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Challenger Learning Center hosting corporate bowling charity challenge
Thursday, March 19, 2015 11:00 PM
The Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana will be hosting a corporate bowling charity challenge at the Superbowl in Crown Point on Wednesday, April 29. Participating organizations will create a team of four to five bowlers to compete for the championship, with proceeds benefiting the Challenger Learning Center.
Organizations may choose from three different levels of sponsorship: Shooting Star for $250 (sponsorship only); Mission to Mars for $650 (1 team of bowlers); and To Infinity and Beyond for $2000. Each sponsorship allows the opportunity to win awards and prizes and enjoy food and beverages. The Mission to Mars sponsorship includes pre-event advertisement as well as the company logo being featured on Challenger Learning Center e-blasts promoting the event. The To Infinity and Beyond sponsorship adds the sponsoring company's logo to all advertisements leading up to the event, both print and web, and corporate recognition on a plaque at the Challenger Learning Center.
The Challenger Learning Center uses science, technology, engineering and math education to engage visitors of all ages. The space simulation programs, planetarium experiences, laser shows, hands-on space science and technology skill-building programs engage learners of all ages in activities that encourage teamwork while honing problem solving, communication and critical thinking proficiencies. The Stars and Strikes event will help the Challenger Learning Center fund missions that are available to school systems throughout Northwest Indiana.
For more information about Stars and Strikes or about the Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana, contact Becca Manis, executive director, at 219-989-2007 or visit www.clcnwi.com.
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We are going to Vegas to the BBC 2013 Conference!
As of the 9th of November, we will be in Vegas for the building business capabilities conference 2013. Just had a peek at the agenda for this year and it looks promising.
SDU in the Netherlands has asked TRIPL'A to coach them on process modelling and architecture.
TRIPL'A delivers services to Touring!
As of April 2013, TRIPL'A delivers services to Touring under MEGA. Our assignment is coaching of the process architecture team in process modelling and MEGA as a tool.
On the 9th of May, our second event organized together with MEGA will take place at the Faculty Club in Leuven. Colruyt will be a guest speaker on the event.
As of the 1st of January, we will help bpost with application lifecycle management roll-out.
This week we are at the building business capabilities conference in Fort Lauderdaele USA. Exciting times! See our blog posts for updates.
First MEGA User Group BENELUX !
TRIPL'A organizes the first MEGA User Group in Benelux. After recurring requests from existing MEGA customers in the BENELUX to have an active customer community, TRIPL'A decided to give it a try. On the agenda : Get to know each other and networking drink afterwards!
TRIPL'A delivers business architecture services to bpost!
As of July 2012, we will be helping the bpost architecture team with business architecture and process modelling using BPMN 2.0.


Golf Course in Fountain Valley, California is looking for an Assistant Golf Professional.
Job responsibilities as an Assistant Golf Professional includes but is not limited to: Greeting and checking in guests, answering phones, booking of tee times, cash handling, balancing of cash drawer, manage daily tee sheet, merchandising, and opening/closing of the golf shop. The qualifying individual must have the availability to work any day of the week.
Previous golf course experience preferred but not required.
Being a Golf Academy graduate is a plus, but not required.
Applicant must be highly motivated to become a PGA Member and have a passion to grow as a golf professional.
$520.00 – $600.00 per week.


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Climate change debate in the focus at Exxon's annual meeting
AP Photo, Darren Woods, No available, In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo, Exxon Mobil Chairman & CEO Darren Woods sits for an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Activist shareholders are using Exxon Mobil's annual meeting to accuse the company of failing to confront a future that may include stricter regulations to limit climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. Woods defended the company, saying "we are doing our part" by providing energy that people need while also reducing emissions from its own operations. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
DALLAS (AP) — Activist shareholders used Exxon Mobil's annual meeting to renew their accusations that the company is failing to confront a future that may include stricter regulations to limit climate change caused by burning fossil fuels.
A representative of the Church of England's endowment fund said Wednesday that Exxon has moved more slowly than other major oil companies to disclose information about emissions.
Chairman and CEO Darren Woods defended the company, saying it's doing its part by providing energy that people need while also reducing emissions from its own operations.
Exxon successfully petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to block a shareholder vote on setting targets for reducing carbon emissions from burning oil and gas.
Exxon's 2018 profit rose 6% to $20.8 billion as higher prices offset a 4% decline in production, but the shares fell 18% last year. They closed Wednesday up about 6% for 2019.
Woods said Exxon's businesses performed well last year, and production in the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico is growing faster than expected.
Exxon, which is based in Irving, Texas, continues to project that demand for oil will grow nearly 1% a year, propelled by its use in transportation and chemicals, and Woods repeated a goal of doubling 2017 earnings by 2025.
Activists, however, find Exxon's forecast of oil demand wildly optimistic in a lower-carbon energy world.
"If we reach a point of secular decline in demand for oil, the competition to meet that dwindling level of demand would become much more intense, with a potential knock-on effect on prices and financial returns from the sale of oil," said Robert Schuwerk, North America director for Carbon Tracker, a U.K.-based group that studies the effects of climate change on financial markets.
Edward Mason, representing the Church of England's fund, told shareholders that Exxon and investors "have been in open conflict about climate strategy and disclosure."
Mason contrasted that with rivals including BP PLC, which last week supported a successful shareholder resolution to increase disclosures about its emissions and how its business strategy fits with the Paris agreement to limit the increase in global temperatures.
The Church of England and the New York state comptroller were lead sponsors of a resolution that would have asked Exxon to set targets on emissions from burning oil and gas. The SEC accepted the company's objection that the resolution would have amounted to unnecessary meddling into the company's decision-making authority.
Woods said Exxon is working with universities and the government on technology to produce biofuels and capture carbon generated at power plants. He said the company is reducing the flaring or burning of natural gas, which releases methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas.
Exxon, he said, is "very focused on growing shareholder value" while balancing it with "this risk of climate change and society's aspirations for lower emissions" of carbon.
Shareholders handily elected all 10 board-backed director candidates. They overwhelmingly rejected resolutions to create a board committee to deal with climate change and to report on the environmental risks of the company's petrochemical investments along the Gulf Coast.
About 41% of shares were cast in favor of a measure to split the jobs of chairman and CEO after Woods leaves. Even though the measure failed, it attracted the most support ever at Exxon, which shows shareholders are dissatisfied with Exxon's governance and handling of climate risk, said New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

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If we are ever going to make neuroplasticity completely repeatable we will need to understand the signals sent between neurons. This might be one way, Your researcher can tell you which of these other ideas would be the best to answer that question. Nothing will ever come of this because we have NO stroke leadership to go to to get a stroke strategy updated.
2. Or lay a grid across the cortex to listen in.
Developments in miniaturized microscopes have enabled visualization of brain activities and structural dynamics in animals engaging in self-determined behaviors. However, it remains a challenge to resolve activity at single dendritic spines in freely behaving animals. Here, we report the design and application of a fast high-resolution, miniaturized two-photon microscope (FHIRM-TPM) that accomplishes this goal. With a headpiece weighing 2.15 g and a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber delivering 920-nm femtosecond laser pulses, the FHIRM-TPM is capable of imaging commonly used biosensors (GFP and GCaMP6) at high spatiotemporal resolution (0.64 μm laterally and 3.35 μm axially, 40 Hz at 256 × 256 pixels for raster scanning and 10,000 Hz for free-line scanning). We demonstrate the microscope's robustness with hour-long recordings of neuronal activities at the level of spines in mice experiencing vigorous body movements.
In the version of this article initially published online, the affiliation for Aimin Wang was incorrectly listed as Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. The correct affiliation is State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China. The error has been corrected in the print, PDF and HTML versions of this article.


