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Before you drink your next pint of Guinness, have a close look at the bubbles in the brew, and see if they sink. Apparently they do. Now a group of scientists from the University of Limerick in Ireland (where else?) has modeled the phenomenon of sinking bubbles in Guinness beer to lend weight to this finding and provide a theoretical explanation.
The fluid flow vector and (streamlines) and
fluid fraction in a typical and an atypical pint
glass. The traditional shape is responsible for
the downward flow of gas bubbles.
Image courtesy: E. S. Benilov, C. P. Cummins,
W. T. Lee, University of Limerick, Ireland.
As reported by the BBC News site, the modeling indicates that the shape of the glass is an important factor. As the bubbles, which contain nitrogen and therefore very small, rise through the length of the glass their distance from the wall increases.
This creates a denser region of liquid beer close to the wall, which sinks, and the movement of this sinking liquid drags the small beer bubbles with it. It's a great piece of work and you can see an animation of their model of sinking bubbles, while reading their research here. Take it with you for a read the next time you go for a pint.


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Conservapedia:Editing etiquette
Wiki editors have found that good editing etiquette can reduce the arguments that frequently occur between editors with opposing viewpoints.
Edit Or Discuss First?
An editor will often chastise another editor for not discussing an alteration to an article before altering the article, yet will often edit an article themselves without discussing it first. Does this make them hypocrites? Sometimes, yes, but often it's because the circumstances are different, or unknown to you.
Etiquette Rule:
- You should discuss changes made by an Administrator before reverting their edits. Administrators are charged with seeing that article content is in line with Conservapedia guidelines. Edit warring with an Administrator usually results in a temporary block.
- You should not alter the editorial content of an article away from a conservative, or Christian, or family friendly "tone" without discussing proposed changes on the talk page.
Etiquette Rule:
- Never make substantial edits to an article without discussing your changes first on the talk page. If you have a reasonable expectation that other editors will accept your change(s), the changes are just formatting / copy editing, you should proceed.
But how would you know what other editors will accept? Here's some ideas:
- You are removing vandalism.
- You are correcting spelling or grammar (but don't change American spelling to British spelling, etc. except where appropriate. As a general rule, that would be if the article is about something related to that country).
- If you are inserting an undisputed fact. For example, Australia is in the southern hemisphere.
- If you properly reference your "facts". Another editor is less likely to remove your edit if you have references to show that your facts are correct.
- If you put your "facts" in neutral terms. For example, Evolutionist geologists and atheists believe that the world is 4.5 billion years old is better than The world is 4.5 billion years old.
- You explain your edits. This can be done in an edit comment (Summary edit field) or on the article's talk page. In the latter case, putting "See talk" in the edit comment will alert other editors to the fact that you have discussed your edit on the talk page.
- It was edited by an Administrator, Administrators decisions on CP policy / article content are to be respected. If you disagree, make your disagreement known, along with the reasons, on the article's talk page, and if no reply, remind them of your post by leaving a note on their personal talk page.
Etiquette Rule:
- Favor improving another person's edits over completely deleting them.
So improving his edit (perhaps from The world is 4.5 billion years old to Secular geologists believe that the world is 5.6 billion years old) is better than simply deleting.
If you think that the edit really should come out, explain why in the edit comment or on the talk page. If your reasons are good enough, chances are the first editor will see your point and accept his change being removed.
If you question other editor's facts, then instead of just deleting them, post to the talk page, and put a {{fact}} tag after the claimed fact, to give him an opportunity to support his edit. If the original editor fails to support his fact in a reasonable time (minimum of a week), then you have better justification for removing his "fact". You could even post to the editors talk page, directing their attention to your post on the article's talk page.
Etiquette Rule:
- Avoid edit wars.
An edit war is when two editors keep undoing the other editor's changes. Such a situation is totally unproductive and serves only to raise tempers. They are also against the Conservapedia Guidelines, and you could be blocked.
If you cannot agree on a change even after discussing it, ask other editors for their opinions or an Administrator to mediate.
Do not revert an Administrator's changes.
Use The Appropriate Page For Discussions
Etiquette Rule:
- Discuss an article on that article's talk page.
When discussing changes to an article with another editor, have the discussion on the article's talk page, where other editors can see it and contribute if they wish, rather than on one of the editors' talk pages, where the discussion is unlikely to be seen by other editors.
This is also useful for later editors looking to see why something in the article is the way it is. They can expect to look on the article's talk page, not somewhere else entirely.
Etiquette Rule:
- Discuss off-topic discussions elsewhere.
Sometimes discussions about an article lead off to other matters. If the discussion is no longer about the article, move the discussion elsewhere. Do not put User names in subheadings to invite other editors to beat up on an editor or hold up to ridicule. Conservapedia has more options for this than Wikipedia. Here are some of the options:
- Discuss it on one of your user talk pages.
- Create a debate page for discussing that issue.
- Create an essay for putting down your own thoughts on an issue.
- Instant Messenger
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- Do not bombard talk pages with spam and excessive hypertext.
- Talk pages are for interaction between users. Be courteous and civil. Do not spam the talk page with reams and reams of text and links. Be respectful of other users time. They are not obligated to read your excess verbiage. Bombast does not "win" an argument.
Interacting with other editors on talk pages
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- Yes, you can go back and fix typos, grammar, or wikify your posting after another editor responds;
- No, you cannot go back and add to, or alter the context of your posting after another editor has responded to your posting. This is considered a potential violation of Conservapedia Guidelines:Bad faith editing.
Edit Histories
Edit histories allow other editors to see how an article was changed, and who changed it. Editors can also "step through" the edit histories to follow a series of changes.
Following are some guidelines for making this easier on other users.
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- Use the "Show preview" button.
Using the Show preview button to check how your edit will look will reduce the number of changes to the article, keeping the edit history shorter. It can be irritating to other editors to have to step through a lot of very minor changes that could have been avoided if the Show preview button was used.
Etiquette Rule:
- Don't make massive changes in one go.
When you make massive changes in one edit, it makes it hard for other editors to see what was actually changed. Consider breaking your edits into smaller steps, particularly when moving paragraphs around. Changing and moving a paragraph in the one edit can make it difficult for the software to highlight the differences properly.
Etiquette Rule:
- Use edit summaries.
When you make a change, please put a brief (or not so brief) comment in the Summary box to explain your edit.
Common comments include:
- Revert (or Rv)
- Spelling (or Sp)
- Grammar
- copyedit (indicating that there were changes like a newspaper editor might make, to improve the spelling, grammar, or wording, but not changing the meaning nor deleting nor adding information).
- If your change cannot be explained briefly, an edit comment of see talk will alert other editors that you have explained (or will explain) your edit on the talk page.
In your user preferences, you can select to have the software remind you if you don't include an edit comment.
Minor Edit box
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Health Actions for Women
Melissa Smith, Sarah Shannon, Kathleen Vickery | 2015Hesperian Health Guides
Health Actions for Women addresses the social factors that prevent women and girls from enjoying healthy lives. This guide offers proven strategies to help women and men facilitate community discussions and action, even in challenging settings where organizing for women's health is difficult or dangerous. Also available in Spanish, Khmer, Lao and Nepali.
"Women's health is more than medicine."
— Health Actions for WomenHealth Actions for Women is an innovative resource for women, girls, and their allies working to educate, advocate, and mobilize their communities for women's health and rights.
