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Single 2D line drawing is a straightforward method to illustrate 3D objects. The faces of an object depicted by a line drawing give very useful information for the reconstruction of its 3D geometry. Two recently proposed methods for face identification from line drawings are based on two steps: finding a set of circuits that may be faces and searching for real faces from the set according to some criteria. The two steps, however, involve two combinatorial problems. The number of the circuits generated in the first step grows exponentially with the number of edges of a line drawing. These circuits are then used as the input to the second combinatorial search step. When dealing with objects having more faces, the combinatorial explosion prevents these methods from finding solutions within feasible time. This paper proposes a new method to tackle the face identification problem by a variable-length genetic algorithm with novel heuristic and geometric constraints incorporated for local search. The hybrid GA solves the two combinatorial problems simultaneously. Experimental results show that our algorithm can find the faces of a line drawing having more than 30 faces much more efficiently. In addition, simulated annealing for solving the face identification problem is also implemented for comparison.
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Pat Metheny Unity Band Performs in Boston - Sunday, October 14 at Berklee Performance Center
"From rapid-fire postbop cascades through country-inflected ballads to exultant synth-guitar anthems…a group of blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match..." —Guardian (UK)
With Pat, you simply never know what is coming next. But among the many things that make this ever-changing artist so special is the consistent level of commitment and quality that he brings to everything he does. For the first time in more than 30 years, Pat features a tenor saxophone in the front line. The last, in fact the only, previous Metheny-led record to feature a horn player was the iconic and influential ECM recording 80/81. The Unity Band introduces a new Metheny ensemble of the same name with the amazing Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, longtime collaborator Antonio Sanchez on drums, and the up-and-coming Ben Williams on bass. The album features nine new Metheny compositions. Says Pat: "This is a group of musicians who can do just about anything."
The Pat Metheny Unity Band is touring the United States this summer and fall, with stops in 39 cities.
Metheny says of the three-decade gap since his last project to feature saxophonists (the late great Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker): "In many ways my bands were envisioned as an alternative to the more conventional kinds that I had come up playing in. The fact that it has taken another 30 years to get to it again is kind of a testament to how busy those 'alternative'
"We all always talked about revisiting that band at some point, but with both Mike and Dewey gone now, that will never happen," he continues. "But then Chris Potter came along. As a fan, I have watched as he has become one of the greatest musicians of our time, and when we were both invited to play on Antonio Sanchez's debut record, I immediately saw that we had a natural way of playing and phrasing that suggested something more. I started thinking right then of somehow building a project around that."
For the rhythm section, Metheny explains, "Antonio was kind of an obvious choice; he has been one of my closest associates over the past ten years and has also played a lot with Chris. He is such a special musician. There was a certain kind of power I knew that Chris and I would be getting to and I can't think of anyone who could take us to that place better than Antonio." He continues, "A few years ago, Christian McBride invited me to an event that he was leading with the jazz students at Juilliard. Ben Williams was featured on a few tunes and his playing spoke to me immediately. I used Ben a few times to sub for Christian with the trio and found him to be a great playing partner and a great person too. He and Antonio had an instantly effortless rapport."
Once he had assembled this stellar band, Metheny wrote a considerable amount of new material for them. Through rehearsals, they winnowed the music down to the nine tunes on the Unity Band album. "It's funny, I have heard so many guitar/tenor records that have been clearly influenced by that 80/81 sound, and yet I really wanted to try to take it to a different place this time, even though that record was certain to be a reference point along the way," Metheny says. "One of Antonio's specialties is this even eighth-note thing he does, and in a lot of ways that set a direction for the writing. But still, this is a group of musicians who can do just about anything."
Over the course of more than three decades, guitarist Pat Metheny has set himself apart from the jazz mainstream, expanding and blurring boundaries and musical styles. His record-setting body of work includes 19 Grammy Awards in 12 separate categories; a series of influential trio recordings; award-winning solo albums; scores for hit Hollywood motion pictures; and collaborations and duets with major artists such as Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, Charlie Haden, Brad Mehldau, and many others. His band the Pat Metheny Group, founded in 1977, is the only ensemble in history to win Grammys for seven consecutive releases.
