Items where Author is "Komárek, Jan"
Komárek, Jan (2014) The struggle for legal reform after communism. Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Komárek, Jan (2012) Reasoning with previous decisions: beyond the doctrine of precedent. LSE law, society and economy working papers (08-2012). The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Komárek, Jan (2010) Institutional dimension of constitutional pluralism. Eric Stein Working Paper (3/2010). Czech Society for European and Comparative Law, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Komárek, Jan (2005) European constitutionalism and the European arrest warrant: contrapunctual principles in disharmony. Jean Monnet working papers (10/05). Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York, USA.
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Toomas Sildam: Estonia did not embark on Afghan mission to bring democracy
Then-Minister of Defence Jüri Luik visits Estonian troops in Afghanistan. October 2018. Source: Ministry of Defence
The nation of Afghanistan has demonstrated once again – as it had to the Soviet Union in the 1980s – that while it can be taken over by sheer military force, winning over society to your side, or defeating it outright, are not possible, senior ERR journalist Toomas Sildam finds.
U.S. President Joe Biden's recent announcement that his country's soldiers are to leave Afghanistan by September 11 this year – the 20th anniversary of the terror attack that prompted the original invasion – has seen most NATO nations and other allies involved following suit. For Estonia, this brings to a close the most deadly and dangerous foreign mission that the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) have been involved in since the restoration of independence nearly 30 years ago, Sildam writes.
Former defense minister and foreign minister Jüri Luik (Isamaa) was unexpectedly direct when commenting on President Biden's decision.
We have not gone to bring democracy to Afghanistan, Luik told "Aktuaalne kaamera" (AK); the main task for Estonia was to accompany the allies, to support them, provided that that is reciprocated where necessary.
That is all there is to it, Sildam goes on.
The reason the Estonian government, with the Riigikogu's blessing, sent EDF personnel to Afghanistan was Estonia's security. In other words, Sildam goes on, Estonia was in Afghanistan shoulder-to-shoulder with the U.S. and the U.K., and other allies, such as Germany, since the belief is those countries will be here in Estonia in return (as indeed they are – the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup at Tapa is U.K.-led, the NATO Baltic air policing duties are currently in the hands of the Luftwaffe, based at Ämari, and iconic U.S. warplanes, drones and special forces personnel have all been in the country in recent months – ed.)
The price of the near twenty-year war (for Estonia, which joined NATO in 2004 – ed.) has been nine fallen soldiers, 39 severely wounded and over 60 less severely wounded, Sildam adds, as well as the issues of re-adapting to civilian life upon return to Estonia.
On the other hand, it also provided close to 2,500 combat-hardened EDF troops who really know what it is like to be under fire fro the enemy in a real sense, and not just with shotguns either, and officers who really know how to lead.
This is invaluable experience, along with cooperation with international allies and all that brings, Sildam adds.
Loyalty to allies, cooperation with them and military experience – that was Estonia's takeaway from Afghanistan, Sildam adds.
This is cold comfort for the Afghan people, however, he adds.
Their losses through the course of this war are 100,000 children, women and men lost, while the country is still broken, one which could really only be called a state with concessions, Sildam adds.
The west leaving at a time when the Taliban is still present and is being taken over by extremist wings in provincial areas all help to make it seem, at least, that the U.S. and its allies, including Estonia, are leaving Afghanistan to fend for itself, he adds.
Nonetheless, it is also a truism – one noted by Jüri Luik in the fall of 2019 while in Baghdad, Iraq – that the west should not look for how to reform other societies by using war.
In other words, if a NATO ally attacks a sovereign nation, there will be a counter-attack come what may, which forces the hand of war, but ultimately, changing that country for the better may not be viable.
In fact, the west, while it is bringing its soldiers home in a few months' time, cannot leave Afghanistan alone, or forget it altogether. This will be a challenge, since it inevitably spells working with the Taliban.
But a failed state left to fester may sooner or later become a headache, or in fact a threat, to many, Sildam adds.
To paraphrase "The Little Prince", one is always responsible for everything one has tamed, or tried to tame.
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EDF commander: Afghanistan mission gave Estonian soldiers confidence
Gallery: EDF final Afghanistan contingent arrives home in Estonia
Gallery: Kabul ceremony marks end of Estonia's 18-year Afghanistan presence
AK: Saturday Tapa brawl involving British soldiers not regular occurrence
Daily: Tapa scene of weekend brawl between British soldiers and local men
Jüri Luik leaving Riigikogu for foreign service post
Gallery: Italian Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs arrive at Ämari
Bill would bar civilians from publicly wearing EDF uniforms, insignia
Riigikogu speaker: Give thanks to EDF past and present on Veterans' Day
Gallery: EDF's two infantry brigades in joint exercise
Estonia, Lithuania defense ministers: Cooperation key ahead of Zapad 2021
President starts Afghanistan official visit
Two more US F-15E Strike Eagles due in skies over Estonia Wednesday
President's Afghanistan visit still set to go ahead
NATO magazine: UK, Danish troops time in Estonia great learning curve
Estonian, British defense ministers discuss troop removal from Afghanistan
Luik: Afghanistan mission was very important for Estonia
AK: Estonia, US, NATO to leave Afghanistan as one
Gallery: Estonian Special Operations Forces platoon in Mali
Minister: Afghanistan decision to be made soon, in light of US withdrawal
NATO commander Europe: Alliance has proved its worth in Estonia
Reflecting on the suffering of Alexei Navalny, while remembering Jüri Kukk
Toomas Alatalu: Estonian who started the ending of the Cold War
Survey: 90 percent of populace supports military conscription

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Home Dunstable
Births Dunstable
Deaths Dunstable
LAWRANCE (Lawrence)
Nathaniel, Apr. 17, 1798.
Patiance, wid. Nathaniel, Jan. 9, 1832.
LAWRENCE (Lawrance)
Enoch, at Groton, ––– ––, 1774, a. 95 y. GR8
John, from St. Albans, Eng., came to America in the ship Planter, May, 1635, at Groton, ––– ––, 1667. GR8
Lemuel, 1st, at Pepperell, ––– ––, 1773, a. 28 y. GR8
Nathaniel, at Groton, ––– ––, 1765, a. 87 y. GR8
William, m., hostler, s. William and Rachel, disease of heart, Oct. 27, 1844, a. 31 y. 1 m. 22 d.
Polly C., d. Daniel and Polly, Mar. 1, 1797, in her 2d y. GR2
LOVEWELL
Anna, d. John and Rachel, Aug. ––, 1758. NR
Esther, d. [Col. GR5] Noah and Mary, Oct. 17, 1777. NR [a. 3 y. 4 m. 3 d. GR5]
Hannah, w. John, sr., Jan. 5, 1754. NR
Hannah, d. Nehemiah and Rachell, Oct. 31, 1758. NR
James, s. John, jr. and Rachell, Nov. 27, 1753. NR
John, July 2, 1763. NR
Jonathan, jr., Mar. 15, 1788. NR
Noah, s. [Col. GR5] Noah and Mary, May 6, 1777. NR [a. 5 m. 25 d. GR5]
Susannah, d. Nehemiah and Rachell, Oct. 26, 1758. NR
Zaccheus, s. Zaccheus and Esther, June 5, 1729, a. 3 m. 15 d. GR5
Zaccheas, s. John and Rachel, Oct. 8, 1758. NR
Zaccheus, Col., Apr. 12, 1772, in his 72d y. GR5
Hephzibah, w. Daniel, Aug. 17, 1797. NR
Jean, w. [Capt. GR5] Jonathan, Sept. 14, 1764. NR [in her 51st y. GR5]
Jessee, s. Thomas and Mary, Sept. 8, 1738. NR
Jonathan, Capt., Apr. 19, 1791. NR
Mary, w. Thomas, Jan. 14, 1748. NR
Mary, d. [Capt. GR5] Jonathan and Jean, Nov. 17, 1758, a. 9 y. 2 m. 23 d. NR
Meehettebell, d. [Capt. GR5] Jonathan and Jean, Nov. 28, 1758, a. 3 y. 5 m. 9 d. NR
Olive, wid. Capt. Jonathan, Nov. 29, 1801. NR
Oliver, s. Jonathan and Jean, Mar. 18, 1776, a. 23 y. 7 m. 20 d. NR
Sarah, w. Levi, May 17, 1785. NR [May 28, a. 23 y. GR5]
Sarah, wid. Dea. Thomas, Apr. 16, 1801. NR
Thomas, "killed by Indians," Sept. 5, 1724, in his 42d y. GR5
Thomas, Dea., Feb. 24, 1790. NR
William, May 20, 1782. NR
Olive, wid., formerly w. Adford Jaquith, Dec. 21, 1830, in her 97th y.


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Q: Terminology: Group extensions, the derived subgroup, abelianization Let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be group properties (for example, "solvable" or "finitely generated").
Let $G$ be a group. Assume that the derived subgroup $[G,G]$ has property $P_1$ and the abelianization $G/[G,G]$ has property $P_2$.
Then, in group extension terminology, $G$ is "$P_1$ by $P_2$".
However, "$P_1$ by $P_2$" only means that there is some normal subgroup $H$ of $G$ with property $P_1$, such that $G/H$ has property $P_2$. Is there a concise accepted way to express the more specific fact that in this extension $H=[G,G]$?

