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Q: How to Transfer/synchronize content between windows and linux remote server? How can I recursively copy a folder from Windows to remote linux server using jsch sftp?
I have already tried using sftpchannel.put(src,dest) but it transfers only files. I also tried iterating over the file list to look for a directory and running a recursive loop but it made the code all the more complicated with additional exception handling. Is their any other way to do this?
Is their any way to use something like rsync between windows and linux machines using Java code?

A: Jsch doesn't have an SFTP operation to recursively transfer a directory from local to remote (or from remote to local either). To recursively transfer a directory using Jsch, you will need to write code to construct the list of files and directories to be transferred, then issue ChannelSftp.mkdir() calls to create each remote directory and ChannelSftp.put() operations to transfer each file.
The only way I know of to use rsync from java is to call the rsync command line utility as an external command. It will invoke  the ssh command line utility or another external program to make its own connection to the remote server. Jsch wouldn't normally be involved.

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Filmmaker and shark protector Rob Stewart: December 28, 1979 to January 31, 2017.
As an award-winning biologist, photographer, conservationist and filmmaker, Rob Stewart leaves many legacies. His most important, though, was his embrace of sharks (in some cases quite literally), showing how beautiful these sea predators are, and how they are now predated themselves.
The 37-year-old died doing what he loved. He went missing January 31, in a dive off the Florida Keys, as part of the work on his film sequel Sharkwater: Extinction. Looking to spot the elusive and endangered sawfish, he used a rebreather – which recycles the carbon dioxide of diver exhalations into breathable air – allowing him to swim without making the bubbles that could scare away the shy and reclusive sharks.
Notoriously difficult to use, the rebreather may have contributed to his death. After surfacing from the third dive of a very long and difficult day, he most likely lost consciousness and disappeared beneath the waves while his dive partner was helped back on the boat and passed out himself.
Born and raised in Toronto, Stewart started photographing underwater when he was 13. By 18 he became a scuba instructor and then earned a degree in biology, studying in Ontario, Jamaica and Kenya.
He spent four years globetrotting as a photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation's magazines, going to remote locations and creating indelible images that appeared in media worldwide.
While on assignment in the Galapagos Islands, he discovered illegal shark finning practices, catering to the huge Asian market for shark fin soup. Angered by traditional media's unwillingness to publicize the cause, Stewart decided at age 22 to take matters into his own hands.
Taking action to protect sharks meant teaming up with Paul Watson and documenting their adventures aboard the Sea Shepherd, getting arrested for attempted murder after ramming poacher boats, and beating deadly diseases such as West Nile, tuberculosis and dengue fever.
Sharkwater premiered to public acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win more than 40 awards at film festivals worldwide. Even more importantly, the awareness raised by the film changed people's perception of sharks and helped give momentum to the drive to crack down on finning practices.
In Ontario, in 2011, governments across the province voted overwhelmingly to ban the sale and possession of shark fin. The ban was overturned by the province and now there is a renewed drive to get the ban put in place again, using Stewart's memory as a rallying cry.
Stewart's next documentary, Revolution, released in 2012, warned about worldwide ecological collapse if humankind does not change its ways. The film was shot over four years in 15 different countries and won 19 awards at various film festivals, including the Audience Award for Best Doc at the Atlantic Film Festival and the Most Popular Environmental Film Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It was also a runner-up for People's Choice Award Documentary and the highest rated Canadian film at its premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
Rob Stewart and Jonah Bryson, co-directors of The Fight for Bala.
Rob Stewart was a good friend to our team at Ecologos and Water Docs, and a generous mentor to emerging talent. He worked with teenage filmmaker Jonah Bryson on the documentary The Fight for Bala, which was screened at Water Docs last year. Bryson and Stewart had co-director credits on the film that examines a small Muskoka town's fight to stop a hydro-electric generating station from being built.
A funeral for Rob Stewart will be held in Toronto on Feb. 18, with the public invited to attend. A second celebration of his life will be held in Los Angeles on a later date. There are moves afoot to name a new shark species and a Toronto school after him. Watch the Water Docs Facebook page for updates.


