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Stock repurchase versus cash dividend
Hello, i am trying to figure this problem out. However, one of my classmates presented a vague anwser, please add to it or fix it for us.
10. Is repurchasing stock a good alternative to cash dividends (a) on a regular basis and (b) under special conditions? (Note: No large, publicly owned company has ever been challenged by tax authorities on its repurchase program, and no challenge is likely to occur.)
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a stock repurchase means the shareholder gets one FINAL distribution of cash versus dividends which is an INCOME STREAM into the future. After a stock repurchase, the company owns the stock and the shareholder is not entitled to any more. Also, the question whether repurchasing stock on a regular basis is not answered. I would say NO because regular repurchasing uses up cash that should go into operations and investing activities (the reasons the company exists), and this also would keep shrinking the pool of shareholders available who are the source of equity financing.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com August 15, 2018, 7:16 am ad1c9bdddf
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Whether the firm repurchases stock or gives dividends, in both cases it is using up cash.
If firm repurchases on a regular basis, the benefit that the shareholder gets is that repurchase is usually at a price higher than the curent market price and hence benefits the shareholders who exit, it also benefits the shareholders who continue since the EPS may go up in the future and lesser liquidity may drive up the market price. Once it is on a regular basis, then the shareholders already know about it and hence ...
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With roughly two weeks before the 2013 MLB Rule IV Draft, which begins on June 6, each team is trying to gauge the potential interest in certain players while keeping their own cards close to their chest.
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1. Andrew Mitchell, RHP, Texas Christian
Mitchell emerged as one of the top amateur strikeout artists last season as the right-hander struck out 101 batters in 77 innings as a sophomore in the starting rotation.
But, for some odd reason, the coaching staff decided that he would be more effective as the team's closer in 2013. Sure, Mitchell struggled with his control and command during the previous season (46 walks), but certainly not to the point where a relegation to the bullpen was necessary. Thankfully, due to a lack of save opportunities—and the fact that his power arm was going to waste in the bullpen—Mitchell's stay in the 'pen was only temporary, and he was subsequently moved back into the rotation.
Having said all that, I do think the right-hander's future is in a major-league bullpen. Although he has a durable frame at 6'3", 225 pounds, Mitchell's short arm action and lack of explosiveness with his lower half and core doesn't project well in a starting role. While his walk total has been tolerable at TCU, it will likely deteriorate at the next level when he faces opposing hitters with advanced plate discipline and pitch recognition.
If Mitchell is ultimately selected in the first round, then it's safe to assume that the drafting organization plans to develop him as a starter.
2. Casey Meisner, RHP, Cypress Woods HS (Texas)
At 6'7", 185 pounds, Meisner struggles with the same problems that plague most lanky pitchers. Due to his wiry thin frame and long limbs, repeating his mechanics and release point can be a battle for the right-hander, as it hinders his control and renders his secondary offerings ineffective.
Even though he showcased improved fastball velocity last summer in the 92-to-94 mph range, Meisner has sat consistently in the upper-80s this spring while losing a few ticks when working deep into games. He'll mix in a fringy curveball and decent changeup when around the zone with the heater, though neither offering is particularly sharp given the aforementioned mechanical issues.
While Meisner certainly offers plenty to dream on, there's an enormous gap between his present ability and overall future potential.
3. Ivan Wilson, OF, Ruston HS (La.)
At 6'3", 220 pounds, Wilson has a physically mature build that requires minimal projection, though he does showcase respectable athleticism for his size. However, the right-handed hitting outfielder's calling card will always be his robust raw power, as it represents his only chance for an above-average-to-plus tool at the next level.
The problem is that Wilson's poor plate discipline and pitch recognition has prevented its utilization. Beyond his struggles in catching up to average velocity, decent secondary offerings (by high school standards) can make him look foolish and throw his swing mechanics even more out-of-sync.
Whether he attends college (he's currently uncommitted) or begins his professional career, Wilson will need to transfer more weight off his backside, as his current swing is reliant on pure strength. Additionally, his point of contact is highly inconsistent and he'll need to learn how to extend his arms and drive the ball off a firm front side.
4. Ryan Eades, RHP, Louisiana St.
A 6'3", 200-pound right-hander, Eades pitched like a potential first-rounder to open the season, but has since seen his draft stock fall over the last month. Although he can be overpowering, Eades velocity has been up-and-down this spring and he's lacked command of his secondary offerings.
It's not that the right-hander doesn't have good stuff—he does. However, that makes his inability to miss bats consistently all the more frustrating. Boasting an arsenal that includes a plus fastball (when he's at his best) in the 91-to-95 mph range and above-average changeup, Eades hasn't shown the feel for his breaking ball—he's thrown a curveball and slider this spring—that he did in previous seasons.
Despite his lack of success this season, Eades is still widely regarded as a Day 1 guy, especially in relation to the lack of projectable college arms in this year's draft class. It's also important to keep in mind that the right-hander has been slowly trending in the wrong direction dating back to his sophomore campaign. As a result, he's emerged as somewhat of a wild card in the final weeks leading up to the draft. And at this point, I don't think anyone knows what to expect. If they say they do, don't hesitate to call them a liar for me.
5. Thomas Milone, OF, Masuk HS (Conn.)
Primarily a football player during his amateur career, Milone is an outstanding athlete at 6'0", 185 pounds, with baseball skills that lag well behind his raw tools. On the field, the outfielder's lack of experience is apparent in all facets of his game.
Milone's swing is weak and inefficient, as he's been forced to figure things out on the fly since taking to the diamond. Currently, the one outstanding aspect of his game is his speed, which may allow him to remain in center field at the next level.
Unlike Lewis Brinson and D.J. Davis—the premier raw but toolsy prep players selected in the 2012 draft—Milone is already significantly behind the developmental curve. And while his athleticism suggests that he may be able to tap into some of that potential down the road, Milone is not a Day 1-caliber player.
6. Jake Johansen, RHP, Dallas Baptist
Besides his durable, 6'6", 235-pound frame, Johansen stands out for his outstanding arm strength and potential plus-plus fastball in the mid-to-upper-90s. While one would expect the right-hander to dominate college hitters, he's actually been quite hittable.
