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Hospitality, Power, and Sacrifice: Reading the Bible's Little Lambs
"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it" (Heb 13.2, NRSV). Hospitality was an enormously important ritual in the ancient world. Because traveling was dangerous, ancient Mediterranean societies often attempted to incentivize protecting strangers by honoring those who practiced hospitality. In ancient Greece–since at…
by Jared Saltz July 19, 2022
Ron Hendel notes, "The exodus from Egypt is a focal point of ancient Israelite religion. Virtually every kind of religious literature in the Hebrew Bible—prose narrative, liturgical poetry, didactic prose, and prophecy—celebrates the exodus as a foundational event. Israelite ritual, law, and ethics are often grounded in the precedent and memory of the Exodus. ……
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Reading Thematically: Trees of Life and Death
Even when my siblings and I were younger, our parents would take us to art museums. A lot. (Yes, we were homeschooled.) I remember some of those trips where I wasn't quite sure what was going on and I certainly recognize that some pieces were easier to appreciate and "like" than others. My confusion, however,…
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Taxes and Death: Incarnation and Subversion (Luke 2)
Jesus' birth was a deeply subversive affair in at least a few ways. Last time, we looked at how Luke and the angels subvert Roman authority and emperor cult, but the Incarnation was also deeply subversive to Jewish hopes and expectations, particularly for national hopes of rebellion. This subversion of expectations and hopes comes from…
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Gods, Angels, and Emperors: Subversion and Incarnation (Luke 2)
Jesus' birth was a deeply subversive affair in at least a few ways. Perhaps most obviously, the proclamation of the angels recorded by Luke was a direct assault upon the power of the Roman Emperor. When Augustus was finally crowned in 9 BC, the assembly explains their reasoning thus: Divine providence which orders our lives…
Four Gospels; One Jesus: Reading Vertically
\"…the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight\" (Rev 4.7) Each of the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—draw their own, inspired portrait of their Lord and Savior, Jesus…
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Plundering Temples and Paying Off Nations: The Treasury in Kings
One of the more interesting questions to ask when studying the book of Kings is what genre we read it as. Often times, we're subtly influenced even by the categories present in our Bibles. For example, most Protestant Christians categorize their Old Testaments according to the taxonomy of Law (Genesis–Deuteronomy), History (Joshua–Esther), Poetry (Job–Song), and…
by Jared Saltz April 7, 2020 August 6, 2021
Laps and Levirite Marriage: The Proper Care and Feeding of Children in Ruth 4
By the time we get to the end of a story we generally have a pretty good idea of who the characters are and what the plot is about and, probably, what the conclusion of the tale has in store for us. The book Ruth is much the same. When we get to chapter 4–what…
Subverting Commands and Expectations: Racism and Womanhood in Ruth 3
Antiquity was super racist. Or, as I've talked about before, antiquity was super "proto-racist." Geography was destiny and where you were from told everyone everything they wanted to know about who you were and what your character was like. As horrible as that is—and let's be clear, whether we want to call this proto-racism, racism,…
Reading Genesis and Reading Joseph: Land
Whenever you come to a particular pericope (yes, pericope, not periscope Microsoft Word!) there are a few questions that you should ask. What is the point of this single narrative episode? In other words, if this text existed in a vacuum, how would we interpret it if the only context we had was the context…
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Gun crime
Woman 'armed with gun in Orpington' arrested for suspected drug offences
The woman, 21, is being questioned by police
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Police searched the area in Orpington looking for the gun (Image: Darren Quinton/Coventry Telegraph)
A young woman who was reportedly "armed with a gun" in Orpington has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs.
The Metropolitan Police, including armed officers, were called to Chorleywood Crescent at 10.28am on Wednesday (January 8) to reports of a person in possession of a firearm.
When they arrived at the scene, a 21-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.
She has been taken into custody for questioning.
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Discovering the BioFlex Laser
Posted by, Darshan Shah on February 25, 2016
Last year, while trekking in the Himalayas I read Norman Doidge's book The Brain's Way of Healing, a book on neuroplasticity. It was a fitting read while being in such a spiritual place close to the Heavens. Literally, we were at above 4500 meters on the Tapovan plateau. Doidge's book was a revelation and felt like a book of miracles even though everything was explained scientifically. In his book, there is a chapter called Rewiring a Brain with Light, that completely captured me. In it he shared the story of Dr. Fred Kahn and that is how I learned about the BioFlex Laser System.
Dr. Kahn had been born in Germany in 1929 to a Jewish family and had lived through Kristallnacht, November 9-10 of 1938, when the Nazis set Germany's synagogues on fire and put thirty thousand Jews in concentration camps. The Kahns escaped three weeks before World War II started and they ultimately made their way to Uxbridge, Ontario, where the family began farming. Fred Kahn was raised on the farm, but ultimately left it to pursue higher education. He won a scholarship to medical school at the University of Toronto and pursued post-graduate training in general surgery. After his residency he worked as a general surgeon at a huge mining operation in northern Ontario, ultimately becoming chief surgeon. He then pursued further training in vascular surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then to Texas to study with Denton Cooley at Baylor. Dr. Cooley was one of the surgeons to perform one of the first heart transplants. Dr. Kahn went on to start a practice in California. While a surgeon, he performed over twenty thousand major surgical procedures.
With such an impressive background in traditional western medicine, and especially surgery, how could a man like Dr. Kahn transition to using only lasers for the same conditions he used to treat with a scalpel?
Here is the excerpt from The Brain's Way of Healing that made me decide to purchase a BioFlex Laser System and being using it on myself and my patients.
"I got into lasers, over twenty years ago because I as an avid skier and had damaged my shoulder, and it had become a chronic problem." He had skied the great mountains, including the Alps, and got a serious rotator cuff injury. For two years it had been difficult to do any physical activity, let alone ski. Steroid injections didn't help. "My surgeons said, 'You are going to need surgery on that shoulder." And I thought, 'I am a surgeon. And I know what they are going to do to that shoulder, how they are going to cut it up, and I know the likely poor results. No thanks.'" So he suffered, until one day a chiropractor he knew said to him, "Why don't you try my Russian laser?"
The chiropractor had an old Russian machine. It was 1986, and the Cold War was still on, but a few of these simple contraptions had made their way to the West. So Kahn let the man use the equipment on him, and in five sessions the shoulder that had been aching and stiff for two years was cured. The laser was a low-intensity laser, not the "hot" high-intensity kind that can burn through flesh.
Kahn was intrigued. When he reviewed the scientific literature, he found that these low-intensity laser treatments worked by helping the body marshal its own energy and its own cellular resources to heal itself, with no side-effects. Lasers, it seemed, could treat a number of conditions that nothing else could and could decrease the need for medication or surgery. He was so intrigued that even though he was at the top of his game as a surgeon, he gave it all up to study lights.
Low-intensity laser therapy (LLLT)—largely unknown to mainstream practitioners—is based on a scientific literature of more than four thousand publications and more than two hundred clinical trials with positive results. Most of the early studies were done in Russia or in eastern Europe—countries closer to China, Tibet, and India. Because the East was generally more interested in the role of energy in medicine, the earlier studies remained relatively unknown in the West.
Kahn told Dr. Doidge, that after the lights cured his shoulder, he reviewed all the scientific literature on lasers. He had been confused by all the many different light protocols—the different wavelengths, frequencies of treatment, and doses of light that various clinicians or companies were using for different conditions. He then spent time with the Russian scientist Tiina Karu, head of the Laboratory of Laser Biology and Medicine, at the Institute on Laser and Informatics Technologies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Karl is one of the world's leading experts on how lasers heal tissue. In 1989, following his time with Jaru, he worked with engineers at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto to develop and adjustable laser called the bioFlex Laser Therapy System that could produce an infinite number of light protocols and be used for both basic and clinical research. Kahn spent years trying to determine which types of light would benefit different patients, given their skin color, age, body fat composition, and kind of illness, and he developed numerous protocols for use with the equipment he developed.
How Lasers Heal Tissue
When photons encounter matter, one of four things can happen. They can be reflected away from the matter, they can pass through it, they can enter it but scatter within, or they can be absorbed without dispersing a great deal. When photons are absorbed by living tissue, they trigger chemical reactions in the light sensitive molecules within. Different molecules absorb different wavelengths of light. For instance, red blood cells absorb all the nonfood wavelengths, leaving the red ones visible. In plants, green chlorophyll absorbs all the wavelengths except green.
Human beings tend to think that light-sensitive molecules exist only in the eyes, but they come in four major types: rhodopsin (in the retina, which absorbs light for vision), hemoglobin (in red blood cells), myoglobin (in muscle), and most important of all, cytochrome (in all the cells). Cytochrome is the marvel that explains how lasers can heal so many different conditions, because it converts light energy from the sun into energy for the cells. Most of the photons are absorbed by the energy powerhouses within the cells, the mitochondria.
Amazingly, our mitochondria capture energy originating 93 million miles away—the energy of the sun—and liberate it for our cells to use. Surrounded by a thin membrane, the mitochondria are stuffed with light-sensitive cytochrome. As the sun's phonos pass through the membrane and come in contact with the cytochrome, they are absorbed and stimulate the creation of a molecule that stores energy in our cells. That molecule, called ATP (adenosine triphosphate), is like an all-purpose battery, providing energy for the cell's work. ATP can also provide energy that can be used by the immune system and for cell repair.
Laser light triggers ATP production, which is why it can initiate and accelerate the repair and growth of healthy new cells, including those that make up cartilage (chondrocytes), bone (osteocytes), and connective tissue (fibroblasts).
Lasers of slightly different wavelengths can also increase the use of oxygen, improve blood circulation, and stimulate the growth of new blood vessels, bringing more oxygen and nutrients to the tissues-especially important for healing.
The BioFlex system uses different methods to get light into the cytochrome molecules. The first is red light, generated by 180 superluminous light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The diodes are laid out in rows and mounted on a flexible device that can contour to virtually any body part to maximize surface contact with the LEDs. In the multistage approach, first the red light is used, then the infrared light, and then the infrared laser. The red light from the LEDs penetrate one to two centimeters. The infrared light penetrates about five centimeters into the body to spread healing light even deeper. And finally, a pure beam infrared laser is used that delivers much more power than the LEDs. By the time the laser probe is applied, superficial tissues have already been saturated with so many photons from the red and infrared LEDs that the laser creates a cascade of photons that reaches as far as 22 centimeters within the body.
There is so much more beautiful information and science on lasers and how they work, and more on Doidge's experience visiting Dr. Kahn's clinic in Toronto. Reading his book motivated me to contact Dr. Kahn's company and get a system for myself.
Since getting the system I have treated myself for the following conditions:
Right psoas strain from jumping for a lob during a tennis match. The injury was severe enough that I was limping. I began treatment within 2 hours of the match and within 5 treatments over 1 week I felt 80% better. I was feeling well enough that I played in another tennis match exactly a week after my injury happened.
Left wrist injury while rock climbing. My Triangular Fibro-Cartilage Complex (TFCC) was likely the specific area involved. After the injury I could not bear weight on the left wrist, like in certain yoga postures. Extension hurt. Crimping felt okay, but open hand holds, especially with any lateral movements, were not possible. I was a bad patient and did not stop climbing after the injury. I just stopped climbing routes that made my wrist feel painful or unstable. After 7 laser treatments over two weeks, while still rock climbing and being active, my wrist felt 40% better. Over the next 4 weeks I gave myself another 7 treatments, avoided rock climbing and did conscientious Ashtanga Yoga. My wrist felt 90% better after that to the point that I could bear weight on the wrist, doing jump throughs and jump backs. I anticipate a full recovery with a return to climbing.
Right rotator cuff injury. This has been a chronic problem. I have injured it in college and in various activities over the years. But most recently, I injured it last year while playing tennis. My serving motion was poor and the rotator cuff suffered. I rehabilitated my shoulder through that injury with various exercises and changing my serving motion (I did not have the laser yet). Then again, I agitated it again between rock climbing and tennis. After a series of 5 laser treatments over 2 weeks, it has stopped bothering me. I am serving and playing tennis more strongly than before. My serve motion is unrestrained now. The laser is not a substitute for rehabilitation and proper body mechanics, but it definitely enhances tissue repair and reduces the time to recovery.
Medial meniscus – With mountaineering, trekking and a long history of playing soccer my knees have taken a beating. On top of that, trying to get into lotus posture while doing yoga has made it worse, and now I feel chronic mild pain in both knees along the medial aspects. I know that the movements I do while playing tennis on hardcourts do not help. I have been applying light to my knees using the BioFlex system and have done roughly 15 treatments to my left knee over the course of 3 to 4 months. There is definitely an anti-inflammatory effect. However, I keep doing activities that aggravate my knees. This has been the hardest problem for me to treat successfully so far, a lot of it being due to my continued activity.
Aside from treating myself, I have used the BioFlex System to successfully treat a number of patients with various musculoskeletal conditions.
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Cat has 'practice session' with baby doll to prep for newborn: 'It didn't go as planned'
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January 14, 2022, 3:41 p.m. ·2 min read
A pet owner's orange cat is not so keen on the idea of becoming a "brother."
Kobe is a 22-year-old TikToker with a sister who is over nine months pregnant. With a new baby on the way, he thought he would get the family cat, Loki, acclimated to having a newborn around. Kobe decided to give Loki a practice run with a baby doll. Things quickly took a turn. The hilarious video received over 3.8 million views on TikTok.
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"My sister is 38 weeks pregnant, and I thought I would give Loki a practice session. It didn't go as planned," Kobe said.
The cat poked and prodded at a baby doll with his paw. He circled the toy as if trying to figure out if it was prey.
"Why's he sniffing it like that?" Kobe's sister asked.
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"Stop! Stop!" Kobe said, cracking into laughter. "Cut it out. That's literally going to be your brother. You are failing the practice session."
Loki continued to aggressively paw at the doll's head before losing interest and walking away. Let's just hope when the real baby comes, he's a little more accomodating.
"It's always the orange cats," Kobe wrote in the caption.
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Michel François
Paris, 21 December 2010
Dear Michel,
I am very pleased that you suggested I write the press release for your first solo
exhibition at galerie kamel mennour. At the time of writing these lines, with the private view a few days away, I sense that nothing is quite decided yet as to which works you will be showing, and that does not surprise me. I know, since we have already worked together*, that everything can shift, be modified, and moved around, right up until the last minute. For your work is never definitively fixed – on the contrary, it is in constant flux, dynamic, proliferating; being naturally recycled and permanently reconfigured. And this, for me, is precisely where its force lies; its organic, biological, wild character that is, in a word, alive.
It will, of course, consist of sculpture, since that is what determines the arrangement of all your work: by this, I mean – despite a great diversity of media – a primary and formative preoccupation with questions of space, matter, volume and balance, playing on a series of tensions. Lightness and heaviness, void and filling, compressions and proliferation, everything in a register of permanent contradiction, within each work as well as at the exhibition scale. And it is thus, I believe, that everything with you is paradoxically linked: through these fundamental dissensions. Unity in disorder. Chronic desynchronizations.
So, yes, some sculpture, but which could be defined as conceptual, or more or less ideal, in its material substance. Metaphorical sculptures with a general blurring of meanings and reason in gratuitous expenditure, contemporary consumption and dispersal. An opportunity, also, to approach notions such as that of contamination, destructive energy, transformation, claustrophobia, confinement, order and chaos, entropy. What has always struck me with you is the way in which each form is irrigated by a network of references, by intimate and universal narratives, yet it remains deliberately underground, nondiscursive and indeterminate; recurrent, obsessive motifs, the result of travel, meetings, reading, reflections and other personal experiences – in short, of an insatiable curiosity for the world. Invisible, but appreciable. All these hybrid images and heterogeneous forces that you bring together and crystallise, as if you wished to embrace, with love and determination, the whole world, and – in the same movement – desire and violence, distance and emotion, beauty and cruelty.
For example? A transfigured skeleton, "reincarnated" with extravagance to the point of
abstraction, which progresses from the organic to the sculptural, from morbidity to
celebration, whilst becoming the basis for free, wild and spontaneous expression, echoing certain festive traditions of Central America. Elsewhere, this cubic structure, the basis for a tangle of metal rods, like an industrial spider's web, the unlikely progeny of Spiderman and Ironman. Here again, its sculptural qualities play on tensions, between the radical and pure silhouette of the whole and a subtle and complex interior motif, but also in its character, both imposing and fragile, since the whole is held together by magnetic ball-bearings. A paradox, also, between randomness and necessity, ornament and brutality, in the moulded coloured plasticine displayed on the sides of a glass cube.
In short, I am convinced that this selection of recent works will remain, as always with you, a double-edged sword, in its form and in its deeper meaning. And I like nothing more than when the apparent simplicity of your pieces – their character at first sight minimal, apparently harmonious – hides a formal, sensitive and conceptual complexity that never ceases to pierce through the surface.
With all my admiration, and my best wishes for your success,
Guillaume Désanges, Exhibition curator and art critic
In particular « Plans d'évasion », solo exhibition at the SMAK of Ghent in 2009, curators: Guillaume Désanges & Philippe Van Cauteren
7 January — 5 February 2011


