What's a great 4C classroom look like ?
Across this country, American schools are innovating, changing, and re-inventing themselves in the calculus of a rapidly changing world. Not every school, of course, but schools like those who are members of edleader21 are focusing on the 4Cs; communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity among other practices that leaders know children need to thrive in the 21st century.
The world is changing and technology is playing a key role in this change. Schools are charged with helping learners succeed in college, career, and life. As schools change in response its important that leaders help learners, families, partners, and community members understand what this change and innovation is all about. This blog post is a brief description that aims to use text to describe my point of view of what a GREAT 4C classroom is all about. There is no ONE GREAT vision of the 4C class….they come in as many shapes and colors as there are Great Teachers and great school systems. What I am putting forward is my take on the GREAT 4C classroom. As educational leaders describe and show their GREAT cases, folks can draw connections and find the universals as well as the differences that abound.
are student centered and focus on unfurling and promoting student voice and choice. The great ones move from student voice, to choice, to student governance in the course of a school year.
are engaged in deeper learning about concepts and problems that sustain over long periods of time giving learners a chance to saturate and have deep context for their thinking, learning, reflection, creating, and problem solving.
engage students in working together over time.
engage students in developing their individual skills, practices, and interests.
connect to their school, their community and the world.
make things, create things, show things, and engage diverse audiences in their creative processes.
celebrate the diversity of human experience and development and seek to maximize growth for the learner and the class as a culture (little "c").
help learners and educators tackle problems by saturating themselves in understandings about the problems and then critically and reflectively working to solve the problem or propose solutions.
engage learners and educators to take the stance of researchers.
offer learners multiple and varied opportunities to communicate in face to face and technology infused contexts as well as with small and large groups, and mass audiences.
have great teachers who are able to connect with every individual learner as well as the synergy of the class as a whole.
have great teachers who learn to evolve their relationship to their students over the course of the school year as well as longitudinally over the course of their career.
are interdisciplinary, transversal, and focused on big ideas and driving questions.
strike the right balance between pursuit of nouns and verbs, content coverage and the processes of learning and meta-learning or learning about learning.
are fun, messy, hard, and require teachers and learners to push through blocking points in learning in order to take things to the next level. Some call this grit, others call it failing forward, whatever you call it, it takes time, patience, and belief in the learner and educator.
easily connect the life of the learner at home to their life at school. Great 4C classrooms are like great songs that stick in your head and your life and the learners take their 4Cs learning with them 24/7.
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The Ides of March are upon us. Soon it will be May and students in grades 3-8, and 11 will be asked to do state mandated tests called the CAASPP which utilizes the SBAC. Folks should follow the links of the acronyms in order to learn what these tests aim to do. Basically, they ask students to go on the computer and respond to questions that test designers have created. There are less multiple choice type questions than in recent state mandated normative tests, rather, they ask students to type in their answers, do some true and false, and explain their answers in one way or another. They aim to assess whether students have met, exceeded, nearly met, or not met standards for skills and content knowledge that the common core standards framework has determined should be known or accomplished at each grade level.
2016 is the second year these new tests have been administered and results provided to Californian students. These tests aim to provide information at the school level, class level, and individual student level. The tests are very rigorous while also adaptive. Adaptive, in this sense, means that the test questions change based on the prior answer provided by the student. Generally, if the child answers a question correctly it soon provides more challenging questions and if they answer incorrectly, they will soon receive a more basic question. The scores are reported both as scaled scores- a number in the 1000s and as levels; 4= exceeded standards, 3= met standards, 2+ nearly met standards, and 1= not meeting standards.
For Rio students, staff, and families, the District wants to express our encouragement for every child to do their best on each item and each test so that the tests can accurately assess what they aim to assess. We also want children to know that they should increase their levels over the course of their school years at Rio. This will indicate that they are improving and learning more about the standards the test aims to measure. Another and perhaps most important thing to think about these tests or any test, is that the test does not measure or assess what kind of person you are. Students should try their best, see what the results are, work to improve their skills, content, and practices in order to improve over time. The goal is GROWTH.
Students should also know that these tests measure some things and don't measure others. The Rio School District is working on helping every child develop their 21st century learning practices; collaboration, communication, creativity, and caring. We are beginning to develop rubrics, performance tasks, and authentic assessments that provide students, teachers. schools, and families information about how their children are developing in relation to these aims.
Together, as school and community, we are setting our sites on improving as a learning organization that aims to help every child improve their learning at maximum possible rates and depths.
I am a son of an orphaned son of immigrants and immigrants' daughter.
I am a son of the low income class.
I am a son of high school graduates with no college degrees who raised children who all earned college degrees.
I am the son of truly wise and creative parents and grandparents.
I am the son of parents who loved children and loved family.
I am the son of all people.
I am the son of the earth and universe.
I am the son of the sun, stardust, carbon, recycled material and H2O.
I am a teaching son, taught by many sons and daughters.
I am a learning son.
I am a teaching son.
Teaching sons and daughters, who do you teach?
What sons and daughters do you teach?
Learning sons and daughters, who teach you? Which sons and daughters are your teachers? Your parents?
Along with all the nouns and content we aim to teach, and now in the 21st century, the verbs, skills, practices, processes we teach, what identities do we teach? who do we teach? What connections do we teach? What pursuit of connections do we teach?
Recently we have engaged in a series of visits of community members and staff to Rio School District classrooms and Oxnard High School District Classrooms. These visits have brought visitors from the business community, school community, city government and recently city government officials and educators from Kuanianen, Finland. It was great to host Jarkko and Anders on multiple days of visits, discussion, and planning. In these last few days it has become ever more present that Rio and the city of Oxnard are in a true Renaissance. A cultural rebirth. Visits to Rio classrooms, ACE Charter High School Classrooms, Rio Mesa High School classrooms, the Mexican Consulate, along with great partnership discussions with software designers, the Ventura County Office of Education, retired educators, and the city of Oxnard recreation department evidenced that the Oxnard plain is experiencing a great period of growth and innovation. Each of these experiences was rich in evidence of 21st century learning combined with deep commitment to children, family, community at hyper-local and hyper-global scales.
We want to thank all those who were part of this amazing few days of partnership development and learning and invite others from within our community and around the world to engage with our city, community and set of school Districts that are leading, innovating, and doing amazing things that aim at what Anders came all the way from Finland to learn about, and that is creating a City wide learning program or a "Smart City." I realized, in the last few minutes of our world wind visit, that Oxnard is a smart city in a renaissance, rebirth, aimed at getting smarter and better in the 21st century. Match that with the beautiful weather, geography, and wonderfully diverse and beautiful people that live and come here, and the city that was born from agriculture more than 100 years ago is poised to shape its next 100 years through a process of hard work and learning that place its schools-from preschools to Universities at the center of an amazingly creative and dynamic human energy.