Johansen's heater is relatively straight and easy to recognize out of his hand, while his only secondary offering, a below-average slider, tends to have more of a cement-mixer rotation and shape, and lacks swing-and-miss potential. With technically one pitch to his name, it's difficult to envision the right-hander as anything more than a late-inning reliever at best. Although there's still a chance that he puts everything together with the proper instruction, it would likely come at the cost of numerous seasons in the complex levels.
7. Adam Engel, OF, Louisville
At face value, the 6'1", 208-pound Engel has the makings of an everyday center fielder at the next level thanks to his plus speed and range, average arm strength and outstanding athleticism. Unfortunately, his ongoing struggles at the dish continue to hurt his draft stock and overall projection. Engel has the strength to both shoot the gaps with consistency—and even sneak a few over the fence—but his inability to achieve a favorable point of contact and drive through the baseball raises legitimate concerns about his potential hit tool at the next level.
The one facet of his game that's remained consistent—other than his defense in center field—is his ability steal bases; his 39 steals currently stands as the third-highest total among all NCAA Division I players.
If Engel's bat never comes around, there's a decent chance he won't make it past Double-A. At the same time, hitting for a respectable average while reaching base at a decent clip could lead to a career as a fourth outfielder in the major leagues.
Honorable Mentions: RHP Jonathan Crawford (Florida), 1B Rowdy Tellez (Elk Grove HS, Calif.), RHP Brett Morales (King HS, Fla.), RHP Ryne Stanek (Arkansas), OF/RHP Michael Lorenzen (Cal St. Fullerton)


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Just for introduction, I am not Piaw. I am, in fact, female. Given the number of times recently I've been having the same conversation, I thought I'd reiterate it here in the hope that it would be edifying for others as well.
Right up front, let me say that everyone's butt is different. Even more importantly for fitting a saddle, everyone's soft tissue (read: genitalia) is also different. There are, however, certain important similarities that help narrow down the kind of saddle that is likely to be comfortable for you. Several of the guidelines to picking a good saddle are counterintuitive, but work well for me and the women I know.
As a woman, I've had to learn the hard way that few bike stores are inclined to take me seriously (and I greatly treasure those that are). Even those that are are generally staffed by men whose best help on certain female-specific fit issues amounts to the reiteration of something they heard worked for a friend of theirs or (far worse) reading the advertising on the item's packaging. In the case of bike saddles, this often comes down to claims that this will be comfortable for everyone and is the best thing since sliced bread. Having gone through a number of far-too-expensive iterations of this, there are now a few things that I look for in a saddle:
1. Where do my seat bones end up? The right answer here is "on the saddle". I'm not a big person (I wear a size 4-6), but my seat bones are wide enough apart that a narrow saddle means that my seat bones slide right off the sides of the saddle. In the case of a particular narrow saddle (that I rode for years before I learned that pain is an indication of something wrong) my seat bones actually sat on the hard plastic ridge around the edge. On a Brooks B-17, I sit right on the metal rivets. Neither is a sign of many happy miles to come. You can measure the distance between the outsides of your seat bones a few ways, but my favorite is lying on my back, curling my knees to my chest and poking around until I find them. Then it's a relatively simple task to do the measurement. When you compare this measurement to the size of saddles, remember that the seat bones are supposed to go on the saddle, not on the edge, so add at least 10-15mm (depending on saddle design).
2. How hard is it? The right answer here is "way harder than you'd expect". If your thumb sinks into the seatbone portion of the saddle, run away. It's totally counterintuitive, I know, but think about what's going to happen when you ride. You sit on the saddle and your seat bones sink right into that squishiness. Then the next thing that happens is all the soft structures squish into the foam and you're bearing weight on all of them. This is great in a mattress, but not so good in a saddle. You don't just get pain, you get numbness, and then you get that terrible feeling of sensation coming back. I had a saddle once that was so bad in this respect (combined with totally failing test #3) that I took to riding while always standing up. It was great for my legs, but not so good for things like stopping.
3. Is there a ridge where my soft tissue is going to go? My number 1 indication that a saddle is not actually designed for a woman (instead being a crappy, overpriced, pink copy of the men's version) is a big honking ridge in the soft-tissue region. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, look at the (men's) Flite saddle. If you feel any inclination to put your soft tissue on the nose of that saddle, I suspect that you're either a man or a masochist. Many women's saddles (even ones with cutouts) have a less-extreme version of the ridge and no woman I know can tolerate it.
4. How slippery is it? If the saddle is too slippery, it's hard to employ my absolutely favorite fitting technique: tip the saddle nose down. (It's especially fun to do this on saddles for women who are in so much pain that they're considering giving up riding. It helps a lot for nearly everyone.) If you tip the saddle down too far, you'll put too much weight on your hands. Saddle friction helps with this, because it keeps your butt planted on the saddle instead of trying to migrate forward.
How exactly this advice plays out for you depends on what kind of riding you're doing. If you're sitting up on your bike more than I am, then the soft tissue aspect won't be quite as important and you may need a slightly softer saddle. This goes double if you're sitting up pretty far on a tandem. I managed to beat my seat bones up quite thoroughly riding stoker on a road tandem on mountain biking trails, so I'm trying out a slightly softer saddle that I wouldn't let anywhere near my road bike.
My current favorite saddle (for a road rider) that you have some chance of still being able to buy is last year's Specialized Jett: the 155 version is wide enough for my seat bones, it's hard enough to keep the seat bones up in the air and (aided by the cutout) my weight off of my soft tissue, and the little circles of higher-friction material keep my butt planted where I want it to be. I haven't tried out this year's Specialized Jett, but I hear rumours that it's softer and that the white version is more slippery. This isn't a good sign.
My old favorite saddle was my Terry Zero X. Unfortunately, they stopped making the kind I bought several years ago and the new ones are so soft after I break them in that I get an unacceptable amount of soft tissue pressure. Still, Terry saddles are good to try, especially if your handlebars are not lower than your saddle. If you want them to start making harder saddles again, make sure to let them know. Given how people tend to buy based on saddle squishiness, it's important to let manufacturers know that people often ride based on saddle hardness.
