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Taxon: Juncus effusus L.
Sp. pl. 1:326. 1753
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
21-Sep-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
49 (32 active, 13 available) in National Plant Germplasm System (Map)
Other conspecific taxa:
Juncus effusus var. brunneus (1 accessions)
soft rush (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
jonc à lier (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
jonc épars (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Flatterbinse (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
junco (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
juncus-macio (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
junquera (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
veketåg (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
Environmental: ornamental
Medicines:
Vertebrate poisons:
Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant
MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Azores, Madeira Islands] Spain [Canary Islands]
NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Rwanda
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lesotho, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal]
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius
WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Turkey
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Gorno-Altay]
CHINA: China [Anhui Sheng, Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Heilongjiang Sheng, Henan Sheng, Hebei Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Gansu Sheng, Jiangsu Sheng, Jilin Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Liaoning Sheng, Shandong Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Xizang Zizhiqu]
EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, [Saratov, Volgograd] Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain
SUBARCTIC AMERICA: United States [Alaska]
EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Manitoba, British Columbia]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California, Nevada]
NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Durango, Sinaloa, Baja California (Norte)]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Ciudad de México]
CARIBBEAN: Guadeloupe, Haiti
CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
BRAZIL: Brazil
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Catamarca, Río Negro, Salta, Tucumán, Tierra del Fuego] Chile
Cultivated (also cult.)
AUSTRALIA: Australia
NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
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Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45
CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
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Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
Kirschner, J. 2002. Juncaceae 3: Juncus subg. Agathryon. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World. 8:88-94.
Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000-. Flora of Siberia (English translation)
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996-. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006. Flora of the Lower Volga region 1:324.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.
Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i
Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
Check other web resources for Juncus effusus L. :
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System


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John Coburn Student Solutions Manual Precalculus https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/0073360872.jpeg 2 March 19, 2009 9780073360874
Student Solutions Manual Precalculus
By John Coburn
John Coburn grew up in the Hawaiian Islands, the seventh of sixteen children. He received his Associate of Arts degree in 1977 from Windward Community College, where he graduated with honors. In 1979 he received a Bachelor's Degree in Education from the University of Hawaii. After being lured into the business world for five years, he returned to his first love, accepting a teaching position in high school mathematics where he was recognized as Teacher of the Year in 1987. Soon afterward, the decision was made to seek a Masters Degree, which he received two years later from the University of Oklahoma. For the last fifteen years, he has been teaching mathematics at the Florissant Valley campus of St. Louis Community College, where he is now a full professor. During his tenure there he has received numerous nominations as an outstanding teacher by the local chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, two nominations to Who's Who Among America's Teachers and was recognized as Teacher of the year in 2004 by the Mathematics Educators of Greater St. Louis (MEGSL). He has made numerous presentations and local, state and national conferences on a wide variety of topics. His other loves include his family, music, athletics, games and all things beautiful, and hopes this love of life comes through in his writing, and serves to make the learning experience an interesting and engaging one for all students.

