This page deal with Computer simulations related to the U-boat War of WWII.
Silent Hunter returns its focus to the U-boats. This game looks great, with its new engine and heavily revised graphics from Silent Hunter 3 - if you skipped over SH 4.
The main problem with this game is the copy-protection scheme used by Ubisoft for this game. In order to play you not only have to be connected to the Internet but also connected to the Ubisoft servers. I really don't like this method at all.
Yet another exciting installment of this great submarine franchise. Completely wrong ocean for German U-boat play but instead we have the American submarines of WWII along with those extremely tempting japanese superbattleships!
Gonna grab this one asap and check it out - looks wonderful from what I've seen. Seems to be a vastly improved engine from the Silent Hunter III of 2005 which looked very nice itself.
March 18 2005 - Finally the long awaited sequel to the fun game Silent Hunter II has arrived.
We'll do a review of this game within few days if all goes well.
Also, in this game you can play against people who have the Destroyer Command game!
This game includes support for Direct3D and OpenGL and looks very nice!
This one was launched in the middle of 1999. It's a strategic simulation of a great promise.
You can have battleships slugging it out on the surface in many different scenarios.
One of the most interesting promises of this game is a friendly-fire possibility, this was a real problem in WWII and many ships were lost under those circumstances.
I've not played this game myself (I have tried but the connections failed) but this one seems quite popular indeed. As an Internet-based game it's of course bound by those limitations, possible slow connection, refreshes etc.
This game would be a tough one to locate except in your local software store and then probably in the sales bin.
You will be pleased to know that you can order Aces of the Deep from Sierra on line (www.Sierra.com) as part of the Aces Collection a new package for about $26 US. Unlike the old issue which was DOS based and not Windows compatable, this will run on Windows '95 and Windows '98.
This one was an old DOS-based game (1993) that I played for weeks, nice and simple game. You could control either the U-boat Wolfpack or the convoy escorts. That was its main feature, each and every ship could be controlled at your ease.
This destroyer is about to be surprised!
This oldie came on three 5.25" diskettes. It is called Silent Service II by MicroProse. This game was ahead of its time when produced. It offers a variety of boats (U.S. only, however) and very good graphics. The most die hard would be impressed by the attention to detail placed in the game engine back in 1991.
This one comes on a 5.25" floppy disk.
Here below is a photo of what surely must be the first U-boat game, albeit not a computer-based one. This one, Der kleine U-Boot-Kommandant, was published in 1940 and was of course inspired by U-47's successful attack on the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow.
Unsere U-boote, thought to date from 1915.
This is a game for the Commodore 64/128, but if you have an emulator you can play it on your PC as well. Your U-boat attempts to torpedo carriers and destroyers from beneath the surface while avoiding depth charges and mines. A simple, shoot 'em up kind of game. Order for free from the Cocosoft Solutions Commodore 64 Request Site.
A board game from Avalon Hill. This war game consists of a coordinate grid board, cardboard counters representing U-boats and surface vessels, log charts and various historical scenarios. Very educational and requiring some strategy, as moves must be plotted secretly by opponents several rounds ahead, and players must consider their depth, speed, and weapons capabilities which are calculated to match those of the actual vessels and weapons.
Although Avalon Hill is no longer in business, this game can be found for sale at the following web sites.
Earthsea's Avalon Hill Game Page, among other places.
Both these Macintosh computer games are available from Deadly Games.
U-boat is a realtime simulation of the U-boat war from 1939 to mid-1940. Winner of Computer Game Review's Golden Triad Award.
Drumbeat, also a realtime simulation, is the sequel to U-boat; the 1942 scenario uses a Type IXB, and takes place off the coasts of Europe, the US, and Caribbean islands.
One of Diversions Software's first releases. They describe it as a simple World War II U-boat simulation with an arcade flavor. Available from Sofsource.


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Taichung Futuro FC () is a professional football club based in Taichung, Taiwan which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.

History

Taichung Futuro Football Academy was founded in 2016 by Japanese footballer Yoshitaka Komori. The men's team was established in 2018.

Current squad

Managers

References

2016 establishments in Taiwan
Football clubs in Taiwan
Association football clubs established in 2016
Sport in Taichung

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#include <common.h>
#include <command.h>
#include <stdio_dev.h>
#include <net.h>

DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;

#ifndef CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_BUFFER_SIZE
#define CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_BUFFER_SIZE 512
#endif

static char input_buffer[CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_BUFFER_SIZE];
static int input_size; /* char count in input buffer */
static int input_offset; /* offset to valid chars in input buffer */
static int input_recursion;
static int output_recursion;
static int net_timeout;
static uchar nc_ether[6]; /* server enet address */
static IPaddr_t nc_ip; /* server ip */
static short nc_out_port; /* target output port */
static short nc_in_port; /* source input port */
static const char *output_packet; /* used by first send udp */
static int output_packet_len;
/*
 * Start with a default last protocol.
 * We are only interested in NETCONS or not.
 */
enum proto_t net_loop_last_protocol = BOOTP;

static void nc_wait_arp_handler(uchar *pkt, unsigned dest,
				 IPaddr_t sip, unsigned src,
				 unsigned len)
{
	net_set_state(NETLOOP_SUCCESS); /* got arp reply - quit net loop */
}

static void nc_handler(uchar *pkt, unsigned dest, IPaddr_t sip, unsigned src,
			unsigned len)
{
	if (input_size)
		net_set_state(NETLOOP_SUCCESS); /* got input - quit net loop */
}

static void nc_timeout(void)
{
	net_set_state(NETLOOP_SUCCESS);
}

static int is_broadcast(IPaddr_t ip)
{
	static IPaddr_t netmask;
	static IPaddr_t our_ip;
	static int env_changed_id;
	int env_id = get_env_id();

	/* update only when the environment has changed */
	if (env_changed_id != env_id) {
		netmask = getenv_IPaddr("netmask");
		our_ip = getenv_IPaddr("ipaddr");

		env_changed_id = env_id;
	}

	return (ip == ~0 ||				/* 255.255.255.255 */
	    ((netmask & our_ip) == (netmask & ip) &&	/* on the same net */
	    (netmask | ip) == ~0));		/* broadcast to our net */
}

static int refresh_settings_from_env(void)
{
	const char *p;
	static int env_changed_id;
	int env_id = get_env_id();

	/* update only when the environment has changed */
	if (env_changed_id != env_id) {
		if (getenv("ncip")) {
			nc_ip = getenv_IPaddr("ncip");
			if (!nc_ip)
				return -1;	/* ncip is 0.0.0.0 */
			p = strchr(getenv("ncip"), ':');
			if (p != NULL) {
				nc_out_port = simple_strtoul(p + 1, NULL, 10);
				nc_in_port = nc_out_port;
			}
		} else
			nc_ip = ~0; /* ncip is not set, so broadcast */

		p = getenv("ncoutport");
		if (p != NULL)
			nc_out_port = simple_strtoul(p, NULL, 10);
		p = getenv("ncinport");
		if (p != NULL)
			nc_in_port = simple_strtoul(p, NULL, 10);

		if (is_broadcast(nc_ip))
			/* broadcast MAC address */
			memset(nc_ether, 0xff, sizeof(nc_ether));
		else
			/* force arp request */
			memset(nc_ether, 0, sizeof(nc_ether));
	}
	return 0;
}

