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A Muslim Lysistrata?
May 4, 2007 May 4, 2007 by demimasque
Aristophanes penned Lysistrata during the Peloponnesian War, about Greek women who manage to stop the war by withholding sex from their soldier-husbands. In a way, this is what Western women have been doing in the second half of the 20th Century. By leaving the home to work, they have made their sexual favors more dear. By earning their own wages, they have unchained themselves from supplicating reliance on the menfolk. We in the West have had a long time to get used to this transformation, and for the most part we are better off for it. I don't have the data, but I suspect that societies where women make up more than one third of wage earners have seldom if ever gone to war against each other.
In a separate piece, I once argued that "[t]he gender imbalance in China's population, unemployment, and idleness of the People's Liberation Army all point in dangerous directions."
Now, Strategy Page discusses the effect on a society of having too many young, unemployed single men.
Many of those unemployed young men are angry, and making war is a typical activity of angry young men. But the women are not too happy either, and this is becoming one a major threat to Islamic terrorists. In Islamic societies, women's activities are greatly restricted. One thing they are encouraged to do is have lots of children. Many women in Islamic countries are rebelling against this. You don't hear much about this, because women don't rebel in the same loud, headline grabbing way that men do. What unhappy women often do is stop having children. Not so easy to do, you think? Well, think again.
Losing control of the women is something that makes Islamic conservatives very angry. Murderously angry. This is a vicious, lethal battle taking place largely out of the media spotlight. But, long term, it is destroying the source of Islamic terrorism.
The observation that "it's in Europe that you get the best look at the womens revolt in the Islamic world," and that these women are paying a price for it, is most probably a reference to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee whose life and work for the liberation of Muslim women resulted in the gruesome murder of Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of famed painter Vincent van Gogh, whose worked with Hirsi Ali on Submission, a short documentary about the mistreatment of women in some Muslim societies.
While Hirsi Ali's life is certainly unique, not only for her recent atheism and her outspokenness, the women of Lysistrata were no less shocking in their ideals. Perhaps Hirsi Ali, and others like her, will yet help guide Islam into the modern world.
[Cross-posted from Between Worlds]
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"I don't have the data, but I suspect that societies where women make up more than one third of wage earners have seldom if ever gone to war against each other."
There is perhaps one big exception to this–Nazi Germany. Richard Evans, in The Third Reich In Power, states that 1/3 of married women and 9/10 of unmarried women in Germany had wage-earning jobs in 1939. On the other hand, only 25% of workers in industry were women. The Nazi's seem to have been caught between the desire for a large industrial workforce to support the envisioned war of conquest, and their ideological commitment to the woman as wife and mother, confined to the domestic sphere.
demimasque
Stephen, thanks for that data. It doesn't seem inconsistent with my guess, since 25% of wage earners in Nazi Germany were women, well below the 33.33% I posited.
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, who lived in Nazi Germany, wrote (in his book "Diary of a Man in Despair") that women in general tended to be more ardent supporters of the Nazis than did men. He also schoolteachers and low-level government workers as generally avid supporters of the Nazi Party.
This is opinion, with no facts.
First, I'm always a little uneasy with this "women aren't warlike" meme. Sure we aren't as violent, sure our lack of testoserone often leads us to put a lot of waffle words around our opinions. We're different. But the people that keep saying that are often saying it for a power advantage – anyone that doesn't think we are competitive is living in another world than mine. After 9/11 women switched parties, switched sympathies, etc. much faster and harder than men. I suspect women are more moved by threats and men just find war games fun. There are differences.
Second, I'm also always a little uneasy with this women in the workforce meme. Traditionally, there was no "work force" – women and men worked. This is buying into that insane feminist myth that somehow women were kept at home before Betty Friedan. Home was where everyone worked for God's sake for thousands of years. Only in the incredibly wealthy and industrialized era in which we live would a woman be able to finish domestic work as quickly as we now do and would our thriftiness hinge more on finding bargains than ensuring the cows and chickens were productive. And men's lives – outside and inside the home – are marked by quite different economies.
This may seem off-target, but I do think we need to look at those assumptions a bit more. Not that excess men isn't likely to have extraordinary effects nor that the government performing the function of husband (& parent & child) in the modern west hasn't made for differences from child bearing to attention to defense for dangers lurking in the future. I just think we need to be wary of some flawed definitions of human nature.
Ginny's right. For thousands of years, women worked – hell my grandmother worked just as hard as my grandfather on the family farm. She wasn't sitting in the house reading all day, she was milking the cows and hosing down the barn.
I'll go a step farther. Women of the middle and upper classes working is a sign of wealth, as Ginny pointed out:
Only in the incredibly wealthy and industrialized era in which we live would a woman be able to finish domestic work as quickly as we now do
What wealth does is diminish the desire for combat, because there is no need to fight for resouces. It also causes the holder of the wealth to get a little lazy. And finally, shepherding wealth causes people to be risk-averse. Women working in the upper classes is a side effect of wealth, and is a symptom, not a root cause. (Paradoxically, women working in the lower classes is a sign of poverty – the question is, what are the women working at? Manual labor or intellectual endeavors?)
Only in very wealthy societies can the wives of the upper and middle classes work, because they have the capital infrastructure to devote to labor-saving devices in the home. Lower classes always live in a bit more squalor because when the wife works, something has to give (or grandparents have to pitch in, which happened a lot in pre-industrial societies).
Two societies where women comprised over 1/3 of the workforce that went to war with each other were Nazi Germany and the USSR. But in neither case did the wives of the elites work – even with servants someone had to run the household.
But I 100% agree that the sex imbalance is a huge problem in China and the ME. In ancient polygamous societies, bands of unmarried young men were the greatest threat to civil order. King David's roving band was probably one such group. The Taiping rebellion also sprang from the same source.
That last comment was me.
"What wealth does is diminish the desire for combat, because there is no need to fight for resources"…but there are reasons for fighting other than resources. Many aristocracies have been warlike, even though the individual members had all the resources they needed. The American southern planter aristocracy was notoriously combative, with many of its members engaging in duels for trivial reasons and looking forward to war with the North as a great adventure.
Perhaps it is specifically *bourgeois* wealth, gained through individual assertion–as opposed to wealth gained through inheritance & social status–that diminishes the desire for combat.
