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'When We Get To Heaven, We Can Walk In Together': Couple Of 59 Years Dies Holding Hands
By Hunter Miller - September 15, 2016 04:20 pm EDT
After 59 years of marriage, North Carolina couple Margaret and Don Livengood spent their final days holding hands side by side in the hospital before they eventually passed away within hours of one another.
"It was normal for them to be holding hands, their love was so precious," Pattie Beaver, the couple's daughter stated. "But it was the sweetest, most precious thing you can imagine to see them holding hands in the hospital."
Both of Beaver's parents were taken to the hospital on the same day. Margaret, 80, was suffering cancer while her Don, 84, was fighting for his every breath due to pulmonary fibrosis and bilateral pneumonia.
When Don and Margarat first arrived at the hospital, they were put in separate rooms on different floors. "It broke my heart," Beaver said recalling how she would have to run back and forth from floor to floor to help her parents.
Beaver knew that they wanted to be together, so she pleaded with the hospital to put them in the same room.
Fortunately, Don and Margaret were both being treated by Dr. Randy Schisler, who claims that the staff truly came together in order to reunite the couple in the same hospital room.
"I'm really proud," Dr. Schisler stated. "We stretched as far as we could with the rules to allow things that aren't typical because it was the absolute right thing for these patients and for this family."
Even though Beaver's parents would eventually pass away on the same day, she said, "It gave me comfort to know that this is exactly what they would want and the hospital was able to make that happen." Beaver continued, "In the most horrific grief I've ever had in my life, I still had comfort because they were together."
On August 15, Margaret died around 8 a.m. while Don died later that day shortly after 5 p.m.
Before her parents passed, Beaver recalled some of the last words her father said to her mother. "When we get to heaven, we can walk in together, just like we're getting married again. Another honeymoon."
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Pattie Beaver and family, and we appreciate her sharing this touching story.
[H/T People]
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From Wednesday, Sept. 6 to Oct. 15, the College's art faculty will showcase their works at the TCNJ Biennial Faculty Exhibition in the Art and Interactive Multimedia Building.
This year's theme of the exhibition is Community and Practice, and Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, the College's art director, explained. "We wanted something that connected the campus learning theme, which is 'who we are,'" she said.
She commended the faculty and staff who participated in the exhibit for being both practicing artists and phenomenal educators.
"This is the research work or the scholarship that the faculty members are participating in and this is what they are bringing to the larger community of the College," Pezalla-Granlund said.
During the panel discussion on Wednesday at 4 p.m., the art faculty explained their projects and their values as artists.
Eddie Villanueva, one of the presenters, expressed how he enjoyed using a variety of materials and processes for sculptures, such as an arcade game in one of his pieces.
Faculty member Liselot van der Heijden enjoys using people and actors in her works, including in her latest video loop titled, "Just Looking, Part III." In the video, two actors face each other in the busy streets of Chelsea, standing still for a period of time as pedestrians navigate around them. The staged actors create an obstacle, which passersby must work around.
"It creates a juxtaposition between stage, actors and the uncontrolled reality or events taking place," Heijden said of her piece. She receives a lot of feedback from people who interact with her live action works.
Art professor Elizabeth Mackie focused her work around the Ortler glaciers in the Alps, which relates to the school's theme of "who we are," as she believes that glaciers are an important part of the environment in which we live.
"Without the environment around us we are nothing," she said. Mackie wants students to learn how to create their own medium.
"I also hope that they gained the idea of the interaction of science and art," she said of the impression left on her students.
Marchelo Vera, an art professor at the College, explains how he uses a variety of mediums in his work including hand drawings, digital drawing techniques, and photography.
Professor Kenneth Kaplowitz, whose work focuses on photographing bird droppings, explains his motivation for his project.


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East County Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 4 years ago
Deb Barry celebrates final year at BRHS with pole barn opening; Kiddie Academy of Lakewood Ranch receives national credentials
by: Amanda Sebastiano Staff Writer
+ Final crop for teacher
Watching things grow is part of Deb Barry's job description.
As the head of the Agriculture Department at Braden River High School, Barry has built her 11-year career from the soil up, by helping students learn the importance of farming and caring for livestock.
She has grown with a department that began with one teacher (Barry) and today has three teachers and more than 500 students.
Now that she has helped create the largest agriculture program in the state, Barry is moving. She has accepted an academic advisor position at the University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center campus in Plant City.
On Jan. 6, Braden River opened its new pole barn, and Barry said that was her best going-away present. She is leaving the school in June.
"This is a celebration of our program and the students here," Barry said. "I'll be recruiting, so I'll still be around and checking in."
Barry said the new barn, which houses 10 cattle on the campus, will help the program grow even more over the years.
The barn cost $101,720 and has a concrete pathway through the center so agriculture teachers can drive a tractor or other equipment through the barn. Bleachers are located beside the barn for larger lectures.
"We made our lessons work before, without the barn, but we're so excited to fill the barn with animals and put it to use," Barry said.
+ Kiddie Academy honored
The Kiddie Academy of Lakewood Ranch is celebrating its eighth birthday with proof that its staff members are at the top of the class.
Marina Woolf-Schmidt, Chelsea Jervis, Tina Pouso and Bill Schmidt show off Kiddie Academy's National Accreditation certificate.
This month, the school received its national accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Kiddie Academy is now the only provider in Manatee County to hold the accreditation, which is valid for five years.
To earn the accreditation, the school had to measure its programs and services against 400 criteria spelled out by the national association's standards.
"A lot of schools have accreditations, but this is the Rolls Royce of them all," Schmidt said. "We went through a rigorous process in which each instructor had to show diversity and prove that our children understand what they're being taught, such as colors, counting and the alphabet."

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package org.kde9.control.ImportAndExport;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter;

import jxl.Cell;
import jxl.Sheet;
import jxl.Workbook;
import jxl.write.Label;
import jxl.write.WritableSheet;
import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;
import jxl.write.WriteException;
import jxl.write.biff.RowsExceededException;
import jxl.read.*;

import org.kde9.control.Kernel;
import org.kde9.control.FileOperation.ReadFile;
import org.kde9.control.FileOperation.WriteFile;
import org.kde9.model.card.ConstCard;
import org.kde9.util.Constants;
import org.kde9.view.ComponentPool;
import org.kde9.view.dialog.CoolInfoBox;
import org.kde9.view.dialog.WarningInfoBox;

public class MyImportAndExport
implements ImportAndExport , Constants {
	JFileChooser jfc;
	Kernel kernel;
	int type;

	public MyImportAndExport() {
		kernel = ComponentPool.getComponent().getKernel();
	}

	public MyImportAndExport(int type) {
		kernel = ComponentPool.getComponent().getKernel();
		this.type = type;
	}

	public String saveFile() {
		jfc = new MySaveChooser(".");
		jfc.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(700, 400));
		jfc.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(false);
		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("csv"));
//		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("vcf"));
		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("xls"));
		int result = jfc.showSaveDialog(ComponentPool.getComponent());
		String path = jfc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath();
		if(path == null)
			return null;
		String ends = jfc.getFileFilter().getDescription();
		if(ends.equals("*.csv")) {
			if(!path.endsWith(".csv")) {
				path += ".csv";
			}
		}
		else if(ends.equals("*.xls")) {
			if(!path.endsWith(".xls")) {
				path += ".xls";
			}
		}
		File file = new File(path);
		while (result != JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION && file.exists()) {
			int okornot = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(
					ComponentPool.getBrowerComponent(), "文件已存在,要覆盖么?");
			if(okornot == JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION)
				return null;
			else if(okornot == JOptionPane.NO_OPTION) {
				result = jfc.showSaveDialog(ComponentPool.getComponent());
				path = jfc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath();
				ends = jfc.getFileFilter().getDescription();
				if(ends.equals("*.csv")) {
					if(!path.endsWith(".csv")) {
						path += ".csv";
					}
				}
				else if(ends.equals("*.xls")) {
					if(!path.endsWith(".xls")) {
						path += ".xls";
					}
				}
				file = new File(path);
			}
			else {
				break;
			}
		}
		if(result == JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION)
			return null;
		if(result == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
			ends = jfc.getFileFilter().getDescription();
			if(ends.equals("*.csv")) {
				if(path.endsWith(".csv"))
					return path;
				else {
					path += ".csv";
					return path;
				}
			}
//			else if(ends.equals("*.vcf")) {
//				if(path.endsWith(".vcf"))
//					return path;
//				else {
//					path += ".vcf";
//					return path;
//				}
//			}
			else if(ends.equals("*.xls")) {
				if(path.endsWith(".xls"))
					return path;
				else {
					path += ".xls";
					return path;
				}
			}
		}
		return null;
	}