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Today 22nd June at 7 a.m in the morning comrade R.B. Chandiyo and comrade Paul John from PTUDC (Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign) were distributing leaflets among the workers of Pakistan Steel in Karachi which is the largest steel producing complex in Pakistan. The demands in the leaflet were to regularize the workers that have been working in the factory on daily wages for 20 years now. The demands also included an end to the privatization process of Pakistan Steel. When the comrades reached the T Junction (Main gate of the factory) the security personnel arrested these two comrades, although the security of the factory is not authorized by law to make any arrests. They were taken to the security office where they were subjected to harsh treatment and brutal torture. After keeping then in the security office for 4 hours they were handed over to the police at Bin Qasim police station where they are still held without lodging any FIR (First Investigation Report).
Even during the dictatorship of Musharraf regime such attacks on the workers fighting for the cause of the proletariat did not take place. Now the right wing leaders of Pakistan People's Party (the ruling party) have launched a campaign of oppression against those revolutionary workers of PTUDC who are also members of PPP. We demand the immediate release of the comrades that have been arrested and an end to the brutal oppression against the revolutionary workers. We appeal for the solidarity from the working class of the entire world for the release of the arrested comrades.


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Tracking Legal Costs with Task Codes: Different Firms Take Different Approaches (Part 3 of 3)
A slightly different version of this article, which I wrote with Jonathan Groner originally appeared in Of Counsel, the Legal Practice and Management Report. To download a pdf of the complete article, as it was published, click here.
Whether firms start from UTBMS or another system, they ultimately must decide on exactly how detailed the tracking needs to be.
At Baker Donelson, partner David Rueff is the firm's legal project management officer. Rueff is one of a very small number of lawyers who has been certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. (Since PMI certification requires 35 hours of education, passing a demanding multiple choice exam, and 4,500 hours of experience leading and directing projects, we believe it is unlikely that a large number of lawyers will obtain this particular certification. LegalBizDev offers a different approach in the Certified Legal Project Manager® program which was designed specifically for lawyers.)
Rueff is responsible for the implementation BakerManage, a proprietary legal project management process which has been constructed in the Microsoft SharePoint environment to make it accessible to all attorneys across the firm. The system is currently being implemented in both litigation and transactional matters.
An important part of the BakerManage process involves budgeting, tracking time to budget, and identifying best practices. In developing BakerManage, Baker Donelson started with the UTBMS codes then developed many further breakdowns and refinements.
Level 1 within BakerManage comprises the UTBMS phase and task codes – such as L300 Discovery (a phase code) and L350 Discovery Motions (a task code). Then the system breaks the specific attorney assignment out much further into a unique firm phase and task code, such as HA11.830 Protective Order. That is considered Level 2. Finally, Level 3, which is also used as a to-do list in any project, breaks the time down further into drafting the protective order, analyzing the response to a protective order motion, preparing a reply, and so on. Time is not coded at Level 3, but attorneys are encouraged to start budgeting at this level in order to make the budget more accurate.
"Within the ABA codes, a lot of descriptions can fit within the broad concept of 'Discovery Motions,'" Rueff says. "So we had to mine that data, post-engagement, to see precisely how the time was spent."
"Attorneys are asked to track their time at Level 2. We know that Level 2 is easy for attorneys to understand and categorize, and not too detailed," says Rueff. "We believe that a more accurate budget can be arrived at by using Level 3, however, and we try to prepare our budgets at Level 3. When we are estimating a fee for an alternative fee matter, we look back at historical data and try to develop a phased budget at Level 2 or better, at Level 3."
This very granular system reflects one end of the continuum of how detailed the coding could get. At the other end of the continuum is DLA's system. As Mike Barnes summarized this philosophy,"I don't need it to be perfect. I just need a simple tool that captures a large percentage of the attorney time." For pricing, DLA uses "a simple, straightforward budget tool, starting with certain assumptions based on past work and then changing certain variables."
Using past costs to predict the future
Large law firms have data from thousands of legal matters and millions of attorney hours. When they first get serious about estimating future costs, it seems obvious that it would be useful to mine this data to determine what typical matters have cost in the past.
But, like many things, what sounds easy in theory can be very difficult in practice. As Foley's Michael Tuteur summed up one example,"Clients want to know what a summary judgment costs. That sounds so reasonable. But when you try to go back into the data you have, you find that lots of data is very hard to interpret."
If a firm has handled hundreds of mergers, how do you categorize the differences between them? More importantly, when the bills were sent, no one was thinking about documenting reproducible tasks. It can be extremely challenging to figure out exactly what was done and when.
For these reasons and others, Dotson says that at Bilzin Sumberg they decided,"An effort to go back wouldn't be helpful. The time entered wasn't described with task codes in mind, and we'd rather not expend the resources guessing. We're starting to secure enough data on matters in progress so that we can provide better estimates in the future."
A much bigger argument against investing a lot of time and money into data mining is the fact that the way legal work was performed in the past is different from the way it will be performed in the future. In today's highly competitive marketplace, many firms are looking for new ways to increase efficiency and improve business processes.
As Lisa Damon, the partner who headed the development of Seyfarth Shaw's widely publicized SeyfarthLean program once said,"If you get a group of lawyers and staff into a room to discuss how to make things more efficient, it's very easy to find savings."
When LegalBizDev offers legal project management coaching, we sometimes include an exercise in which lawyers select a significant past matter, and assume that the same client comes back to retain the firm for a nearly identical new matter, but only if they are willing to perform the work for a fixed price that is 10% or more less than last year's cost. The question is,what could they do differently to deliver the same quality in fewer hours?
In our experience, this exercise is always an eye opener, and it is often not difficult. The answer to more predictable and lower costs usually starts with defining scope more clearly in the engagement letter, and goes on to include better definition of assignments, management of the team, monitoring the budget, and quickly communicating with the client when significant issues arise. In our exercise, simply doing those things can often lower cost estimates by 10%, 20% or more.
