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Cloud Computing has been part of the internet service delivery landscape for over a decade, and has now become so ubiquitous that even our friends and family that are not in the industry understand what it is. As "The Cloud" has grown and expanded, so to has the concept of DevOps and what it means within an organization and within the industry.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the new paradigm being offered by all major cloud providers. Whether you need the dynamic scaling capabilities cloud computing was founded on, or you just need to reduce the cost and overhead of a full-blown datacenter, treating your Infrastructure As Code is the key to deploying resilient, performant web-based services.
In addition to the compute or database resources necessary for your service, your infrastructure includes networking, routing , configuration management, and various third party services such as resource caching and metrics/monitoring/alerting services. The DNS records necessary for service discovery are a crucial part of your infrastructure, and should be managed via code. In a cloud environment resources can disappear or move frequently, but not necessarily regularly or routinely. By having your services announce their availability via DNS records, those services become and remain discoverable, even when they move location.
While all providers offer a web-based UI for deploying and managing your infrastructure resources, they also offer APIs, and therein lies the power of maintaining your Infrastructure as Code. The dynamic aspect of the cloud demands that your resources be managed programmatically via APIs.
Recently we added Terraform to our quiver for managing the infrastructure we use to deliver our services. Terraform has API interactions for a plethora of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS providers.
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
When defining our infrastructure in code we treat the Terraform Modules defining it as first class citizens. The modules are part of our code repositories, follow a pull request review pattern, and use our CI/CD build pattern to push changes automatically on merge following successful test runs.
Terraform is very handy in managing integration testing infrastructure in an automated fashion, allowing full platforms to be built and destroyed based on testing criteria. Following a well-known pattern from configuration management, we use environment specific variable files to dynamically set values. Examples of variables that might be different between your integration and production environments are the VPC id, the subnet where an instance is launched, or the hostname and domain of services.
It is not always end-to-end testing that requires bringing up a full infrastructure, especially for cloud native deployments. Developers need to be able to repeatedly and reliably build the infrastructure their service relies on. With a consistent definition of that codified, there is no chance that a bespoke handcrafted configuration file will be lost when a resource is destroyed (or becomes unavailable for some reason).
To keep all commands and options for building and testing our infrastructure consistent between developer workstation and our build pipelines, we wrap our Terraform actions in Makefile targets. Here's an example of a target to apply a terraform module. Using the
-var-file option allows us to override variables with environment specific values.
tf-apply: TF_LOG=${TF_LOG} TF_LOG_PATH=${TF_LOG_PATH} \ terraform apply -var-file=${TF_VAR_ENV_FILE}
With our automated tests in place, we use our Make targets to build our infrastructure, run our tests, and destroy our infrastructure. Destroying test infrastructure when it is no longer needed is crucial to keeping your cloud infrastructure costs in check.
Being able to easily and repeatedly build and destroy infrastructure is important for integration testing. Deploying a fresh clean infrastructure on each test run increases confidence in the test results. We know that artifacts from a previous test are not affecting the results. Including an environment variable such as
TF_VAR_tag_environment for tagging instances with a unique id allows for concurrent testing on test-run specific resources.
We use the following pattern in our CI job builder to automatically run tests.
# first stand up some infrastructure TF_VAR_tag_environment= make -e tf-apply # run our test make our-test-run # take it all down TF_VAR_tag_environment= make -e tf-destroy
A successful run passes off to an upstream job for deployment. In the event a test run has failures, we do not call the destroy method and report the failure. The infrastructure is tagged with the test run id, making it easy to identify and review.
Having a simple, repeatable infrastructure build process helps our developers too. They can spin up and destroy the necessary resources easily. If devs do not have to painstakingly build up their development infrastructure, it can be destroyed when not in use, again cutting costs. This gives the added benefit of exercising the code for building infrastructure dozens of times a day. We have confidence that we can rebuild our infrastructure successfully with just the push of a button.
DNS and CNAMES are your friend
Having your hostnames consistently available is crucial to the success of your tests. In many cases the recreated resources will have a different IP address from their predecessor. Additionally, cloud resources (especially in AWS) have some rather convoluted names, that you wouldn't want to expose to your end users. This is where DNS and CNAMES come to the rescue.
Your tests will have hostnames for services it expects to exist, which is where automated DNS record management comes into play. Using a robust Managed DNS Service with a programmatic interface for fast, dynamic updates gives you the flexibility and control you need to solve this dilemma. If your Cloud Platform provider does not offer such a service you can use an outside provider.
In the DNS zone for your testing domain you can include a records like this:
testapi.subdomain.testdomain.com 30 IN CNAME api-id.execute-api.region.amazonaws.com
webhost.subdomain.testdomain.com 30 CNAME ec2-12-34-56-78.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
The hostname (the left side of the record) remains constant, while the value for the CNAME can be updated as part of your infrastructure deployment. The "30" in that record is the Time To Live (TTL) of the record, how long the value will be valid. With a low TTL, you can update the values rapidly, which is valuable in testing scenarios.
Terraform has built-in providers for several Managed DNS providers including Dyn, and knows how to map relationships between resources. You can issue a DNS record update when your resources are provisioned ensuring your test endpoints are reachable. Terraform understands the dependencies between your resources. When you use an attribute like
public_dns of an AWS instance as an attribute to your DNS resource, Terraform knows to not issue the DNS update call until after the AWS instance has been launched.
Recreating Your Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code plays a crucial role in any organization's recovery or response plans. By having your Infrastructure defined in a manner that has been tested (as part of your automated testing) you can be confident that you have the necessary resources and mappings defined. You no longer need to fear that bespoke hand-fed pet with 500+ days of uptime may die.
In the event of a cloud resource becoming unavailable, you can quickly respond to your monitoring alerts to re-deploy a known working infrastructure. Terraform has the added advantage of keeping track of the state of your infrastructure, and will only rebuild the resources that do not match the expected state.
Just as your applications need to be cloud aware and resilient to ephemeral resources so must your infrastructure.
It's the cloud, things are going to evaporate. Be prepared.
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Just weeks after the tragic murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, the late teen's mother, Cleopatra Cowley, appeared in a public service announcement calling for Congress to reform the nation's gun laws. The spot, paid for by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, stands at a mere 30-seconds, but it conveys a feeling of pain and anguish that too many mothers are forced to experience after losing their children to gun violence in the US.
Cowley narrates that it was "the happiest day" of her daughter's life, as scenes from the president's inauguration segue into a picture of her daughter's funeral.