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Intel Drone Technology Takes the NBA's 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest to New Heights with First Drone Assist to Aaron Gordon
NBA forward Aaron Gordon practices with an Intel drone ahead of the NBA 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, as part of NBA All-Star 2017 festivities. Intel and Aaron Gordon are collaborating on the first drone-assisted slam dunk attempt at the NBA 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, part of NBA All-Star 2017 festivities. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
During the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, as part of NBA All-Star festivities, NBA forward Aaron Gordon and Intel wowed viewers by collaborating on the first-ever slam dunk with assistance from an unlikely teammate: a drone powered by Intel.
Gordon's performance featured a never-before-seen assist from a drone, making it the most highly-technical dunk ever attempted during the NBA slam dunk contest. His showmanship was on display in full force with the inclusion of advanced drone technology powered by Intel.
Press Kit: Drones at Intel
"I've been thinking about what I wanted to do for this year's contest pretty much since the contest ended last year," Gordon said. "I wanted to incorporate technology and do something creative and unique, which is why I was so excited to partner with Intel. Originality for me is key. I wanted to avoid doing anything gimmicky and get back to the creativity of the contest. And what better way to do that than to surprise the crowd with a drone powered by Intel?"
Born and raised in Silicon Valley, technology is embedded in Gordon's background. His mother, Shelly Davis Gordon, is an Intel employee who worked in the semiconductor industry for 35 years.
"When Aaron Gordon approached Intel with the idea to complete the first-ever drone assisted slam dunk, we couldn't wait to support him in his quest," said Anil Nanduri, vice president of Intel's Drone Segment. "Intel is leading and committed to bringing new capabilities and innovations to the drone ecosystem, so obviously our team saw this as an opportunity to do just that. Our goal as a brand is to use technology to create amazing experiences and I can think of no better way to prove that than by working with Aaron on this historic dunk attempt."
The drone powered by Intel that starred in the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk is a fully-redundant hexicopter. It is designed with safety in mind and is resistant against any single point of failure. The drone has a flight time as long as 26 minutes, weighs just less than 11 pounds and can carry a payload of up to 4.4 pounds.
For more information on what else Intel is doing in the drone space, visit "The Airborne Revolution" page on Intel.com.
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Q: How to check or validate if URL exists - CORS error returned? I'm trying to check/validate if a URL exists, via JavaScript.  And I've found some code which should work.
However, I've ran into the CORS error.  Seems my request keeps getting blocked:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://www.google.co.uk/' (redirected
  from 'http://www.google.co.uk/') from origin 'null' has been blocked
  by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on
  the requested resource.

How can I resolve this with JS, with no server side code?  I want to handle this entirely on the front-end/client-side:
var MrChecker = new XMLHttpRequest(),
CheckThisUrl = "http://www.google.co.uk";

// Opens the file and specifies the method (get)
// Asynchronous is true
MrChecker.open('get', CheckThisUrl, true);

//check each time the ready state changes
//to see if the object is ready
MrChecker.onreadystatechange = checkReadyState;

function checkReadyState() {
    if (MrChecker.readyState === 4) {

        //check to see whether request for the file failed or succeeded
        if ((MrChecker.status == 200) || (MrChecker.status == 0)) {
          console.log(CheckThisUrl + ' page is exixts');
        }
        else {
          console.log(CheckThisUrl + ' not exists');
        return;
        }
    }
}
MrChecker.send(null);

A: I found a solution, which encourages the use of fetch() API, which bypasses the CORS error/block.
However, I wasn't sure if there are any cons/disadvantages to use this approach?
It seems it does what I need it to do.... to check whether a URL exists on the internet or not:
 const url = "https://www.google.com/";
 $.ajax({
      url: url,
      dataType: 'jsonp',
      statusCode: {
        200: function() {
          console.log( "status code 200 returned" );
        },
        404: function() {
          console.log( "status code 404 returned" );
        }
      },
      error:function(){
          console.log("Error");
      }
 });


