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Each semester, Ivy Tech's Visual Communication Department invites professional creatives to critique student work. This semester, O'Neil Arnold (O'Neil Arnold Photography), Yvonne Haller (formerly of Humana and Scoppechio), and Pip Pullen (Mightily) spent the day providing valuable feedback that will help our students learn and grow as creative professionals. These jurors then selected pieces they felt demonstrated the best work. The following are those pieces the jurors felt were the best of the best. This show will be hung in the Pat Harrison Fine Arts + Design Gallery January 21 through March 4, 2016.
Please join us for the opening reception on January 21, 2016 from 5:30-7:30pm.
Honorable Mention | Louis Herlihy | Lego Animation Project


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What is a Good Age to Get Pregnant?
We live in the era of women empowerment. Modern women have significant control over their family planning and fertility choices. Thanks to the variety of readily available reproductive technologies, women and their partners can now choose when to have a… Continue Reading

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Reiki Master Training & Apprenticeship
~2021 Readings~
Required Reading List (before class)
A total of 4 books:
Beattie, Melody. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself. Hazelden. 2nd Revised edition. 1992. (OR available via Audio Book)
McIntosh, Nina. The Educated Heart: Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers. Second Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2005. (Get the least expensive edition)
Roman, Sanaya. Creating Money: Attracting Abundance. New World Library. 1988. (read chapter 9 & 10 before class, the rest during apprenticeship)
Then choose just one book below. Academically inclined students who hope to develop their own modality will want to read all three: Honervogt gives confidence for practice; Penczak offers a large discussion of alternative Reiki symbols and alternate uses; Stein has had so much influence in the Reiki realm that most 'traditional' practitioners don't realize they're using her material. Llyn & Levy provide the needed link to Shamanic work.
Just one, is required, your choice:
Honervogt, Tanmaya. The Complete Reiki Tutor: A Structured Course to Achieve Professional Expertise. Gaia Publishing, 2008.
Penczak, Christopher. Magick of Reiki. Llewellyn Pulications, 2005.
Stein, Diane. Essential Reiki. Crossing Press. 1995 AND Essential Reiki Teaching Manual. Crossing Press. 2007
Roberts, Llyn & Robert Levy. Shamanic Reiki. O Books. 2008.
Suggested Reading (not required)
Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way. Tarcher Books. 2002.
Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. Harper Collins. 1993
Gawain, Shakti. Creative Visualization. New World Library. 2002.
Hay, Louise L. You Can Heal Your Life. Hay House, Inc. 1999.
Judith, Anodea. Wheels of Life: A Users Guide to the Chakra System. Llewellyn Publications. 1999.
Roman, Sanaya. Spiritual Growth: Being Your Higher Self. HJ Kramer. 1992


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Without China, Independence Day is a Dud
'merica, fireworks, and economics. What more could you want more from the 4th of July?
Doggonomics: The Gains from Trade are not Taught, They're Discovered
Dogs may not see the gains from trade like humans. Though, like humans, as they engage with other dogs (and humans), they end up figuring it out on their own. A few days ago, I was walking my friend's young dog, Steve, and we came upon an older dog, laying on the grass, chewing on … Continue reading Doggonomics: The Gains from Trade are not Taught, They're Discovered
Using Innovism Instead of Capitalism
McCloskey's suggestion for changing the term "capitalism" into "innovism" might be a more practical way of arguing for free markets. Capitalism, as it's tossed around in conversation, ends up getting misconstrued by both sides of the argument, because it lends itself to assume that societies have only become rich through the accumulation of capital. However, … Continue reading Using Innovism Instead of Capitalism
Bertil Ohlin: It's Like Going to The Grocery Store. Well, Kinda.
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Ways to Motivate Yourself to Write Essays in School
Do you find it hard to settle down to a task that you may find a little boring? I know I can get really down in the dumps if I know I am avoiding an important task. It's much better to take action and once you take a baby step things get so much better. In an educational environment, you may be looking for ways to motivate yourself to write essays in school or college. There are essay writing services out there but here are my own tips for getting that writing done.
Ways to motivate yourself to write essays
How will you feel once you have written and submitted your essay? You might get great feedback from your teacher that will enhance your self-esteem. You may learn where there are gaps in your knowledge where you need to do further research. Once that essay is done, you can focus on things you enjoy doing such as time with friends or pursuing your hobbies. Also remember that your studies are ideally moving you forwards towards your dream job.
Build in rewards
I find that when I am writing or pressed with a task I do not enjoy, building in rewards for myself helps to motivate me. That might be something as simple as a cup of coffee for every so many words written. I might build in a bigger reward once that task is done such as a day out at the beach or a theatre trip. Obviously, you know the rewards that would appeal to you as the individual you are.
A pleasant space to work
Again, this will vary according to the individual. Some people like to have colours around them or a nice view. Others like plants or family photos. Make sure you have a dedicated writing space where you feel comfortable. This means you will enjoy being in that area and the words will just flow for you.
Writing times
I have certain times of the day when I work best. It is best to harness those times when you are efficient and in the mood. Obviously don't put off your essay writing for ever but it is OK to structure your day to build up a time when you won't mind getting on the job in hand so much.
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"We bought an expensive contact management system a couple of years ago, but nobody really knows how to use it. I know it's capable of doing a lot more than we're using it for, but we've only implemented the part that sends emails."
I was talking with a frustrated business owner, and I know where he's coming from!
I've used SalesForce, InfusionSoft, Constant Contact, ACT, SendOutCards, and several others. No matter what the salespeople say, integrating one or more of these systems with your business process using their full capability is not trivial.
They're sort of like some of the equipment on my husband's tool bench in the garage. I know they're very powerful and versatile tools. They're capable of cutting, burning, flattening, rounding, sanding, inflating or otherwise making pretty much any object into any other object. He's offered to show me how to fix a broken earring using his very complicated machinery, but I'd prefer to smile and ask him nicely to fix it for me, thank you. (My super-feminist friends can just shoot me now.)
Jay Conrad Levinson's Sixteen Monumental Secrets of Guerilla Marketing – Secret Number Thirteen – You must be skilled with the armament of guerillas, which means technology.
So, how necessary is it to use some complicated contact management system?
It's absolutely essential.
Successful marketing requires keeping track of a lot of people over a very long period of time.
It also requires sending them the right materials at the right time.
We've talked about follow up sequences such as the one below.
This example follow up process is from our Trade Show Marketing lesson in the Aviation Marketing Master Class.
Using this type of a follow up process accurately requires that you are able to communicate with your customers, keep track of their responses, and send the right materials to the right list of people at the right time.
The large number of people you need to contact (prospective, current and past clients) the number and complexity of marketing pieces, the personalization that is expected these days, the velocity of the marketplace and keeping up with competition (as well as keeping up with all the rest of the things you have to do every day) make it almost impossible for a human being to run an effective marketing campaign without using software. And for most companies (even most solo professionals and entrepreneurs) a spreadsheet won't adequately do the job.
Without contact management software, that would mean stacks of spreadsheets, some of which are out of date and out of sync. Without contact management software, people would get generic marketing pieces that are inappropriate for their stage in the sales process. Without contact management software, prospective customers (and potentially lucrative sales) would be lost because customers didn't receive the brilliant materials you sent out at their current address. Without contact management software, you'd send every sales pitch to your whole list, wasting a lot of postage on people who probably won't respond. Without contact management software, you'd keep sending out the same brochures over and over again, regardless of how irrelevant and inappropriate they look because they aren't personalized as people expect these days.
That big, complicated piece of software has just become your very best friend.
Used correctly, you can set up an email, postcard, or other marketing piece once, set up a delivery schedule, and it will be sent to the right people at the right time correctly for years with no further effort on your part.
As Colin Daymude of Infusionsoft mentioned on our podcast few weeks ago, it doesn't make your company any less human. Just like you wouldn't think anything less of your spouse for calling 1-800-FLOWERS instead of picking the flowers himself. (Or herself.)
Managing your list of current and prospective customers is just as important as managing your money. Whether you do it yourself or have a great accountant that you trust to set up your systems and give you advice, (or even outsource accounting entirely!) it's in your best interest to know as much as you can about what's being done and how to do it yourself if you need to.
Another thing Colin mentioned in our conversation – few people take advantage of all of the training that his company offers. InfusionSoft, Sales Force, ACT, and SendOutCards (and probably most other contact management systems companies) all produce great videos and tutorials so people can learn to use more of the features and use them more skillfully. And they all have very helpful customer support people.