"Tell Congress to support common sense reforms so no more innocent children are killed. And no parent has to go through this heartbreak," continues Cowley, who's advocating for universal background checks on all gun sales.
Hadiya Pendleton has become a face for President Barack Obama's efforts create stricter gun laws. Her daughter's death has inspired Cowley to become a leading figure in the fight to pass stricter gun control laws. She and her husband actually sat with the POTUS during last week's State of the Union address, where the commander in chief retold Pendleton's story with hopes to rally Congress to act.
Pendleton was laid to rest February 9, with FLOTUS Michelle Obama in attendance. Fortunately, two suspects were apprehended and charged for the murder of the former King College Prep student last week.
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"So I'm asking my snipers to put your guns down and lets call a truce. Let's lay our cards on the table and start talking to each other. Let me start – I'm a servant and a loyalist of the People's Church; the Saint's Church not the Corporate or the Leader's Church and I have absolutely no guilt about that – not a shred. Could you please explain to me how that's a sin? If I can see the spiritual efficacy of your argument I'll change – that's my promise
And let me say this also – I'm not alone. Daily – hundreds and thousands of people are paying a new kind of attention to the machinations of the Corporate Church – because something doesn't feel right. Something is malfunctioning, something is off and this dis-ease is shooting through the church at pace.
You can scramble and scrape and bark orders all you want to clean up and kick out – but this mounting, convulsive outrage will continue until something transcendent happens to arrest this. Until we get back to good faith, love and spiritual generosity with each other we'll stay on opposite sides of the fence – and I've read the Book of Mormon enough to know how that eventually goes."
Are we willing to entertain the question of what makes an active, loyal member of the largest Mormon sect arrive at dissent such as this? She is comparing the corporate church to a machine, essentially admitting the same thing that Elder Christofferson alluded to on November 5th remarking on the policy update regarding children of same-sex marriage. These two agree philosophically on what the church has become, but disagree on the rightness of it.
How can this be? How can two different Mormons react differently to this engine? If you read her blog post, it would appear that she has given much work and presence to Mormonism. Relative to her time in the church, she has worked as hard and given as much of herself as Christofferson has to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet, he is fine with accommodating the cybernetic implants that have been fitted to the bride of Christ while Mrs. Colvin is not okay with these machinations.
Is it crass for me to ask if the difference between them relates to pay scale? Mrs. Colvin pays tithing and speaks lovingly of a spiritual Church that is located in "people". Elder Christofferson, by contrast, is exempt from tithing and is given an undisclosed stipend for his efforts. His word of choice for the Church (critiqued here) is "triggers", and he appears to be perfectly fine with the division caused by institutional policy:
"When, for example, there is the formal blessing and naming of a child in the Church, which happens when a child has parents who are members of the Church, it triggers a lot of things. First, a membership record for them. It triggers the assignment of visiting and home teachers. It triggers an expectation that they will be in Primary and the other Church organizations. And that is likely not going to be an appropriate thing in the home setting, in the family setting where they're living as children where their parents are a same-sex couple."
There seems to be two masters here. Scriptures that contain doctrine vs. handbooks that contain policy. If there is not in fact two masters, then what is it that accounts for these similar assessments and differing conclusions? I am open to explanations.


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'Baywatch' declared worst US TV import unpalatable for Britain
MUMBAI: Over the years, Baywatch has thrilled and titillated viewers across the globe with its overabundance of bikini clad women and muscled morons cavorting on picture perfect beaches.
However Britain's television industry appears to disagree. The Brits recently voted Baywatch the worst US show to have ever graced their television screens. The survey, which was conducted by the publication Broadcast, criticised the show for being mind-numbingly predictable.
The magazine polled around 20 executives from British television. It acknowledged the appeal of a "series about a muscular lifeguard and his crew of pneumatic young helpers with raging hormones," but found fault with the scripts. There was a time when the programme, which made David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson household names, was seen by one billion viewers in 140 countries across the world. In India it is still airing on Star World.
The survey was done to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ever US programme to be broadcast on UK terrestrial television. This was a black and white episode of the classic I Love Lucy. It helped to launch the new ITV channel in 1955
As far as Broadcast Magazine's hall of shame is concerned The Anna Nicole Show came in second. Broadcast called it a textbook example of what is known technically as "car crash television." The soapThe Bold and The Beautiful which also airs in India on Star World rounded off the list. On a more positive note The Simpsons was named the best acquisition from the US, followed by Dallas and M*A*S*H. Fox's 24 which airs in India on AXN was also cited.
Publishing their list, Broadcast acknowledged, "Love them or loathe them, US programmes have been a vital part of UK broadcasting for 50 years. Today there's never been so much, or in some ways so little, American programming on UK screens. You can watch US programming 24 hours a day in a multi-channel home. Yet at the same time there's relatively less US programming than ever on the terrestrial channels, particularly at peak time."
The supernatural series The X-Files and David Lynch's cult show Twin Peaks also made it to the top ten list of critically acclaimed shows.


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It's a 3-ring binder with labeled dividers (produce, condiments, pantry, frozen, refrigerated, pet, cleaning, personal, etc.) and baseball card holders. They are da bomb for keeping your
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This policy was last updated August 19, 2018.
Your privacy is important to Sunny Day Family. The policy below outlines how your personal information is collected and how it is used when you use our website.
You agree to the terms of this policy when you use this website. This privacy policy may change from time to time. If any changes are made, then you will be notified by revising the date at the top of this policy.
How Information is Collected
Here is how your information is collected on Sunny Day Family:
- if you join our email list
- if you leave a comment on the blog
- if you purchase a product via the Sunny Day Family store
- if you download a free printable
- through website cookies and log files
- through Google Analytics
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If you decide to join our mailing list via our subscription page, then your name and email address are required. We require your email address in order to send you the emails and we require your first name so that my emails to you will include a friendly personalized note.
At the bottom of every email I send, you will find a link to unsubscribe. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. If you are having trouble unsubscribing or would like to be removed from the newsletter, then simply send me an email at email@example.com asking to be removed.
I currently use MailChimp as my email service provider (read their privacy policy here). Your data is collected and then passed to them. Tags are used within MailChimp to track your actions and page visits so that future emails can be better tailored to meet your needs.
Currently, I send a minimum of two emails per week. However, I will occasionally email you about products and other promotions that may be relevant to your interests.
Free printables are sent directly to your email with a download link via a third party application called SendOwl (privacy policy here), and your email address is then sent securely to MailChimp.