The illustrated stories and activities in this guide encourage and strengthen community efforts to challenge violence against women, increase access to contraception, foster safe motherhood, counteract the harmful effects of restrictive gender roles, promote sexual health, and ensure that health services meet the needs of women and girls.
This invaluable companion to Where Women Have No Doctor was field-tested with community groups in 23 countries to help women, girls, men and boys create successful, long-lasting avenues for social change.
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Health Actions for Women was developed in coordination with community-based organizations and women's health advocates worldwide. Throughout 2012-13, chapters were sent to 40 community-based partners in 23 countries. Field testing brought together diverse groups of younger and older women, groups that mixed adolescent girls with young married women, and mixed gender groups. Overall, 1,400 people participated in discussions, tried out new activities, and submitted feedback and insights about the issues most important to their communities. This field-testing map shares some of their experiences, along with activities from the book that were used in field-testing.Praise for Health Actions for Women
"No other resource today provides such concrete tools to engage communities and empower women of all ages to build lasting change from the ground up. A triumph!"— Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
"Using this book, we can create enduring change by starting from the experiences of women, by respecting our knowledge, cultures, and traditions, and by bringing our stories to the fore as we envision and work toward a brighter, more just future. Well-being is living fully."
— Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize Winner, 1992
"Basic health care remains inaccessible to millions of poor women. Health Actions for Women is critical to the advancement of the movement for global health equity and the eradication of so much needless suffering."
— Paul Farmer, MD, Co-founder, Partners in Health
"The participatory process of developing this resource book ensures that activities and ideas from grassroots women's groups in many countries will be included. The book will discuss about how to talk about and work on subjects, such as when women die giving birth, or why girls should not be forced to marry early, and what women can do to begin to change these situations. This book will sure prove useful to many organizations all over the world including CHETNA."
— Pallavi Tarang, Hesperian Field-Testing Partner, Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)
"After the field testing exercise in the Soul Clinic community, women are working together to prevent crimes in their community. They conduct regular meetings involving female police personnel to insure that all ghettos in the community are closed and people are restricted from insulting openly."
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Going Green: How cities are leading the next economy is the concluding report of our major global survey of 90 city governments and a case study analysis of innovative green strategies in eight cities. The survey was conducted by LSE Cities, ICLEI – local governments for sustainability and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in order to closely analyse the strengths and weaknesses of cities as key contributors to the emerging green economy. Previous editions of this report were prepared for the Rio+20 summit in June 2012 and for the Global Green Growth Forum in Copenhagen in October 2012.
Going Green offers a fresh perspective on the environmental challenges that cities face, along with the opportunities and barriers to going green and fostering economic growth. The survey covers key aspects of green policies and the green economy, smart city technology, green policy assessment and urban governance. It provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of cities around the world as they make the transition to a green economy.
This final report includes a new section featuring findings on cities' policy approaches across six sectors: land-use, transport, buildings, energy, waste, and water. These results allow for comparison of policy tools and successes between sectors, with the surveyed cities reporting most success in the waste and water sectors. The results also report on the types of economic impacts arising from green policy across sectors, and the roles played by different levels of government.
The final section investigates in greater detail the experience of eight case study cities in facilitating green growth. Given the importance of integrating policies for delivering green growth, four cross-cutting policy programmes were examined: land-use and transport; eco-districts and buildings; waste, recycling and energy; and electric mobility and renewable energy. Two case study cities were selected for each theme, allowing for comparative analysis, and exploration of how similar objectives are being pursued in different contexts, with different policy tools, and using different types of public-private partnership.
The city survey formed the basis of Philipp Rode's presentation at the Urban Age Electric City conference. To see the presentation, click here.


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Last September, I wrote a post about how scammers had been using my photos to lure women into online, romantic relationships for the purpose of 'borrowing' or extorting money. Since that time, the scams have continued. I get, on average, one new report a day from women (and occasionally men) who have been tricked, or nearly tricked, into sending money. In many cases, individuals have reported forming deep attachments or even falling in love with these scammers. This has been a frustrating predicament that has been going on for many years now. In this post, I thought I would share a few of the things that I've learned about the scams, the scammers, and their potential victims. Here we go.
- These scams are likely not perpetrated by a single individual. In fact, they are most likely perpetrated by groups of individuals, or even gangs, most likely situated in Nigeria or Ghana. These are typically known as "romance scams", and I feel strongly that recognizing and understanding these types of scams are essential skills for digitally literate individuals.
- These scams take place over a number of popular social networking and communication tools. While I've taken down nearly 50 fake Facebook profiles, I've also had my photos appear in profiles set up on dating sites such as eHarmony, Christian Mingle, Match.com, and Plenty Of Fish. There are also dozens of Skype accounts that have been created using my photos. The ones that concern me the most are those that actually use my name and photos. For instance, if you search 'alec couros' on Skype, you will get five accounts under my name. Only one of them is mine ('aleccouros' is legit, btw), and three have photos of me. It worries me that my friends or professional contacts may connect to one of the fraudulent accounts.
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Shudder announces slate of new original and exclusive films
May 6, 2021
Shudder, AMC Networks' premium streamer for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today its "Summer of Chills" slate of new original and exclusive films for June, July and August, including the anticipated debut of landmark horror director George A. Romero's legendary "lost" film The Amusement Park on Tuesday, June 8. The robust summer lineup kicks off with Caveat, an eerie, slow-building, cat-and-mouse thriller, and continues with such marquee films as sci-fi thriller Possessor starring Andrea Riseborough; The Boy Behind the Door, Justin Powell and David Charbonier's directorial debut; Jakob's Wife, starring horror icon Barbara Crampton; and Kandisha, the long awaited new supernatural shocker from the French directing duo of Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo who return to Shudder following the success of their film Among the Living; in addition to many others.
"Shudder's 'Summer of Chills' offers something for everyone with a fantastic line-up of new premieres every week, on top of the best library of curated streaming horror films anywhere," said Craig Engler, Shudder's General Manager. "We're especially excited to have the premiere of legendary director George A. Romero's lost film The Amusement Park, a must-see piece of cinema history exclusively on Shudder."
Shudder's "Summer of Chills" full slate is included below (in chronological order):
Caveat – Premieres June 3 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Lone drifter Isaac accepts a job to look after his landlord's niece, Olga, for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there's a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga's uncle, Barrett leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays increasingly erratic behavior as a trapped Isaac makes a series of horrific discoveries in the house. Directed by Damien Mc Carthy. Starring Jonathan French, Leila Sykes and Ben Caplan.
The Amusement Park – Premieres June 8 **A Shudder Exclusive Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park stars Martin's Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds. Commissioned by the Lutheran Society, the film is perhaps Romero's wildest and most imaginative movie, an allegory about the nightmarish realities of growing older, and is an alluring snapshot of the filmmaker's early artistic capacity and style and would go on to inform his ensuing filmography. The "lost" film was restored in 4k by IndieCollect in New York City.
Possessor – Premieres June 10 **A Shudder Exclusive Film
(Available on Shudder UKI)
From the visionary mind of Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral), Possessor is a game-changing sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Superdeep – Premieres June 17 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
The Kola Superdeep borehole is the largest Russian secret facility. In 1984, at the depth of more than 7 miles below the surface, unexplained sounds were recorded, resembling the screams and moans of numerous people. Since these events, the object has been closed. A small research team of scientists and military personnel go down below the surface to find the secret hidden these many decades. What they discover will pose the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. Directed by Arseniy Sukhin. Starring Milena Radulovic, Sergey Ivanyuk, Nikolay Kovbas, Kirill Kovbas and Nikita Dyuvbanov.
