When Trans-Siberian Orchestra performs in Austin, it will likely be at Frank Erwin Center, Austin360 Amphitheater or 3TEN Austin City Limits Live. Frank Erwin Center has a capacity of about 16755, which means it will probably be a big show if Trans-Siberian Orchestra is performing there. Check out the pages for the above venues to see what other events are scheduled in Austin: Frank Erwin Center, Austin360 Amphitheater or 3TEN Austin City Limits Live.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra fans living in Austin might have already caught them in concert. SeatGeek first sold tickets to Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Austin for a show that occured on 12/26/13 at Frank Erwin Center.


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Q: OpenVPN - high CPU even when cipher is set to none When sending 125mbit/sec over OpenVPN configured to use cipher none, the openvpn process uses 25% CPU (on an i3-5010U CPU).
What would cause it to use so much?
Here are the config files:
CLIENT.ovpn
remote xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
cipher none
auth none
dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.1
proto tcp-client

SERVER.ovpn
cipher none
auth none
dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
proto tcp-server

This is on Windows 10 in case it matters.

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This year, we also had a full-scale rack at our stand so we could showcase RF Code's complete real-time solution, from the sensors to the software.
As well as exhibiting, we presented on the benefits of real-time. Trey Evans, Executive Director, Customer Consulting at RF Code, spoke about Why Data Centres Need Real-Time Management Systems. Discussing the increase in data centers across the globe and the logistical complexities that come with a dispersed, global network of facilities, Trey spoke of the benefits that real-time can bring across the asset lifecycle.
We were fortunate to have customer DataVita at Data Centre World, presenting alongside Trey. Operations Director Graeme Logie told the audience about how RF Code's granular data provided the company with "infinite awareness" and visibility into its data center facilities' operations.
CTO Peter Vancorenland discussed Using Pervasive IoT Sensor Networks To Improve Data Centre Business Processes in another presentation. As well as discussing future technologies that could aid data center managers in improving efficiencies in facilities, Peter also spoke about how current real-time technologies are helping fight the "inaccuracy creep" associated with manual monitoring methods.
As always, Data Centre World London was a great event and we were excited to show attendees our existing and future real-time solutions that will improve efficiency and create significant savings in the data center.
Want to find out more about RF Code and real-time management systems in the data center? Connect with us.


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Monitoring black rhino in Namibia's custodianships: New paper just out in PeerJ
This paper focuse specifically on the practical application of our footprint identification technique in JMP for monitoring at-risk black rhino populations in Namibia's custodianship properties. @thePeerJ https://peerj.com/articles/9670 #Biodiversity #ConservationBiology #Ecology #Statistics
Leopard and Lion in Botswana – monitoring using FIT in JMP!
By Rosie Miles, Field Research Coordinator, Leopard Ecology and Conservation, Botswana. At Leopard Ecology & Conservation we seek to promote the long-term survival of leopard and lion populations in the Kalahari area of central Botswana by integrating conservation and community-education. This requires an understanding of the status and habitat needs…
Interview with Dayle Sullivan-Taylor on collecting jaguar footprints
This is a great story of how a zookeeper's curiosity and expertise with jaguars helped her think like a professional tracker. Thanks to our friends at WildLabsNet for conducting the interview and posting it on their site. When WildTrack was asked by a colleague working in the Brazilian Amazon to develop…
TerraX documentary about WildTrack's rhino work in Namibia, now in English
Now you can view WildTrack's TerraX documentary as a stand-alone sequence with English subtitles (Credit: Alexander Beck, JMP Germany)
WildTrack featured in TerraX documentary
WildTrack's work in Namibia to monitor and protect black rhino, in partnership with Kuzikus Wildlife Reserve, is featured in a new documentary from German documentary film-maker Christopher Gerisch. https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/abenteuer-namibia-102.html This Terra-X series that has 5 million regular viewers. The programme features five different science projects in Namibia. The WildTrack segment…
WildTrack reaches finals of the AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards!
"The AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and organizations who have applied unmanned systems technology to create solutions to address a range of challenges affecting business and society," said Brian Wynne, president and CEO of AUVSI. "AUVSI is pleased to recognize these finalists for their perseverance and dedication…
WildTrack Annual Report 2019 now out
We're happy to share our 2019 WildTrack Annual Report, detailing our work throughout 2019. We always welcome feedback, thoughts, suggestions and new ideas so please read it and tell us what you like, what we could do better, and what you'd like to see moving forward. Huge thanks to the…
WildTrack has a new community forum, hosted by WildLabs!
Building a strong user network is key to the success of any new technology. WildTrack's Footprint Identification Technology is being used across five continents, but it hasn't always been easy for our users to network with each other from remote parts of the world. Now we have a solution: Our…
WildTrack a 'social impact innovator that might save the world'
Honoured to be on this list, and proud to recognize our partners at JMP software, senseFly, the US Army Research Office, BerkeleyISchool and DesignHammer for the invaluable contributions they make to our work. 50 social impact innovations that might save the world
Our first USA FIT Workshop!
Neoichnology. The science of footprints. Footprints for wildlife conservation. Last week something remarkable happened. A group of wildlife conservationists, physicists, geologists, security experts, computer scientists, statisticians, drone experts and engineers from all over the world got together to discuss a different approach to wildlife monitoring. A non-invasive approach, one that…

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In a recent essay, I talked about a rather interesting, obscure point raised by a number of people, about how Allah actually promised <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Israel to the Jews. As it so happened, an email was floating around about how a Dr. Salim Mansur in Canada created a stir (a very small one!) saying that the Qur'an states that the Jews have the right to the land of Israel, hence Muslims should acknowledge Israel's right to exist right where it does. Tellingly, this debate didn't go anywhere, but generally, this aspect doesn't seem to be debated with the usual theological vigour and reach as other aspects have. Obviously, the main people who are talking about this are the Jews, but I did find some Islamic theologians who also seem to support this view to an extent. Anyway, enough of the cyber-background, here's what I found out. To get to the bottom of this, a bit of logic, a bit of theological research and a huge dollop of salt will be required.
Given that the Talmud, Bible (both Old and New Testament) and the Qur'an are considered to be holy books, I think we can take it as "God-given" that Israel was given over to the Jews. There are a whole host of other questions, what exactly is the land in question? Where do its boundaries lie? Can other people join in the same land or is it exclusive? What about other people like the Philistines? Irrespective of all these questions, the basic point, which was very surprising and unknown to me, was the clear cut point in the Qur'an and other holy books that Israel was given to the Jews.
So far so good, but the main objection, I understand, to this is that the land was given over to the Jews for participating in a covenant, a bargain if you must. (see Genesis 15:18-21) In other words, God (the Lord / Allah) said repeatedly, be nice and have this land for being good. If you are bad and break the covenant, you will be punished.
• [Qur'an 2.40] O children of Israel! call to mind My favour which I bestowed on you and be faithful to (your) covenant with Me, I will fulfil (My) covenant with you; and of Me, Me alone, should you be afraid.
• [Qur'an 2.47] O children of Israel! call to mind My favour which I bestowed on you and that I made you excel the nations.
• [Qur'an 2.83] And when We made a covenant with the children of Israel: You shall not serve any but Allah and (you shall do) good to (your) parents, and to the near of kin and to the orphans and the needy, and you shall speak to men good words and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate. Then you turned back except a few of you and (now too) you turn aside.
• [Qur'an 2.211] Ask the Israelites how many a clear sign have We given them; and whoever changes the favour of Allah after it has come to him, then surely Allah is severe in requiting (evil).
• "Those who break God's covenant after adhering to it and cut what God has commanded to be joined and commit corruption in the earth - on them is the curse, and for them is the Evil Abode! (Q 13:25, cf. 40:52)"
• [7.163] And ask them about the town which stood by the sea; when they exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, when their fish came to them on the day of their Sabbath, appearing on the surface of the water, and on the day on which they did not keep the Sabbath they did not come to them; thus did We try them because they transgressed.
So while it is clear that they did break the covenant according to the Qur'an (and understandable because of the fact that Islam was a new religion and clear blue water had to be established between the old ways and the new way), it is not clear at all that the land grant was withdrawn. Also, if their punishment is to be on the Day of Judgment, until then, they do need a place to stay and that place is the land which was originally granted to them, to wit, Israel.
To further confirm this, Jews are currently in sovereignty over the land of Israel and that is what Allah wanted originally. This further leads one to argue that since the Jews are still in control and the Day of Judgment is still not on us (thank God for that!), and if the covenant has indeed been broken, Allah seems to still be thinking about the punishment. Another possibility is to consider the fact that they are back after their banishment, which could mean that they have been punished and now their punishment is over. Confusing or what? But there you go, over to you, gentle readers, this is what I understood. But since I am no theologian or a professor of comparative religion, it is up to you to make up your mind, refer to other religious guru's for further enlightenment and take this with a grain of piquant salt.