Clearly, some knowledge of the cost of past matters is absolutely necessary if you want to predict future costs. But it is easy for firms to waste a lot of time and money mining data about outdated inefficient ways of doing business, when they could get far better predictions by focusing on the task breakdowns and budgets that they should be planning for the future.
The benefits of tracking with task codes
When we interviewed experts for this article regarding the best way to use task codes, it quickly became clear that the details varied from firm to firm and even from practice group to practice group.
If in doubt, we recommend a "less is more" approach. If a coding system gets too complex for lawyers to provide consistent data, it will not provide reliable information for planning the future. As programmers like to say, "garbage in, garbage out."
But when a group implements a coding system that they can use consistently, the payoff will be enormous in terms of the ability to improve predictions of what legal matters will cost. Tracking spending in real time by task codes will also make a huge difference to the ability to live within the original budget.
Consider the case of Nixon Peabody litigator Sam Goldblatt. "As lead relationship partner for several clients over a long period of time, I was an early adopter of UTBMS and have used these codes religiously. As a result, we have detailed cost information for cases in my areas of product liability, toxic and commercial torts, broken down by phase and task and a solid database upon which to construct budgets, forecasts, plans and price alternative fee arrangements. The best proof is experience, and clients know it."
A solid database of task coded data also provides an enormous potential marketing benefit. Every legal client wants more predictable costs these days, and many are looking for lower costs. Task codes are an important part of the legal project management process that enables firms to meet both of these goals. They also provide the transparency that so many clients are looking for.
Rob Kahn, chief marketing officer at Fenwick & West, says that as a result of the consistent, detailed use of budget tracking, clients are pleased "that we are now able to better explain how our pricing system works."
As Al Dotson at Bilzin Sumberg summed it up, "It is unfortunately common practice to provide a client with only an hourly rate, which provides little to no information about what the client cares about: the value of the services he or she is seeking. A comprehensive road map, on the other hand, provides the client with information--based not on guesstimates, but on solid data--regarding what is likely to occur, at what time, and at what cost".
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In "Inside Win2K NTFS, Part 1," November 2000, I began this two-part series by describing general indexing, consolidated security, reparse points, and quota management, all of which are features new to NTFS 5.0 (NTFS5), the Windows 2000 version of NTFS. In this issue, I look at how NTFS5 implements Distributed Link Tracking (DLT), sparse-file support, volume change tracking, and encryption. I conclude with a look at alternate data streams, an NTFS feature rarely used before NTFS5.
Distributed Link Tracking
Windows Explorer supports a type of symbolic link called a shell link or shell shortcut. Shell links, which often appear on the Windows desktop and in the Start menu, let you easily access programs and files without having to navigate to their original location. Another type of Windows link is an OLE link. OLE links are links in one application's files that store data belonging to another application. For example, if you embed a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft Word document, an OLE link in the Word document refers to the Excel document.
If you've ever moved a link source (the executable program that a shell or OLE link refers to) in a pre-Win2K version of Windows and then clicked the link that referenced the source, you've witnessed the heuristic-based search that Windows Explorer performs in its attempt to find the source's new location. If the search is unsuccessful, Windows Explorer gives up and requires you to tell it where you moved the source. In Win2K, DLT automatically updates shell links to point at moved link sources. The only requirement is that the link source's original and final locations are both on NTFS5 volumes and in the same domain.
NTFS5 is required for automatic link updating because NTFS5 lets an application assign files and directories a 16-byte (128-bit) object ID. Not coincidentally, 16 bytes is the length of a Windows globally unique ID (GUID). Windows uses GUIDs as a general-purpose identification mechanism because a GUID's length and the algorithm that Windows uses to generate a GUID virtually guarantee that every GUID is statistically unique. The DLT service, which Win2K implements as a Win32 service, assigns a GUID to every link source that resides on an NTFS volume and directs NTFS to record the GUID as the source's object ID. When you click on a shell link or open a document with an embedded OLE link and Windows Explorer fails to find the link source at the path the link specifies, Windows Explorer queries the DLT service for the source's new location. DLT uses the object ID that Windows Explorer supplied to attempt to open the link source on each volume in the domain, starting with local volumes. When DLT finds the file (or directory), DLT asks NTFS for the name of the file and returns the result to Windows Explorer, which updates the link and follows it to the tracked location. Thus, even if the source moves to a volume on another computer in the domain, the link continues to work.
When the DLT service (or another application) assigns an object ID to a file or directory, NTFS creates an attribute of type $OBJECT_ID in the file's Master File Table (MFT) entry, as Figure 1, page 46, shows. (For information about the MFT and its entries and attributes, see "Inside NTFS," January 1998.) This 16-byte attribute stores the GUID. At the same time, NTFS adds an entry to the \$Extend$ObjId metadata file that maps the GUID to the file's MFT entry. Win2K stores the metadata file's entries in an index named $O, which NTFS sorts by object ID in a B+ tree. When DLT finds a moved link and attempts to use the link's object ID to open it, NTFS can look up the link's MFT entry number in the $ObjId file's $O index. After DLT uses the file's MFT entry number to open the file, DLT asks NTFS for the file's name, updates the link, and opens the link source. The $ObjId file's use is an example of general indexing, a new NTFS feature I describe in "Inside Win2K NTFS, Part 1."
Sparse Files
Many applications consist of a server that logs data to a file and a client that reads the data that the server writes. This architecture usually requires the use of a technique called circular logging, in which the log file is a fixed size and the server rolls over, or returns to the beginning of the file, after reaching the file's end. A rollover can lead to overwriting data before the client has a chance to read it. Other applications, such as databases, allocate extremely large files, of which valid data fills only small portions, resulting in disk space that is allocated but unused. NTFS5 includes a feature called sparse-file support that Win2K applies to both these situations to minimize unnecessary disk utilization and avoid the rollover problems inherent in circular logging.
