A short circular walking holiday along the River Wye via Chepstow and Monmouth.
Explore both banks of the Wye between Chepstow and Monmouth on this low mileage tour. The trail features spectacular viewpoints to admire nature flourishing on the river at Wintours Leap, the Devil's Pulpit, Eagle's Nest and Kymin Hill.
Human history is well-represented too, with several castles to visit, a unique medieval gateway leading the way into Monmouth, and the romantic ruin of Tintern Abbey awaiting a visit. This is a truly verdant space; this ancient woodland contains the finest selection of native British trees to be found anywhere in the wild.
Visiting the fascinating castles at Monmouth and Chepstow.
Admiring the view from Wintour's Leap and spotting Peregrine Falcons on the cliff tops.
Enjoying beautiful riverside walking in ancient woodlands.
Taking an extra night can be the perfect way to extend your holiday. Whether you spend your time exploring the area, visiting its attractions or simply resting your legs, an extra day can give you more time to cherish your surroundings.
The border town of Monmouth is another fascinating place for a rest day, with its 13th century bridge over the River Monnow, the Norman church of St Thomas and the ruins of Monmouth Castle.
By Rail - There is a rail station at Chepstow.
By Bus - Various bus services run to and from Chepstow.
Return To The Start - The Wye Valley Short Break is a circular tour beginning and ending in Chepstow.