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The B. S. M. G. Report
Humans are the race
Not the color of their face
Like millions of other Americans, I assumed that we had tracked down Jim Crow, put him on trial, convicted him and imprisoned him forever in a small cell of disgrace.
But lo and behold, it turns out that he was not imprisoned at all. Rather, he was taken into a witness protection program, sent away to be refined, get a little plastic surgery and come back to us in this season.
Shall we call him James Crown?
Mr. James Crown, the grandson of Jim Crow, is not nearly as bigoted, ignorant nor self-righteous. He does not contend that some race is inferior but continues to promote the idea of "separate but equal." This, of course, was the false premise that began our national trial in the first place.
Black people don't have to go to their own bathrooms anymore.
But we do signify that whatever they pursue, think, vote, believe and regard needs to have the word "black" in front of it.
The African American market
A poll taken in "the black community"
The black voter
The black church
The black culture
Here's where James Crown is much trickier than his grandpa, Jim Crow. He pulls off this separatism by making sure we never refer to "the white market, the white community, the white voter, the white church or the white culture." If he did so, it would expose James Crown for being the hidden racist he truly is. Instead, he tries to appear educated and open-minded by talking about cultural differences—how wonderful they are.
We don't have any sniff of the Ku Klux Klan because we never attribute the same promotion to white people. If we did, we would identify it immediately as prejudice.
But today we have people interested in their ancestry.
At first, this was, "What part of Africa did your ancestors come from?"
But now we ask, "Where in Europe did you immigrate from?"
It's all very unseemly—very bad. It enables a city council in a Mississippi town to name a street "Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard"–while you could never find a library, municipal building, or decent grocery store with an address on that same street.
The James Crown concept is: "Maybe we can make people more comfortable with this separatism, giving the illusion of equality while never offering a heartfelt all men are created equal."
Of course, the sad part of this is that it easily slips into our educational system.
We convince our children they are free thinkers when they're curious about other cultures and their customs.
Simultaneously, as we establish these differences, we don't adopt any part of them into our own homes, colors and cultures, but instead, admire them from afar.
It is our current derivation of "separate but equal."
It is an attempt to refuse to accept people as human beings, but instead, categorizing by race, culture and nationality.
The truth of the matter is that no black person in America would last thirty minutes in Africa. Why?
Because they are Americans.
They are accustomed to our style of life.
They enjoy the freedoms.
And likewise, no white person would survive in Europe, picking up where their long-lost relatives were born. Keep in mind, if Europe had been such a great place to live, our families would probably have stayed there.
They came to America for a better chance.
It is sad to see informed, caring people buying into James Crown.
But what really makes me mad is that the church of Jesus of Nazareth is a huge promoter of this evil game.
There is a white church and a black church in America.
It is heavily segregated and the arrangement hinges on the supposition that "black people like to worship one way" and "white people like to worship another way."
Jesus said the only way to worship is in spirit and truth.
There is no spirit in being alienated from your brothers and sisters and no truth in believing it has anything to do with the mindset of Jesus.
Whenever anyone tried to separate people in his presence and criticize them for not being just like the disciples, he always replied, "Don't forbid them. Those who are not against us are for us."
I am mad to be part of a faith that has a church that is manipulated and has welcomed racism into its operation.
Yet not everyone gets hoodwinked, even when there are hoods available for all.
There are folks out there who refuse to be called "African American, German American" or anything other than American.
There are individuals who will not attend a church unless it is integrated and recognizes that any separation is the definition of inequality.
And there is a small awakening in the political arena which contends that a black voter, a white voter, a Hispanic voter and an Asian voter all have one thing in common:
Answer the questions about our country and you answer the need.
James Crown will hang around until we stand up and call him Jim Crow, which is who he really is.
He is not our witness, so we have no intention of protecting him.
B.S.M.G.
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The M Word … April 30th, 2019
The word that should never be spoken—too dangerous because of its possibility of misunderstanding:
THE M WORD IS MOST
Most everybody
Most of us
Most High God
Most intelligent
Most ignorant
Most spiritual
Most valuable
Most agree
Most disagree
MOST OF THE PEOPLE…
We believe in strength with numbers.
We use the most to cower the least.
We tout predominance.
After all, most people in Dixie in 1859 supported slavery.
Most people in Tennessee in 1956 were in favor of Jim Crow.
Most folks, in 1965, considered divorce to be an unforgivable sin.
For many decades, most of the American people insisted that homosexuality was a perversion.
Most of the most is an attempt to intimidate, deny difference and reject the possibility that simplicity can come from a minority perspective.
Most is a social manipulation, a spiritual intimidation and absolutely, cultural bullying.
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Sit Down Comedy … April 26th, 2019
It is completely unlikely that anyone over the age of seventy in the United States of America has not heard, spoken or nervously laughed at a joke containing the "N word." As painful as this may be, we were a country that was comfortable with bigotry.
Likewise, is there any chance that there's a human being over the age of fifty who hasn't stated, repeated or stood silent when the word "fag" was offered in an adult conversation? For years, this was the way we described anyone we deemed incapable of the tenacity, strength and energy to succeed.
And dare I say, there is probably no one over the age of twenty-five who has not referred or heard a reference to the female of our species as "bitch."
It's just the nature of our journey. We are born without the ability to walk, talk or use a spoon. We graduate from high school and enter grown-up land unable to solve problems, and therefore often opt for selfishness, in order to protect the little we have. As the old song says:
I wish I knew then what I know now.
But do you?
Do you really want to be the first white person in Montgomery, Alabama, who comes to the conclusion that Jim Crow laws are evil and must be overturned?
Do you desire to be the straight person, who during the AIDS pandemic of the mid-1980's, decides to defend the gay community instead of insisting they brought a plague down on mankind?
And even more recently, do you want to believe the stories of women who were subjugated by domineering men, when it seems more popular, or at least politically acceptable, to come to the side of the accused, dominant, masculine figure?
There are no rewards for those who think ahead of their time.
Society has a history of putting to death those who finally clarify their message, especially when that proclamation is contrary to cultural standards and mores.
You can be popular—or you can be right.
You can't be both.
It wasn't even popular in 1863 to free the slaves, even though supposedly we were fighting a war to do so.
It wasn't popular to take those same slaves—after the war was already over—and give them human and states' rights.
It took us until 1919 to allow women a chance to vote—and even after that "lightbulb decision" was enacted, there were many places in our country where females were not allowed to serve on juries.
Being spiritually insightful, emotionally empathetic, mentally progressive and physically fit never places you in the forefront of anything.
BEING A LEADER MEANS…
If you decide to be a leader instead of a follower, you will lead alone—since the followers have already pledged their allegiance. Yet we, as a people, count on certain souls to walk a lonely path, pursue through resistance and overcome public opinion to bring us the solutions which lead us into a spirited life instead of rendering us dispirited.
As we judge candidates, senators, congressmen, President and judges, let us keep in mind that they gain their positions by either being voted in or approved. In order to get a vote or be approved, you have to get the blessing of those who walk in the present—not those who have the presence of mind to know where history is walking.
If I knew then what I know now, I would either have to forget it so I could still be fairly popular, or else decide to take the path untraveled—alone.
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G-Poppers … August 25th, 2017
They were called "Tories"–colonists who remained loyal to King George III during the American Revolution. They were honorable folks. They wanted to respect authority. They saw no reason to change the status quo. They were following what seemed to be common sense.
They were unfortunately mistaken.
There were other folks known as the "Moral Majority." The moniker certainly tells of their assumptions. They were convinced that homosexuality was a blight on the American scenery–even that HIV and AIDs were punishments on the homosexual community–the "gay plague."
Their ranks were filled with Bible-loving, dear-hearted people who were completely misinformed.
It was called "separate but equal"–later to be tagged "Jim Crow." It was the notion that since color separated human beings, and culture seemed to follow along, it was in line to complete the separation in public restrooms and schools. Great people adhered to the philosophy. Dynamic human beings were involved in promoting it.
It was flawed.
It's very important to know the difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is when actions are taken without the benefit of adequate knowledge. Stupidity is when knowledge has arrived and we choose to remain ignorant.
