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Java Audio Player is a library that provides a simple way to play audio files. Just set location and call play() to listen.
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Java Game Programming Tutorial is a multi-platform compatible set of pages that allows you to find more than 20 online games. You can also download them and many contain even the sourcecode..
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Q: Assignment of the values to the pointers inside while-loop (using ) Let's say I have 3 files with extension ".exe" files in the folder c:/.
And I want to create 3 pointers of type char*, each of this pointer contains the file name of the .exe file. So, we have 3 pointers - 3 file names.
But the output is what really confuses me (see below).
My implementation:
#include <dirent.h>

// some code here

DIR *dir;
struct dirent *ent;
char** FileName = new char* [3]; // Creating 3 pointers of type char*
count = 0; //counting the events when .exe file detected
dir = opendir("c:/");
while ((ent = readdir (dir)) != NULL) // read directory file by file until there is nothing
      {
            string matchName = string(ent->d_name);
            if (matchName.find(".exe") != std::string::npos) // Finding files with
                                                             //.exe extension only
            {
               FileName[count] = ent->d_name;
               cout << "count = " << count << ": " << FileName[count] << endl;
               count++; // There are 3 .exe files in the folder, so the maximum
                        // of the count=3 (from FileName[0] to FileName[2])
            }
      }
closedir (dir);

// Here I'm just checking the output
cout << "count = 0: " << FileName[0] << endl;
cout << "count = 1: " << FileName[1] << endl;
cout << "count = 2: " << FileName[2] << endl;

My output:
//from inside the while-loop:
count = 0: file0.exe
count = 1: file1.exe
count = 2: file2.exe

//from when I just check the output outside the loop
count = 0:  // just empty for all 3 files
count = 1:
count = 2:

Why do I have expected assignment (at least, expected) while I'm inside the while-loop, but then when I'm checking the same values of the pointers outside the loop - it's just empty?
Thank you!

A: This is a problem:
FileName[count] = ent->d_name;

Each call to readdir probably returns the same ent, just that there are different values now where it is pointing.  You should copy the string out of that, instead of pointing into this temporary storage area.
The simplest way to do this is to change FileName to:
std::string FileName[3];

although it would be not much more effort to use std::vector<std::string> FileName; correctly, then you don't have your limitation of 3 files.

A: Maybe your data is overwritten? Quote from readdir help:
The data returned by readdir() may be overwritten by subsequent calls to readdir() for the same directory stream.
So, you should copy char array instead of assigning raw char pointers