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How the Obama Administration Shattered the Rule of Law
Ben Shapiro	/ @benshapiro / May 13, 2020
Then-President Barack Obama speaks during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2016. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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This week, former President Barack Obama reemerged from hibernation to lecture Americans about the threat to rule of law posed by the Trump administration.
After Attorney General William Barr announced that the Department of Justice would be dropping its case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, Obama told his former aides, "our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk."
He explained, "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. … And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places."
In reality, of course, Flynn was never charged with perjury. He was charged with lying to the FBI in the course of an investigation, a separate and far lesser offense, particularly given the fact that his alleged lie was immaterial to any underlying crime.
In fact, as America found out over the past two weeks, Flynn wasn't supposed to be the subject of any investigation at all: The FBI had decided to close an investigation into Flynn in January 2017, even after supposedly nefarious calls between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok—the same man who pledged to lover and former FBI attorney Lisa Page that Donald Trump would never be president and suggested an "insurance policy" against that possibility—then intervened to keep the investigation open.
The next day, during an Oval Office meeting, Obama himself asked then-FBI Director James Comey about the Flynn-Kislyak communications. Next, Comey upped the ante: He avoided following normal FBI-White House protocols in order to interview Flynn, and Comey's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, avoided informing Flynn of his rights.
Nonetheless, the FBI agents who conducted the interview suggested that they did not think Flynn was lying during that interview.
As it turns out, notes between top FBI officials at the time said, "What's our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" Flynn would later plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI—at least in part because the FBI was threatening his son with prosecution.
This should be a massive scandal. It should be a massive scandal because, at the very least, it demonstrates the nation's chief law enforcement agencies, prompted by political actors at the very top of the government, racing to bend the rules in order to pursue a case they were convinced they would make: the case that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russian government.
From the purposefully botched Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to the absurdly conjured prosecution of Flynn, the most powerful institutions in American life violated the protocols meant to restrict abuse, firmly secure in their own feelings of moral rectitude.
That's the best-case scenario.
The worst-case scenario is far darker: that by early January, with no evidence of Russian collusion, leaders of the nation's political and law enforcement agencies decided that guilt was irrelevant, and that the Trump administration had to be strangled in the crib. This seems like a major stretch, but in a highly partisan era, such a narrative will have legs.
Meanwhile, blithe in the knowledge that they were on the side of the angels, members of the Obama-era government continue to chide Barr for ending a charade of a case. Their incredible inability to see how their conduct looks beyond the echo chamber of sycophantic media sources only undermines their credibility further.
As it turns out, Obama isn't wrong—at least not entirely. Our basic understanding of the rule of law is at risk, not because Barr stepped in to prevent an unjust prosecution, but because our institutions under the Obama administration were politicized in ways that should shock the American conscience.