No matter how honorable, self-sacrificing or righteous the Antebellum South felt it was on the issues of states' rights, tarriffs and slavery, time has marched on and brought us an infantry of reasons to conclude that the assertions were faulty.
Just as the Tories are not allowed to build statues to Benedict Arnold, the Moral Majority isn't in a position to extol Jerry Falwell, and Jim Crow is not recognized in the public square of Birmingham, for its historic quality, we can no longer accept the "good intentions" of the Confederacy.
They, like the Tories, the Moral Majority and the Jim Crow crowd, must find their absolution with the words of Jesus from the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
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Jesonian–Troubling (Part 5)… July 29th, 2017
It is troubling.
"Family is everything."
This philosophy is so widely accepted in our society that any attempt to question its veracity would be similar to suggesting the public execution of puppies in the town square.
Let's first make something clear–Jesus was not an advocate for the genetic family. For instance:
–His clan was certainly dysfunctional.
–He was nearly killed by the hometown folk because they did not appreciate his message.
–And his family members went to Capernaum to bring him home because they thought he was crazy. He had to sidestep them, and informed them clearly that his family was anyone who did the will of his Father.
–When telling parables, he often criticized those who used family obligations as an excuse for not doing more for the world.
–He said our worst enemies would be those of our own household.
–And certainly he made the point that if you don't "hate your mother and father, "you aren't worthy of the kingdom."
Jesus was concerned that we would love those who were connected with us through family ties, and not extend the same courtesy to our brothers and sisters throughout the planet. Why did this bother him? It's really quite simple.
Please understand that evil never permanently leaves the spotlight, but merely goes backstage, dons a different costume, changes make-up and reappears as a new character. I believe this is what has happened in America. We are obsessed with the holiness of family. Yet it has suspiciously grown in popularity following the disintegration of segregation, Jim Crow and newfound civil rights for immigrants and the gay community.
Prejudice needed somewhere to hide. Bigotry was looking for a disguise. What could be better than family? It is literally "Mom and apple pie."
So the same tenets which were promoted through segregation–that being "staying with your own kind"–have simply resurfaced as a maudlin proclamation of "loving your own."
If everybody prefers their own family, we will isolate ourselves, making us vulnerable to evil tyrants who come and use our fears of one another to bring about mayhem and death.
I am troubled by the "family is everything" brigade. It is a way of hiding bigotry, which is no longer allowed to express itself through cross-burning, so instead is using cross-lifting.
My children know I love them–but they know I love them as I also love all of God's children.
Remember, the last words of Jesus in the Great Commission were not, "Go back to your families and be happy."
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … July 30th, 2016
Dear Man: You didn't ask me my opinions about the political conventions.
Dear Woman: Well, no, because I know you really don't like politics.
Dear Man: That's true, but there is one incident that grabbed my attention.
Dear Woman: What was that?
Dear Man: Thursday night, when the Muslim father who lost his son in the war in Afghanistan, Mr. Kahn, spoke to the gathering.
Dear Woman: Yeah, I saw that. Very moving.
Dear Man: I know that's the popular view, but it bothered me.
Dear Woman: What troubled you?
Dear Man: He came on the stage with his wife. She did not speak for the whole duration of the event. She remained turned toward him in submission, wearing a hijab.
Dear Woman: You mean that head covering?
Dear Man: Yes, exactly.
Dear Woman: It's just a Muslim thing.
Dear Man: I disagree. It's not a Muslim thing. She stood in submission, did not speak, with her head covered, as he railed against Donald Trump, in support of Hillary Clinton for President. It was a massive contradiction.
Dear Woman: I disagree. You just need to be more tolerant. We need to give religious freedom to people–to have their traditions and honor their culture, otherwise our country becomes bigoted and self-centered.
Dear Man: I know the spiel. But when a man, who, by the way, was extremely intense, with angry gestures, stands beside a woman who is not speaking, who is looking on adoringly with her head covered…well, I get nervous. I feel it's good to give spiritual leniency to people, to worship as they deem appropriate, but our country should not allow oppression to exist in the name of God. For instance, we certainly didn't honor the traditions of the South and give them cultural "roominess" when slavery was at stake. I'm sure they could have made the point that no slaves were rebelling and that everything was working fine, but we still fought the Civil War to relieve the stupidity of a bad culture.
Dear Woman: I see what you mean, but I don't think it applies in this situation. This is part of their religion…
Dear Man: No. It's not. It's part of their tradition. Tradition is the way that people decide to conduct their religion. It has nothing to do with faith. It has nothing to do with a God who created all men equal, and that includes women. What happened on that stage was wrong. If we want to condone it because we're afraid of speaking up to a religion's tradition, and demanding equality, then let us call ourselves cowards. But if every Christian church in America suddenly decided that women should not be allowed to speak and had to wear head coverings, we would remove their tax exempt status. We can't have two different standards. If he wants to support Hillary Clinton for President, he needs to let his wife be his equal.
Dear Woman: Maybe he does. Maybe it was just a decision on their part to have him talk because she was nervous.
Dear Man: Then in my opinion she shouldn't come on stage. Standing next to him, turned in his direction, staring at him with her head covered, communicates subservience. Doesn't the Democratic Party want equality? Or are they just looking for a bump in the polls from an angry Muslim man speaking against Donald Trump?
Dear Woman: You realize, nobody agrees with you. Everybody thinks that Mr. Kahn was one of the highlights of the convention. They think that allowing her to appear on stage in the head covering showed tolerance.
Dear Man: Tolerance becomes cowardice when everyone is not included. There were many people during the Civil Rights movement who were angry at Dr. King because he came into a situation that seemed to be peaceful, and stirred up trouble. But had he not pointed out the inequity of Jim Crow, the South more than likely would still be arguing about "colored restrooms" instead of transgender ones.
Dear Woman: I see your point, and I guess by your standards I'm a coward, but I think that sometimes you just have to leave well enough alone.
Dear Man: You see, my point is that "well enough" is never achieved by leaving women out of the equation.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … June 25th, 2016
Dear Man: So are you a Martian?
Dear Woman: What?
Dear Man: John Gray, in his book back in 1992, claimed that men were from Mars and women were from Venus. So I guess that would make you a Martian.
Dear Woman: And you a Venetian.
Dear Man: Isn't that a set of blinds?
Dear Woman: Yes. Can the blinds lead the blinds?
Dear Man: You didn't go there, did you?
Dear Woman: I did.
Dear Man: I think it's dangerous to think that the two genders of one species are from two different planets, with no plan to build a space ship.
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Dear Man: Yeah. I guess it would just be easier for me to think you were nuts and I was fruitful.
Dear Woman: And easier for me to believe that you are incapable of understanding me.
Dear Man: Here's the truth–we both have landed on Earth. We can't escape to another sphere of living without jeopardizing our relationship and probably even the balance of life itself.
Dear Woman: So rather than making up a conflict or feeding a present disagreement, I think it's contingent on both you and me to try to get along on Earth.
Dear Man: Well said. Let me start off by telling you that the first thing all Earthlings have to realize in order to survive here–whether they're male or female–is that truth gives you freedom. If you lie, you're bound to spend all your time covering up the lie. The only way to get freedom–whether you have a vagina or a penis–is to tell the truth. Otherwise, you're in bondage.
Dear Woman: Can I offer a second? Commonality creates allies. I will tell you–Mars and Venus thinking is just a clever way to cover the nastiness of gender bias, just as the pursuit of "culture" is the new Jim Crow.
Dear Man: What do you mean by that?
Dear Woman: I mean, commonality creates allies. When we insist we're different, it separates us into camps, which invites bigotry.
Dear Man: I get that. So the more we find in common, the more we become allies. As allies, we don't need to fight anymore just to prove we're uniquely male or female. So can I give a third one?
Dear Woman: Fire away.
Dear Man: Respect preserves love. Once we convince ourselves there's some sort of quiet mutual disrespect going on, love rots. Love cannot survive disrespect.
Dear Woman: Boy, is that true. If I think that you think I'm kind of stupid, I will find it difficult to love you.
Dear Man: And if I think you think I'm lesser, I won't have any motivation to give you my love.
Dear Woman: So let me make a bold statement–John Gray and those who followed him may have felt they were being contemporary with their observations, but what they ended up doing was driving a wedge between the only forces that can unite to make the world better–men and women.
Dear Man: We live on Earth, not Venus or Mars. We are not separated by outer space. Truth gives us freedom, commonality creates allies and respect preserves our love.
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Q: How do I initialize a member array with an initializer_list? I'm getting up to speed with C++0x, and testing things out with g++ 4.6
I just tried the following code, thinking it would work, but it doesn't compile. I get the error:
incompatible types in assignment of 'std::initializer_list<const int>' to 'const int [2]'
struct Foo
  {
    int const data[2];

