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Q: Separate Collection Class Object My project involves 2 classes: Members & Society.
Currently I have written a method 'removeMembers()' in the Society Class that when given a particular month and year, it removes all the members who fit the description.
However, how would I create a separate collection class object which returns the deleted members?
Any help or advice on this will be appreciated, I will also post my code for both classes.
Society Class:
public class Society
{
   private ArrayList<Member> myMembers;
   private Member member;
   private String societyName;
   private boolean feesPaid;

   public Society(String society)
   {
      myMembers = new ArrayList<Member>();
      this.societyName = society;
   }

   public String getSocietyName()
   {
     return societyName;
   }

   public void join(Member member)
   {
      myMembers.add(member);
   }

   public void showMember(int listPosition)
   {
      Member member;
      if( listPosition < myMembers.size() )
      {
         member = myMembers.get(listPosition);
         System.out.println("Position " + listPosition  + ": " + member);
      }
   }

   public void joinedInMonth(int joined) {
        if (joined > 12 || joined < 1) {
            System.out.println("Invalid number. Please enter a number from 1 - 12.");
       }
       long joinedMonth = myMembers.stream().filter(m -> m.getMonth() == joined).count();
       System.out.printf("%d members have joined this society on month %d%n", joinedMonth, joined);

   }

   public int numberOfMembers()
   {
      return myMembers.size();
   }

   public void printDetails()
   {
       for (Member m : myMembers) {
      System.out.println("Society Name: " + societyName);
      System.out.println(m.toString());
      System.out.println("--------------------------");
     }

   }

   public void removeMembers(int month, int year) {
    myMembers.removeIf(m -> m.getYear() == year && m.getMonth() == month);
   }

   public void payFees(Member member)
    {
      if (member.isFeesPaid()) {
        System.out.println("Fees has been paid");
        return;
    }
   }
}

Member Class:
public class Member
{

   private int month;
   private int year;
   private String name;
   /*private Society society;*/
   private List<Society> societies;
   private boolean feesPaid;
   public Member(String name, int month, int year /*Society society*/)
   {
      this.name  = name;
      this.month = month;
      this.year = year;
      this.societies = new ArrayList<>();
   }

   public void joinSociety(Society society)
   {
       societies.add(society);
    }

   public boolean isFeesPaid() {
    return feesPaid;
    }

   public int getYear()
   {
    return year;
   }

   public int getMonth()
   {
     return month;
   }

   public String getName()
   {
     return name;
   }

   public String toString()
   {
     return "Name: " + name + ", Month Joined: " + month + ", Year Joined: " + year;
   }

A: You can create a new List in removeMembers() method and add the removed objects to list and return it. remove(Object o) method in arraylist will return the removed object and remaining methods remove(int index), removeIf(Predicate<? super E> filter) and removeRange(int fromIndex, int toIndex) will not return removed object
public List<Members> removeMembers(int month, int year) {
   List<Members> deletedMembers= new ArrayList<>();
    Iterator<Members> members = myMembers.iterator();
    while (members.hasNext()) {
        Member member = members.next();
        if (member.getYear()==year && member.getMonth()==month) {
           deletedMembers.add(members.remove());
        }
    }
    return deletedMembers;
}


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Aries agro is one of my earlier recommendation @ Rs.108/- .After touching a high of Rs.203/- ,now it is quoting around Rs.159/- .In the latest September qtr ,company posted healthy growth in top and bottom line.The good monsoon we got in this season is also expected to boost company's prospects.Long term investors can still BUY it at current rate . In my previous report ,I have mentioned the efforts taken by the company to introduce their products to farmers from remote rural areas by using Krishi Vigyan Vahan (KVV).Below is a small write up published by WALL STREET JOURNAL about this initiative:
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Fertilizers on Wheels
By POH SI TENG
It's a few hours before sundown when a white and lime green truck rolls into Vanukuru village, located in the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The squeaky clean vehicle, equipped with a flat screen television and a loud speaker, stands out among old, grimy shops at the town center where it's parked. The truck, named "Krishi Vigyan Vahan," which means farmer's knowledge carrier, soon draws a crowd of about 40 farmers who have just returned from the fields. Before long, a shaded booth displaying a colorful array of fertilizer products is set up. Then, a video starring local film stars promoting fertilizers is screened on the television and blasted through the loud speaker.
As the crowd begins to grow, a marketing agent from a fertilizer company starts talking about the importance of zinc, iron, boron and other micronutrients to plant growth, plugging his products in the process. He is flanked by two other company representatives, a loyal customer and a village sarpanch – elected head of the village – who lends his legitimacy to the promotional event.
This scene has been replicated in more than 2,600 villages and satellite towns across India. It is part of a marketing strategy by the Mumbai-based fertilizer company Aries Agro Ltd. to tap into new markets which are the remote rural areas that do not have fertilizer retail stores and where there are improved irrigation systems.
Since its launch in June, Aries Agro, which focuses on micronutrients but also produces secondary nutrients and packaged water-soluble primary fertilizers, has rolled out more than 70 such trucks across the country. The trucks are tracked via satellite and the data -- net weight, distance covered, time spent at each stop – is compiled daily at the Mumbai headquarters.
"By actually going on the mobile format, which is basically my rural retail vehicles, I'm covering six to seven villages a day. So my cost is getting spread over six or seven villages, rather than an entire investment on physical infrastructure in one village," says Rahul Mirchandani, executive director of Aries Agro. The company has so far invested 48.80 million rupees ($1.05 million) into the vehicles and has forked out another 34,000 rupees towards operational costs per vehicle each month.
Aries Agro, a medium-sized fertilizer company, has a production capacity of 84,000 tons of micronutrients and 60,000 tons of secondary nutrients and water-soluble primary fertilizers per year. Last year, the company made a net profit of 57.12 million rupees.
Primary fertilizers consist of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that are needed in large quantities for plant growth, while secondary nutrients such as calcium, magnesium and sulphur and micronutrients such as zinc, boron, iron and manganese are used in smaller quantities.
India is one of the largest producers of primary fertilizers in the world –second largest producer of nitrogen after China and third largest producer of phosphate after China and the U.S., according to the Fertiliser Association of India or FAI. From 2008 to 2009, the country produced 33 million tons of primary fertilizer products. The estimated total consumption of primary fertilizer products in the country increased from 45.96 million tons in 2007-2008 to 50.8 million tons in the last fiscal year. There is more demand than domestic supply of primary fertilizers.
As for micronutrients, the annual production of zinc sulphate alone was about 88,000 tons in 2008-2009, according to FAI.
"I used to travel (to the fields) during the agricultural season and I see the demand (for micronutrients) is increasing," says Kanak M. Sarkar, president of the Indian Micro Fertilizers Manufacturers Association, adding the increase in demand stems from years of product demonstrations by fertilizer companies.
According to Mr. Sarkar, in the recent years, large primary fertilizer companies have noticed this and are also entering the market, competing with 400 to 450 smaller micronutrient companies in the country.
"We have to fight this problem. I cannot foresee what will happen in the future. (But) we cannot just leave this field open for them," says Mr. Sarkar.
But for Mr. Mirchandani from Aries, larger companies entering the micronutrient production business would only expand the market and create more demand. Smaller companies, he says, would however, have to provide value-added bonuses to their products in order to compete. For Aries, it's letting farmers book for products off the truck and providing accident and health insurance coverage for purchases -- a 50,000 rupees coverage for a purchase worth 1,000 rupees.
"It's useful to buy (from the truck), because we are getting a receipt, insurance coverage and the product for 1,000 rupees. It's worth it," says Nellore Chandramouli, a 52-year-old farmer in Vinjanampadu village in Andhra Pradesh.
But the vehicles are still a substantial investment -- more than eight times the cost of outsourcing promotional programs through an external company. Aries spent about a million dollars on the trucks this year and $122,508 while outsourcing promotions last year. Company executives say promotions when outsourced, were smaller in scale and had less reach to remote rural areas.
Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd., one of the big players in fertilizer production in India, spent about 500 million rupees in setting up 412 retail outlets in Andhra Pradesh, selling fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary products and household items. The venture has since brought home 2 billion rupees in revenue in the last fiscal year. Company representatives say they expect the retail stores to break even in 2010.
"The breadth of Andhra Pradesh is being covered by these centers now. We're moving now into Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka in the years to come. So the idea is to get direct retailing to the farmer," says V. Ravichandran, managing director of Coromandel Fertilisers.
In addition to its retail stores, Coromandel Fertilisers, which has a manufacturing capacity of 3.1 million tons per year of fertilizers, has also been marketing its products by sending vehicles to remote parts of Andhra Pradesh. The company has a ground staff of 1,200 individuals connected to villages throughout the state.
But be it via retail stores, trucks, farmers meetings or media advertising, fertilizer companies, big and small, primary, secondary and micronutrient producers, agree that having product demonstrations is the key to selling new products and expanding the market.
"We believe in approaching the farmers directly," says Mahesh Gopal Shetty, director of the Karnataka-based Multiplex Group of Companies, which produces micronutrients, bio fertilizers, organic manure, pesticides and bio pesticides. "Seeing is believing for these guys."
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Labels: Aries agro , krishi vigyan vahan , micro nutrients
nataraj October 30, 2010 at 5:36 PM
dear value picks,
can you come up with some diwali picks.