Your email and name are never sold or given away to a third party.
All emails you receive are CAN-SPAM compliant. At the bottom of every email, you will find information on how to contact the sender, as well as information on how to unsubscribe.
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It is highly recommended that you avoid leaving detailed personal information in your comments.
I reserve the right to remove comments deemed as inappropriate, threatening, profane, or spammy without notice.
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Products in the Sunny Day Family Shop are sold via SendOwl. Your name and email address are required during the checkout process. This information is required in order to send you the purchased product. You can read SendOwl's privacy policy here.
The details you enter are stored by the third party applications. Payments are made through PayPal or Stripe for credit card processing, and are subject to their data handling and privacy policies. I do not have access to your credit card information.
I also sell products via affiliate programs. Each program collects and retains their own data. I do not have access to the personal information that is collected by these affiliate programs. It is best to read their individual privacy policies for more information on how your data is collected and used.
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Luxurious Spanish villa for rent in Benissa on the northern Costa Blanca. The 130m² villa is located on a 1000m² plot with a typical spanish garden and spectacular mountain and sea views from the terrace and pool. This holiday villa is fully equiped to fulfill all your needs.
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I hope everything goes well with your boss tomorrow. I know you'll be back as soon as you can, and yes, we will all miss your wonderful posts.ReplyDelete
My prayers are with all those affected by this disaster and I hope they get all the support they need from around the world. Take Care Balqis. See you soon.Replies
I hope so, Rumpunch. Thank you for all your kind words. :)Delete
It's good to hear from you again, Balqis! Yes, it's been a while since you last posted! Thank you so much for your well wishes to my country. You take care, too! I hope to see you more around the blogosphere! God bless, my friend! ♡ :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
It's good t hear from you too, Irene. Life is pretty hectic. Will try to post as soon as possible. Thank you for being here. :)Delete
A lot of people are still struggling here in the Philippines but we are definitely grateful for all the support coming from people around the globe. We're safe in our place so we are extending our help to the victims. I'll see your posts soon. Take care Balqis!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know how difficult it is, Ric. My prayers for everyone. I'm glad my country joins hands with others in extending some donations. It's good to know you're safe. :)Delete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 7:02 PM
Happy to read you again Balqis. Surely you'll be back when you can. Professional life can be busy at times.ReplyDelete
Take care dear and please note Sie is also sending her best wishes to you.
It's always nice to see you again, Marie. Yup, I'll try to blog again. Thanks to you and Sie. :)Delete
Hope you come back really soon Balqis!! We will miss your posts....And everything will be fine tomorrow....Do not worry!! Take care Dear...ReplyDelete
Thank you for your uplifting words. Epsita. You take care, too. :)Delete
Take care then Balqis. Hope to see you back soon. :-)ReplyDelete
I've changed my blog url: http://the-nightrain.blogspot.com/
Please try to come back soon , missing you a lot :(ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm here now, Aunt Mary. Thank you for your support. :)Delete


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A sedation dentist uses medication to help patients relax during dental procedures. Though some people assume dental IV sedation and other sedation methods mean they will be put completely unconscious over the course of the procedure, this is not always the case. Except for individuals that are put under general anesthesia, most patients will remain awake – the sedation dentist will simply use sedatives to keep patients relaxed over the course of their treatment.
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Engines are high-tech products that call for innovative production techniques. For this reason, MTU is continuously working to develop not only new production processes but also new inspection and measurement methods. Among the most important high-tech processes are laser caving to produce cooling air holes in high-pressure turbine airfoils, as well as adaptive milling, friction welding and precise electrochemical machining (PECM). At its facility in Munich, MTU operates one of the world's most advanced blisk manufacturing facilities for compressor rotors with integrated disks and blades.
Additive manufacturing methods are gaining in importance. Sometimes also referred to as industrial 3D printing, such processes can be used to produce even complex components, in most cases without the need for conventional tools. This reduces production times and makes components lighter while adding to their functionality. MTU is already using additive processes to produce borescope bosses on an industrial scale for the GTF engine powering the A320neo.


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Testimony prepared for delivery to the Tom Lantos Human
Rights Commission (TLHRC)
Click Here to Download and Read Full Tesimony – PDF File
U.S. House of Representatives
By Radwan Ziadeh
Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria
The Commission hearing on human rights in Syria
Tuesday July12, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. in room 340
Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Chairman,
Thank you
for the opportunity to testify before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on
the situation of human rights under Asad regime's during four-month crackdown
on Syria's pro-democracy protestors.
nonviolent popular uprisings began to sweep across the Middle East started from
Tunisia then Egypt, Syria joined this wave of Arab Democratization at the
middle of March.
The spark
of the Syrian uprising was lit in Daraa on March 6, 2011, following the
arbitrary arrest of 15 schoolchildren, who were subsequently detained and
tortured for painting anti-government slogans on a wall. The sentence: "People
want to topple the regime!" echoed some of the slogans heard by the
children during the uprisings in Tunis and Cairo. On March 18, 2011, some
inhabitants of the city of Daraa organized a march calling for the release of
these children. The march was violently repressed by the Syrian authorities,
who used lethal weapons against the peaceful crowd. Within a week of the first
protest, the Security Forces had killed at least 55 demonstrators in and around
the city of Daraa. Protests remained localized in the South of the country for
at least a month, before the wave of demonstrations could make its way up,
sweeping the unrest across Syria, from the West coast to the Eastern province
of Haska, to reach the inner walls of the University of Damascus and Aleppo and
finally the northern province of Idleb, near the Turkish border.
Demonstrations have and are still breaking out all across Syria in
unprecedented numbers. In total, thousands of people have now already
challenged the regime calling for freedoms and change and for the very most
part, peacefully. These demonstrations are explained by the deterioration of
the economic, political and social conditions in Syria, against the financial
and political corruption, and amid the general demands for reforms across the
Arab world. What started as peaceful demands for political reform transformed
into a quest for regime change, and it is in the face of these demands that the
Syrian government started exerting an increasingly tough repression.
populations have been subjected to repression, notably in the cities that were
and are still besieged by the army. In some of them, inhabitants suffer from a
humanitarian crisis, in lack of water, food, and medical supplies. Many of these
inhabitants are furthermore being denied access to medical personnel. As an
illustration, the unrestricted access to the areas and people affected by the
unrest was denied to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) until
June 21, 2011.