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Test-osterone! A case load of tests
August 31, 2005 Embedded Staff
Testing is a tough task. It calls for a different mindset than that required during design. A diligent coder seeks perfection in the product and strives to have the product released as soon as possible–and often overlooks the inherent conflict between these two goals. The tester seeks flaws in the product and strives to prevent it from being released by delivering a never-ending list of bugs to the design team.
A good tester, like a murder suspect, must have opportunity, motive, and intent. Opportunity arises only if the design or test team provides the tools, whether homegrown or third-party, to examine the software's behavior. Motive comes when you reward the tester for finding bugs instead of making life easy for coders. On some small teams the coder and the tester are the same person. This arrangement is destined to fail because the motive is not there–the coder is punished for finding bugs, because it's also his responsibility to fix them. Finally, malice of intent is that little extra factor that makes a tester smile wickedly to himself when he knows he's found a bug that will cause the coders some lost sleep. Some people get a kick out of seeing something break, rather than making something work. Not all engineers possess this nasty streak, but good testers do.
In this article I'll describe some of the tests that apply well to a variety of embedded systems. Whether you test your own work or someone else's, add these tests to your checklist. If you're primarily a systems designer, you might want to build some of these test capabilities into your project to give your favorite testers more work; of course, be prepared for that to backfire on you.
Before you test anything else you should test the parts of the system that detect and log errors. This step may sound obvious but it's tempting to start testing the features that are most visible to the user and to consider the error-handling mechanism as part of the housekeeping you'll get to later. Resist the temptation; if you later discover circumstances where errors are not reported or recorded, you'll be left wondering if your earlier tests were valid. If the error-reporting mechanism doesn't work at all, it would probably get spotted early enough anyway, but a more subtle failure might go unnoticed.
Consider the example of a stack-overflow detection mechanism with a bug that never records or reports when the stack limit is violated. If you don't test this feature until late in the test phase and then discover it's faulty, you'll realize that any tests you've performed may have violated the stack limits but gone undetected. A gross stack failure would probably be obvious anyway, but if the limit were breached by only a few bytes the effect could be too subtle to crash the system. If the stack-overflow check isn't functioning properly you've missed an opportunity to catch this bug. If you're curious how to check for stack overflow conditions, have a look at my article "Safe Memory Utilization."1
While prototype systems are still on the developer's desk they're usually powered differently than they will be in the final design. Often the system is reset by the debugging tool or emulator, so it's not really powered-up cold. When a finished unit is built, it's finally possible to see what happens when it's turned on for real. At this stage you'll inevitably find that turning the unit on and off several times in quick succession causes some previously unseen problem.
Designers give careful thought to gracefully surviving a power-down sequence–possibly allowing for storing settings in nonvolatile storage or turning off certain outputs once an interrupt informs the system that only a few milliseconds of power remain. The same thought isn't always applied to the vulnerable state of the system during the power-up sequence.
Many systems allow the watchdog to lead to a reset during their start-up sequence. So the start-up sequence has two resets, one caused by the system powering up and a second by the watchdog. Typically, a flag in nonvolatile memory indicates that a watchdog test is in progress. This flag enables the code to decide when the watchdog test is complete. After a reset, if the flag is not set, the watchdog test is performed and the flag is set. If the flag is set after reset, the watchdog test is complete and the rest of the start-up sequence is executed. This arrangement can be vulnerable if power is lost while the flag is set. Turning off power will probably lose all data in RAM but the nonvolatile storage will be used on every following reset. If the software sees from the microprocessor's status bits that the current reset was caused by a power-on, but the flag indicates that a watchdog test is in progress, the software might falsely report a watchdog failure.
Performing many power cycles of varying duration will probably exercise the case I just described, but this error might get missed if the failure window is short. If you want to perform a test that explicitly targets the watchdog test, one approach is to change the watchdog timeout to a longer period. If you can configure it to several seconds the test will take so long that it's easy to time the turn-off to happen during this extended window. Later we'll see other cases of slowing down the system in order to facilitate testing.
Beware your own tests
A few years ago I was supporting the clinical trials of a medical device. One day, one of the clinicians commented that the time and date displayed by the device were incorrect. I didn't pay the comment much heed, since it was quite possible that another user in the hospital could have changed the date using one of the menu options and left it in some silly state. Then a similar report came from a different site. The second site reported a date that was similar to the first–a date in late 1968. This was a bit of a coincidence and required further investigation. The date mentioned at both sites was just after my own birthday–Friday the 13th of December 1968. Ominously, there was a section of the code that referenced that date.
Back when we were conducting the power-on tests, we attempted to read from and write to as many peripherals as possible, including the system's real-time clock. It was trivial to read the clock, but not so trivial to establish if the data read was valid. The test we devised was to read the current time and date and store them in RAM. We then wrote a fixed time and date to the real-time clock, which I vainly chose as my birthday. Once that time and date were correctly read back, the copy of the correct time and date stored in RAM was restored to the device.
In hindsight, the weakness of the test should have been obvious. Turning the device off during the test could leave the clock with the wrong date and time, since the RAM copy would never get restored. We naively assumed that this time window was so small that it was a one-in-a-million chance that a user would turn the device off at this time. Unfortunately, the first few seconds of operation is quite a likely time for the device to be turned off. Frustrated users will sometimes cycle the on/off switch several times. Wiggling the battery while inserting it may lead to a number of on-and-off periods before the batteries settle into place, and those periods of power will be very short. There are many other similar scenarios, which means you have to plan for the device to be turned off after a very short periods of operation.
Some power supplies accept commands sent over a serial port via Hyperterm or a similar terminal emulation program. Simple commands can turn the power on and off, and a simple script can power-cycle the unit over and over, with the delay varied. You may want to vary the off-time as well as the on-time if you want to test how the capacitance of the system may keep some parts of the system alive while others are fully reset. I've worked on multiprocessor systems where a short loss of power will reset some processors and not others, which led to all sorts of problems when the processors tried to resynchronize.
Be aware that on some battery-powered devices, removing power may not be equivalent to turning the device on and off with the on/off button. A separate mechanism should be designed to exercise such soft resets.
At the other end of the scale, a system may be left running for a very long time. The mechanical and electronic components of the system may be submitted to life testing. This test typically involves running the system continuously for a number of months in order to establish which components will fail first. In my experience this testing starts early in the project, since the test has, by definition, a long duration. This testing may start with a very early version of the software, which is not a good environment in which to identify software issues such as memory leaks; the leaks may simply not have been written yet.
By the time the software is complete, there may not be enough time on the calendar to do a lengthy test of running the software, so some tests must exaggerate the aging effect. The challenge of leaking memory is important and I covered techniques for managing that problem in earlier issues of Embedded Systems Programming .2, 3
Finding memory leaks rarely depends on simulating lots of calendar time. Most leaks require a particular path through the code to cause a small leak that eventually accumulates into a resource shortage from which the system cannot recover. Usually they're discovered by checking for small leaks over a short period, rather than trying to diagnose the problem after all the memory has been exhausted, which may happen some considerable time after the original leak occurred.
Other bugs are difficult to find unless you can fast-forward the calendar. If your system knows the real time and date you can perform obvious checks such as setting the calendar to just before New Year's Eve to observe how the rollover is handled. Although the predictions of technological collapse at the end of 1999 turned out to be more figment than fact, still plenty of bugs were rectified. A year later I was involved in troubleshooting a problem that arose on the first day of 2001–a bug that was introduced while rectifying a Y2K problem! This tells us that calendar testing is important for plenty of rollover dates other than 2000.
Of course, your system could possibly suffer a Y2K problem even now, but it would only manifest itself if the calendar were rewound to that date. Most users would never rewind the date on a system, so the next test on my list is to try to set the date to some time in the past. Ideally the system would prevent the user from setting a date into the past, but of course the system can't do so without an independent reference. What it can do is disallow any date before the start of the project.
You can test many future rollover dates other than New Year's Eve. Test dates where calibrations or licenses may expire. Some systems I've worked on remind the user when service is due. Once the service occurs this counter is reset. Setting the calendar forwards to simulate a system that never got serviced may discover rollover problems in the service timer.
Other aging problems aren't calendar related. If you have nonvolatile memory that's updated on a regular basis, your system may have a time limit based on wearing out the nonvolatile memory. On some types of nonvolatile storage, the number of write cycles is on a per-cell basis, so the life can be extended by using one location to store a frequently updated piece of data, then moving to another location when the first one is reaching its design limit. This technique is known as wear leveling and most flash file systems implement some variation of this method to increase the life of the flash-memory devices.
Changing the location of data within nonvolatile memory adds to the complexity of the code and therefore means more testing. These location changes may only occur every few months. Accelerating the frequency of writes allows us to simulate the passing of a greater amount of time, in order to test many location transitions. I recently ran such a test over a weekend that simulated 15 years of operation by increasing the write frequency from once every five minutes to once every 100 milliseconds.
Another interesting problem that arises in a system that runs for a long time is that repeated mathematical operations can accumulate floating-point errors. The following statement introduces a very small error to the value of x :
x = x + (1/3);
Since the value of 1/3 can not be represented precisely by the system's floating-point representation, a small error will be added to the value of x . As a percentage, this error is minuscule (unless the previous value of x was in the region of -1/3). But if this statement is repeated 100 times per second on a system that runs for days, the error will accumulate and may eventually become significant. This accumulation is precisely what happened to several Patriot missiles, causing them to misjudge the distance to their target.4 How badly they misjudged this distance depended on how long the missile had been sitting on the launch pad in the ready state. In some cases, the missiles were in standby for 100 hours before use, leading to an accumulated error that represented a half kilometer of flying time.
Natural gas is odorless. By the time it's piped to you as domestic heating gas, a smelly additive called mercaptan has been added to it. Mercaptan does nothing to reduce the frequency of gas leaks but it does mean that the leak can be detected. If the gas remained odorless, many leaks would go undetected in the early stages and lead to far greater problems later. In the case of natural gas, people recognized the danger of invisibility and solved it by taking something invisible and making it detectable.
Many embedded systems deal with invisible forces. The failures of the Therac-25 irradiation system are well documented.5,6 This device killed and injured a number of patients undergoing cancer treatment. At the time of the incident, no one even recognized that the damage had occurred–many patients didn't suffer adverse symptoms until a number of days later. Because radiation is not perceivable by any human sense, the user had no obvious way to detect the fault as one could if, for example, a faucet delivered too much water or conveyer belt moved too fast.
In software, you should look for ways to make invisible properties detectable to the testers. Many values are maintained internally to the system but are invisible to the user. If the value is wrong, it can not be seen, unless some invasive tool such as a debugger is used. Sometimes one value is maintained internally, and then it is modified for display to the user. Consider the case where the measured oxygen percentage is maintained internally. Before display, that value is clipped to ensure that it's in the range of 21% to 100%, while the original calculated value remains invisible.
But the calculated value is a good indicator of how much the sensor has drifted. While the user may only need to see a maximum of 100, the tester wants to see the calculated value. If the interface is graphical, test builds could display both values; it's far more effective than allowing the value to be queried via a serial port or accessed at a breakpoint, because the value is then seen in all tests.
Making such a change to your system can be as simple as taking a few of the internal values of the system and making them "visible" on a serial port. If the user interface is flexible enough, you may be able to make several internal values permanently visible. Such a tactic is often trivial to accomplish on a graphical interface without having much impact on the rest of the interface.
Breakdown tests
One of the most frequent failure modes for electromechanical systems comes after they've been serviced and the service technician fails to reconnect all cables. So as part of the testing of the system, it's wise to open the box and try leaving cables or mechanical interconnects disconnected. In the lung-ventilation systems I work on this test often means disconnecting tubes that carry a flow of air, oxygen, or water. In each case the system should fail in such a way that the cause can be identified. The results of such a test provide valuable feedback for the service manual.
In an ideal world this test would be a subset of testing all possible system failures, but in practice it's rarely going to be possible to simulate the failure of each individual resistor and solder point. Specifying a test for each interconnection is a compromise where you catch a number of cases that have a high probability of happening in the field.
Seeing strings
A list of every character string that the system can display provides the basis for a coverage test. Design a test that causes each of those messages to appear on the display. The list may be trivial to create if all of the strings are stored in a single file, as is often the case for software than needs to be translated into other languages. As each string is displayed, the tester checks it off the list. It may be that a cross section of other tests will cause them to be displayed anyway, but there is value in a single test dedicated to this purpose.
If during testing you're checking the strings, you should also check for spelling, grammar, and consistency errors. For more advice on reviewing strings, see the column I wrote on wordsmithery.7 Depending on the type of display you may also need to check the size of the string. A string that's too long may partially vanish off the right side of the display or overlap another string. Columns or tables of text may lose their alignment if one of the strings exceeds its boundary.
Once this test is written, the same test can be reused to validate each language. In some cases I've automated the key sequences for the translators. Using a special build of the software, the user may press one key to trigger the next sequence of "faked" keys. Exact sequences can be reproduced with minimal effort for the tester. The tester only needs to press a single key to generate the sequence of keys and events that lead to the next screen for review. The translator or tester gets to view each screen without concerning himself with how the screen was generated. This approach is good when the concern is solely within the appearance and meaning of the strings; for more general testing it's better if the tester performs each step manually.
Some strings are formatted to include numbers, and so their length can vary at runtime. Such strings should be displayed in their shortest and longest forms, which you can achieve by constructing tests where the maximum and minimum numeric values are displayed. Similar logic applies if a string is inserted into the string. Consider a string that inserts the month, for example "Current Month: January" where "January" could be substituted for any other month. Include a test to display "May" and "September" to exercise the longest and shortest versions of this string. Be aware that if the test is reused in a different language, the longest month may be quite different.
This test will usually discover if there are strings compiled into the system that can never be displayed. These strings should be eliminated to save memory and reduce the translation effort.
Strings that are used to report obscure errors may not be trivial to display, and so the tester will have to construct a method of forcing those error conditions in order to see the strings. These test methods exercise many paths that rarely occur during normal use, and the mechanism of inducing or faking those failures here will be useful in other test cases.
Invalid keys
A related user-interface test is to press all invalid keys in each state of the user interface. Often the invalid key causes a beep and no change to the user interface, or maybe a message appears to tell the user why that key is not currently valid.