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High School Chemistry/Heisenberg's Contribution
< High School Chemistry
The latest reviewed version was checked on 10 September 2015. There are 3 pending changes awaiting review.
1 Lesson Objectives
2 Heisenberg Proposed the Uncertainty Principle for Behavior of Electrons
2.1 The Uncertainty Principle
2.2 Impossible to Fix Both the Position of an Electron and Its Momentum
2.3 The Problem of Making Very Small Measurements
3 Lesson Summary
4 Review Questions
5 Vocabulary
If you think back to the last lesson, you'll remember that scientists had a lot of difficulty understanding electron density and the wave function in terms of the wave properties and the particle properties of the electron. Max Born found a way to use the electron wave function to calculate electron density, and that electron density is actually equal to the probability of finding an electron at any point in space. This, however, leads to the question, why can't scientists predict where the electron will be with certainty. Why can they only predict the probability of finding an electron at any given point in space? Is there something wrong with the theory? Is it possible to improve the theory so that scientists can predict exactly where an electron is and where it's going?
Lesson Objectives[edit]
Define the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Explain what the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle means in terms of the position and momentum of an electron.
Explain why the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle helps to justify the fact that a wave function can only predict the probable location of an electron and not its exact location.
Heisenberg Proposed the Uncertainty Principle for Behavior of Electrons[edit]
The Uncertainty Principle[edit]
Figure 6.10: Warner Heisenberg.
When scientists first suggested that the wave function was related to the probability of an electron being at a specific point in space, it raised a lot of questions. Most importantly, scientists wondered why the wave function could only predict the probability of finding an electron at a given location, and not the exact location where the electron actually was. Some scientists suggested that the wave function couldn't make exact predictions because it wasn't complete. They believed that the wave function was actually missing information that was necessary to describe electron behavior with "certainty".
Some early scientists thought that perhaps the wave function could only predict the probability of an electron being at a given location because the wave function was missing information. Many scientists spent time looking for "hidden variables" that controlled electron behavior just like the spin controls the movement of a baseball. The assumption was that if the correct "hidden variables" could be found and included in the wave function, then the exact movement, and the exact location of an electron could be predicted, just as easily as we can predict the movement of larger objects like baseballs, cars and planets.
Everything changed, however, in 1926 when a man named Werner Heisenberg (Figure 6.10) proposed what's known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, it is impossible to measure certain properties, like momentum (speed multiplied by mass) and position at the same time without introducing uncertainty into the measurement. Of course, if you can't make accurate measurements, you can't make accurate predictions either.
What prevents scientists from making accurate predictions about small objects like atoms and electrons? Is it that the machinery used to make the measurements is simply not good enough? Could scientists design better machines and better measurements and then be able to predict electron behavior with certainty? According to Werner Heisenberg, the answer is "no – when it comes to small objects, scientists will never be able to make accurate measurements and accurate predictions, no matter how good their machinery is". If you find that statement strange, you're not alone. Many scientists, even today, are bothered by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle – it seems as if, with improved machines, we should be able to make better measurements and thus better predictions! To some extent, that's true. Better machines can help us to make better measurements and better predictions, but according to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there is a fundamental limit to how much we can know and how accurately we can know it. It's as if there is "something" in the universe which prevents us from being able to make absolutely, one hundred percent accurate measurements and, as a result, we will always be plagued by some uncertainty. For large objects, like baseballs and planets, the uncertainty is just too small to matter, but for tiny things, like atoms and electrons, the uncertainty becomes important.
Impossible to Fix Both the Position of an Electron and Its Momentum[edit]
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle actually applies to a lot of different measurements, but often, scientists are concerned with two in particular – position and momentum. You probably know what position means, but momentum is a term that you don't hear a lot in everyday life. Momentum, p, is the quantity that you get when you multiply an object's mass by its speed (to be truly correct momentum is actually mass times velocity, but we won't worry about the difference between speed and velocity).
In terms of the position and momentum, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is as follows:
" There is a fundamental limit to just how precisely we can measure both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. "
So how does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle relate to the electron and all the problems scientists have interpreting the electron wave function? Well, if you think about it logically, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle basically means that it's impossible to predict both exactly what the electron will do or exactly where the electron will be found. Suppose, for instance, that you know the electron's precise position, then according to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, you can't know its precise momentum as well. In other words, when you know where the electron is, you don't know where it's going (since where it's going is determined by the velocity component of its momentum). Suppose, on the other hand, that you know the electron's precise momentum. According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, you can't know its precise position as well. In other words, when you know where the electron is going, you don't know where it is.
Obviously, there is always some uncertainty when it comes to electrons. You either don't know where they are, or else you don't know where they're going. As a result, any theory that claimed to predict exactly where the electron was, or exactly which path it would take as it traveled around inside the atom would go against the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Luckily, the wave function description doesn't claim to predict the precise behavior of the electron. Instead, it only makes statements about the probability of finding the electron at one place or another.
In other words, the wave function model is consistent with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Moreover, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle suggests that the electron wave function equation is as complete as it can possibly be. It may not entirely predict electron behavior, but that isn't because the model is wrong, or faulty. It's because, in our universe, there is a limit to how accurately we can actually know what tiny objects like electrons are doing.
The Problem of Making Very Small Measurements[edit]
When you use a thermometer to measure the temperature of a volume of water, you place the thermometer into the water and leave it there until the water and the thermometer have adjusted to the same temperature. Almost all solids and liquids expand when they are heated and contract when they are cooled. Each substance, however, expands and contracts by different amounts. In the case of the alcohol and glass in a thermometer, the alcohol expands and contracts faster than the glass and so as a thermometer is heated, the alcohol expands faster that the glass tube and the alcohol runs up the tube. The glass has been marked (calibrated) for each temperature so that you can read the correct temperature from the markings on the tube. In the process of measuring the temperature of hot water, the thermometer is placed in the water and the thermometer absorbs heat from the water so that its temperature becomes the same as the water and you can read the temperature of the water from the temperature of the thermometer.
You should see, at least theoretically, that when the thermometer absorbs heat from the water, the water is cooled down; that is, the temperature of the water decreases because of the heat lost to the thermometer. Therefore, the temperature you get when you measure the temperature is not the same temperature of the water that was present before you introduced the thermometer. The act of measuring the temperature of the water changed the temperature. When the volume of the water is reasonably large, the magnitude of the change caused by introducing the thermometer is not significant so we don't bother to consider it. What about if the volume of the water is very small? If the volume of water is 200 mL and the thermometer absorbs 20 Joules of heat, the introduction of the thermometer might change the temperature of the water by approximately 0.03 °C. Which is certainly not a significant change. But what if the volume of water whose temperature we were measuring was only 2 mL? Introducing the same thermometer into this small volume might change the temperature of the water 3 °C, which would certainly be a significant change. The point is that when we measure very small things, the act of making the measurement may change what we are observing.
Consider the method that humans use to see objects. We arrange for photons (quanta) of light to strike the object and we see the object by the directions, angles, and colors of the photons that bounce off the object and strike us in the eye or other light measuring instrument. If only red photons bounce back, we say the object is red. If no photons bounce back, we say there is no object present. Suppose for a moment that humans were gigantic stone creatures and we used golf balls to "see" with. That is, we would fire off golf balls at our surroundings and the balls would bounce off objects and come back and enter our eyes so we could see the object. If this were true, we could see mountains successfully and large buildings and trees … but could we see butterflies or small flowers? Obviously, the answer is no. The golf balls would simply knock small objects out of the way and continue on … they would not bounce back to our eyes.
In the case of humans trying to look at electrons, the photons we use to see them with are of significant energy compared to electrons and when the photons collide with the electrons, the motion and/or position of the electron would be changed by the collision. Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle tells us we cannot be sure of both the location of the electron and the motion (path) of an electron at the same time. As a consequence, scientists had to give up the idea of knowing the path the electron follows inside an atom.
Lesson Summary[edit]
