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CTF 151
COMBINED TASK FORCE 151 IN DJIBOUTI VISIT
Date: August 2, 2012Author: Combined Maritime Forces
CTF 151's flagship, ROKS WANG GEON, made a port visit to Djibouti from July 23-25, 2012. RDML Anho Chung, Commander of CTF 151 (CCTF-151), took advantage of the port visit to meet with both his international military counterparts and key regional leaders to discuss the piracy threat and to thank his partners for their continued support of CMF and the counter-piracy mission.
Commander of CTF 151 RDML Chung meets Captain Akira Shikishima Commander of Japanese P3 Deployment Air Force for Counter-Piracy Enforcement
RDML Chung met with the Captain Akira Shikishima, Commander of the Japanese P3 Deployment Air Force for Counter-Piracy Enforcement (DAPE), at the Japanese Self Defense Force facility in Djibouti. The Japanese P3 DAPE mission provides vital support to international counter-piracy forces by providing Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) over the Internationally Recognized Transit Corridor (IRTC), located in the Gulf of Aden. RDML Chung thanked the Japanese forces for the intelligence they provide, which allows CMF, NATO and EU counter-piracy forces to identify real time threats to merchant vessels. In addition to their contribution to international counter-piracy efforts, South Korea and Japan also conduct another aspect of their counter-piracy mission by operating as "independent deployers" conducting escort missions for merchant vessels traveling in the IRTC. This visit cemented an already close partnership between CTF 151 and the Japanese.
RDML Chung then called upon Brigadier General Eugene Haase, Deputy Commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). CJTF-HOA's mission is to enhance partner nation capacity, promote regional stability, and dissuade conflict in regional African countries. This directly correlates with CTF 151's mission to engage with regional and other partners to build capacity in order to protect global maritime commerce and secure freedom of navigation.
Commander CTF 151 RDML Chung meets Brigadier General Eugene Haase, Deputy Commander Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa
CTF 151's commander then met with Colonel Abdourahman Aden Cher, the Chief of the Djiboutian Navy. In their meeting they discussed how the Djiboutian Navy could deepen their existing contribution to maritime security operations in their region. Finally, RDML Chung met with Mr. Hassan Said, the Head of the Djiboutian National Security Agency, to thank Djibouti for their continued support of multinational forces conducting regional engagement and counter-piracy in the region. Mr. Hassan acknowledged that global commerce is threatened by piracy, and that merchant shipping is vital for the Djiboutian economy. He fully supports the CTF 151 mission and said Djibouti would do it its part to support the counter-piracy mission in the region.
Commander CTF 151, RDML Chung meets Col Abdourahman Aden Cher, the Chief of the Djiboutian Navy
RDML Chung, CCTF-151, stated after the port visit: "In our overall mission to build the capacities of our regional partners, the first step is mutual understanding – sharing knowledge of the mission, and learning the circumstances of the areas where we operate. Overall it was very productive and useful to meet with the regional authorities in Djibouti as well as with our military partners there. This was a very satisfactory step forward in our mission."
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Розсіювання Мандельшта́ма — Бріллюе́на — непружне розсіювання світла на періодичному збуренні в конденсованому середовищі.

За своєю природою брілюенівське розсіювання схоже на раманівське. Розсіяна хвиля може мати меншу частоту, віддаючи частину своєї енергії коливанням середовища (стоксова компонента) або більшу частоту, коли світло забирає енергію в середовища(молекул) (антистоксова компонента).

Коливання конденсованого середовища можуть мати різну природу, наприклад, бути фононами чи магнонами.

Леон Бріллюен і Леонід Мандельштам незалежно один від одного опублікували роботи, в яких описали даний ефект у 1922 і 1926 роках відповідно.

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 Київський університет, фізичний факультет, лекції з адаптивної оптики
 Одеський національний університет, лекції з оптики

Спектроскопія
Фізика твердого тіла

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Night of drinking ends in beating of pregnant Texas woman who hid booze from roommate
The victim, who is five months pregnant, was crying and clutching her stomach as she told officers what happened.
By Matt Peterson
A pregnant woman told police that her roommate beat her with a chair, kicked her in the stomach and choked her until she passed out because she hid a bottle of liquor from him.
Antwan Jamerson Campbell faces charges of family violence assault and failure to identify.(Wichita County Jail)
Antwan Jamerson Campbell, 21, of Wichita Falls was booked into the Wichita County Jail early Wednesday. He faces charges of family violence assault and failure to identify, jail records show
The Wichita Falls Times Record News reports that Campbell was arrested at an apartment complex in the 4800 block of Johnson Road.
The victim, who is five months pregnant, was crying and clutching her stomach as she told officers what happened:
Campbell and a friend dropped by with two bottles of Director's Special whiskey. The three of them polished off one of the bottles in less than an hour, the newspaper reported, citing an arrest warrant affidavit.
When the two men got ready to leave, the woman hid the second bottle, fearing they would drink and drive.
Campbell demanded the bottle, but the woman refused, so he hit her in the back of the head with a wooden chair, she told police. He then choked her until she passed out, police said, and kicked her twice in the side when she came to.
The other man tried to intervene and left with Campbell, she told police. The woman went to a neighbor to call 911, and she was taken to the hospital.
Campbell was arrested at another apartment complex. He remains in jail in lieu of $10,500 bail.
Matt Peterson, Breaking News editor. Matt has worked as a Breaking News and Justice editor at The Dallas Morning News for nearly a decade. He's also served as an education reporter and as a copy editor, both at The News and at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He has a journalism degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Q: How to add background image with Linear Layout as a root layout and having nested Linear Layout I am trying to add background image which has linear layout as a root layout
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Hubble Glimpses Early Universe
By David Kestenbaum
Astronomers unveil a new image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope that reveals the deepest look ever at distant and ancient galaxies, providing a glimpse of the universe as it appeared shortly after the big bang. The image was released at an event designed to rally support for efforts to save Hubble, which is slated for early retirement in 2006. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.
David Kestenbaum is a correspondent for NPR, covering science, energy issues and, most recently, the global economy for NPR's multimedia project Planet Money. David has been a science correspondent for NPR since 1999. He came to journalism the usual way — by getting a Ph.D. in physics first.