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Susan Fitzgerald & Associates
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After creating the SFADC logo and website back in 2009, the company's CEO, Susan Fitzgerald reached back out to ACS Creative to modernize and update their digital presence. As a Washington D.C. based consulting firm specializing in Government and Educational Institutions, they needed a site that proudly conveyed their expertise and professionalism.
Looking back at the website we created for SFA in 2009, we wanted to completely re-work the messaging as well as the design and functionality. ACS Creatives' team of writers worked along-side Susan and her team, to craft messaging that was clear and concise, while also maintaining an adequate level of keywords to enhance SEO.
Fabulous work! Chris Howell did my original logo and website about 9 years ago and we needed an updated website. They rapidly created and deployed a new design! Fabulous job and great professional team to work with. Thank you!
Susan Fitzgerald, CEO, Susan Fitzgerald & Associates, Inc
When brainstorming ideas for how we wanted to redesign the SFA website, we took numerous things into account; functionality, messaging, simplicity and mobility. We designed the homepage to focus on their mission statement and history, while deeper in the page, we focus on Clients, key solutions, then News & Insights. We wanted imagery to be clear and pixel perfect so we utilized a CDN to serve up the images as Google's .webp format to preserve ultra high-resolution sharpness, while optimizing the file size to a 10th of what it's .jpeg counterpart would be. Specific imagery was also selected to provide deep contrast that marries well with the black and vibrant reds from SFA's Brand Guide. Adding subtle motion across all pages allowed for not just smoother, quicker, page loads, it also allows the user to "experience" the site with movement.
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4th Doctor's TARDIS Console (Figurine Collection)
The Fourth Doctor's console has been faithfully recreated, and hand-painted, capturing every button, from the speaker grills to the door control. Note: Only the figure itself is supplied, this version does no include a magazine. Learn More
Figurine Collection Companion Set - The 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith
A new series from the Doctor Who Figurine Collection featuring the Time Lord's most memorable companions! Collected together for the first time, the Fourth Doctor and his friend Sarah Jane! These Doctor Who figurines are carefully produced in 1:21 scale, and cast in a specially formulated metallic resin before being painted by hand and individually numbered. The Fourth Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane comes with a 20-page magazine looking at the companion's development in the long-running show, with behind-the-scenes info on the relevant story's production. Any Doctor Who fan would be mad not to put these in their collection Learn More
Figurine Magazine Special #16 The Kroton
The Kroton from the 2nd Doctor story 'The Krotons' Learn More
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The Minotaur from Series 6 The God Complex. Praise him! Learn More
Figurine Magazine Special #18 - Dalek Prime Minister
From the greatest sci-fi TV series in the world comes the eighteenth Special Edition in the Doctor Who Figurine Collection: Dalek Prime Minister Special! Kidnapped by the Daleks, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are taken to a spaceship that houses the Dalek Parliament. There they meet the Dalek Prime Minister who reveals they are above the Dalek Asylum, a planet where they send insane Daleks who are too dangerous to be let loose on the universe. The shield that surrounds the earth has been compromised, and the Prime Minister wants the Doctor to stop these deadliest of Daleks escaping. We've seen many leaders of the Daleks, including the Emperor and Davros, but none are quite so evil as the Dalek Prime Minister who revels in the fact that the Daleks find beauty in hatred – and it's perhaps why they can't seem to kill the Doctor… Learn More
Figurine Magazine Special #19 Drathro
Celebrate over half a century of the BBC's hit series Doctor Who with a brand new magazine and figurine series that covers every year of Doctor Who history, including all the Doctors and all the greatest monsters from Daleks to Weeping Angels. Learn More
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Capital Vol. III
Part I. The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit
Chapter 1. Cost-Price and profit
In Book I we analysed the phenomena which constitute the process of capitalist production as such, as the immediate productive process, with no regard for any of the secondary effects of outside influences. But this immediate process of production does not exhaust the life span of capital. It is supplemented in the actual world by the process of circulation, which was the object of study in Book II. In the latter, namely in Part III, which treated the process of circulation as a medium for the process of social reproduction, it developed that the capitalist process of production taken as a whole represents a synthesis of the processes of production and circulation. Considering what this third book treats, it cannot confine itself to general reflection relative to this synthesis. On the contrary, it must locate and describe the concrete forms which grow out of the movements of capital as a whole. In their actual movement capitals confront each other in such concrete shape, for which the form of capital in the immediate process of production, just as its form in the process of circulation, appear only as special instances. The various forms of capital, as evolved in this book, thus approach step by step the form which they assume on the surface of society, in the action of different capitals upon one another, in competition, and in the ordinary consciousness of the agents of production themselves.
The value of every commodity produced in the capitalist way is represented in the formula: C = c + v + s. If we subtract surplus-values from this value of the product there remains a bare equivalent or a substitute value in goods, for the capital-value c + v expended in the elements of production.
For example, if the production of a certain article requires a capital outlay of £500, of which £20 are for the wear and tear of instruments of production, £380 for the materials of production, and £100 for labour-power, and if the rate of surplus-value is 100%, then the value of the product = 400c + 100v + 100s = £600.
After deducting the surplus-value of £100, there remains a commodity-value of £500 which only replaces the expended capital of £500. This portion of the value of the commodity, which replaces the price of the consumed means of production and labour-power, only replaces what the commodity costs the capitalist himself. For him it, therefore, represents the cost-price of the commodity.
What the commodity costs the capitalist and its actual production cost are two quite different magnitudes. That portion of the commodity-value making up the surplus-value does not cost the capitalist anything simply because it costs the labourer unpaid labour. Yet, on the basis of capitalist production, after the labourer enters the production process he himself constitutes an ingredient of operating productive capital, which belongs to the capitalist. Therefore, the capitalist is the actual producer of the commodity. For this reason the cost-price of the commodity necessarily appears to the capitalist as the actual cost of the commodity. If we take k to be the cost-price, the formula C = c + v + s turns into the formula C = k + s, that is, the commodity-value = cost-price + surplus-value.
The grouping of the various value portions of a commodity which only replace the value of the capital expended in its production under the head of cost-price expresses, on the one hand, the specific character of capitalist production. The capitalist cost of the commodity is measured by the expenditure of capital, while the actual cost of the commodity is measured by the expenditure of labour. Thus, the capitalist cost-price of the commodity differs in quantity from its value, or its actual cost-price. It is smaller than the value of the commodity, because, with C = k + s, it is evident that k = C - s. On the other hand, the cost-price of a commodity is by no means simply a category which exists only in capitalist book-keeping. The individualisation of this portion of value is continually manifest in practice in the actual production of the commodity, because it has ever to be reconverted from its commodity-form by way of the process of circulation into the form of productive capital, so that the cost-price of the commodity always must repurchase the elements of production consumed in its manufacture.
The category of cost-price, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the formation of commodity-value, or with the process of self-expansion of capital. When I know that of the value of a commodity worth £600, five-sixths, or £500, represent no more than an equivalent of the capital of £500 consumed in its production and that it can therefore suffice only to repurchase the material elements of this capital, I know nothing as yet either of the way in which these five-sixths of the value of the commodity, which represent its cost-price, are produced, or about the way in which the last sixth, which constitutes its surplus-value, was produced. The investigation will show, however, that in capitalist economics the cost-price assumes the false appearance of a category of value production itself.