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that it is impossible to measure certain pairs of properties like momentum (mass multiplied by velocity) and position at the same time without introducing uncertainty into one or both of the measurements. In other words, it is impossible to know both the exact momentum and the exact position of a particle at the same time.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle suggests that the electron wave function is complete and that it does not predict the exact behavior of an electron because it is actually impossible to do so.
The uncertainty that Heisenberg spoke of is not due to the failure or inadequacies of the measuring equipment, but rather a fundamental limit imposed by our universe.
Review Questions[edit]
What types of things in everyday life are impossible to predict with absolute certainty?
Why is it impossible to predict the future with absolute certainty?
Fill in the blank. According to the _________ Uncertainty Principle, it is impossible to know both an electron's _________ and momentum at the same time.
Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false:
(a) According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we will eventually be able to measure both an electron's exact position and its exact location at the same time.
(b) The problem that we have when we try to measure an electron's position and its location at the same time is that our measuring equipment is not as good as it could be.
(c) According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we cannot know both the exact position and the exact momentum of a car at the same time.
Circle the correct statement. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle…
(a) applies only to very small objects like protons and electrons
(b) applies only to very big objects like cars and airplanes
(c) applies to both very small objects like protons and electrons and very big objects like cars and airplanes
Vocabulary[edit]
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Specific pairs of properties, such as momentum and position, are impossible to measure simultaneously without introducing some uncertainty.
momentum (p)
The quantity you get when you multiply an object's mass by its velocity.
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Prime Minister Abbott is not the person he said he would be. This government is not the government that it said it would be prior to the election. Before the election, they made it clear that there would be no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no cuts to pensions and no cuts to the ABC and SBS—but in these bills we clearly see a cut to education and a cut to support for early childhood education in our community. It is a clear and continuing broken election commitment. Before the election, the Prime Minister personally wrote to all childcare centres about the impact of a proposal to cap the childcare rebate. Before the election the Prime Minister's view, put in writing to those childcare centres, was that capping and freezing the childcare rebate 'would increase out-of-pocket costs for families.' Yet, this is exactly what his government is doing. The hypocrisy of this government knows no bounds when it comes to the cuts that they have undertaken to education and health and their changes to pensions.
In my community, the cost of living is the No. 1 political issue. It is the No. 1 pressure facing families. Housing costs are astronomical—they have gone through the roof. What is the approach of this government? They apply layer upon layer of additional pressure: implementing GP co-payments so that families will now have to pay every time one of their kids get sick and has to visit the doctor; removing family tax benefits and making it more difficult, particularly for single-parent families, to make ends meet; cutting the schoolkids bonus, vital support to families to ensure that they can meet the costs of sending kids to school; and now, in these bills, they are freezing the childcare rebate and freezing the childcare benefit. There is layer upon layer of more costs and more difficulty for families through these reforms.
For many families in my community the Child Care Rebate or the Child Care Benefit is the difference between having a child in chid care and not having the child in child care. Subsequently, it is the difference between the ability of some families to have both parents in the workforce and only one parent in the workforce—and that is very important to cost-of-living pressures and the ability of families to participate actively in society. Freezing these childcare rebates and benefits will make it more difficult for families. That is illustrated by the numbers of people who will reach or have reached the cap for the rebate.
The greatest betrayal in this reform is the fact that the savings generated from the freezing of these benefits will not be re-invested in early-childhood development or in the childcare system. They are clear cuts to early-childhood education and clear cuts to benefits and payments to families to help them meet the costs of having kids in child care. That says everything about this government's priorities, particularly in the context of offering tax breaks to wealthy mining companies and to those who are on large superannuation balances and who earn large incomes from them. It comes on top of cuts to early-childhood education in other areas—$450 million has been cut from the out-of-school-hours care program. In my area a school like Randwick Primary School, which has 800 students, has a waiting list of 100 students—100 families are trying to get their kids into out-of-school care. How happy are they going to be about the cuts that this government is making to out-of-school care? They are going to be extremely pleased that $450 million is being cut when that money could be used to expand the number of positions at places like Randwick Primary School. Such care is necessary in the context of having both parents work, as modern families do.
Some $157 million is also being cut from Family Day Care services. Indigenous Family Day Care centres are facing cuts. One is the Gujuga Family Day Care Service in La Perouse, which I recently visited and which provides a wonderful service to young students. It is teetering on the edge, because the support they have been receiving from all levels of government is threatened by the federal cuts; and, no doubt, that will have an impact on the number of places they can provide for Indigenous families.
This government's approach to childcare workers is nothing short of disgraceful. Anyone who has kids in child care, as I do, would know just how hard and important the work of childcare workers is for early-childhood development. They are not simply a child-minding service. Early-childhood workers are educators, and numerous studies demonstrate the value of early-childhood development for the ongoing educational capacity of kids and for the developmental abilities of kids, particularly those with disabilities—the value of early intervention and early education for kids with disabilities is infinite. I see it in my children. My eldest daughter could read words before kindergarten, because of the support and the education she was given by the educators in her childcare service. It is a valuable service that, historically, has been undervalued by the community. Relatively speaking, childcare workers are being paid a pittance when compared to the value of the service they provide for kids and their development and, ultimately, the productivity of our education system and the economy.
The previous government's approach was to say that finally as a society we need to value the work and the role of early-childhood educators. We need to highly value the role they play not only in looking after kids and educating them, but also in the emotional support they provide. That was evident in the approach taken by the previous Labor government, guided quite ably by the member for Adelaide, in boosting the wages of childcare workers to ensure they are paid a fair and decent wage.
The greatest betrayal, as I have said, is that the money saved through these cuts is not being re-invested into early-childhood development. That says everything about the approach of this government and this government's priorities, especially when it provides a tax break for large multinational mining companies and for those with large superannuation balances and when it persists with the $16 billion Paid Parental Leave scheme.
The impact of freezing the Child Care Benefits will be monumental for some families. The Child Care Benefit is a targeted payment—it is means tested and starts to reduce once a family's income reaches $41,000 and cuts out at $145,000 for single-child families. So it is targeted to low-income families to ensure that they have the support and the wherewithal to send kids to child care. In the Senate inquiry into this particular bill, the Department of Education admitted that 500,000 families will receive less support for early-childhood education from the changes and the freezing of the Child Care Benefit. This proposal is being rushed through the House and the parliament with very little community consultation. I note that a number of advocacy bodies and people who work day to day in this space are opposed to these changes. Many of those bodies were given only five days to comment on the context and the implications of this bill. Perhaps one of the greatest ironies of this reform is the fact that the Productivity Commission inquiry into early childhood education and learning is still running. One would think that the government would await the outcomes and the recommendations of their own inquiry before jumping to conclusions and rushing through legislation, without adequate consultation of the wider community and interested parties—but, no, they have adopted this reform. Again, this is another example of a government without a plan and with policy being developed on the run—policy that is being rushed and that is ill-thought through, particularly on the implications for families.
In terms of the childcare rebate, the impact will again affect a number of families in my community. The childcare rebate is a non means-tested payment that provides 50 per cent of the out-of-pocket expenses up to $7,500 per child per year. In terms of the cost of freezing the cap, it has been revealed that 74,000 families will reach the cap in 2014-15 and that that will increase to 150,000 families in 2016-17. It says everything about the impact moving forward of freezing this benefit on those families for whom childcare will become unaffordable and more difficult as a result of this reform. In opposition, as I mentioned earlier, the current government, the Abbott government, opposed freezing the cap. Even when we were planning to invest that money back into the childcare system, they opposed this reform. But here we have them pushing ahead with this reform. It is a rushed reform. There has been inadequate consultation, and this is symbolic of the government developing policy on the run.
In conclusion, on behalf of those almost 7,000 families in my community who are feeling the pinch when it comes to the cost of living, who are struggling to make ends meet and to ensure that they keep their kids in child care, the childcare rebate and the childcare benefit can mean the difference between having their kid in child care and not having their kid in child care. The freezing of these payments and the rushed manner in which these reforms have been conducted, particularly in the context of the government's ongoing Productivity Commission inquiry, is something that the opposition does not support. This is why the minister has sought to split these bills. There has not been adequate consultation in order to get an appropriate response from those in the community who are affected by these reforms and nor have the implications of these reforms been thoroughly thought through.


