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Parlophone Records is a record label, which began in Germany in 1896. It is best known as one of the record labels who put out music by The Beatles in the 1960s. Parlophone's L-shaped logo began as the logo of the German Lindstrom label, which became part of Parlophone.
The company became part of EMI in 1931, and was known at the time especially for jazz and comedy records. They also issued records of "regional music", including works by Scottish and Latin recording artists. George Martin, staff producer, sometimes travelled to Scotland to record popular artists there.
The Beatles were signed to Parlophone in 1962, and released most of their records on the label.
Parlophone continues today with artists like Lily Allen and Radiohead.
In 2012, Universal Music Group bought EMI (the owner of Parlophone), but Universal chose to sell Parlophone to Warner Music Group.


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Ever wondered what that "3" on social media means? You know, when someone comments "3" on a post or sends it as a message? Well, you're not alone! In the world of social media, "3" has become a popular slang term that carries a specific meaning and is widely used by our generation. It's a shortcut, a secret code if you will, that we use to express agreement, approval, or even a sense of enthusiasm towards something. It's like a virtual high-five or a fist bump that we send to show our support or agreement with what someone has posted. So, in this blog, we'll dive deeper into the meaning behind "3" and explore how it has become a part of our unique online language. Get ready to decode the mystery and uncover the power of "3" in the world of social media!
What does <3 mean on social media actually?
In simple terms, when you see someone typing "3" on social media, it's a way of expressing love or affection. It's like sending a virtual heart or a symbol of adoration. You might come across comments like "I love this 3" or "You're amazing 3" on posts. The number "3" represents a sideways heart symbol, where the curves of the number resemble the rounded shape of a heart. It has become a shorthand way for people to show their fondness or appreciation for something or someone. So, the next time you see "3" on social media, know that it's a sweet gesture of affection that adds a touch of love to online interactions.
7 ways to use <3 on social media
Express Love and Affection:
Use "3" to quickly show that you love or really like something on social media. It's like giving a virtual heart or saying "I love this!"
When you see something you admire or enjoy, leave a comment with "3" to let the person know that you think their post is great. It's a simple way to give a quick compliment.
React to Cute or Heartwarming Content:
If you come across something adorable or heartwarming, respond with "3" to show that it made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's like saying "Aww, this is so sweet!"
Support Friends' Achievements:
When your friends accomplish something important, like graduating or getting a promotion, use "3" to celebrate their success and show that you're proud of them.
Send Virtual Hugs:
If someone needs comfort or support, sending "3" can be a way to give them a virtual hug. It shows that you care and want to offer some warmth and encouragement.
If someone shares their artwork, photography, or creative projects, respond with "3" to let them know that you appreciate their talent and think they're really creative.
Using "3" in your social media interactions helps spread positivity. It's a simple and friendly way to show support, love, and appreciation for others, making the online world a happier place.
What are the variations of <3 on social media?
"❤" or Heart Emoji:
The heart emoji is a popular and widely recognized symbol for love and affection. It can be used in place of or alongside "3" to convey similar sentiments.
"Love this!" or "I love it!":
Instead of using a symbol or emoji, you can explicitly express your love by typing out the words. It adds a personal touch to your comment or response.
"So cute!" or "This is adorable!":
When you encounter something adorable or cute, you can use these phrases to show your appreciation and express affection without specifically using "3" or a heart symbol.
"You're the best!" or "You rock!":
These phrases are alternative ways to express admiration, love, and support for someone's achievements, talents, or qualities.
"Sending hugs!" or "Virtual hugs!":
If you want to offer comfort or support to someone, you can use these phrases to send virtual hugs, indicating that you care about them and want to offer reassurance.
"Amazing work!" or "Incredible job!":
When acknowledging someone's creativity or achievements, these phrases can be used to express admiration and appreciation.
Meaning of "3" on social media has evolved into a shorthand expression of love and affection. This simple digit has become a symbol of adoration, similar to a virtual heart, and is used to convey fondness, approval, and support. It adds an extra layer of warmth and emotion to online interactions, allowing us to connect and communicate in a concise yet meaningful way. Whether it's expressing love for a post, appreciating someone's creativity, or celebrating achievements, "3" has become a powerful tool to convey positive sentiments and spread virtual affection. So, the next time you come across "3" on social media, embrace its significance and join in the language of love that has become an integral part of our digital culture.