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Category Archives: Events (Colorado)
Boulder councilman asks for city position on ICE fingerprint program
'Secure Communities' program IDs illegal immigrants after any arrest
By Heath Urie Camera Staff Writer
Posted: 10/04/2010 06:49:13 PM MDT
What: Boulder City Council meeting
When: 6 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Boulder Municipal Building, 1777 Broadway
The Boulder City Council may, once again, jump into the national debate about immigration when it meets Tuesday night — this time to weigh whether the city should take a stance against a controversial program that uses fingerprints to identify illegal immigrants.
City Councilman Macon Cowles plans to ask the rest of the council to have its staff draft a recommendation about Boulder's position on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's "Secure Communities" program.
The program — which has been operating for about two years in 32 states and will be operational nationwide within three years — requires local authorities to send fingerprints of people who are arrested on any charge to state police and the FBI for criminal background checks.
ICE is able to access the fingerprints that are sent to the FBI, and it checks them against a database of people known to be in the country illegally. ICE can then contact the local agency that arrested the suspect and order the person to be detained on immigration charges.
"While the program was originally directed at rounding up and deporting people who had committed serious crimes, in operation, the overwhelming majority of people processed under the program are folks who are stopped for very minor offenses," Cowles wrote in a recent posting to the council's public online hotline.
Cowles, who did not return phone calls seeking comment Monday, went on to criticize the ICE program, saying the department's network of private contractors creates an incentive to detain as many people as possible.
"Large chunks of ICE detention facilities have been farmed out to private contractors who are paid by the day for each day that a person is detained in their facility," Cowles wrote. "Thus, there is a strong incentive to build the census of people held in detention, and this may be done at a tremendous cost to local communities — disrupted families, workers who are no longer employed, but instead are in detention."
Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for ICE, said the department is focused on catching criminals, not making money for its contractors.
"Our mission is to remove as many serious criminals from the streets as possible," he said. "The goal of the program is to make communities more secure."
Colorado is not yet participating in the Secure Communities program.
Participation of all states and local agencies is expected beginning in 2013. While the program won't mandate local governments to participate, the states and police departments rely on sharing information with the FBI for criminal background checks. Because ICE uses FBI data, the only way that a state could opt out of the program is by withholding fingerprints from the FBI.
Evan Dreyer, a spokesman for Gov. Bill Ritter, said Monday that the governor is still weighing whether to allow Colorado agencies to participate prior to the nationwide rollout.
"We are considering whether to join the pilot program," Dreyer said.
He said three communities, Denver, El Paso County and Arapahoe County, have already agreed to participate in Secure Communities if Colorado joins the pilot program. If Boulder didn't want to participate in the pilot program, Dreyer said, it would not be required to.
Carl Castillo, Boulder's policy adviser, said the council could handle a resolution about the Secure Communities program in any number of ways — ranging from outright opposing the program to urging the governor not to allow the state into the pilot program.
"Clearly, that's a 100 percent political question that the council will have to wrestle with," he said.
If Cowles follows through with his request, the council would debate it near the end of Tuesday night's meeting. If the council agrees to support spending city resources on the matter, the public would be allowed to comment before it votes.
Immigration has been a hot-button topic for the Boulder council this year.
In May, the city manager put a stop to non-essential employee travel to Arizona. She said a controversial Arizona law that enabled police to check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants who were stopped for other offenses could put city employees at risk of persecution.
The City Council later backed off calls for Boulder to boycott businesses with ties to Arizona, and it declined to approve a resolution condemning Arizona's immigration laws after receiving hundreds of angry letters and e-mails.
The city's Human Relations Commission is now drafting a resolution about the city's desire to have comprehensive reform of national immigration laws.
Mayor Susan Osborne has said that a "substantial piece" of the city's legislative agenda for 2011 would focus on immigration issues.
Contact Camera staff writer Heath Urie at 303-473-1328, or [email protected]
This entry was posted in Events (Colorado), Press (Colorado) on October 5, 2010 by Ian.