An Unquiet Grave – Premieres June 24 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
A year after losing his wife in a car crash, Jamie convinces her sister, Ava, to return with him to the site of the accident and help him perform a strange ritual. But as the night wears on, it becomes clear that he has darker intentions. An Unquiet Grave is an exploration of grief, and the harm we cause when we don't take responsibility for our own healing. Directed by Terrence Krey. Starring Jacon A. Ware and Christine Nyland who also co-wrote the film.
Vicious Fun – Premieres June 29 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Joel, a caustic 1980's film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim. Directed by Cody Calahan. Starring Evan Marsh, Amber Goldfarb, Ari Millen, Julian Richings, Robert Maillet, Sean Baek, David Koechner, Alexa Rose Steele, Mark Gibson, Kristopher Brown and John Fray.
Son – Premieres July 8 **A Shudder Original Film
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After a mysterious group breaks into Laura's home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasing psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Directed by Ivan Kavanagh. Starring Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch and Luke David Blumm.
The Call – Premieres July 15 **A Shudder Exclusive Film
(Available on Shudder US and Shudder CA)
Four Friends. One Phone Call. 60 Seconds to Stay Alive. In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it. This simple task quickly spirals into terror as their worst nightmares become reality. Directed by Timothy Woodward Jr. Starring Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise) and Tobin Bell (Saw franchise).
The Toll – Premieres July 15 **A Shudder Exclusive Film
(Available on Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
When a young woman and her rideshare driver break down on a dark forest road, each sees the other as a threat. A strange phenomena begin occurring around them, they gradually realize they've become trapped in the world of a terrifying supernatural being: The Toll Man. Directed by Michael Nader. Starring Jordan Hayes, Max Topplin, James McGowan and Rosemary Dunsmore.
Kandisha – Premieres July 22 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
It is summer break and best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana hang together with other neighborhood teens. Nightly, they have fun sharing scary stories and urban legends. But when Amélie is assaulted by her ex, she remembers the story of Kandisha, a powerful and vengeful demon. Afraid and upset, Amélie summons her. The next day, her ex is found dead. The legend is true and now Kandisha is on a killing spree— and it's up to the three girls to break the curse. Directed by Inside and Livid duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. Starring Mathilde Lamusse, Samarcande Saadi and Suzy Bemba.
The Boy Behind the Door – Premieres July 29 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
A night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby and his best friend, Kevin, when they are abducted on their way home from school. Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another stranger, whose mysterious arrangement with the kidnapper may spell certain doom for Kevin. With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby embarks on a rescue mission, determined to get himself and Kevin out alive… or die trying. Directed by Justin Powell and David Charbonier, who also directed this year's The Djinn. Starring Lonnie Chavis (This Is Us), Ezra Dewey (The Djinn), Kristin Bauer van Straten (True Blood), Scott Michael Foster (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and Micah Hauptman (Rust Creek).
Teddy – Premieres August 5 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that local angry farmers have been hunting for months. As weeks go by, animal impulses soon start to overcome the young man. Directed by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma. Starring Anthony Bajon (The Prayer), Ludovic Torrent, Christine Gautier, Noémie Lvovsky, Guillaume Mattera, Jean-Paul Fabre, Alexis Orlandini, Gérard Pau and Jean-Michel Ricart.
Bleed With Me – Premieres August 10 **A Shudder Original Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Rowan, a vulnerable outsider, is thrilled when the seemingly perfect Emily invites her on a winter getaway to an isolated cabin in the woods. Trust soon turns to paranoia when Rowan wakes up with mysterious incisions on her arm. Haunted by dream-like visions, Rowan starts to suspect that her friend is drugging her and stealing her blood. She's paralyzed by the fear of losing Emily, but she must fight back before she loses her mind. Bleed With Me is a psychological horror that juxtaposes tenderness and violence in an investigation of female intimacy and dangerous codependency. Directed by Amelia Moses. Starring Lee Marshall, Lauren Beatty and Aris Tyros.
Jakob's Wife – Premieres August 19 **A Shudder Exclusive Film
(Available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ)
Anne is in her late 50s and feels like her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past thirty years. Through a chance encounter with a stranger, she discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. However, these changes come with a toll on her marriage and a heavy body count. Directed by Travis Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor). Starring horror icons Barbara Crampton (You're Next) and Larry Fessenden (The Dead Don't Die), Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), Nyisha Bell, Mark Kelly, Sarah Lind, Robert Rusler, and Phil Brooks (aka CM Punk).


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Got hit by this problem after upgrading Thinlinc 4.4 to 4.6 on one of my Debian Jessie boxes.
After upgrade process and setup completed I ran commands to get around Debian issues as documented here:
sudo update-rc.d vsmagent defaults sudo update-rc.d vsmserver defaults sudo update-rc.d tlwebaccess defaults sudo update-rc.d tlwebadm defaults read thinlinc version < /opt/thinlinc/etc/thinlinc-release /opt/thinlinc/bin/tl-config /vsm/setup_completed=${version} sudo service vsmagent start sudo service vsmserver start sudo service tlwebaccess start sudo service tlwebadm start
Then I tried reconnecting to the session and Thinlinc client generated dreaded "No password configured for vnc auth". Error is not particularly clear and the only clue from Thinlinc mailing list was
Typically, this error message indicates "disk full" on the server and similar problems. The user could also be out of quota. It could also be an issue with SELinux. Basically, if Xvnc cannot access /var/opt/thinlinc/sessions/${USER}/X/sessionkey, you will get this error.
which wasn't the case here.
What helped, I murdered all "tl-session" processes and restarted vsm*
pkill tl-session systemctl restart vsmagent vsmserver
and after that Thinlinc was more keen to start a session for me. Jolly good.


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If you get your news from the mainstream media, you likely think the views expressed by the environmental activists represent the majority of Americans. After all, their highly visible protests against the Keystone pipeline—sit-ins in front of the White House, locking themselves to the White House fence and then being arrested for it, and parading down the National Mall carrying a huge inflated tube emblazoned with the words: "Just say no to Keystone"—were effective. Despite repeated polling that showed a majority of Americans supported the pipeline, with a small minority opposed, the loud theatrics of the anti-fossil fuel crowd eventually won out. After years of stall tactics, President Obama finally bowed to their demands and said no to the job-creating infrastructure project.
Earlier this year, the usual group of suspects, led by well-known anti-fracking activist Bill McKibben, planned a "global wave of resistance" called BreakFree2016—scheduled to take place from May 3-15—on six continents. The event's website announced the various activities, including an appearance and speech by McKibben, a Vermont resident, at the Colorado rally that promised: the "largest mass mobilizations for climate action in the history of Colorado." It confirmed that there would be "civil disobedience."
Did you hear about it? Probably not.
A news report of the planned Colorado activities said: "And on May 14, 350 Colorado is planning a day of speeches, live music and activities protesting oil and gas developments close to neighborhoods and schools in Thornton. The goal is to draw 1,000 people to the upcoming events." The website, post-event, states: "about 800 people joined the action throughout the day" with "about 30-40 people" still there at the end of the day for the dramatic "frack-site" invasion. Yet, as even their own Facebook page photos indicate, not even 100 were present for the big McKibben speech. Without vendors and media, he may have had no audience at all.