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1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries
Michelle Healy
1.35 million kids were seen in a hospital ER in 2012 for a sports-related injury
1 child every 3 minutes was seen for a sports-related concussion
Younger athletes%2C ages 12 to 15%2C made up 47%25 of concussions
Occasional bumps and bruises are expected when kids play sports, but for more than 1.35 million children last year a sports-related injury was severe enough to send them to a hospital emergency department.
Sprains and strains, fractures, contusions, abrasions and concussions top the list of sports-related ER diagnoses for kids ages 6 to 19 — at a cost of more than $935 million each year, according to a report out Tuesday from the non-profit advocacy group Safe Kids Worldwide.
The report, which analyzed data for 2011 and 2012, did not find a statistical difference between the two years, but is concerning — one in five kids who go to ERs for treatment of an injury is there for sports injuries, says Kate Carr, Safe Kids president and CEO.
"Far too many kids are arriving in emergency rooms for injuries that are predictable and preventable," Carr says.
Using data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, the report focused on pediatric sports injuries related to 14 common sports activities, including football, cheerleading, soccer and basketball. More than 46.5 million children played team sports in 2011, says the report.
It finds that in 2012, 12% of all ER visits (163,670) involved a concussion, the equivalent of one every three minutes. Nearly half (47%) were in kids ages 12 to 15.
That's particularly troubling, given research showing that younger athletes take a longer time to heal than older athletes after a concussion, which is a traumatic brain injury, because their bodies are still growing, Carr says. "And we know that a second concussion later can cause even more issues."
Like previous studies, the new report shows that in sports in which both girls and boys participate, girls report a higher percentage of concussions. Among youth basketball players, for example, 11.5% of girls seen in the ER are diagnosed with concussions, compared with 7.2% of boys. Among soccer players, it's 17.1% of girls compared with 12.4% of boys.
It's unclear what accounts for the variation, says sports medicine physician Kathryn Ackerman, co-director of the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children's Hospital. "We are still looking into it, trying to see if there are really genetic differences, differences in play, or differences in biomechanics, but we don't have that link yet." Ackerman was not involved in the new study.
Although the number of injuries cited in the new report may seem high, the actual number is likely even higher, says Neeru Jayanthi, a sports medicine physician at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. That's because the study included only ERs, and many kids go to urgent care centers, their regular doctor or a sports medicine clinic, says Jayanthi, who was not involved in the study.
Nor do the figures highlight the significant number of overuse injuries, "about 25% of which end up being serious," he says. Overuse injuries to tendons, bones and joints can result from playing the same sport and performing the same movements too often, too hard or at too young an age with inadequate recovery time.
Research reported earlier this year by Jayanthi and colleagues found that young athletes who played a single sport for more hours a week than years they were old — such as a 10-year-old who played 11 or more hours of soccer — were 70% more likely to experience serious overuse injuries.
Letting the body rest, adding preventive and strengthening exercises, and following proper technique are among injury prevention strategies recommended in the new report. It also says athletes should be encouraged to speak up about injuries, coaches should be supported in injury-prevention decisions, and parents and young athletes should become better educated about sports safety.
"These statistics don't have to be part of the game if we take some simple precautions," Carr says.
Among other findings from the report:
• Football resulted in both the highest number of all pediatric injuries (394,350) and the highest concussion rate (40 per 10,000 athletes). Wrestling and cheerleading had the second- and third-highest concussion rates (15 per 10,000 athletes and 12 per 10,000 athletes, respectively).
• Ice hockey had the highest percentage (31%) of concussion injuries; its rate was 10 per 10,000 athletes.
• The most common injuries were to the ankle (15%), followed by head (14%) finger (12%), knee (9%) and face (7%).