Oval-shaped clear glass bowl with horizontal colouring of pink, purple and light green, with an undulating rim.
Flat rods of layered colour are produced prior to the manufacture of the piece. A section of rod then heated and applied to the hot glass. The colour is 'cased' between two layers of clear glass, then blown to its full size once the colour has been fused in.
Oval Bowl, Annette Meech, 1984, Crafts Council Collection: G32. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography.


im using the data api to upload my model by using my api token,but when i run the application it throws the Error 403 forbidden.i dont konw where is wrong or the api has problem?How could i make it?
Can you please share your script? Thanks!
* Uploads a new model. Accepts multipart/form-data only.
//just follow the example above, always using "MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE"
//if we don't, response will be "NotAuthorizedException"
//For a correct response of an object representation of JSON, we will use "jersey-media-json-jackson"
Cool, glad you figured it out!


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We develop and apply an enhanced regularization algorithm, used inRHESSI X-ray spectral analysis, to constrain the ill-posed inverseproblem that is determining the DEM from solar observations. Wedemonstrate this computationally fast technique applied to a range ofDEM models simulating broadband imaging data from SDO/AIA and highresolution line spectra from Hinode/EIS, as well as actual activeregion observations with Hinode/EIS and XRT. As this regularizationmethod naturally provides both vertical and horizontal (temperatureresolution) error bars we are able to test the role of uncertaintiesin the data and response functions. The regularization method is ableto successfully recover the DEM from simulated data of a variety ofmodel DEMs (single Gaussian, multiple Gaussians and CHIANTI DEMmodels). It is able to do this, at best, to over four orders ofmagnitude in DEM space but typically over two orders of magnitude frompeak emission. The combination of horizontal and vertical error barsand the regularized solution matrix allows us to easily determine theaccuracy and robustness of the regularized DEM. We find that thetypical range for the horizontal errors is DeltalogTapprox 0.1-0.5 and this is dependent on the observed signal to noise,uncertainty in the response functions as well as the source model andtemperature. With Hinode/EIS an uncertainty of 20% greatly broadensthe regularized DEMs for both Gaussian and CHIANTI models althoughinformation about the underlying DEMs is still recoverable. Whenapplied to real active region observations with Hinode/EIS and XRT theregularization method is able to recover a DEM similar to that foundvia a MCMC method but in considerably less computational time.
Download page contains links to both the preprint in arXiv as well as the codes used.


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Q: I don't use temp table in SSIS I have problem when I used OLE-DB Source temp table in SSIS.
I create temp table in Execute T-SQL Statement Task and I change DelayValidation : True and RetainSameConnection : True . But problem is not solved .

A: Background
What's likely happening here is that the table does not exist at the moment. Temporary tables come in two variants: local and global.
A local temporary table, uses a name with a single sharp/pound/hash/octothorpe prepended to it i.e. #TEMP.  The only query that can use that instance of the temporary table is the one that creates it. This is why the advice across the internet says you need to set RetainSameConnection to true to ensure the connection that created the table is reused in the data flow. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of connection pooling and maybe the same connection is used in both places, maybe not and believe me that's an unpleasant bit of randomness to try and debug. The reason for the DelayValidation on the data flow is that as the package starts, the engine will validate that all the data looks as expected before it does any work. As the precursor step is what gets the data flow task into the expected state, we need to tell the execution to only validate the task immediately before execution. Validation always happens, it's just a matter of when you pay the price.
A global temporary table is defined with a double sharp/etc sign prepended to it, ##TEMP. This is accessible by any process, not just the connection that created it. It will live until the creating connection goes away (or explicitly drops it).
Resolution
Once the package is designed (the metadata is established in the data flow), using local temporary table is going to work just fine. Developing it though, it's impossible to use a local temporary table as a source in the data flow. If you execute the precursor step, that connection will open up, create the temporary table and then the connection goes away as does the temporary table.
I would resolve this by the following steps

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*Copy the query in your Execute SQL Task into a window in SSMS and create your local temporary table as a global temporary table, thus ##TEMP.

*Create an SSIS variable called SourceQuery of type String with a value of SELECT * FROM ##TEMP;

*Modify the "Data access mode" from the OLE DB Source from "SQL Command" to "SQL Command from Variable" and use the variable User::SourceQuery

*Complete the design of the Data Flow

*Save the package to ensure the metadata is persisted

*Change the query in our variable from referencing ##TEMP to #TEMP

*Save again.

*Drop the ##TEMP table or close the connection

*Run the package to ensure everything is working as I expect it.

Steps 2, 3, and 6 in the above allows you to emulate the magician pulling the tablecloth out from underneath all the dishes.
If you were to manually edit the query in the data flow itself from ##TEMP to #TEMP, the validation fires and since there is no #TEMP table available, it'll report VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA and likely doesn't let you save the package. Using a variable as the query source provides a level of indirection that gets us around the "validate-on-change"/reinitialize metadata step.


A woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes." The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.
Male readers: Please read the rest of the joke.


