Having lately been put in a cast for my fractured leg, i thought I'd take the time to do some research and fully understnd a) the bone that i have fractured b) causes and treatment and c) the frequence of such a fracture. How I fractured is easy to tell; fell at some steps at college. Now for the foot anatomy.
The diagnosis is a left foot navicular fracture. The navicular bone is a tarsal bone found in the medial side of the fooT. It suprisingly is cartilagenous and so has to calcify in order to be strong and supportive. What does it do I hear you ask; it's key in keeping the longitudinal arch of the foot.
A fracture of the navicular occurs when There is an excessive twisting force on the mid foot. There are differenttypes of fractions of thennaviclar, mine being an avulsion type. Luckily i had no displacement which meant that it could heal on its own with the help of my youth and cast immobilisation. Rule of thumb is cast immobilisation= 6 weeks. Worst case scenario is immediate operating.
It's not a very common fracture but is common amongst young athletes as a stress fracture. However detecting it can be hard and so many athletes suffer it without diagnosis. In a study by Torgal et al, on average an unbelievable 7months was between fracture occuring and its diagnosis. However this was in 1982 and its fair to say that the health care system has advanced a lot since then.
Having this been my first post, please excuse the topic. With exams and all I haven't had the chance to blog on articles and topics i have stumbled upon.
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Australia at the 1994 FESPIC Games
Australia sent a team of 94 athletes to the 1994 FESPIC Games in Beijing.
There had been significant changes in Paralympic sport in Australia in 1994, the year after the announcements that Sydney would host the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The APC had a new President, a new Executive Officer and a new program of government funding, targeted at 2000, had been announced – the Olympic Athlete Program.
Despite this activity, it seems that the FESPIC Games were a low priority, barely rating a mention in the annual report for that year of the Australian Paralympic Federation.
Australia sent a team of more than 100 athletes to the 1994 FESPIC Games in Beijing.

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Note: This title has 2 parts.
These classes present a line-by-line analysis of sections in A Course in Miracles pertaining to special relationships, which are seen to be the home of guilt. Part 1 explains in detail the unloving nature of most relationships, and how to transform them. Part 2 continues and then draws to a conclusion the discussion begun in Part 1, and includes an analysis of special love relationships and their transformation into holy relationships.


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Posts Tagged "Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs"
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Posted On November 17, 2019By David MorganIn Breaking News, Headline News, Monster Energy Cup
Tale of the Tape: How the Cup Series Championship 4 Stack Up
By David Morgan, Associate Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The preliminary races are over, now it's time for the main event. Four of the best in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will face off Sunday afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a winner take all race. To the victor goes the championship, while it's better luck next year for the other three. This year, it's a Joe Gibbs Racing vs Stewart-Haas Racing showdown, with three JGR drivers – Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, and Martin Truex, Jr. – taking on the loneRead More
Joe Gibbs Racing Trio Leads Final Practice at Homestead
By David Morgan, Associate Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Joe Gibbs Racing comes into this weekend's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship battle with a 3-to-1 shot at taking home the title and if Saturday's final practice is any indication, the championship will have to go through them. In a makeshift practice session that took the place of qualifying after rain washed almost everything out on Friday, Kyle Busch led the way at 31.959 seconds, 168.966 mph, with teammates Martin Truex, Jr. and Denny Hamlin in tow. The fourth of theRead More
Stewart, Gibbs Share Laughs, Tell Stories Ahead of Championship Showdown
By David Morgan, Associate Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The career paths of Joe Gibbs and Tony Stewart will forever be intertwined as the two were instrumental in making each other a success in the NASCAR Cup Series. While they have gone the separate ways, with both running world-class teams in NASCAR's upper echelon, the two remain close, even as Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, and Martin Truex, Jr. from Joe Gibbs Racing and Kevin Harvick from Stewart-Haas Racing get ready to duke it out for the championship on Sunday afternoon. WhenRead More
Posted On November 14, 2019By Motorsports TribuneIn Breaking News, Headline News, Monster Energy Cup
Kevin Harvick Relishes Role as Lone Wolf in Championship 4
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service MIAMI Beach, Fla. – There's no politicking this week at Stewart-Haas Racing. At the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series level, the organization's sole focus will be on winning another championship at NASCAR's highest level, and that means putting the necessary resources behind Kevin Harvick. The first driver to win under the current elimination format, which debuted in 2014, Harvick is the only Stewart-Haas entry in the Championship 4 this year. He's the only driver carrying the Ford banner. In contrast, Joe Gibbs Racing facesRead More
Hamlin Finds Redemption with Playoff Victory at ISM Raceway
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – Out, demon! Denny Hamlin's exorcism is complete. At ISM Raceway, the site of one of his biggest disappointments, Hamlin barged back into the Championship 4 with a dominating victory in Sunday's Bluegreen Vacations 500. Hamlin joins Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch, Sunday's runner-up, in the Nov. 17 race for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The three JGR drivers will battle Kevin Harvick of Stewart-Haas Racing for the trophy. After losing controlRead More
Posted On November 9, 2019By Motorsports TribuneIn Breaking News, Headline News, Monster Energy Cup
Kyle Busch Smokes NASCAR Cup Playoff Field with Pole Run at ISM Raceway
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – In a Saturday qualifying session that provided validation that the cream rises to the top, Kyle Busch earned his first pole position of the season, as seven Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoff drivers claimed the top seven positions on the grid. Navigating one-mile ISM Raceway in a blistering 25.693 seconds 140.116 mph, Busch edged Joey Logano (139.752 mph) by .067 seconds for Sunday's Bluegreen Vacations 500 (2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), the race that willRead More
Posted On November 8, 2019By David MorganIn Breaking News, Headline News, Monster Energy Cup
Up to Speed: Bluegreen Vacations 500 at Phoenix Preview
By David Morgan, Associate Editor It's a showdown in the Arizona desert this weekend as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rolls into ISM Raceway in Phoenix for the Bluegreen Vacations 500. Just two spots are still up for grabs in the Championship 4, with six drivers still in the hunt. Martin Truex, Jr. and Kevin Harvick have already locked up their place in the season finale at Homestead, with Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, and Chase Elliott still looking to race their way in.Read More
In the Blink of an Eye, Playoff Picture Changes for Hamlin at Texas
By David Morgan, Associate Editor FORT WORTH, Texas – Denny Hamlin came into Texas Motor Speedway with a double-digit point cushion over the cut-off line in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, but things didn't exactly go according to plan on Sunday and he'll have his work cut out for him going forward. As the top driver not yet locked into the championship race at Homestead, Hamlin started the day 24 points ahead of fifth-place with a third-place qualifying effort. Despite starting at the front of the field, thingsRead More
Young Guns Leave Texas in Must-Win Position to Advance in Playoffs
By David Morgan, Associate Editor FORT WORTH, Texas – The three youngest drivers in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs – Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, and Kyle Larson – have all won races during the postseason, but for any of them to be able to take the next step and be real threats for the championship, they will have to win next weekend at Phoenix. Entering Sunday's AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, all three would have liked to of taken a step forward, but for all three,Read More
Harvick Punches Championship 4 Ticket with Texas-Sized Victory
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH, Tex. – For Kevin Harvick, Texas is the new Phoenix. Overcoming a pit road penalty for a tire placed in his pit box too early, Harvick took control of the AAA Texas 500 as the sun set on Texas Motor Speedway and won his third straight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race at the 1.5-mile track in Cowtown. Locked into the Championship 4 race two weeks hence at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Harvick can now breathe easy heading into the final Round ofRead More


If you want use your hardware in linux, use the latest drivers from git and a rolling release os that gets updates often. When you encounter a bug, create a bug report. Crying here that your Amd gpu is not working does not help.
Guides for how to actually do any of that would be helpful.


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Q: Laravel Testing Increasing Memory Use Time: 1.89 minutes, Memory: 526.00MB

OK (487 tests, 2324 assertions)

This is my phpunittest result from testing my Laravel API, the memory consumption just keeps increasing and feel like i tried all posts and answers across the internet for what keeps racking up memory when testing. From own debugging the App is trashed every test which it should.
Everything is pretty standard, with the createApplication method that looks like this.
public function createApplication()
{
    // Ran out of memory
    ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');

    $app = require __DIR__ . '/../bootstrap/app.php';

    $app->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();

    return $app;
}

Came to the conclusion that the memory leak is in, which does not get cleaned up properly.
$app = require __DIR__ . '/../bootstrap/app.php';

$app->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();

A: Here is the simplest and the most reliable solution I've found. It doesn't have the disadvantages described in my previous answer.
Change the <phpunit> tag processIsolation attribute value to true in the phpunit.xml file. An example of the start of a proper phpunit.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
         backupStaticAttributes="false"
         bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php"
         colors="true"
         convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
         convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
         convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
         processIsolation="true"
         stopOnFailure="false">
...