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James Bond vs Doctor Who
Two great national institutions celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries this year and next: James Bond and Doctor Who. On the face of it, the two franchises could not be more different. One is a sci-fi TV series arguably aimed at children, the other a serious of sexually charged action films. But beneath the surface, the two are more similar than they seem. Consider:
Both began at a very similar time. The first Bond film Dr No was released in October 1962, the same month as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Doctor Who first graced British TV screens on November 23rd 1963: the day after President Kennedy's assassination.
Both fizzled out in 1989: Timothy Dalton's second Bond film License to Kill turned out to be the last for a while. Some blamed the end of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall had fallen: who should Bond fight now? In fact, the success…
Book review: Star Wars latest Egmont titles
Some of you may not like to hear this, but Star Wars is to some extent supposed to be children. How else do you explain the Ewoks? Jar Jar Binks? Cast your minds back: Who are the stars of the opening scenes of the original film? Luke? Obi Wan? No. C3PO and R2D2. Doubtless you yourself were a child when you were first sucked in by the Force. It is thus hardly surprising then that the franchise (now ultimately ran by Disney) is still keen to attract as young audience.
With this in mind, Egmont Publishing have released the following three books aimed at children of eight and above in a new series entitled Adventures In Wild Space. These focus on Milo and Lina Graf who embark on a perilous journey across space to rescue their parents who have been kidnapped by agents of the Empire. The action takes place…
Book reviews: Egmont Star Wars titles 2016
Have you ever fancied trekking around Tatooine? Hiking around Hoth? Basically, visiting anywhere that you've seen in any of the Star Wars films?
Well, basically you can't. As none of these places really exist. However, for eighty pages of large, (27 x 1.5 x 37 cm) attractively illustrated maps, timelines and such like based around the Star Wars universe, The Star Wars Galactic Atlas (Egmont, RRP £20) cannot be faulted.
Star Wars Propaganda (Egmont) written by Star Wars aficionado Pablo Hidalgo purports to be an anthology of propaganda posters from from throughout the history of saga e.g. "Remember Alderan: Never Forget" and "Trump and Vader 2016: Let's Make America Great Again" (okay, I made the last one up. There are no references to contemporary politics here at all). To be honest, posters have never an obvious background feature of the films. Propaganda played a much bigger role in the Paul Verhoeven…
Book Review: Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam
For more on Terry Gilliam, see my feature The Imaginarium of Terry Gilliam in issue 14 of Geeky Monkey magazine.
Gilliamesque: A Pre-Posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam, published by Canongate, 2016
Terry Gilliam has always stood out from the crowd.
Even when in Monty Python, he stood out somewhat as the one American. Slightly odd looking, he mostly remained off screen at first, producing instead the celebrated animated sequences (for example, during the series' opening titles sequences) for which he became famous. Nearly fifty years on, this book, his memoir is illustrated throughout in a similarly unique style.
Like many people called Terry (Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks, fellow Python Terry Jones, er, Terry Scott?). Gilliam found himself drawn to the fantasy genre. His directing career began awkwardly with co-directing Python ventures with Jones. Although mostly good films in the end, they were tough shoots with Jones and Gilliam gently wrestling…
Blu-ray review: GIRLS: The Complete Fifth Season
Girls is back! And with rumours abounding that this will be the the final season of Lena Dunham's award-winning comedy drama, it remains to be seen whether it'll be a case of "happy ever after" for anyone involved. I'm guessing not. But let's begin at the start of the season.
First up is Hannah (Dunham herself) who despite embracing the life of a teacher with, if anything, rather too much enthusiasm is already tiring of her long suffering but admittedly far from perfect, somewhat pompous boyfriend Fran (Jake Lacy). Only concerns about the dating habits of her newly "out" father distract her. That and fears about her ex Adam (Driver, now in Star Wars).
Meanwhile, though traditionally probably the bitchiest main character English Jessa (Jemima Kirke) genuinely seems to be achieving herb goal of being a nice person as the season starts. That's if she can keep her hands off…
Carter Vs Bush
Two presidents. One Democrat, one Republican. Both turn ninety this year. Neither man ever directly ran against the other. But how do Jimmy "Peanut farmer" Carter or George "Read my lips" Bush square up in a direct face off?
Carter: The younger of the two, James Earle ("Jimmy") Carter was the 39th president between 1977 and 1981. He has been a former president for thirty three years, longer than any one else in US history.
Bush: George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president from 1989 until 1993. Only the second man to be both president and father to a US president (the other was John Adams) he was always referred to as simply "George Bush" before 2000 but is now usually referred to as George HW Bush to distinguish him from his son George W Bush (43, 2001-2009).
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Carter: Famously a Georgia peanut…
Girls is back! And with rumours abounding that this will be the the penultimate season of Lena Dunham's award-winning comedy drama, it remains to be seen whether it'll ultimately be a case of "happy ever after" for anyone involved. I'm guessing not. But let's begin at the start of the season.
First up is Hannah (Dunham herself), who despite embracing the life of a teacher with, if anything, rather too much enthusiasm is already tiring of her long suffering but admittedly far from perfect and indeed somewhat pompous boyfriend Fran (Jake Lacy). Only concerns about the dating habits of her newly "out" father distract her. That and fears about her "ex" Adam (Driver, now in Star Wars).
Meanwhile, though traditionally probably the bitchiest main character, English Jessa (Jemima Kirke) genuinely seems to be achieving her goal of slowly becoming a nice person as the season starts. That's if she can keep her hands off her best friend's former boyfriend.
Meanwhile, in what seems like a remarkably poor life choice even by her standards, Marnie (Allison Williams) is set to marry her emotional car crash of a music partner as the season dawns. Of the four girls, only ultra-cute Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) seems to be doing well, having found a new life in Japan.
Sharp, surprising and funny as ever, Girls maintains its status as one of the great HBO shows of the decade.
Let's hope the end isn't really nigh…
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Tagged Adam Driver, Allison Williams, Blu-ray review, coffee bars, Girls Season 5, HBO, humour, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham, New York, sex, US comedy drama, Zosia Mamet


Carbon Emmissions « What Happened to the Portcullis?
What is blue, a quarter of a mile long, and taller than London's Olympic stadium? The answer – this year's new class of container ship, the Triple E. When it goes into service this June, it will be the largest vessel ploughing the sea. Each will contain as much steel as eight Eiffel Towers and have a capacity equivalent to 18,000 20-foot containers (TEU). If those containers were placed in Times Square in New York, they would rise above billboards, streetlights and some buildings. Or, to put it another way, they would fill more than 30 trains, each a mile long and stacked two containers high. Inside those containers, you could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans.
At the expense of coming across a bit cynical – what exactly is the aim of the 'carbon emission' movement? We know it's a United Nations initiative; that many politicians, ex presidents, scientists and climatologists warn against the use traditional energy sources and preach of cataclysmic consequences if we do not need heed their call; that it has become the latest excuse for more government imposed taxes; that the very mention of CO2 conjours up animosity between the rich and poor nations in much the same way as the mention of the WTO. Lets not forget there's even a 'Green Customs Initiative' just so that we can all feel mutually inclusive.
An article just published by IFW-net.com suggests that exporting from South Africa could become even more expensive if the country's free-trade deal with the European Union (EU) is brought to an end and replaced by a shipping tax next year. The current trade deal removes tariffs on 98% of South Africa's exported goods. Trade between the two regions creates around R400 billion (US$48bn) a year. Seems like taxation is the West's latest answer to the failing WTO overtures on free trade!
At the United Nations conference on climate change in Durban, the EC will announce plans to tackle emissions. The proposed shipping tax, aimed at lowering carbon emissions, is expected to dramatically increase the cost of imports into the EU.
The EU's envoy to South Africa, said shipping and aviation was a main contributor to carbon emissions."That is why we are quite persistent that a shipping and aviation tax must be included in any deal that hopes to limit carbon emissions." he said.
The EU has also sparked controversy over its plan for Emissions Trading Scheme that will apply to all airlines flying through its airspace from 1 January 2012.
One way or the other, SARS gets the monopoly on collecting the tax, regardless of its form.
For an alternative view on 'green stuff' read "The Recession Hits the Green Movement". It's perhaps a lot closer to the truth than all the 'saving-the-planet' stuff being dished up by the mainstream media.


A web browser that stops ads and trackers by default. Master branch.
I'm going to disown the package, in case anyone else wants to try fixing this up. I uploaded my modifications to the repository (https://github.com/timschumi/aur-packages/tree/brave-git-next-gen), feel free to base whatever you are trying on this. Please note that since I didn't manage to make it fully build, the packaging steps aren't correct.
As a side note: You are now building Chromium with Brave's patches (in case anyone gets this to work). That means hours of build time (felt like 10h on my 2x2,7 GHz CPU) and lots of used disk space (about 70 GB (yes, Gigabytes) in my tests (~20 GB are downloaded), but maybe I missed something that can be omitted to further reduce that).
I don't even know if a -git package for Brave is viable anymore.
@tuckerboniface The new location alone won't help much (is there even a reason to use it, as the old repository is still being updated?). Due to changes in Brave's build system for the next-gen version, the PKGBUILD is massively broken by now. I took a look at it and tried to fix a few things, but unfortunately, the Chromium scripts assume that python2 is installed as "python", which isn't the case on Arch. If anyone with enough nodeJS knowledge and enough time on their hands is able to come up with a solution to make nodeJS modify the shebang lines between cloning depot_tools and running them, I'll happily switch this to the next-gen version.
I get: Error installing brave-git : invalid version string: 0.22.0.^3.0.18419.
cp -a --reflink=auto brave-linux-x64 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname"
@asynec Should be fixed now, let me know if not!
@gutigen, a VCS package is *never* out-of-date. It may need adjustments sometimesm but that's is not the case today. Please don't set gratitous out-of-date flags to VCS packages and I don't mean just this one.
This package was renamed, please use <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-git/>.