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Access Answers: Episode 19
Creative Change Management with Nital Patel
01 Feb Access Answers: Episode 19
Posted at 22:20h in Podcasts2 by accessscience2
Sr. Records Analyst Nital Patel joins Access Answers to share how to craft change management campaigns that create engaging end-user experiences and maximize adoption.
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Episode 19: Creative Change Management with Nital Patel
Welcome to another episode of Access Answers. As always, I'm your host, Julia Vergara, along with Angela O'pry. And we're so excited to introduce y'all to another one of our Louisiana based team members.
Angela:
Welcome, Nital, to our 19th episode of Access Answers. We're so excited to have another Louisiana team member. We had a great time over in Louisiana in December. And your official title is senior records analyst, however, I think I'm going to say the change management expert, one of the most creative people that I've ever met, and a distinguished author. So welcome, we can't wait to hear from you today, and to hear more about your recent experience with the FileNet implementation.
Nital:
Hi, everybody. Thank you for having me on this podcast. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
You are a key team member with the Louisiana Department of Transportation, and very critical in the implementation recently with FileNet and the change management efforts throughout the process, as well as the big go live party there at the end. So we really want to hear your perspective on what this project was like, what lessons you may have learned, what the key milestones were. Tell us all about it.
Yeah. The FileNet migration project was a wonderful, huge project that I began in 2020, 2020. It was about two years ago. But it was a project that basically focused on migrating existing records from an IBM product that had basically met its life expectancy. It was going to be decommissioned, but it was an IBM product that we were migrating to, which was great. So I helped with the initial part in moving all the records from one, the older system, to the newer system. That involved taxonomy, and with several different steps to it, where after taxonomy included migration, testing, training, and then finally implementation and the change management part.
However, through each of those phases, I kept in mind the change management part. I've been in my previous work experience involved with a lot of changes and process changes in different environments. So I knew that getting ready and preparing for the change management was crucial from the very beginning from step one, so it was really good to see this whole project through from step one all the way into the change management. The migration part was wonderful because it allowed us to see what was present in the existing system that they were using, how the documents were being used. And also, it was great opportunity to ask our clients what they wanted, what they expected. So moving to a new system, it was great because we already had their expectations noted down, and then knowing that, hey, whatever the client said, whatever the user experience was, we're taking into consideration. And we're definitely going to apply all of their feedback into the new system.
So, the new systems hadn't been completely established. We were able to gather all that information and then move to the migration part, and then eventually, when we did move all the records into the new system, which was FileNet, we were able to know what our users were concerned about, what they were anxious about, all of their apprehensions, things that they were nervous about, the things that they wanted and their wish lists. We were able to address all of those. Even if we couldn't implement them at the same time as we went live with a new product, we knew that they wanted these things and that we were considering all of that. So the great part of the project I know was having all this flexibility and these new capabilities available to our users, but also letting them know that they are a huge part of what we're going to do, of the changes that we are making, the feedback that they're giving. And that was so crucial, I think.
I think change management is the biggest thing of any project, whether you're implementing it, you're migrating it, you're getting the taxonomy ready, that change part, that change and process part is huge. So I was really fortunate to be part of each process from the initial gathering the business analysis stuff, to testing, to training the new project, and then finally, the change management part, where it all came together, the training, everything came together. And I wanted to make a theme where everybody was very engaged in it. And we're DOTD, Department of Transportation and Development, and I love puns, I love making things fun. I love catchphrases because they're engaging. They can be very cliché, but they're very engaging in knowing that, look, what we're doing is for the Department of Transportation, so everything that we framed was around transportation, about the journey, about the highway to information, and getting all this available to them in a straight path instead of a traffic jam, so I like to use a lot of those illustrations when we went through all of that.
Incorporating everything was a huge part of the change management, getting their feedback, their concerns, all of that. So that's it in a nutshell. There are a lot of details, of course, but in a nutshell, that was it.
Yeah. Speaking of details, I think we should go a little deeper on the change management tactics that you had and how they kind of fit into the theme that you had picked out.
So, we have a blog coming out about Nital's change management efforts and how creative she was with it, so I will definitely link that below. But we definitely want to hear it from you.
Yeah. It actually goes back to when I was a medical librarian with Ochsner Health System. And I was very fortunate to be a part of a team just like Access Sciences, where they really encourage creativity and encourage the bottom line, not the dollars, but the bottom line as far as getting the end user, the client, to what really they needed. And in the healthcare system, of course, it's patient care. That's the goal. So I was fortunate there when I had an opportunity to work with patient education materials, that I sat back and thought all right, we're making huge changes across the health system in making sure that all of our users know that they have the medical library where they can do the research. They have medical editing, where they can write the patient education materials, and then also have the resources to edit the information. And then medical illustrations that would help them illustrate it.
But even with all those resources, just like with Access Sciences for DOTD, what would really engage the end user? So the end user in that case at Ochsner were the nurses, the nurses that had that one to one contact with their patients. They were the ones that actually gave out patient educations. They were the translators from the physicians terms, you know those difficult medical terminology, to day to day terms that you and I would understand. So what do those nurses need to communicate to those patients? And so we designed a dating game for that, of course, which it was during the month of February where we had the conference, so Valentines was the theme. I always like to incorporate something that's current, depending on the theme.
So, with DOTD, of course it was the highway, the transportation, the getting there, the journey. And I wanted to make sure that our clients felt that they were in this journey, this highway, this path with us together. So all of our newsletters and communication leading up to the final change management was themed on that. So we would have getting started would be, all right, let's go ahead. We have a traffic jam of documents, all these knots and twists and ties in the highway system. How do we untangle that? So that started with the taxonomy. And then we moved onto testing and we incorporated the test drive. Let's do the test drive. We can take it on the road. You've created this platform. Really, it's basically your client information that we took into consideration to create these search engines. So let's go ahead and test this for a test drive.
And then next, the training came. And that was really, really… Testing and training I would say would be the most important parts of gaining user feedback for what their expectations were and what our deliverables were, as far as the project goes. So during testing and training, it was really crucial to capture their input. How did they like that test drive? How did they like the training? What do they wish we could expand on? And getting feedback from that was really instrumental in planning the change management. We were able to use all that feedback. We were able assuage all of their concerns when we did go to that final change management part. We were able to address that during that event, so when they came there, if they were nervous about uploading documents to the new system, we addressed it then and there during that change management event with this big kickoff event.
We planned it all around a fuel up for FileNet, a pit crew, knowing that a pit crew supports all of their needs. We're all here, and wanted to include everybody that was part of that project. That meant Access Sciences, of course. We had some lovely gifts and giveaways from Access Sciences with notes on FileNet going live on the packages. But we wanted to include records management because that's where the handoff will be from the FileNet migration team to records management at DOTD. It was just a great event because we did have that feedback from all of our clients beforehand, so we knew they were nervous about A, B, and C. The event addressed A, B, and C, and let them know, look, we're going to be there for all of your concerns. And there's always an opportunity for growth. The journey doesn't completely end at implementation. We will go on to build on what we've already released.
So Nital, you talked a little bit about the go live party that you were prepping for. How did the event actually go? I know it was a big one.
Oh, the event went really wonderfully. We of course, getting that feedback from the clients was wonderful in planning for the event. But also wanted to engage all of the teams that were involved. DOTD of course, everyone at the Department of Transportation, different sections were involved because in starting the project, trying to get myself immersed in the little groups that were in clubs and committees that were available to me at DOTD, meaning Toastmasters, was a group where they specialize in helping people with public speaking. And it was a great way to network with other people from lots of different sections within DOTD. So they knew I was planning for this event, and I encouraged them to help me with this as far as getting decorations there, getting cones, traffic cones, getting signs, all of that. And having that engagement at that level was great.
But also, getting our own teams involved, the records management team at DOTD and the Access Sciences team at DOTD for records management, the FileNet team that Access Sciences had with the migration project, getting our employees engaged in it as well was just so crucial in making this event successful, making sure that everybody had a role, from whether you're a client going through all those pit stops. And again, those pit stops were designed to let people know that, hey, we're preparing for this huge change. We're here to help you fuel up for FileNet, in that sense that we're going to give you all the supporting documents that you need. And instead of having lots of different documents, we just wanted to have one user guide, a user manual, basically, to separate into different sections, different pit stops, one, two, and three.
