A General Meeting of the British Mathematical Colloquium was held in Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge at 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 3rd April 1985.
Dr Garling was in the chair and opened the meeting at 2.15 p.m.
The minutes of the Bristol AGM were accepted without comment.
On item 6, Dr Garling read out paragraph 6 of the Bristol Committee meeting's minutes. Dr Sproston proposed and Professor Cassels seconded that, as the committee recommended, there be no change in the rule regarding questions at evening lectures.
The accounts of the 36th BMC were accepted unquestioningly.
Dr Johnson invited the BMC to Nottingham on the 3rd to the 7th of April 1989. This was accepted by and with acclamation.
Dr G R Everest invited the BMC to East Anglia on the 2nd to the 6th of April 1990. This was similarly accepted.
The LMS representatives were nominated to be Dr A R Pears and Professor J S Pym.
The EMS representatives were nominated to be Dr I T A C Adamson and Dr H R Dowson.
Current serving members of the committee are Dr B Bollobás (Cambridge)(1), Dr D J H Garling (Cambridge)(1), Dr. C J Mulvey (Sussex)(3), Dr J O'Connor (St. Andrews)(1), Dr J P Sproston (Hull)(3). (Number of years' service in parentheses).
Further nominations were made en bloc for Dr R C Mason (Cambridge), Dr F J Yeadon (Hull), Dr D Strauss (Hull), Professor P Vámos (Exeter), Dr D L Johnson (Nottingham).
There were no further nominations, and the committee was approved nem.con. (There are thus 3 vacant places).
Professor R Schwarzenberger of the LMS and Dr A C McBride of the EMS were re-elected as honorary auditors by acclamation.
There were two items under Any Other Business.
Professor Vámos noted the rapidly escalating costs, particularly with regard to meals at BMCs, and made the suggestion that a cheaper and lighter lunch was provided. There was some discussion concerning the high cost in Cambridge. It was observed by Dr Garling that Cambridge operated commercially as a conference centre, and that costs were known to be high many years ago. He assured the membership that all efforts would be made to keep the cost of future BMCs as low as possible. It was also pointed out that the food in Caius represented excellent value for money. No comment was made regarding Trinity College.
Professor Rogers asked that, in view of the length of time being taken over meals and the subsequent journey to the Sidgwick site, that Thursday's splinter groups begin at 2.15 p.m., and Professor Hoare's talk begin at 8.45 p.m. on Thursday evening. Dr Mason agreed to implement this. Dr Garling encouraged members to attend Professor Hoare's talk, in spite of its proximity to Good Friday.
The meeting thanked Dr. Mason and the rest of the Cambridge organisers for arranging such an enjoyable meeting. The meeting closed at 2.35 p.m.
Minutes signed by R C Mason (undated).


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J.K. Rowling Releases Two New Harry Potter Books
Valerie Wu, Features Editor
Ever think that maybe, just maybe, your Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail? Have no fear: J.K. Rowling has released two new Harry Potter books in celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the series–showing readers that even when the books end, the magic never does.
"A Journey through a History of Magic" and "A History of Magic" are part of the British Library's exhibition titled "Harry Potter: A History of Magic." The two books were released on Oct. 20, and were not written by J.K. Rowling, but by the exhibition's curatorial team.
"A History of Magic" places the magical objects of the series in political, cultural, and social context with their original inspirations throughout history. "A Journey of a History of Magic" is the family-friendly companion to its predecessor, and takes readers on a detailed journey through all seven periods of the Hogwarts curriculum: potions, herbology, charms, astronomy, divination, defense against the dark arts and care of magical creatures.
Each book spotlights never-before-seen aspects of the Harry Potter world, including how Leonardo da Vinci connects to the Mirror of Erised, the Chinese Zodiac as a form of divination and the relationship of snake charmers to the origination of Parselmouth.
"A Journey of a History of Magic" in particular features activities that allow readers to cast their own Hogwarts right at home. From conjuring your own "ghost in a bottle" to making color-changing potions, readers can experience the magic without all the soul-sucking dementors, Death Eaters or You-Know-Who getting involved.
As if that wasn't enough, the books also contain never-before-seen screenplays, illustrations and manuscripts from the series, written by J.K. Rowling herself.
The books mirror the exhibition, which will run at the British Library through Feb. 28 of the following year. From there, it will then move on to the New York Historical Society.
The publication of these new books comes after recent revivals of the global phenomenon. The film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"–which takes place 80 years before Harry Potter–was released last November to a majority of positive reviews, and the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" premiered last July at the Palace Theatre in London, to which it received a record-breaking nine awards at the Laurence Olivier Awards.
While the books in no way replace the novelty of Harry Potter, they do offer a nostalgic look into the series' past, and are sure to apparate their way into their readers' hearts. Can someone say accio already?
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Jim Marchiony to retire from Kansas Athletics
LAWRENCE, Kan. – After 16 years of dedicated and loyal commitment as the public and unwavering voice of Kansas Athletics, and more than 40 years in collegiate athletics, Jim Marchiony has chosen to retire and prepare for his next chapter, closer to his grandchildren, Athletics Director Jeff Long announced Thursday.
As Associate Athletics Director of Public Affairs, Marchiony is Kansas Athletics' liaison with local and national media across the country – relationships he fostered and maintained his entire career. Outside of those duties, he also serves as the sport administrator for KU's volleyball and tennis programs, and has worked closely with the coaches and student-athletes in those programs, as well as others.
"I've known Jim since his NCAA days and was very pleased to work with him since my arrival," Long said. "Jim is respected throughout college athletics because of his friendliness, sense of service, dedication and commitment. He will be missed – and frankly – you can't replace Jim Marchiony. All of us in KU Athletics wish Jim and Mary Beth the best in the next chapter of their lives."
Marchiony joined the University of Kansas in August, 2003, from the University of Connecticut, where he was Associate Athletics Director for External Relations. Before UConn, he worked for 18 years at the NCAA, the last five years as media coordinator for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. While at the NCAA, he served in various communications positions, including supervising the television production of championship events. Prior to his work the NCAA, Marchiony was Director of Sports Information and Regional Director of Development at Georgetown University; prior to that he was SID at Iona College.
"Jim has made an invaluable contribution to Kansas Athletics during his time in Lawrence," Kansas Volleyball Coach Ray Bechard said. "He cares deeply about the mission of this athletic department but was heavily invested in the student-athlete experience as well. His value won't be measured in wins and losses, but more importantly by the impact he had on all those he worked with and his unwavering commitment to Kansas Athletics. We wish him nothing but the best."
Marchiony has served on the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee. He is a recipient of the United States Basketball Writers Association's Katha Quinn Award, which recognizes those in college basketball who provide special service to the USBWA and sportswriters who cover college basketball. He served as a media liaison for the United States Olympic Committee at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and at three USOC National Sports Festivals.
He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from St. Bonaventure University.
Marchiony and his wife, Mary Beth, are parents to Donald; he and his wife Blair have three children and live in Texas.
"Anyone who knows Jim knows how much his family means to him. Though relocating to Dallas with his family, we know he will always be a Jayhawk," Long said.
Marchiony will retire July 2019.


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How many email address/mailboxes can i have?
For example you would create a mailbox for each member of your family, so they have their own account with their own password.
For each mailbox, you can assign up to five aliases (identities) associated with it.
so for example for a given mail box you could assign 2 aliases a home one and a work one.