How it works: it makes PhpUnit start a new PHP process for each test. Running tests in separate processes forces PHP to free all the memory after a test is over. It slows down the tests but it's the price for the low memory consumption and the reliability.
Or you can add a @runTestsInSeparateProcesses annotation to the doc block of a test class if you need to run in separate processes only certain tests:
/**
 * @runTestsInSeparateProcesses
 */
class HeavyTest extends TestCase
{
    // ...
}

A: I struggled for this for a long time temporarily solving the issue by turning on process isolation. That kind of worked but was super-slow and caused other issues.
The high memory usage is because the Laravel application object contains many references to other objects. PHP isn't very good at garbage collecting objects with many interconnected references so the objects hang around causing massive memory usage.
I solved this by extending builtin Application object and adding my own clean up method that's called after every test:
Note: This is for Laravel 4.2 but the same principal should work just as well with Laravel 5+.
Add app\foundation\Application.php (this may differ depending on how you're using namespaces).
<?php

namespace App\Foundation;

class Application extends \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
{
    /**
     * Used during unit tests to clear out all the data structures
     * that may contain references.
     * Without this phpunit runs out of memory.
     */
    public function clean()
    {
        unset($this->bootingCallbacks);
        unset($this->bootedCallbacks);
        unset($this->finishCallbacks);
        unset($this->shutdownCallbacks);
        unset($this->middlewares);
        unset($this->serviceProviders);
        unset($this->loadedProviders);
        unset($this->deferredServices);
        unset($this->bindings);
        unset($this->instances);
        unset($this->reboundCallbacks);

        unset($this->resolved);
        unset($this->aliases);
    }

}

Ensure Laravel is autoloading the new class by editing the composer.json file and adding app/foundation to autoload > classmap. You may want to add the path to app/start/global.php (ClassLoader::addDirectories) too.
Edit bootstrap\start.php and change $app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application; to $app = new App\Foundation\Application;.
Now edit your app/tests/TestCase.php and add your own tearDown method:
public function tearDown()
{
    $this->app->clean();
    unset($this->app);
    unset($this->client);
    parent::tearDown();
}

All this does is call the clean() method after every test essentially removing the references before the object is garbage collected.

A: Here is a simple solution. I tested it in Laravel 5.5. Set this as the content of the tests/CreatesApplication.php file:

namespace Tests;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel;

trait CreatesApplication
{
    /**
     * @var \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    protected static $application;

    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    public function createApplication()
    {
        if (!isset(static::$application)) {
            static::$application = require __DIR__ . '/../bootstrap/app.php';
            static::$application->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();
        }

        return static::$application;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    protected function tearDown()
    {
        // Required if you use HTTP tests
        $this->app['auth']->guard(null)->logout();
        $this->app['auth']->shouldUse(null);
        $this->flushSession();

        // Always required
        $this->app = null;
        parent::tearDown();
    }
}

This code makes tests use the same Laravel application instance for all tests instead of creating a new instance for each test. Also this causes a faster testing run.
This solution has disadvantages:

*

*If a test modifies the application, the other tests can fail because they expect an unaltered application.

*If a test uses the DatabaseTransactions or the DatabaseMigrations trait, the database is reset when all the test of a PHPUnit test run has finished.

A: I had a similar issue, but it was due to Telescope being enabled during unit testing. Adding the following to phpunit.xml decreased my memory usage by around 75%.
<server name="TELESCOPE_ENABLED" value="false"/>

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Roger Hudson
Writer - Poet - Artist
Multiple lives on display here in many art forms. Take your pick from the menu above.
I reached 80 in 2016 so two new achievements mark the spot. Most prominent is publication of my artist's book, Taking the Scissors to Society - The Photomontages of Roger Hudson. This gathers together in one place the bulk of my photomontages created over a lifetime, along with my thoughts on the creative process. It's a stunning book. More about it on the Photomontage page. It has its own website here. The book and the talk at its Drogheda launch by artist David Newton have nudged me into creating new works of both photomontage and collage-sculptures from found objects. Very exciting. So, next, the hunt for fresh exhibitions.
David Newton, Roger and Chair of Louth County Council Paul Bell
And my poetry side saw the release of the CD San Francisco Dreaming with five tracks of me performing poems to highly original music by Breifne Holohan. Catch it here. Also in 2016, I hosted and contributed to the spoken word session The Word at the Drogheda Arts Festival with three exciting performance poets Stephen James Smith, Erin Fornoff and Sean Dennehy. I also featured in the third LINGO Spoken Word Festival in Dublin in October. Work continues on a volume of new and selected poetry for later in the year.
Click to hear recording on soundcloud.com
While, in the world of fiction, my novel Death Comes by Amphora acquired a new, more dynamic cover, but is still a stand-alone novel with its sequel bluntly refusing to come together. So I'm aiming to use my blog Ancient Villainies to build up my understanding of the real characters around at the time and the society they lived in - including the real and probable crimes and corruption, politicking and plotting and dirty-trickery. After all, they did worship Hermes, the god of cunning, the quality for which mythic hero Odysseus and historical general Themistokles, a hero of my heroes, were famed.
'Death Comes by Amphora'
© Copyright Roger Hudson and the photographers Karin Hammer, Simon Hudson, Garry Maguire, Jenny Matthews, Paul Murray & Andy Spearman, 2017


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Q: session variable doesnt save after redirecting on same page Index.php
<?php
session_start();
require 'components/database.php';
require 'components/user.php';
$_SESSION['viewer_id'] = $_GET['viewer_id'];
echo $_SESSION['viewer_id'];
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Entropia Universe - Приложение</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link href="template/default/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
    <link href="template/default/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">

<?php
    $db = new Database('144.76.6.45','5432','eu','eu','eu123');
    $db->querySelect("SELECT * FROM users WHERE vk_id = ".$_SESSION['viewer_id']."");
    $row = $db->STH->fetch();
    if(empty($row)){
        require 'template/default/not_logged.php';
    }
    else {
        require 'template/default/logged.php';
    }
?>

From API i'm getting variables via GET method. Please don't ask what API, there is no need to write about it. Ok.. There creates a session['viewer_id'] with get['viewer_id'] value. All is ok, the code works, the session displays ok. When i go to other page, the session is still visible, but when i go BACK to index.php session['viewer_id'] dissapears, and it shows login form, but it shoudnt.
Can anybody tell me whats the problem?

A: Change your code to this:
if(isset($_GET['viewer_id'])
    $_SESSION['viewer_id'] = $_GET['viewer_id'];
echo $_SESSION['viewer_id'];

And you do not overwrite your value in the session if $_GET['viewer_id'] is not set.


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Biografia
Conseguito nel 1965 il baccellierato delle arti all'Università del Michigan, nel 1969 ottenne il dottorato in filosofia presso l'Università di Princeton. Da quell'anno fu assistente alla cattedra di filosofia dell'Università dell'Illinois a Chicago fino al 1976, quando fu nominato professore associato; nel 1983 divenne professore ordinario e nel 1988 gli fu affidata la direzione del dipartimento di filosofia dello stesso ateneo, incarico che mantenne fino al 1991.

Nel 1995 passò all'Università Nordoccidentale a Evanston e nel 1997 gli furono date la cattedra di studi classici e la direzione del dipartimento di filosofia.

Autore di numerosi saggi di storia della filosofia antica, etica e filosofia politica, nel 1997 ha tradotto e commentato i libri VII e VIII della Politica di Aristotele e nel 2014 ha scritto due articoli per la Fondazione Lorenzo Valla e Arnoldo Mondadori Editore intitolati "La democrazia in Grecia" e "Introduzione alla Politica di Aristotele".