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The AF French Film Festival starts in Sydney on March 7th, in Melbourne on March 8, Canberra March 9, Perth March 15, Brisbane March 16 and in Adelaide and Hobart March 30, it will also have a regional viewing in NSW at Parramatta from April 6 and Casula from April 8.
The 2017 event will present forty five (45) films by renowned directors including Emmanuelle Bercot, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Nicole Garcia, Benoît Jacquot and Mia Hansen-Løve, to Philippe Lioret, Martin Provost, Jérôme Salle, Bertrand Tavernier and Roschdy Zem.
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The Dancer (La Danseuse) starring singer-actress Soko as American pioneer of modern dance Loïe Fuller is totally unique, about a pioneer in the world of contemporary dance.
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She was an inspiration for the artist Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and the innovators French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment, the Lumière Brothers.
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Adding "Fleet Captain" and "Commodore" Titles to Flag Officers
pwemademedothis Member Posts: 72 Arc User
September 2018 edited September 2018 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Since our player characters have "Title" selection drop downs, adding the above honorifics so that they may be used wherever the titles may actually get used in game wouldn't suck, and would be a nice nod to TOS tradition and lore (Commodores Decker and Mendez, Fleet Captains Pike and Garth ["...LORD Garth!" someone interjects from off screen...])
What's the harm? :-)
Personally, I think I'm going to color my Odyssey uniform silver captains' pips gold to signify the posting.
warpangel Member Posts: 8,523 Arc User
Would be nice if the titles were actually used anywhere in the game. Alas, regardless of your chosen title, NPC's always address you by your level rank.
artan42 Member Posts: 10,199 Bug Hunter
Or just replace the non-canonical rank of 'Rear Admiral-Lower Half' with the canonical rank of Commodore and make it a full level ingame.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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rattler2 Member Posts: 48,072 Arc User
Except we don't hear about Commodore post TOS. Not even in the TMP era.
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rattler2 wrote: »
Generally, things that exist don't spontaneously cease to exist just because we aren't constantly being reminded of them.
Its possible that sometime before TMP the rank of Commodore was retired, or is only used in an honorary capacity.
I honestly don't know if its in use in modern times either. I know the rank existed, but does it still exist is the question.
jrdobbsjr
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> @rattler2 said:
> Its possible that sometime before TMP the rank of Commodore was retired, or is only used in an honorary capacity.
> I honestly don't know if its in use in modern times either. I know the rank existed, but does it still exist is the question.
The USN used it at various times, it was last revived in the 80s, but discontinued a few years later because it caused confusion as Squadron Commanders, usually a O-6 Captain, are called Commodore as a honorific.
angrytarg Member Posts: 9,767 Arc User
> Except we don't hear about Commodore post TOS. Not even in the TMP era.
We don't hear but read it in TNG "conspiracy". Besides, why should a rank just cease to exist because for a long time it isn't mentioned? It doesn't make sense.
^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
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The rank was retired by the U.S. Navy and replaced by R.A. Lower Half (because reasons) but is in use by the U.K. and other navies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_(rank)
And the US navy is not Starfleet. Canonically there is commodore as the one pip flag rank and that has never changed.
We don't hear about Scotty past 'Relics' or McCoy past 'Encounter at Farpoint' but it dosn't mean they stopped existing.
We don't see any one star admirals past TOS either. We also don't see any five star ones. It doesn't mean they vanished.
I'm not disputing character existance or Admiral levels.
Just saying that we have no evidence of Commodore rank after TOS. And wasn't Starfleet's rank structure based on the US Navy? If ranks in real life can and have been retired, who's to say its not true in Star Trek as well.
Absence of evidence one way or the other does not equal positive proof of existance.
That's like going into a paranormal investigation to PROVE a haunting, finding nothing, and saying that its proof positive that there's a ghost there because nothing happened.
We have no evidence one way or the other besides the fact we don't see the rank again post TOS. Does it exist? We don't know. We have no on screen, canon evidence post TOS.
I'm all for adding TITLES, but replacing a rank for one that as far as we know was only ever seen in TOS... not so sure that's a good idea.
valarauko43 Member Posts: 214 Arc User
After googling the topics Fleet Captain, Commodore, Farragut, etc. I decided a while ago to keep my mouth shut The back and forth makes my head spin because until someone films it there is no answer. That being said, it might be helpful to share a couple of things that have been greatly simplified based on the length of the original articles. First, Fleet Captians in the r/l USN (american writers frame of reference?) were often Commanders and were most normally a chief of staff, which became the official designation in r/l. Secondly, the moment they gave a our toons a second ship, so that we now had TWO...we became Commodores. I know, I know, but back in the day theory and practice had a fistfight. It lasted a long time. It finally got solved by RALH, kinda. I don't know how any of this translates to Trek because I have no idea where they got their ideas. My point is, Whom will be the arbiter and who makes that appointment if this is never solved by something canon? I have no problem following a lead but who decides?
There is no "absense of evidence." We know the rank exists. TOS is just as canon as everything else.
The only thing there is an absense of evidence for is this hypothetical "retiring" of the rank that's based on absolutely nothing but speculation.
Evidence of the rank POST TOS. I never discounted TOS as canon.
baddmoonrizin Member Posts: 5,843 Community Moderator
Some evidence here of its use post TOS.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Commodore
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Apart from its Original Series usage, a commodore is spoken of in radio traffic heard at the start of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. A commodore "movie pin" is also seen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The rank has appeared in ENT, being mentioned in "First Flight" and appearing on background characters in "First Flight", "Shockwave, Part II", "Home", and the "Demons"/"Terra Prime" two-parter. The latter featured the only female commodore yet seen.
The rank of commodore in Starfleet itself has not been seen or referenced in DS9 or VOY; it was listed in the rank guide used by Robert Blackman and the TNG wardrobe department.[1]
In the US Navy, the rank of commodore has been phased out (although its use as a title remains for a senior captain who commands a group of ships), and the lowest flag officer rank is currently referred to as "rear admiral (lower half)". It is possible that by the time of the TNG-era, Starfleet has likewise replaced the rank of commodore with that of a "rear admiral-lower half", but that specific term has also never been seen or referenced onscreen.
So... we're all both right and wrong. It did exist past TOS, but was never really referenced on screen except in a comment Geordi made to Bochra, which was shortly corrected by Bochra.
No, it was on-screen in TNG's "Conspiracy". Further, neither ENT nor the KT retconned it out of existence.
Your ghost example also makes no sense. It's 'fact' the rank exists we know that. The idea it changed is pure speculation based on 'absence of evidence' in the same way as claiming Spock is actually Picard's biological father.
Enterprise takes place BEFORE TOS. And the Kelvin Timeline is a seperate timeline taking place in the same era as TOS.
But it was produced after TNG and could have retconned the rank, but didn't. Since the whole argument is based on real life navy stuff they could have went with it.
avoozuul Member Posts: 2,310 Arc User
They could always scroll up the ranks from Rear Admiral Lower Half making Fleet Admiral 65 and add Commodore to Rear Admiral Lower Half's former position.
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> @jrdobbsjr#3264 said:
> > @rattler2 said:
> > Its possible that sometime before TMP the rank of Commodore was retired, or is only used in an honorary capacity.
> > I honestly don't know if its in use in modern times either. I know the rank existed, but does it still exist is the question.
> The USN used it at various times, it was last revived in the 80s, but discontinued a few years later because it caused confusion as Squadron Commanders, usually a O-6 Captain, are called Commodore as a honorific.
I was Navy. One of my deployments (in 2000) had a full bird Captain as commander of the ships being deployed. He was called Commodore.
> @tacticoolfugga#9235 said:
> > @jrdobbsjr#3264 said:
> > > @rattler2 said:
> > > Its possible that sometime before TMP the rank of Commodore was retired, or is only used in an honorary capacity.
> > > I honestly don't know if its in use in modern times either. I know the rank existed, but does it still exist is the question.
> > The USN used it at various times, it was last revived in the 80s, but discontinued a few years later because it caused confusion as Squadron Commanders, usually a O-6 Captain, are called Commodore as a honorific.
> I was Navy. One of my deployments (in 2000) had a full bird Captain as commander of the ships being deployed. He was called Commodore.
I was in during the late 80s......the Sqadron Commander of our SUBRON (SUBRON 14) was a CAPT but we called him Commodore.
captainkoltar Member Posts: 581 Arc User
Science Fiction != Real life armed forces
I know Trek ranks were based on US Navy ranks of the time, but based on is not the same as every little detail including rank conventions and nicknames being the same.
psiameese Member Posts: 1,377 Arc User
How comparable Starfleet ranks are (or are not) with the United States military doesn't interest me in the slightest. However, we have all flavors of Star Trek within STO. There is no good reason to exclude the rank title as a player choice.
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jade1280 Member Posts: 848 Arc User
Moist.
Or was that another crytpic game?
There's evidence it existed and no evidence it ceased to exist. There's also no evidence Starfleet has ever got rid of any ranks so there's no precedent.
There's also no evidence to say that Vice Admirals aren't renamed Admiral of Four Ships and a Shuttle every second Tuesday in odd numbered years but as it's a bit silly we don't really need evidence to reject the possibility.
artan42 wrote: »
There's also no evidence to say that Vice Admirals aren't renamed Admiral of Four Ships and a Shuttle every second Tuesday in odd numbered years but as it's a bit silly we don't really need evidence to reject the possibility.
I like your proposal. I want that. I also want the computer to reply with "Okidoki" instead of "Acknowledged" as you suggested elsewhere. You can improve this!
angrytarg wrote: »
I like your proposal. I want that. I also want the computer to reply with "Okidoki" instead of "Acknowledged" as you suggested elsewhere. You can improve this!
I'm submitting it to Cryptic as I type.
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Bring back the A.S.S. as a permanent option, and add the Okey Dokey to it, please.
LTS and loving it.
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Nope, it's in STO.
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While at the Grand Hyatt in Goa last October, we discovered, much to our indignant disappointment, that our fairly-expensive stay would not earn the usual loyalty points. The booking was done through a travel agent and as per recent industry policy, intermediary-driven customers would not be eligible to earn benefits in spite of paying exactly the same as the hotel site. Which I then realised was truly an excellent Disintermediation 2.0 strategy, based on denial rather than reward, which was the hallmark of the first phase.
The primary motivation for eliminating the middleman in the first place was surely the lure of rewards; in terms of extra choice, greater convenience and most importantly cheaper price. We shopped online because the merchandise would reach our doorstep, the digital showroom enjoyed unlimited SKUs and by all available evidence it was cheaper than the brick-and-mortar cash. For Government utilities and railway tickets, the time saved was staggering, eliminating equally the red-tape culture that usually marked such interactions. Bookmyshow.com and other such aggregators ensured availability of precious tickets, allowing us to enjoy the movie of the day without stress while hotels were ever keen to slip in the additional 10% discount for a direct transaction. In many ways, the early wave of the Disintermediation Economy was driven plainly by the sharing of saved commissions with the end user, what the owner did not pay the dealer or agent transferred in wholesome part or full. A function clearly of the appetite to enrage the middleman; subject to the contribution both current and potential of direct channels to the revenue chain. This automatically ensured why certain consumer durables and certainly FMCG could not offer disproportionate price discounts, relying instead on pure convenience, as they needed the retail network to be in god humour.
In the second wave, however, the eliminators are smartly playing the game of denial now that there is certainly a limitation to additional rewards. Every hotel chain is clear that even the senior-most strata of loyalty membership will not be acknowledged for solo intermediary bookings, booking.com or otherwise, premium MICE reservations occasionally an exception. Quite quickly, the customer will realise that it is damaging to continue with the trusted travel agent and will muster sufficient digital-savviness and credit-worthiness to approach the chain directly. The point culture is rapidly evolving and the moment it is unambiguously established that even the beloved upgrade is denied to the traditional indirect transaction, the last connections with the agent will snap. Over time, hotels will find other ways to connect privileges with direct transactions, including exclusive packages and notable value-additions that this trade is revered for. One does suspect, without the validation of numbers though, that the majority revenue contribution of direct-to-site channels gives this industry the strength to implement what many willing others cannot yet.
For a moment, do imagine the consequences of the airline industry implementing this loyalty practice, frequent flyer points denied to all who do not book directly. There would be rapid discontent followed by dramatic shifts in HR policy to facilitate corporate-card aided reservations, in-house travel units ensuring that executives retain their precious points. Travel agents, marginalised by both air and stay, will have to dramatically revise their revenue projections and concentrate solely on large group assignments, till a fresh set of dynamics render even that unsustainable. Then the entire travel and tourism trade co-opting the credit card issuers to follow similar practices, AMEX offering special privileges only for direct merchant transactions as opposed to purchasing say on makemytrip.com. In terms of choice, brands offering attractive special editions or special warranties only on their home site, as opposed to the popular aggregator, thus ensuring a steady migration. Home delivery and servicing opportunities available for only those customers who avail of the direct access service as opposed to the hopper via the aggregator. The term insurance industry, incidentally, has already implemented the price variation, in terms of online purchases available for much cheaper than the physical agent.
Disintermediation 2.0 will thus be based on strategic denial as opposed to exceptional access; eventually the two operating in tandem to smoothen the expressway between customer and brand. The intermediaries most affected must clearly comprehend the direness of the future and re-calibrate undoubtedly formidable competencies to newer lines of business, perhaps becoming primary providers on their own steam. In the imminent end there will be no middle and this we must realise sooner than later.