Do you wonder how you are doing in raising your son? I do.
Am I teaching him the right things?
Will he make it when he leaves the house?
In Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis, three types of dads are on display.
1. Absent – Dads who are only shadows in a boys life.
2. Involved – Dads who participate in their sons lives, but do not have a long-term plan. There is no investment in a core of clear, masculine directives that are vital for his success.
3. Strategic – Dads who have a well thought out plan and vision. They understand the true sense of masculinity and know how to deposit into their son's life.
So who can really be strategic? Sounds like a myth or some perfect image of a dad and my son does not need that.
You may be a good dad, but are you a great dad?
I'm not claiming to be a great dad. Far from it. Strategic investment is hard and takes a lot of investment into his heart and character.
When I'm Absent. This one is easy and is the default. When I am busy at work or dealing with stress I easily become absent. This occurs when I stop spending time with my sons or treat them rudely. The good news is that you can easily break out of this category.
Ask my wife how I am doing with the boys.
Ask my sons how things are going between me and them.
I can just feel it when I am not active with them or being rude.
Blindness of being Involved. This one is really hard for me and is tricky. You feel like going to a sporting event, doing something fun, or getting a chicken sandwich with him is spending time. While you are spending time with him and all of these are good things, they are just not great things unless you are spending that time by doing more than just the experience together.
Get and Stay Strategic. When you get here, this is the top of the food chain. I am the first to admit my inconsistency. That is a large part of why I began this website in order to track how I am leading my sons and stay in the Strategic zone! Get in the zone by doing the following.
Read books on parenting boys and character development.
Follow a good blog on raising boys to get ideas from other parents.
Review your fatherhood plan and make time to teach him what he needs.
Get into his world by talking with him on a special one-on-one time and finding out what he is going through. Then, determine how you can help him with what he is facing. Don't fix his problem, but stay with him.
Review your own schedule and find where you are wasting time. Get that time margin back and spend it teaching your son critical character and life skills.
If you are not yet convinced of the need to be strategic with your son, may I encourage readingRaising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis to get you started. I receive no money for this recommendation, but believe strongly in the need to read this book if you are not convinced of the importance of strategic fatherhood.


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Ocado delivers a £140million windfall
By Daily Mail Reporter
On the move: The founders of Ocado are preparing to float the business on the share market
The three founders of online delivery firm Ocado will share a £140million windfall as they prepare to float the business on the stock market.
The firm, which delivers Waitrose and John Lewis products, is keen to seek a public listing in early 2010. The trio of former Goldman Sachs bankers, who set Ocado up in January 2002, still own a 22 per cent stake in the firm.
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble bought a 1 per cent stake for £5million last year, valuing the business at around £500million.
John Lewis Partnership's pension fund would also stand to gain a hefty sum, as it is Ocado's largest shareholder after the retailer transferred its 29 per cent stake into the scheme last year. Privately the trio have nurtured ambitions to bring the firm to the stock market at the right time.
Marketing director Jason Gissing said: 'We always promised we would provide shareholders with an exit. The fact the market seems to be open means a listing is now a possibility.'
Ocado sells more than 15,000 product lines and has recently added more non-food items including toys, magazines and fresh flowers.
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Nancy Harmon Jenkins says that in Italy this cake is often served for breakfast, but this recipe for Olive Oil Breakfast Cake is also delicious for dessert or at mid-day tea.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9- x 2-inch round cake pan.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. In another bowl or large measuring cup with a pouring lip, beat together olive oil, milk and orange peel.
3. In bowl with electric mixer at medium-high speed, beat eggs while gradually adding sugar, until mixture is very thick and lemon colored. Beat in vanilla.
4. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in about 1/3 of flour mixture, then 1/3 of olive oil-milk mixture. Repeat twice until all of flour and oil mixtures have been incorporated.
5. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until cake is golden brown and begins to pull away from side of pan, 40 –50 minutes.
Nancy Harmon Jenkins says that in Italy this cake is often served for breakfast, but is also delicious for dessert or at mid-day tea.


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Tommaso Rodari (* um 1465 in Maroggia; † zwischen 9. Juni 1526 und 4. März 1527 ebenda) war ein schweizerisch-italienischer Baumeister und Bildhauer der Frührenaissance.

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Tommaso war Sohn des Bildhauers Giovanni, Bruder der Bildhauern Giacomo, Bernardino und Donato. Er heiratete Maddalena Della Torre aus Mendrisio. Er ist zwischen 25. September 1484 in Como erwähnt. Der Bildhauer und Architekt wurde wahrscheinlich im Kartäuserkloster in Certosa di Pavia unter Giovanni Antonio Amadeo ausgebildet. Er war vor allem in der Lombardei und insbesondere in der Dombauhütte von Como tätig, als Bildhauer und Chefingenieur von 1487 bis 1526. Von ihm stammen u. a. die zahlreichen Statuen und Skulpturen an der Fassade und an den Seitenfenstern, die südlichen und nördlichen Seitentüren, die Altäre von Santa Lucia, Santo Stefano usw. Tommaso war auch in Ponte in Valtellina für den Umbau des Chors der Kirche San Maurizio, von 1498 bis 1500 (mit Giacomo); dann war er in Bellinzona für das Projekt für die Stiftskirche Santi Stefano e Pietro, 1514. Er war auch in Morbegno an der Fassade der Kirche Assunta, von 1515 bis 1517 (mit Ambrogio Ghisolfi) und in Busto Arsizio am Bau der Wallfahrtskirche Santa Maria di Piazza, 1522 tätig; ihm werden auch Projekte für das Heiligtum in Tirano (1505) und die Fassade des Doms von Lugano (1517) zugeschrieben.

Im Kanton Tessin gibt es zahlreiche Werke von Rodari, unter anderem in den Pfarrkirchen von Morcote (um 1490) und Vico Morcote (um 1515), in der Kirche von Obino in Castel San Pietro (um 1500), im Dom von Lugano (um 1510), im ehemaligen Baptisterium von Balerna (um 1510), im Kreuzgang der Kirche San Giovanni Battista in Mendrisio (1514) und in der Stiftskirche von Bellinzona (um 1515). An der Spitze einer organisierten Werkstatt, in der auch seine Brüder arbeiteten, war Tommaso einer der Protagonisten der lombardischen Renaissance-Architektur und -Skulptur an der Wende vom 15. zum 16. Jahrhundert. Beeinflusst von Amadeo, von dem er die charakteristischen Papierfalten und das Repertoire im antiken Stil übernahm, zeigte er in seinen reifen Werken eine weichere und zartere Hand, ohne jemals die dekorative Tradition der Lombardei des 15. Er trug zur Verbreitung der architektonischen Sprache der Renaissance in der alten Diözese Como bei.

Literatur
 Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa, Marco Tanzi (Hrsg.): Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi. Da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini. vol. 1 catalogo vol. 2 itinerari, 2010.