Since you've invested money in your contact management software, it only makes sense to spend the time to learn to use it effectively. Spend an hour a day for a week. Or an hour a week for a month. Whatever you have to do, look at it with an open mind. Don't see any feature as irrelevant. Consider how you could use a feature in your business even if you're not using it currently in your marketing system.
As my husband says about his fancy garage equipment "we've paid for it, we might as well use it!"
I'll stick to the marketing software, and leave the garage "hardware" to John! I only have so much time to learn about technology!


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Wallaby playmaker Quade Cooper says he has no issues with national boss Robbie Deans despite being overlooked for this weekend's training camp in Sydney.
Deans has yet to officially name his 30-man party for the latest Wallaby get together but Cooper has confirmed that he hasn't been invited.
Starting the Lions series without the 25-year-old fly-half would have been almost inconceivable a year-and-a-half ago but Cooper now appears to be facing an uphill struggle to feature against Britain and Ireland's elite.
But rather than express his disappointment with another outburst similar to the one that earned him a heavy fine last season, Cooper insists he respects Deans' decision and is focusing entirely on performing week in, week out for the Reds.
"It's like just any other player-coach relationship," Cooper, who has previously publicly criticised Deans and described the Wallaby camp as 'toxic', told Australian Associated Press.
"I've got to do what I can as a player and he has to do what he thinks best as the coach.
"I've got full respect and trust in what he's doing for the team and I'll continue to do what I can for the team I'm part of now, which is the Reds.
"It's no big issue really because we have a big season ahead of us.
"People are going to look at players differently. It's not the first or the last time you're going to miss out on a side."
Cooper hasn't played for his country since mid September after he suffered a knee injury in the narrow win over Argentina on the Gold Coast
He was named in Deans' initial 49-man squad at the start of the season, however, and was widely expected to challenge for a Test spot in 11 weeks' time.
But, with Kurtley Beale suspended indefinitely and Berrick Barnes still injured, Deans now appears likely to start Rebels utility back James O'Connor or Brumbies centre cum outside-half Christian Lealiifano in the series opener Brisbane on June 22.


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O.T. Marshall Architects was engaged by a private concern to provide concept design documents for an outlandish vision; to establish a pedestrian-biking path on the outriggers of the 1917 Harahan Bridge connecting Memphis with Arkansas
The Pinch District is sandwiched between the new Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Overton Avenue is the natural axis connecting each. O.T. Marshall Architects conducted a master plan that accentuates this connectivity while preserving
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Workers from the D.C. Metro system's largest union voted to authorize a strike yesterday, the Washington Post reports. Union members approved the potential strike by a 94 percent margin. Union leaders have yet to say whether they will go forward with the strike now that they have authorization. The strike would significantly disrupt a transit system that serves about 1 million people a day.
Tesla employees say they were ordered to walk through raw sewage in order to meet their production goals, Bloomberg reports. Dennis Duran, who works in Tesla's paint shop at the company's Fremont factory, says that raw sewage spilled onto to the floor and he and several colleagues were told to walk through it to "keep the line moving." Duran supports unionization efforts at the car manufacturer. The Fremont factory is under three separate open investigations by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
European Amazon workers have walked off the job to protest the company's tough working conditions, Forbes reports. Amazon workers in Italy, France, England, Germany and Poland have all joined the walkout, which started on Tuesday in Spain. The walkout came in anticipation of today, known as "Prime Day," one of the Amazon's highest volume days of the year. Online workers, gamers, and shoppers plan to boycott Amazon today in solidarity with the striking workers.
Employees at Deloitte are calling for their company to stop providing consulting services to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York Times reports. A petition circulated by Deloitte employees asks the company's chief executive, Cathy Engelbert, to end all contracts with both ICE and United States Customs and Border Protection. The document also calls on Engelbert to publicly denounce the Trump Administration policy of separating migrant children from their parents. The news comes just after the consulting giant's competitor, McKinsey & Company, cut its own contracts with ICE.


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BU students to visit Holland for 65th anniversary of Liberation
November 9, 2009
BRANDON, MB – In the spring of 2010, it will be 65 years since the Canadians liberated the Netherlands from German occupation. Next year, they will be returning, but this time it will be students, walking in the footsteps of the soldiers.
Students and instructors from Brandon University will join more than a thousand other Canadian Students travelling to Europe to participate in the various commemoration and liberation ceremonies, culminating in the Netherlands on May 4 and 5.
Lynn MacKay will be one of the professors from Brandon University that will accompany the students on the trip. The group from Brandon University is set to leave for Europe, April 29, 2010. During their journey in Europe, they will also make stops in London, Vimy, Normandy and Paris.
"Students have a real hunger to know about the First and Second World War, and I think this trip will bring home to them in a very powerful way the sacrifices made by civilians and service people – many of whom were their age," says MacKay
In order to enhance the learning experience and to explore concepts such as freedom, remembrance, democracy and others, contact between students and teachers of both countries – prior to the trip – is taking place through the use of social networking sites and interactive software. Students will also be asked to document the trip for future uses.
"We want to ensure that students understand what they are seeing and to that end we will also be encouraging them to keep daily journals during the trip. Hopefully we will be able to put selections from them online when we return home."
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ottawa is encouraging these "freedom trips" wholeheartedly.
"The idea that Canadian and Dutch schools will be working together in remembrance and liberation ceremonies is very special. I started my professional career as a teacher and I am convinced of the value of this initiative," says Ambassador Wim Geerts.
As a token of support, the Netherlands Embassy has already donated and sent 100 bulbs to Brandon University. In the spring, they will be planted on campus so students and staff alike will be able to enjoy the tulips year after year and will be reminded of their fantastic learning experience in Europe.
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On August 2, 2018 Dietrich Christian Humbke would have been 173 years old, but his life was cut short when he was killed in an accident 12 days short of his 54 birthday. In 1999 I had no idea of who my great grandfather was other than that he was German – not even a name! That summer of 1999 I spent July tracking down his name and ended up leaving flowers on his grave site in Iowa. I went to court houses, libraries and archives that enabled me to walk on the land he had broke and farmed in South Dakota and Idaho.
Over the next 15 years, I spent most of my time in China, but upon returning to Canada the genealogy flame flared up and I started a website to gather and share memories of distant ancestors. It has personally been very rewarding and now I feel an emotional attachment of gratitude and pride in all of the ancestors I have come to know.
Today, August 2, 2018, I hope you pause and think of Deitrich, whose blood runs thru all our veins. As head of the Humbke family and with his wife they assumed the responsibility and task of bringing a young family to America where it has spread from coast to coast in Canada and the United States, plus the continents of Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa and back to Germany.
Family Tree – Our Paternal Grandparents
Below are the grandparents and 5 sets of paternal (great grandparents to great-great-great-great-great-grandparents).
I am working on a family tree through myheritage.com and below am including the information on the 7 paternal grand parent older than my great-grandparents, Dietrich and Luise Humbke. They cover the 310 year period of 1620 to 1930 and 7 generations of Humbkes.
Tielcke HUMBKE b. 1620 Windheim, Germany; d. SEP1669 Windheim; m. 1643 Metcke (STANNEN) HUMBKE b. 1620 Windheim; d. 26DEC1680 Windheim #8. Metcke's father was Nn STANNEN b. 1595 Kries Minden. 1 girl and 4 boys
Hinrich HUMBKE b. 1646 Windheim #8, Windheim, Germany; d. 04MAR1709 Windheim; m 20JUL1681 Ann Christina (WESTENFELD) HUMBKE b. 1650 Windheim #11; d. 24JAN1731 Windheim #8. 4 girls and 5 boys (1 still born).
Cord Hinrich HUMBKE b. 22NOV1683 Windheim #8; d. 13FEB1728 Windheim #8; m. 22NOV1714 #8 Anna Margaretha (BUECK) HUMBKE Windheim #8; b. 19JAN1688 Schaffhorst #13, Windheim; d. 13DEC1715 Windheim 8. 1 boy.