Copenhagen feels like one out those rare places where the government takes care of its inhabitants, who in turn are happy and actually want to invest into the place they call home. In return, this creates a striving cityscape that practically glows with vitality. With studies showing that some 40% of Københavners' ride their bike to and from work – how could anyone be unhappy after coming home via a cycle by the canal? The downside to living in the Danish port is the blistering winters and lack of sun, but still Copenhagen routinely makes it into the top three of Monocle's 'Quality of Life' list.
Back in 2002, Jesper Elg and Peter Funch founded the V1 Gallery and were soon joined by Mikkel Grønnebæk. The gallery is located in the Meatpacking District and it strives to challenge both its audiences as well as their own norms within the boundaries of visual art, installations, video, and sculpture.The gallery owners have made it their goal to introduce art, in all its forms, to an international audience whilst representing a select group of emerging and established artists. V1 Gallery first gained international notability by being the first Scandinavian art gallery to exhibit international street art pioneers. Jesper and Mikkel agree that "curiosity and a sense of independence have always fueled our program. We grew up being interested in the periphery as well as the alternative".
The two founders believe that in general, the Danish art scene has grown from being a mostly regional affair into an international platform for contemporary art over the last ten years. "We currently have an abundance of good art institutions, non-profits, and galleries". No matter what you're looking for, you'll find it in the Danish capital. Despite its size, Copenhagen has become a popular destination for visitors interested in art, design, architecture, music, fashion, theatre, television, and the culinary arts. "I think the spirit of collaboration and appreciation amongst different cultural fields has been very important and productive in advancing the city's international creative position. The Chart Art Fair is a perfect example of this spirit. Experts from many different fields join forces to create a rather unique creative experience with art at its center", says Jesper.
It's always been important to the three owners that the artists they work with represent an original position: "Our program is very eclectic in regards to visual style and media. We like art that makes the viewer curious, makes you think, and offers room for contemplation". The gallery just opened their new space Eighteen with an exhibition by Wes Lang. "We've been wanting to create a new platform for those artists who we enjoy exploring for a long time". In September V1 Gallery will be home to a collaborative exhibition by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen: "It's a radical new body of work and we really look forward to presenting it. Towards the end of the year, October to be precise, "the magnificent young Swedish painter Sara-Vide Ericson is presenting a new solo exhibition with us, and in November we will be hosting our first solo exhibition with Danny Fox". No matter when you decide to visit Copenhagen, V1's program is sure to excite the senses.


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Subsidies for Big Labor and the Mob
Professor of Law, William Jacobson, takes an insightful look at president-elect Obama's proposed trillion dollar public works spending program. Of course the money will be funneled through Big Labor including the infamous crime-ridden Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). In the words of the professor, this is a program that Tony Soprano would love. Here's why:
The stimulus plan proposed by Barack Obama focuses on public infrastructure projects, which have a long history of cost overruns, corruption, and construction incompetence. Public infrastructure construction and maintenance is important, it's just not an efficient use of funds if a quick economic stimulus is desired, or a suitable way to build long-lasting job growth. This misplaced focus is compounded by the "use it or lose it" component to Obama's plan, which will force projects through state bureaucratic systems which are having trouble handling current projects.
There is one group, however, which must be dancing with joy at the prospect of hundreds of billions of federal dollars being thrown at large infrastructure projects: Organized Crime.
For decades organized crime has infiltrated the construction industry, particularly in and around New York City. In 2001, reporter and writer Steven Malanga noted the pervasive influence of the mob, and cautioned against the tendency to believe that law enforcement efforts had eliminated mob control:
Recently, criminologists have proclaimed that organized crime is dead in Gotham. This report is, emphatically, premature. True, over the last decade, prosecutors have at last begun to figure out how to break the mob's hold; they have thrown some big racketeers in jail and forcibly injected economic competition into mobbed-up industries. What's more, both Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki have shown a lot more backbone in fighting gangsters than their predecessors and have gotten real results. But recent indictments in the construction industry are a stark reminder that the mob's costly, malignant influence persists, so that prosecutors must intensify their efforts to clean up mob-corrupted markets and politicians must be willing to legislate changes that make industries less liable to mob influence. It will take unflagging political will to get the job done.
The fictional television character, Tony Soprano, on the HBO hit The Sopranos, was a caricature of a construction industry mobster, controlling labor at job sites in New Jersey. There was truth to the caricature. Commissions, task forces, indictments, and mass arrests have proven that despite the best efforts of law enforcement, the mob still has a stranglehold on large construction projects:
• The 1987 Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Taskforce laid out in gruesome detail the pervasive mob control of construction in New York City. Then Mayor Ed Koch admitted that "he agreed …. that a large segment of New York City's construction industry is dominated by mobsters."
• In 1988, Genovese crime soldier Vincent "Fish" Cafaro told prosecutors: "With the unions behind us, we could shut down the city, or the country, for that matter, if we needed to get our way. . . . We got power over every businessman in New York. With the unions behind us, we could make or break the construction industry, the garment business, to name a few."
• A 1990 article in The New York Times blamed mob control on "secret pacts between the Mafia, union officials and corrupt contractors."
• In 2000, a 57-count indictment against 38 mobsters charged that the Luchese family reentered the construction business in the mid-'90s, extorting contractors by promising protection from other mob families and by buying off corrupt union bosses.
• In 2003 Indictments claimed that members of the Colombo and Genovese crime families used extortion and intimidation to exert control over International Union of Operating Engineers' Local 14, based in Flushing, and Local 15, based in Manhattan. Beginning in 1999, prosecutors investigated corruption at construction projects that included the General Post Office building in Brooklyn; Kingsboro Community College and the Marine Park Bridge, also in that borough; and minor league baseball stadiums in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The probe also involved an addition to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
• In 2004, indictments were handed down alleging a mob-controlled $10 million fraud in the construction of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's new headquarters.
• In February 2008, "A massive 80-count racketeering indictment charged 62 alleged mob bosses, underlings and associates of the Gambino, Bonanno and Genovese crime families with a slew of crimes over three decades, including murder, theft of union benefits and extortion at the site in Bloomfield where NASCAR proposed to put an 80,000-seat racetrack."
• The FBI continues to focus on the "ready-mix concrete" business as a key to mob control. "The Ready-Mix Concrete Industry in New York City is an area of investigative focus by the FBI due to its history of being controlled by the La Cosa Nostra (LCN) through labor racketeering activities. At one time, the LCN effectively regulated the concrete industry through its control of the two unions involved in manufacturing and delivering most of the concrete utilized in Manhattan construction projects."
In 2008, despite years of indictments and law enforcement action, Steven Malanga again noted the continuing control over construction. Malagna pointed to influence over labor unions and the staffing of construction jobs as a key to mob control:
At the heart of the problem are outdated labor practices that leave construction operating like few other businesses. In most unionized industries, for instance, a business hires workers who then join the union. But in construction, labor law allows contracts between builders and unions in which unions have de facto power over hiring – letting a union enlist workers, then send them out on jobs.
Wise guys have used this control of hiring to dominate the industry in New York. Mobsters can place cronies in key positions, sending them to oversee construction sites – where these mob "associates" shake down contractors and enforce mob discipline among union members.
Most of the infrastructure projects to be funded under the Obama plan will utilize union labor (a fact trumpeted by supporters). The good intentions of state transportation officials and honest labor leaders will be tested as never before as the mob is drawn to the unprecedented sums of money being thrown at large construction projects on short notice under threat of "use it or lose it." It may be enough to make Tony Soprano come out of retirement.
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A Guide to Finding the Perfect Private School Match
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November 4, 2019 5 mins to read
The process of looking for a private school for your child can be overwhelming. There is so much to think about as you strive to make the best decision for your family, especially when there are numerous private schools that can be found right here in the metro Atlanta area.
"We are blessed in Atlanta with so many options," says Rebekka Whitehead, founder and CEO of Whitehead Learning Group, an Atlanta-based educational consulting firm. "Of course, having so many options can lead to analysis paralysis. But there really is a right fit school for each child."
With the wide array of choices out there, how do you make the right decision? It's important to start at the beginning and ask a lot of questions. Here, Whitehead suggests a few of the most significant questions you should ask both yourself and potential schools as you navigate the process. With the answers you receive, you will be able to narrow down and ultimately select the private school that is ideal for both your child (or children) and your entire family.
Which private schools are an option for our family?
Whitehead recommends that you begin the process by visiting the Atlanta Area Association of Independent Schools (AAAIS) website, which allows you to search for schools by grade level, special focuses (such as faith-based options and schools that specialize in special needs or learning differences) and geographic location. The results will include a group of schools that fit your most basic needs; from there, you can narrow down your list to between four and six schools and then begin delving more deeply into learning about them. You can visit AAAIS at aaais.org.
Expert Tip: When it comes to finding the right school in terms of location, Whitehead suggests driving by each potential campus in the morning and the afternoon, when drop-off and pickup are in full swing. This way you can get a good picture what it will really be like to drive your child to and from school each day.
How do we know if a school will fit with our family's value system?
Whitehead reveals that it is imperative for you to define your core values for an educational experience before you reach out to potential schools. Ask yourself what your non-negotiables are. Are you looking for a school that offers diversity, character education, fine arts, athletics, rigorous academics or something else? Once you have your list, visit the websites of the schools on your list and look at their mission statements. Also review the schools' strategic plans, which outline goals and objectives up to five or 10 years down the road. See how those statements and plans align with your own value system and be on the lookout for any discrepancies. Once you see how the schools approach the educational process, then you can cull down your initial list.
Expert Tip: Don't forget to look beyond the mission statement and strategic plan of a school. Whitehead believes that reading a school website's introduction letter from the head of school can be very enlightening, as this will show what the leadership highlights and focuses on throughout the school year.
What kind of testing is required during the application process?
Private schools typically require some form of testing prior to a student's acceptance. For lower school students (grades K through 5), the Joint Admissions Testing Program (JATP) is often the test of choice; it is a standardized cognitive test that assesses a range of abilities related to school readiness. Middle and upper school students (grades 6 through 12) may be asked to take the SSAT, a standardized test that measures the basic verbal, math and reading skills needed to perform successfully in a private school setting. It is designed to predict the "first year of success in an independent school setting," Whitehead notes.
Expert Tip: Testing for the JATP begins in October of each year, and results of the test are submitted to schools via the Ravenna online application system. However, a school will not usually review a JATP evaluation unless an application for that school has been completed. So be sure to stay on top of all paperwork as you move through the process. For the SSAT, scores are also submitted electronically; however, you must request that the written section of the test be sent directly to the schools to which you are applying (if applicable). Also, be sure to confirm with the schools on your list when the final SSAT scores will be accepted (traditionally, it is the February test, but some schools adjust their deadlines based on admission trends).
What can my child expect from the classroom experience?
This question encompasses a number things, from class size and room setup to uniform and homework policies. Whitehead notes that it's important for you, as a parent, to understand the basic logistics of how the classroom will work. If necessary, you also should ask about access to a school's support staff, including learning specialists, tutors and counselors. And because extracurricular activities often are a key part of a school's offerings, be sure to ask about any options that will be available to your child. Many of these answers can be gleaned from a formal school tour.
Expert Tip: According to Whitehead, a great way to get a glimpse into a school's culture is to attend activities outside of a formal admissions tour. Going to a sporting event, a play, a concert or a community program can provide an idea of the parent and student culture in a less structured setting and let you know how people interact with each other as members of the school community.
How do we approach the tuition payment process?
According to Whitehead, today's private schools strive to meet families where they are financially. Many schools will have several payment plan options (such as annual or monthly), as well as the opportunity to create a tailored tuition plan or apply for financial aid. Once the logistics are arranged, many schools will allow you to pay through an online portal or bill pay option. Some smaller schools may not offer this type of online system and will require a more traditional method of payment. It's important to know how this process will play out so you can stay on top of the financial aspect of a private school education.
Expert Tip: When it comes to the need for financial aid, many schools use the FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment tool, which allows them to securely collect a family's financial data and make data-driven award decisions based on financial need. Be sure you know which tools are being used if you are working with a school to arrange for a tailored tuition plan.
To find out how Whitehead Learning Group can help your family navigate the private school selection and application process, visit whiteheadlearninggroup.com or contact info@whiteheadlearninggroup.com, (678) 500-9300.
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Q: how to check if a file is contained in another file, ignoring whitespace changes Suppose I have some css files (a.css, b.css, ..., e.css) such that if you concatenate and compress all the css files, you generate another css file (compressed.css). I want to now check that each of the original css files is present in the compressed.css file. Are are there any tools in unix or somewhere else that can check if some files are contained in another file, ignoring whitespace changes?