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Christina Carmela Wiki: Age, Parents, Height, Job
June 24, 2021• byB10
The second season of "Too Hot To Handle" premiered in June 2021 on Netflix. Like its first installment, the reality show introduced many stars in its second offering. One of them was Christina Carmela.
In this Christina Carmela Wiki, discover the reality star's age, parents, and job. Also, find out her ethnicity, height, and more.
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Christina Carmela Age
Christina Carmela reached the age of 30 in early 2020. Her birthday, on the other hand, falls on 26th January.
On her 30th birthday, Christina posted a photo of her in a "birthday suit". In her accompanying caption, she wrote— "Would it even be my birthday if I wasn't in my birthday suit? Biggest thank you to everyone who put In the effort to wish me in Some kind of way… Feeling so efffffing LOVED! Thank you!"
Christina Carmela Ethnicity
Breaking down Christina Carmela's ethnicity: She's Italian from her paternal side and Portuguese from her maternal side.
However, Christina was born in South Africa. In other words, she holds the South African nationality.
Interestingly, as of 2021, Christina called London, United Kingdom her home.
Christina Carmela Parents, Siblings
As mentioned earlier, Christina Carmela was born to her parents: an Italian father and a Portuguese mother.
What's more, her full name is Christina Carmela Panebianco.
Little is known about Christina's parents other than the fact that her father inspired her to pursue a career (more on that later).
As for her siblings, Christina has a brother named Marco Panebianco. On his 2020 birthday, she penned a heartfelt message for her baby brother. It read— Happy birthday to my littlest & best brother. Just going through all our memories makes me miss you sooo much!
I'm so proud to call you my brother and best friend. The kindest & craziest out of the three of us. I wish I was there with you to Celebrate & go mad but I'm so sure you're doing it anyway. I love you so much, little brother."
Marco, according to his IG, is an engineer. Also, he urges all of us to love people, not things. As of 2021, he was residing in Menton, France.
Her Height, Measurements
Christina Carmela should stand under 5'7" in height. Meanwhile, her measurements are 35-24-35 inches.
A natural brunette, Christina has a perfect nose. Her smile is equally beautiful.
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Her TikTok, Instagram
Christina Carmela is available on Instagram @christinacarmelaofficial. By 24th June 2021, she had amassed 65.7K followers.
As for her Twitter, Christina didn't seem to have one. That said, reach out to her on Facebook @christina.panebianco.5.
Elsewhere on her TikTok @christinacarmelaofficial, Christina had 15.8K followers.
Christina Carmela Job, Net Worth
The "Too Hot To Handle" star is a commercial pilot by trade. Her net worth, meanwhile, surpassed $500K by 2021.
Reportedly, it was her father who inspired Christina to join the aviation industry. However, before she enrolled at a flight school, the South African beauty worked as a bartender, waitress, and even did modeling in Bollywood.
With enough savings, Christina attended a top-fight school in South Africa. As of 2021, she had been working in the aviation industry for about 18 years. Still, the passengers mistake her for the stewardess.
Opening about her journey, Christina once said— "Even before I stepped into the plane, male pilots told me that women couldn't fly. Instructors have deliberately given me a hard time, and I was often singled out in class as the only woman in the room. I was told that women belong in the kitchen right before my simulator testing. It upset me at first, but I soon showed him what I was capable of."
Admittedly, the comments don't get to Christina anymore. What's more, in Oct 2020, she opened up about setting up her private charter company called Beau Monde Aviation. However, when the COVID hit, her five-year plan took a hit. Despite everything, she has stayed positive.
Christina Carmela Boyfriend
Christina Carmela was one of the two newcomers who joined the cast of "Too Hot To Handle". As seen on the show, she built a connection with Cam Holmes. Before she arrived in the villa, Cam seemed close to Emily Miller.
As of June 2021, Christina Carmela didn't have a boyfriend. Her social media posts further hinted she wasn't dating anyone at the moment.
Back in the day, Christina had posted racy pictures with a man named Nathan Swart on her Instagram. However, she always insisted that Nathan wasn't her boyfriend.
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The Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (CeMoRe) is hosting an ESRC sponsored conference "The Business of Immigration Detention: Activisms, Resistances, Critical Interventions" (which is the final event in part of a larger series of workshops titled 'Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention'). Bringing together a range of leading academics, post-graduate researchers, practitioners, artists, activists and former detainees this seminar series will investigate the ways in which the UK experience of detention reflects and re-produces the contradictory logics inherent in contemporary global detention practices. "The Business of Immigration Detention" will consider the challenges facing academics and activists in the area of immigration detention and related border-security practices.
The administrative detention and deportation of adults classified as 'illegal' escalated in the late 1990s with a policy shift from the detention of very small numbers of migrants in mainstream prisons to the development of specialist migrant detention facilities. Successive UK governments have argued that this escalation in detention is 'an essential, everyday facet of immigration control' and 'regrettable but necessary' (see Silverman 2012). However, while arguments about the 'necessity' of detention are grounded in notions of deterrence, threat and security, the expansion of immigration detention, and the practices that determine who is taken into detention, are also driven by business interests.
Detention is a business, and the profits to be made are key determinants of both transnational and state-level policy formation and everyday detention practices. Further, this global business is proliferating new markets for global securities companies which extend outside the detention estate into the provision of services, such as housing and welfare for migrant and increasingly 'citizen' populations (for example in running prisons, policing and schools services).
At this conference we will consider what Frances Webber describes as 'the vexed question of when, if and how we should engage with statutory bodies and whether it is possible to do so without jeopardising the principles which led us to get involved in this work in the first place'? (Weber, 2012).
Should activism and activist-scholarship aim to resist state practices of detention entirely, or work with private and state actors in order to change detention practices? What forms of critical intervention and resistance are useful or possible in this field?
To address these and other questions, we have invited leading scholars, artists and activists to address to share their research and experience, and to reflect, listen, learn and debate questions of resistance to immigration detention, from local, national and global perspectives.
Professor Alice Bloch (Manchester University) 'Living illegality: Multiple exclusions and uncertainties'.
In this talk I will draw on my on-going research in British IRCs to discuss a range of methodological and ethical challenges I face. In so doing, I explore the tensions inherent in maintaining research access while building a critique of current practice. What are the pressures, risks and benefits? How, under conditions of radical uncertainty and vulnerability can we build relationships of trust with research subjects or with research gatekeepers?
Christine Bacon is Artistic Director of ice&fire, who will be performing at a free public event at Lancaster University chaplaincy Centre on the evening of Thursday 23rd of January to mark the beginning of our conference. Christine has been involved in numerous grassroots campaigns, including Actors for Refugees Australia. She moved to the UK in 2004 to complete an MSc. in Forced Migration at Oxford University. She founded ice&fire's outreach network Actors for Human Rights. Plays for ice&fire include On the Record (with Noah Birksted-Breen); Afghan Monologues, Rendition Monologues; The Illegals; Broke; Seven Years with Hard Labour (with Sara Masters); and Listen to Me (with Sara Masters).
John Grayson is an independent researcher and adult educator. He was Senior Tutor for research at the Northern College for residential adult education until 2006 and taught Housing Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Barnsley and is an activist and campaigner with SYMAAG (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group). John has published widely on anti racist issues for the Institute for Race Relations news service; and on immigration issues, especially on privatisation and asylum housing. He has been involved with the transnational 'Stop G4S' activist network.
Professor Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on understanding the lived experiences of forced migrants with a focus on marginalisation and exclusion, rights and agency, engagement in transnational relations, social and community networks, economic strategies and labour market experiences. Recent publications include, Sans Papiers: The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants in the UK (Pluto Press with Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter). She has recently completed an ESRC funded study (2011-14), with Professor Sonia McKay from the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, 'Undocumented Migrants, Ethnic Enclaves and Networks: Opportunities, traps or class-based constructs'. Her current research is a collaboration with Professor Milena Chimienti, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland and Professor Catherine Withol De Wenden Sciences Po Paris, on a project funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies, 'Children of refugees in Europe: Aspirations, social and economic lives, identity and transnational linkages'.