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Intersolar Europe 2014: Bosch presents innovative solutions for decentralized energy systems Best use of renewable energy via a range of storage technologies
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At the heart of the smart control system is e.Control, which is connected to the household's electricity meter and monitors power flows within the home. The system is designed to always prioritize supply to any home appliances currently in operation. Should the photovoltaic system connected to a Bosch inverter generate any surplus power, e.Control sends a signal to the heat pump to heat the hot water tank. This means optimum use is made of the household's solar power, since it avoids feeding any surplus electricity into the grid at too cheap a price. What's more, it relieves the public grid.
Integration of electricity storage makes consumers largely self-sufficient
Integrating Bosch Power Tec BPT-S 5 Hybrid storage into this energy system further boosts the degree to which a household can make use of self-generated electricity from the photovoltaic system. Even when the sky is overcast or after sunset, the storage system continues to provide the heat pump with a reliable supply of electricity. If the storage system has been integrated, any surplus electricity is sent to the powerful lithium-ion batteries before a signal is sent to the heat pump. When the hot water tank is heated, electrical power is converted into thermal energy, which in effect increases the stored energy. So running such a system is a large step toward achieving independence from the public grid.
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At Intersolar, Bosch will also be presenting the new Junkers Supraeco SAO-2 modulating air/water heat pump one of the first on the market to feature a modulating exterior unit. Thanks to a speed-controlled compressor, the Supraeco SAO-2 always supplies only as much energy as is required. This inverter technology makes the heat pump 11 percent more efficient than previous models. Its reduced electricity consumption is reflected in a drop in CO2 emissions, and it is easily adapted to use in detached or semi-detached houses. As standard, the heat circuit's flow temperature never exceeds 62 degrees Celsius during heat pump operation. The Supraeco SAO-2 can actively cool rooms and can be operated via the internet without having to install any additional hardware. The IP gateway required for web communication is already integrated, paving the way for convenient operation via smartphone or tablet. Junkers will soon be introducing its heat pump app JunkersHome. The Supraeco SAO-2 has also been classed smart grid ready.
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Bosch Energy Storage Solutions will also be at Intersolar, presenting a modular, safe, and turnkey storage solution for housing complexes. The Bosch turnkey storage system uses lithium-ion technology, is around 7 meters wide, 0.6 meters deep, and 1.8 meters tall, and is designed to be installed in an electrical services room. Its capacity and electronics are tailored to the requirements of the complex's power grid. Thanks to its power of 50 kilowatts, the battery can be fully charged or discharged in two hours. Its inverter enables it both to feed electricity into to the grid and to recharge from it. The means by which the battery system is controlled, in combination with Bosch's expertise in the right way to charge and discharge batteries, extends the battery's operating life. Bosch designs, develops, and builds storage systems on a variety of scales all the way up to the megawatt-hour range. Bosch is supplying just such an adaptable energy storage system to a housing complex comprising 180 row houses currently being built in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt. The storage system has an installed capacity of 135 kilowatt hours, which is enough to power ten average four-person households for a day.
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Rep. John Conyers re-introduces H.R. 40 on reparations for slavery and discriminationPosted January 4th, 2013 by James DeWolf Perry
Category: Repair and reparations Tags: H.R. 40, Rep. John Conyers, Reparations for slavery, U.S. Congress
Representative John Conyers (D-Mich.) has re-introduced legislation before the 113th U.S. Congress to acknowledge slavery and racial discrimination, study their impact, and propose remedies.
H.R. 40, numbered in recognition of the unfulfilled promise to freed slaves of "40 acres and a mule," has been introduced by Rep. Conyers at the start of every Congress since 1989. The bill bears the following formal title, as it has in previous years:
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
If the past is any guide, the short title of H.R. 40 is likely to be, "Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act."
H.R. 40 has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee for further consideration. Rep. Conyers is the ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, and chaired the committee the last time there was a Democratic majority in the House.
Rep. Conyers introduced the previous version of H.R. 40 at the start of the 112th Congress two years ago. It was also referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which referred it to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, where it languished until the 112th Congress expired this week.