A: There aren't any tools to do exactly what you need out of the box. You'll need to write your own script -or program- to do this for you. You could use one of the many options in diff to come up with a script that does what you need.

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Shuffleboard is a customizable dashboard that provides amazing visibility into your robot. You can set up many graphical widgets on the Shuffleboard window, each of which displays information from the robot. For instance you can create widgets for current motor speeds, air pressure, or the output of sensors. The Shufflebord window can have multiple tabs to organize the widgets.
There are at least three ways to start up this tool. Within the driver station software, you can specify Shuffleboard as your "Dashboard Type", which will cause shuffleboard to start up when you start the driver station. You can also start it from the Visual Studio Code Command Palette with the command "WPILib: Start Tool". A third way to start it up is to start the program directly from the "tools" directory in your FRC install. (e.g. C:\Users\Public\frc2019\tools).
The default configuration for Shuffleboard has two tabs listed at the top: SmartDashboard and Livewindow.
First, a bit of history: SmartDashboard is a dashboard similar to Shuffleboard, but it is older and has fewer features. Shuffleboard expands on the programming interface for this older program. Many of the programming examples that come with WPILib will contain code that sets up widgets on SmartDashboard. In the same way, these calls will create widgets in Shuffleboard.
The SmartDashboard tab is the default destination for custom widgets created within your robot program.
The widgets you can add to this tab fall into two categories: raw data and Sendable objects.
You can display numeric, boolean, or text values directly to Shuffleboard.
The four widgets created above will not update automatically. You must put out the values again when you want them to change. You can update them in a periodic function, such as by putting the rangefinder line into your robot's robotPeriodic() method or a subsystem's periodic() method. Or, you can change them as needed. For instance, you might use a periodic method up update the rangefinder distance every 20 milliseconds. On the other hand your Intake subsystem might contain code that updates its dashboard status when the status actually changes.
Once the widgets show up on the Shuffleboard you can modify their format type. For instance, a boolean widget can be text or a colored box. A number widget can be just text or it could be a dial or graph.
The graph format can be especially when debugging. Imagine two graphs representing two drivetrain motors; you could compare the two graphs when considering if the motors are getting correct signals.
In general, raw data lets you answer basic debugging questions about the status of robot components.
Many WPILib objects implement the "Sendable" interface, which allow those objects to communicate over the Shuffleboard's network table interface. Most motors, actuators, and sensors are sendable.
The magic of sendable objects is that they update their data automatically. You only need to call the above lines once, such as in your robot's robotInit() method or in a subsystem's constructor.
The visual format of each sendable widget is specific to its object. For instance, the motor's widget is a number slider that tells the current output of the motor. For some debugging scenarios, you might be better off sending the motor output as raw data, so you can view it as a graph.
More objects are sendable than you might expect. For instance all Commands are sendable and create a button widget that lets you trigger the command. Subsystems are sendable and create a widget that tells you which Commands are currently running on them.
LiveWindow shows each subsystem and the child components within them. In teleop and autonomous modes the LiveWindow shows what the components are doing. However, if you enable Test mode on the driver station, this tab will come alive and allow you to manipulate the components. This allows you to test (and debug) robot components without writing any special code. Does your newly installed motor really work? Enable test mode and you can run it at any speed.
LiveWindow comes for free; no code changes are necessary to create it. However, to get the best value out of this tool, you should let the dashboard know which components are children of which subsystems.
If you are creating your components within the subsystem code, you can designate the child status with addChild() calls. Note that the first argument to addChild is the text name for the component. If you do not give a name, the LiveWindow will give you default names like "Spark".
Another absolutely genius feature of LiveWindow is that it lets you configure PID subsystems in real time. Configuring PID without this feature involves a lot of trial and error, mixed with constant recompile cycles. With LiveWindow you can dial it in in real time, and then copy the chosen parameters back into your code.
The primary users for Shuffleboard are the robot drivers. At the beginning of a match, the drivers will fire up their driver station and they will want to see only the widgets that assist them. Programmers are secondary users of Shuffleboard, so we shouldn't clutter up the main Shuffleboard screen with our diagnostic widgets. For this reason, we may shift our widgets off to secondary tabs, or we may configure them to go away when we aren't debugging.
You can write code that sets up new tabs and positions widgets within them.
Consider that the widgets described above look like long-term decisions. You set them up and assume that you will always need them. When debugging, we often create temporary code just for the purpose of answering certain questions. You could create temporary code for widgets, but they may pop up and get in the way of your permanent widgets. It would be nice to have a designated spot to put the temporary stuff.
Widgets can then be added to the tab with a name (e.g. "Vision Dist") and a default value. The "withWidget" method declares the widget's format type. Number widgets can be of type "Number Bar", "Number Slider", "Graph", "Voltage View" or "Text View". Boolean widgets can be of type "Boolean Box", "Toggle Button", "Toggle Switch", or "Text View". String widgets can only be "Text View".
Note that in this example, we set up all our widgets in the Robot class. A better pattern might be to create the debugTab variable in the Robot class, but then create the debug widgets inside the subsystems and commands.
Debugging is the process of figuring out why software isn't doing what it should, and then fixing it so it behaves better.
Computer programmers always spend more time debugging code than they do writing it in first place. It is important to build up your skills in debugging code, whether the problem is in your own software or in code written by others.
Strangely, there isn't a lot of literature available on this subject, and practically no formal education on debugging software. There should be more study and more formal methodologies. At least, all programmers should know the general techniques used by others and should learn the tools that are available.
Sometimes debugging is easy. You see the problem immediately, or after a minute's thought. However, if the problem has taken more than a couple minute's consideration, you should start to specify the questions you need answers to. Often it helps to actually write these questions. Really. Write down the questions as if you you're posing them to some third party.
Where was the program executing when things went wrong? How far into the program did we get? In what routine did the problem occur, and what was the path to get to that routine? Did the Command I'm working on even execute?
What is the state of the data at the time of the problem? What does the data look like in positive scenarios? Why isn't my Command ever finished? What are the input and output values on my PID controller?
The oldest and most common tool for debugging is to put temporary "print" statements into the code. You can print out variable values so you know the state of the data. Sometimes you just print little messages telling you where the program was executing, so you get a better idea of where the problem occurred.
When this statement executes, the text will print out on VS Code's RioLog window and also on the Driver Station's console window. The printed text will also be available in the Driver Station's Log File Viewer. For basic debugging, the console may prove more useful than the Log File Viewer.
Print statements help answer questions like "Did a specific routine even execute" or "How did the motor speed vary during autonomous".
When something goes seriously wrong in a Java program, the program may communicate this to other parts of the program by "throwing an exception". When an exception occurs, the program breaks out of the routine it is running and passes the exception to the routine that called it. The exception is then propagated up the calling stack until one of the routines can handle it. Handling the exception is called "catching" the exception.
Warning at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.RobotBase.startRobot(RobotBase.java:272): Robots should not quit, but yours did!
ERROR 1 The startCompetition() method (or methods called by it) should have handled the exception above.
The above stack trace shows that an unexpected null value was encountered when the AutonomousCommand tried to set a motor value.
A stack trace is kind of a good news / bad news situation. On one hand, you have a serious problem that shuts down processing. On the other hand, you know generally what went wrong and exactly where it happened.
Learn to read stack traces and use them in your debugging. Understand what the exception types are and how to interpret the calling stack.
The print statements described above are temporary changes to the program. You should delete them after they have served their purpose.