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Category: Cluster of galaxies. External galaxy. External galaxy.
Classification: A194: - N541: S0 - Minkowski's Object: P??
a nice photograph of this Abell Cluster 194 back in Oct 1989 with an 8"
f/4 Wright Newtonian, I am examining the photograph as I write this.
Nov 16, 1985 with a 17.5" Newtonian at 100 power at LeHigh Acres, FL.
Minkowski's Object is NOT plotted on MegaStar.
(VV794, UGC5829) in Leo Minor.


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Crime Cross River Governor Ben Ayade Politics
Cross River : After Ifere Paul 's Release What Next? By Inyali Peter
Fearless Reports 1 24 October A+ A-
https://www.fearlessreports.com/2017/10/cross-river-after-ifere-paul-s-release.html
Comrade Ifere Paul, Social Critic
According to the Median Newspaper, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Mohammed reportedly told newsmen on Friday that Social Critic, Ifere Paul was in Police custody "as a suspect on kidnapping and cultism". However, the laughable charges against him in Calabar Magistrate court yesterday revealed that his crimes were more about his critical piece on social media on the Gov Ben Ayade administration as well as his messages exchanged with Goddy Akpama.
The sudden change of mind and twist to what the Commissioner told newsmen on Friday is what many are still pondering about. Questions like, is Ifere no longer a suspect for kidnapping and cultism has continued to pop up.
Cross Riverians demand explanation from the Commissioner of Police because if he doesn't, this would have confirmed the initial suspicion of a possible compromise and collaboration between the Police and the Government to intimidate and gag opposition and critics voices in the state.
Besides, recent developments are raising concerns that the Police under CP Hafiz have allegedly become more political than professional. And their suspected politics is to cover for government when they should act or act against innocent citizens when they disagree with the government.
For instance, this is over a month that Barr Joseph Odok was gruesomely attacked by hoodlums suspected to be hirelings of officials of the government yet the progress of the investigation have remained unknown. Prime suspects in the case are working freely today.
Rt Hon Paul Adah raised alarm of gun scare in his house few weeks ago and the suspects who drove in Cross River State government official vehicle were released without even taking a statement from him. The Commissioner said the incident was a case of two fighting. Curious minds have imagined the normalcy in people driving all the way to Hon Adah's frontage only to fight. Is his frontage now a boxing or wrestling ring? Yet, the Police didn't see any need to investigate the matter.
Also, under the leadership of the current Commissioner of Police, the Police made concerted efforts to stop opposition All Progressive Congress from holding a party function in Obudu. The then DPO who has since been transferred to Borno State kept saying that there was an order from above that he shouldn't allow APC hold any function in Obudu. Where is this above that seems so far from us? when has it become an offence for registered and recognized party to hold a legitimate party function?
Similarly, despite several court judgements restraining the Police from harassing, arresting, intimidating or disrupting Peace Corps activities in any part of the country, the Commissioner has allegedly proscribed Peace Corps activities in the state. The same Peace Corps that awarded Cross River glorified tailoring shop code named Garment Factory its first major contract. The same Peace Corps that the State government donated two utility vehicles too. The same Peace Corps that came second to Police in the match pass competition during the independent day anniversary celebration.
Peace Corps went to Ogoja and Yakur respectively to conduct verification of its members but the Police kept disrupting and disturbing them. Even if the President has not signed the bill establishing it into law, the organization is still operating as an NGO. The question is, what is Peace Corps struggling with the Police under CP Hafiz? Is it not the same organizations that have hitherto enjoyed mutual respect and understanding?
All these are happening in Cross River State but Peace Corps is reportedly going on with its verification exercise in other states including the Commissioner home state.
These are just about the few examples of the abnormally and shortcomings of the Police under its current leadership in Cross River State.
Now that Ifere's arrest has awakened our consciousness to the seeming compromise by the Police, should we go to sleep after his release? Can't we unite to compel the Police to make public the outcome of the investigation into the suspected assassination attempt on Joseph Odok?
Should we go to sleep and assume that all is well? Shouldn't we demand that the Police be fair to every Cross Riverian and stop acting like its exist only for the purpose of protecting, supporting and covering up for those in government? Shouldn't we demand more commitment of the Commissioner to the oath he took to serve the people not only those in power?
No doubt, under CP Hafiz, the Police has recorded remarkable success in its efforts to curb the menace of kidnapping, armed robbery, car snatching, communal clashes, cultism amongst other crimes in the state. However, the manner in which the security agency has handled issues that affects opposition and activists in the state have left little to be remembered of the progress in curbing crime in the state.
Odok's case has come and gone. Hon Adah issue has come and gone. Ifere has had his own share. I've been threatened with assassination. But in all these, the Police has not shown enough seriousness and commitment to uncovering the truth may be because it allegedly involves the government.
Elections are drawing closer, are we just looking like that? Are we going to wait until we are told one day by the Police not to disagree with government policies again before we know something is monumentally wrong with the way things are going? Are we going to relax until our rights to hold and express opinions be taken away from us by the Police before we shout on top our voices against the act of intimidation perpetrated by the Police and agents of Cross River State government?
Recall that Ifere was illegally declared wanted by the Attorney General of the State who CP Hafiz relied on his petition to make the arrest but the then Commissioner came out to disassociate Police from the callous and mischievous declaration.
The then Commissioner said there was no evidence of any crime committed by Ifere and if there was, the law empowers the Police not Attorney General to declare him wanted. In fact, the Police was specific then to state unequivocally that the issue was political and was because Ifere criticises the government on social media.
CP Hafiz is about the third Commissioner under Ayade. He's less than 8 months. Ifere has been around. He was around during the tenure of former Commissioners. In this whole saga, the Commissioner has insisted that he (Ifere) has issues with Police before he even came. If that's the case, why didn't the former Commissioners order his arrest if actually Police was looking for him as reported in the media that the CP said? Why did Police decline from arresting him when the State government declared him wanted? So many questions begging for answers.
While we await explanation from the CP, it behoves on us to collectively call on the Police to be more responsible by treating everybody fairly and equally.
There's no gain saying that the Commissioner is my friend but many Cross Riverians including myself no longer have confidence in the Police under his leadership. Except, our hopes are renewed, we now fear Police more than even people who don't want to hear the voices of opposition and critics in Cross River State.
Crime, Cross River, Governor Ben Ayade, Politics
Dominick 15 August 2021 at 12:03
Wrongdoers who are hoping to land a task normally have that one obvious concern on the application forms that ask about a criminal record. If the potential company runs a criminal polk county mugshots record check and discovers out you have a checkered past, you have actually not just lost the possibility at that task, however, intensified the issue by fibbing about it.


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The International Relations Committee (IRC) welcome applications to our new international e-education grant award. Funding will be available for innovative digital educational projects aimed at low to lower-middle income countries.
Grants of up to £5,000 will be considered for projects involving an individual or team, either as part of an existing scheme or seeking to establish a new virtual international education programme.
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Q: How many socket connections possible? Has anyone an idea how many tcp-socket connections are possible on a modern standard Linux server?
(There is in general less traffic on each connection, but all the connections have to be up all the time.)

A: I achieved 1600k concurrent idle socket connections, and at the same time 57k req/s on a Linux desktop (16G RAM, I7 2600 CPU). It's a single thread http server written in C with epoll. Source code is on github, a blog here.
Edit:
I did 600k concurrent HTTP connections (client & server) on both the same computer, with JAVA/Clojure . detail info post, HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127251
The cost of a connection(with epoll):

*

*application need some RAM per connection

*TCP buffer  2 * 4k ~ 10k, or more

*epoll need some memory for a file descriptor, from epoll(7)

Each registered file descriptor costs roughly 90
                bytes on a 32-bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes on a 64-bit kernel.

A: 10,000? 70,000? is that all :)
FreeBSD is probably the server you want, Here's a little blog post about tuning it to handle 100,000 connections, its has had some interesting features like zero-copy sockets for some time now, along with kqueue to act as a completion port mechanism.
Solaris can handle 100,000 connections back in the last century!. They say linux would be better
The best description I've come across is this presentation/paper on writing a scalable webserver. He's not afraid to say it like it is :)

Same for software: the cretins on the
  application layer forced great
  innovations on the OS layer. Because
  Lotus Notes keeps one TCP connection
  per client open, IBM contributed major
  optimizations for the "one process,
  100.000 open connections" case to Linux
And the O(1) scheduler was originally
  created to score well on some
  irrelevant Java benchmark. The bottom
  line is that this bloat benefits all of
  us.

A: On Linux you should be looking at using epoll for async I/O. It might also be worth fine-tuning socket-buffers to not waste too much kernel space per connection.
I would guess that you should be able to reach 100k connections on a reasonable machine.

A: depends on the application. if there is only a few packages from each client, 100K is very easy for linux. A engineer of my team had done a test years ago, the result shows : when there is no package from client after connection established, linux epoll can watch 400k fd for readablity at cpu usage level under 50%.