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AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
SYNOPSIS
 autosplit($file, $dir, $keep, $check, $modtime);
 autosplit_lib_modules(@modules);
DESCRIPTION
This function will split up your program into files that the AutoLoader module can handle. It is used by both the standard perl libraries and by the MakeMaker utility, to automatically configure libraries for autoloading.
The autosplit interface splits the specified file into a hierarchy rooted at the directory $dir. It creates directories as needed to reflect class hierarchy, and creates the file autosplit.ix. This file acts as both forward declaration of all package routines, and as timestamp for the last update of the hierarchy.
The remaining three arguments to autosplit govern other options to the autosplitter.
$keep
If the third argument, $keep, is false, then any pre-existing *.al files in the autoload directory are removed if they are no longer part of the module (obsoleted functions). $keep defaults to 0.
$check
The fourth argument, $check, instructs autosplit to check the module currently being split to ensure that it does include a use specification for the AutoLoader module, and skips the module if AutoLoader is not detected. $check defaults to 1.
$modtime
Lastly, the $modtime argument specifies that autosplit is to check the modification time of the module against that of the autosplit.ix file, and only split the module if it is newer. $modtime defaults to 1.
Typical use of AutoSplit in the perl MakeMaker utility is via the command-line with:
 perl -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1], 0, 1, 1)'
Defined as a Make macro, it is invoked with file and directory arguments; autosplit will split the specified file into the specified directory and delete obsolete .al files, after checking first that the module does use the AutoLoader, and ensuring that the module is not already currently split in its current form (the modtime test).
The autosplit_lib_modules form is used in the building of perl. It takes as input a list of files (modules) that are assumed to reside in a directory lib relative to the current directory. Each file is sent to the autosplitter one at a time, to be split into the directory lib/auto.
In both usages of the autosplitter, only subroutines defined following the perl __END__ token are split out into separate files. Some routines may be placed prior to this marker to force their immediate loading and parsing.
Multiple packages
As of version 1.01 of the AutoSplit module it is possible to have multiple packages within a single file. Both of the following cases are supported:
 package NAME;
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 sub AAA { ... }
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 package NAME::option2;
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 package NAME;
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AutoSplit will inform the user if it is necessary to create the top-level directory specified in the invocation. It is preferred that the script or installation process that invokes AutoSplit have created the full directory path ahead of time. This warning may indicate that the module is being split into an incorrect path.
AutoSplit will warn the user of all subroutines whose name causes potential file naming conflicts on machines with drastically limited (8 characters or less) file name length. Since the subroutine name is used as the file name, these warnings can aid in portability to such systems.
Warnings are issued and the file skipped if AutoSplit cannot locate either the __END__ marker or a ''package Name;''-style specification.
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Join the Christ and creation conversation
The annual Uniting Mission and Education (UME) Faith and Ecology e-seminar hopes again to inspire enriching conversations, as theologians from across Australia come together to address 'Christ and Creation' on November 20. Last year this event attracted more than 100 participants to its inaugural e-seminar.
Uniting Earth is hosting the event, with the main hub in NSW located at Pitt St Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St, Sydney.
Speakers will look to answer the following questions: How can we tell the story of Christ in a way, which is good news for the whole of the Creation that God desires to be reconciled and renewed? What does the reconciliation and renewal of Creation even mean?
In collaboration with Uniting Church colleges, speakers representing each state will be able to engage with participants in person and online.
Uniting Earth's Rev. Dr Jason John is co-coordinating the e-seminar. He says the online aspect means people living in rural areas also can be part of the e-seminar that will include Q&A sessions, as well as workshops.
"Environmental scientists are challenging us to tell the good news in a Creation story," says Rev. Dr John as he explains the purpose of the ecology conversation in November. Key aspects of this conversation will be how human activity is threatening the environment, and how we view God in our world. "The idea that God is in control is even further challenged. We have seized control [of the environment], with far more power than we have wisdom."
The e-seminar will try to answer how the good news fits into this narrative. "[It's about asking] what is the connection between the Christ we follow, and the Creation over which God has, according to our Basis of Union, reasserted claim," says Rev. Dr John.
With in-depth discussions and a diverse range of speakers, participants will come away better prepared, and inspired, to answer questions about Christ and Creation.
The e-seminar runs from 11:30am to 5:30pm (AEST), 20 November. You can be involved in the live conversation at Pitt St Uniting Church (gold coin donation) or online, via another local hub, or from home.
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Compiling Variables
Scope Analysis
To compile E variable usage into C++ using ENative, the E compiler must determine which of the several kinds of variable it is dealing with. But before we can make these distinctions, we first need to introduce a few definitions.
 - An allocation-contour is a coarsening of the normal notion of a scope-contour in order to aggregate variable introduction as much as possible without changing the semantics. In Kernel-E, an allocation-contour is the scope contour around a method, matcher, or loop. Given unique variable naming, the declaration of any non-outer-variable (ie, any variable within a scope box) may be moved to the closest enclosing allocation-contour without changing its semantics.
 - A lexical-composite is a group of objects defined in the same allocation-contour. It is a special case of the composite defined here.
 - Similarly, the objects defined within a lexical composite are deemed lexical-facets. The objects defined directly within a lexical composite (ie, not nested within an inner allocation contour) are direct-lexical-facets of the lexical composite.
 - A frame is the state of a lexical-composite. It's the union of the non-outer-variables used freely by any of the lexical-facets of a lexical-composite. From directly within an object (ie, not within a nested object) the frame holding the state of this object is the object-frame.
An example facet/composite is:
def getterSetterPair(var value) :any {
 def getter() :any { value }
 def setter(newValue) { value := newValue }
 [getter, setter]
}
The getterSetterPair function defines an allocation-contour, as do the two nested functions. Since getter and setter are both defined directly within this allocation-contour (not within a nested contour), they jointly form a lexical-composite, of which they are the two direct-lexical-facets. The variables defined within this allocation-contour are "value", "getter", and "setter". However, only "value" is used freely by any of the lexical-facets, so the lexical-composite's frame holds just this one variable.
We now distinguish along several dimensions of kinds of variables usage. First, according to where the variable may live:
 - A Local is a variable defined in some allocation-contour, whose current use is directly within this object or top-level expression (ie, not within a nested object definition), and one that either hasn't been optimized into a FastField (see below), or is final (so it doesn't matter if it is also a FastField). Local variables are implemented directly as C++ local Fat Pointer variables. "getter", "setter", and "newValue" above are Locals.
 - A Field is a state variable of a lexical-composite, so it lives in the frame of that lexical-composite. It is used freely by at least one lexical-facet of that composite. Fields are implemented by indexing into the frame containing that field. From directly within an object, a field of this object's object-frame is an instance-variable. "value" is a Field of the above lexical composite. From directly within getter or setter, "value" is an instance-variable.
 - An Outer variable is one whose defining occurence is outside any scope box, and is therefore considered to be part of the outer scope. Since this scope may be outside the control of the compiler, we don't optimize this case at all, but rather fall back on the pure naive computational model: Outer variables are implemented by explicitly calling the Scope-object which is the outer scope of the top-level expression being evaluated. "any" above is an outer-variable.
 Our one (transparent) optimization of outer variables is that, within an object definition, we obtain access to the outer scope from the enclosing object's Script rather than its state-array, even though the outer scope is concenptually part of the object's state rather than its behavior. This optimization places a severe limit on separate compilation, as a Script would then be specific to the outer scope in which the top-level expression was evaluated. For various reasons, we were planning to make compilation this specific and this late anyway, so this is fine.
Deslotifying
For Locals and Fields, an earlier phase of compilation is the deslotifying source-to-source transformation. In the output of this transformation, all non-outer-variables are declared only ":settable" or ":final", to indicate whether or not they're mutable. From a lambda-calculus perspective, a ":final" variable is a pure lambda binding, while a ":settable" variable is a Scheme-like lexically shared mutable location. The transformation cases:
Before After
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Each box consists of four lines, corresponding to the four variable usage constructs below: definition, access, assignment, and slot-access.
XXX Note: the above after code needs a way to deal with coercion failure. This probably requires a change to the coercion protocol.
Should we build a compiler capable of aggresive inlining of both code and data, we may no longer need to deslotify as aggresively or at all. Rather, many of the cases that follow could have been generated by inlining Slots. Put another way, deslotifying, and the other optimizations below, can be seen as special-cases for Slots of various general purpose optimizations.
Allocation Type
Following this transformation, our variable usages may now be further classified according to where their storage is allocated.
 - A Boxed variable needs separately allocated storage for one mutable Fat Pointer. The compiler generates code to access and assign to this variable by directly accessing and assigning to this separately allocated storage. We refer to this separate storage as a Box. An example would be a mutable variable (one declared ":settable" after deslotifying) that is used by both a direct and an indirect lexical-facet of its defining lexical-composite. Another example would be a mutable Local for which there exists a slot-access expression. (Are there any other cases?)
 As we will see below, a Box can also serve as the state for two primitive kinds of Slots: a settable Slot, when a pointer to a Box is paired with a SettableBoxScript, and a final Slot, when a pointer to a Box is paired with a FinalBoxScript.
 - A Fast variable is one for whom the compiler was able to determine that a Box was necessary. The variable's value may be stored where the reference to the Box would have been stored, and it is accessed and assigned by C++-level access and assignment to this location.
Crossing these, we get the following five kinds of variable usage:
Fast
Boxed
Locals
Fields
Outers

Variable Usage Constructs
Deslotified Kernel-E has four constructs for using variables:
 - Variable Definition. The defining occurence of a variable occurs only in a FinalPattern or a VarPattern:
 FinalPattern:
 varName :ValueGuardExpr
 VarPattern:
 var varName :SlotGuardExpr
 In both cases, when this pattern is matched against a specimen, the match always succeeds and the specimen becomes the initial value of the variable. The difference between ":settable" and ":final" only affects the other variable usage constructs.
 - Variable access. This is simply the use occurence of a variable name as an expression (for language history weenies, an "rValue"). For example, "a" in "a + b" is an access to the variable named "a".
 - Variable assignment. A use occurence of a variable on the left side of an assignment expression. The assignment expression as a whole has the value the expression on the right evaluates to, but we don't bother to show this in the implementation sketch below. This detail can often be optimized out anyway, as an E compiler should notice that most assignments are evaluated only for effect. It is a static error to assign to a value declared ":final". Such programs must be rejected at compile time.
 - Slot access. The "&name" expression evaluates to a Slot for accessing or modifying the value of variable "name". If the variable is declared ":settable", the returned Slot object will respond


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University-approved SM groups serve an important function by providing necessary safe sex education for students. SM is recognized as a normal form of sexual expression and is practiced routinely by approximately 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. To serve these millions of people, there are over 500 educational and social SM groups in the U.S. alone teaching adults about safe, sane and consensual sexual expression.
SM is not assault. SM does not involve inflicting unwanted, offensive or fearful activities on an individual. People who engage in SM activities do so willingly and consensually and they can stop the activities at any time. This is similar to the behavior that is involved in many sporting activities such as Iowa State's Boxing Club or football team.
Regarding assault, Iowa State Criminal Code Section 708.1 states:
Cuffs workshops are voluntary and by definition cannot be criminal. "Case law in Iowa does not explicitly define SM activities as crimes or assault; they're simply not offered any special protection under the law," states Susan Wright, Spokesperson for NCSF. "The current controversy over Cuffs has arisen simply because SM involves sexual behavior."
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Structural repair in marine environments
Nature's forces of deterioration are constant and unrelenting. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in marine environments, where corrosion, wave action, marine organisms and other forces are continually at work. The impact of deterioration can range from aesthetic issues to the general serviceability of a structure, including loss of section and reduced load bearing capacity. Severe deterioration can even result in the abandonment of a structure.
The Advanced Pile Encapsulation Process has been designed to address these issues. Since 1984, MasterBrace Pile Encapsulation Systems have been used on a wide variety of marine and industrial applications, including bridges, offshore oil and gas structures, dams, piers, pipelines and chemical process facilities.