2nd wife Anna Margarethe (STOPPENHAGEN) HUMBKE b. 28FEB1687 Windheim 3; d. 18MAR1746 Windheim 8. 3 girls and 3 boys
Johann Hinrich HUMBKE b. 25NOV1715 Windheim #8; d. 28OCT1757; m. 20JAN1737 Anna Clara (JAEGER) HUMBKE b. 14JUN1715 Dohren #29; d. d. 18MAR12DEC1779 Joessen, Windheim – 3 girls and 2 boys.
Cord Hinrich HUMBKE b. 25JUL1747 Windheim #8; d. 27NOV1782 Windheim #8; m. 31DEC1769 to Catherine Christine Louise ERNSTING b. 04MAR1748; Ikse #5 d. 18DEC1799 Windheim #8. 3 girls and 5 boys
Johann Carl Dietrich HUMBKE b. 01APR1785 Windheim #8; d. 04MAY1843 Windheim #57; m. 17MAR1816 Windheim, Sophie Marie (RODEMEYER) HUMBKE b24SEP1785Windheim #22; d.03MAY1841 Windheim #57. 2 girls and 2 boys
Ernst Dietrich Christian HUMBKE b. 31JAN1821 Windheim #57; d. 06NOV1866 Windheim; m. 11MAY1845 Sophie Louise (WIEBKE) HUMBKE b. 30JAN1819 Holge, Windheim #22; d. 06NOV1866 Burial 09NOV1866 Windheim #57.
The following 4 boys and 3 girls comprise the children of Ernst Dietrich Chrisitian Humbke and Sophie Louise (WIEBKE) HUMBKE. They are my Grand-Grand Uncles and Aunts.
My Family Tree – My Paternal Great-Grandparents
Ernest Dietrich Christian HUMBKE b. 02AUG1845 Windheim #57: christened 10AUG1845 Windheim Church; d. 21JUL1899 Woden, Iowa; m. 27OCT1867 Sophie Louise (SCHNEPEL) HUMBKE Windheim; b. 11SEP1843 Dohren #38; d. 24NOV1930 Wetaskiwin, Alberta. 7 girls and 2 boys
My Family Tree – Great-Grand Uncles and Great-Grand Aunts
Wilhelmine Louise [Luise] Charlotte (HUMBKE) BUCHORN b. 19JAN1848 Windheim #57; d. 10FEB1933; m. 27NOV1974 Johann Dietrich August BUCHHORN b. 07AUG1849 Ovenstaedt #45, Westfalen. No Children.
Wilhelmine Sophie Louise Charlotte HUMBKE b. 13JUN1850 Windheim 57, Christened 30JUN1850 Windheim 57, d. 17JAN1854 Windheim 57.
Louise Sophie Caroline (HUMBKE) HANKE b. 02SEP1852 WINDHEIM 57; d. 24MAR 1878 Windheim #148; m. 13DEC1878 Windheim #149 Carl Friedrich August HANKE b.23OCT1849 Windheim #149. They had twin daughters who died shortly after birth.
Ernst Heinrich Christian HUMBKE b. 31AUG1854 Windheim #57; d. 08JAN1938; m. 24SEP1886 Johanne Charlotte Sophie (ROMBKE) HUMBKE b 24NOV1860 Windheim #21. Had 2 girls and 3 boys.
Conrad (Chris)Dietrich Christian Dominicus HUMBKE b. 04JAN1857 Windheim #57; Christened 18JAN1857 Windheim #57; d. 07JAN1938 South Dakota; m. 26NOV1889 White Lake, South Dakota to Marie DIRKS b. South Dakota. Had one daughter
Conrad Dietrich Friedrich HUMBKE b. 07MAY1859 Windheim #57; d. 07JAN1864 m. 23OCT1885 Windheim #44 Louise Lisettte Dorothee (DAVID) HUMBKE, b. 07JAN1864 Windheim #13; d. 15JUL1886 Windheim #44. Louise died at the birth of a child which died 1 1/2 months later. Second wife was Hanna Christine Wilhelmine (BRINCKMANN) HUMBKE b. 14NOV1861 Ilserheide, Lahde #4, m. 18DEC1888. They had 10 children.
As you can see I am very short of photos of ancestors and would love to receive pictures of the named ancestors.
I would personally like to Thank Pastor Bob of Austin, Texas for the tremendous help he has given me. Most of the accurate information on ancestors that I am passing on to you is from him.
Pastor Bob has over one million in his family tree and has been to churches, cemeteries, families etc. in Windheim and other Germany locations to verify information. I believe his records are the most accurate available to me. What he has done and his willingness to share is a blessing for all of us ancestors.
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Haydar reached out to our Ecommerce link building services in February, 2018.
He was well aware of how to do proper SEO (thanks to Brian Dean's approach of creating top quality content) and was well passionate about the subject of his work.
Herbonaut was growing but…not as well as it could (especially given the quality of the content the site had).
The site was hitting almost 10,000 unique visitors…per month.
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Current traffic – 62+ K per month…up from less than 10K.
We took off in mid-February 2018 and were growing steady until later September, 2018, when the 2nd wave of the so-called Medic Update came by and the site got hit pretty bad (as you can see).
As it frequently happens with Google, the rollback, even though it took some time, did eventually happen with the traffic hitting new records.
What Did We Do
1. We found a few linkable assets we could pitch to other websites and they just got links because they were extremely valuable and done well.
2. We also found quite a number of guest posting opportunity on QUALITY sites that DID NOT ask for money.
3. We waited when the update came by because there is not much you can change (given that we knew it wasn't the links fault).
4. We also created an infographic that was well-received by the community and gave us a few powerful links from websites we wouldn't get backlinks otherwise.
And The Links We Got
Here is a glimpse into some of the links that we earned for Herbonaut.
Important to note – we got all the links using our link building process (you can learn about it from this massive tutorial).
All the links that we built here are a) super relevant; b) non-paid (this helped us to be more confident during the medic update – we knew it wasn't the links' fault).
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As the velocity and rate of technology change exposes financial institutions to greater risk and regulatory compliance, it also opens new pathways to value creation and opportunity investment. Companies continue to wrestle with balancing the level of risk exposure, meeting regulatory standards, and fortifying the business when pursuing new revenue streams in turbulent economic times.
Forward looking financial services companies have recognized that cyber security risk is not only a technology issue, but few have designed a holistic operational risk framework that enables competitive advantage while securing the enterprise's most valued assets against cyber attacks and threats. This next generation operational risk management framework will incorporate cyber risk in its foundational elements, and will arm companies with the tactical insight, strategic foresight, and granular analytical visibility needed to minimize cyber risk exposure while maximizing opportunistic action.
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You could use Dropbox for backups regardless of the cloud hosting plan that you opt for when you sign up and the feature shall be available within the Hepsia CP included with all accounts. Linking one or even a number of Dropbox accounts takes simply a couple of mouse clicks and once the connection with our system is established, you can pick if all of your information will be backed up there or just particular sites and databases. This depends upon the size of the content you have on our end and the amount of space you have in your Dropbox account. The number of backups that you can have ranges from 3 to 14 and our system will generate a new one every single day, so you will have a copy of your files for up to 14 days back and you shall be able to access them on your PC as conventional files and folders. You could change the sites or the number of backups at any time. This functionality is an outstanding addition to the backups which we shall keep of your entire content 4 times per day. In case you no longer want your Dropbox account to be linked to our system, you can remove it with only a mouse click inside your Control Panel.


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Carney do it? Economics weekly
There can be no doubt that George Osborne has secured an outstanding candidate to be the new governor of the Bank of England. But there's also no doubting the scale of job.
03 December 2012
Osborne gets his man
Despite previously ruling himself out of the job, current Governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney will take up the reins at the Bank of England in July next year. Dr Carney has a reputation as an outstanding central banker. His governorship of the Bank of Canada is credited as one of the reasons behind the strong performance of the Canadian economy in the post-crisis period. And his experience in the private sector and role as Chairman of the Financial Stability Board should set him in good stead to take on the new regulatory responsibilities at the Bank.
The old lady sings…and stings
The latest Financial Stability Report from the Bank of England highlighted worrying parallels between the advanced economies today and Japan since the 1990s. Commonly known as Japan's 'lost decade', it's actually two decades now and rising. The report also recommended some muscular medicine for UK banks. There's life in the old lady yet.
