The BGSMath invites proposals from BGSMath members for advanced graduate courses to be held before 30 June 30 2019. The duration of a course is 10 to 20 hours, distributed along two to five weeks.
A BGSMath Advanced Graduate Course can be on fundamental topics in advanced mathematics or on specialized topics. Courses with broad perspective that could attract PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from different research fields will be given a priority. A lecturer of a BGSMath advanced graduate course must be an international leading figure in the corresponding field.
The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2018.
The proposals should contain the following.
Name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) and homepage(s) of the lecturer(s).
Scientific motivation and relevance of the topic (maximum 1 page).
Abridged curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages) of all the lecturers.
Proposals should be written in English, and sent to research@bgsmath.cat in the form of a single pdf file.
At least one of the organizers must be affiliated to the BGSMath. The organizers may also be lecturers.
Proposals will be evaluated by the BGSMath Advisory Scientific Board, and approved by the Governing Board.
Lecturers affiliated to academic and research institutions outside Catalonia are entitled to receive an honorarium of 100€ per hour.
The Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath) invites proposals for Monthly Research Programmes (MRP) to be held before 30 June 2019.
A MRP provides a flexible way to organize activities in spearhead topics in the mathematical sciences. They are meant to develop the strategic goals of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence along with contributing to a high-level training at the doctoral and postdoctoral level. MRP are funded by the project MDM-2014-0445 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
Proposals should be initiatives led by research groups of the BGSMath. Cooperation between several research areas of the BGSMath will be most welcome.
The deadline for submissions is 2 December 2018.
Proposals can be broad in their scope or focused on specific topics. They must have an international diversity of participants.
A program should have a well-defined postgraduate training value. An advanced training course with a duration of at least 10 hours has to be one of its activities.
The main organizer must be a researcher associated to BGSMath.
The venue must be at one of the BGSMath partners: UAB, UB, UPC, UPF and CRM.
The duration of the programs is between 4 and 6 weeks.
A maximum of two programs will be funded. The financial support depends on the duration of the program and the amount of scientific activity. It ranges from 14.000€, for a four-week program, to 20.000€, for a six-week program.
Co-funding provided by the organizers will be considered as a positive element in the final decision on the proposal. A co-funding of at least 20% of the total budget is recommended.
honorarium for lecturers of advanced courses from outside Catalonia.
The BGSMath will provide administrative support for the organization, in cooperation with the administrative staff of the centre where the program will take place.
A description of the proposed program (max. 3 pages) including the research directions, the scientific motivations and the expected impact. A program of activities. This may include weekly seminars, open problems sessions, mini-courses. The proposal should provide details on the people in charge of the organization of each activity. An advanced training course of at least 10 hours delivered by a leading researcher must be part of the program.
Organizing committee: names, affiliations and abridged curriculum vitae (max 4 pages). Corresponding applicant.
Duration, dates and venue of the program.
Research groups involved in the proposal, and researchers associated to BGSMath that will likely take part in the program.
Tentative list of external participants, with the tentative duration of their stays and a brief description of their role in the program. Please highlight those who have confirmed their participation.
Budget, including, if applicable, co-funding sources.
Proposals should be written in English. They will be sent to research@bgsmath.cat in a single PDF file containing all the required documents. The proposals will be evaluated by the BGSMath Advisory Scientific Board.
a summary of the main achievements.
an update of the final budget.


If Howard Hawks was right in saying a good movie is "three great scenes and no bad ones," how many great scenes does a TV show need? I've been wrestling with that question ever since the first season of Channel Zero went off the air. Now that the second season has ended, it's time to make yet another appeal for people to check out this peculiar, deeply flawed show – if only to help me figure out if it's any good.
Channel Zero is an anthology show on SyFy, with each season a 6-episode adaptation of another "creepypasta" story (basically, creepy short text stories that spread across the Internet). It was one of the rare series that I started watching immediately.
The pilot is fantastic, a wonderful mixture of Stephen King's unbound-from-time nostalgia delivered with an almost sociopathic coldness. And at the center was a pretty easy hook: a leading role filled by early Parks and Rec star Paul Schneider, whose "aw-shucks" persona slowly peels apart and becomes something almost upsetting.
But it's hard to just recommend a pilot, particularly when it's the first chapter in a 6-part mystery. I actually spent a good 10 to 15 hours trying to cut the episodes down to film length by trimming out the wheel-spinning that followed.
People were arrested for very thin plot reasons, only to be released again a few episodes later when the plot needed them to be free. Each hour was punctuated by another character being murdered, until it seemed more motivated by budget than story.
At the heart of the show's unraveling is a misunderstanding of what makes technology creepy. The corrupting horror of Channel Zero interacts with the world though an unsettling children's puppet show. There is a very particular aesthetic at play here. It's something along the lines of H.R. Pufnstuf, but even more low-budget. Every time we see the show, it is the same episode, the same lines, repeated over and over again with minor variations. When we're first introduced to it, we see it on cathode ray tube TVs, layering the image with dust and crackle.
But the simple fact is that there is nothing creepy about a high definition screen.
It isn't even solely the crispness that destroys the effect, but also the position of choice. On the TVs of yore, there was a position of authority at the other end of the content tube, choosing what you saw or didn't see. Today's children can look at whatever they want. That secret authority figure that sneaks in through the cable isn't completely gone, but he's profoundly diminished.
Even with all those caveats, I still love the show, and I don't know why. Maybe it's just because the first episode is fantastic, and I have never fully accepted the inferiority of what follows. Whatever it is, please watch it – and let me know what you think.
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Q: Add customer orders count to orders grid I'm trying to add customer total orders to orders grid in magento 1 admin. There is a lot of solutions already answered, but they all count orders only for registered customers and it is not working for guest orders.
I made my extension extending Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Grid.
In my _prepareCollection() I have joined sales_flat_order table so I can add customer email to my sales_flat_order_grid collection:
protected function _prepareCollection() {

    $collection = Mage::getResourceModel($this->_getCollectionClass());

    // Custom code
    $collection->getSelect()->join(
        'sales_flat_order',
        'main_table.entity_id = sales_flat_order.entity_id',
        array('customer_email')
    );

    // Here I'm missing code to add column orders_count to my collection
    // with orders count by customer email address already joined to my collection

    $this->setCollection($collection);
    return Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid::_prepareCollection();

}

I have tried with this code but it only works for registered customers, for guests customer_id is NULL:
// Get orders count
$readAdapter = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_read');
$select = $readAdapter->select()
        ->from('sales_flat_order_grid')
        ->columns(array('orders_count' => new Zend_Db_Expr('COUNT(*)'))
        )->group('customer_id');
$collection->getSelect()->joinLeft(
    array('orders_count' => new Zend_Db_Expr('('.$select.')')),
    'main_table.customer_id = orders_count.customer_id',
    array('orders_count.orders_count')
);
$collection->addFilterToMap('orders_count', 'orders_count.orders_count');

Hope somebody can help me with this problem.

