An intermediate knowledge of ColdFusion tags and other core language syntax is enough to get most out of this article.
Adobe ColdFusion (2016 release) introduces several new PDF features to make coding in ColdFusion a lot easier and more productive.
The new PDF features enable developers to use their PDF's more efficiently.
When you extract the provided zip, the folder PDFEnhancement contains various sub folders. The subfolders represent each enhancement, and contain the cfm with sample code.
The folder 'PDFEnhancement' is placed in the ColdFusion webroot, and the server runs on port 8500.
A file with XFDF extension is an Acrobat Forms Document file. It stores descriptions of page form elements and their values, such as the names and values for text fields. Use the file to save form data that can be imported into a PDF document.
PDF Metadata is the information you get about a PDF, such as, the title, the fonts used, and security settings when you view it, and so on. Some of the information is set by the PDF creatoe, and some is generated automatically.
It is important that you remove all unwanted components from a PDF before publishing it. The components include comments, attached files, redacted parts, and so on.
The Sanitize action removes metadata from your PDF document so that sensitive information is not inadvertently passed along when you publish your PDF.
When dealing with classified information, sanitization reduces a document's classification level. The unclassified document becomes ready for distribution.
Now run the file sanitize.cfm inside the subfolder Sanitization. On running http://127.0.0.1:8500/PDFEnhancements/Sanitization/sanitize.cfm, the source PDF is sanitized. The destination also contains the result PDF. Perform the same operation on the output PDF to check for hidden information.
You can find the sample cfm file in the zip. You can provide a PDF of your choice and edit the cfm file with the information.
You can export comments from a PDF document to an XFDF file. You can also import comments from an XFDF file to the PDF document.
For exporting comments, specify the source and the destination of the XFDF file. For importing comments, specify the source of the PDF file, the source of the XFDF file, and the destination path.
Import comments from one PDF to another.
When you want to export comments and retain a copy before sanitizing it for public release.
Go to the subfolder ExportImportComment inside the folder PDFEnhancements. The subfolder contains two cfms with the names exportComment.cfm and importComment.cfm. There are two PDF's, comment.pdf and noComment.pdf.
Some comments are already present in the file comment.pdf, and you can export the comments to an xfdf file. The noComment.pdf does not contain any comments. You can import the comments that you had extracted to this file.
On completion, you can see new file, comment_exported.xfdf, in the same folder. If you open this file in any text editor, you can see the comments that were present in the PDF.
You can see that the comments have been imported in the file.
PDF documents created in Acrobat 5.0 or later contain document metadata in XML format. Metadata includes information about the document and its contents, such as the author's name, keywords, and copyright information, which can be used by search utilities.
For exporting metadata, specify the source of the PDF and destination of the XMP file. For importing metadata, specify the source of the PDF, the source of XMP file and the destination for the file to be placed.
The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) provides Adobe applications with a common XML framework that standardizes the creation, processing, and interchange of document metadata across publishing workflows. You can save and import the document metadata XML source code in XMP format, making it easier to share metadata across different documents.
Virtual file system is not supported for import and export actions.
Navigate to the subfolder 'ExportImportMetadata' inside 'PDFEnhancements'. The subfolder contains two cfms with the names exportMetadata.cfm and importMetadata.cfm. There are two more PDF's, metadata.pdf and noMetadata.pdf. There is already metadata present in the file metadata.pdf, and you can export metadata from it to an xmp file. The nometadata.pdf does not have any metadata. Import the metadata to this file.
On completion, you can see a new file, metadata_exported.xmp in the same folder. If you open this file in any text editor, you can see the metadata that was present in the.
To check a PDF's Metadata, click File->Properties.
You can see that the metadata has been imported in the file.
You can archive pdf files. PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for the long-term digital preservation of electronic documents.
During PDF conversion, the file that is being processed is checked against the specified standard. PDF/A differs from PDF by prohibiting features ill-suited to long-term archiving, such as font linking (as opposed to font embedding).
In previous versions of ColdFusion, there was support for PDF/A-1b standard. In Adobe ColdFusion (2016 release), there is extra support for PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b standard.
Click Tools -> Print Production -> Pre Flight -> PDF/A Compliance -> [Verify compliance with PDF/A-2b or Verify compliance with PDF/A-3b].
This determines if PDF is compliant/archived with the given standard.
After executing, again check for compliance with standards 2b and 3b. You can see it passes the compliance.
You can attach PDFs and other types of files to a PDF. If you move the PDF to a new location, the attachments move with it. By using cfpdfparam, you can specify the location of the attachment, the filename for the attachment, description of the attachment, encoding, and mimetype for attaching file. The files can also be attached at document level.
This is useful when along with the PDF, you also want to send some reference material such as images, text files, or even other PDF files. You can send all the files together by attaching the files inside the original PDF.
As you can see, there are no attachments right now.
You can apply a stamp to a PDF in the same way you can apply a rubber stamp to a paper document. You can choose from a list of predefined stamps.
Specify the page and the location to add the stamp in addition to the content and icon.
You can redact an image or text in a PDF document. In the current context, Redaction is the process of hiding/removing sensitive information from a PDF before publishing it.
Redaction can help in removing unwanted text that you don't want to someone else to view, such as, personal information in a utility bill, or sensitive text in a public report.
Click Tools -> Redact -> Mark for Redaction. There are various options such as Text and Images, Pages and Find Text. But currently we support only Text and Images using the coordinates of the area you want to redact.
In Acrobat you just drag the area you want to redact. In ColdFusion, you specify the coordinates of the area you want to redact. The four coordinates are such as. (Lower left x, Lower left y, Upper right x, Upper right y).
The area with coordinates, 100,200,300,400 is redacted.
This document is all about the new PDF features in ColdFusion (2016 release) and how to use them. There will be more blog posts on individual features on the ColdFusion blog site. We will talk about various ways each attribute in cfpdf and cfpdfparam tag can be used in those blogs.