We were honored to have Rep. Conyers speak at a press conference before the world premiere of our documentary, Traces of the Trade, at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, to highlight the importance of understanding the nation's complicity in slavery and discrimination in order to make progress towards racial healing and justice.
42 Responses to "Rep. John Conyers re-introduces H.R. 40 on reparations for slavery and discrimination"
Ifraj Schkoor Says:
January 4th, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Some have said "Why hasn't he retired?"…..maybe THIS IS WHY!!
Julie Siestreem Says:
January 5th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Thank you Rep.John Conyers for standing firm to see
H.R.40 follows through with the imperative actions we need.
Tracing Center | Reparations for the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Says:
January 7th, 2013 at 9:37 am
[…] for the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Rep. John Conyers re-introduces H.R. 40 on reparations for slavery and discrimination The Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary in context Katrina Browne on being […]
Kevin Abreu Says:
January 16th, 2013 at 10:23 am
Poor soul stuck in the past. A people or an individual cannot move forward if mired in the past. How exactly would the reparations be given or determined? There were slaves from non African countries also. Do these slaves not get reparations? While openly acknowledging that the business of slavery was abhorrent, are not the blacks in the US today better off than their present day ancestors in Africa? Aren't all US citizens from every origin, better off than their ancestors?
Britain Comes Clean on Slave Fortunes » The Greanville Post —Vol. VII- 2013 Says:
February 27th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
[…] Rep. John Conyers has a bill before the House, HR 40, that would "establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure […]
TheFunk Says:
April 9th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
Let him study the effects of Negro liberalis — welfare, crime, family breakdown — on blacks today.
Oh right, he's not interested in that….its been his political agenda since the 1960's !!!!
Melene brown Says:
June 10th, 2013 at 9:23 am
I always shake my head in disgust when people leave comments like " get over it", or "leave what's in the past in the past". why is it that African Americans on a whole have to forget? Jewish people raise their children to "never forget the holocaust, so why do we have to forget slavery. The effects were apparent even while my grandfather fought to free the jews during WWII, against the Nazi's and while he was called a "nigger" in his own country he was freeing jews from the reign of Hitler. I honestly dont understand the gaul of some people. I will not stand idly by, my forefathers helped build these United States Of America FOR FREE! On my mom's side and on my dad's. My People suffered, aren't we at the least owed what other nations have already received and what we were promised by our Country eons ago and never received?
lucy Says:
July 21st, 2013 at 4:42 pm
The United States owes us and until we are financially compensated there will be no justice.
guest Says:
August 1st, 2013 at 10:08 pm
Personally, I believe that a good portion of the US southern states should be set aside for black Americans. What is so difficult about black people in this country being truly free? Why are white Americans so afraid of this?
Yalonda Says:
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:16 am
It wont change the past, but we are all taught young,that they hung ,raped african descendants physically and mentally. We still have lost our identities, and forever live with slave names and hate crimes. maybe a debt could make them realize what happen still keeps african americans opressed. Truth told the hate for black skin has not left, it only changed.
Thomas Says:
September 4th, 2013 at 5:38 pm
If we pay them will they leave? Slavery brought the negroes to America without it they would still be barefoot and starving in Africa. Their ancestors suffered but the descendents have reaped great benefits. They have already been given to much they didn't have to work for.
Thomas Says:
September 5th, 2013 at 4:41 pm
If instead of feeling owed the negroes would take the jobs that they are qualified for that are available they could earn their living and work their way up as every other group has. Compare the unemployment numbers of Negroes vs Mexicans. The Mexicans maybe swam a river, walked across a desert, can't speak the language and yet they find work to support themselves.
University Study Puts A Face On The Modern-Day, Lingering Effects of Transatlantic Slavery | North American Reparations Taskforce Says:
September 20th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
[…] Most people think that to get the United States to begin honoring its reparations obligations for Transatlantic Slavery, Blacks need to wait years and years for the U.S. Congress to institute legislation to study the effects of slavery. […]
Pehty Re Says:
October 1st, 2013 at 7:46 am
Whats silly to me is how White people think they did Africans a favor by kidnapping us from Africa. This is crazy and unintelligent talk. Africa was a rich powerful place to live during the so called middle ages for white people. Africa did not fall until white colonial powers began to invade and exploit dissension among African nations.What people see today in Africa is a result of colonial powers exploration of Africa. This sad miss information about Africa's history is why im working on the First ever African Reference Encyclopedia {NoopooH.org} that will tell the true story of Africa and its peoples achievements to the world.