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How far is too far with after-school activities?
In this week's L Word, Sarita Rao wonders whether her children really need to learn to play a musical instrument, become chess masters, accomplished skiers, and know how to perform on the tennis court.
Season of mist and mellow parenting – that's what a return to school before summer ends should be all about.
However, I've made a new discovery to add to the already anxiety-inducing list of pencil cases, school bags and French books. It's the tiger mummy stress of making sure your children are doing as many talent-expanding, after-school activities as is humanly possible.
Over the years we've tried out every type of dance – ballet, zumba, hip-hop and even creative "anything goes" dance. I've come to the conclusion my children have simply inherited my two left feet.
We've done swimming and self defence, horse-riding, bike riding, pig riding (OK that last one isn't a real activity but it should be). I can't say they didn't enjoy them, but after 30 lessons, they are usually looking forward to just spending time playing in the park. It makes me wonder if I should just put an embargo on all activities and leave them to their own devices.
The problem is with the mummy mafia, which in Luxembourg has a high proportion of tiger, possibly even tyrannosaurus, mummies. Somehow they make me feel pressured to make sure my children can play a musical instrument, become chess masters, accomplished skiers, and know how to perform on the tennis court. That's because every other child in their class can win a championship tennis tournament, probably at the same time as skiing a black run, playing the piano and making Machiavellian moves on the chess board.
As a family we have never gone skiing, never play tennis, no one can really read music properly and I barely know what the different chess figures can do. Yet somehow I feel that if I don't give my children the same chances in life, they'll be left behind, socially excluded or lack that confidence that being "accomplished" gives so many of their peers.
I don't have any hobbies (unless you count watching TV whilst lying on the sofa). Has my life been less rich because of it? Well, of course, I don't know because I am blissfully ignorant. Perhaps I could have been a show jumper, concert pianist, watercolour master, or basketball pro?
This desire to enrich the lives of our children is nothing new. My parents were under similar pressure. I can still remember that sinking feeling I would get on Friday afternoon knowing I had to go to Brownies wearing a very short dress and a beret (who thought up that uniform I wonder). I tried ballet (no grace), I tried to learn the flute (hated learning to read music and hated practising even more). Once, facing the desperate need for childcare, my working mother enrolled me on a table tennis course which ended with a tournament. I managed to come last out of 19 children, some of whom were half my age with considerably less developed motor skills.
Have I learned anything from my own experience? I guess it has made me the sort of person who is willing to give just about anything a go. I've trekked by foot and horseback in the Himalayas and the Andes. I have swum in some very dubious rivers, lakes and waterfalls around the world, and canoed downriver in several countries.
Something in my childhood psyche from all those swimming and riding lessons, kids' clubs and summer camps has given me a "go on try it out" attitude to life.
I guess that's all I want my children to have – an approach to life that opens rather than closes doors (and the ability to speak French fluently). If being a tiger mummy about after-school activities is the way to achieve this, then I will just have to survive the jungle. Grrrrr.