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Steve Harvey and Marjorie Elaine Harvey
Steve Harvey's Current Marriage Is His Longest Yet
By Pippa Raga
Jan. 4 2022, Published 6:46 a.m. ET
From humble beginnings as the son of a coal miner, Steve Harvey has worked hard to get to where he is today. The six-time Emmy Award winner is one of the most well-known comedians, and has enjoyed a career that has spanned two decades.
While Steve has enjoyed a lot of success in his professional life, his personal life has arguably been a bit more of a challenge. Is Steve Harvey married? When it comes to his previous relationships, he's faced a lot of ups and downs.
Here's a more in-depth look at the many marriages of Steve Harvey.
Who is Steve Harvey's wife? Who are his exes?
Steve's first wife was Marcia Harvey. The Washington Independent reports that the couple married in 1980 when Steve still worked as an insurance salesman. But after trying stand-up for the first time and winning the $50 prize money, Steve was hooked to his true passion.
Despite being a newlywed with twins Brandi and Karli, Steve quit his job to pursue a career as a comedian. Naturally, this didn't go over well with Marcia and after a year of financial instability as well as alleged infidelity on Steve's part, the couple separated and officially divorced in 1994.
Steve married his second wife, Mary Lee Harvey, in 1996 and the couple welcomed a son, Wynton, in 1997. But, according to NY Daily News, the marriage dissolved due to Mary finding out about an affair Steve was allegedly having.
Steve Harvey and Mary
In 2009, the divorce was finalized with a $40k per month settlement for Mary, plus a gag-order on the details of her marriage to the then- star of The Steve Harvey Show.
Things got messy when Mary Lee violated the order by posting since-deleted YouTube videos accusing Steve of leaving her homeless after the divorce and turning their son against her. However, court documents showed that not only was she not left homeless, but Steve had actually left her with a couple of properties in the split.
Mary sued Steve again in 2017 for child endangerment, torture, conspiracy against rights, kidnapping, murder, breach of contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. However, as TMZ reports, the judge threw out the $60 million case, so Mary didn't really get anywhere with that.
According to Parade, Steve met his current wife, Marjorie, in 1990, but the couple didn't start dating until 2005. The two married in 2007 and Steve also adopted Marjorie's three children from a previous marriage.
Steve and Marjorie now live as a blended family, along with Steve's children. The seven kids were initially not thrilled with the idea, Steve told People. While his response was to tell them to "deal with it," Marjorie took a more nuanced approach.
"When you're dealing with a blended family, everyone is coming from a place of broken," she said. "We knew this was right. But I just told them, 'Everyone is included. Everyone has access to their parents. Whatever you didn't have before, don't let that interfere with what you can have now.'"
Her words seemed to have an effect because now, "We're Mom and Dad to everybody," she gushed. Together, Steve and Marjorie also have five grandchildren: Benjamin, Elle, Noah, Rose, Ezra, and Joey.
At 14 years and counting, this is Steve's longest marriage yet. Here's to wishing Steve and Marjorie many more.
Comedian, Author, and TV Host Steve Harvey Is Also a Father, Stepfather, and Grandfather
Is Steve Harvey Actually a Judge, or Is He Just Playing One on TV?
Steve Harvey Has So Many Suits Even John Cena Would Be Impressed
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The highly regarded and long established Sutherland House Hotel on London Road in Deal, Kent has been brought to the market by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co.
Situated in a residential area less than a mile from the seafront and promenade, the Edwardian two storey AA 5 Star accredited business offers five guest bedrooms, a guest lounge, dining room with bar, kitchen, utility room and ground floor owners' apartment, comprising of a double en suite bedroom and sitting room.
Externally, there is a secluded front garden and a generously proportioned rear garden with a decked patio area. The property also benefits from off road parking for the owners and their guests.
Owner Gerald Hindman purchased the business through Christie & Co over 26 years ago, and is now looking to retire and pass on the privilege of running such a popular and well regarded guest house to new owners.
Christie & Co is seeking £749,950 for the freehold.


Top: Juan Popoca / Bottom: Ángeles Torrejón. EZLN guerrillas circa 1994.
The Zapatistas argued at the 20th anniversary National Indigenous Congress that resource exploitation will ultimately destroy the people.
As the iconic Subcomandante Marcos – also known as Subcomandante Galeano – made a rare appearance, the Zapatistas renewed their call Tuesday for Indigenous unity across Mexico in the face of what the movement criticizes as runaway social and environmental destruction for the benefit of a few, while the people – especially Indigenous communities – suffer the consequences.
From December 21, 2014 through January 3, 2015 some 2,600 people from 48 countries (2,050 from Mexico and 550 from other countries) gathered for the first Worldwide Festival of Resistances Against Capitalism.
Zapatistas rally in San Cristobal, Chiapas, for the students disappeared in Ayotzinapa, October 2014.


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David Lipsitz
DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)Veterinary Neurologist
Associated Hospitals Veterinary Specialty Hospital – Sorrento Valley
A Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Neurology), Dr. Lipsitz has extensive training and experience in intracranial and spinal surgery. His special interests include the MRI features of various neurological diseases and the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. He also has a strong interest in neuromuscular diseases and electrodiagnostic medicine. Dr. Lipsitz has an appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Diego in the Department of Pathology where he is involved in the study of neuromuscular diseases with the Companion Animal Diagnostics Section of the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory, Department of Pathology. Dr. David Lipsitz received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Tennessee in 1988 and completed his small animal internship at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Lipsitz completed his neurology/neurosurgery residency at the University of California, Davis in 1991 and became board certified in 1993. He then went to the University of Wisconsin where he served as a research fellow with a clinical appointment and then as an assistant/associate professor until 2000. He then returned to UC Davis as an assistant professor and was the senior clinical neurologist. He joined VSH in 2002.
University of Tennessee Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Small Animal Internship
University of California, Davis Neurology/Neurosurgery Residency
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Board Certified in Neurology