Opere

Note

Storici della filosofia antica

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Statistical Information Integration
Prof. Michael Gould
Universitat Jaume I, Castell�n Spain.
Louis Hecht, Jr.
Vice President Business Development
Presented at the Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Methodological Issues Involving the Integration of Statistics and Geography at Tallinn, Estonia, 25-28 September 2001.
1 Introduction - The Advancing Technical Foundation for Integrating Geospatial and Statistical Information
1.1 Benefits of integration
The premise of this paper is that statisticians and all who rely on their work will benefit from the provision of services for integrating geospatial and statistical information. Last year's conference summary report states that GIS was found to be a useful tool in many different areas of statistics, including population census, social and demographic statistics (health, justice, education, labor), economic statistics (business surveys, trade, transport, tourism, agriculture, etc.) and environment statistics. GIS is used in all the different phases of statistical production, and it is useful in cross-sectoral and inter-agency projects as well. The value of geospatial data in statistics is not surprising, because most data types (variables) studied by statisticians have a spatial component - indeed, everything and everyone is somewhere, and statisticians are uniquely aware of how boundary conditions can affect sampling and therefore their results. The emergence of inexpensive computing power, expanding network bandwidth and sophisticated component-based software can potentially offer statisticians extraordinary opportunities for collecting, analyzing, and presenting statistical data from a spatial perspective. This paper attempts to shed light on a standards-based process for designing and building software that best meets the needs of this, or any other, information community.
1.2 Historical limitations and Innovations
In the past, most statistical applications have not used geospatial processing1 , for the same reasons that geospatial processing has been slow to find its way into general purpose computing: lack of discoverable and available data; different processing approaches; different standards, formats and data dictionaries; different quality levels; lack of a common geospatial referencing framework; and lack of consistent metadata and data quality and heritage information. In Europe and elsewhere, diversity in data policy and its interpretation, in data specification, in pricing and access rules, and in private/public sector relationships have also inhibited wider use of spatial data, as was recently pointed out in the EC Green Paper on Public Sector Information in the Information Society (COM(98)585final). Several recent projects have addressed these problems. The CommonGIS project, funded by the European Commission under the Esprit Program, has yielded a treasure trove of operational and user-oriented insights about the technical foundations that could be made generally accessible as services for visualizing statistical information from a spatial perspective. This good work needs to carried forward to enable the IT industry to provide services like these on more than a conceptual and demonstration basis. Supporting this and similar initiatives, the ETeMII project, also EC-funded, is creating and disseminating materials which facilitate the uptake of international standards supporting geographic metadata and reference data: two key ingredients for large-scale geospatial statistical analyses.
1.3 Interoperability removes limitations
Over the last seven years, the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), a global consortium of geoprocessing technology providers and users, has made important progress toward interoperability between geoprocessing systems, employing practical testbeds and a consensus specification development process to arrive at open specifications for standard interfaces and protocols that can be used by IT suppliers for particular information communities. Simultaneously, data coordination efforts worldwide have made progress toward semantic interoperability based on standard data dictionaries, metadata profiles and geospatial data modeling schemas (discussed below). All of this progress, when viewed together, benefits statisticians who seek to assimilate geospatial processing and geospatial data into their work.
There was common agreement at last year's conference that the main obstacles to data integration are not technical but managerial and organizational. However, it will be seen that advances in technology don't merely support managerial and organizational progress - they force such progress. In this paper we report on the tools and methodologies OGC and its members provide for the collection, evaluation and dissemination of geospatial data and its metadata. These tools and methodologies use Web-based distributed processing to "change the playing field" for the management and use of geospatial data and geospatial processing.
One limitation noted in last year's report concerns the fact that many commonly used statistical operations are not available in GIS software packages2. As we will see below, this is partly because of the lack of agreement in the definition of geospatial concepts -- hierarchies for example -- making it necessary at times to compare apples and oranges. The classic problem "Are two spatial patterns significantly different" is difficult to analyze when boundaries and/or spatial units are defined in incompatible manners. It is perhaps also because the statistics community has yet to fully communicate its needs regarding geospatial processing software.
2 Translating User Needs into Addressable Technology Requirements - The Use of UML to model behavior and other component characteristics
The statistics community appears to be ready to work toward consensus on its requirements for common analytical methods that employ geospatial information and to work with other communities to reach consensus on data dictionaries and metadata schemas. Participants in these discussions will benefit from having a common-yet-open technology platform that encompasses certain software design approaches universally held by industry and employed by OGC and other consortia such as the Object Management Group (OMG), W3C and ISO. Modern object oriented software design tools address real-world concerns and cultural complexities while also addressing the complexity of heterogeneous and evolving technology infrastructures. The OGC Technical Committee has followed the lead set by ISO Technical Committee 211 (Geomatics) in the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as their primary method for providing a graphical and lexical description of software object classes and their relationships and interfaces. This helps to maintain overall consistency among the myriad specifications which are emerging from testbed programs (some 12 technical specifications this year alone). See http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/what_is_uml.htm for more information on UML.
OGC's OpenGIS Specification is tiered into three conceptual levels. The Essential Model (a description of the real world) and the Abstract Model (a generic model of the software) are recorded in the OpenGIS Abstract Specification, a 16-volume compendium describing how geospatial processing components should behave and cooperate with one another. The Implementation Model (a model of the software objects in specific executing software environments, and how the software objects communicate in those software environments) is recorded in a growing collection of OpenGIS Implementation Specifications. Utilizing UML in addition to English-language descriptions (which are more prone to misunderstanding) has facilitated the convergence of geospatial models and interfaces between OGC and ISO TC/211, such that in many cases although text descriptions vary slightly, a software designer can rely on the UML class diagrams of either organization to build geoprocessing software which is compliant with both.
A similar approach could help the statistics community to record and communicate requirements: what you'd like geoprocessing software to be able to do for you. These requirements can be inserted into OGC's consensus process, resulting in new or modified OpenGIS Implementation Specifications defining open interfaces and protocols that are ready-made for the statistical community. This will prove to be a valuable methodology and process as statisticians begin to employ new Web-based work flows that involve geospatial data and online spatial processing resources. Hence, we are suggesting that through collaboration the statistical community can directly invoke the market to make its needs known and applications addressing those requirements will quickly follow!
3 The Technology Context of the Metadata Problem
This section describes the approach OGC is taking to produce an open platform of interface specifications that will enable web-based integration of geospatial and statistical information to happen. OGC's task has always been to develop open software interfaces that constitute a spatial "lingua franca" for software systems. Distinct from OGC's task, data coordination - the development of standard geospatial feature naming conventions and metadata schemas ("semantic standards") -- has traditionally been the task of "data coordination" groups which are sometimes adhoc and other times recognized standards bodies such as the US Federal Geographic Data Committee and Eurogeographics. For some years, commercial software has been available that provides templates that support implementation of standard data dictionaries and standard metadata schemas. However, technology to support data coordination is now moving far beyond those simple tools. Recent web-based computing developments in OGC simultaneously support data coordination, increase the importance of data coordination, reduce the need for data coordination in some uses, and leverage the value of data coordination through automated processes that operate on metadata.
To begin, it is helpful to understand OGC's conception of an "Information Community." An information community is a group of people who share a common geospatial feature data dictionary (including definitions of feature relationships) and a common metadata schema. There are many information communities because different disciplines, professions, and sometimes regional groups necessarily will define roads, for example, in different manners. It is good for each discipline and profession to work toward becoming a single information community, because members of the community can then easily share data, in all its discipline-specific detail. And it is good for diverse information communities to seek some semantic commonality so that they can easily share data and reduce the burden of redundant data collection.
It is also important to understand the notion of "Framework Data". Framework data is a limited set of data layers - transportation, hydrography, cadastral and administrative boundaries, elevation, digital imagery, and geodetic control -- which provide a base on which to collect, register, integrate and analyze statistical data. Framework layers are (or should be) publicly available, maintained for the common good, useful for many purposes, and each is likely to comprise at least a subset of that data layer for any particular Information Community. ISO TC/211's metadata standard (ISO/CD 19115 Geographic Information -- Metadata, currently in a committee draft version) provides common schemas for describing these Framework layers, and ISO/CD 19107 Geographic information - Spatial Schema, provides standard definitions of the geometric and topologic characteristics of geospatial data, which can assist information communities in their quest to compare like entities: apples with apples.
3.1 Catalogs and Registries in the Spatial Web
Emerging technologies now make it possible to exploit the geospatial properties of data on the Web in order to facilitate retrieval and data fusion, creating a sort of Spatial Web. How will users (or the software components serving the user) of this Spatial Web find the most recent, or the "best," or the most accurate, or a particular small subset of framework data for a particular region?
In the USA, before the Web became widely used, there was "The NSDI Clearinghouse," Federal Geographic Data Committee's online catalog to the US library of geospatial data sets in which data holders would register standard metadata describing their holdings. Data seekers could search the Clearinghouse, find a data set, and download the data using ftp, or perhaps they would order the data on tape or CD.
In Europe Megrin did something similar, creating the Geographic Data Discovery Directory (GDDD), and the Centre for Earth Observation (CEO) created the CIP protocol for geospatial information discovery. Diverse clearinghouse solutions had suddenly appeared in the geospatial information field, however there was little if any ability for one solution to utilize another: lack of interoperability.
Then OGC delivered the OpenGIS Catalog Services Specification for standard interfaces enabling open access to catalogs of geospatial data (such as the Clearinghouse). It then became clear that any user could then have access to not one Clearinghouse but many, that could be recursive (cascading servers), and that would be online and could operate like one big virtual Clearinghouse without the need to physically centralize the metadata. The specification provides for discovering data sets, but it also provides for discovering specific data about specific geospatial features, for example NUTS region boundaries or international highway segments. This decentralized approach allows for local data/metadata maintenance and global discovery.
Those responsible for the geoprocessing needs of a governmental, commercial, or industrial organization, will find it useful to know the difference between catalogs and registries; they will need to know about those catalogs that index their data and about those registries that define their metadata.
A registry records types and a catalog records instances. For example, somewhere on the Web there will be a registry defining the standard types of geospatial features contained in a transportation layer. ISO TC/211's metadata standard (ISO/CD 19115) will be in a registry, and it will contain the authoritative schema for the transportation data and metadata. But perhaps you work for a local highway department, and your schema, though based on the ISO standard, is particularized to accommodate 1) the schema used by the national highway department and 2) the schema used by the transportation department of the major city in your region. Both of those metadata schemas will be in online registries. Your region's actual transportation data will be a collection of instances of such data, and it will be described in all its uniqueness in at least one catalog.
How will a query work? Imagine that an engineering firm is preparing a bid to repair a bridge in your region. The firm needs to know the details about the road supported by the bridge. Your region's data is online in a catalog, and the metadata describing your region's data is structured according to a schema in the aforementioned registries. The query will go to the catalog first, discover the schemas that must be accessed to make sense of the data, go to the registries to get those schemas, and then complete the query, returning to the engineer information about the road that crosses the bridge.
The transportation data returned to the engineer is Framework data. Its dictionary of feature types may be slightly non-standard by US DOT or similar national standards, but the differences will be documented in machine-readable text in the registries. The Web's XML standard will play an important role here: XML allows the unambiguous, self-documenting transfer of information between systems. This goes for the transfer of metadata as well as, in some case, of the geospatial data themselves. OGC's Geography Markup Language (GML) is essentially an XML dialect for geospatial information -- Spatial Web infrastructure layered on Web infrastructure. Key reference data agencies such as US Bureau of the Census and UK Ordnance Survey have already taken steps to provide geospatial data transfer in GML format.
3.2 Building a Foundation for Semantics and Ontologies in Web Services
Just as data will be found through catalogs and registries, servers holding geoprocessing applications services will be discoverable anywhere among the WWW, through service catalogs and registries. The OGC Web Services (OWS) Initiative is a group of projects, planned or already under way in OGC's Interoperability Program, designed to create methods to publish, retrieve, bind, and chain together geoprocessing services. General IT web service standards (including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP) and the availability of broadband for Web-based distributed processing have matured to the point where such processing is beginning to be practical, and it makes sense now to apply these approaches to geospatial interoperability.
OWS sponsors and participants envision that geoprocessing applications can be dynamically composed of services discovered and marshaled "on demand" at runtime. A Web service is a self-contained, self-describing, modular application that can be published, located, and dynamically invoked across the Web. Web services perform functions ranging from simple requests to complicated business processes. Once a Web service is deployed, other applications and other Web services can discover and invoke the deployed service. Services will be described in service catalogs. Types of services will be described in service registries.
Data catalogs will point to particular online data sets. Data registries will provide the definitive data dictionaries and metadata schemas for particular information communities. Service catalogs will point to particular online services. Service registries will provide definitive descriptions of the types of services. All of this text data will need to be parsed automatically. The Web's XML standard and OGC's GML standard will play important roles here. GML version 3.0, due to be released by the end of 2001, will provide support for metadata. In essence, GML works by saying to a browser "I'm a collection of spatial features, as described in the following definitions (including a data dictionary and other metadata). Use me for analysis and display me as you are programmed to do." These web service-based technologies have been designed to offer just the right level of "glue" to permit service chaining through communication on the Web via standard interfaces, while at the same time allowing information communities to maintain their particular professional or regional semantics.
3.3 An Example: Language-neutral Modeling of Spatial Features using OGC and ISO specifications
The services mentioned above are all designed to be independent of the information represented: OGC does not dictate how information communities should think or represent their key concepts. OGC and ISO/TC211 Specifications (for example, spatial schema, GML, features and service architecture) enable the creation of consistent models representing common geospatial features (bridges, roads, rivers, etc.) in a manner which is language-neutral. This is accomplished using the IT-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) to represent both exemplar "use cases" and more detailed "class diagrams". UML class diagrams can be interpreted in a language-neutral manner and can represent indirect mappings of concepts from one information community to another, and can even be translated to application code (C++, Java, etc.). OGC is currently testing translations from XML code-based services to UML and vice versa, allowing developers even more liberty to create generic-yet-standard component software solutions meeting specific information community needs.
This language-neutral representation in UML can help solve one of the important problems encountered by statisticians in their use of geospatial data. For their studies to be valid, statisticians must compare comparable features (commonly spatial statistical units), and these models will facilitate this process. When using imagery (raster data) it is quite simple to rectify several layers and then vary (resample) the resolution of one data layer to match that of another. In raster data the basic geospatial unit is the pixel (cell), however when dealing with so-called vector data - features - this exercise becomes quite difficult, as the definition of geospatial units is a very diverse exercise: there will be many different representations of, for example, Germany, Northrhein Westphalia, Koln and the neighborhoods within Koln.
Beyond the modeling OGC does not expect a single homogeneous definition of any particular feature to be created, rather the schema modeling described above supports the mapping between features, which in most cases will not result in a 1:1 mapping. A simple example of this is the heterogeneous spatial coverage of a Eurostat NUTS region. Another example might be where one information community model represents the concept forest and another only supports tree stand, the geospatial model in UML would represent how tree stand could be aggregated to map to forest. In this case the second information community would not need to change its conceptual representations (its ontology), as the UML model allows to map concept to concept, facilitating the semantic interoperability necessary for the proper function of geospatial web services across information communities and crossing linguistic, cultural and even professional barriers.
When completed, these UML models will grease the wheels of many inter-information community projects. Statistical analysis crosses many of these same information community boundaries, and so, again, it is in the interest of the statistical community to make its needs known, and to join in on the development of new schema models
4 Enabling Statistical Marketplaces
OGC's commercial members participate in the consortium because they see commercial opportunity arising from a standards infrastructure. Interoperability enhances market activity in a number of ways:
-- Vendors share the costs of developing the infrastructure-level elements of their software, so they have more to spend on product differentiation at the application level.
-- Componentization of software based on open interfaces leads to less expensive solutions, best practices and best of breed service delivery. Because vendors offer, and customers choose services web and user customized to a particular task.
-- Open interfaces provide the "standard hooks" that developers of non-spatial software can use to integrate components that provide their customers with particular spatial capabilities.
-- Open interfaces remove the barriers between different kinds of geoprocessing software including GIS, earth imaging, automated mapping and facilities management, navigation, and location services. This expands the opportunities for everyone and increases the use of geoprocessing in the bigger "supermarket" of data and services. Participation in OGC initiatives allows "coopetition" among commercial entities which previously only competed. They now see tangible benefits in not reinventing basic infrastructure (common interfaces), in the same sense that recently several competing European telcos have agreed to share the costly 3G basic infrastructure instead of duplicating (or quadrupling in some cases) investment.
If statisticians make their requirements known in OGC and if vendor members see a significant market opportunity, all of the "market enablement" factors listed above can begin to operate in the area of geospatial/statistical integration.
Other special interest groups have sponsored testbeds in OGC's Interoperability Program designed to yield candidate OpenGIS Specifications that specify, through open interfaces, all that is necessary to meet specific needs, stopping short of specifying the algorithmic approaches that might constitute a software vendor's proprietary processing methods. Similarly, statistical offices could form an interest group to influence the software producers to implement GIS software functionality's required for statistical purposes. As a special interest group, statisticians can address their needs and technology requirements.
It is worthy of statisticians' notice that one such Interoperability Program sponsor launched a new domain of interoperable spatial processing - Geospatial Fusion - which enables spatial data to be collected from text documents and organized in useful ways. Place names in gazetteers, for example, are searched for in text documents to discover references to those places, and special folders are created that enable efficient integration of diverse data sources (including Web links and non-graphical data sources) whose data reference a particular place.
What will the next new domain be? If it is to be a statistical domain, then will your organization be one of the leaders?
1 SAS is a notable exception having developed some limited functionality that is present in their product offerings.
2 In addition to SAS, offering mapping functionality as part of its statistical product offerings, ESRI, PCI, and ERDAS (three GIS and Image Processing Vendors) do offer limited statistical functionality as part of their product offerings.