A flicker of life in the UK mortgage market
It's too early to judge the effectiveness of the Bank of England's Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme. But the number of mortgage approvals for house purchase reached the highest level since January. Lending figures, on the other hand, continue to disappoint. Mortgage lending rose £0.2bn between September and October, little changed from what we have seen thus far in 2012. And mortgage rates have barely changed since August. But it takes a few months for higher approvals to feed into higher lending figures, so higher approvals may be the forerunner of improved lending in the coming months. And hopefully, in turn, this leads to some support for house prices, which continued to drift downwards according to Nationwide.
UK Q3 growth confirmed as 1%q/q
The second estimate of Q3 revealed a bit more detail. The biggest contribution to the q/q figure came from net trade as the UK exported more and imported less. A few more quarters like that would be hugely encouraging for the rebalancing story. The second biggest contributer was household spending which grew 0.6%q/q, the fastest pace since Q2 of 2010. Meanwhile, the Bank of England estimates that the Olympics contributed as much as 0.4 percentage points of the 1%/qq figure. Unfortunately data for Q4 so far have brought the economy-watchers back down to earth. According to Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean, the economy is probably growing "weakly at best."
US growth revised up and foundations of the housing recovery strengthen
US growth in Q3 was revised up from a 2% annual pace to 2.7%. Most of the upward revision came from firms boosting their stock levels. So, absent a burst of demand, the apparent improvement is likely temporary. At least there were more signs of life in house prices, which rose 1.1%q/q and 3.6%y/y in Q3 according to Case-Shiller. And a different report showed a 3.6%y/y rise in September. Prices are increasing in most parts of the country. Better is not good, however. Allowing for inflation, prices are at the same level as when Bill Clinton was President. But with fewer people falling behind on their mortgages and the pace of house building activity quickening, the housing recovery is strengthening and deepening.
Asia is stirring but Japan and India struggle
India's economy expanded 5.3%y/y in Q3. At first glance this is a very strong figure but it's India's lowest in over three years. And prospects for a sharp acceleration remain dim. In Japan, further signs emerged of yet another recession. A key survey of manufacturing reached the lowest reading since last year's earthquake disrupted production. Meanwhile, retail sales fell 1.2%y/y in October. In response, the government announced a stimulus package totalling £6.6bn - the second in just over a month. As Japan's industrial sector suffers, South Korea's strengthens, with production rising 0.8%m/m in October – the second consecutive monthly gain. This was reinforced by the Chinese government's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) reaching a seven-month high of 50.6 in November. The reawakening of Asia's manufacturers in recent months is one less thing Mark Carney will have to worry about.
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With almost perfect timing following the appointment, the Bank of England's Financial Stability Report laid out much of what will be on Mark Carney's agenda. For the first time the Bank drew worrying parallels between advanced economies today and Japan since the 1990s. Add in the new regulatory responsibilities the Bank has and it's already a formidable list. Despite the size of the task, Mark Carney will be looking to replicate the success he had as governor of the Bank of Canada, where he helped steer the economy through choppy waters. The key question is 'Carney' do it?
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I vividly remember one of the very first times I experienced Gone with the Wind. I was so totally enthralled, that at one point (I can't recall where this was in the film), I literally flashed back into my own reality.
It was a beautiful moment where I realized just how engaged and entertained I had been. Within seconds, I left this realization behind and was happily wading back into the rich waters of this classic film, ready to follow the further exploits of Scarlett O'Hara and company.
There are also these so-called "flashes into reality" which I've never considered to be a good thing. It means that a film has stumbled or perhaps failed to keep my attention. If something is good enough, I'll easily put aside thoughts of outside obligations, deadlines and life's pesky minutiae.
But if those thoughts somehow come dribbling back into my mind – in the middle of any screening experience – then something in the film has failed.
I'll expect some hate-mail for the problems I'll outline, regarding the critical and audience darling Hereditary, which was released in theatres nationwide on Friday.
That's not to say it doesn't work on plenty of important levels – but that annoying (and telling) "flash into reality" – speaks volumes as to the film's overall impact.
Following the death of the family's maternal grandmother, it becomes obvious that there's a strained relationship in the Graham household. Mother Annie (Toni Collette), father Steve (Gabriel Byrne), son Peter (Alex Wolff) and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) clearly have a history of walking on eggshells with one another. As strange things begin to happen in their mountain home, and following a second family tragedy, Annie digs deeper into her mother's past. In her overwhelming grief, she uncovers long- buried secrets. But what does it all mean, and where will these discoveries take Annie and her estranged family?
Let me immediately address the film's most powerful asset… Performances.
On that subject, I can find absolutely nothing with which to take issue.
In fact, there are two performances so unbelievably stunning, that come awards-season next year, it would be a travesty to see these thespians unnamed in the nominees for such awards-show luminaries as The Golden Globes, The Independent Spirit Awards, and yes – The Academy Awards.
Toni Collette has been nominated for Oscar once before, for her supporting role in The Sixth Sense. With her jaw-dropping work in Hereditary, she should certainly get a nod for a lead performance.
She really gets under the skin of her character, and in turn, under the skin of the audience. I was reminded of the climactic scene in 1990's The Grifters – and Anjelica Huston's Oscar-nominated performance therein. It's a remarkably similar scenario (for these particular scenes) which both actresses needed to tackle and the result is nothing less than primal. Both moments make you incredibly uncomfortable. And in such a scene and with such a performance – you'll feel sympathy, pain and tension.
Collette nails every single moment as Annie. And part of the success, is not knowing if what Annie is seeing is real. Collette conveys the character's constant self-doubt. Other than the "clicking" sound of young Charlie (an important motif), once the overall film itself has faded, Collette's acting work will certainly be the film's legacy.
Alex Wolff as older sibling Peter – has so many mind-blowing moments in his performance, that I was unable to name them all in the usual post-screening discussion with my husband. Clearly, I can't make mention of most of them here, but a perfect example is his silent reaction to one of the film's early, important moments which moves the plot forward. This guy needs some serious award attention.
And I silently clapped when I saw Ann Dowd (the best screen character actor working today) show up at the film's mid-point. In my mind, she can do no wrong. But frankly, knowing Dowd's strengths to tackle certain character-types – her presence might have been a slight tip of the hat – as to the film's direction and the character's motives. Just sayin'. You want Dowd 'cause she can act the hell out of anything, but she also brings a bit of baggage (and her "type") to any role.
I do want to throw out a quick "well done" to the casting of this familial unit. Physical similarities between father and son and mother and daughter – made falling into the life of this broken family such an easy task.
Hereditary borrows atmospherics (and even some similar music cues) from Kubrick's The Shining, the paranoia and nightmare scenarios from Rosemary's Baby (this screenplay feels like it could have been written by Ira Levin) and the slow burn tactics of The Witch.
As much as I love a good slow burn, however, I feel like Hereditary could have been truncated. While I enjoyed myself most of the way through, it seemed to drag at certain moments. And there were a few bits which never seemed to fully materialize once they were introduced (the mail-slot?). A trim here and a trim there, would have kept things moving.
I'm sure you're jonesin' to know if the film is scary. That's what everyone's been saying since the film premiered at Sundance earlier this year. There are a few almost transcendental moments of sheer terror – matched only by such bone-chilling scenes out of something like The Exorcist – which had me near tears in their power.
The funny thing, is that it wasn't the "boo" moments or some of the well done placement of "something" out of focus in the camera frame. The most frightening things were some of the line deliveries. There's a scene of Annie talking to Peter in his bedroom – and it was an absolute delight of a reaction from our audience – when Annie delivers a particular line as she stands over Peter's bed. And the scene goes on from there to discover the absolute heights of fright. It's easily the most powerful and upsetting sequence in the entire film.
I think that once you have a decent idea of where the film is headed – that this realization is where the film loses steam. And this is where the aforementioned "flash into reality" kicked in for me. I was 100% engaged and on board with this weird family. And again, some of the scenes are certain to be nightmare- fuel for the many nights ahead – but if you lose an audience member when they've been that invested (and terrified) in your characters and their bizarre situation – it means you (as the filmmaker) have done something wrong.
I wanted the mystery of the piece to continue. I didn't want the wrap-up to be that easy – or frankly, that cliché. And once the revelations started to tumble in, my interest began to dwindle, with my mind offering up a "This is where it's going? Okay, sure."
And it pains me to say that – knowing how beautifully the film is shot and performed. Everything worked… until it didn't.
So my verdict here? Unless you're Gone with the Wind, any instance of a "flash into reality" is not a good thing.