After flying in to Denver, and then being driven to the protest site in a limousine, McKibben jetted off to Los Angeles, California, where he was joined by the greens' "Daddy Warbucks," billionaire political campaign donor Tom Steyer—with much the same results: the typical anti-everything protestors were present. But only a few.
In Iowa, as I addressed last week, a meeting of the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition—which according to the organizer includes those with "concerns about the impact it could have on the environment, farmers who worry about their cropland and religious groups who view expanding use of fossil fuels as a moral issue because of climate change"—expected a crowd of 200. Instead, according to the Ottumwa Courier, "only 40 or so were seated when the meeting began. Others trickled in as the meeting progressed."
Now, in Colorado, two ballot initiatives, 75 and 78, have the potential to, according to Colorado regulators, "effectively halt new oil and gas development in as much as 90 percent of the state." In order to get the initiatives on the ballot, 98,492 valid signatures needed to be turned into the Colorado Secretary of State by August 8—no later than 3:00 p.m.
Tricia Olson, who has pumped in most of the funding for a group backing initiatives 75 and 78, hoped to "collect 160,000 signatures to account for the invalid signatures that inevitably pop up."
On Monday, August 8, exercising stagecraft, at 2:30 p.m., dozens of supporters emptied a U-Haul truck and delivered box after box of signatures to the Secretary of State's office. They celebrated their "victory." 350 Colorado, one of the groups behind the measures, proclaimed: "We did it! Over 100,000 signatures delivered on initiatives to limit fracking!"—not the 160,000 originally hoped for, and likely not enough to get on the ballot in November.
By CBS Denver's accounting about 105,000 signatures were turned in—most in half empty boxes. Lynn Bartels, Colorado Secretary of State Communications Director, tweeted: "Proponents of fracking measures turned in lots of boxes with very few petitions in them." Once the petitions were consolidated, there were roughly 50 empty boxes. Simon Lomax, an associate energy policy analyst with the conservative Independence Institute in Denver and a consultant who advises pro-business groups, said: "To make it look more impressive they added a bunch of empty boxes, or boxes with very few petitions. It just sort of shows, these groups don't do substance, they just do deceptive publicity stunts."
Noted election reporter and national affairs columnist for the National Review, John Fund, told me: "If there is enough public support for an issue to get the votes needed to pass, getting a surplus of signatures to get it on the ballot is an easy task."
On CBS Denver, former Secretary of State Scott Gessler explained that you need about 98,000 signatures to get on the ballot because, for a variety of reasons, at least 30 percent are rejected, you need to submit at least 140,000. He says that for the 105,000 signatures turned in to qualify would be "unprecedented," something that "has never occurred in Colorado for a ballot initiative." According to Gessler, the effort is "doomed"—though we will not know for sure until next month when the final counts are released.
Despite their drama and declared "victory," it doesn't seem that the Colorado anti-fossil fuel crowd has enough signatures, or support, to make it onto the November ballot. They may be loud, but, alas, they are few.
The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc., and the companion educational organization, the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). She hosts a weekly radio program: America's Voice for Energy—which expands on the content of her weekly column. Follow her on Twitter @EnergyRabbit.


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MDSplus was designed to give researchers the ability to produce complete, coherent, self-descriptive data sets and to provide tools for efficient access to that data in a distributed computing environment. The result was a system with sufficient flexibility and extensibility that ALL information associated with an experiment (or simulation) can be stored in the same structure and accessed through the same set of simple calls. By unifying setup, calibration, geometry and so forth with task descriptions, scheduling, status and all raw and processed data, MDSplus makes it easy to share data and tools across applications, facilitating collaborative research and reducing duplication of efforts. Data Driven Applications With MDSplus, it becomes practical to remove data entirely from codes and move them into the data structures. This approach allows highly flexible applications to be created whose operation can be modified easily without re-writing code. For example, a routine can create a menu of signals for display or processing by interacting with the data. New signals appear automatically in the application when they are added to the data structure - no new programming is required. Similarly, the names of routines for analysis and the parameters to control their operation can be specified as MDSplus data. Steps used during interactive processing can be saved for future reference or used as a script to "replay" the analysis. Perhaps the most important data driven application supported by MDSplus is data acquisition. Composite structures called DEVICES are defined which contain all the setup parameters, task descriptions, scheduling information and raw data which are associated with each physical data acquisition module on an experiment. Tools for scheduling and dispatching the data acquisition and analysis tasks are also part of MDSplus. A New Paradigm For Data Analysis MDSplus enables a new paradigm for post-shot processing of experimental (or simulation) data. Traditionally each processing step defined its own set of file structures, interfaces and graphical routines. For example, figure A is a simplified diagram of the data flow for a particular type of analysis (TRANSP) carried out on experimental data in the fusion program using older methodologies. The data flow resembles a multi-threaded conveyor belt spawning an array of mismatched data structures. The proliferation of file types and interface standards (APIs) make it difficult to share tools or to directly compare the results of different analysis suites. Using MDSplus, data at all stages is stored in the same format with the same API and can be accessed and displayed with the same set of routines. Data from all sources can be easily compared and tools are readily shared. Comparison With Other Data Standards MDSplus is not simply a data standard as it provides support for data acquisition, task description, scheduling and dispatching, asynchronous event generation and distribution, etc. However, MDSplus is a highly capable data storage and management system with a unique combination of features and functions including:


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MIA: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms
Agency is the subject of social change, who makes history.
For Marxists, it is in the first place, human beings who are the agent of history, not "History" or "The Laws of History" or even "the productive forces" or "The Party" or any other such abstraction.
But in the second place, for Marxists, human beings are not primarily individuals, but social beings. Consequently, people make history in the various social formations which constitute humankind as a species-being.
For example, Marx says:
"But also when I am active scientifically, etc. - an activity which I can seldom perform in direct community with others - then my activity is social, because I perform it as a man. Not only is the material of my activity given to me as a social product (as is even the language in which the thinker is active): my own existence is social activity, and therefore that which I make of myself, I make of myself for society and with the consciousness of myself as a social being. [Private Property & Communism]
Among all the social formations which are active in social change and history, the most important are classes, the large groupings of people based on common relations to the means of productions and roles in the social division of labour.
In comprehending the action of classes and the formation of cultural entities such as language, political parties and movements, etc., the most central process is the contradiction between the social relations of production and the social forces of production.
"The productive forces are the result of man's practical energy, but that energy is in turn circumscribed by the conditions in which man is placed by the productive forces already acquired, by the form of society which exists before him, which he does not create, which is the product of the preceding generation." [Letter to Annenkov, 1846]
And the same is true of the political parties, trade unions and so forth through which people are active in history: they are made by people, but conditioned by everything that has gone before.
"The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." [Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859]
"No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for which it is sufficient have been developed, and new superior relations of production never replace older ones before the material conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society. Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation." [Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859]
In the 1960s, Louis Althusser gave a different slant to the meaning of "agency." For Althusser, human beings were "agents" of change in just the same way that they are carriers of a disease, i.e., he negated the subjective aspect of agency, leaving change purely as a result of structure, with no place for indivudals.
Usually used to mean denying the possibility of knowing the nature or existence of God, but used by Marxists with the meaning of denying the possibility of knowledge of the objective world. Agnosticism is an extension of Scepticism in that while scepticism is always a valid aspect of investigation, Agnosticism elevates this doubt into an absolute denial of the possibility of knowledge. The term was coined by the British natural scientist Thomas Huxley and could be used to encompass the philosophy of Hume, Kant, neo-Positivism and others.