Because most of the tests are written to test the valid key actions, a bug that's caused by pressing an invalid key may go undetected for a long time. Sometimes the key actions are defined in a table-driven state machine in the software. A single incorrect entry in that table could lead to an invalid key acting like one of the other valid keys, or maybe leading to a nonsense transition.
The full set of states of the user interface may multiply to a huge number of states, especially for a GUI. It may be impossible to enumerate every invalid key sequence. It should be possible, however, to cover enough cases to shake out any bugs. If the key actions are table-driven, it may be possible to use that table as a checklist to ensure that each row of each table has been exercised at least once.
Some devices require calibration at manufacture or at regular intervals throughout their lives. A nuclear reactor in a research center in Grenoble, France, was shut down when it was discovered that it had been running 10% above its rated limit for 20 years.8 The instrument used to measure the output was calibrated using ordinary water, but nuclear reactors use heavy water.
When used on lung ventilators some sensors require calibration with oxygen, and others with air, so similar issues often arise. Using the wrong gas introduces an error large enough to be significant but small enough that it doesn't cause the entire calibration to fail.
It's a useful test to deliberately fail the calibration. If the user is asked to enter a pressure reading from an external source, entering a value higher than the value displayed on the external source will introduce an error to the calibration. It's useful to know the worst-case performance that can be caused by bad calibration. On some systems cross-checking means that one badly calibrated sensor will be detected by other parts of the system that are still taking accurate readings.
If the system uses a watchdog, it must strobe that watchdog at some regular interval to ensure that the system doesn't reset itself. The watchdog hardware should be tested by the system as part of its start-up sequence. I've covered the implementation of watchdogs in previous articles.9,10
When it comes to testing whether the software is indeed strobing the watchdog at an appropriate rate, my favorite test is to decrease the period of the watchdog timer. This will detect any places in the code where the watchdog was strobed close to its deadline. For example, consider a system that has been designed with a watchdog period of 200ms and has a path in the code that typically takes 190ms. If there are nondeterministic elements in the code (say, interrupts or context switches), the code path that normally takes 190ms may sometimes stretch to more than 200ms, leading to an occasional watchdog reset. Another issue is the accuracy of the watchdog timer. Many microprocessors use an RC circuit to generate the watchdog clock instead of basing it on the crystal driving the rest of the system. The RC circuit can have a wide tolerance and may be temperature dependent as well. The 200ms timeout may be a nominal value, but I've seen systems where it could vary between 150ms to 250ms. Our 190ms path may lead to a reset on some systems and not on others. Or it might reset on a cold day, but not when it's warm.
In a system where the watchdog varies, the real limit for strobing the watchdog is the minimum possible interval, because that is the value that will work on all systems at all temperatures. If the watchdog has a range of 150ms to 250ms, then the ideal test is to set the watchdog to 100ms, which would give a range of 50ms to 150ms. Now our 190ms path will be guaranteed to lead to a watchdog reset, and so will be identified as a problematic path, which possibly needs more strobes.
Rather than running specific tests with the watchdog set at to a shorter interval, I like to shorten the interval for all systems during development, and then closer to the release, reset it to the desired design interval. In this way most testing is run at the shorter interval, maximizing the chances of catching those troublesome longer paths in the code.
Watch out for opportunities to widen race-condition windows. One system I worked on phased in new operator settings gradually over a period that varied between two and five seconds. The operator was allowed to enter new settings during this short period, but it used a different path through the code. By altering the software to phase in the settings more slowly, taking up to 30 seconds. This widens the window where the alternate path is used giving the tester a greater chance of finding bugs.
In another case a graphical application updated the screen faster than the eye could follow. We slowed it down so that each shape could be seen individually before the next one appeared. We discovered that occasionally some parts of the display were drawn, erased, and drawn again. The end result looked the same, but obviously it was more efficient to render each area just once.
When you get to that final build–the one you think is actually going to ship–make sure you check that any back doors or debugging hooks you added for test and debug purposes are removed from the product. It's not unknown for a product to go to market with streams of debugging information being printed to a serial port.
A tester's work is only finished when he can't find any more bugs, no matter how hard he tries to plumb previously unexplored areas of behavior. Although every product has unique functionality and mis-functionality, perhaps some of the tests described here will help your product be more reliable and arrive in the market with fewer bugs.
Niall Murphy has been designing user interfaces for 14 years. He is the author of Front Panel: Designing Software for Embedded User Interfaces . Murphy teaches and consults on building better user interfaces. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at . Reader feedback to his articles can be found at .
Murphy, Niall. "Safe Memory Utilization," Embedded Systems Programming , April 2000, p. 110.
Murphy, Niall. "Flushing Out Memory Leaks," Embedded Systems Programming , March 2002, p. 37.
Murphy, Niall. "More on Memory Leaks," Embedded Systems Programming , April 2002, p. 31.
Skeep, Robert. "Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile," SIAM News , July 1992, Volume 25, Number 4, p. 11.
Leveson, Nancy. Safeware, System Safety and Computers . Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading, MA, 1995.
Leveson, Nancy and Clark S. Turner. "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents," IEEE Computer , Vol. 26, No. 7, July 1993, pp. 18-41.
Murphy, Niall. "The Programmer as Wordsmith," Embedded Systems Programming , December 2004, p. 9.
New Scientist , 17 Feb 1990, page 18
Murphy, Niall. "Watchdog Timers," Embedded Systems Programming , November 2000, p. 112.
Murphy, Niall and Michael Barr. "Beginner's Corner: Watchdog Timers," Embedded Systems Programming , October 2001, p. 79.
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He proposes to replace income tax on currency exchange operations patent fee — a fixed rate from one point of exchange.
"So we eliminate another prerequisite to conceal the real scale of business, because the amount of the tax will depend on the volume of transactions," says gudgeon.
According to him, the introduction of a patent collection of the national Bank is authorized — this requires changes to the Tax code.
"The national Bank prepares and plans to soon submit to the public authorities its proposals on this issue," he wrote.
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Review of Jesus Christ Superstar by Charlotte Dean (John Paul Gilbey as Jesus)
FOR those of us in our young 20's when the Jesus Christ Superstar album came out in 1970 ahead of the stage show, this was exciting, iconoclastic stuff.
Just three years earlier the musical Hair had literally rocked the establishment. So confident were we in our safe, inherited certainties that we kicked over the traces and shocked our elders in every area of life with no thought for consequences. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll became the new norm as we courted disapproval dressed in our flares, mini-skirts, flamboyant shirts and kaftans.
"Context is all," as Margaret Atwood famously wrote. Those musicals, so confrontational fifty years ago, had their day; times moved on. Yet both Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar are now being revisited in London.
The answer must lie in contemporary, rather than historical context. Nick Huntington, Director of Drama and Theatre, took on this musical 10 years ago as Actor in Residence. When asked how he felt about this production compared with his previous one, his reply was, effectively, "That was then, this is now."
This production was "now" in no uncertain terms. The huge screen at the back of the stage, flanked by two smaller screens at the sides were frequently used to depict real contemporary news, complete with newsreaders and rolling headlines and footage of noisy, rioting mobs with heavy-handed police, fires and destruction. Throughout the show there were reporters, desperate to catch the moment and jostling for sound-bites, with instantaneous relay onto the screens, providing subliminal comparison with the current news on our TVs at home. The audience was in no doubt about contemporary relevance.
In the musical, Jesus was placed in his rightful historical context (1st century Palestine under Roman occupation) where he was adopted by some led by Simon Zealotes as a potential figurehead for uprising. The atmosphere was dangerously unstable, with an undercurrent of discontent and revolution. Freddie Bowles in his padded gilet adopted an impressively aggressive, thuggish stance, referencing the violence of the modern far right, whilst also providing the Zealots' rationale for liberation.
The Roman governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, played by Alfie Peckham, was a tall, leather-coated, threatening figure in Nazi-style military costume. Alone on the stage for his dramatic number recounting his dream, he described his anxiety concerning Jesus' following getting out of hand – for which he would get the blame, whichever way he sided. This explained to some extent his subsequent horrifying cruelty, although he not merely condoned but also personally contributed to the torture of Jesus (unflinchingly enacted on stage by Pilate's alarmingly realistic guards Orlando Squires, Solomon Boon, Audrey Raines and Henry Bullivant) a scene with echoes of the Iraq war of hooding and of torture still rife in prisons and interrogation centres. This production was concerned to emphasise the cruelty of a cruel story, but the horrifying violence was never gratuitous. Again, context is all.
In the biblical Passion accounts, the traditionalist religious leaders of the Jews themselves do not come out well either. Their guilt lay in urging the Roman authorities to act against Jesus in order to keep a grip on their control and to hang on to such power as they possessed. The Sanhedrin council were here satirically portrayed in scarlet robes and bald, tattooed skull caps. Caiaphas, the High Priest, and Annas were played, and sung, very successfully by Joshua Jackson and Emily Hamilton-Bing (in this counter tenor role) and they were joined in Council meetings by the Priests who – now this came as a surprise on reading the programme! – they turned out to be the same actors/singers as the Roman guards (see above). Similar flexibility was also seen in the multiple roles taken on by very many in the cast. All credit to the Director and the students' acting powers that this worked so well.
Tim Rice's libretto is certainly of its time not just in its attitudes but in its assumption that everyone knew the New Testament story and did not need narrative explanations; the drama hurtles on with abruptly dislocated scene changes. The sheer pace of this performance rightly allowed us no time to wish for developments or connections that are not supplied. Extremely efficient, technically faultless, scene changes carried us with headlong momentum as one dramatic situation was replaced by another. This focused attention on the central concern: the characters of Mary Magdalene, Judas and Jesus.
Francesca Bisson as Mary Magdalene was superb. Her musicality and her acting complemented each other in her utterly convincing characterisation. With provocatively hitched-up long skirt and auburn braids she was the archetypal 'scarlet woman', vilified yet sought out by male society, a social outcast deliberately befriended by Jesus, to the disapproval particularly of Judas. Francesca's energy never flagged and her stage presence and focus were always compelling. Her bewilderment at the new type of love that Jesus opened up to her ("I don't know how to love him") was haunting. All in all, it was a truly memorable performance.
On Wednesday night, Jesus was played by John Paul Gilbey. My apologies go to Charlie Watson: I was not able to attend on the nights that Charlie was taking the part. I am sure he was magnificent as well. Although the first half would not have required the 'job share', there is no way that a single actor of school age, could cope emotionally with five performances in four days of the second half. As it was, it was hard to believe that it was a student production, such was the quality of the show. The tone of joyful euphoria among the crowd at the start ("Hosanna") darkens as the tragedy develops. John Paul gained in stature as the drama progressed: his awareness of having started on something he gradually realised he could not deliver or properly understand was sensitively portrayed. The moving scene ("Poor Jerusalem") when the blind and crippled crawl and clamour for his healing showed him overwhelmed at being unable to help the unending numbers of suffering people. Jesus often reveals his uncertainty and confusion, especially regarding his death. Furthermore, we are provided throughout with doubts about Jesus' divinity ("He's just a man"). This is essentially (theologically) the most shocking aspect of the whole musical since the issue is left open at the end.
The Disciples (including two girls to update the historically male group) showed uncomprehending affection for their leader from the outset. Having no clue that discipleship would end up involving what it eventually did, the drunken last supper displayed their innocence in the face of the enormity of the situation. Simon Peter (Peter Lonsdale) had an individual role at the arrest of Jesus and a significant one with his denial during the trial. Victoria Davis featured as the Woman by the Fire in that scene.
The darkness of the stage and the emotional content of many scenes was mitigated in both halves by two bright, brash, up-beat numbers. In the first part, the Temple was exposed with all its sleazy, avaricious, gambling activities as a flashing casino, with red-light sex dens at each side of the stage indicating its underbelly of corruption. The main stage was brilliantly lit and noisy. Fast moving images on the screens indicated the attraction of distraction that such places offer. Mention should be made here of the fantastic band (Musical Director and conductor: Peter B North), drawn from students and music staff, thanks to whose high technical skills the professionalism of the whole production was assured. Music and Drama came together for an unforgettable theatrical experience.
The equivalent scene in the middle of the second half was one of brilliant gold lighting and high camp humour and it came as welcome light relief. King Herod, played by Jamie Layfield, revelled in his role. Dressed in a shimmering gold cat suit, he gyrated and posed while his bevy of gold-sequinned dancers charlestoned their way in perfect synchronicity and high spirits behind him. At the end he stripped off his top half to leave just his gold tie on his chest, to the manifest delight of the audience. The dancers, captained by Victoria Davis, were wonderful throughout the show, acting while dancing, never flagging, often funny, sometimes raunchy, always eye-catching and perfectly disciplined. Congratulations to them and to the choreographer Natasha Hobbs.
Finally, to the anti-hero, Judas Iscariot. With no role-share, I don't know where Alexander Layfield will find the high-octane energy that he brings to this extremely demanding role for the rest of the run; yet I have no doubt that he will. Set impossibly high vocally, he made the artistic decision to power out the volume regardless of where the pitch sat in his voice. This produced realistic displays of raw anger and frustration. He took his audience with him every moment he appeared on stage. Charismatic in his dreadlocks and leather, with lithe, sinuous movement, he was a perfect foil to Jesus and, as is the way of such things since story-telling began, was in danger of upstaging the hero. This was a key part of the musical's original, and to many shocking, conception. We witness the well-intentioned motives involved in Judas' betrayal and identify with his attempts to claw back some self-respect – too late. Nowadays we are more prepared to at least sympathise with his human frailty than was the case in the historical demonising of his part in the story. But betrayal is betrayal, and Judas' contorted logic that he was caught up in the story against his will as a necessary agent and would be "Damned [by Christians] for all time" is never explored within the text of his song. However, sympathise we undoubtedly do. He was a towering presence on the stage and his suicidal hanging was another example of the terrifying realism of this production.
The acting by John Paul Gilbey throughout the second half, building up to and including the crucifixion, was a moving and powerful experience. Indeed, it felt wrong to applaud the numbers (apart from Herod's) from Gethsemane on, and yet one wanted to praise the performances. After so much realistic violence, I had to wonder how the crucifixion would provide the climax of the production in an appropriate manner.
uch was dependent upon the magnificent lighting which created mood and emotion so effectively. Sound and technical wizardry were handled flawlessly. The set design was very creative. The Hayward Theatre lay-out was reversed so that the audience faced the entrance doors, having entered by the side fire exit. A large stage was constructed with four steps across the front of it providing additional areas of movement. It was of sufficient height to accommodate the rising table beneath (for the Council and the Last Supper) and a rising central structure. Scaffolding both sides added useful and visually interesting height. Impressively, the set was constructed by students as well as staff in what was clearly a huge joint endeavour. The cross, designed by Patrick Carberry, was undertaken by the Design and Engineering Department. It was strong but not massive, and the logistics of its construction and its rising securely into position must have taken some doing.
The final image was of the utterly vulnerable human corpse of Jesus whose flesh was further emphasised by the black clothing of his disciples bearing hm away from a now jet-black stage. We were left with total darkness but for five dazzlingly white searchlight beams focused on the cross, which yielded to small white lights framing its outside edges. It was an emotionally powerful ending that satisfied and spoke where words could not.
All praise to a totally committed cast too many to mention individually but who acted their hearts out as disciples, reporters, crowds, mobsters, merchants, even angels (in the ironic "Superstar"). Everyone involved in this collaborative production – including crew, backstage, coaching, musicians, costumes, props – ALL contributed to a spectacular and gripping event. Thank you all, and very many congratulations.