/**
 * Called from NetLoop in net/net.c before each packet
 */
void NcStart(void)
{
	refresh_settings_from_env();
	if (!output_packet_len || memcmp(nc_ether, NetEtherNullAddr, 6)) {
		/* going to check for input packet */
		net_set_udp_handler(nc_handler);
		NetSetTimeout(net_timeout, nc_timeout);
	} else {
		/* send arp request */
		uchar *pkt;
		net_set_arp_handler(nc_wait_arp_handler);
		pkt = (uchar *)NetTxPacket + NetEthHdrSize() + IP_UDP_HDR_SIZE;
		memcpy(pkt, output_packet, output_packet_len);
		NetSendUDPPacket(nc_ether, nc_ip, nc_out_port, nc_in_port,
			output_packet_len);
	}
}

int nc_input_packet(uchar *pkt, IPaddr_t src_ip, unsigned dest_port,
	unsigned src_port, unsigned len)
{
	int end, chunk;

	if (dest_port != nc_in_port || !len)
		return 0; /* not for us */

	if (src_ip != nc_ip && !is_broadcast(nc_ip))
		return 0; /* not from our client */

	debug_cond(DEBUG_DEV_PKT, "input: \"%*.*s\"\n", len, len, pkt);

	if (input_size == sizeof(input_buffer))
		return 1; /* no space */
	if (len > sizeof(input_buffer) - input_size)
		len = sizeof(input_buffer) - input_size;

	end = input_offset + input_size;
	if (end > sizeof(input_buffer))
		end -= sizeof(input_buffer);

	chunk = len;
	if (end + len > sizeof(input_buffer)) {
		chunk = sizeof(input_buffer) - end;
		memcpy(input_buffer, pkt + chunk, len - chunk);
	}
	memcpy(input_buffer + end, pkt, chunk);

	input_size += len;

	return 1;
}

static void nc_send_packet(const char *buf, int len)
{
	struct eth_device *eth;
	int inited = 0;
	uchar *pkt;
	uchar *ether;
	IPaddr_t ip;

	debug_cond(DEBUG_DEV_PKT, "output: \"%*.*s\"\n", len, len, buf);

	eth = eth_get_dev();
	if (eth == NULL)
		return;

	if (!memcmp(nc_ether, NetEtherNullAddr, 6)) {
		if (eth->state == ETH_STATE_ACTIVE)
			return;	/* inside net loop */
		output_packet = buf;
		output_packet_len = len;
		input_recursion = 1;
		NetLoop(NETCONS); /* wait for arp reply and send packet */
		input_recursion = 0;
		output_packet_len = 0;
		return;
	}

	if (eth->state != ETH_STATE_ACTIVE) {
		if (eth_is_on_demand_init()) {
			if (eth_init(gd->bd) < 0)
				return;
			eth_set_last_protocol(NETCONS);
		} else
			eth_init_state_only(gd->bd);

		inited = 1;
	}
	pkt = (uchar *)NetTxPacket + NetEthHdrSize() + IP_UDP_HDR_SIZE;
	memcpy(pkt, buf, len);
	ether = nc_ether;
	ip = nc_ip;
	NetSendUDPPacket(ether, ip, nc_out_port, nc_in_port, len);

	if (inited) {
		if (eth_is_on_demand_init())
			eth_halt();
		else
			eth_halt_state_only();
	}
}

static int nc_start(void)
{
	int retval;

	nc_out_port = 6666; /* default port */
	nc_in_port = nc_out_port;

	retval = refresh_settings_from_env();
	if (retval != 0)
		return retval;

	/*
	 * Initialize the static IP settings and buffer pointers
	 * incase we call NetSendUDPPacket before NetLoop
	 */
	net_init();

	return 0;
}

static void nc_putc(char c)
{
	if (output_recursion)
		return;
	output_recursion = 1;

	nc_send_packet(&c, 1);

	output_recursion = 0;
}

static void nc_puts(const char *s)
{
	int len;

	if (output_recursion)
		return;
	output_recursion = 1;

	len = strlen(s);
	while (len) {
		int send_len = min(len, sizeof(input_buffer));
		nc_send_packet(s, send_len);
		len -= send_len;
		s += send_len;
	}

	output_recursion = 0;
}

static int nc_getc(void)
{
	uchar c;

	input_recursion = 1;

	net_timeout = 0;	/* no timeout */
	while (!input_size)
		NetLoop(NETCONS);

	input_recursion = 0;

	c = input_buffer[input_offset++];

	if (input_offset >= sizeof(input_buffer))
		input_offset -= sizeof(input_buffer);
	input_size--;

	return c;
}

static int nc_tstc(void)
{
	struct eth_device *eth;

	if (input_recursion)
		return 0;

	if (input_size)
		return 1;

	eth = eth_get_dev();
	if (eth && eth->state == ETH_STATE_ACTIVE)
		return 0;	/* inside net loop */

	input_recursion = 1;

	net_timeout = 1;
	NetLoop(NETCONS);	/* kind of poll */

	input_recursion = 0;

	return input_size != 0;
}

int drv_nc_init(void)
{
	struct stdio_dev dev;
	int rc;

	memset(&dev, 0, sizeof(dev));

	strcpy(dev.name, "nc");
	dev.flags = DEV_FLAGS_OUTPUT | DEV_FLAGS_INPUT | DEV_FLAGS_SYSTEM;
	dev.start = nc_start;
	dev.putc = nc_putc;
	dev.puts = nc_puts;
	dev.getc = nc_getc;
	dev.tstc = nc_tstc;

	rc = stdio_register(&dev);

	return (rc == 0) ? 1 : rc;
}


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Jon Foster is an American freelance illustrator, penciler, and sculptor.

Biography
Foster is best known for his comic book covers (DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics) and other works featured in role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Alternity.

Jon Foster studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1989. His paintings are oils on canvas and are known to have a dark or muted color palette. Typically, they incorporate subject matter like good vs. evil, anger, and adventure. Before a project is complete, Foster scans his paintings into a computer to add digital effects.

Earlier in his career, Jon collaborated with artists such as Rick Berry and Dave Dorman (well known Star Wars artist).

Foster has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Some of his achievements include multiple awards from the prestigious Spectrum sci-fi and fantasy art publications.

Jon lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Works

Books
 Progressions (February 2003)
 Revolution: The Art of Jon Foster (November 2006)

Book covers
 Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic Trilogy by Sean Williams and Shane Dix (Del Rey Books, 2003)
 The Uninvited (May 2004)
 Snake Agent by Liz Williams (Night Shade Books, September 2005)
 The Dragonback series by Timothy Zahn (Starscape Books, 2005)
 The Demon and the City by Liz Williams (Night Shade Books, August 2006)
 Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance, 2006)
 Mistborn: The Final Empire, Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, and Mistborn: Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
 The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart (Subterranean Press, 2008)
 Fender Lizards by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press, 2015)

Comics
 Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator
 Batman: the Ring, the Arrow and the Bat
 Hunter
 The Nightmare Factory - Volume 2
 Species
 Star Wars
 Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Other references
 Spectrum 6 (December 1999)
 Spectrum 8 (November 2001)
 Spectrum 9 (December 2002)
 Spectrum 10 (October 2003)
 Spectrum 11 (November 2004)

References

External links
 Jon Foster's official website

20th-century American male artists
20th-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
21st-century American painters
American illustrators
American male painters
American speculative fiction artists
Fantasy artists
Game artists
Living people
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Role-playing game artists
Year of birth missing (living people)


This movie is basically based on the book Devdas by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. When the hero of the movie, who is the character Devdas in the novel, moves to Calcutta for his work, their society changes. The girl belonged to a lower caste and society doesnt treat her with love. He finds that everything has changed in the society and his lover is no longer the same as he knew her. Also, since these two belonged to two different castes, the society doesnt accept them easily. How they strive hard to convince their parents is the main theme. This movie wraps up on a very happy note. Watch Debdas movie online.