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Shackelford: Schedule shift needed for good of golf, today's young stars
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By Geoff Shackelford October 2, 2017 7:00 am
By Geoff Shackelford | October 2, 2017 7:00 am
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – With a Presidents Cup thrashing by the most united and relaxed Team USA in the post-task force, post-Tiger Woods era, the state of American golf seems almost unfathomably robust. And lovable.
Take Rickie Fowler, who sat out Saturday's afternoon's four-ball session. Instead of hiding inside the swelling armada of carts, wives, girlfriends and assorted Cup infantrymen, he made unscheduled rounds. There were stops in the grandstands with the fanatics, visits to a few sponsor skyboxes and behind-the-scenes goodwill for the less fortunate, reinforcing that today's stars give back in ways different than their predecessors.
In a breakthrough season, anchored by the young stars producing more exciting tournament finishes than snoozefests, it would seem PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan can focus on some looming big-picture issues related to scheduling. While the Presidents Cup blowout will have a few PGA Tour VP's working late into the night in search of ways to ensure tighter matches, the smart money says a measured response will carry the day. Because once that "crisis" has passed, the most pressing issue on all fronts is a 2018-2019 schedule revamp.
Besides needing to adjust the number of events and flow interrupted by the PGA Championship's move to May and the Players Championship's return to March, all signs point to a schedule break being a necessity for all involved. Increasingly, players are showing signs of strain, increased injury risk and perhaps even hints of retreating to a cocoon of cockiness as they soak up the good vibes.
Take the World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York, just blocks from the players' hotel and timed to coincide with the Presidents Cup. The hope was for officials and players gathering in the city to attend, particularly with 2016 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love going into the Hall. Common sense would suggest the players and the assistant captains would want to be there for what Love insisted was his greatest lifetime honor. Yet not one player or assistant from Love's 2016 Ryder Cup squad or the 2017 Presidents Cup team was able to show support in person.
Maybe there were naps to take for players who have been asked to be on the road for four playoff events and the Presidents Cup. But given how much praise is heaped on today's young players for hanging around after a buddy wins, the no-show brigade gave the impression of a lack of appreciation for their elders or golf's rich history. Or maybe they just were catching up on rest from a relentless schedule that restarts just days after the current one ends.
Worse than the younger players not attending: the noticeable absence of longtime Love competitors and Cup colleagues Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Nick Price, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk, who were all in town and not able to make the trip from a downtown hotel to Wall Street's beautiful Cipriani ballroom. The first four are current World Golf Hall of Fame members, and the last two will be inducted someday.
Had they shown, they would have seen a ceremony attended by past inductees who have accumulated more than 150 major wins. Hall committee voters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam were the headliners. Had the players been up to the task, they would have heard speeches that might remind them golf has been a source of joy, fulfillment, pain and struggle for folks who came along well before them. The satisfaction of the World Golf Hall of Fame ceremony is not in the hors d'oeuvres, but in the inspiration from hearing about a life well-played.
Besides the obvious show of respect for those who built the platform on which today's American superiority rests, there is a humbling aspect to such a ceremony that would serve today's players well. These lines from Love's speech suggest how he might genuinely feel about the no-show brigade, though he was too busy enjoying the moment with his rich collection of family, friends and colleagues to let those not there bother him.
"I was lucky enough to play for Arnold and for Jack, too, when they were captains of Presidents Cup teams," he told the audience. "I was lucky enough to have Watson, Kite, Watkins, Strange and Sutton as my Ryder Cup captains. I was a captain twice of Ryder Cup teams. This week I'll be an assistant captain of a Presidents Cup for a third time. When I look back over the 31 years of my professional career, my involvement in these team matches, matches that have brought together the world of golf, have meant as much to me as anything I have done in the game. And I'm looking forward to supporting my teammates this week at Liberty National."
Too bad they couldn't be bothered to return the Love.
While it would be easy to say this is was a generational issue, most at Liberty National chalk some of the behavior to schedule over-saturation and the over-extension of today's players. They do appear to respect their elders and the game, As Fowler demonstrated Saturday, the future has arrived in style. But they also need a schedule fix that allows them time to collect their thoughts, enjoy their riches and reflect on how fortunate they are to play the PGA Tour.
(Note: This story appears in the October 2017 issue of Golfweek.)
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My first earthquake! (1 Viewer)
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This morning, about 6am, I woke up to a very weird vibrating sensation. It was like the downstairs neighbors were having exceedingly boisterous sex on the ceiling. It felt the way the trucks sound at the Xerox receiving plant next door. Or maybe as if someone had inserted a quarter into my bed, and hit the "vibrate" button.
I thought maybe I was dreaming or, well, I don't know what.
Then, about 10am, I heard on the national news, there was a magnitude 5 earthquake in Plattsburgh, NY, felt from Pittsburgh to Maine.
That's my first earthquake. Kinda of exciting as well as disturbing.
Anyone else here in the NE feel it?
Malcolm R
It really shook me awake. I woke up suddenly and the whole room was bucking and shaking. Very odd sensation. The walls were creaking and windows rattling. I thought there was also a decent aftershock about 10 to 15 mins later, not as strong but just a slight vibration and I could see my plants shaking.
This was the first that I've ever actually felt, or that's been strong enough to wake me up anyway. I guess I've slept through a couple of 3.0 quakes in past years. No apparent damage right around me, though I've heard a lot of sirens throughout this AM so maybe there are some problems nearby.
DeathStar1
I think it even hit us here in the Jersey shore, either that or we felt it because we are a bit below see level as well. Obviously not with the same intensity, but just enough to notice something was strange..
Jack Briggs
Well, gentlemen, welcome to the club!
I, along with other Californians, stand ready to answer any and all questions you may have regarding this phenomenon. My own earthquake resume is quite extensive, thank you--starting with the 1971 Sylmar quake.
My most impressive ride, so far, was the 1994 Northridge 6.8-level shaker--it ruined my apartment at the time. I received FEMA money in order to relocate.
Another thing: What really gets to you after a major quake--and Northridge certainly qualified on that score--is the aftershocks. Seriously. They are nerve-wracking. And you should have seen all the "tent cities" that sprung up immediately--people were afraid to go back inside for days.
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RobertR
Hehehe I'm not quite the quake veteran you are, Jack (I've been here 13 years), but I've certainly experienced many of them. I'm reminded of the scene in L.A. Story where LA denizens casually continue their at-restaurant conversation while the table moves, followed by an estimate of the magnitude.
One of the things I was fascinated to experience was that a quake doesn't HAVE to manifest itself as the "shaking" feeling. Instead, there was a distinct "rolling" effect, as of a ship on an ocean.
Craig F
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Ah yes, I remember my first quake. (I lived in Silicon Valley for 13 years) It happened about 2:30 am. I was dreaming at the time and my dream shifted to where I was on a boat on the ocean tossing all about. I woke up just after the quake stopped. I thought, "Man, that seemed so real".
When the clock radio went off the next morning, the song playing was Carol King's. "I Feel the Earth Move". I then realized what had happened.
My worst quake was the 1989 Loma Prieta 7.2. Fortunately, I was in an area that was not affected too badly.
Tom Rags
Holy Crap Dave! I thought I felt something this morning, but I thought that I was dreaming! I distinctly remember feeling this morning that I thought we must be having an earthquake. But I chalked it up as a dream and I forgot about it until reading your post. Wow!
--Tom
Julie K
Ah yes, earthquakes.
I went through the Sylmar quake but the Northridge quake is the one that really sticks in my mind. There's nothing like sitting in the dark waiting for the next aftershock (or worse, wondering if that monster of a quake was a foreshock for something bigger.)
Even the smaller aftershocks weeks later are enough to trigger an "oh shit!" from people, myself included. And then there were nights of jerking awake whenever the heater came on or a large truck rumbled by.
I was fortunate though. A lot of nice things broke, but my house was basically ok, which is good considering that not far from mine a house was declared unsafe and had to almost be rebuilt from ground-up.
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Hey guys:
Check out the thread "After we die, what happens?" in the After Hours section. As Forum member Scooter is actually posting and comtemplating his mortality, the QUAKE HIT!!!!!!!!!. Nothing happened to him and he is OK. But WOW!!! This is a Classic HOME THEATER FORUM moment that I will treasure forever.
Take care. And if worst comes to worst, you can join me in Florida, The Sunshine State. You just have to dodge the Hurricanes but you get plenty of warning for those.
Henry Gale
...join me in Florida...
....the lightning headquarters of North America.
No thanks, I'll take my chances in Central Texas.
"I'll take my chances in Central Texas."
Oh, I see. You prefer your disasters in the shape of tornados! (Hey, I actually dig the things--and I've seen three of them. Not bad for somebody from California, eh?
Julie's right about the tension one feels when going through the aftershocks--and the aftershocks from Northridge continued for a long time. To this day, when a large truck goes by I tense up.
Hey, I live in between Hollywood and West Hollywood. We had a mild shaker back in September, and the epicenter was smack dab in West Hollywood.
Well, I've got one less reason to not movie to CA (which is a real possibility, since I'm starting the job hunt).
This was more strange and interesting than scary, since it was pretty mild, and I was half-asleep while it happened. It's more disturbing now, afterwards. As I've heard it said, it's distressing for the earth to move. It's not supposed to do that, and runs counter to a lifetime's experience.
What really surprised me and my roommate was that it felt strongly periodic: it was like a 1Hz vibration for several minutes. Based on movies I figured it would be erratic shaking.
As for extent: this was felt from OH to NY to ME to MD. U.S. Geologic guy said the Eastern terrain allows earthquakes to be felt over more larger distances than in the West.
Jay H
Pittsfield, MA
Cool, hope the roads are OK, I didn't feel a thing but I never feel earthquakes. Even if I did feel the house shaking, I'd figure it's probably the local rock quarry or something... Unless things start falling off shelves and stuff, there's too much things around here to blame first before calling it an earthquake...
About the sensations: Some quakes are different from others. The rolling kinds are just as unnerving as the jolting ones. I know a number of people who were in San Francisco in 1989. You should hear them describe what they went through!
Hiya Dave!
Felt pretty strong here in Rensselaer (near Albany). It woke me out of a sound sleep.
It took me maybe three seconds to figure out what was going on. During those first three seconds, I just thought Robert Fowkes had just turned his subwoofer up real loud again in NYC!!!
Peter Mazur
I have been in too many to count.
On the day that the big one hit in 89, I was in San Francisco about thirty minutes before it struck. I remember sitting in my car trying to figure out the best way to go home. I was about set to take the Bay Bridge which would lead me to the Cypress structure when I noticed the blimp flying above Candlestick. It was the year of the Bay Bridge World Series. Luckily I decided to take 101 (which runs down the western side of the bay) home. The commute that day was increadibly light due to the game. I was at a red light when it struck. It was just as Jack said earlier, a very rolling feeling. It actually felt like my car was on waves or something like that. I saw these two people running out of their house with their hands in the air screaming, it was quite humorous at the time. The guy in the car next to me saw the same people and looked over at me and we kinda both laughed at the same time. The light went green and we took off like nothing had even happened. I proceded to drive across the Dumbarton Bridge (a bridge located further south down the bay) and went home. When my girlfriend came running out all upset, and I went in to watch TV...I had no idea that it was as bad as it was. I have always felt weird that I was laughing while people were being crushed to death in the Cypress freeway. Anyway, I will never forget that day. But, these earthquakes are a small price to pay for living in a beautiful area like this.
Shawn Shultzaberger
My first was the SanFran '89 quake. I was on Mare Island at the top of a man made hill. We had just finished school and I went down stairs to the 'lil pardners room. I'm standing there doing my thing when I start getting really woozey! I thought maybe I was going to faint. Next I hear slamming and look over and all the stall doors are slamming open and shut. I didn't know what the heck was going on! I zipped up and stumbled out of the bathroom. I see the fire extinguishers slapping back and forth in their wall holders and that's when it hit me that I better get out of there ASAP. I ran out of an emergency exit and up the hill to find everybody outside. Needless to say I was shaking just a bit. :b
Next up were the two slightly smaller LA quakes ( I just don't remember what years). I remember an Apt. building collapsing on it's first floor but the rest of the floors held in tact.
Then I was in 4 cyclones/typhoons on Okinawa and Hurricane Bonnie in NC.
Now that I live in Colorado I find it a bit boring.
Dennis Nicholls
They keep calling them the SF earthquakes (1906, 1989) but both happened about 60 miles south in the bowels of Mt. Loma Prieta. Back in '06 the city of San Jose lay in ruins but it was a small town then so SF got all the publicity. I was working about 8 miles NE from the epicenter in '89. I tried to walk across the room but couldn't - the floor was moving up and down about 20 inches at about 2 Hz! It kept knocking me off my feet.
A magnitude 5 is just for fun. You feel it but don't really have cause for alarm. We had a magnitude 5 here back around 1981. We worked next to an open field, and could look out the window and see the ground waves. That's right - you see swells coming across "solid ground" just like on the ocean.
I always have to laugh when newcomers talk about earthquakes. A typical line is "I really like the mountains here but too bad there are earthquakes." Duh...what do you think MAKES the mountains?
We worked next to an open field, and could look out the window and see the ground waves. That's right - you see swells coming across "solid ground" just like on the ocean.
It's funny you say this because I had a buddy who was getting cash at an ATM during the '89 quake and he told me when he looked out across the parking lot he could see the waves. He said they were really moving the parking lot lights.
I just want to know why the freakin' things always seem to happen in the middle of the night. Talk about a rude awakening!
One time, while my cat was napping on the bedroom floor, we had a small jolt. It was enough to send Chloe running out of the bedroom and into the living room. Poor thing. She was afraid to go back into the bedroom for the rest of the day. She would tip-toe over to the doorway, peek inside and run back into the living room. She was checking to see if the boogie man was still in there.
Lesson #1: Cats do no do well in earthquakes.
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Norman K. Robbins, 73, of East Hartford and formerly of Stonington, ME, widower of Carol B. Robbins, his wife of 42 years, died Sunday, (January 19, 2003) at John Dempsey Hospital. He was born in Stonington and had resided in East Hartford for the past 46 years. He retired from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft after 30 years of service. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He was a member of Saunders Memorial Church, Little Deer Isle, ME, and also belonged to South Congregational Church, East Hartford. Mr. Robbins is survived by a daughter, Paula B. Robbins and her partner, Cassie Deegan of Meriden; a son and daughter-in-law, Gary N. and Mary Beth Robbins of Bristol; three grandchildren, Alexander, Matthew and Bridget Robbins of Bristol; a brother, Gerald Robbins of Portland, ME; two sisters, Marie McHenan of Stonington, ME and Carol Moreau of Rollinsford, NH; many nieces and nephews; and a special friend, Natalie Eaton of Deer Isle, ME. Mr. Robbins was predeceased by his father, Kenneth Robbins; and mother, Marguerite Robbins (Rice), both of Stonington, ME. Calling hours will be TODAY, Tuesday, 5-7 p.m. at the Newkirk & Whitney Funeral Home, 318 Burnside Ave., East Hartford. Funeral services and burial will be at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to his grandchildren's school in his memory, St. Joseph School, 335 Center Street, Bristol, CT 06010. Please visit www.mem.com for Dignity Memorial Announcement.