 Lara Calderari: L'ancona di Tommaso Rodari da Maroggia. In: RSAA, Band 66, 2009, S. 47–56, 71–73.
 Lara Calderari: Da e verso il Canton Ticino. Scambi artistici tra Quattro e Cinquecento. In: Arte+Architettura in Svizzera. Band LVIII, 2007, S. 54.
 Lara Calderari: Tommaso Rodari. San Giovanni Battista. In: Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi. Da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini. catalogo della mostra (Rancate, Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst, 10 ottobre 2010 – 9 gennaio 2011), (Hrsg.) Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa e Marco Tanzi, Officina Libraria, Milano 2010, S. 100–103.
 Luisa Cogliati Arano: La scultura. In: Il Duomo di Como. Milano 1972, S. 105–188.
 Luisa Cogliati Arano, Pietro Gini, Ottavio Bernasconi, Giorgio Mascherpa: Il Duomo di Como. Cassa di risparmio delle provincie lombarde, Milano 1972.
 Simona Martinoli u. a.: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, S. 24, 296, 345, 362, 441, 457, 458, 461, 476.
 M. Mascetti: Lapicidi della Fabbrica del Duomo negli atti notarili tra Quattro e Cinquecento. In: Magistri d'Europa. 1996, S. 49–55.
 Mirko Molzi: Tommaso Rodari e il Rinascimento comasco. Academy Press, Mendrisio 2022.
 Gian Alfonso Oldelli: Tommaso Rodari. In: Dizionario storico-ragionato degli uomini illustri del Canton Ticino. Band 1, S. 157, (PDF Digitalisat), Francesco Veladini, Lugano 1807.
 Simone Soldini: Il Duomo di Como nel periodo rodariano. In: Bramante milanese e l'architettura del Rinascimento lombardo. (Hrsg.) C. L. Frommel u. a., 2002, S. 243–249.
 Simone Soldini: Ricostruzione della prima attività alla Fabbrica del Duomo di Como di Tommaso Rodari da Maroggia, contemporaneo e seguace dell'Amadeo. In: Janice Shell, Liliana Castelfranchi (Hrsg.), Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. Scultura e architettura del suo tempo. Milano 1993.
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Should I buy the Samsung Galaxy Watch?
The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a refined vision of the company's Gear S2 smartwatch from 2015 – and it's the best wearable the company has yet made. We prefer the smaller 42mm model for its size and weight, though if you're into the chunky look, the 46mm model will give you better battery life.
But it's still only at its best when paired with a Samsung phone – using it with any other brand of phone loses the message and email apps. iOS connectivity is a little flaky, but it's good to have the option to use with an iPhone.
The smartwatch industry in 2018 is stalling. While the Apple Watch continues to sell well and Fitbit is dominating the fitness market, other big companies can't quite seem to work out how to shift smartwatches in large quantities.
Samsung is continuing to have a fair crack at it with the Galaxy Watch, a rebranded sequel to the Gear S3. By adding the Galaxy branding to a smartwatch launched alongside the Galaxy Note 9, the Korean company will be hoping its loyal fans will see the merits of a wrist-based computer.
It's still betting on its own Tizen software rather than Google Wear OS, which means a much smaller app ecosystem. Is the Galaxy Watch worth it? Here's our full review after time with both sizes of the Watch.
The Galaxy Watch comes in two sizes and is available to buy in the UK from Samsung directly. The 42mm model comes in rose gold or black and costs £279 while the 46mm model is silver and costs £299.
The 4G version is available from EE for £20 per month on a 24 month plan.
In the US the 42mm costs $329.99 and the 46mm $349.99. You can buy all the models here. Pre-orders get you a free second strap.
The US 4G versions are $379.99 and $399.99 and work on T-Mobile.
We concentrated on the larger 46mm version for our hands-on review but received the 42mm model for the full review.
Both are well-made, premium and very well-made smartwatches. The 46mm silver and black colour scheme is undoubtedly masculine and is close to dwarfing many wrist sizes. We prefer the 42mm, which is solely black on our model, and is a more manageable, unisex size.
This smaller case model is also available in a rose gold colour scheme.
Both look a lot like the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier, a watch that Samsung still sells for £259.99. We're not sure if this makes the new Watch a good deal or simply shows that not much has really changed here.
In fact, it even looks pretty similar to the Gear Sport, a similarly designed and priced watch that's not that old and is also still sold by Samsung. It means the Galaxy Watch is a confusing new addition to the range, and is a messier spread of products than Apple has.
We still love the circular display and the excellent rotating bezel that Samsung has practically perfected. It's tactile and intuitive to use to scroll through menus and adjust settings.
The 42mm watch in particular sits comfortably on our wrist despite its relative bulk. But considering the tech squeezed inside its no mean feat.
The silicone strap is a standard 22mm fit on the larger model, with the 42mm Watch taking 20mm straps, meaning you can swap in your own standard straps if you want.
The rubberised feel of the included strap slightly detracts from the high-quality metal body of the Galaxy Watch and in black picks up a lot of dust, but such material combinations are standard for smartwatches. It's a shame there's no leather option like with the Gear S3 Classic.
The inner bezel has five-minute integers printed but this section does not turn when you use the outer bezel. A 33mm or 30mm diameter display protected by Gorilla Glass DX+ is what you get depending on your size pick. The former is noticeably more generous.
This means the 46mm Galaxy Watch is practically the same dimensions as the Gear S3 and aside from the silver casing we'd be hard pressed to tell them apart.
On the rear of the Galaxy Watch sits a redesigned heart rate sensor at the centre of a comfortable plastic casing that feels good against the skin despite being part of a relatively bulky device. It's still not as huge as the LG Watch Sport, though.
There are more differences inside that should improve the Galaxy Watch more than the iterative design suggests. But they are quite minor and show that the smartwatch market is pretty stagnant, with a processor bump to the Exynos 9110 from the 7270 of the S3 but the same 768MB RAM.
Even on the Bluetooth version GPS is thankfully standard, meaning you can track a run and other exercises accurately and see where you've been on a map. You can even do this in the pool thanks to the 5ATM water resistance.
The best thing about going for the larger model is the extra battery – 472mAh instead of 270mAh. Samsung claims each size Watch will get at least four days of use between charges but you should see more out of the more expensive model, which is also a tad heavier at 63g compared to 49g (weights without strap). Using the always-on display option will shorten battery life.
In our extended use of the smaller Galaxy Watch we saw roughly three full days before we needed to charge. If we used the GPS feature once or twice then this cut down to more like two days as we expected.
But longer battery life means you can wear the Watch for sleep tracking, which is a plus and something the Apple Watch doesn't do.
It's also notable that this is the first Samsung smartwatch with fully automatic exercise detection, meaning you don't have to manually let it know you're about to start a workout – a feature we feel is integral to a wearable, particularly of this price. And it works!
Like older models, it charges via the included wireless charger. From dead it takes roughly an hour and a half.
Despite these upgrades, we didn't notice a big difference between it and older generations of Samsung's wearables. Aside from some software tweaks the UI is very similar to 2015's Gear S2 – though the performance and hardware are improved markedly.
The health features are numerous too. Auto exercise tracking is most notable and useful when you're off on a brisk walk. We also tested it as a standalone running watch, with great results.
The rotating bezels is great to cycle through stats while on the move, particularly when you're wearing gloves. Syncing with the Samsung Health app gives you a granular run down of your workout.
You can choose the Galaxy Watch as the sole fitness metric input, or double up with your phone or another Samsung wearable. A neat screen can show you all your vital stats for the day, and a few of the watch faces show you health info also.
Unlike the Apple Watch, Samsung fully supports third party watch faces.
EE sells a 4G version of the Watch in the UK with 1.5GB RAM and a higher price tag (the US version starts at $379.99). This will let you use it with full phone capabilities without your phone tethered like we saw on the Apple Watch Series 3 and newer redesigned Series 4.
This version allows you to make and receive phone calls, texts and notifications from your watch without it being tethered to your phone.
Available on EE in the UK, this version has a non-removable eSIM that EE links to your EE SIM in your phone (for now, that phone must be a recent Galaxy device). We had a little trouble with set up, but it's a process that employees can do in store for you.
You're then free to leave your phone at home. We did. It's an odd feeling, and obviously you're stunted, but calls, texts and everything else came through when we had a 4G connection on the watch. There's even a loudspeaker so you can shout at your wrist, full Star Trek style, for phone calls.
The speaker isn't very loud but it's great indoors and even outdoors we could hear a call on a rooftop. In a busy street is much harder, but you can connect the watch via Bluetooth to wireless headphones for calls too.
It's a bit of a luxury thing and it runs down the small battery very quickly when you're totally untethered from your phone but having the option, for runners especially, is cool – or if your phone runs out of battery on a night out, you still have calls, texts and payments. And the Uber for Gear app is pretty clunky, but it does work!
You might be put off by Samsung using its own Tizen software here, but it's actually in many ways better than Wear OS. It has fewer third party apps available though, and even Wear OS is anaemic compared to the Apple Watch.
But Tizen is attractive and well designed – the circular menus and rotating bezel input is still the best way of interacting with a smartwatch. The app icons in the menus are circular, and screens move left or right depending on the direction you turn the bezel. It becomes very intuitive very quickly.
Samsung apps are fully featured, with call, text, email and, yes, Bixby all working in tandem with your phone. As you might expect, Bixby on a watch is primitive. It works, but other than calling up the weather or your calendar (things you can do quickly without talking) it doesn't add much.
But you only get the Messages and Email app on the Watch if you sync it with a Samsung phone.
Even on other Android devices this is the case. You'll receive message and email push notifications if that's how you have your phone set up, but without the apps on the watch itself you lose some functionality.
When paired with an iPhone, which we also tested, it's the same as on a non-Samsung Android phone. It was a surprisingly harmonious experience.
The Galaxy Watch is compatible with Android phones with Android 5.0 or later and iPhone 5 and later with iOS 9.0 and above.
Despite all of the claims of longer battery life, our 42mm model didn't make it to four days. We left work on Friday at 5pm with it fully charged, and it was at 11% when we went for a run on Sunday morning – enough to see us through, but less than two full days.
This is disappointing, and we also found this wildly varied. If you want a Galaxy Watch with good battery life, pick the 46mm version. And bear in mind that if you end up with a 4G version, the battery life will be even less.
If you can put up with not tracking your sleep though then you can charge at night and easily get a full day on a charge. But it's less than what Samsung promises.
The Galaxy Watch is Samsung's best smartwatch to date. For less than some of the competition, it brings GPS, NFC, compact design and that smart rotating bezel.
Some might be put off by the lack of third party apps, but it shouldn't worry the majority. The health apps in particular are great, with auto activity tracking a plus.
The battery life could be better on the smaller model and you only get the message and email apps on a Samsung phone, but it's still preferable to Wear OS - which is mad, when you think about it.