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namespace AIMP
{
	namespace SDK
	{
		namespace PlayList
		{
			using namespace AIMP36SDK;
			using namespace AIMP::SDK;

			public ref class AimpPlaylistQueue : public AimpObject<AIMP36SDK::IAIMPPlaylistQueue>, public AIMP::SDK::SDKServices::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayListQueue
			{
			public:
				virtual property bool IsSuspended
				{
					bool get()
					{
						IAIMPPropertyList *properties;
						_aimpObject->QueryInterface(IID_IAIMPPropertyList, (void**)&properties);
						return AIMP::ObjectHelper::GetBool(properties, AIMP_PLAYLISTQUEUE_PROPID_SUSPENDED);
					}
					void set(bool value)
					{
						IAIMPPropertyList *properties;
						_aimpObject->QueryInterface(IID_IAIMPPropertyList, (void**)&properties);
						AIMP::ObjectHelper::SetBool(properties, AIMP_PLAYLISTQUEUE_PROPID_SUSPENDED, value);
					}
				}

				virtual void Add(AIMP::SDK::Services::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayListItem^ item, bool insertAtBeginning)
				{
				}

				virtual void AddList(System::Collections::Generic::IList<AIMP::SDK::Services::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayListItem^>^ items, bool insertAtBeginning)
				{
				}

				virtual int Count()
				{
					return _aimpObject->GetItemCount();
				}

				virtual void Delete(AIMP::SDK::Services::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayList^ playList)
				{
				}

				virtual void Delete(AIMP::SDK::Services::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayListItem^ item)
				{
				}

				virtual void Move(AIMP::SDK::Services::PlayListManager::IAimpPlayListItem^ item, int index)
				{
				}

				virtual void Move(int index, int targetIndex)
				{
				}
			};
		}
	}
}

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I'll be honest, this is easily my favorite session of the year. I know them's bold words, but I just can't even express how much I love doing lifestyle shoots, in the homes of my lovely clients. You'll recognize Sarah, Scott and sweet Soren from their shoot this summer. Knowing Soren would be celebrating his first birthday soon, we planned on a lifestyle session in their Puyallup home close to New Years.
There's so much love and honesty in a lifestyle session. I love being privy to the intimate nature of a family's personal space, and watching how they interact within it. This family oozes love, it's clear they're just smitten with their little prince. Happy Birthday Soren! I know your second year will be as thrilling as your first.
Thank you for allowing me to be your family lifestyle photographer in Puyallup, WA.


We are all familiar with owambes as most weekends are full of them. Weekends always give us a full dose of aso ebi styles. These owambes are usually one of the many ways we relax during the weekend from a full week of work whilst having fun in celebratory mode. One peculiar thing about these owambes is that there is usually a showcase and display of aso ebi styles which is why we can get enough of them.
No matter the owambe, aso ebi has become a fundamental part of it, I guess this is why owambe is not complete without aso ebi. We have been there and see how Nigerian ladies rock and slay aso ebi every weekend.
So you think you've seen enough aso ebi styles from this last weekend, then maybe you should have a rethink because every weekend has so much aso ebi styles we can't but keep talking over which is why our week at Madivas is usually full of aso ebi.
Aso ebi is now the it thing to style at owambes. How often do you style it? Which of these aso ebi styles is your favourite? Be sure to share your answers with us in the comment box.


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Q: In PIE binary, code section changes during execution. Why this happens? Due to the nature of the PIE binary, all data in binary cannot be accessed by absolute address.
So, there are two ways to access the data relatively
TWO Way

*

*During execution, loader loads the data's location at GOT entry.
And binary access to that address.

*Calculate the address of data using _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE location, and access to it.

But, I saw another way to access data relatively.
In below binary, binary changed <.text> section's code.
It was very weird.
.global main
main:
 push stderr

I compiled it into pie binary.
jiwon@jiwon$ gcc -fPIE -pie -o test test.s
jiwon@jiwon$ objdump -D test_pie | grep "<main>" -A5
000005c0 <main>:
 5c0:   ff 35 00 00 00 00       pushl  0x0
 5c6:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
 5c8:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
 5ca:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax

As you can see above disassembly, push stderr assembled into pushl  0x0.
And.. When I execute the binary,
pwndbg> disass /r main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
=> 0x004005c0 <+0>: ff 35 48 18 40 00   push   DWORD PTR ds:0x401848
   0x004005c6 <+6>: 66 90   xchg   ax,ax
   0x004005c8 <+8>: 66 90   xchg   ax,ax
   0x004005ca <+10>:    66 90   xchg   ax,ax

The <.text> section changed to point the stderr!
I think It's very weird because <.text> section has -WX permission in general application.
But In this case, <.text> is RWX permission.

Question:

*

*Why this happens?
Why compiler choose to use this weird way, instead of above TWO Way?

*Is this common situation in pie binary..?

A: Position independent executable is produced by combined work of compiler and linker, not just by the linker. In your case, you passed GCC an already assembled code, probably not what the compiler would have produced with the PIE flag.
The linker is not the one who produces relative load and store instructions, the compiler does that, and the linker makes sure proper relocation sections are placed correctly and such.


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Five days, few answers from our cops
By North County Times Opinion staff
Our view:Oceanside police department's silencedoesn't help build trust
Oceanside's police department needs to be more forthcoming inwhat happened Saturday night when an off-duty officer from the SanDiego Police Department was apparently involved in the shooting oftwo people in Oceanside.
It is now Thursday morning and very little has been released tothe public. The last time there was an off-duty officer-involvedshooting in North County (a sheriff's deputy, 2006 in Poway), adetailed account was released within 24 hours by the Sheriff'sDepartment.
The Oceanside department, the investigating agency, is still nottalking much, but we do know a few things - only a few.
Some of what we know about the current case:
The San Diego department says the off-duty officer's name isFranklin "Frank" White of Oceanside. He has made a statement tothem, Oceanside investigators say, and is on administrative leavefrom the San Diego police.
Officer White fired a number of shots into the car of a motherand her young son, and both were wounded, investigators say. Themother has so far declined to talk to police.
What we still don't know makes for a lengthy list, too long forthis space. Questions include:
What did the officer tell investigators?
Why did he allegedly use potentially deadly force?
Through its spokesman, the Oceanside department defends beingrelatively mum by noting it doesn't want to "try this in the courtof public opinion."
However, in the past, when a civilian has been the focus of ashooting of an officer, law enforcement agencies seem eager todivulge the investigation's developments.
We are firm believers in the transparency of government at alllevels. And make no doubt about it, our law enforcement agenciesare arms of governments, the parts that interact with the publicmore than the rest.
All parts of government critically need the public's trust, lestthey cease to be truly serving the public good.
This thin blue veil of silence isn't helping to maintain thatpublic's trust. Not in this case, not in the least.


I wanted to see if we could commence a running Cruise Director and Activities Manager list here on the Royal Caribbean Blog Boards. As many of you know, the Cruise Director can be very influential in providing a fun and interactive experience while on a cruise and for this reason the question is often asked "who will be the cruise director on my sailing?" However, as with any position of importance, the Cruise Director also enlists the assistance of his or her Activities Manager to host a number of events throughout a sailing (e.g. trivia, bingo, karaoke, etc...). Therefore, I would also like to keep the list updated with the current Activities Managers whom many of us develop strong relationships with based on our varying degrees of participation in ship events.
While I know there are similar lists maintained elsewhere on the internet, my desire is to provide an easily accessed (thanks in part to the long-term edit function of these boards) and more user friendly document than what currently exists. In addition to receiving regular updates from the fantastic blog community that fill these boards with Royal Caribbean knowledge everyday, I also hope to leverage Kat's evergrowing Periscope community to obtain real time and accurate updates as to who holds these very important positions throughout the Royal Caribbean fleet. Below is my first stab at a draft of the list based on information I was able to retrieve from various social media and online content. As you can see, there are some blanks, which I am sure many of you will be able to assist with filling in. Please feel free to respond here with any list updates or any comments as to the format or layout of the document.
I would like to thank all of you in advance for any assistance you can provide with making this list a useful resource for Royal Caribbean cruisers.
You are a brave soul for taking this on. Thank you!!
This is FABULOUS!!!! Thank You very Much Rick, for taking this on!!! This is very good Contribution, and Bentifical to the RC Blog Family!!!!!!
Thanks, Matt. Going to do my best. 25 ships and only 4 more on order...should be cake.
Awesome.....lets hope we can keep this current!....great idea!
Elvis Pinto was (I think) Activities Director on my Vision cruise this past spring. He was a blast! Very entertaining, and I saw him everywhere on the ship. I'm not surprised he's now a Cruise Director!
Pretty cool list you have here.....we had Ricky Mathews on our last cruise. He was great. Looks like I'm going to have Jeff Arpin on my next cruise on Liberty. I'll have to see if he looks familiar as I don't recall him on past cruises.
LOVE that you're doing this... great quick reference. Thanks!
I asked the very lovely Angelle Rutten van Hemert, activities director on Empress. She said this was the last cruise for Carlos Torres as CD, and Elvis Pinto will be the permanent Cruise Director going forward. In addition Angelle's contract ends Oct 1.
Thank you very much, Ken! Any intel on Angelle's replacement?
She said CeCe, Cecilia .... Blah Blah Blah, I couldn't remember the last name by the time I got a chance to write it down. Michael P should be able to get that info soon when he sails Empress.
Yes, Cecy del Razo. Thanks for the confirmation.
Super cool list, thanks for taking the time.
I was noticing there isn't many women as cruise directors, then I notice most activities managers are women. I guess its either by design or it just worked out that way.
Interesting news regarding Harmony's Caribbean season. List updated accordingly.
Liberty of the Seas 12/26/16 -- Anyone know who the cruise director will be?
Hi - I just returned today from Anthem 7 nights from Bayonne to Bahamas. Dru Pavlov is now the cruise director. Chris is still activities manager. They seemed to work well together. I will post all of the cruise compasses as well.
Does anyone know who the current CD is on the Allure?
I just got off of the Enchantment OTS and the cruise director was Michelle Oliveira from the USA but now resides in Brazil.