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Thursday Evening Notes: Lopez has opponent for June 27
By Scott Christ@scblh1 May 14, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
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Top Rank has found an opponent for Juan Manuel Lopez on June 27. The WBO junior featherweight titlist will defend against Montreal-based, Cameroon-born Olivier Lontchi (18-0, 8 KO) in the headlining bout of the pay-per-view from Atlantic City. He's fought entirely in Canada so far, and mostly in Montreal, and he has absolutely no name in America. The PPV will be opposed by a very attractive HBO Boxing After Dark, and it wasn't going to do well with Pavlik-Mora, let alone Lopez-Lontchi. In the end Top Rank might've been better off just cancelling the whole thing.
A showdown between 168-pound titlists Lucian Bute and Carl Froch is looking closer to coming through. Froch says he's comfortable going to Montreal because Bute draws the big crowds there, but he also throws this in: "I've probably got two or three years left in my career and I want the big fights." It's like every boxer wants to convince us they won't hang on "too long" before it's even time to consider this stuff. Again, I'm getting tired of everyone at 30ish talking retirement.
Kimbo Slice is going to make his pro boxing debut this summer. I've got nothing against Slice, and though Jake Rossen finds it unlikely that Slice will do well in boxing, I'm not sure that's really the point. He hits pretty hard and he's got more technical skills standing up than he's given credit for, and furthermore he will be facing tomato cans and bums. If Jonathan Brookins can win a boxing match, Kimbo can.
In case you missed it, Juan Diaz finally graduated from college. The good news is we get to stop hearing about how he went to college. He's going to try law school next.
James DeGale was disappointed in his pro debut ("cringing" as the crowd boos his style), but promises to be more aggressive.
Here's a heartwarming story: KingVision Pay-Per-View and J&J Sports Productions sued a group of veterans at an American Legion in Chino, Calif., for showing two PPV fights in 2008 without a commercial license. They claim that the Legion charged admission, but the veterans say they merely passed a hat around to try to cover the costs, and often times they didn't fully meet the bill anyway. They were sued for $150K and $160K for the events, and settled out of court for $20K on each case.
Recently retired heavyweight journeyman Paul Marinaccio has started his own promotional company, Jawbreaker Promotions.
Sugar Ray Leonard is going to write a book on his career, which sounds pretty exciting. He's never been a huge talker and has always represented the sport of boxing very well. Looking forward to hearing his thoughts on his big fights and all that.