First, we wanted them to know that all of these resources were available to them through records management, through the Access Sciences team. Number two, getting the information into the new system was crucial, so that was the second pit stop, how to go ahead and do that. And number three, how do you get to that new system? How do you access it? That was the third pit stop. So the pit stops were of course, you get that driver, the person in the seat, driving seat, ready to go on that new path to new document management ready. So it was all designed that way. And I want to make sure that everybody had a part in it, every single person, whether you were on the Access Sciences team, whether you were on the FileNet team, whether you were at the Department of Transportation. It was a team effort. And it's always a team thing, so we all had pit crew name badges that had our teams.
We also, whenever any of the DOTD sections were involved, whether they were donating signage, whether they were donating their time and sending, encouraging people to attend this event, or the traffic cones, we made them know that this was all of us involved, and that was a huge part of it. So going from taxonomy and getting just the keywords, that hashtagging of all those different documents, to just implementing it out, the best thing about it that everybody knew that they had a role in it, whether if you're just going to be a user, uploading to that, or you were a support system from Access Sciences. That was the best part of it, is just letting everybody know that everybody had a role in it, no matter … I mean, nothing was minor, whether you were uploading something, whether you were revising something. It was all crucial.
So from what you're saying, I can tell there is definitely a big sense of community around the project, around the change management efforts. You really got everyone involved it seems like.
Absolutely. I think approachability is huge factor in it as well. If you would like people to be involved in your project, you have to be very approachable. And there was no question that was silly, there was no suggestion that was too far off. If you have a suggestion, if you have a question, it's very important to be able to build on that. And I never like to say no, or I don't know. I think one of the great things with my librarian background, and I don't know if Albert Einstein said it, or who said it, I may not know the answer, but I know I can find it for you. I can research it for you. So that approachability really helped. That attitude really helps. I think even if you have the best product in the world, that approachability was a key factor in it to let people know that, hey, I understand your frustration, even if it's a negative comment about the project that you're releasing. And there will be because it's a huge shift in the processes that they're doing day to day in their workflows.
Even if it's negative, I don't see it as negative. I would say, "Just let us know, no matter what you feel about this, because we can discuss it at least and then go from there." If we can apply a different solution to it, that's good. I just hate that … I don't like brick walls. I just like that continuous journey to let's see an evolving thing. It sounds kind of mushy and cliché, but I do like that whole metaphor of the roadway, the roadmap that's been applied.
So, when you're leading a change management effort, how do you make sure your team is approachable and open to suggestions?
Well, it all starts with me, I think, and my attitude towards the approach. One of the best things that I learned in my previous experiences is not to go out and say, "Hey, this is the policy. These are what we're going to do. This is the mission." It's definitely important to have policies and the mission in place, but not to have them in stone. A rookie mistake of mine graduating from library sciences was that. I went and became a manager of a branch library and said, "This is this and that." I was so ready to take on the world with what I had learned. But after the actual experience, it's that everything is always a work in process. It's always a contribution, it's always a collaboration. And I think when people see that within you and sense that within the person who is part of the leadership team in getting something, a project implemented, when the whole team knows that it's an open format, it's not just all written in stone, or this is how it's going to be, one, two, three, that's how we get people on board.
Or that's my experience at least, I've never had a very commandeering personality, where it's my way or the highway. Never had that. It's always just been, look, this is what we're bringing to the table, but it's definitely not complete. It's not complete with the team members' feedback. Definitely if we don't have a team that's completely on board, you can't relay that to the client, of course. I know that's a first step in getting that team to say, "Hey, this is what we've been tasked to do. How do we do it? What are your thoughts? What are your ideas?" It's that feedback, the collaboration part.
And my piece, I'm only bringing what I'm bringing to the table with my experiences. But that's a lovely thing about Access Sciences. We all come from different backgrounds, different skillsets. And we're all bringing that to the table. And if I'm just bringing my own set and relying only on that, that's really a big, huge discredit to the project. So to me, it's always been very easy to go to the project team, the table with that, and saying, "This is what it is. Let's see what we can all bring to it based on all of your unique experiences."
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Okay. I want to go back to something that you mentioned in the beginning, Nital, about being involved as a change management expert from the beginning of the project. Have you ever been involved in a project where that was not the case?
Yes, actually, I've been involved where change management process wasn't as smooth as it has been with this current project. It was actually outside of this, where I think the biggest challenge was not having everybody on the team that was on board with that same mission. When I was in a different situation and it was my very first job out of library science school in an academic library, where there were certain missions that were needed. However, to get to those goals, you needed to have an out of the box mentality to get to it.
For example, they wanted to create a library that was fully functional, but it was only needed for accreditation, and just basically checking off a box. But to get that accreditation, to get that library use that you really needed to have a lot of participation from everybody at that agency. It was difficult to get that when not everybody is engaged at all levels, whether it was the students, the academic staff, I thought that was very, very crucial. It was a huge challenge for me. But I was able to again, kind of thinking on the needs. All right. We needed people to start using the library, even if it was for accreditation, we still needed the library to be used. We needed it to be there.
So, we designed, all right, let's have report cards being picked up from the library. So we had at least people come into the library, see what the library was there. And at the same time, I was able to give my spiel about, look, these are all these services available to you. So the challenge is where when you have not as much engagement from all the teams that are involved, and also, sometimes the location of where you are plays a huge part too. In that case, it was years before. This was in the '90s, the latter part of the '90s when I got my library degree. We didn't have Zoom or online virtual presence, so physical location was huge. And were located way in the back in the hallways in a building that was really far from the entrance of that community college.
So, I said, "Well, let's have them come all the way back to pick up their report cards." So that was a way to get them to step inside the library, get to use it, get to see what was there. So there are challenges like that when you don't have complete on board-ness with all of the teams involved. But there are ways to think outside of that. All right, you need them to pick up their report cards. Let's have them pick them up in the library.
Yeah. I like the creativity of your themes. I personally believe everyone gets more excited when there's a theme. We do the same with conferences and trade shows. And it just helps people remember and associate, oh, yes, this was the time that we did the pit stop with the race cars, or bumble bees, or it's just a little more memorable, I think.
Exactly. Yeah. And when you have it really well defined like that, all right, pit stop one had to do with the services. But pit stop three had to do with how to actually access that new FileNet system. And then we had the correct, the appropriate team members that oversaw all of those areas. For example, the second pit stop had to do with document upload. We had our scan team available at that desk, so they were able to know a face attached with that service, also who to know, where to go to with that service as well.
Okay. So one thing we've not talked about is the book that you wrote. So, we definitely need to give you the published author title after your name.
Oh, right. It does not have anything to do with records management. Of course, I've always wanted to be a writer since I was… As long as I can remember, 10 years old or whatever, always written in fiction. So it's really surprising that I'm writing all this nonfiction newsletters because fiction is my strength, and I can make a mean story about records management. Stay tuned.
Yes, I've always been fascinated with identity, where we come from, the myth of origin, and being an immigrant to this country. It's always been an interesting place to be, where you leave a country and enter a new country. You're part of that country that you left and you're part of this new country that you left, you're part of it, and you're not a part of it. And then you're trying to feel yourself, way through it to create this third identity, incorporating both of the new identities. So that's always been a theme of all of my fictional work, is self-discovery, how to navigate your current situation into the identity that you are because I really believe geography, environment, completely comes into play with your identity, where you're born, where you're led to, where you go, your everything, all of that just contributes greatly. And it's been an awesome discovery phase, and that's what writing is to me.
It's therapy. It's discovering who I am. And all of that completely comes into play with my work as well, where we are, what we're going to do in this huge tapestry of life. I think it's incredible that we've come from creatures that have just scribbled on cave walls, to doing what we do now. I mean, having each document have… It's just fascinating, whether it has to do with a bridge that's coming up for DOTD, a different data governance system, just how far we've removed. And it all depends on our background, our surroundings, and everything, and how they contribute. But yeah, that's what my writing focuses on. It's just a journey of self-discovery.
Do you have any books coming out soon?
I am writing two different types of books. I love suspense literature, mysteries, and all of that, so I have a fun one coming out that is actually going to be beyond Fatal Attraction, just a little bit spookier than that. And then also, a little bit more literary one, where it has to do a little surreal story about a little girl discovering how even if the palm of your hand has a certain fate that's depicted, there is some things that you can take into your own hands, the future that you can do. But those two are coming out later this year.
The other book that you mentioned, the second one that you're writing, reminds me of a book that's one of my top five favorites called The Immortalists. Have you read that?