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indexed. This way, two or more people can work on the same package together, and upload it under their own accounts (without causing the upload to be marked unauthorized). Thus, PAUSE credentials do not need to be shared.
This provides a nice solution to the malicious upload problem, but also has implications for team-maintained packages. In particular, consider the case where there are two authors working on Acme::Library.
 1. Alice uploads the first version to CPAN, containing modules: Acme::Library and Acme::Library::Main.
 2. The PAUSE Indexer grants Alice first-come permissions to both Acme::Library and Acme::Library::Main.
 3. Alice grants Bob co-maintainer status on both Acme::Library and Acme::Library::Main.
 4. Bob creates a new Acme::Library::Other module and adds it to the package.
 5. The PAUSE Indexer grants Bob first-come permissions to Acme::Library::Other.
 6. Subsequent uploads by Alice will cause the upload of Acme::Library::Other to be marked UNAUTHORIZED.
Solutions
Clever Perl authors have attempted to solve this problem in many different ways over the years, but none of them have been widely successful because they all rely on some degree of human interaction.
Shared PAUSE Accounts
Some notable projects have attempted to solve the issue by creating a shared PAUSE user to hold the requisite first-come or module list upload permissions, which may then be granted to all other team members through the existing co-maintainer facility.
Alternatively, since it is easier for smaller projects, many modules simply assign first-come permissions to a single person, who is then in charge of providing co-maintainer permissions to others who would like to work on it.
Both of these approaches have the same limitation: any people uploading new modules must remember to assign first-come permissions to the group or user in question. In our case, Bob should have assigned first-come permissions to Acme::Library::Other to Alice, who then must pass co-maintainer permissions back to Bob. Unfortunately, this almost never happens, and Alice must chase down Bob (who happens to be on vacation in Antarctica) or, alternatively, the already over-worked PAUSE administrators.
Single Uploader
Some projects deal with this issue by sharing a version control system and having all the uploads go through a single person, in our case, Alice. This fixes the permission problem, since first-come permissions are always granted to Alice, but it results in a single point of failure. If there are some serious security issues requiring an immediate release, Alice must be available (and, as luck would have it, she is vacationing in Antarctica at the time).
Enter x_authority
One proposed solution, which is used in projects including Moose and Catalyst, is to use a special field in the CPAN Metadata file (META.yml or META.json) that defines someone as the "authority" for first-come namespaces in a distribution.
This is how it would work for Alice's Acme::Library distribution:
 1. Alice uploads a package to CPAN, containing modules: Acme::Library and Acme::Library::Main.
 2. Alice specifies, in META.yml:
 x_authority: cpan:ALICE
 This refers to Alice's PAUSE login, and is the person to whom permissions for new modules uploaded in this distribution are assigned.
 3. Alice grants Bob co-maintainer status on both Acme::Library and Acme::Library::Main.
 4. Bob creates a new Acme::Library::Other module and adds it to the package
 5. The PAUSE indexer, seeing the x_authority defined in META.yml, grants Alice (not Bob!) first-come permissions to Acme::Library::Other. At this time, Bob also automatically gets co-maintainer permissions to Acme::Library::Other.
 6. Subsequent uploads by Alice will be indexed properly.
Problems
There are still some outstanding issues that need to be resolved, but the x_authority proposal represents a giant leap forward for team-maintained software.
The name: any keys not part of the CPAN Metadata Specification must be prefixed with "x_" – eventually, once it is used by more people and accepted into the specification, this name will become, simply, "authority."
Other comaintainers: if Charlie joined the project prior to Bob's upload of Acme::Library::Other, then Alice still needs to grant co-maintainer permissions to Charlie. Unfortunately, the PAUSE Indexer cannot automatically grant permissions to him, since it has no notion of a "distribution," only module namespaces.
Malicious uploaders: in the worst case, if Eve joins the project and maliciously (or unintentionally!) changes the x_authority, she will automatically get first-come permissions on the namespace of any modules she adds. However, this is the same behaviour that we had in the absence of x_authority.
Conclusions
Ultimately, the benefits of this feature (making group maintenance easier) drastically outweigh the cost (only a few small changes need to be made to the PAUSE Indexer). They are unlikely to cause any problems in practice, and the worst-case behaviour is the same as if we did not have x_authority at all.
It isn't perfect, but it is a solution that requires minimal effort and minimal changes to PAUSE. Eventually, the goal is to create a more sophisticated system that will handle the issues outlined above, as well as more complex ones, such as renaming distributions or moving modules between distributions.
Thanks to Florian Ragwitz for spending some time discussing x_authority at length with me. He and Leon Timmermans proofread this article prior to publication.
This is the second part of a two-part series (the first part provides an introduction) discussing the role of smart grids in electric power distribution systems. We will explore some past and current installations of smart grids, discussing their motivating factors, planning, implementation and results. Essentially, this article is a discussion where we learn both from our successes and our failures in the power industry, to inform our future decisions.
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Smart meters are the some of the earliest intelligent devices installed in distribution networks and critical to enabling the smart grid of the future. One of the biggest issues that every smart grid initiative encounters when attempting to incorporate the technology into their system is the public perception that smart meters violate the right to privacy. Consequently, if the utility does not handle the situation tactfully, the reduction in the rate of consumer participation can diminish the practical gain from smart grid installations.
As mentioned previously, smart meters are capable of communicating wirelessly with the utility, receiving consumer usage data with the potential to control OpenHAN-compliant appliances remotely. In the face of intelligent adversaries with increasingly powerful computing systems, it is important to provide a significant degree of security and future proofing.
In 2005, the Netherlands electricity distribution company Oxxio began widespread introduction of a smart meter for both gas and electricity. When the European parliament issued a directive to member states to begin installation of smart metering equipment, the public was neither educated nor reassured about the new technology. Economy minister Maria van der Hoeven decided to push for compulsory installation of smart meters and punishing refusal to install them with a fine of up to €17,000 or six months in prison. Amidst privacy concerns, consumer protection organizations fought rigorously against the law and won; smart meters can now only be installed on a voluntary basis as requested by consumers [1].
We must learn from this stark lesson and avoid a similar outcome in future installations by ensuring adequate education for the public in order to assuage their fears and uncertainty, ultimately to ensure vital consumer participation.
Ontario
While the amount and timing of data provided by smart meters from the field does not pose serious privacy risks from internal misuse, there many security concerns surrounding external adversaries. In particular, there is the potential for malicious users to modify their usage data in order to influence consumer billing, either by reducing their own consumption or as a financial attack against someone else. Since the utilities would be making design decisions based on the recorded trends, outside manipulation of the data could cause catastrophic effects to equipment if not upgraded when needed due to underrepresentation of actual power consumption.
In Ontario, the current smart grid deployment initiative involves the government, Hydro One's distribution business as well as other local utilities. It demonstrates the need for very close cooperation between the utilities and their regulatory bodies, especially since much of their current success can be attributed to their work communicating with users. Learning from errors in past smart grid implementations, the Ontario government established several websites acting as a central point of origin describing smart meters, their function and their overall objectives.
For support for the technical aspects of the deployment, Hydro One has partnered with Trilliant Technologies, which is a company that "provides intelligent network solutions and software to utilities for advanced metering, and Smart Grid management" [2]. Trilliant's expertise and extensive smart metering technology portfolio reduces Hydro One's risk and guarantees a higher degree of flexibility than with other vendors. The smart meters operate in the unlicensed 2.4GHz radio frequency commonly used for ZigBee, Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) and Bluetooth, with Trilliant providing both the metering and the related communication infrastructure. Tri