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Q: PL/pgSQL control structures for lists / arrays Is it possible to use something like this in Postgres? This is the example from PL/SQL what I want to do:
PROCEDURE CREATE_PAYMENT(P_AMOUNT IN NUMBER,
                         P_INVOICE_LIST IN SIMPLEARRAYTYPE,
                         P_AMOUNT_LIST IN NUMBER_TABLE -- pass list of amounts
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s_chk_amnt              NUMBER;

invoice_list SIMPLEARRAYTYPE;
amount_list NUMBER_TABLE;

BEGIN
      -- check if amount list is null or contains zeros
    IF p_amount_list IS NOT NULL AND p_amount_list.COUNT <> 0 THEN
      FOR r IN p_amount_list.FIRST..p_amount_list.LAST
      LOOP
        s_chk_amnt := s_chk_amnt + p_amount_list(r);
      END LOOP;
    END IF;

Can I declare a list of characters and list of numbers as function input parameters?
I have found some examples with FOREACH element but I don't know how to grab a certain element from number list like in Oracle with p_amount_list(r).

A: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION CREATE_PAYMENT(p_amount_list numeric[])
  RETURNS numeric AS
$func$
DECLARE
   s_chk_amnt numeric := 0; -- init variable!
   r          numeric;
BEGIN
-- IF p_amount_list <> '{}' THEN  -- just noise
   FOREACH r IN ARRAY p_amount_list
   LOOP
      s_chk_amnt := s_chk_amnt + r;
   END LOOP;
-- END IF;

RETURN s_chk_amnt;
END
$func$ LANGUAGE plpgsql

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*Oracle's number is numeric in Postgres. But if you don't have fractional digits, you'd rather use int or bigint in Postgres. About type mapping between Oracle and Postgres.

*Postgres does not have "table types" like Oracle. Use array types, an array of numeric in this case: numeric[].

*The expression IF p_amount_list <> '{}' ... would rule out NULL and "empty array" alike. No need for a second check like in your original. But the IF is not needed at all. For NULL or empty array, the loop isn't entered anyway.

*r holds the element itself, not an index to it. (Therefore it must be a matching data type.)
This goes to demonstrate basic syntax of a FOREACH loop in a plpgsql function. Otherwise it would be expensive nonsense, better replaced with a much simpler and faster:
SELECT sum(elem) AS sum_amount
FROM   unnest(p_amount_list) elem;