Instructional practices in a face-to-face classroom carry over to a video conferencing course. Beyond these good instructional techniques comes additional practices unique to the video conferencing class. The following are seven delivery or preparation items to "look for" in the distance learning classroom.
Manages classroom video conferencing technology (i.e. camera, presets).
Manages peripheral (i.e. doc camera, computer) over video conferencing.
Manages understanding in support of remote video conferencing technology.
When necessary a proctor or students at remote site demonstrate understanding on supporting their video technology.
Teacher is in view of students at remote site.
Students from sending site are in view of remote site.
All students from remote site or in view of all sites.
Audio is unmuted at sending and remote sites.
Uses timely communication methods to deliver classroom materials and assignment followup.
Uses technology as part of assessment process (i.e. socrative, text messaging).
Uses communication - live or online - in support of teacher/student questions.
Teacher maintains visual contact with both remote and local sites.
Teacher shows equal awareness through communication to students at remote as well as local sites.
Teacher visits remote site schools.
Teacher provides opportunity for group work involving students between all sites.
Teacher uses technology to support collaboration between students from all sites.
Teacher seeks to bring all students together at a common site sometime during the course.
A contingency plan is in place to support system failure.
Plan for recording grades in support of participating schools procedures.
Administrative and or parent conferencing communication plan for student progress.
Participates in local and global communities to explore video conferencing methods.
Participates in "continuing education" opportunities through attendance at regional conferences.
Presenter or contributor to live or online publications.