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Cambridge STARS Homepage
Group Admin
This is the beta version of an update to the website of the Cambridge STARS code. Additional material should be added in the near future. The previous version of the page can be found here.
This is the homepage of the Cambridge Stellar Evolution Code, which we refer to simply as STARS. The code was originally written by Peter Eggleton in the early 1970s and it has subsequently been used, modified and updated by many people, mostly in his academic lineage (i.e. his students, students of his students, etc.). Below, you will find a brief description of the code, links to download it and a link to the documentation. The page can be navigated by the sidebar to the left.
STARS is a stellar evolution code. Though many such codes exist, STARS is distinguished by several features.
Adaptive non-Lagrangian mesh
The structure and composition is calculated on a mesh that is distributed evenly over a mesh-spacing function that redistributes itself automatically during a star's evolution. By choosing this function prudently, the code follows a model smoothly through many phases of stellar evolution with a small mesh. In most circumstances, just 200 points are sufficient.
Simultaneous solution of structure and composition
The structure and composition equations are solved simultaneously in the relaxation algorithm. Thus, the code accurately models phases where the composition changes rapidly and can effect rapid structure changes.
Small code base
The code is compact and, once understood, easily modified to include different physical processes or model other star-like objects. The present version of the code includes about 5000 lines of functional FORTRAN.
The following tarball contains the minimal material required for the operation of the current version of the code, which includes the modifications by Richard Stancliffe up to about 2007. The tarball contains
the FORTRAN source,
physical data for solar metallicity,
input data files for a solar mass pre-main-sequence model,
the Makefile and
a script that links the input and output files and runs the code.
bs2007.tar.gz
If you are using GNU/Linux with gfortran installed, you should be able to extract the tarball, compile the code with make and run it by executing ./run.
If you're using the code, I recommend that you download and consult the documentation (PDF) now. The documentation describes
how to use the code,
contents of all I/O files,
overall design of the code,
input physics
The minimal tarball contains enough to run the code but you may want to evolve different initial models. Also, if you want to evolve stars with different metallicity, you will need the relevant opacity tables.
Opacity tables
The gzipped tables are provided below for the given metallicities. Note that these are not archives, just single compressed files. To evolve a model at a given metallicity Z, copy the table to dat/COtables. The tables are labeled by the figures following the decimal point in the metallicity. For example, COtables_z0001 corresponds to Z=0.0001. The default table corresponds to Z=0.02 (z020). Don't forget to change the metallicity in modin and data!
COtables_z000.gz COtables_z001.gz COtables_z010.gz
COtables_z00001.gz COtables_z002.gz COtables_z020.gz
COtables_z0001.gz COtables_z004.gz COtables_z040.gz
COtables_z008.gz
Input models
Homogeneous zero-age main-sequence
The models below have homogeneous composition at the given metallicity Z and hydrogen abundance X=0.7. They have been allowed to contract to a state of thermal equilibrium. Such models are a useful starting point but the evolution usually starts with a small loop in the HR diagram while the star is converting carbon, nitrogen and oxygen into their equilibrium abundances.
The models have 199 meshpoints and are set to run for 99900 steps. This is to guarantee that the evolution is followed until the code breaks down for some reason.
Metallicity Mass (solar units)
0.02 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 9.0
...about the code
Eggleton, P.P. (1971) MNRAS 151, 351
Eggleton, P.P., Faulkner, J., Flannery, B.P. (1973) A&A 23, 325
Pols, O., Tout, C.A., Eggleton, P.P., Han, Z. (1995) MNRAS 274, 964
...that use the code
Below is a list of people who, by their own request, are or have been associated with work with or on the STARS code. If they did a PhD at IoA, their year of completion is in square brackets. If you would like to be added to this list, please contact us.
Warrick Ball (Uni. Göttingen) [2012]
Last updated by Warrick Ball, 21 September 2012.


This module is designed for graduate students in mathematics, who have sufficient background in mathematical logic. The course will be structured around Morley's Categoricity Theorem. To set up the stage of the proof of Morley's Theorem, some necessary knowledge is also introduced, which turns out to be a good training in model theory.


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Q: Using NPM or Yarn with Webpacker in a Rails project I have been reading the Webpacker documentation for Rails to potentially use ReactJS in a Rails project. It says that Yarn is a dependency of Webpacker. But I noticed that NPM 5 has been upgraded to be as fast and efficient as Yarn. My question: Can I use NPM with Webpacker instead of Yarn and has anyone tried this before without any major issues?

A: Looks like there is a great guide here. I hope this helps.
https://itnext.io/how-to-use-webpacker-with-npm-instead-of-yarn-a8a764e3a8ab


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I was posting in yesterday's thread and wondering where everyone was. Reds baseball - catch the fever!
Phillips starting today is horrible. This is decisions like this that really make me wonder if the Reds will ever be relevant again.
John Lamb = a reliever forced into a starting role.
He'll be a good MLB reliever though, IMO. Eventually.
Eugenio Suarez = a DH masquerading as a third baseman.
LOL! They ruled that a double. Man, Suarez is straight awful defensively.
Ruled a double. Should have been an E5.
How 'bout a passed ball? Could we interest you in a passed ball?
Bad News Reds in full effect.
Little League moms gonna Little League mom.
Passed ball scores a run. Obviously miscommunication between Lamb and Cabrera, as Ramon appeared to be looking for something other than what Lamb threw.
Turned on the game just in time to see the Bad News Reds display. This team is so ill-prepared to play winning baseball it's not even funny. Price needs to go after tomorrow.
Lamb Chop gets out of it with only 1 run scoring. Nice work.
Nice job by Lamb against the heart of the order after the ugly beginning.
I've kept book for a lot of games (primarily at HS level). I'm not one to say, "Well, he touched it, so it has to be an error." I always consider the difficulty of the play, and whether it should be made under ordinary circumstances. (If anything, I am lenient about things like bad hops and losing the ball in the sun/lights.) Suarez left his feet, but I don't think it was an excessively difficult chance.
Chris Welsh also wondering why the hell BP is in the lineup.
Chris Welsh with a mini-editorial questioning the logic of playing Phillips over Peraza at 2B today.
5 strikeouts by Lamb so far, his changeup is really fooling guys today.
Prado single snaps a streak of eight in a row retired by Lamb.
6 Ks through 3 innings for Lamb.
According to the commercial, 100% of Panera's food will be clean by year's end.
Does that mean that they are currently serving dirty food?
DatDude RBI single, to 2nd on throw to plate!
Lamb sets them down in order in the 4th.
Leadoff double by Cabrera! Thought about the triple, but pulled the chute at 2nd.
Strikeout #9 for Lamb as the second out in the 5th. Ties his career high in a game.
Chris Welsh pointed out he's essentially eliminated the cutter he was throwing a lot earlier this year.
Conley with a two-out infield single off Lamb's glove.
And there is some horrible D from Jay. Amazingly bad.
Man, all because Conley kept the two out AB alive and Lamb couldn't field that ball.
Wow. That was bad defense in RF by Bruce.
Jay misplays the fly ball into a two-run double by Prado.
Baseball scoring rules are so stupid. That should absolutely be an error on Bruce. What's the rationale for ruling that a hit? Because Jay didn't touch the ball? He wasn't even close, even though a good RF would have caught it with ease.
So, that play was pretty much the definition of an "error." But because MLB is stuck in its old ways it's ruled a double and no one thinks twice about it. Error all the way.
But because MLB is stuck in its old ways it's ruled a double and no one thinks twice about it.
I believe you just referred to yourself as "no one".
But his OBP just blows Duvall away. /deadpanDuvall has made some uggo plays in the outfield too.
No, unfortunately for Lamb, that is correctly ruled a hit. Sometimes a fielder misplays a ball so badly that there is no opportunity to charge an error. (In other words, he made such a mental miscue that there was no opportunity to make a play.) As you said, "He wasn't even close." Therefore, he couldn't make a chance on the play. In such instances, the only ruling is "hit".
I thought that pitch was going to land about 550 feet from where it connected to the bat.
Duvall has made some uggo plays in the outfield too.
Let he without uggo cast the first cutter.
According to Chris, THom is set to return shortly after the All-Star Break.
In my mind, he will have a new voice following the surgery...maybe something like Pee Wee Herman's.
Ozuna picked off and caught stealing! 1-3-6-3-1-4 CS!
Cozart dropped the ball, but Votto and JUMBO! were alert and able to keep the rundown going until DatDude could catch Ozuna!
He hasn't had an extra base hit since June 25th.
My friends, do you ever have a beer or two too many on a Saturday and have to change to a Diet Mountain Dew just to keep yourself awake?
Right, I get that. My point is that reasoning is absurd. It should be an "error" when a player makes a clear error like Bruce did. The only rationale for ruling that a "hit" is "That's the way we've always done it in MLB."
I think I need to Shake It Off.
Crazy great throw by Osuna to nail Phillips at 3rd. It took a perfect throw and he did just that.
Ivan the Jesus pinch hit double, 2nd and 3rd with two outs for Cozart.
Whateves Eric Stratton. You of all people should understand.
Cozart bobble head day next Saturday. Traded on Sunday?
Bobblehead Cozy grounds out, Reds can't come through.
Michael Lorenzen lifts weights. Heavy ones. Dude is ripped.
I think first we have to define what an error is. An error is when a fielder fails to make a play on a ball on which he had a chance to make one. In this case, Bruce was unable to even put himself in a position where making a play was possible. Therefore, he was unable to "fail" because there was no chance. Admittedly, a possible (and likely most probable) reason that he wasn't in position was because he ran the wrong route. But that's a mental mistake (the mythical "mental error" that so many coaches and managers talk about), and not a physical error.
I think first we have to define what an error is. An error is when a fielder fails to make a play on a ball on which he had a chance to play. In this case, Bruce was unable to even put himself in a position where making a play was possible. Therefore, he was unable to "fail" because there was no chance. Admittedly, a possible (and likely most probable) reason that he wasn't in position was because he ran the wrong route. But that's a mental mistake (the mythical "mental error" that so many coaches and managers talk about), and not a physical error.
This is where we strongly disagree. Bruce was absolutely able to put himself in position to make the play -- most right fielders would have made the play with ease. Bruce wasn't able to do that for whatever reason and looked ridiculous in the process. It's not like he lost the ball in the sun or lights. That might be different. But that's not what we're talking about here.
It should be an "error" ... the old-school MLB rules just say it's not.
True. He was in the process of trying to hook up 100 percent of the time. I can respect that angle. He even had a thing for cougars (before they were "cougars").
Just chugged 2 Diet Mtn Dews. I'm back in biz.
Nice swinging "bunt" by Jay (not a bunt). Votto on second, two down.
The only thing is, we can't judge him on what most rightfielders would do, or even what he himself would do in a different situation. We can only judge him on that play. And on that play he was unable to even put himself in position to make a chance. Therefore, since there was no chance, there is no error. It's unfortunate, because he obviously made a mental mistake.
Keeping a scorebook in an official capacity is obviously subjective, but I like to think that I am fair-minded about it.
Lorenzen walks the first two batters and then strikes out Yelich on 3 pitches. Go figure.
Stanton's bat shatters but dies a hero with a single up the middle to score another run.
And, once again, HORRIFIC location from a Reds pitcher to a really capable hitter. He's lucky that wasn't a 3-run bomb.
Ichiro is over, brother. He could sell out the Tokyo Dome.
I see things to really like about Lorenzen as a reliever, think he just needs more experience.
An Edgar Renteria sighting? I almost forgot that dude even played for the Reds.
The Reds' version of the Four Horsemen (Votto, Bruce, Phillips, and Cozart) would bust a chair over his head.
Price with a tactical error here. If he is going to pinch-run for Cabrera with Holt (a correct move IMO), then he should use the switch-hitting Barnhart as the pinch-hitter for Lorenzen, as Tucker would have to enter the game anyway if the Reds tie or take the lead.
Big Klu....wondering if you could start doing a Reds Career Triples update each time Jay Bruce triples?
Oh, I know. My HS baseball coach would make us run one lap around the field for every "mental error" committed during practice. Physical errors? Nada. He knew that was part of the game. Mental errors made him crazy.
My contention is that if an outfielder makes that bad of a mental error, it should be ruled as an "error."
Boom! Need another Nick Senzel type in the first round of the 2017 draft (just hopefully an OF).
He's seven away from cracking the Top 50.
Maybe two and a half. Remember that there is a four-day All-Star Break included in there.