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Graford, TX is a small town located in Palo Pinto County in North Texas. Although it is small, there have been several important historical events that have taken place near Graford. Here are 7 of the most significant ones:
1. The Spanish Conquest: The Spanish Conquest is a major part of Texas history. The Spanish came to Texas in the 1500s to colonize the land and spread their religion. The first recorded Spanish expedition in Texas was led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540. His expedition reached the Palo Pinto Mountains, which are just east of Graford.
2. The Civil War: Texas was part of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In 1863, Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley led a campaign to take control of New Mexico and Colorado. His troops traveled through Texas and crossed the Brazos River near Graford.
3. The Chisholm Trail: The Chisholm Trail was a cattle drive route that stretched from Texas to Kansas in the late 1800s. Many cowboys drove cattle through Graford on their way north to the railheads.
4. Oil Discovery: In the early 1900s, oil was discovered in nearby Ranger. This led to the oil boom that helped transform Texas into an economic powerhouse. Many oil companies set up operations in the area, including Texaco and Gulf Oil.
5. World War II: During World War II, several military bases were built in Texas. The closest base to Graford was Camp Wolters, which was located in Mineral Wells. The base trained soldiers for the war effort and was active from 1925 to 1946.
6. Nuclear Power: In the 1970s, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant was built just south of Graford. The plant still generates electricity to this day and provides power to more than 1 million homes in the area.
7. Space Exploration: The Johnson Space Center in Houston is one of the most important space exploration centers in the world. Many astronauts, engineers, and scientists who worked on the space program are from Texas. Graford is just a few hours' drive from Houston, and many Texans are proud of their state's contributions to space exploration.
In conclusion, Graford may be a small town, but it has been a witness to many significant historical events. From the Spanish Conquest to the Nuclear Power Plant, the area has been an important part of Texas history. Texans are proud of their state's contributions to history, and Graford plays an important role in that story.
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WASHINGTON -- Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court yesterday rejected the Clinton administration's plan to use statistical sampling to make up for individuals who get overlooked in the 2000 census.
The court ruled that the allocation of House of Representatives seats after the next census must be based on a head count.
The decision was a major setback for cities, for the Democratic Party and for a key part of its following: minorities, who are more often missed in counts by census-takers. The "undercount" in the 1990 census left out more than 4 million people, mainly urban minorities and children, according to the Census Bureau.
The justices left open the possibility that sampling could be used to adjust population figures for two purposes -- dividing up $180 billion in federal aid to the states and redrawing election districts at other levels of government.
It ruled narrowly that the census law does not permit sampling during the count every decade that is used to reapportion the 435 House seats among the states. It did not rule on the broader question of whether sampling is unconstitutional.
However, four of the justices in the majority said "a strong case can be made" that sampling is unconstitutional. It would have taken five votes to establish that proposition.
The challenge to the Clinton administration's plan for the first-time use of sampling in the decennial census was made by the House, by four counties and by individual voters in 13 states. The court did not rule on whether the House could challenge the plan but found that the other challengers had made their case.
The court majority decided an actual count -- in person, or by mail with follow-up, in-person contacts -- is the only method allowed by federal census law for House apportionment.
"From the very first census, the census of 1790," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the majority, "Congress has prohibited the use of statistical sampling in calculating the population for purposes of [House] apportionment."
To Baltimore's dismay
Baltimore, one of the cities in which minority population is thought to be undercounted in every census, could lose some access to federal money if sampling is not allowed for federal funding purposes after the 2000 census. The city's relative power in the the General Assembly also could be adversely affected.
News of the decision frustrated officials in Baltimore, where one of every four dollars spent in the city's $1.8 billion annual budget comes from the federal government.
City leaders, including Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, supported census sampling, noting that the majority of Baltimore's population -- 60 percent -- is black.
In the 1990 census, an estimated 4.4 percent of the nation's African-American population was not counted, the biggest segment being males ages 18 to 34.
Baltimore officials say minorities tend to be undercounted because, if they are poor, they do not own property and are less likely to respond to census surveys.
"It's a shame," said Gloria Griffin, a city planner helping to organize a group to ensure a more accurate Baltimore census. "Those poor souls who really need [the federal aid] are not going to get it."
If sampling is done next year for purposes other than House apportionment, it could result in two versions of the nation's 2000 population: one for allocation of seats in the House, a second for everything else.
But sampling can occur next year only if Congress approves the necessary money. Republicans strongly oppose sampling, because it appears to favor Democrats.
Yesterday's decision, because of its limited scope, reignited that partisan controversy as it bears upon the Census Bureau's legal authority to use sampling techniques to calculate national, state and local populations for these key purposes:
Dividing $180 billion in federal funding for social programs -- an allocation keyed to population;
Calculating where to draw the lines for House election districts, once the seats have been apportioned among the states, and districts for state legislatures and local governing bodies -- keyed to population within states.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert repeated the GOP opposition after the court's ruling, saying: "The [Clinton] administration should abandon its illegal and risky polling scheme and start preparing for a true head count."
President Clinton appears to have no intention of abandoning support for sampling within the limits that the Supreme Court ruling may permit. He reiterated his support for sampling in his State of the Union message last week, and the White House noted pointedly yesterday that the high court had not ruled sampling to be unconstitutional.
House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat, interpreted the ruling to mean that the Census Bureau is required to do sampling for purposes of redistricting and distribution of federal funding.