To return to our example. Suppose the value produced by one labourer during an average social working-day is represented by a money sum of 6s. = 6M. Then the advanced capital of £500 = 400c + 100v represents a value produced in 1,666⅔ ten-hour working-days, of which 1,333⅓ working-days are crystallised in the value of the means of production = 400c, and 333⅓ are crystallised in the value of labour-power = 100v. Having assumed a rate of surplus-value of 100%, the production of the commodity to be newly formed entails a labour expenditure = 100v + 100s = 666⅔ ten-hour working-days.
We know, then (see Buch 1, Kap. VII, S. 201/193) [English edition: Ch. IX, p. 212.-Ed.] that the value of the newly created product of £600 is composed of 1) the reappearing value of the constant capital of £400 expended for means of production, and 2) a newly produced value of £200. The cost-price of the commodity = £500 comprises the reappearing 400c and one-half of the newly produced value of £200 ( = 100v), that is, two elements of the commodity-value which are of entirely different origin.
Owing to the purposive nature of the labour expended during 666⅔ ten-hour working-days, the value of the consumed means of production amounting to £400 is transferred from these means of production to the product. This previously existing value thus reappears as a component part of the value of the product, but is not created in the process of production of this commodity. It exists as a component of the value of the commodity only because it previously existed as an element of the invested capital. The expended constant capital is therefore replaced by that portion of the value of the commodity which this capital itself adds to that value. This element of the cost-price, therefore, has a double meaning. On the one hand, it goes into the cost-price of the commodity, because it is part of the commodity-value which replaces consumed capital. And on the other hand, it forms an element of the commodity-value only because it is the value of expended capital or because the means of production cost so and so much.
It is quite the reverse in the case of the other element of the cost-price. The 666⅔ working-days expended in the production of the commodity create a new value of £200. One portion of this new value merely replaces the advanced variable capital of £100, or the price of the labour-power employed. But this advanced capital-value does not in any way go into the creation of the new value. So far as the advance of capital is concerned, labour-power counts as a value. But in the process of production it acts as the creator of value. The place of the value of the labour-power that obtains within the advanced capital is taken in the actually functioning productive capital by living value-creating labour-power itself.
The difference between these various elements of the commodity-value, which together make up the cost-price, leaps to the eye whenever a change takes place in the size of the value of either the expended constant, or the expended variable, part of the capital. Let the price of the same means of production, or of the constant part of capital, rise from £400 to £600, or, conversely, let it fall to £200. In the first case it is not only the cost-price of the commodity which rises from £500 to 600c + 100v = £700, but also the value of the commodity which rises from £600 to 600c + 100v + 100s = £800. In the second case, it is not only the cost-price which falls from £500 to 200c+100v = £300, but also the value of the commodity which falls from £600 to 200c + 100v + 100s = £400. Since the expended constant capital transfers its own value to the product, the value of the product rises or falls with the absolute magnitude of that capital-value, other conditions remaining equal. Assume, on the other hand, that, other circumstances remaining unchanged, the price of the same amount of labour-power rises from £100 to £150, or, conversely, that it falls from £100 to £50. In the first case, the cost-price rises from £500 to 400c + 150v = £550, and falls in the second case from £500 to 400c + 50v = £450. But in either case the commodity-value remains unchanged = £600; one time it is 400c + 150v + 50s, and the other time, 400c + 50v + 150s. The advanced variable capital does not add its own value to the product. The place of its value is taken in the product rather by a new value created by labour. Therefore, a change in the absolute magnitude of the variable capital, so far as it expresses merely a change in the price of labour-power, does not in the least alter the absolute magnitude of the commodity-value, because it does not alter anything in the absolute magnitude of the new value created by living labour-power. Such a change rather affects only the relative proportion of the two component parts of the new value, of which one forms surplus-value and the other makes good the variable capital and therefore passes into the cost-price of the commodity.
The two elements of the cost-price, in the present case 400c + 100v, have only this in common that they are both parts of the commodity-value that replace advanced capital.
But this true state of affairs necessarily appears reversed from the standpoint of capitalist production.
The capitalist mode of production differs from the mode of production based on slavery, among other things, by the fact that in it the value, and accordingly the price, of labour-power appears as the value, or price, of labour itself, or as wages (Buch 1, Kap. XVII) [English edition: Ch. XIX. — Ed.]. The variable part of the advanced capital, therefore, appears as capital expended in wages, as a capital-value which pays for the value, and accordingly the price, of all the labour expended in production. Let us assume, for instance, that an average ten-hour social working-day is incorporated in a sum of money amounting to 6 shillings. In that case the advance of a variable capital of £100 represents the money expression of a value produced in 333 ⅓; ten-hour working-days. But this value, representing purchased labour-power in the capital advanced, does not, however, form a part of the actually functioning productive capital. Its place in the process of production is taken by living labour-power. If, as in our illustration, the degree of exploitation of the latter is 100%, then it is expended during 666⅔ ten-hour working-days, and thereby adds to the product a new value of £200. But in the capital advanced the variable capital of £100 figures as capital invested in wages, or as the price of labour performed during 666⅔ ten-hour days. The sum of £100 divided by 666⅔ gives us 3 shillings as the price of a ten-hour working-day, which is equal in value to the product of five hours' labour.
Now, if we compare the capital advanced on the one hand with the commodity-value on the other, we find:
I. Capital advanced £500 = £400 of capital expended in means of production (price of means of production) + £100 of capital expended in labour (price of 666⅔ working-days, or wages for same).
II. Value of commodities £600 = £500 representing the cost-price (£400 price of expended means of production + £100 price of expended 666⅔; working-days) + £100 surplus-value.
In this formula, the portion of capital invested in labour-power differs from that invested in means of production, such as cotton or coal, only by serving as payment for a materially different element of production, but not by any means because it serves a functionally different purpose in the process of creating commodity-value, and thereby also in the process of the self-expansion of capital. The price of the means of production reappears in the cost-price of the commodities, just as it figured in the capital advanced, and it does so because these means of production have been purposively consumed. The price, or wages, for the 666⅔ working-days consumed in the production of these commodities likewise reappears in the cost-price of the commodities just as it has figured in the capital advanced, and also because this amount of labour has been purposively expended. We see only finished and existing values — the portions of the value of the advanced capital which go into the making of the value of the product — but not the element creating new values. The distinction between constant and variable capital has disappeared. The entire cost-price of £500 now has the double meaning that, first, it is that portion of the commodity-value of £600 which replaces the capital of £500 expended in the production of the commodity; and that, secondly, this component of the commodity-value exists only because it existed previously as the cost-price of the elements of production employed, namely means of production and labour, i.e., as advanced capital. The capital-value reappears as the cost-price of a commodity because, and in so far as, it has been expended as a capital-value.
The fact that the various components of the value of the advanced capital have been expended for materially different elements of production, namely for instruments of labour, raw materials, auxiliary materials, and labour, requires only that the cost-price of the commodity must buy back these materially different elements of production. So far as the formation of the cost-price is concerned, however, only one distinction is appreciable, namely that between fixed and circulating capital. In our example we have set down £20 for wear and tear of instruments of labour (400c = £20 for depreciation of instruments of labour + £380 for materials of production). Before the productive process the value of these instruments of labour was, say, £1,200. After the commodities have been produced it exists in two forms, the £20 as part of the value of the commodity, and 1,200 - 20, or £1,180, as the remaining value of the instruments of labour which, as before, are in the possession of the capitalist; in other words, as an element of his productive, not of his commodity-capital. Materials of production and wages, as distinct from means of labour, are entirely consumed in the production of the commodity and thus their entire value goes into that of the produced commodity. We have seen how these various components of the advanced capital assume the forms of fixed and circulating capital in relation to the turnover.