    Foo(std::initializer_list<int const>& ini)
    : data(ini)
    {}
  };

Foo f = {1,3};

A: You can use a variadic template constructor instead of an initializer list constructor:
struct foo {
    int x[2];
    template <typename... T>
    foo(T... ts) : x{ts...} { // note the use of brace-init-list
    }
};

int main() {
    foo f1(1,2);   // OK
    foo f2{1,2};   // Also OK
    foo f3(42);    // OK; x[1] zero-initialized
    foo f4(1,2,3); // Error: too many initializers
    foo f5(3.14);  // Error: narrowing conversion not allowed
    foo f6("foo"); // Error: no conversion from const char* to int
}

EDIT: If you can live without constness, another way would be to skip initialization and fill the array in the function body:
struct foo {
    int x[2]; // or std::array<int, 2> x;
    foo(std::initializer_list<int> il) {
       std::copy(il.begin(), il.end(), x);
       // or std::copy(il.begin(), il.end(), x.begin());
       // or x.fill(il.begin());
    }
}

This way, though, you lose the compile-time bounds checking that the former solution provides.

A: According to the discussion here:
the right syntax for Potatoswatter's second solution is:
Foo f( {{1,3}} ); //two braces

a little bit ugly, not consistent with common usage

A: Just a small addition to great JohannesD answer.
In case of no arguments passed to foo constructor, array will be default initialized. But sometimes you want to keep underlying array uninitilized (maybe for performance reasons). You cannot add default constructor along with variadic-templated one.
Workaround is additional argument to variadic-templated constructor, to distinguish it from zero-argument constructor:
template<class T, size_t rows, size_t cols>
class array2d
{
    std::array<T, rows * cols> m_Data;
    public:

    array2d() {}

    template <typename T, typename... Types>
    array2d(T t, Types... ts) : m_Data{ { t, ts... } } {}
};

So, now you can brace-initilize object, or left it uninitialized:
array2d<int, 6, 8> arr = { 0, 1, 2, 3 };  // contains 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, ...
array2d<int, 6, 8> arr2;                  // contains garbage

Update 31/07/2016
Three years have passed quickly and compiler implementers improved standard compliance of their products up to the level where default constructor is not considered ambiguous in the presence of variadic constructor anymore. So, in practice, we don't need additional T t argument to variadic constructor to disambiguate constructors.
Both
array2d() {}

and
array2d() = default;

will leave array uninitialized if object is being constructed without arguments. This behavior is consistent on all major compilers. Full example (rextester):
#include <array>
#include <iostream>

template<class T, size_t rows, size_t cols>
class array2d
{
  public:
    std::array<T, rows * cols> m_Data;

    array2d() = default;

    template <typename... Types>
    array2d(Types... ts) : m_Data{ { ts... } } {}
};

int main()
{
    array2d<int, 6, 8> arr_init = { 0, 1, 2, 3 };
    array2d<int, 6, 8> arr_default;

    std::cout << "Initialized: \n";
    for(const auto& a : arr_init.m_Data)
        std::cout << a << " ";
    std::cout << "\n";

    std::cout << "Default: \n";
    for(const auto& a : arr_default.m_Data)
        std::cout << a << " ";

    std::cout << "\n";
}

Output:
Initialized:
0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Default:
2 0 -519559849 32558 1 32558 0 0 -519634912 32558 -526739248 32558 1 0 2 0 6295032 0 -519531243 32558 0 0 -1716075168 32765 6295648 0 4196192 0 6295648 0 -526527271 32558 1 0 2 0 6295032 0 4196845 0 124 0 0 0 4196768 0 4196518 0

Removing default constructor still leads to variadic constructor to be called and array being default-initialized (with all-zeros in our case).
Thanks @Alek for bumping this thread and for drawing attention to these facts, and also thanks to all people working hard on compiler development.

A: As far as I can tell, using list-initialization of the function argument of the constructor (8.5.4/1) should be legal and solves many of the issues of the above. However, GCC 4.5.1 on ideone.com fails to match the constructor and rejects it.
#include <array>

struct Foo
  {
    std::array< int, 2 > const data;

    Foo(std::array<int, 2> const& ini) // parameter type specifies size = 2
    : data( ini )
    {}
  };

Foo f( {1,3} ); // list-initialize function argument per 8.5.4/1

If you really insist on initializer_list, you can use reinterpret_cast to turn the underlying array of the initializer_list into a C-style array.
Foo(std::initializer_list<int> ini) // pass without reference- or cv-qualification
: data( reinterpret_cast< std::array< int, 2 > const & >( * ini.begin() )

A: You can't, arrays are not like other types (and don't have constructors taking a std::initializer_list).
Try this instead:
struct Foo
{
  const std::vector<int>   data;
  Foo(std::initializer_list<int> ini) : data(ini)
  {}
};

A: You can define a constexpr function that converts an initializer list to an array. The last (third) function is the one you call. The other create recursively a template parameter pack from the initializer list, and create the array once sufficiently many list elements have been read.
template <typename T, size_t N, typename... Ts>
constexpr enable_if_t<(sizeof...(Ts) == N), array<T, N> >
array_from_initializer_list(const T *const beg, const T *const end,
                            const Ts... xs) {
  return array<T, N>{xs...};
}

template <typename T, size_t N, typename... Ts>
constexpr enable_if_t<(sizeof...(Ts) < N), array<T, N> >
array_from_initializer_list(const T *const beg, const T *const end,
                            const Ts... xs) {
  return array_from_initializer_list<T, N>(beg + 1, end, *beg, xs...);
}

template <typename T, size_t N>
constexpr array<T, N> array_from_initializer_list(initializer_list<T> l) {
  return array_from_initializer_list<T, N>(l.begin(), l.end());
}

A: While this does not work:
#include <initializer_list>
struct Foo
{
  const int data[2];

  constexpr Foo(const std::initializer_list<int>& ini): data{ini}  {}
};

Foo f = {1,3};

I found this simple approach to work nicely:
struct Foo
{
  const int data[2];

  constexpr Foo(const int a, const int b): data{a,b}  {}
};

Foo f = {1,3};

Of course the variadic template approach is probably better if you have a lot of elements, but in this simple case, this will probably suffice.
That is, if you want to explicitly define the constructor from initializer lists. For most POD cases this is fine and dandy:
struct Foo
{
  const int data[2];
};
Foo f = {1,3};

A: If you don't care about bounds checking, then the following will work.
struct Foo {
    int const data[2];
    Foo(std::initializer_list<int> ini)
        : data{*std::begin(ini), *std::next(std::begin(ini), 1)} {}
};

