The European court of justice's (ECJ) recent ruling on religious symbols which grants companies the right to ban employees from wearing visible religious symbols will not apply to the UK according to a government Minister.
Europe's highest court decided on cases involving two Muslim women and their right to wear headscarves at work. The court ruled the garments could be banned, but only as part of a broader policy for all political and religious symbolism in the workplace.
Yesterday's Commonwealth Day Service in Westminster Abbey was on the theme of peace. But, with the firing of Kim Jung Un's 'look at me' rockets fuelled by the blood and sweat of his impoverished people, Russia muscling in on the chaos and suffering in the Middle East, and a record 20 million refugees without, food and shelter, a truly peaceful world still seems a distant dream.
I found the service and prayers at the Abbey, both moving and uplifting. In the Sikh view, prayers are essentially a charging of spiritual batteries to help us move in a better ethical direction. In this case, to a more active search for peace. And for this we clearly have to look beyond today's policies of deterrence and containment.
Sikh teachings remind us that peace is more than the absence of war; it is a universal respect for the rights of others, and I find it hard to believe that this can be achieved by narrowly focussing on deterrent might, with its inherent dangers of an escalation of rival power. New technologies and new ways of killing make yesterday's lethal weapons obsolete, not to be disposed of, but sold to developing countries, fuelling conflict in a world awash with arms.
A moving Christian hymn reminds us that new occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth. They must upwards still and onwards, who would keep abreast with truth. Today's strategic alliances, while providing a measure of mutual security for some, do nothing to prevent continuing human right's abuse for others. Guru Ram Dass, writing of pacts and alliances made in self-interest, taught that the only pact or commitment worth making was to God to be committed and uncompromising in our pursuit of social and political justice, – not only for our side, but for all people; a sentiment that has its echo in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Today, while many agree with such sentiments, some political leaders find it expedient to overlook human rights abuse in what are sometimes called friendly countries. The great human rights activist and scientist Andre Sakharov, made clear his view that there can no lasting peace in the world unless we are even-handed on the abuse of human rights. Words we must take on board in our search for a more peaceful and fairer world.


Truth or Dare is actually an anthology of three novellas one for each of the friends, insecure Asia, shy Becky and assertive Erica, but I am going to review them as a whole rather then individually as although they have three individual women and men with different personalities as protagonists each one is essentially the same story.
However, although it does follow the same formula I didn't find myself getting bored, one because each story was fairly short and two because each character had enough of their own quirks that I found interesting enough to propel me forward. Each story was so sweet though, I loved how the men had all some how found out about the dare and engineered it so they were the "random" man they bumped into, it was just so adorable.
This anthology was good mixture of humour, romance and some sweet sweet lovin' a perfect feel good book to curl up with over the Christmas holidays.
Thanks for the review. I love Lori Fosters book.
Thanks for the review. This book sounds like a lot of fun. Can't wait to read it.
Thanks for the great review, Suz!


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Q: Need to simulate 100 BLE devices in my vicinity I want to test my application that is getting reports that it's unusable when there are a lot of Bluetooth devices in the range. Since I work from a remote location, I cannot verify the issue.
I have tried certain things already but ultimately realized that having BLE ids advertised right at my location is the only way to debug and test the app in the future.
What is the easiest way and in the smallest form factor (if the solution is hardware) to simulate 100 Bluetooth devices? I have a budget, so I can buy certain hardware if that helps, as long as it's portable. :)

A: You can use almost any BLE device and set it to use "static random address". What you do is that you set a new random address, advertise for a short time, abort the advertising and then set another address and start advertising again, and so on. This is supported at the HCI layer so any controller will work.
You can for example use my library at https://github.com/Emill/node-ble-host to do this. Use the static random address option as explained at https://github.com/Emill/node-ble-host/blob/master/docs/api/ble-manager.md#creating-a-blemanager-object.

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import {MediaPlayerControls} from './MediaPlayerControls';
import {useVideoQualitySetting} from './useVideoQualitySetting';
import {useAvailableQualities} from '../entryState';
import {useI18n} from './i18n';

export function VideoPlayerControls({videoFile, ...props}) {
  const [activeQuality, setActiveQuality] = useVideoQualitySetting();
  const availableQualities = useAvailableQualities(videoFile);
  const {t} = useI18n();

  return (
    <MediaPlayerControls {...props}
                         file={videoFile}
                         autoHide={true}
                         qualityMenuItems={getQualityMenuItems(availableQualities, activeQuality, t)}
                         onQualityMenuItemClick={setActiveQuality}/>
  );
}

function getQualityMenuItems(availableQualities, activeQuality, t) {
  return availableQualities.map(quality => ({
    value: quality,
    label: t(`pageflow_scrolled.public.video_qualities.labels.${quality}`),
    annotation: t(`pageflow_scrolled.public.video_qualities.annotations.${quality}`,
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Early orthodontic treatment can take many forms. The orthodontist could prescribe a fixed or removable "appliance" - a device used to move teeth, change the position of the jaw, or hold teeth in place in order to bring about desirable changes. Sometimes no appliances are necessary. Rather, removal of some baby teeth may help the permanent teeth erupt better. The extractions will be timed to take best advantage of a patient's growth and development.


Easter is just around the corner so I thought I'd share an Easter brunch idea for kids. Green eggs and ham! This has always been Max's favourite book which is kind of ironic considering he's our pickiest eater, haha! One thing that seems to get him excited for meal time is when we put a playful spin on classic foods we know he'll love. We thought pastel green scrambled eggs and a yummy side of ham would be very fitting for Easter brunch and a fun surprise that the kids would most definitely gobble up.
If you'd like to whip this up for your kids kiddos this Easter all you have to do is add a few drops of green food colouring to your scrambled egg mixture as you cook them, we did three drops but just eyeball it as it'll depend on how many eggs you're making. Then simply slice up and fry some Honey Smoked Ham by Maple Leaf. If your kids haven't tried their Honey Smoked Ham yet then they're in for a real treat, it's delicious! Our kids absolutely love it for dinner and brunches and the best part is – their products are all made with REAL, simple and natural ingredients so you can feel good about feeding them to your family. To finish things off we round the meal out out with some fruit and fried potatoes and voila! A simple and healthy brunch your kids are sure to love!
Will you be trying out this Easter brunch idea with your kids? What are your favourite ways to make kids meals fun?
This post was sponsored by Maple Leaf however all thoughts an opinions are completely my own.


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Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine este o facultate din cadrul Universității din București. O parte a facultății este situată pe strada Edgar Quinet, în vechea aripă a Palatului Universității din București alături de Facultatea de Litere, iar corpul central se află în vechea clădire de pe strada Pitar Moș.

Istoric

Cei 147 de ani de istorie a Universității din București sunt totodată o istorie mereu ascendentă a predării limbilor și literaturilor străine. Începutul s-a făcut, cum era și firesc, cu latina și greaca veche, care s-au predat chiar de la înființarea Universității din 1864. Zece ani mai tîrziu, în 1874, prin marele B. P. Hasdeu, care își începe cursul său de Filologie Comparată Indo-Europeană, Universitatea întră în circuitul de mari și incontestabile valori europene.

Ultima jumătate de secol, pînă în zilele noastre, a înregistrat cea mai mare dezvoltare a învățămîntului de limbi străine la Universitatea din București. Trecînd prin diferite forme organizatorice, învățarea limbilor străine a devenit o preocupare majoră în cadrul Universității.

Un inventar al tuturor limbilor care s-au predat, în diferite ranguri și periodicități, ridică numărul acestora la cifra impresionantă de 44 de limbi. Astăzi se predau 37 dintre care persana, neogreaca, turca, catalana, rromani, slovena, croata, bulgara, coreana și suedeza nu se regăsesc în portofoliul programelor de studiu al altor facultăți.

Absolvenții facultății răspund, prin pregătirea lor, unei palete largi de oferte de muncă din varii domenii, precum învățămînt, cercetare, cultură, mass media, activități editoriale, relații internaționale. Este semnificativă înființarea secțiilor de Limbi Moderne Aplicate și a celei de Traducători-Interpreți.

Mari personalități care au predat sau care s-au format aici: B.P. Hasdeu, Tudor Vianu, Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ana Cartianu, Elena Vianu, Ion C. Chițimia, Irina Bădescu.