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Effect of Sugar Substitution with Dates Puree (Phoenix dactylifera L.) on the Physical and Organoleptic Characteristics of Kefir Ice Cream
Keywords:Kefir ice cream, dates puree, substitution.
The sour taste of kefir ice cream is less attractive with consumers, so it is necessary to add sweeteners. Dates can be used as a natural sweetener in making kefir ice cream. The aims of this research is to determine the effect of sugar substitution with dates puree on overrun, melting rates, viscosity, pH value and organoleptic properties of kefir ice cream. The method used in this research was an experimental with Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 4 replications. Overrun, melting rates, viscosity and pH values were analyzed by ANOVA test and followed by Duncan Multiple Range Test, meanwhile organoleptic characteristic were analyzed by Kruskall Wallis test and followed by Mann-Whitney test. The results showed that the substitution of sugar with dates puree as a sweetener had a significant effect (p<0.05) on overrun, melting rates, viscosity and pH value of kefir ice cream. Substitution of sugar with dates puree had a significant effect (p<0.05) on sweetness, sourness, brownish color and softness of kefir ice cream. The sugar substitution with dates puree 25%: 75% (T1) had the best overrun, melting rate as well as the organoleptic characteristic because it was able to reduce the sour taste of kefir ice cream
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C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules to Performance
Here are the remaining rules to performance:
Let's have a closer look at rule Per.11 and rule Per.19.
Per.11: Move computation from run time to compile time
The example shows the simple gcd algorithm which calculates the greatest common division at runtime. gcd uses for its calculation the euclidean algorithm.
int gcd(int a, int b){
 while (b!= 0){
 auto t= b;
 b= a % b;
 a= t;
 return a;
By declaring gcd as constexpr gcd can quite easily make a function that can run at compile time. There are only a few restrictions on constexpr functions in C++14. gcd must not use static or thread_local variables, exception handling, goto statements, and all variables have to be initialised. Additionally, variables have to be of literal type.
Let's try it out.
// gcd.cpp
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constexpr int gcd(int a, int b){
 while (b!= 0){
 auto t= b;
 b= a % b;
 a= t;
 return a;
int main(){
 std::cout << std::endl;
 constexpr auto res = gcd(121, 11); // (1)
 std::cout << "gcd(121, 11) = " << res << std::endl;
 auto val = 121; // (3)
 auto res2 = gcd(val, 11); // (2)
 std::cout << "gcd(val, 11) = " << res2 << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
Declaring gcd to a constexpr function does not mean that it has to run at compile time. It means that gcd has the potential to run at compile time. A constexpr function has to be executed at compile if used in a constant expression. (1) is a constant expression because I ask for the result with a contexpr variable res (2). (3) is not a constant expression because res2 is not a constant expression. When I change res2 to constexpr auto res2, I would get an error: val is not a constant expression. Here is the output of the program.
Once more, here is the key observation. You can use a constexpr function at runtime and at compile time. To use it at compile its arguments have to be constant expressions.
You don't believe me that line (1) will be executed at compile time? Here is the proof: the assembler instructions to line (1) generated from gcc 7.3 with maximum optimisation level. I created the output with the help of the Compiler Explorer from Matt Godbolt.
The function call gcd(121, 11) boils down to its result: 11.
Templates are often used to make the decision at compile time. There is a nice example of this idea in the C++ Core Guidelines. A popular technique is to provide a handle for storing small objects on the stack and big objects on the heap. Here is the example:
template
struct Scoped { // store a T in Scoped
 //...
 T obj;
template
struct On_heap { // store a T on the free store
 //...
 T* objp;
template
using Handle = typename std::conditional<(sizeof(T) <= on_stack_max), // (1)
 Scoped, // first alternative (2)
 On_heap // second alternative (3)
void f()
 Handle v1; // the double goes on the stack
 Handle> v2; // the array goes on the free store
 //...
How does it work? std::conditional in line (1) is a ternary operator from the type-traits library. In contrast to the ternary operator at runtime (a ? b : cstd::condition will be executed at compile time. This means if std::conditional<(sizeof(T) <= on_stack_max) is evaluated to true, the first alternative is used at runtime. If not, the second alternative.
Per.19: Access memory predictably
What does that mean? If you read an int from memory more than the size of one int is actually read from memory. An entire cache line is read from memory and stored in a cache. On modern architectures, a cache line has typically 64 bytes. If you now request an additional variable from memory and this variable is on the previous cache, the read directly uses this cache and the operation is much faster.
A data structure such as std::vector which stores its data in a contiguous memory block, is a cache line data structure because each element in the cache line will typically be used. A std::vector has a size and a capacity and can grow only in one direction. The capacity is greater than its size and indicates when it is necessary to allocate memory. This argumentation also applies to std::vector and std::array although std::array has no capacity.
My argumentation to std::vector will not hold for a std::list or a std::forward_list. Both containers consist of nodes that are double or single linked.
The std::forward_list can only grow in one direction.
forward list
std::deque is something in between because it is kind of a double linked list of small arrays.
This was the theory of cache lines. Now I'm curious. Does it make a difference to read and accumulate all elements from std::vector, a std::deque, std::list, and std::forward_list. The small program should give an answer.
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void sumUp(T& t, const std::string& cont){ // (5)
 std::size_t res = std::accumulate(t.begin(), t.end(), 0LL);
 std::chrono::duration last= std::chrono::steady_clock::now() - begin;
 std::cout << cont << std::endl;
 std::cout << "time: " << last.count() << std::endl;
 std::cout << "res: " << res << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
 std::cout << std::endl;
int main(){
 std::cout << std::endl;
 std::random_device seed; // (1)
 std::mt19937 engine(seed());
 std::vector randNumbers;
 std::vector myVec(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myVec,"std::vector"); // (2)
 std::dequemyDec(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myDec,"std::deque"); // (3)
 std::listmyList(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myList,"std::list"); // (4)
 std::forward_listmyForwardList(randNumbers.begin(), randNumbers.end());
 sumUp(myForwardList,"std::forward_list"); // (5)
The program memoryAccess.cpp first creates 100 Million random numbers between 0 and 100 (1). Then it accumulates the elements using a std::vector (2), a std::deque (3), a std::list (4), and a std::forward_list (5). The actual work is done in the function sumUp (6). I assume that Linux and Windows use a quite similar implementation of std::accumulate; therefore the access time of the elements is the dominant factor for the overall performance.
template
T accumulate(InputIt first, InputIt last, T init)
 for (; first!= last; ++first) {
 init = init + *first;
 return init;
I compiled the program with maximum optimisation and executed it on Linux and Windows. I'm not interested in the comparison between Linux and Windows because that would be a comparison between a desktop PC and a Laptop. I'm interested in the relative performance numbers of the four containers. Here are they:memoryAccessWin
To get the big picture. Here are my observations:
 - std::vector is 10 times faster than std::list or std::forward_list on Linux and std::vector is 30 times faster than std::list or std::forward_list on Windows.
 - std::vector is 1.5 times faster than std::deque on Linux, but std::vector is 5 times faster than std::deque on Windows. The reason may be that the double linked small arrays are bigger on Linux than on Windows. The effect is that the access time is more vectors.
 - std::deque is 6 times faster than std::list and std::forward_list. This holds for Linux and Windows.
 - std::list and std::forward_list are in the same ballpark on Linux and Windows.
I don't want to overestimate my performance numbers but one key observation is obvious. The more cache line aware the container is, the faster is the access time of the elements: std::vector > std::deque > (std::list, std::forward_list).
What's next?
That was it to performance. With the next post, I will start to write about the rules of concurrency. I


Error handling in Fulcro: 3 approaches
I present three ways of detecting, handling, and showing server-side errors: globally and at the component level.
By default, Fulcro considers only non-200 HTTP status as an error. It is up to you to tell it what is an error and how to handle it.
This is somewhat controversial - as Programming with Pure Optimism in the Fulcro Developers Guide explains:
A server should not throw an exception and trigger a need for error handling unless there is a real, non-recoverable situation.
And, as Tony explained elsewhere (paraphrasing):
Make sure resolvers never throw, and have them return errors as first-class data. Only (detectable) security hacks and (unexpected) bugs should be hard-core errors. Intentional behavior of your server should always return a sensical value for a query, which may in fact simply be something like: "form save failed". In that case components can query for problems with a real query prop, and each resolver can populate that key with an error if it has one. So, if you want to do component-level error handling, just adopt that philosophy and make remote-error? assume that something serious went wrong and the user probably should call support, reload the page, and perhaps even log back in. (You can for example define your own defresolver macro that automatically adds error handling.)
In my case, I have an internal application and I encounter mostly bugs and downstream service issues so this approach is a better fit for me than if I had a public-facing application.
Approach 1: Global error detection and display
Configure Pathom
Make sure to include the p/error-handler-plugin in your Pathom parser. Thus the result of any call might include the map ::p/errors with a path and error details.
Detect errors
Even if pathom returns any ::p/errors, it will not be visible to your code unless you ask for it. You can leverage the :global-eql-transform to ask for it in every query - see how RAD does it.
Set the :remote-error? on your app to a function that returns true if there are errors:
(defonce app
 (app/fulcro-app
 {:remote-error?
 (fn remote-error? [{:keys [body] :as result}]
 (or
 (app/default-remote-error? result) ; if status <> 200
 (map? (:_URL_ body))))
 ;; ...
 }))
When :remote-error? returns true, Fulcro's :global-error-action will be called. We can use it to store the error into the state:
(defn global-error-action
 "Run when app's :remote-error? returns true"
 [{:keys [app state], {:keys [body error-text]} :result :as env}]
 (let [pathom-errs (:_URL_ body)
 msg (cond
 (seq error-text)
 error-text
 pathom-errs
 (->> pathom-errs
 (map (fn [[query {{:keys [message data]} :_URL_ :as val}]]
 (str query
 " failed with "
 (or (and message (str message (when (seq data) (str ", extra data: " data))))
 val))))
 (str/join " | "))
 :else
 (str body))]
 ;; Store the error into the state for display:
 (swap! state assoc :ui/global-error msg)))
;; ...
(defonce app
 (app/fulcro-app
 {:remote-error? ...
 :global-error-action global-error-action
 ;; ...
 }))
Display an error
Let's add an error display component right under the root. I haven't found a simple way to hide it, e.g. on the next successful load/mutation, so it has to be dismissed manually by the user.
(ns example.ui
 (:require
 #?@(:cljs [["semantic-ui-react" :refer [Message]]])
 ;;...
 ))
(def ui-message #?(:cljs (interop/react-factory Message)))
(defsc GlobalErrorDisplay [this {:ui/keys [global-error] :as props}]
 {:query [[:ui/global-error '_]]
 :ident (fn [] [:component/id :GlobalErrorDisplay])
 :initial-state {}}
 (when global-error
 (ui-message
 {:content (str "Noe gikk galt: " global-error)
 :error true
 ;; Trigger a mutations that removes :ui/global-error
 :onDismiss #(comp/transact!! this [(mutations/reset-global-error)])})))
(def ui-global-error-display (comp/factory GlobalErrorDisplay))
(defsc Root [_ {::app/keys [active-remotes] :root/keys [root-router global-error]}]
 {:query [{:root/global-error (comp/get-query GlobalErrorDisplay)} #_...]
 :initial-state {:root/global-error {}}}
 (dom/div
 (div :.ui.container.segment
 (ui-global-error-display global-error)
 (dom/p "Body of the application..."))))
Approach 2: Component-level error handling (not tested)
Here we want to display an error in place of the component querying for the data that failed, so that the error is displayed close to the place where it matters.
Configure Pathom to expose errors next to the failed property
Instead of having a single, top-level ::p/errors, we want this to be included next to the property that failed. So if we query somewhere for :person/credit and it fails, we want to get back {… :person/credit :p/reader-error, ::p/errors {…}}. Components can thus query and access this.
We need to add the _URL_ to our Pathom parser configuration _after the p/error-handler-plugin:
(def parser
 (p/parser
 {#_...
 ::p/plugins [#_...
 p/error-handler-plugin
 (p/post-process-parser-plugin p/raise-errors)]}))
Beware that if you have any of these plugins (p/post-process-parser-plugin p/elide-not-found), (p/post-process-parser-plugin elide-reader-errors), they must run only after raise-errors.
Drop/modify the error detection
We don't have the top-level ::p/errors anymore. Each component queries and displays its errors so we don't need the global-error-action. If you want it anyway, for example to still display a top-level warning that there were any error, you need to modify :remote-error?, for example using something like this (not tested):
(->> body (tree-seq coll? #(cond-> % (map? %) vals)) (some ::p/errors))
Make each component query for its errors
Even though the ::p/errors data is in the response, no component will be able to see it unless it includes it in its query. It doesn't need to be sent to the server; actually you want to exclude it from sending because it would just turn into ::pc/not-found, which would break raise-errors (unless preceded by the (p/post-process-parser-plugin p/elide-not-found) plugin). Use the :global-eql-transform to omit them.
The only option I see here is to create and use a customized version of Fulcro's defsc (and perhaps RAD's defsc-report, defsc-form), that adds ::p/errors to the query.
Wrap components to display the error instead, if present
We can use the Fulcro app's :render-middleware to wrap each component with error handling:
;; In :require - ["semantic-ui-react" :refer [Message]]
(def ui-message #?(:cljs (interop/react-factory Message)))
(defonce app
 (app/fulcro-app
 {:render-middleware
 (fn [this render]
 (if-let [errs (::p/errors (comp/props this))]
 (ui-message {:content (str (comp/component-name this)
 " failed to render due to: " errs)
 :error true})
 (render this)))
 ;; ...
 }))
However, since we already have to create our own