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Knowing Your Firm
Other LSP Method
My Little Business
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This Lego project is a good-sized starter kit proposed for the Other LEGO Serious Play - LSP - Method. In Other LSP Method - Open Source companies, ideals and processes, what can be illustrated, demonstrated through metaphors rather than allegorical as they are representative, and may be represented by facsimile models of companies, of course.
The difference from the Other LSP Method - Open Source - Methodology to the Official LEGO Serious Play Methodology is that the Other LSP Method - Open Source -Methodology applies more to small and medium enterprises, and the LEGO Serious Play is more geared towards larger companies, large companies supported by an official LEGO accredited facilitator. In Other LSP Method - Open Source - facilitators are understood as intermediaries (or enforcing agents) of the process of creating this dynamic (they only need to have prior knowledge of this type of the Other LSP Method methodology, administration and business accounting).
Also considering the weight of accounting, with each LEGO block representing either a value, value added or capital valuesof the company. That is, the LEGO blocks in Other LSP Method also have to do with the EVA, the Social Balance, the Equity, the products or services for sale, the fixed assets, the investments and the equipment of the company ... and the people, of course. In theory, everything there is, accounting in the Inc.
In The Other LSP Method, every employee of the company who will participate in the company must create their vision of the company and / or tell a story, give an idea, make a criticism etc. using this same LEGO representation of the company. In addition there is a surprise element, the "Lady in Red" or Women in Red, characters representing traps and corruption that could exists (or that the employee perceives) within the firm.
Therefore, this Game is also a dynamic of Other LSP Method, which proposes an alternative and open-source approach to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. In addition, exploring the already established applications of LEGO Serious Play – Open Source with regard to the self-knowledge of the team and construction or interpretation of the company's image, about strategic management decision-making etc.
Knowing your firm – Starter Set Kit; The Other LSP Method (Open-Source) is a dynamic (a session) for 4 to 9 people (plus an applicator/mediator agent of dynamics). It is recommended to use this Kit in a real company, with the company's actual employees, who will create a metaphor, a representation of the company. Where as a result, expects all participants leave the dynamic session with a better vision of the company, of himself and his co-workers, besides having much more good work to put into practice, which will arise from the ideas and insights that form obtained throughout that dynamic.
This LEGO project idea while it is a complete scenario, it is also a dynamic of the Open Source methodology, from Other LSP.
This set contains more than five large constructions, including the factory by company or the production line; the store together with the housing of a managing director of the company; the bridge that also makes the link between all three trays. The transparent and ecological version (sustainable and compliance) of the same company; and more.
In fact, in the dynamics of Other Lego Serious Play (open-source) "Knowing Your Company", what happens is that two divisions are been represented in the same company. Where, on a plateau, the company is been represented in two blocks: one, is the factory (or production line) that is where it produces what the company negotiates, that is, the largest shed, all in leaked elements. In addition, the second construction also representing the same view of the company, on this same plateau, is the company's store, having still on the 2nd floor, housing a house of one of the owners / directors of the Inc.
This more conventional or more common and more common vision of the company, has, at the level in the production shed, portrayed the hierarchical levels of the company where you have: 1) at a lower elevation, the operational level – which is understood as factory floor or the parts of direct contact with the public. 2) Already at the intermediate level of soil, there is the representation of the tactical/technical level, which is composed of staff of a more specific training. 3) And finally, the higher floor exists the representation of the management hierarchical level or the board, which also knows as the strategic level.
The second vision of the same company already has a more transparent approach, accessibility, sustainability of the company; where, on another board (plateau) the same company is been represented, so that it is made all in glass (transparency). Moreover, where you do not have the hierarchical level elements contained in the company's first vision, on the contrary, there is a level, in circular format, represented by the yellow plateau within the transparent company. In addition, there are elements of sustainability and accessibility elements etc.
In addition, as, it is a LEGO project idea of Other LSP also the dynamics of the technique of applying the methodology of connectors or connections (commonly known as TA4 or TA5). In this scenario is being represented, these connections, through antennas and currents, which connect from Factory1 to the Market; and Factory2, also connecting it with Factory1. In addition, in the marketing project of this idea, various connectors are got foreseen, to make other connections between the elements present in this scenario.
Moreover, to the company its particularities, there are other representations of internal and external elements of the company in this LEGO Idea project. It has the Square / Park / Market, which is nothing more than a container representation with several staircases; also with marquees, benches, poles and plants. It symbolizes in the other Lego Serious Play methodology the relations between markets, companies and competitors. The container with the marquee has the symbolism of the means of transport, linked to the company. This means, among other things, sales by e-commerce, where the company makes sale and dispatches its product through transportation.
These considerations about representation, the metaphors of the company and the markets, finally, about the ideas of the company's employees about the business entity are just a few points. Since this methodology and this Starter Kit, they present numerous other possibilities. Among them the temptation of Lady In red, which can be used as jokers, which employees have to try the ideas of other employees. It can be used (Lady In Red) only once by each employee, and after hearing the vision story of someone else's company, then if you make a temptation, a seduction, or even a attempted corruption, hypothetically raising suspicion about something that is not yet axes within the company. Remembering that this application this LEGO Idea is exclusive to certain employees of the company, and with science (and endorsement, logical) of the owner of the same.
Finally, the bridge in addition to making the important function of uniting the three trays, it symbolizes connections, the bridges even that has to be has built: the crossings, the paths, the double-handed routes, which take place in trades, in business, in companies. To end, the bridge has this completely symbolic issue, besides being a higher floor, which allows you to check everything, from a look higher, symbolizing the very people who are participating in the dynamics, who are having a more panoramic and broader view of the whole question.


One day while watching the Food Network I got the idea to make homemade creamy polenta. When I went to the store all they had was pre-cooked polenta in a roll. So, I rearranged my dinner and decided to make something that looked like a tower. I was in a hurry and didn't have time to make everything from scratch so I cheated and used some store-bought products. In the end, it turned out really yummy and my guests were none the wiser. The following instructions show you how to make it the quick and easy way.
Take roasted peppers from jar (drain) and slice into strips. Put into bowl and add a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar, fresh chopped basil*, salt, and pepper (just enough to coat thoroughly) and a dash of red pepper flakes. Set aside.
To cook sausages: Place sausages in a deep sauté pan and add enough water to cover half the sausages. Add salt, pepper, and garlic powder to water. Turn heat on medium high and simmer sausages for about 15 minutes turning occasionally. Once the water has evaporated, brown sausages for an additional five minutes. (Use can also use a BBQ). Let rest off heat for five minutes. Once rested, slice into ½ inch slices at an angle.
While sausages are cooking, slice the polenta roll into ½ inch circles. You should get about seven to eight slices per roll. Place on a greased cookie sheet and season with olive oil spray, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, and black pepper. Put in a preheated 400 degree oven for 15-20 minutes. If the tops are not brown when done, place under broiler at the very end for 3 minutes – do not go anywhere…they will burn.
Heat marinara sauce in microwave until hot.
To assemble: Place one circle of polenta in the center of a plate. Top with roasted peppers. Repeat twice. On top of the third polenta circle add a nice amount of marinara sauce so that it drips down the sides of the polenta tower. Arrange the sausage slices around the polenta tower. Garnish with fresh chopped basil and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Enjoy!
* For a quick and easy way to chop basil: Stack all your basil leaves on top of each other. Start and the stem end and roll all the leaves to make a log. Take your knife and begin to chop the roll. Your knife should be perpendicular to the basil roll. Once you are done you will have stringy pieces of basil that are more decorative for garnish.
You can get the basic polenta at Corti Brothers. It comes in a bag and I think it's by the flour.


The Government is listening to the concerns of residents and small business owners whose properties could be demolished to make way for high speed trains, Gordon brown has pledged.
But the Prime Minister warned that Britain had to decide whether to go ahead with the £30 billion rail line or not - even if it caused problems for people on the proposed route.
Mr Brown said the Government's support for high speed rail was a sign of its commitment to boost regional economies, particularly the manufacturing heartland of the West Midlands.
Labour's announcement of a new 250mph rail line cutting journey times between London and Birmingham to 49 minutes has been warmly welcomed by the city council and business organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce.
But owners of small and medium sized firms on the proposed route have spoken of their shock at learning their properties may be scheduled for demolition. Around a dozen companies in Bromford and Castle Bromwich are likely to be shifted. And villagers in Warwickshire are campaigning against plans to build track near their homes. Mr Brown promised that Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis would listen to their concerns.
"For those people who are affected in the different areas of the country by the building, Andrew Adonis is consulting widely. We will listen to what people say.
He added: "I visited Birmingham on the day we made the announcement, and I think that the way the high speed rail of the future is going to be configured makes Birmingham and the West Midlands the hub of the system.
"Whereas in the past, every train came in to London, the high speed rail route goes up to Birmingham and then forks off in two directions.
Mr Brown also said there would be further decentralisation of Government, with civil servants moved out of London to "mini Whitehalls" in the regions, while the regional minister, currently Ian Austin (Lab Dudley North), would have more say in how government funding of more than £500 million was spent in the region.