A: This depends not only on the operating system in question, but also on configuration, potentially real-time configuration.
For Linux:
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

will show the current maximum number of file descriptors total allowed to be opened simultaneously. Check out http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/openfiles.html

A: A limit on the number of open sockets is configurable in the /proc file system
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Max for incoming connections in the OS defined by integer limits.
Linux itself allows billions of open sockets.
To use the sockets you need an application listening, e.g. a web server, and that will use a certain amount of RAM per socket.
RAM and CPU will introduce the real limits. (modern 2017, think millions not billions)
1 millions is possible, not easy. Expect to use X Gigabytes of RAM to manage 1 million sockets.
Outgoing TCP connections are limited by port numbers ~65000 per IP. You can have multiple IP addresses, but not unlimited IP addresses.
This is a limit in TCP not Linux.

A: Which operating system?
For windows machines, if you're writing a server to scale well, and therefore using I/O Completion Ports and async I/O, then the main limitation is the amount of non-paged pool that you're using for each active connection. This translates directly into a limit based on the amount of memory that your machine has installed (non-paged pool is a finite, fixed size amount that is based on the total memory installed).
For connections that don't see much traffic you can reduce make them more efficient by posting 'zero byte reads' which don't use non-paged pool and don't affect the locked pages limit (another potentially limited resource that may prevent you having lots of socket connections open).
Apart from that, well, you will need to profile but I've managed to get more than 70,000 concurrent connections on a modestly specified (760MB memory) server; see here  http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2005/11/windows-tcpip-server-performance.html for more details.
Obviously if you're using a less efficient architecture such as 'thread per connection' or  'select' then you should expect to achieve less impressive figures; but, IMHO, there's simply no reason to select such architectures for windows socket servers.
Edit: see here http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/03/26/3211216.aspx; the way that the amount of non-paged pool is calculated has changed in Vista and Server 2008 and there's now much more available.

A: Realistically for an application, more then 4000-5000 open sockets on a single machine becomes impractical. Just checking for activity on all the sockets and managing them starts to become a performance issue - especially in real-time environments.