Studii

Domenii de licență: Limbă și literatură, Studii culturale, Limbi moderne aplicate (Traducere și Interpretare; Limbi Moderne Aplicate).

Specializări: Engleză (ZI),  Franceză (ZI), Germană (ZI), Spaniolă (ZI), Italiană (ZI), Portugheză (ZI), Arabă (ZI), Chineză (ZI), Japoneză (ZI), Coreeană (ZI), Persană (ZI), Turcă (ZI), Rusă (ZI), Ucraineană (ZI), Polonă (ZI), Cehă (ZI), Slovacă (ZI), Sârbă (ZI), Bulgară (ZI). Maghiară (ZI), Slave (ZI), Filologie Clasică (ZI), Neogreacă (ZI), Norvegiană (ZI), Suedeză (ZI), Traducere și interpretare (ZI), Limbi moderne aplicate (ZI), Rromani (ZI), Studii Iudaice  (ZI), Studii Americane (ZI).

Conducerea

Decan:
Conf. dr. Laura Sitaru

Prodecani:
Prof. dr. habil. Alina Tigău
Conf. dr. Oana Balaș
Conf. dr. Daria Protopopescu
Conf. dr. Ileana Ratcu

Asociații Studențești
ASLS - Asociația Studenților din Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine

Centre de cercetare
Centrul de lingvistică comparată și cognitivism
Centrul de cercetare Fundamentele Modernității Europene
Centrul de cercetare Heterotopos
Centrul de studii americane
Centrul de studii canadiene
Centrul de teorie și critică literară
Centrul Europa de Mâine
Institutul de studii clasice
Centrul de studii arabe
Centrul de studii hispanice

Legături externe

 Pagina oficială a Facultății de Limbi și Literaturi Străine
 ASLS - Asociația Studenților din Facultatea de Limbi Străine
 Admiterea la Facultatea de Limbi Străine
 GGR
 American Studies
 RAAS
 Feodorov, Ioana, The Arab World, in the Romanian Culture
 50 de ani de studii arabe în România

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Is the latest (reissued) live album from Ten Years After an essential purchase?
After Alvin Lee's death in March of 2013, Rainman Records released The Last Show, a fine recording of Lee's final on stage performance in May of 2012. Due to the excellence of that recording, I looked forward to hearing the recent Rainman release, British Live Performance Series. It captures Ten Years After (TYA) recorded live in 1990 at "Studio 8" television in Nottingham, England – this is a reissue of an earlier version.
Does this release meet the standard set by The Last Show or the 1990 TYA release Recorded Live? Well, let's take a look at the 11 tracks in order to answer that question.
"Let's Shake It Up" – This song demonstrates that the band was, at least initially, in fine form that day.
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" – "Sonny Boy" Williamson's blues standard from 1937 is transformed into a Cream-style workout. I prefer the original arrangement on the Ssssh album. This version comes off as tight, yet frantic.
"Slow Blues in C" – An OK track but nothing special. At least it feels shorter than its length of 5:39.
"Hobbit" – Most drum solos in rock should have been eliminated (IMHO), including this one (or at least shortened).
"Love Like A Man" – One of the best tracks from Cricklewood Green, it sounds positively husky here.
"Johnny B. Goode" – It's not as good a choice as "Sweet Little Sixteen" – both Chuck Berry tunes – on Watt.
"Bad Blood" – Lee, Leo Lyons (bass), Ric Lee (drums) and Chick Churchill (keyboard) in a fine groove. Just shy of six minutes, they probably should have kept it going for at least 12 to 15 minutes.
"Victim of Circumstance" – A song from the 1989 release About Time (the album TYA was promoting at the time). It's not one of their best numbers.
"I Can't Keep from Crying Sometime" – From the 1967 debut album Ten Years After. The song effectively segues from blues-rock into psychedelia, before speeding up to become just another TYA jam. It borrows a riff from The Doors' "When the Music's Over" and drags on until boredom sets in.
"I'm Going Home" – On a 10-point scale, this one's about a 4. Twenty-one years after Woodstock, the thrill was gone. Here, TYA sounds like a cover band. Clearly, they became bored with the song, which should have been reserved for nights when the band was fully cooking.
"Sweet Little Sixteen" – The live version on Watt is better.
The sound quality on this recording is poor, especially considering that it was recorded in a major TV studio. As a friend said, "It's a harsh mix with too much high end and snare" – the snare drum being annoyingly front and center, and Lyon's generally exemplary bass work is mostly missing in action aurally. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to hear a single note from the keyboard played by Churchill.
To quote my friend again, "Despite the harsh mix, this concert demonstrated how TYA was able to fill venues for years. When the lights were on, they were right at home giving it their all." Yes, like The Kinks, TYA gave it 110% each and every night. It's a shame about the sound on this release. The Last Show or Recorded Live are definitely better choices.


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Posted By: Daliya Ghose On Saturday, 07th September 2013,02:09
Ranbir and Katrina are the alleged couple who have been talked about a lot in recent past especially when their private pics of holidaying on Ibiza Island got viral. After that Ranbir opened up and confessed his relationship in an indirect tone.
In an interview when he was asked if there are people who mean so much to him that he could give uphislife for them, Ranbir said, "My family, Ayan, Katrina, as she is a very special person in my life, Rohit Dhawan, who I grew up with, and Aisha Divetri, my school friend. And Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Basu, as they add a lot to my life."
He laid especial emphasis on Katrina by saying that she is very special in his life. However, later he denied all rumors and avoided questions about his love life. There were reports that he would announce his engagement on his birthday. To this Ranbir said, "There was a report that I am getting engaged on my birthday and there is no truth in it... I am not getting engaged or married."
He further said, "When I was new in the industry I spoke openly about my relationship. I feel when you do this the spotlight is more on personal life than work. I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show."
Ranbir did not clarify his relationship status with Katrina. He said, "I am single till I get married, I think I believe in that saying. I am going very strong with this movie ('Besharam'), I am very excited about it. That is the only excitement I have in my life right now."
Regarding his recent photographs of holiday on Ibiza Island with Katrina, Ranbir said, "Right now, given the phase I am in my life, I have opened this umbrella which comprises my family, love, friendship, my movies and things that make me happy. In the last few months, a lot has been spoken about my relationship, but I think before my personal life becomes a reality show, I would like to protect it as much as I can. It's not about one person, but involves two people, the other being a girl, and she has more to lose than me. I think there is a right time to speak about everything. But right now, I am so consumed by my life — be it my professional or personal life — that I don't want the spotlight more on that. Fortunately, I was away in Sri Lanka for the last one-and-a-half months shooting, when all this was happening and I was completely focused on my work and did not see the backlash that was coming. The pictures are out. Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers, everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong. As an individual, when you're the subject, you can feel bad about it. But too bad, you are an actor. So it's a bit of a catch-22 that you wished it did not happen, but, when you think about it, you can't really do anything about it. All this is really in between. What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places."
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With the Provisur seawater desalination project, Peru's first reverse osmosis*2 desalination plant is being constructed to supply 35,000 m3 of potable water per day to the 100,000 residents of the Santa Maria district. Water distribution and sewer pipelines (total length: 260 km), a sewage treatment plant (daily capacity: 15,500 m3), and an undersea pipeline (780 m) for the discharge of treated water are also being built. Part of the treated water will be used for watering plants in the local area. Expectations are high for this project because Lima and other coastal areas in Peru have a desert climate that gets very little rain throughout the year.