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Q: How to extract rows from the table, filter same column by diffrernt values? I am working on Django Project with Postgresql database.
I have list of IDs i.e. Column values, I want to extract rows from the database.
Id list :
[238348, 238349, 238350, 1000]

(Id rang is not in sequence.)
For Single id value:
>>> page.objects.filter(id=238348)
[<page: o-0238348>]

I can use for loop to Iterate every ID and get row, but is there is any method like OR to extract rows?
Edit:
done
We can use in:
Demo:
>>> page.objects.filter(id__in=[238348,238349, 1])
[<page: o-0238349>, <page: o-0238348>]

A: You're looking for the in field lookup:
page.objects.filter(id__in=[238348, 238349, 238350, 1000])

A: Indeed is in a solution, other way is using Q-objects. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/db/queries/#complex-lookups-with-q-objects for documentation.

A: It is work by in:
Demo:
>>> page.objects.filter(id__in=[238348,238349, 1])
[<page: o-0238349>, <page: o-0238348>]


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package com.tubb.calendarselector.custom;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.tubb.calendarselector.R;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.FullDay;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.IntervalSelectListener;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.MonthView;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.SCDateUtils;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.SCMonth;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.SegmentSelectListener;
import com.tubb.calendarselector.library.SingleMonthSelector;

import java.util.List;

public class CustomDayViewActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private static final String TAG = "mv";
    SCMonth scMonth;
    private SingleMonthSelector selector;
    private MonthView monthView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_single_month_selector);
        monthView = (MonthView) findViewById(R.id.ssMv);
        TextView tvMonthTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvMonthTitle);
        if(savedInstanceState != null){
            scMonth = savedInstanceState.getParcelable("month");
        }
        if(scMonth == null)
            scMonth = new SCMonth(2016, 2, SCMonth.SUNDAY_OF_WEEK);
        tvMonthTitle.setText(scMonth.toString());
        segmentMode();
    }

    private void segmentMode(){
        selector = new SingleMonthSelector(scMonth, SingleMonthSelector.SEGMENT);
        monthView.setSCMonth(scMonth, new CustomDayViewInflater(this));
        selector.setSegmentSelectListener(new SegmentSelectListener() {
            @Override
            public void onSegmentSelect(FullDay startDay, FullDay endDay) {
                Log.d(TAG, "segment select " + startDay.toString() + " : " + endDay.toString());
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptSelect(FullDay selectingDay) {
                if(SCDateUtils.isToday(selectingDay.getYear(), selectingDay.getMonth(), selectingDay.getDay())){
                    Toast.makeText(CustomDayViewActivity.this, "Today can't be selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    return true;
                }
                return super.onInterceptSelect(selectingDay);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptSelect(FullDay startDay, FullDay endDay) {
                int differDays = SCDateUtils.countDays(startDay.getYear(), startDay.getMonth(), startDay.getDay(),
                        endDay.getYear(), endDay.getMonth(), endDay.getDay());
                Log.d(TAG, "differDays " + differDays);
                if(differDays > 5) {
                    Toast.makeText(CustomDayViewActivity.this, "Selected days can't more than 5", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    return true;
                }
                return super.onInterceptSelect(startDay, endDay);
            }

        });
        selector.bind(monthView);
    }

    private void intervalMode(){
        scMonth = new SCMonth(2016, 2, SCMonth.SUNDAY_OF_WEEK);
        selector = new SingleMonthSelector(scMonth, SingleMonthSelector.INTERVAL);
        monthView.setSCMonth(scMonth, new CustomDayViewInflater(this));
        selector.setIntervalSelectListener(new IntervalSelectListener() {
            @Override
            public void onIntervalSelect(List<FullDay> selectedDays) {
                Log.d(TAG, "interval selected days " + selectedDays.toString());
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptSelect(List<FullDay> selectedDays, FullDay selectingDay) {
                if(selectedDays.size() >= 5) {
                    Toast.makeText(CustomDayViewActivity.this, "Selected days can't more than 5", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    return true;
                }
                return super.onInterceptSelect(selectedDays, selectingDay);
            }
        });
        selector.bind(monthView);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_mode, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        int id = item.getItemId();

        if (id == R.id.action_segment) {
            segmentMode();
            return true;
        }
        else if (id == R.id.action_interval) {
            intervalMode();
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