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Linking bearded vultures from the Alps to the Pyrenees: two young bearded vultures will be released tomorrow in a new site in the Baronnies
As part of its programme to restore the bearded vulture across Europe, the VCF and its partners have been very busy releasing young bearded vultures, hatched in captivity within the bearded vulture captive breeding network coordinated by the VCF, in several sites across four mountain ranges – Alps, Massif Central, Corsica and Andalusia.
Following releases in Corsica (see here), in Andalusia (see here), in the Massif central (see here) and in the Alps (see here), tomorrow two more birds will be released in a new site - this time in the Baronnies, in the extreme western pre-Alps, a crucial stepping point between the Massif Central and the alpine chain.
The birds will be presented to the public in a ceremony at the commune de VillePerdrix (see invitation) by Vautours en Baronnies, our local partner managing this new release site, and will then be taken to the platform high up in the mountains, where they will stay until they fledge naturally.
The birds to be released come from Andalusia and Austria. The female hatched in the Guadalentín specialised bearded vulture captive breeding center managed by the Junta de Andalucía, and is the second chick of a double clutch. Its father was the first ever chick hatched at Guadalentín in 2002. In 2013 the adult breeding pair started to give problems - the female started to react aggressively towards the male and the incubation was not successful. In 2015 it was decided to transfer this pair into an aviary with visual contact with other breeding pairs - immediately the female redirected her aggression against the neighbour pairs and the pair bred successfully again. The other chick from the pair has been released a few days ago in the Swiss Alps.
The male comes from the Richard Faust bearded vulture captive breeding center in Austria, co-managed by the VCF. Is the second chick from the oldest pair in this center, and currently the best reproductive breeding pair inside the EEP: since 1989 this pair hatched 37 hatchlings, of which 34 chicks survived, and 28 have been released. The older brother of this bird has also been released this year, in Andalusia. Being part of a double clutch, both chicks have hatched in the incubator and reared by a foster pair.
Baronnies is an important stepping stone between the Alps and the Pyrenees, and therefore will serve as the perfect corridor population for a pan European future gene flow. Griffon and black vulture populations have been restored there, so Vautours en Baronnies has now a solid track record and experience on vulture restoration projects. Further, some bearded vultures often use the area for prolonged periods of time – mostly come from the nearby Vercors. The current bearded vulture release is the first in the site, and happens within the framework of the LIFE GYPCONNECT project, an EU funded project that aims to enhance the establishment of the gene flow between the bearded vultures is the Alps and the Pyrenees. The LIFE GYPCONNECT is also co-funded by the MAVA foundation.
Bearded vultures take 9 or 10 years to start breeding, so we will have to wait a few more years for the next milestone in the project – the first nest in the wild at this site. In the meantime, the VCF, Vautours en Baronnies and other partners will continue to work together to re-establish this crucial population in the pre-Alps, within the LIFE GYPCONNECT project.
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The stability analysis of brain lactate kinetics
DCDS-S Home
Prey-predator model with nonlocal and global consumption in the prey dynamics
August 2020, 13(8): 2121-2134. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020181
From conservative to dissipative non-linear differential systems. An application to the cardio-respiratory regulation
Jacques Demongeot 1,, , Dan Istrate 2, , Hajer Khlaifi 2, , Lucile Mégret 3, , Carla Taramasco 4, and René Thomas 5,
Université Grenoble Alpes, AGEIS, Team Tools for e-Gnosis Medical, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci 38706 La Tronche, France
University of Technology of Compiègne, UMR CNRS 7338 Biomechanics and Bioengineering, 60200 Compiègne, France
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 8256 - Adaptation Biologique et Vieillissement, 7 quai Saint Bernard, 75 252 PARIS CEDEX, France
Escuela de Ingeniería Civil en Informática, Universidad de Valparaíso, General Cruz 222, Valparaíso, Chile
Université libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
* Corresponding author: Jacques Demongeot
Received February 2019 Published August 2020 Early access November 2019
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We start by coupling negative 2-circuits, which are characteristic of the presence of a regulation loop in a dynamical system. This loop can be modelled with coupled differential equations represented in a first approach by a conservative differential system. Then, an example of regulation loop with a dissipative component will be given in human physiology by the vegetative system regulating the cardio-respiratory rhythms.
Keywords: Conservative system, dissipative, arabesque, vegetative system, van der Pol, cardio-respiratory rhythms.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C23, 34C15, 34E17; Secondary: 34M25, 35A35.
Citation: Jacques Demongeot, Dan Istrate, Hajer Khlaifi, Lucile Mégret, Carla Taramasco, René Thomas. From conservative to dissipative non-linear differential systems. An application to the cardio-respiratory regulation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2020, 13 (8) : 2121-2134. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020181
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Figure 1. Jacobian graph of the system (1), the red corresponds to positive edges and the blue to negative ones
Figure 2. Steady states of system 2 in phase space ($ xOy $), for $ a = 0 $ (left), $ a = 0.15 $ (middle) and $ a = 0.17 $ (right)
Figure 3. Left: trajectory starting from the complex solution for $ a = 0.17 $ in the phase plane ($ Re(x)ORe(y) $). Right: trajectory starting from the complex solution for $ a = 0.17 $ in the phase plane ($ Re(x)ORe(y) $) for an initial state modified by simply adding $ 0.000001 $ to the initial value $ y(0) $ of the left trajectory
Figure 4. Time evolution of $ Re(x(t)) $ for $ a = 0.30 $, showing the successive phases (left) quasi-constant, erratic (middle) and periodic (right)
Figure 5. Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Figure 6. The central vegetative system made of the bulbar respiratory centre with inspiratory (I) (composed of early eI and post pI inspiratory neurons) and expiratory (E) neurons, and the cardio-regulator centre, ruling the main peripheral actuators, like the diaphragm and the heart controlled by the sinus node (S), and the peripheral sensors represented by the baroreceptors (B). The variables x, y, w and z represent respectively the activity of the four sets of excitatory cells, namely E, I, B and S. The squared scheme (of same type as in Figure 1) shows the relationships between these variables, with inhibitions in blue and activations in red
2])">Figure 7. Evolution of the instantaneous cardiac period $ T $, which is anti-correlated with the duration $ t $ of the inspiration in which occurs the cardiac cycle (after [2])
Figure 8. Experimental data (recorded on a voluntary healthy adult man) at the transition waking/sleep states indicated on the Beta wave logarithmic power of the EEG (top), showing in sleep state a decrease of the RR amplitude (middle) and the influence of the swallowing on the respiratory signal (bottom)
https://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/deSystemGrapher/func.html)">Figure 10. Simulations of system (8) showing for the sleep state a cardiac rhythm (top) with a period slightly less and an amplitude slightly larger than the corresponding values calculated for the awake state (bottom) (obtained with the online simulation tool https://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/deSystemGrapher/func.html)
Figure 9. Experimental data showing that during sleep the amplitude of the cardiac signal increases and its period (RR interval) decreases, with an augmentation of the correlation between the lengths of successive cardiac cycles
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Jacques Demongeot Dan Istrate Hajer Khlaifi Lucile Mégret Carla Taramasco René Thomas


Grain size data from electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) maps is often reported as the circle equivalent diameter of the measured grain area. Circle equivalent diameters are not directly comparable to the lineal intercept measurements historically employed for grain size measurements obtained via optical microscopy. While the value of mean lineal intercept is the same in 2D and 3D, the 2D circle equivalent section diameter is not directly related to any 3D property. Estimation of mean lineal intercept from circle equivalent diameter is usually carried out by assuming feature circularity, despite the obvious corners that are inherent to grains from the requirements of space filling. A direct conversion between section areas and lineal intercepts can be performed if the grain perimeters are known. In the present work, a novel pattern-matching library approach is investigated for measurement of grain perimeters on simulated 2D EBSD maps. The results are compared to alternative approaches for perimeter measurement and assessed with respect to spatial resolution, grain size distribution parameters, and relevant ASTM and ISO measurement standards. The benefits and drawbacks of each approach are discussed.