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Q: Laravel eloquent model how to get data from relationship's table I am developing a laravel application which has the following eloquent models

*

*Product hasMany('App/Sku','products_id')

*Sku belongTO('App/Product')
I have a controller 'ProductController' where the following code is available
public function index()
{
    $products = Product::all();
    foreach($products as $product){
            $products_id = $product->products_id;
    }
}

I am exposing RESTfull API which will allow my users to get all product details (including skus, shipping types etc..).
Suppose if I have an API GET : /products
The code which fetches all the product details will be some what the following
public function index()
{
      $products = Product::all();
      foreach($products as $product){
          $products_id = $product->products_id;
          $skus_data = Product::find($products_id)->skus;
      }
        // Now I have both the product details + skus which I can bundle into an array/json.
}

Now my question is , is this logic proper? In this case all the logics are in the controller since im using eloquent models I have a model for each table and the relationships are defined in it. Is there a way I can get all the details of a product/associated model (Products details (in table 1)+ Sku details (in table 2)) rather than using the below
foreach($products as $product){
    $products_id = $product->products_id;
    $skus_data = Product::find($products_id)->skus;
}

I am pretty new to laravel development and eloquent models. I will be using repository pattern for the development and in that case where does the aboe logic (Product+Sku combining) resides.
Please help out.

A: Yes, you can get the details of the products and skus without making one additional query per product using eager loading
 ( this is referred as the typical N+1 query problem where N is the number of the products )
Suppose the relation between your Product and Sku models model is:
Product
public function skus()
{
    return hasMany('App/Sku','products_id');
}

To fetch the products data along with the sku data you can use the with method. In your controller:
Controller
 $products = Product::with('skus')->get();

Then, in your views, you can get the info this way:
View
foreach ($products as $product)
{
     //$product->skus is a collection of Sku models
     dd( $product->skus );
}

For the repository question: if you want to use a repository you can place the eloquent-access part of your code inside the repository. So, for example you could have this method inside the repository:
ProductRepository
public function getProductsData()
{
    //access eloquent from the repository
    return Product::with('skus')->get();
}

then you can use your repository in your controller:
Controller
//inject the repository in the controller
public function __construct( ProductRepository $productRepo )
{
    $this->productRepo = $productRepo;
}

//use the injected repository to get the data
public function index()
{
    $products = this->productRepo->getProductsData();
}

A: If the repository pattern is used, do it like this.
public function index() {
    $data = $this->passportRepository->with('user')->findWhere(['id'=>1]);
}

A: If I understand your question correctly, you can use eager loading.
 public function index()
 {
    $products = Product::with('skus')->get();
 }

This will give you an array of products that have a skus array in each product object.

A: You can try this:
public function index()
{
    $products = Product::all();
    foreach($products->skus as $product)
    {
         return $product;
    }

}

This will give you the exact result in the object form.


The following equation defines the general filter equation according to Savitzky and Golay. The particular behavior of the filter can be incfluenced by chosing appropriate filter coefficients. Thus one can generate both the moving average filter, the polynomial fit, and the smoothed derivatives simply by adjusting the coefficients of this equation. The parameter np defines the number of data points used for the smoothing.
As the coefficients of the polynomial fit are symmetric (ai = a-i), only the positive coefficients are listed in the following table.


It's very important that you let the individual members of your bridal party know their roles and responsibilities early on in the process of arranging your wedding, so that they are fully aware of what they need to do and it doesn't come as a surprise later on in the planning, I would suggest a afternoon T or pizza evening and run through the details so they are comfortable with it and your day runs smoothly.
Decide the date and wedding type/style you are looking for, Book the Church/ registry office, Venue/Photographer and complete your guest list.
Organise reception arrangements, make any newspaper announcements, send out invitations 2-3 months before the wedding date, arrange cars and videographer (if required) arrange flowers and church decorations.
Chooses her bridesmaids, dresses with the bridesmaids, Chooses her Bridal gown, writes or get printed thank you letters for wedding presents.


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Music at the Wende: San Julian Consort Presents "A Song on the End of the World"
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In response to the increased infection rates of COVID-19 and out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to transition this Friday evening's (January 7) Music at the Wende concert from an in person program to a virtual format.
The planned performance by the San Julian Consort will now be live-streamed via Zoom, beginning at 8 p.m. PST. There will be no in-person viewing options.
Family Day at the Wende: Art-making in the Galleries
Join us this Sunday for the final Family Day at the Wende of 2021. Printed creative sketching activity handouts will be made available at the front desk for young visitors to engage with the exhibitions as they explore.
Music at the Wende: Dog Star Orchestra Presents "Green Hour or Gray Future"
A program of experimental music from the United States and Eastern Europe will draw a connection between the near-miss nuclear apocalypse of the Cold War era and the present threat of environmental apocalypse.
Opening Reception for "Questionable History" and "Soviet Jewish Life: Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks"
Please join us to celebrate the opening of our two new exhibitions Questionable History and Soviet Jewish Life: Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks with refreshments, programs, and tours of the exhibition!
Final Exhibitions Tour and Closing Reception
Celebrate the closing of our current exhibitions Transformations and See Thy Neighbor by joining the final guided tour led by Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming, and Michael Balot-Garza, the Wende Museum's Education Manager. The tour will be followed by a reception in the garden.
Family Day at the Wende: Paint Your Own Matryoshka Doll
Join us in the Wende Garden for a DIY Matryoshka doll painting activity prior to the closing of the current exhibitions.
Screening & Conversation by Cornerstone Theater Company: "What Happens Next"
What Happens Next is a play created with, for, and about veterans and their loved ones, inspired by stories shared by the military community in San Diego. Written by Naomi Iizuka and directed by Michael John Garcés, the play explores the complexities of sacrifice and resilience of people who have served and sheds light on what they carry into their civilian lives. The cast combines Cornerstone and guest artist actors with military veterans onstage. This performance will be presented outside in the garden of the Wende Museum.
Family Day at the Wende: Woven Ideas
Join us in the Wende Garden for the latest Family Day artmaking activity: Woven Ideas. Taking inspiration from the concept that hopes and wishes have greater strength in numbers, Woven Ideas invites participants to contribute to an outdoor, collaborative art installation by weaving fabric strips decorated with calls for a better future.
Culver City Happy Hour With a Performance by the West Coast Chamber Jazz Trio
Welcome the weekend and the return of Culver City Happy Hour to the Wende with drinks in the garden, plus live music by the West Coast Chamber Jazz Trio (Ellen Burr, Andrea Centazzo, and Jeff Schwartz).
Family Day at the Wende: DIY Znachki Pin Workshop
Join us in the garden on Sunday, August 29, to create your own custom pinback button in the style of Soviet znachki.
Znachki are pins that were mass-produced in the Soviet Union to commemorate a variety of subjects such as military anniversaries, state leaders, historical communist figures, cities, youth organizations, and sporting clubs.
Tincture Demonstration by Research for the Bermuda Triangle
Join Research for the Bermuda Triangle for an in-person demonstration of their artistic tincture process on Saturday, August 14 in the Wende garden. The duo-collaborative will provide a brief demonstration at noon on how they extract scent from East German artifacts to create "Common Fantasy: a fragrance of the GDR."
Family Day at the Wende: Collaging Past to Present
Join us—in person(!)—this Sunday for Family Day at the Wende Museum. Young visitors are invited to express themselves creatively through our latest artmaking activity: Collaging Past to Present. Taking inspiration from the recontextualization of historical objects and imagery by contemporary artists in the Transformations exhibition, participants will be asked to tell their own personal stories through mixed media collage. This all-ages activity will be offered outdoors in the Wende Garden.
Monumental Space: Public Art in Kazakhstan
The 33rd Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Timur Bekbosunov, film producer, opera singer, and performance artist, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
Second Annual Culver City Nonprofit Convening and Awarding of Nonprofit Transformation Prize
Local nonprofit leaders came together virtually on February 25, 2021, for the second Culver City Nonprofit Convening and the presentation of the second annual Nonprofit Transformation Prize to Shoes For the Homeless. Representatives of more than 230 nonprofit organizations based in Culver City were invited to convene via Zoom for panel discussions on topics such as the future of philanthropy and anti-racism work in the nonprofit sector.
In Search of Our Times Lecture: Fact and Fiction: Art, News, and Propaganda
A virtual discussion about art and propaganda, in partnership with the Pacific Council on International Policy.
"Fake news" and "alternative facts" have become buzzwords of our time. After the twentieth-century struggles between top-down media propaganda and bottom-up media exposures, we acquired unprecedented access to information. Nevertheless, it has become increasingly difficult to separate fact from interpretation. In our current moment, how do we remain (self-)critical in a world of politically split realities? What can art teach us about fact and fiction?
In Search of Our Times is a six panel discussions presented as part of Wende Conversations: A Discussion Series Supported by Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman.
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????? "Grimm's Fairy Tales" by The Brothers Grimm ?????
Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausm?rchen) is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms M?rchen). Many of the stories may actually be of Slavic origin due to their similarity to Slavic tales.
The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called "Children's Tales", they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. Many changes through the editions?– such as turning the wicked mother of the first edition in Snow White and Hansel and Gretel to a stepmother, were probably made with an eye to such suitability. They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel's innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus na?vely revealing her pregnancy and the prince's visits to her stepmother—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, was increased.
The influence of these books was widespread. W. H. Auden praised the collection, during World War II, as one of the founding works of Western culture. The tales themselves have been put to many uses. The Nazis praised them as folkish tales showing children with sound racial instincts seeking racially pure marriage partners, and so strongly that the Allied forces warned against them; for instance, Cinderella with the heroine as racially pure, the stepmother as an alien, and the prince with an unspoiled instinct being able to distinguish.
We hope you and your children will enjoy Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm & Wilhem Karl Grimm!