When you buy a cellphone, you might decide to sign a contract or get prepaid service. Either way, you will negotiate with a cellphone service provider, the company that provides the voice, text and data service for your phone. Here we explain your rights and offer tips for these discussions.
Service providers cannot sell you a phone at a price higher than its advertised price.
Providers must base any claims about the performance of their product on adequate and proper testing. For example, if a service provider advertises that its network is the "most reliable in Canada", they must have done adequate and proper testing to support that claim.
Under the Wireless Code, Canada's main set of rules for cellphone service providers, any salesperson for a service provider must communicate with you in a way that is clear, timely and in plain language. They must describe products and services accurately. This applies whether they are dealing with you on the phone or in the store.
Under BC law, a salesperson can't use "unfair practices" to convince you to buy a phone or phone plan. Unfair practices include making statements, verbally or in writing, or any conduct that has the capability of deceiving or misleading you.
If the salesperson does something "unconscionable", any agreement you sign is not binding on you.
Under BC law, when you buy a new phone, it must meet certain conditions. It has to be fit for the purpose you bought it for, of "merchantable" quality, and durable for a reasonable period of time. It also has to be "as described".
These conditions are called the "legal warranty", as they are found in a law called the Sale of Goods Act. They apply regardless of whether the seller mentions them. They are in addition to any warranty the seller or manufacturer provide.
If your phone turns out to be faulty, you have the right to get it repaired or replaced, or to get a refund, depending on the situation.
If the provider offers to sell you an "extended warranty"
When you buy a new phone, the salesperson may suggest you buy an "extended warranty". This is a promise by the seller—in exchange for you paying a certain amount in advance—to cover repairs and maintenance for a given period if there are problems.
But be aware that an extended warranty may not give you any more rights than you have already through the legal warranty explained above.
If you're thinking about an extended warranty, ask the salespersion the questions below under "Questions to ask".
Also note that a service provider must inform you of any manufacturer's warranty that exists on a phone before offering an extended warranty or insurance for it.
Questions to ask the salesperson about the phone handset.
If a phone handset is provided, what is the price for the phone?
Can I upgrade my phone, and how would that affect my plan?
Questions to ask the salesperson if they offer to sell you an extended warranty for the phone.
How long is the extended warranty good for?
What will you do if the phone has a problem? Will you repair it, replace it, or return my money?
Where do I have to take the phone for repairs?
What is covered under the extended warranty? Does the extended warranty cover parts and service, or just parts?
Questions to ask the salesperson about the cellphone plan.
What is the minimum actual amount that I will have to pay each month (including any add-on fees and taxes)?
How many texts, local calling minutes, and MBs (megabytes) or GBs (gigabytes) of data are included?
Are national or international calls included?
Do you have coverage where I live, work and travel?
If you are considering an "unlimited" plan, ask if there any limits spelled out anywhere. For example, some providers have a "Fair Use Policy" that once you reach a certain threshold of data use each month will result in slower connection speeds or additional charges.
Questions to ask the salesperson about your use of the phone.
If I exceed my limits, particularly for data, what extra charges apply?
Can I decide to go onto a higher or lower plan if I want to, without penalty?
How much will I have to pay to make calls or use the internet if I visit another country?
Exactly how much will I have to pay to cancel the contract or commitment?
My 15-year-old son signed a cellphone contract without my knowing. Is the contract valid?
A person of any age can enter into a contract in BC. But special rules apply if a person under age 19 (called a "minor" under BC law) enters into a contract.
if within one year of reaching age 19, the minor partially performs the contract or doesn't "repudiate" the contract (that is, doesn't reject it).
On the other hand, a minor can enforce a contract against an adult party to the contract.
The result is that if a business enters into a contract with a person under age 19, the minor isn't responsible for keeping up his or her end of the bargain. But if the minor wants to enforce the contract, they can.
So if your son wants to keep the cellphone and make the payments under the contract, he could.
But if your son wants out of the contract, he could cancel it. Make sure that your son returns the cellphone to the store. Also, be sure to have your son send a letter to the cellphone provider stating that he is cancelling the contract and confirming that they will close his account. Keep a copy for your files.
What can I do with my old cellphone?
When you have finished with an old cellphone or battery, do not throw either of them out. Your community may have a recycling program to help you dispose of them in a sustainable way. Check with your municipality, or go to Recycle My Cell to find a drop-off location near you or to print out a pre-paid shipping label.
Be sure to remove all of your personal information from the phone before recycling it.