	public String openFile() {
		ComponentPool.getNameComponent().setSumLabel(
				"正在导入名片…");
		jfc = new MyOpenChooser(".");
		jfc.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(700, 400));
		jfc.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(false);
		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("csv"));
//		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("vcf"));
		jfc.addChoosableFileFilter(new MyFileFilter("xls"));
		int result = jfc.showOpenDialog(null);
		if(result == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {

			return jfc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath();
		}
		return null;
	}

	private class MyFileFilter
	extends FileFilter {
		String str;

		public MyFileFilter(String str) {
			// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
			this.str = str;
		}

		@Override
		public boolean accept(File f) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
			if(f.isDirectory()) {
				return true;
			}
			String fileName = f.getName();
			int index = fileName.lastIndexOf(".");
			if(index > 0 && index < fileName.length() - 1) {
				String extension = fileName.substring(index + 1).toLowerCase();
				if(extension.equals(str)) {
					return true;
				}
			}
			return false;
		}

		@Override
		public String getDescription() {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
			if(str.equals("csv")) {
				return "*.csv";
			}
//			else if(str.equals("vcf")) {
//				return "*.vcf";
//			}
			else if(str.equals("xls")) {
				return "*.xls";
			}
			return "";
		}

	}

	private class MyOpenChooser
	extends JFileChooser {
		public MyOpenChooser(String path) {
			// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
			super(path);
		}

		public void approveSelection() {
			File file = new File(getSelectedFile().getPath());
			if (file.exists())
			    super.approveSelection();
			else
			    new CoolInfoBox(ComponentPool.getComponent(),"你选择的文件不存在,请重新选择!",
						Color.YELLOW , 200, 100);
		}
	}

	private class MySaveChooser
	extends JFileChooser {
		public MySaveChooser(String path) {
			// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
			super(path);
		}

		public void approveSelection() {
			String temp = this.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath();
			String ends = jfc.getFileFilter().getDescription();
			if(ends.equals("*.csv")) {
				if(!temp.endsWith(".csv")) {
					temp += ".csv";
				}
			}
//			else if(ends.equals("*.vcf")) {
//				if(temp.endsWith(".vcf")) {
//					temp += ".vcf";
//				}
//			}
			else if(ends.equals("*.xls")) {
				if(temp.endsWith(".xls")) {
					temp += ".xls";
				}
			}
//			File file = new File(temp);
//			if (file.exists()) {
//				WarningInfoBox wib = new WarningInfoBox(1, this, this,
//						"是否要覆盖当前文件?",
//						Color.YELLOW, 200, 100);
//				if(wib.isFlag()) {
//					super.approveSelection();
//				}
//			}else {
				super.approveSelection();
//			}
		}
	}