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Van Oord's 2017 Annual Report Presented
Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, yesterday presented the 2017 Annual Report and decided to change the composition of their Supervisory Board.
During the yesterday's General Meeting of Shareholders, it was announced that the company recorded EUR 1.53 billion in revenue with a net profit of EUR 78 million in 2017.
The Annual Financial Statements were adopted and, following a proposal from the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board, the General Meeting of Shareholders adopted a resolution to distribute a dividend of EUR 34 million.
The shareholders granted discharge of liability to the Executive Board and Supervisory Board for the management and supervision conducted in the 2017 financial year.
Composition of Supervisory Board
After twelve years as a member of the Supervisory Board, ten of them as chairperson, Mr C.J. (Carel) van den Driest has stepped down from the Supervisory Board.
Mr N.W. (Niek) Hoek, a current member of the Supervisory Board, will take over the position of chairperson. Mr Hoek is a member of the Supervisory Board since 2016.
During the meeting, R. (Rob) Kretzers was also appointed as a new member of the Supervisory Board for a term of four years, said the company in its release.
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How do I access the views inside the layout when I reuse it multiple times?
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and
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<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <include
        android:id="@+id/included_layout_1"
        layout="@layout/layout_to_include"/>

    <include
        android:id="@+id/included_layout_2"
        layout="@layout/layout_to_include"/>

</LinearLayout>

Normally, you can access the TextViews programmatically inside the included layout like this:
LinearLayout l1 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.included_layout_1);
((TextView) l1.findViewById(R.id.text_view)).setText("test1");

LinearLayout l2 = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.included_layout_2);
((TextView) l2.findViewById(R.id.text_view)).setText("test2");

But in my case, I have an Android AppWidget which can only accessed via RemoteViews:
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget);
views.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "test1");

This will only change the text of the first TextView.
I have not find any solution, so my question is whether is it possible to set the text of the TextView within multiple included layouts.

A: Can be done.
Remove your includes; you need to add programmatically (no other way AFAIK), so add id (e.g. LinearLayout) to your widget's linearlayout, and:
RemoteViews one = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.layout_to_include);
one.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "tv-ONE"); // <---
remoteViews.addView(R.id.LinearLayout, one);

RemoteViews two = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.layout_to_include);
two.setTextViewText(R.id.text_view, "tv-TWO"); // <---
remoteViews.addView(R.id.LinearLayout, two);