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RESOLUTIONS, _Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Special Events Celebrated
HCR 58
Recognizing Carey Services, Inc. to help recognize individuals with disabilities. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 58
Celebrating the 200th birthday of William S. Culbertson and recognizing the historic and cultural significance of the Culbertson Mansion. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 51
Honoring Dr. Frank A. Bush, Indiana School Boards Association, upon his retirement. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 42
Memorializing Robert Carter, longtime broadcaster. (S) First reading: adopted Stand 41
Honoring the Honorable William Boklund, LaPorte Superior Court Judge, upon his retirement. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 37
Congratulating the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Inc., on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its establishment. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 36
Recognizing Dennis Patrick Neary on the occasion of his 70th birthday. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 25
Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 21
Recognizing January 2014 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 14
Congratulating James Dolan on the occasion of his 90th birthday. (S) First reading: adopted voice vote 10
Congratulating Eleanor Long Organ on the occasion of her 100th birthday. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 63
Supporting the recognition of March, 2014 as Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month in support of afflicted Indiana citizens and their loved ones affected by this incurable form of blood cancer. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 57
Recognizing February 16-22, 2014 as "Indiana Court Reporting and Captioning Week". (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 56
Congratulating Boyd King on the occasion of his 100th birthday. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 45
Honoring the First Baptist Church, Tipton, Indiana on the occasion of the 115th anniversary of its establishment. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 44
Honoring Helen J. Pettis of AT&T upon her retirement. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 39
Recognizing the Bill Johnson Film Festival in northwest Indiana. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 31
Congratulating Angola Moose Lodge 1568, Chapter 66 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its establishment. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 23
Celebrating Black History Month. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 10
Congratulating Eric and Melissa Valsi on the birth of their son Anthony. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 9
Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. (H) First reading: adopted voice vote 2


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Q: How does horizontally autoscaling an application work on compute engine? I wrote a web application model with Flask and deployed it to a VM instance on Google compute engine. The backend is a machine learning model. I can access this application by the external IP. But if two or more users try to predict something using this app, it will crash. I think the solution is to horizontally scale the vm instances so more users can access.
I looked at google doc and the link below to get a general idea of this steps.
Use existent VM Instace (bitnami) for Autoscale Group of Instances
But I am still confused about how this autoscale works.

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*The vm instance template does not contain the files and virtual environment, how to custom these information to template, or is it impossible?

*If I deploy the app to one of the automatically generated vm instance, when more people use the app, the new generated instances will also be exactly the same (containing all the files of the web app) as the first one?

A: First, the main issue you are having is the crashing of your app when two or more users are using it. And the reason you come up with an Autoscale solution is because the root cause might be the VM does not have enough resources. I would recommend to try to test it first on a high resource VM and see if it is really a resource issue. Or more preferably, check the error logs on your application to see clues why it is crashing.
To answer your questions on Autoscaling

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*You will create your Instance template based from the disk image of your application, that information can also be found in the answers of the post on your question.

*You will need to deploy the app to the instance template and it will automatically replicate itself based on the needed resources.

How do I configure managed instance group and autoscaling in Google Cloud Platform


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SongsTube Beatles
Beatles "Yesterday"
About "Yesterday"
"Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in September. The song reached number one on the US charts. It subsequently appeared on the UK EP Yesterday in March 1966 and made its US album debut on Yesterday and Today, in June 1966.
McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar, together with a string quartet, essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It remains popular today and, with more than 2,200 cover versions, is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century."Yesterday" is a melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship. The singer nostalgically laments for yesterday when he and his love were together, before she left because of something he said. McCartney is the only member of the Beatles to appear on the track. The final recording was so different from other works by the Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom, although other artists were quick to record versions of it for single release. The Beatles recording was issued as a single there in 1976 and peaked at number 8.
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This spring, make sure you're ready to exerience a tasty travel in the jungle! For Easter 2019, Maison Dalloyau chefs came up with a collection inspired by the animals of the jungle.
The outcome is an entremets, two chocolate creations that will fulfill gourmet kids' and adults' taste buds.
Hidden under the leaves, Toucano 1er and his long orange beak and his friend Elephantin with his easy-going look, both made of milk chocolate expect to be discovered by children... and adults!
For Easter, the Croc' Le Lion entremets is a very chocolaty treat!
Composition: Piedmont hazelnut crunch and toasted corn, Valencia almond dacquoise cake, pop corn and vanillas (Tahiti and Madagascar) crémeux, Pur République Dominicaine 46% milk chocolate mousse, Pur République Dominicaine 46% milk chocolate crémeux.
Also discover the Tigr'oeufs palets (€5.50); they are filled with Piedmont hazelnut praline ganache and a craquelin, the whole covered in milk or dark chocolate.


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Q: Same named variables but in different if statements? Is this bad practice?
if($_POST['formvalue'] == '1') {
$sql = "INSERT INTO accounts (username) VALUES ('$username')";
mysql_query($sql);}

elseif($_POST['formvalue'] != '1') {
$sql = "INSERT INTO accounts (email) VALUES ('$email')";
mysql_query($sql);}

Notice how I have used the same name variable? Does it matter and is it bad practice when dealing with elseif statements?

A: Nope, it doesn't matter. But I would ask is that $sql variable necessary, why not put the string literal into the call to mysql_query() instead of using the $sql variable.
eg:
if($_POST['formvalue'] == '1') {
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO accounts (username) VALUES ('$username')");
} else {
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO accounts (email) VALUES ('$email')");
}

It removes the need for the $sql variable entirely. Also you don't need that extra if on the else if as you are testing the opposite of the first if.