	public void ExportFile() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		String filePath = this.saveFile();
		if(filePath == null)
			return;
		//System.out.println(cardCount);
		ConstCard card;
		LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> itemsIndex = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
		/*
		 * 获得index
		 */
		HashSet<Integer> ids = kernel.getGroup(GROUPALLID).getGroupMembers();
		int cardCount = ids.size();
		Object[] arrayIds = ids.toArray();
		for(int i = 0 ; i < cardCount; i++) {
			card = kernel.getCard((Integer)arrayIds[i]);
			LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
			for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
				//itemsIndex.put(itemName);
				itemsIndex.put(itemName, 0);
			}
		}
		for(int i = 0 ; i < cardCount; i++) {
			card = kernel.getCard((Integer)arrayIds[i]);
			LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
			for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
				if(items.get(itemName).size() > itemsIndex.get(itemName))
					itemsIndex.put(itemName, items.get(itemName).size());
			}
		}
		if (filePath.endsWith(".csv")) {
			if (type == Constants.EXPORT) {
				try {
					WriteFile wf = new WriteFile(filePath, false, "GB2312");
					String index = "FirstName,LastName";
					for (String itemName : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < itemsIndex.get(itemName); i++) {
							index += ",";
							index += itemName;
						}
					}
					wf.writeLine(index);
					String temp = "";
					for (int i = 0; i < cardCount; i++) {
						card = kernel.getCard((Integer)arrayIds[i]);
						temp = card.getFirstName() + "," + card.getLastName();
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card
								.getAllItems();
						for (String itemName : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
							if (items.get(itemName) != null) {
								for (int t = 0; t < items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									temp += ",";
									temp += items.get(itemName).get(t);
								}
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName)
										- items.get(itemName).size(); t++)
									temp += ",";
							} else {
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName); t++)
									temp += ",";
							}
						}
						wf.writeLine(temp);
						temp = "";
					}
					wf.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			} else if (type == Constants.EXPORTCARD) {
				try {
					WriteFile wf = new WriteFile(filePath, false, "GB2312");
					int cardSelected = ComponentPool.getNameComponent().getSelectedMemberId();
					card = kernel.getCard(cardSelected);
					LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
					String index = "FirstName,LastName";
					String temp = card.getFirstName() + "," + card.getLastName();
					for (String itemName : items.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < items.get(itemName).size(); i++) {
							index += ",";
							index += itemName;
							temp += ",";
							temp += items.get(itemName).get(i);
						}
					}
					wf.writeLine(index);
					wf.writeLine(temp);
					wf.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			} else if (type == Constants.EXPORTGROUP) {
				int groupSelected = ComponentPool.getGroupComponent().getSelectedGroupId();
				int groupCardCount = kernel.getGroup(groupSelected).getGroupMembers().size();
				LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> gItemsIndex = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
				LinkedHashSet<Integer> gCardItems = kernel.getGroup(groupSelected).getGroupMembers();
				for(int i : gCardItems) {
					card = kernel.getCard(i);
					LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
					for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
						gItemsIndex.put(itemName, 0);
					}
				}
				for(int i : gCardItems) {
					card = kernel.getCard(i);
					LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
					for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
						if(items.get(itemName).size() > gItemsIndex.get(itemName))
							gItemsIndex.put(itemName, items.get(itemName).size());
					}
				}
				try {
					WriteFile wf = new WriteFile(filePath, false, "GB2312");
					String index = "FirstName,LastName";
					for (String itemName : gItemsIndex.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < gItemsIndex.get(itemName); i++) {
							index += ",";
							index += itemName;
						}
					}
					wf.writeLine(index);
					String temp = "";
					for (int i : gCardItems) {
						card = kernel.getCard(i);
						temp = card.getFirstName() + "," + card.getLastName();
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
						for (String itemName : gItemsIndex.keySet()) {
							if (items.get(itemName) != null) {
								for (int t = 0; t < items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									temp += ",";
									temp += items.get(itemName).get(t);
								}
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName)
										- items.get(itemName).size(); t++)
									temp += ",";
							} else {
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName); t++)
									temp += ",";
							}
						}
						wf.writeLine(temp);
						temp = "";
					}
					wf.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		}else if(filePath.endsWith(".xls")) {
			WritableWorkbook wwb;
			OutputStream os;
			if (type == Constants.EXPORT) {
				try {
					os = new FileOutputStream(filePath);
					wwb = Workbook.createWorkbook(os);
					WritableSheet sheet = wwb.createSheet("sheet1", 0);
					Label label;
					int index = 2;
					label = new Label(0, 0, "FirstName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					label = new Label(1, 0, "LastName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					for (String itemName : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < itemsIndex.get(itemName); i++) {
							label = new Label(index, 0, itemName);
							sheet.addCell(label);
							index++;
						}
					}
					for (int i = 0; i < cardCount; i++) {
						card = kernel.getCard((Integer)arrayIds[i]);
						label = new Label(0, i + 1, card.getFirstName());
						sheet.addCell(label);
						label = new Label(1, i + 1, card.getLastName());
						sheet.addCell(label);
						int temp = 2;
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card
								.getAllItems();
						for (String itemName : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
							if (items.get(itemName) != null) {
								for (int t = 0; t < items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, i + 1, items.get(
											itemName).get(t));
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName)
										- items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, i + 1, "");
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
							} else {
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, i + 1, "");
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
							}
						}
					}
					wwb.write();
					wwb.close();
					os.close();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}else if (type == Constants.EXPORTCARD) {
				try {
					os = new FileOutputStream(filePath);
					wwb = Workbook.createWorkbook(os);
					WritableSheet sheet = wwb.createSheet("sheet1", 0);
					Label label;
					int index = 2;
					label = new Label(0, 0, "FirstName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					label = new Label(1, 0, "LastName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					int cardSelected = ComponentPool.getNameComponent().getSelectedMemberId();
					card = kernel.getCard(cardSelected);
					LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
					for (String itemName : items.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < items.get(itemName).size(); i++) {
							label = new Label(index, 0, itemName);
							sheet.addCell(label);
							index++;
						}
					}
					label = new Label(0, 1, card.getFirstName());
					sheet.addCell(label);
					label = new Label(1, 1, card.getLastName());
					sheet.addCell(label);
					int temp = 2;
					for (String itemName : items.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < items.get(itemName).size(); i++) {
							label = new Label(temp, 1, items.get(itemName).get(i));
							sheet.addCell(label);
							temp++;
						}
					}
					wwb.write();
					wwb.close();
					os.close();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}else if (type == Constants.EXPORTGROUP) {
				try {
					int groupSelected = ComponentPool.getGroupComponent().getSelectedGroupId();
					int groupCardCount = kernel.getGroup(groupSelected).getGroupMembers().size();
					LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> gItemsIndex = new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
					LinkedHashSet<Integer> gCardItems = kernel.getGroup(groupSelected).getGroupMembers();
					for(int i : gCardItems) {
						card = kernel.getCard(i);
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
						for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
							gItemsIndex.put(itemName, 0);
						}
					}
					for(int i : gCardItems) {
						card = kernel.getCard(i);
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
						for(String itemName : items.keySet()) {
							if(items.get(itemName).size() > gItemsIndex.get(itemName))
								gItemsIndex.put(itemName, items.get(itemName).size());
						}
					}
					os = new FileOutputStream(filePath);
					wwb = Workbook.createWorkbook(os);
					WritableSheet sheet = wwb.createSheet("sheet1", 0);
					Label label;
					int index = 2;
					label = new Label(0, 0, "FirstName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					label = new Label(1, 0, "LastName");
					sheet.addCell(label);
					for (String itemName : gItemsIndex.keySet()) {
						for (int i = 0; i < gItemsIndex.get(itemName); i++) {
							label = new Label(index, 0, itemName);
							sheet.addCell(label);
							index++;
						}
					}
					int rows = 0;
					for (int i : gCardItems) {
						card = kernel.getCard(i);
						label = new Label(0, rows + 1, card.getFirstName());
						sheet.addCell(label);
						label = new Label(1, rows + 1, card.getLastName());
						sheet.addCell(label);
						int temp = 2;
						LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items = card.getAllItems();
						for (String itemName : gItemsIndex.keySet()) {
							if (items.get(itemName) != null) {
								for (int t = 0; t < items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, rows + 1, items.get(itemName).get(t));
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName)- items.get(itemName).size(); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, rows + 1, "");
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
							} else {
								for (int t = 0; t < itemsIndex.get(itemName); t++) {
									label = new Label(temp, rows + 1, "");
									temp++;
									sheet.addCell(label);
								}
							}
						}
						rows++;
					}
					wwb.write();
					wwb.close();
					os.close();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		}
		System.out.println(filePath);
	}

	public void ImportFile(int id) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		String filePath = this.openFile();
		if(filePath == null)
			return;
		if(filePath.endsWith(".csv")) {
			importCSV(filePath, id);
		}else if(filePath.endsWith(".xls")) {
			importXLS(filePath, id);
		}
		System.out.println(filePath);
	}

	private void importCSV(String filePath, int groupId) {
		LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> itemsIndex =
			new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
		try {
			ReadFile rf = new ReadFile(filePath, "GB2312");
			String temp = rf.readLine();
			String[] index = temp.split(",");
			for(int i = 0; i < index.length; i++) {
				if(index[i].length() == 0)
					index[i] = "NULL" + String.valueOf(i);
				System.out.println(index[i]);
			}
			for(int i = 2; i < index.length ; i++) {
				itemsIndex.put(index[i], 0);
			}
			for(int i = 2; i < index.length ; i++) {
				int sum = itemsIndex.get(index[i]) + 1;
				itemsIndex.put(index[i], sum);
			}
			for(String item : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
				System.out.println(item + "--------------" + itemsIndex.get(item));
			}
			System.out.println(index.length + "%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%");
			String content = "";
			String [] tempContent;
			while((content = rf.readLine()) != null) {
				if(content.length() != 0) {
				Vector<String> keys = new Vector<String>();
				int p = 0 ,j = 0;
				for (p = 0, j = 0; p < content.length(); p++) {
					if (content.charAt(p) == ',') {
						if (j != p) {
							if(keys.size() < index.length)
								keys.add(content.substring(j, p));
							else
								break;
						}
						else {
							if(keys.size() < index.length)
								keys.add("");
							else
								break;
						}
						j = p + 1;
					}
				}
				System.out.println(keys.size() + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&1");
				System.out.println(index.length + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&2");
				if(keys.size() < index.length) {
					keys.add(content.substring(j));
				}
				System.out.println(keys.size() + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&3");
				System.out.println(index.length + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&4");
				while(keys.size() < index.length) {
					System.out.println(keys.size() + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&5");
					keys.add("");
				}
				System.out.println(keys.size() + "&&&&&&&&&&&&&");
				for(int i = 0; i < keys.size(); i++)
					System.out.print(keys.get(i) + " ");
//				System.out.println();
//				tempContent = content.split(",");
//				System.out.println(tempContent.length + "^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^");
				LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items =
					new LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>>();
				ConstCard cardAdded;
				String firstName = keys.get(0);
				String lastName = keys.get(1);
				int col = 2;
				while(col < keys.size()) {
					String oneIndex = index[col];
					Vector<String> realItem = new Vector<String>();
					System.out.println(itemsIndex + " ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^");
					System.out.println(oneIndex);
					if(itemsIndex.get(oneIndex) == 1) {
						if(keys.get(col).length() != 0)
							realItem.add(keys.get(col));
						col++;
						System.out.println(oneIndex + "|||" + realItem + "|");
						if(realItem != null && realItem.size() != 0)
							items.put(oneIndex, realItem);
					}else {
						for(int tempIndex = 0; tempIndex < itemsIndex.get(oneIndex); tempIndex++) {
							if(keys.get(col).length() != 0)
								realItem.add(keys.get(col));
							col++;
						}
						System.out.println(oneIndex + "||");
						if(realItem != null && realItem.size() != 0)
							items.put(oneIndex, realItem);
					}
				}
				System.out.println(firstName);
				System.out.println(lastName);
//				for(String itemKey : items.keySet()) {
//					if(items.get(itemKey) == null || items.get(itemKey).size() == 0)
//						items.remove(itemKey);
//				}
				System.out.println("**" + items + "**");
				cardAdded = kernel.addCard(groupId, firstName, lastName, items, null);
				System.out.println(cardAdded.getId() + " 添加的card的id");
				kernel.addGroupMember(groupId, cardAdded.getId());
				}
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		System.out.println("csv imported!!!");
	}