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NJWA News and Updates
WAMU Set to Begin Tower Renovation, Antenna Replacement
In the middle of the broadcast repack, and just after completion of its fall fundraiser, WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C., is set to begin a tower renovation and antenna replacement project. The non-commercial FM is also upgrading its transmitter to a more energy-efficient system.
Scheduling the project amid a record level of tower activity in the broadcast industry was "incredibly complicated," according to WAMU, which noted tower companies and antenna manufacturers are working overtime to make the television channel repack deadlines.
The repack has created "intense competition" for resources, according to the station. "Due to the record level of tower activity in the industry, this was the only window in which WAMU was able to secure the resources necessary to complete this project," says the station on its website. A $1.2 million bequest from a Virginia public school teacher is helping the station pay for the tower site work.
The station told the FCC it plans to build a common antenna system for WAMU(FM) and several other stations on the same tower (ASR number 1045309). WAMU has been authorized to operate at 50 kW Effective Radiated Power with an antenna height of 152 meters HAAT since March 30, 1973. "This slightly exceeds the standard 50 kW at 150 meters for a Class B. As a 'grandfathered' facility, the proposal requests replication of the greater coverage per Section 73.511(c) of the rules," the station requested in its construction permit application, which was granted.
WAMU proposed using a new Master FM system (ERI model number 1183-4CP-DA-SP 4-bay antenna.) It will be used by WAMU-FM, WPFW-FM, WETA-FM, and WTOP-FM – all licenced to the District of Columbia. Because no change in structure height is proposed, no change in the tower marking and lighting requirements is anticipated, the station told the agency. The tower was built in 2011.
When work is complete, WAMU's broadcast signal will reach approximately 400,000 more people, particularly in the suburbs of northern Virginia and parts of Maryland, according to the station. It believes existing and new listeners will experience better reception and less interference when the work is completed, which is anticipated to be before year-end, the Class B1 station says.
In the meantime, WAMU will broadcast from its Aux site in Arlington, Virginia; it anticipates reaching the majority of its core coverage area. Some listeners may experience signal disruptions due to the tower work, which is set to begin October 14.
The post WAMU Set to Begin Tower Renovation, Antenna Replacement appeared first on Inside Towers.
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The next session in our webinar series, 30 Minutes on 5G/Small Cell Legislation in NJ/NY, launched on Wednesday, September 23. The webinar features Arturo Chang, WIA, Beth Cooley, CTIA, and Dulaney O'Roark, Verizon Wireless, detailing the bills pending in the legislature(s) and the prospects for passage. The bills will streamline the siting for small cells […]
The second session of our joint virtual webinar series with NYSWA launched on Tuesday, August 25. This session features Professor Kenneth R. Foster, Ph.D discussing various topics regarding RF emission safety, followed by a Q&A. A huge thank you to all our annual sponsors and those involved in making our webinar series possible. NJWA ANNUAL […]
Robert E. Post, also known to many as "Rob" and "Posty" passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at the age of 50. Born in Ridgewood, he grew up in Waldwick and was a resident of Upper Saddle River for the last 16 years. Rob was a partner of AMP Communications in Oakland. He was […]
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On March 2nd, we had mid-semester review, a time for all DFA Rice groups to come together and present the progress made so far. Mid-semester review was not only a good time to reflect on the progress we made, but also a time to receive feedback from fellow peers and other groups. We made a presentation that highlights our progress from receiving our initial how-can-we statement and design problem to ideating solutions, and selecting our final design solution. Our final Mid-semester review presentation can be found at the end of this post!
Some of the feedback we received involved the sustainability of our solution. Specifically, one aspect that was brought to light was how to ensure that the solution will be maintained even after current students graduate. This feedback is definitely a feature that our solution should address as we work to help all KTRU DJs, both current and incoming, become more comfortable with properly handling and playing vinyls. Sustainability will be a significant factor as we continue to develop and refine our solution, the "training tool". Our "training tool," then, should not be explicit to only current DJs; it should be comprehensible to and implementable for future KTRU DJs.
We also received comments on whether our "training tool" would address the goal of informing KTRU DJs on vinyl maintenance and care, such as needle maintenance. It is especially important that we remember to incorporate these technical details, as this aspect is one of the three main components of our narrowed how-can-we statement. Therefore, our "training tool" will have to be comprehensive: teaching KTRU DJs how to use and play vinyls during their set but also teaching them how to care for vinyls.
Another piece of feedback we received was in regards to our secondary user we mentioned in our presentation, a user who knows how to handle vinyls but does not want to play vinyls. However, we are mainly focusing on the user who does not play vinyls primarily due to their unfamiliarity of using and playing vinyls, due to the scope of our project this semester. But, as we refine and develop our final solution, we could implement the idea of incentivizing playing vinyls by creating a visually appealing solution. It would not necessarily incentivize playing the vinyls, but it would bring attention to using and playing vinyls.
After reflecting on our feedback from Mid-semester review, we will continue to incorporate our feedback as we move forward. This week, we'll be working on the next step of the design process: BUILD!
Check out our Mid-semester review presentation here!


The fourth Bendigo luncheon was held on September 6th at the Bendigo Stadium and once again this event was a sell out with 156 attendees, attracting guests from Bendigo, Melbourne, Macedon, Sunbury and Heywood, and raising $5000 for the kids. This has become an annual event and is eagerly awaited by many. You can see a selection of photos from these events below.
Many thanks to our M.C. Ian Nicholls from KLFM Bendigo, guest speaker Mary McGowan from the RCH and Aggie Poliafico from the Bendigo Bank for giving their time to help out on the day.
I am so grateful to all the ladies who support us on the day and help make it a better world for the kids.


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package org.apache.activemq.store;

import org.apache.activemq.broker.ConnectionContext;
import org.apache.activemq.command.Message;

/**
 * callback when the index is updated, allows ordered work to be seen by destinations
 */
public interface IndexListener {

    final class MessageContext {
        public final Message message;
        public final ConnectionContext context;
        public final Runnable onCompletion;
        public boolean duplicate;

        public MessageContext(ConnectionContext context, Message message, Runnable onCompletion) {
            this.context = context;
            this.message = message;
            this.onCompletion = onCompletion;
        }
    }

    /**
     *  called with some global index lock held so that a listener can do order
     *  dependent work
     *  non null MessageContext.onCompletion called when work is done
     */
    public void onAdd(MessageContext messageContext);