Also if Africa was so poor and backwards why is the African ruler of the 14th century Mansa Musa listed as the riches human of all times. Not that i agree with him being listed because it could make people think that he exploited his people when he did no such thing.
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Cynthia Says:
May 23rd, 2014 at 9:19 pm
The Levittown Story …after World War II black Fathers came home after fighting in a segregated army only to find themselves blocked by an ordinance from purchasing a Levitt home this was the beginning of suburbia the price of a Levitt home was 2,500 This was the beginning of middle class in America and our black families were locked out by an ordinance the homes could not be sold to Blacks. This ordinance was still in place until the late 1960 possibly beyond. Levittown Long Island New York was the first suburb developed in the United States of America. This story was always told in our families and how this impeded our economic development homeownership was critical to our economic advancement and we were not allowed the experience of financial growth
Billie Says:
May 24th, 2014 at 10:39 am
Sorry but there is no justification for today's generations to pay for the sins of the distant past in this country. I am all for rich plantation owners who had slaves to pay but they are all dead. Don't blame me for what people did hundreds of years ago because that make you insane and a racist.
Cynthia Says:
May 24th, 2014 at 11:49 am
Billie, I understand the way you feel in terms of the sins of the father being passed to the son. What I would like to see happen in our country is the Billie 's of the United States of American to have been taught this American history in elementary school right along with George Washington and the cherry tree. The Levittown story was just one of the stories I could tell. I am the great grand-daughter of Lewis Garnett Jordan born into slavery with no name he took the name of three benefactors who had befriended and helped him. Out of those borrowed names came one of the best preachers and church builders and advocate for justice the race has produced. In 1896, he became the third a Executive Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board. He was a temperance advocate, which won him the respect of the American people, who nominated him for the United States Congress on the Prohibition ticket. There are so many stories like these that have never been told millions of Africans suffered under the yolk of slavery in utter silence. I don't need you to feel guilty I need future generations to know the history. If you want to know what I would like from my government a Declaration of Honor presented to Lewis Garnett Jordan's great great grandchildren for services rendered under the yolk of slavery.
Johnnie Oneworld Says:
May 24th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Slaves of all colors were forcefully brought to America and other ports throughout the world. African slaves were captured by powerful African tribes and sold to dealers (Jewish, Arab and Spanish traders) who, in turn, sold slaves to user countries.
Slaves worked under a harsh shield of forced labor six days a week. Slaves in America lived in slave quarters and were supplied food and clothing. Immigrants were forced out of their homelands due to oppression or worse. They worked every day for pennies that had to pay for food, clothing and shelter for them and their families. Many blacks want to selfishly discount the suffering of others, especially Europeans, because they feel they had it made simply because they were white.
The point is, all of our ancestors have suffered blood, sweat and tears for America's benefit. Most of these folks were, one way or another, forced here. And when they arrived most, like the Irish and Italians, were met with vile hatred, prejudice and bias.
The real culprits are: the African tribes who sold black slaves, England for enslaving/forcing folks of all colors and creeds to America, Arab, Jewish and Spanish dealers for funding the slave trade enterprise and all the folks black and white who owned slaves. These are the folks who should pay for their sins.
It's absolutely absurd to demand reparations from white folks in America simply because they're white. White privilege is a fallacy relative to 95% of white America.
Randy Wilson Says:
May 24th, 2014 at 8:23 pm
How can we spur action on HR 40?
cynthia Says:
May 24th, 2014 at 10:41 pm
We are not demanding reparation from white folks in America simply because they're white.