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An Unlikely Alliance Fights Big Oil
In the fields of Nebraska, Jane Kleeb has grown a bipartisan coalition of farmers, ranchers, tribes and environmental advocates to fight an international pipeline.
BY Gail Ablow | September 20, 2017
Jane Kleeb is a prairie populist. In 2010, she founded the grass-roots organization Bold Nebraska to fight for progressive issues in the red state of Nebraska. Within a few months, Kleeb learned about a pipeline proposed by TransCanada, and she has been fighting it ever since.
Known as Keystone XL (not to be confused with the Dakota Access Pipeline that was challenged at Standing Rock) this pipeline would run from Canada to Nebraska's border with Kansas. It threatens the property rights of farmers and ranchers; the sovereign rights of tribes; the Sandhills, a unique stretch of dunes and grass that covers a quarter of the state and provides habitat for wildlife and recharges the aquifer; and the Ogallala Aquifer itself, an immense underground reservoir of fresh water that supplies the entire region.
For me, Keystone was a moment where we drew a line in the sand and said, 'No more, not this time, not this group of people.'
— Jane Kleeb
Kleeb was new to pipeline politics, but she wasn't new to activism. Her mother was a pro-life activist in Florida where she grew up. And while Kleeb didn't share her mother's views, she said she learned from an early age to have "one foot in grass-roots activism and the other foot in partisan politics and policy" to move issues forward. Kleeb married into a Nebraska cattle ranching family and has seen families driven off their land by big corporations. "For me, Keystone was a moment where we drew a line in the sand and said, 'No more, not this time, not this group of people," she said.
In the past eight years, Kleeb has built a coalition of farmers, ranchers, tribes and climate advocates who are fighting the pipeline in the fields, in the streets, in court, and before the Nebraska Public Service Commission. In fact, Bold Nebraska pushed for the law requiring that the state commission (not the governor or the federal government) approve the permit if the project is to move forward. A ruling is expected by the end of November.
TAGS: activists, keystone pipeline, making change, nebraska, pipelines
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Gail Ablow is a producer for Moyers & Company and a Carnegie Visiting Media Fellow, Democracy.
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Q: Resize drawn rectangle to fit original image I'm developing an application to manipulate images scanned on a wide-image scanner. These images are shown as a ImageBrush on a Canvas.
On this Canvas they can a make Rectangle with the mouse, to define an area to be cropped.
My problem here is to resize the Rectangle according to the original image size, so that it crops the exact area on the original image.
I've tried many things so far and it's just sqeezing my brain, to figure out the right solution.
I know that I need to get the percent that the original image is bigger than the image shown on the canvas.
The dimentions of the original image are:

h: 5606
  w: 7677

And when I show the image, they are:

h: 1058,04
  w: 1910

Which gives these numbers:
float percentWidth = ((originalWidth - resizedWidth) / originalWidth) * 100;
float percentHeight = ((originalHeight - resizedHeight) / originalHeight) * 100;

percentWidth = 75,12049
percentHeight = 81,12665

From here I can't figure how to resize the Rectangle correctly, to fit the original image.
My last approach was this:
int newRectWidth = (int)((originalWidth * percentWidth) / 100);
int newRectHeight = (int)((originalHeight * percentHeight) / 100);
int newRectX = (int)(rectX + ((rectX * percentWidth) / 100));
int newRectY = (int)(rectY + ((rectY * percentHeight) / 100));

Hopefully someone can lead me in the right direction, because i'm off track here and I can't see what i'm missing.
Solution
    private System.Drawing.Rectangle FitRectangleToOriginal(
        float resizedWidth,
        float resizedHeight,
        float originalWidth,
        float originalHeight,
        float rectWidth,
        float rectHeight,
        double rectX,
        double rectY)
    {
        // Calculate the ratio between original and resized image
        float ratioWidth = originalWidth / resizedWidth;
        float ratioHeight = originalHeight / resizedHeight;

        // create a new rectagle, by resizing the old values
        // by the ratio calculated above
        int newRectWidth = (int)(rectWidth * ratioWidth);
        int newRectHeight = (int)(rectHeight * ratioHeight);
        int newRectX = (int)(rectX * ratioWidth);
        int newRectY = (int)(rectY * ratioHeight);

        return new System.Drawing.Rectangle(newRectX, newRectY, newRectWidth, newRectHeight);
    }

A: I think the only reliable option is to let your users zoom in to the image (100% or higher zoom level) and make a selection on part of the image. This way they can make an exact pixel-based selection. (Assuming that the purpose of your selection rectangle is to select part of an image.)
Your problem now is that you're using floating-point calculations because of the 75% zoom level and rounding errors will make your selection rectangles inaccurate. No matter what you do, when you try to make a selection on a shrinked image, you're not selecting exact pixels - you're selecting parts of pixels as you resize your rectangle. Since a partial pixel cannot be selected, the selection edges will be rounded up or down so you either select one pixel too many or one pixel too few in a given direction.
Another issue that I just noticed is that you distort your image - horizontally it's 75% zoom, vertically it's 81%. This makes it even harder for users because the image will be smoothed differently in the two directions. Horizontally 4 original pixels will be interpolated on 3 output pixels; vertically 5 original pixels will be interpolated on 4 output pixels.

A: You are actually doing a form of projection. Don't use percentages, just use the ratio between  5606 and 1058,4 = ~5.30. When the user drags the rectangle, reproject it which is selectedWidth * 5606/1058.4.

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Galvanized by Superstorm Sandy, state lawmakers hit the ground running with a slew of measures designed to alleviate storm victims' insurance troubles. A year later, a few uncontroversial bills have been signed into law, but the future of high-impact pieces of legislation remains foggy.
Dennis Artese, an Anderson Kill PC shareholder who counsels policyholders, said lawmakers are on the right track. They have honed in on some of the key issues that storm victims face after disasters such as Sandy, including anti-concurrent clauses and the ability to bring bad faith actions, Artese said.
Though New York lawmakers have watered down the bill banning anti-concurrent causation clauses so that it applies only when flood exclusions are in play, they nonetheless are realizing that the policy provisions are "inherently unfair," according to Artese.
Robert Chesler, an Anderson Kill shareholder, expressed more skepticism about the future of the bad faith bill in New Jersey, however.


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Overall, Cal Poly's AMA chapter continues to succeed and be ranked as one of the top chapters at the International Collegiate Conference. Due to the dedication of its members and Cal Poly's Learn by Doing education, Cal Poly AMA has been ranked as AMA's top 12 collegiate chapter out of 400 clubs.