Agnosticism has various forms: some agnostics see an objective existence of the material world (eg. the tree does make a sound if no one is there to hear it) but deny the possibility of knowing it for certain, others deny the existence of the material world because it cannot be known for certain. (The latter position is similar to Husserl and his philosophy of transcendental subjectivism (phenomonology), with the exception that this is based on the belief that the 'self' is for certain, and therefore transcends all reality, all existance.)


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In Screenagers, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, Screenagers reveals how tech time impacts kids' development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.


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Asynchronous Transfers/Transforms API¶
1. Introduction¶
The async_tx API provides methods for describing a chain of asynchronous bulk memory transfers/transforms with support for inter-transactional dependencies. It is implemented as a dmaengine client that smooths over the details of different hardware offload engine implementations. Code that is written to the API can optimize for asynchronous operation and the API will fit the chain of operations to the available offload resources.
The API was initially designed to offload the memory copy and xor-parity-calculations of the md-raid5 driver using the offload engines present in the Intel(R) Xscale series of I/O processors. It also built on the 'dmaengine' layer developed for offloading memory copies in the network stack using Intel(R) I/OAT engines. The following design features surfaced as a result:
implicit synchronous path: users of the API do not need to know if the platform they are running on has offload capabilities. The operation will be offloaded when an engine is available and carried out in software otherwise.
cross channel dependency chains: the API allows a chain of dependent operations to be submitted, like xor->copy->xor in the raid5 case. The API automatically handles cases where the transition from one operation to another implies a hardware channel switch.
dmaengine extensions to support multiple clients and operation types beyond 'memcpy'
3. Usage¶
3.1 General format of the API¶
struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *
async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>, struct async_submit_ctl *submit)
3.2 Supported operations¶
memcpy |
memory copy between a source and a destination buffer |
memset |
fill a destination buffer with a byte value |
xor |
xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a destination buffer |
xor_val |
xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent writes to memory |
pq |
generate the p+q (raid6 syndrome) from a series of source buffers |
pq_val |
validate that a p and or q buffer are in sync with a given series of sources |
datap |
(raid6_datap_recov) recover a raid6 data block and the p block from the given sources |
2data |
(raid6_2data_recov) recover 2 raid6 data blocks from the given sources |
3.3 Descriptor management¶
The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation has been queued to execute asynchronously. Descriptors are recycled resources, under control of the offload engine driver, to be reused as operations complete. When an application needs to submit a chain of operations it must guarantee that the descriptor is not automatically recycled before the dependency is submitted. This requires that all descriptors be acknowledged by the application before the offload engine driver is allowed to recycle (or free) the descriptor. A descriptor can be acked by one of the following methods:
setting the ASYNC_TX_ACK flag if no child operations are to be submitted
submitting an unacknowledged descriptor as a dependency to another async_tx call will implicitly set the acknowledged state.
calling async_tx_ack() on the descriptor.
3.4 When does the operation execute?¶
Operations do not immediately issue after return from the async_<operation> call. Offload engine drivers batch operations to improve performance by reducing the number of mmio cycles needed to manage the channel. Once a driver-specific threshold is met the driver automatically issues pending operations. An application can force this event by calling async_tx_issue_pending_all(). This operates on all channels since the application has no knowledge of channel to operation mapping.
3.5 When does the operation complete?¶
There are two methods for an application to learn about the completion of an operation.
Call dma_wait_for_async_tx(). This call causes the CPU to spin while it polls for the completion of the operation. It handles dependency chains and issuing pending operations.
Specify a completion callback. The callback routine runs in tasklet context if the offload engine driver supports interrupts, or it is called in application context if the operation is carried out synchronously in software. The callback can be set in the call to async_<operation>, or when the application needs to submit a chain of unknown length it can use the async_trigger_callback() routine to set a completion interrupt/callback at the end of the chain.
3.6 Constraints¶
Calls to async_<operation> are not permitted in IRQ context. Other contexts are permitted provided constraint #2 is not violated.
Completion callback routines cannot submit new operations. This results in recursion in the synchronous case and spin_locks being acquired twice in the asynchronous case.
3.7 Example¶
Perform a xor->copy->xor operation where each operation depends on the result from the previous operation:
void callback(void *param)
struct completion *cmp = param;
void run_xor_copy_xor(struct page **xor_srcs,
int xor_src_cnt,
struct page *xor_dest,
size_t xor_len,
struct page *copy_src,
struct page *copy_dest,
size_t copy_len)
struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx;
addr_conv_t addr_conv[xor_src_cnt];
struct async_submit_ctl submit;
addr_conv_t addr_conv[NDISKS];
struct completion cmp;
init_async_submit(&submit, ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST, NULL, NULL, NULL,
tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, &submit)
submit->depend_tx = tx;
tx = async_memcpy(copy_dest, copy_src, 0, 0, copy_len, &submit);
init_async_submit(&submit, ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST | ASYNC_TX_ACK, tx,
callback, &cmp, addr_conv);
tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, &submit);
See include/linux/async_tx.h for more information on the flags. See the ops_run_* and ops_complete_* routines in drivers/md/raid5.c for more implementation examples.
4. Driver Development Notes¶
4.1 Conformance points¶
There are a few conformance points required in dmaengine drivers to accommodate assumptions made by applications using the async_tx API:
Completion callbacks are expected to happen in tasklet context
dma_async_tx_descriptor fields are never manipulated in IRQ context
Use async_tx_run_dependencies() in the descriptor clean up path to handle submission of dependent operations
4.2 "My application needs exclusive control of hardware channels"¶
Primarily this requirement arises from cases where a DMA engine driver is being used to support device-to-memory operations. A channel that is performing these operations cannot, for many platform specific reasons, be shared. For these cases the dma_request_channel() interface is provided.
The interface is:
struct dma_chan *dma_request_channel(dma_cap_mask_t mask,
dma_filter_fn filter_fn,
void *filter_param);
Where dma_filter_fn is defined as:
typedef bool (*dma_filter_fn)(struct dma_chan *chan, void *filter_param);
When the optional 'filter_fn' parameter is set to NULL dma_request_channel simply returns the first channel that satisfies the capability mask. Otherwise, when the mask parameter is insufficient for specifying the necessary channel, the filter_fn routine can be used to disposition the available channels in the system. The filter_fn routine is called once for each free channel in the system. Upon seeing a suitable channel filter_fn returns DMA_ACK which flags that channel to be the return value from dma_request_channel. A channel allocated via this interface is exclusive to the caller, until dma_release_channel() is called.
The DMA_PRIVATE capability flag is used to tag dma devices that should not be used by the general-purpose allocator. It can be set at initialization time if it is known that a channel will always be private. Alternatively, it is set when dma_request_channel() finds an unused "public" channel.
A couple caveats to note when implementing a driver and consumer:
Once a channel has been privately allocated it will no longer be considered by the general-purpose allocator even after a call to dma_release_channel().
Since capabilities are specified at the device level a dma_device with multiple channels will either have all channels public, or all channels private.