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Парурез, парурезис (, от пар- () +  — мочеиспускание) — боязнь или невозможность мочеиспускания на людях. При присутствии человека или людей обычно наблюдается невозможность мочеиспускания, а при появлении — резкое прекращение мочеиспускания. Селективный парурез проявляется в отношении отдельных личностей, присутствие которых смущает больного. Чаще наблюдается у мужчин, но встречается и у женщин.

История
В медицине это расстройство было отмечено английским физиологом Джеймсом Пэджетом под названием «мочеиспускательного заикания» и французским урологом Жаном Гуйоном под названием «боязнь мочиться» (). Особое понятие о парурезе и сам термин были предложены в 1954 году в статье двух американских учёных, опросивших 1419 студентов и выяснивших, что затруднения с мочеиспусканием по этой причине эпизодически или постоянно испытывали более 14 % опрошенных.

Расстройство исследовал также русский психиатр В. М. Бехтерев:

… Уже более 10 лет, как я слежу за одним своеобразным расстройством в отношении мочеиспускания, которое, сколько мне известно, лишь в последнее время стало обращать на себя внимание в медицинской печати, особенно французской. Расстройство это заключается главнейшим образом в том, что человек при отсутствии явлений пареза или паралича мочевого пузыря страдает необычайным затруднением или даже невозможностью мочеиспускания в том случае, когда ему приходится производить этот акт в присутствии посторонних лиц.

В. М. Бехтерев отмечал, что затруднение мочеиспускания обязательно сочетается с тревожно-мнительными чертами характера.

Классификация
Как отдельное заболевание парурез в классификациях болезней (DSM и МКБ) не выделяется. В Диагностическом и статистическом руководстве по психическим расстройствам 5-го издания (DSM-5) парурез упоминается в разделе «социальное тревожное расстройство (социальная фобия)», как один из признаков, свойственных социофобам.

Терапия
Для лечения могут использоваться такие методы психотерапии, как систематическая десенсибилизация или когнитивно-поведенческая психотерапия.

Морфеус-терапия

Одним психологом был предложен нетрадиционный способ лечения паруреза. Суть метода заключается в закреплении акта мочеиспускания за кодовым словом — «морфеус». Произносить кодовое слово необходимо при акте мочеиспускания, находясь в благоприятных для сего действия условиях, когда ничего не мешает пациенту. Таким образом, происходит создание условного рефлекса и в последующем, возможно пользоваться кодовым словом для облегчения мочеиспускания в неблагоприятных условиях.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Сайт о парурезе .
 International Paruresis Association .

Специфические фобии

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Q: Android Runtime.exec("arp") does not work is there any way to start the command 'arp'.
My tries:
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
proc = rt

*

*.exec("arp") -> got an IOException

*.exec("/proc/net/arp") -> got an IOException as well (found out over the adb shell, that a /proc/net/arp exists)

Also tried a shell solution:
String sPrefix="/system/bin/sh -c 'proc/net/arp;";
String sPostfix="'";
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();

proc = rt.exec(sPrefix+sPostfix); // sh -c 'cd someplace; echo do something'
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream());
BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(reader);
String line = "";
while ((line = buffer.readLine()) != null) {
   echo.append(line + "\n");
}

but got no return value.
Have anyone an idea :-/?

A: /proc/net/arp is not a command, it's an ARP table. It's a text file you can read:
  StringBuffer echo = new StringBuffer();
  try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/proc/net/arp"));
    String line = "";
    while((line = br.readLine()) != null) echo.append(line + "\n");
    br.close();
  }
  catch(Exception e) { Log.e(TAG, e.toString()); }

The table itself has the format:
IP address        HW type    Flags     HW address           Mask   Device
192.168.178.21    0x1        0x2       00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e    *      tiwlan0
192.168.178.34    0x1        0x2       1a:2b:3c:4d:5e:6f    *      tiwlan1
...


Wily DID presenter Kirsty Young gives listeners a glimpse of Theresa May's more personal side.
'I'm probably going to get nowhere with this, but I'm going to give it a good try anyway,' said Kirsty Young, as she pressed the notoriously tight-lipped Home Secretary Theresa May for answers on yesterday's Desert Island Discs.
Did she admit to having her eye on David Cameron's job? Of course not. And for the most part, her interview was a masterclass in deflection - even despite Kirsty's best efforts.
But among the unanswered big questions (mainly around Europe and her leadership bid) we did get a few glimpses into the life of a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.
When asked if she goes for drinks in the bar after the vote she says, 'It's not me. I'm very clear that women – in politics, in business, whatever field they're in - should be able to do the job as themselves and not feel they've got to walk like a man.' Hence her song choice: Walk Like a Man by the Jersey Boys.
Even Young, known for her shrewd interview tactics, couldn't get Theresa to commit to an answer about whether England should leave Europe, or if she has her sights set on David Cameron's job. The only thing her evasive responses taught us? She's a pro when it comes to swerving questions she doesn't want to answer.
Her first impression of him? 'I think I quite liked him'. Typically revealing, then.
When May was asked what luxury item she would take to the mythical desert island, she chose a lifetime subscription to Vogue. 'I enjoy clothes,' she admitted, before revealing that her favourite teenage outfit involved flared trousers and a yellow blouse with huge, voluminous sleeves.