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Malaysia's Top Glove compensates migrant workers after US Customs ban
FILE PHOTO: A worker carries out a test on a glove at a Top Glove factory outside Kuala Lumpur June 25, 2009. Top Glove is the world's largest producer of medical gloves. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
10 Aug 2020 07:20PM (Updated: 10 Aug 2021 07:20PM)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Top Glove Corporation said on Monday (Aug 10) it had begun making remediation payments to migrant workers who were employed by the world's largest medical glove maker before 2019, when it put in place ethical recruitment practices.
The United States is a major market for medical gloves, which have seen huge demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and last month the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) placed a detention order on imports from two of Top Glove's subsidiaries.
Such action is normally taken by the CBP against companies suspected of using forced labour. Foreign workers are often charged a fee by employment agents to land jobs in Malaysia, a debt they then work to pay off.
Top Glove said in a stock exchange statement that it had made the first remediation payment of 4.4 million ringgit (US$1 million).
"The total remediation fee to be paid is estimated at 53 million ringgit, subject to finalisation with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)," it said, adding that it "continues to actively engage with the US CBP towards resolving the Withhold Release Order (WRO) expeditiously".
It had earlier said it had made progress in engagement with the CBP and hoped to resolve the matter this month.
Smaller rival Hartalega Holdings Bhd earlier said that from the fourth quarter it will reimburse up to a total of 40 million ringgit in recruitment fees previously paid by migrant workers to employment agents.
Another rival Supermax Corporation Bhd said its net profit for the quarter ended Jun 30 had risen from 15.06 million ringgit to 399.62 million ringgit.
It said this was its "best quarterly financial performance" and had been driven by an exponential rise in demand for gloves and an increase in production capacity, which it plans to almost double by the end of 2022.
Source: Reuters/nc
Malaysia United States employment

