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What is Farsi?
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Iran Farsi
Tricia Christensen
Farsi is the language most commonly spoken in Iran. It derives from Indo-Iranian language, and it is most commonly called Persian, or Parsi by Western European and North American English language speakers.
Farsi is spoken in Iran.
As a language, it is separated into several periods of language evolution. Old Farsi or Old Persian was spoken from about 500-300 BCE. Middle Persian dates from about 300 BCE to 800 CE. Modern Persian has been spoken since about 800 CE.
Farsi has influenced many languages, including English.
Modern Farsi has influenced many other languages, particularly in the geographic area close to Iran. Ties to it can be noted in Turkish and Azerbaijani, among others. As well, this language is clearly closely related to Hindi.
Farsi has six main vowels and 23 consonants, differing from English alphabets. Nouns as in modern English, lack gender. Farsi tends to structure sentences as subject, prepositional phase, object and lastly verb. This differs from the subject, verb, and object construction of English. Further, it relies most on endings to change words, rather than prefixes. English uses numerous suffixes and prefixes to change meanings, tense, or a word from noun to verb or adjective.
Modern Farsi does show influence by others languages. It may include words from French, English, Arabic and Turkish languages. Especially technical and scientific language can be considered on loan to Farsi.
Some words from Farsi have migrated to the English language. For example the words assassin, angel, lemon, and julep are all derived from this language. More such words migrate into the English language particularly with the use of Fingilish, or Penglish. This is Farsi written with the Latin alphabet. It is commonly used in applications of the Internet, like emails and chats. As well, texting may be done in Penglish.
Farsi clearly influences Arabic since it was once the main language used in trade when the Persian world was preeminent. The Ottoman Empire used Farsi, as did many others. Persian literature, often written in Old or Middle Farsi, is prized by many.
Some well-known examples of works written in this language include the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the beautiful and spiritual work of Rumi, which helped found the Sufi belief structure.
Texting may be done in Penglish.
Tricia has a Literature degree from Sonoma State University and has been a frequent wiseGEEK contributor for many years. She is especially passionate about reading and writing, although her other interests include medicine, art, film, history, politics, ethics, and religion. Tricia lives in Northern California and is currently working on her first novel.
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Farsi and Dari are the same language; you will be able to understand Dari perfectly by studying Farsi. The only thing you will have to get used to is the accent and the odd loan word from Pashto.
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@literally45-- Woah! I certainly wouldn't suggest that theory to an Iranian. Iran technically means "land of the Aryans," but this doesn't mean that Farsi has a direct connection with Germanic or other European languages.
literally45
There is a theory called the Aryan Invasion Theory. It says that Europeans invaded India a really long time ago and taught the old Germanic language to the people there. From there, the languages of Sanskrit and Persian developed and spread back to the West. They say that this is why Germanic and Indo-Iranian languages are all in the same group of languages called Indo-European languages.
If this theory is true, then the root of Farsi also an old Germanic language that no longer exists.
I studied Farsi in college. Farsi is similar to other languages like Hindi because they are all in the same language group like the article said.
The Indo-Iranian language group splits into Indic and Iranian. Farsi clearly belongs to the Iranian group and comes from Ancient Persian/Old Persian. The "sister language" of Farsi is Kurdish.
The other category, Indic includes all languages that came from the ancient language of Sanskrit. Like Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu and Bengali.
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@simrin-- That's interesting.
Didn't the Moghul Empire rule most of the Indian continent for like a really long time? That's probably where the Farsi influence in Hindi comes from.
@alisha-- I'm not one-hundred percent sure, so don't quote me on this, but I think Dari and Farsi are basically the same, just different dialects.
The reason I came to this conclusion is because I have friends from both Iran and Afghanistan. Although I don't understand either language, I have heard both just being around my friends and they sound very similar. To me, they sound like the same language and my friends also say they can understand each other, but they have to think a little bit because it sounds a little different.
So it's just an issue of dialect. If you become fluent in either Farsi or Dari though, I suspect you will be able to figure the other one out in several months if not less.
Is Farsi similar to the Dari and Pashto languages of Afghanistan?
My best friend is heading to Afghanistan to work and I'm also considering doing the same next year.
I don't know where in Afghanistan I might head to, and they speak different languages in different regions. The two major languages spoken are Dari and Pashto but they are not being taught at any of the language centers near where I live. I can take Farsi classes, but I want to know if I will be able to understand Dari with the Farsi I learn. I'd appreciate any info on this.
SteamLouis
I'm a huge fan of Hindi films and have been watching them regularly for the past five years. I also studied Turkish in college for fun because I had many Turkish friends. I noticed that there are many common words in Hindi and Turkish. Their spelling and pronunciation varies a little bit but they have the same meanings. Ultimately I could count over one hundred common words. Being a researcher, I wanted to dig a little deeper, so I found my old Turkish dictionary and looked up the origin of these words. Farsi, in the dictionary, is noted to be the origin of all of them.
The Ottoman Turks probably borrowed Farsi words from the neighboring Persian Empire. But what about Hindi? Maybe it wasn't Hindi that was influenced by Farsi but rather Urdu (language of Pakistan). Urdu speakers are geographically closer to Iran than Hindi speakers. I also know that there are many Persian descendants in India. They are called Parsis and I think most of them fled Persia due to religious persecution and settled in the Indian subcontinent permanently.
These societies have lived, worked and traded together for such a long time, its difficult to know who influenced who. All this shows me that Farsi has older roots than other languages in the region and that the Persian Empire was very influential on the surrounding cultures and societies.