	private void importXLS(String filePath, int groupId) {
		LinkedHashMap<String, Integer> itemsIndex =
			new LinkedHashMap<String, Integer>();
		InputStream is;
		Workbook wb;
		try {
			is = new FileInputStream(filePath);
			wb = Workbook.getWorkbook(is);
			Sheet st = wb.getSheet(0);
			int rowCount = st.getRows();
			int colCount = st.getRow(0).length;
			System.out.println(rowCount + "  :  rowCount");
			System.out.println(colCount + "  :  colCount");
			Cell cell;
			String content = "";
			for(int i = 2; i < colCount ; i++) {
				cell = st.getCell(i, 0);
				content = cell.getContents().toString();
				if(content.length() == 0)
					itemsIndex.put("NULL" + i, 0);
				else
					itemsIndex.put(content, 0);
			}
			for(int i = 2; i < colCount ; i++) {
				cell = st.getCell(i, 0);
				content = cell.getContents().toString();
				int sum = 0;
				if(content.length() == 0){
					sum = itemsIndex.get("NULL" + i) + 1;
					itemsIndex.put("NULL" + i, sum);
				}else {
					sum = itemsIndex.get(content) + 1;
					itemsIndex.put(content, sum);
				}
			}
			for(String item : itemsIndex.keySet()) {
				System.out.println(item + "--------------" + itemsIndex.get(item));
			}
			for(int row = 1; row < rowCount; row++) {
				LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>> items =
					new LinkedHashMap<String, Vector<String>>();
				ConstCard cardAdded;
				cell = st.getCell(0, row);
				String firstName = cell.getContents().toString();
				cell = st.getCell(1, row);
				String lastName = cell.getContents().toString();
				int col = 2;
				while(col < colCount) {
					Cell indexCell = st.getCell(col, 0);
					String index = indexCell.getContents().toString();
					if(index.length() == 0)
						index = "NULL" + col;
					Vector<String> temp = new Vector<String>();
					if(itemsIndex.get(index) == 1) {
						cell = st.getCell(col, row);
						content = cell.getContents();
						if(content.length() != 0)
							temp.add(content);
						col++;
						if(temp.size() != 0 && temp != null)
							items.put(index, temp);
					}else {
						for(int tempIndex = 0; tempIndex < itemsIndex.get(index); tempIndex++) {
							cell = st.getCell(col, row);
							content = cell.getContents();
							if(content.length() != 0)
								temp.add(content);
							col++;
						}
						if(temp.size() != 0 && temp != null)
							items.put(index, temp);
					}
				}
				System.out.println(row + "*************************");
				System.out.println(firstName);
				System.out.println(lastName);
				System.out.println(items + "   ITEMS");
				cardAdded = kernel.addCard(groupId, firstName, lastName, items, null);
				//System.out.println(cardAdded.getId() + "((((((((((((((((((((");
				kernel.addGroupMember(groupId, cardAdded.getId());
			}
			wb.close();
			is.close();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

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Angoulême: Visiting site of Wes Anderson's next film 'The French Dispatch'
by Chris O'Brien January 8, 2019
The rumors and buzz started swirling late last summer in the small French city of Angoulême: Director Wes Anderson would be filming a movie in this town starting in the fall. While there has never been official confirmation from city officials who are apparently swown to secrecy, the director of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" has indeed invaded this town, located about one hour northeast of Bordeaux.
Angoulême may not be the first destination tourists think of when coming to France, but I visited several years ago and it's easy to see how Anderson could have been seduced by its charm. Talk that the film would be a musical comedy turned out not to be true. "The French Dispatch" is set after WWII and has something to do with American journalists in France. The cast so far includes some new and some familiar Anderson faces: Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro Timothée Chalame.Frances McDormand, Benicio del Toro, Jeffrey Wright, Adrian Brody, and Léa Seydoux.
People started spotting Anderson back in September on the streets:
Wes Anderson est à Angoulême https://t.co/V5zunBVWWp pic.twitter.com/Uch2LQ44qY
— Charente Libre (@charentelibre) September 27, 2018
And while there is a typical amount of secrecy around the project (his reps told me he wasn't doing any interviews), Anderson and Tilda Swinton appeared at the city's Christmas tree lighting ceremony:
Tilda Swinton et Wes Anderson lancent les illuminations de Noël à Angoulême pic.twitter.com/dcSjzMDElj
— Sud Ouest Charente (@SO_Charente) November 23, 2018
Meanwhile, his team is transforming some store fronts and various neighborhoods for the film:
Via Twitter by @daryo.
Via Twitter by @daryo.
Residents were particularly surprised to wake up one morning to discover man-made snow covering some streets:
De la neige à Angoulême ? Wes Anderson est en ville ! https://t.co/uo2d9gDKGm
— Lesinfos.online (@Infosonline) December 4, 2018
One local group is taking advantage of the moment to hold a conferece on January 18 dedicated to Anderson's most recent film, "Isle of Lost Dogs." The evening's speakers will include the film's producer Jeremy Dawson and two of the animators who worked on it. And I suppose everyone involved is secretly hoping that Anderson will pop in.
"The city of the image"
While it's unclear what led Anderson to choose Angoulême, it may not be as random as it seems at first glance. France has a wealth of adorable villages and small cities, but Angoulême also happens to be the country's comic book capital. And Angoulême, which bills itself as the "city of the image," has used that historic strength to turn itself into a major hub of digital arts, from video games to animation to motion capture.
The city is perhaps best known as the host of one the world's largest comic book festivals, Le festival de la BD d'Angouleme. In France, comic books are called "bandes dessinées" or BD. And they're taken quite seriously as an art form. It was the BD Festival that brought me to the city in January 2016, along with an estimated 200,000 other attendees.
While there, I had a chance to experience parts of this broader digital arts hub, which was quite remarkable for a town with about 42,000 residents. The first time I had any hint about this prowess was just a couple of months earlier, while researching a story for the Los Angeles Times about a new animated Peanuts series that had been created for France 3 TV. While the studio making the series, Normaal, was officially based in Paris, its main studio was actually in Angoulême. And it turned out they were far from alone.
The industry is grouped together by an association called the "Pole Image Magelis." Its members include the city's 12 schools that teach some facet of digital arts, from post high school to PhD. Yes, in Angoulême, you can get a PhD in "comic arts." Overall, the city counts about 150 industry-related companies, including animation studios such as Blue Spirit, video game makers BiP Media and Bulwark Studios, and film studio Transpa Studios.
I toured SolidAnim, which does motion capture, digital effects, and virtual reality. One executive mentioned that Angoulême's breadth of talent in terms of programmers, artists and storytellers made it hard to beat as a center of animation.
Motion capture at SolidAnim.
The crown jewel of this animated culture and industry in Angoulême is La cité internationale de la BD. This is a kind of BD cultural campus located to the north side of hilltop city center. Descending some winding stairs brings you to one of the entry points, a building that is home to the campus library and adminisrative offices named Vaisseau Moebius after Franco-Belgian comic book author Jean Giraud who wrote under that name.
Vaisseau Moebius
From there, you can walk across a footbridge over the Charente River to the other part of the campus, including the Le musée de la bande dessinée. You could try to drag you kids to a lot of European museums against their will, or you could take them here and be a hero.
Across the Charente River.
Inside the BD Museum
If you're still hungry for imagery and comic art, you can then do a walking tour of at least 26 murals designed by many famous comic artists and scattered around the city. Such as the one at the top of this story, "La Fille des Remparts," by Max Cabanes. You can get a full walking guide here.
Of course, even if you aren't totally obsessed with animation and all things digital, the city center does make for an alluring stop with its own merits.
La Cathédrale St Pierre
Hôtel de ville d'Angoulême
About the only thing that I didn't get to experience was much of the local cuisine. Mostly because we were easting food at the festival or attending strange parties. Still, those offered some memorable moments, like a dance party in some hidden house in the middle of the city.
The next edition of the BD Festival starts January 24. I can't attend this year, unfortunately. But I'm definitely eager to get back to Angoulême again.
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After the trouncing of the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the Wisconsin primary election on 5 April, many in the media and political elites (the "Pundocracy") hailed the result as a key turning point, indeed, "Peak Trump".
The defeat in Wisconsin came after a series of self-induced blunders by the Trump campaign and the scale of the defeat has led to significant changes to his message discipline, the tone of his campaign, well as the appointment of key professional advisers to Team Trump. The salient fact is that Trump recognizes the need for change, has adapted his campaign and has appointed the right people on board to secure a majority prior to the Republican Party's Cleveland convention in July 2016.
In my most recent blog article on 20 March, I predicted Donald Trump would win the majority of the delegates and avoid a contested nomination in Cleveland. The defeat in Wisconsin, contrary to the conventional wisdom, will lead to the securing of the Donald's nomination as the Republican presidential candidate.
The victory of Trump in his home state of New York, with over 60% of the vote, was a strong comeback for a candidate who had supposedly peaked weeks ago. One of the most interesting aspects of his victory was his appeal to Republican Latino voters, whom he won over 50% of the vote. We have already seen his success with Latino voters in the Nevada primary election, where he won half the Latino vote, even when competing against two Latino Republican candidates.
I have always argued that Trump, once he starts pivoting to the populist centre, will gain traction among minority voters who will find his core economic message appealing compared to the stuffy and wooden establishment figure Hilary Clinton. Of course, Trump is not going to get a majority of minority voters support, or anyway near that, but he only has to do as well, or better, than previous Republican candidates to get into the White House.
The main argument of the Pundocracy on why Trump can't win the general election is that his negative ratings are worse than Clinton's. What this perspective totally fails to understand is that the Trumpian Great Pivot into a serious, substantive and presidential candidate will drive those negative ratings down over the rest of the year. The main concern of many voters is the perception is that Trump isn't ready or doesn't have the temperament to be president. Acting and behaving "presidentially" will be the main antidote to that worry. The bottom line is that Clinton's high negative ratings have been formed over a political career lasting 25 years whilst Trump's ratings have been formed over less than 8 months. Trump can and will overcome these weaknesses in a way that Clinton simply cannot.
There are signs that the Pundocracy are starting to recognise this reality. On the BBC This Week programme, the former Labour London mayor predicted that Trump will defeat Clinton in November and other news media articles suggest that world leaders are starting to seriously prepare for a Trump presidency. It is still possible that Trump's presidential campaign will self-implode, but the most likely outcome is that Donald Trump will be America's next president.