The Syrian government has now blocked
territorial access to international journalists, independent NGOs, as well as
to the Fact finding mission on the situation in Syria mandated by the Human
Rights Council of the United Nations. Media personnel, human rights defenders,
local journalists and civil society organisations are also targeted by the
regime and often subjected to recurrent measures of repression.
Overall in
the last four months and as of July 15th, 2011 over 1,800 individuals died,
including at least 84 children. Over 12,000 people were also allegedly arrested
and the total number of Syrian refugees is said to have surpassed 20 thousand
In turn,
the Syrian regime has escalated its crackdown to a degree rivaled only by the
Libyan leadership. In doing so, Assad has lost the legitimacy to rule.
Unfortunately, the United States has yet to take steps that are commensurate
with the severity of the violence. The U.S. leverage with Syria may be limited,
but there are nonetheless steps that Washington can take, in coordination with
the international community, to help ease Assad out of power.
The UN
Committee against Torture (CAT) in May 2010, after its first review of Syria,
has concluded that there are "numerous, ongoing, and consistent allegations
concerning the routine use of torture by law enforcement and investigative
officials, at their instigation or with their consent, in particular, in
detention facilities."
The CAT committee expressed particular concern that torture
takes place with impunity provided by the Emergency Law which attributes broad
emergency powers to various branches of the security forces outside any
judicial control. According to the committee experts, the State of Emergency has
taken on a "quasi permanent nature and allows the suspension of fundamental
rights and freedoms."
This was
before the Syrian uprising started, this was the daily life of the Syrians for
almost 47 years, but when the Syrian rose up against the Asad regime to stop
these practices the Asad regime responded with policies beyond our imagination
especially the methods of torture used against the peaceful protesters.
I want to
share with you two stories to give you an idea about the level of torture has
been used against the civilian in Syria today.
The first
case, the case of Dr. Sakher Hallak, he is prominent physician in Aleppo, he
was in Penn-USA to attend a medical conference, then he backed to Syria, where
he arrested by the Syrian security forces on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, on his
way home from work, at 11:30 at night.
On Thursday, his
wife called a person she knew, a relative who worked in the Syrian Parliament.
He assured her that he is at one of the security services in Aleppo, and that
he will ensure that he will be released soon. And Dr. Hallak himself called his
one of his best friends and told him that he is at the security and he will be
released soon.
On Friday, the
security forces interviewed Sakher's wife and daughter. They were told them
that everything would be OK, and that he would be released on Saturday. On Saturday, his wife called again, and she
was told that he should be on his way home, but he had to stop at the
courthouse to sign some documents. His body was found freshly dead on Friday at
6 PM in a village 20 miles south of Aleppo. It was dumped in a ditch in an area
that was very hard to find.
On Saturday
evening, the police's office called his family, and told them that they have a
body in the morgue, and that it might belong to Sakher. Indeed, the body was
that of Sakher. There was evidence of multiple injuries, consistent with
torture and direct trauma to the head. His eyes and his penis were mutilated.
All the bones in his body were broken, and marks from 4 different types of
boots were imprinted on his body. He died by strangulation. There was rope mark
on his fingers, suggesting that he was trying to dislodge the rope off of his
In the morgue, the
security told his family that they never had Dr.Halak in their custody, but,
that, instead, they found him dead on the street. And then refused to release
the body for burial until the family accepted that story. They printed the
story in the daily paper, quoting his family with the official security forces
security wrapped the body with gauze, like a mummy, making sure that only his
face, with his eyes closed, and his feet were showing, to prevent any
incriminating photos. The family was not allowed to be alone with his body.
They also prevented people from attending his funeral. They used their cars for
transporting the body to the funeral and made sure that no photos were taken,
until he was burried.
did not participate in any anti-government protests or meetings. He was
tortured and mutilated, just like the 13 years old boy Hamza Alkhataib.
The second
story is the story of the 15 years old boy Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei from Daraa,
his father was talking to me almost every day asking me for help, I told him I
will tell the story may the world will know about the practices that Asad
regime is implementing everyday to suppress his own people.
Inside a
filthy detention center in Damascus, according to Associated Press in Jul 7,
2011, where eight or nine interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager
whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his
chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on the
floor of a cell, bleeding from his ears and crying out for his mother and
father to help him.
Ibrahim Jamal
al-Jahamani, a fellow prisoner who said he witnessed the brutal scene in Syria
in May, heard the interrogators demand that the 15-year-old proclaim strongman
Bashar Assad as his "beloved" president.
The youth,
later identified as Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei, refused. Instead, he chanted an
often-heard slogan from anti-regime street protests calling for "freedom
and the love of God and our country." Tamer's refusal apparently was the
final straw for the interrogators. "Guards broke his right wrist, beating him
with clubs on his hands, which were tied behind his back," al-Jahamani
told The Associated Press after his release from detention, referring to the
beatings as torture. "They also beat him on the face, head, back, feet and
genitals until he bled from the nose, mouth and ears and fell
unconscious," he recalled.
pleaded for mercy and yelled: 'Mom, dad, come rescue me!'" al-Jahamani
said. "He was lying like a dog on the floor in his underwear, with blood
covering his body. But his interrogators had no compassion that they were
savagely beating a boy," al-Jahamani added, his voice breaking with
witnessed the beating from a corridor lined with cells while he was waiting for
two hours for the prison guards to take him to his cell. He said the corridor
reeked from the stench of blood and dirty toilets and the cell beds were
covered in dirty sheets.
At the lockup
run by Syria's Air Force Intelligence, security forces kept Tamer bound and
nearly naked, his body covered in blood and bruises, while interrogators broke
his forearm and teeth. At one point, a doctor was brought in to revive him,
al-Jahamani said. "He gave him an injection and they started beating him
again," concentrating on his feet and genitals, and the boy started
bleeding from his ears, al-Jahamani said.
The next day, the teenager's screams abruptly stopped and
al-Jahamani said he never heard a sound from him again.
On the first
day, al-Jahamani saw a bruised Tamer face down on the floor of the corridor.
Later that day, they were placed in different cells near each other on that
same corridor, and al-Jahamani could hear Tamer's screams.
Tamer's death
became known in June, when blurry cellphone videos showed the teen's bruised
and bullet-pocked body, missing most of his teeth, in a wooden coffin. In one
clip, a woman cries out: "This is my son! I swear this is my son!",
Al-Jahamani said he saw the video after his release and instantly recognized
the dead youth as the teen from the detention center. He had heard
interrogators call him "Tamer."