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Last week, Princeton University law professor Robert P. George delivered the following speech titled "Ashamed of the Gospel?" at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Every faithful follower of Christ-Catholic and Protestant-should read this speech. Pastors and priests should read it from the pulpit. Adult, college, high school, and middle school Sunday school classes should read and discuss it. Give copies of it to your pastors, priests, elders-even if doing so is uncomfortable.
Anyone who claims they don't have time to read it, should give up one television program, skip reading one newspaper, or abbreviate one workout session this week to read it. It is that important.
After reading it, think deeply and talk about what you are prepared to give up in order to be a servant of Christ who willingly chose a brutal death so that you could have eternal life.
The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel. A price is demanded and must be paid. There are costs of discipleship-heavy costs, costs that are burdensome and painful to bear.
And if one in fact does not believe what the Church teaches, or, for now at least, even if one does believe those teachings but is prepared to be completely silent about them, one is safe-one can still be a comfortable Catholic. In other words, a tame Catholic, a Catholic who is ashamed of the Gospel-or who is willing to act publicly as if he or she were ashamed-is still socially acceptable. But a Catholic who makes it clear that he or she is not ashamed is in for a rough go-he or she must be prepared to take risks and make sacrifices. "If," Jesus said, "anyone wants to be my disciple, let him take up his cross and follow me." We American Catholics, having become comfortable, had forgotten, or ignored, that timeless Gospel truth. There will be no ignoring it now.
The question each of us today must face is this: Am I ashamed of the Gospel?And that question opens others: Am I prepared to pay the price that will be demanded if I refuse to be ashamed, if, in other words, I am prepared to give public witness to the massive politically incorrect truths of the Gospel, truths that the mandarins of an elite culture shaped by the dogmas of expressive individualism and me-generation liberalism do not wish to hear spoken? Or, put more simply, am I willing, or am I, in the end, unwilling, to take up my cross and follow Christ?
Powerful forces and currents in our society press us to be ashamed of the Gospel-ashamed of the good, ashamed of our faith's teachings on the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions, ashamed of our faith's teachings on marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife. These forces insist that the Church's teachings are out of date, retrograde, insensitive, uncompassionate, illiberal, bigoted-even hateful. These currents bring pressure on all of us-and on young Catholics in particular-to yield to this insistence. They threaten us with consequences if we refuse to call what is good evil, and what is evil good. They command us to conform our thinking to their orthodoxy, or else say nothing at all.
Do you believe, as I believe, that every member of the human family, irrespective of age or size or stage of development or condition of dependency, is the bearer of inherent dignity and an equal right to life? Do you hold that the precious child in the womb, as a creature made in the very image and likeness of God, deserves respect and protection? Then, powerful people and institutions say, you are a misogynist-a hater of women, someone who poses a threat to people's privacy, an enemy of women's "reproductive freedom." You ought to be ashamed!
Do you believe, as I believe, that the core social function of marriage is to unite a man and woman as husband and wife to be mother and father to children born of their union? Do you hold, as I hold, that the norms that shape marriage as a truly conjugal partnership are grounded in its procreative nature-its singular aptness for the project of child-rearing? Do you understand marriage as the uniquely comprehensive type of bond-comprehensive in that it unites spouses in a bodily way and not merely at the level of hearts and minds-that is oriented to and would naturally be fulfilled by their conceiving and rearing children together? Then these same forces say you are a homophobe, a bigot, someone who doesn't believe in equality. You even represent a threat to people's safety. You ought to be ashamed!
But, of course, what you believe, if you believe these things, is a crucial part of the Gospel. You believe the truth-in its fullness-about the dignity of the human person and the nature of marriage and sexual morality as proclaimed by the Church-our only secure source of understanding the Gospel message. So when you are invited to distance yourself from these teachings or go silent about them, when you are threatened with opprobrium or the loss of professional opportunities or social standing if you do not, you are being pressured to be ashamed of the Gospel-which means to give up faith in the Lordship of Christ and hope in the triumph of goodness, righteousness, and love in and through Him.
To be a witness to the Gospel today is to make oneself a marked man or woman. It is to expose oneself to scorn and reproach. To unashamedly proclaim the Gospel in its fullness is to place in jeopardy one's security, one's personal aspirations and ambitions, the peace and tranquility one enjoys, one's standing in polite society. One may in consequence of one's public witness be discriminated against and denied educational opportunities and the prestigious credentials they may offer; one may lose valuable opportunities for employment and professional advancement; one may be excluded from worldly recognition and honors of various sorts; one's witness may even cost one treasured friendships. It may produce familial discord and even alienation from family members. Yes, there are costs of discipleship-heavy costs.
There was a time, not long ago, when things were quite different….Biblical and natural law beliefs about morality were culturally normative; they were not challenges to cultural norms. But those days are gone. What was once normative is now regarded as heretical-the moral and cultural equivalent of treason. And so, here we are.
So for us there is no avoiding the question: Am I ashamed of the Gospel? Am I unwilling to stand with Christ by proclaiming His truths? Oh, things were easy on Palm Sunday. Standing with Jesus and His truths was the in thing to do. Everybody was shouting "Hosanna." But now it's Friday, and the days of acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. Jesus is before Pilate. The crowds are shouting "crucify him." The Lord is being led to Calvary. Jesus is being nailed to the cross.
And where are we? Where are you and I? Are we afraid to be known as his disciples? Are we ashamed of the Gospel?
Perhaps I should make explicit what you have no doubt perceived as implicit in my remarks. The saving message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ includes, integrally, the teachings of His church on the profound and inherent dignity of the human person and the nature of marriage as a conjugal bond-a one-flesh union. The question of faith and fidelity that is put to us today is not in the form it was put to Peter-"surely you are you this man's disciple"-it is, rather, do you stand for the sanctity of human life and the dignity of marriage as the union of husband and wife? These teachings are not the whole Gospel-Christianity requires much more than their affirmation. But they are integral to the Gospel-they are not optional or dispensable. To be an authentic witness to the Gospel is to proclaim these truths among the rest. The Gospel is, as St. John Paul the Great said, a Gospel of Life. And it is a Gospel of family life, too. And it is these integral dimensions of the Gospel that powerful cultural forces and currents today demand that we deny or suppress.
These forces tell us that our defeat in the causes of marriage and human life are inevitable. They warn us that we are on the "wrong side of history." They insist that we will be judged by future generations the way we today judge those who championed racial injustice in the Jim Crow South. But history does not have sides. It is an impersonal and contingent sequence of events, events that are determined in decisive ways by human deliberation, judgment, choice, and action. The future of marriage and of countless human lives can and will be determined by our judgments and choices-our willingness or unwillingness to bear faithful witness, our acts of courage or cowardice. Nor is history, or future generations, a judge invested with god-like powers to decide, much less dictate, who was right and who was wrong. The idea of a "judgment of history" is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, and pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of Almighty God. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our judge.
One thing alone will matter: Was I a faithful witness to the Gospel? Did I do everything in my power to place myself on the side of truth? The one whose only begotten Son tells us that he, and he alone, is "the way, the truth, and the life" will want to know from each of us whether we sought the truth with a pure and sincere heart, whether we sought to live by the truth authentically and with integrity, and-let me say this with maximum clarity-whether we stood up for the truth, speaking it out loud and in public, bearing the costs of discipleship that are inevitably imposed on faithful witnesses to truth by cultures that turn away from God and his law. Or were we ashamed of the Gospel?
The Gospel is true. The whole Gospel is true. Its teachings about life and marriage are true-even its hardest sayings, such as Christ's clear teaching about the indissolubility of what God has united and about the adulterous nature of any sexual relation outside that bond.
If we deny truths of the Gospel, we really are like Peter, avowing that "I do not know the man." If we go silent about them, we really are like the other apostles, fleeing in fear. But when we proclaim the truths of the Gospel, we really do stand at the foot of the cross with Mary the Mother of Jesus and John the disciple whom Jesus loved. We show by our faithfulness that we are notashamed of the Gospel. We prove that we are truly Jesus's disciples, willing to take up his cross and follow him-even to Calvary.
Yes, there's the story. Christ must endure the sufferings of Good Friday to fulfill his salvific mission. But Easter is coming. And we, who cherish his cross, and are willing to bear his suffering and shame, will share in his glorious resurrection. We who cling to that old rugged cross will exchange it someday for a crown.
Where forever his glory I'll share.
Yes, for us Catholics and all who seek to be faithful, it's Good Friday. We are no longer acceptable. We can no longer be comfortable. It is for us a time of trial, a time of testing by adversity. But lest we fail the test, as perhaps many will do, let us remember that Easter is coming. Jesus will vanquish sin and death. We will experience fear, just as the apostles did-that is inevitable. Like Jesus himself in Gethsemane, we would prefer not to drink this cup. We would much rather be acceptable Christians, comfortable Catholics. But our trust in him, our hope in his resurrection, our faith in the sovereignty of his heavenly Father can conquer fear. By the grace of Almighty God, Easter is indeed coming. Do not be ashamed of the Gospel. Never be ashamed of the Gospel.
Robert Peter George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program.
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A Model for Assessing the Economic and Energy Savings Implications of Cogeneration with Steam Turbines in Citrus Processing Plants
A cogeneration system using a noncondensing steam turbine to simultaneously provide electricity and process steam to a citrus plant was modeled in order to assess the source energy savings and the economic implications with the employment of this...
A Computer Graphics Head-Up Display for Air-To-Air and Air-To-Ground Flight Simulation
A computer graphics simulation of an aircraft Head-Up Display was designed using an RDS-3000 Ikonas Graphics Processor and a PDP-11/34 host computer system. The software control and display modules were accomplished using Ikonas microcode and...
The design of an internal resource allocation model for use in higher education
A computer model has been developed for the purpose of allocating funds, by department, within a university. This model categorizes each class as one of three types—lecture, problem solving, or laboratory. A standard class size is assigned to each...
A Computer Program for Analyzing Moist Air in Fin and Tube Crossflow Heat Exchangers
A computer model of a fin and tube air-to-air heat exchanger is presented. The model incorporates a computational scheme to account for latent effects due to small amounts of moisture in one or both fluid streams. A testing program is described...
Computer Aided Analysis of Flat Plate Solar Collectors
A computer model of a flat plate solar collector has been devised. The model is able to simulate most common types of collectors, with up to three transparent covers of any material. Using primarily equations available from the literature the...
Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Thermosyphon Solar Water Heater System
A computer simulation of a thermosyphon system allowing load drawoff and non-ideal weather conditions has been developed. The model is restricted to the more common single cover, flat plate collector system. Using an analysis based on the present...
A Computer Program to Design Reinforcement for Concrete Beams Subjected to Torsion
A concrete beam is rarely subjected to pure torsion loading. However, in many design applications a beam is subjected to torsional loads in addition to bending and shear loading. The American Concrete Institute has developed a specification for the...
Nutrient Retention in Shallow Reservoirs Using Selected Aquatic Macrophytes
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the possibility of using shallow reservoirs containing aquatic plants to reduce excess nutrient levels of agricultural drainage effluent from organic soils. The reservoir systems consisted of three...
Energy Resource Allocation Optimization: A Mixed Integer Programming Fixed Charge Model
A fixed charge model has been developed for a case study of a total energy power plant involving energy demands for chilled water, high temperature hot water, and electrical power. Using a FORTRAN computer program, which employs the Land and Doig...
Statistical Fading of a Spherical Optical Wave in Atmospheric Turbulence
A formula for the average fade time of the intensity of a spherical optical wave travelling through atmospherica turbulence is developed. The model employed involves isotropic, homogeneous statistics using a lognormal distribution for the...
Statistical Fading of a Plane Optical Wave in Atmospheric Turbulence
A formula for the average fade time of the intesity of a plane optical wave traveling through atmospheric turbulence is developed. The model employed involves isotropic, homogeneous statistics using a lognormal distribution for the channel. The...
Stripping Platinum Metals from Catalytic Converter Units by Use of Promoted Gas Phase Chlorine Attack
A gas-phase system to oxidize and remove the platinum and palladium from automotive catalytic converter units was studied. The effects of varying reaction temperature, time and reactant gas concentration upon yields were monitored using a...
Design of a Gold Code Generator for Use in Code Division Multiple Access Communication System
A Gold code sequence generator suitable for use in a code division multiple access spread spectrum communication application is designed. A dual, single return shift register configuration is used to generate Gold code sequences. The code sequences...
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Ira Glass Kicks Off Boston Film Fest
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Ira Glass on stage at the Somerville Theatre with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti on Wednesday night. (Lisa Tobin/WBUR)
The host of "This American Life" showed up at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square last night for a special screening of "Sleepwalk With Me," the opening night film at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Glass co-wrote the film with its star and his close friend, comedian Mike Birbiglia, a frequent contributor to TAL and a native of Shrewsbury.
The whole event was a bit of a public radio dreamland: Glass introduced the film, WBUR presented it, Marc Maron made a guest appearance in the film (as Marc Moharon), so did Glass (a brief cameo as a wedding photographer), and avid listeners of TAL were rewarded by recognizing many of Birbiglia's stories from TAL wrapped together inside the film, which is basically a slightly fictionalized retelling of things that actually happened to him — namely his struggles with commitment and sleepwalking, both of which culminate during a horrifying but hilarious night at the now infamous-only-in-public-radio La Quinta Inn.
After the screening, Glass sat down on stage for a Q&A with Meghna Chakrabarti, host of WBUR's Radio Boston. They talked about his somewhat-reluctant entrance into film (Birbiglia refused to take no for an answer), and why sleepwalking made for good cinema.
"I myself am somebody who despises dream sequences in movies and TV shows," Glass said. "I don't understand why the FCC goes after dirty words, I feel like if I were head of the FCC, I would ban dream sequences. I always feel like they are the cheapest narrative move ever."
But the sleepwalking stories actually happened to Birbiglia, and so offered opportunities not just for big, hilarious, cinematic scenes, but also to explore his subconscious in interesting ways. He doesn't want to get married, and while he hasn't figured that out yet, his dreams have. "There's a lot of stories we do on the radio show that are about people who won't face the truth about their situation," Glass said. "And it's nice that it has such a literal manifestation, that he's acting it out in a way that you can perform it onscreen, it isn't just that we have to infer that he's in denial about his situation."
Chakrabarti then opened it up for the audience to ask Glass their questions — some about the film, others about TAL. Above is audio of the full conversation. Sometimes you can't hear the question being asked, but Glass does a good job of restating it, so it shouldn't be too confusing.
This program aired on April 26, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.
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The specific section about LogjJ is contained in the tags context-param and listener.
In the context-param tag you define the path to the .xml file to configure Log4j; if you use the standard name log4j.xml, the context-param tag would be unnecessary.
In this example I used the variable webapp.root but you can use others like catalina.home.
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Jim Parrack is a actor on 9-1-1: Lone Star, who portrays the role of Judd Ryder.
1.2 Career
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Parrack was born on February 8, 1981 in Allen, Texas. He attended the co-ed Allen High School for secondary education. In 2001, Parrack moved to Los Angeles, California where he studied acting at The Stella Adler Academy and then at the Playhouse West.[1]
Parrack made his screen debut in the 2006 drama film Annapolis. From 2006–2008, he made multiple guest appearances on television shows such as Monk, Grey's Anatomy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Criminal Minds. In 2008, Parrack was cast as Hoyt Fortenberry in the vampire television drama series True Blood. He was part of the main starring cast for the first five seasons, before departing for a season. Parrack returned to the show for the seventh and final season, again as a main cast member. In 2011, Parrack returned to feature films, starring in the military science fiction war film Battle: Los Angeles. The film was directed by Jonathan Liebesman and co-starred Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, and Michael Peña. In 2013, he starred in the drama film Child of God and the Spanish-American drama A Night in Old Mexico. He co-starred in the films Fury (2014), The Adderall Diaries (2015), and Suicide Squad (2016). In 2014, Parrack joined the Broadway cast of Of Mice and Men, playing the role of Slim.[1]
Parrack married actress/writer/director Ciera Danielle on October 19, 2008. He and Danielle separated in September 2013 and in June 2014, it was reported the couple had filed for divorce due to irreconcilable differences. In Spring 2014, it was confirmed he was in a relationship with The Hunger Games actress Leven Rambin. On October 10, 2015 he and Rambin married in Texas. On May 9th 2017 the couple split ending their two-year marriage. Parrack is the president of 120 Productions, Inc. He is good friends with actor James Franco.[1]
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The Wanderer signing in from Franklin, North Carolina. I've had some technical difficulties with live updates. No cell service and battery conservation mean I'll be updating mostly from towns from this point forward. I'll spread out posting, but the blog will always be a few days behind where we actually are. That being said, welcome to Hiawassee, Georgia and our fist day off.
The breakfast buffet in the hotel.
So how do we spend a day off in town? Well, first things first: food. And lots of it.
All you can eat!!! Eggs, bacon, biscuits, sausage gravy, pancakes, cereal, yogurt, bagels… We stuffed our faces.
Crazy killer apple! Brandon is out for a week-long hike.
Laundry. The hotel has a coin-operated washer and dryer that the other guys used. I missed the group trip and couldn't justify the cost for my few pieces of clothes, especially after less than a week.
Canuck clothes shopping at an outfitter.
Shopping: Moonboots wants a new pair of shorts for hiking and laundry days.
Shaggy trying on a new hat. We were bored and exploring the little town of Hiawassee.
Moonboots and his new shorts. Oh yeah!
Knee pain is so prevalent out here. Here we are in Rite Aid trying on knee braces.
In the lower elevations of town, everything is in bloom. Spring has not yet sprung in the mountains but its close.
Exploring the town and some R&R.
We spent the afternoon lounging in the town park in front of City Hall. Bambi is sunbathing and Moonboots is reading. I'm taking pictures, Canuck is playing his ukulele and Shaggies just hanging out.
I found this sweet old truck next to the lake.
Walking to the grocery store for a resupply. The people in this town are SO accommodating with thru-hikers.
Resupplying for the next leg.
My food for the next four days.
Canuck prepping his cache of food.
Shaggies food laid out and sorted by day.
Only a bit of our garbage. We unpackaged all of our food, replacing the heavy, bulky boxes with ziplocks. I use the poor-mans ziplock: a corner of the grocery bag tied off.
Bambi literally cutting weight from his pack.
Lightening the load to save the knees.
He is cutting his AT guidebook in half, mailing the rest to Virginia.
It's heavier than you would think.
Bambi's trail name comes from this picture he showed us on our first night out. He raised a baby deer bottle feeding it until he could release it.
Me cooking in the hotel.
Mac 'n cheese with tuna!
Our hotel has a desk! Unfortunately, the internet connection was horrendous and I had to work from my phones internet anyway.
And, of course, more of that lovely hot tub.
Shaggy, Moonboots, and Bambi back there glowing in the evening rays. We spent hours in this hot tub. Nothing better after a week of intense hiking.
Our next resupply is the town of Franklin in 57 miles. We're planning for four or five days hiking. See you then!