But know that it's not perfect. It's not mind-blowing. And it's only terrifying in select scenes. Despite the immense hype and the myriad of glowing accolades – it's definitely good, but definitely not great.
The most telling thing for me and my ultimate feelings about the film as a whole? Once I complete this review, the film will quickly fall into a memory – neither particularly fond, nor particularly negative.
3 1⁄2 stars out of a possible 5.
Hereditary is now playing nationwide at a theatre near you.
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Happy new year to all~! So, I'm a week late but I had influenza. In my book that absolves me from the late fee. I managed to finally struggle out of bed on the 4th long enough to visit Nagaoka Tenjin Jingu with the husband to pay our yearly tithe to the old gods (Shinto). We both drew rather poor fortunes so I am guessing the gods didn't get our coins.
Time to take the year and life into my own hands. I just graduated from my copyediting certification program and am not leaving anything to the whims of Japanese deities. So what am I doing to ensure good fortune? What am I not doing at this point!
I've advertised myself to friends in order to build up my editing profile and managed to snag a couple contracts. So there are some testimonials and a little bit of income even!
I've begun a bullet journal (BuJo) to keep tabs on all of my work, thoughts, and frustrations–no year is without frustration. Best to just prepare for it up front.
And I've decided to be nicer to myself when I fail. Whether that failure comes in the form of not exercising every other day as I have planned in my BuJo or getting refused for a job. Failure is part of the game and I can't let it put me down or distract me from going forward. So I miss an exercise day? Big woop–just try to make the next day. So I get a rejection letter? Find out why and how I can turn my shortcomings around.
Stay positive and stay working. I'm going to make a career this year. That's the name of the 2019 game.


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Confidence in the Cloud
So, one morning a few weeks or so ago, my colleague, Ruwen Hess, stuck his head in my door and commented on an Article on Gmail and User Confidence he had just read. He also pointed out a very interesting Article on the S3 failure from July 20th (which I had seen before). Now, before I start commenting on the point of this blog post, I want to say that this is NOT meant as a slam on our competitors. This is a complex and nascent space in which we are all learning. I want to complement my former company, Amazon, on the openness exhibited in their discussion of the event of July 20th. It is a new thing for Amazon to explain when stuff happens and I think it is great for the industry and great for Amazon. Google is just fighting the good fight to provide highly available services. They are both fascinating companies and worthy competitors. Still, there are some interesting aspects to this publicly available news.
Of course, this leads my mind down too many different paths. This was going to be a short post but I always get carried away! Let me cover:
- Some Observations about Reliable Process Pairs,
- Less Is More,
- N-Version Programming,
- Availability Over Consistency,
- Eventual Consistency,
- Front-Ending the Cloud, and
- It's Going To Be a Fun Ride!
Some Observations about Reliable Process Pairs
Let me start by discussing independence of failures (and the need to focus on it to achieve high availability). During the 1980s, when I was developing system software at Tandem Computers, some of our important programs were process pairs. In this scheme, the same software ran in two different processes on different computers within the distributed system connected via messaging. The goal was that if only one of the computers (and, hence, processes) failed, the other would "take-over" and continue offering service. Of course, it was essential to be able to restart a backup and fill it up with sufficient state to continue the computation. Specifically, every failure and take-over created the need to restart the other process (which used to be the primary). Restarting implies the filling of the new backup with enough state to be ready to take-over.
During this time, I was privileged to be able to see a number of different implementations of process pairs within the Tandem System and, indeed, to do major development and implementation on a large process pair (in addition to a number of other pieces of software with different approaches to fault tolerance). As I lived and breathed the triage of product support, crashes, dump analyses, patches, and major product upgrades, it became clear to me that there was a pattern. Some process pairs were implemented to ship entire data structures. Some were implemented to send very narrow and minimalist descriptions of an operational change in state (e.g. in the transaction manager: "We just advanced transaction-X to the stage of flushing the log records to disk"). In a different example, one process pair would send a message containing its entire address space of data to its partner whenever a change occurred! Lots of lively debates raged about the best way to implement reliable process pairs.
I observed that the implementations which sent the minimum amount of data seemed to be the most resilient. There were many crash dump analyses that showed a process running along and it would trash some data structure. Then, a checkpoint would copy the data structure to the backup process, including its corruption. (A checkpoint is the message used to communicate state from the primary process to the backup process in a process pair.) Soon, the corruption caused the primary process (and its computer) to crash. Now, the backup (with the corruption received from the checkpoint) takes over to do the work of the process pair. Before long, the backup gets tangled up because of the corruption in the data structure and IT falls over, too! The entire fault tolerant system has succumbed to a single failure because there is insufficient isolation between the parts.
Less Is More
Communicating less information within a message is usually best. If you send extra stuff, it can cause corruption!
The failure of Amazon's S3 on July 20th is fascinating and, yet, very typical. S3 uses a Gossip Protocol to spread state around the network without any master. The knowledge is simply propagated to anyone that will listen and, very quickly, spreads around the network. Unfortunately, there was a bit of poison introduced into the system. Now, it just so happens that this was introduced because Amazon's MD5 hash protection of their messages did not cover some of the system status bits, but that is not my main point. All (non-protected) data communications will occasionally have transmission errors and, unfortunately, the stuff being gossiped by S3 was not protected. The article simply describes it as system status state.
I know that in these complex distributed systems,it is essential to keep somewhat accurate track of the state of the system. What is not clear from the Amazon S3 article from July 20th was the shape and form of the system status information and why it did not settle out automatically after the corruption. The article mentions that the system status state is given a higher priority and was starving out the real work as it was gossiping about the system state.
The main point is that when you are communicating information, it is essential to keep the information flow as sparse as possible.
While S3 is a brilliant system which is designed to continue functioning during a data center outage, it had a flaw (which I'm sure is now fixed) which allowed for some bad state to propagate to ALL the data centers. To eliminate the problem, all the data centers were taken offline and then the entire system was restarted.
Let me reiterate my deep respect for the engineering at both Amazon and Google in addition to what I see at Microsoft. Still, as the industry matures, we will all learn by the school of hard knocks to keep the information we spread across failure units as crisp and concise as semantically possible.
N-Version Programming
I've never personally experienced it but have read about uses of N-Version Programming. In this scheme, specifications of a program are drawn up and presented to N different teams, each of which will produce a version of the system. Now, if you develop 3 versions of the system, you may then implement a voting scheme in which when there are two disparate answers, you pick the one with two votes. The concept is to reduce the probability of a software bug causing the entire system to fail. Of course, one of the challenges in this approach is the development of comprehensive and clear specifications.
The reason I think of N-Version Programming is that it involves the "Less Is More" principle. To do N-Version Programming correctly, you need to isolate your development teams and prohibit any out-of-band communication. If the teams communicate (other than through the specifications), it increases the chances of propagating some corruption.
Availability Over Consistency
I am not aware of any information from Google about the cause of their outage but, again, we as an industry are still learning how to keep ever more complex applications and services available. The article cited above, expresses the dismay of many users as a service they've grown to depend upon is simply not there for a while.
In many cases, the user would gladly take a "good enough" answer NOW rather than wait for the "correct" answer LATER. In fact, it is MORE common to see users just want to keep going. Right now, I am typing most of this on the bus with Windows Live Writer inserting notes to myself about the hyperlinks to fix when I am back online... It's great to just "keep going" even with a reduced experience!
Amazon published a wonderful paper on Dynamo at SOSP 2007. This paper provides an excellent overview of the Dynamo storage system (which I had a role in encouraging from the sidelines -- I can't take credit for it). Dynamo is in production with at least two running services and numerous fascinating techniques employed in its implementation. I would encourage you to read the paper.
The reason that I raise this here is that Dynamo provides availability over consistency. In a distributed system, it has been proven that Brewer's CAP Conjecture is true... Hence, it is now called the CAP Theory. The idea is that you can have only two of Consistency, **A**vailability, or **P**artition Tolerance. You have have a consistent (and by this, the idea is a classic transactional ACID consistency) and partition tolerant system but it may not be available under some partitions. Alternatively, you can have an available system which tolerates partitions but it won't have the classic notion of consistency. Increasingly, I see applications designed with looser notions of consistency. Most of the time, customers really want availability at the expense of classic consistency! New means of expressing looser consistencies are emerging to provide availability even when failures occur!