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Re-centering the Periphery: The Protestant Irish of Montreal and the Birth of Canadian National Identity
Jess, Raymond (Author)
The author considers the construction of Canadian national identity and the political and economic forces that shaped it through the focused lens of the Irish Protestant community, a changing immigrant milieu in post Confederation Montreal. The Protestant Irish community was divided by class, and their different reactions to certain social events and identities meant that the boundaries of their community were constantly being pushed and pulled in different directions, as actors tried to impose their own narratives on the changing meta-narrative of the city. Montreal was a contact zone and immigrant centre where cross-cultural exchange occurred on a daily basis and where ethnic and religious communities were both formed and transformed. The author's research draws on print media to explore the complex process of identity creation in the popular press and in the popular literature of the day. By examining this quest for new national narratives between the time of Confederation and the First World War, he examines the modalities through which old identities were superseded and transformed for the sake of cultural accommodation and economic expediency.
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Jess, Raymond. "Re-Centering the Periphery: The Protestant Irish of Montreal and the Birth of Canadian National Identity." Master's Thesis, Concordia University, 2013. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977971/.
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Safety-net health systems provide essential care to low-income people in the United States, including those who are uninsured. Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the number of uninsured persons, an estimated 28 million to 31 million Americans will remain without health coverage even after full implementation.1,2 Inpatient, emergency, and ambulatory services for this population — as well as for millions of other patients, particularly Medicaid beneficiaries — continue to be provided by safety-net health systems.
In many communities, safety-net organizations are the sole providers of critical services such as inpatient behavioral health. However, the ACA has set in motion a number of payment reforms that create a more uncertain financial outlook for these systems. Safety-net providers must navigate these changes along with rapid shifts affecting all health systems, such as the growing emphasis on ambulatory, community-based care.
In aggregate, safety-net providers have low operating margins and often rely on subsidies to offset the costs of uncompensated care. For example, in 2014, members of America's Essential Hospitals, an organization of safety-net health systems, averaged a 0% operating margin, as compared with the 6.4% average operating gain for all U.S. hospitals.5,6 In 2014, among the members of America's Essential Hospitals, approximately half of all inpatients who were discharged and patients who had outpatient visits were uninsured or Medicaid patients (Table 1).
Hospital and Discharge Characteristics. Click To Enlarge.
Although the safety net encompasses public hospitals, community health centers, and providers of specialized services, such as school-based clinics, our focus here is on health systems that are anchored in hospitals. In this report, we examine how the coverage provisions of the ACA are affecting safety-net health systems, characterize the responses of these systems to payment reform, and chart future directions in scaling up improvements and innovation in delivery systems.
Even after full implementation of the ACA coverage expansions, an estimated 28 million to 31 million people will remain uninsured and will continue to rely on the safety net for care. Hence, for some safety-net providers, the expansion in coverage may not be sufficient to offset reductions in federal payments for uncompensated care. In one study,11 researchers examined the potential effect of the ACA Medicaid DSH reductions on the financial stability of public hospitals in California. When the high number of people who will remain uninsured, low Medicaid reimbursement rates, and inflation in medical costs were factored in, the researchers estimated that the unmet costs of uncompensated care would be between $1.38 billion and $1.54 billion by 2019.
The net effect of insurance expansion on a particular safety-net system depends on a multitude of factors, the most important of which is the decision of the home state to expand Medicaid. In states that expand, the federal government will finance 100% of the Medicaid costs of persons who became eligible for Medicaid in the period from 2014 through 2016. That share will gradually decrease to 90% in 2020, and it will then remain at that rate in perpetuity. Thus far, 31 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid and 19 states have not; this has led to a divergence of payer mix in hospitals located in expansion states (where Medicaid utilization increases and utilization by uninsured patients declines) as compared with nonexpansion states (where the trend is essentially stable).
Figure 1. Medicaid and Uninsured Patients Discharged from Safety-Net Hospitals. The proportions of Medicaid and uninsured patients who were discharged from safety-net hospitals that were members of America's Essential Hospitals are expressed as the percentage of all patients who were discharged. Data from 2009 through 2014 were obtained from the America's Essential Hospitals annual characteristics survey and exclude data from 2011, when the survey was not conducted. Click To Enlarge.
Figure 2. Medicaid and Uninsured Patients Who Had Outpatient Visits at Safety-Net Hospitals. The proportions of Medicaid and uninsured patients who had outpatient visits at safety-net hospitals that were members of America's Essential Hospitals are expressed as the percentage of all patients who had outpatient visits. Data from 2009 through 2014 were obtained from the America's Essential Hospitals annual characteristics survey and exclude data from 2011, when the survey was not conducted. Click To Enlarge.
In February 2016, the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission issued a report to Congress on Medicaid DSH payments.10 The commission pointed out major data limitations but concluded that there was little meaningful relationship between the magnitude of state DSH allotments and important factors such as the number of uninsured persons in a state. The report concluded, "DSH allotments and payments should be better targeted toward the states and hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of Medicaid and low-income patients and that have disproportionate levels of uncompensated care." A first step could be changing eligibility criteria to further concentrate DSH funding among so-called deemed DSH hospitals, which serve a particularly high share of low-income patients.
In addition to expanding health coverage, the ACA included a variety of provisions to advance health care payment reform. Many of these payment models operate through Medicare. For example, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, and Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program all create incentives for providers to deliver higher-value care through payment adjustments that are based on quality and efficiency.
Safety-net health systems have also responded to the shift to alternative payment models such as bundled payments and accountable care organizations (ACOs). ACOs are networks of providers that take responsibility for the quality and costs of care for a defined population of patients.24 The model has proliferated rapidly, with an estimated 750 such arrangements currently in place, mostly through Medicare and private payers. As of 2016, Medicaid ACOs have been launched in 8 states and are being developed in 10 more.25 For example, in Oregon, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) allocated $1.9 billion over 5 years to ACOs that accept full financial risk for their attributed Medicaid population.26 The state of Oregon agreed to reduce its per capita Medicaid spending growth from a historical 5.4% annual rate to 3.4%. It is on track to meet this target, which would result in net savings to CMS.
The multibillion-dollar Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program is a pay-for-performance approach to Medicaid financing.29 The first DSRIP initiatives were approved in California, Texas, and Massachusetts in 2010 and 2011, followed by New Jersey and Kansas in 2012, New York in 2014, and New Hampshire in 2016. Washington State is awaiting approval to implement its program.
Although the exact structure and requirements of each DSRIP program differ from state to state, these programs generally encourage the development of infrastructure and system redesign (e.g., expansion of primary care and integration with behavioral health) to improve outcomes across populations of patients.30 In states with DSRIP waivers, funding flows to health care providers when performance targets (e.g., reducing avoidable hospitalizations) on specific projects to reform care are met.29 For example, the New Jersey DSRIP waiver, which includes all acute care hospitals in the state, offers its hospitals a menu of 17 potential projects under 8 priority health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and substance abuse.
Meanwhile, in April 2016, CMS announced sweeping new regulations for managed care plans that contract with state Medicaid programs to provide benefits to enrollees.31 Managed care arrangements have grown rapidly in recent years and now cover approximately 73% of all Medicaid beneficiaries, as compared with 10% approximately 25 years ago.32,33 The new CMS rules, the first since 2002, address improvements in accountability and quality of care, modernizing regulatory requirements, and ensuring protections for beneficiaries.34 Most notably, the regulations specify a medical-loss ratio requiring that at least 85% of the revenue of managed care plans be spent on medical care. Major implications for provider systems include time and travel standards to measure adequate access to care. These regulations also allow for short-term Medicaid funding of inpatient treatment for mental illness and addiction disorders.
Given the broad shift toward value-based payment in the health care marketplace, safety-net systems and Medicaid managed care plans are likely to pursue deeper collaboration. For example, Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago launched a Medicaid plan in 2013 to cover many of its previously uninsured patients and contribute to the overall financial health of the system, according to hospital executives.35 The challenges of integration of safety-net systems and Medicaid managed care plans are manifold and parallel those in non-Medicaid plans, such as maintaining adequate capital reserves.36 However, in order for value-based payment initiatives to succeed, state Medicaid agencies, at a minimum, must address obstacles to timely sharing of information about beneficiaries with health systems, and these agencies may help to play a convening role in risk-bearing arrangements such as ACOs.
Coverage expansion and payment reform under the ACA have provided an impetus for transformation of the safety-net delivery system. Improvement of the delivery system encompasses the following changes: increasing capacity, particularly in ambulatory care; extracting efficiency gains through streamlined operations and procurement; better coordinating care, both within systems and across safety-net providers in a given community; investing in information technology and other infrastructure; and retaining existing patients and attracting new ones.37 The ability to respond to the evolving policy milieu often depends on local factors such as the stability of funding sources, a political commitment to safety-net systems, and the competitiveness of the market for health care services.
Persistent financial challenges up the ante for safety-net health systems to prioritize higher-value care delivery. Generally, financial strategies distill down into increasing revenue or reducing costs.15 On the revenue side, for example, the Virginia Commonwealth University system is diversifying its payer mix to increase the proportion of commercially insured patients. It is augmenting clinical services such as oncology and a transplantation program around this strategy. Efforts to reduce the cost structures of health systems, particularly fixed costs associated with inpatient services, could also help mitigate the effect of declining governmental subsidies. Several systems have pursued gains in efficiency by addressing clinician productivity and adopting process-improvement approaches. Denver Health is perhaps the best-known example of a safety-net system that disseminated a "lean" approach, derived from the Toyota Production System, across its enterprise. The former Chief Executive Officer of Denver Health, Patricia Gabow, attributed approximately $170 million in savings (from 2006 through 2012) — and a considerable increase in patient-satisfaction rankings — to the lean approach. Improving patient satisfaction, in turn, can help safety-net systems stay competitive in health care markets with multiple options for newly insured patients.
More could be done to align the incentives for community health centers with those for safety-net hospitals. For example, health centers could move toward value-based payment models that blunt the financial rationale for increasing the volume of visits. Approximately 17% of Medicaid and uninsured patients received care at federally qualified health centers in 2014.44 Given the considerable overlap in populations served, several hospital-based systems such as San Francisco General Hospital and Boston Medical Center are exploring tighter partnerships with neighboring community health centers.42 States such as Colorado, Oregon, and New York are moving toward a regionalized approach to care for Medicaid beneficiaries. This approach seeks to lower the regulatory barriers to such collaboration.
Beyond Medicaid, the municipalities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, as well as the state of Massachusetts, have all organized direct-access programs for uninsured people seeking care, including undocumented immigrants. These programs also require new arrangements for care coordination among various types of safety-net providers. Federal policy could build on these local and state initiatives by judiciously permitting additional flexibility in blending funding streams toward increasingly seamless care for both Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured persons.
Understanding the effect of the ACA on the safety net will require additional study, particularly of the local dynamics of changes in insurance status and the financial ramifications for health systems. Yet federal and state policymakers may have to make major decisions, such as how to rationalize DSH funding, with imperfect information. Downstream of these decisions, local policymakers are already confronting difficult choices about the character — and even the continued existence — of certain safety-net health systems. The challenge at all levels of policy development is to guide improvement in delivery systems while preserving the essential services provided by safety-net health systems in communities across the United States.
The views in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of New York City Health and Hospitals.
From New York City Health and Hospitals (D.A.C., J.E.C., R.M.W.), New York University School of Medicine (D.A.C.), and New York University College of Global Public Health ( J.E.C.) — all in New York.
This Health Policy Report originally appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine and then in NEJM Catalyst on November 18, 2016.