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Esrah Boulton Interview
[o] Boulton
Every skater knows that when someone who doesn't skateboard themselves tries to film or shoot a trick, there is an almost undeniable certainty that the end result will look like crap. Board cut out of the frame, head cuts, and a terrible portrayal of the spot are some of the common mistakes non-skate photographers make. Victoria, BC's Esrah Boulton doesn't skate himself, but has definitely figured out how to take a damn good skate photo. Read on to find out how he figured it all out and what other types of photography influence him.
-Luke
L: To start things off let's get the basics out of the way: how old are you, and when did you start shooting photos?
E: I'm 19 now, and started shooting photos when I was 15. My family had a point and shoot that I used for about a year, then I got a DSLR for my 16th birthday and things went from there.
What was it about photography that drew you towards it?
I was taking pictures of my friend Mikhail skating and was always looking at shots in Transworld. I liked shooting something that not a lot of people in town were doing. I then began working with modelling and portraits which was a pretty big departure. I shoot with an agency in town now. All in all, photography was and is appealing because I can work with a wide range of people.
Mikhail Yerkovich- ollie [o] Boulton
How did you get into the agency?
I shot some photos of Colin Meredith that he gave to the agency (Coultish). They got in touch with me because they liked my work. I now do portfolio stuff with their models, and some stuff with Edge models.
Do you receive steady work from them or is it hit and miss?
I pick which models I work with. I do maybe 2-3 shoots a month, more in the summer. It's a portfolio building experience for both the models and myself because I had only shot with a few people before this, two of which are on agencies now.
By the sounds of it it's a definite win/win! Back to skating: seeing as you don't skate yourself it's pretty sick that you're able to properly shoot a good skate photo. Did it all come from looking at mags or did your friends who skate help you along the way?
It came from trial and error as well as skate mags. My friends still help me when I can't visualize a trick, which comes from not skating for sure.
Leon Breton- backside 50-50 pop out [o] Boulton
Have you ever considered buying a fisheye or do you like keeping it long lens?
I've definitely thought about it, but I've always bought other gear first seeing as a fisheye isn't as versatile as a telephoto in terms of using it for a variety of genres.
Yeah that is true, fisheyes are definitely restricting as to what you can do with them. Where would you like to take your photography?
I want to see where it's gonna take me, as lame as it sounds. I like shooting so many things I don't think I could narrow it down. No matter where I end up I'll be taking pictures.
If you had to pick one genre what would you choose?
Duuuude, I have no idea haha. Skating would be sick because it's my friends, but at this point I'd say the same about shooting modelling. Really, I'd like to shoot both, but skating is where I got my start.
Fair enough, each genre has it's ups and downs for sure! I think that should be good, thanks for doing this! Thanks and shouts?
Shout out to Mikhail for getting me into this, Luke and Kohl Fast and Mitch for shooting all the time, and my girlfriend Danielle for putting up with me.
Mikhail Yerkovich- crook [o] Boulton
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Who Dares Tread in M O R I A ?
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Who Dares Tread in M O R I A ? Apr 25, 2011 7:47:15 GMT -6
Post by waysoftheearth on Apr 25, 2011 7:47:15 GMT -6
Welcome to .~ M I D D L E ~ E A R T H[/size][/color][/b] ~.
This is The Fourth Age.
The War of the Ring is ended two hundred and fifty some years since.
The peoples of Middle Earth long celebrated the defeat of Mordor and for a time there was peace and trade, and a rebuilding of prosperity.
When the Kings of the Third Age at last went to their ancestors their mighty deeds became but songs and tales, and then only echoes of such. The noblest still strove for diplomacy, but meaner Men soon lost sight of any such perspective. Within scant decades dissension and feuds were already begun, and ere the passing of a third century, a pall of disquiet was cast across the lands of Men.
What peace remains is fraught with strain, for evil is never idle...
Now, every child has heard the tale in which Gandalf bested a Demon who had despoiled a great city of the Dwarves. But it was never known to even the wisest Men what truly befell the Balrog at Khazad-Dum.
What is known is that the vast, dark halls of Moria have ever in this Age been a haven for fell creatures; black-hearted Men, Wargs, Orcs, Trolls and worse. But despite this deadly peril, the lure of Dwarfish silver and glittering treasures of antiquity still draw a steady stream of foolish and greedy Men to those vaults.
Precious few have returned to share rumour of what fell power lurks yet in...
The greater depths of
M O R I A !
Last Edit: Apr 29, 2011 21:29:37 GMT -6 by waysoftheearth
This game is set in the Mines of Moria, and in the land of Eregion from which access to the Mines can be had via the Gate of Hollin.
In Eregion (Hollin in the Westron tongue) is the grim town of Edhil. It stands upon the ruins of Ost-in-Edhil, where Elves first came to trade with the Dwarves of Kazad-dum for true silver in the Second Age, and where they learned to craft magic rings... but that was another tale.
From Edhil there winds an ancient road along side the Sirannon which leads to the Pass of Caradhra -- said to have once led over the Misty Mountains to Dimrill Dale in the east, though the way is no longer known.
The Sirannon itself (called the Gate Stream by the Dwarves) is spawned under the Misty Mountains and emerges at the base of the Walls of Moria near the Hollin Gate. It cascades over the Stair Falls and runs down into Eregion and passes by Edhil not 40 leagues downstream...
Last Edit: Apr 28, 2011 5:07:24 GMT -6 by waysoftheearth
Here be a map of Hollin and its surrounds for orientation...
The mountain range pictured is the southern Misty Mountains. The Gap of Rohan is a little further south.
To those in the treasure hunting business, Moria holds many secrets and much promise. Not only is there Dwarf gold and silver to be found by the bold, but treasures far greater.
It is said that in ancient times Edhil was home to masterful Elven smiths and jewellers of that Age who worked tirelessly at their enchanted crafts. If you might doubt the tale, does not the very name of the place Edhil mean of the Elves in their fair tongue?
Before these smiths wrought the dread Rings of Power, they also made many lesser rings with varied degrees of sorcery. Some of these, at least, must have been traded with the Dwarves of Khazad-dum... and lie patiently in Moria to this day.
And if that isn't enough to whet a hungry treasure hunter's appetite, there is a persistent Dwarf legend that says The First of The Seven Rings was given by the Elves to Durin III, the King of Dwarves, who hid it in Moria so that The Enemy could never find it. And there it remained... age after age after age, to this very day...
Last Edit: May 1, 2011 6:17:05 GMT -6 by waysoftheearth
Who Dares Tread in M O R I A ? Apr 29, 2011 21:36:05 GMT -6
Post by waysoftheearth on Apr 29, 2011 21:36:05 GMT -6
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Your call will not go unheeded.