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I finally compiled the list. It has taken too long but, looking back now, I believe the time spent was well worth the sacrifice.
But I can't do it alone anymore.
My energy and focus, and nearly my eyesight, is gone, or too weakened to make further progress.
I know, well at least hope, that you and your team will be able to pick up where I left off. I've done the research and crafted the last list, embedded in which I believe is a plan, a structured detailed roadmap, of how to repel the alien forces we now know have targeted Earth.
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I was able isolate twenty or so lists, though there could be more. Embedded in these lists I am certain is the Rosetta Stone for our collective survival.
I sense there is a method, not in any absolute way, but there may be a path if you approach the problem by further refining the algorithms that have so far been the foundation of my theory.
I am trying to remain positive and constructive in the face of what might be an ultimate inevitably. I believe in you and the determination of your Institute, and that the fate of mankind is safer in your hands than spending more time ruminating in mine.
I know you're doubtful and fearful. You have every right to be both. We all have every right to be both.
There is no hope if many, and not most, fail to organize and resolve the puzzle, and don't forget to survey nuances for interconnectedness. I believe the lists function as a living, interconnected organism, and to find the right sequencing format and crack the code, you must consider all at once.
Don't overlook, as I did early on, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a roadmap to organize the list in a more rational sequence.
I'm convinced that The Original List of Doubts and The List of Universal Rights and Wrongs are, in some unique mathematical way, interrelated, though at this point in my desperation that might be pure speculation.
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They have been railing from the rafters and peddling their antediluvian theories for generations. Ignore them. Do not engage them. They are the false prophets they have always been.
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I've known all along that they were coming.
There are no answers in my list, or in the algorithms on which they are based. In and of themselves they represent a small shard of a massive deception designed to distract your people, to buy time so that what remains of my society can advance close enough to initiate an overpowering first strike on your planet.
Ignore the list and my imploring you to go on, and giving you false hope.
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I am the only survivor of the initial incursion and have been here for generations observing, studying, and calculating and now feeling like one of your family, which I eagerly and devotedly embrace as my brethren.
I've betrayed who I was, and who I have become.
Both are my terrible regrets.
I know them, and I am certain of their intentions.
They are worse than your people can possibly comprehend.
There is no hope for your civilization.
Pray, and maybe you will find it in your heart to forgive me for my complicity.
Knowing what I know of your fate, and if I were you, granting me forgiveness would be unimaginable.
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Annie Henson, left, Samantha Meyer and Jose Talavera rode their way through North Battleford on Monday afternoon as part of the Texas 4000 charity bicycle tour.
When Cullen Bounds and Samantha Meyer first arrived at the University of Texas campus in Austin to start their studies, they were both taken by surprise by a booth promoting a charity bicycle tour to Alaska.
A total of 22 Texas students arrived in North Battleford on Monday afternoon as part of the Ozarks Route for this year's Texas 4000 ride, which will see them raise funds for cancer research, treatment and prevention.
"The experience really pushes your body and your mind," Fred Tally-Foos said. "You get to meet new people everywhere that you go and it's been great to talk to them about the mission that we are on for cancer research, as it's something that has touched everyone here that's on the ride.
This year's ride features three different routes and has a total of 67 undergraduate and graduate students taking part. Their 70-day trek began on June 3 from Austin and will conclude in Anchorage, Alaska.
"We kind of went the wrong way to Alaska to start things out," Tally-Foos laughed. "We went East to New Orleans, then we went to Memphia, up to Chicago and Winnipeg and now we're moving towards the West and heading North.
For many of the students, this marks their first time going on a cross-country bike adventure, let alone travelling through Canada.
"It's not a requirement to be really experienced on a bike when you apply to be a part of the ride," Meyer said. "Since October we've done over 2,000 training miles and we've been spending the last 18 months volunteering within the cycling and cancer communities in Austin along with fundraising.
The team left North Battleford on Tuesday morning as they biked out to Lloydminster on the 46th day of their journey.
They will meet up with the rest of the riders in Whitehorse, Yukon on Aug. 2 before arriving in Anchorage 10 days later.
"We might not know what day of the week it is all of the time but we know how many days we are into the ride," Meyer said.
As of Tuesday, a total of $556,557 has been raised from this year's ride. Since 2003, more than $7 million has been raised for organizations such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Livestrong Foundation and the University of Texas-Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering.


Instant payday loans! What a grand idea! Am I running short of cash for this month? Yes, no problem, let me just get an instant loan to tide me over. It is smart, easy, quick, and hassle free! This is the kind of thinking that usually goes on in one's mind while one is thinking about these loans. However, the real picture is not so rosy. Like any other loans there are various benefits and there are also various negatives associated with it. You need to note and understand both to have a fair idea of what these are all about.
Let's, first get an idea of what these are all about. If and when a person is facing a financial emergency then he/she thinks about availing an loan. The name itself gives an idea of its nature. Its instant meaning it's quick and is disbursed without wasting any time. Moreover, 'payday' refers to the paycheck that you are going to get from your place of employment at the end of every month. This is what you can call your ticket for the loan. The paycheck that is going to come in your checking account will be the basis on which you will get your payday loan.
- There is no credit checks involved in the process and hence the disbursal time frame is shortened by a long way. In many cases within an hour or so after you apply for the loan, the money is deposited in your account.
- Unlike other loans there is no collateral in instant payday loans. The only criterion for somebody who wants an loan is that he/she must have full time employment.
- It really does not matter whether you have good credit or bad. Anyone can get these loans.
- There are a host of companies offering instant payday loans and you don't have to search too hard to find them.
- If you fail to pay the full amount along with the various charges and interest rates on or before the due date, you will be slapped with even more charges.
- Flat fees charged by almost all payday loans companies.


Warning: loud... and stupid. Really, really stupid.
THE DEAGLE NATION LIFESTYLE believes in Living Live in the Fast Lane, Killin' It, Going Hog Wild, Doing the Dew, Fueling the Fight, and/or Finishing The Fight.
THE DEAGLE NATION LIFESTYLE is staying up all night so you can spend the entire night smoking weed and playing Call of Duty… then not even bothering to go to school the next morning!
THE DEAGLE NATION LIFESTYLE is secretly spending your dad's credit card on $150 of anime swords because he doesn't respect your life choices.
THE DEAGLE NATION LIFESTYLE is all about not giving a f*ck, wearing Affliction hoodies and sunglasses, not listening to cops, letting your haters be your motivators, and respecting females and soldiers no matter what."
That should tell you all you need to know about his sanity. In the past few months, he's levied numerous death threats against game developer Brianna Wu, threatening to "kill her Assassin's Creed style," whatever that means. Now, because of his undying adherence to Free Speech or something like that, he assumes that Wu somehow messed with his car in an effort to have him killed.
Sure is Poe's Law up in here.