My PhD project is concerned with verb argument structure and a specific class of verbs - unaccusative verbs. Unaccusative verbs are a class of intransitive verbs that have unique syntactic and semantic characteristics. They have Theme as a subject and denote situations where there is no active engagement on the part of the subject (fall, sink, appear). Their Theme subjects are initially merged in the complement V position, postverbally, and then moved to the preverbal position ([Fell] [The girl] The girl fell.) The reason for this is case checking. The objective of this research is to investigate how these syntactic and semantic peculiarities of unaccusative verbs affect their processing. Since unaccusative verbs are structurally more complex compared to intransitive unergative verbs for example as their derivation includes an additional step – movement of a constituent, it is worth investigating whether due to this syntactic complexity they also necessitate more processing load compared to other classes of intransitive verb with a more straightforward syntactic structure. In my research, I also investigate if unaccusative verbs in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian show preference for (perfective) aspect. I plan to answer these questions by revisiting extensive literature about the processing of unaccusative verbs and designing three experiments using different techniques – Cross-Modal Lexical Priming (CMLP), Cross-Modal Picture Priming (CMPP), electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking. Apart from bridging the gap between the theoretical and experimental linguistics and providing insights into language processing in real time, my research will also make an original contribution to the experimental investigation of a South Slavic language – Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.


Paul Schure is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria.
Paul Schure is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. His research interests include Financial Intermediation, Entrepreneurial Finance, and European integration. Two recent research projects have focused on understanding the interaction between angels and VCs, and on the distribution and evolution of equity shares among founders.