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FILE PHOTO: Cricket - ICC Cricket World Cup Semi Final - India v New Zealand - Old Trafford, Manchester, Britain - July 9, 2019 India's Jasprit Bumrah appeals Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
(Reuters) - India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has recovered from a back injury and has been named in their Twenty20 and one-day international (ODI) squads for series against Sri Lanka and Australia, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday.
Bumrah, India's leading bowler at this year's 50-over World Cup with 18 wickets, sustained a stress fracture in his lower back which has ruled him out of action since September.
India are set to host Sri Lanka in three T20Is followed by three ODIs against Australia in January.
Medium-pacer Deepak Chahar is set for a spell on the sidelines with a lower back injury which ruled him out of Sunday's third ODI against the West Indies.
"Deepak Chahar has been diagnosed of a stress fracture in his lower back," the BCCI said in a statement. "He has started his rehabilitation at the NCA (National Cricket Academy) and is expected to regain match fitness by April 2020."
India's T20 squad: Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Washington Sundar.
India's ODI squad: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami.
Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond

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Home General News ROLEX MONTEREY MOTORSPORTS REUNION CELEBRATES MASERATI AND THE RICH ITALIAN HERITAGE
ROLEX MONTEREY MOTORSPORTS REUNION CELEBRATES MASERATI AND THE RICH ITALIAN HERITAGE
MONTEREY, Calif., June 17, 2014 — The official 100th anniversary celebration of Maserati shifts into high gear during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca beginning Friday, August 15 with a tribute to Italy and continuing through Sunday, August 17.
"We will be celebrating the magnificent history of not only Maserati, but that of all Italian cars as well," explained Gill Campbell, CEO and general manager of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. "On Friday our doors will be open to welcome Italian motor car enthusiasts so they may enjoy all the sights, sounds and racing pageantry that is unique to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion."
Italian car owners will be able to stroll among the Maserati heritage display in the race paddock, walk down aisles and aisles of cars in their pits and see all 15 racing groups run throughout the day. The centerpiece of the paddock will be Maserati North America's display that honors its rich heritage with significant cars from its past that will only be seen at Mazda Raceway.
There will also be a number of "surprises," including a special celebrity meet and greet in addition to preferred paved Italian corral parking to everyone who drives an Italian-made car into the facility.
The race paddock will be bustling with 550 authentic and historically-accurate race cars that date back to as far as the early 1900s. Each one is assigned into corresponding race groups with cars of similar era and displacement and has best been described as "a museum springing to life," as the cars go wheel-to-wheel on the track.
Complementing the race paddock are countless activities in the Marketplace. Vendors, car displays, wine and cheese tasting, and lunch options make it a festive atmosphere to enjoy.
Friday admission tickets are $50 in advance and $70 at the gate. As a special courtesy to Italian car aficionados, attendees who possess a Saturday Concorso Italiano ticket will be admitted free on Friday, August 15. Plus, the first 100 Italian cars through the admission gates will receive a voucher to participate in a parade lap on the track. Advance three-day general admission tickets are $130.
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Don Cohen September 2014
It seems like it was a blink of an eye when we launched GoLife while there was still snow on the ground early last March. Over the months we've seen tens of thousands of new and (happily) returning visitors to the site.
The GoLife mission is to add interest, inspiration and information to your Winnebago life. And now that we've got thousands of miles and words under our belt we're getting ready to take our next planned steps to make GoLife even better.
In early 2015 you'll see some changes. We're going to make some simple adjustments that will help making content easier to find. And, we'll be introducing a calendar that will be a fantastic resource for you to find events, shows, and trips all in one place.
Behind the scenes I'd like to welcome Maggie Hughes to the team. Maggie has come on board as Winnebago's full-time social media and marketing specialist. Maggie is a second generation Winnebago employee and brings with her an impressive suite of digital skills with a fresh millennial perspective. Soon enough you'll start to see the GoLife world expand more in Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Ready for action. Maggie tries on her new GoPro.
One of Maggie's first suggestions was to change the flow of content to the site. When we first launched GoLife we structured our editorial calendar around a once-a-month update. Well, that was so early 21st century! Starting immediately, we'll be posting stories and articles to the site throughout the month.
We'll also be adding some other voices to GoLife to make sure that we keep the same sense of discovery and excitement in our digital world as you experience out on the highways and by-ways of Winnebago nation. There's more to come on that, so keep watching this spot for upcoming introductions.