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Generally, companies engage in passive customer interactions. That is, they only respond to inquiries but don't start chats. AI bots can begin the conversation and inform customers about sales and promotions. Moreover, virtual assistants can offer product pages, images, blog entries, and video tutorials. Suppose a customer finds a nice pair of jeans on your website. In this case, a chatbot can send them a link to a page with T-shirts that go well with them.
Web site: From Russia With Love. PDF. 2007-12-09. Psychologist and Scientific American: Mind contributing editor Robert Epstein reports how he was initially fooled by a chatterbot posing as an attractive girl in a personal ad he answered on a dating website. In the ad, the girl portrayed herself as being in Southern California and then soon revealed, in poor English, that she was actually in Russia. He became suspicious after a couple of months of email exchanges, sent her an email test of gibberish, and she still replied in general terms. The dating website is not named. Scientific American: Mind, October–November 2007, page 16–17, "From Russia With Love: How I got fooled (and somewhat humiliated) by a computer". Also available online.
Specialized conversational bots can be used to make professional tasks easier. For example, a conversational bot could be used to retrieve information faster compared to a manual lookup; simply ask, "What was the patient's blood pressure in her May visit?" The conversational bot will answer instantly instead of the user perusing through manual or electronic records.
Unfortunately the old adage of trash in, trash out came back to bite Microsoft. Tay was soon being fed racist, sexist and genocidal language by the Twitter user-base, leading her to regurgitate these views. Microsoft eventually took Tay down for some re-tooling, but when it returned the AI was significantly weaker, simply repeating itself before being taken offline indefinitely.
One pertinent field of AI research is natural language processing. Usually, weak AI fields employ specialized software or programming languages created specifically for the narrow function required. For example, A.L.I.C.E. uses a markup language called AIML, which is specific to its function as a conversational agent, and has since been adopted by various other developers of, so called, Alicebots. Nevertheless, A.L.I.C.E. is still purely based on pattern matching techniques without any reasoning capabilities, the same technique ELIZA was using back in 1966. This is not strong AI, which would require sapience and logical reasoning abilities.
Beyond users, bots must also please the messaging apps themselves. Take Facebook Messenger. Executives have confirmed that advertisements within Discover — their hub for finding new bots to engage with — will be the main way Messenger monetizes its 1.3 billion monthly active users. If standing out among the 100,000 other bots on the platform wasn't difficult enough, we can assume Messenger will only feature bots that don't detract people from the platform.
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"I believe the dreamers come first, and the builders come second. A lot of the dreamers are science fiction authors, they're artists…They invent these ideas, and they get catalogued as impossible. And we find out later, well, maybe it's not impossible. Things that seem impossible if we work them the right way for long enough, sometimes for multiple generations, they become possible."
Being an early adopter of a new channel can provide enormous benefits, but that comes with equally high risks. This is amplified within marketplaces like Amazon. Early adopters within Amazon's marketplace were able to focus on building a solid base of reviews for their products - a primary ranking signal - which meant that they'd create huge barriers to entry for competitors (namely because they were always showing up in the search results before them).
There are NLP services and applications programming interfaces that are used to build the chatbots and make it possible for all type of businesses, small. Medium and large scale. The main point here is that Smart Bots have the potential to help increase your customer base by improving the customer support services and as a result boosts the sales as well as profits. They are an opportunity for many small and mid-sized companies to reach a huge customer base.
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Alexander J Porter is Head of Copy for Paperclip Digital - Sydney's boutique agency with bold visions. Bringing a creative flair to everything that he does, he wields words to weave magic connections between brands and their buyers. With extensive experience as a content writer, he is constantly driven to explore the way language can strike consumers like lightning.
The chatbot is trained to translate the input data into a desired output value. When given this data, it analyzes and forms context to point to the relevant data to react to spoken or written prompts. Looking into deep learning within AI, the machine discovers new patterns in the data without any prior information or training, then extracts and stores the pattern.
The most advanced bots are powered by artificial intelligence, helping it to understand complex requests, personalize responses, and improve interactions over time. This technology is still in its infancy, so most bots follow a set of rules programmed by a human via a bot-building platform. It's as simple as ordering a list of if-then statements and writing canned responses, often without needing to know a line of code.
Of course, each messaging app has its own fine print for bots. For example, on Messenger a brand can send a message only if the user prompted the conversation, and if the user doesn't find value and opt to receive future notifications within those first 24 hours, there's no future communication. But to be honest, that's not enough to eradicate the threat of bad bots.
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The term "ChatterBot" was originally coined by Michael Mauldin (creator of the first Verbot, Julia) in 1994 to describe these conversational programs.[2] Today, most chatbots are accessed via virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, via messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger or WeChat, or via individual organizations' apps and websites.[3][4] Chatbots can be classified into usage categories such as conversational commerce (e-commerce via chat), analytics, communication, customer support, design, developer tools, education, entertainment, finance, food, games, health, HR, marketing, news, personal, productivity, shopping, social, sports, travel and utilities.[5]


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Although Weber is a grill brand, it is much more than a grill – Weber is the ultimate barbecue experience. This means the accessories are just as important a part of the experience as the grill itself – and a part which is constantly being developed and updated. Our accessories are divided into three categories: Weber, Weber Original and Weber Style.
The Weber range consists of basic accessories and spare parts which are essential to barbecuing – such as a meat thermometer, chimney starter, cover, cooking grate and Flavorizer Bars.
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What type of grate should I choose – cast-iron, porcelain-enamelled or stainless steel?
The various grate types each have their own advantages, so it comes down to personal taste. A cast-iron grate is better at retaining heat, a porcelain-enamelled grate is easy to clean, while a stainless steel grate generally lasts longer. Two features all our grates have in common are that they create perfect grill patterns on the food, and require minimal maintenance.
It is important to remember that a cooking grate is a 'wearing part' which is unlikely to last the full lifetime of the grill. Always clean the grate using a grill brush after use. Grease the cooking grate before and after barbecuing to prevent food sticking. Never use olive oil. Use a neutral cooking oil and apply using a piece of paper towel and barbecue tongs. The easiest option is to apply Weber's BBQ oil spray before adding the food – as this avoids getting your fingers dirty. Once you have finished using the grill and have brushed the cooking grate clean, it is always a good idea to apply Weber's special grill protection oil. In contrast to cooking oil, it is absorbed by and protects the grate. This is an excellent idea if the grill is not going to be used for an extended period. It also makes future cleaning easier. The oil is 100% natural and therefore does not need to be washed off prior to using the grate the next time. If you follow these tips your cooking grate can last for many years.