No, but it is in my queue to read. I would love that. Mine would be titled The Flying Man, and it's based on when I lived in India, there was this… The Ferris wheels were manually rotated. And the man, it would be a very small Ferris wheel, but he would actually have this little handle that he would hang onto and just actually fly, leap up to turn the Ferris wheel. And I always just called him the flying man. And as a kid, I always wanted to go up there because it allowed you to rise above what Calcutta was at that time. There's so much richness, but there was also a lot of poverty. And that Ferris wheel allowed these people who were able to get on it to escape for a little while, to go over it. But yeah, I just love those surreal stories.
That sounds incredible.
Yeah. Thanks for asking about that.
Well, I mean, I guess I know where your creativity comes from. You're just a creative person in general, and it translates into everything.
Yeah. This has just such been a wonderful opportunity of working for companies like this, that encourage all that creativity because really, it could be anything, whether it's document delivery, or just taxonomy. You can apply creativity to anything.
So speaking of creativity, I know that's a big theme in this podcast. Your blog that's coming out soon is all about using creativity to enhance and engage end users and create an experience for them. I know you've done this with your most recent project and in past projects. But why is that so important to you? Why is that something you're so passionate about?
Well, the end user experience is basically what it's all about. What are the expectations, no matter if it's something that you're implementing as far as a corporation goes, a huge systems change with records management, or it's just something simple as a quick process change? That creativity plays a huge part in gauging how different users respond to certain changes, certain training, certain ways of testing. And I always feel rather than having one method of doing things, no matter what phase of the project it is, is to always give the end user options, and to understand that not all end users are coming from the same page, from the same angle. You have users that have been at DOTD for years and years and years. They've been here before electronic management, when they had to use microfiche, microfilm, just very manual, manual entry of information. And they've also progressed through all these years to electronic, virtual resources.
Then you have users that are students that are just student interns coming in and using this new system. So you really have to understand these different groups and how you can have them reach the same goal with that project that you're working on, but with different ways. And that's where creativity comes into part. All right, so we have one user who's really very good at a presentation style. That's how they work well with getting their information. So you want to develop different ways in processing, disseminating all the information about the project that's coming up to them. So when we did training and when we did testing, we didn't want to make just one way of testing, one way of training. We definitely tried to cater to the user's need.
And creativity takes a good part in that. So we have one user who's good with presentation, great, we can do a PowerPoint presentation. But then another user who's good with hands on, let's get a computer room, show them how to use it. But then, all right, another user who, you can stay step one, step two, step three, this is what you do, but that's not what it's about to them at all. It's the end product that's what's important to them. So this information will be in FileNet. But how is it going to affect the reports that I do for the leadership group? How is it going to help me with the studies that are being done? So it's not just, okay, let's get this record uploaded and let's see how we can find it, but also about approaching it when it's up there and you have all this information. How can you use all that information to benefit your workflow, the end note, the bottom line of your corporation? So you really have to be very flexible.
And whether it's with writing, whether it's with managing change, I mean, something even like cooking. How do you teach cooking to different people? How are different people going to learn? Do we give them a list of ingredients? Do we say, "Hey, these are the tools that we recommend you use for cooking these things"? That's where the creativity or just thinking outside of the box is such an overused term, but it's very applicable all the time, where you just have to understand the users' needs and how they process things within themselves. And also, to say, "All right. This applies to records management." But say, "Put that user in a cooking environment." How are they going to learn how to cook something? How would you approach it to that?
All right, so with need to tell them the ingredients, but we need to tell them why this ingredient's important, or why you would choose this ingredient above the other. I hope all that makes sense because when you're able to say, "This is what we need to teach them as far as document delivery is concerned, how would they teach it if it was in a different environment?" And trying to cater to it that way. I hope that makes sense. It's just putting yourself in different scenarios that allows you to address a lot of different educational needs and training needs for different groups.
I think Julia and I are both smiling because a year ago, we did a cooking class together and it was a little difficult. You know that whole reinforcement part of change management, we probably need a couple more before I'd say we're ready to be.
I wrote a cookbook too. It was called Last Stop for Curry.
Yeah. It's going to take many tries to get to a point where I'd say I'm confident cooking.
But I definitely think that's great advice for anyone who's looking, or who's thinking. Where do I even start with change management? How do I get creative with it? It's what you said, thinking of: How would I communicate this in a different situation?
Yeah. Exactly. It doesn't exactly have to be word for word what you're doing now, but putting it in a different context definitely helps.
Well, thank you, Nital, for being our guest today. And we have lots of reading to do ahead of us. Check out your books and practice our cooking skills again with your cookbooks.
Absolutely. And you have the discount, Access Sciences discount. Just let me know. I'll send it to you, whatever you want, absolutely. This was great. Thank you. Thank you for letting me blabber on.
And congratulations on the big release of FileNet. That was a huge project, a lot of work. And the reviews were just rave reviews, stunning, so perfect job.
Oh, yeah. Everything was just awesome. Everybody was so great.
So if you're interested in checking out Nital's content, I will definitely link her blog on creative change management down below, and also her book links.
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Michigan's penchant for Payback could bring it to the playoffs.
Since an opening defeat at Notre Dame, the Wolverines have defeated opponents relatively easily (a comeback victory in Northwestern is an exception). And they were in the best match against teams that had lost last year.
First they rolled Wisconsin, 38-13. Then they dominated the spit line in a 21-7 win over Michigan State.
And on Saturday, Jim Harbaugh's team humbled Penn State 42-7 and improved to 8-1 (6-0, Big Ten).
Michigan entered the day and finished only 3.75 meters per game. Penn State fared a little better, averaging 3.96.
The Wolverines have one last stop on the revenge. With Rutgers and Indiana competing against Rutgers and Indiana over the next two weeks, chances are they'll be 10-1, with only Ohio State getting in the way of a Big Ten title appearance.
This could be the most brutal defender of coordinator Don Brown since joining Ann Arbor, Chase Winovich and linebacker Devin Bush. No one has surpassed the 24-point plateau against the Wolverines, and it is justified to wonder if anyone wants to get ahead of a possible national semi-final.
One thing is for sure: with the Wolverines having a chance to cash out, they left Wisconsin, Michigan State, and now Penn State, not close to committing an offense.
Notre Dame, The fighting Irish remained unbeaten. The home team Northwest 31-21 has been improved to 9-0.
Notre Dame wrote perhaps the most impressive ride of the day after the Wildcats (5-4) had made a 17-point deficit a straight field hit with two quick touchdown rides. The Irish went to 89 yards in 10 games, culminating with a 23-yard shot from quarterback Ian Book after a fake handover that came from a break.
The question for Brian Kelly's team: Can it sweep through Florida State, Syracuse and Southern California and complete a perfect regular season? If that's the case, it's hard to imagine the Irish missing a play-off spot.
army, The Black Knights can be sure that they will retain the Commander-in-Chief Trophy after defeating the Air Force 17-14. Army (7-2) still can win with a Navy defeat on December 8, and the Black Knights are likely to opt for a 10-win season as FCS opponents Lafayette and Colgate head west for the next two Point travel will be weeks.
An astounding statistic: With the victory over the hawks, the army will have the trophy for successive seasons for the first time in program history.
UTEP, Bow down, miners. The longest defeat in the FBS – 20 miserable games – ended when the UTEP defended against Rice (34-26). Not that it was not more interesting than it had to be. The Miners (1-8, 1-4 Conference USA) led 34-10 into the fourth quarter before the Owls (1-9, 0-6) made a late burst. Nevertheless, they brought their first victory since 2016, three coaches.
West Virginia, Luck prefers the brave, something the mountaineers remembered on Saturday. West Virginia retreated within a point of Texas when Will Grier found Gary Jennings Jr. for a 33-yard touchdown catch that was 16 seconds before the jump. After three break times (one from West Virginia, then two from Texas), Grier hopped for the two-point conversion and a 42-41 win.
* Seth Williams, Catch of the day?
Jarrett Stidham, the 11-meter touch point of the Auburn freshman, passed the Tigers to Texas A & M (28-24). Auburn is now suitable for the bowl at 6-3. Georgia and Alabama will come this month.
Bobby Petrino, It will be embarrassing. The relegation of the Cardinals to Lamar Jackson continued as they sealed an inferior season. It was fairly obvious that a team that had lost 66-31 to Georgia Tech and 56-35 to Wake Forest had a select one at Clemson. Only Clemson could select the result, and it was 77-16.
The Cardinals (2-7, 0-6 ACC) fell apart and that lands in the fifth year of the coach. With Syracuse, N.C. There is a good chance that coming to State and Kentucky will not only give him a new coach, but that he will inherit a nine-game defeat.
Miami, The hurricanes lost three in a row. That's bad for a team that's expected to win the ACC's Coastal Division.
They had an average of 13 points per game during the skid. This is even worse for a team with an experienced quarterback (Malik Rosier) and a coach (Mark Richt) known for their offensive acumen.
And those losses came against Virginia, Boston College and Duke. That's terrible, at least for a fan base that is apoplectic if Miami does not win eleven games a year. This is only in: Miami (5-4, 2-3 ACC) will not win eleven games this year.
Penn State, The Nittany Lions 42-7 defeat to Michigan was not only ugly, but also meant that James Franklin's team was swept away by the other three great powers of the US East. Unlike home losses to Michigan State and Ohio State, this was not competitive at all.
Pac-12 South, With Arizona State's 38-20-20 loss to Utah, all six teams in Pac-12 South have suffered at least three defeats. To call mediocre is a disadvantage for mediocrity.
Florida, One week after retiring from the SEC East race by beating Georgia, the Gators failed to beat Missouri 38-17. Florida dropped to 6-3.