I learned over 20 years ago working in transactional systems to ASK a customer what their priority was when dealing with an outage. Indeed, some customers wanted you to ensure that every transaction was correct before bringing the system online. At first, it shocked me to learn that many, many customers wanted the system up even if the results of the work might be somewhat "less than perfect". Indeed, I saw this in some banking systems with humongous amounts of money being pushed around. It wasn't that they were doing anything wrong... if the system came up, most of the transfers could be accomplished and overnight interest gathered for them. The funds involved were large enough that hundreds of bank workers would simply stay up all night and verify the accuracy of the work, cleaning up as necessary. The timeliness mattered more than the accuracy!
Again, more often than not, availability matters more than strict (classic) consistency!
Eventual Consistency
Also fascinating (at least to me) is the area of eventual consistency (and, again, this term implies a LOOSER form of consistency than classic ACID transactions).
The basic idea is that it is OK to diverge opinions across replicas. What is needed is a system that coalesces when communication is reestablished between the replicas. I talked about this in my talk The Irresistible Forces Meet the Movable Objects. I am bringing this up because (I am arguing) that people really want availability over consistency. When divergent changes are made while disconnected, they also want the messes to clean themselves up as much as possible.
It is my opinion that we will be designing systems to support eventual consistency. Part of this trend will be to back away from our traditional separation of storage (e.g. database) from applications. In my opinion, we will evolve towards integrated solutions that combine the storage with the execution of the application in a way that will make it easier to redo the operation by the application and create eventual consistency across different executions of the app. This is much easier to do than to cope with reorderability of write operations against a data store.
Front-Ending the Cloud
So, I love and believe in cloud computing. I think the entire space will grow and evolve. The cost structures for many companies will make it very cost effective to use big data centers for hosting lots of their computation. As I look at data center cost structures, it is clear that it is going to be a competitive business with many advantages to large data center managers with large economies of scale. In a handful of years, most companies will look to offsite providers for their reliable servers.
Still, I wonder if there will be a market for local front-end systems running a replica of a portion of the applications needed to keep the business going. Not all the computation a company performs is "mission critical". In other words, the company can function with a subset of its computation (at least for a short while). Will there be an emerging space of loosely-coupled eventually consistent computation run either at the local company or at a different hosting company than the main cloud-purveyor? If there is an outage of the cloud services, this front-end would keep the business going. When reconnected, the results of the work would be shared and reconciled.
This is very much like the relationship between Outlook and Exchange. Outlook does a LOT of its functionality while disconnected and that is of huge value.
This may be an interesting economic point -- combining the cost savings of the cloud with independent failures of the front-end.
It's Going To Be a Fun Ride!
I am SO glad to be working in this space! It seems to me this is a great time for distributed systems geeks!
- Pat


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The Red-cockaded Woodpecker has a fairly small and decreasing range of 604,000 square kilometers. It lives in mature, open Longleaf Pine forests in parts of the southeastern United States. This woodpecker species has experienced large declines since historical times because it requires open, mature pine forests adapted to a fire regimen. A combination of logging and fire suppresion eliminated the species from large parts of its range. However, modern management practices that benefit this species have been put into place in most parts of its current range with good results. The estimated population of this bird species is 15,000-30,000 individuals, and its conservation rating has been downgraded from Vulnerable of Near Threatened.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Medium woodpecker, black-and-white barred back, black cap, nape, white face, throat, breast, black-spotted sides, flanks, belly. Dark eye-line ends in red cockade at rear of cap. Black wings have white bars. Black tail has black-spotted white outer feathers.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Historically, resident from southeastern Oklahoma and Maryland to the Gulf Coast and central Florida; classified as endangered throughout its current range in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Found in pinelands; requires old-growth trees for habitat.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker A4
Quiet calls and drumming.
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Agitated calls.
"yank, yank", "stripp", "tsick"
Woodpeckers (Picidae)
The taxonomic order PICIFORMES (pronounced pih-kih-FOR-meez) is divided into seven different families which include the colorful toucans, the insect-catching jacamars, puffbirds, honeyguides, barbets, and woodpeckers.
The woodpecker family, Picidae (pronounced PIH-kih-dee) is made up of two hundred twenty-two species grouped into twenty-eight genera.
Fifty-seven species of woodpeckers, grouped into fourteen genera, are found in North America. The most well known of these are commonly grouped under the names woodpeckers, sapsuckers, and flickers.
Woodpeckers are known mainly for their pecking and drumming on trees and posts, sapsuckers for their feeding on both tree sap as well as the insects they find caught in it, and flickers for being rather large and commonly hunting for ants on the ground.
The basic body of the woodpecker is comprised of a chisel-like bill used to peel bark or evacuate wood to access insects, and a stiff tail used to prop the bird as it clings to vertical surfaces such as trees or posts. Their strong feet and stiff tail allow them to form a "tripod" which is a very stable stance. Unlike other birds woodpeckers have long prehensile tongues with barbed or sticky tips which can probe ants' nests or tunnels made by boring insects.
Black, white, and various shades of gray and brown dominate the colors most commonly found in woodpecker plumage, with green also being seen on some species outside North America. Many woodpecker species exhibit patches of red and yellow on their heads and bellies, and these bright areas play a role in signaling. Males and females often appear similar but the males commonly have more prominent red or yellow head markings.
Most woodpeckers in North America are arboreal birds of wooded habitats but there are some species like the Gila Woodpecker that live in deserts and use cacti for nesting.
A few woodpeckers seasonally leave the northern high elevations of their nesting range while others are "irruptive" species, like some hawks and owls, which will move hundreds or thousands of miles based on their food supply.
While there are exceptions, such as the Acorn Woodpeckers who live in social communities, most woodpeckers live alone or in pairs. Most feed and live in trees, except for the flickers which have evolved a terrestrial lifestyle of feeding mainly on termites or ants, and are quite comfortable on the ground, using trees mainly as a refuge and nesting area.
Many of the Picidae family of birds are considered endangered or threatened due to habitat loss. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the Imperial Woodpecker have been considered extinct for 30 years. However there is some recent controversy recently whether these species still exist, particularly the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which some researchers believe has been filmed in the swamps of Alabama.
Rather than sing songs like many birds, woodpeckers tap their bills rapidly against trees, logs, or posts (and sometimes even house siding or drainpipes, much too many home-owners' annoyance) to attract mates and proclaim territory. In fact the length and speed of the drumming, as well as its intensity can be used to identify different species.
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The Threadpool is useful for managing threads that are usually in a wait state and that take only a short amount of time to do their work. If still you would like to change the default limit of 25 threads then here you go.
1. Introduction
According to the Microsoft documentation., "The thread pool is created the first time you create an instance of the ThreadPool class. The thread pool has a default limit of 25 threads per available processor, which could be changed using CorSetMaxThreads as defined in the mscoree.h file."
It appears to be a simple function call to change the default thread limit of 25 threads of ThreadPool class per processor. But believe me its not that easy at all. I have found the way to do this. But however, if you need more than 25 threads, I would seriously question the architecture of the application. The Threadpool is useful for managing threads that are usually in a wait state and that take only a short amount of time to do their work. If still you would like to change the default limit of 25 threads then here you go.
2. Include header file
The first problem which I faced as being a VC++ developer is how to include "mscoree.h" header file in C# project. Basically, we can not include header files in C# project because C# is purely object oriented programming language. The header files are full of constants, which wouldnt fit well anyway in this.
a. What is the mscorre.h file?
Basically, MSCoree.dll is the Microsoft .NET Runtime Execution Engine, which hosts the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) in an unmanaged environment, and exposes a generic functions.
Then the main question remains is How to call a unmanaged code (Mscoree.dll functions) from managed code (C# application)? The only way to do this is to interop out to unmanaged code and calls the unmanaged interface method to increase the max thread count.
b. What is the interop?
The .Net managed applications can leverage existing COM components. The COM components inter-operate with the .Net runtime through an interop layer that will handle all the plumbing between translating messages that pass back and forth between managed runtime and the COM component operating in the unmanaged realm, and vice versa. Well, as you probably know that the programming model of COM and .Net differs greatly. The differences are too great to cover in detail right here. Hence, Its pretty obvious that some form of "Difference Manager" is needed. Thats where COM interop comes into picture. Because of the COM interop, COM objects become usable from .Net object. COM Interop provides access to existing COM components without requiring that the original component be modified.
c. How to use C# to interoperate with COM objects and its interfaces defined in Mscoree.h file?