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Pennsylvania Primary: Clinton Does TV Ad for Margolies
By Emily Cahn
Posted May 14, 2014 at 9:44am
Former Rep. Marjorie Margolies' latest ad in her comeback bid in Pennsylvania features former President Bill Clinton touting her accomplishments on camera, a potentially game-changing spot less than one week from the Keystone State's primary.
"I'm not coming here saying vote for her because 20 years ago she saved the economy," Clinton says of Margolies in the 30-second ad, referring to her vote in 1993 that saved Clinton's budget and ultimately cost the Democrat her seat in Congress. "She'll take initiative, she'll do things and stand up when she needs to stand up and cooperate when we need cooperation."
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Margolies, who is former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law, is looking to retake control of the race from her biggest opponent in the primary: state Rep. Brendan Boyle.
Margolies hinted to CQ Roll Call on Friday that the Clintons, who had for the most part stayed quiet in the contest, could come in and help boost her bid in the home stretch of the primary. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also hosting a fundraiser for Margolies on Thursday in New York.
It is unclear how much money is behind the spot, which would have to air in the pricey Philadelphia media market. But Margolies has come under scrutiny by the other candidates in the contest for dipping into funds in the primary that she designated for the general election — a breach of campaign finance laws.
Margolies, Boyle, state Sen. Daylin Leach and physician Val Arkoosh are running in the 13th District Democratic primary to try to replace Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz. Schwartz is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in the state.
The primary is akin to the general election in this heavily Democratic district — located in northeast Philadelphia and the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.
Pennsylvania's 13th District is rated a Safe Democratic contest by Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call.


Why do we have April Fools Day and when did the custom begin ?
It is something kids love, perhaps as a way of getting one over on the grown ups. I am slightly older but still jump at the chance to make someone an April Fool given half a chance. Is this a new phonomina which has caught on in modern times ? No, it apparently goes back in Britain to the 18th century.
It was probably borrowed from the Scottish custom of sending people to "Hunt the Gowk", which is a type of cuckoo or foolish person. The traditional prank was to ask someone to deliver a sealed message that supposedly requests help of some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile." The recipient, upon reading it, will explain he can only help if he first contacts another person, and sends the victim to this next person with an identical message, with the same result. I'm not entirely sure why that caught on !
Nor I nor they themselves do know."
In 1860 many people received postcards inviting them to the "ancient ceremony of washing the White Lions at the Tower of London on April 1st. Admission only at the White Gate". The organisers spent an amusing morning watching cabs searching for the non existent White Gate. Strangely coincidentally my ancestor, William Henry Bird (week 62) was a Grenadier Guardsman at The Tower of London in 1860 and it is interesting to surmise that perhaps he was one of the instigators of this prank ...... or at least was one of those watching and laughing from the ramparts !
However the most famous April Fools Day joke was on the BBC Panorama programme in 1957 when they showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively little-known in the UK so that many Britons were unaware that spaghetti is made from wheat flour and water. A number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees.


Valentine's Day is just around the corner and I've been in the mood to wear lots of red and pink looks. Since I'm trying to buy less clothes, I decided to shop my own closet and re-style one of my favorite white midi dresses. I've had this midi dress in my closet for over two years, last seen here on the blog. I love that the dress is long-sleeved and midi length because it is very hard to find modest long-sleeved midi dresses!
In the spirit of Valentine's Day I decided to accessorize the dress with all the pops of red I could find in my closet! The red bag, belt, heels, and polka dot red scarf really bring the dress to life for the occasion. A Valentine's Day look is not complete without a classic red lip! I'm wearing my all time favorite red lipstick, MAC Feel So Grand, read all about the amazing long-lasting lipstick here.