Accordingly, the capital advanced = £1,680: fixed capital = £1,200 + circulating capital = £480 ( = £380 in materials of production plus £100 in wages).
But the cost-price of the commodity only = £500 (£20 for the wear and tear of the fixed capital, and £480 for circulating capital).
This difference between the cost-price of the commodity and the capital advanced merely proves, however, that the cost-price of the commodity is formed exclusively by the capital actually consumed in its production.
Means of production valued at £1,200 are employed in producing the commodity, but only £20 of this advanced capital-value are lost in production. Thus, the employed fixed capital goes only partially into the cost-price of the commodity, because it is only partially consumed in its production. The employed circulating capital goes entirely into the cost-price of the commodity, because it is entirely consumed in production. But does not this only prove that the consumed portions of the fixed and circulating capital pass uniformly, pro rata to the magnitude of their values, into the cost-price of the commodity and that this component of the value of the commodity originates solely with the capital expended in its production? If this were not so, it would be inexplicable why the advanced fixed capital of £1,200 should not, aside from the £20 which it loses in the productive process, also contribute the other £1,180 which it does not lose.
This difference between fixed and circulating capital with reference to the calculation of the cost-price, therefore, only confirms the seeming origination of the cost-price from the expended capital-value, or the price paid by the capitalist himself for the expended elements of production, including labour. On the other hand, so far as the formation of value is concerned, the variable portion of capital invested in labour-power is here emphatically identified under the head of circulating capital with constant capital (that part of capital which consists of materials of production), and this completes the mystification of the self-expansion process of capital.[1]
So far we have considered just one element of the value of commodities, namely the cost-price. We must now turn also to the other component of the value of commodities, namely the excess over the cost-price, or the surplus-value. In the first place, then, surplus-value is the excess value of a commodity over and above its cost-price. But since the cost-price equals the value of the consumed capital, into whose material elements it is continually reconverted, this excess value is an accretion in the value of the capital expended in the production of the commodity and returning by way of its circulation.
We have already seen earlier that, though s, the surplus-value, springs merely from a change in the value of the variable capital v and is, therefore, originally but an increment of variable capital, after the process of production is over it nevertheless also forms an increment of c + v, the expended total capital. The formula c + (v + s), which indicates that s is produced through the conversion of a definite capital-value v advanced for labour-power into a fluctuating magnitude, i.e., of a constant magnitude into a variable one, may also be represented as (c + v) + s. Before production took place we had a capital of £500. After production is completed we have the capital of £500 plus a value increment of £100.[2]
However, surplus-value forms an increment not only of the portion of the advanced capital which goes into the self-expansion process, but also of the portion which does not go into it. In other words, it is an accretion not only to the consumed capital made good out of the cost-price of the commodity, but to all the capital invested in production. Before the production process we had a capital valued at £1,680, namely £1,200 of fixed capital invested in means of production, only £20 of which go into the value of the commodity for wear and tear, plus £480 of circulating capital in materials of production and wages. After the production process we have £1,180 as the constituent element of the value of the productive capital plus a commodity-capital of £600. By adding these two sums of value we find that the capitalist now has a value of £1,780. After deducting his advanced total capital of £1,680 there remains a value increment of £100. The £100 of surplus-value thus form as much of an increment in relation to the invested £1,680 as to its fraction of £500 expended during production.
It is now clear to the capitalist that this increment of value springs from the productive processes undertaken with the capital, that it therefore springs from the capital itself, because it is there after the production process, while it is not there before it. As for the capital consumed in production, the surplus-value seems to spring equally from all its different elements of value consisting of means of production and labour. For all these elements contribute equally to the formation of the cost-price. All of them add their values, obtaining as advanced capital, to the value of the product, and are not differentiated as constant and variable magnitudes of value. This becomes obvious if we assume for a moment that all the expended capital consisted either exclusively of wages, or exclusively of the value of the means of production. In the first case, we should then have the commodity-value of 500v + 100s instead of the commodity-value of 400c + 100v + 100s. The capital of £500 laid out in wages represents the value of all the labour expended in the production of the commodity-value of £600, and for just this reason forms the cost-price of the entire product. But the formation of this cost-price, whereby the value of the expended capital is reproduced as a constituent part of the value of the product, is the only process in the formation of this commodity-value that is known to us. We do not know how its surplus-value portion of £100 is formed. The same is true in the second case, in which the commodity-value = 500c + 100s. We know in both cases that surplus-value is derived from a given value, because this value was advanced in the form of productive capital, be it in the form of labour or of means of production. On the other hand, this advanced capital-value cannot form surplus-value for the reason that it has been expended and therefore constitutes the cost-price of the commodity. Precisely because it forms the cost-price of the commodity, it does not form any surplus-value, but merely an equivalent, a value replacing the expended capital. So far, therefore, as it forms surplus-value, it does so not in its specific capacity as expended, but rather as advanced, and hence utilised, capital. For this reason, the surplus-value arises as much out of the portion of the advanced capital which goes into the cost-price of the commodity, as out of the portion which does not. In short, it arises equally out of the fixed and the circulating components of the utilised capital. The aggregate capital serves materially as the creator of products, the means of labour as well as the materials of production, and the labour. The total capital materially enters into the actual labour-process, even though only a portion of it enters the process of self-expansion. This is, perhaps, the very reason why it contributes only in part to the formation of the cost-price, but totally to the formation of surplus-value. However that may be, the outcome is that surplus-value springs simultaneously from all portions of the invested capital. This deduction may be substantially abbreviated, by saying pointedly and concisely in the words of Malthus:
"The capitalist ... expects an equal profit upon all the parts of the capital which he advances." [3]
In its assumed capacity of offspring of the aggregate advanced capital, surplus-value takes the converted form of profit. Hence, a certain value is capital when it is invested with a view to producing profit [4], or, there is profit because a certain value was employed as capital. Suppose profit is p. Then the formula C = c + v + s = k + s turns into the formula C = k + p, or the value of a commodity = cost-price + profit.
The profit, such as it is represented here, is thus the same as surplus-value, only in a mystified form that is nonetheless a necessary outgrowth of the capitalist mode of production. The genesis of the mutation of values that occurs in the course of the production process, must be transferred from the variable portion of the capital to the total capital, because there is no apparent distinction between constant and variable capital in the assumed formation of the cost-price. Because at one pole the price of labour-power assumes the transmuted form of wages, surplus-value appears at the opposite pole in the transmuted form of profit.
We have seen that the cost-price of a commodity is smaller than its value. Since C = k + s, it follows that k = C - s. The formula C = k + s reduces itself to C = k, or commodity-value = commodity cost-price only if s = 0, a case which never occurs on the basis of capitalist production, although peculiar market conditions may reduce the selling price of commodities to the level of, or even below, their cost-price.
Hence, if a commodity is sold at its value, a profit is realised which is equal to the excess of its value over its cost-price, and therefore equal to the entire surplus-value incorporated in the value of the commodity. But the capitalist may sell a commodity at a profit even when he sells it below its value. So long as its selling price is higher than its cost-price, though it may be lower than its value, a portion of the surplus-value incorporated in it is always realised, thus always yielding a profit. In our illustration the value of the commodity is £600, and the cost-price £500. If the commodity is sold at £510, 520, 530, 560 or 590, it is sold respectively £90, 80, 70, 40, or 10 below its value. Yet a profit of £10, 20, 30, 60, or 90 respectively is realised in its sale. There is obviously an indefinite number of selling prices possible between the value of a commodity and its cost-price. The greater the surplus-value element of the value of a commodity, the greater the practical range of these intermediate prices.
