterns.
Make lace patterns for Brother/Knitking, Silver Reed/Singer/Studio, Bond, Toyota machines, and most any knitting machine for hand tooling or handknit lace.
The lace pictures the finished fabric or stitch chart as you go. Then it will check for errors. Finally it prepares the pattern for download or for printing a punchcard template, by separating the knitting rows from the lace transfer rows.
DesignaKnit Interactive Knitting will then give row by row instructions as to which carriage to use and at what setting.
No shipping cost for this, as the software is on your Designaknit CD, or we can make an arrangement. The program is unlocked, after payment, by email. If I didn't sell you the original program, I need your license, too.


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Ben Roethlisberger: 'Ability To Change' Offensive Identity 'Is Huge', But Doesn't Foresee Significant Shift To Running Game
Posted on September 5, 2019 at 12:00 pm
If there is one thing that national media reporters love asking the Pittsburgh Steelers about, it's about 'drama' and what's going on with former players. But the local media has its fetish areas as well, and one of them is the obsession over the notion of a run-pass balance.
Reporters have tried to approach the topic from a number of different directions seeking to get the responses they're looking for, but have almost universally been shot down, basically hoping for somebody to say that they're going to run the ball more. They probably will, just by sheer odds, but that's not the point.
I can't help but feel some of that thinking was beneath the surface when Ben Roethlisberger was asked yesterday about how they were able to surprise the New England Patriots last season with their aggressive running approach with Jaylen Samuels and if he felt a shift back to more run-oriented football was something he could foresee. His response from the locker room, via the team's website:
I think having the ability to change is huge. Maybe not for a whole season, but for a game or for a little run, when teams are expecting one thing and you can just completely flip the script and become dominant in another phase of the game, I think that speaks volumes of the coaching and playing and players buying into it. I don't know if the lay of the league flips and goes back to that at some point, I don't foresee it anytime soon. I know there's a lot of teams trying to go to a more running quarterback and RPO thing. I know Baltimore's been talking about it. But if your guy gets beat up, it's gonna be hard to stay on the field for too long,
Last season, the Steelers have the second-most lopsided run-pass ratio in the league, throwing nearly 700 passes combined. Roethlisberger himself threw 675, the most in the league, which helped him throw for 5129 yards and 34 touchdowns, both franchise record and the former also leading the NFL last season.
One of the reasons that we saw that imbalance, however, was simply for the fact that the team wasn't fully prepared to not have Le'Veon Bell. They expected him to show up, and when he didn't, they had to rely on a relatively untested backfield.
That backfield, however, has been tested now, and we should see a more prominent and more consistent performance form the likes of James Conner and Jaylen Samuels in 2019. Maybe against certain opponents they'll go into it planning to focus on the run, but they also have to be prepared to adapt based on in-game circumstances.
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Tesla cancels three June online hiring events for China
In this April 2022 photo, a Tesla store is seen in Changzhou, China. The country made more than half of the vehicles for the automaker globally and contributed a quarter of its revenue in 2021.
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Tesla has canceled three online recruitment events for China scheduled this month, the latest development after Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened job cuts at the electric car maker, saying it was "overstaffed" in some areas.
However, Musk had not commented specifically on staffing in China, which made more than half of the vehicles for the automaker globally and contributed a quarter of its revenue in 2021.
The company canceled the three events for positions in sales, R&D and its supply chain originally scheduled for June 16, 23 and 30, notifications on messaging app WeChat showed late on Thursday, without stating a reason.
Tesla did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on Friday.
Notification of a June 9 event to recruit staff for "smart manufacturing" roles was not visible and it was not immediately clear it had been held as planned.
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The China operation is still allowing resume submission for more than 1,000 openings posted on the social media platform, such as aerodynamics engineers, supply chain managers, store managers, factory supervisors and workers.
Musk had a "super bad feeling" about the economy, he said in an email seen by Reuters last week.
In another email to employees on Friday, Musk said Tesla would reduce salaried headcount by a tenth, as it had become "overstaffed in many areas," but added that hourly headcount would increase.
Production at Tesla's Shanghai plant was badly hit after the Chinese commercial hub began a two-month Covid-19 lockdown late in March.
Output is set to fall by more than a third this quarter from the previous one, outpacing Musk's prediction.
Carrie Lam says Hong Kong hasn't become 'just another Chinese city'
Diseases suppressed during Covid are back