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Crosby, Stills & Nash, Richie Havens, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix (starring)
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The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an audience of more than 300,000 people. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and nominated for two more.
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The Creation of the Russian Production of Metal Powders as a Basic Element Additive Technology | OMICS International
The Creation of the Russian Production of Metal Powders as a Basic Element Additive Technology
Bogdanov SV*
State University of Management, Moscow, Russia
Bogdanov SV
Received Date: November 16, 2016; Accepted Date: December 26, 2016; Published Date: January 30, 2017
Citation: Bogdanov SV (2016) The Creation of the Russian Production of Metal Powders as a Basic Element Additive Technology. J Powder Metall Min 6: 148. doi:10.4172/2168-9806.1000148
Copyright: © 2016 Bogdanov SV. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Presents the results of the development of technology and equipment for the production of granules that get on the plasma-centrifugal atomization with the guidance of the liquid bath of the melt in a rotating crucible with a skull. This technology and equipment are a promising and commercially attractive in the perspective of experimental-industrial production of pellets intended for the manufacture of monolithic products, methods of compaction and 3-D technology
Granules; Greenhouse environment; Composite material; Metal powder
Additive technology based on the principle of concept formation and summation of the positive merits of different technological solutions in the life cycle of the receipt of the product, are becoming more widespread in the twenty-first century. The methodology of this process is based on the use of digital technologies and on the basis of 3-D computer models of real parts. The loop starts from the idea of designing and manufacturing a prototype and then creates the production and its disposal after use. It can radically reduce the time and cost of producing complex functional parts and products with unique properties. Also provides reduced energy costs in the production of marketable products of a given quality and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, improves the environment for running industrial enterprises.
In the production of metal products with the use of additive technologies are widely used metal powders (granules) of a certain chemical and fractional composition. Currently known technology of production of articles by methods of moulding, sintering, cold and hot extrusion or layer-by-layer synthesis using digital technologies allow to apply a systematic synergistic approach to obtaining the end products of the specified quality. This approach aims at a comprehensive study of the possibility of new properties of products made of complex metal composite materials at all stages of the technological production cycle, which allows to obtain a finished marketable products a unique quality.
The use of the proposed Haken of ideas about the order parameters and the principle of subordination in synergistic systems help to make the conclusion that the properties of the metal powders can be a sort of basic control parameters achieve the quality indicators of finished products derived from these materials. It is known that if the system consists of a large number of parts, the state vector q=q(x,t), describing the whole system at the micro - or mesoscopic levels can to satisfy the equation of (where x - the spatial coordinate; N - a nonlinear function of q; α - the control parameter; F(t) is a fluctuating function [1,2]. For products produced using additive technologies based on the use of powdered granular materials, the most important indicator is the shape of the particles, their density, microhardness, structural and chemical homogeneity of the matrix solid-phase composition, providing the desired properties of the final marketable products. Valid density of the powder particles largely depends on the availability of the various impurities of closed pores, lattice defects and other reasons which cause the difference of the actual density of the material from the theoretical. The microhardness of powder particles characterizes the ability of deformation, which also largely depends on the content of impurities in the powder particle and crystal lattice defects. The high crystallization rate of sputtering of the molten metal allows not only to grind formed during the crystallization of grain, but also provide the most effective grain-boundary and bulk hardening of the most solid spheroidizing particles and composite materials made of pellets by known methods of compaction.
In the technology of powder metallurgy are widely used granules of one particular chemical composition. Much less for compaction products use granules of materials of different composition. The use of different methods of mixing of pellets of different fractional composition, as a rule, does not produce satisfactory uniformity of the chemical composition and properties of finished products formed from these granules. Performed by Russian authors for the design of composite materials from metals, alloys, intermetallic phases, carbides using plasma atomization technology showed the promise of obtaining high-density, structurally homogeneous, solid materials in industrial conditions [3-5]. In the modern method, plasma-centrifugal atomization of a spherical particle provides for the application of plasma as a heating source for melting raw materials and its use for the formation of a liquid bath in a rotating crucible with a skull. During cooling drops from the rotating crucible provides a high speed of crystallization of the melt sprayed in the working chamber (in the range of 103-106 °C/s). This allows you to grind formed during the crystallization of grain in the spheroids provides the most effective grain boundary and volumetric hardening the formed solid pellet, and those composite materials that are produced from them by known methods of compaction or methods layer-by-layer synthesis products.
In Russia there is a technology of plasma-centrifugal atomization pellets and suitable equipment for centrifugal spraying of the liquid phase obtained from the melt of bulk raw materials, nibs or workpiece. The schematic diagram of the sputtering process in a rotating crucible with skull shown in Figure 1. General view of pilot plant is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 1: Scheme of sputtering the liquid phase from semolina (a) and rod (b) Plasma installs "Sferamet Ltd." [5]: 1) plasma torch; 2) plasma arc; 3) rotating graphite crucible; 4) the skull; 5) liquid phase; 6) solidified droplets and solid granules; 7) grains, the workpiece (rod).
Figure 2: General view of the apparatus for producing spherical granules.
A method of producing granules is implemented in drip or jet-droplet mode. This excludes the capture of the inert gas and the formation of internal voids in the formed spherical granule. The design of the system and elements of the technological process of obtaining her solid granules of a certain chemical and granulometric composition of the patented [6].
Process spheroidizing of the liquid phase occurs on the edge of the skull in a rotating crucible under a plasma arc. At the edge of the skull crucible, the melt accumulated in this volume, which further ensures the formation of stable drops. After separation from the edge of the skull this drop in flight takes a spherical shape without the seizure of an inert gas. Elements of the technology for stable drop formation and spheroidizing in plasma-arc process of melting of the feedstock needs to be strictly synchronized. Otherwise, the edges of the crucible dispersion of droplets passes into the jet-droplet mode and formed long solid threads, which is unacceptable. Processing methods produce solid granules of spherical shape at the facility are elements of the "know-how". On the installation were obtained spherical granules of the following materials: carbon and high-chromium steel, nickel and titanium alloys, titanium metal, tungsten carbide, alloys based on intermetallic compounds (TiAl, Ti2AlNb).
Below are the results of the preliminary analysis of the kinetic characteristics of the formation of drops from a steel melt in a rotating crucible. Full kinetic energy (�) spherical drops at the time of its separation from a rotating surface of a melt in the skull crucible can be estimated from the equation:
where M – the drop mass
w – speed of rotation of the crucible [m/s];
J – the moment of inertia drops, [kg•m2];
ω – angular speed of rotation drops, [rad.];
ρ – the density of the melt [kg/m3].
Until the moment of separation of the drop of kinetic energy of motion equal to zero and the conditions of separation drops from the surface of the melt is determined mainly by the kinetic energy of its motion. The conditions of separation droplet radius (r) from the surface of the melt obtained from the expression:
where σ – the surface tension of the melt [n/m];
R – the radius of the edge of a melt in the skull crucible, [m].
For calculations for practical purposes, the resulting formula by which it is possible to estimate the critical size of the radius of the droplet (rcr, [m]) at the time of its separation from the surface of the melt:
where n – the rotational speed of the crucible with the melt in revolutions per minute [rpm].
The estimated radius of the formed droplets of the melt of iron flying out of the rotating crucible with a radius of about 3 × 10-2 m is estimated at about 150 μm (σFe=1,85 n/m; ρFe=7,8 × 103 kg/m3; n=104 rpm). For melt of the titan (σTi=1,33 n/m; ρTi=4,5 × 103 kg/m3) under the same conditions of the process design value of the radius of the droplet will change slightly and will amount to a value of about 160 μm. It is known that the error in the estimates of the same diameter formed of a spherical droplet reaches 40% in comparison with the diameter of the granules obtained experimentally [7], so the estimated average diameter of iron granules can be in the range of 180-420 μm, and titanium, respectively, 255-385 μm. The calculations did not take into account the influence of many other factors: viscosity and density of the melt, the dynamic characteristics of gas-phase plasma above the melt, the instability of the process of separation of metal droplets from the melt layer on the edge of the crucible. The hyperbolic dependence of the radius of the granules from the number of revolutions of the crucible with the melt indicates that even slight braking or acceleration of the rotation of the crucible with the molten metal, can significantly affect the size of the granules. The results of the preliminary calculations showed that when the centrifugal atomization of the melt is almost possible to obtain granules in a fairly wide range of fractional composition.
The experimental results for obtaining pellets of high-speed steel by plasma-centrifugal atomization of a melt in a graphite crucible, with advanced plasma technology with a rotating rate of 10 rpm steel rod with a diameter of 40 mm and guidance of the liquid bath of the parabolic shape in a rotating with a frequency of up to 6000 rpm crucible, confirmed the possibility of establishing a pilot production of spheroids for subsequent fabrication of monolithic composites. The results of sieving through sieves of the received batch of steel spheroids is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: The results of sieving the spheroids high speed steel (the rotation speed of the crucible 6000 rpm).
Figure 3 allows to make a conclusion about expediency of use of valuation techniques in calculating the amount of the solid spherical particles obtained with this apparatus. Spheroids with diameters in the range of 200-500 μm, 100-200 μm and 100 μm satisfy the requirements of the buyer. The share of steel pellets with a diameter of 500 μm was 72% (Rel.). All this stimulates the commercial attractiveness of the use of the method of producing granules on the plasma-centrifugal atomization.
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So, coming to the question of whether you should actually migrate to Magento 2 or not, let's make the decision easier for you. If you are using any other eCommerce platform, the best time to shift to Magento 2 was yesterday. And if you're using Magento 1 right now, and are having serious performance issues, along with a number of 3rd party extensions installed, now would be good time to plan for a migration. Especially since the support for Magento 1 would end up by 2018.
Going further, the backend admin is easier to use for non-technical users, with the visual look and the presence of a new file structure brings in lots of support for the module developers.
Magento 2 also integrates much easily with popular payment gateways including PayPal; and to make things creamy, it is faster, much faster than any eCommerce system you have seen till date.
Now to the bitter part. Magento 2 is costly (approximately $22,000/year as compared to $18,000/year for Magento 1) and much more difficult to integrate with. Though installing Magento 2 has become easier now with its standalone installer, Magento 1 themes cannot be ported, so you'll have to build a new theme from scratch, though the data (customer records, inventory & customer data etc) can be imported with ease.
And when we say that the extensions from Magento 1 will not be transferable, rather than sulking, it should provide the developers with a chance to re-think on some new ideas and get a chance to improve the overall experience of their website. And even if you aren't of the sort expecting to make changes soon, in due time all the extensions from Magento 1 will be made available for Magento 2, though they'll still have to be repurchased.
Love it or hate it, Magento 2 is here to stay no matter what, especially with the wonderful legacy Magento 1 had set forth earlier.
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Q: Loop for function names I will make my question short and simple:
I have a series of functions called f1, f2, f3 etc. and now I want to loop through them, not typing them one by one. Is there a way to do this? It is a c programming practice.