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Toward a Healthy Society
Social Cities
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Summary: Who We Will Become: A Survey of Children's Public Lives in Christian Thought
Peter Jon Mitchell
A Cardus Research Brief
Many of our most basic social institutions, like marriage and family, are far less centred on the needs of children than in the past and are increasingly stretched and reconfigured to meet the desires of adults. Too often policy-makers respond by codifying notions of children's autonomy that estrange children from the natural relationships that should nurture and protect them.
How might the Christian tradition inform a healthy vision of children's participation in family and community life?
This is a summary version of our full report titled "Who We Will Become: A Survey of Children's Public Lives in Christian Thought." The purpose of the report is to inform our understanding of the Christian tradition, identify sources for further study and reflection, and raise questions regarding our engagement with issues concerning children in public life. We acknowledge that the report is a broad survey of themes and that space limits our engagement with the rich and diverse history of thinkers and traditions within the Christian faith.
The full report provides an overview of the themes around children found in Scripture, and a survey of the history of children in Christian thought. It explores the nature of children and the relationship between children, their families, and their communities within the Christian tradition. Finally, the report considers entry points for discussion between Christian thought and contemporary theories informing children's rights and advocacy for children's autonomy in public life.
Children in Scripture
The treatment of children in Jewish and Christian communities distinguished these societies from the surrounding cultures. Children are image bearers of God, possessing full human value and dignity. As a gift from God, children were understood to be a sign of his blessing. Parents are endowed with the responsibility from God to care for and instruct children in faith.
Another observation by some theologians is that the triune relationship between father, mother, and child reflects the triunity of the Godhead.1Further, theologians note the significance of the incarnation of Christ as an infant as a sign of the dignity and value of children.2
In the Gospels, Jesus welcomed children as participants in the reign of God. The humble posture of children serves as a model of spiritual humility. Serving children is a faith-forming act and a vocational calling of family.3
Children in the Christian Tradition
Historically theologians have addressed children in relationship to family and the church, rather than specifically reflecting on childhood itself. However, there is much to explore regarding children in the Christian tradition.
Early Christianity and the Church Fathers
The treatment of children in the early church stands in stark contrast to the surrounding Greco-Roman culture. Compelled by love of neighbour, early Christians advocated for children as fully human, image bearers of God. In contrast, children in Greco-Roman culture occupied low social standing in an era when abortion, infanticide, and abandonment were common practice.4
The early church fathers viewed children as a reflection of moral simplicity. It was St. Augustine who firmly articulated the impact of original sin in children, although he acknowledged a progressive accountability for sin as children matured.
Family was the key institution in the formation of virtue. St. John Chrysostom viewed the family as a little church, charging parents with the vocation of revealing the image of God in children. He argued that parents were responsible for developing faith and virtue in their offspring.5
St. Thomas Aquinas embraced and modified the doctrine of original sin in children. Aquinas could be considered more optimistic than earlier thinkers, as he affirmed original sin but emphasized the role of divine grace in completing rather than correcting nature.6
In the Middle Ages, childhood was conceptualized in seven-year segments based on the developmental ability to reason. The first seven years of life were considered infancy, while childhood encompassed the next seven years, from ages eight to fourteen. Puberty and the maturing capacity to reason elevated what we would now consider adolescence into majority status with increased autonomy and responsibility.
Aquinas argued that the significance of the parent-child relationship was derived from natural law. Rooted in love, parents and children had unique obligations toward one another, with parents obligated to meet material needs and guide the formation of virtues. In return, children were expected to honour their parents with their obedience.7
Aquinas argued that parents were the primary authority over children, which superseded the authority of the community. At the same time, parental authority was exercised within robust relational networks. While not all sacraments were open to children, baptism came to mediate the relationship between family and the church. Baptism also connected children to the broader society through the institution of the church. In this way, baptism was not only a sacrament but also a vehicle of social connection.8
The doctrine of human depravity motivated a renewed focus on spiritual formation among some Protestant Reformers. The pre-puberty years were understood to be a critical time for intellectual, spiritual, and moral development, an urgency that motivated Martin Luther among others to advocate for the universal provision of education.
Parents continued to be responsible for the formation of children. Luther identified parents as apostles and bishops in the home, who were to ensure family worship and devotion. Fathers were expected to take a more direct role with very young children, previously considered the domain of mothers.9
The church encouraged parents in their vocation, but also provided spiritual formation through catechesis as a contribution to the common good.10One of the motivating factors was the importance of raising children to be productive citizens. An emphasis among Reformers on establishing distinctive religious and political communities started with the proper formation of children. Christian thinkers understood the important role of families in creating vibrant societies.
Early Modern Christianity
The Enlightenment reconfigured the concept of childhood. Children were viewed as morally untainted but vulnerable to corruption. New consideration was given to children's autonomy. Additionally, social and economic changes altered the role of families and community in the lives of children.
The Puritans among other religious movements chafed against these shifting philosophies. The Puritans remained committed to the doctrine of original sin but brought renewed focus on the nature of children, as evidenced by Jonathan Edwards, who preached directly to children.
Children were held up as exemplars of virtue and faith, and were full participants in the revivals on both sides of the Atlantic.
Although the Christian home remained a central influence, a greater portion of education occurred outside the home during this period. Christian reformers focused on universal education, particularly for the poor. As educational institutions increased, the role of formation became a shared venture between home and school. As the eighteenth century progressed, the state became increasingly involved in the provision of formal education.
Late Modern Christianity
Significant cultural and economic shifts continued to reshape childhood. The Romantic idealization of the nature of children, particularly among the upper classes, created a sentimental view of childhood.11The study of child behaviour emerged as greater emphasis was placed on the influence of home environments.
Christian educators such as St. John Bosco (1815–1888), Charlotte Mason (1842–1923), and Maria Montessori (1870–1952) profoundly shaped the understanding of the child and were innovators in education. At the same time, others such as John Dewey (1859–1952) advocated for distinctively secular visions of personhood that remain influential in education today.12
Industrialization among other factors widened the gap between the private household and the public sphere. A growing emphasis on child welfare was influenced by Christian philanthropy. Despite this Christian involvement, secular social institutions were a growing presence in childhood.
In summary, some broad themes can be identified within the Christian tradition. The inherent value and dignity of children as image bearers of God has compelled Christians to promote child well-being, including protection from neglect and harm, as well as literacy and universal education. Theologians have debated the nature and extent of sin within children, but agree on the importance of instilling virtue for the good of children and society. Finally, there are various understandings of the interrelationship between family, church, and state, often influenced by cultural forces. Yet the tradition affirms the primary role of family in the lives of children, with church and state serving a supporting role.
Children in Contemporary Christian Thought
Academic interest in children and their well-being increased during the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary work focused on child development and the welfare of children. Internationally the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1998) symbolized decades of focused attention on children's welfare.
As scholars in other disciplines were doing, theologians and religious scholars began to reconsider children within their own fields of study.
Political discourse during the latter half of the twentieth century in the United States witnessed diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches to child welfare. University of Chicago practical theologian Don Browning sought to navigate this discourse by critically examining historical Christian thinking on children and childhood. One outcome of this project was a book of essays edited by theologian Marcia Bunge called The Child in Christian Thought (2001). This substantial work clarified and challenged previous conceptions of Christianity's view of children, including how the faith has understood the spiritual nature of children. The book applied historical Christian approaches to understanding parental, community, and state responsibilities toward children.
An adjacent project at the Center for Law and Religion in the School of Law at Emory University resulted in a book project edited by Patrick McKinley Brennan called The Vocation of the Child (2008).13The project applied a Christian lens to the exploration of the interconnected relationships of responsibility between children, family, community, and the state. The project engaged the contemporary focus on children's rights and other aspects of law and policy.
These contemporary projects grappled with notions of children's autonomy that have grounded much of the conversation on children's welfare over the last few decades. There remain complex challenges for Christian thinkers to navigate as public policy continues to explore the place of children in society.
Children in Our Cultural Moment
Children have always existed in a world centred on adults. Certainly, the welfare of children has improved over the last two thousand years. Christianity has contributed to this progress. The modern focus on autonomy and increasing secularization has provided thoughtful Christians with new challenges. As the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child revealed, contemporary debates grapple with the role of family, community, and state actors in the lives of children. As we write in the full version of our report, "Contemporary debates contend with the notion of child autonomy within the context of these structures. Greater emphasis has been placed on the protective and choice rights of children. How might understanding children as image bearers inform our understanding of autonomy and rights? How should we conceive of the relationship between freedom, autonomy, and dignity?14What are the implications for understanding children in relationship with family and society? And how should we consider the interrelationship between these actors?"
We believe these questions have important implications for public-policy issues such as education, child welfare, and supports for families and children in the early years. We seek to apply the foundational claim that children are image bearers of God, possessing full human dignity, to pressing contemporary issues, and to considering the role of families, social institutions, public structures, and faith communities in serving and welcoming children.
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Q: What is the purpose of client secret in Oauth when a simple rogue client can steal passwords regardless? This question has not asked before as the premise is different.
The Client secret is for the authorization server to verify a user is using the ACTUAL client to log into the system; Not a rogue client created by a hacker.
However, a rogue client does not need to authenticate with the server. If a user supplies his username/password on a rogue client, the hacker has literally stolen the password. He can then come to the ACTUAL client and login with the credentials.
I know we can employ two factor authentication to prevent this. However, my question is: why go through all the mess of having Client Verification as mentioned in the OAUTH Authorization/PKCE flow if it doesn't really matter for the password stealer?
https://auth0.com/docs/flows/authorization-code-flow-with-proof-key-for-code-exchange-pkce
Finally, the hacker can employ web scraping strategies to automate data capture from the actual client.

A: The client secret simply isn't there to prevent unauthorized persons from logging in, so don't get hung up on that threat. In OAuth flows that use it, the client secret is there for non-repudiation, for the benefit of the resource server. With client secrets in place, the resource server can know exactly what client ( == application server) requested any given token. That way, if the client fails to properly protect its tokens & proxy its users' requests, to ensure abusive or irresponsible sorts of end-user traffic never reach the resource server, then the client can be identified with certainty and its authorization can be revoked. Or it can be temporary rate-limited if it has exceeded the SLA, etc. Problem solved -- for the resource server!