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Rogerson's Book of Numbers
Some numbers play a central iconic role in cultures all over the world, like 12 (months, hours), 7 (week days), 10 or 20 (fingers and toes), etc. Other numbers have a more specific cultural or religeous origin, and may differ depending on the community. For example 13 is bad luck number in Western society, while 14 is bad luck in Chinese society.
In this book Rogerson has collected miscellaneous numerological facts in the form of a small encyclopedia. Small in the sense that it is not exhaustive and that it is less than 300 pages, but also the dimensions of book are small (18 x 11.6 x 2.6 cm) like a prayer book or a pocket bible. It grew out of a previous slimmer version, and is currently still growing on the author's website. In fact long lists of names like the 108 names of Krishna, the 50 Argonauts, or the 74 hidden names of Ra etc. should be consulted there. Only the first names on the list are given in the book.
So the collection is a countdown from millions, tens of thousands, ... until two, one, zero. Some numbers have more entries than other, but the general trend is that lower numbers have many more than the hundreds and thousands. Barnaby Rogerson has written several travel guides for Mediteranian countries and he also wrote a biography on the Prophet Muhammad, and other books about the crusades and on Islamic history. With these antecedents it is understandable that most entries have some Islamic, Jewish, or Christian origin. However, there are also many things to learn from entries with an Asian religeous background and of course also from Greek and Norse mythology and much more. You will learn about the story behind all these numbers: why 88 is a lucky number in China, why the USA flag hat 13 stripes, how Dante's Divina Comedia is built on the number 11, the origin of the 4 card suits and the 4 legs of the swastika, and the 3 leaves of the shamrock. It is remarkable that zero, which is a very remarkable number, has only 3 entries. It comes from the Sanskit (Shoonya = void) via the arab (Safira) and the Italian (zefiro) and arrived only late in the Western culture. It is so special among the numbers that it has long been considered as not a number at all.
Of course there is some multiplication and division underlying many of the numbers that organize our lives like 360 which can be divided by 30, 20, 12, 4 which was useful for astronomical computations, and which still survives in the 360 degrees of the circle and the dial of an analog clock. However, it should be clear from the previous description, that there is no math involved here. The mathematical construction of the Fibonacci spiral on the cover is somewhat misleading. No prime numbers, no properties from number theory whatsoever. No stories like Ramanujan's remark about his taxi-cab number 1729. You definitely do find a lot of inspiration for less mathematical number stories to tell.
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Nutrition fo Life Healthcare | Can You Be Vegetarian & Low Carb?
What does it mean to be eating Low Carb Healthy Fat when you are a vegetarian? The short answer is, LCHF is perfect for vegetarians. In fact, our clinic 'Nutrition for Life Healthcare' has a Dietitian who specialises in working with clients on a weekly basis that follow a Low Carb Vegetarian approach.
It is feasible for Vegetarians to go into the lowest range above, but such a diet may be impractical for vegans. The 100-150 gram range would easier achieved by vegans. It's best to track your dietary intake with the help from an app for a few weeks to fine-tune your carbohydrate intake based on your own goals and preferences. This will also help make sure you are eating enough protein and fat as well as other micronutrients.
You can download the app for free on our Website here.
Eggs: Eggs are loaded with high-quality proteins, vitamins, minerals, good fats and various trace nutrients.
Vegetables: Most vegetables are low in carbs. Above ground veggies are usually the lowest as a general rule.
Fruits: Berry fruits are the lowest in carbs but other fruits may be acceptable depending on level of carb restriction. Fatty fruits like avocados and olives are also great options.
Nuts and seeds: Nuts and seeds are low in carbs, but high in protein and fat.
Legumes: Beans, chick peas and others will provide protein but may not be suitable on stricter low carb diets.
Dairy foods: Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Cream.
Dairy alternatives: Coconut milk/cream/yogurt or almond milk.
Soy: Foods like tofu and tempeh are acceptable as a source of protein.
Chia seeds: Super low carb seed full of fibre.
Dark chocolate: If you choose dark chocolate with a high cocoa content (70-85%+), it will provide healthy fats with minimal sugar.
Cook with Healthy Fats: Extra virgin olive oil, macadamia oil, avocado oil and coconut oil. Butter, Ghee, Lard Tallow.
Have regular monitoring of nutritional blood markers especially Vitamin D, iron, b12, and zinc. Wait for blood results before rushing into supplementation. When eating a variety of food, all the necessary nutrients can be obtained, in its most pure form and in the best combinations, from diet alone. Unless vegan (then b12 supplement is a must).
Take an omega 3 DHA+EPA supplement.
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Maximise your iron absorption eating many vitamin c rich foods.
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If ever in doubt, we always recommend that you speak with a Dietitian about meeting your individual nutritional requirements.
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Ladies who lunch. In my head I always envisage yummy mummies, and women with far too much botox who drawl "but darrrrrling". I'm more of a girl who runs around like a headless chicken, with wild hair and a black coffee in hand.
However on Friday I had the day of from work, so with this unexpected free time, me and Caroline decided to done lunch and the theatre. True ladies who lunch style! Just with out the frozen foreheads and stupid accents.
Caroline suggested The Ivy for lunch. Now from my 90's gossip magazine reading days, The Ivy was the hottest celeb hang out. Kate Moss probably necking back a double vodka in the bar, Nicole Kidman probably picking at her salad. A List teritory.
Fast forward to 2014. Not so much. However the food is still A list quality, and it means nobodies like us can get now. Perfect.
I started Seared foie gras with caramelised chicory tart & sour cherries after I loved it so much at Meat People the other week. I have to say, sorry Meat People, this one blew yours out the way. It was delicious. Plus, extra brownie points for cherries, which FYI, are my favourite.
Caroline went for Barbecue spiced duck, lychee & watercress salad, which we both agreed the lychee was a nice change to watermelon.
As you can probably tell the menu is quite an eclectic mix of tastes. Do they call that international cusine? Fusion? Or just great cooking?
For mains, Caroline was straight in there with Black Mount Estate venison, golden beetroot, juniper & orange, which looked a sight to behold.
I ummed and ahhed between the Deep fried haddock, and the Morrocan spiced lamb rump. The lamb won.
With chickpeas, smoked aubergine & preserved lemon, it was cooked pink and beautiful. Lamb is so easy to get wrong, but not this.
The Ivy has quite traditional values. Today, its no longer young celebs, but more refined businessmen discussing board meetings. This also applied to photos. My SLR clearly wasn't to their liking, however in true blogger mentality, I managed to do a couple of sneaky snaps of dessert.
We decided to share a Pecan Pie with toffee ice cream, and the sharing platter.
The pecan pie was outstanding. The sharing platter- that was a disappointment. Sadly, it was a bit of nothing really.
Full to the brim, we decided to kill a little time before heading to the theatre by getting a couple of cocktails in the bar. I could get used to this ladies who lunch business!
After gossiped like true processionals, we headed onto see The Weir. When it first premièred in 1997, The Weir won the Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier awards for Best New Play.
The play is set in a remote Irish bar where four old friends gather for a lock-in to swap old ghost stories. However a young female stranger, who has a haunted past, the night takes a dramatic turn more real and unsettling than any of them could have foreseen.
A real gripping, haunting performance, I genuinely came away breathless.
Feeling a little unnerved, we decided to end the night with a couple of drinks in new club Chakana, and then in a very unlady's who lunch fashion, we headed for a good old Chinese in China Town.
Sorry work, I think I may not want to come back now.
Ladies who lunch, how fancy of you ;-) no seriously, the food looked absolutely delicious and it seems you had a great time at the theatre.
Sounds very SATC! The food looks absolutely incredible and don't get me started on the cocktails!
Is the play slightly scary? Sounds right up my street!
This looks like an amazing day, the food looks delicious !!
Yeah...I think I could breakfast,lunch and dine at The Ivy....that would be nice!!
Your shoes are AMAZING. And that food!!
Delicious!! I must go back there one day! Have you been to Scott's? It's my favourite of the Caprice restaurants.
Food look yum and love your heels!