A: Reflection doesn't work in C, as far i Know, So you cannot dynamically convert string to function calls, using their names.
However, you can use function pointers to do it.
#include <stdio.h>

int f1()
{
   printf("f1() \n");
   return 0;
}

int f2()
{
   printf("f2() \n");
   return 0;
}

int f3()
{
   printf("f3() \n");
   return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   int (*p[3])() = {
      f1,
      f2,
      f3
   };

   for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
      (*p[i]) ();
   }

   return 0;
}

A: If you you are looking for a function to convert function name string to the address, try dlsym()
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlsym.3.html

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Over 1,890,000 followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Prosecco DOC is the official sparkling wine of WSBK: from the podium awards, to paddock events to the various lounges, there are many opportunities for brand visibility and to experience the product, fun for the public and guests of the Consortium and of the wine makers themselves.
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Q: Interview task: Limit number of concurrent requests with tokens During an interview, i got this question.
Scenario: In a database table there are entries made for common resources. Lets say column name "token". In total there are 500 tokens. One web app is using this token table. So whenever one user hits the web app URL, one token get assigned to the user. Once token assigned to user, it can not be used by other users. So for another user, if a token shows that already taken, system will try to assign another token and so on.
Problem: Now on given point of time, lets say 600 user hits the web app, how to make sure that only 500 users will get the token, rest 100 will not.
Thank you.

A: What you need to do is to check whether there is a free token when a request starts, take a token if there is a free one, and release it when work is done. Since the question was about a database, I think it hints at how to achieve atomicity of check and take: use transactions.
For example, you could have table with 500 rows for tokens with a procedure that would select a free token from database and, if there is one, update its row to mark it as taken. This procedure would be run in a transaction. If it ends with no free token available, then the serving thread would wait and try again after a short period of time. Releasing the token is again a trivial update of a row.
Another option would be starting with an empty table and taking a token by inserting a new row. Again, checking that there are <= 500 rows and inserting a new one must be run in a transaction to ensure atomicity.

A: If I am designing this I would design the tokens like a stack, you take a token off/put it back. When there are no tokens, you wait for a token to be available in the stack.
In terms of multiple threads, the actual stack pop call should be in a synchronized block, so only a single thread at a time will ever be able to pop.


It's been a while since I last wrote. I have been immersed in my studying hypnotherapy, mindful guided imagery and intuitive guidance. While I have been doing some reflecting, I have been enjoying practicing as well. The practice of being still, being outside in nature and listening and observing, and then transferring that over to my thoughts, has been transformative for me.
I was not exactly sure what it was that changed. It could be the hypnotherapy I have been doing (I am a client too!), or just being more aware of my thoughts, but I have noticed that my old, worn-out worries are just not really there as much anymore. It's almost like they have almost disappeared.
If this is so, then why so many people are still suffering? If only they knew that life does not need to be so hard. Why are some still living inside their mental prisons?
I have to remind myself that not everyone is aware of this fact that there is in fact a mental prison. There is a paradox at play – you cannot fix what you do not know is broken. To awaken to this fact takes some quieting of the mind and connecting with Divine Source energy, with God, with your true self, which is all of the above.
So many of us just accept that our way of life is just "how it is." That we are meant to be addicted to smartphones, stressed, depressed and medicated. That we are meant to work 60 hours a week and go out drinking on the weekends or binge-watch TV shows just to cope with the pain of living this way.
Sometimes, though, it gets too much. Somebody gets terminally sick, has a nervous breakdown, loses their job or has some kind of other "wake-up call" that things are not alright. That it's not normal to live like this.
I could go on and on about the ills of our society, and why I believe that things are like this, but ultimately my goal is to help you, and to help us humans free ourselves from our own minds.
Simply, the goal is, I believe, to raise our vibration. I know that many of you have heard that before, and maybe you are wondering just what that means. In my view, "raising our vibration" means that we are living in a state of love for our fellow humans, that we feel hope, compassion and kindness first toward ourselves and toward all sentient beings, including the Earth itself (herself).
Sometimes it's hard to do this, though. Many of us have experienced unimaginable trauma, and some of us have just experienced little traumas over our life that has added up into a shell we have erected to protect ourselves. But eventually, we start to realize that the shell is cracking and falling apart, and that we need a new solution.
And then what sometimes happens is fear. Fear of what it means to let go of this protective outer shell, fear of letting a part of ourselves go, fear of trusting in a power higher and more loving than ourselves. Voices and opinions of what we have heard from parents, teachers, the media and even friends swirl in our heads, often reinforcing our worst fears. And then we get paralyzed. Some of us know this is not a way to live, but we cannot find a way out of our mental slavery. And if you are sensitive and empathic, then you are even more at risk of being negatively affected by these low-vibration influences around you. And this can lead to darkness, to depression, to drug addiction, and sometimes to suicide.
I have seen this happen to people around me, and it breaks my heart. If only they knew that there is a better way, that many of the "solutions" in the traditional Western medicine can completely debilitate and numb people, especially children. Is this what we want? We have been trained to believe that if we just take a pill for something, that it will make everything all better. We have been taught that there is a "quick-fix solution" for everything. But many do not realize is that with all of these prescriptions, we are just masking the real problem, which is still there deep down until it is confronted.
Then there's our smartphone and internet addictions. Last year, after returning to the U.S. from a trip abroad, I was amazed when going through customs that almost every single person had their head buried in their phones. I am not sure if we realize what this addiction is doing to us, to our brains, to our emotional wellbeing, to our sanity and to our health. It takes time for the effects of smartphone addictions to cumulate, but if we are not careful, we are at risk of becoming a nation of automotons. It's not our fault though! (Not completely, at least). People running large social media companies and designing smartphones and video games design these to be as addictive as possible. Every time we get a "Iike" for something, or a "follow," we get a rush of dopamine. And then we go back for more, again and again. It's time to break ourselves free from this cycle of dysfunction.
Clearly, it is still a battle to fight this wave of social programming that is happening to us.
However, there is good news in all of this, I believe. It has gotten to the point of being almost as bad as it can be. There is a backlash against this, a movement to get back to the Earth, to live more simply, to become more self-sufficient and to unplug from the programming.
2) Tap into a source of pure love higher than yourself. This can be God, or angels, Jesus another Ascended Master, or spirit guides, or simply just light. But this is what will keep us going... finding our higher selves in our hearts, the seat of our souls. Imagine a ball of light growing in your heart every day, and imagine that this light is spreading through your body. Send this light as a form of healing out to the world. This is raising your vibration.
3) Work on your stuff. Dig into your fears. Excavate your limiting beliefs. Uncover your self-defeating thoughts. Just identifying the negative Ego is the first step. Then you have a choice whether or not to let it run your life anymore. Meditation trains your mind (and it takes time!) to let go of negative thinking and beliefs. But often some of these beliefs are so deeply entrenched (since childhood) that it might be necessary to re-program the subconscious mind with affirmations and positive thoughts. Modalities like hypnotherapy or neuro-linguistic programming can transform your subconscious thoughts completely.
For me, this "recipe" of three approaches has been key. Other important pieces are getting outside in nature, finding joy and having fun, helping others in need and being with community and friends. And just being gentle with yourself. It's really actually kind of simple, if you think about it. It's just a matter of devoting the time and effort to re-training your mind, and creating a life that will free you. It's not supposed to be this hard. Life is supposed to be filled with joy. And if it's not, then it's time to make a change. You don't have to take my word for it, though. Try committing wholeheartedly to doing the above three things for even just 30 days and see if you don't notice a major shift in your life.
It's almost not a choice we have anymore. It's time to live the lives we deserve to live. We don't have time to waste any longer. We have suffered for too long, and our suffering has led to us causing the suffering of others, including animals and our planet. The old ways of protesting and fighting things are not working anymore. The only way we can survive this time is if we change our mindset and shift our consciousness at the core. This will be what saves us.