A: I actually like this
if($_POST['formvalue'] == '1') {
    $sql = "INSERT INTO accounts (username) VALUES ('$username')";
}else{
    $sql = "INSERT INTO accounts (email) VALUES ('$email')";
}
mysql_query($sql);


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Prescription drug card passes milestone, angers some pharmacists
on May 21, 2009 at 10:15 am
The National Association of Counties (NACo) announced this week that their Prescription Drug Discount Card Program has helped counties save more than $179 million since the program began five years ago.
According to NACo, the free prescription discount cards have been used to purchase more than 15 million prescriptions for families residing in participating NACo-member counties. There are no age, income or health restrictions on the cards and "all commonly prescribed prescription medications, including pet medications, are eligible for a discount." The average savings is 23 percent off the regular retail price, according to the association.
"These are truly valuable cards counties are making available to American families at no cost to taxpayers," said NACo President Don Stapley, a county supervisor in Maricopa County, Ariz. "Many families are struggling to make ends meet. By taking advantage of the savings available with the NACo card, families are able to use those extra dollars on other necessities."
The National League of Cities also offers the card, which is meant to make prescription drugs cheaper only to those who do not currently have insurce that covers prescriptions. The NACo card can, however, be used on prescription purchases that are not covered by current insurance if consumers already have insurance. The NACo Prescription Drug Discount Program was created in 2004 in a partnership with CVS caremark as a 17-county pilot program.
In May 2005, the program was available nationwide to NACo-member counties. CVS Caremark, the largest provider of prescriptions and related health care services in the nation, negotiates the discounts directly with the pharmacies and drug manufactures "NACo has been a dedicated partner with CVS Caremark to make the free NACo Prescription Discount Card program available to counties and their residents," said Kirby Bessant, vice president, consumer programs, CVS Caremark. "Since the inception in 2004, it has enabled county governments to help their residents save more than $108 million in prescription drug costs."
By most accounts the NACo cards have been received well.
"We know that folks who have been laid off have been losing their health insurance," said Kate Horle, spokeswoman for the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, who interviewed with the Denver Post. "Maybe with this, you don't have to choose between prescriptions and your Xcel bill."
"We are extremely impressed with the numbers so far," Cambria County Commissioner P.J. Stevens said to the Jonestown Tribune Democrat in Pennsylvania.
And in Will County Illinois, Health Department spokesman Vic Reato told the Chicago Tribune, "Interest has been pretty brisk. It's really a wonderful deal."
But not everyone is happy. In Torrington, Wyoming some local pharmacies have decided not to honor the cards because the drug cards are putting them in between a rock and a hard place.
Torrington local pharmacist, Jancy Walter outlined the problem perfectly in a story to the Telegram:
"Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) like Caremark are a middle man who administers contracts for the drug companies," Walter said. "They are not drug stores or insurance companies. Pharmacies transmit information to the PBM and the PBM responds with a price to charge the customer. PBMs have become very large and it has become a 'take it or leave it' situation in accepting their conditions."
Jancy Walter also said that customers who have used the card get follow up calls by Caremark who then urge them to switch to a mail-order program, cutting out the pharmacists all together.
Fellow pharmacist Sheila McWaters shared in Walter's sentiment. "We cannot hand out things for free," McWaters said. "I am all for making it fair for patients but we can't stay in business if we take these type discounts – it does not hit their (chain pharmacies) bottom line like it hits us. We cannot accept this discount drug card."
CaremarkCVSDon StapleyKirby BessantNACoNational Association of Counties
Above The Fold 05.20.09


This bust is presented to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute not by chance, because in the spring of this year the National Committee of Ukraine for the Nobel Foundation for Sustainable Development was formed on the basis of our university. This was recalled by the first pro-rector of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yuriy Yakymenko, who presided at a meeting of the Academic Council. "But the main thing is that we have real friends, creative people" he emphasized, noting at the same time that on the Square of Knowledge of the campus there is already a monument to Confucius, whose authors are also Mykola Znoba and Veronika Dirova.
Veronica Dirova spoke to the members of the Academic Council and expressed confidence that once after at Nobel's bust Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute will bust their own university winners of his award.


RE: OT - Best WWII movie?
Yesterday I watched "Courage Under Fire" again. I like a good laugh once and a while.
Courage Under Fire - 1996 staring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan directed by Edward Zwick.
This movie is about a fictional first female helicopter pilot recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in combat.
While the storyline is interesting a small detail was overlooked. The female helicopter pilot is a war criminal. She violates the Geneva Convention by flying an ARMED medavac helicopter and using it to attack ground troops.
The mounting of offensive weapons on dedicated medical evacuation vehicles and aircraft jeopardizes the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions.
Medical personnel are only permitted to fire in their personal defense and for the protection of the wounded and sick in their charge against marauders and other persons violating the law of war.
I always knew Meg Ryan was a wrong'un. Naughty girl!
Status: offline Watched "Fury".. did not really thrill me. If you like John Wayne style movies you will like it..
Similarly inaccurate and ahistorical, but enjoyed that one more.
Status: offline Fury is still sinking in with me a little. I realized the American characters are in a dualistic plot situation with the German characters in the final main battle scene. For example, one character on each side uses the word "home", or a synonym for it, though the linkage to the GI using the concept is a little weak. But they are each fighting a "Last Stand"
I played a little of a solitaire WiF game last night. The tactical situation at the end of the movie illustrates something about war, that is applicable to WiF I have always thought. Sometimes in war, what you have to fight for is actually Time itself. The tank crew knew it could not prevail in it's situation … so Why? Because they could gain time for other soldiers in their army, and cost the enemy time. Which still begs the question for the fanatical Nazis - Why? Fighting for time until the Secret Weapons could come on-line and change the battlefield results is one of the answers as well.
I regularly see World in Flames players fail to grasp that concept. In each half of the game, each side is on the defensive. When on the defense, you have to risk military assets simply to cost the other side time. You are not likely to win that risk, i.e. you are going to lose those military assets. The question you constantly have to ask is whether the assets you risk are worth the time you gain, and whether those assets can be replaced. The Axis win quite handily when the Allies fold up shop too easily. "There was no way I could hold that hex, so I retreated." But of course in a game made of cardboard (or pixels) that calculus is completely different than when considering the lives of soldiers.
I would just add though that the more I think about it, the New Guy character in Fury can either be looked at as an unoriginal use of the same script device used in Saving Private Ryan, or more charitably, a small homage to it (both New Guys = typists). Ultimately though, both movies do a good job of exploring and illustrating the Why? for at least American GIs.
I think all the thinking about 1945, Germany, and Why?, misses a certain point - sure there were fanatical Nazis, but they were a minority. That book "The End" did go a long way towards explaining how a minority could control the majority. But the perhaps unanswerable question, and the probably eternal focus on that minority will still be Why?
My answer is something that is still alive in the world today - the absolute power of propaganda to motivate human action. Hitler and Goebbels always claimed their opponents were guilty of the "Big Lie." Yet I think any rational person will still always ask Why, Why you Fools?
I thought it was a little unfortunate in that book that he didn't go a little deeper into any other comparisons to "Last Stand" societies, though he pointed out that there have indeed been very few examples of such in history. Perhaps a subject that could still be explored. Fury only scratched the surface, simply having the characters ask the "Why?" (and then not quite directly). Perhaps Fury could use a "Letters From Iwo Jima" companion piece, which, come to think of it, IS an exploration of this same topic.
1. It was a totalitarian state and the Nazi hold lasted until their dying gasp. It was better to take your chances at the front than swinging from a lamp-post with a placard around your neck. The "Golden Pheasants" of the Nazi Party were always fanatical with everybody else's lives. They themselves usually got out of Dodge with the cash, gold and luxuries at the last minute.
2. German soldiers knew full well the rapacious nature of the Red Army and they were trying to protect their women. The Western and Italian Fronts were held in part to support the Eastern Front. Also, German propaganda had it that in defeat, everybody would be either killed or carted off to Siberia. There was a feeling that there was nothing to lose, so you might as well keep fighting. And they did, although after the crossing of the Rhine, there was only patchy resistance in the West, and a huge increase in surrenders. Many soldiers decided it was better to survive in a Wallie POW camp than be captured by the Russians or die for a lost cause.
3. There was a belief that somehow Hitler would pull it out of the fire. Whether wunderwaffen, Roosevelt's death, the Alliance falling apart or Adolf luring them into an elaborate trap. The idea that somehow it would all work out was common and persistent.
4. After 12 years of National Socialism, many people couldn't imagine any other kind of Deutschland. Additionally, the Western Allies advertised their plans to dismember Germany and Austria. More "nothing to lose".
I'm sure there are more but it's late. In general the German people were forced to transition very quickly from thinking they had this thing won in the Autumn of 1942 to a grim total war in very short order. The propaganda tried to cover up Stalingrad as best they could but it was impossible. After that the German people knew they were in a death match.
Status: offline Yes, the Doom of the Eastern Front hung over them all.
I also think the Nazis used one of the oldest, saddest routes to political power in human history. Got a problem in your life? Why, let's simply blame it on those Other people. In doing so, they somewhat fed people what they already want to hear. It's not Your fault or even Our fault, it's Theirs. Still quite common in the world today, perhaps always will be.
Status: offline I mentioned once the diary my uncle has written. He wrote down things at the end of the war which gave some insight into this.
The political and economic situation of Germany (and Austria) between the two wars was the main reason why the common German soldier kept fighting against the Western Allies. What was there to lose? The peace treaty of WW I put both Germany and Austria into deep poverty which caused food shortages (hunger) in parts of both countries. Hyper inflations due to reparation payments, widespread unemployment and such things only made things worse.
The Allied propaganda machine did nothing to promise the Germans and Austrians a better life if they would stop fighting. So why stop fighting?
Status: offline A great perspective Peter, thanks. It helped me realize something not mentioned in that book "The End" at all, but the movie was leading me to thinking - there is a lot of hubris in that question "Why did they keep fighting?" And that is because the Americans in particular, when asking this question, can't understand the other side. The Americans were in the war for noble purposes - how could anyone oppose that? Couldn't the Germans see what was the right thing to do? The USA is always doing the right thing, right? Why don't they just quit fighting and sign up with Uncle Sam? Such hubris can be found in many other historical questions of the 20th century.
Status: offline I did enjoy Fury a lot, especially the fight with the Tiger tank, the fight where the shermans tank attack a defensive line and you see the tracing bullets.
But the final fight is just so stupid and non-sense.
A great perspective Peter, thanks. It helped me realize something not mentioned in that book "The End" at all, but the movie was leading me to thinking - there is a lot of hubris in that question "Why did they keep fighting?" And that is because the Americans in particular, when asking this question, can't understand the other side. The Americans were in the war for noble purposes - how could anyone oppose that? Couldn't the Germans see what was the right thing to do? The USA is always doing the right thing, right? Why don't they just quit fighting and sign up with Uncle Sam? Such hubris can be found in many other historical questions of the 20th century.
And there is something else to consider too... Ever thought of how history is put down in writing? Isn't the victor always the good guy on the long term? I've made a small study of the Neurenberg processes and at one time there was a German lawyer who stated some pretty nasty war crimes done by the allied forces of the three major participants (US, British and especially the Soviets) on his defense of his client. The court put him down at once, but his client was charged for being responsible for the exact same thing those Allied forces did. Those commanders were never tried, the German commander was send to prison for this. Strange behaviour, don't you think?
Status: offline Usually when the generations involved in a war are extinct, time is ripe for a scientifically sound study of events. So we are not quite there yet..
@Centuur: Are you saying life should be fair, but isn't?
No that is not unfair - you want to know what is really unfair?
Unlike buying MWiF (when I did) you are well informed about what you spend your money on, when buying a lottery ticket.
Usually when the generations involved in a war are extinct, time is ripe for a scientifically sound study of events. So we are not quite there yet..
That process has been going on for WW II for 20ish years or so. When I was in college, there was a text published that was immediately branded as a revisionist pro German propaganda piece. The historian who wrote it (and you'll have to forgive me, I no longer remember the name of the book or the author) essentially argued that the traditional causal theory - ie.. WW 2 was an act of German aggression and the blame lies with Hitler - was incorrect. His thesis was that global stability is the result of every nation asserting their own national interests, in effect everyone pushing against everyone else creating a state of equilibrium. World War 2 was the result of the other European powers (and to a lesser extent, America) failing to assert their own interests thereby creating a void in international diplomacy. And we all know how nature abhors a vacuum.
That theory isn't nearly as controversial today as it was when I was in college.
Status: offline A.J.P. Taylor "The Origins of the Second World War" ???
That description doesn't quite match, and that book came out in 1961. But it was the first to point that "Hitler did it" is a bit too simple.
Status: offline No, but the book I'm remembering cited Taylor more than a few times.
Fury clearly seems to be partly based upon it. It is every bit as good a story and more importantly for me it really happened.
Status: offline I wouldn't classify it as the best but The Flowers of War was quite good. And after watching it I had to research and verify that the Chinese Nationalists were indeed equipped with what we'd all call "German" helmets.
Interesting points although personally I cannot subscribe to this.
His thesis was that global stability is the result of every nation asserting their own national interests, in effect everyone pushing against everyone else creating a state of equilibrium.
World War 2 was the result of the other European powers (and to a lesser extent, America) failing to assert their own interests thereby creating a void in international diplomacy.
WWII or a war of some description would have happened even if other powers tried to assert their own interests (albeit that if the Western powers (with the Poles and Czechs maybe joining them from the east) had invaded Germany in 1936-1938 - when any conflict would have likely been very brief).
If ever there was a bogeyman - a cause of war - it was Adolf Hitler. The west did what they could, but there was nothing - not appeasement and not the threat of war (as he later proved) - that was going to stop this madman from bringing war to Europe.
World War II was the result of Adolf Hitler coming to power.
Status: offline Many would argue it was the result of the Versailles treaty that (supposedly) ended WWI, but as Foch said "this isn't peace, it's an armistice for twenty years".
In other words, yes Hitler made things much worse, and likely much sooner, but chances were very high that many of the same countries would be fighting again eventually - after 1919.
That is as true as it is incomplete. It is quite interesting to investigate the economical and political dynamics of the interwar period. Fascinating era actually!
Many would argue it was the result of the Versailles treaty that (supposedly) ended WWI, but as Foch said "this isn't peace, it's an armistice for twenty years".
I think the German aided Lenin coup and resulting rise of communism (not yet stalinism) in Russia was a forming factor for the political landscape of the interwar era. Much of the political maneuvering in the 20's by the Versails victor powers was to contain the Cominter sphere of influence.
Germany was in a very fragile state politically and economically. Germany couldn't pay the demanded reparations, so France took the Ruhegebiet, the other industrial area besides Silecia (which went to Poland). So Germany did only thing left .. if you need more money, you print more money. Easy right.. except the hyperinflation this brought with it. Hyperinflation kills savings, which in turn kills the middle class. So you were left with the poor, and rich and the newly poor. Nice breeding ground for social revolts!
All in all a resemblance of todays Ukraine, perhaps. Not a direct parallel, but not a bad one either. I personally think a communist coups was at least as likely as a fascist one. I also think historical events are not random. Perhaps the powers that be decided, the maniac was the lesser weevil ..
I agree, the whole era is intriguing, I just don't buy the idea that Hitler wasn't to blame. Yes there are a ton of factors that caused / helped his rise to power, but once in charge, there was one outcome and one outcome only. The only question was what form any war would take, not that he was going to start one.
Status: offline The usual argument is not about whether Hitler would have inevitably led Germany to war, but rather if the Allies had the will/capability to oppose him earlier, whether he could have stayed in power, and then whether that is thus the fault of the Allies. The amount of power Hitler held on September 1st, 1939, was not the same as how much he had in January, 1933 - that grew throughout the 1930s and only gradually became absolute.
The Allies had their own internal politics to consider, including the sentiments of democratic publics, so in some ways, it is amazing they did finally declare war on Hitler over a country on the other side of Germany.
Then there is a different approach to the history, more "conspiracy" minded, that looks at balance of trade and international monetary issues and the famous old banking families, etc., that I've never read that closely.