Some customers complain that the Windows Server release schedule is too slow, while other users are content to stretch out the upgrade process.
Microsoft found a happy medium with Windows Server 2016, which offers an alternative to the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) and its traditional Windows Server feature release cadence of about every two years.
In June 2017, the company said Windows Server would join the Semi-Annual Channel release program and introduce new features every six months -- in the spring and fall each year. Microsoft pitches this Windows Server release to particular enterprises, such as DevOps practitioners, that use modern applications and want up-to-date technology.
Semi-Annual Channel releases receive 18 months of mainstream support, with the expectation that the business upgrades to a new version by the time support ends. Microsoft designed the faster rollouts to suit businesses that work on rapid development cycles in the cloud and need new functionality. Windows Server version 1709 is the first product in this channel and features Nano Server refactored as a container image and support for Linux containers with Hyper-V isolation.
LTSC rollouts will include the features from the Semi-Annual Channel releases packaged up into one new product. The next LTSC version will appear in 2019 or 2020.
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Angie Elizabeth Brooks born was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She is notable for being the only African Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head that position.
In 1954 she became Liberia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, where much of her work involved the transformation of former colonial states into independent countries. In 1969, she was chosen as the President of the General Assembly and took office in 1970.
She also served as Assistant Secretary of State of Liberia. Her tenure as Permanent Representative ended in 1977, when she was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia. Nominated by President Tolbert on 4 May and taking office two days later, she was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Liberia.