David – I've thought about that, and my answer has to do with what I was trying to get at in my trajectories post – the desire for combat also has to do with how many generations back your family was in a mortal struggle for existence. Southern planters were only one or two genrations from battling the French and Indians, and nobody came to America because life was beer and skittles in the Old Country – they came becuase they had ambition or they were on the bottom in EU. So there is more than one factor in this equation, and I don't think we've identified all the terms. But this should surely not be a one term mental model.
You need a few generations to bleed the combative tendencies out, and family life has a lot to do with it it – I'm talking on average here. Losing combatitiveness is a good thing in most social situations, but deadly when confronted by real violence – witness the left's reactions to 9/11.
David – I like that idea about wealth gained through individual exertion – one, it makes the wealth dearer and the individual less likely to risk it in silly confrontations, and two, the aggressive tendencies of humans beings are channeled into economic combat rather than the real thing. Japan's a good example.
Hmmm, that reminds me, Japan is strange case. Almost all women work until marriage, but after that many quit. And very few of them work in jobs with authority. That's changing, true, but there are still very few women top managers compared to China. That may prove my point – it's wealth (and to your point – wealth directly earned since the 50s), not the working status of women that kept Japan pacified since WWII.
When it works, civilization recognizes human nature and tries to channel it in ways that work best for society as well as the individual. My favorite anecdote about my husband's colleagues is the one who declared (after listening to my husband's paper on Tennyson's Idylls of the King, analyzed from a biopoetic angle) that of course, men became violent after capitalism took over. That he would think the noble savage was the predominant culture up to the industrial revolution is almost as stupid as thinking man becomes violent because society makes him so. But, then, he encourages his students to analyze lit from a Marxist perspective. So goes the reality of academia.
sol vason
The deciding factor is not whether or not women have jobs outside the home but if the country is actually a democracy.
Democracies tend to avoid war, or at least not start them.
All the communist countries had very high percentage of women working, all were irredentist, all overthrew neighboring non-communist governments, all would have started wars if the countries they invaded had decided to resist.
Germany had massive unemployment in 1931 and hyper inflation. Hitler was elected Chancellor and his NSDAP
(National Socialist German Workers Party) created enough government jobs to get every one back to work either as soldiers or making guns, ammunition and uniforms (mostly size 35 or smaller). 1930s Germany were smaller than modern Germans.
At that time, only 10 years after women got the vote, it was said that Hitler was elected because women voted for him. There were no reliable polls to show voting behavior by sex. This claim was made to show women should not be allowed to vote – not that Hitler was a Bill Clinton precursor.
Hitler was the first politician to campaign by air. But rather than wait to land he would jump out and parachute into his rallies.
I would really like to see this year's candidates parachute into their rallies.
Mr. Bingley
But rather than wait to land he would jump out and parachute into his rallies.
Huh? While it's true he seems to have been the first to have hired a plane to fly him from rally to rally I've never seen any mention of him parachuting.
outraged
Back to the original post, I'm fascinated by all the "explanations" of why contemporary Muslim societies are more warlike, angry, and irrational than our own. A different one seems to pop up here each week. Impervious, for instance, to the implications of the recent survey that found that more than one in ten GIs had deliberately mistreated Iraqi civilians, half would not report a fellow GI for doing so, and most support torture–impervious to all the horror we have been perpetrating on others and our own men for the past four years–we persist in believing that there is something different between us (compassionate, humane, controlled, rational, enlightened) and them….
pst314
Outraged, I am fascinated at how people can still fail to notice that muslim violence precedes any such allegations…and that back before muslims learned how to play on Western guilt they were quite in saying that they were making war and committing terrorist acts in order to advance an ideology of islamic supremacism and to "keep the dirty infidels in their place".
Mr Bingley,
Your comment has made me try to find the source of Hitler parachuting to his rallies. I read it Adolf Hitler, 3 vols,
Pierre et Renee Gosset, published by Rene Julliard, Paris, 1961 vol 1 p285 back in 1964
"Le candidat nazi…a affrete un trimoteur Dornier et il tombe de ciel a Dresde, a Nuremberg, a Frankfort, a Chewmnitz, a Leipzig, a Berlin, a Konigsberg, a Ratisbonne, a Essen, a Munster, a Stuttgart."
In 1964 I interpretted "tombe de ciel" as parachuting but I suppose it could mean "dropped in". Perhaps some one with a newspaper from 1932 for one of these cities can say which is true.
I really would like to see today's candidates parachute into their rallies. It would demonstrate Vigor and probably it would be better if Hitler had not done it first.
Presumably this would make men more desperate to earn money to buy "their sexual favors".
How exactly would that make make society less belicose?
In the UK, according to http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/burnett2.html:
"The Census of 1851, the first to attempt to count occupations in any detail, gave a total of 2.8 million women and girls over the age of ten in employment out of a female population of 10.1 millions, forming a proportion of 30.2 per cent of the whole labour force. (In 1901 they composed 29.1 per cent and in 1931 29-8 per cent of the labour force, though compulsory schooling to fourteen by the latter year has to be taken into account.)"
Apparently those figures may be underestimates.
This would be a couple of years after Britain completed its conquest of modern Pakistan, and 3 years before the Crimean war. I believe the British were also engaged in conquring New Zealand.
Warlike enough?
Point being?
Reading the whole of your piece seems to suggest that either male dominated societies or societies where men are afraid of losing their dominance are the ones that go to war. Is your conclusion that it's a blessing to be pussy-whipped as long as you're resigned to it? Why not postulate that we should all don rainbow T-shirts and turn homo? I noted that your angle seemed to be premised upon a perception of 'the West' being peaceful… I'm thinking that's because you live in the West far from the unfortunate places where the West wage their wars.
Finally, what is your guess that societies where women make up more than 1/3 of earners would not have gone to war AGAINST EACH OTHER supposed to prove? The fact that they may not fight against each other does not disqualify them from being warlike… and the fact that you don't even attempt supply any figures for your postulations consigns them to the realm of prejudice.
You could have said in fewer words, "I hate Muslims. I find them scary. The country I live in bombs them and takes their oil but still I find them threatening. I have never lived in a Muslim country so I have no first hand experience of Muslim lifestyles but I trust the media and my ignorance is willful. Knowing that the ways of my own culture are best is a position I choose and I do not need proof."
Vince P
Anyone who wants to learn about that great Muslim lifestyle that anom talks about should view this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHf1sOzCcpQ&feature=PlayList&p=1A045388288AF6ED&index=0&playnext=1
"Islam: What the West Needs to Know"