Tamer and
another youth, Hamza al-Khatib, 13, both from the southern village of Jiza in
Daraa province, disappeared April 29. The province is where the uprising began
after security forces arrested high school students who scrawled anti-regime
graffiti on a wall.
Hamza was
arrested at a demonstration and not seen again until his mutilated body, with
his penis severed, was delivered to his family weeks later. He, too, has become
a symbol of the revolt against Assad, driving thousands of protesters into the
The deaths of
Tamer and Hamza in particular enraged Syrians who have lived under a brutal
dictatorship led by the Assad family dynasty for more than four decades. The
protests have grown larger and drawn a broader cross section of society every
The torture
in Syrian today has been used as a means to exert pressure upon civilians, for
them to stop demonstrating and denounce other demonstrators.
from these detainees confirm the inhumane conditions of detention and the
regular recourse to different forms of ill-treatment. These include:
psychological trauma, solitary confinement, and physical torture of different
kinds, including punching, beating, slapping, burning and tearing apart the skin,
pulling the nails, and torture using electric devices.
Other ill
treatments were also reported, including: mental torture, death threats, the
denial of medical care for the sick and wounded, isolation from the outside
world and being blindfolded, handcuffed and placed in unknown locations or in
military camp prisons. These arbitrary measures fulfil the definition of the
Convention Against Torture (CAT).
Acts of
physical and mental torture may have been committed to extract information but
often also to intimidate and repress the population.
A number of
those arrested, impossible to estimate, reportedly died while in detention as a
result of the infliction of torture. As of June 3rd, at least 148 detainees
allegedly died as a result of torture. This was evidenced by the state of the
corpse of those arrested, as they were in some case returned to the families by
the Security Forces. Evidence of torture was indeed most often reported via
videos and pictures of the corpses brought back after detention. Visual
evidence continues to testify of this free infliction of pain, used in some
cases as a means of pressure or intimidation.
April 29th
marked a turn in the degree and scale of the repression by the Syrian
authorities, as a number of dead bodies were returned to families following
several raids of arrest across Syria . The corpses of an important number of
those arrested on April 29th, especially in Daraa, were indeed subsequently
returned to the families, evidencing that death of the detainees was subsequent
to torture inflicted during the time of detention.
The situation
in Syria has taken a turn for the worse in an unprecedented way since the
beginning of the protests. As the protests have spread, the response of the
security forces has hardened, leading up to the deployment of tanks in several
cities (Deraa, Homs, Douma, Banyas. Jisr Ashagour, Hama etc.). The use of live
ammunition by security forces against demonstrators has led to the deaths of
around 1800 people since mid-March and hundreds are missing and more than 12000
have been detained.
The gap
between the official stance claiming the adoption of long awaited reforms
including the lift of the state of emergency, issuance of a law on peaceful
demonstrations and opening dialogue with the opposition and the systematic and
violent repression on the ground is more blatant than ever.
While the Obama administration is correct in acknowledging
its limited leverage with Syria, the U.S. should use its position as a global
leader to mobilize the international community much as it did in Libya. In
particular, the United States, in concert with its allies, should:
• Have
President Obama make a live, televised statement calling on Bashar al-Assad to
step down immediately. President Obama made three televised statements pushing
for an immediate transition in Egypt and seven public remarks or speeches on
Libya. Such bold, public rhetoric affects the will of the protesters, who are
closely following the response of the international community and that of the
U.S. in particular.
• Continue
to pressure Syria at the United Nations Human Rights Council. The
administration should be commended for playing a key role in the adoption of an
UN HRC resolution condemning Syria. Now, the U.S. must follow up on the mission
that investigates Syria's human rights violations and ensure that it completes
its report. This report will enable the U.S. to work with other nations to
refer Assad to the International Criminal Court. Currently, Russia and China
oppose a strong UN Security Council resolution, but a damning report from the
UN HRC may help convince them otherwise.
• Encourage
EU leaders to expand targeted sanctions on officials responsible for violence,
as well as a trade embargo. Such a move will send a strong message and
encourage others to defect. Although the U.S. has already imposed targeted
sanctions, their impact is negligible. In contrast, Europe is Syria's main
trading partner and provides Syria with substantial loans each year. EU
sanctions will cause significant damage to the already battered economy and
ultimately persuade those on the fence to abandon the regime.
• Harness
the role of the Ambassador to identify credible civil society activists and
opposition leaders. After almost six years of a diplomatic boycott, the U.S.
Ambassador to Damascus arrived in January. The administration should take
advantage of his presence in the country to meet with reformers, which will belie
Assad's argument that there is no viable alternative to his leadership.
• Work with
Turkey to arrange for a transfer of power. In recent years, Turkey and Syria
have grown increasingly close. Since protests broke out, the Turkish government
has sent officials to Damascus three times to encourage the Syrian regime to
reform with no result. While Turkey has a strong relationship with Assad, it is
also deeply concerned with stability on its borders. Nearly 15 thousands
Syrians escaped to Turkey seeking refuge. With no visa requirements between the
two countries, a protracted government assault on civilians could lead to an
influx of Syrian refugees into southeastern Turkey. The U.S. should outline the
potential negative repercussions for Turkey if Assad remains in power, which
may compel the Turkish government to push for a transition, particularly if it
is able to play a lead role in brokering the accord.
– The U.S
should lead the negotiations at the security council to adopt a resolution
condemn the gross and systematic violation of human rights by the Syrian
authorities and urge them to put an immediate end to the violence. An
independent international commission of inquiry must also be urgently set up in
order to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law
and identify the alleged perpetrators. Those responsible should be brought to
justice. The UN Security Council should refer the situation in Syria to the ICC
and take other appropriate measures, such as individual sanctions to halt
massive targeting of civilians by the authorities.


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A number of people have asked me where my inspiration as a writer comes from. Over time, I've given them a number of different answers: from travel, things I see, movies, other people, and random encounters. Each of these answers are true, but only tell part of the story.
I found myself reflecting on this today. Where does inspiration come from? It's true that I get ideas from things that I hear and see, encompassing everything in the above list. What hits closer to home though is to see other people who spend their time day after day perfecting their craft. As such, my inspiration often comes from movies where the central character – whether a painter, a chef, an investor, or rarely an author – spends their time doing exactly this. In some cases this is central to the plot while other times it is just ancillary. Either way, those movies spark my interest. I love observing the character as they battle with their inner demons to tackle their chosen vocation.