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A few months ago Goose and I went to Smashburger for the first time and tried out their Sweet Potato Fries. They were among the best we'd ever tasted. Ever since I've been experimenting to try to create something similar at home. When doing a search online for Smashburger Sweet Potato Fries Recipes, we tried the few available but none left me going "this is it." So, I ventured out to come up with my own recipe and everyone in the family agrees its the best yet. Try 'em and let me know what you think! Enjoy!
Microwave the sweet potatoes for one minute to soften.
Add olive oil to sweet potatoes and mix to coat.
Mix remaining ingredients and add to sweet potatoes. Mix to coat.
Spread sweet potatoes on a lightly greased cookie sheet or jelly roll pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn the potatoes over.
Bake 10 more minutes. Turn again.
Well you will definitely have to let me know what you think. I make no claims to be the expert chef but like to share what has worked for me. Hope you like them!
That looks so yummy. I love sweet potato fries. I will be featuring this tonight at my Sizzle into Summer party that opens at 8pm EST. Please stop by and pick up an I've Been Featured button. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing at Thrifty Thursday, I can't wait to try this recipe out! I have featured your post this week! I hope you will join us again!!
At the end of recipe you say "boil" the potatoes, did you mean to say "broil"?
Oh my, yes! Thanks for noticing. Ha! That could make a BIG difference. I'll be sure to change that. Thanks again!


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Deputy Senate President: I Am Still In The Race – Kalu
June 10, 2019 Reporter	0 Comments Deputy Senate President, former governor, on Monday, President Buhari
A leading contender in the race for the position of Deputy Senate President in the 9th Assembly, Dr. Orji Kalu, has debunked insinuations that he has withdrawn from the contest.
The Senator-elect representing Abia North Senatorial Zone, in a statement on Monday, made the clarification saying that he is still in the race contrary to speculations in some quarters that his party's National Working Committee (NWC) has formally endorsed Senator Ovie Omo-Agege after wide consultations with President Muhammdu Buhari and other stakeholders.
The National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Onilu, had on Monday morning issued a statement that the National Working Committee has formally adopted Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as the party's candidate for the position of Deputy Senate President, however, Kalu, who had some days ago met behind closed doors with President Buhari disclosed that the President only adopted the candidacies of the duo of Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, while noting that anyone is free to contest for other principal positions.
In a statement issued by his media office on Monday and signed by Ken Cole, the former governor stressed that as a staunch supporter of President Buhari and a loyal and committed member of the APC, he (Kalu) would always abide by the decisions of the President and highly respected members of the National Working Committee (NWC).
He, however, said the speculation of the formal endorsement of Omo-Agege was the handiwork of selfish elements in the party who ware self-serving and desperate to cause disharmony among party stakeholders.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.301.5641.1817c
Mating in Drosophila involves a stereotyped series of courtship behaviors in which the male fly successively orients toward the female, taps her with his foreleg, "sings," licks her, and finally attempts to copulate; courtship efficiency determines mating success. Courtship behavior is triggered by specific sensory cues, but the molecular mechanisms by which sensory stimuli are translated into behavioral responses remain unclear.
Bray and Amrein have now identified a male-specific receptor expressed in chemosensory foreleg neurons that appears to be required for efficient courtship. One gene, Gr68a, was selectively expressed in chemosensory neurons of male-specific foreleg taste bristles. Inactivation of synaptic transmission from these neurons led to reduced courtship intensity, decreased mating efficiency, and lack of success in mating when competing with wild-type males. Knockdown of the GR68a receptor through RNA interference had similar effects. By quantifying performance of the steps involved in Drosophila courtship, the authors determined that the behavioral deficit occurred after orienting but before singing. Thus, GR68a appears to be required for the recognition of the nonvolatile pheromones found on the abdomen of female Drosophila, and input from these pheromones during tapping appears to be required for successful completion of courtship behavior. — EA
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Q: Disable Manage Overlay permission turn off if application is a device owner I am developing such application, that

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*is running in full screen KIOSK mode and it is advertising until a user touches the screen

*when somebody touches the screen the application finishes the advertising activity and start a service

*when the activity is in the background, user can try the device (e.g. open Camera, check Android About page in Settings)

*to prevent user to do some harm (e.g. factory reset device) I set the application as a device owner and set some user restrictions

*the service watches the touches on the screen and after 30 seconds it restarts the advertising

*to capture screen touches in a service I add a 1x1dp transparent view to the WM as an overlay and watch the outside touch of the view

My problem is, that

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*I can't disable user to turn off Manage Overlay permission in the Android Settings, if the permission is turned off it halts the advertising process

*My second approach is that I write an Accessibility Service and handle the TOUCH_INTERACTION_START and TOUCH_INTERACTION_END event types, but in this case user can disable the Accessibility Service so the problem is the same