}

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12 women who did remarkable things in 2018
Posted by Hannah-Rose Yee for Life
Let's celebrate the women who broke boundaries, pushed for change and made a difference this year.
Feminism might have been the word of the year in 2017, but in 2018 the concept really went worldwide.
From the formation of the Time's Up movement to Christine Blasey Ford's powerful testimony against Brett Kavanaugh, women all around the world have been doing remarkable things this year. In celebration, we're casting our minds back to all the applause-worthy women of 2018.
1 Jan: Time's Up is formed
Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer and America Ferrerer of the Time's Up movement at the Golden Globes
On New Year's Day, 2018, more than 300 female actors, writers, directors, producers and filmmakers banded together to fight institutionalised sexism and end harassment in the film industry. The Time's Up group, which included Natalie Portman, Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, raised £10 million initially as part of a legal defense fund for women facing harassment in other professions. (Today, the fund is worth £16.4 million).
Clad in all black ensembles, many of the women of Time's Up were joined by key activists including #MeToo's founder Tarana Burke on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, less than a week after the organisation's launch.
"We're here to stand up for all women and men who have been silenced by abuse and harassment and discrimination within their industries," Witherspoon told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet. "Not just Hollywood. All industries."
6 February: the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the UK
Celebrations for the centenary of women's suffrage occur throughout the UK
On this day in 1918 women in the UK were given the right to vote. Women, that is, who were over the age of 30 and passes a property ownership test. (About 8.5 million women, or two in every five women in the UK at the time). Full voting rights for all women wouldn't come until a decade later in 2028.
Women across the UK celebrated the centenary since this landmark achievement. Writing for Stylist.co.uk, Helen Pankhurst – great granddaughter of key suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst – said: "Undoubtedly, overall – in terms of the most basic statistics around equality – we have moved on significantly. However, we're talking about 100 years. If the measure is an understanding not just of equality, but of difference and the transformative contribution from a world that values women and men equally, we have a long way to go."
24 March: Emma González delivers a powerful speech advocating for a change to gun laws
On Valentine's Day, 2018, a gunman opened fire at a high school in Florida, killing 17 students and staff, injured 17 others.
Emma González, 19, was one of the survivors of the shooting and emerged as a key figure in the wake of the event, organising the March for Our Lives protest in Washington advocating for gun ownership reform.
Speaking at the rally, González delivered a powerful speech, naming all 17 of the gunman's victims before standing in silence at the podium for four minutes and 26 seconds, tears rolling down her face.
The end of her silent protest marked six minutes and 20 seconds since her speech had began: the length of time it took for the gunman to discard his rifle and leave the school. "Fight for your lives, before it's someone else's job," González finished.
26 May: Ireland votes to repeal the eighth amendment
Celebrations in Dublin on the day the abortion referendum result was announced
After a gruelling campaign, Ireland's referendum to change its abortion laws was won, with 66.4% voting to finally decriminalise abortion. The news came after a record turnout from voters, with 64.5% of Ireland's voting population heading to the polls to have their say.
"Yes, Yes, Yes. A resounding, emphatic Yes," journalist Miriam Lord wrote in the Irish Times. "And what a way to say it – the only way to say it: with conviction and clarity. This massive vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution leaves no doubt. The Irish people have taken ownership of their abortion issue."
20 June: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette was released, changing the landscape of comedy forever
Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby's stand up special was like nothing the comedy genre had ever seen before. Clever, yes, and immensely funny, of course, it was also sad, introspective, philosophical and full of insights about the way women have used humour and art – and had humour and art used against them – since the dawn of time immemorial.
Monica Lewinsky, Roxane Gay, Lily Allen, Thandie Newton and more are all fans. ("You moved me and have really made me think about humour, the self, self-deprecation and the uses of anger," Gay wrote to Gadsby on Twitter.)
Talking about her childhood in Tasmania, experiencing homophobia and sexual violence, her relationships with her family, her experience of mental illness and her problems with self-deprecating humour, the show was a masterclass in the power of comedy to interrogate, keenly, the ways in which society has been found wanting, building to a point of immense anger and rage from which there is no point of return.
"I've had psychiatrists reach out to me, saying: 'You know, there's no precedent for what you're doing,'" Gadsby told the Guardian about the aftermath of her show. "It's been a strange old ride and I think it's going to take a long time before I know what I've done to myself."
21 June: Gina Martin's campaign to criminalise upskirting is passed into law
Writer Gina Martin was at a music festival when she noticed two men "acting really creepy," she has said. An hour later, she saw one of the men WhatsApping a picture up a woman's skirt, which Martin knew was her because of the outfit. She went to the security team who called the police, who asked the man to delete the picture and promptly closed the case.
Martin discovered that there isn't a law against upskirting in England and Wales. So she started a campaign to criminalise the act, with more than 100,000 people signing her petition in support. On 15 June the bill was blocked by Conservative MP Christopher Chope in parliament on a technicality, but less than a week later it had been tabled and passed.
"I am proud that the Government has today introduced a Bill in the Commons which will make this a criminal offence," Martin told Sky News. "It feels weird to know I've changed the law. It's all I've thought about for a year."
21 June: Jacinda Ardern becomes only second elected leader in history to give birth in office
21 June was a good day for women around the world, clearly. Along with Martin's upskirting bill, this was the day that New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to a baby girl, making her only the second elected leader in history to give birth in office.
In September, after her maternity leave was over, Ardern travelled to New York with baby Neve in tow to deliver a blistering speech denouncing President Donald Trump.
""We can use the environment to blame nameless, faceless 'other', to feed the sense of insecurity, to retreat into greater levels of isolationism. Or we can acknowledge the problems we have and seek to fix them," Ardern said in her speech. "Me Too must become We Too. We are all in this together."
24 June: Saudi Arabian women win the right to drive
Saudi Arabian women celebrate the driving ban being lifted in their country
After years of protest, Saudi Arabia – the last country in the world to forbid women from driving – finally lifted its female driving ban at midnight local time. Earlier in the month, the country issued driving licenses to ten women. All up, authorities estimated around 2,000 licenses would be handed out to women over the course of the month.
Speaking to the Guardian, Samar Almogren, a talkshow host and writer, said: "I always knew this day would come. But it came fast. Sudden. I feel free like a bird."
26 September: Christine Blasey Ford delivers powerful testimony at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings
"I am here today not because I want to be," Christine Blasey Ford began, addressing a packed hearing room in Capitol Hill. "I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school."
What followed was the account of the 51-year-old university professor's testimony about her recollection of assault at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh, then a nominee for the Supreme Court, when they were in high school.
Trump mocked Ford after her testimony and, ultimately, Kavanaugh was appointed to the position of Supreme Court Justice. But Ford's words rang loud and clear. She was hailed as a hero on social media and her testimony was graffitied onto the walls of Yale Law School, where Kavanaugh had studied law.
Dr Christine Blasey Ford
In November, Ford announced that she would be donating all excess money from her GoFundMe page, which raised more than £508,000 to help cover costs of protecting Ford and her family from death threats and abuse, to victims of trauma and assault.
"Words are not adequate to thank all of you who supported me since I came forward to tell the Senate that I had been sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh," she said. "Your tremendous outpouring of support and kind letters have made it possible for us to cope with the immeasurable stress, particularly the disruption to our safety and privacy."
7 October: Jodie Whittaker becomes the first female Doctor Who
Jodie Whittaker, the Thirteenth Doctor Who
Since it was launched in 1963 there have been an astonishing 37 seasons of Doctor Who. That's 848 episodes, 284 stories and 12 Doctors, all of them men. Until now.
On 7 October Jodie Whittaker stepped into the surprisingly roomy interior of the Tardis and became the 13th Doctor and the first woman to hold that role. Her first episode was the most-watched Doctor Who launch in a decade, with an average of 8.2 million people tuning in to watch the first female Doctor.
Speaking to Stylist.co.uk, Whittaker said: "What an extraordinary thing [to be the first female Doctor]. Let it be a moment in history, but let it move forward to the extent that it never gets talked about… that'd be ace."
7 November: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes youngest woman ever elected to Congress
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a woman making waves in US politics
Barely a year ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pouring drinks behind the bar at a New York watering hole. But on 7 November, at 29, she became the youngest woman in history to be elected to the America's House of Congress, representing the Bronx and Queens district.
The mid-term elections proved a banner year for women, with a record number of female representatives elected to office. Alongside Ocasio-Cortez were Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Deb Haaland and Sharice Davis are the first Native American women elected to Congress. South Dakota elected its first female governor and Tennessee its first female senator. Kyrsten Sinema is the first openly bisexual senator.
"In my opinion, if women and gender-expanding people want to run for office we can't knock on anybody's doors; we have to build our own house," Ocasio-Cortez said.
13 November: Michelle Obama's memoir is released, becoming the fastest selling adult book of the year
Michelle Obama.
Ever since Michelle Obama left the office of First Lady in January, 2017, the world had been eagerly awaiting what she would do next. And what that ended up being was something truly remarkable: a memoir of her life and time in the White House, yes, but also the story of her childhood, her law career, meeting her husband Barack, their struggles as a married couple and their difficulty to conceive. It's title? Becoming.
The book has been a critical darling, selling more than 1.4 million copies after just seven days on bookstands, making it the highest-selling first week for a book released this year. That translates to about nine copies sold around the world every single second.
It's no surprise that the book has resonated, considering the love for the Obamas and the deeply personal nature of Michelle's writing. Discussing everything from her early dates with Barack to her disappointment with the way Trump talks about her husband, the book is also an ode to the power of speaking up, of always learning and striving to do better.
As Michelle writes: "If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's the power of using your voice."
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The Schmooze
How Italy Saved Its Jews
By Allen Ellenzweig March 26, 2015
The vagaries of international film distribution may produce the impression that the French have created a more significant body of work examining their nation's moral failings under Nazi Occupation than any other European country. We have, for example, feature films like Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants," Truffaut's "Le Dernier Metro," or Rose Bosch's recent "La Rafle," as well as magisterial documentaries like Marcel Ophuls' "The Sorrow and the Pity" and "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbi," not to mention Claude Lanzmann's singular "Shoah" and his recent, if problematic, "The Last of the Unjust." It may be my lapse, but I can immediately think of no other European national cinema that has produced a documentary that takes its own Nazi period and examines it with the moral depth and complexity of "The Sorrow and the Pity" or "Hotel Terminus." It could also be that significant works of that kind have simply not reached the international market.
With this in mind, it may be unfair to approach Oren Jacoby's modest and nobly intended "My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes" by the barometer of the best that has already been produced in another national context. "My Italian Secret" tells stories of bravery by ordinary Italians in saving their Jewish friends and neighbors; it does so by following several Jewish survivors who return to Italy in their late adulthood to revisit the scenes of their worst nightmares: hidden in terror, fleeing in desperation, separated from loved ones, saying final goodbyes without knowing they were final. But Jacoby also threads through his documentary the story of a uniquely self-effacing man, the ruggedly handsome Italian bicycling idol Gino Bartali, whose athletic success before the outbreak of war imposed on him the burden of being used as a paragon of Mussolini's fascist ideology. This is a position from which Bartali shrank, preferring to keep his own counsel and avoid any apparent endorsement of Il Duce's project.
The problem with "My Italian Secret" is in part then one of focus. Does it wish to revive and glorify a single man, already a national hero, whose most impressive but unknown feats were those of quiet moral courage, or does it wish to survey several representatives of Italian Jewry whose survival also depended on the righteousness of their non-Jewish compatriots?
In the latter instance, Jacoby presents several noteworthy testimonies, given in Italian and English. Charlotte Hauptman, returning to Italy with her teenage grandson, visits the village where she and her parents were granted shelter, their identities as Jews kept secret; Gaia Servadio and her comfortable Paduan family, carrying false documents, were granted residence in the Palazzo of the Marchesa Gallo, and she now returns to thank the Marchesa's grandson, the apparent caretaker of his grandmother's still sumptuous abode; Ursula Selig, a young girl who with her family was kept alive by Monsignor Beniamino Schivo in the Umbrian city of Città di Castello, returns to lay flowers on his grave.
Second generation Italian survivors, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, speak for those whose heroism would otherwise go unremarked: the Roman surgeon who invented a deadly and contagious illness to keep the SS from inspecting a hospital ward where Jews were hidden; the neighbors of a boy in a Roman apartment building who took in him and his family, only to be betrayed by another neighbor; a grandfather, Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici of Genoa, who helped Italian and fleeing Jewish refugees from other countries escape through Genoa to safety — only to find himself and his wife arrested and killed by the Nazis.
These testimonies are dispersed throughout the film, so their chronology is fractured and their emotional impact leavened, like anecdotes shared on a long train ride forgotten at journey's end. In addition, such tales of bravery and betrayal compete with Bartali's heroic example; he makes a singular impression thanks to archival footage of his glorious moments as an intrepid cyclist.
These scenes, in tandem with several interviews — including those of his son, Andrea Bartali — piece together the puzzle of Bartali's secret and dramatic efforts. Bartali went on long cycling trips through Northern Italian with counterfeit identification documents hidden in the frame of his bicycle which he dispensed at sites that were part of a secret underground network organized by the Archbishop of Florence. Indeed, much rescue work was carried out by local convents and churches, the clergy at the local level taking on a self-appointed task of great risk to themselves and many others. Over all, Bartali's "bike rides" saved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Jews and anti-fascist partisans. He never spoke of this, even to his family, until late in his life.
Jacoby occasionally fills in historical and geographical context. The warm and inviting voice of Isabella Rossellini serves in these brief voice-over narratives, but while her words impart crucial information, they do not feel wholly integrated in the overall scheme. One irony of the film, perhaps, is that it tries to cover too much territory. Fewer testimonies presented with greater depth and detail might have served Jacoby's purposes better. The stories told are uneven; some narrators speak with greater eloquence, authority, and finer observation than others. Certainly Gino Bartali's story, by itself, is worth the length of a feature film, but for a documentary, there is scant archival documentation of his activities. Anecdotal recollections by those who knew him, and his own words from his autobiography, must suffice.
"My Italian Secret" is never dull; it may ameliorate our conviction that the Roman church was indifferent to the plight of Jews — the Pope and the Vatican, we must remember, are not, finally, the entirety of the Catholic Church. An astonishing 80% of Italy's Jews survived the war. "My Italian Secret" cannot by itself take up the task of imparting all that happened in Italy during those fateful years. For that, there is a rich English and Italian-language literature on the Jewish experience in Italy during the war. At its best, Jacoby's documentary retrieves pieces of the fragile past, revives the honor of a great many brave Jewish and Gentile Italians, and restores to one athletic Italian hero his eternal moral achievement.
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Pivotal Games è stata un'azienda sviluppatrice di videogiochi, nota per lo sviluppo della serie Conflict. Ha inoltre sviluppato The Great Escape, titolo basato sull'omonimo film La grande fuga (1963).