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Nothing Apish About It
Kicking off a new Author's Files miniseries entitled simply I Watched a Movie In the Summer (da dada dada dada dada dada da da da). Future entries in the series will include reviews of Dragon 2 (by a very special guest) and Edge of Tomorrow.
I want to go to the movie, but first...
To the casual Hollywood spectator, the biggest surprise of the year thus far may have been that the CGI monkey movie prequel-sequel dawned to a $74.3 million opening weekend, beating out more star-studded and foreseeable hits like How To Train Your Dragon 2, Edge of Tomorrow, and Tammy. The second biggest surprise would be that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is not a virtual retread of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, despite their titles portending very much the same foregone conclusion. Dawn feels thoroughly older and more cynical than Rise in both execution and theme, bringing a bigger cast, a grimmer setting, and darker sociopolitical undertones which make it as a whole somewhat less palatable to general audiences. Whereas the first Apes film was very much centered on a single underdog character and his triumphant ascension to freedom and leadership, this installment sees the since-ascendant liberator of the apes fighting to secure his tribe from malicious challengers within as well as human enemies without. Shirking Rise's somewhat one-dimensional division of good and evil along species lines, Dawn shrewdly depicts pride and weakness in both the human and the simian peoples for a story that's eminently more layered and intriguing if not as emotionally satisfying as its predecessor. Both films are visually enrapturing works of art and each accomplishes its narrative's purpose aptly, but the second one's purpose may be nobler in the long run, beseeching us to inquire not how nations rise from oppression but how they fall into anarchy.
I may be slightly biased on account of sitting four chairs away from a responsible father and his two yammering 8-10 year-olds* for the first twenty minutes of the movie, but Dawn doesn't get off to a particularly smooth start. The opening frames (basically recycled from the closing ones of Rise in case you were negligent or stupid enough not to stay for them) literally revolve around the planet Earth in all its magnitude, visualizing the spread of the flu that wiped out 99% of humanity by brilliant red lights and lines that eventually fade in unison to a startling black, but the severity of the images is undercut by a vignette of sound bytes and video clips that are supposed to represent the responses of contemporary figures to the crisis. So it is that Barack Hussein Obama mm mm mm worms his wholly gratuitous 4-second cameo into an Apes flick after despoiling such American landmarks as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Dictator, but the president's role is thankfully, erm, short-lived within the fiction of the universe.
Dawn's events are set in San Francisco some ten years after the extraordinary chimpanzee Caesar led a ridiculously massive ape force across the Golden Gate Bridge in an exodus to the Redwoods, where they've since built a staggering settlement out of the landscape and happily coexist with their brother stag and sister bear – or so they would if James Cameron was directing. In fact, the carnivorous apes have forcefully asserted their position at the top of the local food chain, forming ruthless hunting parties and effectively corralling herds of deer with spears and lassoes. But human society is boding far less well in the city's urban center, now home to a small colony of genetically immune survivors led by Gary Oldman, whom you may recognize as Commissioner Gordon from the new Batman trilogy, primarily because he's playing almost the exact same figure here, that is a grizzled and cynically minded warrior who's ready and willing to defend his people at any cost. A scarcity of character progression isn't the only problem on the slate of Oldman's Dreyfus, as his wavering community is projected to lose electrical power within a few days unless they can activate a dam buried deep in the apes' territory. Given the animals' wariness of humans and their weapons, Dreyfus views this proposal as largely nonviable but reluctantly grants a widower named Malcolm (played by Jason Clarke) and some other colonists permission to enter the beasts' den and try arranging a deal with Caesar. Clarke plays surprisingly well off of the ape actors, more so than James Franco did in Rise, and admirably portrays the heroism of his character, who comes to forge a tight friendship with Caesar in spite of his fear of the apes and the desperate circumstances that drive him to seek out their aid.
Meanwhile, the apes' peaceful existence hangs in just as tenuous a balance as their neighbor's survival, though the threats to their stability are of a more insidious and internalized sort. Caesar's judicious rule has guided the noble apes for the better part of a decade, but when a chance encounter with an impulsive man in the woods leads to the tribe's discovery of the human colony and their concerning weapons stockpile, the rebellious right-hand bonobo Koba seizes upon ensuing paranoia to cast doubts upon his superior's sound judgment and loyalty to his kin. A horrifically scarred subject of experimentation up until the day of the apes' revolt, he bears a deep loathing of humanity and subliminally equates true tribal patriotism with his distrust of outsiders. Andy Serkis has rightly been heaped with praise for his embodiment of Caesar, so much so that Toby Kebbell's performance as the erratic and unhinged Koba remains largely overlooked amidst the hype. The former plays a noble if near-sighted leader who convincingly conveys empathy, injury, authority, anger, and remorse through facial muscles and bearing alike, while the latter constantly exudes a mix of envy, menace, and reverence towards his chieftain, keeping audiences perpetually guessing as to his next move. Many of the movie's more effective scenes, regrettably spoiled in the marketing campaign, involve Kebbell feigning both beastly stupidity and virulent patriotism to garner the trust of humans and his fellow apes, all before coldly casting them aside to pursue his own vile agenda.
Caesar disavows Koba's xenophobic zealotry but abides his alarmist incitements nonetheless, steadfastly holding to an ideal of national unity and spiritual brotherhood embodied in the prime commandment Ape Not Kill Ape. The rising tensions and eventual clash between the incumbent's cool-headed wisdom and his challenger's animal savagery easily comprise the formative moments of Dawn's drama, proving significantly more compelling than the undeniably stunning but widely forecast hellfire that inevitably erupts between wilderness and man.
As pretty much everybody else has duly noted, Dawn is a visually arresting work complemented by wide-angle swathes of destruction, large, open sets, and the most technically demanding motion-capture effects yet realized in film. With the release of Rise back in 2011, VFX company Weta Digital struck new milestones in the medium by allowing filmmakers to shoot animated actors side-by-side with human ones even outside of a greenscreen studio, and Dawn is no less astounding in its visual achievement. Director Matt Reeves graciously eschews the shaky camera of Cloverfield for battle scenes that are harrowing in their brutality and mind-boggling in their magnitude, allowing the chaos of his engineered conflicts to speak for themselves without resorting to cheap and gimmicky trappings of the digital age. Hundreds of individually animated primates charge the humans' fortress upon horseback, tumbling to the dirt under flurries of gunfire but driving their foes back by superiority of agility and brawn. The initial onslaught alone is one of the most impressive and riveting war scenes I've seen in cinemas since Avatar, which at the very least managed to mimic the scale and senseless fury that engulfed the greater battles of history. The movie's envisioning of a dilapidated and lifeless metropolis overrun by natural growth is wonderfully realized if hardly novel, as we've seen the same kind of setting in video games like Enslaved and Crysis 3 and, to a lesser extent, in the haphazardly written I Am Legend. Indeed, Dawn's distinguishing triumph over the rest of the effects-heavy sci-fi crop isn't any particular marvel in its technical design but its emphasis on meaningful storytelling and strong characterization.
A lot of "critics" have united in a kind of self-congratulatory chorus to pass off – or credit, rather – the movie as an allegorical anti-gun, anti-war screed, citing as evidence the prudency of the apes in banning firearms upon their premises and Reeve's exceedingly violent portrayal of such weapons throughout the plot*. Politically charged facades such as these, revealing infinitely more about the author's own beliefs than the filmmakers', can only be the products of incredibly deranged or cinematically tone-deaf minds. The only way you could arrive at such a grossly simplistic interpretation as the gun-control one is by forcefully reading your own ideology into the narrative or just turning your brain off for the whole picture. Disregarding that the screenwriters vocally deny any preconceived intention to write a gun-control movie and that the apes' faulty disarmament policy actually fails to circumvent outbreaks of violence in the community, it's not the irrational existence of "assault weapons in the wrong hands" that propels a costly war between ape and man; on the contrary, it's only by the apes' irrational terror of "the gun" that warmongers within their ranks are able to mobilize the tribe to meet humanity in battle, ostensibly to preempt and prevent any future "unnecessary tragedies" that may be inflicted by human technology. That the movie graphically and unmistakably depicts automatic firearms as violent tools of destruction, which even the firmest gun rights advocates would affirm they're built to be, is more indicative of the filmmakers' tact and commitment to realism than it is of any underlying agenda. Using the same reasoning pleaded by these phony commentators, most every movie directed by Quentin Tarantino or James Cameron or Michael Bay must be construed as having a veiled anti-gun subtext, rather than the more obvious alternative.
The anti-war take isn't as huge a stretch, though it's still an absurdly narrow translation of a film so rich in political and philosophical themes. I myself read it mainly as an indictment of mob mentality, rabble-rousers, and those who wave the bloody flag of their countrymen for personal gain, though it's also a potent admonishment to those insular patriots who place such an unmovable faith in their countrymen that they assume them capable of doing no wrong. For Caesar, the pivotal moment in the film comes with the late realization of his petty and costly communal pride, when he can finally articulate the full gravity of his familial complacency towards Koba's aggression. "I always think ape better than humans," he heaves, suffering not so much from a bullet wound he sustained earlier as from a broken and guilt-wracked spirit. "I see now how like them we are." Other ideas explored within the film include the fragility of peace between rival nations, the way that power structures beget ambition, and the nature of power itself – is rule by tyranny easier to maintain than rule by respect, and is all rule basically primal at its core, delegated to whoever has strength and will enough to seize it?
For a big-budget summer movie, Dawn's screenplay has an unusual deficit of one-liners and verbal banter, focusing instead on intricate character development and politically provocative drama. It doesn't try to foist any single message on the viewer, which shows at least an inkling of respect for the viewer on the part of the writers. It's not a perfect film by any measure: the score by Michael Giacchino is frankly terrible for the first half, fraught with too many bells and chimes that make serious scenes sound relatively inconsequential, and the final ten minutes dissolve into a fairly standard fight to the death, a bout where neither participant can defeat the other unless he reinforces his physical blows with witty smack talk and verbal jabs. Still, Dawn is an excellently crafted piece of entertainment which more than vindicates its remake-prequel-sequel status, if not its pointless 3D presentation. If Rise gave birth to a new science-fiction mythology, then Dawn has molded it into a veritable legend, dark, magnificent, intelligent, and moving.
Grade rating: B+
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Guardians of the Galaxy – This is shaping up to be either really campy or really amusing – maybe both, though the machine-gun-toting raccoon is doing more to sell me than any of the one-liners at this point. Oh, and the musical selection is genius.
One of my friends is responsible for this, this foul-mouthed, inappropriate piece of trash.
Exodus: Gods and Kings – I can tell you what the angle of this movie is going to be even before some disgruntled Christian spills the beans on its heresy. Mother Nature has grown weary of the Egyptian Pharaoh over his impious exploitation of the Jewish people, and in retaliation for these wrongs… on second thought, I could make an entire video out of my theories, so I'll spare you my cynicism for now. In spite of my reservations, Atheist Ridley Scott appears to be giving this the same visual majesty he brought to the spectacular Gladiator and the otherwise pathetic Prometheus, which is more than I can say of the lackluster Noah trailers.
Gone Girl – Ugh. Ben Affleck and Tyler Perry in the same movie? Based on a best-selling novel? Just say, "No."
Fury – Ugh. Logan Lerman, Brad Pitt, and Shia Labeouf all in the same movie? Just say, "N-no-no-no-no-no-NOO!" Actually, this one doesn't look half-bad considering its cast. The whole WW2 setting is a little tired by this stage, but there looks to be a lot of mud and grime and dirt and grit and explosions and tanks ripping each other to shreds, which is more than enough for me.
Into the Storm – "Hello? I want to speak to the cinematic genius who wrote Hollywood that we needed a 3D handheld-camera movie about doomsday tornado chasers? He's not available, you say? Well, that's fine. Could you just kick his rear for me when you get the chance?"
Unbroken – This looks like one of those inspiring, based-on-a-true-story crowd pleasers, complete with generic rousing, heroic trailer music, that's typically released around Christmas that's supposed to make me feel good about myself and the human race… I hate those movies! On a side-note, why are the Japanese POW guards speaking English?
(Frank Miller's) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For – I'm assuming Jessica Alba is supposed to be the titular dame. I know nothing about Miller's comic series, but hot damn! If uber-stylized B&W brawls and film-noirish strippers are your thing, go see it by all means… or, you know, find a different thing.
Hercules – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson faces off against CG lions, hydras, and boars ohmi with slow-motion awesomeness, Amazon warriors, and PG-13 nudity in tow. Count me in, probably on DVD.
Mockingjay Capitol propaganda teaser thingy that cuts out to the black techy guy from Catching Fire – Corny. This is the kind of thing you should be watching on some stupid movie news website instead of in a theater, serving only to confirm the existence of the forthcoming film without divulging any dialogue or scenes that took any time or effort to capture. Short of using any actual footage, the preliminary Dark Knight teaser managed to showcase core philosophical themes of the story, generate excitement for Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker, and flaunt Hans Zimmer's pulsating score in fewer than 50 seconds. This is just fluff to hold teenagers over until a real trailer is released.
* How daft could you possibly be to take any child, let alone a talkative, overly anxious one, to a film so riddled with shooting, beating, stabbing, burning, and realistically monstrous wild animals which holler, bellow, and shriek as they're waging their hunting and killing and – did I say shooting? I don't think I've seen a PG-13 bloodbath, and one that was explicitly advertised so, which featured such an intensity and abundance of violence outside of The Dark Knight. This is not for kiddies!
johnofthedead Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Jessica Alba, the titular dame?!?! ROTFLMFAO that was hillarius. Sin City FTW
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Technology will be crucial to life and business in the future decade, according to many. And why they believe India's technological prowess and enormous talent pool will allow it to define technologies of a decade.
Anil Narasipuram and Shruti Nair sealed their marriage on the blockchain in Pune, India. NFT (non-fungible token, unit of data recorded on a blockchain) was created using an image of the bride's engagement ring, the couple's wedding vows, as well as other sentiments dear to their hearts. As of the right moment, there is no way to alter, modify, or remove the NFT from the Ethereum blockchain's decentralized database.
Every element of our lives is being transformed by new-age technologies. NFT and blockchain are taking center stage and technology is becoming social and enjoyable," WNS Group CEO Keshav Murugesh stated. At a Nasscom-sponsored Times Techies webinar last week, he said, "When that happens, over time, it will scale and become the way you do business."
This isn't limited to India; it's happening all throughout the world. Many people anticipate that the next decade will be known as a "techade," in which technology plays a key role in many aspects of daily life and business. And this is why many people believe that India's technological prowess and a large reservoir of IT talent will allow it to have a significant impact on the coming decade.
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As McKinsey's senior partner Noshir Kaka put it, "not just business difficulties, but also social issues, sustainability, workforce management in an inclusive manner…areas none of us could have imagined of previously," humanity is looking to technology to tackle various problems.
India, he said, would become increasingly important to the rest of the globe. Not only in traditional IT services, but also in software. SaaS (software as a service) from India is a phenomenon that is "amazing," he stated. According to McKinsey, India's SaaS market will be worth a trillion dollars in the next 10 years, which is the same amount of money IT services have made in the preceding 30 years. "We're going to see a revolution in India, whether it's in technology services, software, specialized types of hardware, or semiconductors," Kaka added.
During the epidemic, businesses around the world realized the importance of technology and digitization for resilience, connectivity with customers, and employee engagement, resulting in a boom in the IT services and business process management (BPM) industries.
Murugesh noted that "behavior patterns have changed" as a result of using Covid. New technologies are enabling industries that previously supplied items via middlemen to engage directly with retail customers, he said. Business structures are also evolving, he said. According to him, this has resulted in an enormous rise in interest.
Kaka cited four areas in which IT services are gaining a lot of traction. He estimated that the market for cloud modernization will be worth $600 to $800 billion. "The cloud migration shift should be the most important goal for each company. He predicted that new designs would emerge as a result, opening the door for a slew of new innovations.
He also cited AI and data, cybersecurity, and IoT/Industry 4.0 as major opportunities, each of which he estimated to be worth $50 to $150 billion. He predicted that quantum computing and blockchain would become commonplace in the near future.
The largest data platforms in the world, UPI and Aadhaar, provide India an advantage in AI, according to him. In terms of scope and intricacy, what we've accomplished is mind-boggling. It's not enough to just invest in it occasionally; we need to continually compare our policies to those of other countries, he added.
Many of the world's largest corporations have been establishing huge engineering and R&D centers in India. The head of SAP Labs India, Sinstated that India is SAP's largest center outside of Germany. That's a big deal for a product company like ours. We are the only SAP center with a full representation of the full breadth of SAP's product. For the computer industry and product makers like us, this is a wonderful opportunity for the future of the Indian economy," she stated.
He further pointed out that India is no longer simply an exporter of technology, but rather a large consumer as well. Moreover, this is why product businesses like ours have invested so much in India. Why wouldn't we be piloting this (technology) entirely out of India when we look at an industry like retail? I see India as a technological powerhouse for the rest of the globe, as well as a consumer powerhouse because of how we're seeing purchasing habits in India," she remarked.
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However, while tech MNCs in India are investing in R&D, not enough of that is happening in local institutions and businesses. "Industry bears the primary responsibility. With R&D investments, we need to provide a curriculum and get them to market quickly, just like we did for tech services. For a world where artificial intelligence (AI) would rule, Kaka hopes that at least some of the money raised by unicorns will go toward research and development (R&D).
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Q: Setting up my website I had hosted by an online server Provider in XAMPP some time ago I've had a wordpress website hosted by an online server Provider. I cancelled the service, and wanted to set up the Website locally via XAMPP. Therefore, I've copied my files in htdocs & imported the database in phpMyAdmin. My Question now is how to name this database? I always get the notice "Error establishing a database connection". I would be really thankful for your ideas.