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The Kavanaugh Hearings Encapsulate the Rampant Emotionalism of American Politics
by Benjamin Studebaker
The British have a visceral hatred for Donald Trump. It's not because of his positions on immigration or tax policy–there are plenty of European politicians who are at least as far right as Trump is, substantively. No, it's because of the way Trump presents himself. He's combative, he gets angry, he makes flippant, emotional remarks. When British politicians show emotion it exposes them as weak, out of control, and unstable. If a British politician shouts or cries in public–especially in a formal setting–it's embarrassing. It's not proper behaviour. Everyone in Britain knows, from an early age, that this is just not how politicians are supposed to behave. They like their leaders calm, stoic, controlled. This is less true than it used to be–for a time, Tony Blair got away with wearing his heart on his sleeve. But there were always those who made fun of it, who thought it "un-British". Whenever a British politician makes an emotional display and gets away with it, there is a chunk of British people who write nervous columns about creeping Americanisation. Having spent some years in the UK, I can spot the kind of American politics they hate a mile off. And it has never been so blatant, so in-your-face, as this senate hearing for Brett Kavanaugh.
The senators, on both sides, were guilty. The Democrats gushed praise over Dr. Ford, calling her "brave" and a "hero" in such a maudlin way. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has become the king of contrived emotion for the cameras in his obvious bid to attract presidential support for 2020. He went on at length about the "tears" and "hurt" and "pain" that Ford's testimony spoke to, emphasising her "brilliance" and calling her "heroic" for "speaking her truth". The only message in Booker's remarks is "I'm here to make sure everyone watching sees me make an emotional display of how much I support Dr. Ford so that I can run clips of me supporting her in my primary campaign ads next year":
Not to be outdone, the Republicans angrily shouted about how unfair all of this is. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stood out. "What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020!" he shrieked in his otherwise admittedly delightful southern accent.
Then there was Kavanaugh himself. Counselled by the president to be more defiant and aggressive, Kavanaugh alternated between yelling and weeping. Any woman who acted remotely like this would be dismissed as an hysteric. And yet it's clear that this was a strategy–all the Republicans were raising their voices, sounding angry, making a scene. They watched Donald Trump succeed and they have concluded that this is the way the game is played now, that this is what the elicit a response from the American people.
Kavanaugh attacked:
I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process! Your co-ordinated and well funded effort to destroy my good name… will not drive me out!
Then he moaned for sympathy:
I love teaching law. But thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee I may never be able to teach again.
Them he got belligerent, interrupted people, and answered their questions with questions:
Senator, what do you like to drink?
In any other country this kind of behaviour from a judge would in itself be disqualifying, nevermind the accusations, nevermind Kavanaugh's far-right ideology score and history of excusing torture. Even absent the language and tone, the faces he made are excruciating to anyone who has been around British politics:
My students at Cambridge would make memes out of such a person for days. He would be–and probably is–a figure of fun to them. The only person who didn't make constant gratuitous use of embarrassing, contrived emotional displays was the alleged victim herself, Dr. Ford. Ford conducted herself with control, constantly making an effort to keep it together and avoid making everyone in the room uncomfortable. For that she will receive no reward. Our news networks prefer emotional soundbites, and Booker, Graham, and Kavanaugh will dominate televisions in the coming days.
Lately people inside and outside America have been asking–why is American politics so averse to discussions of facts and policy? It is because you get much further in American politics with irrelevant emotional outburts than you do with anything reflective or nuanced. Nobody wants to put calm, collected people on TV. They don't get ratings. Donald Trump got a bunch of free advertising during his presidential bid because he said outrageous, emotional things. Bernie Sanders supporters often talk about a media blackout–but the press didn't deliberately ignore Sanders because it disagreed with him, it ignored him because it calculated that Sanders' habit of repeating outrageous statistics about wealth and income inequality wouldn't draw as many viewers as Trump's habit of levelling outrageous insults. The American viewer eats this stuff up, and the American media accommodates the viewers' tastes. You want politics as soap opera? They'll give it to you.
It's not as if Britain doesn't have a sound bite and soap opera culture, but it's dressed up in a "debate" frame–the "gotchas" in British politics come not when one politician levies an emotional insult but when one politician scores a rhetorical point which makes the other politician appear clueless. When a British politician gets emotional, they're demonstrating that they can't play the British game of fencing about statistics. This doesn't mean the fencing game is always played well–the journalists who referee British politics don't always know what they're talking about, and their confusions influence the way the debates are discussed, sometimes with very negative consequences. But the emphasis that an emotional response is evidence that the politician is incapable of giving an analytical response at least forces British politicians to attempt to make real arguments, however manipulative and fallacious those arguments might be.
In the states, we don't even bother trying to make politicians argue–we've forgotten what argument is, or how it works. We seem to think you win the argument when you make other people empathise with you more than your opponent. When politics is a game of who is more sympathetic, it reduces straightaway to anecdotes about coaching soccer teams and shouting matches about heroes and villains.
That's why it's not enough to point out Kavanaugh's substantive faults, like his role in excusing Bush administration torture and the fact that he lied about that role under oath. The only way to stop him is to find some personal scandal that makes him appear unsympathetic, and consequently the hearings are not about whether Kavanaugh is a good judge, or even about whether he is guilty of sexual assault, but about whether or not Kavanaugh is a sympathetic character, about whether he's the kind of person we as a country empathise with. We started the Kavanaugh confirmation process with centrists squawking about what a "nice guy" Kavanaugh is because he's a "carpool dad". We'll end with a furious debate over whether he's a serial abuser and a jerkface.
That's the level at which we've been making personnel decisions as a country, and it's landed us a congress full of emotionally manipulative con artists, a president who knows nothing about statecraft, and now a judicial nominee who helps presidents torture people and then lies about having done that to save his own skin. And the only question senators are asking themselves as they consider whether or not to vote for this reactionary patsy is "Do the voters at home like Kavanaugh? Do they think he's a nice guy? Would they have a beer with him?"
Disgraceful. Disgusting. Despicable.
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Q: Como implementar Find,FindAll, ForEach en iList como List. C# Premisa es para un desarrollo en Unity3D con C#
Tengo un clase serializada llamada Tool.
namespace Game.Data{

    [Serializable]
    public sealed class Tool
    {
      public int id;
      public string name;
    }
}

Desde otra clase he creado un método para añadir a una lista, ver a continuación.
    // type == nombre de la lista genérica
    // data == Tool
    public void Add( string type , object data )
    {
        // var insert = dictionary[type] as List<Tool>
        var insert = dictionary [type] as IList;

        insert.Add (data);

    }

Ejecución del script anterior.
Tool item = new Tool();
item.id = 0;
item.name = "sierra";

Add( "Tool" , item );

dictionary[type] es un object que puede convertirse en List< Tool >, pero descubrí que con IList no necesito implementar la variable genérica List< T >  - es genial porque puedo automatizar mis lista -  y ejecutar la metodo Add;
Mi objetivo es crear una interface o hacer de algún modo los métodos de Find, FindAll, ForEach de List< T > en iList.
Adjunto al texto el método para crear un diccionario con lista dinámica.
public List<TypeItem> types; // Tipos de items
public List<Tool>     tools

// Diccionario dinámico
Dictionary<string, object> dictionary;

void DynamicList()
{
    dictionary = new Dictionary<string, object> ();

    // Añadir listas al diccionario
    dictionary.Add("Tool", tools);
    dictionary.Add("Type", types);

}

A: Lo siento, pero mi respuesta va a ir encaminada a convencerte de que lo que intentas es una mala idea. Si entiendo al fin lo que quieres conseguir, se trata de tener un Dictionary<string,object> donde almacenar todas tus listas de diferentes tipos con una clave. Yo desaconsejo hacerlo, ya que es incómodo de manejar y es bastante probable que te de problemas en algún momento. C# es un lenguaje fuertemente tipado y evita este tipo de cosas.
El problema es que con C# no se puede realizar un Cast a un tipo conocido en tiempo de ejecución. Es decir, en tu caso, teniendo una variable de tipo string con el nombre del tipo (Tool por ejemplo)  no es posible cambiar un objeto de tipo IList<object> a un List<Tool>.
Usando Convert.ChangeType puedes cambiar el tipo a otro, pero como el compilador no es capaz de inferir el tipo, tampoco podrás tener acceso a los métodos específicos de la clase List.
Preguntas en tus comentarios:

Poder hacer esto:dictionary [type].GetType().GetMethod("FindAll").Invoke(dictionary [type], null).Pero FindAll requiere de un Predicate y no se como implementarlo.