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February 27, 2015 "ICH" - The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
"To initiate a war of aggression...," said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, "is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
The public sodomising of the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi with a "rebel" bayonet was greeted by the then US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, with the words: "We came, we saw, he died." His murder, like the destruction of his country, was justified with a familiar big lie; he was planning "genocide" against his own people. "We knew... that if we waited one more day," said President Obama, "Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world."
"Tonight, for the first time since 9/11, our combat mission in Afghanistan is over." These were opening words of Obama's 2015 State of the Union address. In fact, some 10,000 troops and 20,000 military contractors (mercenaries) remain in Afghanistan on indefinite assignment. "The longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion," said Obama. In fact, more civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2014 than in any year since the UN took records. The majority have been killed - civilians and soldiers - during Obama's time as president.
The tragedy of Afghanistan rivals the epic crime in Indochina. In his lauded and much quoted book 'The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives', Zbigniew Brzezinski, the godfather of US policies from Afghanistan to the present day, writes that if America is to control Eurasia and dominate the world, it cannot sustain a popular democracy, because "the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion... Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilisation." He is right. As WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have revealed, a surveillance and police state is usurping democracy. In 1976, Brzezinski, then President Carter's National Security Advisor, demonstrated his point by dealing a death blow to Afghanistan's first and only democracy. Who knows this vital history?
The new government introduced free medical care for the poorest; peonage was abolished, a mass literacy programme was launched. For women, the gains were unheard of. By the late 1980s, half the university students were women, and women made up almost half of Afghanistan's doctors, a third of civil servants and the majority of teachers. "Every girl," recalled Saira Noorani, a female surgeon, "could go to high school and university. We could go where we wanted and wear what we liked. We used to go to cafes and the cinema to see the latest Indian film on a Friday and listen to the latest music. It all started to go wrong when the mujaheddin started winning. They used to kill teachers and burn schools. We were terrified. It was funny and sad to think these were the people the West supported."
On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised support for tribal "fundamentalist" groups known as the mujaheddin, a program that grew to over $500 million a year in U.S. arms and other assistance. The aim was the overthrow of Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government], despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine.
The mujaheddin were the forebears of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. They included Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who received tens of millions of dollars in cash from the CIA. Hekmatyar's specialty was trafficking in opium and throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. Invited to London, he was lauded by Prime Minister Thatcher as a "freedom fighter".
Today, the world's greatest single campaign of terror entails the execution of entire families, guests at weddings, mourners at funerals. These are Obama's victims. According to the New York Times, Obama makes his selection from a CIA "kill list" presented to him every Tuesday in the White House Situation Room. He then decides, without a shred of legal justification, who will live and who will die. His execution weapon is the Hellfire missile carried by a pilotless aircraft known as a drone; these roast their victims and festoon the area with their remains. Each "hit" is registered on a faraway console screen as a "bugsplat".
"For goose-steppers," wrote the historian Norman Pollock, "substitute the seemingly more innocuous militarisation of the total culture. And for the bombastic leader, we have the reformer manque, blithely at work, planning and executing assassination, smiling all the while."
The difference now is that cinema audiences are invited to wring their hands at the "tragedy" of American psychopaths having to kill people in distant places - just as the President himself kills them. The embodiment of Hollywood's violence, the actor and director Clint Eastwood, was nominated for an Oscar this year for his movie, 'American Sniper', which is about a licensed murderer and nutcase. The New York Times described it as a "patriotic, pro-family picture which broke all attendance records in its opening days".
The intensity of the smear campaign against Russia and the portrayal of its president as a pantomime villain is unlike anything I have known as a reporter. Robert Parry, one of America's most distinguished investigative journalists, who revealed the Iran-Contra scandal, wrote recently, "No European government, since Adolf Hitler's Germany, has seen fit to dispatch Nazi storm troopers to wage war on a domestic population, but the Kiev regime has and has done so knowingly. Yet across the West's media/political spectrum, there has been a studious effort to cover up this reality even to the point of ignoring facts that have been well established... If you wonder how the world could stumble into world war three - much as it did into world war one a century ago - all you need to do is look at the madness over Ukraine that has proved impervious to facts or reason."
In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor said of the German media: "The use made by Nazi conspirators of psychological warfare is well known. Before each major aggression, with some few exceptions based on expediency, they initiated a press campaign calculated to weaken their victims and to prepare the German people psychologically for the attack... In the propaganda system of the Hitler State it was the daily press and the radio that were the most important weapons." In the Guardian on February 2, Timothy Garton-Ash called, in effect, for a world war. "Putin must be stopped," said the headline. "And sometimes only guns can stop guns." He conceded that the threat of war might "nourish a Russian paranoia of encirclement"; but that was fine. He name-checked the military equipment needed for the job and advised his readers that "America has the best kit".
Once again, there is serious purpose. The rulers of the world want Ukraine not only as a missile base; they want its economy. Kiev's new Finance Minister, Nataliwe Jaresko, is a former senior US State Department official in charge of US overseas "investment". She was hurriedly given Ukrainian citizenship. They want Ukraine for its abundant gas; Vice President Joe Biden's son is on the board of Ukraine's biggest oil, gas and fracking company. The manufacturers of GM seeds, companies such as the infamous Monsanto, want Ukraine's rich farming soil.