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Optimise Wide Bandwidth Signal Performance with Channel Correction by Keysight Technologies...
Article by Eric Hsu, Product Marketing
When you use a signal generator to output a continuous wave (CW), the signal generator confirms its output amplitude accuracy at the RF output port. Even when the temperature increases with time, the signal generator has an automatic leveling control (ALC) circuit to monitor and adjust its output power.
Outside the signal generator, using flatness correction ensures that you continue to have flat output power even after the signal has passed through all the cables, switches, and splitters. The amplitude accuracy can move from the signal generator's RF output to the device under test's (DUT) input. Refer to the previous blog posts "What is Flatness Correction and Why it Matters" and "Overcome Power Drifts with External Leveling" for more information.
While the tactics mentioned above address a specified frequency point amplitude compensation, at a different frequency point, there is a different offset value to compensate for the amplitude flatness. When a signal is a modulated signal, it occupies a certain bandwidth. Applying a single offset value to the signal cannot correct the flatness effects of the entire signal bandwidth. The effects include amplitude flatness and phase flatness.
Using Internal Channel Correction
Most new vector signal generators have an internal calibration routine, also referred to as factory calibration, that collects correction data for both the baseband and RF magnitude, along with phase errors over the entire RF frequency and power level range. The correction data includes the parameters of the correction filter applied to baseband waveforms, and the correction processing is done by a digital signal processor (DSP) in real time.
Figure 1 is a 5G new radio (NR) signal and the signal bandwidth is up to 100 MHz. From the plot B, when the channel correction is off (default setting), you can see the signal's spectrum has a slight decline from left to right. Using the Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulation equalizer, you can clearly see the channel frequency response has a difference (maker 1 and 2) of 2.6 dB as shown in plot D.
Figure 1. A 5G NR signal with 100 MHz bandwidth and internal channel correction turned off
When the correction is on, the signal generator flattens the system magnitude and phase responses across the maximum bandwidth supported by the instrument (up to 160 MHz bandwidth for MXG N5182B). Figure 2 shows the same 5G signal, but plot B signal spectrum is flat now. The difference in the equalizer channel frequency response is down to 0.6 dB. In addition, the error vector magnitude (EVM) is improved from 0.44% to 0.36% as shown in plot C.
Figure 2. A 5G NR signal with 100 MHz bandwidth and internal channel correction turned on
Characteristics of the Internal Channel Correction
You may wonder why the default setting of the internal channel correction is off? General purpose signal generators are optimized for performance, measurement speed, and cost. Most test scenarios have narrow bandwidths, just-enough performance, or high measurement speed. Channel correction has few impacts on measurement results and is not necessary as it increases test time.
When the correction feature is on and the frequency is changed, the firmware will calculate a channel correction filter. Additional time is required to complete the whole process and the amount of time depends on the types of frequency switching.
Arbitrary Frequency Switching
When the internal correction feature is on, arbitrary frequency switching on the MXG N5182B will take up to an additional 3.3 ms (typical) to 6.8 ms the first time that frequency is specified. Related parameters will be cached. After that, switching to that frequency will take up to an additional 1.3 ms. Up to 1024 unique frequencies can be cached before the oldest cache is forgotten.
Frequency Sweep
If a frequency sweep is activated, then the calculation and caching will occur upfront for the first 256 unique frequencies, while all additional unique frequencies will have the characteristics of arbitrary frequency switching.
User Channel Correction Calibration
The user channel correction calibration extends the signal generator's performance to a new calibration plane – the user's DUT input port. You can use a USB power sensor to perform the calibration as shown in Figure 3. You need to specify the start and stop frequencies, configure the power meter, then execute the calibration. Run this calibration when the ambient temperature has varied by at least ±5 degrees Celsius from the ambient temperature at which the previous calibration was run.
Figure 3. Use a USB power sensor to execute user channel correction calibration
Modern signal generators provide not only wide modulation bandwidths but also ample flatness performance across the entire signal bandwidth for even the most demanding design tasks. They achieve this combination of bandwidth and accuracy through the use of a digital signal processing (DSP) for real-time signal processing and a factory-calibrated channel correction technique. Using these technologies and with the press of a button, you can minimize modulation errors caused by hardware flatness and provide high modulation accuracy with wide modulation bandwidth.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Few subjects stir French passions more than politics and food, so perhaps it was inevitable that the two realms would eventually collide - and meld - in a cookbook.
"French Country Cooking," a compendium of recipes contributed by members of France's National Assembly, serves up a lavishly illustrated complement of French cuisine, from rustic one-pot stews to refined roasts and decadent desserts.
Jeanette Seaver, the book's translator, spoke to Reuters about the unusual project and the French obsession with food.
Q: How did the idea for this book come about?
A: The idea came from a French parliament deputy (Francoise Branget), who like many French people cooks well. She called upon many of her colleagues at the Parliament. She was able to have a good 90 of her fellow deputies donate recipes, really from the little country villages that they come from, where recipes were passed down for generations. One found a recipe folded in the library of their grandfather that dated from before the (French) Revolution.
Q: Were any Assembly members reluctant to embrace the project?
A: No, not at all. They're very proud, very happy to talk about and share and even parade their particular region.
Q: Did the members choose which recipes to submit?
A: They did indeed, so it's very personal. And we see how so much of French gastronomy as it is known today truly emanates from a time when farmers had no money, and were not allowed to fish nor hunt on the property of their lords. They could only use the eggs of the farms and poultry and the greens and vegetables, so you will see a lot of recipes emanating from a time when people were abjectly poor. Their imagination went to work and created astonishing dishes that have become icons of French cuisine.
Q: It seems the French are especially passionate about food. It's hard to imagine a cookbook featuring senators' recipes.
A: Yes it's true, the knowledge and the history is part and parcel of the French citizen. You go into restaurants and people are not only discussing what they're eating, but also what they'll eat tonight or what they ate yesterday. It's an important part of the French culture.
Q: Do you see food as being political in France in some way that perhaps it isn't in the United States?
A: Well each province is very vigilant about the territory's food. I remember going through the various villages to taste the cassoulet, and each one claimed it was 'the' recipe, which in their mind it might have been. So it does become very possessive or territorial.
Q: What do you see as being some of the main differences between the French home cook and the American home cook?
A: I think the French are basically more sophisticated, but I think the Americans have come up a long, long way and become very sophisticated. At times I see people will cook better in New York or San Francisco than they will in Paris.
Q: How have you seen French home cooking changing in the last 10 years, and where do you see it heading?
A: I think the new young home cook is less ambitious than our mothers, in that there is more a trend to buy ready-made, though it can be wonderfully prepared. In Provence I went to the market for some chives and she looked at me and said, 'What's that?' I was appalled. She said 'Well, I don't really cook, I open cans, and frozen. This is a 35-year-old person, and okay she doesn't represent France, but it's a little signal, and I wasn't very happy to hear that.
Q: Yet it seems in America it's just the opposite.
A: Oh it is, it's a blossoming of a gourmet generation. But in France, women long ago joined the workforce, plus so much of what you can buy is exquisite and it's not too expensive, so that's unfortunately been a kind of a trend.
Q: How do you think someone might be surprised by the book?
A: By the very unlikely recipes that are not in normal cookbooks, things like potato pie, things with improbable ingredients that are fun and cheap and accessible. It's very much like walking through a museum of gastronomy.
It represents a culture that is so typically French, in that if you consider each of those political members are as close to their cuisine as to their history, and maybe some might be political enemies, but metaphorically they come together around the table.
Q: Or around the cassoulet — or perhaps they argue about the cassoulet.
A: Well that's fine, too. It's part of the family, and that's what makes France different.
Braised Duck with Cherries, from Val-D'Oise.
Put duck, vegetables, spices and bouquet garni in a heavy casserole, add wine, stock, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer 30 minutes.
Preheat over to 350, then remove duck, carve into serving pieces, place in ovenproof dish and dot with half the butter.
Roast 1 hour, basting pieces with cooking juices every 10 minutes.
Melt remaining butter in skillet, add sugar and cherries, sauté 10 minutes and lower heat to minimum, simmer 10 minutes.
Remove duck from oven, place on serving platter, pour warm cherries over and around duck and serve.