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Маркус Шулц (, Ешвеге, Немачка, 3. фебруар 1975) је амерички тренс ди-џеј са пребивалиштем у Мајамију (САД). Најпознатији је по свом седмичном радио шоуу под називом -{Global DJ Broadcast}- који се сваког четвртка емитује на -{Digitally Imported}- радију и другим интернет станицама. Такође је оснивач и власник издавачке куће -{Coldharbour Recordings}-.

Дискографија

Албуми
 2005. -{Without You Near}-
 2007. -{Progression}-
 2008. -{Progression Progressed - The Remixes}-
 2009. -{Thoughts Become Things (као -{Dakota}-)}-
 2010. -{Do You Dream?}-
 2011. -{Do You Dream? - The Remixes}-
 2011. -{Thoughts Become Things II (као -{Dakota}-)}-

Компилације
 2004. -{Coldharbour Sessions}-
 2005. -{Miami '05}-
 2006. -{Ibiza '06}-
 2008. -{Amsterdam '08}-
 2009. -{Toronto '09}-
 2010. -{Las Vegas '10}-
 2011. -{Prague '11}-
 2012. -{Los Angeles '12}-

Песме

 -{1998 Markus Schulz - You Won't See Me Cry
 1999 Dakota - Swirl
 2002 Dakota - Frozen Time
 2002 Dakota - Lost in Brixton
 2002 Dakota - Jah Powah
 2002 Dakota - Zero Gravity
 2002 Dakota - Sunshine Yellow
 2003 Dakota - Abandoned in Queens
 2003 Markus Schulz presents Elevation - Clear Blue
 2004 Markus Schulz presents Elevation - Largo
 2004 Markus Schulz presents Elevation - Somewhere
 2005 Markus Schulz featuring Anita Kelsey - First Time
 2005 Markus Schulz and Departure with Gabriel & Dresden - Without You Near
 2006 Markus Schulz featuring Carrie Skipper - Never be the Same Again
 2007 Markus Schulz vs. Chakra - I Am
 2007 Markus Schulz - Fly to Colors
 2007 Dakota - Amsterdam
 2007 Dakota - Progression
 2008 Dakota - Hypnotic
 2008 Markus Schulz featuring Departure - Cause You Know
 2008 Markus Schulz featuring Dauby – Perfect
 2008 Markus Schulz vs. Andy Moor - Daydream

 2008 Markus Schulz - The New World
 2009 Dakota - Chinook
 2009 Dakota - Johnny the Fox
 2009 Dakota - Sin City
 2009 Markus Schulz - Do You Dream
 2009 Dakota - Roxy '84
 2009 Dakota - Koolhaus
 2009 Dakota - Steel Libido
 2009 Dakota - Mr. Cappuccino
 2010 Markus Schulz featuring Khaz - Dark Heart Waiting
 2010 Markus Schulz featuring Justine Suissa - Perception
 2010 Markus Schulz - Rain
 2010 Markus Schulz ft. Jennifer Rene - Not The Same
 2010 Markus Schulz - Future Cities
 2011 Dakota - Sinners
 2011 Markus Schulz & Jochen Miller - Rotunda
 2011 Dakota - Sleepwalkers
 2011 Dakota - Katowice
 2011 Dakota - Saints
 2011 Dakota - In a Green Valley
 2011 Markus Schulz - Digital Madness
 2012 Markus Schulz & Dennis Sheperd - Go!
 2012 Markus Schulz featuring Adina Butar - Caught}-