International Human Rights Law
"Between 1817 and 1871 bilateral treaties between Britain and several other countries (eventually including the United States of America) led to the establishment of the international courts for the supression of the slave trade. Though all but forgotten today, these anti-Slavery Courts were the first international human rights courts. They were made up from judges of different countries. They sat on a permanent continuing basis and applied international law. They were explicity aimed at promoting humanitarian objectives.Over the life span of the treaties, the courts heard more than 600 cases and freed almost 80,000 slaves from aboard illegal slave trading vessels. During their peak years of operation, the courts heard cases that may have involved as many as one out of every four or five ships involved in the trans-atlantic slave trade.
These international anti-slavery courts have been given scant attention by historians and have been almost completely ignored by legal scholars. Most legal scholars view international courts and international human rights law as largely a Post World War II phenomenon with the Nuremberg Trail of the Nazi War Criminals as the seminal moment in the turn to international law as a mechanism for protecting individual rights. But in fact, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the nintieth century slavery abolition movement was the first successful international human rights campaign and international treaties and courts were its central feature.
An international legal institution that had a direct and tangible impact on 80,000 human lives is far more than a footnote in the history of international law."
Dorken Macauliffe Says:
May 27th, 2014 at 10:16 am
Who exactly is it that these people are suggesting should pay them? The current 2014 American citizenry? My ancestors came from Ireland and Scotland between 1900 and 1910. Now their progeny that are in the US are in the hundreds. All white/caucasion people. Are you somehow suggesting that they (I) owe you something?
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May 27th, 2014 at 9:43 pm
I have just read Ta-Neshi Coates' piece on Reparations in the June edition of Atlantic Monthly. I would recommend it to everyone, whatever your viewpoint on this matter. It seems to me that the racial injustice that has been inflicted so disproportionately and for so long on American people of African descent truly remains a shameful cancer eating at the very soul of this country. I came here in the late 1980's (White, educated, Anglo) naively imagining that the Civil Rights movement had dealt with the problems I had been made so aware of in the 1960's. I of course soon discovered how wrong I was. It can, I agree seem, absurd and even unjust to suggest that people like myself should make reparation for actions taken by unrelated Others long ago. However, HR 40, if passed by Congress (and if not then determined unconsitutional by the increasingly strange Supreme Court), would at least enable this tortured matter to be discussed in an orderly and considered manner at the National level.
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July 7th, 2014 at 9:30 am
Hr 40 is a joke. Its just another way for blacks to get a handout. We should discuss how all these blacks should pay for the white people who fought for their freedom and political rights. So I see we are even. Plus no black alive has been a slave so it seems ignorant to fight for something they never knew. Plus if this bill ever passed well lets say blacks will actually get to show white people what their made of in another civil war.. last time I remembered whites are the minority of the world. And blacks have a whole continent but never built a city….hmmm wonder why because white people have slaughtered billions even eradicate races. Plus we invent conqure lands and explore. Sso to put things inretrospect. Blacks have it great! Because if it wasnt for whity they would still be wearing gourds on their privates chucking spears at lions and killing themselves.
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December 28th, 2014 at 8:59 pm
In 1944,
"Although the Jews did not yet have a state and therefore were not subject to international law, Dr. Siegfried Moses argued in a 1944 publication that they were the creditors of a collective claim from Germany based on moral wrongdoings" http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/Wei…
There is a solid, documented record of treatment regarding African Americans within the US from at least the year 1519 through the year 1865, and continuing up to the modern era, of enslavement, torture, brutalizing, lynching, and what could only be described as war crimes and crimes against humanity. No other people in history have experienced such atrocities at the magnitude and for the length of time as those suffered by African Americans. The holocaust of Jewish people at its outer limits lasted from the year 1933 when Adolph Hitler came to power to the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in the year 1945. The suffering and mass annihilation of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis was indeed horrendous. Because of it, West Germany began paying reparations to Israel beginning in the year 1952. More recently, Israel has demanded and received an additional 700 million Euros for some 30,000 surviving Nazi victims. The African American claim against the United States is for a period of approximately 350 years of enslavement, rape, genocide and murder and an additional 100 years of racial subjugation, rape, genocide and murder. Explore this topic further at: http://www.blackpolitics.org/revitalizing-reparat…
Carol Says:
January 26th, 2015 at 7:06 pm
There is never any objection to blacks being forced to pay reparations for every other group that has suffered in America, by being taxed. In fact, it is expected of us. I'm in favor of any group that has suffered atrocities and seeks reparation. However, black Americans are a specific group, and we are responsible for our own cause, not any other group.