Sparse-file support lets an application designate unused portions of a file as empty, freeing the disk space allocated to the empty regions. In a logging application, the server appends log information to the file without needing to roll over, and the client marks file areas empty as it reads them. A log file might therefore appear to be very large but use only a small amount of disk space. When you view a file's properties, Windows Explorer shows both sizes and calls the amount of space the file takes on disk the Disk size. If an application reads from part of a sparse file that is designated as empty, the application receives zero-filled data. In the case of a database, the database application marks the unused parts of the database as empty, releasing the disk space. Figure 2 illustrates a sparse file.
The NTFS implementation of compressed files has always had a type of sparse-file support. NTFS's compression algorithm compresses files in blocks of 16 virtual clusters, typically allocating fewer than 16 logical clusters on disk to store that data. A virtual cluster is a cluster within a file, and a logical cluster is a cluster on a volume. For an uncompressed file, virtual clusters correspond to logical clusters one-to-one, but in a compressed file, multiple virtual clusters might map to fewer logical clusters. When an application reads from a compressed file, NTFS decompresses the logical clusters that make up the 16-cluster block that the application is reading, recreating the 16 uncompressed virtual clusters in memory. If a 16-cluster block is filled with zeros, NTFS optimizes disk utilization by not allocating any logical clusters for the block. When an application reads from such a region, which is called a sparse region, NTFS returns zero-filled data.
NTFS5's sparse-file support relies on the same driver subroutines that NTFS uses for sparse regions of compressed files. However, two differences exist between sparse files and compressed files. One difference is that the nonempty portions of a sparse file aren't compressed. The second difference is that an application can indicate to NTFS that a region of a sparse file has become empty, freeing the logical clusters that were previously allocated to it. To make a sparse region of a compressed file, an application must write zero-filled data to the file.
You might think that users could use sparse files to exceed their disk quota by allocating large empty files and then filling them over time. However, NTFS counts a sparse file's virtual size, not the on-disk size, against a user's quota limit.
Volume Change Tracking
Before Win2K, an application that needed to monitor a volume for changes had limited options. The Win32 API exports functions that notify an application when the contents of a directory or directory tree change, but the application must either scan directories to determine the nature of changes as they occur or take the risk that the list of changes that Windows returns will overflow the application's buffer. Scanning directories after every change causes an unacceptable performance hit, yet many applications, such as incremental backup solutions, can't tolerate missed changes. NTFS5's new volume change tracking facility lets applications easily monitor changes to a volume and provides an effective alternative to earlier approaches for file- replication, incremental-backup, and virus-scanning applications.
Interestingly, volume change tracking relies on sparse-file support. NTFS disables volume change tracking by default, so applications that need to use it must enable it. When an application turns on volume change tracking, NTFS creates a change journal, which is a sparse file named \$Extend\$UsnJrnl. Figure 3 depicts the change journal. Every change to a volume, such as creating, resizing, or deleting a file, logs an entry to the $J alternate data stream (I describe alternate data streams in more detail later) in the $UsnJrnl file. A change entry records the name of the file that changed, the type and time of the change, and several other pieces of useful information. Applications can request that NTFS notify them when it adds new entries to the journal and can read entries as the system logs them. The Win2K File Replication Service (FRS), which Win2K uses to replicate Dfs shares and to propagate group policies, is one of the change journal's clients.
NTFS monitors the on-disk space that the change journal consumes and limits this space to the amount the application specifies when it enables change tracking. When a journal exceeds the specified size, NTFS marks the change journal's oldest valid entries as empty. For even a moderately sized change journal, only an extremely high volume of file activity would cause an application to fall so far behind that it couldn't read entries before NTFS deletes them.
Support for Encrypting File System (EFS) is an important part of NTFS5. Although I cover that support extensively in the series "Inside Encrypting File System" (June and July 1999), I provide a summary here. (For background information about EFS, see "Related Articles in Previous Issues." For an administrator's view of EFS management, see Mark Minasi, Inside Out, "Decrypting EFS," page 139.)
EFS isn't built in to NTFS but is an add-on driver (\winnt\system32\driversefs.sys). EFS provides transparent file-based encryption so that users can protect sensitive data that might fall into unauthorized hands. Although NTFS security prevents unauthorized access to a file while a Win2K system is online, a malicious user could bypass this security by booting a computer to another installation or by using NTFSDOS (available from www.sysinternals.com/ntfs30 .htm) from a DOS boot floppy disk.
When someone uses the Advanced Attributes panel of a file's properties dialog (which Figure 4 shows) to initially encrypt a file, the EFS service, which runs in the Local Security Authority Subsystem (LSASS—\winnt\system32\lsass .exe), uses Crypto API services to assign the user a private/public key pair that EFS can use for file encryption. EFS randomly generates a file encryption key (FEK) for an encrypted file and uses the FEK and the Data Encryption Standard X (DESX) encryption algorithm to encrypt the file's data. Because DESX is a symmetric algorithm, decryption also uses the FEK, so EFS must protect the FEK from unauthorized access. To protect the FEK, EFS uses the RSA asymmetric encryption algorithm to encrypt the FEK with the user's EFS public key and stores the encrypted FEK with the file. When a user opens and reads an encrypted file, EFS uses the user's EFS private key to decrypt the FEK, then uses the decrypted FEK to decrypt the file data.
Because EFS uses the user's password to encrypt the user's EFS private key, an intruder would have to obtain the user's password to compromise encrypted file data. Further, although the initial release of Win2K stores encrypted EFS private keys on disk within a user's profile directory, subsequent releases will let users store their keys on smart cards.
EFS stores encrypted FEKs in a file's $LOGGED_UTILITY_STREAM attribute (which is new to NTFS5), as Figure 5, page 50, shows. The stored data consists of a Data Decryption Field (DDF) and a Data Recovery Field (DRF). The DDF contains a copy of the FEK encrypted with the user's EFS public key, and the DRF contains a copy of the FEK encrypted with the system's Recovery Agent EFS public key. On a standalone system, the local administrator is the default system Recovery Agent; on a domain-based system, the default Recovery Agent is the domain administrator. Because EFS includes in every file an FEK encrypted with a Recovery Agent's EFS public key, an authorized user can decrypt the file and recover its contents if the user is unable to do so.