Il 29 settembre 2003 è stata acquistata da SCi. A seguito di una revisione di struttura di quest'ultima, Pivotal Games è stata definitivamente chiusa il 22 agosto 2008.

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Q: Yeoman custom generator not loading dependencies from package.json I've created a Yeoman custom generator. Within the index.js file I want to perform some text replacement on some files. In package.json I have added the dependency replace then when I require('replace') in index.js and run the generator, I get the error Cannot find module 'replace'. I have tried different modules from NPM and running the generator fails for all of them - it fails to find the module.
The appropriate part of package.json
  "dependencies": {
    "replace": "~0.2.9",
    "yeoman-generator": "~0.16.0",
    "chalk": "~0.4.0"
  },

Start of index.js
'use strict';
var util = require('util');
var path = require('path');
var yeoman = require('yeoman-generator');
var chalk = require('chalk');
var replace = require('replace');

var MyGenerator = yeoman.generators.Base.extend({
    init: function () {
        this.pkg = require('../package.json');

The generator fails when it hits the Replace require. Chalk and Yeoman Generator don't fail and they're loaded in the same way.
Why don't my added modules load?

A: Did you run npm install after manually adding that line to package.json? The preferred way to install a package is by running: npm install --save _package_. It will download the latest release, and save it to your package.json.


Our brains melted when Adobe demoed their upcoming blurry picture killer in Photoshop. Wha!? No more blurry pics? Is that possible? Is this real life? YES. Here are a few examples — including the most famous blurry picture — of the upcoming deblurring tool working its magic.
It recovers some details that you won't be able to see easily in the original. Of course the noise gets boosted somehow, we applied a small amount of noise removal on the output, but maybe a decent denoising algorithm can help here.
[That]means to recover a single pixel, we have to consider at least 55 pixel nearby (in practice far more than that).
This deblurring thing is just amazing.
Awesome. Read more about Wang, learn more about the upcoming Photoshop Deblurring Tool and see more pictures of it in action here.


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Q: App_Offline in MSBuild Remote Web Deploy I have the following task in my MSBuild script to deploy to a remote server using Web Deploy (MSDeploy service):
  <Target Name="Deploy">
    <MSBuild
            Projects="$(SolutionFile)"
            Properties="Configuration=Release; DeployOnBuild=True;
              DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish; MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSvc;
              MsDeployServiceUrl=$(DeployServiceUrl);
              DeployIisAppPath=$(DeployIisAppPath);
              UserName=$(DeployUserName); Password=$(DeployPassword);
              CreatePackageOnPublish=True; AllowUntrustedCertificate=True" />
  </Target>

It works fine. However, I would like to place an app_offline.htm file (on the remote server) before the app is deployed and remove the app_offline.htm file after deployment (or on error). Is there a MSBuild property or any other scripting tweak to make it happen?
Thanks in advance.

A: I just recently blogged about this at http://sedodream.com/2012/01/08/HowToTakeYourWebAppOfflineDuringPublishing.aspx. It's more difficult than it should be and I'm working on simplifying that for a later version. In any case I've pasted all the content here for you.
I received a customer email asking how they can take their web application/site offline for the entire duration that a publish is happening from Visual Studio. An easy way to take your site offline is to drop an app_offline.htm file in the sites root directory. For more info on that you can read ScottGu's post, link in below in resources section. Unfortunately Web Deploy itself doesn't support this . If you want Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) to natively support this feature please vote on it at http://aspnet.uservoice.com/forums/41199-general/suggestions/2499911-take-my-site-app-offline-during-publishing.
Since Web Deploy doesn't support this it's going to be a bit more difficult and it requires us to perform the following steps:

*

*Publish app_offline.htm

*Publish the app, and ensure that app_offline.htm is contained inside the payload being published

*Delete app_offline.htm

1 will take the app offline before the publish process  begins.
2 will ensure that when we publish that app_offline.htm is not deleted (and therefore keep the app offline)
3 will delete the app_offline.htm and bring the site back online
Now that we know what needs to be done let's look at the implementation. First for the easy part. Create a file in your Web Application Project (WAP) named app_offline-template.htm. This will be the file which will end up being the app_offline.htm file on your target server. If you leave it blank your users will get a generic message stating that the app is offline, but it would be better for you to place static HTML (no ASP.NET markup) inside of that file letting users know that the site will come back up and whatever other info you think is relevant to your users. When you add this file you should change the Build Action to None in the Properties grid. This will make sure that this file itself is not published/packaged. Since the file ends in .htm it will by default be published. See the image below.