Cartography has produced beautiful works of art – but are they as objective as we think? Alastair Sooke explores the unreliable history of map-making.
As a boy, like many others, I used to love scrutinising maps. My family spent the summer holidays beside the coast in Dorset, in southern England, and on the wall of the cottage where we stayed there was a large framed sheet of an Ordnance Survey map from 1963, charting the surrounding area at a scale of six inches to one mile.
Whenever it rained – which, since this was summertime in Britain, was dispiritingly often – I would study this black-and-white plan, marvelling at its complex system of marks and symbols.
Even today, when I go for a long walk in the countryside, I still like to pack an OS Explorer map. It's more reliable than, say, an app on my smartphone, which is prone to running out of power, or losing its signal.
This is the thing about maps: properly produced, they feel objective and authoritative – scientific tools that allow us to orient ourselves within the world. Indeed, the Ordnance Survey, Britain's famous mapping agency, still prides itself on being as comprehensive and accurate as possible.
Today it has evolved into a digital powerhouse maintaining an enormous database of geospatial information. All of its maps are produced from its so-called 'OS MasterMap' of Great Britain, which contains more than 460 million geographic features and is continually updated – astonishingly, more than 10,000 times a day – by a team of 270 surveyors using GPS technology.
Yet a new book, Map: Exploring the World, published by Phaidon later this month, suggests that maps aren't necessarily as trustworthy or objective as we tend to assume. This is certainly the case when we consider historical maps, many of which are beautiful works of art but which often reveal more about their cartographers than the domains they supposedly document.
Medieval world maps, for instance, commonly placed Jerusalem at the centre of the design – reflecting the spiritual importance of Christianity during that era. The celebrated mappa mundi of c1300 from Hereford Cathedral offers a classic example of this trend.
The surveyor William Smith's exquisite map of the geological make-up of England, Scotland and Wales from 1815, by contrast, was motivated by a very different impulse. After decades of excavation, Smith was sceptical about religious explanations for differing rock strata and fossils, so he felt compelled to produce the world's first geological map of a country. Delineating rock layers using 20 hand-painted tints, his map presaged the way in which science would challenge fundamental tenets of Christianity during the 19th Century.
There are countless examples of maps that are redolent of particular cultures, such as the stick charts of the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. Made by binding shells to sticks using palm fibre, these record the locations of islands, currents and ocean swells.
Then there is the Chukchi Sealskin Map of c1870, now in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. This is a kind of encyclopaedia of a way of life as much as a map: its pictographs of, among other things, walruses, whaling schooners, kayaks and shamans present hunting scenes and moments of daily village routine, documenting the pastimes of the people of the Chukchi Peninsula in north-east Asia, across the Bering Strait from Alaska.
Today's dynamic mapmakers are less concerned with distance and material objects: instead, they chronicle networks and connectivity, including the real-time, global use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook, shifting second by second. In doing so, like myriad charts before them, these new maps reflect the preoccupations of the era that produced them – in their case, the 'Information Age.
Occasionally the inherently skewed perspective of maps is something that artists have lampooned. Saul Steinberg's View of the World from 9th Avenue, which appeared on the cover of the New Yorker magazine in 1976, is an infamous 'map' in which absurd prominence is given to Manhattan in the foreground, while the background, consisting of vast tracts of terrain heading west from the Hudson River all the way to the Pacific Ocean and beyond, is sketchy in the extreme: Mexico and Canada, for example, are nothing but tiny patches of blank space to left and right. Steinberg was making a joke about how narrow our individual perspectives on the world can be.
That said, many experts now agree that we are living in a golden age of cartography. "My favourite maps are those being produced by the Human Connectome Project that show the white-matter networks in our brains," says John Hessler, a specialist in modern cartography at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, who has written the introduction to the new Phaidon book.


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Faculty brainstorm creative approaches to spring course planning
As Vanderbilt continues planning for the spring semester, faculty members have started brainstorming additional ways to support students amid an altered academic calendar designed to limit the potential spread of COVID-19.
"When we think about the Vanderbilt community, it's important to remember how frequently—and how meaningfully—community happens in a classroom," said Vanessa Beasley, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of residential faculty. "I have been inspired lately by hearing more about how students and faculty intend to support each other during this unusual time, inside and outside of the classroom. Students should keep in mind that it will take some time for faculty to plan for spring courses, including how they intend to use the designated in-class reading days."
The Hands-On Humanities class taught by Elizabeth Meadows and Chris Loss (John Russell/Vanderbilt)
Several members of the Ad Hoc Committee for Spring 2020 Wellness Days, which included faculty, students and staff, continue to discuss guidelines for four additional in-class reading days that will take place on Feb. 23-24 and April 7-8.
Ben Harris, vice chair of the Faculty Senate and senior lecturer in vocal music, said he is encouraging colleagues to take a "student-centric" approach to their classes in the spring semester, particularly for the additional reading days.
"It isn't just time spent in a classroom or the numbers of quizzes given that's important, but how do I set up this semester in such a way that students come out the other end having benefited and learned?" Harris said. "Some faculty are waiting to decide with their students how to use the reading days so they can provide what's most helpful for the class."
Options could include asynchronous work during those days so students have freedom over their schedule; optional office hours for one-on-one tutoring; outdoor plans, weather permitting, to get students away from their screens; or bringing in guest speakers from industry and professional fields to talk about career pathways.
Other professors are encouraging students and colleagues to find ways to take a break and support each other outside the classroom.
"I'm encouraging my students and fellow professors to make time to talk with each other, connect with each other—whether that's sitting outside and just having a good one on one, or maybe a gathering of just a few friends to talk," said Cynthia B. Paschal, associate dean of the School of Engineering and associate professor of biomedical engineering and of radiology and radiological sciences.
This fall, Vanderbilt set up multiple COVID-safe locations for students and professors to meet outside.
Members of Vanderbilt Student Government provided input on how to make mental wellness a priority while also adhering to the adapted academic calendar.
"I'm excited to see that there's a lot of thought going into this, and I'm excited to see how professors implement it and respect student well-being during those four days," said Puja Jagasia, a neuroscience and medicine, health and society double major from Nashville and the VSG academic affairs chair. "I think creating low-pressure academic days would be a really strong statement of, 'Hey, we are placing student well-being at the forefront of our minds and in our classroom.'"
A town hall for students will take place in early January to talk about the spring semester and to answer related questions, including those about the additional wellness programs and services available throughout the semester. More information will be available regarding the town hall after the new year.
Ad Hoc Committee on Spring 2020 Wellness Days
Covid-19 Teaching and Learning
Cynthia Paschal
Vanessa Beasley