This explains more than just the everyday phenomena of competition, such as certain cases of underselling, abnormally low commodity-prices in certain lines of industry [5], etc. The fundamental law of capitalist competition, which political economy had not hitherto grasped, the law which regulates the general rate of profit and the so-called prices of production determined by it, rests, as we shall later see, on this difference between the value and the cost-price of commodities, and on the resulting possibility of selling a commodity at a profit under its value.
The minimal limit of the selling price of a commodity is its cost-price. If it is sold under its cost-price, the expended constituent elements of productive capital cannot be fully replaced out of the selling price. If this process continues, the value of the advanced capital disappears. From this point of view alone, the capitalist is inclined to regard the cost-price as the true inner value of the commodity, because it is the price required for the bare conservation of his capital. But there is also this, that the cost-price of a commodity is the purchase price paid by the capitalist himself for its production, therefore the purchase price determined by the production process itself. For this reason, the excess value, or the surplus-value, realised in the sale of a commodity appears to the capitalist as an excess of its selling price over its value, instead of an excess of its value over its cost-price, so that accordingly the surplus-value incorporated in a commodity is not realised through its sale, but springs out of the sale itself. We have given this illusion closer consideration in Book I (Kap. IV, 2) [English edition: Ch. V, 2. — Ed.] ("Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital"), but revert here for a moment to the form in which it was reaffirmed by Torrens, among others, as an advance of political economy beyond Ricardo.
"The natural price, consisting of the cost of production, or, in other words, of the capital expended in raising or fabricating commodities, cannot include the profit.... The farmer, we will suppose, expends one hundred quarters of corn in cultivating his fields, and obtains in return one hundred and twenty quarters. In this case, twenty quarters, being the excess of produce above expenditure, constitute the farmer's profit; but it would be absurd to call this excess, or profit, a part of the expenditures... The master manufacturer expends a certain quantity of raw material, of tools and implements of trade, and of subsistence for labour, and obtains in return a quantity of finished work. This finished work must possess a higher exchangeable value than the materials, tools, and subsistence, by the advance of which it was obtained."
Torrens concludes therefrom that the excess of the selling price over the cost-price, or profit, is derived from the fact that the consumers,
"either by immediate or circuitous barter give some greater portion of all the ingredients of capital than their production costs." [6]
Indeed, the excess over a given magnitude cannot form a part of this magnitude, and therefore the profit, the excess value of a commodity over the capitalist's expenditures, cannot form a part of these expenditures. Hence, if no other element than the value advance of the capitalist enters into the formation of the value of a commodity, it is inexplicable how more value should come out of production than went into it, for something cannot come out of nothing. But Torrens only evades this creation out of nothing by transferring it from the sphere of commodity-production to that of commodity-circulation. Profit cannot come out of production, says Torrens, for otherwise it would already be contained in the cost of production, and there would not be a surplus over this cost. Profit cannot come out of the exchange of commodities, replies Ramsay, unless it already existed before this exchange. The sum of the value of the exchanged products is evidently not altered in the exchange of these products, whose sum of value it is. It is the same before and after the exchange. It should be noted here that Malthus refers expressly to the authority of Torrens [7] although he himself has a different explanation for the sale of commodities above their value, or rather has no explanation at all, since all arguments of this sort never, in effect, fail to be reduced to the same thing as the once-famed negative weight of phlogiston.
In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions. Balzac, who is generally remarkable for his profound grasp of reality, aptly describes in his last novel, Les Paysans, how a petty peasant performs many small tasks gratuitously for his usurer, whose goodwill he is eager to retain, and how he fancies that he does not give the latter something for nothing because his own labour does not cost him any cash outlay. As for the usurer, he thus fells two dogs with one stone. He saves the cash outlay for wages and enmeshes the peasant, who is gradually ruined by depriving his own field of labour, deeper and deeper in the spider-web of usury.
The thoughtless conception that the cost-price of a commodity constitutes its actual value, and that surplus-value springs from selling the product above its value, so that commodities would be sold at their value if their selling price were to equal their cost-price, i.e., if it were to equal the price of the consumed means of production plus wages, has been heralded to the world as a newly discovered secret of socialism by Proudhon with his customary quasi-scientific chicanery. Indeed, this reduction of the value of commodities to their cost-price is the basis of his People's Bank. It was earlier shown that the various constituent elements of the value of a product may be represented in proportional parts of the product itself. For instance (Buch I, Kap. VI 1, 2, S. 211/203) [English edition: Ch. IX, 2, pp. 220-21. — Ed.] if the value of 20 lbs. of yarn is 30 shillings — namely 24 shillings of means of production, 3 shillings of labour-power, and 3 shillings of surplus-value — then this surplus-value may be represented as 1/10 of the product=2 lbs. of yarn. Should these 20 lbs. of yarn now be sold at their cost-price, at 27 shillings, then the purchaser receives 2 lbs. of yarn for nothing, or the article is sold 1/10 below its value. But the labourer has, as before, performed his surplus-labour, only this time for the purchaser of the yarn instead of the capitalist yarn producer. It would be altogether wrong to assume that if all commodities were sold at their cost-price, the result would really be the same as if they had all been sold above their cost-price, but at their value. For even if the value of the labour-power, the length of the working-day, and the degree of exploitation of labour were the same everywhere, the quantities of surplus-value contained in the values of the various kinds of commodities would be unequal, depending on the different organic composition of the capitals advanced for their production.[8]
1. In Book I (Kap. VII, 3, S. 216/206 ff.) [English edition: Ch. IX, 3, 225 ff. — Ed.] we have given the example of N. W. Senior to show what confusion this may create in the mind of the economist.
2. "From what has gone before, we know that surplus-value is purely the result of a variation in the value of v, of that portion of the capital which is transformed into labour-power; consequently, v + s = v + Dv (or v plus an increment of v). But the fact that it is v alone that varies, and the conditions of that variation, are obscured by the circumstance that in consequence of the increase in the variable component of the capital, there is also an increase in the sum total of the advanced capital. It was originally £500, and becomes £590." (Buch I, Kap. VI I, 1, S. 203/195.) [English edition: Ch. IX, 1, p. 214. — Ed.]
3. Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, 2nd ed., London, 1836, p. 268.
4. "Capital is that which is expended with a view to profit." Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy, London, 1827, p. 86.
5. Cf. Buch I. Kap. XVIII, 1, S. 571/561 ff. [English edition: Ch. XX, 1, p. 549 ff. — Ed.]
6. R. Torrens, An Essay on the Production of Wealth, London, 1821, pp. 51-53, and 349.
7. Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy, London, 1853, pp. 70, 71.
8. "The masses of value and of surplus-value produced by different capitals — the value of labour-power being given and its degree of exploitation being equal — vary directly as the amounts of the variable constituents of these capitals, i.e., as their constituents transformed into living labour-power." (Buch 1, Kap. IX. S. 312/303.) [English edition: Ch. XI, pp. 306/307. — Ed.]
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Q: Use Auth0 service into custom element with angular 6 I created a simple cutom element component and use simple service to get an jsonplaceholder data; it works :-)
Based on this simple tuto: a6 custom element
This is my repo: repo element
I would like inject 3rd party auth0 service into the component.
But i get this error in my console when  get the Auth service inject into component:
ERROR Error: StaticInjectorError[e]:
  StaticInjectorError(e)[e -> e]:
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Where it throw this:
return e.prototype.get = function(e, t) {
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                    throw new Error("NullInjectorError: No provider for " + Se(e) + "!");
                return t
            }
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if [ -e /etc/debian_version ]; then
    . /lib/lsb/init-functions
elif [ -e /etc/init.d/functions ] ; then
    . /etc/init.d/functions
fi