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Beth Harris
Published: July 22, 2022, 2:09 AM
Updated: July 22, 2022, 2:51 AM
Tags: Mookie Betts, Sports, Curt Casali, Evan Longoria, Tommy La Stella, Dominic Leone, Logan Webb, Jarlin Garcia, Phil Bickford, Cody Bellinger, Wilmer Flores, Dustin May, Brusdar Graterol, Austin Slater, Evan Phillips, Andrew Heaney, Brandon Crawford, Thairo Estrada, Justin Turner, Alex Vesia, Walker Buehler, LaMonte Wade, Max Muncy, Tyler Anderson, Caleb Ferguson, Dave Roberts, Mitchell White, Chris Taylor, Joey Bart, Darin Ruf
Dodgers recover, beat Giants 9-6 on Betts' 3-run HR in 8th
Published: July 22, 2022, 2:09 AM Updated: July 22, 2022, 2:51 AM
Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts watches his three-run home run during the eighth inning of the team's baseball game against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
LOS ANGELES – Mookie Betts broke an eighth-inning tie with a three-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 9-6 on Thursday night after blowing a five-run lead in the seventh.
Freddie Freeman homered early and the NL West leaders won their fifth in a row, eighth straight at home and 12th in 13 tries overall, with the All-Star Game logos on the field nearly obliterated two nights after the Dodgers hosted the Midsummer Classic for the first time since 1980.
"We got the win and that's the most important thing," Betts said. "That's why it's a team game. You've got to pick each other up and we did that tonight."
Betts also made a spectacular diving catch on Joc Pederson's liner in the right-field corner for the final out.
"My initial read, I knew I was going to catch that one," Betts said. "I don't get too excited about those. That's my job, that's what I'm supposed to do."
San Francisco tied it on a grand slam by Darin Ruf in the seventh, then went ahead 6-5 in the eighth.
Trayce Thompson's RBI triple off Dominic Leone (3-2) tied it 6-all with two outs in the bottom half.
"Thompson's love triples," tweeted Golden State Warriors 3-point ace Klay Thompson, older brother of Trayce.
Cody Bellinger drew a walk from left-hander Jarlin Garcia to set up Betts, whose 406-foot shot landed in the left-field pavilion, triggering a raucous reaction from what was left of the sellout crowd of 53,165.
"We grind through each at-bat. Nobody really gives away at-bats," Betts said. "That's why we're so good."
Evan Phillips (4-3) worked one inning for the win, and Craig Kimbrel got three outs for his 16th save.
The Giants tied it at 5 with a five-run seventh when the Dodgers' bullpen crumbled.
"I'm not going to make too much out of this one," Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said of the relief corps.
Phil Bickford gave up a solo homer to Evan Longoria. Facing a 2-2 count with two outs, Ruf launched his first career grand slam to left-center off Alex Vesia to even the score.
Phillips came on in the eighth and promptly walked Wilmer Flores before Pederson doubled to deep left. After Longoria grounded out, Luis González was intentionally walked to load the bases. Phillips walked Thairo Estrada, forcing in Flores for a 6-5 lead.
Austin Slater grounded into a fielder's choice to third and Max Muncy threw out Pederson at the plate for the second out. Pinch-hitter Joey Bart struck out to end the inning.
Freeman homered for his NL-leading 115th hit in the first.
Mitch White took a no-hit bid into the sixth as the Dodgers were cruising with a 5-0 lead.
White didn't allow a baserunner until consecutive two-out walks to Austin Wynns and LaMonte Wade Jr. in the third. The right-hander got his only strikeout in the fifth, when González went down swinging leading off.
Caleb Ferguson followed with two strikeouts in 1 1/3 scoreless innings.
Giants starter Carlos Rodón gave up five runs and six hits in five innings. The left-hander struck out seven and walked two.
Giants: INF Tommy La Stella (COVID-19 IL) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento on Friday. He's expected to get time at second base, designated hitter and third base. ... LHP José Álvarez (left elbow) remains in San Francisco for rehab. ... C Curt Casali (oblique strain) started hitting to go with the running he's already doing. ... RHP Mauricio Llovera (right flexor strain) was transferred to the 60-day IL. ... RHP Zack Littell (left oblique strain) threw a bullpen in Arizona. ... SS Brandon Crawford (right knee inflammation) began light baseball activity.
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner left the game with abdominal tightness. ... Roberts said he's "cautiously optimistic" that RHP Walker Buehler (right flexor tendon strain) will return in September. ... RHP Dustin May (Tommy John surgery) will pitch three innings at Triple-A Oklahoma City. Roberts expects him back by mid-August. ... LHP Andrew Heaney (left shoulder) will make a start in Arizona. ... RHP Brusdar Graterol (right shoulder) is pain-free and should return soon. ... OF Chris Taylor (left foot) is swinging a bat and throwing, but not able to run yet.
CATCH THIS
Bellinger and Trea Turner completed consecutive sliding catches in the fourth.
Bellinger went sliding on his rear in center field to rob Flores and keep White's no-hit bid intact.
Turner wasn't to be outdone one batter later. The shortstop gracefully slid on his knees in the dirt on the third base side to catch Pederson's pop foul.
"He made a sweet play and sweet slide," White said.
Roberts marveled, "I don't know anyone who can get such style points."
DANCING BILLIE
Grammy-winning singer Billie Ellish and her producer-brother Finneas were on their feet dancing to one of her songs from their seats directly behind the Giants dugout between innings.
BELLI BOBBLEHEAD
Bellinger's father, Clay, a three-time World Series champion with the Yankees, handled first pitch duties while holding his 7-month-old granddaughter in his left arm. Clay bounced the pitch in the dirt but his son deftly handled it on his bobblehead night while Caiden appeared nonplussed.
Giants: RHP Logan Webb (9-3, 2.83 ERA) struck out five over six-plus innings against Milwaukee in his previous start before the All-Star break.
Dodgers: LHP Tyler Anderson (10-1, 2.96) makes his first start with the Dodgers against the rival Giants. He's 1-3 with a 4.40 ERA in eight career starts against them.