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A Holbein Woman
PhotographersFrances Allen, Mary Electa Allen
MediumGelatin Silver, Wood frame
AtelierDunklee & Freeman (Greenfield, MA)
Artists, Framed photograph, Imitation Paintings, Portrait: Woman
Image Dimensions: 20.1 x 16.3 cm laid down
Support Dimensions: 35.2 x 27.8 cm light gray card mount; beaded wood frame: 47.5 x 43.0 x 1.7 cm
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Drawing inspiration from a Renaissance portrait of a young woman and photographed ca. 1890-2, A Holbein Woman was one of the earliest and most successful examples of portraiture done by the Deerfield, MA sisters Francis and Mary Allen. The subject is their mother, Mary Stebbins Allen. (1819-1903) In the 2002 volume The Allen Sisters Pictorial Photographers 1885-1920 by Suzanne L. Flynt, details emerge on background: American social reformer and activist Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) "took great satisfaction in costuming Frances and Mary's mother, Mary Stebbins Allen, for A Holbein Woman (pl. 3). The composition departed from the Allens' previous work ordinarily taken outdoors with even lighting and little evidence of staging. With the creation of A Holbein Woman and Sibyl (pl. 4), inspired by portraits by Renaissance painters Hans Holbein the Younger and the Elder (figs. 7,8), the Allen sisters took their first steps into art photography." (⌘ 1.) (p. 25)
Most likely framed in April, 1896 due to the presence of a dated newspaper broadsheet page inserted behind the backing boards, this example of A Holbein Woman is presented here in its' original Dunklee & Freeman wood frame with replacement rag mat. The presence of an original Allen sisters label with corresponding numbers and title of the work pasted onto the frame backing boards indicates it was additionally exhibited in an unknown salon during the mid to late 1890's.
1896: Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896 : held at the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, May 26th-29th, 1896. (Washington, D.C.)
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180. A Holbein Woman.
"The jury desires to express its commendation of the artistic merits of No. 180, 'The Holbein Woman," which but for certain technical demerits, would have been decorated,"… Source: The American Amateur Photographer, June: p. 237.
1900: Third Philadelphia Photographic Salon
6. A Holbein Woman
Print notes recto: unconserved state: glue remnants to several areas of print margins and to original white acidic over-mat since replaced with museum rag mat similarly cut to original opening; slight area of "burning in" from verso of support above print where wood backing boards had come into contact; small closed tear and possible moisture intrusion to middle of left margin; some glue remnants to border areas of primary gray support; graphite marginalia (inverted) from unknown hand along lower margin of primary support: FS Allen and ME Allen; opposite margin: 1- 16 1/4 x 18 Gray Mat Board Frame
Print notes verso: lateral areas of "burning in" to upper and middle sections of gray primary support where wood backing boards had made long-term contact, since removed.
Frame notes verso: original brown backing paper with remnant of framing establishment: (mould)ings suitable for every style of …..and all the Natural Woods. (DUNK)LEE & FREEMAN, (C)hapman St., Greenfield, Mass.; underneath, (since removed with label preserved) the original wood backing board with pasted white-paper label (7.2 x 13.6 cm) with following: black ink photographers stamp: F.S. & M.E. Allen. Deerfield, Mass.; in black ink believed to be in the hand of the photographers: No 7 A Holbein Woman. and the number 73 in the upper right corner. Additionally, a faint X mark in red ink to lower right corner. A trimmed broadsheet newspaper page (16.25" x 18.00") with April 13 (1896) datelines, possibly the Boston Daily Globe for April 14, was discovered used as backing paper between frame wood backing boards and verso to original acidic mat and print primary support. One of the featured articles concerned a baseball game played in Cincinnati, OH: excerpt: CINCINNATI, April 13- Cincinnati's tribute to the memory of Harry Wright was, from a financial standpoint, rather a disappointment. Only 1462 people contributed their mites to the monument fund. The game itself was worthy of a better attendance, for the survivors Of 82, the only champions Cincinnati ever claimed since the sixty-niners, faced the team of 96.
-The Library of Congress: Albumen print: "A Holbein Woman": ca. 1890: Reproduction number: USZC2-6016: Call number: LOT 3222, no. 13 [P&P]
-A Holbein woman / Allen. Platinum print: Reproduction number: LC-USZC2-5917: Call number: PH - Allen, no. 1 (A size) [P&P] LOT 3222 (former call number)
-A Holbein Woman: [ca. 1890] : gelatin silver print: Reproduction number: LC-USZC2-6015 : Call number: LOT 3222, no. 12 [P&P]
- Memorial Hall Museum | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA: A Holbein Woman: c. 1892: gelatin silver print: 1996.14.1021.1
Provenance: Acquired by this archive in November, 2020 from an antiques dealer who originally purchased it at auction in Deerfield, MA.
⌘ 1. Research by this website reveals that since the interpretive photograph "A Holbein Woman" by the Allen sisters was done in the early 1890s- stage managed by Ellen Gates Starr- likely from contemporary reproductions of the original oil painting then known as "Portrait of a Young Woman" by Hans Holbein the Elder, a new attribution has emerged, although its 16th century artist is lost to history. To wit, the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which owns the original, now lists this work as "formerly attributed to" being by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/1498 -1543), with the assigned title "Portrait of a Woman from Southern Germany" (c.1520-1525). It describes the painting thus: "Over a finely pleated collared blouse, this unknown woman is wearing a fur-lined jacket (a 'Bürstlein'), which she has fastened with a red cord. On her head, she has a rather old-fashioned cap and veil, like those worn by townswomen in Southern Germany. Her pale face stands out well against the blue background.
For a long time, the painting was attributed to the German painter Hans Holbein, who painted similar portraits." The painting can be seen here.
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A bomb hidden in an ambulance has killed at least 95 people and injured more than 150 in the heavily fortified heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the latest in a string of high-profile attacks.
The suicide bomber struck at a police checkpoint where the streets were crowded with people queueing to visit nearby offices and embassies, and vendors serving them. Witnesses said bodies were strewn across the pavement.
"It's a massacre," said Dejan Panic, a coordinator for the nearby emergency hospital, which was nearly overwhelmed by the flood of victims. Dozens were laid out on mattresses in the courtyard to wait for treatment from medics with the Italian charity, which was still tending to patients from previous attacks.
The bombing was the deadliest in Kabul for nearly eight months, a warning that even though the US has stepped up operations against insurgents, they still have the capacity to carry out attacks in government strongholds.
This week alone shut down a charity that serves millions of Afghans by targeting its headquarters, and a Taliban attack on a high-profile hotel and providing vital transport links over militant-controlled territory.
Although US air power and other military support mean insurgents would struggle to mount a direct attack on Kabul, each attack undermines government efforts to create even a limited, protected version of normality.
The Taliban claimed the attack, naming the bomber as Salahuddin from southern Kandahar province. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the blast had killed only police officers, but witnesses described the dead as mostly civilians.
"Many women and children have been killed or wounded, because they were queuing outside the passport department," said Sediqullah Popalzai, a national security official who was near the bomb when it detonated.
Some interior ministry offices and the EU, Dutch and Swedish embassies are on the street that was targeted, but they are heavily fortified and likely to have sustained only limited damage.
The attacker passed a first checkpoint by claiming he was rushing a patient to a nearby hospital, officials said, and then detonated his bomb when he was stopped at a second checkpoint.
The branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the bomber's "harrowing" use of an ambulance could break international law.
"This could amount to perfidy under IHL (). Unacceptable and unjustifiable," the group said on Twitter.
Ambulances are for saving lives, not destroying them.
As ambulances raced to collect the injured, nervous security forces also had to watch out for possible secondary attacks, and the nature of the first attack meant even medical teams were suspect. Popalzai said he had seen police stop one ambulance, and arrest three people inside.
The streets were busy when the bomber struck. As well as the embassies and offices, the checkpoint he targeted is near a popular street of carpet and handicraft shops and a major road. After the explosion all were crammed with injured and terrified survivors desperate to escape.
The attack came a week after Taliban attackers , killing at least 22 people, and four days after an Isis suicide bomber charity in eastern Afghanistan.
It raises serious questions about security, more than three years after then US president Barack Obama .
After the Taliban and Isis made inroads around the country, repeatedly threatening and occasionally overrunning provincial capitals, the US stepped up support for Afghan forces and increased airstrikes.
The officer in charge of the mission, Gen John Nicholson, described the greater US role as a "gamechanger", and said Afghanistan had in its long fight against extremists.
But the recent assaults show insurgents are still capable of complex attacks that are damaging to both morale and infrastructure. And they come in winter, when the Taliban have traditionally retreated to havens in Pakistan, waiting for the summer fighting season.
"The Taliban has demonstrated repeatedly that it can stage mass-casualty attacks in urban spaces, and seemingly at will. To me, that's a sign of strength, not weakness," said Michael Kugelman, a senior analyst for south Asia at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.


THE Bible says in Proverbs, "There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. . . . safety is of the Lord" (21:30, 31). Reassuring statements like this can also provide evidence that God's law protects and saves people from fear and harm.
We can gain and maintain the confidence that God's protection is dependable and adequate, even when we're confronted with danger. This confidence is based on spiritual understanding, and it has practical results. The book of Psalms presents a vivid picture of God's constant care: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies" (23:5). James Moffatt's translation of this verse shows how the enemy becomes harmless: "Thou art my host, spreading a feast for me, while my foes have to look on!" There is no indication in this psalm that human security requires a watchdog, a weapon, a bodyguard, or any other physical means of self-defense. The Lord-the intelligence of man and the universe-is our creator, and our unfailing protector, and our ever present guard.
By referring to God as "my Father," "your Father," and "our Father," Christ Jesus illustrated that God protects all His children. The bond between the creator and His creation is the basis on which we show neighborly love to others, instead of hatred, sensuality, and violence, which are as illegitimate in us as hell is in heaven. Being watchful, and accepting humanity's brotherhood and sisterhood, fully protected by God, we can enjoy freedom from fear of a present or future danger. And past remembrances of danger can be wiped out as well.
Christian Science, discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, teaches how we can stand fearless before menacing threats. It can show you how God's law is universal, unchanging good, and how it inspires one with ideas that help and heal. These ideas reach friend as well as foe with genuine power and security. Like the consistent principle of mathematics, God's law of safety preserves human thought from damaging impulses.
Heaven, God's harmonious government, includes everything real and good. It excludes accidental or intentional injury. When we understand the goodness and authority of God's law, assurance comes of His protection at home, in the workplace, when traveling on foot or in a vehicle. Mrs. Eddy's explanation of Christian Science in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures reveals our ability to reject evil in any form. This is done solely through mental effort. For example, the book includes this advice: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man" (p. 393). This rising and resisting describes the activity of prayer. And prayer brings divine intelligence, fostering thoughts that resolve conflict and danger.
God's protection was shown to me one summer as I explored the remote shore of a lake in a country I was visiting. The caretaker there showed me how he stored wooden boats in a quaint, windowless boathouse. As we were halfway up some stairs leading to the second story of the loft, I felt the man's hand stroke my leg.
This was a physical attack, but my response was not physical-it was mental, and God impelled it. I told him firmly that this was not why I had come there. In this case my prayer gave me the words necessary to protect myself. And this protected him from becoming a criminal. The fact is, the man's attitude toward me changed. We continued on, and I was grateful that I felt aware of God's presence. I feel no bodyguard or self-defense training could have provided the inner peace I felt through trusting God.
Daily prayer that fosters an understanding of God's law continues to bring me proof that He cares for me and for everyone. In all circumstances, there's a law of safety, available to save you and all whom you meet.