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Q: Определение факта пересечения 3D треугольников Есть 2 треугольника заданные тремя пространственными координатами (x,y,z)
Допустим у нас есть подозрение по их пересечению треугольников (образующие кубы пересекаются).
Вопрос: как определить факт пересечения этих треугольников.
Поясню. Мне не нужно знать в каком отрезке они пересекаются, и даже не нужно знать одну из точек пересечения. Меня интересует "быстрый" алгоритм поиска факта пересечения, т.е. true или false.
З.Ы.: Искал в интернете, есть алгоритмы нахождения пересечения, а факта нет. И существуют ли вообще упращенные алгоритмы?
З.Ы.: Кое что нашёл. Есть сайт RealTimeRendering, Там есть метод Fast Triangle-Triangle Intersection test by Tomas Möller. Пока изучаю его. Подозреваю, что есть более быстрые алгоритмы.

A: Записываем точки в виде (1, ax, ay, az)
Считаем плоскость как вектор-определитель (D, A, B, C)
i  j  k  e
1 ax ay az
1 bx by bz
1 cx cy cz

Аналогично пересекаем две получившиеся плоскости.

A: Два выпуклых объекта не пересекаются тогда и только тогда, когда существует плоскость (для двумерного случая - прямая), такая, что проекции геометрий на эту плоскость (прямую) не пересекаются.
http://home.arcor.de/philippe.guigue/triangle_triangle_intersection.htm

A: После поисков по просторам итернетов я нашел оптимальный способ описанный Томасом Моллером. Написал код под C# для данного алгоритма.
public bool PointInTriangle2D(float[][] t, float[] p)
{
  bool inside = false;
  int j = 2; // = 3 - 1
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {
    if ((t[i][1] < p[1] && t[j][1] >= p[1] || t[j][1] < p[1] && t[i][1] >= p[1]) &&
        (t[i][0] + (p[1] - t[i][1]) / (t[j][1] - t[i][1]) * (t[j][0] - t[i][0]) < p[0]))
      inside = !inside;
    j = i;
  }
  return inside;
}

public bool Moller1997b(Vertex[] V0, Vertex[] V1)
{
  return Moller1997b(new Vertex[2][] { V0, V1 });
}

public bool Moller1997b(Vertex[][] V)
{
  float[][] dv = new float[2][];
  int[][] sign = new int[2][];
  float[][] pv = new float[2][];
  float[][] t = new float[2][];
  float[][] triange2D = new float[3][];
  float[] point2D = new float[2];
  for (int j = 0; j < 3; ++j)
    triange2D[j] = new float[2];
  for (int j = 0; j < 2; ++j)
  {
    dv[j] = new float[3];
    sign[j] = new int[3];
    pv[j] = new float[3];
    t[j] = new float[2];
  }