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Lana Parrilla's Interview: What will Regina do in the Season Finale?
In the final hours of Season 2, Regina may prove everyone wrong that she is not that evil. Maybe?
The Evil Queen has an opportunity to redeem her wicked ways by helping to stop the end of Storybrooke. Lana Parrilla sat down with TV Guide to dish a little dirt on her side of the fairy tale.
TV Guide: It seems like Regina will be forced to team up with the Charmings in the finale. What does that partnership look like?
Lana Parrilla: It's like her worst nightmare having to team up with the Charmings. She has to make decisions that are best for everyone because she falls under that category of her life being endangered as well. So, she's going to have to team up with whomever to stop this trigger from being activated. We saw in the last episode where David (Josh Dallas) says to Regina while she's lying in bed, "We are family." I think that really hits a soft spot for her. It follows suit with the Evil Queen episode where we see her in fairy-tale land with Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) dressed as a peasant and she asks Snow, "If Regina could change, if she wanted to be a family again, would you take her back? Would you forgive her?" Snow says, "Yes, I'd love that. I'd like a feather bed too, but neither one is going to happen." That's ultimately what she really wants is a family, which is why she's adopted Henry.
TV Guide: Is the possibility of having a family her motivation for possibly getting redemption?
Parrilla: Her family, Cora (Barbara Hershey) and her father, weren't the most supportive and weren't the best parents. I think this is an opportunity for redemption or a change. She's going to do whatever it takes to save everyone.
TV Guide: Is she really doing it for everyone or is she, like most of the time, doing it for herself?
Parrilla: In this episode, I think it is genuine. I think she is doing it for everyone. Again, who knows what can happen next season. She was on the path to redemption for how many episodes this season and then again made another turn. But it's always something that leads her there. It's a choice, but something triggers that inside of her where she wants that revenge and she wants to get back and hurt someone. So, I find that at this point, she is responsible, she created this trigger, she made it, and it was a failsafe. I don't think she ever thought she would have to use it. Look at where it was hidden for crying out loud. But now I think she does feel responsible and I feel like she needs to do something to stop Greg and Tamara from activating it.
TV Guide: We do see in the promos that once it is activated, Regina is trying to contain it. Might we see Regina consider sacrificing herself to save the rest of the Storybrooke residents?
Parrilla: Yeah. I think you'll see that. The question is: Where does it go from there? That's what everyone is wondering. Is Regina going to survive or is she not going to survive? That's something you're just going to have to wait and see. She's doing her best to contain the energy, but given where she's come from and what she's just went through, she's very, very, very weak.
TV Guide: That makes me nervous for the Evil Queen — a sentence I never thought I'd say.
Parrilla: Well, I think it's surprising for everyone, including me when I read it. I was very surprised. She was just shocked for many hours at very high voltage. When you see her in this previous episode, she's lying down on the bed and she can barely move. She's already depleted and now having to contain this energy and control it, it's going to take everything out of her.
TV Guide: We've seen Regina flip-flop a lot this season as far as deciding whether she's good or evil. Will we see her definitively decide which side she falls on? And how do you feel about all the back-and-forth this season?
Towards the end of Season 2, it's really going moment-to-moment with her. I don't think she really likes the Charmings. Like I said, she hears from David, "We're family," and it's a beautiful thing to hear, but still deep down inside her, she probably hates that she's family with them. She probably hates that they now are somewhat related. With Regina, it's always complex. I think that's what makes her such a beautiful character. It's just not black and white with her. I never know what she's going to do next. I'm always surprised when I read these scripts that she's pretty schizophrenic. It is fun playing out these different levels of emotion and not knowing really where her truth lies sometimes because she is all over the place. I am always just baffled by her behavior, her choices and the decisions she makes. I find them fun, I find them threatening, I find them vulnerable, scary and exciting. I mean, that's why people love her. She's so unpredictable.
TV Guide: Especially when she erased Henry's memory. Will we see a confrontation between her and Henry about that?
Parrilla: Well, first of all, I can't even tell you how many conversations I had over that scene because I was confused by it. … I don't understand why is she doing this. Why would she use magic on Henry? She wouldn't use magic on Daniel (Noah Bean), so why would she do it to Henry? I think it's one of those crisis moments. She didn't completely erase his memory. It was short-term, so she just erased that entire conversation so he wouldn't remember what happened. It was almost like a little dose of magic just to see what it did.
I think her plan in demolishing Storybrooke and taking Henry to the Enchanted Forest would require a full bottle of potions, not just a little drop to really erase his memory. I think that's her secret. No one knows that that's happened. Obviously, Henry doesn't. Will she do it again? Who knows? We never know what Regina is capable of. She is a very strong, strong woman and relatable for many people and also someone we can admire because of her strength. I think she makes decisions that she wasn't necessarily expecting to make, but is forced to make in the moment. It's because that clock is ticking. She doesn't really have a lot of time to sit around and come up with a Plan B.
TV Guide: So she acts rashly, which is understandable… sort of.
Parrilla: Again, you see her heart. At the core of Regina, she is good. At the core of her being, I truly believe that she is good. I just think she's been messed up along the way. All the betrayals and all the trauma and all the lies and the deaths have made her the person she is.
TV Guide: While the potential destruction of Storybrooke is going on, there is also the prophecy looming, which Lacey (Emilie de Ravin) has just found out about. Will Regina need to protect Henry while also trying to protect all of Storybrooke?
Parrilla: She will definitely need to protect Henry. She's always protecting Henry. Lacey's always been a problem from the beginning. She's a wild one. But I think with that particular story line, there are bigger issues. What trumps all of that is this trigger. It doesn't matter what Lacey or Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) or Henry or anyone does. At this point, the most important thing is to stop this trigger from blowing up all of Storybrooke. I think that's where she's coming from and that's her No. 1 focus in this finale. Then she can deal with Lacey. Lacey can be demolished in about five seconds with Regina. She's not even really concerned with her. Now Mr. Gold — that's another story.