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So why does true happiness evade so many people? The answer is because happiness is a choice – our own choice, and few people realise this. This vital element of happiness is often misunderstood – that we must actively choose happiness.
Does this mean that most people don't choose happiness? Or is there some other reason why happiness continues to evade them?
Some people may not understand what happiness is, and what it is not. They go through life simply accepting one or more myths about the nature of true happiness. The result is that they neglect to choose happiness.
Your happiness is not determined by anybody else: by what they do, or say, or don't do, or don't say.
Happiness is not a once-off happening. It is not something that happens to you, or must happen to you someday in the future.
Why do we each have such a keen longing for happiness?
We all have a desire to be happy. This is part and parcel of us as human beings due to our DNA. Research has proven that happiness has a positive influence on our physical and psychological well-being. It is therefore natural for us to have a longing for happiness.
Happiness is intangible. It is a "feeling of being happy". It refers to pleasure, and meaning in life. Science has proven that we can train ourselves to be happy.
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions, ranging from contentment to intense joy.
You can tell if somebody is happy from a mile away. Happiness is contagious. Their smile, their laugh, their positive attitude, the fun, the energy, their vital presence, all emanate from a happy person. Everybody loves interacting with a happy person.
Happiness is an important requisite for successful interaction with people. Whether it is sales, marketing, lecturing, coaching, professional advisors, business leaders, etc.
The United Nations declared 20 March as International Day of Happiness to recognise the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals.
These views on happiness emphasise that happiness is not a happening, it is a journey. We have to choose to go on that journey and choose happiness daily, and actively work on our happiness during that journey.
Because happiness is a journey that we travel every day of our lives, we must ensure that we are on track daily in order to reach our destination.
Choose happiness and reaffirm your choice every day.
Be grateful. Do not miss any conscious experience of gratefulness.
See, feel, hear, touch and taste – experience happiness via your senses. Avoid any negative thoughts. It is a constant daily fight against those negativities that bombard us. Be ready to fight them.
Strive to have a balanced lifestyle, both physically and mentally.
Every day do a few things that you really enjoy doing.
Evaluate your happiness every day and work actively on daily improvement.
To choose happiness and implement your daily action plan is not easy, but you will not reach your destination of happiness without daily action and sincere commitment.
I wish you success on your journey to happiness. Choose happiness every day.


The aim of this seminar is to reflect on the recent expansion of category research in markets. This collection of articles points to categories as social, cognitive, and strategic constructions, accomplishments that result in actors stabilizing their conceptions of who is a member in a market category and what are the consequences of remaining so. It is the purpose of this seminar to acquaint participants with some of the issues of market category creation and development using several lenses to examine the advantages accruing to those who can countervail the imperatives of category membership. Much research in the study of categories in economics, sociology, and strategy assumes away the category definition problem by using conventional or convenient conceptualizations (e.g., formal industrial classifications, industry reports, third parties' aggregations, etc.). This course takes the position that there are many very interesting and important issues that are missed when one assumes that market categories pre-exist competition and strategy in the first place.


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NASA Announces Briefing on Carbon Mission Science Results
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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, to discuss new research to be published this week on changing global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The research is based on data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and other satellites.
NASA launched OCO-2 in 2014 to gather global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the resolution, precision and coverage needed to understand how this important greenhouse gas moves through the Earth system and how it changes over time.
The teleconference panelists will be:
Michael Freilich, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Annmarie Eldering, OCO-2 deputy project scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California
Junjie Liu, research scientist, JPL
Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Visuals to accompany the teleconference will be available shortly before it starts at:
https://www.nasa.gov/oco2telecon
To participate by phone, reporters must send an email providing their name, affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at: dwayne.c.brown@nasa.govby noon Oct. 12. Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.
Audio of the briefing, as well as supporting graphics, will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
For more information on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, visit:
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NIH Initiative to Balance Sex of Animals in Preclinical Studies: Generative Questions to Guide Policy, Implementation, and Metrics
Louise McCullough, University of Connecticut - Health CenterFollow
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In May of 2014, the NIH Director together with the Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health announced plans to take a multi-dimensional approach to address the over reliance on male cells and animals in preclinical research. The NIH is engaging the scientific community in the development of policies to improve the sex balance in research. The present, past, and future presidents of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, in order to encourage thoughtful discussion among scientists, pose a series of questions to generate ideas in three areas: 1. research strategies, 2. educational strategies, and 3. strategies to monitor effectiveness of policies to improve the sex balance in research. By promoting discussion within the scientific community, a consensus will evolve that will move science forward in a productive and effective manner.
McCullough et al.: NIH initiative to balance sex of animals in preclinical studies: generative questions to guide policy, implementation, and metrics. Biology of Sex Differences 2014 5:15. doi:10.1186/s13293-014-0015-5
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Q: Ipython Emacs integration Has anyone managed to get Emacs 23, python-mode.el and ipython.el working together recently?
my .emacs looks like this:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/python-mode.el-6.0.3/")
(require 'python-mode)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.py\\'" . python-mode))
(require 'ipython)

the error I'm getting on C-c ! is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'olors' is not defined

A: Here's another reason someone may be getting this error:
iPython 0.12 exits with an error if given a -color arg.
What fixed it for me was replacing
(setq py-python-command-args '("-colors" "Linux"))

in my .emacs with
(setq py-python-command-args '("--colors=linux"))

That is, make sure that the args passed to iPython were valid. If not, iPython exits with error and we fall back to the regular python interpreter.

A: ipython.el is known to be out of date. None of the core IPython developers know emacs lisp. Someone is now working to fix it - if you have time, please test his branch and report whether it works.

A: I had the same error invoking IPython from Emacs23. I fixed it by replacing all instances of -colors with --colors in ipython.el

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Hot-button media issues like drones and online privacy have made their way onto the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) list of worst toys.
In response to the Toy Industry Association's annual Toy Of The Year (TOTY) Awards, CCFC came up with its own TOADY (Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young children) Awards.
This year's nominees include the Sky Viper Video Drone, which CCFC argues belies its target of 12-plus by advertising in TV shows like The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, which it says "ensures that even very young children will nag their parents for their own flying spy cam" with which to conduct "military-like surveillance."
It also takes issue with Hello Barbie. "Prepare your daughter for a lifetime of surveillance with Hello Barbie, the doll that records children's private conversations and transmits them to cloud servers, where they are analyzed by algorithms and listened to by strangers," says the group.
The group two weeks ago launched "Hell No Barbie," a public education campaign targeting the Wi-Fi enabled talking doll, saying surveillance has no place in kids toys and could be susceptible to data breaches.
Then there is the Tube Heroes collector packs celebrating "the brave young men and women who upload videos of themselves playing video games to YouTube."
The "winner" will be announced Dec. 7. Representatives of the toy companies had not responded to requests for comment at press time.