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AustinTalks (http://austintalks.org/2010/09/foreclosure-continues-to-hurt-west-side/)
Foreclosure continues to hurt West Side
By Kelsey Duckett | September 21, 2010
There have been meetings, protests and even tours to draw attention to the lingering foreclosure crisis that continues to plague thousands of West Side residents who are fighting for their homes and businesses.
Bank representatives, community leaders and residents agree on one thing: something needs to be done, and fast — but that's where the agreement stops.
Handling a foreclosed property is "complicated" because often, more than one bank is involved, said Pia Hermoso Heslip, program officer at the Chicago Rehab Network, a citywide coalition of neighborhood and community-based development organizations.
With each foreclosed home there is an assigned trustee, or the mortgage note holder, as well as the servicer, which is the company or entity working for the bank that "services" the loans. When these positions are held by two different banks, the situation becomes "complicated because generally speaking, neither bank wants to take full ownership," Heslip said.
"It is quite common to have several banks involved in one property," she said. "It does complicate the service of the property because it is difficult to determine who is responsible."
This was, and some would argue still is, the case for the two-story home located on the 5300 block of West Congress, next to Oscar and Delia Ewing who have spoken up at several Coalition to Save Community Banking meetings.
Delia Ewing, 84, begged US Bank representatives at a June 8 town hall meeting at Hope Community Church to board up, clean and maintain the foreclosed property next to their home.
The Ewings were promised immediate action, but two days later, on June 10, work had yet to begin on the property. The hold up, as explained by Lisa Clark, media relations for US Bank, was that Wells Fargo was in fact the servicer, and therefore "responsible for maintaining and securing the property."
"We got to work on the issue immediately," she said. "But the next day we found out that we weren't the servicer, just the trustee, so we tracked down the servicer, which is Wells Fargo, and they have taken care of the issue."
The issue, Clark said, was overgrown grass, people and animals on the property, personal possessions in and around the property, with no boarded-up or locked doors or windows.
Virgil Crawford of the Westside Health Authority, said there are still problems with the property three months later. Both Crawford and Elce Redmond of the South Austin Coalition have confirmed that the lawn has indeed been trimmed and picked up, but just the doors have been boarded, leaving access to the house through the windows.
"We know that Wells Fargo and US Bank have worked together to secure the property with a lock and have also mowed the front lawn," Crawford said. "I know that the Ewings and other neighbors are OK with what has been done. But it is not enough, and it is not what we agreed to."
Crawford described the agreement as maintaining the property long term, boarding it up and sealing the property to deter "squatters."
"We need to get these buildings secure at a level where we can prevent all access," he said. "These vacant properties have been devastating to our community."
Ewing said there hasn't been much activity on the property but said they have seen some people entering and exiting the garage, and they described an orange ladder against the house, going up to a second-floor window.
"They locked up the front door and back door of the house with a pad lock," Ewing said. "I know they have mowed the yard, but it really needs to be cleaned because there is still trash and the bushes are still overgrown."
The main problem, she said, is the windows, and the garage at the back of the property is wide-open, attracting people who've apparently stored clothing and other items.
Debra Bloom, a representative with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, said the grass was cut the first time on June 10, and has been maintained on a bi-weekly basis since. She also added that water was pumped out of the basement on June 12.
"We have had people out at the property, and it is on a regular maintenance schedule," she said. "We have also taken steps to secure the property and keep it maintained until it is put back on the market and sold."
Heslip said that once a property becomes bank-owned or an REO and has been vacated, it's supposed to be secured, then the bank can put it up for auction or sheriff's sale. A secured property, by definition, means there is no access to the property, windows or doors.
The City Council passed a Vacant Property Ordinance in 2008, but Heslip said the Department of Buildings has been struggling to enforce the ordinance because it can be difficult to determine the owner/s.
The banks have shown they can address the needs of these buildings and the concerns of the community, Redmond said.
"They have the ability to get out and make a difference, but they aren't doing it," he said. "These buildings need to be locked tight and secured until they are back on the market. They have the power to do it if they are pushed, so I guess we have to keep pushing them."
Added Crawford: "I think this property is a a perfect example of how the banks are just putting a small drop in the bucket, as opposed to going out, securing, maintaining and getting these homes back on the market. If these buildings in Austin and on the West Side aren't secured, if this isn't done, it really adds to the challenge we are currently faced with, not only the high rates of foreclosed properties, but the high rate of crime and violence."
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During the mid-1980's when the local pits were being run down, a group of residents from Athersley and New Lodge started discussing ideas on how to tackle the rising unemployment in the area.
Working closely with the Economic Development Department of Barnsley Council, the Group developed a plan to:
Establish an Employment Resource Centre based in Athersley,
Set up a local charitable organisation that will work towards the social and economic regeneration of the local community.
In 1990, the Group established a Community Co-operative and successfully obtained grant funding that enabled them to open a small community resource centre in a portakabin and employ 2 members of staff to provide advice, information and guidance to local unemployed people. The portable Resource Centre was located next to Athersley Library on Lindhurst Road and was successfully run with the assistance of Urban Programme grant funding.
Due to the temporary Centre's success, grant funding from the Single Regeneration Budget and Objective Two ERDF funds, the Centre moved to new premises at Laithes Crescent in 1996, and expanded even further in 1998 to establish the present Lifelong Learning Centre.
In 1991, the Management Group started work on establishing the Roundhouse Community Association by bringing together all the community groups and agencies working in the area. This Association quickly became the Roundhouse Community Partnership whose aims were simply "to assist the social and economic regeneration of the Athersley, New Lodge and Smithies areas of Barnsley". This became a Company Limited by Guarantee and registered with the Charity Commissioners as the first Community Partnership in Barnsley.
The Partnership has always been managed by local people and established its first project, a Detached Youth Project, in 1995.
Since then, Roundhouse has been successful in obtaining grant funding from many sources to set up a range of projects providing capacity building, support and services to local people in education, training, family support, environmental issues, health and the arts.
The Partnership is currently managing a local regeneration programme of Single Regeneration Budget dedicated funds and is acquiring Objective One funds to establish new initiatives and projects. These are outlined on the Projects page on our Website.
In the 18th century, a gatehouse was built at the entrance to a Manor Farm, on what is now the A61 road. This round structure remained there throughout the building of the estates of New Lodge and Athersley. It was located at the junction of the A61 Wakefield Road and Laithes Lane but was demolished in the early 1960's. This junction, around which the local commercial and shopping centre was built, became known locally as the "Roundhouse".
As it is at the centre of our community, the Partnership became the Roundhouse Community Partnership - at the centre of the community.


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Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Elgar: Violin Concerto; Ida Haendel (violin), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, cond Simon Rattle.
This 1993 performance is gripping, spine-tingling and inspirational. Haendel's command of the fearsome technical hurdles is comprehensive, but digital assurance is merely the starting point. The distinctive quality she brings to her performance is soul. Just listen to the intensity, the passion, the eloquent phrasing and the rich, brooding tone of the central adagio, and you will experience an emotional frisson of devastating proportions. The CBSO and Rattle share Haendel's mix of ice and fire, digging deeply and perceptively into the music's substance. The build?up of tension in the ominous atmosphere of the outer movements is electrifying. Above all, though, it is Haendel's thoroughly personal input of humanity, expressive power, and her dynamic fusion of immediacy and profound insight that puts this performance in a class of its own. It is simply mind-blowing.
As if that were not enough, her performance of the Elgar Concerto, recorded at a Festival Hall concert in 1984, makes further drains on one's reserves as a listener, so aching is her ardour, so inward her wistfulness, so communicative and volatile her heartfelt response to the music. Haendel, now in her eighties, is still playing, though opportunities to hear her are scarce. This pairing of two concertos in which she excelled will awaken memories of a supreme artist, one who is revered by younger practitioners. And no wonder.


Here's a video on how I make roses.
It's pretty easy to make one of these babies… just remember to wrap those first couple of petals puuurty tight so you can't see the center "ball" of gumpaste ('cause I'm a putz and made that part a li'l off camera in the video).
I plan on making a new video soon, for Cakeheads members only, showing an updated (and err… all on camera) version of making roses.
Just a note- I used to only use Satin Ice gumpaste for most of my flowers, but since the wonderful world of modeling chocolate has been opened up to me, I now often make these same roses using that magical medium… especially when I'm in a pinch and don't have the extra time to let the petalls dry.
Heat & Humidity = the Enemy.
Video: Two Versions of a Buttercream Unicorn Cake!


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Chandimal case shows ball tampering is endemic now
Published : Jun 24, 2018, 12:11 am IST
Updated : Jun 24, 2018, 12:11 am IST
The hearing for the Level 3 offence is scheduled on July 10. But this is of far lesser significance in the immediate future.
Dinesh Chandimal (Photo: PTI)
Michael Beloff QC, appointed Judicial Commissioner by the ICC, threw out Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal's appeal against his one-Test suspension for changing the condition of the ball in the ongoing series against the West Indies.
Chandimal had been caught on camera trying to apply spittle to the ball shortly after putting a lozenge in his mouth when play was in progress in the second Test at St Lucia. This was seen to be in breach of clause 41.3 of the ICC's Standard Test Match Playing Conditions.
The misdemeanor earned the ire of ICC match referee Javagal Srinath who fined Chandimal 100 percent match fees and also handed him two suspension points, corresponding to four demerit points, which led to the one-match suspension.
The Sri Lankans aggravated the situation by refusing to take the field for over two hours after match officials had stepped into the picture and asked for the ball to be changed. In fact, for a while it appeared they might even concede the match.
The recalcitrance of Chandimal, coach Chandika Hathurusingha and manager Asanka Gursinha compelled Srinath to further charge them with a Level 3 offence (conduct contrary to spirit of the game) and impose a five-run penalty on the Lankans when play finally resumed.
The hearing for the Level 3 offence is scheduled on July 10. But this is of far lesser significance in the immediate future. The more serious impact is the one-Test ban on Chandimal, which means Sri Lanka will play the last Test at Barbados without their captain and best player.
That the hearing with Beloff on Friday against the ban lasted almost four hours suggests that the case against Chandimal was not open and shut. The Lankan cricket establishment for the most stands behind its captain, though this support has not been voluble.
The circumstantial evidence is incriminating, though, even if it does not make intent to change the condition of the ball as palpable as was the case with Australians Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft against South Africa earlier this year.
The larger issue, of course, is about cricket's rules and code of conduct vis-à-vis players. When Smith and Co were found guilty, the cricket world was thrown into turmoil. But in three months or so the problem has erupted again.
This shows — if at all it was necessary — that the problem of ball tampering is endemic. But what boggles the mind is the temerity of players. One would have thought that the episode involving Smith & Co would have had a chastening effect. Obviously not!
It is instructive that in both these cases, the buck stopped at the captain. Unlike Chandimal, Smith was not directly involved in changing the condition of the ball, but it was at his (and vice-captain Warner's) behest that young Bancroft did what he did.
To a large extent this shows the pressure captains are under to win. Expectations from administrators and fans are enormous (not to mention peer group acceptance and sponsor support) and the urge to test the boundaries of legitimacy tends to override threat to reputation and career.
There is also absence of deep fear because the punishment is not severe. A one-match ban — and that only if you are caught — may not seem an unduly high risk when chasing victory and its accompanying rewards.
That Smith, Warner and Bancroft, it must be remembered, copped a one-year ban was beyond the ICC stipulation. It arose out of a deep sense of shame and anger in Australia, compelling the country's cricket board to take a far stronger position.
It's pertinent at this stage to focus on Smith & Co in their current situation. The one year ban — in the context of prevailing rules — was harsh. But what's happened subsequently has been farcical.
Smith and Warner, while ineligible to play first class or international cricket in and for Australia, have been allowed to play in T20 leagues in Canada and (later) in the Caribbean.
True, stopping them could lead to a restraint of trade legal issue, but for them to make a lucrative living while still living out the punishment makes a mockery of the ban.
It sends out a signal that cheating can have its rewards, one way or the other.
Tags: dinesh chandimal, david warner, sri lanka