El problema es que el predicado va al final a necesitar acceder al tipo subyacente de la lista (por ejemplo, tomamos esta lambda: x=>x.id==1. Como sabe el compilador que x tiene una propiedad id si no conoce el tipo??)
Resumiendo, tal vez podrías implementar lo que quieres con mucho trabajo, pero es algo que no tiene mucho sentido. Al final practicamente cualquier solución se va a basar en Reflection, lo cual no es muy aconsejable.
La única solución sencilla que veo es tener algun tipo de switch que al final haga el Cast correcto:
string tipo = "Tool";

var listatool = dictionary[tipo] as System.Collections.IList;
switch (tipo)
{
    case "Tool":
          ((List<Tool>)listatool).Find(x => x.id == 1);
           break;
    //case "OtroTipo":
    //     ((List<OtroTipo>)listatool).Find(x => x.propiedad == 1);
    //     break;


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Q: Detect if the TIFF image is Horizontal or Vertical - C# Im using WinForms. In my Form i have a picturebox and a next button. I use this picturebox to display tiff images and i use the next button to navigate to the next page. The tiff documents are multipage images. The document I'm trying to view has a horizontal images and a vertical images like the example below. If its horizontal i want to size it (1100, 800), but if its vertical i want to size it (800, 1100). How do i do this? currently this is what i have but its not a good solution.
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        if (img.Height > img.Width)
        {
           pictureBox1.Width = 800;
           pictureBox1.Height = 1300;
        }
        else
        {
           pictureBox1.Width = 1300;
           pictureBox1.Height = 800;
        }

I currently use this approach but this doesn't work because if the first image is vertical the if-statement will always execute the first condition pictureBox1.size(1300 , 800); With this method, if the next image is horizontal the condition will not ever re-size it horizontally.
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Quick Test Code
   using System;
   using System.Diagnostics;
   using System.Drawing;
   using System.Drawing.Imaging;
   using System.IO;
   using System.Threading;
   using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Demo
{
class TestForm : Form
{
    public TestForm()
    {
        var panel = new Panel { Dock = DockStyle.Top, BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle };
        openButton = new Button { Text = "Open", Top = 8, Left = 16 };
        prevButton = new Button { Text = "Prev", Top = 8, Left = 16 + openButton.Right };
        nextButton = new Button { Text = "Next", Top = 8, Left = 16 + prevButton.Right };

        path_lbl = new Label { Text = "", Top = 12, Left = 16 + nextButton.Right };

        panel.Height = 16 + openButton.Height;
        panel.Controls.AddRange(new Control[] { openButton, prevButton, nextButton, path_lbl });
        pageViewer = new PictureBox { Dock = DockStyle.Fill, SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Zoom };
        ClientSize = new Size(850, 1100 + panel.Height);
        Controls.AddRange(new Control[] { panel, pageViewer });
        openButton.Click += OnOpenButtonClick;
        prevButton.Click += OnPrevButtonClick;
        nextButton.Click += OnNextButtonClick;
        Disposed += OnFormDisposed;
        UpdatePageInfo();
    }

    private Button openButton;
    private Button prevButton;
    private Button nextButton;
    private PictureBox pageViewer;
    private PageBuffer pageData;
    private int currentPage;
    private Size pageSize;
    public string path;

    private Label path_lbl;

    private void OnOpenButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        using (var dialog = new OpenFileDialog())
        {
            if (dialog.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
                Open(dialog.FileName);
            path = dialog.FileName;
        }
    }

    private void OnPrevButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SelectPage(currentPage - 1);
    }

    private void OnNextButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

            //var data = PageBuffer.Open(path,Size= new Size(850,1150));
            SelectPage(currentPage + 1);
            //Debug.WriteLine("Current Size: 1300, 800");

    }

    private void OnFormDisposed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (pageData != null)
            pageData.Dispose();
    }

    private void Open(string path)
    {
            var data = PageBuffer.Open(path, new Size(1500, 1500));
            pageViewer.Image = null;
            if (pageData != null)
                pageData.Dispose();
            pageData = data;
            SelectPage(0);
    }

    private void SelectPage(int index)
    {
        pageViewer.Image = pageData.GetPage(index);
        currentPage = index;
        UpdatePageInfo();
    }

    private void UpdatePageInfo()
    {
        prevButton.Enabled = pageData != null && currentPage > 0;
        nextButton.Enabled = pageData != null && currentPage < pageData.PageCount - 1;
    }
}

static class Program
{
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new TestForm());
    }
}

class PageBuffer : IDisposable
{
    public const int DefaultCacheSize = 12; //This is how much images it will have in memory

    public static PageBuffer Open(string path, Size maxSize, int cacheSize = DefaultCacheSize)
    {
        return new PageBuffer(File.OpenRead(path), maxSize, cacheSize);
    }

    private PageBuffer(Stream stream, Size maxSize, int cacheSize)
    {
        this.stream = stream;
        source = Image.FromStream(stream);
        pageCount = source.GetFrameCount(FrameDimension.Page);
        if (pageCount < 2) return;
        pageCache = new Image[Math.Min(pageCount, Math.Max(cacheSize, 5))];
        pageSize = source.Size;
        if (!maxSize.IsEmpty)
        {
            float scale = Math.Min((float)maxSize.Width / pageSize.Width, (float)maxSize.Height / pageSize.Height);
            pageSize = new Size((int)(pageSize.Width * scale), (int)(pageSize.Height * scale));
        }
        var worker = new Thread(LoadPages) { IsBackground = true };
        worker.Start();
    }

    private void LoadPages()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            lock (syncLock)
            {
                if (disposed) return;
                int index = Array.FindIndex(pageCache, 0, pageCacheSize, p => p == null);
                if (index < 0)
                    Monitor.Wait(syncLock);
                else
                    pageCache[index] = LoadPage(pageCacheStart + index);
            }
        }
    }

    private Image LoadPage(int index)
    {
        source.SelectActiveFrame(FrameDimension.Page, index);
        return new Bitmap(source, pageSize);
    }