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Microsoft Offers Rewards of Up to $20,000 in New Xbox Bug Bounty Program
Author: Elizabeth Montalbano
Program is the latest the tech giant has launched that pay users and security researchers to find vulnerabilities in its numerous products.
Microsoft is offering rewards of up to $20,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its Xbox gaming platform through its latest bug bounty program unveiled this week.
The Xbox Bounty Program is open to gamers, security researchers and basically anyone who can help the tech giant identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and services and share them with the Xbox team, Chloé Brown, a Microsoft Security Response Center program manager, said in a blog post Thursday.
"Since launching in 2002, the Xbox network has enabled millions of users to share their common love of gaming on a safe and secure service," she wrote in the post. "The bounty program supplements our existing investments in security development and testing to uncover and remediate vulnerabilities which have a direct and demonstrable impact on the security of Xbox customers."
The minimum award for identifying an Xbox bug is $500. As is always the case in its bug-bounty programs, Microsoft will award submissions at the company's discretion and pay "based on the severity and impact of the vulnerability and the quality of the submission," according to the program's guidelines.
If early reception to the new program is any indication, researchers welcome the opportunity to be paid for hacking the Xbox platform, as they already have been doing it for free.
"Absolutely get in on this if you want fun research," Tweeted Kevin Beaumont, a self-appointed "cybersecurity bore." Beaumont said he already has launched a man-in-the-middle attack on his own Xbox One and found "some really interesting things going on," adding that "more research would be good as I couldn't find anything for it on Google."
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Q: How to spec methods that exit or abort I have a method being triggered from a CLI that has some logical paths which explicitly exit or abort. I have found that when writing specs for this method, RSpec marks it as failing because the exits are exceptions. Here's a a bare bones example:
def cli_method
  if condition
    puts "Everything's okay!"
  else
    puts "GTFO!"
    exit
  end
end

I can wrap the spec in a lambda with should raise_error(SystemExit), but that disregards any assertions that happen inside the block. To be clear: I'm not testing the exit itself, but the logic that happens before it. How might I go about speccing this type of method?

A: Simply put your assertions outside of the lambda, for example:
class Foo
  attr_accessor :result

  def logic_and_exit
    @result = :bad_logic
    exit
  end
end

describe 'Foo#logic_and_exit' do
  before(:each) do
    @foo = Foo.new
  end

  it "should set @foo" do
    lambda { @foo.logic_and_exit; exit }.should raise_error SystemExit
    @foo.result.should == :logics
  end
end

When I run rspec, it correctly tells me:
expected: :logics
     got: :bad_logic (using ==)

Is there any case where this wouldn't work for you?
EDIT: I added an 'exit' call inside the lambda to hande the case where logic_and_exit doesn't exit.
EDIT2: Even better, just do this in your test:
begin
  @foo.logic_and_exit
rescue SystemExit
end
@foo.result.should == :logics

A: New answer to cover Rspec 3's expect syntax.
Testing the output
Just to test what you actually want (ie. you're not testing the exception, or a value response,) what has been output to STDOUT.
When condition is false
it "has a false condition" do
  # NOTE: Set up your condition's parameters to make it false
  expect {
    begin cli_method
    rescue SystemExit
    end
  }.to output("GTFO").to_stdout # or .to_stderr
end

When condition is true
it "has a true condition" do
  # NOTE: Set up your condition's parameters to make it true
  expect {
    begin cli_method
    rescue SystemExit
    end
  }.to output("Everything's okay!").to_stdout
end

Note that output("String").to_... can accept a Regex eg.
output(/^Everything's okay!$/).to_stdout

It can also capture from stderr eg.
output("GTFO").to_stderr

(Which would be a better place to send it, for the OP's example.)
Testing the Exit
You can separately test that the false condition also raises SystemExit
it "exits when condition is false" do
  # NOTE: Set up your condition's parameters to make it false
  expect{cli_method}.to raise_error SystemExit
end

it "doesn't exit when condition is true" do
  # NOTE: Set up your condition's parameters to make it true
  expect{cli_method}.not_to raise_error SystemExit
end

A:
I can wrap the spec in a lambda with should raise_error(SystemExit),
  but that disregards any assertions that happen inside the block.