When the system boots, NTFS reads the Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsEncryption Service to obtain the EFS driver's name, then starts the driver. The EFS driver registers callbacks (i.e., routines that NTFS directly invokes) so that NTFS can hand off encrypted-file-related operations to the EFS driver. Internally, NTFS handles encrypted files much as it handles compressed files. NTFS decompresses a compressed file's data into the Win2K file-system cache and recompresses the data when it's written to the on-disk file. Similarly, NTFS decrypts an encrypted file's data into the cache and re-encrypts the data when writing it to disk.
Alternate Data Streams
An alternate data stream is a way to embed files within other files. Technically, every NTFS file contains an embedded file that has no name. This file, which is called the default data stream or unnamed data stream, is the file you see when you use Notepad to open a file and is the file that applications see when they use a file's standard name to open the file. Applications also can add embedded files, which are called alternate data streams, and give them different names. Applications use the Win32 API syntax File:Alternate Stream (in which AlternateStream is the name of an alternate stream) to access data within alternate streams.
Microsoft originally included alternate-stream functionality in NTFS to support Apple Macintosh (Mac) file system resource forks. Many Mac files use the Mac's Hierarchical File System (HFS) to store icon and other information in an alternate data stream. Because Windows NT Server comes with Services for Macintosh (SFM—a service that lets NT share files with Mac clients), NT must support alternate streams so that Mac clients can store files with resource forks on NT servers without losing the resource fork information. This relatively obscure role of alternate data streams has meant that few NT users have used alternate data streams. In Win2K, alternate data streams have a more prominent role.
The Summary tab, which Figure 6 shows, that the Win2K version of Windows Explorer displays when you edit the properties of an NTFS file lets you associate with a file arbitrary textual information such as a title, keywords, and revision number. Windows Explorer stores that information as an alternate data stream named ?SummaryInformation (the question mark represents an unprintable character).
Because alternate data streams are the exception, most applications and console commands aren't aware of alternate streams. For example, Windows Explorer and the Dir command show the size of only the file's unnamed data stream.
You can use the Echo and More commands, which are aware of alternate streams, to experiment with streams. First, create a file with an alternate stream:
echo hello > file.txt:alternatestream
Get a directory listing of the file to verify that Windows reports the file's size as zero, then use the More command to display the data in the alternate stream:
more < file.txt:alternatestream
(You can't view Windows Explorer summary information streams in this manner because the name of the summary information stream begins with a non-ASCII character.)
If you're curious about whether your files and directories contain alternate data streams, you might want to use the free Streams utility from www.sysinternals .com/misc.htm. This utility takes a file or directory name as a command-line parameter and reports the names of all alternate data streams that the file or directory contains. Streams accepts the wildcard character *, and you can use the /s switch to cause Streams to examine subdirectories, so you can easily see all the files and directories that contain alternate streams on a volume or in a directory.
NTFS Metadata Files
With the addition of new features, NTFS has acquired additional metadata files to store data related to those features. As I've discussed the new NTFS5 features, I've described the metadata file that each feature uses. Table 1 summarizes all the NTFS5 metadata files.
In "Inside NTFS," January 1998, I present a utility named NtfsInfo that shows you the size of the various NTFS metadata files. NtfsInfo relies on an undocumented feature of NTFS that lets applications explicitly specify the name of a metadata file to obtain a directory listing of the file. However, NTFS5 doesn't allow access to metadata files, so NtfsInfo doesn't work on Win2K. Instead, you can use NFI, the NTFS File Sector Information Utility that I introduced in "Inside Win2K NTFS, Part 1," to list information about all the files on a volume, including metadata files.
More to Come
NTFS5's powerful enhancements, including support for large files, encryption, and change tracking, will help extend Win2K's reach into the enterprise. However, you can be sure we haven't seen the end of NTFS's evolution.
|Related Articles in Previous Issues
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Peter Kingsley is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. Through his writings as well as lectures he speaks straight to the heart and has helped to transform many people's understanding not only of the past, but of who they are.
He is the author of four books which, in the space of only a few years, have exerted the profoundest and most far-reaching influence outside as well as inside academia. He lectures very widely — speaking to Native American elders and physicists, professional scholars and followers of different spiritual traditions, healers and medical practitioners as well as people who very simply are aware of the need to wake up to a reality greater than the one we are used to. His latest book is about the forgotten connections between Mongolia, Tibet and the origins of western civilization.
After graduating with honors from the University of Lancaster, England, in 1975, Peter Kingsley went on to receive the degree of Master of Letters from King's College Cambridge before being awarded a PhD by the University of London. He has worked together with many of the most prominent figures in the fields of classics and anthropology, philosophy and religious studies, ancient civilizations and the history of both healing and science. The recipient of numerous academic awards, he holds honorary positions at universities in England, Canada, the United States.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture scientists are launching research to answer the questions raised by the arrival of Asian soybean rust in Arkansas.
"That's our job as researchers," said Pengyin Chen, UA soybean breeder. "We work to provide Arkansas producers with solutions for problems like soybean rust."
Division research and Extension scientists have formed a working group to educate producers about how to identify and manage the fungal disease.
"All the data we're using are from South America, said John Rupe, UA plant pathologist. "We have a lot of research to do to understand how it works here."
Rupe and other plant pathologists will research the use of fungicides and cultural practices for the most effective and affordable means of managing the disease. Chen will screen existing varieties for tolerance and resistance while simultaneously working to develop improved varieties with resistance.
Soybean rust arrived last fall on the winds of hurricane Ivan, Rupe said. It came too late in the season to cause serious harm to Arkansas' crop, but questions remain about what it means to the future of the state's soybean production.
"The big question is, will it show up in 2005?" Rupe said.
Rupe said rust probably couldn't overwinter in Arkansas because it requires a living host. "That means plants with green leaves," he said. "It has a wide host range, including kudzu, but all of its hosts are deciduous and lose their leaves during the winter."
That means soybean rust will have to overwinter in warmer climates and blow in on the wind, he said. Because it arrived by hurricane in 2004, there is no established pattern for how it may spread on seasonal winds.