5. Source¶
- include/linux/dmaengine.h:
core header file for DMA drivers and api users
- drivers/dma/dmaengine.c:
offload engine channel management routines
- drivers/dma/:
location for offload engine drivers
- include/linux/async_tx.h:
core header file for the async_tx api
- crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c:
async_tx interface to dmaengine and common code
- crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c:
copy offload
- crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c:
xor and xor zero sum offload


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Traditionally, a one year anniversary present is paper, but UFC and FOX are giving us gold.
The mega-relationship that began on November 12th, 2011 with a one fight, main event heavyweight title bout between Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez will mark its first year with another belt on the line and much, much more. On December 8th, live on FOX from the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, the ultimate proving grounds will feature a pair of fight finishing welterweights, the return of an MMA icon vs. a top tier talent in the making, a terrific tangle between light heavyweight titans, and the UFC lightweight championship up for grabs. As another year of fighting festivities winds down, the Octagon takes center-stage on FOX with easily its most high profile and stacked card.
"The idea is to put the best fights we could possibly put on on FOX," states UFC President Dana White, aware that even a casual MMA fan knows that this card is simply just that: the best fights possible.
To whet fight fans' appetite, the card kicks off with the ultra entertaining Ultimate Fighter alums "The Immortal" Matt Brown vs. Mike "Quick" Swick. The second scrap is about legacies, with former two-division UFC champion "The Prodigy" BJ Penn taking on Canadian sensation Rory MacDonald at 170 pounds. In the third bout, a scintillating strikers' showdown between former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Swedish superstar Alexander "The Mauler" Gustafsson. Last but not least, the headlining battle is for the belt between UFC 155-pound champion Benson "Smooth" Henderson and TUF season 5 winner Nate Diaz.
With only a little over a week away, most of the moving pieces of this historic, end-of-the-year FOX card took time out their busy training schedules on Tuesday to chat on a conference call with the ever-inquisitive MMA media. The cast of cagefighting characters included current lightweight king Henderson, Diaz, "Shogun", Penn, MacDonald, UFC President White, and the President of FOX Sports Media Group Eric Shanks.
Surprisingly, much of the MMA media's curiosity was not transfixed on the shimmering gold belt, but on the matchup between the old lion Penn and the young dragon MacDonald. One could see it as mild irony or self-fulfilling prophecy, as part of Penn's reasoning for taking the fight with MacDonald was him not hearing his name mentioned enough by the media. The former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion has always been at the forefront of discussions concerning "pound for pound" or "best ever", but the conversation has changed with the emergence of current champions who have also been more active like Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, and Jon Jones. "The Prodigy" wants to again solidify his place on those lists with a return to form against MacDonald.
"No one says my name when they talk about the greatest fighters anymore," tells Penn. "I told Dana I have a real problem with that. I want to come back strong. I'm a glass half empty kind of guy and I'm not happy with 'he was good back in the day.' I still think I have something left to accomplish."
Just shy of 34 years old, Penn is coming off a near 14 month absence from the sport stemming from his Fight of the Night war with Nick Diaz at UFC 137, which ended with Penn declaring his retirement. "I got the itch that I wanted to fight again and I realized I can't do this forever, so I might as well make the most of it," reveals Penn, whose brash and confident opponent lit a fire under the Hawaiian to take his belly off and drop from an admitted 40% body fat to under 10%. "As things started going on, he said he saw me, that I looked fat, and he would kill me in the ring. I love it when my opponent says that I'm fat or I'm nothing - it's wonderful; I couldn't ask for anything more."
On the other side of this caged equation is the 23-year-old phenom MacDonald. With a professional record at 13-1, with his only loss coming via TKO in the waning seconds of a fight he was winning against former interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit, the Tristar Gym prospect has tore through a laundry list of more than worthy opponents with only the headlining Diaz able to force MacDonald to a decision. The heir apparent to St-Pierre, MacDonald has shown an unflinching tenacity in the Octagon, overwhelming opponents with speed, strength, and a proficiency in all areas of the fight. MacDonald is focused on adding Penn to his win column and staying healthy so he can add many, many more names.
"I'm being a little bit more smart with my training with taking days off," says MacDonald. "I used to never take days off, even if I was hurt. It's been keeping me healthy. For me, health is the most important thing. I know how to fight. I'm in shape all year round because I train all year round. If I'm healthy, I can fight on a minute's notice."
There is little to question in the international altercation between 205-pound knockout artists Rua and Gustafsson. It's simply going to be fantastic. The 6'5" Stockholm slugger by way of Alliance MMA is riding a path of destruction through the UFC's light heavyweight division, going 6-1 with five finishes. Multiply that guaranteed fireworks resume by the Brazilian bomber Rua's 21 wins with 18 via KO/TKO. Possibly more than any other fight on this card, "Shogun" vs. "The Mauler" is simply close the cage door, ring the bell, and shut up and watch the amazingness unfold.
"I think it's a fight every fan wants to see because we both look for the knockout," affirms Rua, who, in the understatement of the century, estimates this will be a good fight. "We're both strikers. I think the fans will get a wonderful show."
Finally, in the main event, arguably the most talent-rich division in the UFC will put its title on the line between champion Henderson and challenger Diaz. The 27 year-old Diaz earned the title shot with three dominant performances, including a win over Donald Cerrone and two finishes over former PRIDE lightweight champion Takanori Gomi and Jim Miller. Not surprisingly, Diaz had little to say about the importance of this title fight to himself minus that it was important and that it was good for the Cesar Gracie gym, "I think it's good because it represents my team." It's not surprising to hear Diaz talk of others instead of himself, as in all of his victories Diaz rattles off dozens of names to thank who helped him win. If the younger Diaz is victorious on December 8th, expect to hear a shout out to everyone in the Stockton, California phonebook.
As for the lightweight belt's current owner, the 17-2 Henderson realized an oft prophesied possibility in 2012 by winning the UFC lightweight title from Frankie Edgar after formerly holding the WEC lightweight title. Six months later, "Smooth" tangled with Edgar for a second time to another tough decision to keep the belt. The 29-year-old who fights out of the MMA Lab in Glendale, Arizona is looking to move past the Edgar clashes and stamp out a streak defending the title like some of the other UFC champions. For Henderson, fighting the best a division has to offer will always be difficult, and any type of win will be a hard fought and deserved one.
"As far as me beating Nate, I'm just trying to get the W and get my hand raised," says Henderson. "If he slips on a banana peel, I'll take it. If it's an even closer razor-thin decision than with Frankie, I'll take it. We all fight to end fights, but sometimes when you are fighting the best guys on the planet it isn't easy to make it decisive. I'm going to try to do my best to get my hand raised."
On December 8th, live on FOX from "The Emerald City", the UFC has a Saturday night blockbuster to remember with three hotly anticipated Fight of the Night candidate bouts and a main event lightweight title fight. The holiday presents come early as fight fans are treated to a free stacked card fit to honor the UFC's first successful year of caged combat on FOX. Can't even imagine how they'll top this next year.
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Option remember in Procedures
Calling Sequence
Thread Safety
option remember or options remember
Maple provides an option for procedures to remember previous results in a ``remember table''. Subsequent invocations of the procedure with the same arguments simply retrieve the result from the remember table.
The remember table is implemented as an ordinary Maple table, and can be manipulated as such. It is created when the first entry is inserted into it, and accessible as operand 4 of the procedure structure--use op(4, eval(f)) if the name f has a procedure definition assigned to it.
If the remember option is specified in the options field of a Maple procedure, then at the end of each invocation of the procedure, an entry is made in its remember table that records the result for the specified arguments.