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Patrick Cantlay Wins Memorial Tournament
The former amateur number one is now inside the world's top 10 for the first time
Patrick Cantlay shot a bogey-free 64 to leapfrog Martin Kaymer and Adam Scott to win his second PGA Tour title at The Memorial.
The American was unstoppable on Sunday, making five birdies on his front nine and three on the back to shoot eight under and beat Scott by two and Kaymer by four.
It is Cantlay's second PGA Tour title after he won the Shriners Open in 2017.
The tournament is hosted by 18-time Major winner Jack Nicklaus, and the pair have a close relationship after Cantlay won the 2011 Jack Nicklaus Award, given to the best US collegiate player of that year.
Nicklaus congrats the winner. (Photo by Chris Condon/PGA TOUR)
Cantlay then contacted the Golden Bear asking for advice and strategy tips for Muirfield Village two years ago and the pair spent 90 minutes at Nicklaus' house going over the course.
"I definitely feel like I've had a lot of close calls since my last win. I'm a little surprised it's taken me this long," Cantlay said.
"I really did [think the first win would open the floodgates]. I've played a lot of really good golf, a lot of really solid golf. And so I think I was closer than it seems. So maybe this one will do it."
Cantlay and the host pose with the trophy. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
Cantlay was the number-one-ranked amateur in the world for 55 weeks and has always been touted as an exceptional talent.
Serious back troubles hindered his progress shortly after turning pro in 2011, as he would play just six times from 2014-2016.
Watch: Cantlay's clutch par save on 18 to win
During that spell his caddie and best friend Chris Roth, who was just 23 at the time, was killed right in front of him in a hit-and-run in California whilst the pair were bar-hopping.
Cantlay attempted to save him but couldn't do a thing.
Fast forward to 2019 and injuries seem to have passed and the 27-year-old now finally looks close to be fulfilling his potential.
He is inside the world's top 10 for the first time in his career and he's had some brilliant results this year with a T3 at the USPGA, T9th at The Masters and a T6 at the WGC-Mexico Championship.
On the front nine on Sunday, it looked like Martin Kaymer would stroll to his first victory in five years, although the German came off the rails a bit on the back nine with three bogeys in his last seven.
The former World Number One and two-time Major winner finished 3rd, which is his best result in terms of world ranking points since his 2014 US Open win.
He is now up to 97th in the world, a huge jump after ranking as low as 191st last month.
In second was Adam Scott, who played excellent golf on Sunday that would have been deserving of the title had Cantlay not produced one of the rounds of the season.
The Aussie shot four under with three birdies in a row on the back nine to close the gap on Cantlay to just two.
Scott is now up to 17th in the world, his highest ranking since the 2017 Open Championship.
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2 Adam Scott -17
3 Martin Kaymer -15
4 Kevin Streelman -13
5 Marc Leishman -12
6 Hideki Matsuyama -11
7 Jason Dufner -10
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By Andrii Degeler , June 26th, 2019.
Creative Group, a fintech startup headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has landed a €22 million in funding from Prime Ventures, which was the sole investor in this round.
Creative Group's main focus is digital top-up in the areas like call credit, entertainment, and prepaid gaming cards. The company's consumer-facing labels are Recharge.com and Rapido.com, while on the back-end it claims to have developed a highly scalable proprietary distribution platform.
Rapido.com is currently operational in 13 countries and offers different e-vouchers for services like iTunes, Google, Spotify, Xbox and PlayStation. Recharge.com, which Creative Group launched in 2016, is focused on "on delivering a service to immigrants for cross-border remittances of call and data credits," the company said in a statement. It's available in 130 countries across 600 mobile networks.
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The Most notorious transfer in Scottish football history was depicted on every pillar and post throughout the green and white of Celtic, as devout catholic Mo Johnstone moved from Celtic to Rangers in July 1989.
To scald the waters further, Rangers then went onto win nine successive titles, with Johnstone's goals playing a pivotal part in their success. The transfer did not unlock any barriers.
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2004, and Manchester United broke through the 20 million pound barrier, later to reach 30 million pounds, with add ons, for a raw, uncut, but diamond edged 16 year old, Wayne Rooney, which was the highest fee paid for a player under 20.
Rooney, a true Evertonian, according to Wayne's desired shirt, depicting the words, "Once a Blue, always a Blue" quickly became a 'Red Devil' effigy according to the blue crested Evertonians. Rooney's reason for leaving the Merseyside Blue was his desire to play in Europe, rumour has it, that prior to the transfer, the Everton manager, David Moyes, offered Wayne a beach ball and a free holiday ticket to a European destination of his choice, to satisfy Wayne's European craving, but the red mist descended, courtesy of Moyes and Manchester United.
Pause for thought, the Brazilian icon, Socrates, was transferred to West Yorkshire's Garforth Town on the 10th ladder of the pyramid system, during the year 2008, if memory serves me right. According to the rumour mill, the Brazilian's Garforth Town career lasted a full 12 minutes, as the 'Soc' tried to roll back farther time in front of a record breaking crowd of 1300, the town's biggest attendance for 40 years.
The facts and the stats of the Socrates in blustery West Yorkshire was 1 shot on goal, and the 'Soc' later complained of a headache, perhaps the wind was the culprit, Socrates left the field of play for an aspirin and hot Yorkshire Toddy of the 'Brazilian Rumba'.
The Brazilian's brief encounter with the Garforth was pioneered by chairman Simon Clifford who apparently was organising a global school network on Brazilian football techniques, Clifford's last project in the making was to try and attract the 'White Pele' , Zico, who surprisingly declined the offer.
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Off-off theater on the move
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After a long search, off-off-Broadway theater company Nicu's Spoon has found a new 2,200-square-foot home. The spot, at 38 W. 38th St., has one feature many don't: room on stage for wheelchairs.
The nonprofit — which lost its former space a year ago — continues its mission to cast actors with disabilities. The lead in its current show, Tales of the Lost Formicans, is played by actor Nico Phillips, who has cerebral palsy.
"There are so many talented people who can't even get an audition because they're too heavy, or the wrong color, or over 60, or deaf, or blind. So what?" says Artistic Director Stephanie Barton-Farcas, who founded the $90,000 company in 2001 to stage a play about war refugees. "My view is that if they're talented, they should be working."
The new space, which opens in July with Richard III, will also allow the company to offer acting classes to people with disabilities.
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What I did was I added a trill from the G, then another from the F, then play E at the end. I am not expert in trill or anything. This was my inspiration. Also I have no idea how to added to any sheet.
If I did not understand something please correct me.
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It was Rick, thank you for pointing this.
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The time-space nature of architecture!
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The architects at More Design Office (MDO), Shanghai, curate the ambiguous relationship between actor and audience in the built form of the Jianliju Theatre Company, making it an interesting examination of typology…
The architects at MDO have designed the Jianliju theatre in Shanghai by addressing the relationship between space, event, and movement through an exaggerated exploration of form, lighting, and circulation.
Architecturally culling out a unique spectator experience, based on the film noir genre, the theatre is a sequence of contrasting spaces that read as a montage of screenshots from a film reel. Resembling a 1950's Hollywood melodrama, the space simulates film noir techniques like distortion, repetition, and superimposition. In this, the designers have carefully adapted the cinematic expression to create a heightened sense of drama, in a deliberate and exaggerated exploration of form, lighting and circulation.
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Eerie numbers projected from pinhole apertures on to the dark corridor floor highlight the green rooms, where the participants get into the skin of their characters. They emerge into a small anti-chamber, where the four enclosing walls are kept asymmetrical. The space is unsettling, with the focus on a number displayed through a magnifying glass giving stage directions to the waiting participants.
The last space the visitor passes through is hall of mirrors - a final nod to the film reel and the cinematic traditions that have manifested in all their subtlety into the architecture!
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The Future of Open-Source Software in Cloud-Native Environments
By Carol Brzozowski
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The decision between choosing open source versus proprietary software to build a cloud-native environment is driven by risks and rewards. It should also be based on team size, time investments and available budget.
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Some OSS projects run bounty programs to incentivize the community to quickly fix issues with code, while other open-source projects are maintained primarily by companies that invest significant time and resources into software maintenance in the same way they do with their proprietary products.
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He noted that the benefits of using open-source software are extensive, but it can require a significant investment of time.
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Paul Schwarzenberger, CISSP, CCSP, a cloud security specialist for Celidor, sees the choice is often among three options: open source versus cloud provider services versus third-party proprietary software.
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The decision-making process includes:
The culture of the organization. A strong DevOps unit typically favors an open-source solution.
Budgets. External costs will be zero for open source, while cloud provider and third-party service costs may be considerable.
Functionality. Common sense says you want either type of software to perform all the functions needed.
Integration with multiple clouds. Generally, cloud provider services only integrate with other services within their own cloud, although there are some exceptions such as Azure Arc and Anthos from Google Cloud Platform, Schwarzenberger noted.
Support with service level agreement. Both cloud provider and third-party services will have service level agreements for support in the event of issues. "With open source, you're reliant on the goodwill of the maintainers and the open source community," said Schwarzenberger.
Schwarzenberger noted that one risk of choosing open-source solutions is that an open-source project may only have a very small number of active contributors.
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If it's challenging to find time to test a plan, it's even more daunting to fix the problems the tests uncover.
"While open-source software has no license cost, there won't be a service wrap, so individuals within the organization will need to learn how to implement, maintain and operate a solution or application using that software, which could be a considered a hidden cost."
Schwarzenberger said that creating and maintaining open-source software can be "very rewarding. I created and maintain the open source tool Domain Protect, and it's very satisfying to have developed a solution which helps many organizations around the world improve their security and to hear their feedback. I am looking forward to more contributions and involvement from the open-source community."
When deciding whether to adopt open-source software or proprietary software, the organization should have a roadmap or strategy in place to guide its decision-making, Calatayud pointed out.
"It's a good opportunity to audit the tools, processes, and infrastructure it currently uses to determine if and where it needs to make changes," he said. "Identifying duplicative or superfluous tools can help streamline resources, so first understanding what's in place will help the decision process."
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Calatayud highlighted a recent survey by Aqua Security shows that 78 percent of CISOs believe open source solutions provide them with access to the best and most current innovation in cloud security.
"As cloud-native environments are rapidly changing, companies that work with open-source solutions are able to be nimble and adapt to the changes to allow themselves to keep up with the pace of innovation." Additionally, companies should implement security best practices, including vulnerability management, access control enforcement and network security for optimal security, according to Calatayud.
"By adopting a DevSecOps model, companies can secure cloud native applications throughout the life cycle from development to deployment," he pointed out. "In vulnerability management, there are also processes a company can implement, such as a scanning code and Docker container images to check for vulnerabilities, ensuring a safer cloud native environment across the organization."
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Thomas Colin Campbell (14 maart 1934) is een Amerikaanse biochemicus die gespecialiseerd is in het effect van voeding op de gezondheid op de lange termijn. Hij is de Jacob Gould Schurman emeritus hoogleraar Nutritional Biochemistry aan de Cornell-universiteit.