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HomeEditorialsAllen leaves Lauderdale Lakes City Manager position on good terms
Allen leaves Lauderdale Lakes City Manager position on good terms
May 7, 2015 Carma Henry Editorials 0
By Bobby R. Henry, Sr.
I don't normally share my space here, however there comes a time when attention needs to be given to other noteworthy issues.—Publisher Bobby R. Henry, Sr.
Two weeks ago, City Commissioners Gloria Lewis, Beverly Williams, and Patricia Williams abruptly voted at the end of a Commission Meeting to fire Allen for "cause" against their City Attorney's legal advice.
Jonathan Allen worked for the City of Lauderdale Lakes for 15 years and served as City Manager for approximately four years. He was raised in Broward County and brought knowledge, experience, and strong commitment for making a difference in the community. At the Lauderdale Lakes Commission Meeting on April 28, 2015, the City Commission voted unanimously to rescind a previous improper firing of Allen on a three-two vote and then approved a separation of employment agreement.
The City's Charter required four votes to fire the City Manager. City Commissioners Edwina Coleman and Eileen Rathery voted against firing Allen.
In an effort to avoid a costly court battle and lawsuit for the City, Allen's attorney, Eugene Pettis of Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm Law Firm, negotiated a separation of employment agreement which was ultimately approved by the City Com-mission with a unanimous vote. Under the terms of the agreement, the City would not fire Allen for "cause" and City Commissioners would not say anything derogatory about Allen's employment with the City.
During the commission meeting, Pettis urged the Commission to pass the agreement. Attorney Pettis said, "The true measure of a man is when he feels he's been wronged, he can stand with dignity and allow the process to move forward. Allen just believes that he's bigger than to allow himself to get drawn into something that's not for the betterment of this city." At the end of Attorney Pettis' public comments, Mayor Russell called for the vote and the agreement was unanimously approved by the City Commission.
In November 2014, Allen received an overall positive evaluation for his performance as City Manager for Fiscal Year 2014. Allen has been credited with developing and implementing the City's Financial Recovery Plan, eliminating the City's four million dollar fund balance deficit, and reducing the City's nine million dollar debt owed to BSO for past due police and fire rescue services to almost half in three years.
At the commission meeting, both city and county officials praised Allen for successfully addressing the city's financial crisis and near bankruptcy, attracting new economic development to the city, displaying a high degree of integrity and professionalism, and serving as a positive role model for youth in Broward County. Mayor Russell said, "Mr. Allen has been a very professional, dedicated, and financially astute City Manager." Commissioner Cole-man expressed, "Jonathan was a valuable city asset and his motto for our city was 'Failure Is Not an Option'. Jonathan did a great job as City Manager and brought us out of a depression," Coleman remarked.
During the crowded city commission meeting, numerous city residents and Allen supporters gave positive remarks on Allen's honorable service to the City and his perseverance in bringing the City back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Long-term city residents, Pastor Michel Coulson of Unity New Testament Church of God, Gwen Denton, Meredith McCleary, and Former City Com-missioner Ben Williams, provided very inspiring and encouraging words to Allen and criticized the commissioners that voted to fire him. Meredith McCleary recited the poem If by laureate Rudyard Kipling as a departing tribute for former City Manager Jonathan Allen, who was sitting silently next to his attorney in the commission chambers.
While leaving his last Lauderdale Lakes Commission Meeting, Allen said with a smile, "I've enjoyed my time at the City of Lauderdale Lakes. I'm staying faithful, focused, and fruitful as I move into the future."
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ASNIERES: THE HEART OF LOUIS VUITTON
Reopening of the Asnières atelier and the Galerie in May 2016.
The Asnières atelier is the true hub of the House. Barely five years after founding his House, Louis Vuitton began to outgrow his Parisian headquarters. In 1859, he relocated the new workshops to Asnières, a village a few kilometres northwest of Paris.
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The Louis Vuitton Cruise show will be broadcast live on May 28th on www.louisvuitton.com. #LVCRUISE
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
Midnight in Paris. What a great time to visit an exhibition. Wearing the season's star accessories, a mischievous heroine has broken into the Louis Vuitton retrospective. The stage is set for adventure…
Magical prints, ethereal tulles, virtual textures… At Louis Vuitton, innovation and imagination go hand in hand – Discover three fascinating fabrics.
THE JOSH BACKPACK IN CAMBODIA
Louis Vuitton introduces a new backpack for casual men on the move.
A new entry in the backpack category also bound to become a casual best seller, the Josh, is declined in Damier Graphite as well as Monogram Macassar, supple and lightweight for extra mobility. A new ultra-supple canvas makes the Monogram lighter and more packable than ever in high-luxury utilitarian bags.
Traveling to the market and in downtown Siem Reap, discover the Josh backpack in a short video shot for the digital magazine Hypebeast.
Details of the backpack here.
Discover the new Louis Vuitton travel collection for men
Discover the Louis Vuitton travel collection for men
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An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury
R. Rutledge, S. M. Fakhry, A. Meyer, G. F. Sheldon, C. C. Baker, R. E. Condon, C. L. Rice, F. R. Lewis, D. Trunkey, B. A. Pruitt, R. S. Rhodes, A. H. Harken, N. Lempert
Objective: This study used population-based data bases to assess the association of trauma centers with per capita county hospitalization and trauma death rates in the State of North Carolina. Summary Background Data: The current study extended previous work using two North Carolina data bases to assess the association of the presence of a trauma center with per capita county trauma death rates. Methods: Data on per capita county trauma hospitalizations and deaths were obtained from the state hospital discharge data base and the North Carolina Medical Examiner's data base. Bivariate and multivariate analysis techniques were used. The dependent variables of interest were prehospital, hospital, and total trauma death rates and hospitalization rates for injury. Results: Bivariate analysis identified a number of factors associated with per capita county hospitalizations and trauma death rates. These included the per cent unemployment, racial distribution, county alcohol tax receipts, and advanced life support certified emergency medical services providers. The per capita trauma death rates were significantly lower in counties with trauma centers compared with those without trauma centers (4.0 ± 0.5 and 5.0 ± 1.1 deaths per 10,000 population, p = 0.0001, respectively). The per capita hospitalizations for trauma were also lower in counties with trauma centers. Multivariate modeling showed that the presence of a trauma center and advanced life support providers were the best predictors of decreased per capita county trauma death rates. Conclusions: The study showed that the presence of a trauma center and advanced life support training were the two medical system factors that were the best predictors of the per capita county prehospital and total trauma death rates. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that trauma centers are associated with a decrease in trauma death rates.
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Rutledge, R., Fakhry, S. M., Meyer, A., Sheldon, G. F., Baker, C. C., Condon, R. E., Rice, C. L., Lewis, F. R., Trunkey, D., Pruitt, B. A., Rhodes, R. S., Harken, A. H., & Lempert, N. (1993). An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury. Annals of surgery, 218(4), 512-524. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-199310000-00011
An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury. / Rutledge, R.; Fakhry, S. M.; Meyer, A. et al.
In: Annals of surgery, Vol. 218, No. 4, 1993, p. 512-524.
Rutledge, R, Fakhry, SM, Meyer, A, Sheldon, GF, Baker, CC, Condon, RE, Rice, CL, Lewis, FR, Trunkey, D, Pruitt, BA, Rhodes, RS, Harken, AH & Lempert, N 1993, 'An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury', Annals of surgery, vol. 218, no. 4, pp. 512-524. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-199310000-00011
Rutledge R, Fakhry SM, Meyer A, Sheldon GF, Baker CC, Condon RE et al. An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury. Annals of surgery. 1993;218(4):512-524. doi: 10.1097/00000658-199310000-00011
Rutledge, R. ; Fakhry, S. M. ; Meyer, A. et al. / An analysis of the association of trauma centers with per capita hospitalizations and death rates from injury. In: Annals of surgery. 1993 ; Vol. 218, No. 4. pp. 512-524.
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New Jersey PGA Professionals take to the ice for charity
Published on Saturday, December 19, 2015
Happy Gilmore has nothing on these guys.
Some two dozen New Jersey PGA Professionals swapped their spikes for skates and wedges for sticks this fall when they took to the ice at Montclair State for the second annual charity event to raise money for the New Jersey Golf Foundation.
This year's contest was quite the even matchup, according to organizer Bob Downey, PGA Professional and Head Professional at Crestmont Country Club in West Orange, N.J. That made up for a 9-1 or 10-1 final in the inaugural event, depending on who was keeping track.
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"This year, it was a good 5-3 game," Downey said. "I really was surprised the first year how good the game was, as far as the pace of the game, the level of the game, the skill level: it was great.
"This year's game was a little bit better. It was closer because I think the first year, we didn't really know the level of the players, so we just kind of divvied them the best we can and unfortunately my blue team, we beat them up pretty good, 9 or 10 to 1. There's still a little discrepancy as far as the final score."
It's an opportunity for PGA Professionals to do something a little different than the typical charity golf event. And Downey said the interest is growing. The first game generated $7,500. This year's take is still being counted.
So where did the original idea come from?
"I was the coach at Montclair State University a long time ago and they stopped the program back in 2000," Downey said. "But the athletic director that I worked with is now running Floyd Hall over at Montclair State University and they have an ice rink there.
"That's where I play a lot of my winter hockey. So I went in with the idea of having a fundraiser with the rink hosting the event. My original thought was getting a bunch of golf pros to play the Montclair State hockey program. Then the more I talked to people about it, the more golf pros I found out played hockey."
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So Downey thought there might be a chance to get enough players for two teams.
"I thought, 'Why not try to put together two teams and go play?' So it happened the first time last year and it was a great success," he said. "We had people come in to see us -- some of our members and friends of ours — and we sold tickets to the event. We had raffle prizes of golf items, hockey items of foursomes of golf at the clubs that we play that, and we raised $,7500 the first year, which I thought was great."
Despite the wide variety in ages and talent level, Downey said everyone had a lot of fun participating.
"There's kids who played Division III hockey, there's kids who played in high school," Downey said. "We had a goalie on each side and we had 11 skaters on each side so we had 22 guys out there playing hockey.
"The members like to come out to see their golf pros doing different things. I'd love to see a few more people in the stands, but it was a great money-raiser for a great cause."
Any chance that the New Jersey Section might work in a few home-and-home series with other PGA Sections?
"No, we haven't been approached by any other Sections as a challenge yet," Downey said. "But that would be fun."
The game not only raises money, but it gives members of the New Jersey Section a chance to meet each other. That's not always the case when the primary concern of a PGA Professional is the daily operation of a course.
So what was the biggest highlight of this year's game?
"The big highlight is that no one got hurt," Downey said. "That's the first big thing.
"Second, I didn't really know some of the guys who played and as we've played the last couple years, we've become a lot friendlier. What's good about that we're all getting together for the cause of the New Jersey Golf Foundation. We really had a nice time, got to know some of the people who have been in the section for a while — I'm in North Jersey and there are some guys that play in South Jersey and we just don't get a chance to see each other."
So is there a relationship between being good at hockey and good at golf? Downey said there may be some correlation, but it seems to go only in one direction.
"There are some very good hockey players in the NHL who are very good golfers," Downey said. "It doesn't translate the other way, where good golfers translate into great hockey players.
"But you can definitely see the similarities where the slapshot and the chip shot are pretty close — the feeling of trying to compress the puck into the ice to get it up in the air — so there's a lot of similarities. You really want to make sure your weight stays to the left and keeps the puck low."
Downey's golf career started about the same time his baseball career came to an end.
"I threw too many curveballs growing up, and I threw my arm out," he said. "My dad gave me a set of clubs when I was 15 and I started playing. I shot my 127 on my first round of golf and been playing ever since."
After graduating from Cranford High School, Downey attended Union County College and then on to Montclair, where golf coach Peter Famiano -- and long-time Crestmont head pro -- suggested Downey think about a career in the industry.
"When I played for him, I also started to work here," Downey said. "And when I got out of school, he said, 'Why don't you become a golf pro and then come work for me?'
"I've been here for 26 years. I started picking the range and caddying and then worked my way all the way up."