Make good decisions about what to log. Don't get carried way. Too many logs might create performance problems. Too many logs make it harder to find what you're interested in.
Logged data will show up on the driver station Console and also within the Log Viewer. For long term monitoring, the Log Viewer becomes extremely useful. The Log Viewer can be used to reconstruct what happened during match. Having some well chosen log statements may help you reconstruct what commands executed at what times, and what were the critical values of air pressure, elevator height, or motor speed.
Logging can be reconfigured to print out different things for different scenarios. For instance, you may decide that only messages of level INFO or higher get printed. Later you can easily switch the level down to FINE, which will cause all the CONFIG and FINE messages to also print. You can also specify different levels for different Java packages. For instance, you may want the default log level to be CONFIG, but the autonomous commands log at the FINE level. These levels are easy to set and easy to change later.
The first two lines just cause all messages in your project to be printed out to the console. Line 4 sets the default logging level to CONFIG or higher for all loggers under the frc.robot package. Line 5 causes all logging in the frc.robot.commands.auto package to log at the FINE level. Line 6 sets the logging level of the DriveTrain subsystem to be FINEST.
Programming alone is sometimes difficult, but one programmer can only do so much. It's better to work as a team. Groups of programmers can share the load, but having multiple people working on the same code adds additional challenges. You'll need extra communication to keep everyone productive, and additional tools to keep from losing work.
You are not required to install git, since there is a version packaged within Eclipse. However, you may choose to install it anyway. Instructions are at: https://git-scm.com/ .
In the Import dialog, select Git > Projects from Git.
The Source Git Repository page should already be populated from your clipboard.
For Location Destination, make sure you've selected a plausible location, such as in your Documents directory.
Suppose you have a robot project on your local machine that has never been under git control, but you'd like to upload it into GitHub.
Open the project in Eclipse and then open a browser to https://github.com.
In the browser, log into your GitHub account. Click on a green button that says either "New" or "New Repository".
Github will ask for a repository name. Give it the same name as project directory on your laptop. You can also specify a description. Probably you should make it a public repository.
However, do not add a README file or a .gitignore file or a license file. Your GitHub remote repository must be totally empty at this point.
After creating the repository, your browser will go to a page which displays your new repository URL. Copy this value into your clipboard.
Check the box for "Use or create repository or create new one.
Click the "Finish" button. Your project will now be initialized as a local git repository.
Now you need to commit all your files. Right-click on the project and select Team > Commit… This will expose the Git Staging view.
Type in a Commit Message describing this commit. Normally you should put in something informative, but in this case just say "Initial commit".
The Destination Git Repository dialog will be filled in based on your clipboard.
Click the Next button twice to get to the "Push Confirmation" dialog. Push the Finish button.
Now go back to your browser and visit the page for your new repository. You should now see all the files listed on the web page.
From now on, when you add files, delete files, or modify files, git and Eclipse will keep track of how your code differs from the most recent commit. The Git Staging view keeps track of what has changed. When you are ready to make a commitment, drag the files you want committed into the "Staged Changes" area. Usually you'll commit all changes, but you might choose to just stage a subset.
To pull down changes, right-click on the project and select Team > Pull. The best case scenario (which is usually what happens) is that upstream changes will be seamlessly added to your code and everything will work perfectly.
One thing that might go wrong is that the changes pulled in will invalidate or undo something you are doing. You should always look over the incoming changes. Check the Problems view in Eclipse to see if new errors have been added. Recompile and run any relevant tests.
The worst case scenario is that someone else will have changed files that you are working on, and you will need to "merge" changes. The Git Staging view will show which files are in conflict.
Right click on one of the conflicted files and and select the Merge Tool, which will show the differences between your commit and the incoming commits. In the picture below, local changes are on the left and incoming are on the right. Edit the left pane to be the compromise between these changes.
After you've modified a conflicted file and saved the changes, go back to the Git Staging view and drag the into the "Staged Changes" area. After merging all the conflicts, hit the "Commit" button.
If you are ready to release your changes to the rest of the group, you can push your commits up to the remote repository.
If you are the only programmer working on a repository, you can push changes from the Git Staging view and its "Commit and Push…" button.
If there are multiple programmers, you should just "Commit". Later, you can push all changes by right-clicking the project and selecting Team > Push to Upstream.
Egit documentation: official docs for the Eclipse integration to git.
Eclipse is a sophisticated professional development environment for Java, C++, and other languages. Eclipse was the officially supported development environment for FRC for the 2015 through 2018 seasons. In 2019, WPILib has shifted their focus to developing in Visual Studio Code, but you'll find that Eclipse is still an excellent platform for FRC development.
FRC robot programs will be built using GradleRIO, which can execute from inside any development environment.
You must install Java. Even if you will be developing in C++, you'll need Java installed to run Eclipse and GradleRIO. You should define your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your JDK installation. Often setting JAVA_HOME is considered optional, but I have seen many strange situations resolved after this variable has been properly set.
You should obtain and run the WPILib one-step installer (available at the beginning of the 2019 season). Even if you'll be developing with Eclipse, you're likely to need the tools and project templates included in this package.
It is recommended (though not strictly required) that you also install git, instructions for which are at: https://git-scm.com/ .
Eclipse is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Download the installer from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads . As of this writing, the latest version of Eclipse is called Photon. If possible, run the installer as Administrator. The installer will offer you several versions of the program. Pick either "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" or "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers".
There are a lot of things going on in the main Eclipse window. Editors appear in the middle of the window. This is where you modify code. The tabbed panels surrounding the editors are called Views. Views give you information about your whole project and allow you perform important actions, such as build and deploy code. There are more views available than are currently displayed, and you can add them from the Window > Show View menu.
The Package Explorer view on the left side shows all available projects. From here you can open projects and then drill down to find files which can then be edited.
The Outline view on the right side shows a table of contents of any file you are editing.
The Problems view on the bottom shows things that are wrong with your code. If there is a compile error in the code, you will see it here.
The Preferences dialog allows you to change some Eclipse configurations. On Macintoshes this can be opened from the Eclipse menu. On all other computers it is under the Windows menu.
Also, right-clicking on any project within the Package Explorer view will let you open the Properties dialog for that project. The project Properties dialog lets you reconfigure the project.
Once Eclipse starts up, you should verify that it will be using your preferred Java installation. Open the Preferences dialog and then click on "Java" and then "Installed JREs". Make sure that your preferred JDK installation is present and is checked.
Now we'll want to install a plugin to Eclipse that makes it easier to build and deploy your robot programs. Click on the Help menu and select "Eclipse Marketplace…" In the dialog's find box, type "Buildship Gradle". Click the Install button for the Gradle plugin. Eclipse will need to restart to complete installation.
After the restart, open the Eclipse Preferences dialog and click on the "Gradle" item. Make sure that "Gradle wrapper" is selected. Apply and close.
Click on the Window menu and select "Show View…" and "Other…". Find the "Gradle" item and select "Gradle Tasks". The Gradle Tasks view is where you will build and deploy your robot programs.
Creating new robot programs in Eclipse is a lesson I'll defer to another tutorial. For now, you can download an existing project and verify that Eclipse can build robot programs.
Go to https://github.com/firebears-frc/testrobot0/releases/ and download testrobot0.zip . Uncompress this ZIP file onto your laptop, probably in your Documents folder.
In the Import dialog select General and then Existing Projects. Select your new testrobot0 directory as the root. Hit the Finish button. This will create a new testrobot0 project in your Package Explorer.
You should also see testrobot0 in your Gradle Tasks view. Open this item and then open "build". Double-click on the "assemble" task. This should successfully compile the program.