I don't see a difference putting tests inside or outside the lambda. In either case, the failure message is a bit cryptic:
def cli_method(condition)
  if condition
    puts "OK"
  else
    puts "GTFO"
    exit
  end
end

describe "cli_method" do
  context "outside lambda" do
    # passing
    it "writes to STDOUT when condition is false" do
      STDOUT.should_receive(:puts).with("GTFO")
      lambda {
        cli_method(false)
      }.should raise_error(SystemExit)
    end

    # failing
    it "does not write to STDOUT when condition is false" do
      STDOUT.should_not_receive(:puts).with("GTFO")
      lambda {
        cli_method(false)
      }.should raise_error(SystemExit)
    end
  end
  context "inside lambda" do
    # passing
    it "writes to STDOUT when condition is false" do
      lambda {
        STDOUT.should_receive(:puts).with("GTFO")
        cli_method(false)
      }.should raise_error(SystemExit)
    end

    # failing
    it "does not write to STDOUT when condition is false" do
      lambda {
        STDOUT.should_not_receive(:puts).with("GTFO")
        cli_method(false)
      }.should raise_error(SystemExit)
    end
  end
end

 # output
.F.F

Failures:

  1) cli_method outside lambda does not write to STDOUT when condition is false
     Failure/Error: lambda {
       expected SystemExit, got #<RSpec::Mocks::MockExpectationError: (#<IO:0xb28cd8>).puts("GTFO")
           expected: 0 times
           received: 1 time>
     # ./gtfo_spec.rb:23:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) cli_method inside lambda does not write to STDOUT when condition is false
     Failure/Error: lambda {
       expected SystemExit, got #<RSpec::Mocks::MockExpectationError: (#<IO:0xb28cd8>).puts("GTFO")
           expected: 0 times
           received: 1 time>
     # ./gtfo_spec.rb:39:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

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At the Dec. 21th elections that were imposed in Catalonia, after the institutional putsch led by the Spanish government that was endorsed by the EU, the pro-independence bloc has won again, albeit by a narrow margin. It will be able to govern but it will be difficult to implement the popular mandate concerning the restitution of the ephemeral Catalan Republic proclaimed on October 27, as well as the reconstruction of the autonomy. Madrid has imprisoned one part of the legitimate government and sent another part into exile. The courts have indicted new leaders of the left and the right and civil society, in a general prosecution against the very idea of independence, by using the so-called "crime of rebellion", which is absolutely unimaginable as a part of the European legislation and the values that underpin it.
The strategy of Madrid is to systematically attack by land, sea and air the independence sector. By using courts; occupation forces ready to use violence; overwhelming media intoxication; financial stranglehold on leaders and some citizens; capillarized repression on town halls, schools and activist sectors; different forms of censorship; and conditioning the restitution of the autonomous government and its suspended powers, to the abandonment of the restitution of the Republic, peacefully proclaimed with a pro-independence majority based on the outcome of the referendum. Madrid has also threatened to organize new elections, even suggesting to do it several times until they win. This regime still considers itself a democracy despite having lost many democratic attributes, and it is leading the Catalan society to a dead end.
Maybe the first move of the new government, if it can be established, it would be to turn once again towards Europe so as to force Spain to an agreed referendum. If Europe keeps ignoring it, what comes next could be a brutal or maybe a glorious historical moment, related either to revolution or to permanent occupation and submission.
Beyond Catalonia and Spain, what is at stake is the very sense of democracy that shows itself in two visions: on the on the one hand, a very problematic neoliberal democracy, limited to nation states with decreasing sovereign attributes, and on the other hand, one possible and necessary democracy without borders, that could extend to the global scale while reinventing itself in depth, and which would advocate the self-determination of peoples and communities as one of its inalienable constituent elements.
1. This conflict concerns the fundamental values of Europe and the evolution of democracy in the world. The Westphalian order, that is, the division of the planet into sovereign States, is one of the pillars of the world system, and the mobility of the borders is one of the taboos of this order. The world system justifies this immobility in the name of a peace that actually brings more benefits to the elites than did the frequent wars in previous centuries. However this is obviously highly legitimated by the whole society for obvious reasons. The governments of the major European countries want to protect their territorial and economic privileges and use the EU as an alliance for the benefit of their elites. This is a repetition of the Holy Alliance's mission two centuries later: A coalition of the powerful who protects themselves from their subjects' claims, in the name of peace. Crystallizing borders helps financial stability, putting the interests of enriching a handful of people before fighting the suffering of the majority, and constrains democracy to the confined spaces of nation-states. In the case of Catalonia, they join forces to oppress a peaceful, democratic, cross-sectional ideological movement which is open to immigration and wants to recover a deteriorated welfare state throughout Europe. A movement which defends a culture and a language threatened by globalization, and which dared to advance the cause of democracy in front of the frozen laws of a Spanish power system, that is heir of a Francoist and colonial past.
2. The strategic choice of Gandhian gradualism in Catalonia opens a new path in the history of national-based conflict resolutions. In 2006, the PP government cut drastically the Catalan statute which had been previously by both the Spanish and the Catalan parliaments as well as through a referendum. The citizen and government responses to these facts have been gradualist, democratic and peaceful, crossing several stages in front of Madrid's emphasis in refusing dialogue. In 2010 Madrid rejected the original statute and a fiscal pact designed to curb the autonomy suffocation due to the crisis. As a consequence, the independence camp increased exponentially, but its claims for self-determination were also ignored. After winning a first tolerated referendum in 2015, Madrid turned a deaf ear again. The second unilateral referendum in 2017 was handled through a brutal repression by Spanish forces and over 1000 were wounded. Presently there is repression on all fronts, as mentioned above.
3. Behind the accusation of lack of solidarity with other regions, a low democratic quality of most of the current States and their vertical lack of solidarity, is hidden. Neoliberalism doesn't reduce the size of the bureaucracies but transforms the public institutions into instruments at the service of the powerful and the growing divide between rich and poor. In Spain, the level of transfer between territories required by Madrid is well above the standards of the federal systems (transfer of 8% of GDP from Catalonia, 4% among German landers, 1% or less among EU states). This causes that many public services in Catalonia have worse quality that the same ones in the beneficiary regions. Finally, the Madrid government builds a centralizing territorial system that benefits the Capital city as an economic and financial pole and relegates an increasingly deindustrialized periphery to depend on tourism, subsidized agriculture and the income of its emigrants.
Therefore, behind the accusation of the lack of solidarity of certain rich regions, from a moral point of view the question should not be whether all stateless nations or peoples have the right to self-determination, or only some of them (the ancient colonies), or only the poorest ones, given that they would supposedly take less resources from the rest, or none at all. The question should be whether any human community, whether stateless or not, whether rich or poor, has that right. We argue here in favour of it.
4. Behind the resistance to the mobility of the borders, the fear of the loss of corporate and institutional power of the few, is hidden. This fear uses the excuse of balkanization and the deterioration of the public sector. Criticizing the integrity of the neoliberal states then becomes a way to criticizing the system. This claim of freedom for stateless nations is protected by the universal right of protection of minorities. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, recently stated that he would not like to see a Europe of ninety states in the future. This fear of balkanization is based on two arguments: historical imitation, and the eventual preference of the elites for a fragmented map of weak states. The first argument is contested with facts: recent isolated independences (Eritrea, South Sudan, East Timor) did not cause chain effects, while the recent successive or simultaneous independences (decolonization of the 1960s and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989) happened as a result of historical events unrelated to a nationalist contagion. The decolonization process culminated the European defeat in the Second World War while the fall of the Berlin wall led to the collapse of the socialist system.
The second argument is based on the belief that fragmentation in weak and small states benefits a globalized and powerful capitalist system. This argument ignores how some of the most efficient countries in the world are small. It also ignores that a local strong civil society like the Catalan one, can crush the global forces in its territory. Therefore, what is relevant is not the number of States but how fair or unfair are the relations between them, and within them, and to what extent these relations benefit or not all of their citizenship, from the perspective of the satisfaction of their needs and rights: peace, food, health, housing, resources.
5. The fear of violent nationalist forces leading to wars, encourages the prevalence of the statu quo and undermines peaceful initiatives against the system. The ghost of war delegitimizes secessionism. Europe looks back and is afraid of its own history. Even those who acknowledge the fully peaceful nature of the Catalan movement, reject its claims because could unleash less peaceful movements elsewhere. Nevertheless, revolutions are risky by definition. They dig a hole where the best or the worst of human nature can go through. So, in front of this risk, we should ask ourselves if the cause deserves the revolution to be made. Is the will of minorities a universal right that must be defended? The great contradiction and the great challenge for geopolitics would be for the international community to accept new States as a result of democratic and peaceful citizen processes, and not as the result of armed conflicts anymore. But is Europe ready to take that step? Maybe so, maybe not.
a) The sovereign States would cease to be the central actor of the international political organization, and would share their prominence with other actors.
b) Ultimate exclusive sovereignty over the territory would be shared horizontally with different administrative levels while sharing some common values.
c) Thanks to this, in the future, new peoples and communities can be recognized in confederations, federations, associations, autonomies, areas of co-sovereignty and sometimes full independencies, all through peaceful and democratic processes.
d) Current states maintain a fictional equality through the principle of exclusive sovereignty. This can be transformed in the future into a universal citizenship founded on peace, solidarity and empathy, represented through different identities, and organized in fully democratic multi-scalar authorities and networks' systems which articulate their competences, offer their services, establish rules, celebrate diversity, and manage conflict resolutions in a peaceful and creative way.
e) Every future self-determination act can cease to be a conflictive exception, and become an ordinary aspect of international citizen political life.
f) Establishing democratic rules internationally would lead to rethink the very nature of modern representative systems.
7. In addition, they open the door to proximate sovereignties. Beyond communities that recognized themselves as stateless peoples or nations, there are other communities without a common past, but sharing a vision of the future, who could also aspire to self-determination. These can be societies planning or practising how to put their institutions back at the service of the people and not of the regional or world elites anymore. The eventual proliferation of these experiences could lead to a different type of world governance. In these small territories, citizens would rule directly and would leave the representative regimes and their political parties mostly kidnapped by the system. The replication of these proximate sovereignties would advance the global democratic agenda and disintegrate the power of the largest countries over the affairs of the world, confronting their warmongering and neoliberal agenda, and thus improving significantly the world governance from the perspective of peace, justice, equality and environment. In politics, proximity in decision-making is essential to ensure a real democracy from below, the same way as in commerce, proximity enhances peoples' control of production and distribution, and in consequence, more quality of goods and services.
Under this scenario, regional organizations should be reconverted radically. They should stop being agents working for big business like EU, whose public policies are dictated from above to its 27 members. In case a proliferation of new countries occurs, the EU could become an instrument at the service of a tool at the service of the will of its people and the satisfaction of their needs, among which is the goal of ending discrimination between first and second class peoples and nations, whether they are nation-states or stateless nations.
In conclusion: Catalonia is an opportunity to keep burning the fire of the much-needed peoples' subversion to the world order. Each blow to the geopolitical rigidity of the Westphalian order, if it happens from below and democratically, as is the case in Catalonia, is a seismic movement that challenges the current system of the few, by attacking one of its pillars: the hieratical 195 provinces of its world governance. Perhaps it is not the most visible opportunity or the one that attracts more followers outside its borders, because it is confusedly interpreted as a nationalist revolt. But in fact, as it has been argued, all this is about a broader struggle for social and civic rights. It is not the perfect revolution, but it is the possible revolution of our day, because it has allowed in Catalonia the alliance of different sectors and social classes. A cross-sectional coalition of parties and ideologies has been built behind the people who are united in their will to change the map. And this effort can be understood as a way of trying to break the perverse rules of the global game. The political awareness of small peoples is a historical phenomenon which can transform societies internationally. It goes beyond the defence of ethnic diversity towards a full range of social and environmental needs expressed from below. In this way, they can be one of the key points of a future movement towards real universal democracy that goes far beyond the precarious structures of the current global peace.