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Dartmouth teachers celebrate publication of third book
The latest book from Kathleen Souza and Hannah Robidoux, "July Lights." Photos courtesy: Kathleen Souza
Kathleen Souza, author and eighth grade English teacher at Dartmouth Middle School.
Souza with her sisters showing off the author's copy.
"July Lights" is the third book from Souza and Robidoux.
Celebrate our differences.
That's the message from two Dartmouth teachers who have teamed up on their third children's book, "July Lights," published in late December.
Dartmouth Middle School English teacher Kathleen Souza took up the pen once more in collaboration with illustrator Hannah Robidoux, Souza's former student and fellow teacher.
Robidoux currently teaches art at Demello School.
The pair started working together on their first book, "August Skies," which was released in 2015, and continued the partnership with "June Moon," released in 2017.
Their new book starts off on a summer's evening, with main character Elizabeth anxiously waiting for her beloved fireflies to return to her yard.
When night falls, Elizabeth watches the flickering, dancing light show — but she notices that one firefly is different from the rest.
Although the firefly tries hard to be like the others, Elizabeth encourages her to embrace her uniqueness.
"She realizes she doesn't have to be just like everybody else," Souza explained.
Souza said that for this book, Robidoux modeled the main character after Souza's granddaughter Ellie.
"[Robidoux] took pictures of her holding a jar up, in the car with the jar, etc.," Souza remembered. "She ended up illustrating the main character to look just like her!"
Having her granddaughter's image as a star of the book "makes it more special," she added.
As for Robidoux, Souza said that she loves working with her.
"She's just so talented," she said. "She's very interested in making sure that the illustrations are what I want, and they match the vision I have for each of the pages."
Although Souza has been teaching eighth graders for more than two decades, she said that writing books for younger kids comes from an interest (and professional license) in early childhood education.
"The first part of my career was in preschool and elementary," she said.
And she's been a teacher in Dartmouth so long now that she recognizes a lot of the faces.
"A lot of my students are children of my former students, which is a little scary," Souza laughed.
"They get excited about the fact that I was their teacher — then they share my book with their children, and that's heartwarming for me," she added.
Souza said she never expected to publish three books.
"After my first one, I felt like that was it," she said. "Then the flames start to fan...after the second, I said, 'Nope, I'm done!'"
But now that her third is out in the world, she said, she doesn't know what the future may hold.
If a good idea strikes her, she said, it may work out.
"I don't know if I have any more in me," she laughed. "And if I do and when I do, then it'll [happen.]"
"July Lights" is published by Texas publisher Black Rose Writing and is available through the publisher, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.
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What religion was practiced in the colony of South Carolina?
What religions were in the Carolina colonies?
What type of religion does South Carolina have?
Did the South Carolina Colony have religious freedom?
Did the Southern Colonies have religious freedom?
What religion is in the South?
What religion is most prominent in South Carolina?
There was no predominant religion in colonial South Carolina. The three main religious groups were the French Huguenots, the Anglicans and the dissenters from the Church of England called the non-conformists. Until the early 1700s, there was religious freedom in the colony.
Carolina was settled primarily by Protestants. By the end of the Lords Proprietors' rule in 1729, for the most part, religious toleration had been embraced in the colony. As can be expected, this was a turbulent process.
What was the main religious denomination in the southern colonies?
Religion. Most people in the Southern Colonies were Anglican (Baptist or Presbyterian), though most of the original settlers from the Maryland colony were Catholic, as Lord Baltimore founded it as a refuge for English Catholics.
Of South Carolina adults, 78 percent are Christian, 19 percent are unaffiliated with any religion and about 3 percent are non-Christian faiths.
The South Carolina Constitution of 1790 provided for religious freedom "without distinction or preference," which meant that Roman Catholics and other non-Protestant religious groups—of which there were very few—were granted equal religious freedom with Protestants.
Was there religious freedom in the Southern Colonies?
Religion, though, never strongly swayed the people in the Southern colonies. As Baptist, Quaker, and Presbyterian immigrants arrived, they freely established their own churches. Although Roman Catholics founded Maryland, they welcomed Protestants as well.
Protestant evangelicalism has obviously been the dominant religion of the region since the rise of the Bible Belt in the 19th century and the expanding southern religious empires (especially that of the Southern Baptist Convention) in the 20th century.
South Carolina's Religious Landscape, 2007 vs. 2015 About one-quarter (26%) of South Carolina residents identify as white evangelical Protestant today, compared to 36% in 2007. Additionally, fewer South Carolinians identify as white mainline Protestant compared to 2007 (16% vs. 22%, respectively).
How many Catholics are in SC?
The total population of South Carolina exceeds 5.024 million, of which an estimated 10 percent are Catholic.
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Dine Alone Records is excited to announce the signing of UK's Luke Sital-Singh for Canada. His new album Time Is A Riddle will be released May 12 and is the follow-up to his acclaimed 2014 debut The Fire Inside.
The first single from Time Is A Riddle is the spine-tingling "Killing Me", which has already racked up over half a million streams on Spotify. A song Luke wrote for his Grandmother, the track is accompanied by an evocative, homemade, typically personal video.
"It's cut from digitized cine films that my wife's late grandfather shot in the Seventies. They were only sent to us recently because her parents were in the process of moving to Vancouver. When I watched them, the nostalgic nature and the parallels with both our grandparents, it just felt tonally right, and a little note of serendipity. So I edited them together and that's what we've got." Watch here.
Sticking with the family theme, the album's vivid artwork is a lino print by illustrator and printmaker Hannah Cousins, Luke's wife. The cover image began as a photograph of a wind-bent tree in Donegal, before Cousins set patiently to work.
In the same spirit, 28 year-old Sital-Singh is finessing a series of special filmed performances in the studios, workshops, foundries and ateliers of a host of Slow Movement crafts people he's connected with up and down the country. Watch this (bespoke) space for collaborations with a ceramicist in Glasgow, a knife-maker in Derby and a stained glass designer in Devon.
But for now, here's Time Is A Riddle. A record where you can smell the graft, see the joins and hear the sweat on the frets – and the occasional live-recording misstep. It's that real.