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I can't resolve the issue with the downloading of 1099-Bs from eTrade, but I can give you an alternative that is better than entering hundreds of trades one at a time. You can summarize your transactions on Form 8949, by entering the totals for different categories of sales (e.g.
Box A with cost basis reported to the IRS). Here's how you do it:
The statements from your brokerage should include a summary of your account transactions for the year as well as the details for each individual transaction.
- Open (continue) your return in TurboTax Online (if it's not already open) and search for stock sales in the upper right corner.
- Click the "Jump to" link in the search results.
- If you land on the Here's the investment sales info we have so far screen, delete any transactions you already imported or manually entered. When finished, click Done.
- Then repeat steps 1 and 2 to get to the Step 3.
- Answer Yes to both Did you sell any investments? and Did you get a 1099-B?
- On the Let us enter your 1099-B (import) screen, click I'll type it in myself.
- When you get to the Let's find out more about your sales screen:
- Check which box(es) apply to your transactions (A, B, C, etc.)
- Scroll down to the bottom and check the box I have many sales and would rather mail them in instead of typing them.
- Click Continue.
- On the following screen, enter the sum of the total proceeds and cost basis in the appropriate box(es).
- When finished, click Continue.
After entering your transactions, complete and file your tax return as you normally would. Be sure to follow these extra instructions:
E-filed returns – Within three days after the IRS has accepted your return, mail the Form 8949 generated by TurboTax, a copy of the summary statements provided by your broker, and the Form 8453 generated by TurboTax, to the following address:
Internal Revenue Service
Attn: Shipping and Receiving, 0254
Receipt and Control Branch
Austin, TX 73344-0254
Paper-filed returns – Include the Schedule D prepared by TurboTax and a copy of your transaction summary from your broker or financial institution. Include both Schedule D and Form 8949 with your mailed return, along with any other paperwork specified in the Filing Instructions printout.
e-trade is an import partner so you can select e-trade as your broker.
then it will ask for your credentials.


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Dissolution 19th century
Cadet branches House of Drago-Bučić
Country Kingdom of Serbia, Serbian Empire and Republic of Ragusa
Founded before 1308 (Serbian nobility) January 1336 (Ragusan nobility)
The Buća (in Italian Bucchia) was a noble family that served the Republic of Ragusa, and one of the most important families to come out of Kotor. A cadet branch was admitted to the nobility of the Republic of Ragusa, another branch moved instead to Šibenik.
The family is known in Serbo-Croatian sources as Buća (Cyrillic: Бућа), but also as Bućić or Bučić. In Latin, Italian and French sources they are known in a variet of forms, mostly Bucchia or de Bucchia, but also Buchia, Buche, Buchi, Buchie, de Bucha, de Buchia, de Bucho, de Buça, Boce o Buca. Other scarcely found versions in Serbo-Croatian include Buča and Bućin.
Origin and early history
The family name seems to derive from the medieval name Buchius or Bucchius reported both in Dalmatia and earlier in various Italian locations. The first Bučić to be in the archives is a Jakov Bučić present in Kotor in 1186.
Service in Serbia
The first known Buća was Tripe Mihov (Trifun Buća, Трифун Бућа). Kotoran families held high offices in the Serbian court, and the most notable was the Buča family, while the most notable individual was Nikola Buća. Nikola and Toma Pavlov, another notable Kotoran, traded in salt.
The Buća were among the wealthiest and most powerful of Kotor (Kingdom of Serbia and Serbian Empire). Founded later with the House of Drago, it gave rise to one of the most important families in the region: the House of Drago-Bučić.
Service in the Republic of Ragusa
A branch of the family moved to Sibenik in 1449, while another branch had earlier moved to Dubrovnik in the 14th century. The latter, between 1440 and 1640 counted 30 members of the Great Council, representing 1.36% of total. In these two hundred years, they also got 27 senatorial positions (1.36%), five Rectors of the Republic (0.21%), five members of the Minor Council (0.23%), but were never Guards Justice.
Kotoran branch became extinct in the 17th century, the Dubrovnik in the 19th century, but it seems that the branch from Šibenik still survives in Italy.
 - Nikola Buća (14th century), protovestiarios of Serbian Emperor Stephen Dušan (r. _PHONE_). It seems he was the first member of the family to be admitted to the Ragusan nobility, as requested by the Emperor.
 - Jeronim Bučić (16th century) - From Kotor, was Bishop of local diocese since 1581. He edited an adaptation of The Life of St. Tryphon, adding four hymns.
 - Vincenc and Dominik Bučić (16th century) - Brothers from Kotor, both Dominicans, were popular theologians, leaving several published and unpublished writings. The second was the confessor of Blessed Osanna of Cattaro and General Vicar for Dalmatia.
 - Vincenc Bučić (17th century) - Bishop of Kotor from 1622 to 1656.
 - References
 Buća Wikipedia
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Laticauda schystorhyncha in Niue
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Genus: Laticauda
Species: L. schistorhynchus
Binomial name
Laticauda schistorhynchus
(Schneider, 1799)
The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhynchus) is a sea snake, related to the sea krait, found only in the waters of the Pacific Island nation of Niue. It grows up to 1 metre in length, and is highly venomous, making it one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet. It has a fin-like tail, helping it to swim better.[2][3]


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text: This study examines the chronemics of response latencies in asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) by analyzing three datasets comprising a total of more than 150,000 responses: email responses created by corporate employees, responses created by university students in course discussion groups, and responses to questions posted in a public, commercial online information market. Mathematical analysis of response latencies reveals a normative pattern common to all three datasets: The response latencies yielded a power-law distribution, such that most of the responses (at least 70%) were created within the average response latency of the responders, while very few (at most 4%) of the responses were created after a period longer than 10 times the average response latency. These patterns persist across diverse user populations, contexts, technologies, and average response latencies. Moreover, it is shown that the same pattern appears in traditional, spoken communication and in other forms of online media such as online surveys. The implications of this uniformity are discussed, and three normative chronemic zones are identified.