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"Where Death Or Imprisonment Is The Penalty For Resisting Against Oppression, There Is Tyranny!"
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What do you mean "no luck?" I got a clear view of my street address and the surrounding area. Also, a close up view of my favorite restaurant. Are you on the moon?
I get a picture of the Pope.
Google give you a nice map, not a satellite photograph.
Didn't work here, either. The map, okay. Zoom in to the max and nothing but a checkerboard of red Xs.
You gotta click on the satellite view, upper right.
That is extremely neat!! I just spent a lot of time 'playing' with it and printed out the map.
I scrolled the map earlier up to Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens. Then searched New York and down to Florida. You may view your own home or your kids schools.
They must've taken that picture when my lawn was dead-dry last summer!
Doesn't look like that now ;)
Some images are better than others. I was able to type in my old address in San Diego and zoom in to take a look around, but I couldn't zoom in on my current address.
These are old images. I saw the tree that I cut down four years ago in that picture.
And the pool wasn't "algae green" in the satellite image...
It was a special look I seemed to be able to recreate every ten days.
Is the resolution good enough to see nude sunbathers?
This so totally rocks, dude.
Very nice! That would be pre hurricane? You got any post pics? Where is that btw? Beautiful.
Oh, yeah. I just went out and waved at the cam. hehe! :)
This sounds verrrry interesting... I'll have to play with it later when I get time.
The free service lets you see down to 8 meter. You can buy a subscription to see lower. (if you need that level of detail)
Darn, I wasn't looking in your area when you waved!!
Question. How do we get on the sattelite, anyways? LOL. Silly question, eh?
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Let $f:M\to N$ be continuous and locally injective. If M is connected and exist a continuous function $g:N\to M$ such that $ fg= id_N$ then f is a homeomorphism from M to N.
First clearly f is surjective, since exist a right inverse. But I don't know how to proceed. I don't know how to prove the injectivity.
This problem it's from a book of metric spaces, maybe the hyphotesis also holds for general topological spaces, I'm not sure.


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I just discovered I have severe sleep apnea. I am 39 years old and my blood pressure is 150/100 with medication. I found out I generally stop breathing for 28 seconds, and the longest is 35 seconds. The doctor has yet to talk to me until I am done with the CPAP test.
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I have had sleep apnea for at least 10 years and with weight gain it has gotten worse. My ENT doctor suggested removing the tonsils and the bell-like top part of the mouth. I did that with great pain and it did not help, I had previously tried the mask, and due to severe anxiety, could not leave it on for more than a few seconds. I have tried the nose strips and have even resorted to putting a piece of tape across my lips at night to keep my jaw from dropping to no avail. I feel that if I could get a headband kind of apparatus that would hold my chin up, that might work, but don't know where to obtain one. I really worry about my sleep apnea but don't feel there are enough options out there for me to try.
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Figure 1. Three Designs for a Network Service Daemon
In Figure 1, the diagrams show three potential designs for a daemon providing a network service to prospective clients. In the first picture, the daemon follows the most common technique of forking off a separate process to handle the request, while the parent continues to accept new connection requests. This concurrent processing technique has the advantage that requests are constantly being serviced and may perform better than serializing and iteratively servicing requests. Unfortunately, forks and potential context-switches are involved, making this approach unsuited to servers with very high demand.
The second diagram shows the iterative, synchronous, accepting and handling of a request within a single context of execution, before another request is handled. This approach has the drawback that requests which occur during the handling of the request will either get blocked or rejected. If blocked, they will be blocked for at most the duration of the request processing and communication. Depending on this duration, a significant number of requests could potentially get rejected due to the listen queue backlog having filled. Therefore, this approach is perhaps best suited to handling requests of a very short duration. It is also better suited to UDP network daemons rather than TCP daemons.