Campbell is bekend geworden vanwege zijn pleidooi voor een vetarm, plantaardig eetpatroon op basis van plantaardige voeding. Hij is de auteur van meer dan 300 onderzoeksrapporten en drie boeken, The China Study (2005, samen met zijn zoon, Thomas M. Campbell II), dat een van Amerika's meest verkochte boeken over voeding werd, Whole (2013) en The Low-Carb Fraud (2014). Campbell is te zien in de Amerikaanse documentaire Forks Over Knives (2011).

Campbell was een van de leidende wetenschappers van het China – Cornell – Oxford Project over voeding en ziekten, gestart in 1983 door de Cornell-universiteit, de Universiteit van Oxford en de Chinese Academie voor preventieve geneeskunde om de relatie tussen voeding en kanker, hartziekten en stofwisselingsziekten te onderzoeken. De studie werd door de The New York Times beschreven als "the Grand Prix of epidemiology"

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was a province of Japan in the area of northwestern Shikoku.  Iyo bordered on Sanuki Province to the northeast, Awa to the east, and Tosa to the south. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō system, Iyo was one of the provinces of the Nankaidō circuit. Under the Engishiki classification system, Iyo was ranked as one of the "upper countries" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the "far countries" (遠国) in terms of distance from the capital.  The provincial capital was located in what is now the city of Imabari, but its exact location is still unknown.  The ichinomiya of the province is the Ōyamazumi Shrine located on the island of Ōmishima in what is now part of Imabari. The people spoke Iyo dialect.

History
Iyo Province was formed by the Ritsuryo reforms by combining the territories of the ,who ruled a territory centered on what is now the city of Iyo and town of Masaki with Kumi Province, Kazehaya Province, Touma Province, and Koichi Province each ruled by its own kuni no miyatsuko. The Geiyo Islands in the Seto Inland Sea were considered part of Aki Province into the Edo Period. During the Heian period, the coastal areas of the province were part of the stronghold of  Fujiwara no Sumitomo, who led a rebellion against Imperial authority. During the Muromachi period, a branch of the Saionji family was appointed as shugo by the Ashikaga shogunate, but was constantly being invaded his more powerful and aggressive neighbors. The Saionji survived by the fluid loyalties and fierce resistance, but were eventually overcome by Chōsokabe Motochika, who was in turn overthrown by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.  Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the province was divided into several feudal domains.

Per the early Meiji period , an official government assessment of the nation's resources, the province had 964 villages with a total kokudaka of 434,408 koku. Iyo Province consisted of the following districts:

Following the abolition of the han system in 1871, Iyo Province became Ehime Prefecture.

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Notes

References
 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).  Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ;  OCLC 58053128

External links

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Iyo Province
History of Ehime Prefecture
1871 disestablishments in Japan
States and territories disestablished in 1871


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Q: How to (properly) chain multiple sequential MSSQL queries in Node I'm writing a simple nodejs CLI tool while learning promises (to avoid callback hell), and every tutorial/stackoverflow example I've found only shows how to make a single call. My use case is as follows:
1. Connect to the Database (this I can do)
2. Perform a SQL select statement (also got this part)
3. Do some stuff with the results
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 a few more times
I'm collecting the MSSQL user name and password (with hard-coded server 'localhost' and database name 'testdb') so when the app executes I can't just jump into the MSSQL connection.
I can get this via callbacks, but right now I have about 50 queries so you can imagine the ugliness. The full code below does get me the first query, and I strongly suspect I'm not passing the "pool" object to the next "then", but when I try
.then((pool,result) => {
   //next command
})

It still doesn't recognize pool
Here is the code (index.js):
const mssql = require('mssql');

const qry1 = "select fieldA from tblA";
const qry2 = "select fieldB from tblB";
const qry3 = "select fieldC from tblC";
var dbuser = '';
var dbpass = '';
var config = {}

function init() {
   log('Beginning Audit');
   collectDbInfo(); //The reason I don't just included it all here
}

function collectDbInfo() {
    //code is irrelevant to the problem, this is where I'm collecting the database credentials
}

function start() {
   config = {
      user: dbuser,
      password: dbpass,
      server: 'localhost',
      database: 'testdb'
   }

   mssql.connect(config)
      .then(pool => {
         //FIRST query
         return pool.request().query(qry1)
      })
      .then(result => {
         processQryA(result);
         //SECOND query
         return pool.request().query(qry2)
      })
      .then(result => {
         processQryB(result);
         //THIRD query
         return pool.request().query(qry3)
      })
      .then(result => {
         processQryC(result);
      })

   mssql.on('error',err => {
      log('SQL Error:' err)
      mssql.close();
      process.exit(0);
   }
}

processQryA(data) {
    console.log(data.recordset[0].fieldA)
}

processQryB(data) {
    console.log(data.rcordset[0].fieldB)
}

processQryC(data) {
    console.log(data.recordset[0].fieldC)
}

init();

I fully appreciate I may be approaching this all wrong, so any advice or especially examples would be greatly appreciated.