Alternatively, a procedure's remember table may be explicitly updated by a function assignment of the form f(x) := y. A procedure's remember table may also be deleted by using forget(f). For more information about this, see the help page for forget.
Option remember allows for the coding of a function with a recursive definition in the most natural manner, without a loss of efficiency. For example, the Fibonacci numbers computed with
F := proc(n) if n<2 then n else F(n-1)+F(n-2) end if end proc;
takes exponential time to compute, whereas
F := proc(n) option remember;
if n<2 then n else F(n-1)+F(n-2) end if end proc;
requires linear time. Alternatively, we could write
F := proc(n) F(n) := F(n-1)+F(n-2) end proc;
In this version the remember table is explicitly updated.
As with all Maple tables, the time required for insertion, deletion and access is very small. The main cost of using a remember table is the space used by the table and its entries.
By also specifying the option system in the options field of the Maple procedure, entries in the remember table are removed by the garbage collector so that the space occupied by the remember table, and the entries in it, can be freed.
As an alternative to remember tables, Maple also provides option cache. A cache table has a maximum number of elements it will store. When full, old elements are removed as new ones are inserted. In addition one can manually add permanent elements so that base cases of recursive procedures can still be encoded in the table.
When a procedure is printed with the print function, and interface(verboseproc=3) is in effect, the contents of the remember table are printed after the procedure.
The remember table of the built-in procedure evalf is cleared whenever numeric event handling is changed by a call to NumericEventHandler. This is because a change in event handling has the potential to change the results that evalf might return, so remembered results may be invalid.
Remember that tables (option remember) should not be used for procedures that are intended to accept mutable objects (such as rtables) as input, because Maple does not detect that such an object has changed when retrieving values from remember tables.
As of Maple 17, there is a separate remember table for each thread that executes a function. This means that results calculated and stored in one thread are not available in other threads. Although this may limit the ability for results to be shared, it allows functions to manipulate their remember tables without worrying about interfering with other threads. In addition, remember tables can be used with less contention between threads.
By specifying the shared option in the option sequence of the Maple procedure, the remember table will be shared between threads. This provides the same behaviour as in versions before Maple 17.
Certain common uses of remember tables are not thread safe when using a shared table. If a procedure requires certain entries in the remember table for correctness sake (like the termination condition in the Fibonacci example above) then threads must be careful when manipulating the remember table. Changing entries required by other threads will lead to incorrect behaviour.
The Fibonacci numbers.
F := proc(n) F(n) := F(n-1)+F(n-2); end proc:
Notice that in computing F(5), the values for F(2), F(3), and F(4) were also computed and are also stored in the remember table.
This next example shows how to compute the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. Like the Fibonacci numbers, they also satisfy a two term recurrence. This time we use the remember option.
T := proc(n::nonnegint,x) option remember; printf("computing T(%d,x)\n",n); if n=0 then 1 elif n=1 then x else expand( 2*x*T(n-1,x)-T(n-2,x) ) end if; end proc:
computing T(3,x) computing T(2,x) computing T(1,x) computing T(0,x)
To compute T(4,x) we need T(3,x) and T(2,x). Notice that T(3,x) and T(2,x) are not recomputed but are retrieved from the remember table.
computing T(4,x)
See Also
assignment statement
option cache
Procedure options
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Yesterday, URBAN GALLERY (400 Queen St East, Toronto) opened the doors to officially launch their summer group show O CANADA (runs until July 29), featuring 17 Canadian artists with diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic styles whose individual visions of Canada celebrate the country's 150th anniversary. Come take a virtual walk with me thru the gallery….
The stunning image by Erik Chong features the lyrics to the Canadian national anthem in all three official languages and Erik posed proudly in front of his painting, "Beautiful Day" (below)Celebrated wildlife photographer Linda Langerak has 3 gorgeous photos of BC creatures in the show (below) – I love the bald eagles…Kirk Sutherland created the frame around his "Terra Nova" painting from found architectural salvage featuring maple leaf designs. How clever is that?Caught this cool shot and realized afterwards that it was all about the stripes….LOL!Pauline Langmaid (below) drove in all the way from Bracebridge to showcase her glorious abstract landscapes…or should I say "lake-scapes"? Pauline's two paintings proved very popular with gallery visitors… Another popular image was celebrity chef & photographer Lyndon Wiebe's photo of a windswept view of Port Hope (below). Lyndon brought out an extended print showing more of the scene – located to the west of the town where housing development meets grassland. Film industry professional and accomplished photographic artist Karen Silver chose a chilly winter scene of a Toronto park and a lonely bicycle. Now that's one seat I would not like to sit on…LOL!Kris Bovenizer (below centre) talks with a guest about her two acrylic on canvas works…the sea-faring image on the left is now a label on bottles of a limited edition maple syrup bottled for a Canadian business leader (as Canada150 corporate gifts for his clients). How cool..and congrats to Kris. And Kris posed with fellow artist Kirk Sutherland and gallery owner Calvin Hambrook (below)Manije Sabet Sarvestani (below) brought two oil-on-canvas works: "Canada Day in Quebec City" (on left) and "Thornhill Festival" (on right). The soft-spoken artist let her work do all the talking and these certainly announced her talent loudly!Kent Bridges was the first artist to score a "red dot" (a sale) for his "Life in a Northern Town". Here he is (below left in red) with purchaser and fan David Currah of Toronto's Fife House. Congrats to Kent who was all smiles as he celebrated the sale. Ronald Regamey uses a technique known as "quilling" to create beautiful 3 dimensional paper & glue artwork. Here's Ronald being snapped by Calvin in front of his latest piece titled "Alive". …Ronald had a number of family and friends congratulating him on his gallery appearance – they were so animated and excited it was hard to get them all to stand still for a photo…LOLGallery curator Allen Shugar and poet/artist Brenda Clews also met under Ronald's work….…while Linda Langerak snapped away with Kirk (below)The delicious food was catered by Urban Source Catering and the platters were themselves works of art. Colin Nun (below left) who recently had his own successful solo show at Urban Gallery, shares his thoughts on his work "Canada" with KJ Mullins (below R) editor of NEWZ4U.caIn fact, a lot of guests remarked on the uniqueness of Colin's oil-on-canvas typographical and topographical view of the country.Snapd newspaper photographer Gianmarco dropped by to cover the event and got busy snapping the artists… I managed to grab a quick pic of Joan Andal Romano with her "True North" mixed media on canvas. So many intricate details to view, it must have taken her many hours to create.Several artists were unable to attend, 3 delivered beautiful Canadian landscapes – Stacey Kinder's "Light" featuring a stand of trees in the fall, Christine Marin's "On Bear Trap Road" (2nd pic) and Grace Dam's snowy "Canmore" (3rd pic)…. ..and Aisha Chiguichon was represented by this provocative acrylic on canvas titled "Stereotypes"Victoria General attended but the shy artist preferred to let her work take centre stage and declined a photo. Victoria works in charcoal on paper – here are "We Need a Bit More Sand, I Think" (upper) and "I'll Have to Call You Back" (lower).The reception drew many art lovers and more red dots should be appearing alongside these Canada150 artful tributes. I hope you get a chance to visit in person and support the talented artists at Urban Gallery.
Urban Gallery, 400 Queen St East, Toronto www.urbangallery.ca
Urban Gallery is also available for rental if you wish to host your corporate or private party, reception or even a sit-down dinner with delicious food & refreshments courtesy of Urban Source Catering. Visit the website for details.