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VerbivoreDodekaedar2018-10-25T11:54:31+00:00
Verbivore
A word game like no other. You think you know English?
This game will show you otherwise.
Welcome to Verbivore!
An educated native English speaker knows about 35,000 words. Shakespeare knew about 67,000 words. If this seems like a lot, it's not. It's a tiny fraction of what the English language actually is.
How many words are there in English? Truth be told, nobody knows. Some dictionaries list hundreds of thousands, some say that there are millions. And then, new words are invented all the time. But no matter your background, proficiency, or education, there are hundreds of thousands of words you've never heard of, words you have no clue what they mean, words that don't seem to belong to the English language. But they do.
To make things worse, for every obscure real English word, we made up dozens of fake ones. Your goal in this game is to pick the real words out of an ocean of fake ones.
You think it's easy? Let's try you. Dagnasty, govison, inauration, tralse. Which one of these is real? Yes, that's right, none of them are real, all are fake. Except for the fact that we are pulling your leg: none of these words are fake, you can look up all of them in a dictionary. See?
Verbivore presents you with sets of four words: one real, three fakes. Your goal is to select the real word in each set of four. After you finish a round of twelve sets, you can learn what the words mean, and you can reveal the real words if you selected a fake one. Words are grouped in thematic categories, such as law, music, astronomy, or mathematics, and many others. We have more than 150 categories to push you over the limits of your English proficiency.
The game is current in the preview stage. In this version you have only 11 categories and only one play mode, with 30 levels of increasing difficulty. We will be releasing many more categories and play modes soon, so keep an eye for the updates. Good luck!
The word "Verbivore" is coined by Richard Lederer, an American author, speaker, and teacher, best known for his books on the English language and on word play such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. This game uses the title "Verbivore" with his permission. You can reach Richard Lederer at Verbivore.com.
How do I play?Dodekaedar2018-10-25T07:41:42+00:00
How do I play?
The game presents you with series of four-word sets. In each set, three words are fake, and one is real. Your task is to select the real word. That's all there is to it, really.
What is a "real" word?Dodekaedar2018-10-24T11:50:54+00:00
What is a "real" word?
This is a tough question. Almost anything can be a real word. Approximately, 11 new words enter the English language every day. This means that a word that didn't exist yesterday may exist tomorrow. However, a line has to be drawn somewhere, and we chose to draw it where Wiktionary draws it. If Wiktionary lists a word, it's a real word. If it doesn't, it's a fake word.
The game rejected a real wordDodekaedar2018-10-24T11:59:44+00:00
The game rejected a real word
Yep, that can happen. Our words data is a snapshot of words known to Wiktionary at a given point in time. However, as grows the language, so does Wiktionary, and it may happen that we don't know of a new-arrival word in English that Wiktionary knows about, and yes, it can happen that you were unlucky enough and got that particular word offered as a fake one. If this is the case, contact us and let us know. We'll get it fixed, and you'll get the bragging rights!
Where do fake words come from?Dodekaedar2018-10-24T12:03:25+00:00
Where do fake words come from?
In short: we crate them. We use a very smart algorithm that creates linguirealistic (a word made up by our algorithm, whaddyaknow!) words based on the training data we feed to it. You could say it's a kind of a machine learning thing.
What are levels and rounds?Dodekaedar2018-10-25T07:44:36+00:00
What are levels and rounds?
In the basic game play (the only one currently available), you have 30 levels of increasing difficulty (level 1 being roughly on the outer limits of an average high-school student vocabulary, and level 30 being insanely difficult unless you are either an absolute genius or the exact opposite of it). Each level consists of 12 rounds.
In each round, you get 12 sets of four words, and you have 60 seconds to pick those 12 words you believe are real. For each round, you can pick the category, and all words in one round come from the same category.
How do I advance to the next level?Dodekaedar2018-10-24T12:09:22+00:00
How do I advance to the next level?
You need to collect enough stars. How many exactly that is, depends on the level. Early in the game it can be as low as 9 stars, and later it can be as high as 15. If you finish all the rounds and don't collect the required number of stars, you can get an opportunity to advance to the next level even without collecting those stars. Just keep in mind, the next level won't be any easier!
Why don't you show the correct answer when I offer a wrong one?Dodekaedar2018-10-24T12:11:42+00:00
Why don't you show the correct answer when I offer a wrong one?
Because we want you to retry. And retrying wouldn't make any sense if you knew all the correct answers in advance, now would it? During the game, the only thing you know is whether your answer was correct or wrong. At the end of the game, you get an option to learn what the correct answers are. When you reveal all the correct answers, you can't replay that round anymore, but you get to learn new words. A fair trade-off, methinks.
Why is the game called "Preview"?Dodekaedar2018-10-25T07:37:06+00:00
Why is the game called "Preview"?
We wanted to push the game out and let you have fun sooner rather than later. There are a number of cool new features currently in development, not to mention more than a hundred of new categories guaranteed to tie your brains in knots and blow your socks off. If we figure out the game is interesting enough and that people are enjoying it, we'll release the full version.
I hate the ads, why do I have to watch them?Dodekaedar2018-10-24T12:19:04+00:00
I hate the ads, why do I have to watch them?
We hate the ads too. And good news is – you don't have to watch a single one. It's entirely your choice, and you can play the game until kingdom come without having to watch a single ad. However, watching ads helps us make this game an even better and more fun for you, so by watching an occasional ad you sacrifice 10 seconds of your life to make this a better game. And that's not all – for every add you watch, we give you something in return. Coins, correct answers, maybe a lot more in the future. Isn't it a fair bargain?
And pssst! Don't tell anyone, but when this game is out of its "Preview" stage, there will be a paid version that will never ever ever even offer an add to you – in it, everything will be for free.
How do categories work?Dodekaedar2018-10-25T07:57:30+00:00
How do categories work?
Deciding whether a word is difficult or simple is not an easy job. A fairly common name of a chemical may be too easy for a chemist, or an absolute unknown for a musician. That's why the words are grouped into thematic categories. The "Preview" version comes with 11 categories, such as nouns, verbs, words from Latin, and some more thematic ones such as music and law. We have about 150 categories in preparation, with lots of fun with topics such as medicine, chemistry, mathematics, physics, astronomy, architecture, and similar. We also have some very fun categories such as hoods and ships (we won't tell you just yet what these are!), or some very narrow ones such as plants, birds, fish, or butterflies.
In the "Preview" version all of the categories are always available to you, but in the full version you will be able to earn or buy more categories.
Before a round starts, you can choose the category to play in that round. The game chooses the category for you if you use the quick play mode from the home screen, but you can still change it if you click the category menu button during the countdown stage.
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The latest annual report by the Content Marketing Institute shows that content marketing does not come without setbacks. Australian marketers that were surveyed identified time and budgeting as two of the key reasons for a stagnancy in their organisation's content marketing success.
There are certain mistakes often made by content marketers that, if corrected, could increase the overall success of your content marketing efforts. Check them out below to save your time, your money and the risk of losing potential leads.
You've published some well-written, highly useful posts on your blog. Great! Except… the leads aren't exactly flowing in. The question is, where did you share your content?
Without promoting your posts on a range of different platforms, you're massively decreasing your chances of the right people seeing it. Concentrating on SEO is definitely an important aspect of content marketing, but you can't solely rely on organic search traffic.
Make sure you're sharing every piece of content on your social channels to get it out in front of your audience. The more eyeballs on your posts, the more likely you are to build followers and increase your site traffic. These days, organic traction on social can be hard to achieve so look into some paid promotion and build a strategy around boosting posts and creating ads. You can be very specific with your target audience for these, so will be much more likely to get it in front of the right people. Plus, you generally only pay once a conversion occurs.
If you don't already send out a regular newsletter then start now, because according to another Content Marketing Institute report Australian marketers still rate it as the most effective content marketing channel. Pick the best content from your blog and include it in your newsletter with any other information that would be useful or interesting to your subscribers, like company updates, new products or upcoming events.
Each social site serves a different purpose and people have certain expectations of what they want to see on each of them. Understanding these expectations and the general etiquette of each social platform will help you decide what content to share.
LinkedIn, for example, is not the right place for funny/personal images or GIFs. As a professional networking site the expectation is that people will use the platform to find jobs or employees, and discuss content that suits this kind of environment. Blog posts about your industry, services or products fit in well here. An announcement about the birthday of one of your staff members or sharing a picture of your new pet will not be well received.
Facebook, on the other hand, is an excellent forum for providing 'behind-the-scenes' content and letting your followers get to know your company and the people within it a little better.
Get to know the general expectations for each social site and you won't be wasting your time sharing the wrong type of content and turning your followers away.
It's important to produce content regularly, but if the content you're putting out there is not that great then you're wasting your time.


A Committee to gather information on allegations of corruption, misuse of funds and murders by members of the previous government would be set up by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a party source said.
The JVP has been expressing disappointment over the delays in taking action on those in the previous regime that were alleged to have involved in corruption, misuse of funds and even murder.
The party said that it would help provide redress to those affected as well.
The committee comprises JVP Members of the Western Provincial Council Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa Lakshman Nipunarachchi and Member of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Hemantha Kumara.
Dr. Jayatissa told a media briefing that the committee expected to gather information on corrupt deals including giving State contracts to the associates of State hierarchy, killings and assaults of various persons including journalists, acquiring lands forcibly in Colombo and elsewhere, intimidation of State workers in various institutions and on disappeared persons.
The party also urged all businessmen and individuals to provide information on various intimidations they had to suffer by the politicians in the past.
He said the party would gather information from those who had suffered at the hands of financial institution heads in the past.
I would like to request form new government shall investigate property damaged and killing during 88/89 by JVP.
Just like the kangaroo courts in 88_89 period?
Anura, there are a lot more to investigate. We have to start from the beginning. Anura must be a very young fellow,at that time, would not know those killings.All we knew was that JVP and UNP blamed each other for killing of thousands of young men, Grama niladharies, Journalists, singers, Politicians and many more.Somawansa please explain to this young fellow, what happen during 88/89. We can help you to prepare the list of killings which were not investigated proprly.


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de Montfort, né vers 1208 et mort le ,  et comte de Chester, noble d'origine française, il est l'un des grands barons anglais qui s'opposèrent à son beau-frère le roi d'Angleterre, , lors de la seconde guerre des Barons.

Biographie

Il est le fils de , qui était devenu comte de Toulouse lors de la croisade des albigeois.