}

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Presenting the Facts. Data Visualization Tools Support Business Growth.
By Cassandra Balentine
Businesses looking to leverage big data efforts benefit from visualization tools that provide context in an easy to understand format. This enables novice users to extract information for basic data inquiries without the help of IT.
Data visualization and analytic tools allow companies to identify new revenue streams, operational efficiencies, and underutilized resources, according to Josh Parenteau, director of market intelligence, Tableau.
These tools also present a unified view of data assets across data sources, which James Fisher, VP, global product marketing, Qlik, says can be revolutionary. "When combining a unified view with the ability to interactively explore and ask questions without having to be a data expert, users can unlock the power of analytics across the organization. This means more informed micro-level decisions adding up to transformational impact at the macro level and significant business value generation."
Every industry and vertical can benefit from visual analytics software, including healthcare, government and law enforcement, insurance and banking, and retail.
Vinay Anand, senior director, product marketing, MicroStrategy, points out that data visualization products are unique in that they are utilized in a variety of compelling ways. "The biggest benefit we see for our customers are that they are data driven in every decision they make or action they take. And at all levels—from business teams to executives and it's no longer the realm of IT," he says.
Fisher sees a broad adoption of analytics and visualization tools across most industries in the market today with some being more involved than others. "Financial services and life science industries, for example typically have sophisticated deployments and a wide variety of advanced use cases whereas government and a few traditional industries are often earlier on their analytics journey."
Fisher says healthcare presents a great illustration of a micro/marco data synergy. "Visual exploration is often the catalyst to identifying variation between physicians, which presents the opportunities for change and the resulting business value this can generate. A small reduction in patient length of stay for one common procedure, for example, can have huge ripple effects in reducing cost, freeing up beds for critical care, and improving patient outcomes," she comments.
Parenteau has witnessed doctors using dashboards and visualizations to directly improve patient care in hospitals and even identify patients with particular risk factors to receive preventive treatment with no formal analytics training.
Another example is law enforcement, where police use analytics to identify high-risk victims and to deploy appropriate resources to the right place at the right time, reducing crime and improving community safety, says Fisher.
In insurance and baking, analytics drive advanced early warning detection processes. "This is helping multi-national organizations execute potential fraud and risk mitigation by connecting data from historically disparate systems, allowing users to see an entire ecosystem sometimes for the first time," says Fisher.
Anand adds that the banking industry can better manage risk, identify new markets, and increase operational efficiency. Insurance companies can visualize agent productivity, analyze policies, and look at claims and risks under a new lens.
He adds that retail organizations use digital visualization tools to improve store efficiency, drive sales, and deliver a better shopping experience for customers as well as boost their understanding of how each product, sales representative, and store location are improving in real time.
Visualization Challenges
While data visualization tools are a game-changing solution when done right, several challenges prevent optimal use.
Parenteau believes that for many, the biggest challenge is understanding where to begin. "Some tools have a steep learning curve and aren't very intuitive or easy to use without technical expertise or coding experience."
Anand agrees, noting that the biggest challenge users face today is taking the first step. "Once that is taken it's fairly easy to engage the broader part of the organization."
Another challenge is accessing data. "Many tools don't offer the ability to connect to your data in all sources, rendering them effectively useless. If you can't connect to all of your data, whether it's on premise or in the cloud, you can't make true data-driven decisions," says Parenteau.
For less data-savvy users, Anand says the biggest challenge is finding the right way to slice and dice the underlying data to find insight worth visualizing. For savvy data users, the biggest challenge is remembering that not all users are as savvy as them. "I can't tell you how many times I've seen analysts come up with brilliant insight, make a nice visualization out of it, and then not bother to title it or label the axes properly. The result is that nobody actually takes away the right thing from the visualization and their work is wasted."
For power users, Anand says the challenge around governance doesn't necessarily step from the technology itself, but from the techniques or processes they have implemented. "Due to explosive growth of available data and to collect and analyze, it's become increasingly important for data visualization tools to ensure the accuracy and legitimacy of the information before it is analyzed."
Driving Adoption
Many organizations look to data visualization tools to improve business processes and performance and better leverage their data.
"In our experience, every industry and vertical has the opportunity to benefit from the data visualization and discovery process," says Anand. "The types and sources of information vary by industry, but the goal remains the same—identify faster and more accurate insights to act upon."
He says data-rich industries like retail, healthcare, banking, insurance, manufacturing, and telecommunications across every business functions are experiencing a rapid expansion in the amount of data available. "As a result, they need a powerful platform in place that can scale and manage it all in one central location. Organizations are seeking a competitive edge over the competition, an opportunity to make more informed decisions, all while saving time, money, and other valuable resources," he shares.
Daniel Mintz, chief data evangelist, Looker, adds that data visualization tools are a key component in data adoption across industries. "As data literacy becomes a key skill across the enterprise, visualization is key because it communicates so much more clearly than a data table what is actually happening."
The Latest Trends
Data tools continue to advance, opening up new opportunities for varying organizations.
For years the analytics environment has become more fragmented in organizations. "Data is everywhere—both cloud and on premise, there are more types of computing environments, organizations are more distributed, and there is a larger number of tools and technologies on the market. To make sense of this, there is an overarching trend that we call the de-silofication of people, data, and ideas. This trend is taking shape in several ways," says Fisher. This includes data literacy, data science, cloud and big data, and augmented intelligence.
Parenteau says the biggest trend impacting data visualization and analytics is the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. "While it may sound scary to IT departments and analysts who are hesitant to relinquish human control, analytic platforms that include AI and machine learning capabilities are actually going to serve as a highly effective assistant to modern analysts. While there might be concern over being replaced, machine learning will actually supercharge analysts and make them more efficient, more precise, and more impactful to the business. Instead of fearing machine learning technology, embrace the opportunities it presents."
Anand says natural language and collaboration are major trends. "Natural language querying helps analysts build dashboards faster and natural language visualizations or text-based narratives help our customers engage a broader audience."
"We will continue to see the growth in the ability of data visualization tools to suggest ways to improve or augment your visualization," predicts Mintz.
Upcoming Considerations
Looking ahead, we see data visualization tools going further than ever before—but with a few potential issues along the way.
The use cases we see in the next few years go well beyond just visualization. "There will be an even larger opportunity in supporting analytics, which will leverage natural language query processing and generation in tandem with virtual assistants and search technologies—and immersive analytics that go beyond virtual reality to many new styles that infuse analytics into people's environments." says Fisher.
He believes the biggest challenge for organizations is how to serve all current and future users and use cases in a unified governed fashion—without trying to stretch a tool to do something it wasn't intended for. Fisther explains that pure visualization tools need to evolve to support a variety of audiences and needs, including business analytics in functional areas such as sales, marketing, operations, and finance; interactive analytics apps and dashboards for larger communities of business users to explore and search; managed reporting and alerting for executive and clients; and mobile analytics for salespeople and operational workers in the field.
Parenteau says we're approaching a point where analytics is practically ubiquitous in modern businesses, ingrained across an organization in several departments, from the executive suite down to the entry level employee. "As data exploration becomes easier and more democratized across the business, we're going to start seeing the ability to get actionable insights become more prevalent at all levels of the organization. We will even see these insights being delivered outside of the organization to an organization's customers, suppliers, partners and distributors, which exponentially increases their impact."
He adds that cultural change is another challenge, which is related to the ways organizations make decisions. "For many organizations, the vision of being data driven is still aspirational but becomes infinitely easier to achieve with insightful analytics than with traditional approaches to business intelligence."
Anand says organizations still see a skillset gap, and many people in an organization aren't necessarily data savvy enough to build or even understand data visualization when they begin to get a little complex. "While natural language solves that to an extent, self service will be driven by proactive and recommendation-based technology including chat bots and voice guided instruments."
He says the next wave of AI will drive innovation in analytics and data visualization offerings. "The potential for AI at work is largely untapped, and this year alone could bring more of this emerging technology into the data visualization practice than we have ever seen in the last two decades. As we move through 2018, companies will work to define how AI can be applied to specific industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and transportation to make it all more easy. We're starting to focus on how AI can help meet the specific needs of business users, boosting the productivity of workforces and the automation of repetitive tasks currently taking up a significant amount of time and resources and helping users recognize patterns and trends in their data."
"We'll continue to see data visualizations get embedded in all kinds of places they've yet to be incorporated, from the factory floor to the c-suite. The biggest challenge will be replacing tools that silo visualizations with ones that can easily bring them natively into all kinds of other tools," adds Mintz.
Data Visualization Tools
There are many data visualization tools on the market; here we highlight products offered by vendors quoted in this article.
Looker's data visualizations are all interactive and browser based, which makes sharing a visualization as easy as sharing a link. The Looker architecture enables users to drill down to row-level detail to understand what is happening but why. The company has also innovated virtualization with LookVR, which allows users to explore data in virtual reality.
MicroStrategy offers solutions to simplify the process of meaningful data discovery for all types of users within all types of organizations and industries, and have achieved this though Dossier, the next step in the evolution of business analytics. Featuring a streamlined interface, dossiers are organized in pages and chapters that make it easy to navigate and share the reports and visualizations users are familiar with. And with live collaboration, commenting and notifications, teams are able to stay in synch and be ready to take informed action when it counts, shares Anand.
"The digital economy rewards organizations that are able to effectively collect, visualize, analyze, and make decisions on an ever-growing amount of valuable information. This digital-first revolution opened the door for more employees, regardless of technological prowess or data science experience, to become involved in the data exploration process. This meant that business intelligence solutions had to evolve to meet the needs of line of business user base and provide technology that everyone from the CEO to the retail store manager could work with," says Anand.
MicroStrategy's data visualizations tools are available for the desktop, web and mobile, and can surface data from multiple data sources in a coherent manner. The tool offers built in data preparation capability that helps transform messy data, custom visualizations, natural language querying, and access to predictive analytics—all while being able to keep valuable data secure and personalized to the reader. "What makes it actionable is that is shared automatically in a matter of clicks to any device and in any format. The differentiator is that even as a tool that serves decentralized business teams in a flexible manner, it offers the means to promote content and govern data," says Anand.
"At Qlik, we put people at the heart of decision making and we aim to drive data literacy for users of all skill levels and roles across an organization. Our patented associative engine allows people to easily bring together many different data sources and interactively explore without the limitations and boundaries of query-based architectures," says Fisher.
The Qlik engine uses a combination of patented in memory techniques for data association and dynamic calculation that allow people to explore and search in a free form, non-linear fashion. By keeping all objects in context and exposing both associated and unrelated values to the user after each interaction, our engines help uncover hidden insights that would have been missed in query-based tools.
Unlike standalone visualization tools, Qlik takes a platform approach that allows organizations to serve all their analytics use cases—including self-service visualization, interactive dashboards, custom and embedded analytics, mobile analytics, and reporting—within a unified, governed framework. Qlik combines leading data management and integration capabilities for data of all sizes, a modern architecture that runs in the cloud and on premise, and analytics capabilities that serve a wide range of uses and use cases.