if ! type log_daemon_msg 2>&1 |grep -qai function ; then
# no lsb setup?  no problem.  we will add them in

log_use_fancy_output () {
    TPUT=/usr/bin/tput
    EXPR=/usr/bin/expr
    if [ -t 1 ] && [ "x$TERM" != "" ] && [ "x$TERM" != "xdumb" ] && [ -x $TPUT ] && [ -x $EXPR ] && $TPUT hpa 60 >/dev/null 2>&1 && $TPUT setaf 1 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        [ -z $FANCYTTY ] && FANCYTTY=1 || true
    else
        FANCYTTY=0
    fi
    case "$FANCYTTY" in
        1|Y|yes|true)   true;;
        *)              false;;
    esac
}

log_success_msg () {
    if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then
        log_begin_msg $@
    fi
    log_end_msg 0
}

log_failure_msg () {
    if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then
        log_begin_msg $@
    fi
    log_end_msg 1 || true
}

log_warning_msg () {
    if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then
        log_begin_msg $@
    fi
    log_end_msg 255 || true
}

#
# NON-LSB HELPER FUNCTIONS
#
# int get_lsb_header_val (char *scriptpathname, char *key)
get_lsb_header_val () {
        if [ ! -f "$1" ] || [ -z "${2:-}" ]; then
                return 1
        fi
        LSB_S="### BEGIN INIT INFO"
        LSB_E="### END INIT INFO"
        sed -n "/$LSB_S/,/$LSB_E/ s/# $2: \(.*\)/\1/p" $1
}

# int log_begin_message (char *message)
log_begin_msg () {
    if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi
    echo -n "$@"
}

# Sample usage:
# log_daemon_msg "Starting GNOME Login Manager" "gdm"
#
# On Debian, would output "Starting GNOME Login Manager: gdm"
# On Ubuntu, would output " * Starting GNOME Login Manager..."
#
# If the second argument is omitted, logging suitable for use with
# log_progress_msg() is used:
#
# log_daemon_msg "Starting remote filesystem services"
#
# On Debian, would output "Starting remote filesystem services:"
# On Ubuntu, would output " * Starting remote filesystem services..."

log_daemon_msg () {
    if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi
    log_daemon_msg_pre "$@"

    if [ -z "${2:-}" ]; then
        echo -n "$1:"
        return
    fi

    echo -n "$1: $2"
    log_daemon_msg_post "$@"
}

# #319739
#
# Per policy docs:
#
#     log_daemon_msg "Starting remote file system services"
#     log_progress_msg "nfsd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet nfsd
#     log_progress_msg "mountd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet mountd
#     log_progress_msg "ugidd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet ugidd
#     log_end_msg 0
#
# You could also do something fancy with log_end_msg here based on the
# return values of start-stop-daemon; this is left as an exercise for
# the reader...
#
# On Ubuntu, one would expect log_progress_msg to be a no-op.
log_progress_msg () {
    if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi
    echo -n " $@"
}

# int log_end_message (int exitstatus)
log_end_msg () {
    # If no arguments were passed, return
    if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi

    retval=$1

    log_end_msg_pre "$@"

    # Only do the fancy stuff if we have an appropriate terminal
    # and if /usr is already mounted
    if log_use_fancy_output; then
        RED=`$TPUT setaf 1`
        YELLOW=`$TPUT setaf 3`
        NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
    else
        RED=''
        YELLOW=''
        NORMAL=''
    fi

    if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "."
    elif [ $1 -eq 255 ]; then
        /bin/echo -e " ${YELLOW}(warning).${NORMAL}"
    else
        /bin/echo -e " ${RED}failed!${NORMAL}"
    fi
    log_end_msg_post "$@"
    return $retval
}

log_action_msg () {
    echo "$@."
}

log_action_begin_msg () {
    echo -n "$@..."
}

log_action_cont_msg () {
    echo -n "$@..."
}

log_action_end_msg () {
    log_action_end_msg_pre "$@"
    if [ -z "${2:-}" ]; then
        end="."
    else
        end=" ($2)."
    fi

    if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "done${end}"
    else
        if log_use_fancy_output; then
            RED=`$TPUT setaf 1`
            NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
            /bin/echo -e "${RED}failed${end}${NORMAL}"
        else
            echo "failed${end}"
        fi
    fi
    log_action_end_msg_post "$@"
}

# Hooks for /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh
log_daemon_msg_pre () { :; }
log_daemon_msg_post () { :; }
log_end_msg_pre () { :; }
log_end_msg_post () { :; }
log_action_end_msg_pre () { :; }
log_action_end_msg_post () { :; }

fi

# how long to wait for the app to startup before saying 'its probably up'
STARTWAITTIMES=45

# figure out what to do based on the name of this script
if echo $0 | grep -qai tomcat; then
HOMEDIR=/usr/local/tomcat
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
APPNAME=Tomcat
elif echo $0 | grep -qai alfresco; then
HOMEDIR=/usr/local/alfresco/tomcat
TOMCAT_USER=alfresco
APPNAME=Alfresco
elif echo $0 | grep -qai jboss; then
HOMEDIR=/usr/local/jboss
TOMCAT_USER=jboss
APPNAME=JBoss
STARTWAITTIMES=60
elif echo $0 | grep -qai liferay; then
tomcatloc=$( ls /usr/local/liferay | grep tomcat )
HOMEDIR=/usr/local/liferay/$tomcatloc
TOMCAT_USER=liferay
APPNAME=Liferay
if [ -d /home/$TOMCAT_USER ]; then
#since liferay can put some stuff (e.g. lucene search indexes)
chown -R $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_USER /home/$TOMCAT_USER
fi
STARTWAITTIMES=120
else
log_failure_msg "Unknown startup script name $0"
exit 1
fi

# something so we can test if the app is fully started
TESTURL=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
if [ -e $HOMEDIR/initscript/testurl ]; then
TESTURL=$(cat $HOMEDIR/initscript/testurl)
fi

#Necessary environment variables
[ -e /usr/java/jdk/bin/java ] && export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk
#export LD_KERNEL_ASSUME="2.2.5"

# set application specific defaults
if [ "$APPNAME" = "Tomcat"  -o "$APPNAME" = "Liferay" -o "$APPNAME" = "Alfresco" ]; then
    export CATALINA_HOME=$HOMEDIR
    INITSCRIPT=$HOMEDIR/bin/catalina.sh
    RUNCOMMAND="export CATALINA_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME; $INITSCRIPT start"
    STOPCOMMAND="$INITSCRIPT stop"
    GREPSTRING="$(basename $HOMEDIR).*[o]rg.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start"
    LOGFILE=$HOMEDIR/logs/catalina.out
elif [ "$APPNAME" = "JBoss" ]; then
    . /usr/local/jboss/bin/run.conf
    INITSCRIPT=$HOMEDIR/bin/run.sh
    if [ -z "$JBOSS_CONFIGURATION" ]; then
        JBOSS_CONFIGURATION=default
    fi
    RUNCOMMAND="bash $INITSCRIPT -c $JBOSS_CONFIGURATION $JBOSS_OPTIONS "
    STOPCOMMAND="bash $HOMEDIR/bin/shutdown.sh $JBOSS_SHUTDOWN_OPTIONS "
    GREPSTRING="[o]rg.jboss.Main"
    LOGFILE=$HOMEDIR/server/$JBOSS_CONFIGURATION/log/jbconsole.log
else
    log_failure_msg "Only JBoss and Tomcat are recognised.  Not $APPNAME"
    exit 1
fi