  //Находим вектор-нормаль ко второму треугольнику
  Vertex N1 = (V[1][1] - V[1][0]).VectorProduct(V[1][2] - V[1][0]);
  //и коэфициент плоскости второго треугольника
  float d1 = -N1.ScalarProduct(V[1][0]);
  //Уровнение плоскости второго треугольника будет выглядеть
  //π2 : N2*X+d2=0, где X-любая точка плоскости (одна из точек v2)
  //Но нам это в данной задаче не важно
  //Проверяем с какой стороны плоскости лежат точки первого треугольника
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
  {
    dv[0][i] = N1.ScalarProduct(V[0][i]) + d1;
    sign[0][i] = Math.Abs(dv[0][i]) > epsilant ? Math.Sign(dv[0][i]) : 0;
  }
  //Треугольник 0 не пересекается с плоскостью другого треугольника
  if (sign[0][0].Equals(sign[0][1]) && sign[0][1].Equals(sign[0][2]) && !sign[0][0].Equals(0))
    return false;
  //Треугольники в одной плоскости
  //Как показала практика такие случаи оооочень большая редкость
  if (sign[0][0].Equals(sign[0][1]) && sign[0][1].Equals(sign[0][2]) && sign[0][0].Equals(0))
  {
    //Теперь выберем на какую плоскость (xy, yz, xz) спроецируем треугольники
    float aNX = Math.Abs(N1.X);
    float aNY = Math.Abs(N1.Y);
    float aNZ = Math.Abs(N1.Z);
    float maxN = Math.Max(aNX, Math.Max(aNY, aNZ));
    //Какую компоненту будем игнорить
    int ignoreIndex = (aNX.Equals(maxN)) ? 0 : (aNY.Equals(maxN)) ? 1 : 2;
    //Какие компоненты будем использовать для 2D координат
    int iX = ignoreIndex == 0 ? 2 : 0;
    int iY = ignoreIndex == 1 ? 2 : 1;
    //Проверка принадлежности хотябы одной точки треугольника 0 треугольнику 1
    //http://ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/464787/Точка-внутри-многоугольника
    for (int p = 0; p < 3; ++p)
    {
      for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
      {
        triange2D[i][0] = V[1][i][iX];
        triange2D[i][1] = V[1][i][iY];
      }
      point2D[0] = V[0][p][iX];
      point2D[1] = V[0][p][iY];
      if (PointInTriangle2D(triange2D, point2D))
        return true;
    }
    //или центр масс второго треугольника 1 попадает в треугольник 0. Заодно включает
    //вопрос совподения (или очень близкого к совпадению) трех точек одного треугольника и трех точек другого треугольника
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
    {
      triange2D[i][0] = V[0][i][iX];
      triange2D[i][1] = V[0][i][iY];
    }
    point2D[0] = (V[1][0][iX] + V[1][1][iX] + V[1][2][iX]) / 3f;
    point2D[1] = (V[1][0][iY] + V[1][1][iY] + V[1][2][iY]) / 3f;
    if (PointInTriangle2D(triange2D, point2D))
      return true;
    return false;
  }
  Vertex N0 = (V[0][1] - V[0][0]).VectorProduct(V[0][2] - V[0][0]);
  float d0 = -N0.ScalarProduct(V[0][0]);
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
  {
    dv[1][i] = N0.ScalarProduct(V[1][i]) + d0;
    sign[1][i] = Math.Abs(dv[1][i]) > epsilant ? Math.Sign(dv[1][i]) : 0;
  }
  //Треугольник 1 не пересекается с плоскостью другого треугольника
  if (sign[1][0].Equals(sign[1][1]) && sign[1][1].Equals(sign[1][2]) && !sign[1][0].Equals(0))
    return false;
  //Треугольники на разных плоскостях
  Vertex D = N0.VectorProduct(N1);
  float aDX = Math.Abs(D.X);
  float aDY = Math.Abs(D.Y);
  float aDZ = Math.Abs(D.Z);
  float maxD = Math.Max(aDX, Math.Max(aDY, aDZ));
  int Tindex = (aDX.Equals(maxD)) ? 0 : (aDY.Equals(maxD)) ? 1 : 2;
  for (int j = 0; j < 2; ++j)
  {
    //l и r это индексы точек находящихся по одну из сторон плоскости j
    int c = 1, l = 0, r = 2;
    if (sign[j][0].Equals(sign[j][1])) { c = 2; r = 0; l = 1; }
    else if (sign[j][1].Equals(sign[j][2])) { c = 0; r = 2; l = 1; } //Иначе оставляем без изменений
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
      pv[j][i] = pv[j][i] = V[j][i][Tindex];//D.ScalarProduct(V[j][i]); //pv[j][i] = V[j][i][Tindex];
    t[j][0] = pv[j][l] + (pv[j][c] - pv[j][l]) * dv[j][l] / (dv[j][l] - dv[j][c]);
    t[j][1] = pv[j][r] + (pv[j][c] - pv[j][r]) * dv[j][r] / (dv[j][r] - dv[j][c]);
    if (t[j][0] > t[j][1])
    {
      float _t = t[j][0];
      t[j][0] = t[j][1];
      t[j][1] = _t;
    }
  }
  return (t[0][0] < t[1][1]) && (t[0][1] > t[1][0]);
}

где ScalarProduct и VectorProduct это векторные и скалярные произведения соответственно
public float ScalarProduct(Vertex rhs)
{
  return X * rhs.X + Y * rhs.Y + Z * rhs.Z;
}

public Vertex VectorProduct(Vertex rhs)
{
  return new Vertex((Y * rhs.Z) - (Z * rhs.Y), (Z * rhs.X) - (X * rhs.Z),
      (X * rhs.Y) - (Y * rhs.X));
}