Now for the hard part. For Web Application Projects we have a hook into the publish/package process which we refer to as "wpp.targets". If you want to extend your publish/package process you can create a file named {ProjectName}.wpp.targets in the same folder as the project file itself. Here is the file which I created you can copy and paste the content into your wpp.targets file. I will explain the significant parts but wanted to post the entire file for your convince. Note: you can grab my latest version of this file from my github repo, the link is in the resource section below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <Target Name="InitalizeAppOffline">
    <!--
    This property needs to be declared inside of target because this is imported before
    the MSDeployPath property is defined as well as others -->
    <PropertyGroup>
      <MSDeployExe Condition=" '$(MSDeployExe)'=='' ">$(MSDeployPath)msdeploy.exe</MSDeployExe>
    </PropertyGroup>
  </Target>

  <PropertyGroup>
    <PublishAppOfflineToDest>
      InitalizeAppOffline;
    </PublishAppOfflineToDest>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <!--
    %msdeploy%
      -verb:sync
      -source:contentPath="C:\path\to\app_offline-template.htm"
      -dest:contentPath="Default Web Site/AppOfflineDemo/app_offline.htm"
  -->

  <!--***********************************************************************
  Make sure app_offline-template.htm gets published as app_offline.htm
  ***************************************************************************-->
  <Target Name="PublishAppOfflineToDest"
          BeforeTargets="MSDeployPublish"
          DependsOnTargets="$(PublishAppOfflineToDest)">
    <ItemGroup>
      <_AoPubAppOfflineSourceProviderSetting Include="contentPath">
        <Path>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\app_offline-template.htm</Path>
        <EncryptPassword>$(DeployEncryptKey)</EncryptPassword>
        <WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>$(_MSDeploySourceWebServerAppHostConfigDirectory)</WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>
        <WebServerManifest>$(_MSDeploySourceWebServerManifest)</WebServerManifest>
        <WebServerDirectory>$(_MSDeploySourceWebServerDirectory)</WebServerDirectory>
      </_AoPubAppOfflineSourceProviderSetting>

      <_AoPubAppOfflineDestProviderSetting Include="contentPath">
        <Path>"$(DeployIisAppPath)/app_offline.htm"</Path>
        <ComputerName>$(_PublishMsDeployServiceUrl)</ComputerName>
        <UserName>$(UserName)</UserName>
        <Password>$(Password)</Password>
        <EncryptPassword>$(DeployEncryptKey)</EncryptPassword>
        <IncludeAcls>False</IncludeAcls>
        <AuthType>$(AuthType)</AuthType>
        <WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerAppHostConfigDirectory)</WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>
        <WebServerManifest>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerManifest)</WebServerManifest>
        <WebServerDirectory>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerDirectory)</WebServerDirectory>
      </_AoPubAppOfflineDestProviderSetting>
    </ItemGroup>

    <MSdeploy
          MSDeployVersionsToTry="$(_MSDeployVersionsToTry)"
          Verb="sync"
          Source="@(_AoPubAppOfflineSourceProviderSetting)"
          Destination="@(_AoPubAppOfflineDestProviderSetting)"
          EnableRule="DoNotDeleteRule"
          AllowUntrusted="$(AllowUntrustedCertificate)"
          RetryAttempts="$(RetryAttemptsForDeployment)"
          SimpleSetParameterItems="@(_AoArchivePublishSetParam)"
          ExePath="$(MSDeployPath)" />
  </Target>

  <!--***********************************************************************
  Make sure app_offline-template.htm gets published as app_offline.htm
  ***************************************************************************-->
  <!-- We need to create a replace rule for app_offline-template.htm->app_offline.htm for when the app get's published -->
  <ItemGroup>
    <!-- Make sure not to include this file if a package is being created, so condition this on publishing -->
    <FilesForPackagingFromProject Include="app_offline-template.htm" Condition=" '$(DeployTarget)'=='MSDeployPublish' ">
      <DestinationRelativePath>app_offline.htm</DestinationRelativePath>
    </FilesForPackagingFromProject>

    <!-- This will prevent app_offline-template.htm from being published -->
    <MsDeploySkipRules Include="SkipAppOfflineTemplate">
      <ObjectName>filePath</ObjectName>
      <AbsolutePath>app_offline-template.htm</AbsolutePath>
    </MsDeploySkipRules>
  </ItemGroup>

  <!--***********************************************************************
  When publish is completed we need to delete the app_offline.htm
  ***************************************************************************-->
  <Target Name="DeleteAppOffline" AfterTargets="MSDeployPublish">
    <!--
    %msdeploy%
      -verb:delete
      -dest:contentPath="{IIS-Path}/app_offline.htm",computerName="...",username="...",password="..."
    -->
    <Message Text="************************************************************************" />
    <Message Text="Calling MSDeploy to delete the app_offline.htm file" Importance="high" />
    <Message Text="************************************************************************" />

    <ItemGroup>
      <_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting Include="contentPath">
        <Path>$(DeployIisAppPath)/app_offline.htm</Path>
        <ComputerName>$(_PublishMsDeployServiceUrl)</ComputerName>
        <UserName>$(UserName)</UserName>
        <Password>$(Password)</Password>
        <EncryptPassword>$(DeployEncryptKey)</EncryptPassword>
        <AuthType>$(AuthType)</AuthType>
        <WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerAppHostConfigDirectory)</WebServerAppHostConfigDirectory>
        <WebServerManifest>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerManifest)</WebServerManifest>
        <WebServerDirectory>$(_MSDeployDestinationWebServerDirectory)</WebServerDirectory>
      </_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting>
    </ItemGroup>

    <!--
    We cannot use the MSDeploy/VSMSDeploy tasks for delete so we have to call msdeploy.exe directly.
    When they support delete we can just pass in @(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting) as the dest
    -->
    <PropertyGroup>
      <_Cmd>"$(MSDeployExe)" -verb:delete -dest:contentPath="%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.Path)"</_Cmd>
      <_Cmd Condition=" '%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.ComputerName)' != '' ">$(_Cmd),computerName="%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.ComputerName)"</_Cmd>
      <_Cmd Condition=" '%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.UserName)' != '' ">$(_Cmd),username="%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.UserName)"</_Cmd>
      <_Cmd Condition=" '%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.Password)' != ''">$(_Cmd),password=$(Password)</_Cmd>
      <_Cmd Condition=" '%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.AuthType)' != ''">$(_Cmd),authType="%(_AoDeleteAppOfflineDestProviderSetting.AuthType)"</_Cmd>
    </PropertyGroup>

    <Exec Command="$(_Cmd)"/>
  </Target>
</Project>

1 Publish app_offline.htm
The implementation for #1 is contained inside the target PublishAppOfflineToDest. The msdeploy.exe command that we need to get executed is.
msdeploy.exe
    -source:contentPath='C:\Data\Personal\My Repo\sayed-samples\AppOfflineDemo01\AppOfflineDemo01\app_offline-template.htm'
    -dest:contentPath='"Default Web Site/AppOfflineDemo/app_offline.htm"',UserName='sayedha',Password='password-here',ComputerName='computername-here',IncludeAcls='False',AuthType='NTLM' -verb:sync -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule

In order to do this I will leverage the MSDeploy task. Inside of the PublishAppOfflineToDest target you can see how this is accomplished by creating an item for both the source and destination.
2 Publish the app, and ensure that app_offline.htm is contained inside the payload being published
This part is accomplished by the fragment
<!--***********************************************************************
Make sure app_offline-template.htm gets published as app_offline.htm
***************************************************************************-->
<!-- We need to create a replace rule for app_offline-template.htm->app_offline.htm for when the app get's published -->
<ItemGroup>
  <!-- Make sure not to include this file if a package is being created, so condition this on publishing -->
  <FilesForPackagingFromProject Include="app_offline-template.htm" Condition=" '$(DeployTarget)'=='MSDeployPublish' ">
    <DestinationRelativePath>app_offline.htm</DestinationRelativePath>
  </FilesForPackagingFromProject>