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Players protest after 7-time state champion volleyball coach is fired
Boelter was told that he was mistreating his players.
Members of Bethlehem Academy's high school volleyball team were on Tuesday among a group of students holding up signs to protest the firing of their longtime volleyball coach.
Franz Boelter was fired last Friday after 26 years as the school's volleyball coach, putting an end to an incredible run that saw seven state championships, most recently in 2014.
Why was he fired?
In a statement sent to KARE and KDHL Radio, Boelter said the school gave three reasons for his dismissal.
Emotional mistreatment of student-athletes.
Lack of concern for all the players that are part of the program.
Failure as a coach to live up to the mission of the school in treating all students with dignity and respect.
Boelter added in his statement that Friday was the first time "EVER" those issues were presented to him.
One of the volleball captains, Delaney Donahue, told KDHL Radio that Boelter was fired for "unjust manners."
"He makes you work hard and helps you grow as a person," Donhue added. "He expects the best out of you and wants us to succeed."
Boetler is receiving a lot of support on a Facebook group called "Fight for Franz." As of Wednesday morning, the group had 645 members and 45 posts.
Bethlehem Academy is a catholic school in Faribault, Minnesota.
High school football, volleyball to return this fall, MSHSL decides
The league's board held an emergency meeting on Monday.
MSHSL issues fall training guidelines for football, volleyball, spring sports
No sport can hold more than 12 training sessions.
MSHSL board to discuss winter sports, football and volleyball playoffs
The board will meet Thursday with more hugely popular items on the agenda.
MSHSL to vote on adding girls wrestling, boys volleyball tournaments
A two-thirds majority vote is needed to pass the proposals.
Girls wrestling sanctioned as MSHSL activity; boys volleyball 2 votes shy
There will be section and state tournaments for girls-only wrestling next school year.
Legendary Minnesota high school basketball coach Bob Brink dies
Brink's 936 wins are second-most in state history.
MSHSL approves plans for winter sports state tournaments
Good news for youth sports in Minnesota.
NFL owner likens protesting players to 'inmates'
What he said will only make player relations worse.


New Indian Express – England's Ben Stokes plays during the last day of the first cricket test in Auckland, New Zealand.
England's Ben Stokes plays during the last day of the first cricket test in Auckland, New Zealand.
(File AP)LONDON: Ben Stokes is desperate to inspire England back to the pinnacle of Test cricket, saying the team has "slacked off" in the past two years, slipping to fifth in the world rankings.
The 26-year-old all-rounder returned to international cricket in February against New Zealand but could not prevent a 1-0 defeat for the tourists to extend a miserable run that has seen England win just one Test series overseas since 2012.


The 11-piece party band, Flirtin With The Mob, is one of the best party bands in the Lehigh Valley. They have a busy summer schedule again this year so you will have several chances to see them. They play all over the Lehigh Valley and in the Poconos and they have several gigs in New Jersey.
Large bands are a rarity these days. So eleven members makes them standout. The band consists of a rhythm section, a horn section and two lead singers. The horns, known as the Phat horns, is one of the unique things about this band. That section includes two trumpets, sax and trombone. With the Phat horns, the band is able to perform a large range of songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's all the way to the present.
The two lead singers also enables the band to perform a large cross section of music. In addition to the two lead singers, there are three other members who alternate lead vocals on several selections as well as background harmonies.
The heart of the band is the rhythm section consisting of drums, bass, guitar and keyboards. On occasion their is a percussionist.
With this extraordinary line up, Flirtin With The Mob is a band that sets themselves apart in the selection of music they provide. Corporate events, festivals, carnivals, clubs and weddings are the places you'll find them. Their music is guaranteed to get any crowd on the dance floor having a happy time.
If you have not heard this band yet, you're doing yourself a disservice.
You can see them at festivals and carnivals in the area as well as car shows and in some of the clubs. Last but not least, you can see them in Concerts that are scheduled where they perform a long list of their favorite party songs.
View their schedule at Flirtin With The Mob to stay abreast of what they are doing.


Prince Yarvi suddenly finds himself King when his father and brother are slain. He immediately questions whether someone born with a withered hand would be able to lead his people. After a betrayal and attempted murder, Yarvi is forced into a journey far from home, during which he must find the determination and courage within himself to avenge his father and brother and retake the throne.
I haven't read any of Joe Abercrombie's previous works but from what I can gather his First Law series is a great favourite among other epic fantasy fans. Half a King is a coming of age story, billed as Young Adult, but it's a more gritty and perhaps a more violent read than other young adult fantasies.
I actually almost put this book down again after the first few chapters – I didn't like Yarvi at all! He spent the whole time referring to himself as a cripple and kept repeating over and over that he would make a terrible king. Once the action started it was much more compelling and I actually started to care about what happened to the characters. I'm not sure if it's because that in modern society we're more accepting of physical imperfections, but I just kept wishing he'd shut up about his hand. I mean, what difference should an imperfect hand have on his ability to rule a country? Sure, he had trouble pulling an oar and swinging a sword, but how often do kings need to do those things? Okay, rant over.
During his time as a slave, a group of ex-slaves help Yarvi to become the man he needs to be to take his revenge. I actually felt the supporting cast stole the show – the banter between the group was fantastic! The chatter had me cracking up at times and was certainly my favourite aspect of this story. The writing style on the other hand, I didn't get along so well with. It was almost like this book was written by two different people. The dialogue was funny, witty and generally quite casual, while the non-dialogue text was overly dramatic and annoyingly grand.
Half a King is a rather dark story that is quite different to other recent YA fantasy releases. Even though I didn't love it as much as others did, if you're interested in a more gritty fantasy that doesn't have the length or graphic violence of the more "adult" books, give this one a try.
– Grittier than your usual YA fantasy. The writing style wasn't really for me, but I loved the supporting characters.


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Command line tool for launching Hadoop jobs using AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) to process Common Crawl data.
Elasticrawl can be used with [crawl data](http://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/) from April 2014 onwards.

| Crawl Name     | Month     | Web Pages  | Segments
| -------------- |:---------:|:----------:|:-------:
| [CC-MAIN-2015-06](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/03/january-2015-crawl-archive-available/) | January 2015 | ~ 1.82 billion | 98
| [CC-MAIN-2014-52](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/01/december-2014-crawl-archive-available/) | December 2014 | ~ 2.08 billion | 314
| [CC-MAIN-2014-49](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2014/12/november-2014-crawl-archive-available/) | November 2014 | ~ 1.95 billion | 136
| [CC-MAIN-2014-35](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2014/09/august-2014-crawl-data-available/) | August 2014 | ~ 2.8 billion | 111
| [CC-MAIN-2014-23](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2014/08/july-2014-crawl-data-available/) | July 2014 | ~ 3.6 billion | 253
| [CC-MAIN-2014-15](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2014/07/april-2014-crawl-data-available/) | April 2014 | ~ 2.3 billion | 70

Common Crawl announce new crawls on their [blog](http://blog.commoncrawl.org/).