A: If the queries are absolutely sequential in nature, you can achieve that with async/await:
async function start(){
        config = {
            user: dbuser,
            password: dbpass,
            server: 'localhost',
            database: 'testdb'
         }
        try {
            pool = await mssql.connect(config);
            const res1 = await pool.request().query(qry1);
            processQryA(res1);
            const res2 = await pool.request().query(qry2);
            processQryB(res2);
            const res3 = await pool.request().query(qry3);
            processQryC(res3);
            const res4 = await pool.request().query(qry4);
            processQryD(res4);
            /*..And so on with rest of sequential queries*/
            /*Any of them resulting in error will be caught in (catch)*/

        } catch (error) {
            console.error("Error in start()::", error);
        }
    }

Also: I would probably have my pool getting method separately from query executions to handle errors/validations nicely.

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Today in class I taught Joe Heath's wonderful paper, "Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective" (J. Bus Ethics, 2008. 83:4, 595-614). It's a paper that draws on the criminology literature to debunk several 'folk theories' regarding what it is that motivates wrongdoing, theories too often drawn upon by scholars and other commentators in business ethics.
Coincidentally, this item in today's news illustrates one of Heath's key points about the role that rationalization plays in fostering wrongdoing in business.
It began when Belgian customs officials examined shipping records for dozens of giant tanker trucks that outlined an odd, triangular journey across Europe. The trucks, each carrying 22 tons of liquid sugar, swung through eight nations and covered a driving distance of roughly 2,500 miles from a Belgian sugar refinery to Croatia and back — instead of taking the most direct, 900-mile route.
Along the way the trucks made a brief stop in Kaliningrad, a grim and bustling Russian border checkpoint on the Baltic Sea.
Suddenly the sugar triangle made sense to them. Because Russia, and not Croatia, was listed as the intended destination, the shipments qualified for valuable special payments known as export rebates from the European Union's farm subsidy program.
This looks like a classic example of what Heath (citing criminology literature) calls the "denial of responsibility" method of "neutralizing" one's wrongdoing. It's not my fault, they say, because it's all really complicated.
August Töpfer's lawyer, Klaus Landry, maintained that the company had not mixed sugars, and said that this summer's raids were politically motivated. He said that prosecutors did not understand the arcane sugar subsidy system.
This looks like a classic case of "condemning the condemners." I didn't do anything wrong; the authorities are just evil and are out to get me.
Next time you're reading a story that quotes people accused of wrongdoing, watch for what it is they say about the reasons for what they've done. Most likely, if Heath (and plenty of criminologists) are right, you'll see an attempt to "neutralize" the wrongdoing, along the lines of the rationalizations offered by the sugar execs above.
« Can Life-Saving Decisions Really Be "Tough Calls"?
Interesting point, Chris, and so true! Wouldn't it be refreshing if those who have been unethical in business would stand up and say, "Yes, I did it. It was dumb and unethical and stupid. And I will suffer the consequences." Yet, human nature being what it is, this refreshing moment is merely a pipedream.
While being human is hardly a defense, it is a reality. Thanks for reminding us to be thoughtful about why we make certain business decisions, and how they might reflect on us once they are implemented!
Great article. In addition to the tap-dancing executives feeling bad all way to the bank, the EU's loopholes are beyond excuse — the EU policy writers are either lazy, unqualified, or getting kickbacks.
There is, of course, another possibility: it could be that a establishing a system of trans-national regulations for growing & shipping commodities is actually such a complex, multi-factorial problem that it's genuinely hard to get it right. But I honestly don't know enough about this particular case to guess which the best diagnosis. It could, of course, be some combination.


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Q: Revert Gradle build in Eclipse : I was trying to install Android Studio and import a project from eclipse. So i export following the documentation steps : i build gradle file.
Now on my Eclipse IDE, I have an error on the 4th line below :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:pj="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.example.myApp"

The error is :
In Gradle projects, always use
http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto for custom attributes

What should I do? I changed it as they say but I fear I might lost compatibility.
Can I 'destroy' the gradle build? recompile?

A: First you should have checked that gradle build works in Eclipse.
What you need to do is check/compare .project and .classpath files (hidden by default) with any other Android project