I would be very grateful if somebody can help me how to pass this problem or could suggest a third kind approach
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace GameFramework.IO.TiledSharp
{
    internal class TmxLayer : ITmxElement
    {
        internal TmxLayer(XElement layer, int width, int height)
        {
            this.Name = (string)layer.Attribute("name");
            this.Opacity = (double?)layer.Attribute("opacity") ?? 1.0;
            this.Visible = (bool?)layer.Attribute("visible") ?? true;

            var data = layer.Element("data");

            var encoding = (string)data.Attribute("encoding");

            this.Tiles = new List<TmxLayerTile>();
            if (encoding == "base64")
            {
                var decodedStream = new TmxBase64Data(data);
                var stream = decodedStream.Data;

                using (var br = new BinaryReader(stream))
                    for (int j = 0; j < height; j++)
                        for (int i = 0; i < width; i++)
                            this.Tiles.Add(new TmxLayerTile(br.ReadUInt32(), i, j));
            }
            else if (encoding == "csv")
            {
                var csvData = data.Value;
                int k = 0;
                foreach (var s in csvData.Split(','))
                {
                    var gid = uint.Parse(s.Trim());
                    var x = k % width;
                    var y = k / width;
                    this.Tiles.Add(new TmxLayerTile(gid, x, y));
                    k++;
                }
            }
            else if (encoding == null)
            {
                int k = 0;
                foreach (var e in data.Elements("tile"))
                {
                    var gid = (uint)e.Attribute("gid");
                    var x = k % width;
                    var y = k / width;
                    this.Tiles.Add(new TmxLayerTile(gid, x, y));
                    k++;
                }
            }
            else throw new Exception("TmxLayer: Unknown encoding.");

            this.Properties = new PropertyDict(layer.Element("properties"));
        }

        public string Name { get; private set; }

        public double Opacity { get; private set; }

        public bool Visible { get; private set; }

        public List<TmxLayerTile> Tiles { get; private set; }

        public PropertyDict Properties { get; private set; }
    }
}

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//
//  ApplicationSupport.java
//  xal
//
//  Created by Thomas Pelaia on 10/17/2013.
//  Copyright 2013 Oak Ridge National Lab. All rights reserved.
//

package xal.tools.apputils;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.Window;

/** Common application utilities */
public class ApplicationSupport {
    /** serialization ID */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    /**
     * Get the active window which is in focus for this application.  It is typically a good window relative to which you can place application warning dialog boxes.
     * @return The active window
     */
    static public Window getActiveWindow() {
        return KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getActiveWindow();
    }

	/**
	 * Display a confirmation dialog with a title and message
	 * @param title The title of the dialog
	 * @param message The message to display
	 * @return YES_OPTION or NO_OPTION
	 */
	static public int displayConfirmDialog( final String title, final String message ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        return JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION );
	}

    /**
     * Display a warning dialog box with information about the exception.
     * @param exception The exception about which the warning dialog is displayed.
     */
    static public void displayWarning( final Exception exception ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        String message = "Exception: " + exception.getClass().getName() + "\n" + exception.getMessage();
        displayWarning( exception.getClass().getName(), message );
    }

    /**
     * Display a warning dialog box.
     * @param title Title of the warning dialog box.
     * @param message The warning message to appear in the warning dialog box.
     */
    static public void displayWarning( final String title, final String message ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE );
    }

    /**
     * Display a warning dialog box with information about the exception.
     * @param title Title of the warning dialog box.
     * @param prefix Text that should appear in the dialog box before the exception messasge.
     * @param exception The exception about which the warning dialog is displayed.
     */
    static public void displayWarning( final String title, final String prefix, final Exception exception ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        final String message = prefix + "\n" + "Exception: " + exception.getClass().getName() + "\n" + exception.getMessage();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE );
    }

    /**
     * Display an error dialog box.
     * @param title Title of the warning dialog box.
     * @param message The warning message to appear in the warning dialog box.
     */
    static public void displayError( final String title, final String message ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
    }

    /**
     * Display an error dialog box with information about the exception.
     * @param exception The exception about which the warning dialog is displayed.
     */
    static public void displayError( final Exception exception ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        String message = "Exception: " + exception.getClass().getName() + "\n" + exception.getMessage();
        displayError( exception.getClass().getName(), message );
    }

    /**
     * Display an error dialog box with information about the exception.  This method allows
     * clarification about the consequences of the exception (e.g. "Save Failed:").
     * @param title Title of the warning dialog box.
     * @param prefix Text that should appear in the dialog box before the exception messasge.
     * @param exception The exception about which the warning dialog is displayed.
     */
    static public void displayError( final String title, final String prefix, final Exception exception ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        String message = prefix + "\n" + "Exception: " + exception.getClass().getName() + "\n" + exception.getMessage();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
    }

    /**
     * Display an error dialog box with information about the exception.  This method allows
     * clarification about the consequences of the exception (e.g. "Save Failed:").
     * @param title Title of the warning dialog box.
     * @param prefix Text that should appear in the dialog box before the exception messasge.
     * @param exception The exception about which the warning dialog is displayed.
     */
    static public void displayApplicationError( final String title, final String prefix, final Exception exception ) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
        String message = prefix + "\n" + "Exception: " + exception.getClass().getName() + "\n" + exception.getMessage();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( getActiveWindow(), message, title, JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
    }
}