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Categories: All My Children, Another World, As The World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful Days of our Lives, Daytime, General Hospital, History, Loving, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Soap of the Week Poll, Santa Barbara, The Young and the Restless
Today in Soap Opera History (April 23)
1968: Dark Shadows' Angelique appeared to Barnabas in a dream.
1986: Santa Barbara's Pearl remembered his name under hypnosis.
2002: Passions' Sheridan came face to face with Luis.
2008: As the World Turns' Luke and Noah shared a kiss.
"History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On Dark Shadows, Angelique Bouchard Collins (Lara Parker) appeared to Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) in a dream and told him that he could not escape her or her revenge. She warned him to beware of dreams, as that is the way the curse would return to him.
1971: Actor House Jameson died at age 68. During his career, Jameson played roles in Another World, The Edge of Night and Dark Shadows. He was featured earlier this year in Retro TV's 1968 reruns of The Doctors in the role Nathan Bunker.
1981: On General Hospital, Alan (Stuart Damon) told Susan that he wanted to update his will.
1984: On Days of our Lives, Diane Parker (DeAnna Robbins) wasn't happy to see her pimp, Nick Corelli (George Jenesky, now known as Conrad Dunn) at Shenanigans.
1984: On The Edge of Night, LK Pendleton murdered Tess McAdams (Carrie Armstrong).
1985: On Guiding Light, while being held captive by Floyd, India managed to record over Phillip's taped confession.
1986: On Santa Barbara, Pearl (Robert Thaler) revealed his real name while under hypnosis: Michael Baldwin Bradford III.
1990: ITV daytime soap opera Families premiered. Created by Kay Mellor, the show ran until August 24, 1994.
1990: On The Young and the Restless, as he left the country Brock (Beau Kazer) felt something wasn't right about his mother, Katherine (Jeanne Cooper).
1992: Longtime Days of our Lives producer Jack Herzberg died at age 75.
2002: On Passions, Luis (Galen Gering) and Sheridan (Mackenzie Westmore) came face to face at the masquerade ball.
2006: Actress Susan Browning died at age 60. She played roles in Love is a Many Splendored Thing, One Life to Live and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
2007: CBS aired the 13,000th episode of As the World Turns.
2008: On As the World Turns, Luke (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann) shared their first kiss in seven months, which officially ended the "kissing ban" that was mandated by Procter & Gamble.
2009: ABC began broadcasting General Hospital in high definition.
Lee Majors (ex-Ken, Dallas) - 80
Blair Brown (ex-Nina, Fringe) - 73
Paulette Breen (ex-Claudette, All My Children) - 72
Craig Sheffer (ex-Ian, One Life to Live) - 59
Melina Kanakaredes (ex-Eleni, Guiding Light) - 52
Daphne Bloomer (ex-Colleen, The Bay; ex-Marty, General Hospital; ex-Eugenia, Days of our Lives) - 46
Barry Watson (ex-Randy, Days of our Lives; ex-Matt, 7th Heaven) - 45
Terri Simmons (ex-Parker, Pretty)
John Cena (WWE) - 42
Jaime King (ex-Lemon, Hart of Dixie) - 40
Aaron Hill (ex-Beaver, Greek) - 36
Jesse Lee Soffer (ex-Will, As the World Turns; ex-Max, Guiding Light) - 35
Molly Burnett (ex-Melanie, Days of our Lives; Lisa, Empire; Sarah, Venice) - 31
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you would like to submit a soap history entry for this date or a future date, email editor@welovesoaps.com.
Posted by Roger Newcomb
Categories: As The World Turns, Birthdays, Dark Shadows, Days of our Lives, Guiding Light, History, Passions, The Edge of Night
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University of New Mexico Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz will spend the 2015-16 academic year at Princeton University as a Distinguished Fellow in the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.
The fellowship will allow Sandoval-Strausz to confer with other urban scholars as he works on his current book project, Latino Landscapes: A Transnational History of Urban America since 1950, which details how immigrants and migrants from Latin America revitalized scores of city neighborhoods in the United States.
The Princeton-Mellon Initiative is a three-year interdisciplinary program that seeks to develop a more dynamic and nuanced understanding of urban issues. The initiative recognizes that urbanization is not simply a global phenomenon of physical and cultural restructuring, but that it has also become a spatial effect of networks of migration, finance and communication that characterize contemporary life.
An increasing awareness of the effects of urban growth means that the city needs to be understood within a larger context, making urbanism a fruitful research topic and a rich teaching vehicle across a wide range of fields.
Latino Landscapes involves a larger-scale application of the basic approach of Hotel: An American History: the idea that human beings reveal themselves most clearly through their built environment, and that people's homes, neighborhoods, places of work and play, and use of public space must be taken as seriously as textual sources. The logic behind Latino Landscapes is that to understand modern U.S. cities, we must begin by analyzing the architecture and spatial practices of people who have moved into cities throughout the Americas.
Sandoval-Strausz has been teaching at UNM since 2001. He received his B.A. at Columbia and went on to the University of Chicago for his Ph.D. He teaches courses in urban landscapes, spatial theory, sociability, and immigration. His first book, Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press, 2007), was awarded the 2008 American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Library Journal.


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Why 'What Matters to Me and Why' matters
Nick DeMarchis, Senior Writer
Speaker series at University certainly have a unique range of perceptions ranging from unnoticed, to diligently attended, to controversial with protests and counter-protests. But some talks fly under the radar, and a prime example of a meaningful speaker series that's grown over this academic year is "What Matters to Me and Why." Created by our new Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Kurt Nelson, the titular question is posed to faculty and staff from all across the University. Their answers were funny, surprising, and unique, but always meaningful. Lunches for "What Matters" feel vibrant, with a lighthearted atmosphere that turns deep and reflective when it needs to.
Intellectual diversity of ideas of what makes life meaningful often goes unnoticed at our University. Outside of organized (and strictly religious) groups (namely MSA, CCM, DCF, IV and Hillel, among others), there remains no widely known platform to discuss deeper questions about truth and life. Noting my personal faith background, I still wager that it's vital to have a space to discuss these matters, especially to gain insight from a variety of other faith backgrounds. In an era tainted with political divisiveness that often bleeds into religion and faith, gaining insight from those with different backgrounds and lived experience serves as an incredibly effective manner to make progress.
"What Matters" serves to break that mold. Served over lunch on Thursdays, faculty and staff from across our institution have been invited to speak. A few notable talks from throughout the year have served to better our University and its understanding of dealing with life's harder, personal questions.
One particularly notable talk was from Vice Provost Robert Midkiff, who spoke of his early life in West Virginia and how his life has since changed due to his time at the University. He shared his time as a dean, the students who he helped and what he's learned from those students. Midkiff's message was a testament to the University faculties' earnest and genuine care for their students.
Another memorable speaker was Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Philip Asare. As this spring is his last semester at the University, he took a reflective tone of many of the experiences that he gained while at our University. Asare shared his relationship with education and how he's been in the right place at the right time to help students. While he was candid about the University's many challenges ahead, he remained optimistic about students' futures.
Finally, Professor of Physics Tom Solomon closed out the series on a memorable and uplifting note. He spoke in his typical excited and quick-walking fashion of the wonders of the universe: biology, physics and tech all combining in a list of what matters to him. Solomon spent much time talking of the wonders of the Universe and how his experiences point to some unique beauty that he's come to experience. That beauty is part of what guides his life and what he hopes to inspire in his students.
These talks all point to a greater reality: that these ideas deserve discussion. There are many faculty and staff at this University whose lived experience serves to be a resource to students and the greater campus community. Firsthand lived experience bridges gaps and helps to mend deep wounds ingrained in society. There is so much potential for this series to go deeper and to hear from an increasingly wide breadth of the University and worldwide stage. So I encourage you, when your Message Center lights up (if that'll still exist come the next "What Matters") with messages of a meaningful discussion of meaning, truth and life, to seek and explore all that our community continues to offer.