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Shoot your alarm clock to turn it off each morning. but wouldn't you have to grab the gun which takes the same time as turning the alarm clock off. and then you'd have to shoot the target when you're half asleep to turn the darn thing off.
One pot, two lives; a planter and a fishtank in one to promote a beautiful example of simbiotic living. While the fish's waste provides nutrients for the plant, the plant filters the water that it is fed to provide clean water for the fish.


text: A 3D finite element (FE) model was developed to calculate the vertical forces on dental implants supporting prosthetic bridgework. Results of PE models were compared to results of an analytical model developed by Skalak (1), and to experimental results from laboratory models of semicircular metal and acrylic bridges supported by screw-shaped titanium dental implants specially-designed to sense axial load. The dental implants in these lab models were inserted into (a) an aluminum baseplate (Ng's experiment (2) or (b) a dried human mandible (Edwards' experiment (3)) in order to vary the stiffness of the 'bone'-implant interface. FE models were constructed with beam elements for the implants and brick elements for the bridge. To simulate the effects of different stiffnesses at the bone-implant interface, some FE models used foundation elements of prescribed stiffness beneath the implant beam elements. Models were run with purely vertical forces applied at various locations along the bridge, e.g., at distal locations, midline locations and at an intermediate point. Two key results were: (a) For implants in a stiff interface, supporting either metal or acrylic bridges, the FE results were in closer agreement with experimental data than the Skalak analytical model. (b) For implants in a less stiff interface, the FE model and Skalak model predicted the implant loads accurately for the case of the metal bridge but only the FE model was accurate in the case of the acrylic bridge. For future work it will be important to obtain better data on actual interfacial stiffnesses as input data for FE models.


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The scaling approach taken by the DC CAS is, to my mind, pretty unconventional, because the scaled scores do not overlap across grades. In grade four, the minimum possible scaled score is 400, and the maximum possible scaled score is 499. In grade five, however, the minimum possible scaled score is 500, and the maximum possible scaled score is 599. (The same approach is used in grades six through eight.)
This means that a fourth-grade student who got every question on the fourth-grade math assessment correct would receive a lower scaled score than a fifth-grade student who got every question wrong on the fifth-grade assessment.
That sounds ridiculous, but it's not problematic if the scale for fourth-grade performance is acknowledged to be different from the scale for fifth-grade performance. The design of the DC CAS allows for comparing performance in fourth grade in one year with fourth-grade performance in the next year; but it doesn't permit measuring how much students have gained from one grade to the next. Measuring growth from one grade to the next requires a test that is vertically equated.


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(idiomatic) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work.
Carve-out Sentence Examples
The great rivers of Australia, draining inland, carve out valleys, dissolve limestone, and spread out their deposit over the plains when the waters become too sluggish to bear their burden farther.
Baber, however, unlike Timur, had resolved to settle in the plains of Hindustan, and carve out for himself a new empire with the help of his Mogul followers.
Ail the larger rivers, except the Gumti, as well as most of the smaller streams, have beds hardly sunk below the general level; and in time of floods they burst through their banks and carve out new channels.
The uneducated mass of mankind, he complains, either " seldom reason at all," or " put passion in the place of reason," or " for want of large, sound, round-about sense " they direct their minds only to one part of the evidence, "converse with one sort of men, read but one sort of books, and will not come in the hearing of but one sort of notions, and so carve out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world, where light shines, and, as they conclude, day blesses them; but the rest of the vast expansion they give up to night and darkness, and avoid coming near it."
The early governors seemingly had orders to deal as fairly as possible with the natives, and this involved them in quarrels with the "conquerors," whose object was to carve out principalities for themselves, and who only nominally respected the sovereign's wishes.


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Recursive Find Files in Dephi
By on in Coding
275 words, estimated reading time 2 minutes.
Simple and very useful Delphi or Pascal function to find files recursively in a given directory.
This function will recursively scan a folder and execute a function each time a file is found.
This function will be run each time a file is found.
Function LogFiles( Const path: String; Const SRec: TSearchRec ): Boolean;
Begin
 Listbox1.Items.Add( path+SRec.Name );
 Result := True;
End;
And this is the main function called with four parameters. FindRecursive('c:/path/to/files/', '*.ext', LogFiles, TRUE)
LogFiles is the name of the above function, and the last parameter decides whether to recurse or not.
procedure FindRecursive(const path: string; const mask: string; LogFunction: TLogFunct; Re_curse: Boolean);
var
 fullpath: string;