The magic of mindfulness practice is that it allows us to fully appreciate whatever we are experiencing right this moment, and brings peace of mind and a much healthier state. While this might seem a bit abstract, it also has some very practical applications as well.
Over the past several weeks, I've used a form of mindfulness meditation to significantly reduce and manage some rather severe flu symptoms. Over the holidays we spent a lot of time with family members in intimate, enclosed spaces, many of whom were battling the flu bug that's been going around. My immune system apparently succumbed to the constant contact, and I came down with a really nasty case of the flu.
I began experiencing a hacking cough, fever, nausea and upset stomach, and a splitting headache. In practicing mindfulness, in each case, I simply discipline myself to relax and pay attention to the particular discomfort, becoming aware of it as a sensation in my body, and also similarly become aware of my breathing and how it feels in my body as I take each inhalation and exhalation.
Even my seemingly relentless coughing has been calmed by this approach. Almost without exception, as I become aware of the discomfort, I begin to realize that without being fully aware of it, I've been "resisting" the pain or discomfort. For example as I experience the nearly unavoidable need to begin coughing my brains out, as I begin to pay closer attention to what I'm feeling in my body, I notice that I'm resisting the coughing by constricting the muscles in my chest, abdominals, and lower back, and that as I become aware of this, I can also feel that the tension itself has significantly increased my need to cough. As I become more aware of the tension I'm holding, I'm able to release it, my breathing becomes less constricted, and my need to cough decreases, sometimes even going away entirely.
With the headaches, I also focus very specifically on the exact location and sensation of the pain and discomfort. Almost without exception, I find areas where I'm resisting and holding tension, often in my facial muscles, neck, shoulders, etc., and to the degree that I can locate them and just "notice" them rather than resisting, I'm able to relax and relieve the discomfort.
The same is true with the other symptoms as well.
Try this practice the next time you have a headache or other discomfort and see if you can learn to relieve your own symptoms through mindfulness. It's certainly been a magical practice for me.