A few days ago, I watched The Hundred Foot Journey. It focuses on an Indian chef who starts a restaurant in a small village in France and then continues to rise through the culinary ranks. I love cooking and so the scenes of him and other chefs in the kitchen are already fun to watch – what's often referred to as food porn. What made the movie more engaging was to go through some of the uphill battles that he encounters as he returns to the kitchen again and again to prepare new exciting dishes. I'm not making a broader commentary on how realistic the movie is – only a real chef would be able to answer that, but were I to face those situations, I doubt I could have returned to my craft with so much zeal. Of course, cooking isn't that sort of passion for me. I can only hope that each day I will continue to return to my writing with the same kind of passion that the lead character in this movie displays.
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Can Can Wonderland Mini Golf Hole
Hey, why don't we give a bunch of artists an abandoned warehouse and a liquor license?
Those who answered this in the affirmative—you are my heroes. Thank you ArtPlace America, who kicked this off with a grant, thank you Walker Art Center, who first had the very Minnesota idea of high-low artist-created mini-golf. And above all thanks to Chris Pennington, the local artist and former Soap Factory Haunted Basement guy who made this happen. Holy sweet purple golf balls. I barely have words for how spectacular Can Can Wonderland is.
First thing to know, it's in the middle of nowhere, due north of the Midway/University Avenue Menards, in the basement of one of those extra warehouses St. Paul is currently blessed with. You find it, then park in a place that looks like it's time to put on a hairnet and get to work smelting aluminum. You go through an industrial hallway, for the longest time, then another one, a staircase—it's a hike. You finally get to a hallway big enough to drive two forklifts through. There's a coatrack big enough for the coats of everyone you know. And then on the other side of double doors: A straight up pleasure dome fit for Kubla Khan in Xanadu, if Kubla Kahn liked mini-donuts, vintage pinball machines, seriously jaw-dropping cocktails, and perhaps had a couple of grade-schoolers to entertain. There's so much to digest in this sudden landmark, let's break it down.
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The Neon Wonderland
What's more significant here, the artsy golf or the artsy drinks? They vie for first place, but you know how I feel about drinks, so we may as well put them first. The drinks are by Bittercube, and here they've decided to go full carnival, filling the icee machines with tasty booze-slush, coming up with (organic) color-changing blue drinks, and the works. The one that blew my mind was a plastic flowerpot riff on Renée Redzepi of Noma's famed 'Carrot and Soil' dish—yeah, you read that right. For this madness, barman Marco Zappia makes a fun combination of sherry, pineapple, fresh carrot, and rum, and sets it in a flowerpot, lays a special 3D-printed screen on the top, inserts baby carrots, heaps on cookie crumbs—do you hear me? Just when you thought a squash was the craziest thing we would drink in 2017, Bittercube ups themselves. And it's a delicious drink—imagine a Mai Tai with a lovely pineapple upside-down cake aspect—but more than that, it's such delightful fun.
Also, ever had classic Midwestern ambrosia salad, that tumble of jello and whipped cream? Ever done a jello shot? Ever conceived of a fancy bartender-driven-booze-jello-ambrosia? Sweet, yes, but brilliant. The Neon Wonderland is basically a Sapphire gin and tonic with an edible silver-luster dried lime and tinted blue with pea flowers, but the blooms don't make a very stable dye, and as the drink sits in your glass it will turn lavender, and if you don't drink it fast, it will turn clear. If you are not charmed by this, you may be beyond hope. When you're golfing, waitresses will bring you one of these in a plastic-lidded cup with a straw, and each golf-hole has a place to keep your drink. Genius. I don't have space here to get in to every drink in sequence but do yourself a favor and bring everyone you know, then keep ordering till you find the one in the shark attack sculpture.
Can Can Wonderland Mini Golf
One caveat. If you're the competitive sort who will freak out because your golf ball won't get up some particular handmade ramp or other, stay home. When I did the course, a handful of the holes were not quite ready for primetime, and we stopped keeping score pretty soon into it all. We still had the best possible time. There were holes where your ball had to somehow navigate a wriggling tornado on sort of turf lazy susan, holes made of a thousand salvaged musical instruments welded into kinetic art, holes where you swapped your club for a whiffle-ball bat and tee. All of it was hilarious and remarkably ambitious and altogether so much fun, and if you want to be brainy, it also had much to say about the preposterous nature of human endeavor, and about the enormous accretions of material we assemble in the world. Hats off to all the artists. Seriously, you did amazing work. I have never seen such a large pink elephant.
Can Can Wonderland Food
What if standard bowling-alley foods were made just a little better, with fresh Jalapenos on the nachos, and good bread and cheese on the grilled cheese sandwiches? Better-bowling-alley is a good way of describing the eats here, which are totally solid and good, but basic. My kids were ecstatic to get hot mini donuts with sprinkles on them, and the snow-cones are easily the best in town; I was highly approving to see fresh cotton candy on sticks, and not wadded up cotton candy in bags, which is one of those modern developments that we've come to accept when we never should have.
Can Can Wonderland Pin Ball Macines
Vintage Pinball:
Who is going to teach the next generation about 25-cent flipper pinball if you won't? I can't tell you how happy I was to see the dozens of vintage pinball and other arcade machines—I don't even know the names for some of these things. Like that thing with a little mechanical golf-dude and you get twenty chances to get ball-bearings into a sequence of golf-holes? Anyhoo, calling all pinball wizards—go.
That's not all! There's a stage for variety shows, comics, polka bands—the works. There's an excellent local craft beer list, and good wine. There's a ping pong table, air hockey, and plans for all kinds of visiting artists. Best of all, there's so much of what's best about Minnesota to it—artsy, smart, unpretentious, welcoming, accessible, funny. This is one semi-abandoned warehouse party you don't want to miss.


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Life in the tropics definitely tends to the casual, and that applies even (especially?) to the tourist industry in Puerto Rico. Veva and I visited the island in January and had several interesting (and sometimes hilarious)
We decided to visit the Rio Camuy caves (one of the largest cave systems in the world); we'd never seen them, partly because they'd been closed for the last several years due to a death caused by flash flooding in the caves. Nasty. But they reopened last February and we decided it was time to check it out.
As we drove up to the gate entrance to the caves, a young man handed us two tickets, with numbers on them. A woman drove out at the same time and told us "I'll be back in an hour. The cafeteria is open."
Huh? Oh, yes. I looked at my watch. Noon. Lunch time. Bye bye, workers! So we drove in and parked, and followed signs to buy tickets. But no one was there. The only person who sold tickets was out to lunch, so we would just have to wait. Veva, myself, and a handful of other people. An hour later, there must have been 50 people waiting to buy tickets and take a trolley ride down to the caves.