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NCC sets April 22 for MNP launch
April 12, 2013, 7:49 a.m.
Tony Ojobo
By Kokumo Goodie, Lagos, Nigeria
After a botched attempt to launch the mobile number portability (MNP) initiative last month, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has finally set April 22 for the launch of the scheme in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.
The Director, Public Affairs of the NCC, Tony Ojobo who disclosed this, said the delays in the launch of the scheme were as a result of the need to tighten all loose ends for a hitch-free operation.
The regulator recently outlined roles expected of stakeholders, particularly telecoms subscribers towards making the scheme successful.
According to the NCC, while service providers and the regulator are getting set to roll out the service, certain important roles were expected from the subscribers using the over 113 million active telephone lines in the country who may want to port their numbers.
Also, Interconnect Clearing House, the company appointed by NCC to create a unified interface billing system, is rounding off the process of bringing the various GSM networks on the MNP platform.
MNP is expected to address many of the ills in the industry, particularly that of poor Quality of Service (QoS). MNP will allow subscribers to change operators without changing numbers.
The Minister of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson, said there would be no going back on the implementation of MNP service in the country, arguing that it will usher-in an new era of competition in the industry.
"We are going ahead with Mobile Number Portability, because it is going to give subscribers lots of choice and freedom. MNP will bring new dimension to the competition in the industry. All network operators will have to work harder to earn the trust of subscribers, because they will now have choices.
"MNP will definitely give consumers varieties of choice but the major issue is for us to improve on our infrastructure and improve services, so that we don't have to be moving from network to network," she added.
The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, Eugene Juwah, said MNP would likely lead to tariff decreases.
The NCC boss said that when the MNP is implemented, it will also give subscribers the options of changing service providers who offer poor services at will while retaining their mobile numbers.
"MNP will definitely give consumer varieties of choice but the major issue is for us to improve on our infrastructure and improve services so that we don't have to be moving from network to network.
"For the successful implementation of this initiative, the commission has developed comprehensive porting guidelines and engaged Number Portability Clearing House managed by a reputable and neutral operator which would act as a centralised database and a unified billing system interface," Juwah said.
He added that it will reduce the number of mobile phones people carry around as they have the option to migrate to the best network of quality, but warned that subscriber identity module (SIMs) not registered and captured in the data base would not be able to migrate.


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Q: gnome-ppp conflicts with resolvconf gnome-ppp package shows the following error in installation:
Conflicts with already installed package resolvconf

wvdial is already installed and all its dependencies are satisfied.

A: You should use GTK PPP: https://sourceforge.net/p/gtk-ppp/ (new gtk3 version of GNOME PPP)


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IATA: May air cargo shows slight pickup amidst continuing capacity crunch
eanwhile, IATA said the cargo load factor rose 10.4 percentage points in May,=.— Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — The global air freight markets in May has shown a slight improvement in the air cargo market but capacity remained unable to meet the demand as a result of the loss of belly cargo operations on passenger aircraft that have been parked, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The trade association for the world's airlines said global demand, measured in cargo tonne-kilometres (CTKs), fell by 20.3 per cent in May compared to the previous year.
"That is an improvement from the 25.6 per cent year-on-year drop recorded in April," it said in a statement today.
Global capacity, measured in available CTKs (ACTKs), shrank by 34.7 per cent in May compared to the previous year, a slight deceleration from the 41.6 per cent year-on-year drop in April.
IATA said belly capacity for international air cargo declined by 66.4 per cent in May compared to the previous year due to the withdrawal of passenger services amidst the COVID-19 crisis, a slight improvement from the 75.1 per cent year-on-year decline in April.
This was partially offset by a 25.2 per cent increase in capacity through expanded use of freighter aircraft.
Meanwhile, IATA said the cargo load factor rose 10.4 percentage points in May, a slight decrease from the 12.8-percentage point rise in April.
However, it said the extent of the increase suggested that there is still pent-up demand for air cargo which cannot be met due to the continued grounding of many passenger flights.
"Global export orders continue to fall but at a slower pace. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) tracking new manufacturing export orders improved from the trough seen in April despite remaining in contractionary territory," it said.
Director-general and chief executive officer Alexandre de Juniac said the gap between demand and capacity showed the challenge in finding the space on the aircraft still flying to get goods to market.
"For that, the prospects for air cargo remains stronger than for the passenger business but the future is very uncertain.
"Economic activity is picking up from April lows as some economies unlock. But predicting the length and depth of the recession remains difficult," he added. — Bernama
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Lurie Children's receives CHIME's Most Wired Digital Health Quality Award
2 years ago By Ivan Cease
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) conducts an annual survey under its Digital Health Most Wired program. The CHIME announced that the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital was the winner of the 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired award.
The survey results revealed that Lurie Children's applied core and advanced technologies into its clinical and business programs to provide effective healthcare services to the patients. The hospital significantly improved health and care in its communities, according to the CHIME. Russell P. Branzell, the president of the CHIME, said, "Digital technology has been a driver of innovation in healthcare for many years now, but never to the degree that we saw in 2020 with the pandemic."
The Digital Health Most Wired program highlights the exemplary performance of healthcare organizations in terms of digital practices. Lisa Dykstra, the senior vice president of Lurie Children's, said, "We are honored to receive the CHIME's Most Wired Digital Health, Certified Level 8, Quality Award." Dykstra added that the hospital was committed to ensuring the digital transformation of its operation for the betterment of patient care.
Lurie Children's will make further investments in the field of technology to improve its healthcare services. Dykstra appreciated the efforts of applications and technology staff in terms of bringing digital practices into the organization. The collaborative efforts of expert business and clinical leaders, and technology staff helped Lurie Children's to achieve this recognition.
It is the third year when the CHIME conducted its survey with some improvements in each successive year. It is also working on the internationalization of this program to provide an overview of the digital healthcare services at the global level.
Ivan Cease
Senior editor of the Chicago Morning Star
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U.S. News once again names Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago among top Children's Hospital
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Cynthia Rigsby appointed as Head of Medical Imaging Department of Lurie Children's
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