Alors que son frère aîné Amaury reste sur le continent, , le cadet, part pour l'Angleterre où leur grand-mère Amicie de Beaumont, dame de Leicester, est l'héritière de la moitié du comté de Leicester et d'un droit au titre de sénéchal d'Angleterre.

Il épouse secrètement, en 1238, Aliénor d'Angleterre (1215-1275), fille de Jean sans Terre. Aliénor a été mariée précédemment à Guillaume le Maréchal, , et a fait vœu de chasteté à sa mort, un vœu qu'elle brise en épousant Simon. Une fois réconcilié avec sa sœur, le roi  reconnaît Simon comme comte de Leicester mais les deux hommes sont souvent en désaccord.

Appelé à gérer les affaires de son roi en Aquitaine,  de Montfort participe à la bataille de Taillebourg en 1242. En tant que sénéchal de Guyenne, il se montre brutal pour réprimer les excès des seigneurs gascons ou des factions rivales, comme celle de l'émeute de 1249 à Bordeaux qui opposa les Colom au Soler.

Il fait construire, sur le plus haut tertre de l'actuel Cubzac-les-Ponts, ce qui est considéré comme l'une des toutes premières bastides anglaises en Aquitaine. Intéressante par sa conception et conçue sur un mode de fonctionnement autarcique, elle ne prend pas son essor en raison de plusieurs facteurs et est rapidement dépassée par une petite sauveté voisine, celle de Saint-André, le futur Saint-André-de-Cubzac, dont le développement économique repose depuis toujours sur l'ouverture et les échanges régionaux.

Comme son père, Simon est un soldat rude, ainsi qu'un administrateur capable. Sa dispute avec  vient notamment de la détermination du roi à ignorer le mécontentement grandissant dû entre autres à la famine. En 1258 à Oxford, au faîte de sa renommée, il joue un rôle clé lors de la reconnaissance par le roi des Provisions d'Oxford, souvent considérées comme la première Constitution anglaise. Le fils du roi, le futur  d'Angleterre, sympathise au départ avec la cause de Simon, mais plus tard les deux deviennent des ennemis, et les Provisions d'Oxford, que le roi avait juré de maintenir, sont cassées sur ordre du pape en 1261.

Simon de Montfort est le meneur de la révolte des barons contre . Avec l'aide des archers gallois, ses troupes vainquent les forces royales lors de la bataille de Lewes en 1264, capturant le prince . Aussi parvenu au pouvoir en maintenant en captivité la famille royale, il entame un vaste chantier de réforme politique visant à attribuer une plus grande représentation à la masse des modestes chevaliers.

Mais le prince Édouard échappe à ses gardiens chevaliers en prétextant tester les capacités du meilleur coursier. Il rallie à la cause royale opprimée les barons de l'Ouest et du Nord anglais, lesquels possèdent des troupes aguerries. Simon de Montfort est défait et tué à la bataille d'Evesham en 1265, son corps est atrocement mutilé. Sa famille est exilée, mais le prince Édouard, gardant l'admiration de l'oncle qui l'avait formé au combat et initié au champ politique, permet qu'on érige sur place un tombeau. Ce sanctuaire devient rapidement un lieu de pèlerinage et Simon est considéré comme un saint, non seulement par la population locale, mais par l'ensemble de l'Angleterre quelques décennies plus tard.

Héritage et postérité
Une de ses filles, Éléanore, épousa le prince gallois Llywelyn le Dernier. Ses terres et privilèges furent confisqués par la Couronne qui les attribua à Edmund Crouchback, le plus jeune fils du roi.

 et Aliénor auraient en tout eu sept enfants:

 Henri de Montfort (novembre 1238 - ), tué à la bataille d'Evesham peu avant son père ;
 Simon de Montfort (avril 1240 - 1271), mort à Sienne ;
 Amaury de Montfort (1242 ou 1243 - 1300), chanoine d'York ;
 Guy de Montfort (1244-1288), comte de Nola, marié à Margherita Aldobrandeschi, mort à Messine ;
 une fille, peut-être nommé Jeanne, née et morte à Bordeaux entre 1248 et 1251 ;
 Richard de Montfort (1252-1266) ;
 Aliénor de Montfort (1258-1282), mariée à Llywelyn le Dernier, prince de Gwynedd : parents de Gwenllian.

Montfort a donné son nom à plusieurs institutions anglaises comme l'université et le hall, tous deux à Leicester. Un mémorial est érigé dans le parc à Evesham où se trouvait le grand autel de l'abbaye, construit en pierre importée de Montfort-l'Amaury.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

  J.R. Maddicott, Simon de Montfort, Cambridge University Press, 1996

Articles connexes
 Seconde Guerre des barons
 Crise de succession de Bigorre

Liens externes

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Comte de la pairie d'Angleterre
Comte de Chester
Comte de Leicester
Comte du Moyen Âge
Personnalité anglaise du XIIIe siècle
Personnalité de la croisade des barons
Date de naissance incertaine (XIIIe siècle)
Lieu de naissance inconnu
Décès en 1265
Croisé du XIIIe siècle
Lieutenant du duché d'Aquitaine
Sénéchal de Gascogne
Militaire anglais mort au combat


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Tillandsia latifolia is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Ecuador and Peru. Four varieties are recognized:

Tillandsia latifolia var. divaricata (Benth.) Mez - Peru, Ecuador
Tillandsia latifolia var. latifolia - Peru, Ecuador
Tillandsia latifolia var. leucophylla Rauh - Peru
Tillandsia latifolia var. major Mez - Peru

Cultivars
 Tillandsia 'Black Feather'
 Tillandsia 'Cajatambo'
 Tillandsia 'Canta'
 Tillandsia 'Delgado'
 Tillandsia 'Graffiti'
 Tillandsia 'Tom Thumb'

References

latifolia
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Peru
Plants described in 1835


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To work out the best size of marquee for your event you should break the marquee up into areas and base your calculations on the number of guests for the seated part of the reception.
If any additional guests are invited to the celebrations later, for example an evening dance or band, following a day time meal, the marquee will accommodate another 50% of this type of guest. So, if you are working on a marquee seating plan for 100 guests, then the marquee will be fine for another 50 people in the evening.
Larger sizes are available, but these are better for use as the top table.
It is nice to have an area as the entrance to the marquee to allow the guests to mingle and be received by the happy couple and their families. You should work on 1-2 bays of reception area for every 3-4 bays of dining area. This area can also double up as a bar or chill out area for an evening party.
Allow 2 bays for a dance floor, and an extra bay for a band, with stage.
Take all your calculations for the various areas and add them together.
Reception area "" 2 bays including seating, bar and furniture.
Dining area "" 3 bays with 3 tables of 10 guests in each bay and including the top table.
Dance floor "" 2 bays.
TOTAL – 8 bays = a 9 metre wide x 24 metre long marquee.
Space is nice to have in a marquee, and will give your guests a little bit more elbow room! But, you could get away with a smaller marquee if the site or your budget doesnt stretch to a larger marquee. In the above example you could reduce the reception area to a single bay and combine the band and dance floor together in 2 bays, giving you a 9 metre x 18 metre marquee and some cost savings.


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Q: Adding a key to Object with React Reducer? hoping this is a easy question but I can't seem to figure it out.
I'm attempting to append a key to a object that is held in state. This key and value pair don't exist prior which I think is whats giving me the problem. Anyways here's what I have so far:
const Reducer = (state, action) => {

  switch (action.type) {
    case "SET_STUDENT_TAGS":
      const userID = action.payload.id;

      let studentIndex = state.originalStudentList.students.findIndex(obj => obj.id === action.payload.id);

      return {

        ...state,
            originalStudentList: {
                ...state.originalStudentList,
                students: {
                    [studentIndex]: {
                            tags: "test"
                    }
                }
            }
      };

Now the issue i'm running into is that I can run findIndex once but any attempt after just crashes my app saying its not a function. Simiarly the set state logic in the reducer there doesn't work either as it can't find "tags". So I guess i'm at a loss of how to do this. Here's how the data that is getting fed in looks:
{
  "students": [
    {

      "id": "1",

    },
    {
      "id": "2",

    }
  ]
}

here's the function from the input box:
const addTag = (event, student) => {
    if (event.key === "Enter") {
      if (event.target.value != "") {

        dispatch({
          type: "SET_STUDENT_TAGS",
          payload: {
            id: student.id,
            value: event.target.value,
          },
        });

        event.target.value = "";
      } else {
        return;
      }
    }
  };

what I'd like to achieve:
{
  "students": [
    {

      "id": "1",
      "tags": ["cat", "dog"]
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "tags": ["cat", "parrot"]
    }
  ]
}

So i'm at a lost as to how to do this correctly. Appreciate any help!