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Expertise in electrolyte systems has become increasingly important in traditional CPI operations, as well as in oil/gas exploration and production. This book is the source for predicting electrolyte systems behavior, an indispensable "do–it–yourself" guide, with a blueprint for formulating predictive mathematical electrolyte models, recommended tabular values to use in these models, and annotated bibliographies. The final chapter is a general recipe for formulating complete predictive models for electrolytes, along with a series of worked illustrative examples. It can serve as a useful research and application tool for the practicing process engineer, and as a textbook for the chemical engineering student.
Solutions Basic Definitions and Concepts.
Activities, Activity Coefficients and Standard States.
Ionic and/or Reaction Equilibrium in Aqueous Solutions.
Solubility Equilibria Between Crystals and Saturated Solutions.
Vapor–Liquid Equilibria in Aqueous Solutions.
Temperature Effects on the Equilibrium Constant.
Estimating Temperature Effects on Heat Capacity and Other Thermodynamic Properties.
Equilibrium Constants from Tabulated Data.
Pressure Effects on the Equilibrium Constant.
Appendix 3.1 Criss and Cobble Parameters.
IV. ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS OF SINGLE STRONG ELECTROLYTES.
Comparison of Temperature Effect Methods.
Appendix 4.1 Values for Guggenheim s Parameter.
Table 1: Values for Uni–univalent Electrolytes.
Table 2: and B Values of Bi–univalent and Uni–bivalent Electrolytes from Freezing Points.
Appendix 4.2 Bromley Interaction Parameters.
Table 1: B Values at 25°C Determined by the Method of Least Squares on Log to I=6.0 (or less of limited data).
Table 2: Individual Ion Values of B and in Aqueous Solutions at 25°C.
Table 3: Bivalent Metal Sulfates at 25°C.
Table 1: Inorganic Acids, Bases and Salts of 1–1 Type.
Table 2: Salts of Carboxylic Acids (1–1 Type).
Table 4: Sulfonic Acids and Salts (1–1 Type).
Table 5: Additional 1–1 Type Organic Salts.
Table 6: Inorganic Compounds of 2–1 Type.
Table 7: Organic Electrolytes of 2–1 Type.
Appendix 4.5 Pitzer Parameter Derivatives.
Table 1: Temperature Derivatives of Parameters for 1–1 Electrolytes Evaluated from Calorimetric Data.
Table 2: Temperature Derivatives of Parameters for 2–1 and 1–2 Electrolytes Evaluated from Calorimetric Data.
Table 3: Temperature Derivatives of Parameters for 3–1 and 2–2 Electrolytes Evaluated from Calorimetric Parameters.
Table: Values Fit for Molality Mean Ionic Activity Coefficient Data of Aqueous Electrolytes at 298.15 K.
V. ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS OF MULTICOMPONET STRONG ELECTROLYTES.
Guggenheim s Method for Multicomponent Solutions.
Bromley s Method for Multicomponent Solutions.
Meissner s Method for Multicomponent Solutions.
Pitzer s Method for Multicomponent Solutions.
Appendix 5.1 Values for Pitzer s and Parameters.
Table 1: Parameters for mixed electrolytes with viral coefficient equations (at 25°C).
Table 3: Parameters for binary mixtures with a common ion at 25°C.
VI. ACTIVITY COEFFICIENT OF STRONGLY COMPLEXING COMPOUNDS.
Table 1b: Three Parameter Set.
Table 2: Equilibrium Constants and Heats of Reaction.
Table 3b: Equilibrium Constants and Changes in Thermodynamic Properties for Formation of CuC1¯ and CuC1²¯ from Cu+ + nC1¯ = CuC1n(n–1.
VII. ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK ELECTROLYTES AND MOLECULAR SPECIES.
Predictions Based Upon Theoretical Equations.
Appendix 7.1 Salting Out Parameters for Phenol in Aqueous Salt Solutions at 25°C Celsius.
Appendix 7.2 Salting Out Parameters from Pawlikowski and Prausnitz for Nonpolar Gases in Common Salt Solutions at Moderate Temperatures.
Table 1: Lennard Jones Parameters for Nonpolar Gases as Reported by Liabastre (S14).
Table 2: Salting Out Parameters for Strong Electrolytes in Equation (7.18) at 25°C.
Table 3: Temperature Dependence of the Salting Out Parameters for Equation (7.19).
Table 4: Salting Out Parameters for Individual Ions for Equation (7.20).
Table 5: Temperature Dependence of the Salting Out Constants for Individual Loss.
VIII. THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS DERIVED FROM ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS.
Appendix 9.1 Parameters for Beutier and Renon s Method.
Table 1: Temperature fit parameters for equilibrium constants.
Table 2: Temperature fit parameters for Henry s constants.
Table 3: Pitzer ion–ion interaction parameters.
Table 4: Temperature fit molecule self interaction parameters.
Table 5: Dielectric effect parameters.
Appendix 9.2– Parameters for Edwards, Maurer, Newman and Prausnitz Method.
Table 3: Ion–ion interaction parameters.
Table 5: Molecule–ion interaction parameters.
Appendix 9.3 – Fugacity Coefficient Calculation.
Table 1: Pure component parameters.
Table 2: Nonpolar and polar contribution to parameters α and β for four polar gases.
Table 3: Interaction parameter α12 for polar–nonpolar mixtures.
Table 4: Parameterα12 for binary mixtures of nonpolar gases.
Table 5: Interaction parameter α12 for polar–polar mixtures.
Appendix 9.4 – Brelvi and O Connell Correlation for Partial Molar Volumes.
Appendix 9.5 Gypsum Solubility Study Parameters at 25°C.
Table 1: Binary solution parameters for the Pitzer equations.
Table 2: Mixed electrolyte solution parameters for the Pitzer equations.
Table 3: Gypsum solubility product at 25°C.
Appendix A. Computer Programs for Solving Equilibria Problems.
Appendix B. Selected Thermodynamic Data.
Appendix C. Compiled Thermodynamic Data Sources for Aqueous and Biochemical Systems: An Annotated Bibliography (1930–1983).