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Keswick Mountain Festival announces lineup
By Ollie Rawlinson @ORawlinsonNews Reporter
Keswick Mountain Festival (KMF) has revealed details of its 2022 line-up, when the event will return to its traditional May slot and kick off the summer festival season.
The 2022 Keswick Mountain Festival will run from May 20-22, at the Festival Village in Crow Park.
KMF's 2022 schedule of sports and outdoor races and challenges includes 18 confirmed running, cycling, swimming, multi-sport and hiking events over two days, with more in the pipeline.
Well established favourites like the adidas TERREX Trail Runs, Back O'Skiddaw Cycling Sportive and Aquasphere Derwent Bay Swims return, alongside more recent additions like the Hell In The Fells Gravel Ride, Coledale Hike and Walla Crag Walk.
Earlier than usual, KMF has also confirmed details of the live music that will entertain visitors in the Festival Village over two nights.
Headlining on Friday May 20 will be English Celtic-folk-punk band Ferocious Dog.
Ferocious Dog will be supported by acid croft pioneers Shooglenifty, the euphoric soul, indie, folk, disco and art rock of Hope and Social, and, returning to KMF, the Batala Samba reggae drumming band.
Huey Morgan - DJ, raconteur, author, producer, broadcaster and Fun Lovin' Criminal - will headline on Saturday May 21.
An eclectic Saturday night line-up will also include Badness, with a multi award-winning show that showcases the ska and Two Tone explosion of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Complete Stone Roses, one of the UK's most well-known, most seen and most successful tribute bands, and comedy folk band Lancashire Hotpots.
KMF festival director Nicola Meadley said: "We're very excited that we have been able to return Keswick Mountain Festival to May and help kick start the summer for everyone.
"After all that has happened during the last two years, we think that 2022 is going to be the year that live events really take off again, especially in the outdoors, and we'll be at the vanguard of that.
"Being able to confirm our live music line-up so early is a sign of how much determination there is to make this the best KMF yet, and we have more exciting developments to reveal in the coming months."
To find out more about KMF, visit www.keswickmountainfestival.co.uk.


