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• Reply	Where does the ash come from?I mean how does it get in to the honey?
• Reply	I fed my bees crystallized honey last winter with great success, but it was light colored honey. I powdered regular sugar in a blender and made patties of sugar and honey which I placed on the top frames. The bees did seem to be looking for water on every mild day and I eventually started providing water via feeders on the landing board. All of my hives survived the winter. The State bee inspector told me that too much moister in winter food is what causes dysentery and the resulting diseases. He recommended removing sugar water feeders by the end of October. I have some creamed honey that I don't like. Can I feed it to my bees?
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wave with a local step
in potential, and is proportional to the hole's acceleration, not just
its displacement. Moreover the wave's effect on the hole is not just
its lowest Fourier mode. Therefore, although their simulations showed
instability, their analysis was based on unjustified coupling
assumptions. The other early published attempt, by Vetoulis and
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assumption that the perturbing potential was purely the wave. The
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high-field instability mechanism so far unresolved, even though
simulations continue to observe it. The present paper is aimed at a
rigorous treatment to resolve this uncertainty.
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a kink of a cylindrical plasma: a uniform shift displacement of the
hole in the direction $z$ of particle trapping with a finite
transverse wave-vector $k_y=k$, as illustrated in Fig.\ \ref{fig:isoenergy}.
  \includegraphics[width=.6\hsize]{kinkplot1}
  \caption{Illustration of the shift kink of an electron hole showing
    phase-space $z,v_z$ contours of constant energy with a specific
    (trapped particle) iso-energy surface rendered as a function of
    transverse position $y$, in three dimensions.}
  \label{fig:isoenergy}
This eigenmode structure is adopted as
an ansatz that is well theoretically justified at low frequency; and
has been shown to give accurate values of real and imaginary
frequencies for the transverse instability at low and moderate
magnetic fields. It predicts that the low-field instability is purely
growing \citep{Hutchinson2018,Hutchinson2018a}, that it is stabilized at
a certain B-threshold \citep{Hutchinson2018a}, and is replaced by an
oscillatory instability which then stabilizes above a second
threshold \citep{Hutchinson2019}, all of which are in good quantitative
agreement with PIC simulations. Those simulations, however, like
earlier ones, sometimes observe a residual high-magnetic field oscillatory kink
instability, coupled to external waves, with a much lower growth
rate. It persists to apparently arbitrarily high magnetic field (and
hence cannot be attributable to cyclotron
resonances \citep{Jovanovic2002} since its frequency shows no B-field
dependence), and is the motivating observation behind the present
extension of the analysis.
Suppression of transverse particle motion by the high magnetic field
is a significant simplification, and allows one to derive the
eigenmode equations from elementary one-dimensional understanding of
the Vlasov equation, and to develop purely analytic approximations for
the hole force terms whose balance gives the eigenvalue and hence the
frequency and growth rate. Section 2 explains the derivation and force
balance, and then provides some motivating and explanatory
observations of the important physics, based on numerical orbit
integration, which lays the groundwork for the analytical
solution. Section 3 performs the analysis of the three dominant
imaginary contributions to the particle force arising from a hole
shift perturbation, using well-motivated analytic approximations of
the anharmonic motion of the trapped and passing particles. Together these
determine (in section 4) a universal dispersion relation between the
real and imaginary parts of the frequency $\omega$ and the
corresponding transverse wave-number $k$. Section 5 compares the
results with some particle in cell simulations, and makes the case
that the instability mechanism analysed is probably responsible
for the hole-wave coupled instability observed in simulations, albeit
The stability analysis takes no account of any induced waves external
to the hole. It shows that there is essentially always a slow-growing
residual transverse instability of a slab hole at high magnetic field,
regardless of the precise field magnitude, and regardless of any
coupling to external waves. This instability might generate
waves \citep{Singh2001a} and the simulations give evidence that it is
influenced and possibly sometimes suppressed or enhanced by hole-wave
coupling, but hole-wave coupling should probably be regarded as a feature, not
an intrinsic causative mechanism, of the instability.
Ions are taken as a uniform immobile background, only electron
dynamics are included, and the external background distribution of
untrapped electrons $f_0$ is taken to be an unshifted Maxwellian. These
simplifications well represent holes that move much faster than the
ion sound speed but slower than the electron thermal speed.