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Kim Kardashian is studying to become a lawyer
By Legal Cheek on Apr 11 2019 9:22am
Reality superstar completing legal apprenticeship, with plans to sit bar exam in 2022
Kim Kardashian has revealed she is studying to become a lawyer. Yes, you read that correctly. The social media superstar began a four-year legal apprenticeship with a law firm last summer, with a view to sitting the California bar exam in 2022.
News of Kim K's fledgeling legal career comes almost a year she met with President Donald Trump to discuss reforms to the US prison system. In an interview several months later, Kim's husband, Kanye West, said:
"My wife is in law school now, and it's extremely serious to us".
But the reality starts representatives later clarified that she wasn't actually in law school, but "is so entrenched in the legal system with her activism that it is like going to law school".
However, what Kim K's people neglected to say was that she was studying to become a lawyer without going to law school.
Speaking in an interview with Vogue, The Keeping up with the Kardashians star has now confirmed she's completing her studies via a four-year apprenticeship with an unnamed law firm in San Francisco and plans to sit the California bar in 2022. This is possible because California is one of a number of US states that allow aspiring lawyers to sit their final bar exams without a law degree.
During the lengthy interview, Kim reveals how her legal studies are going:
"First year of law school," Kim says, "you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts. To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me. The reading is what really gets me. It's so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds."
Given the above, it would appear that the 38-year-old socialite has a natural aptitude for criminal law, just like her father, Robert Kardashian, a US defence lawyer who famously worked on OJ Simpson's murder trial.
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Kim Kardashian is a law student, says Kanye West
But reality star's representatives have since clarified that she isn't actually in law school
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Kim Kardashian says she's going to do a vac scheme
Plans to follow in lawyer dad's footsteps when schedule slows down
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London 1886. It is the time of Victorian England and the British Empire. The aristocratic Sexton family would have the perfect life except for a deadly Curse. All Sexton men suffer mysterious deaths on their eighteenth birthdays. John Sexton turns eighteen in three months and is next to die. A letter arrives from a grandfather in Australia who John has never met, and his family refuses to discuss. In the letter, his grandfather claims to have found a key to finding a myth called the Soul of the Beast. He says the myth is a cure to the Curse and will save John's life. His grandfather offers the key to John, but he must come to Australia to receive it. John immediately boards a ship. When he walks down the gangplank in Australia, John is unaware of the evil and dangers that await him. His grandfather is the head of a crime syndicate that employed an assassin cult to kill anyone who stood in his way. The assassins learn about the key and decide to take it and find the Soul of the Beast for themselves. John's grandfather refuses to give up the key, and their leader strangles him to death. When John finds the key, the assassins try to kill him and take it. John runs runs for his life and into a hidden world beyond his imagination. The world of the Soul of the Beast.
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It is a wonderful book. Thank you for using Brittany Cox illustrations. Can't wait to read the second book!
I received the book yesterday, just when needing something new to read. I was looking for a good diversion, this was timely. It is certainly suspenseful and has my curiosity churning. I am having some ideas about where it is headed. Up to Ch 6 and must stop for now so will see at the next reading opportunity. Thank you for sharing your work, Wes.
Thanks again, friends. I miss you too. It is nice to stay in touch.
Thanks for liking the book!
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Too funny Wes!….FYI, I'm going to order your book. Don't disappoint me!
Several weeks ago, a close friend placed this book in my hand and asked me to give it a read when I got the opportunity. I must admit, as a PhD student, one more piece of literature to read was less than rousing. Over the next couple weeks the book rode around in my laptop bag and jockeyed for a position on the back corner of my desk, not once being opened. Finally, a few days ago I remembered the book was in my bag and I pulled it out to read the back cover. Before I realized it, I was sailing through a thrilling storyline filled with unsuspected twists, danger and adventure. The plot takes you through the streets of foreign lands with such detail; you can feel the Middle Eastern heat eliciting beads of sweat from your brow and smell the aroma of curry wafting from street vendors' tents then become instantly enraged with mounting crowds as the characters try to make it to safety. As I ran along with the characters, I found it impossible to put the book down. In one sitting, well into the early morning I sat and read this book. I was lost in my own imagination within a historically accurate context that often blurred the lines of reality. I was astonished at the inimitable planning that went into the book, as a physician-author from the upstate of South Carolina pushed me closer to the edges of remote lands, each line dripping with sense-intriguing description. The well-organized novel truly allowed for a relaxing read with a constantly developing plot that left me eagerly turning the next page, lost deep within a faraway land of a long bygone time.


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The nuclear waste dump formerly known as San Onofre?
Southern California Edison, the operator of the (non-operating) San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station, is running out of options.
Even the federal regulators are coming down hard on them. The public remains deeply skeptical, while local elected officials continue to press for further investigations into the problems at the plant.
It ain't over 'til it's over, but yesterday SCE took a couple of hard blows.
First, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent Pete Dietrich, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer at Southern California Edison, a letter requesting 32 clarifications regarding SCE's risky -- some would even say CRAZY (I would say that) -- plan to restart San Onofre Unit 2 at 70% power as a five-month test. And if that wasn't enough, the NRC is also saying that SCE must prove that the plant could be operated safely at 100% power before approving a restart plan. SCE's proposal to prove they could operate safely at 70% power simply isn't good enough.
This is exciting.
Edison felt they could show that operating for five months at 70% power was safe using "conservative" benchmarks, retraining the staff, adding additional monitoring equipment, and crossing their fingers for good luck. The NRC's demand will be virtually impossible to fulfill, considering that the plan to operate at 70% power was full of holes to begin with (resulting in the 32 points of clarification in yesterday's letter from the NRC).
The U-tubes in Unit 2's replacement steam generators are highly damaged, and they only ran for 22 months out of a planned 60-YEAR life expectancy (60 years was truly a pipe dream). Unit 3's new U-tubes only ran for 11 months before one of them burst, and the plant has been shut down ever since.
During the 22 months that Unit 2 operated successfully with the new steam generators, Fukushima happened, to warn Southern Californians of the consequences of failure at San Onofre. The consequence would be the loss of our communities, our jobs, our families, and our lives. Lost to cancer, deformities, heart disease, inflammation and many other ailments, the effects of radiation poisoning. The lesson of Fukushima has not been forgotten among the populace, even if it's been largely forgotten by the media. But even the head of the NRC admits 100,000 families in Japan cannot return home because of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We don't want that here.
What happened at Fukushima -- or even far worse -- can happen at San Onofre in a matter of seconds. It can happen the instant they restart the reactor.
Every knowledgeable nuclear energy expert has been forced to admit that such disasters, once claimed to be impossible due to their extensive "defense-in-depth" technology, are not only possible, but cannot be prevented in some circumstances. Foreseeable circumstances, even inevitable: Earthquakes happen. Tsunamis happen. Valves stick open (or closed). Pipes burst. Operators make errors. Oh, do they ever! The combination will bring down a power plant somewhere, and it might be San Onofre. Every expert now has to admit what they used to deny: That accidents are possible. In fact, they've introduced a new term into their vocabulary: Mitigation. But that just means "move, quickly, and never come back." But we live in paradise here! We don't want to be forced to move!
One wonders, after Chernobyl and Fukushima -- and a thousand near-misses here in America -- why does the NRC allow the plants to operate at all? How is that possible? The answer is: They are playing the odds. Large accidents are deemed unlikely, such as a meteor crashing into it (or an airplane). The NRC doesn't require the power plants to protect themselves against earthquakes larger than a certain size, they deem them too unlikely to have to worry about. Similarly for tsunamis higher than a certain size, or terrorist actions involving airplanes, or even numerous innocent operator mistakes. Such events are deemed too unlikely and are considered to be "beyond design basis" and the utility company doesn't have to plan for them at all. The plant is built for a 7.0 earthquake, for example, not because an 8.0 is impossible, but because the possibility of an 8.0 is considered "remote."
All other events, however, the utility must plan for and prove they can handle. Southern California Edison is in a tight spot on that right now, because operation of Unit 2 at 100% power IS surely very risky. They've even so much as admitted it in their request to operate at 70% power -- they said that was what they could "conservatively" estimate was safe. So now what can they say?
A brief history of steam generator problems at San Onofre: Unit 1 was put down in the early 1990s for steam generator problems very similar to what happened in units 2 and 3. New SGs were put in the two operating units, but one of Unit 3's new SGs failed on January 31st, 2012, after only 11 months of operation, and that unit cannot be returned to service without replacing the SGs with an unknown design -- which would presumably include a lengthy and unpredictable license amendment process. Unit 2's new replacement SGs are of identical design to Unit 3's failed SGs and experienced unprecedented wear due to excessive vibrations in the 22 months they operated, but not as much wear as Unit 3 experienced. The amount of wear in Unit 2 was extensive and well outside industry norms, but in many ways similar to the wear in Unit 3.
So it appears that the NRC has demanded the impossible of SCE, for how can SCE possibly prove that Unit 2 can be operated at 100% power safely? (In this writer's opinion, they cannot assert it at 70%, either, but they were trying.) At 100% power it's not only possible but probable that the problems that occurred in Unit 3 could occur in Unit 2. And even if that doesn't happen, they could occur during "design basis events" such as a "main steam line break."
So is the game over? Will SCE announce that they'll decommission the reactor, permanently shutting it down? Maybe, but it hasn't happened. One person suggested to me that the NRC's "top guns" are handling San Onofre's problems now, not just the NRC Region IV guys, who have been coddling the corporations, ignoring the activists, and failing in their duties here for years. (Management retaliation problems against the workers have persisted at the plant, even as it is unable to get back on its feet and start making money for its owners.)
Yesterday's letter from the NRC does not force decommissioning. It does not force SCE to move the used reactor cores to a "safe" storage place. None exists -- the last viable option for SCE, the "Private Fuel Storage" (PFS) facility proposed for the Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah, has been cancelled (as it should be -- it was a terrible idea). Yucca Mountain, the nation's former proposed repository, is unworkable politically and geologically. Transportation of nuclear waste is extremely difficult and there's nowhere to go with it anyway. Dry cask storage is not "hardened" in any way. Spent fuel pools are full and expensive to maintain. There are no good options for the waste.
Mining the raw uranium is a health hazard to the miners who dig it out of the ground, but used reactor cores are millions of times more dangerous, pound for pound, than fresh, unused reactor fuel. It stays that way for hundreds of thousands of years.
It's time to stop making more and more of this deadly waste. It's time to stop risking a Fukushima disaster in Southern California. It's time to demand now, more than ever, that SCE shut San Onofre forever.
Tomorrow SCE might announce that they are going to decommission San Onofre, but a nuclear reactor license is a multi-billion-dollar asset, so don't hold your breath. If SCE can rebuild the steam generators over the coming years -- and better yet, bill the ratepayers for the delay -- that's exactly what they'll do. (They've made that clear in a recent filing with the California Public Utilities Commission, who normally gives SCE all the money they say they need to operate the plant at a profit, including $5 billion dollars in rate increases earlier this month.)
So even with the NRC's letter demanding so many things of SCE, and even with so many other problems, the battle is not over. It's only over when the plant is demolished and the waste removed, the land restored, and the licenses to operate have been revoked forever. Only then is it over for the local residents -- but someone will still have to mind the waste for thousands of generations. The smaller the pile we leave them, the better.
NRC's letter to Mr. Peter T. Dietrich, SVP & CNO, SCE, SON[W]GS:
http://www.sanclementegreen.org/files/NRC-RAI.pdf
[Note: San Onofre is built to withstand a 7.0, not a 7.5 earthquake. This has been corrected above, and the more lengthy correction shown below was emailed to subscribers.]
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Thanks to everyone who published, distributed, or just read yesterday's essay, "The Nuclear Waste Dump Formerly Known as San Onofre?" Unfortunately, I misspoke about the earthquake capabilities of the plant, mixing up Diablo Canyon's capabilities with SanO's. The correct figure for San Onofre's supposed, assumed, claimed, and probably exaggerated earthquake rating is 7.0, not 7.5. That is a 5X difference so it's not exactly a trivial amount. I apologize for, and regret, the error. I've corrected the online version that appears at my blog:
http://acehoffman.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-nuclear-waste-dump-formerly-known.html
http://goo.gl/Bneqq
My thanks to Donna Gilmore, ever the perfectionist (and we love her for it) for pointing this error out, and she adds that a lot of additional information about San Onofre's lack of earthquake preparedness, and the local communities' general lack of preparedness for ANY San Onofre accident, is available at the San Onofre Safety web site:
http://Sanonofresafety.org
Also, there you can find information about peak electricity loads in California, showing San Onofre is unnecessary (there's enough electricity available without it), and charts on worker retaliation complaints, safety complaints, and so on. Also, petitions and letters from various cities to the CPUC and NRC, handouts that can be printed out and distributed, current events and an overall look at the many issues involved. The site contains numerous technical documents, useful links and public forums as well.
DevonSowell December 28, 2012 at 6:45 AM
Excellent information, thanks for posting