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Holiday Classic at Ocala National Dec. 13-14
Hurricane Junior Golf Tour
Holiday Classic at Ocala National
Ocala, Florida: December 14, 2014 – Alas, the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour (HJGT) has reached the end of the 2014 season with the conclusion of the Holiday Classic at Ocala National. It was a wonderful two days of golf, filled with spirited competition and superb weather. During both days of play the sun was shinning, there was minimal wind, and not even a sprinkle came down upon the field. It truly was a holiday blessing to end an unforgettable season with a flawless tournament. Each and every player brought competitive attitudes and each lucky winner will receive exemptions into two future events, the 2015 Tour Championship and the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational at Chateau Élan. As always, a big thank you to all the HJGT and Ocala staff for making this event possible. Everyone was very accommodating and professional, allowing for this to be an appropriate send off to the 143+ events administered by HJGT in 2014. Boys 15-18 For the Boys 15 – 18 division, Jacques Celestino out of Sarasota, Florida will be crowned the 2014 Holiday Classic winner with a two-day total of 145 (+1). Celestino played a miraculous tournament and earned every bit of this victory. Carding a total of six birdies and seven bogeys throughout the two days of play shows only one thing, consistency. Never letting his round get out of hand, Celestino avoided any major mistakes never making anything bigger then a bogey. This helped keep some distance between him and his playing partners, ensuring his lead and eventually his win. Coming in second place was Luke Schniederjans out of Powder Springs, Georgia with a two-day total of 148 (+4). Only three strokes behind Celestino, every shot was the difference between winning and finishing a close second. Unlike the champion who had near zero mistakes, Schniederjans carded a double on the second hole during the first round. This seemed to be the dagger that landed him the second place trophy. Placing in a tie for third place was Francisco Maciel out of Queretaro, Mexico and Tom Broxup of the United Kingdom with two-day totals of 149 (+5). Maciel, after having a bumpy round one of 77 (+5), came out guns blazing at the start of round two going three under through his first four holes. He was looking to make up some ground on the leaders but unfortunately ran out of steam. After the fourth hole, he made no more birdies and three bogeys bringing him to even par for the day. Broxup simply did not make enough birdies to make a run. The leaders were consistently outscoring him making it very hard to earn a top spot. But nonetheless, his play was good enough for a bronze medal and should feel proud with what he has accomplished today. Boys 11 – 14 For the Boys 11 – 14 division, Christopher Vandette would earn first place honors in the Holiday Classic at Ocala National with a two-day total of 156 (+12). Vandette was sitting pretty after day one near the top of the leaderboard with a first round 79 (+7). Only two shots behind the leader, Vandette's main concern during the last day was to focus on spacing himself from the other players in the division. He did just that by firing a stellar 37 (+1) on the front nine, positioning himself perfectly to make one last charge for the top. Stumbling his way there though a few more bogeys and a double, Vandette was able to hold off the other players and snatch one last win for the 2014 season. Coming in a tie for second was Yuichi Murao out of Tokyo, Japan and Richard Jacobs out of North Palm Beach, Florida with two-day totals of 159 (+15). Both Murao and Jacobs simply made too many mistakes to earn a first place trophy. This is unfortunate because without just a few of these mistakes, it would have been a completely different story and the boys 11 – 14 division would most likely have a different champion. But that is golf and one cannot dwell on the past. All three of these gentlemen played exceptionally well and should celebrate a successful tournament. Girls 15 – 18 For the Girls 15 – 18 division, Mami Yamamoto out of Tokyo, Japan would win by a landslide with a two-day total of 146 (+2). There is so much to be said about Yamamotos play because it was near perfect. Starting out her first round red-hot going four under par through seven holes, one could assume that she was hungry for the gold. Her tournament was near perfect; Yamamoto fell apart on the back nine, shooting a 42 (+6). Not really hurting her position on the leaderboard, she was still eager to get back out there for round two. A much more consistent round, Yamamoto would go on to shoot a casual 72 (E) with a few bogeys and a few birdies. This stellar round would be the capstone to a beautiful two days of golf. Coming in second place out of Daytona, Florida is Aleja Lobelo with a two-day total of 152 (+8). Lobelo would have been a much more favored candidate for a champion if she hadn't had such a rough first day. She was not able to get anything going or roll in any putts leading her to shoot an 81 (+8). Really not enjoying that day of golf, she brushed it off and came back on day two in a big way. Shooting the only under par round out of the entire field, Lobelo carded four birdies, three bogeys, and no doubles for an astonishing 71 (-1). Coming in a tie for third place was Mai Dechathipat out of Bangkok, Thailand and Kelsy Holbert out of Lutz, Florida with two-day totals of 155 (+11). Hitting countless great golf shots, these two girls played their hearts out and deserve a good deal of recognition. It was just not good enough for the gold. One too many bogeys combined with a few off-putting doubles, acted as a force field from the top of the leaderboard. Girls 11 – 14 For the Girls 11 – 14 division, Cindy Kou out of Windermere, Florida will take down yet another victory with a two-day total of 151 (+7). Kou is no stranger to the spotlight and is quite familiar with winning. In total, Kou has racked up five victories in the 2014 season and a number of second and third place finishes. This weekend was a classic Kou victory and only added to an already impressive résumé as she stomped on her competition by thirteen shots. Although not her best second day score, Kou, the Girls 11-14 Player Of the Year on tour, still made no doubles and was very consistent. Even if she might have thought her performance to be inferior, she is still one of the best young juniors playing on the HJGT. Coming in second place out of Lake Mary, Florida is Meiyi Yan with a two-day total of 164 (+20). Yan just could not roll in any birdie putts to erase some of the bogeys that found their way on to her scorecard making it very difficult catch up to the seasoned veteran Cindy Kou. Coming in third place with a two-day total of 185 (+41) was Amelia Williams out of Gainesville, Florida. Though quite far behind the other two competitors, Williams played with a lot of heart and determination. She never gave up and kept her chin held high. Hopefully by playing with Kou and Yan, she learned a few things that could help her in future tournaments. Congratulations to all the champions for a marvelous event and an even better season! Weather: Saturday: Mostly sunny. Sunday: Partly Sunny. The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour (HJGT) was founded in 2008 with the intention of providing junior golfers between the ages of 11-18 an opportunity to play exceptional courses in a competitive environment. Golfers who participate on the tour in 2015 will compete in one of five age divisions: Boys 15-18, Boys 13-14, Boys 11-12, Girls 15-18, and Girls 11-14. Based out of Jacksonville, FL, the HJGT administers events all across the nation, with stops in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut. For more information regarding the HJGT, please visit our website at www.hjgt.org, call the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour headquarters at (904) 379-2697, or email info@hjgt.org.


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Q: What is being called when doing int() and float()? I understand that when I do:
>>> int(4.0)
>>> int('10')

The __init__() method from the class of the argument (in the example, float and str, respectively), will be called.
I wonder what will happen if I do int(), I mean, without any argument. It wont call __int__() from class NoneType, because it doesn't implement that method.
What will happen?
Also, does this mean I can only directly call the constructor of class int if the argument is an int?
Thanks,

A: in python everything is an object, so when you call:
x = int(y) then constructor int.__new__(cls, value=y) is called.
this returns an int object and assigns it to x.
x may have a method bound to it: x.__init__() to control it's setup after creation, but creating the object in the first place is handled by the method __new__() of the base class.
If you provide no value to int(), the default value from the constructor call:
int.__new__(int, value=0) is substituted. Then as you mentioned, int has no __init__ method to modify it's setup after creation..