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Q: Change from amazon jdk to openjdk I have an application that has been built using the amazon jdk (1.8.0_181 version). Which could be the problems of changing the jdk to openjdk but to a similar version? I don't know if the only difference between jdk's distributions is the support.

A: As long as the version is similar you can expect the API to be the same. From Which Java SDK Should You Use?

Amazon is the new vendor on the block that's offering builds of OpenJDK at aws.amazon.com/corretto. Amazon Corretto 8 (based on Java 8) is in preview; there is no Java 11 build available. Corretto 11 is scheduled to be released in Q2 2019. GA for Corretto 8 is Q1. Corretto is unique in that it has no-cost long-term support from Amazon. Its builds have passed the TCK. Java 8 support is currently slated to run through June 2023.

Oracle builds and publishes OpenJDK builds at jdk.java.net. Binaries are only published for the first six months after a major release. The branded, commercial version (that can't be used in production without paying Oracle) is available at oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads.


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Snapchat turned down Facebook's $3 billion bid
By Megha Kedia | 14 November 2013
Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat, turned down Facebook's acquisition offer worth $3bn (£1.9bn), sources close to the matter have revealed.
If the deal between the two would have taken place, it would have been Facebook's biggest purchase till date. The social networking giants' offer valued three times more than the bid it made to acquire Instagram.
Tencent, a Chinese e-commerce company, also showed its interest in leading a funding round for the messaging app that would value Snapchat at $4 billion, cited sources close to the matter reports The Wall Street Journal.
Snapchat's user base size has doubled owing to its increasing popularity among teenagers. According to research conducted by Pew, around 9 percent of the total adult cell phone users in the US use this app. More than 350 million images, or "snaps" between mobile devices are sent everyday by the app users, confirms the 2 year old messaging firm.
With more than $60m investment raised from investors last June, Snapchat now is valued at more than $800m. Spiegel is not seeing an acquisition or an investment deal until early 2014, reports the Journal.
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Q: How to monitor progress with external language code? I'm trying to figure out how to get tqdm (a python progress monitoring tool) to work with ExternalEvaluate and "ExternalLanguage" cells. I probably use tqdm (along with its multithreading counterpart atpbar) just about every day!
Here's what it looks like in the console or ipython:

It works nicely in Jupyter notebooks as well:

What I've Tried:
Assuming tqdm is installed, this is the current behavior in external code cells:
(* external cell code *)
from tqdm import tqdm; pbar = tqdm(total=3)
for i in range(3):
    pbar.write(f'{i} Print works but no bar :(')
    pbar.update(1)

The write method works, but there is no cell printed for the progress bar. ExternalEvaluate has the same problem:

I realize this is might require a sophisticated hack, but it would make using Python in MMA much more practical for many users.
Related:

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*Dynamically access variables in external session?


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2. If you hear the noise from the hub bearing, first of all, it is important to find the location where the noise occurs.There are many moving parts which may produce noise, or it may be that some rotating parts contact with non-rotating parts.If the noise in the bearing is confirmed, the bearing may be damaged and need to be replaced.
3. Because the working conditions of both sides of the bearing failure caused by the front Fixed gear flip flop hub hub are similar, even if only one bearing is damaged, it is recommended to replace in pairs.
case.Bearing parts shall not be damaged during storage, transportation and installation.Some bearings require large pressure injection, so special tools are required.Be sure to refer to the car manufacturing instructions.
5. The installation should be in a clean and tidy environment, and the small particles entering the bearing will shorten the service life.It is important to maintain a clean environment when changing bearings.It is not allowed to hit the bearing with a hammer, and the bearing should not fall on the ground (or be similarly mishandled).
6. For the hub unit, do not attempt to disassemble the hub bearing or adjust the seal ring of the hub unit, otherwise it will damage the seal ring and cause water or dust to enter.Even the sealing ring and inner ring raceway are damaged, resulting in permanent bearing failure.
7. There is a magnetic thrust ring in the sealing ring of the ABS bearing, which cannot be impacted by collision, impact or other magnetic fields.Remove from the box before installation to keep them away from the magnetic field, such as electric motors or power tools used.When these bearings are installed, the operation of the bearings is changed by observing the ABS alarm needle on the dashboard through road condition test.
8, equipped with ABS wheel hub bearing of magnetic thrust ring, in order to determine the thrust ring pack what side, use a light small things close to the edge of the bearing, bearing of magnetic force will be attracted to it.When installed, one side of the magnetic thrust ring will point inward, directly to the ABS sensitive element.Note: incorrect installation may cause the braking system to fail.


Our guests always asked for the recipe for this casserole. Of course, we always make them a copy. People who have never tried "grits" before love it and so do Southerners who have been raised on this area staple.
Brown sausage in skillet and spread in 9x13 casserole dish. Cook grits ( use instant and do these in the microwave).Add butter, cheese, and salt and pepper. Cool for a while. Add eggs and milk and pour over sausage. Bake at 350 for about 1 hour.
Note: I sometimes make these in individual ramekins and freeze. When I plan to have them the next day, I thaw in refrigerator overnight and bake as directed.
This way I can serve one or two guests at a time.