"Not to worry," I said to Veva, the tickets have numbers, so they will take us in order.
Well, maybe in some alternate Puerto Rican universe, anyway.
The lady returned, and the line immediately formed, winding its way through the waiting area. And she started selling tickets, but no numbers were announced, no effort was made to sell them in order. And the line moved VERY slowly. Fifteen minutes later, a fellow announces over the PA system: "Visitors holding tickets 133 to 163 can get on the trolley now." We had numbers 153 and 154. So I was forced to go to the front of the line and ask what I was supposed to do. Without a word, without any sort of push-back, she sold me the tickets.
No one on the line (now) behind me complained. Everyone seems to be quite used to messy, chaotic processes and the need to bypass the rules now and then, or most of the time. If I went to the front of the line, people seemed to be thinking, I must have had a good reason.
So we made it on to the trolley and they clearly went to great lengths to fill every seat: "Don't worry about being separated - it's just for 10 minutes."
Down we went and into the caves, and that was incredible - an enormous cavern and wonderful views...an hour later, we emerged, milled around, and then the trolley arrived to take us back.
After a few moments, the trolley left - and I looked over to see a mother and child still sitting in the waiting area. I am sure she was waiting for her husband and perhaps another child to emerge. More than that, I knew for a fact that at least two other women were still inside the cave.
But the fellow leading our group did not make the slightest effort to ensure that all seats were filled, that everyone was present and accounted for. We just took off. I wonder how they made it back, if every trolley was filled to capacity?
Don't worry, be happy. It's not exactly Jamaica on the island of Puerto Rico, but it's also not high stress, big city living. Everything will work out and, anyway, it gets too hot to get too worked up about anything. I kind of like it, even though it can frustrating when you are in the midst of the chaos and have a controlling personality.
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There are also some excellent SQL books, including SQL Cookbook and Writing Accurate SQL Code by C.J. Date (a video).
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High-Voltage Signal Generator for Biomedical Applications (2011)
Type of ContentTheses / Dissertations
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Thesis DisciplineElectrical Engineering
Degree NameMaster of Engineering
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer
AuthorsTse, Jonathan Michaelshow all
Electroporation is the process where externally applied electric fields cause significantly increased permeability of the cell membrane. The increased permeability allows the transport of external compounds into the cell. This is important for applications in electrochemotheropy, electrofusion and drug delivery. Electroporation also has applications in the disinfection of liquids. Given a high enough electric field across the cell membrane, the electroporation process can become irreversible, leading to cell destruction. With the cell membrane under an intense electric field, the cell membrane structure fails causing the cell to die. Conventional liquid beverage disinfection systems rely on slow heating methods requiring large power requirements; this can reduce the taste and quality of some liquids. Pulse generators provide the necessary electric fields to produce the required voltage potential across the cell membrane. The usefulness of electroporation depends on several parameters such as amplitude, frequency and rise/fall times of the electric field. The wave shape also has a bearing on performance, and is limited by the pulse generator topology. A multilevel bipolar waveform is desired with operating frequencies above about 1 kHz. The cascaded H-bridge or full-bridge topology is the most useful as it capable of producing multilevel bipolar waveforms at high frequency. This thesis presents the design and implementation of a multilevel high-voltage pulse generator, capable of creating very high-voltage AC pulses. MOSFET switching devices in conjunction with good layout practices were used to provide required fast switching speeds. The full-bridge topology is used to create a multilevel output profile through cascading of multiple stages. As a full-bridge topology inherently creates a RCL resonant network, there are many challenges associated with mitigating high-frequency noise sources. Two separate stages are built, a low voltage stage capable of outputting up to 200 Vp and a high voltage stage capable of switching up to 1 kVp. A control board was also built for pulse signal generation and user configuration of the output waveforms. The designed pulse generator can produce short pulses of up to 1.4 kVp at frequencies of up to 350 kHz using primarily resistive loads (that simulate a conductive liquid load). Little high frequency switching noise was observable on the output waveform. A single stage pulse generator was also tested with actual liquid loads using an electrode chamber, demonstrating electroporation. The liquid load testing was performed on water and milk derived from milk powder. Results showed that the liquid loads were consistent with primarily resistive loads.


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That's right, it's the weekend and that means: L-I-V-I-N.
Alamo Drafthouse has a free, outdoor screening of Dazed and Confused on Saturday, the Inwood shows Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure as a midnight quote-along and Texas Theatre completes the throw-back triad with a weekend dedicated to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'s 25th anniversary.
Rather get a sample of new films? Easy, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas begins its eight-day run on Thursday at the Angelika. Surrender to air conditioning while absorbing the year's best releases by Asian and Asian American filmmakers and check out the offshoot events -- these guys throw GREAT parties.
There's also art openings, fashion shows, food sampling and more. As always, click on the event titles for more information and share this list with your cruisin' crew. I'll see you out there. (I'll be the one posted up at Top Notch.)
Thursday, July 11 Asian Film Festival of Dallas -- Opening night films and parties kick off this eight day fest on Thursday night, but you could easily invest the full week exploring its content. (*Cough, cough* Call in sick. *Cough*) Here's a guide to ten, must-see films from AFFD.
Nails Across America Brings Nail Art to Good Luck Karaoke -- Artist Breanne Trammell works across a variety of mediums, from print-making to craft-based domestic methods like cake walks and kite building. On Thursday she'll bring her newest project, Nails Across America, to the Double Wide where she'll be exchanging free manicures for community stories. It's a fun, touring public art project and both men and women are encouraged to visit Trammell's nail trap.
Opening at W.A.A.S. Gallery -- Brace yourself for an athletic spin of the colorwheel in this new show by Patricia Rodriguez and the gallery-repped Neil Matthiessen.
Benefit for Cody Biggs at Goodfriend -- Local tattoo artist, motorcycle enthusiast, single dad and all-around nice dude Cody Biggs was hit by a car while riding to work last March. The impact left most of his body busted up: he's been recovering ever since. You can help Biggs while knocking back beers at your favorite bar on Thursday night when Goodfriend joins forces with a ton of local businesses for a benefit and silent auction to benefit Cody Biggs.
Good Dallas Panel Discussion at Garden Cafe -- We're a big ol' metroplex so naturally we have areas where we excel and where we're deficient. Improving the less desirable portions and enhancing the rest is the stuff of working together. Join this panel as they rap about food, expression, education, visitor engagement and recreation. Yeah, that's A LOT of topics for an hour-and-a-half panel.