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Get ready for New Horizons' flyby of Pluto
Posted by Eleanor Imster in Science Wire | Space | June 29, 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14. It's only 2 weeks away!
"There could be mountains of water ice with glaciers of nitrogen creeping down their sides," Bill McKinnon says. "That's entirely plausible. At -400 degrees F, water ice would be hard and brittle, but nitrogen ice would be squishy and easily melted." Image credit: iStockphoto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14 at an angle of 46 degrees to the plane of the dwarf planet's orbit, piercing the plane and then passing through the shadows first of Pluto and then of its moon, Charon.
Once past Charon it will turn around and, looking backward, search for any tenuous rings around Pluto, and use sunlight reflected from Charon to image the part of Pluto's surface now in continuous darkness.
Commentary from Bill McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis and a co-investigator on the mission's science team, will appear on NASA's New Horizons page. Images will typically appear on the page one to a few days after the event.
The first color movies from NASA's New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies known as a double planet. The images were taken on nine different occasions from May 29-June 3. Image credit: NASA
First color movies of Pluto and Charon
All through June, New Horizons has been scanning its planned trajectory for debris that might damage the spacecraft. If any hazards are found, it might divert to an alternative pathway or point its antenna in the ram direction to shield the body of the spacecraft.
Already the images of Pluto are sharper than the best that can be made with earth-based telescopes.
The spacecraft will send down particularly choice images and other data July 12, two days before the day of closest approach, and again on July 13. This is a fail-safe or contingency sample, much like the bag of rocks Neil Armstrong scooped up in his first four minutes on the moon to make sure he wouldn't come back empty-handed.
On July 14 the day of closest approach, the spacecraft will be incommunicado, busy executing a pre-programmed sequence of observations.
At 9 pm EDT on July 14 the spacecraft will phone home to let the team know it all worked.
It will then begin to return encounter images and other data, starting early in the morning of July 15. Following this, the spacecraft will download a complete but highly compressed "browse dataset" of the observations made during the flyby, so the mission scientists can get some idea of what it has captured.
Transmitting the full, uncompressed dataset will take time, however. McKinnon doesn't anticipate seeing the first good stereo images that will make the topography look three-dimensional until September, and it will take a full 16 months to transmit all of the data. Pluto is very far away, so the radio signals are quite faint and the baud rates quite low.
These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show four different "faces" of Pluto as it rotates about its axis with a period of 6.4 days. All the images have been rotated to align Pluto's rotational axis with the vertical direction (up-down) on the figure, as depicted schematically in the upper left.From left to right, the images were taken when Pluto's central longitude was 17, 63, 130, and 243 degrees, respectively. Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
When New Horizons was launched in 2006, Pluto was still called a planet and Charon was Pluto's only known moon.
In the 9.5 years the spacecraft has been traveling the 3 billion miles from Earth to Pluto's perch at the edge of the solar system, everything has changed. The Hubble Telescope found two more moons, Nix and Hydra, in 2005; a group of astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006; Hubble found a third moon, named Kerberos in 2011; and then a fourth, named Styx, in 2012.
From another point of view, however, nothing has changed. Pluto is still the most distant solar system body we've ever visited, and one about which we know very little. Watching it turn from a pixelated blob into a real world will be a thrill, says McKinnon.
New Horizons is the culmination of years of planning and lobbying for a mission to Pluto. The first proposal, called Pluto-350, was circulated in 1989. It was followed by Mariner Mark II, Pluto Fast Flyby, Pluto Express, and Pluto Kuiper Express, none of which made it off the drawing board. After a call for proposals, NASA finally selected New Horizons for funding in 2001.
McKinnon has to pinch himself to make sure he isn't dreaming and that he is going to get to see Pluto up close.
Having read The Experts Speak, a giant compendium of predictions by experts that turned out to be wrong, McKinnon is a bit skittish about predicting what Pluto will be like.
Still, he expects its geology to be spectacular. At 4.7 billion miles from the sun, Kuiper Belt Objects are the coldest objects in the solar system. Pluto's surface temperature is 40 Kelvin, or roughly -400 degrees Fahrenheit, and at that temperature many compounds that are gases on Earth freeze out as ices. McKinnon said:
There could be mountains of water ice with glaciers of nitrogen creeping down their sides. That's entirely plausible. At -400 degrees F, water ice would be hard and brittle, but nitrogen ice would be squishy and easily melted.
We know Pluto has atmosphere, or at least an atmospheric haze.
Scientist say Pluto's atmosphere is made up mostly of nitrogen, like Earth's atmosphere, with traces of carbon monoxide and methane (natural gas). These 'volatiles' snow out of the atmosphere in some places and vaporize in others, creating shifting patterns of color and brightness on Pluto's surface.
Pluto also has seasons; in fact, it has extreme seasons because it orbits tipped on its side. At its solstices (when the sun is at its highest or lowest in the sky), a quarter of its surface is in continuous daylight and another quarter is in continuous darkness.
While the New Horizons spacecraft has been in transit to Pluto, Pluto's atmospheric pressure has doubled or tripled. But at the same time, McKinnon says, we know some of its atmosphere is escaping to space and mixing with the solar wind.
What replenishes the atmosphere if it is continually lost? McKinnon said:
There is either a really thick layer of ice that hasn't yet been depleted, or a source of continuous supply. And that's something we'll actually get to the bottom of when we get there, because there will either be thick ice caps that would take billions of years to erode or just a thin glaze of ices that must be replenished from somewhere.
We also want to understand as much as we can what lies beneath the surface. Even though Pluto's surface is icy, we think it has a rocky core. It may even have a subsurface ocean of water spiked with ammonia that is warmed by radioactive decay in the rocky core.
New Horizons will also look at Charon and Pluto's other moons. Charon seems to be very different from Pluto; its surface is covered by patches of ammonia hydrates and water crystals, which couldn't long withstand bombardment with ultraviolet radiation and cosmic rays. Some scientists have suggested this may mean it is being resurfaced by icy lava flows from cryo-volcanos erupting liquid water with dissolved ammonia (like cosmic Windex), McKinnon says.
Bottom line: On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system at an angle of 46 degrees to the plane of the dwarf planet's orbit, piercing the plane and then passing through the shadows first of Pluto and then of its moon, Charon.
Via Futurity
Eleanor Imster
Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. Today, as Lead Editor at EarthSky.org, she helps present the science and nature stories and photos you enjoy. She also serves as one of the voices of EarthSky on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and G+. She and her husband live in Tennessee and have two grown sons.