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Mormon, ex-NFL QB Steve Young wants to build bridges with gay community
SALT LAKE CITY — Legendary NFL quarterback Steve Young says he's a Mormon who wants to build bridges with the gay community.
By Associated Press Sunday, September 15, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY — Legendary NFL quarterback Steve Young says he's a Mormon who wants to build bridges with the gay community.
Young spoke Saturday night to about 400 people attending the New Frontiers conference of the group Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons.
The former BYU quarterback said his goal "is to build bridges with my gay brothers and sisters. We need to see each other as Jesus sees us."
Young also reminisced about winning the Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49ers, and spoke about relying on faith.
"(Faith is the) fundamental fuel for the human experience," he said. "If the experience is to return to our Heavenly Father, faith is the fuel from beginning to end."
He introduced his wife, Barb, as an advocate for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
"There is not a day that goes by that you are not on her mind. She has spent countless hours advocating for you," Young told the crowd.
Barb Young, a Mormon convert whose older brother is gay, actively opposed California's Proposition 8 in 2008, even though leaders of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enlisted members to work for its passage. The measure banning same-sex marriage was passed by voters.
She urged attendees to be "patient like Jesus" and to love LDS church members as they move toward understanding of their LGBT family members.
"One of the most beautiful things about this church is that it can evolve," she said. "It may not go as fast as everyone wants, but it is evolving."
In the end, Barb Young said, everything depends on how fully Mormons live their faith.
"If we consciously embrace Jesus' teaching of empathy, compassionate, and love, the future world will be different," she said.
Judy Finch, who has a son and two grandchildren who identify as being gay, said she sees mostly LDS church members in her private practice as a psychotherapist.
"In my role (as a therapist) I provide hope and reassurance and encouragement," Finch told the crowd. "Heavenly Father loves our gays exactly the way they are — exactly the way he created them."
Perhaps people have been praying for the wrong thing when they ask for gay people to become straight, she said. Instead, they should ask to know God's will in "respect to gays" and for the ability to fulfill it, she said.
The conference revolved around a theme of spiritual healing and reconciliation for those who identify as being LGBT.
The Mormon church teaches that same-sex attraction is not a sin, but acting on it is.
"Even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them. With love and understanding, the church reaches out to all God's children, including our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters," the church website states.
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Sandra Bullock Offered Ben Affleck Breath Mints Before Shooting Kissing Scenes in 'Forces of Nature'
Celebrity / By admin / January 13, 2021 January 13, 2021
Sandra Bullock has shared on-screen kisses with several of Hollywood's most popular male actresses. From Ryan Reynolds to Keanu Reeves, the Blind side an actor is no stranger to filming romantic scenes with attractive peers.
While she didn't seem to mind locking lips with her compatriots to bring love to life on the big screen, that kiss seems to be Forces of Nature star Ben Affleck was far from a favorite for Bullock.
Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck Frank Trapper / Corbis through Getty Images
Sandra Bullock is an award-winning actress
Bullock is an acclaimed actor who has appeared in several famous films over the years. Since catching the wheel of a transmission bus in the 1994 action film, Astar, her career has not slowed down.
While she has a number of broad acting roles in her filmmaking, the Oscar winner has easily handled multiple genres over her more than 30-year career.
From appearing as a major lead in the 2018 Netflix thrush Bird box to play the cunning stalker with penchant for crossword puzzles in comedy All about Steve, Bullock has proven that she can easily command the screen playing any character.
But her most obvious roles are those she has had in romantic comedies like While you were asleep, Manipulative magic, Two weeks notice, and The suggestion, which got her all nominated for big shows.
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Ben Affleck has held a number of film roles
Like Bullock, Affleck is one of Hollywood's most famous actors. While he doesn't have a very good range like many other actors of his image, Affleck has been in a number of well-known dramas and studio films.
From playing a supporting character in the Academy Award-winning film, Hunt the goodwill, to star as plucky USAF pilot Rafe McCawley joins Pearl Harbor, Affleck has had some memorable duties over the years.
But he is known for being a star as the leading man in box office tours like Chasing Amy, Gone Girl, and Batman vs Superman: The Dawn of Justice.
While he is better known for his portraits in drama than he is for appearing in romantic flicks in front of a female lead, Affleck has had several appearances in romantic films.
as well Pearl Harbor, the actor has included several rom-coms in the 2003 film Gigli opposite Jennifer Lopez 's ex – boyfriend and the 2004 film Jersey girl, with Liv Tyler.
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While not all of Affleck's light-hearted films have been directed by friendship, many have allowed the actor to lock his lips with his co-stars. However, not everyone who needed to kiss on their lipstick has found the screen.
Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck pass locked bills in 'Forces of Nature'
Both Bullock and Affleck have appeared in many films through their successful careers. But it's only one film that the two actors have made together – and that was the 1999 rom-com Forces of Nature.
In the film, Affleck features Ben Holmes, a New York City writer who travels to Savannah, Georgia with free-spirited drifter Sarah (Bullock) after their flight encounters issues when the construction.
As they travel down south, Ben and Sarah have a close relationship. There's even a point when Ben is contemplating breaking up with his girlfriend and letting adventure be with Sarah.
The film's intriguing romance and delicate comedy keep viewers 'attention from start to finish, and Ben and Sarah's chemistry make it even more enjoyable to watch.
But while Bullock and Affleck 's connection was evident in the film, it turns out that the Congeniality Miss the star was not so happy about kissing her co-star on screen.
according to media outlets, Affleck suffers from severe halitosis that Bullock complained about his breathing on the set Forces of Nature. The Keeper even reports that Bullock gave Affleck a box of minutes to end kissing scenes with him.
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Thanksgiving might be the holiday most closely aligned with worship that we have on the calendar. After all, gratitude is the key that unlocks the gate of worship. With it, we can proceed into the court of praise. Read Psalm 100.
So, to help with this opportunity, let me share four "Ps" that might help you enter into worship this Thanksgiving.
People. This week is a great time to be thankful for the people in your life. Parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, spouses, children – and new for me this year – grandchildren! Do a quick inventory of the people God has blessed you with in your life, past and present. As you have an opportunity, reach out to them this week and express your gratitude to God for their investment in your life!
Provision. The hymnwriter helps us here. "All I have needed Thy hand hath provided." ("Great is Thy Faithfulness" — Baptist Hymnal #96). When you remember how God has provided for you in life – and His provision for our future in Christ – it gets pretty easy to have gratitude. This year also remember those who are struggling to identify God's provision because of hurricanes and fires, or maybe even personal tragedy. Don't miss the opportunity to be an instrument of provision to someone you know this Thanksgiving. The blessing will be yours!
Protection. Recently I was in an automobile accident. It was one of those "could have been a whole lot worse" kind of accidents. Except for stitches in my head, I was un-harmed. A few seconds either way, I might be writing a very different blog today.
That God Himself would hold me to His heart.
In the unseen hands of God.
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Press release - 6th April 2006
Division : Corporate
Annual results 2005 of Metalor Technologies International SA
Metalor closed the year 2005 with a good result. The consolidated net sales of the Metalor Group (without the value of the precious metal) amounted to CHF 247.9 Mio., 8% lower than in the previous year. Excluding the net sales for 2005 of the spun-off Dental Division, the comparable growth in sales amounted to 4%. The operating result (EBIT) increased from CHF 17.3 Mio. to CHF 21.4 Mio. in 2005, an increase of 24%. Operating costs were reduced by 25% to CHF 77 Mio. The highest impact on this reduction resulted from the spin-off of the Dental Division. The net income of CHF 40.8 Mio. includes a non-operating gain of CHF 32.1 Mio. which was mainly generated by the final sale of financial assets but was also influenced by one-off costs of CHF 5.1 Mio. for impair-ments of unused buildings. As foreseen since the take-over of the majority of the company by private investors, UBS AG sold its shares to the company and is no longer a shareholder. UBS AG remains an important business partner of Metalor. Metalor employed at the end of 2005 worldwide 1'151 people.
The Refining Division performed well in Switzerland, while the US operation was restructured and suffered a loss. The reduced cost basis will allow us to achieve a positive result in 2006. Overall, sales volumes were 3% lower than the previous year and with a lower profit, due to losses in the United States.
The Advanced Coatings Division performed below expectations in terms of sales, but improved its profitability. The slowdown in the European plating industry was the main reason for a weak first half of the year. Reduced operating costs and good sales towards the end of 2005 contributed to an 8% EBIT margin for the year. The restructuring of our French activities are finalized, and all remaining costs are provisioned.
The Watches and Jewelry Division increased its sales volume by 12%. The profitability was negatively influenced by increased precious-metals leasing costs which could not be fully passed on, and did not reach expectations.
The Electrotechnics Division continued its strong growth in sales and profitability. Turnover increased by 15% and the EBIT by 21%. Preparations for a market entry in China were made during the year. The operation will start in the second quarter 2006.
The Dental Division was operationally spun-off as per January 1st, 2005. The legal transaction took place in November. The equity of the group was reduced by CHF 18.9 Mio. through this transaction.
In 2005 a dividend of CHF 500 per share (CHF 5.3 Mio. in total) was paid to the shareholders. Shareholder equity at year-end 2005 amounted to CHF 337 Mio. or 69% of the total balance sheet value. The Group has a net cash position of CHF 52.5 Mio. as at 31.12.2005.
For the actual year we expect a continued stable development of our business.
Further information and our annual report in English and French language are available on our internet site www.metalor.com.
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Q: Azure DevOps yaml passing variable using "##vso[task.setvariable" not working In the following yaml stage (code given below), I am trying to convert parameter envList to specific env names.
e.g. envList = "NameDevEnv, NameQAEnv, NameStageEnv, NameProdEnv"
I am trying to pass NameDevEnv, NameQAEnv, NameStageEnv and NameProdEnv to separate variable/parameters in yaml and then pass these name to templates so those envs are created with the given names.
Following code is not printing the correct value for variable one. i.e. I am expecting the last statement, echo $(one) to print NameDevEnv.
Please advise / assist.
Thanks
stages:
  - stage: preWork
    jobs:
     - job: convert_input
       continueOnError: false
       steps:
         - script: |
              htring="${{parameters.envlist}}"
              echo $htring
              IFS=', ' read -r -a array <<< "$htring"
              echo "${array[0]}"
              htringz="${array[0]}"