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Q: Concurrent download/processing in C# I'm looking for the fastest and most reliable approach to downloading 1000 remote webpages (using HttpWebRequest) concurrently using C#, writing them to individual local files and running some processing code once all files have been downloaded, while making the best use of parallelism and non-blocking concurrency available.
The server is a quad core (vCPU) VPS running Windows 2008 and .NET 4.0 (can't use the newer async/await stuff).
What do you suggest?
Update: Options proposed so far are: Reactive Extensions (Rx), Async CTP, TPL.
Looks like Async CTP would be the ideal way to do it, followed by Rx and TPL. What say guys?

A: No matter which async approach you end up using, don't forget that you need to increase the max connections allowed as the default is 2 per domain. So if you make a lot of calls against a single domain, you will be rate limited to that.
You can fix this in a standalone (non-ASP.NET) app using basic config:
<system.net>
   <connectionManagement>
       <add address="*" maxconnections="200" />
   </connectionManagement>
</system.net>

However, if you're in ASP.NET this will not work as expected since the default <processModel autoConfig="true" ...> attribute will cause it to auto configure to 12 per core which, while better than 2 total, still might not suit your needs. So then you will have to use the code-based approach in something like your Application_Start:
ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 200;

NOTE: this code based approach also works equally well for non-ASP.NET apps, so you could use it as a "universal" solution if you want to avoid .config.

A: I would use Rx for that task.
string[] webpages = { "http://www.google.com", "http://www.spiegel.de"};

webpages
    .Select(w => FetchWebPage(w))
    .ForkJoin()
    .Subscribe(x => /*This runs when all webpages have been fetched*/  Console.WriteLine(x));

Or if you like to control the concurrency to process max 4 requests concurrently as svick suggested you could change it to this:
Observable.ForkJoin(
    webpages
        .Select(w => FetchWebPage(w))
        .Merge(4))
        .Subscribe(x => /*This runs when all webpages have been fetched*/  Console.WriteLine(x));

You also neeed a helper method to transform from the regular async way to the Rx way
public static IObservable<string> FetchWebPage(string address)
{
    var client = new WebClient();

    return Observable.Create<string>(observer =>
    {
        DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler handler = (sender, args) =>
        {
            if (args.Cancelled)
                observer.OnCompleted();
            else if(args.Error != null)
                observer.OnError(args.Error);
            else
            {
                observer.OnNext(args.Result);
                observer.OnCompleted();
            }
        };

        client.DownloadStringCompleted += handler;

        try
        {
            client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(address));
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            observer.OnError(ex);
        }

        return () => client.DownloadStringCompleted -= handler;
    });
}

A: VS2010 SP1 can use the Async CTP to do async/await on .NET 4.0.
VS2012 RC can use the Async Targeting Pack to do async/await on .NET 4.0.
But if you really don't want to use async/await, you can still use tasks and continuations (the Task Parallel Library is part of .NET 4.0).

A: I had a similar need, but for me the URL count is over 7,000 (used to take about 25 - 28 minutes to complete).  For my solution I used the TPL.  As each URL has no dependencies it was easy to simply encapsulate each in an object, place it into a collection, and pass that collection to a Parallel.ForEach() invocation.
As each download is completed we take a look at the page's contents, and depending upon what we find, we send that off for additional processing.
As I said this used to take the better part of a half an hour to complete, but it now runs in about 4.5 minutes (I have dual quad core Xeon processors @ 3GHz, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit edition, and 24 GB of RAM .... plenty of power that is now being utilized, versus mostly wasting away).
I have been so impressed with Microsoft's TPL that I have gone back to most of my legacy projects/code and refactored the designs to take advantage of TPL where possible, and I always give the "TPL treatment" on any new code I write (it's not always possible if you have any type of dependency between loop iterations).

A: I did something similar recently using C# 5's new async features and WebClent instead of HttpWebRequest. You get some nice async methods with WebClient such as DownloadDataTaskAsync.
WebClient client = new WebClient();
byte[] data = await client.DownloadDataTaskAsync(url)


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Michelle joined LeBow in May 2019 and has worked for Drexel University since 2008. Prior to LeBow, Michelle worked on the Recruitment team for the College of Computing & Informatics assisting both undergraduate and graduate students as well on the Events & Visitor Relations team within Enrollment Management & Student Success. Michelle holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Loyola University Maryland and a Master's in Tourism & Hospitality Management from Temple University. Fritz Lorcale, a first-year Business & Engineering major, describes Michelle as "one of the most caring staff members in LeBow."
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