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Service providers use DNS to enable subscriber access to critical services and web applications. If DNS is unavailable, services will fail to function properly, leading to network and service degradation or failures. To prevent this occurrence, service providers must optimize and secure the DNS infrastructure. However, such an infrastructure requires tremendous amounts of real-time management and stability, and scaling DNS rapidly becomes crucial when dealing with millions of service names and IP addresses.
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BIG-IP DNS delivers an intelligent and scalable DNS infrastructure that gives mobile users faster access and service response. This makes it easy for service providers to optimize, monetize, and secure their DNS infrastructures. F5 DNS provides carrier-grade, high- performance LDNS caching and resolving, and is a hyper-scale authoritative DNS solution that includes DNS firewall security services for mitigating DNS DDoS attacks.
In addition, BIG-IP DNS can load balance local and recursive DNS services. Service providers use customizable monitors and global server load balancing (GSLB) services to allocate the best resources to DNS queries and respond with the best service experience. Because BIG-IP DNS enables a DNS64 environment, it creates a fault- tolerant architecture, which in turn, improves network traffic and users' quality of experience (QoE). By implementing BIG-IP DNS service providers protect their brand.
BIG-IP DNS also shields the DNS infrastructure from malicious attacks by infected subscribers and from undesired DNS queries and responses that reduce DNS and service performance. F5's intelligent DNS firewall inspects and validates protocols while dropping invalid requests or refusing to accept unsolicited responses. BIG-IP DNS is an ICSA Labs Certified network firewall with DDoS threshold alerting that hyper-scales across many devices using IP Anycast for DDoS absorption. It mitigates threats by blocking access to malicious IP domains.
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PB15:1-Phthalo Blue
PB29-Ultramarine [Blue]
PB36-Cobalt Chromite Blue Green Spinel
PB15:1-Phthalo Blue
alpha copper phthalocyanine
Phthalo Blue PB15:1 is a structural variant of Phthalo Blue PB15 that produces more reddish tones.
Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Blues have no significant hazards, although those made before 1982 contained some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
Developed by chemists using the trade name Monastral Blue, the organic blue dyestuff now known as Phthalo Blue was presented as a pigment in November 1935 in London. Its discovery was accidental. The dark color was observed in a kettle where a dye was being made from a British dyestuff plant. The demand for such a pigment came from commercial printers who wanted a cyan to replace Prussian Blue.
PB29-Ultramarine [Blue]
complex silicate of sodium and aluminum with sulfur
Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4 or Na6-8Al6Si6O24S2-4
Ultramarine is the standard warm blue, a brilliant blue pigment that has the most purple and least green in its undertone. It has a moderate to high tinting strength and a beautiful transparency. Synthetic Ultramarine is not as vivid a blue as natural Ultramarine. Ultramarine dries slowly in oil and tends to produce clean, though granular, washes in watercolor. French Ultramarine mixes well with Alizarin colors in oil and watercolor form to create a range of purples and violets. It can dull when mixed with white in acrylic form, but mixes well with other colors. The shade varies based on manufacturer. Considered a great color for glazes, it is not suitable for frescoing.
Ultramarine has excellent permanence, although synthetic Ultramarine is not as permanent as natural Ultramarine. It may discolor if exposed to acid because of its sulfuric content.
Ultramarine has no significant hazards.
The name for this pigment comes from the Middle Latin ultra, meaning beyond, and mare, meaning sea, because it was imported from Asia to Europe by sea. It is a prominent component of lapis lazuli and was used on Asian temples starting in the 6th century. It was one of the most expensive pigments in 16th century Europe, worth twice its weight in gold, and so was used sparingly and when commissions were larger. Ultramarine is currently imitated by a process invented in France in 1826 by Jean Baptiste Guimet, making blue affordable to artists and extending the range of colors on their palettes.
PB36-Cobalt Chromite Blue Green Spinel
Oxides of Cobalt and Chromium
Cobalt Chromite Blue is an opaque pigment with moderately low tinting strength.
Cobalt salts have excellent lightfastness and temperature stability.
Cobalt salts are toxic when ingested or inhaled, and slightly toxic on contact with the skin. Evidence of Chromium(III) carcinogenicity is inconclusive. Chromium(III) salts appear in greenish pigments.
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For a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, palliative care provides complete physical, emotional, social and spiritual support. Palliative care enables children and families to reach for hope in their day-to-day lives.
The Palliative Care team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is committed to helping patients achieve the best quality of life possible. We understand that "quality of life" means different things to different people, so we work with parents individually, and tailor care to the unique needs of each family.
Reaching for Hope by Grace Lim, 1992-2004
Assisi Children's Centre, Singapore
We work with the child's primary care team to assist families in decision making and in developing a comprehensive plan for comfort care. We also partner with community agencies to ease the transitions between hospital, hospice and home. Together we work to ensure that each child receives optimal care in all settings.
The Palliative Care team provides support under many circumstances, in many styles and for many reasons. The team is available to:


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Chicago, USA, June 18, 2013 — CargoWise®, a global leader in technology solutions for logistics service providers, announced the successful adoption of ediEnterprise delivered through WiseCloud by newly-formed Canadian freight forwarder Skyfer Logistic. Comprehensive training completed entirely through web-based eLearning videos and manuals was a key contributor to Skyfer's quick implementation.
Following a successful career in the freight forwarding and logistics industry, Sherman Fernando launched Skyfer Logistic in late 2012 with the vision of creating an agile, rapidly-growing, competitor to existing companies in the sector. After researching the logistics software market, he selected CargoWise ediEnterprise because it was the best fit for Skyfer Logistic's agile business culture and aggressive growth plans.
"The ability to conduct training using eLearning exclusively also made a major impact on the decision to go with ediEnterprise. It is easy and flexible and I can just log in and use it whenever I want to learn something new," Fernando says. "It was also going to cost me a lot of money to set up an internal server, which I would then have to keep updating every three years, so ediEnterprise delivered through WiseCloud was the most logical choice."
ediEnteprise is currently being used by four Skyfer Logistic staffs, with plans to expand the number of users to 15, keeping in-line with the business' rapid expansion forecasts. According to Fernando, the software provides key features which have enabled the company to surpass existing freight forwarders in terms of customer service and productivity.
"The software supports my efforts to offer my customers the opportunity to look up rates, track shipments, and complete their bookings online," Fernando says. "This means we are already achieving far more productivity than our competitors, and this helps make our customers more productive as well."
Gene Gander, Vice President Business Development, Americas for CargoWise, says he is delighted to be able to deliver on the highly sophisticated requirements of Skyfer Logistics, which provides the company with a technology platform that enables it to launch and expand quickly.
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We can supply and install a fully integrated aftermarket front parking camera system in certain Peugeot models. With this system we use aftermarket systems that operate as if it was fitted from the factory.
The camera system starts working as soon as you put your vehicle into reverse. Alternatively it can be activated by a selected button on the dashboard or steering wheel.
A discrete camera is fitted as per factory in the front of the vehicle (usually in the grille) and will show you an image from the front of your vehicle on the vehicles infotainment screen.
- Using the front parking camera means you'll be able to manoeuvre quickly and easily, even into the most difficult parking space.
- The live image can alert you to something that is out of your field of vision from the drivers seat allowing you to avoid a possible collision.
- It also alerts you to low-down obstacles which parking sensors cannot always detect.