              echo ${{ variables.one }} # outputs initialValue
              echo $(one)
              echo $htringz
             ## $htringz = $htring.split(",")[0]
           displayName: first vairable pass
         - bash: echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=one;isOutput=true;]$htringz"
           displayName: set new variable value
         - script: |
               echo ${{ variables.one }} # outputs initialValue
               echo $(one)

A: You are setting the value of htringz in task "first variable pass" and using the value in another task "set new variable value" as soon as the task change, the local variable of that task is not carried forward to another task.
If you want to set the value to variable one, do it in the same task.
Stage I used as an example, used bash instead of script as I prefer bash for statements like echo.
stages:
  - stage: preWork
    jobs:
     - job: convert_input
       continueOnError: false
       steps:
         - bash: |
              htringz="Test"
              echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=one]$htringz"
           displayName: first vairable pass
         - bash: echo $(one)

Output

Another stage with separate tasks for getting the value and separate task for setting the value
stages:
  - stage: preWork
    jobs:
     - job: convert_input
       continueOnError: false
       steps:
         - bash: |
              htringz="Test"
           displayName: first vairable pass
         - bash: |
               echo $htringz
               echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=one]$htringz"
               echo "=================="
               echo $(one)

Output

So, just set the value in the same task and it should work.
I hope this answer is helpful.


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"""TFR-BERT experiment configurations."""
# pylint: disable=g-doc-return-or-yield,line-too-long

from tensorflow_ranking.extension import premade

# pylint: disable=g-import-not-at-top
try:
  from official.core import config_definitions as cfg
  from official.core import exp_factory
  from official.modeling import optimization
except ModuleNotFoundError:
  raise ModuleNotFoundError(
      'tf-models-official needs to be installed. Run command: '
      '`pip install tf-models-official`.') from None
# pylint: enable=g-import-not-at-top

@exp_factory.register_config_factory('tfr_bert')
def tfrbert_exp() -> cfg.ExperimentConfig:
  """Defines a TFR-BERT experiment."""
  config = cfg.ExperimentConfig(
      task=premade.TFRBertConfig(
          train_data=premade.TFRBertDataConfig(),
          validation_data=premade.TFRBertDataConfig(
              is_training=False, drop_remainder=False)),
      trainer=cfg.TrainerConfig(
          optimizer_config=optimization.OptimizationConfig({
              'optimizer': {
                  'type': 'adamw',
                  'adamw': {
                      'weight_decay_rate':
                          0.01,
                      'exclude_from_weight_decay':
                          ['LayerNorm', 'layer_norm', 'bias'],
                  }
              },
              'learning_rate': {
                  'type': 'polynomial',
                  'polynomial': {
                      'initial_learning_rate': 3e-5,
                      'end_learning_rate': 0.0,
                  }
              },
              'warmup': {
                  'type': 'polynomial'
              }
          })),
      restrictions=[
          'task.train_data.is_training != None',
          'task.validation_data.is_training != None'
      ])
  config.task.model.encoder.type = 'bert'
  return config


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Propel Rower or Propel Rowing Machine gives you that extra flexibility to work your upper and lower body muscles. Users get to work on areas such as their hands, wrists and butts as well as quads (upper front of the thighs), rhomboids, trapeziums, biceps, calves etc. This also works on the core – your full torso including your abs. Propel rower is functional fitness at its best.
Propel Rower or Propel Rowing Machine workout burns an average of 600 calories an hour. That's more efficient than many other home cardio equipments in the market. The research shows that rowing burns 10 – 15% more than cycling – the next best calorie burner – at the same level of exertion.
The motion of rowing is natural and low impact, putting minimal stress on the joints. Because you are seated low to the ground, there is less risk of falling. While back strain is a concern, you can minimize the risk of back strain by using correct rowing form. Proper rowing posture let your legs do the work, taking the pressure of your back.
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Q: Is there any way to create user defined data types in python without using a class Is it possible to create user defined data types in python without using class, like using structure. Please explain, because I am new in python. Thank You

A: To create a type without using a class statement, you can use the type builtin:

class type(name, bases, dict)
With three arguments, return a new type object. This is essentially a dynamic form of the class statement. The name string is the class name and becomes the __name__ attribute; the bases tuple itemizes the base classes and becomes the __bases__ attribute; and the dict dictionary is the namespace containing definitions for class body and is copied to a standard dictionary to become the __dict__ attribute. For example, the following two statements create identical type objects:
class X:
    a = 1

X = type('X', (object,), dict(a=1))

See also Type Objects.


This course aims to describe the interrelation between our environment and human populations, local communities and individuals and the potential impact on health of environmental agents/contaminants. The unit will explore the major categories of environmental health hazards including air quality, water quality, chemical hazards (eg soils and contaminated sites), physical hazards (eg noise and radiation), microbiological hazards (eg Legionnaires' disease) and food safety. Regional and global issues of sustainability, climate change and land use planning will also be covered. The disciplines of epidemiology, toxicology and ecology will be applied within a risk assessment framework to characterise health risks associated with environmental hazards and determine risk management options and inform risk communication strategies. Students completing this unit will appreciate the multi-disciplinary nature of environmental health, the application of a risk assessment framework to characterise environmental health risks and inform risk management and risk communication, and the need to work closely with a broad range of stakeholders including commonwealth and state health, environment and planning agencies, local government, industry, researchers and the community.
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(Recommended only): Environmental Health (Fourth Edition). Moeller DW. Harvard University Press, 2011; Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand. Edited by Nancy Cromar, Scott Cameron and Howard Fallowfield, Oxford University Press, 2004; Enviromental Health, from Global to Local, 3rd Edition. Frumkin H. Wiley, 2016.


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The O&P Woman of the Year award was developed by OPGA, a division of VGM Group, Inc., and was open to all women who work in the orthotic and prosthetic industry. A selection committee of five industry professionals reviewed 27 nominations and selected the finalists by considering the nominees' contributions throughout their careers to patients, community and the profession.
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In August, Össur sponsored the third annual ÖWLI Conference, which had record attendance of nearly 70 registrants from the U.S., Canada and Iceland. In addition to a motivational talk by Össur Ambassador Jami Marseilles, the weekend's topics included branding, behavioral styles and team effectiveness, using social media for business promotion, creating amputee-focused events, and a half-day workshop on negotiating skills taught by author Selena Rezvani. View photos from the event here.
According to Edwards, one of the conference's highlights was a three-hour panel discussion that explored sexual harassment within the O&P profession. Several attendees were inspired to establish an independent workgroup to continue the discussion, with the intention of championing the topic in other industry groups.
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using System;
using System.Net;
using FluentAssertions;
using NSubstitute;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace Softwarekueche.MimeTypeDetective.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class MimeTypeByResponseHeaderTests
    {
        [Test]
        [TestCase(@"http://www.google.de", "text/html")]
        [TestCase(@"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Metallica_at_The_O2_Arena_London_2008.jpg", "image/jpeg")]
        //[TestCase(@"http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Siegburg,de", "application/json")]
        [TestCase(@"http://api.geonames.org/citiesJSON?north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2&lang=de&username=demo", "application/json")]
        public void TryWebUris(string uriString, string expected)
        {
            // use mocked WebRequest and avoid going against the internet
            Func<Uri, WebRequest> getRequest = uri => CreateMockRequest(expected);
            IMimeTypeResolver sut = new MimeTypeByResponseHeader(getRequest);

            sut.GetMimeTypeFor(new Uri(uriString)).Should().Be(expected);
        }

        static WebRequest CreateMockRequest(string responseContentType)
        {
            var webResponse = Substitute.For<WebResponse>();
            webResponse.ContentType = Arg.Do<string>(x => { });
            webResponse.ContentType.Returns(responseContentType);

            var webRequest = Substitute.For<WebRequest>();
            webRequest.GetResponse().Returns(webResponse);

            return webRequest;
        }
    }
}


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Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (Estocolmo, 28 de noviembre de 1718-Lugnet, 29 de junio de 1763) fue una poetisa y salonnière sueca de la Ilustración, y una de las primeras féminas de su país en lograr vivir de la pluma. Su compromiso en favor de los derechos de las mujeres le ha valido ser considerada una de las primeras feministas suecas.