Gary Smith, Acting Senior Planner, recommended a site plan control agreement for the old Rideau Hotel Monday at CoW. Photo credit: Sally Smith.
The historic Rideau Hotel (20 Beckwith Street N) is on track with a site plan control agreement between the Town and the owner for mixed-use residential and commercial redevelopment. It will include the establishment of 25 residential units (one and two-bedroom) and three commercial units on site.
Site plan control looks at the logistics of the site design which includes (but is not limited to) parking, landscaping and exterior design. The old hotel lot usage is going to expand and consolidate into a single parcel to include the alley (24 Beckwith St. N), the Salon (6 William Street W) and the Chiropractic Office at 12 William Street N.
The old hotel was also designated a heritage structure in1986 under the Ontario Heritage Act.
The site, after discussions between Town staff and owners, has been designed to function safely and harmoniously within the neighbourhood. Certain logistical and design elements, however, will be considered as part of an amending agreement in the future: the portico, facia materials, and window restoration.
Gary Smith, Acting Senior Planner with the Town, brought the site plan control agreement to CoW Monday recommending that the Mayor and Clerk authorize the proposed redevelopment. As an aside, Smith commented that, to date, 310 tons of stone have "been walked out of the hotel, bucket in hand," in the early cleaning up of the site.


You are here: Home » Blog » Joining a teleconf via your mobile – Don't be that guy!
You: sitting there with a beaming grin at the thought of how convenient this is to be able to have a meeting with your manager and clients whilst making dinner.
Your boss: head in his hands, squirming at the noise your 'gently-does-it-chopping-onions' technique is making.
He can't say anything to you since clients are taking part in the conference call and you can't see him.
Let's avoid this scenario shall we?
Teleconferencing has long been a popular choice for holding meetings with teams and clients spread over wide geographical locations. Just like face to face meetings, there is a certain unwritten etiquette to teleconferencing but unfortunately, nobody prepares you for this and not all the aspects are immediately obvious.
Know your stuff. If you have ever taken part in a teleconference, you will know that there is something unnerving about not being able to include people's facial expressions and general body language in the dialogue. It can make it hard to judge responses or know when it is your cue to speak and generally makes the meeting less fluid than a face to face one. Although preparing doesn't necessarily combat this challenge, it certainly makes the process easier as knowing what to contribute is one less thing to worry about.
Go to the bathroom, finish eating and get into 'professional mode'. People take advantage of the flexibility and mobility of teleconferencing. They see it as an opportunity to have a professional meeting in a setting where they can do other things at the same time. However, hearing a toilet flush or someone chewing food, portrays an unprofessional image – so don't do it! The way to think of a teleconference is the same way as a face to face meeting – the only thing missing is you don't have to be professionally dressed (unless it is a video conference).
Don't get distracted. Although this overlaps with the last point; it is so important that it is worth focusing on specifically. It is common for there to be lengthy periods of time when you will be listening rather than talking and it is easy to use these 'breaks', as an opportunity to talk to someone else, or do something else. You wouldn't do it in a face to face meeting so you shouldn't do it in a teleconference either.
The mute button is your best friend. When you join the call, after you have introduced yourself, you should hit the mute button. In fact, after you finish saying anything, you should hit the mute button unless of course, you are in the midst of a fast paced conversation. This avoids background noise being picked up by the other participants, and gives you the flexibility to shuffle papers or do whatever you need to do, without disturbing the call or making yourself sound unprofessional.
Stay in one place. Just like you wouldn't move locations five times during a face to face meeting, avoid doing that in a teleconference – tempting when you are on a mobile phone. It can open a can of worms, from dropping out of reception to you not having vital documents at hand when you need them. Instead prepare the area where you will sit for your teleconference and for the duration, treat it as your meeting room.
Make notes. If you are anything like me, you remember faces but are terrible at remembering names. However, since eye contact isn't a luxury available to you, making a note of the names of the participants is a great way to ensure that you can command yourself with a high level of professionalism at all times. Equally, bear in mind that when you speak, people are not necessarily going to know who you are especially if there are a lot of participants so always state your name before speaking.
Don't shout! Unlike face to face meetings, you cannot know how loud someone has their speaker turned up to. So shouting can be louder for the others involved than you intend it to be! If you are concerned that they can't hear you simply turn your microphone volume up and let them adjust their speaker volumes to what works for them.
Allow for pauses. Due to transmission timings and the lack of being able to assess body language, you should account for longer pauses after you have say, posed a question, than you would in a face to face meeting. It is good etiquette to also use these pauses as your cue to say something without which, you risk interrupting someone else.
Nick Williams works for Acuity Training in the UK and specialises in Microsoft Excel training. Nick also helps on Acuity's AutoCAD and SQL courses.


[ Lieutenant-General Sir William Howley Goodenough. ] Autograph Signature ('W H Goodenough') as 'Officer Administering the Government and High Commissioner', the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, on part of land document.
Cape Town, Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 31 August 1896.
On 8 x 20cm. piece of paper from official document. In good condition, lightly aged. With embossed seal.


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