A: You're on the right track, but that syntax replaces the array with a regular object, which is why findIndex fails after the first time. For more info, see this answer.
And then to add a property to the specific student, you just replace it with an object spreading the original and adding the tags:
const Reducer = (state, action) => {

  switch (action.type) {
    case "SET_STUDENT_TAGS":
      const userID = action.payload.id;

      let studentIndex = state.originalStudentList.students.findIndex(obj => obj.id === action.payload.id);
      let student = state.originalStudentList.students[studentIndex];

      return {

        ...state,
            originalStudentList: {
                ...state.originalStudentList,
                students: [
                    state.originalStudentList.students.slice(0, studentIndex),
                    {
                        ...student,
                      tags: action.payload.tags
                    },
                    state.originalStudentList.students.slice(studentIndex+1)
                ]
            }
      };


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    { .atom = DW_OP_breg3, .number = 0 }
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{
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     which is the type of the return value.  */

  Dwarf_Attribute attr_mem;
  Dwarf_Attribute *attr = dwarf_attr_integrate (functypedie, DW_AT_type,
						&attr_mem);
  if (attr == NULL)
    /* The function has no return value, like a `void' function in C.  */
    return 0;

  Dwarf_Die die_mem;
  Dwarf_Die *typedie = dwarf_formref_die (attr, &die_mem);
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	  tag = dwarf_tag (typedie);
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      /* Fall through.  */

    case DW_TAG_base_type:
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	  if (tag == DW_TAG_pointer_type || tag == DW_TAG_ptr_to_member_type)
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      if (size <= 8)
	{
	  if (tag == DW_TAG_base_type)
	    {
	      Dwarf_Word encoding;
	      if (dwarf_formudata (dwarf_attr_integrate (typedie,
							 DW_AT_encoding,
							 &attr_mem),
				   &encoding) != 0)
		return -1;
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		  *locp = loc_fpreg;
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    case DW_TAG_class_type:
    case DW_TAG_union_type:
    case DW_TAG_array_type:
      if (SVR4_STRUCT_RETURN
	  && dwarf_formudata (dwarf_attr_integrate (typedie, DW_AT_byte_size,
						    &attr_mem), &size) == 0
	  && size > 0 && size <= 8)
	goto intreg;
      goto aggregate;
    }