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Includes things like persistent vs transient domains, creating, starting, stopping domains, saving, restoring, snapshots, and secure wiping of disk images. === CGroups === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2009/12/03/using-cgroups-with-libvirt-and-lxckvm-guests-in-fedora-12/ CGroups usage with QEMU, KVM and LXC guests] === CPU === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/guest-cpu-model-configuration-in-libvirt-with-qemukvm/ Guest CPU model configuration with QEMU/KVM] * [http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/12/controlling-guest-cpu-numa-affinity-in-libvirt-with-qemu-kvm-xen/ Guest CPU affinity and NUMA placement on host with QEMU/KVM] === KVM / QEMU === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2011/06/07/what-benefits-does-libvirt-offer-to-developers-targetting-qemukvm/ What benefits does libvirt offer to developers targetting QEMU+KVM?] * [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/IntroductoryGuides Many introductory guides to libvirt with KVM] * [[Qemu_guest_agent|Introduction to qemu guest agent]] === Guest device Configuration === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/stable-guest-machine-abi-pci-addressing-and-disk-controllers-in-libvirt/ Stable guest machine ABI, PCI addressing and drive controller/disk addressing] === Virtio === * [[Virtio | Setting up virtio]] === Host SCSI device === * [[SCSI generic device passthrough]] * [[vhost-scsi target]] === NPIV === * [[NPIV in libvirt]] = libguestfs / guestfish = * [https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/guestfish-generating-inline-commands-from-shell-scripts/ Guestfish: generating inline commands from shell scripts] - Blog entry showing how to generate inline guestfish commands from shell scripts * [https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/libguestfs-live-cd-inspection/ libguestfs: Live CD inspection] - Blog entry showing use of virt-inspector to tell what operating system is on a Live CD image = Networking = === Concepts === * [[VirtualNetworking | Virtual Networking]] : '''Read This First''' - Introduces the concepts and ideas used in libvirts' networking for guests === Detailed networking pieces === * [http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net Host sFlow] - Open source add-on for exporting sFlow data from guests * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-June/msg00762.html IPtables / firewall usage in libvirt] * [[Libvirtd_and_dnsmasq]] - Additional configuration settings needed for running a global dnsmasq in addition to a libvirt controlled one * [[Networking | Networking hints and tips]] * [http://berrange.com/posts/2009/12/13/routed-subnets-without-nat-for-libvirt-managed-virtual-machines-in-fedora/ Routed subnets with virtual networking] * [https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/tip-find-the-ip-address-of-a-virtual-machine/ Tip: Find the IP address of a virtual machine] - Blog entry showing how to get the IP address of a guest domain * [[OVS_and_PVLANS]] - Setup OpenvSwitch Flows to emulate PVLANs * [[NSS module]] - Setup automatic name translation for your domains = Perl = * [http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Sys-Virt/ Sys-Virt] - Daniel Berrange's perl module for managing guests = Provisioning = === Cobbler === * [http://github.com/proffalken/cucumber-vhost cucumber-vhost] - Automatic provisioning with Cobbler and Cucumber === Foreman === * [http://theforeman.org Foreman] - Automatic provisioning with Foreman and libvirt = Remote Management = === CIM === * [[cimtest]] === QPID=== * [[libvirt-qpid]] = Security = === Host Security === * [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/kvmsec/kvmsecprint.htm Securing KVM guests and the host system in RHEL5.5] or as [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/kvmsec/kvmsecprint.htm PDF] === SSH === * [[SSHSetup|How to set up access to libvirt via SSH]] * [[SSHPolicyKitSetup|How to configure PolicyKit access to libvirt through SSH]] === Transport Layer Security (TLS) === * [[TLSSetup|In depth guide to configuring TLS in libvirt]] ''(with many pictures)'' * [[VNCTLSSetup|How to set up your VNC client software to use TLS]] = Storage = === iSCSI === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-the-hard-way-part-2-of-2/ Accessing iSCSI storage pools using virsh] * [http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on-iscsi-with-qnap-virt-manager-part-2-of-2/ Accessing iSCSI storage pools using virt-manager] === QCow2 disk encryption === * [http://berrange.com/posts/2009/12/02/using-qcow2-disk-encryption-with-libvirt-in-fedora-12/ Using qcow2 with encrypted disks with QEMU/KVM] === Disk and Memory Snapshots === * [[Snapshots | Snapshot API Development]] === Examples of live block operations === * [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit Live disk backup with active blockcommit] * [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-merge-an-entire-disk-image-chain-including-current-active-disk Live merge an entire disk image chain including current active disk] = Third Party Libvirt Applications = * [[Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP)]] - Cloud Computing / Infrastructure as a Service Platform based on Libvirt API = Other = === Images === The images in this wiki, along with their Inkscape SVG source, are on this page in one place in case you'd like to use or modify them for your own project: * [[SVGImages]] === Debug logs === In case you want to turn on debuging in libvirt follow: * [[DebugLogs]] = Getting started with Avocado-VT = == Avocado-VT (and Avocado) installation == Avocado is the base framework for Avocado-VT. To install it, follow the simple steps documented [http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#installing-avocado here]. Then install Avocado-VT, as documented on its own [http://avocado-vt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#installing-avocado-vt Getting Started page]. == libvirt Prerequisites == # To use Avocado-VT with its libvirt backend, the following packages are required: libvirt, virt-install, qemu-kvm, p7zip, genisoimage. Other packages are also recommended: fakeroot, policycoreutils-python-utils.
When installing libvirt on Fedora, make sure you have the following packages installed: <tt>libvirt-client</tt>, <tt>libvirt-python</tt>, <tt>libvirt-daemon-kvm</tt>, and <tt>libvirt-daemon-config-network</tt>.

To help you with copy and paste, here is a command with the complete list of packages needed on a Fedora system:

dnf install libvirt virt-install qemu-kvm p7zip genisoimage libvirt-client libvirt-python libvirt-daemon-kvm libvirt-daemon-config-network fakeroot policycoreutils-python-utils
 # Start libvirtd service.
On systems with systemd, run

systemctl start libvirtd.service
 == Avocado-VT bootstrap == Now that all packages are installed and services have been started, it's time to bootstrap Avocado-VT test providers, configuration and default image files, by running: avocado vt-bootstrap --vt-type=libvirt For more information on the bootstrap process, please refer to the the [http://avocado-vt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#bootstrapping-avocado-vt Avocado-VT docs]. == Running tests == To get an idea of the available tests, run avocado list --vt-type=libvirt And look for the "VT" tests. To actually run some tests (all virsh.help tests), run avocado run virsh.help --vt-type=libvirt == Testing self-built libvirt == To test self-built libvirt rather then the one installed in the system, either built a proper package and install it or follow the steps below. # Configure libvirt to use the same paths as the system one.
./autogen.sh --system
 # Compile libvirt.
make
 # Change libvirtd service to start your local libvirtd using <tt>/path/to/libvirt/run /path/to/libvirt/daemon/.libs/libvirtd</tt>. On systems with systemd change <tt>ExecStart</tt> in <tt>/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/libvirtd.service</tt>. This hack is required for some tests that restart libvirtd service. # Run tests using the self-built libvirt:
/path/to/libvirt/run avocado run virsh.help virsh.console --vt-type libvirt
 = Getting started with the Wiki = This wiki is using the MediaWiki software. The following links will provide help on wiki syntax and other matters * [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide#For_editors Editing Help] * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ] = Getting started with libvirt development = Here is the [[BiteSizedTasks | list of small tasks]] that should enable you to start digging into libvirt source code base = Google Summer of Code = There is a separate page dedicated to [[Google Summer of Code 2019]]. Also, the list for future ideas for projects can be found here [[Google Summer of Code Ideas]]. The previous years can be found [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2018 | here]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2017 | here]] and [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2016 | here]]. There is also a separate page for [[Google_Summer_of_Code_FAQ | FAQ]].