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Florida Supreme Court rules state's ed system constitutional
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The Florida Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition from a parents' group that argued the state was not fulfilling its constitutional requirement to provide an adequate public school education, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Because the legislature added the adequacy provision to the state constitution in 1998, the court ruled in a 5-4 decision that forcing lawmakers to increase funding for schools would violate the separation of powers, the article says.
Citizens for Strong Schools, which includes the advocacy group Fund Education Now, filed the lawsuit about 10 years ago, arguing the state's expansion of charters and tax credit scholarships is taking money away from public schools. School choice advocates celebrated the court's decision.
Under Florida's Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, the state's choice-friendly environment is unlikely to change. During his campaign, he pledged to further expand private school choice programs. But he also discussed ways to trim bureaucracy and direct more funding to the classroom.
The court's decision, however, runs counter to the recent wave of rulings in favor of plaintiffs in similar cases across the country. Last summer, for example, a district court ruled that New Mexico hasn't provided the education mandated by the state constitution and gave incoming Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and her administration until April to develop a plan that ensures at-risk students are receiving an adequate education.
Decisions in school-funding cases in Kansas and Washington have also come down in favor of those arguing for more money for schools. With the legislative season just getting underway, school funding formulas are expected to be a top priority in several states, including Connecticut, Texas and Massachusetts.
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Meghan Markle's Best Friends Put An End To Controversies Surrounding Her
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The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle's close friends have spoken up for the first time to defend the woman they have known for so long. Five women from the duchess's close circle have spoken up to PEOPLE, to "stand up against global bullying". Although as per PEOPLE, they requested to maintain their anonymity, they spilled beans on everything about Meghan's life that media has gotten all wrong.
One of her friends and previous co-star said, "We worry about what this is doing to her and the baby. It's wrong to put anyone under this level of emotional trauma, let alone when they're pregnant."
Talking about what is shown in the media versus the reality, one of the women said,
"We've all been to their cottage. It's small and she's made it cozy, but the perception of their lifestyle and the reality are two different things. Meg cooks for herself and Harry every single day."
Another friend from L.A recalls, , "We had a couple of days together recently. Her husband was out of town on work. In the room she made up for me, there was a candle lit by the bed, slippers and a robe. We were the only two in the house. It was our time. She made the most lovely meals. She made tea every day. It was raining and muddy outside, so the dogs got all dirty, and she's wiping them off with towels. How much she loves her animals, how much she loves her friends, how much she loves feeding you, taking care of you — none of that has changed."
Meghan's friends also talked about the wrongful slandering of her for not being in touch with her father. As per them, her father didn't try to reach out to her.
"He knows how to get in touch with her," adds the longtime friend. "He's never called; he's never texted. It's super-painful," they said.
As for Meghan's relationship with Thomas Markle, and half-sister, Samantha, they said,
"They have been made to appear as siblings who had this falling out, and that's not the truth at all," a longtime friend says of Samantha and Meghan's half-brother Thomas Jr., who were in their mid-to late teens when Meghan was born: They were not a part of her life."
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Former DNI Clapper: 'We had a suspect' in Russia's relay of DNC emails to WikiLeaks
By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
The U.S. intelligence community identified a suspect thought responsible for supplying WikiLeaks with stolen Democratic National Committee documents within months of their publication during the 2016 U.S. presidential race, James Clapper, the Obama administration's director of national intelligence, said in an interview released Friday.
"We had a suspect," Mr. Clapper told the "Skullduggery" podcast. "I don't know whether the suspicions we had at the time were conveyed [to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller] or whether they were validated."
Intelligence officials were "pretty confident at the time but not sufficient enough to publicize it," added Mr. Clapper, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as the country's top spy chief until January 2017.
A report issued by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence weeks before President Trump took office said that officials assessed with "high confidence" that Russian state-sponsored hackers breached the DNC and other Democratic targets during the run-up to the 2016 White House race and stole internal emails and documents subsequently released by outlets including WikiLeaks, the secret-spilling website run by transparency activist Julian Assange.
Government agencies and private security researchers have attributed the actual breaches to Russian hackers, but the identity of the conduit who gave the data to WikiLeaks remains a mystery.
"In April, Russia used a third party 'cut-out' to send more than 19,000 DNC emails and more than 8,000 documents to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, attempting to cover its tracks and to give WikiLeaks some degree of deniability in knowing the source of the leaks," Mr. Clapper wrote in his book, "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence."
"The real point was it was an attempt to ensure [Assange] plausible deniability," he said during the podcast.
Responding on Twitter to the claims, the official WikiLeaks account tweeted that Mr. Clapper's book contained errors about the website's releases.
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Q: Haskell: Monadic construct within lambda function I have this snippet of a function:
mapM (\x -> do t' <- t; return $ strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x) t') [0..(n-1)]