Qlik Sense is the company's next generation platform for self-service oriented analytics. Qlik Sense includes associative exploration and search, smart visualizations, self-service creation and data preparation, advanced analytics integration, collaboration and reporting, fully interactive online and offline mobile apps, and enterprise class governance and scalability. Qlik Sense is available in enterprise and cloud offerings and is intended for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to the largest global companies across all industries and geographies.
Tableau is the leading provider of visual analytics solutions, with more than 70,000 users worldwide. "We help people in all industries see and understand their data, from global enterprises to early stage startup and small businesses. Our platform is designed from the ground up to make data analysis easily and second nature for our users," says Parenteau.
Tableau's drag and drop simplicity gives people unprecedented access to their data, making data exploration and analysis easy and intuitive, empowering all users to find and share meaningful insights. In addition, the company embraces a Switzerland of data philosophy—users are able to analyze their data no matter where it was generation or where it resides, whether that's in a cloud storage solution or on premises.
Visualization Solutions
Organizations make a continued effort to collect and manage their data, so it is important they implement tools to effectively leverage it. Data visualization tools enable business users to utilize and contextualize data without tying up IT. SW
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This book examines the religious beliefs, commitments, affiliation, and practices (church attendance, prayer, Bible reading, and personal morality) of eleven presidents, discusses the influences upon and nature of their faith, and assesses how it contributed to their understanding of political ideology and practice. It also analyzes how these presidents' religious views and values helped shape the way they formulated and promoted specific policies. In addition, the book examines how presidents dealt with religious constituencies, interest groups, and leaders, evaluated religious issues (such as religious liberty, the relationship between church and the state, government support for religion, the proper place of religion in public life, and the connection between religion and public morality and civic duty), and appraised key public policy matters (such as the proper tasks of government, civil rights, education, and war and peace). The book explores social and cultural factors that influenced these presidents, but it focuses primarily on the intellectual and moral presuppositions that helped guide their understanding of political and religious issues and their actions while in office. Special attention is paid to five themes: the separation of church and state, civil religion, America as a chosen nation, the nature of their convictions, and the issue of character. Does the concept of the separation of church and state require presidents to confine their religious values to their private lives and operate from a secular perspective in fulfilling their office? Is it proper for a president's religious convictions to direct him in performing his duties, devising a philosophy of government, and implementing his policies? How have presidents served as both the nation's pastor and prophet, called on at times to comfort and assure Americans and at others to challenge and inspire them? To what extent has the pervasive belief that America is divinely chosen to spread democracy, individual liberty, and justice to the world influenced presidents' actions? How have their worldviews — blueprints for understanding, explaining, and managing reality — influenced presidents' thoughts and actions? What factors, including religious training, biblical study, and spiritual nurture, have shaped the character of these presidents?
Preaching and catechization were the primary responsibilities of Basel's Reformed pastors. Rural pastors preached twice weekly; by the end of the 16th century, church attendance on Sundays was satisfactory although the clergy still complained about weekday attendance. Catechism instruction was also held more frequently than before. Although pastors in rural parishes complained that teenagers did not attend catechism instruction, many were satisfied with their parishioners' knowledge of the catechism. The general level of religious knowledge at the end of the century was much higher than it had been in the decades immediately following the Reformation. Enforcement of edicts requiring attendance at worship and catechism instruction played a key role.
This chapter considers the changed circumstances in which the churches operated. It notes a multi-faith environment in both Britain and Ireland: Islam, Sikhism, and Hinduism in particular. Theologians, philosophers, and politicians debate what pluralism entails. Churches consider both community cohesion and their own identity. Church attendance declines but Christianity, at some level, is adhered to. Papal visits to Ireland and Britain receive much publicity but their lasting impact is more problematic: Northern Ireland remains a 'divided society'. Ecumenism appears to flourish but institutional stumbling blocks remain. Increased and ultimately successful pressure for the ordination of women in the Anglican churches produces much controversy, as did the stances on social and economic policies pursued by the Thatcher governments.
This chapter addresses why people attend an interracial church by exploring their past interracial and religious experiences as well as those qualities and practices they appreciate most about attending an interracial church. The chapter gives an understanding of how past experiences and religious preferences influence people's reasons for attending interracial churches.
This chapter begins with a synthesis on the papers presented in this volume. It highlights commonalities between countries and the differences in theoretical perspectives. It then discusses trends in social capital in advanced democracies: declining electoral turnout, declining public engagement in political parties, declining union membership, and declining church attendance.
Asunetus: Why All the Fuss?
This chapter focuses on the practice of religion. The law regulated churchgoing, and ministers and churchwardens were horrified that people might do as they pleased. But casual absence from services was very common.
The development of major urban areas in the early nineteenth century created significant challenges for early nineteenth‐century churches, including those in the evangelical tradition. The influence of urbanization on church attendance is assessed, and the responses of evangelicals to urban change are shown to be contextually adapted, with an emphasis on domestic visitation and education. Alongside their commitment to evangelism, there was also significant involvement in wider issues of social concern. The work of evangelicals in the arena of politics was hampered by the divisions between Anglicans and Dissenters.
Manchester was the 'shock city' of the early nineteenth century, experiencing rapid industrial and urban growth. Living conditions for many were characterized by poor housing and poverty. National and local issues in politics were vigorously and robustly debated. Standards of education were low, and Sunday schools were the only educational opportunity for large numbers of working class children. Levels of church attendance were an area of concern to local religious leaders, who defended their sectarian interests strongly.
Lutheran agendas and church orders—documents containing regulations concerning church life, doctrine, and the liturgy—present a complex tapestry of liturgical life among early Lutherans. It included the Daily Office, mass, and catechism instruction, all interwoven into the fabric of the church year. Holy days were frequent, and always observed with services. Services in cities tended to be more elaborate than those in villages and rural areas, and were not infrequently held at least partly in Latin. Either a boys' choir, directed by the cantor, or a parish clerk led the music in church. Services were long, and usually only the main mass was well attended, and even then people's demeanor was sometimes questionable.
This chapter traces what happened to Liberal Anglican political ideas during and after the Second World War. Christian ideas of community enjoyed an Indian summer during the Second World War. This was particularly true in the early years of the war, when the defence of Christian civilization was a common theme for writers and politicians. Appeals to Christian national community retained their salience into the 1950. Church attendances recovered in the last years of the war, and continued to grow until 1958. But by the 1960s, the Idealist-educated generation had almost all died off, and their civic ideals had begun to lose their purchase.
Historians of late antique government have at last become accustomed to taking imperial ceremonies seriously. 'The increase in the frequency and elaboration of public ceremonial' during the period is no longer dismissed as an irritating distraction, but is credited with a 'central role in the relations between emperors and their subjects'. This chapter explores the ceremonial impact of the most dramatic of all the changes to the character of imperial rulership during the period — the allegiance pledged by Constantine and subsequent emperors to the Christian God. Examination of the evidence for the frequency and character of church attendance by the emperors of the first three Christian dynasties, and for the representations of imperial churchgoing in contemporary literature, will bring into focus the piecemeal character of what is too easily seen as a straightforward evolution.
This chapter looks at the development of the relation between social divisions and party preferences and provides some background information about the political development in Germany and the impact of German Unification. It is shown that the German party system has been remarkably stable with exception of the emergence of the Greens and the PDS, and that the increase in volatility of electoral results is a relatively recent phenomenon. Further, the relation between social divisions and party preferences differs considerably between the eastern and the western part of Germany. In the west, the impact of social divisions has declined only modestly. The changes in the relation between class and party preferences observable in West Germany can mainly be attributed to the changes in the left-right position of the SPD. In the east, class does not have an impact on party preferences, unlike church attendance and denomination.
This chapter illustrates the female preponderance in the ranks of the godly in modern industrial democracies. It analyses church attendance and church membership figures and data from large-scale surveys of religious beliefs. It also presents various bodies of data which show the preponderance of women in the world of alternative spirituality. Methodological problems with measuring religious interest are acknowledged and discussed. Also, the case is made that while there are gender differences in forms of religiosity in most societies, differences of degree are generally a feature of secularising societies. This explains the book's focus on the West.
This chapter examines changing attitudes to Sunday observance during the reign of Elizabeth I and shows how, although the church hierarchy continued to tolerate Sunday recreations, during the 1580s and 1590s radical Protestants developed a new, rigid form of sabbatarianism that prohibited any form of recreation on Sundays. It shows how, in countless sermons, books and pamphlets, puritans mounted a concerted attack on traditional popular festivity, denouncing dancing, sports, ales and wakes as profanations of the 'Lord's Day'. The chapter also examines how rising inflation, poverty and vagrancy in the late 1590s led magistrates to also want to regulate Sunday recreations but to do so out of concerns about social order rather than zealous sabbatarianism of the puritans.
What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles with healing crystals), yet feels particularly spiritual while preparing food for religious celebrations in her neighborhood? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars of contemporary religion, whose research started with the assumption that individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally-defined package of beliefs and practices. Social surveys typically ask respondents to self-identify by denominational or other broad religious categories. Sociologists attempt to measure religiosity according to how well individuals conform to the official religious standards, such as frequency of church attendance, scripture reading, or prayer. This book points the way forward toward a new way of understanding and studying religious behavior. Rather than try to fit people into prearranged packages, the book argues, scholars must begin to study religion as it is actually lived and experienced in peoples' everyday lives. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, as well as recent work by other scholars, the book explores the many ways that people express themselves spiritually and shows that they rarely fit neatly into the categories developed. Challenging those who see declining church attendance as the death of religion in the Western world, the book demonstrates that religion is as widespread and vital as ever, if you know where to look.
This chapter addresses the controversy that surfaced in the 1990s about rates of church attendance as one example of declining accuracy in polling. No topic had been included in polls as often as attendance at religious services. But when a team of social scientists questioned the results, they found room for considerable doubt and alternative conclusions. A second example is the question of declining response rates in national polls, many of which are below 30 percent and as low as 9 percent. Whether it matters remains open to debate, but why it does or does not affect the public's confidence in poll results about church attendance, belief in God, patterns of affiliation, and trends is of increasing interest. The author shows how academic social scientists have tried to focus on reliable survey data, while in contrast pollsters often report dubious results.
This chapter looks at the importance of puritan sabbatarianism in terms of the cultural divisions within Jacobean England. It analyses the reasons behind James I's decision to enter the debate by publishing a royal declaration in favour of lawful recreations on Sundays. It shows how puritans were seeking to prohibit such recreations and that James' Book of Sports was an attempt by the king to stop what he regarded as puritan encroachment upon royal authority. The chapter assesses popular and elite reactions to James' Book of Sports in parishes, in Parliament and in literature as attitudes towards Sunday sports and festivities became increasingly polarised and as a serious cultural divide threatened the cohesion of early Stuart society.