Johnny Hickman is the lead guitarist and co-founder – along with David Lowery – of the alt-rock band Cracker, whose well-known early 90's songs include "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)", "Low", and "Euro-Trash Girl". Earlier this month the band released its 9th studio album, the very fine Berkeley to Bakersfield, with the Berkeley disc featuring the band's original line-up for the first time in ages and drawing on their punk rock influences, and the Bakersfield disc in a California country vein.
Victor Krummenacher is a founding member and bass player for the eclectic alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven. Their first album Telephone Free Landslide Victory came out in 1985, and includes such classic songs as "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon", "Where the Hell is Bill?", the Black Flag cover "Wasted", and "Take the Skinheads Bowling". They released four more acclaimed albums before burning out, the independently-released II & III and self-titled Camper Van Beethoven, and the major-label albums Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Key Lime Pie. The band reformed at the end of the end of the 1990's, and has released several more albums, with a new one coming out in January 2013. Krummenacher has also been in the bands Monks of Doom and Cracker.
This phone interview took place on 8/24/12, and was for a preview article for Camper Van Beethoven's 9/10/12 concert in Ventura, California.


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Buffalo Gap National Grassland
On Buffalo Gap National Grassland
Buffalo Gap National Grassland is a 597,431-acre property located in southwestern South Dakota. Together with Fort Pierre and Oglala National Grasslands, Buffalo Gap is administered out of a common office in Chadron, Nebraska. There are local ranger offices in Wall and Hot Springs, South Dakota. In Wall is where you'll also find the National Grassland Visitor Center with more than 20 exhibits focused on Great Plains history, recreational opportunities, prairie plants and animals and management activities on the National Grasslands. The Visitor Center also has a theater where they run videos about the Badlands, Black Hills and Grasslands all day. The Visitor Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4:30 pm and is located at 708 Main Street (just off Interstate 90) in Wall. Phone: 605-279-2125.
Buffalo Gap National Grassland is the second largest national grassland in the National Forest System. Most of the grassland wraps around the south and east sides of Black Hills National Forest and the west, south, east and a good part of the north sides of Badlands National Park.
In the area known as Conata Basin, the Forest Service, working with US Fish & Wildlife, has established what is probably the most successful reintroduction of black-footed ferrets in America. The species had been thought extinct until a tiny group of them were found in the wilds of Montana. Numbers of them were bred in captivity and prepared for release in the wild. One basic necessity for the establishment of a sustainable population of ferrets: massive numbers of prairie dogs (the ferrets' favorite lunch).
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson introduced the Tony Dean Cheyenne River Valley Conservation Act of 2010 in the Senate. The bill is designed to create a 48,000-acre grassland wilderness on the property, a wilderness that will still allow for historic cattle grazing and wildlife hunting on the land. There is a lot of local opposition to the measure because as much as everyone wants to restrict the destruction caused by OHV riders everywhere, there is also the problem of other designated wilderness areas having already become havens for non-native and dangerous vegetation that tends to spread across the surrounding privately owned ranch lands because of the dearth of property maintenance and weed management that comes hand-in-hand with that wilderness designation.
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US Forest Service: Buffalo Gap National Grassland
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Surfside building official was on roof 14 hours before condo collapsed
Hannah Morse
Live chat: As we learn more details about the partial condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, Palm Beach Post journalists will be available to help answer your questions. Join us for a live chat on Tuesday, June 29 at 1 p.m. EDT. Submit your questions in advance here.
Surfside's building official said Friday he was on the roof of the Champlain Towers South 14 hours before it collapsed and said there was "no inordinate amount of equipment or materials" that would cause the building to fall.
Jim McGuinness, who made the comment during a Town of Surfside emergency meeting, said he was on the roof to inspect work of replacing roof anchors, which are where window cleaners attach their equipment.
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The building collapsed, leaving four dead and 159 people unaccounted for as of late Friday.
"There was no inordinate amount of equipment or materials or anything on that roof that caught my building official's eye that would make it alarming as to this place collapsing," he said.
"I have two words for the cause of this: under investigation," McGuinness said.
Also during the afternoon meeting, the Surfside town commission said it is considering moves to ensure high-rise buildings in the town are safe.
Those changes could include inspecting buildings, which could start with Champlain Towers North.
"It would be imprudent not to take some types of steps to address that issue with the sister building," Mayor Charles Burkett said during the meeting.
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Community near Surfside comes together to support families following condo collapse
Like the south tower, the north tower was built in 1981, before Hurricane Andrew's destructive force led to changes in the state's building codes.
Burkett said he spoke with Sen. Rick Scott, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and McGuinness, about possibly moving residents out of the north tower.
"I've had people come up to me and say, 'Listen, is my building safe?'" Burkett said.
The mayor noted that relocating those residents may be "inconvenient."
"But given we have no idea what caused this collapse — and listen, the chances of that happening again are like lightning striking — but I don't know that there's anybody in this room that would be willing to roll the dice with all those lives and say, let's not worry about it for a while," he said.
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Her colleagues agreed.
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Q: SOQL junction record query to get master Have a junction object called AccountPublisherAssociation that is a junction between an Account and a custom object called Publisher. I would like to write a query to display all the Publishers that have been selected for a particular account id.
The following SOQL gives me the result with the right record count but with empty values in the name field.
ApexController
@AuraEnabled
public static List < sObject > getCurrentRecords(String ParentId) {

List < sObject > lstOfRecords =
          [select Publisher__r.id, Publisher__r.Name  from AccountPublisherAssociation__c where Account__c :ParentId];

   return lstOfRecords;
}

Javascript Controller
Call the function during init
doInit: function(component, event, helper) {
    //Call server controller
    //Set the existing records

    var action = component.get('c.getCurrentRecords');
    action.setParams({
        "ParentId": component.get("v.recordId")
    });

    action.setCallback(this, function(response) {
        var state = response.getState();
        if (state === "SUCCESS") {
            var storeResponse = response.getReturnValue();

            if (storeResponse.length == 0) {
                component.set("v.Message", 'No Records Found...');
            } else {
                component.set("v.Message", '');
                // set searchResult list with return value from server.
            }
            component.set("v.selectedLookUpRecordsPublisher", storeResponse);
        }
         if(state == "ERROR")
        {
            var errors = response.getError();
            console.log(errors);
        }
    });
    // enqueue the Action
    $A.enqueueAction(action);
},

The above code works well if we directly query the publisher table.
This gives the accurate record count but with empty values i.e it gives 5 rows with empty values for the id and name fields. There are no errors on the developer console as well. Tried the below query with same results as well. I am not sure why the values are null but the count is accurate
[select id, Name  from Publisher__c where id in (select Publisher__c from AccountPublisherAssociation__c where Account__c = :accountId)];

Relevant Component Code
This a reusable component that shows a list of pills as the selected Publishers associated with an account.
<aura:component controller="tagListCtrl" Implements="flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId" access="global">

<aura:attribute name="lstSelectedRecords" type="sObject[]" default="[]" description="Use,for store SELECTED sObject Records"/>

<aura:iteration items="{!v.lstSelectedRecords}" var="selectedRec">
                    <lightning:pill label="{!selectedRec.Name}" name="{!selectedRec.Id}" onremove="{! c.clear }">
                        <aura:set attribute="media">
                            <lightning:icon iconName="{!v.IconName}" size="x-small" alternativeText="icon"/>
                        </aura:set>
                    </lightning:pill>
                </aura:iteration>

</aura:component>

Tried id, and  Id but both result in the same issue.