With
strSwop :: String -> String -> String -> String
t :: IO String

It works as expected  but I don't like the IO construct withing the lambda.
How can it be written differently?
I come out of the monad just to be wrapped again next line. Feels ugly.
If I do it this way:
mapM (\x -> t >>= strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x) t) [0..(n-1)]

It complains (obviously) about the return signature of strSwop :(
strSwop is just a string replacement function.
Is there a way to correctly write this?
Thanks.
-- EDIT --
Just figured it out ...
Works out:
mapM (\x -> liftM (strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x)) t) [0..(n-1)]

A: I would suggest liftM or <$>
import Control.Applicative
mapM (\x -> strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x) <$> t) [0..(n-1)]

A: Let's simplify your code step by step.
mapM (\x -> do t' <- t; return $ strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x) t') [0..(n-1)]

Start by breaking off the pure code - let's convert [0..(n-1)] into a list of [String -> String] using currying:
mapM (\f -> do t' <- t ; return (f t)) $ map (\x -> strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x)) [0..(n-1)]

Now do t' <- t ; return (f t) is pretty common - that's just fmap f t'
mapM (\f -> fmap f t') $ map (\x -> strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x)) [0..(n-1)]

And \f -> fmap f t' is just \f -> flip fmap t' f or flip fmap t'
mapM (flip fmap t') $ map (\x -> strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x)) [0..(n-1)]

Cleaning up the pure half: \x -> strSwop "if0" ("if" ++ show x) is the same as \x -> strSwop "if0" $ ("if" ++) (show x) which is the same as \x -> strSwop "if0" . ("if"++) $ show x which is the same as strSwop "if0" . ("if"++) . show
mapM (flip fmap t') $ map (strSwop "if0" . ("if"++ ) . show) [0..(n-1)]

Now let's fuse the two parts back together.  mapM f . map g = sequence . map f . map g = sequence . map (f . g) = mapM (f . g):
mapM (flip fmap t' . strSwop "if0" . ("if"++) . show) [0..(n-1)]

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A WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, magyarul Széles látószögű infravörös felmérő felfedező műhold) infravörös csillagászati műhold, melyet 2009. december 14-én indított a NASA a Medium-class Explorer program keretében. Az égboltfelmérési program célja a teljes égbolt végigfényképezése a 3-25 μm közötti infravörös tartomány négy (3,4, 4,6, 12 és 22 mikrométeres) hullámhosszán, melyből a Hubble űrtávcső épülő utódja, a szintén infravörösben működő James Webb űrtávcső számára állítanak össze katalógust.