 function Recurse(var path: string; const mask: string; Re_curse: Boolean): Boolean;
 var
 SRec: TSearchRec;
 retval: Integer;
 oldlen: Integer;
 begin
 //Recurse := FALSE;
 Recurse := Re_Curse;
 oldlen := Length(path);
 retval := FindFirst(path + mask, faAnyFile, SRec);
 while retval = 0 do
 begin
 if (SRec.Attr and (faDirectory or faVolumeID)) = 0 then
 if not LogFunction(path, SRec) then
 begin
 Result := False;
 Break;
 end;
 retval := FindNext(SRec);
 end;
 FindClose(SRec);
 if not Result then Exit;
 retval := FindFirst(path + '*.*', faDirectory, SRec);
 while retval = 0 do
 begin
 if (SRec.Attr and faDirectory) <> 0 then
 if (SRec.Name <> '.') and (SRec.Name <> '..') then
 begin
 path := path + SRec.Name + '/';
 if not Recurse(path, mask, Re_curse) then
 begin
 Result := False;
 Break;
 end;
 Delete(path, oldlen + 1, 255);
 end;
 retval := FindNext(SRec);
 end;
 FindClose(SRec);
 end;
begin
 if path = '' then
 GetDir(0, fullpath)
 else
 fullpath := path;
 if fullpath[Length(fullpath)] <> '/' then
 fullpath := fullpath + '/';
 if mask = '' then
 Recurse(fullpath, '*.*', Re_curse)
 else
 Recurse(fullpath, mask, Re_curse);
end;
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Centipeda cunninghamii is commonly known as Old man weed, being the literal translation of its Koori name Gukwonderuk. It is a plant known to indigenous Australians for its medicinal properties, and grows along the Murray river, or generally anywhere there is water, especially low lying or swampy areas. It can be identified by its unique shaped leaf, and its pungent scent, which is pine like and minty. The names Common Sneezeweed and Scent Weed, which were given by European settlers, are increasingly falling out of use.
Old Man Weed was commonly used to treat hair loss and skin irritations, but the traditional belief holds that it is good for treating "just about anything". Traditional methods of use most commonly involve binding leaves of the plant directly to the forehead or other parts of the body, so that body heat may release the plants oils which are then absorbed into the skin. It may also be taken orally, sometimes mixing it with emu fat or boiling/soaking it in water to create a tea. In cases of oral ingestion, traditional medicinal authorities have cautioned to carefully regulate the dosage as the plant may be toxic if taken in large amounts.
More recently, the extract of the plant has been patented and is claimed to be effective in the treatment of various skin disorders including the relief of itching and dry skin from psoriasis, as well as having antiinflammatory, antiallergenic, sunscreen and cell renewal properties.
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Definitions for underconsumption
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word underconsumption
Insufficient consumption (for financial stability)
consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount
In underconsumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced. The theory formed the basis for the development of Keynesian economics and the theory of aggregate demand after the 1930s. Underconsumption theory narrowly refers to heterodox economists in Britain in the 19th century, particularly 1815 onwards, who advanced the theory of underconsumption and rejected classical economics in the form of Ricardian economics. These economists did not form a unified school, and their theories were rejected by mainstream economics of the time. Underconsumption is an old concept in economics, going back to the 1598 French mercantilist text Les Trésors et richesses pour mettre l'Estat en Splendeur by Barthélemy de Laffemas, if not earlier. The concept of underconsumption had been used repeatedly as part of the criticism of Say's Law until underconsumption theory was largely replaced by Keynesian economics which points to a more complete explanation of the failure of aggregate demand to attain potential output, i.e., the level of production corresponding to full employment.
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The RenderTarget must be updated to reflect the new window size. Since this sample application is derived from the CppAppBase that I presented in a previous post there exist a resize method that can be overridden to to update the render target. ID2D1RenderTarget::Resize accepts a D2D1_SIZE_U struct and updates the render target size accordingly.
void D2D1AppWindow::OnResize(UINT width, UINT height)
 this->_size = D2D1_SIZE_U{ width, height };
 if (_pRenderTarget)
There is still an annoying behaviour. While the window is being resize the screen is blank. Part of the reason for this is that the rendering only occurs when there are no messages to process and resizing generates messages. One of the messages generated while resizing is a WM_PAINT message; this is telling the application to redraw itself. If we call OnRender() in response to a WM_PAINT message this will handle the screen updates while resizing. The AppWindow base class has an OnPaint() method that is called when a WM_PAINT message comes through. Overriding this method and adding a call to OnRender() results in a window that doesn't go blank when resizing.
void D2D1AppWindow::OnPaint()
Rendering a Shape List
One could write code to individually render each one of the primitives needed to make up a more complex scene. For applications with complex scenes doing this is especially undesirable. Instead a better solution is have the primitives that must be called encoded within a file. If a change needs to be made to a scene the change would be made with the file instead of in code.
For the next sample I"m going to move halfway to such a solution. I'm making a list of primitives to be rendered and am populating the list from code. With a bit more work the data could be externalized. I'm using the list to start rebuilding an interface. I was playing a video game on my Nintendo Switch. The game had a screen that displayed between levels that shows how well someone did. I thought the interface was both simple and æsthetically pleasing.
Creating something similar to this is my goal. It is composed of several rectangles, a few concentric circles, and text. Were the interface all the same type of geometry elements this could be defined with a simple list of attributes about the rectangles. Since there is more than one type of geometry the list elements must identify a geometry type. I've made a struct that has a field that identifies the shape type (Rectangle or Ellipse for now), identifies which of the colors in my 3 color palette that the item should be, and has the information for the shape itself. The rectangle data and ellipse data are in a union to minimize the amount of memory used for each item.
enum PaletteIndex {
 Primary = 0,
 Secondary = 1,
 Background = 2
enum ShapeType {
 ShapeType_Rectangle = 0,
 ShapeType_Ellipse = 1
struct ColoredShape
 static ColoredShape MakeEllipse(D2D1_ELLIPSE e, PaletteIndex p)
 ColoredShape c{ 0 };
 c.shapeType = ShapeType::ShapeType_Ellipse;
 c.ellipse = e;
 c.paletteIndex = p;
 return c;
 static ColoredShape MakeRectangle(D2D1_RECT_F r, PaletteIndex p)
 ColoredShape c{ 0 };
 c.shapeType = ShapeType::ShapeType_Rectangle;
 c.rect = r;
 c.paletteIndex = p;
 return c;
 union {
 D2D1_ELLIPSE ellipse;
 D2D1_RECT_F rect;
 ShapeType shapeType;
 PaletteIndex paletteIndex;
The factory methods make it easier to initialize instances of the value. I've got a vector that holds these structs. It is populated with the data for each rectangle and ellipse to be rendered. The items will be rendered in the same order that they show in the list. If two items overlap the latter of the items to be rendered will be on top.
void D2D1AppWindow::InitDeviceIndependentResources()
 _primaryColor = D2D1::ColorF(0.7843F, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
 _secondaryColor = D2D1::ColorF(0.09411, 0.09411, 0.08593, 1.0);
 _backgroundColor = D2D1::ColorF(0.91014, 0.847655, 0.75f, 1.0);
 _mySquare = { 20, 20, 30, 30 };
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({0,0,456,104 }, Primary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 0,128,456,550 }, Primary ));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 488,0,508,110 }, Secondary ));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 488,40,900,115 }, Secondary ));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 530,130,850,180 }, Secondary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 690,130,850,180 }, Primary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 530,190,850,240 }, Secondary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 690,190,850,240 }, Primary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 530,250,850,300 }, Secondary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 690,250,850,300 }, Primary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 0,350,600,450 }, Secondary ));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeEllipse({ 570,400,60, 60 }, Secondary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeEllipse({ 570,400,57, 57 }, Background));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeEllipse({ 570,400,55, 55 }, Secondary));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeEllipse({ 570,400,52, 52 }, Background));
 _shapeList.push_back(ColoredShape::MakeRectangle({ 476,470,870, 550 }, Secondary));
In the OnRender() method this list is iterated and each element is drawn.
void D2D1AppWindow::OnRender()
 if (!_pRenderTarget)
 _pRenderTarget->FillRectangle(&_mySquare, _pPrimaryBrush.Get());
 _pRenderTarget->DrawRectangle(&_mySquare, _pSecondaryBrush.Get());
 for (auto current = _shapeList.begin(); current!= _shapeList.end(); ++current)
 ComPtr brush;
 switch (current->paletteIndex)
 case Primary: brush = _pPrimaryBrush; break;
 case Secondary: brush = _pSecondaryBrush; break;
 case Background: brush = _pBackgroundBrush; break;
 default: brush = _pPrimaryBrush;
 switch (current->shapeType)
 case ShapeType::ShapeType_Rectangle:_pRenderTarget->FillRectangle(¤t->rect, brush.Get()); break;
 case ShapeType::ShapeType_Ellipse:_pRenderTarget->FillEllipse(¤t->ellipse, brush.Get()); break;
 hr = _pRenderTarget->EndDraw();
 // The surface has been lost. We need to recreate our
 // device dependent resources.
Running the program gives me something that looks like it was inspired by the video game interface.
There are similarities, but there are also plenty of differences. Aside from the missing text in the video game interface the text is rotated slightly. With the way rectangles are defined now there's no apparent way to render a rectangle that isn't aligned with the X or Y axis. To move forward we need to know how we can apply transformations to the rendering and how to render text. I'll continue there in the next part of this series.
The complete source code for the program can be found on github.
Win32/C++ Application Base
Win32 is necessary for development in many current technologies. Some of my current projects utilize Win32/C++ applications. Many of them use a similar pattern for starting the application. Initializing the window that hosts these applications is not particularly interesting, but it is a foundation block for some of my applications that I will share in the future.
In Win32 UI programs there will be at least one function defined that is known as being of type WNDPROC. A WNDPROC is a callback function. It is the primary function through which Windows will communicate to an application various events. When a user moves their mouse over an application WNDPROC is called. When the user presses a key WNDPROC is called. When an application is being notified to render its UI again WNDPROC is called. The call signature for WNDPROC is shown below.
 _In_ HWND hwnd,
 _In_ UINT uMsg,
 _In_ WPARAM wParam,
 _In_ LPARAM lParam
The first argument in this function is a handle to the window that is the intended recipient of the message. An application could have more than one window. But an application with only one window will have the same value. The second argument is a numerical value that identifies the event or


Trade-Volatility Relationship in the light of Nigeria and the Euro Area.
Source: JAES
In this study, the impact of exchange rate volatility on Nigerian exports to Eurozone countries is investigated. Monthly export data from January 1999 to December 2016 was used. This study utilizes the bounds test approach to cointegration to analyze how exchange rate volatility exerts influence on Nigeria's export to the Euro Area. GARCH (1, 1) is employed to measure the volatility of the Naira/dollar exchange rate. In the considered model, Nigeria's export to the Euro Area is taken as the dependent variable, whilst the independent variables include income of the Euro Area, price and the volatility measure Given that the variables are a combination of I (1) upper bound and I (0),(lower bound the bounds test is used to test for cointegration. After confirming the existence of cointegration, the short-run and long-run coefficients are estimated. The shortrun result shows that price and volatility have negative and positive lagged effects on Nigeria's export, respectively. In the long run, coefficients of price and volatility are significantly positive. The income of the Euro Area has no significant impact on Nigeria's exports in both the short and long run. The study recommends that Government subsidies and a floating exchange rate system are implemented
Journal of Applied Economic Sciences
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