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Point of View: Two Ears, One Mouth
Gavin Menu
By Minerva Perez
Four hours a night, once a week for 12 weeks. No, I was not binge watching bad TV. I was taking part in a reinstated Southampton Town program that connects civilians to the inner sanctum of police work.
From Riverside to Sagaponack and from Eastport to Sag Harbor, many people do not realize the breadth of the area covered by Southampton Town police. Active police personnel total just under 100 people, which is not a lot considering the distance between sectors and the needs of a not so sleepy little resort town. After my 12 weeks were up, I was thankful for the time spent and the relationships formed with law enforcement and my peers. This did manage to feel like family as promised by the new Chief of police, Steven Skrynecki, at his welcoming address to the class.
Our class was made up of about 20 folks of all different ages and backgrounds. The academy ran from February through May.
During our classroom time, we covered topics related to: use of force, gang intelligence, drug identification, drug task force, DWI roadside checks, domestic violence, and human trafficking. In the field, we shot actual guns with simunition rounds (plastic rounds), toured helicopters, emergency response vehicles, watched K9 units in action, did role playing exercises with fellow students as partners, experienced EVOC training as passengers in fast moving and expertly controlled police cars, viewed disturbing yet effective video training on distracted driving, and were asked to make split second gut wrenching decisions on how to respond to deadly force via an interactive screen with several different scenarios requiring that you shoot your weapon or risk either being shot or letting some innocent bystander or hostage be shot.
At the end of this training, we were then asked to schedule eight hours of ride along time with police officers in their vehicles. I chose 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on a Thursday and 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on a Saturday.
Some of the impetus for me to take part in this civilian police academy came from my work with OLA of Eastern Long Island. I was graciously allowed to connect other Latinos to this academy to gain a deeper understanding of law enforcement while also allowing law enforcement to experience Latinos not in crises, but Latinos with genuine interest and concern for the safety of law enforcement.
Over the course of the 12 weeks, under the skillful and enthusiastic direction of Lieutenant Sue Ralph, we engaged in frank conversations about use of force, fear of police, safety of officers, active shooter scenarios, communication, asset forfeiture and other challenging but necessary community conversations.
The class was made up of a range of backgrounds including mental health professionals, EMS worker, court officer, retired teacher, active teacher, construction worker, and more. I was often surprised at certain perspectives but welcomed the ability to debate with respect and thoughtfulness.
I was most impressed with the effort made by many of the trainers (all law enforcement with 15-plus years of experience) to illicit our opinions on these difficult topics. The intention was not to defend or shoot down any sentiment that was not immediately pro police. I viewed it as an honest curiosity about the opinions we all came to the table with. Many an evening, we found ourselves still in discussions well after 10 p.m.
Given the variables of life on the East End, I will never seek to reduce any of this experience to one blanket statement or another. Some of the work I do, requires me to continue to question policies and practices of this police force. I would be remiss if I did not.
During the training, I found myself not fully satisfied with certain protocols and yet blown away by the care, patience and skill members of the force exhibited while out on ride-alongs with them.
The answer, I've learned and continue to learn, is in the conversation. The only way to make statements about what law enforcement can do or should do or actually does is to be in an active conversation that allows as much information in as commentary out. The "two ears and one mouth" adage applies nicely here: Talk less and listen more. We will always be entitled to our opinions, but being mindful of how our statements effect the lives of officers and residents alike, is a crucial lesson I came away with.
I am now a member of the Southampton Town's Civilian Police Academy Alumni. I am looking to support the great work being done in the Explorers program as well as the Shop with a Cop initiative. I will remain in this conversation, for better or worse, as long as I am able. I feel I am among family. Not the family of a 1950's Campbell's Soup can, but the real dysfunctional kind that knows as long as we have communication, care and respect for each other, we will overcome some of the toughest obstacles.
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How to Avoid Clergy Burnout!
Being a parish pastor is often a profession that is mostly quite rewarding. We get a salary to tell people about the love of God, demonstrated through the life and death of His Son, Jesus Christ. We understand the privilege of being at the bedside of the dying and newly minted babies. There are times pastors' see God act in amazing and powerful ways in the life of the Church and his members. That is the real and rewarding part of the ministry. But as with so many professions, there is another side. A lonely side. Here is a balanced look at ministry in this pastor's lament.
or at least first-rate, in all of them.
Right now, I am not filling any of these expectations very well. I think that's why I am tired.
I feel that now I can share with the church at large just how challenging and lonely a job the pastor is tasked to accomplish. It is quite an undertaking. If I had shared this while serving a congregation, it would only come off as whining. And I might get a "butch up comment" from my board of elders. I am sharing this not to garner sympathy but understanding. I feel that there is so much more congregations could and should be doing to support the work and ministry of their shepherd. I hope to help to extend the ministry life of pastors. From my personal experiences, many shepherds are teetering on the edge of quitting or burnout. My prayer is that this series on caring for your pastor will help congregations and pastors rediscover the joy of ministry.
In the message, today I want to talk about making sure pastors take a Sabbath. Take this word of advice from a workaholic. You are not faithful when you fail to take care of yourself and your family.
The Word of God contains over 150 references to the Sabbath.
· In Moses day if one did not observe the Sabbath the penalty was death (Exodus 31:14-15).
You shall keep the Sabbath because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.
That sounds a bit harsh. Pastor take a day off or we kill you. But some of us clergy types are so hard headed that maybe this kind of law is the only motivation we understand. But think of it this way.
We desire that our members take a day out of their busy, over-taxed lives and commit that day to the Lord. Should we as the spiritual shepherd not also take up that challenge? Not only is it good for us, but it is commanded by God. Now, while a pastor taking Sunday off is not an option, it does not mean we should not have a Sabbath day.
Does it matter when the Sabbath is observed? Nope, just as long as we do.
How well those beautiful words of Jesus apply, 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest' (Mat 11:28). Jesus' words in Matthew is so fitting for our topic of rest, the people were burdened with all requirements of the Jewish laws. Many pastors are loaded with the programs and expectations of ministry. Jesus says to you, stop it! Ministry is not supposed to be this complicated. Learn to stop take a day to Sabbath and to refresh yourself and reevaluate your priorities. You desire it; your family needs it, and your people will be blessed by it.
Take time to write down all the activities that recharge your batteries. How often do you take time to engage in those activities?
Here is an idea to pitch to your church leaders. Have them put money in the budget to give you Sabbath Sundays. These are not vacation days. You still need time away from the rigors of pastoral ministry. But put in the budget money for guest preachers to give you a break during the year. Imagine how refreshing it could be for you and your family to worship together and have someone minister to you.
 Stuart, D. K. (2006). Exodus (Vol. 2, p. 655). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Rest is so important. It should be daily, your time with God. My family watches, and when I am talking out of my head my son will say, "Mom, have you read today?" The family watches, and so does the church and the world. Our light shines when we put time with God first, even if time with Him takes all day! This is the highest form of rest. I retire early to find Him early in the morning. I find that the house is quiet, and so are the pets. My husband is a pastor, and our son lives with us. He takes care of us by cooking good meals when we come back from the church. I am on a mission to finish reading my Bible this year. Isaac helps, and he encourages me to finish. Smile.
I pray that you succeed at that mission. Thanks for reading and yes rest is so important. It keeps us at our best to be the best ambassador for Christ we can be.
Fellowship is important, and it begins with Him. I lack eleven books of the Bible finishing for the 7th time. My goal is to read, enjoy, and eventually finish. It won't have to be this year, but I would like to finish what I started. Smile. Teen challenge puts out a paper with New and Old Testament books and chapters. I mark them off, and I can read anywhere this way.
It is so important to have a day of rest. Also burnout is guaranteed when the congregation expects the pastor to God to them. Boundaries are so important. Well stated post.
That post should be a mandatory read for every Christian congregation. It might open some eyes and hearts.
Thank you. I could only write it now that I am not a parish pastor.
Thank you. I just want congregations to better care for their pastors.
You are right and I used Sabbath maybe loosely because pastors in a work on our Sabbath.
my comment was not meant as criticism. Just a point of distinction, because, as you observe, most in the church are not aware of this, it would seem.
Bravo!! I feel this is a well under-used topic!! I pray often for those in ministry work; that they take into consideration how valued they are by those whom they serve, that we (as benefactors) are reminded of the 'sacrifices left at the altar' they make for us, and the wisdom to recognize that even Jesus went off to the desert to receive His rest and time with the Holy Spirit that was necessary to complete His works. Hugs & Blessings to you for reminding us all of this necessary need for rest for our Shepherds!!
Thank you Dawn for that encouragement.
The current trend is pushing us more and more into extreme workaholic tendencies. This is a great reminder that God has call us to pause in the things of life in order to re-center. There is so much rewards waiting for such a practice in our weekly schedules.
I do, however, disagree with the idea that the day doesn't matter. There is ample textual evidence that supports a seventh day sabbath, as in the one the Jews observe (Saturday), as oppose to the idea of choosing a day to keep. This latter approach uses the sabbath as a principle rather than an ongoing necessity as is understood with the rest of the words that were spoken in Exodus 20.
Nevertheless, this is a great step in the right direction. A much needed conversation on the benefits of such a practice.
I agree that day matters. I was just talking to pastor's who have worship services on Saturday and Sunday. That they still need to pick a Sabbath day. Thanks for reading and taking the time to give feedback.
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Will Pope Francis address North Korean atrocities?
Pope Francis leaves on Wednesday for five days in South Korea, his first outing to Asia. The pontiff is scheduled to meet government leaders and to take part in an Asian Catholic youth festival, beatify a group of Korean martyrs from the 18th and 19th centuries, and also meet family members of victims of the recent Sewol shipwreck that claimed more than 300 lives, and will lay out a role for the church's mission in Asia in a speech to bishops from the continent.
The outing poses challenges to Francis the peacemaker on multiple levels. First is the division of Korea itself. Francis will try to send signals of openness across the DMZ that separates the peninsula, without provoking the North Korean regime. He'll want to promote reconciliation but can't afford to turn a blind eye to the problems in the north, including an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 believed to languish in forced labor camps.
There's no indication Francis will spring another surprise by inviting leaders of the two Koreas to join him for a peace prayer in the Vatican, as he did with the Israelis and Palestinians while visiting the Middle East in late May. North Korea has spurned an invitation to send a delegation to an August 18 papal Mass in Seoul.
In addition to the North Koreans, Francis will be speaking to another party that won't be physically present but will certainly be listening: China, especially President Xi Jinping, with whom Francis has already had backdoor contact. China is one of just a handful of nations without diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The Vatican wants to improve the lot of China's roughly 13 million Catholics, many of whom are compelled to practice their faith underground.
Francis is certainly conscious that martyrdom is very much with us in the here and now. For one thing, he can't ignore the fact that just across the DMZ to the north, Christians face a systematic form of persecution that's arguably the most grotesque anywhere in the world. Since the armistice in 1953 that stabilized the division of the peninsula, some 300,000 Christians in North Korea have simply disappeared and are presumed dead.
The anti-Christian animus in North Korea is so strong that even people with Christian grandparents are frozen out of the most important jobs — a grand irony, given that founder Kim Il Sung's mother was a Presbyterian deaconess.
It would be odd indeed if Francis were to celebrate the memories of martyrs from three centuries ago without at least acknowledging the reality that many Koreans today are paying a similar price. Figuring out how to do that in a way that doesn't anger the North Koreans, potentially making life even more difficult for Christians, will be among the pontiff's stiffest challenges.
[Boston Globe]
Tags: labor camps, north korea, Pope Francis, South Korea
This entry was posted in China, Humanitarian Aid and Relief, Prison Camps by Grant Montgomery.


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