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PathPing — это утилита для трассировки сетевого маршрута, поставляемая вместе с Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 и Windows 10. Сочетает в себе функциональность утилит ping и tracert и обладает дополнительными возможностями. Для Unix систем примерным аналогом является команда mtr.

PathPing предоставляет информацию о латентности сети и потерях данных на промежуточных узлах между исходным пунктом и пунктом назначения. Команда pathping в течение некоторого периода времени отправляет многочисленные сообщения с эхо-запросом каждому маршрутизатору, находящемуся между исходным пунктом и пунктом назначения, а затем на основании пакетов, полученных от каждого из них, вычисляет результаты. Поскольку pathping показывает коэффициент потери пакетов для каждого маршрутизатора или связи, можно определить маршрутизаторы или подсети, имеющие проблемы с сетью. Команда pathping выполняет эквивалентное команде tracert действие, идентифицируя маршрутизаторы, находящиеся на пути.

Существенным отличием от программы tracert в Windows является то, что маршрут следования icmp-пакета записывается в тело этого icmp-пакета, что накладывает определенные ограничения. Во-первых, такой метод поддерживается не всеми маршрутизаторами, а во-вторых, накладывается ограничение на длину маршрута.

Пример:

  C:\>pathping -n www.yandex.ru

  Трассировка маршрута к www.yandex.ru [77.88.21.3] с максимальным числом прыжков 30:
  0  192.168.159.210
  1  217.70.110.146
  2  217.70.110.186
  3  217.70.107.219
  4  193.232.87.42
  5  213.180.208.66
  6  77.88.16.61
  7  77.88.21.3

  Подсчет статистики за: 275 сек. ...
           Исходный узел     Маршрутный узел
  Прыжок  RTT   Утер./Отпр.   %   Утер./Отпр.  %   Адрес
  0                                           192.168.159.210
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  1    0мс     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  217.70.110.146
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  2   10мс     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  217.70.110.186
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  3    3мс     1/ 100 =  1%     1/ 100 =  1%  217.70.107.219
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  4    1мс     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  193.232.87.42
                                10/ 100 =  10%   |
  5   66мс     10/ 100 =  10%     0/ 100 =  0%  213.180.208.66
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  6   68мс     17/ 100 =  17%     7/ 100 =  7%  77.88.16.61
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  7   66мс     10/ 100 =  10%     0/ 100 =  0%  77.88.21.3

  Трассировка завершена.

После запуска pathping сначала выводится путь. Это тот же путь, который выводится командой tracert. Далее в течение 275 секунд команда выдает сообщение о том, что она занята (это время варьируется в зависимости от числа переходов). В течение этого времени происходит сбор сведений со всех маршрутизаторов, перечисленных выше, и со всех соединений между ними. По завершении этого периода выводятся результаты проверки.

В примере отчета, приведенном выше, столбцы "Исходный узел", "Утер./Отпр.   %" и "Адрес" показывают, что при переходе от адреса 193.232.87.42 к 213.180.208.66 теряется 10 процентов пакетов. Маршрутизаторы в узлах 3 и 6 отбрасывают пакеты, адресованные им, но эти потери не оказывают влияние на их способность пересылать пакеты, которые им не адресованы (транзитный трафик).