# makes it a bit easier to find if the process is running.  e.g. put a -Dsomeval=Y
# into the JAVA_OPTS for the program.  e.g. in catalina.sh or setenv.sh or run.conf
if [ -e $HOMEDIR/initscript/grepstring ]; then
GREPSTRING=$(cat $HOMEDIR/initscript/grepstring)
fi

# allow overriding of these variables without script changes via a conf file
if [ -e $HOMEDIR/initscript/initscript.conf ] ; then
    source $HOMEDIR/initscript/initscript.conf
fi

#if [ "$APPNAME" = "Liferay" ]; then
#    TOMCAT_VER_DIR=$(ls $HOMEDIR | grep tomcat)
#    if [ -d "$TOMCAT_VER_DIR/logs" ]; then
#        LOGFILE=$HOMEDIR/$TOMCAT_VER_DIR/logs/ltconsole.out
#    fi
#fi

#Check for init script
if [ ! -f $INITSCRIPT ]; then
    log_failure_msg "$APPNAME not available... (no  $INITSCRIPT)"
    exit 1
fi

if ! id "$TOMCAT_USER" >/dev/null; then
    log_failure_msg "$TOMCAT_USER is not a user.  Please create a user account first."
    exit 1
fi

setpslist() {
    PSLIST=$(ps a --width=1000 --User "$TOMCAT_USER" -o  pid,user,command  | grep "$GREPSTRING" | grep -v PID | awk '{printf $1 " "}')
}
start() {
    setpslist
    log_daemon_msg "Starting" "$APPNAME"
    if [ ! -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
        log_warning_msg "$APPNAME already running, can't start it"
        log_end_msg 1
        return 1
    fi
    if [ ! -e "$LOGFILE" -a ! -e "`dirname \"$LOGFILE\"`" ]; then
        #log_action_msg "mkdir -p $(dirname "$LOGFILE")"
        mkdir -p $(dirname "$LOGFILE")
    fi
    if [ -e "$LOGFILE" ]; then
        #log_action_msg "mv $LOGFILE $LOGFILE.old"
        mv $LOGFILE{,.old}
    fi

    chown -R $TOMCAT_USER $HOMEDIR
    chmod -R g+w $HOMEDIR
    exec su - -p --shell=/bin/sh $TOMCAT_USER -c "cd $(dirname $INITSCRIPT); $RUNCOMMAND >\"$LOGFILE\"" 2>&1 &
    local starttime=$(date +"%s")
    # wait a bit for the app to startup
    while true; do
        sleep 3
        local now=$(date +"%s")
        if wget --tries=1 --timeout=1 --server-response -O - $TESTURL 2>&1 | grep -qai " HTTP/1.1 "; then
          log_end_msg 0
          break
        fi
        # process not starting (cf. http response not happening)
        if [ $(($now - 15 )) -gt $starttime ]; then
            setpslist
            if [ -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
                log_failure_msg "Java process not starting.  Last few lines from the startup log follow:"
                log_failure_msg "$(tail -n 4 $LOGFILE)"
                log_end_msg 1
                return 1
            fi
        fi
        if [ $(($now - $STARTWAITTIMES)) -gt $starttime ]; then
            log_warning_msg "$APPNAME startup taking too long, not getting a response on $TESTURL, giving up"
            log_end_msg 0
            return 0
        fi
        log_progress_msg .
    done
}

killprocesses() {
    log_daemon_msg "Killing" "$APPNAME"
    setpslist
    if [ -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
        log_progress_msg "$APPNAME not running, no need to kill it"
        log_end_msg 0
	return
    fi
    kill -9 $PSLIST
    log_end_msg 0
}

stop() {
    log_daemon_msg "Stopping" "$APPNAME"
    setpslist
    if [ -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
        log_progress_msg "$APPNAME not running, no need to stop it"
        log_end_msg 0
    fi
    waslistening=N
    needtokill=N
    if wget --tries=1 --timeout=1 --server-response -O - $TESTURL 2>&1 | grep -qai " HTTP/1.1 "; then
       waslistening=Y
    fi

    suoutput=$(su - --shell=/bin/bash -p $TOMCAT_USER -c "$STOPCOMMAND" 2>&1)
    local starttime=$(date +"%s")

    # wait a while for the app to shutdown gracefully, else kill it
    while true; do
        sleep 3
        local now=$(date +"%s")
        setpslist
        if [ -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
            log_end_msg 0
            return 0
        fi
        if echo $suoutput | egrep -qai "(Refused|Address already in use)" ; then
            log_warning_msg "'stop' signal refused, killing $APPNAME."
            kill -SIGTERM $PSLIST
        elif [ $(($now - 80)) -gt $starttime ]; then
            log_warning_msg "Graceful shutdown taking too long, killing it.";
            kill -SIGKILL $PSLIST
        elif [ $(($now - 50)) -gt $starttime ]; then
            log_warning_msg "Graceful shutdown taking too long, terminating it.";
            kill -SIGTERM $PSLIST
        elif [ "$needtokill" = "Y" ]; then
            log_progress_msg "Killing. "
            kill -SIGKILL $PSLIST
        elif [ "$waslistening" = "Y" -a "$needtokill" = "N" ]; then
            if  ! wget --tries=1 --timeout=1 --server-response -O - $TESTURL 2>&1 | grep -qai " HTTP/1.1 " ; then
            log_progress_msg  "Stopped listening on http, but not shutting down fully. "
            needtokill=Y
            sleep 10
            fi
        fi
        # echo -n $(echo $PSLIST | wc -w) " "
    done
}

status() {
    setpslist
    if [ ! -z "$PSLIST" ]; then
        local MSG="$APPNAME ( PIDs $PSLIST ) is running."
        if wget --tries=1 --timeout=1 --server-response -O - $TESTURL 2>&1 | grep -qai " HTTP/1.1 "; then
            log_success_msg "$MSG  And listening on $TESTURL."
        else
            log_warning_msg "$MSG  But not responding on $TESTURL."
        fi
    else
        log_failure_msg "$APPNAME is not running"
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
     stop)
        stop
        ;;
     restart)
        stop
        sleep 3
        start
        ;;
     kill)
        killprocesses
        ;;
     killstart)
        killprocesses
	start
        ;;
     status)
        status
        ;;
     *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|kill|killstart}"
     exit 1
esac
exit $?

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text:
\section{acknowledgement}
Authors are thankful to Dr. C. Couteau for valuable discussions, D. Thenot for help on the SiN depositions, S. Xavier for help on the e-beam lithography and B. Servet for his initial help on the PL set-up. Q.X. gratefully acknowledges the financial support from Singapore National Research Foundation vis NRF Investigatorship Award (NRF-NRFI2015-03), and Ministry of Education via Three Tier2 grants (MOE2011-T2-2-051,  MOE2012-T2-2-086 and MOE2013-T2-1-049). C.S. acknowledges financial support of the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE2013-T2-1-044).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaArXiv