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Israel Names a Jerusalem Street After an Egyptian Singer
Mayor Nir Barakat (on the right in the black suit)
Mohamed Elmasry (on the left in the white shirt)
Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat and Mohamed Elmasry the executive chairman of the Community of East Jerusalem have just celebrated an unusual event that caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including me.
A ceremony was held to celebrate the naming of a street in Jerusalem after the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum.
As a kid growing up in Egypt, I still remember my brother tuning in Kol Yisrael Radio every night to listen to the so-called "Umm Kulthum hour". Something that mayor Barkat mentioned in his speech below.
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Even though Egyptians honor Umm Kulthum as the "best" singer Egypt ever had, the news about naming Jerusalem street after her never came up on Egyptian TV, and nobody talked about it, except for one singer called Iman Elbahr Darwish, who said that the honor that Umm Kulthum received from Israel is very important because it came from "our enemy not from a friend who would have done this as a compliment to us".
Funny enough, Darwish was still criticized for saying the word "honoring"! Leaves you wonder, when and where Arabs would start accepting the fact that there is a neighboring country called Israel.


Lakewood Ranch is a 7,000 acre master-planned community encompassing all aspects of residential and commercial development. Lakewood Ranch Country Club offers an excellent opportunity to indulge in one of our favorite pastimes here in Florida – golf.
The collection of luxury homes that comprise this gated community are built around the 54-hole private Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club and Athletic Center, Golf is also available at daily fee, no membership required. Miles of sidewalks and trails provide easy access to both, while respecting Florida's beautiful natural environment.
The private Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club offers three courses that challenge at every level of play. There are practice facilities, a clubhouse complete with dining lounges and card rooms, a pro shop, locker rooms and cart storage. The Athletic Center's fitness center has state-of-the-art equipment, heated pools, 18-lighted tennis courts, steam room, sauna, whirlpool and court side deli.


Pungent current of grubby aggression from Bristolian punks Heavy Lungs.
Hailing from Bristol and bringing a twisted post-punk impression, links four-piece Heavy Lungs to their fellow musicians IDLES, but is predictable but a waste of time.
Comparing Bristolian post-punkers Heavy Lungs to their fellow musicians and friends IDLES is to be expected. But despite similarities, Heavy Lungs bring a more potently aggressive approach to their show in Southampton tonight resulting in a contrasting combative appeal.
Vocalist Danny Nedelko was the topic of IDLES single, 'Danny Nedelko' and his performance tonight reflects why he was taken as an inspiration. With 80s post-punk influences conspicuously intruding their way through the set, the emphasis the band put on their style helps distinguish them from their fellow Bristolians.
Track 'Stutter' provides an antagonistic association seeing drummer George coming to the front of the stage and manically laughing to the crowd before an eruption of distorted punk interferes. The set is littered with jittering guitar melodies layered over a performance from Nedelko that is hard to fully understand due to the unsystematic dance moves. However, he has the crowd eating out of his sweaty palms. There is nothing lacking and nothing slacking in this set and its unpredictability is something that is admired.
Comparing Heavy Lungs to IDLES is a waste of time. This band provide a pungent current of grubby punk that sets them up for a future full of chaos.
Check out Heavy Lungs latest video for 'Jealous' from their forthcoming EP "Straight to CD" out Feb 7th below.


All original patina, buffed out and has a great shine to it.
-Completely Overhauled Chevy 348 from the bottom up with Edelbrock carburetor and intake. Receipts for everything.
I don't think I've even put 1,000 miles on the motor or truck since the work has been done. Awesome truck to cruise in. I've had a few different muscle cars that I thought turned heads but this thing gets all the attention. People love it. One of a kind look with the patina, white roof, and loud pipes & cam!


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Q: Matlab - Trouble using multiple timers Hi I am writing a program on matlab which uses multiple timers. Each timer calls a different function.
I have
t = timer('Period', 0.1,...
                     'StartDelay',1,...
        'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate',...
        'TimerFcn',@moverobots)...

t1 = timer('Period', 0.1,...
        'StartDelay',1,...
        'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate',...
        'TimerFcn',@moveintruder)...

t2 = timer('Period', 0.1,...
        'StartDelay',1,...
        'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate',...
        'TimerFcn',@moveintruderout)...

start(t);

start(t1);

start(t2);

My problem is that when I run my program start(t) is underlined and I get following error:

"Parse error at start: usage might be invalid MATLAB syntax"

t has well is underlined and message says

"value assigned to variable 't' might be unused"

I have noticed that if I get rid of t2 and start(t2) I do not get this error and the program works. Whats wrong?
Thanks

A: at the end if each timer you have 3 dots which is the continuation characters. so essentially combining all the functions to one giant mess.  t=()
not
t=()...