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Back in the middle of August I asked if other geneabloggers would like to join me in a genememe to celebrate National Family History Month 2014. I called it the National Family History Month Geneameme and these bloggers decided to respond. Whenever there's a meme doing the rounds it's so interesting to see the commonalities between us all as well as be inspired by the way others pursue this addictive love of ours called family history.
Why not click on these links, see what they had to say, and either "like" or leave a comment. I do hope I haven't missed anyone but please let me know if I have.
Caitlin from Genealogically Speaking blog was very 2014 and presented hers as a YouTube video – do click on it to see what she had to say.
Thanks everyone for getting involved and sharing the fun with me. Thanks also to Shauna for her inspirational work and the vast offerings that were available during the month, not to mention all the sponsor treats. I'm sure everyone has gained lots of knowledge and inspiration to carry them through another year of exciting family history.
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Pauleen, Thanks for creating this #NFHM2014 opportunity for us to see into our online friends' geneaworlds. I noticed some consistent attributes coming through as I read the posts: commitment, passion, genearosity, love of learning, a willingness to try something new and very full plates. What a great bunch of online pals we have.
Indeed we do have a great bunch of genimates! You're right about the attributes too.
Pauleen, thanks for posting the full list. I'd missed some.
Thanks for organising this Geneameme – it is so interesting to learn from others – and I had no idea how many genealogy groups there were on Facebook !
I think we all had fun Kerrie Anne…I learnt about new FB groups too.


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Q: Recursively grep through epub files I tried the answers here, but without luck.
find . -name "*.epub" -exec zipgrep pattern {} \;

showed me "matched", but didn't give me the matching epub file back. Also, it returned huge blobs of data, which were hard to grep through.
grep -a didn't work at all.
I want something like grep -R but for epub files.

A: This will give you the full path to all the *.epub files.
find / -name *.epub -exec ls {} \; 2>/dev/null

If you want to store that ouput in a list:
find / -name *.epub -exec ls {} \; 2>/dev/null >> /tmp/list

If you want to search that list for a string I would use a for loop. If you are getting huge blobs of data it may see them as one long line. this will print the patter and the 5 char before and after.
for i in `cat /tmp/list` ; do echo $i ; grep -a -o -p '.{0,5}pattern.{0,5}' ; done

A: I would use:
find . -name '*.epub'  -exec zipgrep -q {pattern} {} \; -print

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*-q suppresses the display of hits

*since zipgrep returns 0 only if it finds a match, the -exec zipgrep ... acts as a filter, so the -print is only executed if there was a match (in case you need it, it can be another -exec that will only be executed on the matching files).


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