I think I'm creating our start-up backwards... Please help us re-focus so we can progress confidently.
Hey everyone, I'm a software developer and have been leading the development of an application which revolves around child behavioral tracking and pattern detection. Aside from picking a name for our new application and securing the domain we've been focused solely on prototyping the first version of the application. It involves quite a bit of data visualization challenges so we were eager to roll our sleeves up and start coding. The initial progress has been great, our technology stack is defined and our initial prototype is extremely elegant under the hood but we are currently at somewhat of a standstill.
My question is having jumped way ahead into the software development lifecycle, should we continue to sprint along until we get a MVP that we know we wont be happy with fairly soon or reign it in and enlist the help of both a UX and UI design resource and not worry so much about when the app can launch?
It's a classic trap we software developers / entrepreneurs face when we think we are creating a solution and find out THE problem may not actually exist.
We are actually really *passionate* about our solutions. I see from your question that you are there. I have been there -- and continue to go there... and then... down the rabbit hole we head... until someone pulls us out.
This is me pulling you up for air (which I feel is your real request!).
I continue to keep myself from jumping into those rabbit holes. They are fun and pretty much a habit I -- and many people -- have where we love chasing the shiny objects.
It seems you have found your ONE Shiny Object.
Now... get out and TALK TO *REAL* PEOPLE and find out what the problem really is before trying to solve it.
If I am wrong about any of these assumptions -- please accept my apologies.
If I get you (or anyone reading this) to *respond* -- either negatively or positively -- then I have at least made the conversation and this answer relevant in your life!
Stop coming up with the "perfect" solutions. As passionate as you are about them.
Get out there and talk to your REAL users. Conversations. Find out their pains as they are usually not what we assume (unfortunately like a lot of what I may be doing with this answer).
*THIS* one technique will guarantee you can deliver a solid -- good enough -- true MVP and be able to pivot if (and when) you learn more!
Let me know if you'd like to have a conversation.
I am assuming you'd have gained significant insights on the probable demand for your application. If I build, they will come could be a fatal proposition to presume. I am telling this, both, after having worked with numerous entrepreneurs as an independent consultant to working with startups as an agency.
Secondly, as a yet-to-be-launched-startup your concern should be "How to monetize the App?" than thinking about something as big as branding. Branding is much more than mere having a logo.
Continuing with sprint up to MVP could be a good idea as long as you are clear with "Objective" and "Goal" that you wish to achieve post reaching MVP stage. If not, then you should simultaneously start establishing a business model around your idea. And, don't confuse business model to means to just earn revenue. It's much more than that, and in it's absence the road ahead may be ridden with more potholes.
There could be various such critical business parameters to consider.
I hope above could be of some help to you. Please feel free to reach out to me for any specific input that you may be looking at. Receiving more Clarity from you will help me to provide more Clarity on way forward. We call it "Hand-Holding". Thank You!!
In my option, before UX and UI you need that marketing research and branding partner to do those items you mentioned. Your marketing head should have all that laid out so they can then guide your UX and UI designers on how to do their job.
IMO i've been where you are. CTOing all-in-code. But i'm not sure i found an immediately obvious way. Because it was not just my way, it has to be teams/startup's way.
Having some mostly working software that can be used as prototype and show-of-concept is good. Very good. Don't throw it away. Keep building it, Maybe slower.
In paralel, try to find what really you all want. And What is missing. Involve some possible wanna-be users. (Who are the users? Are they just one kind - or there is some completely sidetrack group that has not been forgotten? e.g. admins? statisticians?).
What aspects are weak? Is it about features, usability, product, technology, customers, marketing, maintainability, proper spec, some-future-in-2-years, shiny looks, bells-and-whistles, whatever. Then Prioritize those. Or maybe first Prioritize the aspects, from business perspective, and then find how much each one is covered or not.
We can talk more if u want. Even if only helping you identify your own problems - or just fears.
Hi Mike, there are lots of good answers here already, so I'll be succinct: One of my favorite marketers, Gary Halbert, liked to say that the only competitive advantage he wanted was a hungry crowd. You can have the worst recipes and stale ingredients in an inconvenient location with rude waitstaff and still build a profitable business if you've got a hungry crowd. So I'd recommend (re)reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, and giving yourself the goal of doing 100 customer interviews in 30 days. Focus on two simple questions: 1) "If I created this [your software], would you pay for it?" and 2) "What would it be worth to you?" Over the course of those 100 interviews, you may either validate your hungry crowd or it may disappear. Regardless, don't keep building unless you're 100% certain that people will PAY for your specific solution.


During the first archaeological campaign of 2017 at Sumhuram excavations were carried out in three areas of the site: Area F, Area G and Area H. In Area G, two furnaces for iron working have been brought to light, thus confirming the importance of Sumhuram as a centre of production of metal works. A bronze figurine representing an animal with long straight and branched horns, maybe a deer, comes from Area H.
The results of the latest excavation campaign at Al Hamr al-Sharqiya are of great importance. Indeed the Musterian artifacts, in addition to a cluster of Neolithic artifacts, found in the current investigation lead to date the occupation of the area back to the Pleistocene.
The second part of ARABI project focuses on the building of the glorious past of two Arab tribes, which played an important role in the seventh and eight century CE as part of a Yemenite faction in the struggles for power of the first 150 years from Hijra: al-Azd and Quḍāʿa. Five examples of that narrative are given, in both original Arabic and English translation.
Throughout its long history, from 3rd cent BC to 5th cent AD, Sumhuram was involved in an international network of commercial trades and contacts, with Yemen, India, the Gulf, Egypt and the Mediterranean, as attested by numerous small findings and a large amount of ceramic vessels.
A further campaign of field work took place from September to December 2016 at Qaryat Salut. The trench-6, the burials of the Islamic period on the northern area, the Building 13 in the western area of the site, in use form the Iron Age to 13th-14th century AD, and a dozen of Bronze Age tombs, located in the small hill at the foot of Jebel Salut, were investigated.
Pre-Islamic South Arabia produced a large amount of objects related to the funerary field and, among them, the funerary stelae are the most important for their large number, the variety of subjects and decorations represented on them.
The 'Ataq Museum was built in 1981 according to plans drawn by the French Archaeological Mission at Shabwa. Most of the pieces were transferred to 'Ataq from the Museum of Shabwa as well as material from the Yemeni-Soviet mission at Qana' (Bir Alî). Its collection is now available on Arabia Antica and DASI.
As the restoration of the bronze artifacts from the Military Museum of Sana on loan at the University of Pisa is concluded, 3D models of them have been created, through the structure from motion photogrammetry.


Healthy hair starts with a healthy scalp. The HairMax® RSN8 Pro Scalp Treatment applies the latest in skin care research to your scalp, providing a strong foundation for thicker, fuller looking hair.
The final step in the Density Hair Care System, this innovative treatment combines eight highly active ingredients that rejuvenate, stimulate and nourish your scalp, working together to help fight the signs of aging.
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Using the right pillow for both comfort and support can make a significant difference in alleviating or preventing back and neck pain.
The wrong pillow can intensify headaches, neck and back pain, shoulder and arm numbness, discomfort, sneezing, and wheezing. The pillow itself won't be the cause of any of these problems, but a bad one can exacerbate many of the underlying symptoms.
It can be difficult to part with your favourite pillow but it's important to find the right pillow for your sleep needs, including your preferred sleeping position. Each sleeping position puts strain on your spine in a different way. The goal of using a pillow is to help keep your head in what is called a 'neutral alignment,' meaning your head is sitting squarely on your shoulders without bending back too far or reaching too far forward.
Long body pillows can be effective at relieving the strain from your spine so that it remains in a neutral position throughout the night, no matter how much you turn in your sleep. In addition, the body pillow allows your muscles to relax fully which also increases circulation. Pain and stiffness are greatly alleviated once circulation is improved. The extra support helps increase oxygen flow throughout the body, which also impacts on how quickly you heal.
The type of pillow recommended for an individual sleeper will vary depending on a number of factors such as physical build, sleep position and comfort preferences. The best way to find the perfect pillow is to talk to a specialist bedding retailer.
If you suffer from back pain you are not alone. Find out what could be contributing to your pain and discomfort.
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