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New research points to novel approach to tackling Ascaris roundworm
Scientists working out of Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, and Queen Mary University of London have unearthed a potential new preventative option to combat Ascaris roundworm infection. Ascaris lumbricoides is an intestinal parasite that results in severe health consequences, including growth retardation and impaired cognitive development. The infection, which affects an estimated one billion people worldwide, is particularly common in Third World countries and is estimated to be responsible for 60,000 deaths per annum.
Susceptibility to Ascaris infection differs between individuals, and heavily infected individuals have more severe symptoms and higher morbidity. Building on previous studies, which showed a difference in susceptibility to Ascaris between two different strains of mice, the researchers identified a clear distinction between the two strains and published their findings in the internationally regarded peer reviewed journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. It is thought that these new insights could lead to the development of better ways to prevent and treat Ascaris infection.
The lifecycle of the Ascaris roundworm in humans sees the infection progress from the stomach, following ingestion of viable eggs which hatch as larvae, to the liver before moving on to the lungs and then returning to the stomach. In mice, the roundworms do not progress beyond the lungs. Professor of Zoology at Trinity College, Celia Holland, has spent over a decade developing a mouse model to study Ascaris infection and has previously demonstrated that susceptible mice have more than ten-fold higher larval numbers in the lungs than resistant ones. This difference in susceptibility between the two strains, however, is first visible in the liver of infected mice.
Following infection with identical numbers of Ascaris eggs, mice from the resistant strain show an earlier inflammatory immune response coupled with more rapid tissue repair in the liver compared with susceptible mice. The researchers therefore set out to investigate the differences in the liver proteomes (via a broad analysis of liver proteins) of both uninfected control mice and infected mice, for each strain.
Professor Holland said: "By focusing on the liver we aimed to target the metaphorical front line in this particular host-parasite interaction."
The researchers identified and quantified thousands of proteins and found that hundreds of liver proteins differed substantially between the two strains, even without Ascaris infections. The resistant strain showed generally higher levels of mitochondrial proteins and proteins associated with the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Ascaris infection increased the level of these proteins in both strains, supporting the evidence of their role in the response to the parasite.
Other proteins were seen only in infected mice; these included proteins involved in a part of the immune response. Two of these proteins were absent from both strains before infection, but were among the highest expressed proteins in both strains following infection. Proteins involved in translation were of lower abundance in all infected mice livers, which suggests either a broad response in the host to the presence of Ascaris or a specific targeting of the protein synthesis machinery by the parasite itself.
Lead author Gwendoline Deslyper said: "Given our findings and the central role of the liver in the Ascaris migratory pathway, we suggest a potentially novel research direction to develop alternative preventative control strategies for Ascaris. It seems that the key determinant in resistance to Ascaris in mice may lie in highly oxidative conditions that presumably restricts and arrests successful larval migration within the hepatic environment - at least of the resistant strain. By manipulating the hepatic ROS levels in the susceptible mouse strain we hope to determine the importance of the mitochondria and intrinsic ROS in conferring resistance to Ascaris."
The proteomic study, which mapped the proteins of the affected organs, was led by Dr Jim Carolan, Maynooth University Department of Biology in conjunction with Dr Joe Colgan of Queen Mary University London. Discussing the findings, Dr Carolan said: "There is still a long way to go and much research to be done, but these findings point to new options in our efforts to control a disease that affects around one eighth of our planet's population."
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The massive rallies, marches, and convocations of the last week effectively aroused awareness and organized concerned students. However, we must now channel our efforts toward more constructive action. Rallies alone will not end the war in Southeast Asia or prevent arbitrary repression in the United States. They must be supplemented by every possible means of political influence even if it means talking to every voter in this town, in this state, in this nation.
Concerns over Nixon's expansion of the war and the deaths at Kent State mobilized UNC students, both undergraduates and graduates, last week more rapidly and extensively than any comparable event or issue since the 1963 Speaker Ban Law. An informal poll conducted by several professors estimated that by Thursday about half of the student body was striking. That estimate has increased considerably since the Faculty Council passed the Amnesty Resolution and Faculty Council Chairman Dr. Okun released his supplementary statement to all faculty Friday afternoon.
The extreme concern and unprecedented political consciousness are certainly impressive. Yet they are useless unless they serve to facilitate some concrete action, to reach some goal. The purpose of the strike is to express and to voice our dissatisfaction with American participation in the Indochina war. But more importantly, the strike frees students from normal academic commitments so that they can use this time for constructive action. Many such actions are being organized and deserve widespread support: canvassing, letter writing, raps, and making appointments where possible with Congressmen in Washington.
To facilitate greater effectiveness in each of these actions, five distinguished UNC professors joined by Tommy Bello will examine the issues raised by American involvement in Indochina and Nixon's latest military venture. At 3 p.m. Monday, May 11, in Memorial Hall, Doctors Samuel F. Wells, James R. Leutze, Andrew Scott, Daniel Pollitt, and David Lapkin will discuss the diplomatic, military, political, legal, and economic aspects of the war. Those who have questions concerning the war and student reaction to it, no matter what their political persuasion, are encouraged to attend an objective, factual examination of Viet Nam and Cambodia. Canvassers and participants in the Washington Witness are strongly urged to attend.
Canvassing fraternities - See Peter Hall, 968-9305; Matt Smith, 933-3047.
Canvassing Chapel Hill and State - See Chuck Patrizia or Richie Leonard, Suite A of the Carolina Union, 933-1157. Workshops to train canvassers in the Door to Door for Peace drive will be held at 10 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Union.
Washington witness -- Ten buses have been chartered for students and faculty to go to Washington Tuesday to meet with the North Carolina delegation and other Congressmen. Reservations for the bus can be made in Y-Court, YM-YWCA offices, Carolina Union lobby, School of Public Health, and in front of the Post Office downtown.
Letter writing - The Carolina Union will pay mailing costs for letters about the war written to Congressmen. See Jerri Orne, 968-9175 or table in the Carolina Union lobby.
Kent State professors - Psychology professor Richard Taylor and sociology professor Jerry Lewis from Kent State will be on campus Wednesday to discuss last week's tragic events there.
Letters to the editor - All students are encouraged to contact their hometown newspapers expressing their views on the war and administrative policies.
Free university classes - See Buck Goldstein, 929-4051.
Graduate coordinating committee - See Michael O'Brien, Dept. of City Planning, New East, 968-9175.
Support of undergraduates against professors opposing amnesty - See Maury Klein, Political Science Dept., 933-3047.
Rochester national petition - See John Brandenburg, Dept. of City Planning, New East, 968-9175.
Fort Bragg march, May 16 - See "The New Mobe," Suite A, Carolina Union.
Veterans against the war - Call 929-3251.
Television panel - UNC students Wilson Summerville, George Butler, and Phil McMunigal will appear with student body president Tommy Bello on Sam Ragan's 1:00 p.m. panel show next Sunday on WTVD. They will discuss student activities and involvement in the antiwar movement.
The strike began from the initiative exercised by several individuals and small groups: student legislature, Tommy Bello, the graduate students from the English Department. A Strike Steering Committee organized Tuesday was also very effective. Yet from such limited beginnings it has expanded to include well over half of the student body. It has stimulated an unprecedented unity between undergraduate and graduate students. Until last Tuesday, these two groups were almost entirely self-contained units, working separately. Now they are united in a common desire to utilize the most effective non-violent action to end the war.
The strike has made, and continues to make many substantial, indirect gains such as this one. Countless organizations - from the Inter Fraternity Council and Morehead Scholars to individual fraternities such as Delta Upsilon - have passed and circulated petitions or resolutions on their own initiative. Students who had considered Student Government irrelevant have become so actively involved that they literally camped out in Suite C. Many, many individual acts of sacrifice have passed almost unnoticed: secretaries answering Student Government phones 20 hours a day; students spending 36-hour stretches mimeographing petitions and letters; students carrying petitions around and around and around.
The tremendous effort put forth during the strike represents the true potentiality of the student body when it unites behind a common goal.
UNC-CH Student Government press release, c. May 9, 1970. From the Records of Student Government (#40169), University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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Their follow-up full-length release Oracles (2012) featured twelve diverse and wildly intricate arrangements including the single "Blueprints for Our Failed Revolution", which inspired the band's first major music video endeavor involving an antique drafting table, an upright piano, and messengers from across the sea.
In contrast to the self-produced Lost Cities and Oracles, Bottom of the Blue EP (2014) was recorded with producer Rob Stefanson (Hey Ocean!, Hannah Georgas, We Are The City). Their latest single "It Doesn't Last" was the recipient of a Public Record's Music Video Grant in 2014, ranked as a Top 10 Regional Finalist in CBC Searchlight 2014, followed by 8 weeks running on CBC Radio 3's Top 30 for eight weeks, making it's mark at #2 on the national chart.
The Ruffled Feathers' current lineup is Gina Loes (vocals, guitar, ukulele), Andrew Lee (trumpet, vocals), Sam MacKinnon (drums), Molly MacKinnon (violin), Sophia Xiang (piano), and Paolo Brian (bass). Their upcoming album (2017) takes listeners cycling along the coast of Puglia to vineyards of Bordeaux, planting seeds in the fertile farmlands of Le Marche, and back to a lonely park bench staring out into the roaring Sea of Hesitation.
From left to right: Gina Loes, Sam MacKinnon, Molly MacKinnon, Andrew Lee, Sophia Xiang, Paolo Brian