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Board index ‹ Party! ‹ Fried Chicken
Time for a joke
Lay back, relax, and talk about any topic that takes your fancy. Heavy stuff, however, should be posted in Views Of The World.
by Taryn » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:37 pm
Laughter is good for you so post all your jokes here and lets have a giggle.
Here's one to start us off, got it in an email today so thought I would share it with you.
Sneezing on an aeroplane
A man and a woman were sitting beside each other in the first class section of an airplane.
The woman sneezed, took out a tissue, gently wiped her nose, then visibly shuddered for ten to fifteen seconds.
The man went back to his reading.
A few minutes later, the woman sneezed again, took a tissue, wiped her nose, then shuddered violently once more.
Assuming that the woman might have a cold, the man was still curious about the shuddering. A few more minutes
passed when the woman sneezed yet again
As before, she took a tissue, wiped her nose, her body shaking ever more than before.
Unable to restrain his curiosity, the man turned to the woman and said, "I couldn't help but notice that you've
sneezed three times, wipe your nose and then shudder violently.
Are you ok?"
"I am sorry if I disturbed you, I have a very rare medical condition; whenever I sneeze I have an orgasm."
The man, more than a bit embarrassed, was still curious. " I have never heard of that condition before" he said. "Are you taking anything for it?"
The woman nodded, "Pepper."
Location: Miles away
Re: Time for a joke
by y2marmar » Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:35 pm
A real story by a Man who was standing in a queue in Morrison's.........
I have 2 dogs & I was buying a large bag of Winalot in Morrisons and was standing in the queue at the till.
A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Winalot Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and the way that it works is to load your trouser pockets with Winalot nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.
I have to mention here that practically everyone in the queue was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a guy who was behind her.
Horrified, she asked if I'd ended up in the hospital in that condition because I had been poisoned.
I told her no, it was because I'd been sitting in the road licking my balls and a car hit me.
I thought one guy was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard as he staggered out the door.
Stupid cow..........why else would I buy dog food??
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me...
y2marmar
by Cool Cat » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:26 am
Pick-up line comebacks
He: Haven't we met before?
She: Yes, I'm the receptionist at the Bad Breath Clinic.
He: Is this seat empty?
She: Yes, and this one will be too if you sit down.
He: So, wanna go back to my place?
She: I don't know. Can two people fit under a rock?
Boy attempts to chat up a classy looking girl on the dance floor, "I don't dance with kids" she said, looking down her nose
"Sorry love, didn't know you were pregnant" he replies
by Dittany » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:38 pm
A man--let's call him Joe--started a new job at a massive skyscraper. Throughout the first week of his new job, he kept hearing about the incredible bar on the top floor. Finally that Friday, after work, he decided to go check out the bar. While sipping his drink, Joe noticed the man next to him doing something very odd. He would order a shot of tequila, drink it down, then walk out onto the balcony and jump off. Five minutes later, Joe would see him stroll back into the bar and order another tequila. After an hour or so of this, the novelty started to wear off; Joe asked the man how he was able to jump from that height without killing himself.
The man replied, "The alcohol in the tequila sufficiently alters my buoyancy so that I'm able to slow the acceleration of my fall in order to land unhurt."
Maybe it was the booze that Joe had already consumed, or maybe it was the fact that the Packers had gone to the Super Bowl that decade, but he decided to try this out. He ordered the tequila, drank it all down and jumped off the balcony. He took out two street mimes and a pigeon as he fell to his death.
The bartender sneered at the man and said, "You really are a jerk when you're drunk, Superman."
"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." - John Lennon
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In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.
by Eimerk » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:28 am
Topical one hopefully.................
Q) What's the difference between the Icelandic Volcano and Cheryl Cole?
A) The Volcano is the only one still blowing Ash........
Eimerk
by Champs » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:37 am
Bloke strolling along a pier, when suddenly he sees a man sat holding an imaginary fishing rod and with both feet dangling in the water.
Curious the bloke asks the man, 'What you doing?'
'I'm fishing for c*nts' said the man.
The bloke smiled and joined him, took his socks & shoes off and placed both feet in the water and cast out his imaginary fishing line.
Smiling smugly to himself, the bloke then said to the man 'So, how many c*nts have you caught today, then?'
Without looking up the man said 'You're the third this morning'.
Location: Teesside
by Dusty » Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:21 pm
Scientists have successfully combined Viagra with Prozac, and have come up with a drug which you can take to get you turned on yet chilled out, so that if you don't get a f*ck, you don't give a f*ck.
by Ian-Highlander » Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:23 pm
Champs wrote: Bloke strolling along a pier, when suddenly he sees a man sat holding an imaginary fishing rod and with both feet dangling in the water.
That's superb
Ian-Highlander
There Can Be Only One
I was born with nothing and I've got most of it left...
by JLP » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:23 pm
Anyone heard about the Irish exorcism? A mother called in the devil to get the priest out of her son.
by Dusty » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:15 am
Went to a midgets wedding recently. I didn't like him, just wanted to see if he vanished when he put the ring on.
Hats off to the Icelandic people.First they declared themselves bankrupt...Then they set their island on fire....
Anyone else smell the mother of all insurance frauds?
The sun is shining, it's really warm and there's not a cloud in the sky. No noise or pollution from planes flying overhead. Think I'll stroll down to the pub by the river for a cool pint or two... everyone's relaxed, the girls are in skimpy clothes and no bugger is asking me for donations. I hope you're watching, Haiti, Chile, China, Pakistan.... That's how you should do a natural disaster!
by WeeMann » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:33 am
As a rule, I don't pass on these "add your name" lists that appear in emails,
BUT this one is important. It has been circulating for some time now and it is estimated that it has reached over 20 million people so far.
We don't want to lose any names on the list so once you have added your name PLEASE send it on to keep it going.
To show your support for Gordon Brown please go to the end of the list and add your name.
1. Mrs. Brown.
DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a post, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate.
WeeMann
Not even on the B list...
by WeeMann » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:36 am
A U.S. army platoon was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi insurgent, badly injured and unconscious, on the left-hand side of the road.
On the right-hand side was a British soldier in a similar, but less serious state. The Brit was conscious and alert. As first aid was given to both men, the American platoon leader asked the injured soldier what had happened.
The soldier reported: "I was recce-ing the highway here when suddenly; coming towards me from the south was a heavily-armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road".
I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein had been a miserable, lowlife scumbag who'd got what he deserved.
The insurgent yelled back that Gordon Brown is a fat, useless, lying, one-eyed porridge wog. And furthermore, Lord Mandelson is a pillow-biting gay bastard!
So I said that Osama Bin Laden dresses and ponces about like a frigid, hatchet-faced lesbian.
He retaliated by saying that so does Harriet Harman.
"And, there we were – in the middle of the road – shaking hands, when the f******* bus hit us."
by Bad Guy » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:32 pm
EDIT - DOH
Please delete this post!
by Dittany » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:38 pm
A country boy answers the door to this P.O'd guy demanding, "Your father home?"
The kid says, "No."
"Your mama home?"
"Nope."
"Where's your brother Howard?"
"He's off with Mama and Daddy."
"Well," the guy says, "I want to talk to your parents about your brother Howard getting my daughter pregnant!"
The kid thinks for a minute and replies, "I'll tell Daddy. I know he charges a couple hundred for bull service, and fifty for our boar, but I don't think he's ever charged a stud fee for Howard."
A man walks into a bar with a monkey
by Zappanalé » Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:51 pm
I forget the rest, but your mother's a whore.
Jokes thread, go.
Zappanalé
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Q: User Permissions and COM Objects I am currently working on a project that interacts with a COM object. In my code I call the following:

CoInitialize(NULL);  //Initialize COM system
HRESULT hr = spSSCProt.CreateInstance(("SSCProt.SSCprotector"));

This should get me the object I need. If this fails, it is presumably because the COM Server does not have the COM object registered using regsvr32. All is fine and well, I have the following code to handle that:

/if its not, lets try to register it ourselves...create the command
CHAR cmdBuf[BUFSIZE];
GetCurrentDirectory(BUFSIZE,cmdBuf);
string cmd("regsvr32 -s \"");
cmd += cmdBuf;
cmd += "\\stixDlls\\SSCProt.dll\"";

//attempt to register it
system(cmd.c_str());

The problem arises if the user is not an admin. They wont be able to execute the section of code the registers the COM server. Most of my users will probably not be admins.
Any ideas on how I can register the com server if they are not an admin.
Thanks

A: The whole point of Windows protection is to prevent you from doing things like that. How is Windows supposed to know you're not a virus trying to install some malware?
Your only hope is to start up another program which requests administrator privileges via its manifest. At that point Windows will ask for the administrator password.

A: If possible, the best place to do COM registration is during the installation process, which is usually being run under admin privileges. If that's not possible, there's another standard way: most home users on Vista and Win7 do have admin privileges - it's just not enabled by default. To enable those privileges you should request elevation through the (in)famous UAC.


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