C# uses .NET Framework facilities to perform COM Interop. C# has support for:
There are the following steps to create the COM interop for the mscoree.h file and putting all together.
1. Creating a COM Class Wrapper.
In our C# code, to reference COM objects and interfaces defined in Mscoree.h file, we need to include a .NET Framework definition for the COM interfaces in our C# build. According to Microsoft documentation, "The easiest way to do this is to use TlbImp.exe (Type Library Importer), a command-line tool included in the .NET Framework SDK. TlbImp converts a COM type library into .NET Framework metadata effectively creating a managed wrapper that can be called from any managed language. .NET Framework metadata created with TlbImp can be included in a C# build via the /R compiler option."
Unfortunately, TlbImp.exe utility cannot handle the definitions in the mscoree typelib. Hence, (I guess) the only one alternative is available i.e. to manually define the COM definitions in C# source code using C# attributes. Once we create the C# source mapping, then we can simply compile the C# source code to produce the managed wrapper for the COM objects defined in the mscoree.h file.
2. Declaring a COM coclass
The COM coclass is a COM object. The coclass definition in type library enables to list the interfaces and attributes of a COM object.
The COM coclasses are represented in C# as classes. These classes must have the ComImport attribute associated with them. The following restrictions apply to these classes:
Add the following declaration of coClass to "ICordThread.cs" file
// Declare ThreadManager as a COM coclass:
The ComImport attribute marks the class as an externally implemented Com class. Such a class declaration enables the use of a C# name to refer to a COM class.
The above code declares a class ThreadManager as a class imported from COM that has a CLSID of "CB2F6723-AB3A-11D2-9C40-00C04FA30A3E". Instantiating a ThreadManager instance causes a corresponding COM instantiation.
3. Declaring a COM Interface
COM interfaces are represented in C# as interfaces with ComImport and Guid attributes. They cannot include any interfaces in their base interface list, and they must declare the interface member functions in the order that the methods appear in the COM interface.
COM interfaces declared in C# must include declarations for all members of their base interfaces with the exception of members of IUnknown and IDispatch the .NET Framework automatically adds these.
By default, the .NET Framework provides an automatic mapping between the two styles of exception handling for COM interface methods called by the .NET Framework.
The return value changes to the signature of the parameter marked retval (void if the method has no parameter marked as retval).
The parameter marked as retval is left off of the argument list of the method. Any non-success return value will cause a System.COMException exception to be thrown.
The following code shows a COM interface declared interface declared in C# (note that the methods use the COM error-handling approach).
The ICorThreadpool interface is documented (prototypes only) in mscoree.h, but is not made available from mscoree.tlb. So the following interop stub lets us get our hands on the interface in order to query/control the CLR-managed thread pool. Because we are interested in adjusting maximum thread count of the thread pool configuration, most of the members are actually invalid and cannot be called in their current form.
Add the following code to "ICordThread.cs" file
4. Creating a COM Object
COM coclasses are represented in C# as classes with a parameter less constructor. Creating an instance of this class using the new operator is the C# equivalent of calling CoCreateInstance. Using the class defined above, it is simple to instantiate the ThreadManager class:
A C# coclass is not very useful until you can access an interface that it implements. In C++ you would navigate an object's interfaces using the QueryInterface method on the IUnknown interface. In C# you can do the same thing by explicitly casting the COM object to the desired COM interface. If the cast fails, then an invalid cast exception is thrown.
The cast is required since interop shims like CorRuntimeHost cannot have methods, which would be required if it were to advertise that it implements ICorThreadPool statically).
MSCoreeTypeLib.ThreadManager threadManager =new MSCoreeTypeLib.ThreadManager();// QueryInterface for the ICorThreadPool interface:MSCoreeTypeLib.ICorThreadpool ct =(MSCoreeTypeLib.ICorThreadpool)threadManager;
6. Get Max Thread Count
The GetMaxThreads and SetMaxThreads methods can be called using above ICorThreadpool interface object ct as shown bellow.
Get Max Thread Count
If ICorThreadPool.GetMaxThreads returns 25 and 25, then that's a total of 50 threads (as opposed to saying there are 25 threads max, of which up to 25 can be devoted to I/O )
Set Max Thread Count
maxWorkerThreads = 35;maxIOThreads = 35;ct.SetMaxThreads(maxWorkerThreads, maxIOThreads);
Putting all together
This sample program demonstrates how to change the max thread count for the CLR-managed thread pool at runtime.
This program uses COM interop to reach out and call MSCOREE.
This program takes advantage of an interface called ICorThreadpool that is implemented by the runtime. Because this interface is mentioned in mscoree.h, but not documented in mscoree.tlb, an explicit interop shim is used. See ICorThreadPool.cs in this project for details.
At first this application gets and displays the max thread count using GetMaxThreads method of ICorThreadPool interface. Then it sets the max thread count using SetMaxThreads method of IcorThreadPool interface.
It starts the 10 threads using .Net Thread pool object. At the end of the code, it again gets the max thread count using GetMaxThreads method. This time it should display the same value which being set by SetMaxThreads method.
The main purpose of this article is not to test ThreadPool class or its functionality. The only purpose of this application is to show how to adjust the max thread count of the ThreadPool class..
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Should Ricciardo receive equal treatment with Vettel?
- This topic has 30 replies, 14 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by Boris.
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- 4th September 2013, 13:39 at 1:39 pm #133548
Up to this point, I have felt that Mark Webber has received unjust treatment from Red Bull, a sentiment that is shared obviously by Mark although he knows better than to mention it except in Silverstone and Malaysia. I'm sure he knows that every comment will cost him a couple of million at least so he's right to keep his mouth shut and of course we will all find out the truth some day while reading Mark's autobiography or even better watching a documentary titled Webber:-)
Now that Ricciardo will be replacing Webber, do you folks think that he should receive equal treatment as a proven 3 time WDC driver like Vettel?
I actually find myself on the fence with this one. Obviously I really would love to see someone challenge Vettel but at the same time I do have to recognize that Vettel has proven himself at Red Bull to have earned top treatment within his team.
If I were Vettel and a new driver was joining the team, I would expect to receive top treatment within a team.
Over to the other F1 fanatics! What do you guys think?4th September 2013, 16:06 at 4:06 pm #241285Max JacobsonParticipant
I think they already do – Mark just blows things well out of proportion. Equal equipment =/= equal talent and results.
So they just have to continue that; whoever comes out on top then should naturally get the backing if the other is out of title contention and of course the faster driver will have a greater hand in development to suit their style. So in essence, exactly as they have been doing is how they should treat Ricciardo!4th September 2013, 16:17 at 4:17 pm #241286MazdaChrisParticipant
Just like Max I think that they should (and will) simply continue with the policy of giving their two drivers equal opportunity, and let whichever driver is superior, rise to their natural position as leader. It worked very well with Vettel and Webber (though Webber never really liked to admit that Vettel was just plain better than him), and I'm sure will keep delivering championships as long as they keep building decent cars.4th September 2013, 16:25 at 4:25 pm #241287magon4Participant
It is pretty much nonsense to imagine a team giving one of its drivers inferior material or worse strategy, since the team is always interested in maximizing the points tally.
If Red Bull were interested in having the WDC, they would have gone for Webber in 2010, two races before the end. But they maintained their policy of not interfering, in a moment where Webber expected the support from team and team mate.
For some, that meant they were openly supporting Vettel, but at least on the sight of it that would be an unfair claim. Even in that season, Vettel was better than Webber, deserving to seize his chance as long as he had one.
Ricciardo will be able to prove himself against Vettel, since, once again, no team has any interest in losing points. Let's see how he compares after half a season.4th September 2013, 16:28 at 4:28 pm #241288
If Mark Webber told me that the sun would rise in the east tomorrow morning, I'd seek independent corroboration. People involved in professional sports are hardly known for their scrupulous adherence to the truth, but Webber is pathologically sneaky and dishonest. He's been treated more than fairly during his time at Red Bull.
As I'm sure Ricciardo will be.
A more interesting question would be why so many people who "see no evil" when Grosjean is ordered to move over for Kimi, or Rosberg for Hamilton, have such a burning obsession with the question of equality at Red Bull.4th September 2013, 17:41 at 5:41 pm #241289
The main point of this post was whether Ricciardo should be treated fairly especially in view of Horner's remarks that there will be equality.