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     This value means we do not understand the type, but it is well-formed
     DWARF and might be valid.  */
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Move Him Into The Sun
Studying the Literature of the First World War
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Category: Fighting
The Silent One – Ivor Gurney
'The Silent One'
Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two–
Who for his hours of life had chattered through
Infinite lovely chatter of Bucks accent:
Yet faced unbroken wires; stepped over, and went
A noble fool, faithful to his stripes– and ended.
But I weak, hungry, and willing only for the chance
Of line– to fight in the line, lay down under unbroken
Wires, and saw the flashes and kept unshaken,
Till the politest voice– a finicking accent, said:
'Do you think you might crawl through there: there's a hole.'
Darkness shot at: I smiled, as politely replied–
'I'm afraid not, Sir.' There was no hole no way to be seen,
Nothing but chance of death, after tearing of clothes.
Kept flat, and watched the darkness, hearing bullets whizzing–
And thought of music– and swore deep heart's deep oaths
(Polite to God) and retreated and came on again,
Again retreated– and a second time faced the screen.
In this poem a soldier takes cover while facing a barrier of uncut barbed wire in No-Man's land. Two men lie dead on the wire, one of whom the soldier knows. A commanding officer points a possible way through the wire, one that would mean certain death to the soldier; the soldier refuses to take it.
The Silent One: The title refers first to the man dead lying on the wires— his silence obviously indicating his death. This is an example of metonymy— where one word is substituted for another that it suggests. It is perhaps unsurprising that Gurney, a composer, associates silence with death. Without wanting to see Gurney and his poetry simply through his other career as a musician, 'The Silent One' is very aware of what can (or can't) be heard: of sounds, of speaking, and of silence.
STRUCTURE: The structure of 'The Silent One' is only partly organized according to rhyme: it begins with two rhyming couplets, but the end-rhyme thereafter is deliberately imperfect and sporadic. "Unbroken" and "unshaken" near-rhyme. 'Seen' weakly rhymes with the second unaccented syllable of "whizzing", but does rhyme with 'screen' in the last line. In the midst of these half-rhymes "clothes" and "oaths", either rhyme or half-rhyme, depending on how you read the poem.
The reason for the weakness of the end-rhyming in 'The Silent One' is, I think, because so much is going on within the lines themselves: you can find words and phrases repeated throughout the poem in quite a complicated way. We find "wires" and "unbroken wires" (twice), "chatter" and "chattered"; "accent", "darkness", "line", "no", "retreated" and "again" repeated likewise. Why does Gurney do this? Perhaps because this poem is written in a colloquial style and, in the manner of everyday speech, parenthetical. What I mean by 'parenthetical' is to say that the poem contains lots of little asides, just as everyday speech has: and the extensive use of punctuation within the line (dashes, colons, semi-colons and brackets) designates the speaker's leaps to other thoughts or linked observations. This creates a confidential and intimate air to the poem— which contains, suitably enough, a startling and frank admission— an informality perhaps at odds with a strong use of end-rhyme.
"Who died on the wires…": The poem begins, unusually, as if running on from the title. The wire, of course, is barbed wire, used massively across Europe during the Great War as a defence on the Western Front (for illustration, see the thickets of barbed wire which I use as the banner for this site). The use of barbed wire is representative of the fact that for much of the First World War, armies were defending territory in a static manner. Barbed wire impeded the approach of attackers; many of the soldiers of both sides died collapsed and died on the wires (read more about the use of barbed wire in the Great War, here).
"Who… had chattered through / infinite lovely chatter of Bucks accent:": the speaker, a soldier, knows the dead man facing him on the wires. The intimacy of his observation— referring to the man's "hours of life" and "infinite lovely chatter"— contrasts powerfully with the directness of Gurney's description of his comrade's fate. Note the reference to the man's Buckinghamshire accent as a kind of symbol of his humanity: there is again a strong contrast to be made here between the musicality of his voice and his silence in death.
"Yet faced unbroken wires;": Before an attack, a major purpose of shelling was to break up the barbed wire defences of the enemy, and so clear the way for an assault. Teams of men would also be sent into No-Man's Land to clear the wire. These attempts were often unsuccessful and to be entangled in or slowed by barbed wire in No-Man's land was to be a sitting duck for enemy gunfire. The use of colons and semi-colons here draw the poem back to this fateful moment for the dead officer: leaping backward in time within a sentence like this is called analepsis.
"stepped over, and went / A noble fool, faithful to his stripes— ": continuing his description of the man's journey into no-man's land, we find that he is an officer ("his stripes" refers to the number of chevrons on his uniform, showing his rank). He was, the speaker says, a "noble fool" for following the order to attack, which meant his death: the odds were clearly against his survival.
"and ended.": The conclusion of this sentence, Bernard Bergonzi writes, "matches anything in Sassoon and Owen in its terrible directness". The terseness of this ending is indeed shocking— though it is the rather indirect nature of the sentence that leads up to the conclusion (encompassing observations about the man's dead body, a reference to his "lovely chatter" and accent, and his part in the action before his death) that disarms the reader before this "direct" conclusion.
"But I weak, hungry and willing only for the chance of line— to fight in the line,": the exhaustion of the speaker is admitted. This documentary honesty is a feature of the poem. The soldier is "willing", despite his exhaustion, only because of the chance to fight. Again, the punctuation here is subtle: the dash seems to precede a necessary clarification or explanation that the soldier did indeed want to fight.
"But I… lay down under unbroken / Wires, and saw flashes and kept unshaken": the soldier lies down before the wire, out of enemy gunfire. Here we find another mention of the wires, and the fact that they are unbroken— this fact, and the different responses of soldiers to this fact, dominates the poem. The soldier manages to keep control of himself as the bombs explode nearby.
"Till the politest voice – a finicking accent, said:": this voice— the soldier's commanding officer's voice— contrasts strongly with that of the 'silent one'. The officer is detached, particular, and his accent is overly refined ("finicking") where the Bucks man's was expressive of his humanity.
"'Do you think you might crawl through there— there's a hole.'": the phrasing of the officer's observation— a direction offered in the form of a question— betrays hesitation. Nonetheless disobeying a lawful command from a superior officer could result in imprisonment.
"Darkness shot at: I smiled, as politely replied— 'I'm afraid not, Sir.'": the soldier's refusal to follow the officer's direction here is the dramatic heart of the poem. While this describes a grim scene, it is also possible to detect some of Gurney's ironic humour here: as soon as the officer points a way through, the crack of a rifle in the dark is heard. This irony is clearly felt by the soldier ("I smiled") who answers the officer in the same polite manner with which he was directed. There is something heroic about the soldier's rational anti-heroism: indeed, 'The Silent One' is one of the few great poems of the First World War that courts the same grim, fatalistic humour that is found in many of the common soldiers' songs (like 'The Old Barbed Wire': "If you want to find the old battalion / They're hanging on the old barbed wire").
"There was no hole… after tearing of clothes…": the soldier's observation regarding the impossibility of attacking through the 'hole' that the officer points to can be read here in a number of ways. Earnestly, as if in self-justification? With muted anger? Wearily, in disbelief at the uselessness of the order? With wry amusement as the situation is recalled? It is a mark of the clever balance of the poem that all these complex responses are plausible. In a sense, the soldier is responding to what would be, outside of war, an insane situation; to be directed towards what could almost certainly be a useless death. Gurney here humanely dramatises the fine line between the noble and foolish gesture.
"Kept flat, and watched the darkness…": Gurney describes the soldier's consequent actions in defiantly non-heroic terms: he lies prone, out of the line of fire.
"hearing bullets whizzing— / And thought of music— ": the soldier listens in the darkness. This acuteness of hearing, and the ability to listen to others and judge accurately what precisely is being suggested or said, is important in the poem. The reference to thoughts of music imply that this is a poem composed by Gurney from personal experience.
"swore deep heart's deep oaths / (Polite to God)": the confidential yet frank tone of the poem comes through strongly here. The little aside here, in parenthesis, reads here like a joke after a heartfelt confession of fear (I didn't blaspheme as I swore, he bluffly reassures the reader).
"…retreated and came on again, / Again retreated— and a second time faced the screen.": the vacillation here— the quite open use of the word 'retreated' here, and the return again and again to the wire— effectively describes the actions of a man facing an insurmountable object ("the screen" of wire). On this inconclusive and definitely non-heroic note— the wire halting forward movement— the poem appropriately ends.
[ANTHOLOGY NOTE: 'The Silent One' can be compared to any other poem that depicts or lauds heroism (or indeed condemns or describes cowardice) as it usefully injects a powerful and documentary sense of realism to the momentary dilemmas of the front line.]
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on May 4, 2011 February 24, 2017 Categories Death, Fighting, Heroism, Music, Soldiers' SongsTags Analysis, Barbed Wire, Ivor Gurney, Notes, Poetry, The Silent One4 Comments on The Silent One – Ivor Gurney
Into Battle – Julian Grenfell
'Into Battle'
The naked earth is warm with spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's gaze glorying,
And quivers in the loving breeze;
And life is Colour and Warmth and Light,
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.
The fighting man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;
Speed with the light-foot winds to run,
And with the trees a newer birth;
And find, when fighting shall be done,
Great rest, and fullness after dearth.
All the bright company of Heaven
Hold him in their high comradeship-
The Dog-star, and the Sisters Seven,
Orion's Belt and sworded hip.
The woodland trees that stand together,
They stand to him each one a friend;
They gently speak in the windy weather;
They guide to valley and ridge's end.
The kestrel hovering by day,
And the little owls that call by night,
Bid him be swift and keen as they-
As keen of sound, as swift of sight.
The blackbird sings to him, 'Brother, brother,
If this be the last song you shall sing,
Sing well, for you will not sing another;
Brother, sing.'
In dreary doubtful waiting hours,
Before the brazen frenzy starts,
The horses show him nobler powers;
O patient eyes, courageous hearts!
And when the burning moment breaks,
And all things else are out of mind,
And Joy of Battle only takes
Him by the throat, and makes him blind-
Through joy and blindness he shall know,
Not caring much to know, that still
Nor lead nor steel shall reach him, so
That it be not the Destined Will.
The thundering line of battle stands,
And in the air death moans and sings;
But Day shall clasp him with strong hands,
And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
This poem has a strong pastoral feel, as in so many of the poems of the First World War (remember, the poetry written immediately before the war was very concerned with the countryside and rural life). In this way, it follows some of the traditional and conservative forms of Edwardian poetry. This form of pastoral has been adapted, though, so that nature becomes a source of inspiration for the soldier. Grenfell's soldier in this poem follows the classical ideal of the soldier, who looks to gain glory through battle.
STRUCTURE: Simple, classic rhyme scheme: 4 line verse (quatrain) of 8 syllables each, rhyming ABAB (a form known as 'cross-rhyme').
Julian Grenfell: Julian Grenfell was an aggressive character who gloried in going to war. He once famously wrote in a letter home, "I adore war. It is like a big picnic without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy". This poem is written in praise of battle and the soldier.
'Into Battle': The poem describes the inspiration that a soldier can take from nature in the quiet contemplative moments before battle. It was first published in The Times the day after Grenfell's death, on 27th May 1915.
"The naked earth is warm with spring…": sets the pastoral scene of the poem.
"…who dies fighting has increase": perverse declaration that war is life: those who die in battle have lived life to its fullest.
"The fighting man shall from the sun / Take warmth…": this is a key stanza in the poem. It is a sextet and focuses on the 'fighting man' and his qualities, taken from nature.
'Speed with the light-foot winds to run": the soldier appears to be an idealized warrior-god. Physical exertion is also seen as liberating- all part of Grenfell's classical, 'muscular' and masculine aesthetic.
"All the bright company of Heaven / Hold him in their high comradeship": The noble and high nature of soldiery. The stars named after are associated with the hunt: Sirius (the Dog-Star) is Orion's (the hunter's) hunting hound.
Stanzas 5, 6, 7, 8: the landscape / trees and animals are the soldier's inspiration and friends. He has their best qualities, follows their laws. The key line is "the horses show him nobler powers"– nature teaches the man in war, and he in turn becomes one with nature (horses are traditional symbols of wisdom; hence Blake's 'horses of instruction' and Swift's Houyhmhnms).
"And when the burning moment breaks…": these next two stanzas are where the poem reaches an almost orgasmic climax, a pleasure in impulse and power during battle. "Joy of battle" is expresses a Classical kind of pleasure in war. This is a very masculine, aggressive idea of war and soldiering. The great soldier is a little like the 'man-killer' Achilles in spirit, impervious to the weapons of the other side: "Nor lead nor steel shall touch him". The great warrior puts himself in the hands of fate, "the Destined Will".
"…in the air Death moans and sings…": incredible image where Death becomes the god of this world, the mind that rules over it. Grenfell almost seems to exult in this: perhaps only death brings true glory?
"But Day shall clasp him… Night…": the poem ends on a note of reassuring restfulness, the ecstacy of battle done.
[ANTHOLOGY NOTE: At this point, the anthology moves from poems by those with a lack of knowledge of the front line (Brooke saw action, but never fought) to a more direct knowledge of what battle is like. Note that Grenfell still indulges in some of the Classical idealizations of the warrior that Brooke, Asquith and others also dealt in.]
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on November 22, 2010 December 11, 2010 Categories Battles, Death, Fighting, Pastoral / Natural ThemesTags Analysis, Into Battle, Julian Grenfell, Notes, Poetry2 Comments on Into Battle – Julian Grenfell
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