Ships with a default configuration that launches the
[elasticrawl-examples](https://github.com/rossf7/elasticrawl-examples) jobs.
This is an implementation of the standard Hadoop Word Count example.

This [blog post](https://rossfairbanks.com/2015/01/03/parsing-common-crawl-using-elasticrawl.html) has a walkthrough of running the example jobs on the November 2014 crawl.

## Installation

Deployment packages are available for Linux and OS X, unfortunately Windows isn't supported yet. Download the package, extract it and run the elasticrawl command from the package directory.

```bash
# OS X            https://d2ujrnticqzebc.cloudfront.net/elasticrawl-1.1.3-osx.tar.gz
# Linux (64-bit)  https://d2ujrnticqzebc.cloudfront.net/elasticrawl-1.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# Linux (32-bit)  https://d2ujrnticqzebc.cloudfront.net/elasticrawl-1.1.3-linux-x86.tar.gz

# e.g.

curl -O https://d2ujrnticqzebc.cloudfront.net/elasticrawl-1.1.3-osx.tar.gz
tar -xzf elasticrawl-1.1.3-osx.tar.gz
cd elasticrawl-1.1.3-osx/
./elasticrawl --help
```

## Commands

### elasticrawl init

The init command takes in an S3 bucket name and your AWS credentials. The S3 bucket will be created
and will store your data and logs.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl init your-s3-bucket

Enter AWS Access Key ID: ************
Enter AWS Secret Access Key: ************

...

Bucket s3://elasticrawl-test created
Config dir /Users/ross/.elasticrawl created
Config complete
```

### elasticrawl parse

The parse command takes in the crawl name and an optional number of segments and files to parse.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl parse CC-MAIN-2014-49 --max-segments 2 --max-files 3
Segments
Segment: 1416400372202.67 Files: 150
Segment: 1416400372490.23 Files: 124

Job configuration
Crawl: CC-MAIN-2014-49 Segments: 2 Parsing: 3 files per segment

Cluster configuration
Master: 1 m1.medium  (Spot: 0.12)
Core:   2 m1.medium  (Spot: 0.12)
Task:   --
Launch job? (y/n)
y

Job: 1420124830792 Job Flow ID: j-2R3MFE6TWLIUB
```

### elasticrawl combine

The combine command takes in the results of previous parse jobs and produces a combined set of results.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl combine --input-jobs 1420124830792
Job configuration
Combining: 2 segments

Cluster configuration
Master: 1 m1.medium  (Spot: 0.12)
Core:   2 m1.medium  (Spot: 0.12)
Task:   --
Launch job? (y/n)
y

Job: 1420129496115 Job Flow ID: j-251GXDIZGK8HL
```

### elasticrawl status

The status command shows crawls and your job history.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl status
Crawl Status
CC-MAIN-2014-49 Segments: to parse 134, parsed 2, total 136

Job History (last 10)
1420124830792 Launched: 2015-01-01 15:07:10 Crawl: CC-MAIN-2014-49 Segments: 2 Parsing: 3 files per segment
```

### elasticrawl reset

The reset comment resets a crawl so it is parsed again.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl reset CC-MAIN-2014-49
Reset crawl? (y/n)
y
 CC-MAIN-2014-49 Segments: to parse 136, parsed 0, total 136
```

### elasticrawl destroy

The destroy command deletes your S3 bucket and the ~/.elasticrawl directory.

```bash
~$ ./elasticrawl destroy

WARNING:
Bucket s3://elasticrawl-test and its data will be deleted
Config dir /home/vagrant/.elasticrawl will be deleted
Delete? (y/n)
y