The third diagram (Figure 1) is the most complicated—it shows a daemon which pre-allocates new contexts of execution (in this case, new processes) to handle the requests. Note that the master calls fork() after listen(), but before an accept() call. The slave processes call accept(). This scenario will leave a pool of potential server processes blocking an accept() call at the same time. However, the kernel guarantees that only one of the slaves will succeed in its accept() call for a given connection request. It will then service the request before returning to the accept state. The master process can either exit (with SIGCHLD being ignored) or continually call wait() to reap exiting slave processes.
It is quite common for the slave processes to accept only a certain number of requests before committing suicide to prevent memory-leaks from accumulating. The process with the lowest number of accepted requests (or perhaps a special manager parent) would then create new processes as necessary. Many popular web servers implement pools of pre-forked server threads (e.g., Netscape, Apache).
If the server process time of a request is very short (the usual case), concurrent processing is not always necessary. An iterative server may perform better by avoiding the overhead of context-switching. One hybrid solution between concurrent and iterative designs is to delay the allocation of new server processes. The server will begin processing requests iteratively. It will create a separate slave process to finish handling a request if the processing time for that request is substantial. Thus, a master process can check the validity of requests, or handle short requests, before creating a new slave.
To use delayed process allocation, use the alarm() system call, as shown in Listing 5. A timer is established in the master, and when the timer expires, a signal handler is called. A fork() system call is performed inside the handler. The parent closes the request connection and returns to an accepting state, whereas the child handles the request. The setjmp() system call records the state of the process's stack environment. When the longjmp() is later invoked, the process will be restored to exactly the same state as saved by the setjmp(). The second parameter to longjmp() is the value that setjmp() will return when the stack is restored.
All of the forking in these examples could be replaced with calls to pthread_create() to create a new thread of execution rather than a full heavyweight process. As mentioned previously, the threads should be kernel-level threads to ensure that a block on I/O in one thread does not starve others of CPU attention. This involves using Xavier Leroy's excellent kernel-level Linux Threads package (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/), which is based on the clone() system call.
Implementing with threads introduces more complications than using the fork() model. Granted, the use of threads gives great savings in context-switching time and memory usage. Other issues come into play, such as availability of file descriptors and protection of critical sections.
Most operating systems limit the number of open file descriptors a process is allowed to hold. Although the process can use getrlimit() and setrlimit() calls to increase this up to a system-wide maximum, this value is usually set to 256 by NOFILE in the /usr/include/sys/param.h file.
Even tweaking NOFILE and the values NR_OPEN and NR_FILE in the /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h file and recompiling the kernel may not help here. While in Linux the fileno element of the FILE struct (actually called _fileno in Linux) is of type int, it is commonly unsigned char in other systems, limiting file descriptors to 255 for buffered I/O commands (fopen(), fprintf(), etc). This difference affects the portability of the finished application.
Because threads use a common memory space, care must be taken to ensure this space is always in a consistent state and does not get corrupted. This may involve serializing writes (and possibly reads) to shared data accessed by more than one thread (critical sections). This can be achieved by the use of locks, but care must be taken to avoid entering a state of deadlock.
Thanks a lot for this wonderful information. I needed to create a daemon and i think i have hit the correct page to begin with. Adding one example code would definitely help. Thanks once again.
Thank you!!
This is a very well written primer for writing daemons. I am in the process of writing one now and was looking for a concise summary as to what is needed. Needless to say I have found what I am looking for!
Thank you very much Ivan for a superb write up!
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thx...thx...thx :)
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i have a windows service that i went to work on linux.
i change the code so it's run on linux,
but i went it to work like windows service, so it's conitnue to work after
i logout the system, and log it's activety to known place.
is this Daemon Processes (and syslog) are sutiable for me needs.
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yes. daemons do not receive terminal signals so they do not die when you log out.
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An original SF talent has now turned to humorous fantasy. In the Kingdom of Underhill, the toddler Prince Amatus sips the Wine of the Gods?and his left side vanishes. The King orders the execution of the four royal attendants deemed responsible for the calamity, eventually replacing them with Companions who join Amatus on a series of deadly quests. As the Companions fall one by one, Amatus rises to the stature of a hero-king, regaining his left side and throne along the way. Barnes fills the narrative with the intelligent world-building, well-chosen detail, smooth prose and deft characterization that have marked his other books (including Mother of Storms, nominated for a 1995 Hugo Award). It is also permeated with verbal wit?men are deadly shots with pismires, and the Vulgarians are housed in stupors?but the wordplay palls deeper into the story, as sympathetic characters die by the handful and Underhill comes to resemble Bosnia. While not completely successful either as straight high fantasy or as a satire of the genre, however, the novel still manages to generate a great sense of fun.