A: I think this is a binding issue at the component level, not an issue with your SOQL or Apex.
Based on what you'd like to display, I think the right form of the query is the second one you've shown,
select id, Name  from Publisher__c where id in (select Publisher__c from AccountPublisherAssociation__c where Account__c = :accountId)

The fact that a console.log() in your client-side controller yields the correct values suggests that the issue lies with the value binding, and I would venture to speculate that the experimentation you've gone through to get here has simply produced some disconnect or inconsistency in how you're referring to the data.
As shown, your controller is populating the wrong attribute (selectedLookUpRecordsPublisher; should be lstSelectedRecords). Additionally, make sure your value bindings are not referring to a relationship path or intermediate sObject value, as would have been implied by the first form of your query.


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Population Characteristics and the Sigma Tool For Change
Harry Rosenberg
Aug, Oct 2004
Discussion of definitive features with an eye on the war on terrorism
Extremism infects and affects many walks of life. And it expresses itself in various ways. Extremism is what the word implies, behaviors at the extremes farthest removed from the middle ground. Attributes of critical importance on this web site are governance (usually expressed as politics), freedom (or liberty, a similar concept), economics (individual and national wealth), and the like. Consider the following table:
Extremism in Practice
A Extreme
B Extreme
Total Top-Down Control
Total Bottom-Up Control; Anarchy
No Individual Freedom
Total Individual Freedom
Penniless
Individual Wealth Without Bound
Ethnic Attitude
Total Racism and
Total Acceptance of All Others
War, Terror, Genocide
From this simple example it is easy to see why societies need controls on those things affecting one's position in life as well as how well a person fits into that position. The most extreme positions do not usually support viable societies. There is irony on that very point, however. Monotheism is some 35 times more violent than is atheism at the present time. Eastern religions are 22 multiples more peaceful than monotheism. See Religion and Violence for more on that. Tables like the above define extremism; what is good for society lies in the middle ground, between the extremes.
We need a new word(s) to describe the above M x m table that defines extremism. UMBRA- (Latin for shade) is a possibility. We might use the politically correct word, moderate, except that it is subjective, where objectivity is needed. For most of a millennium now, struggles have been mounted against top-down governance to the point where freedom and liberty are now enjoyed by much of the world's population as a desirable condition. The march of Science and its social companion, technology, has vastly improved the well being of most of the earth's people. Yet huge disparities remain. Fundamentalism has been around since Abraham. Moses produced the ten commandments in an attempt to bring moral order to the seeming moral anarchy of the times.
Like the crusading popes and monarchs of the middle ages, extremism is still expressed politically in much of the world. And like most societies, most people on earth fall somewhere in the middle ground on each of the above scales.
Practical issues
Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.-Ben Franklin-
Franklin raises a vital point. In keeping with our philosophy on this site, we believe that even here, there is a middle ground. We see no practical way to provide a level of liberty that amounts to total self determination for every individual on earth--it would be anarchy given our genetic makeup. Nor do we see total control as a feasible alternative.
There can be any number of rows. But each row must have an attribute that has has two genuine extremes that one can not go beyond. This can quickly get quite complex.
Scale is another issue. A scale might be a degree of totality on a 0 - 100 or 0 - 30 scale. Economics in a relative sense could be numeric. But how does one give numerical measure to something as vague numerically as religion or governance?
In pure mathematics there are such things as boundary conditions. For example, the sine and cosine functions in trigonometry can only have values between 1 and -1. And zero as a divisor is a boundary of another sort; all numbers larger or smaller are permitted, but zero is not in any practical sense.
ZEMPLAR attributes that are not measurable in a numeric sense, can nevertheless be handled by statistical mathematics in a semi quantitative way. This procedure in and of itself will not define an individual person with high accuracy. But it will define groups of people with sufficient accuracy to predict their behaviors to useful degrees of precision with respect to an expectation. There are two approaches. One is to apply non-parametric procedures and the other is to devise scale scores that yield numerical ratings. The latter has a long and valid history of application and is well understood. Since people and their behavior are involved, such scales have become known as psychometrics. A psychometric test is usually made up of several scale scores. And a battery of suck tests is more definitive than any test alone would be. In our nation's history, such testing has served us well--when used properly of course. For example, during the Cold War, workers assembling nuclear bombs were given a battery of psychometric and other tests to assess their likelihood of doing good jobs handling critical material. No failures of the procedure are known.
In statistical math, the standard deviation, SD, which is easily calculated, is the key. SD is also known as sigma. Sigma provides the basis for the quality control systems that developed in Japan and which gave Detroit a long term migraine. Sigma has proven its veracity in many fields, including astrophysics, medicine, biology, and psychometry. It defines the inflection point of a bell curve and underlies all parametric statistical tests.
Here is how Sigma works. About 2/3 of a population of anything is within about one standard deviation of the overall average for any given attribute. About 1/20 of the population is within two standard deviations, and one in 370 are within about three standard deviations of the grand average. Sigma provides a way of thinking, and provides possible solutions to many disparate problems. The key concept is that sigma describes something called the distribution. When the math requirements are all met, sigma can provide astonishing accuracy in the description of a distribution and how a population behaves in the large. That is where the 2/3, 1/20 and 1/370 fractions come in. Applied to ethnic attitude for example, we would agree that anyone in the 2/3 group might be considered typical, because they are indeed typical. The 1/370 group might well deserve the label of being extreme, simply because they are so rare and far removed from the rest of us.
The problem is that sigma requires numerical data to calculate. Individual net worth would provide sigma from economic measures, say individual net worth. But how can we apply sigma to ethnic attitude?
People who make psychometric testing their business, have solved this problem. They are able to develop scale scores that estimate quite well where a person sits or lies overall on the scales that are not entirely objective. A professionally given IQ test is one such scale score composed of performance in several dimensions of intelligence, some more objective than others.
Psychology is necessarily a softer "science" than physics. But that does not mean a shadow is not better than nothing, it surely is; it is just less definite.
For example, here is how it can work for a governance scale involving gender and business issues.
Select the one item that best describes your belief:
I believe in:
Total freedom--Anarchy.
Total freedom to do as I please except murder anyone.
Total freedom to do as I please except the 10 commandments.
Freedom to do as I please except for those curbs necessary to maintain local law and order.
The same as 4 except that women must defer to men.
The same as 7 except that women be allowed to govern.
Total dictatorship by males except that business should not have to pay corporate income taxes.
The same as 7 excepts that I should not have to pay corporate income taxes.
The same as 8 except that I be allowed to govern my company as I see fit with freedom from antitrust law.
Total dictatorship by males in all walks of life.
A psychometric test has several scales of this type that reflect attitudes or traits that produce behavior of one sort or another. In the above scale, much, maybe most, of people in the world societies today would score roughly between 4 and 6. Scoring in the 1-3 or 7-10 range might be considered extremism in this model. A more valid set of questions, with a wider blue area, would seem desirable. And we agree--except for one thing. 65-80% of all of us in America at least, have Authoritarian Personalities!
When taking a test such as this, a person can only check off one statement, and that statement has a number attached to it. If 100 people took this test an average and standard deviation with good validity can be calculated from the scores. From there you are off to the races, not with precision, just with a probability of 5, 10, or even a 20 times more likely to be right those 100 people than would the typical politician. And they will hate you for it!
All such psychometric tests assume the respondent is truthful, and even more important, that the respondent is self aware enough to know the answer. Nevertheless the technique is powerful.