A műhold napszinkron poláris pályán halad, a pálya síkja a Nap irányával mindig derékszöget zár be. A 40 centiméter átmérőjű távcső a Földdel ellentétes irányba néz (megközelítőleg, amikor a Hold a látómezőbe kerülne, akkor a távcsővel ezt "kikerülik"). Összesen 1,3 millió képet (11 másodpercenként egyet) készített az égboltról 2010 júliusáig, melyek felbontása 1 megapixel (1024×1024 pixel), pixelenként 6 ívmásodperc a közeli, 12 ívmásodperc a közepes infravörösben, látómezeje pedig 47 ívperc. A küldetés hat (esetleg kilenc, ha a hűtéshez felhasznált hidrogén kitart addig) hónapos időtartama alatt az égbolt 99%-át legalább nyolc (az egymást követő keringések során készült, egymást átfedő) felvétellel fedik le. (A pálya jellegéből adódóan ez az égi egyenlítőhöz közelebbi területekre igaz, a pólusokhoz közeledve nő az átfedés mértéke, az égi pólusok pedig minden keringés alkalmával a látómezőbe kerülnek.)

A hagyományos Schmidt-elrendezéssel (melyben egyetlen tükör van, a főtükör) szemben a WISE rendelkezik egy másodlagos, pásztázó tükörrel (scan mirror), melynek feladata a folytonosan mozgó ég elmozdulásának kiküszöbölése. A tükör a képek készítése közben az ég mozgásával ellentétesen elfordul, így a CCD-mátrixra mindig ugyanaz a kép vetül (a két kép készítése közötti időben visszaáll eredeti pozíciójába). A távcsövet és az érzékelőket 15 kilogrammnyi szilárd hidrogén elpárologtatásával hűtik 15 kelvinre, a hűtőanyag fél év utáni elfogyása a küldetés tervezett befejezését jelenti.

A WISE által kapott adatokat rádiós átvitellel naponta négyszer töltik le műholdas közvetítéssel földi állomásra. A képeket számítógépekkel egyesítik, és az adatokból egy atlaszt hoznak létre (ami várhatóan 300 millió infravörös forrást tartalmaz), ami az egész éggömböt lefedi és egy listát az összes észlelt objektumról. A program szervezését a Jet Propulsion Laboratory végzi.

A műhold méretei:
 hosszúság: 2,85 m
 átmérő: 2 m
 mélység: 1,73 m

A megfigyelni tervezett objektumok
A WISE által észlelt hullámhosszon jellemzően a 70-100 kelvinnél melegebb objektumok sugároznak.

A Naprendszeren kívül

Észlelhetőek lesznek galaxisok csillagkeletkezési régióinak csillagközi por által eltakart részei is, mert az infravörös sugárzás ezeken áthatol. A korai Univerzum fiatal galaxisaiban a csillagkeletkezés különösen intenzív volt, ezért ezek a többieknél sokkal erősebb infravörös sugárzást bocsátanak ki. Hasonlóan intenzív a csillagkeletkezés a kölcsönható galaxisokban is. A jól észlelhető célok között vannak a csillagközi gázfelhők a Tejútrendszeren belül, és a fiatal csillagok körüli protoplanetáris korongok, ez utóbbiakból néhány ezer felfedezése várható.

Előzetesen végzett megfigyeléseken alapuló számítások alapján körülbelül 700 új barna törpe felfedezésére van kilátás, ezek közül mintegy 100 felfedezése várható 6 parszeken belül, ezzel a Nap közvetlen környezetében lévő ismert csillagok száma akár meg is duplázódhat. Az eddig felfedezetteknél lényegesen hidegebb, akár -100 °C-os felszíni hőmérsékletű barna törpék is felfedezhetőek. Amennyiben viszonylag nagy számban léteznek olyan kóbor bolygók, melyek nem csillagok körül keringenek, hanem szabadon sodródnak az űrben, miután egy bolygórendszerből kidobódtak, ezek felfedezésére is van remény. A Jupiter tömegének két-háromszorosát nyomó óriásbolygókat 7-11 fényévig, jupiter-méretű bolygókat a távcső 1 fényév (megközelítőleg  CsE) távolságig, Neptunusz-méretű bolygókat 700 Csillagászati egység távolságig képes a távcső észlelni (ezeknél kisebbeket nem, mert nincsen saját hőtermelésük, így infravörös sugárzásuk, a napjuktól pedig túl távol vannak ahhoz, hogy annak sugárzása felmelegítse őket).

A Naprendszeren belül
Ha a Naprendszer külső térségeiben tényleg létezik nagy tömegű bolygó vagy törpecsillag (lásd: Feltételezett kilencedik bolygó a Naprendszerben, és: Nemezis), akkor ezt a WISE nagy valószínűséggel képes észlelni, bár, mivel a teljes égboltot csak egyszer tapogatja le, elmozdulásának kimutatására kevés az esély.