Оценки потерь для соединений (задаваемых вертикальной чертой | в столбце "Адрес") показывают перегрузку, вызывающую потерю пакетов, пересылаемых по маршруту. Степень потерь пакетов на маршрутизаторах (в правом столбце таких строк указан IP-адрес маршрутизатора) показывает, что процессоры этих маршрутизаторов перегружены.

Использование:
    pathping [-g <список_узлов>] [-h <число_прыжков>] [-i <адрес>] [-n]
                [-p <пауза>] [-q <число_запросов>] [-w <таймаут>]
                [-4] [-6] <конечный_узел>

Параметры:
    -g <список_узлов>    Свободный выбор маршрута по списку узлов.
    -h <число_прыжков>   Максимальное число прыжков при поиске узла.
    -i <адрес>           Использовать указанный адрес источника.
    -n                   Не определять имена узлов по адресам.
    -p <пауза>           Пауза между отправками пакетов (мсек).
    -q <число_запросов>  Число запросов при каждом прыжке.
    -w <таймаут>         Время ожидания каждого ответа (мсек).
    -4                   Обязательное использование протокола IPv4.
    -6                   Обязательное использование протокола IPv6.

Запущенная без параметров команда PathPing выводит справку.

Запущенная без административных привилегий выводит: "нет ресурсов".
Для решения проблемы запускать с правами администратора.

Администрирование компьютерных сетей
Системное программное обеспечение
TCP/IP
Стандартные приложения Windows

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Eateries go to various lengths to improve customer satisfaction. The strategies are almost as plentiful as there are dining locations in the U.S., which now totals north of 1 million, according to the National Restaurant Association. While some may overhaul their menu offerings, others focus on quality assistance, offering services that their clientele might be especially receptive to, such as pay-at-the-table or family-oriented activities that make wait times seem less lengthy.
But outside-the-pizza-box strategizing restaurateurs may want to consider expanding the types of payments they accept from their customers, specifically those who are members of Generation Z. Several analyses suggest today's young people - who are already in the workforce or soon will be - use mobile payments far more frequently than their predecessors.
"Anyone born in 1995 or thereafter falls in Generation Z."
Generally speaking, members of Generation Z include anyone who was born in 1995 or later. This means the oldest individuals who fall under the Generation Z banner are either in college or just entering the workforce. For the most part, though, Generation Z individuals are still in their teenage years.
Perhaps because Generation Z has grown up in an age where mobile devices are ubiquitous, several analyses suggest that they're far more likely to not only use mobile payments but trust that they're reliable. Indeed, according to a 2016 study conducted by GfK, 18- to 24-year-olds are two times more likely to make a mobile payment compared to the typical individual in the U.S. More specifically, a majority of Generation Z respondents said they had made a mobile payment within six months of the poll's analysis, compared to just 14 percent for baby boomers, or those who range between around 50 and 70 years old. Baby boomers are the least likely to utilize mobile payments, less so than 25- to 34-year-olds - millennials - and 35- to 49-year-olds (Generation X).
With Gen Z more likely to use and trust mobile payments, retailers need to invest in the relevant hardware and software.
Tim Spenny, GkK vice president of financial services, said mobile payment use has become increasingly popular since first becoming commercially available and as the technology has advanced.
"In 2016, we saw mobile payments gaining traction through the addition of benefits such as rewards, discounts, and coupons that are integrated into phone payment systems," Spenny explained.
Based on analysis performed by Blackhawk Network, mobile wallet use rose 8 percent in 2016 compared to 2015. And among those who took advantage of peer-to-peer payments, 80 percent said they used this purchase method more often than they did in 2015.
But it's Generation Z, in particular, that appears to be driving the mobile payment train, not just in the U.S., but in other parts of the world as well. For instance, according to research conducted by Moneymailme, a money transfer mobile app, nearly two-thirds of 18- to 25-year-olds in the U.K. use mobile wallets regularly, monthly business magazine FiNTECH reported.
"Generation Z spent $78 billion at restaurants in 2016."
These kinds of numbers suggest business owners of all stripes would be wise to adopt an mPOS system that accepts mobile payments, but it's especially worthwhile for the dining establishment industry. As reported by Restaurant Insider - based on consumer trend data from Technomic - $78 billion in revenue that restaurants made in 2016 came from Generation Z. Furthermore, much of Generation Z's patronage was made possible by their frequent use of mobile devices, from splitting checks to posting customer reviews or seeing what dishes are available for eateries with online menus.
Kevin Valdez, co-founder of a restaurant fundraising resource firm called GroupRaise, said it's all about simplicity for Generation Z, and a way of going about this is through the implementation or expansion of consumer technology.
"This generation follows food trends they see on social media," Valdez wrote in a guest column for QSR Magazine. "They don't experience a restaurant without their phone - whether it's to place an order ahead of time, read reviews, make a reservation, split the check, or post a post-meal review. Gen Z never experienced the day of walking into a restaurant not knowing what to expect."
He added that utilizing mobile payment technology adds an extra element to the dining experience that young people not only want but have come to expect.
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Batman film actually about Batman
THE Dark Knight Rises is a film about a man dressed as a bat who drives a silly car, it has emerged.
Director Christopher Nolan's latest epic has prompted intense speculation from critics searching for socio-political meaning behind the images of a man in a costume hitting people and running away from explosions.
The Guardian's Tom Logan suggested that Batman's batarang was symbolic of the means of production, which always returns to the hands of the bourgeousie. Meanwhile in America, right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh believes gay socialist supervillain creators invented baddie Bane in 1993 on the off-chance that Mitt Romney would start a similar-sounding company years later, which would then look evil.
There has also been speculation about the film's Nietzchean aspects. Film critic Nathan Muir said: "This film will see Batman coming to terms with the darkness in his soul, and going on a redemptive emotional journey to the heart of his tortured psyche. While dressed in a bat costume."
But the letters of Batman creator Bob Kane reveal that character was inspired simply by things that seemed cool at the time.
He wrote to his editor at DC Comics: "Had this idea for a character called Bat-Guy. He beats people up."
The reply came: "Cool. Can he have a jazzy car that comes out of a cave?"
Kane wrote back: "Yes he can."
Christopher Nolan said: "It's up to the audience to make their own minds up. Is it a just superhero movie? Or is there something deeper?
"The way I've shot it, it's pretty hard to make out what's going on, which adds to the intrigue."
Imaginary Oxbridge is top university
THE imaginary Oxbridge that exists only in the heads of people obsessed with going there is the UK's top-ranked university.
A new poll by the Institute for Studies found that the mythical amalgam of Oxford and Cambridge, which is like a more heterosexual version of Brideshead Revisited, ranked highest in terms of desirability and wish fulfillment.
Leeds University undergraduate Stephen Malley said: "I have no evidence for this, but you spend all day there drinking Pimms and shooting pheasants in the quad with Jeremy Irons.
"Then you probably go to a ball with your teddy bear and have sex with someone a bit like Emma Thompson in that episode of The Young Ones."
Office manager Emma Bradford said: "If you go to Oxbridge you can have any job you want. You just say to the head of Oxbridge, 'Can I be Prime Minister?' and he says 'Yes'.
"I'd never go to Oxbridge, though, even if I had any A-levels. You have to ride horses to lectures and I'm all allergic to animal hair."
Cambridge admissions tutor Julian Cook said: "It's time people stopped regurgitating outdated clichés about Oxford and Cambridge. My own college has not held naked fag races since 2009.
"We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, although it obviously does help if you've been to a hideously expensive private school to get the necessary superhuman levels of self-assurance."
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