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Buying a gift for someone that you don't know is hard, but you're somewhat off the hook even if they don't think it's the best prezzie they've ever got. You don't really know them well enough, do you? But then comes the challenge of family and friends. You've known them for more years than you can count; they really do deserve the best, but you've exhausted surprise parties and your great gift repertoire to the point where this year has got you scratching your head.
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Mgarr WWII Shelter
Another one of those sets of tunnels dug underground to serve as air-raid shelters during WWII on the island of Malta. This one is in the northern town of Mgarr and is one of the better ones, from a (dark) tourism perspective.
NOTE: do not get this Mgarr on Malta island itself confused with the better known ferry port of Mgarr on the neighbouring island of Gozo.
Note, too, that Mgarr is also spelled "L-Imgarr" in Maltese!
More background info: in general see under Malta, and also cf. Malta at War Museum, St Paul's grotto and catacombs and Mosta.
As far as historical details about this particular shelter are concerned, I haven't been able to dig much up (pun not intended), such as: when was it started, by whom, etc.? But in this case I don't think it's all that important. It's much more a visual site in any case.
The only things the website of the place (and the Malta Heritage site – which basically just quotes the same text) specify is that the whole system is 220 metres long, up to 12 metres below ground, and that it provided refuge during the "Blitz of Malta" (i.e. the bombing raids during WWII).
Yet the subtitle superimposed on the main lead image says "100 years of history", so it has to be assumed that at least some of the tunnels must date back to before WWII and that maybe they were only extended then. But this is not made explicitly clear.
What there is to see: On arrival at the restaurant that the WWII shelters are located underneath I just asked at the bar if we could visit the tunnels, and one waiter was sent off to look after us. He took us down some stairs in the back of the ground level modern restaurant's main dining room to a basement room that immediately looks much older. But this is still part of the restaurant (it just wasn't open for lunch when I was there). The actual tunnels begin at the far end of this basement room. On the far wall are some yellowed newspaper clippings, photos and wartime propaganda posters related to the war theme and a sign that says "Air Raid Shelter" in English and Maltese (it's so much longer in the latter!).
But before we descended down there, a screen was lowered and we were shown the same old b&w film about Malta that had been commissioned by the king after the siege of the island was over and that is also shown at other war-related museums on Malta (see Lascaris War Rooms, Malta at War Museum). Even though it was already familiar to use we sat through it and at the end the waiter-guide reappeared, after having switched on all the lights for us in the dark underground. And then he took us down more steps to a level even deeper where the actual WWII shelter begins.
The tunnels are low, so being rather tall I had to bend down to avoid my scalp scraping the ceiling (if you're tall too better bring a hat of some description!). The first part of the tunnels are rough-hewn straight into the rock. It was all done by hand, so the guide informed us. A bit further on, and another set of steps down (the deepest part of the system is 12 metres below street level), a stretch of tunnels starts whose walls and ceilings have been clad in smooth concrete and/or white bricks, so it looks much more built than dug.
It's basically one main corridor, though not in a straight line, and here and there, especially towards the end, there are several side rooms. Some of these contain furnishings, such beds and chairs, some are more elaborately equipped, others more basic. One has been "populated" with mannequins in period clothing. Another mannequin stands a few steps up a side entrance's stairway. Behind her you can see a speck of daylight from ground level.
There is little to no signage or labelling – so you really need the guide to bring things to life. The only self-explanatory elements are a series of old photos with labels that hang along the walls of the first part of the main corridor. They all show scenes from WWII and some reminded me of the footage of that documentary film we had just been shown upstairs. But I may be wrong.
One of the side rooms was clearly a small school, with a desk at front, two benches and a blackboard at the far wall. So schooling went underground too. And so did religion: in one corner where the main corridor makes a sharp zigzag turn, there's a little chapel.
There are a few artefacts on display too, beyond the furnishings of those side rooms. One has pieces of a (shot-down?) plane, another an assortment of pick-axes (for digging the tunnels), there's a gas mask of sorts hanging from the wall at one point, and several fuel canisters and even some bomb shells can be seen in the gloom.
Back up from the tunnels in the restaurant, we decided to have lunch there and then, given it was just after 1 p.m. (the actual official closing time of the tunnels).
All in all, I thought the excursion was worth it. OK, there isn't an awful lot of commodification or interpretation, but if you got all that out of the relevant museums in Valletta and Birgu, then this is a very good add-on, to give you a visual impression of how ordinary folk lived underground during the hard times of WWII. Recommended.
Location: in the heart of Mgarr, just opposite the imposing church, a small town in the north of Malta some 10 miles (15 km) north-west of Valetta.
Access and costs: Off the beaten tourist track, but not difficult to get to; reasonably priced.
Details: You can get to Mgarr by bus, like almost anywhere on Malta. Line 44 takes you there straight from Valletta. It's the one to Tuffieha and it departs roughly every half hour. So that's where you have to get out. Thankfully, the bus stop (the one after "Theatrali") is virtually across the road from the restaurant with the shelter, and the church opposite makes for an easily recognizable landmark. The bus ride takes ca. 45 minutes (it's 40 stops!).
Quicker and easier would be a car, if you have access to one. Public parking can be found just south of the church.
Access to the underground tunnels is through the Il-Barri Restaurant just opposite the church. When I was there signs outside the restaurant advertised the WWII shelter clearly enough. Inside you have to ask – the stairs down are in the back. But wait for one of the staff to prepare things for your visit – a guided tour is included (conducted, at least in my case, by one of the waiters). So you're not supposed to just walk around on your own.
Opening times: Tuesdays to Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sundays and holidays 10 to 11:30 a.m., closed Mondays.
Admission: 3€ (incl. guided tour)
Mgarr is not very touristy – most people only come to see the nearby Ta' Ħaġrat temple (see below) and head back again. So there's no hotel, just a few holiday apartments for accommodation. For food and drink there are a few other bars and restaurants, but catering more for locals. But if you come to see the WWII shelter just before lunchtime you could just as well make use of the Il Barri Restaurant for some sustenance before you carry on. They're happy to just put your admission fee together with your food bill. Note, though, that their pizzas are served only in the evening. At lunchtime you have to make do with the rest of their menu, which is comprehensive enough.
Time required: Not too long, maybe half an hour or so.
Combinations with other dark destinations: See under Malta in general.
The closest and easiest combination would be Mosta, which is right en route to Mgarr from Valetta.
Combinations with non-dark destinations: Just south of Mgarr, only a couple of minutes' walk from the restaurant and the bus stop, is one of Malta's prime archaeological sites and ancient monuments, the Ta' Ħaġrat temple. It's some 6000-7000 years old and is said to be one of the oldest free-standing megalithic structures of its size in the world. In fact this is what most visitors to Mgarr come for.
In general see under Malta.
Mgarr shelter 01 - looks more complex in Maltese
Mgarr shelter 02 - down in the underground
Mgarr shelter 03 - in a more polished part
Mgarr shelter 04 - still rather basic
Mgarr shelter 05 - underground school cave
Mgarr shelter 06 - maybe a crib
Mgarr shelter 07 - petrol perhaps
Mgarr shelter 08 - plane parts
Mgarr shelter 09 - cave dwelling populated by dummies in period clothing
Mgarr shelter 10 - grubbier dwelling cave
Mgarr shelter 11 - bunk beds
Mgarr shelter 12 - underground chapel
Mgarr shelter 13 - dummy on her way down from a side entrance
Mgarr shelter 14 - gas mask
Mgarr shelter 15 - way back up
Mgarr shelter 16 - the restaurant the shelter is underneath
Mgarr shelter 17 - church opposite


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Q: Mysql binary logs filling up and crashing the server I'm not sure how I got myself into this one. I have a master-slave replication going on a lamp stack application. This is what we had today. The drop in the black line is me clearing by issuing PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE DATE_SUB( NOW( ), INTERVAL 1 HOUR);

my.cnf on the master machine -- the one with the log filling problem -- reads as follows. I'm expiring logs after 3 days.
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks
symbolic-links=0

# sync
log-bin=mysql-bin
server-id=1
expire_logs_days = 3
max_binlog_size  = 100M
ssl
ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/newcerts/ca-cert.pem
ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/newcerts/server-cert.pem
ssl-key=/etc/mysql/newcerts/server-key.pem

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

# sync config
log-bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
binlog_do_db=app_database
server-id=1
~
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Q: Javascript mobile redirect issue Hi this has doing my head in for an hour or so now, I want to redirect my mobile traffic but depending on the GEO to different locations, I have got the redirect script working fine using switch, case but when I add it within an if statement  if (screen.width <= 699) for mobile devices its not working and I dont know why. this is what i have
 <script language="JavaScript" src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js"></script>
 <script language="JavaScript">
   var country = geoip_country_code();
   if (screen.width <= 699) {
   switch (country)
   {
   case (country = "ES"):
     window.location = "http://url1.com";
   break;
   case (country = "US"):
     window.location = "http://url1.com";
   break;

   default:
     window.location = "http://url2.com";
   break;
  }
 }

Just having it like this work fine...
 <script language="JavaScript">
var country = geoip_country_code();
switch (country)
{
case (country = "ES"):
  window.location = "http://url1.com";
break;
case (country = "US"):
  window.location = "http://url1.com";
break;

default:
  window.location = "http://url2.com";
break;
}

thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this I really appreciate it!

A: Include the following in your html's header:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" />

So your mobile devices don't resize to "desktop" emulation


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