In anticipation of the disease's return, plant pathologists will be looking at the effectiveness of available fungicides, application methods and cultural practices. "Such things as row spacing have an impact on the effectiveness of fungicides because the spray has to reach the lower canopy," Rupe said.
Because fungicides have to be applied early, sentinel plots with very early-maturing varieties will be used to detect the spread of soybean rust while there's still time to protect the crops.
"We'll also be studying environmental factors to see what conditions make infection more or less likely," Rupe said.
Chen has obtained seed samples from the USDA germplasm collection that have four major sources of resistance to soybean rust. He will cross them with Arkansas adapted varieties and accelerate the breeding process by cycling plantings in a greenhouse with field plots in Arkansas and Costa Rica.
"We can get two to three generations a year," Chen said.
"The advantage of developing resistant plants is that disease protection is built in," he said. "It saves the expense, labor and environmental concerns of spraying fungicides. Even low levels of resistance or tolerance can save producers the expense of a second fungicide application."
Fred Miller is science editor for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. e-mail: [email protected]


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Chinese New Year begins today, and to celebrate the year of the ram, here are 12 objects from the museum's collection featuring the 2015 animal.
With the Conservation in Focus of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Crucifixion of Saint Andrew closing this week, it is natural for a visitor to have lingering questions. Here is a process ordinarily unseen. The curious visitor to the focus gallery will find in the installation a desk with question cards, for your inquiries about the painting, about conservation, about really anything at all. You've asked and we've let you know. Here are some of the most asked questions from the exhibition run.
"How do you remove varnish layers without softening or damaging the paint?" is just one question asked through the run of the Cleveland Museum of Art's exhibition, Conservation in Focus: The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew. We invite you to ask questions in the gallery via our interactive Q&A and online with the hashtag #Get2KnowCaravaggio. Here are this week's five featured Q&A's!
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum, which features more than 50 masterpieces of modern Japanese art from the Tokyo National Museum. Exhibition highlights include six objects considered 'Important Cultural Properties of Japan.'
While walking the west wing galleries where the collections are on view, one can't miss the the sculpture of Brahma in the center of the exhibition. The object, acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2007, was actually first titled Shiva as Brahma before being renamed Brahma. Why the name change? We asked Sonya Quintanilla, George P. Bickford curator of Indian and Southeast Asian art, to talk about the history and identity of this particular work of art.
Over the years the look, feel, and location of the Cleveland Museum of Art's galleries featuring Asian artwork has transformed around the Seated Amitayus Buddha. See the transformation of the Asian-focused art galleries from 1916 through today in this special photo blog.
The Cleveland Museum of Art's Indian and Southeast Asian collection is rated as one of the leading collections in this area, both nationally and internationally. To add to its collection, the museum is pleased to announce a significant acquisition of the Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection of Deccan and Mughal Paintings.
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Hamilton Beach 46201 Coffee Maker is an upscale, adequately featured, reasonably priced coffeemaker that makes consistently fresh, full-flavor coffee, regardless of whether you are brewing a couple of cups of coffee for you and your wife or are entertaining a group of friends. It may not be called a Rolls Royce, but sure is a Honda SUV among contemporary digital coffee making machines. (The comparison of cars comes into my mind as I am also a car freak)
Features of Hamilton Beach 46201
Trendy, practical and easy to clean, this 12-cup coffee maker is priced by many for its compactness, stylish looks and user friendly features, some of which are outlined below.
Detachable Water Reservoir :
To fill the reservoir with tap water, all you have to do is to turn the unit a little over 90 degrees, hold it by the handle provided for the purpose and lift it out of the machine. Filling the reservoir at the sink and putting it back to place then is a child's job. This, no doubt, is a great advantage, as compared to majority of coffee makers that fills up from the top which involves pulling the unit out from underneath the kitchen cabinet, lifting the lid and pouring water through a small opening; a knotty manoeuvre indeed, especially for overage users.
Frontal access to coffee ground basket:
The coffee ground basket which is located above the decanter can be made to swing out to the front which gives easy access to put the coffee and the filter. This is also an advantageous departure from the top loading system, common with most coffee makers in this price range. Also, the user friendly button situated on the right side of the coffee maker, when pushed releases the basket to swing out for the purpose, while a spring loaded device at the bottom of the basket checks the flow of coffee if you happen to pull out the decanter during the brewing process.
Temperature control device saves the taste:
Closer look at the front of the Hamilton Beach 46201 coffee maker reveals a button that can save the flavor and taste of your coffee by way of controlling the burner temperature. In fact, all you have to do is to reduce the burner temperature after the coffee is fully brewed by using this button that sets the burner temperature as otherwise the coffee will have a burnt out taste, along with total loss of flavor.
Regular, 1-4 Cup or Bold:
Whichever you may prefer, Hamilton Beach Coffee Maker is ready to serve you through its settings. The bold setting, for instance, releases the water at a slower rate as compared to the regular and as a result the coffee gets a bold flavor and taste.
Dribble-free Decanter:
Unlike other 12-cup Digital Coffeemakers whose decanters invariably dribble whenever you pour a cup of coffee, the Hamilton Beach is totally free of this distasteful trait.
Programmable clock and Timer:
Helps you wake up to a freshly brewed, full flavor cup of coffee to start your day, while coffeemaker's 2-hour auto shutoff device ensures that the unit will be automatically switched off if you happen to rush out in a hurry to keep a business appointment in the office or elsewhere.
However, the only flip-side, often cited by Hamilton Beach 12-cup Digital Coffee Maker 46201 users comprise two issues:
- Takes too long to brew even smaller quantity of coffee, and
- A slight Plastic odor
It would be a bit difficult to satiate coffee epicures with the Hamilton beach 46201 coffee maker, but hold on, this coffee machine brews up a delicious cup of Joe that is difficult to resist. Unarguably, it is one of the leading drip coffee makers, given the features and price category. So I would strongly recommend it in case you are seeking for an affordable and faultless coffee maker with good features. Hamilton Beach 46201 Coffee Maker is one of the most reliable and affordable coffee machine in the market and one can trust this brand.