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Probably the most direct application of the theory of behavior of information is the conscious use of mappings. Because all phenomena studied by science are externalizations, becoming aware of the mappings which relate several externalizations makes it possible to transpose the knowledge of one domain to another.
To get some confidence and some feeling for the technique, I will first give a number of examples of mappings between domains we know of. The goal is to use the same mappings to extend our knowledge or at least to make some clear hypothesis for extension of our knowledge.
Although our society is still in full development and unstable compared with our body, yet we can find the corresponding elements clear enough to construct a mapping between the two. The mapping can be used in both directions. It can learn something about our body using observations of society and vice versa. This mapping can for example be used to anticipate some developments in society on longer term.
When we eat and digest our food, we convert matter of the environment and use the released energy to maintain and indurate our body. Society needs also energy to maintain its functioning. Food is required for the people, other forms of energy are used for production, heating and transport.
The conversion of food and the extraction of energy is performed in different phases. In our body, dedicated organs are taking care of each phase. e.g. Acquisition of food, acquisition of air, production of the chemicals for digestion, breaking up the food, mixing with digestive chemicals, digestion, conversion of the available energy to more universal forms of energy (glucose), transport of the prepared energy to the cells. The conversion of the energy resources into useful energy for society is performed in different phases. In society, specialized organizations are taking care of each phase. e.g. Harvesting of food, mining and drilling for coal, oil, gas and radioactive sources, preparation of the basic products. Transformation of the energy into a more universal form which is easy to transport to the users, distribution of food and energy to the individual users.
In our body, not all cells burn the same amount of food all the time. There is a regulation mechanism allowing parts (cells and organs) which have been useful to use more energy than others which are in a more latent state. Damaged cells use more energy to restore themselves, etc. In society, not all persons or organizations use the same amount of energy. There is a regulation mechanism allowing persons and organizations which gave been useful to spend more energy to indurate their structure. Ill people get more support from society than healthy ones.
The regulation mechanism in our body allowing individual cells and organs to spend more or less energy is very complex. The amount of energy that can be spend by a part is not only determined by the part but by the body as an organism. In society, the amount of energy that can be spend by individual persons and organizations is regulated by a complex mechanism called economy. The amount of energy that is spend by one person or one organization is not only determined by the part itself but also, or even mainly, by the parts of society which experience benefit from that part.
When the energy regulation mechanism in our body fails, some cells or groups of cells find a way to spend more energy than they are entitled to. They grow in a way which is not in proportion to their contribution to the maintenance of the body. These are parasites or cancer structures. Our body has a complex system to detect and neutralize such structures. When the protection against these structures fails, our body can suffer a lot by the drain of energy they cause. Some individual persons and organizations find a way around the energy regulation mechanism of our social structures and economy. They gather much more energy (e.g. money) than they are entitled to. Our society has developed structures to detect and stop such parasite behavior. When detection fails, the society can loose a lot of energy through this drain.
Our body has a brain which coordinates actions at a relatively abstract level. Actions are planned and orders are distributed to lower centers where they are converted to smaller plans and from where more elementary orders are send to our muscles, glands, etc. Our society has developed a centralized government where activity is coordinated at more abstract level. Longer term actions are planned and orders are distributed to lower level organizations which convert the plans in more concrete actions and distribute orders to accomplish the goals of the plans.
To adapt our (individual) plans to the situation of the environment, we use an internal model of the environment (world and other persons), senses to update the internal model and a lot of knowledge about the environment stored in the model. The perfection of this system leads to an increasing success in interactions with our environment. To bring the plans of our organizations and governments in correspondence with the environment (world and other organizations) they use a model of the economy and environment to anticipate the outcome of an action. The perfection of this system leads to an increasing success in interactions with the environment.
Although specialization of the cells goes very far in our body, there are still some very basic functions which have to be performed by every individual cell. For example, every cell has to burn it own part of the food (prepared as much as possible by specialized cells and organs). To bring the conditioned food to the individual cells and to evacuate the converted products away from the cells, a complex transport system is developed. Although specialization goes very far in our society, there are some very basic functions which have to be performed by every individual person. For example every person has to eat. Preparation of the food is done as much as possible by specialized persons and organizations, but the eating and digesting has remained individual. To accomplish this, a complex distribution system of food and a collection system of waste is developed.
When we eat and digest our food, we convert some matter of the environment and use the released energy to maintain and indurate our body. Every cell in our body requires energy to maintain its activity. Because the same matter can only be transformed once, there is a permanent flow of food required to every cell and a flow of processed material away from every cell. The blood serves as transport system for these materials.
We do not eat the material from the environment as it is found. Specialized human beings and organizations select and prepare the food to make it suitable for human consumption. Our cells do not "eat" the food as we bring it in our body. Specialized cells and organs select and prepare the food to make it suitable for cell consumption.
In a similar way we could go on and look for mappings between cells and molecules, molecules and atoms, atom and particles etc. At one hand, the details would become very specialized and at the other hand it is always the same which is repeated with other words. This last point can be used to consider several mappings at the same time. We can replace the specific words in the text by their abstract equivalent and then instantiate the text, map the text upon a specific domain by replacing words following a list.
When an entity gains energy, the energy is distributed over all elements. However, not all elements do receive the same amount of energy. The amount of energy an element receives is related to the contribution the element made to the success of the recent actions of the entity.
When an society gains money the money is distributed over all humans. However, not all humans do receive the same amount of money. The amount of money an human receives is related to the contribution the human made to the success of the recent actions of the society.
When an company gains money the money is distributed over all employees. However, not all employees do receive the same amount of money. The amount of money an employee receives is related to the contribution the employee made to the success of the recent actions of the company.
When an human body gains food the food is distributed over all cells. However, not all cells do receive the same amount of food. The amount of food a cell receives is related to the contribution the cell made to the success of the recent actions of the human body.
To make a hypothesis about the behavior of elements in a specific domain, we can first establish a mapping between a known area and some known parts of the domain under study. We have to stabilize the mapping first by checking as much as possible parts we know. Then we can use the mappings to transpose the knowledge of one domain to the other.
We can extend the mappings of the example above by a mapping upon the realm of molecules and atoms.
When a molecule gains energy, the energy is distributed over all atoms. However, not all atoms do receive the same amount of energy. The amount of energy an atom receives is related to the contribution the atom made to the success of the recent actions of the molecule.
When an atom gains energy, the energy is distributed over all particles. However, not all particles do receive the same amount of energy. The amount of energy a particle receives is related to the contribution the particle made to the success of the recent actions of the atom.
The statements resulting from the extrapolation above can serve as hypothesis for a study of molecules and atoms. More complex examples require a lot more investigation and careful formulation.