    private Stream stream;
    private Image source;
    private int pageCount;
    private Image[] pageCache;
    private int pageCacheStart, pageCacheSize;
    private object syncLock = new object();
    private bool disposed;
    private Size pageSize;

    public Image Source { get { return source; } }
    public int PageCount { get { return pageCount; } }
    public Image GetPage(int index)
    {
        if (disposed) throw new ObjectDisposedException(GetType().Name);
        if (PageCount < 2) return Source;
        lock (syncLock)
        {
            AdjustPageCache(index);
            int cacheIndex = index - pageCacheStart;
            var image = pageCache[cacheIndex];
            if (image == null)
                image = pageCache[cacheIndex] = LoadPage(index);
            return image;
        }
    }

    private void AdjustPageCache(int pageIndex)
    {
        int start, end;
        if ((start = pageIndex - pageCache.Length / 2) <= 0)
            end = (start = 0) + pageCache.Length;
        else if ((end = start + pageCache.Length) >= PageCount)
            start = (end = PageCount) - pageCache.Length;
        if (start < pageCacheStart)
        {
            int shift = pageCacheStart - start;
            if (shift >= pageCacheSize)
                ClearPageCache(0, pageCacheSize);
            else
            {
                ClearPageCache(pageCacheSize - shift, pageCacheSize);
                for (int j = pageCacheSize - 1, i = j - shift; i >= 0; j--, i--)
                    Exchange(ref pageCache[i], ref pageCache[j]);
            }
        }
        else if (start > pageCacheStart)
        {
            int shift = start - pageCacheStart;
            if (shift >= pageCacheSize)
                ClearPageCache(0, pageCacheSize);
            else
            {
                ClearPageCache(0, shift);
                for (int j = 0, i = shift; i < pageCacheSize; j++, i++)
                    Exchange(ref pageCache[i], ref pageCache[j]);
            }
        }
        if (pageCacheStart != start || pageCacheStart + pageCacheSize != end)
        {
            pageCacheStart = start;
            pageCacheSize = end - start;
            Monitor.Pulse(syncLock);
        }
    }

    void ClearPageCache(int start, int end)
    {
        for (int i = start; i < end; i++)
            Dispose(ref pageCache[i]);
    }

    static void Dispose<T>(ref T target) where T : class, IDisposable
    {
        var value = target;
        if (value != null) value.Dispose();
        target = null;
    }

    static void Exchange<T>(ref T a, ref T b) { var c = a; a = b; b = c; }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        if (disposed) return;
        lock (syncLock)
        {
            disposed = true;
            if (pageCache != null)
            {
                ClearPageCache(0, pageCacheSize);
                pageCache = null;
            }
            Dispose(ref source);
            Dispose(ref stream);
            if (pageCount > 2)
                Monitor.Pulse(syncLock);
        }
    }

}

}


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With Support Back In Germany, Nzeocha Looks To Take Next Step At LB
Rob Phillips
DallasCowboys.com Senior Writer
OXNARD, Calif. – Last Saturday, Mark Nzeocha's parents stayed up all night watching their son play his first career NFL snaps on defense and intercept a pass in the second quarter.
They sent him congratulatory texts after the Cowboys' preseason opener against the Rams. The game ended around 8 p.m. Pacific Time in L.A. Back home in Nzeocha's native Germany, it was 5 in the morning.
"It means a lot that people back home are supporting what you're doing," Nzeocha said.
A seventh-round pick a year ago, Nzeocha spent most of his rookie season on the Non-Football Injury list rehabbing a knee injury suffered in his final college season at Wyoming. He joined the active roster for the final seven games and played special teams in two.
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On this day in 1833, the great German composer Johannes Brahms was born. As you may know, I'm not a big fan of Romantic music. But that's mostly because the period brought out the worst in mediocre composers. Pretty much any Classical composer could grind out an acceptable piece of music. But that just isn't so in the Romantic period. I blame Beethoven who inspired many people who shouldn't have been inspired. Although in a fundamental sense Beethoven was the greatest composer of the period (although I generally think of him as transitional), I prefer to listen to Brahms.
Brahms was a protege of Robert Schumann, who was probably the biggest influence on the young composer. They became friends when Brahms was only 20 years old. This may be why Brahms was considered a conservative composer, at least compared to the other dominant composers of the time. But this gets to my general problem with Romantic music. The excesses of the period are well on display in Wagner and Liszt. What's more, I find Brahms constantly innovative, just not in such a flashy way. His Symphony No 1 is a great example of restrained brilliance. Not that he couldn't be more ostentatious as he is in the Violin Concerto in D.
I like Brahms. My parents listened to a lot of classical music. His fourth symphony, third movement is probably my favorite. I was going to recommend the Scottish Fantasy as a superior entry to the Hungarian Dances, but that is Bruch. It is quite good. I do still enjoy classical, but I never listen to it anymore. I don't listen to music much at all anymore. A few months ago I pulled up Spring from The Four Seasons on my phone for my daughter. She danced around to it probably five times.
@Lawrence – The problem with classical music is that it mostly isn't in bite size chunks. So it's hard to find the time to sit down and listen to an hour long piece of music. But this morning I listed to a couple of hours worth of Brahms. It was nice. But I think he is the most classical of the romantics, so I'm drawn to him. Mozart and Haydn are still my guys. I don't know quite what it is, but that stuff just seems to be the sweet spot for me in terms of intellectual and emotional content.


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March 8 (UPI) -- Scientists have been studying interstellar dust in the earliest, most distant galaxy seen by ALMA, gaining new insight into the formation of stars in the early universe.
In images rendered by ALMA, the galaxy A2744_YD4 appears as it existed when the universe was just 600 million years old, when the first stars and galaxies were still forming.
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Scientists were able to study the contents of A2744_YD4 because its light is bent and magnified by a massive intermediary galaxy cluster called Abell 2744 -- a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
The accumulation of dust by A2744_YD4 allowed the young galaxy to begin producing new stars at an accelerated rate, roughly 20 new stars per year.
"This rate is not unusual for such a distant galaxy, but it does shed light on how quickly the dust in A2744_YD4 formed," said Richard Ellis, an astronomer at the UCL and the European Southern Observatory. "Remarkably, the required time is only about 200 million years -- so we are witnessing this galaxy shortly after its formation."
The findings -- detailed in the Astrophysical Journal Letters -- suggest the earliest star began forming just a few hundred million years after the birth of the universe.