The Board 2 on 2 was scheduled to be held this Saturday, December 28 at 7pm.
The ice storm that we had just prior to Christmas, has played havoc with the electricity throughout the City of Brampton, and the GTA in general. Chinguacousy Curling Club is one of the outstanding vitims of the electricity outage.
Because there still is no power at the club, the Board has chosen to announce on Thursday, Dec 26, that the 2 on 2 event will be cancelled.


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Artbound has worked to restore art at MARTA stations, including the mosaics art at the Ashby station. Courtesy Katherine Dirga
MARTA to spruce up, expand stations' artworks
Martha Michael, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An Ashby station MARTA worker who has been working there 13 years said she had never noticed the mosaics on the walls until recently, she told Katherine Dirga, MARTA's new arts administrator. The restoration of the mosaic artwork in the station is a result of efforts MARTA's public art program Artbound, officially launched June 19.
"I feel like transit is what Atlanta's future progress hinges on," Dirga said at a recent event at the Atlanta Contemporary art center.
And although the city's public transportation system lags those of similar cities, "Art can make transit a little bit enjoyable," she said.
MARTA riders may have already noticed some new features at stations, including murals at the Chamblee and King Memorial stations and a mural and playground at the West Trinity Bridge in Decatur. A mural is also being added to the Hamilton E. Holmes station.
Other riders, like the Ashby station worker, may have noticed work to restore existing art, including the 18 murals at the North Avenue station. "We want to make customers feel valued, and we can do that by bringing a little bit of humanity into the stations," Dirga said. "But a big part of enhancing riders' experience is just cleaning up what's already there."
According to Dirga, new plans include:
A lighting project for the Grant Street underpass, which will improve brightness and increase safety for pedestrians heading to the King Memorial station.
Forty-foot murals at the Decatur station.
Cleaning up existing artwork and adding low-maintenance landscaping to the East Point station.
Opening up the Airport station by clearing out unnecessary kiosks, enlarging an existing sculpture and adding artwork — which could be digital, kinetic or mosaic, Dirga said.
To fund those projects, 1 percent of the $453.3 million for the 2017 fiscal year will be allocated for art-related programs, community activities and restoration projects.
But not everyone thinks spending money on art should be a high MARTA priority. Mandel Jones, 23, of Fayetteville, says the biggest focus should be expanding MARTA and increasing its reliability. That sentiment was also expressed among Georgia legislators earlier this year when House Speaker David Ralston stated his support for deeper investment in mass transit.
Yet Jones said he sees the value in adding art. "It could change the way people perceive their stations and how they act on MARTA," he said.
Sandra Bloodworth, director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Arts & Design program in New York City, believes Jones' theory is correct. "When people see things that are broken, they'll break it more," Bloodworth said. "So the idea is, when you include great art (in public transportation) people will take good care of it. And for the most part they do."
For Dirga, who previously served as the art program manager for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the hope is that by including art, especially art that reflects local communities, MARTA customers will feel a sense of pride in their city's transit system. "We want people to embrace the idea of there being a 'destination within the journey,' " she said.
Artbound soon plans to expand from visual art into the performing arts, Dirga said. On Sept. 13 and 14, MARTA will hold public music auditions for its Talent on Track program to have musicians play and perform in different stations. This is similar to MTA's Music Under New York program, which hosts over 7,500 performances throughout the transit system annually.
More details are expected to be released soon.


At the meeting point of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, there is a small triangular area where the Beloutch live. The Beloutch people are renowned for their hand-knotted woolen tapestries.
However, that is not the only thing they are known for. The Beloutch also make beautiful dresses with extraordinary hand-embroidered designs. The base fabric is often of cheap origin, chosen for it's silk characteristics or it's see-through look. It then is embroidered with beautiful patterns. The end product is a lively, authentic and highly fashionable dress.
All dresses are vintage. Sometimes the dress has a little spot or hole. This is simply part of the dress, and adds an extra element it.


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touch    $STORAGE_PATH/$DEFAULT_BUCKET/.keep

mkdir -p $STORAGE_PATH/$AVATAR_BUCKET
touch    $STORAGE_PATH/$AVATAR_BUCKET/.keep

#port=9010
python -m ms3.app --address=0.0.0.0 --datadir="$STORAGE_PATH" --port=$PORT

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RoboBee X-Wing: Smart Dust is just around the corner
Shades of Michael Crichton's prophetic 2002 novel "Prey" featuring swarms of "smart dust."
Now comes RoboBee X-Wing, another step on the way.
For years now, scientists have sought to build aerial robots inspired by bees and other flying insects.
But they have always run into a fundamental problem: Flying takes a lot of energy.
Insects flap their wings, generating the thrust needed to move through the air by utilizing the energy stored in strong muscles.
Their robot doppelgängers must rely on batteries, which are less efficient and tend to be heavy, or must be hooked up externally.
Now researchers at Harvard University have built a new type of robot that is capable of true, untethered flight.
The unit, called the RoboBee X-Wing, is equipped with four tiny wings made of carbon fiber and polyester, and even tinier photovoltaic cells.
In bright light, its solar cells generate about five volts of electricity, which a minuscule transformer then boosts to the 200 volts necessary for liftoff.
When the high voltage is applied to two components called piezoelectric actuators, they bend and contract, much as an insect's muscles would.
This drives the flapping motion of the RoboBee's wings.
Clever engineering keeps the device small and light — about one-quarter the weight of a paper clip.
This allows the RoboBee to flit about freely, whereas previous iterations of the robot could only take off, land, or perch mid-flight while leashed to a power supply.
"We wanted to keep pushing the limit on how much power we could squeeze out of the artificial muscles in the robot, and how efficient we could make the whole system," said Noah Jafferis, a postdoctoral engineer at Harvard and one of the leaders of the research.
On Wednesday, Dr. Jafferis and his colleagues reported in Nature that the RoboBee is now able to match the thrust efficiency of similarly sized insects, such as bees.
The first time the robot took off in the lab, it lifted off with such force and speed that some of the researchers yelped in surprise.
"We weren't expecting it to take off like that at all," said Farrell Helbling, a postdoctoral roboticist who also led research on the seminal flight.
So far, each of the RoboBee's test flights have only lasted a couple seconds.
One of the robot's shortcomings is that it still can't store energy.
As soon as it flies out of a small, well-lit area, it slows down and falls to the ground.
But Dr. Helbling and Dr. Jafferis are confident that the robot could stay aloft for several minutes if its solar cells and circuits were given the proper tweaks.
Further advances in engineering could make microrobots even more autonomous, said F. Zeynep Temel, who works on ant-sized jumping robots at Carnegie Mellon University.
And once these tiny robots are able to zip up, down and sideways outdoors, they could be used to take air quality measurements, help search collapsed buildings for survivors, or even be deployed in swarms.
"Having onboard power is the first big step to getting microrobots out of the lab and into the real world," Dr.Temel said.
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Hilary B. Price is here to help
"Being Invisible Can Be Deadly" — Hito Steyerl
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User:Phoenix B 1of3 says goodbye to Wikimedia — June 14, 2012
Res ipsa loquitur.
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OXO Grape Cutter
I didn't know such a thing existed until I stumbled on it while cruising Amazon.
• Cuts most seedless grapes and grape tomatoes into quarters quickly and safely with serrated blades that easily slice through fruit skins
• Soft, non-slip plunger and curved finger rests provide comfort while cutting
• Cover snaps on for on-the-go use and safe storage
• Can be taken apart for easy cleaning and is BPA free
• Quartering your grapes makes them a safer snack for tots, as the smaller pieces are less likely to get stuck in a child's windpipe
$10.99 (grapes not included — except for purchasers residing in the southern suburbs of Atlanta. Please specify red or green/seedless or not).