Bucket s3://elasticrawl-test deleted
Config dir /home/vagrant/.elasticrawl deleted
Config deleted
```

## Configuring Elasticrawl

The elasticrawl init command creates the ~/elasticrawl/ directory which
contains

* [aws.yml](https://github.com/rossf7/.elasticrawl/blob/master/templates/aws.yml) -
stores your AWS access credentials. Or you can set the environment
variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

* [cluster.yml](https://github.com/rossf7/elasticrawl/blob/master/templates/cluster.yml) -
configures the EC2 instances that are launched to form your EMR cluster

* [jobs.yml](https://github.com/rossf7/elasticrawl/blob/master/templates/jobs.yml) -
stores your S3 bucket name and the config for the parse and combine jobs

## Development

Elasticrawl is developed in Ruby and requires Ruby 2.0.0 or later (Ruby 2.1 is recommended). The sqlite3 and nokogiri gems have C extensions which mean you may need to install development headers.

[![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/elasticrawl.png)](http://badge.fury.io/rb/elasticrawl)
[![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/rossf7/elasticrawl.png)](https://codeclimate.com/github/rossf7/elasticrawl)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rossf7/elasticrawl.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rossf7/elasticrawl) 2.0.0, 2.1.5, 2.2.0

The deployment packages are created using [Traveling Ruby](http://phusion.github.io/traveling-ruby/). The deploy packages contain a Ruby 2.1 interpreter, Gems and the compiled C extensions. The [traveling-elasticrawl](https://github.com/rossf7/traveling-elasticrawl) repository has a Rake task that automates building the deployment packages.

## TODO

* Add support for Streaming and Pig jobs

## Thanks

* Thanks to everyone at Common Crawl for making this awesome dataset available!
* Thanks to Robert Slifka for the [elasticity](https://github.com/rslifka/elasticity)
gem which provides a nice Ruby wrapper for the EMR REST API.
* Thanks to Phusion for creating Traveling Ruby.

## Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request

## License

This code is licensed under the MIT license.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


BookDoc partnered with Malaysia Physiotherapy Association to expand it's platform beyond doctors To view full article, please click here.
BookDoc inked MOU with Malaysia Physiotherapy Association. To view full article, please click here.
Users of the medical appointment booking app would soon be able to access qualified practitioners in nutritional medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, hypnotherapy, therapeutic massage and other complementary modalities who have been certified by the Federation, and have proper practice facilities.


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Q: PHP - Getting a member function error I want to make this form get the id from the url suppose :
http://localhost/x/y/index.php?id=1
  and update the data in the article table, however i am getting the error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on boolean in http://localhost/x/y/index.php in line 38 which is the line highlighted in the code with ** at start and end.
  <?php
    include('db/db.php');
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    $select_db = "SELECT * FROM article WHERE ID=$id";
    $run_news = mysql_query($select_db);
    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($run_news)){
        $post_id = $row['ID'];
        $post_title = $row['title'];
        $post_date = $row ['date'];
        $post_author = $row['author'];
            $post_keywords = $row['keywords'];
        $post_image= $row['image'];
        $post_content = $row['content'];
    }
    ?>
    <form action="" method="post">

ID: <?php echo $id; ?>

    Title: * <input type="text" name="title" value="<?php echo $post_title; ?>"/>

    Author: * <input type="text" name="author" value="<?php echo $post_author; ?>"/>

    Keywords: * <input type="text" name="keywords" value="<?php echo $post_keywords; ?>"/>

    image: * <input type="text" name="image" value="<?php echo $post_image; ?>"/>

    content: * <input type="text" name="content" value="<?php echo $post_content; ?>"/>

    <input type="submit" name="update" value="Submit">

    </form>
    <?php
    // Code for UPDATE button
    if (isset($_POST['update'])) {
    $id = $_GET['id'];
            $post_title = $_POST['title'];
            $post_author = $_POST['author'];
            $post_keywords = $_POST['keywords'];
            $post_image = $_POST['image'];
            $post_content = $_POST['content'];

    $sql = "UPDATE article SET title='$post_title',author='$post_author',keywords=$post_keywords,content='$post_content' WHERE ID='$id'";
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A: It should be like this:
//$con->mysql_query($sql,TRUE); //execute the update query
$result= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM article",$con); // get new updated table data

The use mysql_query(), and the mysql_query need first parameter as your database connection
Read http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php
Also, mysql_connect is deprecated, use mysqli or PDO, you should prepare and sanitize your input.
See: mysql_query


I started a few days ago to adjust the new region ,they are reduces from 16 to 12,the mapping is finished and i hope they are ok.
So I think then that we agree.
I will modify the wiki and we can work on changing Admin_level=6 to Admin_level=5.
As I said, there are only 75 wilayat, so this is not too hard a change. I would be willing to do it if everyone agrees.
local_authority was introduced in France because admin_level not match the definition. French local_authorities are groups of  admin_level=8, but can be cross any other admin_level. It's not part of the country admin_level scheme.
Moving existing admin_level may have sense.
any idee how to assing the amin levels for these  cercles and caidats?
"caidats" are "children of "cercles".


NEW DELHI (AP) — The first time American John Allen Chau visited the isolated island in the seas between India and Southeast Asia, he came bearing gifts that included a football and fish.
That night, he wrote about his adventures and left his notes with the fishermen. He returned to North Sentinel Island the next day, on Nov. 16.
Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said Wednesday that the seven people have been arrested for helping the American reach North Sentinel Island, including five fishermen, a friend of Chau's and a local tourist guide. Visits to the island are forbidden by the government, and officials were working with anthropologists to find a way to recover the body.
With help from a friend, Chau hired fishermen for $325 to take him there on a boat, which also towed the kayak Chau used to reach the island the first time, Pathak said.
After the fishermen realized Chau had been killed, they left for Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where they broke the news to Chau's friend, who in turn notified his family, Pathak said.
Police surveyed the island by air Tuesday, and a team of police and forest department officials used a coast guard boat to travel there Wednesday and another trip was planned Thursday. Officials said authorities were exploring their options, since they cannot go directly to the restricted area and confront the tribespeople.
"We have to see what is possible, taking utmost care of the sensitivity of the group and the legal requirements," said Pathak.
India has a very hands-off approach to the island's people. Tribespeople killed two Indian fishermen in 2006 when their boat broke loose and drifted onto the shore, but Indian media reports say officials did not investigate or prosecute anyone in the deaths.
Associated Press writers Gene Johnson and Phuong Le in Seattle, and Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.


"Taken together, our analyses indicate that certain disadvantaged segments of the U.S. population may be turning to scripture strictly as a personalized quest for meaning and self-help and to the exclusion of other forms of religious study," the researchers reported in a study released this week.
According to the analysis, about 2 in 10 Bible-readers turned to Scripture for health insights and 3 in 10 for wealth insights.
Overall, evangelical Protestants and black Protestants were more prone to a "health and wealth" approach to the Bible, as were Americans with higher religious involvement.
In particular, those who reported literal interpretations of Scripture and those who pray regularly were more likely to direct their reading toward health (60 and 59 percent, respectively) and wealth (85 and 60 percent, respectively).
While religious activity in other contexts has proven a helpful coping mechanism, researchers found this directed approach to Scripture can make people feel even worse.
"Our analyses suggest that reading scripture for insights into attaining health and healing exacerbated the adverse effects of poor self-rated health on depressive symptoms, a finding consistent with an emergent literature on the 'dark side' of religious and spiritual coping," they wrote.
Another recent study showed the opposite—that people who read the Bible are less likely to have diminished hope during stressful life events—but only looked at frequency of reading rather than the approach or motivation for turning to the text.
The recent findings on "health and wealth" Bible readers corroborate with hermeneutic theory, which suggests preconceived biases from life experiences or social positions affect scriptural interpretation. In this case, people facing physical health issues or financial struggles read passages on health and wealth with particular expectations and assumptions.


From swabbing to donating to becoming a campus ambassador, things have really come full circle for Nick. A senior at Tufts University, he joined the registry at a Chabad recruitment drive held at his college in 2014. "I was walking through the campus center and someone pulled me aside to ask if I had five minutes to give," said Nick. A year and a half later, he got the call that he was a potential match. Shortly after, in August 2015, Nick was given the opportunity to donate bone marrow to a nine-month-old boy suffering from an inherited immune deficiency.
"It was an opportunity too important to pass up," said Nick. "It feels like you won the lottery if you are a match. I don't know if you would ever throw away a winning lottery ticket." On the day of his collection, Nick's mother was present to support him. Like any parent, she was a little concerned, but more than anything, she was excited to spend five days together with him. The procedure went well, and Nick returned to his daily routine in no time. He recently received a six-month update about his recipient, who is also doing well and has had no complications.
Months after his donation, Nick still felt a strong connection—both to Gift of Life and to his recipient. So, when one of Gift of Life's managers for the Campus Ambassador Program, Alec Burkin, contacted him to see if he would be interested in joining the program, Nick applied and was accepted! He began his internship in January 2016 after attending a symposium at Gift of Life's headquarters.
Since then, Nick has swabbed over 500 of his peers with the help of fellow college students who have volunteered at his drives and assisted him with fundraising. He is currently in the process of planning a large fundraiser that will involve delivering cookies and other food to students. All proceeds will go to Gift of Life.
Nick is majoring in both political science and economics at Tufts University. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, playing tennis, hiking, and traveling.
The beautiful phrase "Gift of Life" has always touched me with its double meaning. For me, as a donor, I was supposedly helping to give another person the gift of another chance at life. But with each passing day, I feel that the title of "donor" gives me too much credit. I was the lucky one. I was the recipient.


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