The only top team to treat its drivers equally is McLaren. Ron Dennis was explaining the other day how expensive that policy is and there have been long discussions in many forums that have proven that and how idiotic it is to treat drivers equally. Ron Dennis's comments have sealed those discussions.
Getting back on track, should Red Bull treat Ricciardo as Vettel's equal?4th September 2013, 18:02 at 6:02 pm #241290
Treating drivers equally and treating them fairly is not always the same thing. It's unfair to treat unequal drivers identically. Mercedes openly favor Hamilton over Rosberg. That's not "equal", but it is "fair", since Hamilton is the better driver.
Should Red Bull treat Ricciardo (who has yet to score a single podium) as the "equal" of a driver who currently has three WDC's and over thirty race wins? The question is absurd on its face. Should they treat hm fairly? Absolutely. And I see absolutely no reason they imagine they will do otherwise.4th September 2013, 18:12 at 6:12 pm #241291the_sigmanParticipant
Red Bull has been treating its drivers equally.
If you think that Helmut Marko loves Vettel, only because he is Sebastian Vettel, you are wrong in my opinion. Marko loves Vettel because he is from the Red Bull Young Drivers Program (and partly because he is an excellent driver).
PS: If my text is not possible to understand, please tell me :)4th September 2013, 18:13 at 6:13 pm #241292
"Getting back on track.."
You're the one who went on about Webber supposedly receiving "unjust treatment" at Red Bull. (And not for the first time, as I recall) You can't say now that that topic wasn't "on track". You can try to defend your claim, or you can admit it was wrong.5th September 2013, 2:50 at 2:50 am #241293
The moment a team designs a car differently to benefit one driver, they are not treating drivers equally.
And let me go on record and say that Ferrari, McLaren, and Renault would really love if Red Bull would treat their drivers equally so that they can start snatching WCCs and WDCs left and right:-) It'd be Christmas for F1 teams and drivers alike!
We'd have Vettel racing with a bushel of cucumbers throwing them at the other drivers screaming "I could have been WDC 4 times! I'm not making it up! Damn you Christian! You cucumber, I'll show you equality"
Meanwhile Alonso would be readying his WDC speech at the start of the season, Hamilton would be asking the FIA to let him know the size of the trophy so he can make room in his WDC cabinet and even Button would be thinking "maybe I can get a second one, who knows?"
Equality at Red Bull when the driver himself claimed 3 years ago that he's being treated as a #2 driver? Don't make me laugh. Horner, Newey, and Vettel would be rolling on the floor reading this.5th September 2013, 4:18 at 4:18 am #241294
Silverstone 2010 you mean?
Webber after FP2: "Nah mate. I don't like the new wing. I'll race with the old one."
*Vettel breaks his in FP3
Horner: "Oh look. Mark's new wing is unwanted and is lying on the floor. Let's use that one."
Webber: "Flippin' hell mate. I wanted that wing."
Other than emotionally – even Webber admits that he's had equal opportunities, where hardware and equipment is concerned.5th September 2013, 5:08 at 5:08 am #241295
I think Webber realized that if the team wanted to put the wing on Vettel's car, then there was a good reason that had not been shared with him.
Last year at Monaco, Red Bull was doing everything it could to give Vettel the win. If you watch the interview Webber alluded to the fact that [whatever they were brewing] " was not going to happen".
The 1st argument that is made is that a team wants to win the most points and the only way to do that is to give equal opportunity to both drivers. It's not in their interests to sabotage the team. That's a great argument but it's a hollow one especially for top teams because the odds of winning the WDC when supporting both drivers are next to none. It's probably the #1 rule for any team principal that if you have a top team, you do NOT give equality to your drivers especially if they are closely matched in terms of skill. It's a recipe for disaster.
The main argument is that anytime you have 2 people who are not 100% identical, look the same way, talk the same way and do everything identically you do not have equality. If you are in doubt, go to your workplace and find out:-) I'm sure there is tons of inequality there even among equals.
Life is simply not equal – one person starves and another throws away organic prime rib because he's too full. Another person turns down a $9 million offer for a license plate because it has the words F1 on it while another can't afford to make a living.
This goes doubly for F1 where vast sums of money, power, glory, and vested interests come into play.
Getting back to the equality, the only way Webber would have received equality is if his name was Vettel and he looked identical to Vettel to the point that they couldn't tell them apart and he drove just like Vettel. Even so, Horner would have labeled the 2 identical drivers Vettel 1 and Vettel 2 and split the teams pushing more resources to Vettel 1 or Vettel 2 depending on his preference.
Vettel 1 and Vettel 2 could of course trade places each race without anyone knowing and share the glory thus retaining equality however I doubt that the favored Vettel would have done so even if his opponent was another identical Vettel. It's human nature not to want to share anything equally especially at that level.5th September 2013, 5:23 at 5:23 am #241296
@freelittlebirds It's all well and good being hypothetical, but factual examples would be nice.
You do realise that in Monaco 2012, Webber said, "Thanks for letting me win this one, guys?" Besides, if they were even *able* to try to let Vettel win, don't you think they would've tried to slot him in P3 or even P2, rather than P4?
Silverstone 2010 – what on earth are you talking about? Webber returned the wing to the team when he said "No I don't want it." If you return a library book, then it doesn't matter who you are, but you have no right to feel aggrieved over who gets lent the book next.
Don't forget that Webber did not hire Red Bull to make him a car – but rather, Red Bull hired Mark to drive the car, as-is. They could've kept Mark stuck on the wing he didn't want (new), or they could give him the wing he wanted (old) – are you saying they should have said, "NO! We will NOT give you the wing you want. Go with the new wing whether you like it or not"
Worth nothing that they extended Vettel the same courtesy in 2012 China. If the driver prefers older equipment, even if the data says its slower, then they let the driver have it.
2009 is often forgotten, when Webber was often the one to get the preferential call, and team orders. "Sebastian, save your car, Mark is faster. Save your car, Mark is faster."
What of 2010 Hungary, when they asked Vettel to back the pack up behind the safety car to help Mark build a gap, but instead Mark stepped on the throttle, causing a penalty for Vettel (thanks to the 10-car-length rule)
Mark tells the press after Singapore 2009 that he (mathematically out of title running) wouldn't help Sebastian in any way to win the 2009 title, but then he asks it of the team in 2010 (despite Vettel being still in mathematical running), and feels aggrieved that he doesn't get it? Get real.
Mark usually says it like it is, in that moment. Sadly he forgets the times when the same treatment gets given the opposite way.
Loud Aussie complains, silent German stays quiet. Which do you think makes a better story for the press? Humans love conspiracy theories and bad news.5th September 2013, 5:38 at 5:38 am #241297
Well, you did ask for one so here's a factual example. When you won, did you share your winnings equally with those that needed it more than you? I'm not passing judgement or anything but was that your first thought and your actions or did self-interest guide your actions?
Do you think that Horner's decisions are guided by ensuring that the holy covenant of equality in F1 is upheld to the highest standard at Red Bull at any cost to the team, or by ensuring that the team wins the WDC and if possible the WCC while throwing all other handicaps like equality out of the window?5th September 2013, 5:49 at 5:49 am #241298
@freelittlebrids Huh? If you won something, then you fall "equally" under the rule that your winnings are yours. The "equality" refers to the base to which everyone starts, not the outcome. If you shared winnings (points, in F1 terms) then you'd end up with no one becoming champion.
Horner's responsibility is not about equality, his responsibility is to the team to ensure the team gets the best combined result, which means giving each driver the equipment which he is most comfortable with (ie, with which they have the biggest expected return)
Why didn't anyone complain when Vettel's car wasn't getting equal QC to Mark's in 2010? Spark plug in Bahrain, Torsion bar in Melbourne, Brakes in Spain, Chassis crack in Spain & Monaco, brakes in Monza, engine in Korea? Those things all cost Vettel far more than any new front wing would ever have cost Webber, or any KERS issues – which Vettel also has, I might add.
Some fans even think the startline troubles Mark has is on purpose. Was it also favoritism when Mark would go from front row to P14 by turn 2 back in 2003/2004? Mark has had a history of bad starts, even before Red Bull. And if they were on purpose, how do you explain the times when he's started better than Vettel despite being close by? Germany 2013 for example.
Guess what? It's way cheaper to hire a driver with less skill, rather than to build and design an expensive upgrade, and botch it on purpose. Use your common sense for a change.
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