  <!-- This will prevent app_offline-template.htm from being published -->
  <MsDeploySkipRules Include="SkipAppOfflineTemplate">
    <ObjectName>filePath</ObjectName>
    <AbsolutePath>app_offline-template.htm</AbsolutePath>
  </MsDeploySkipRules>
</ItemGroup>

The item value for FilesForPackagingFromProject here will convert your app_offline-template.htm to app_offline.htm in the folder from where the publish will be processed. Also there is a condition on it so that it only happens during publish and not packaging. We do not want app_offline-template.htm to be in the package (but it's not the end of the world if it does either).
The element for MsDeploySkiprules will make sure that app_offline-template.htm itself doesn't get published. This may not be required but it shouldn't hurt.
3 Delete app_offline.htm
Now that our app is published we need to delete the app_offline.htm file from the dest web app. The msdeploy.exe command would be:
%msdeploy%
      -verb:delete
      -dest:contentPath="{IIS-Path}/app_offline.htm",computerName="...",username="...",password="..."
This is implemented inside of the DeleteAppOffline target. This target will automatically get executed after the publish because I have included the attribute AfterTargets="MSDeployPublish". In that target you can see that I am building up the msdeploy.exe command directly, it looks like the MSDeploy task doesn't support the delete verb.
If you do try this out please let me know if you run into any issues. I am thinking to create a Nuget package from this so that you can just install that package. That would take a bit of work so please let me know if you are interested in that.
Resources

*

*The latest version of my AppOffline wpp.targets file

*ScottGu's blog on app_offline.htm

A: This is now supported by WebDeploy v3.0.. all you need to do is add this line into your publish profile in 'Properties\PublishProfiles'
<EnableMSDeployAppOffline>true</EnableMSDeployAppOffline>

So the resulting publish profile will look something like the following.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <EnableMSDeployAppOffline>true</EnableMSDeployAppOffline>
    <WebPublishMethod>MSDeploy</WebPublishMethod>
    <MSDeployServiceURL>(removed)</MSDeployServiceURL>
    <DeployIisAppPath>Default Web Site</DeployIisAppPath>
    <AllowUntrustedCertificate>True</AllowUntrustedCertificate>
    <SkipExtraFilesOnServer>True</SkipExtraFilesOnServer>
    <DeployAsIisApp>False</DeployAsIisApp>
    <MSDeployPublishMethod>WMSVC</MSDeployPublishMethod>
    <UserName>sayedha</UserName>
    <ExcludeApp_Data>False</ExcludeApp_Data>
    <_SavePWD>True</_SavePWD>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

I have tested this and it does take my application offline during deployment, but unfortunately I still occasionally get the 'PrecompiledApp.config is in used' error.
More information about this can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/10/30/web-publishing-updates-for-app-offline-and-usechecksum.aspx


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Kelkar Museum established in 1962 by Baba Dinkar Kelkar. It is Established in Shukawar Peth, on the Bajirao Road. It is a favourite touring place in Pune. Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum has an accumulation of approximately 20,000 items, pertaining to distinct portions of the society, which were gathered by Baba Kelkar. The museum was built in memory of his son, who succumbed to death at a young age. However, currently, 25,000 of the objects are on exhibition for the public. The assortment of the articles illustrated took him nearly 40 years of hard work. In 1962, Baba Dinkar bequeathed his collection to the Department of Archaeology, which is now displayed in the museum. Currently, it is managed by the Government of Maharashtra. An extraordinary array of musical instruments, Mughal lanterns, portraits and other artefacts, murals on the displays from mythological epic Ramayana, nutcrackers, Ganpati's guns, shaped mansion gateways, fine ceramics set, crafts made up of terracotta, copper and brass, etc. are a few of the articles which are illustrated at the Museum. There are also sculptures of Lord Ganesha, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati at the museum. One of the most beautiful peculiarities of Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum is the imitation of the Mastnai Mahal, ingeniously established in 1734. Aforementioned chamber, amidst its expensive furnishings, grand chandeliers, exquisite paintings add on to the beauty of the museum.
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Behind the scenes of the new GNU mailing list server
by bernie Contributions — Published on May 27, 2011 08:28 PM
The GNU list server is a monster machine serving lists.gnu.org, lists.nongnu.org and a few other domains. Every day, it spools out over 1 million messages for 2700 mailing lists. Until April 11, our venerable list server was an 8-year old Fedora Core 2 (!) box equipped with 6 high-speed SCSI drives organized in two RAID packs to maximize I/O bandwidth. These drives were incessantly cranking every day, as Mailman forwarded incoming posts to thousands of subscribers over a saturated T1 uplink at the FSF headquarters.
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Upgrading a critical system like this isn't exactly easy: its aging components have to be replaced all at once, ideally without causing prolonged downtime and any externally visible change. The HTML archives are especially problematic because they're an enormous mass of fast-changing data which takes several hours to sync and several days to reconstruct from the raw mbox files.
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Testing the new system before transitioning it into production was also quite a challenge: the test environment must not be allowed to start spooling out millions of bogus messages, but you still want to get some messages out of it to verify that everything works. The list server is also tightly integrated with Savannah and the FSF mail system through a number of scripts and cron jobs, many of which have been around and running quietly for years.
Eventually, the day to switch over to the new server came. We announced it four days in advance; longer would have been better, but since we were concerned about possible failure in the existing setup, we did not want to wait longer than absolutely necessary.
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Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Speakpigeon, Feb 6, 2019.
Is not: "This statement is false".
Yet more of your homework?
Can I recommend you give Wikipedia whirl? It may well give you all the answers you seek.
For how can zero equal anything other than zero?
@ 13:17 Giant: You may say one thing and one thing only; if you decide to tell me something that is true I will crush you with my bare hands, if what you say is false I will then be obliged to use my sword.
Sorry, love, the OP is "This sentence is false".
You're quite a bunch here. Can't deal with the OP's question? Oh, never mind, just redact it.
Old story. Ancient Greece already had it.
How can you be both alive and dead?
candy, sideshowbob and Beer w/Straw like this.
Too late. The poor cat is really dead now.
I have an Instant Pot Max* and I want to make wine with it.
I'm still unsure on how to use it. It wants me to put in my altitude above sea level.
It wants me to put in my altitude above sea level.
You can get that from your weather station, or Google Maps.
It would be more interesting to ask after the color of that sentence. I think it's a low saturation greyish green.
Speakpigeon, it's a paradoxen. BOTH statements are true at the same time.
This is unlike, " the glass is half-full/empty" statement, which DOES have an answer. If the glass was half-filled from empty, then it is half-full; if it was full and emptied to half, then it is half-empty.
Is the liars paradox quoted in the OP a logical statement?
"How can a glass with nothing in it be considered as empty?"
Absolute zero is - the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible, at which the motion of particles that constitutes heat would be minimal. It is zero on the Kelvin scale, equivalent to –273.15°C or –459.67°F.
It depends on your point of reference.
It is always 4/3 of a particular cylinder.
So, the argument is true if you start by assuming it's false and it's false if you start be assuming it's true.
I guess this is the point.


The paper deals with the evolution of the retail sales in the Czech Republic and the European Union. Retail sales are a very important element of the total performance of a national economy. The aim of this article is to analyze the tendency of the retail sales and to compare their evolution in the Czech Republic with the results of the whole European Union. The paper presents graphical analysis studying relations between the retail sales and the macroeconomic development (GDP growth rate and unemployment rate) as well as the expectations of the households. As concerns the factors of the retail sales evolution, there is some positive correlation with the evolution of the general economic performance. However, there is no provable relation between the growth or decrease of the retail sales and the unemployment in both the EU and the Czech Republic.