Az űrtávcső emellett észlelni tudja a főöv 3 kilométernél nagyobb kisbolygóit (becsült darabszámuk: 100-200 000) és a földsúroló kisbolygókat. A mérések pontosságának finomításával lehetőség lesz akár egy kilométeres átmérőig lemenni (ez a becslések szerint 700 000 kisbolygót jelent). A földközeli objektumok észlelésére a poláris pálya különösen alkalmas lesz, ezekből is száznál több objektum felfedezése várható.

A WISE a kisbolygók átmérőjét is meg tudja majd mérni. A kisbolygók könnyebben észlelhetők infravörösben, mint látható fényben, mert felületük általában sötét, ami a látható fényt elnyeli (és infravörösben, hőmérsékletének megfelelően, kisugározza). Átmérőjük viszonylag pontos mérését is ez teszi lehetővé. A kisbolygók ugyanis a látható fény nagyon kis részét (néhány százalékát) verik vissza, emiatt a felszínük visszaverő-képességük szórása nagy, akár tízszeres különbségek is előfordulhatnak az egyes kisbolygók között. A sötét objektumok a teljes elnyelt (azaz vissza nem vert) elektromágneses sugárzást a Wien-féle eltolódási törvénynek megfelelően infravörösben sugározzák ki, ebben, pont a visszavert fény kis mennyisége miatt, nagyon kicsik a bolygók eltérő anyagi összetételéből adódó eltérések, a kisugárzott energia eltérő mennyisége csak a kisbolygó eltérő méretéből adódik.

Az üstökösök pályáján az általuk kibocsátott anyagból álló porfelhőket is képes lesz a távcső észlelni, melyek a Földdel ütközve a meteorhullásokat okozzák (maguk a porfelhők egyes meteorrajoknak feleltethetők meg). Ezek egy része ismert üstökösökhöz köthető, de valószínűleg a már régebben megsemmisült, így nem is ismert üstökösök pályáján keringő porfelhők felfedezésére is van kilátás.

Közreműködők
 UCLA – Kaliforniai Egyetem, Los Angeles - a WISE tudományos csoportját vezeti
 JPL – Jet Propulsion Laboratory - rendszermérnöki munkák
 SDL – Space Dynamics Lab, Utah - tudományos műszerek, távcső építése
 BATC – Ball Aerospace & Technology Corporation - a műhold építése
 IPAC – Infrared Processing and Analysis Center - elemzi, archiválja és szolgáltatja a kinyert tudományos adatokat
 UCB – University of California, Berkeley - oktatási és közönségszolgálati tevékenység

Küldetés

A műhold fő műszerét jelentő infravörös távcső építését 2009 májusában fejezte be a Space Dynamics Laboratory, ők szállították Boulderbe, a Ball Aerospace céghez, amely a műhold többi részét építi. A hold felbocsátására december 2009. december 14-én került sor, a távcsövet védő kupakot 29-én 22:30 UTC-kor dobták le.

Az első képet 2010. január 6-án készítették a távcsővel, a rendszeres észlelést január 14-én kezdték, de már ez előtt, 12-én felfedezték az első földsúroló kisbolygót, az 1 km átmérőjű 2010 AB78-at, majd február 9-én bejelentették az első üstökös, a P/2010B2 (WISE) január 22-ei felfedezését.

A műhold jó műszaki állapota miatt tervezték a program további három hónapos meghosszabbítását, a hűtőközeg elfogyása után felmelegedő távcső négy csatornájából kettő ugyanis használható marad, de a további 6,5 millió dollárba kerülő "Hot WISE" programot a NASA tudományos tanácsadó testülete 2010 májusában elutasította. 2011. február 17-én szakították meg programot, miután a további hosszabbításra már nem jutott pénz. A WISE felmérésének előzetes adatait 2011 tavaszán, a program által megfigyelt égitestek adatait tartalmazó teljes katalógust egy évvel később tervezik nyilvánosságra hozni.

Eredmények
2010 júliusáig 25 000 új aszteroidát fedezett fel, ezek közül 90 potenciális veszélyt jelent a Földre nézve. Kb. egy tucat üstökös pályáját határozta meg. A küldetés idejének ez még csak a felét jelenti, mert legalább ennyi ideig még lesz elegendő folyékony hidrogén hűtőközeg (ez a számítások szerint valamikor 2010 novemberében fogy el). A küldetés még azután is folytatódik a négy hullámhossz közül kettőben, ha a hűtés megszűnése miatt a hőmérséklet 72 kelvinre emelkedik.

A NASA 2011 szeptember végi közlése szerint a Naprendszerben kisebb a kisbolygók száma a korábban becsült értékeknél. A korábbi adatok szerint 35 000-ra becsülték a közepes méretű aszteroidák számát, a NEOWISE ezt 19 500-ra teszi.

A Földre veszélyes kisbolygók (angol rövidítéssel: PHA, potentially hazardous asteroid) számát 4700-ra becsülik (± 1500). Ezek átmérője nagyobb, mint 100 méter és pályájuk 8 millió km-en belül megközelíti a Föld pályáját. 2012-ben ezen objektumok közül csak 20-30%-nak ismert a pályája. A darabszám a korábbi becsléseknél pontosabb.

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások

 Satellite to seek nearest stars, brightest galaxies (2004. október 6.)
 https://web.archive.org/web/20100112144939/http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hivatalos honlap

 Earth under attack from an invisible star?

Infravörös űrtávcsövek
Az Explorer-program műholdjai

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