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Francis Neve celebrates a fantastic 2011 with a final show of the year tonight at the Wheelbarrow in Camden Town. Onstage at 9pm. It'll be rammadammadingdong.
Current single "DANCE AROUND THE FIRE" WAS BBC 6 MUSIC'S SHAUN KEAVENY'S BREAKFAST RECORD OF THE WEEK w/c Nov 7. It has also been played by Chris Hawkins and Steve Lamacq and, on XFM, John Kennedy. Now on sale here.
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text: posted 19 june 2018 location st. albans, east of england specialism education sub specialism Primary job type contract working hours Full-Time salary £ 121 - £ 190 per day experience Teaching reference number CJ255487 contact winnie brown, randstad education phone 01582 811878 apply now Apply using LinkedIn Email this job to yourself or a friend job description Are you a qualified teacher in the St Albans area?Are you longing for a more balanced work and social life?Are you looking to gain a variety for experience in different school settings?Then I need you!Being a supply teacher is a great way to take control of your teaching career. You will have the flexibility to decide when you work, where you work and the responsibilities you take on. Whether you're looking to work on a day to day basis to work around your other commitments or you're looking for something long term for continuity, we can help you!Here at Randstad, we pride ourselves on our unique relationships with our candidates and our clients. Unlike other agencies, we listen to you and tailor our work around your needs. We believe our work is not finished until you are happy in your perfect job.Randstad Education are currently looking for teachers to join the local authority supply pool to work in St Albans and the surrounding areas on a day to day, short term and long term basis.We are Hertfordshire County Council's preferred agency of choice for teachers and support staff and we have been for over 6 years. We work with schools all across Hertfordshire for all their supply needs. Therefore we have the capability to find you work that suits you but keeping busy as consistently as possible.Look at what our current teachers have to say about us… "It is with confidence and pleasure that I am able to recommend Randstad to other teachers as a supply teaching agency in Hertfordshire. This confidence is the result of the support given to me as a teacher and the professionalism shown by the Hertfordshire team. The work opportunities have been plentiful and the pay is very fair. There also seems always to be a very good relationship between the schools that I have worked for and the Hertfordshire service." Pam If you think this could be for you and would like to discuss opportunities further please do call winnie on 01582 811 878 or send your CV to firstname.lastname@example.com to book a local registration near you.All posts are subject to enhanced DBS and referencing checks. Randstad Education is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children. skills key stage 2 experience qualification QTS


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DAHLGREN, Va. (Sept. 28, 2017)—How did theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington make a difference in the lives and careers of Navy civilians?
What is the Leonardo da Vinci connection? How did the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) get involved?
The riddle was solved at the 2017 Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Academic Awards Ceremony held at the University of Mary Washington Dahlgren campus, Sept. 19.
Wilfredo Padilla-Vargas and Jose Martinez-Casiano did not say a word but nevertheless answered the Einstein, Washington, and NPS questions before a packed audience.
As Padilla-Vargas walked up to the stage to receive his academic award from NSWCDD Commanding Officer Capt. Godfrey 'Gus' Weekes, NSWCDD Technical Director John Fiore, and Cmdr. Andrew Hoffman, commanding officer of NSWCDD Combat Direction Systems Activity Dam Neck—words appeared on the big screen.
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
This Albert Einstein quote inspired Padilla-Vargas as he pursued and completed his master's degree in systems engineering from NPS.
When Jose Martinez-Casiano was honored for his NPS master's degree in systems engineering, the audience read a Denzel Washington quote that encouraged the NSWCDD engineer as he worked on his graduate degree program.
"Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success."
"We gave all of our employees that earned degrees the option of sending in quotes," said Kim Thornton, NSWCDD's academic programs manager. "The quotes could reflect their time working on the degrees, they could be quotes that were particularly inspiring to them, or they could be advice for those that may be following in their footsteps and considering pursing degrees. The quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the government or the Navy or NSWCDD Dahlgren, but they do reflect the individuals and the diversity of our organization, which is fantastic."
In all, NSWCDD leadership honored 111 employees for their academic and professional achievements at the command's 21st annual celebration of academic success.
They recognized scientists and engineers as well as business and technical leaders who completed professional certifications or academic milestones covering the spectrum of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
NSWCDD employees were recognized for earning three doctoral degrees, 52 master's degrees, and 36 baccalaureate degrees between August 2016 and August 2017.
The majority of the bachelor's degrees earned were by employees participating in student programs such as the Pathways Internship Program—established to provide degree-seeking students with exposure to public service while enhancing their educational experience, and possibly providing financial aid to support their educational goals.
In addition to core engineering disciplines—mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering—this year's graduates earned degrees in diverse fields such as aerospace engineering, cybersecurity, chemistry and biology, national security and strategic studies, human factors and applied cognition, accounting, geology, and computer forensics.
The awardees included 13 academic fellows and eight professional or academic certifications ranging from a cyber security—chief information security officer certification to two defense financial manager certifications.
"Our academic program is a robust developmental investment," said Thornton after the ceremony. "It offers the opportunity for our employees to take academic courses or pursue a degree to enhance or further our mission of technical and business excellence."
Weekes and Fiore, in their welcoming and closing remarks respectively, praised the awardees for their dedication, time, and sacrifice necessary to complete their degrees and enhance their capabilities to support the Fleet and the warfighter. They also commended the families, friends, and colleagues who supported NSWCDD employees in their pursuit and achievement of the milestones for which they have been recognized.
"We all realize that when one of our employees is pursuing a degree or certification, they are only able to do so with the patience and support of those around them, so thank you all for your contribution to these successes," said Weekes.
Finally, on the back of the program—below a list of the honored NSWCDD civilian employees with their degrees or certifications and corresponding academic institutions—the Leonardo da Vinci connection was made through words borrowed across five centuries.
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them," began the da Vinci quote. The Italian Renaissance polymath known for his discoveries in science, mathematics, and engineering as well as his works in painting, sculpting, architecture, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography finished his thought: "They went out and happened to things."