Biografía
Era la más joven de los cinco hijos del rico funcionario Anders Andersson Nordbohm  (1675-1734), un contable de profesión que fue ennoblecido como Nordenflycht en 1727, y de Christina Rosin. Creció en Estocolmo hasta que, habiéndose jubilado su padre, marchó a vivir en 1731 la residencia familiar de Viby, en el condado de Uppsala. Se casó en 1734 con el profesor de su hermano, Johan Tideman, del que enviudó tres años más tarde. Fue un matrimonio sin amor, concertado por su padre, pese a lo cual ella quedó profundamente afectada por la inteligencia de su marido, un firme luterano, pero ilustrado y adepto de la filosofía de Christian Wolff que no llegó a compartir ni su racionalismo ni su escepticismo, hasta el punto de negar haberlo querido nunca; además Tideman no era nada agraciado físicamente. Desde niña había sido una voraz lectora; aprendió latín y alemán y, aunque se formó de forma bastante autodidacta, su erudición iba bastante lejos de lo común.

Nordenflycht se volvió a casar, esta vez por amor, con un clérigo pobre, Jacob Fabricius, que había sido su maestro de francés. Entonces escribió la colección poética Cronstedtska poemboken, un regalo para su amiga la condesa Margaretha Beata Cronstedt, y se instaló con su marido en Karlskrona cuando este fue nombrado allí capellán del Almirantazgo; pero este falleció también tras nueve meses de un matrimonio tan breve como feliz. Dos veces viuda y muy deprimida, la joven se instaló en una pequeña casa en la isla de Lidingö, en el archipiélago de Estocolmo; allí escribió su primera colección de poemas, Den sörgande Turtur-dufvan ("Lamento de una tórtola desolada"), que describía su desconsuelo por su amor perdido. Alcanzó un gran éxito cuando se publicó en 1743.

Terminado el periodo de luto, volvió a Estocolmo. Sin embargo, su situación económica no era la mejor a causa de que sus hermanos habían dilapidado la herencia paterna y de que su difunto marido no le había legado gran cosa a causa de su pobreza. En 1742 logró publica empero Svenska fruntimrets klagan ("El Lamento de la Mujer Sueca"), un poema sobre la reina Ulrica Leonor de Suecia. El mismo año ella solicitó una pensión del almirantazgo a que tenía derecho como viuda de Fabricius y su solicitud le fue concedida al año siguiente por intervención expresa del rey, que admiraba su talento poético. Ella escribió poemas para la casa real en varias ocasiones y en 1747 se le concedió un pequeño subsidio por parte de la princesa Luisa Ulrica de Prusia. Con esto, con la protección de sus amigos nobles y con su trabajo literario consiguió mantenerse decentemente.

Durante toda su carrera poética se interesó estrechamente en los debates políticos y religiosos de su tiempo, denunciando la opresión de las mujeres y su derecho a la educación. Tras haber perdido ella y su madre su casa en un incendio que afligió las barriadas norteñas de Estocolmo en 1751, el estado le concedió en ese mismo año una generosa pensión vitalicia de 600 coronas anuales que hubiera bastado para una vida cómoda el resto de sus días. Fuertemente influida por la Ilustración francesa, participó en la introducción de este pensamiento en su país en el seno de la sociedad Tankebyggarorden (Orden de los Constructores del Pensamiento, 1753–1763), primer grupo ilustrado de Estocolmo, donde alcanzó a ser conocida por el sobrenombre de "Urania" y "La pastora del Norte". Fundó además el primer salón literario sueco, en el que participaron los poetas Gustaf Philip Creutz y Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg. Mantuvo además correspondencia con destacados literatos europeos, como los suizos Albrecht von Haller y Gessner, el noruego Ludvig Holberg y el francés Fontenelle. Pero su fin había de ser trágico. En sus últimos poemas, redactados entre 1762 y 1763, se describe la pasión por el joven economista Johan Fischerström, de veinte años, y el triángulo amoroso que estos formaron con la condesa Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie; de esta penosa situación habría intentado salir suicidándose en un lago cercano a su casa en Lugnet, según afirmó un editor de su obra en el siglo XIX; no lo logró, pero el enfriamiento que le causó la hizo enfermar gravemente, y falleció, aunque al parecer ya padecía entonces otra seria enfermedad, cáncer.

Además de las obras citadas, se le debe Ideas sobre cómo emplear la poesía, Juegos del pensamiento de una mujer, por una pastora del Norte, Suecia salvada, Defensa de las mujeres (contra las ideas machistas de Jean-Jacques Rousseau); Cantos poéticos religiosos, La soledad, La calma, Ensayo de una Caroliada (poema en honor de Carlos X Gustavo de Suecia), etc. Sus Obras completas las publicó P. Hansell (Estocolmo, 1852).

Notas y referencias

Escritores de Suecia del siglo XVIII
Poetas de Suecia del siglo XVIII
Escritores en sueco
Feministas de Suecia
Salonnière
Nacidos en Estocolmo


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package crashfilter.va.MLocAnalysis.env;

import java.util.List;

import com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi.API.reil.ReilBlock;
import com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi.API.reil.ReilEdge;
import com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi.API.reil.ReilInstruction;

import crashfilter.va.MLocAnalysis.RTable.Inst2RTable;
import crashfilter.va.MLocAnalysis.RTable.RTable;

public class EdgeMapper {

	// using before merge(transfer function) for find source instruction's rTables
	// edgeMap
	// key : Edge
	// value :
	//          Edge's source => BB
	//			BB's last Instruction => INST
	//			INST's rTable => value

	private Edge2RTable edgeMap =null;
	private Inst2RTable instMap = null;

	public static EdgeMapper EMAPPER= null;
	List<ReilEdge> edgeList =null;

	private EdgeMapper(List<ReilEdge> rEdgeList)
	{
		edgeList = rEdgeList;
		initList(rEdgeList);
	}
	private void initList(List<ReilEdge> rEdgeList) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		for(ReilEdge edge : rEdgeList)
		{
			ReilInstruction lastInstructionOfSrc = getLastInstruction(edge.getSource());
			RTable value = instMap.get(lastInstructionOfSrc);
			edgeMap.put(edge, value);
		}
	}
	private ReilInstruction getLastInstruction ( ReilBlock rb)
	{
		List<ReilInstruction> rl = rb.getInstructions();
		int size = rl.size();
		return rl.get(size-1);
	}
	public static EdgeMapper getEdgeMapper(List<ReilEdge> rEdgeList)
	{
		if( EMAPPER == null)
		{
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			EMAPPER = new EdgeMapper(rEdgeList);
			return EMAPPER;
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		{
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			return EMAPPER;
		}
	}

}


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