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Known for his breathtakingly innovative hard sf, Barnes offers a surprising change of pace in his new novel, a delightfully entertaining regal fantasy. In a fit of childish mischief, young prince Amatus drinks the forbidden Wine of the Gods and promptly loses his entire left side. The prince's father, King Boniface, quickly beheads the neglectful royal retinue, then solicits its replacements, which arrive in the form of a captain of the guard, a prince's personal maid, an alchemist, and a royal witch. Charged with Amatus' upbringing, the suspiciously adept foursome guides the now partial prince through his youth in a series of perilous and enlightening adventures designed to reveal his true destiny while concealing a possibly sinister agenda. Along with imaginative variations on the standard fairy tale monsters and magic, Barnes doles out wit, whimsy, and wisdom in equal measures, thereby echoing such other fantasy classics as The Princess Bride and The Once and Future King and establishing himself as a writer of extraordinary versatility. Carl Hays --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.See all Product Description
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And it works for the most part. Barnes deconstructs the typical fairy tale through his self-aware characters, yet also makes these same characters empathetic and keeps the tension of the story itself tight. Although you know that you are reading a story, you wonder just how much this new tale will fit the traditional, or if the author will suddenly veer off into unexplored territory. At its heart, the story is still your basic fantasy plot, and, unfortunately, no amount of tricks can avoid the fact that you've read this all before.
The Princess Bride succeeded because it exaggerated the standard cliches, making everything stand out as in bas-relief to the flat irreality of the normal story. Goldman's fondness for the genre kept it light, rather than ponderous and heavy-handed. Barnes starts off well, and there are brief flashes of brilliance, but most of the time his post-modern experimentation takes a backseat to the plot. It thus feels schizophrenic. I like what he was trying to accomplish, though.
Then, all of a sudden, the book just dies half-way through. There actually seems to be a tangible line between parts 2 and 3 where it stops being enjoyable. The characters are no longer interesting; the prince is no more than a prince, his knights no more than knights. No more depth into these people, and they suddenly become pinnacles of decency. Also, gone is the beautiful language and clever fairy-tale-with-a-twist plots. Instead, we're reading a chronicle of the kingdom's war with an unspeakable force of evil. Wow, haven't read anything like that before. By the end, we no longer care what happens, which is for the best, because the ending is so weak.Read more ›
I didn't give this book 5 stars; I reserve that rank for a truly soul-satisfying read, and this didn't quite achieve that. Still, it's an entirely fun book, for both grown-ups and kids. It's the kind of book that made me fall in love with reading when I was young.
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As a casual fan of sci-fi and fantasy, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was the first book I read by Barnes, and the only one of his I liked. Read morePublished on Feb. 6 2003 by Mat Shettler
I have to say. One for the Morning Glory is probably my favorite book. I love the way it is written so playfully. Read morePublished on April 11 2002
One of the best fantasy fairy tales out there; witty, touching, and self-referential as it consciously tries to define its own fairy tale rules. Read morePublished on Aug. 18 2001 by S. Davis
This excellent foray into fantasy by John Barnes isn't as much sword-and-sorcery as it is a novel length Grimm's fairytale. It certainly isn't a Disney fairytale. Read morePublished on June 2 2000 by joe_n_bloe
Barnes, better known for his science fiction, here turns his hand to fantasy, in a Princess Bride-like self-aware fairy tale. Read morePublished on Nov. 23 1999 by Michael Kozlowski
"One For The Morning Glory is one of the most underrated fantasy novels of all time. It litteraly made me laugh out loud, gasp in astonishment and cry all at the same time!Published on Feb. 5 1999
I got this book after having it highly recommended by a friend. I admit to being disappointed. Though well written, it's just too snide and tongue-in-cheek for me. Read morePublished on Jan. 6 1999