For further example, an ethnic-attitude scale could range between say total acceptance of others or total bigotry (non-acceptance). The psychometrist would then devise a series of say at least 30 questions; this also defines the number of columns in our matrix. The questions could grade from single questions whose answers would be indicative of absolute acceptance or absolute non-acceptance, leaving 28 questions available to dealing with and defining the various degrees of acceptance nearly all of us have. For a simplified example of how numbers are derived from questions asked, if you answered half of the questions on ethnic tolerance yes and the other half no, you would have a scale score of 50 on a scale of one to a hundred. Your scale scores over ten attributes might range from 39 to 66. Altogether, the individual scale scores would provide a profile of your tendency toward extremism. These numbers would not be extreme for a standard deviation of 16 on each scale for example. We might begin to worry about people below 10 or above 90, and worry a lot about those showing two or more extreme scales or anyone approaching say 3 or 97 on any such scale.
Although the foregoing looks formidable to those averse to math, such procedures lie at the heart of the scientific method.
The above examples are illustrative only; we are not ready to recommend policy here. Even so, using this general approach in defining traits associated with violence, and using the results to ease conditions leading to violence, beats anything we are doing now. Basically, it is no more than doing the things that work, fopr example in Honolulu, El Paso, Lisbon, Oslo, and Tokyo. At the same time we can avoid the features that make Washington DC, Baltimore and Detroit such violent cities.
In operation, if your UMBRA were 56 +/- 8, and mine was 15 +/- 5, I would be regarded as being more extreme than you. We would belong to different populations of traits along the bell curve. If a society is serious, it could look at itself in this or similar ways and work to remove the social reasons for extremely high or low scores. Is our societry serious? Not yet we fear.
Think about it. We kill more people with guns than the terrorists have to date. This is a fact. By "attacking" (a terrible word to use) violence, instead of just its terror component, we can give new meaning to the word PEACE.
One good feature of psychometrics is that such tests can have ten or more scales altogether and be completed in a couple of hours. The worst part of it is that to be valid, those applying or taking them either must have faith in the system and be open and strong enough not to fear misuse. This is one barrier. Another is authoritarian governors who fear putting such knowledge to use in achieving peace; they prefer conflict and need someone to look down upon, never mind that Humiliation leads to violence; they will find numerous reasons for not using the sigma technique.
Who would not be willing to lose this bit of privacy to make progress in the war on terror? Psychometry merely labels behavior; It does not intrude on matters of real privacy, like why are we the way we are? It merely describes personality or behavior expressed that others see anyway.
Some people fear psychometry with justification. For example, IQ test results have been applied improperly to whole populations. William Shockley did exactly that in attempting to show Caucasians superior to Blacks. His approach showed Asians to be brighter still, a fact he chose not to highlight. His assumption (apparently driven by bigotry) that the IQ test is free of cultural bias was his basic error; it is not. An IQ test is not a psychometric test. IQ predicts how well a person will do in school. Shockly went beyond the bounds of good science reporting. His claims supported bigotry and set back integration. Psychometric tests are designed to reveal personality features and attitudes such as bigotry, friendliness, sociability and so on. The potential for misuse is there and must always be guarded against.
So traditional and new safeguards for individual privacy for all those involved must be enforced rigorously. Improper use of psychometric information by any person other than the testee must have certain and serious consequences. New safeguards could include double blind testing where the testees are anonymous to the tester and only the statistics for the test cohort are ever released to the public. Once the statistics are certified, the actual test would be destroyed. There are numerous other measures to protect individual privacy.
There will be many individuals not attuned to these procedures for various reasons. They need not take part as there are many who will. If a large fraction of a selected population refused to participate, a study would take longer with added costs to establish validity. This is because the sample would no longer be truly random and would need to be larger. Each such refusals might require two individuals replace one refusal to maintain scientific validity.
On this point, a reviewer of this page made a statement, then asked a question:
"Privacy is a fundamental liberty recognized by every court in the land to at least some degree. Would not giving up a little privacy be giving up some fundamental liberty?"
The answer is of course, at least in a sense. Liberty is defined as the rights one has in a society. Freedom is often used synonymously. But the rights we have can never be absolute--we do not after all behave like animals. So we have already lost some liberty or freedom. Psychometry for the sake of peace seems to fall in the same class as the liberties we have already given up--mostly without even realizing it.
A final note to the theoretically inclined. Each scale of a profile in a psychometric test has its own standard deviation for a population. To be useful in assessing extremism, the distribution must ideally fit within the boundary values, the extremes. For example, how do we handle a scale where sigma is so large that it puts some people off scale theoretically? Such an event would simply prove the so-called bell curve does not describe data of this type.
That need not be fatal as there are two approaches to this situation. The first one is simply to ignore the fact, and that is what too many of the users of sigma do--mostly in innocence, but that should no happen here. And more often than not in such cases, little or no damage is done. But there can be serious exceptions. The other approach is to find a distribution function that fits the data and remains within the scale limits and use it. That feature may require that the data be transformed by a formula that stays within bounds. The details are too arcane to describe here, but finding a suitable transform is duck soup for most statisticians. So also for interpreting the data. The proposal above is not the only possible design; it may not even be best. But it is a start.
There you have some of the details. The society that ignores the many opportunities to use the sigma tool to learn about the origins of violence and its control is risking its very future. So how do we go about using this tool?
Let's take Washington DC and Honolulu for one example; the former is some 23 times more violent than the latter. There is a reason. With sigma, we can devise any number of psychometric tests from which we can discover the meaningful correlation or correlations between the variables studied and the degree of violence. In fact, two such causes have already been identified to a rather high degree of likelihood, Ethnic Integration and Monotheism. The former was a formal experiment design, the latter lacked scientific rigor, but is so overwhelming, and in such agreement with numerous other observers, that it too has a high likelihood. Ethnic integration will go far toward addressing each of these causative factors.
Once in place, some years may be needed to validate a social effect on violence in a new setting, especially if the populations compared are not very different or changes enacted to make comparisons take place slowly.
As is well-known, samples selected randomly to be representative of the population can provide a picture of that population. One appropriate scale on a psychometric test could be violence itself. Another, from Varshney's work would be ethnic acceptance. Still others could include religiosity and Authoritarianism. Honolulu as a city reflecting its citizens would surely have a profile different from Washington DC. With that information in hand one could devise strategies to "peacify" Washington DC.
Only a politician would presume he already knows all these answers and toss the sigma experiment into the nearest trash can. The Bush Administration has already done exactly that. One need look no further than the sub-par performance of Charter Schools created under "No Child Left Behind." His words of description sound great, but Bush knows nothing about education. At the least, he should have had others apply the sigma tool before leaping into unknown waters on such a grand style.
The bright side is that studies of this type need only be done enough times to validate an effect. And it need not be done on many people either. But it might well take a decade or more to flesh out all the significant variables.
Evolving a social order that effectively removes violence from the radar screen will certainly take time also. But as soon as one variable is identified, and two already have been--work toward a new order can begin. It may well take half a century or more to bring peace to all humanity, given that poverty and population growth scale together.
Most basically, the Sigma Tool can tell you what is not real and what is likely to be real. In each case it can assign a probability to there being no effect; The sigma tool cannot do the opposite, however.
The technology for moving toward peace is no problem; motivating nations, smaller political units, and people to proceed seriously is a larger issue.
An objection surely to be raised is cost. Yes there is a significant cost. But in perspective, it is minor. Think of the national census, theoretically reaching every citizen. Compare that cost with two or three similar efforts in only a dozen cities. Compared with Iraq, the cost is peanuts. Compared with Iraq, it would be gigantic in effectiveness.


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