Friday, July 12 Future Fashion Show at W.A.A.S. -- Dip the fashions of Tenoversix into the freshly designed showroom of W.A.A.S., then add a ton of music, a runway and three hundred of your closest friends. Oh, and it's free.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? at Texas Theatre -- This movie could only have been made in 1988, when adult-themed live-action, cartoon-crossover films really peaked. Re-watch the movie that brought you invisible ink, the ol' shave and a haircut joke, giant cartoon showgirl boobs and ...Dip. The New Navy Opening, with Artist's Talk at RE Gallery -- Samantha McCurdy and Alexander DiJulio get blue in this new look at hue. They'll examine it as it bends along various curves and surfaces, as it's contained within space and how it shifts or alters when textured. 10th Annual Modern Dance Festival -- Each year the Modern is taken over by dancers -- some local, some traveling -- out to show the metroplex that the art form isn't limited to ballet and tutus and refinement. These dancers get raw in their expression, and for a a few quick weeks you can see and learn what the most innovative bodies in modern dance are up to. Check it.
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Free Screening of Dazed and Confused -- You know what I love about Dazed and Confused? I keep getting older and it stays the same age. Alamo Drafthouse Richardson screens this classic Texas summertime flick outdoors on Saturday night for free. There'll be food trucks and local breweries hanging out, so you can buy a snack and make a damn night of it.
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Every time I see the ad of Airtel 4G, I swoon and then I take a fistful of salt coz a pinch of it would hardly do.
I live in Greater Noida, less than 50 kilometers from North Delhi, DRDO Residential colony, where my brother lives. For the uninitiated – I am living in a place within the capital of this great country.
My Global positioning becomes important when I see the Airtel ad. And I envy every one of these places mentioned below in the ads of Airtel.
(Ettimadai Coimbatore)
(Umiam Lake North of Shillong)
(Mashobra, Shimla)
(Igatpuri, Maharashtra)
O God Almighty why I could not have been in Ettimadai, Umiam, Mashobra or Igatpuri . Why I had to live in Delhi NCR. What wrong we have committed in our previous lives that we do not have even normal Airtel connection in DRDO residential area in North Delhi where top defense scientists of the nation live; why do we have 4 stretches of four kilometers each on the Noida – Greater Noida expressway in the NCR without any mobile network for even talking; why do we have a total mobile blackout area in Pamposh Enclave bang in front of Nehru Place; Why Ettimadai, Umiam, Mashobra and Igatpuri have been blessed with such brilliant connections and we in Delhi and around fail to even talk to others on an Airtel connection.
It is then that I reach out for a fistful of salt and swallow it with contempt & loathing while cursing blind regulatory authorities who think that only Natwar Lal cheated people.
These kinds of ads of all service providers should be taken to courts. They should be ridiculed and the mobile service providers should be shamed for making a fool of consumers who are not organized enough to sue these service providers who make billions out of the gullible public.
And we think that TRAI is taking care of our interests and their services.
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Eric Booth <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Can Stata underline?
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> I just upgraded to 11, but I can't find this text formatting feature
> anywhere.
Yes, Stata can underline--just not in graph text. That is, Stata can underline via the SMCL tag {ul:} in the viewer and results windows (i.e., the help files) , but from the graph_text help file your referenced it appears that not all of the SMCL tags are legal in graphs.
While you can use the {it:} tag for italics, as in the example the help file gives:
scatter mpg weight, title("This is {it:italics} in a graph title")
if you substitute the {ul:} tag, it doesnt work:
scatter mpg weight, title("This is {ul:underline} in a graph title")
(if you use {bf:} it does create boldface type in graph text, but it doesn't appear that {hi:} works with graphs either)
However, you can format text elsewhere to have underlining, for example:
sysuse auto, clear
di `"Not Underlined, {ul:Underlined Text Goes Here}, or {stata `"desc"':Stata Command Goes {ul:HERE}}"'
((note: the -di- command above may wrap in email format, be sure to unwrap it in your command line/do-file))
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On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Craig, Benjamin M. wrote:
> I just upgraded to 11, but I can't find this text formatting feature
> anywhere.
> The Stata 11 announcement states "You can now include multiple fonts in
> regular, bold, and italics; the full Greek alphabet in upper- and
> lowercase; and over 70 mathematical symbols anywhere that text appears
> in graphs." (Page 3, top) Ironically, the online Stata manual is full
> of underlines. For examples, see
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?graph_text.
> Hopefully, someone knows how to underline in Stata. I need this feature,
> because underline is a formatting requirement for a certain psychometric
> instrument(SF-36).
> Given Stata's use of underline, maybe it will be added in their next
> release.
> Cheers,
> Ben
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Rules of a Kendo Match
A scorable point (有効打突 yūkō-datotsu) in a kendo competition (tai-kai) is defined as an accurate strike or thrust made onto a datotsu-bui of the opponent's kendo-gu with the shinai making contact at its datotsu-bu, the competitor displaying high spirits, correct posture and followed by zanshin.
Datotsu-bui or point scoring targets in kendo are defined as:
- Men-bu, the top or sides of the head protector (sho-men and sayu-men).
- Kote-bu, a padded area of the right or left wrist protector (migi-kote and hidari-kote).
- Do-bu, an area of the right or left side of the armour that protects the torso (migi-do and hidari-do).
- Tsuki-bu, an area of the head protector in front of the throat (tsuki-dare).
Datotsu-bu of the 'shinai' is the forward, or blade side (jin-bu) of the top third (monouchi) of the shinai.
Zanshin (残心), or continuation of awareness, must be present and shown throughout the execution of the strike, and the kendōka must be mentally and physically ready to attack again.
In competition, there are usually three referees (審判 shinpan). Each referee holds a red flag and a white flag in opposing hands. To award a point, a referee raises the flag corresponding to the colour of the ribbon worn by the scoring competitor. Usually at least two referees must agree for a point to be awarded. The match continues until a pronouncement of the point that has been scored.
Kendo competitions are usually a three point match. The first competitor to score two points, therefore wins the match. If the time limit is reached and only one competitor has a point, that competitor wins.
In the case of a tie, there are several options:
- Hiki-wake (引き分け): The match is declared a draw.
- Enchō (延長): The match is continued until either competitor scores a point.
- Hantei (判定): The victor is decided by the referees. The three referees vote for victor by each raising one of their respective flags simultaneously.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo#Rules_of_Competition