Throughout this paper dimensionless units are used with length
normalized to Debye length $\lambda_D=\sqrt{\epsilon_0T_e/n_0e^2}$,
velocity to electron thermal speeds $v_t=\sqrt{T_e/m_e}$, electric
potential to thermal energy $T_e/e$ and frequency to plasma frequency
$\omega_p=v_t/\lambda_D$ (time normalized to $\omega_p^{-1}$). In
these normalized units the electron mass ($m_e$) is unity and is
omitted from the equations but normalized electron charge is $q_e=-1$,
and is retained. The parallel energy $W$ is written
${1\over 2}v_z^2+q_e\phi$.
\section{High-B Instability}
\subsection{The Vlasov Poisson system}
A rigorous analysis of the problem of transverse instability at
arbitrary magnetic field strength has been presented in
 \citep{Hutchinson2018a}, which should be consulted for general
mathematical detail. We proceed more simply here by making the
early approximation of high magnetic field. A linearized analytic
treatment of electrostatic instability of a magnetized electron hole
depends on the first order perturbation to the distribution function
$f_1$ caused by a potential perturbation $\phi_1$. It is found by
integrating Vlasov's equation along the equilibrium (zeroth order)
helical orbits, which are the equation's ``characteristics''. For a
collisionless situation $f$ is constant along orbits.
The integration can be expressed as an expansion in harmonics of the
cyclotron frequency ($\Omega=eB/m_e$). However, if the magnetic field
is strong enough, only the $m=0$ harmonic is important.  Physically,
this high-field approximation amounts to accounting only for
particles' motion along the magnetic field, and ignoring cross-field
motion, taking the Larmor radius (and cross-field drifts) to be
negligibly small. Vlasov's equation is then essentially
one-dimensional so we need only consider the parallel velocity
distribution, denoted $f(v)$.
Because the equilibrium is non-uniform in the (trapping)
$z$-direction, uncoupled Fourier representation of the potential
variation is possible only for the transverse direction (taken as $y$
without loss of generality) orthogonal to $z$.  The $z$-dependence of the
linearized eigenmode must be expressed in a full-wave manner by writing
  \phi_1({\bm x},t)=\hat\phi(z)\exp i(ky-\omega t).
One way to derive the solution of Vlasov's equation intuitively is to
recognize that if a small \emph{time-independent} potential
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The day dawned bright and clear, and the "bastards" at Olbia had thoughtfully printed out the weather for our route. As far as Lyon things looked good; after that, not so much. We set out anyway to see how far we'd get, routing first up the East coast of Corsica and then turning West across the Northern tip of the island to follow the approved VFR routes back to the mainland. We coasted in and turned North up the valley towards Lyon, and before long started to see cloud reaching lower and lower above the mountains to the East. We skirted a couple of torrential downpours on our way into Lyon le Bron and parked up next to a DA-42, the twin engine version of our own aircraft. A swift refuel and we were off again, trying to find a way through the weather to the North.
We landed safely at Semur, despite the runway being significantly smaller than we were used to up until now! The British PA-28 was parked up at the fuel pumps, with a family of four unloading baggage. They had been flying in Spain and, like us, were trying to get home. With the weather like it was, it was clear that none of us would be going anywhere soon. Before long a pair of Frenchmen arrived to see what all the traffic was about; they had been running a table-tennis club in one of the hangars for 15 or so local children. They sympathised with our plight and very kindly drove us into town to a hotel they knew, which had views across the valley to the airfield. We could even see our aircraft!
If you ever need to get stuck somewhere, Semur-en-Auxois is an excellent place to do so. We dressed up in our warmest clothes (Juan, with great forethought, had decided to pack a woolen hat for a holiday to the desert, in August) and ventured through the drizzle into town. The town is absolutely beautiful, situated on the inside of a wide river meander with slopes plunging 30m or so down to the water. The architecture is all extremely old, and here and there parts of the old town fortifications are still apparent. We walked a long, long way out the other side of town to the supermarket to buy some supplies, but found it shut. The only thing we found were more slugs than I have ever seen; thousands of them, rampaging (ok, slowly oozing) across the roads and pavements. Very strange.
We walked back into town to find some dinner. The only place open was an English-themed pub, serving a wide range of pizzas, and icecream for desert. It wasn't quite the same as the previous nights pizza in Sardinia but it was pleasant nonetheless, and we returned to the hotel early to sleep. The weather forecast for Monday was not good.
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“Conflict prevention, is more cost-effective and warrants more investment and scaling-up” Mustapha Ceesay, Assistant FAO Representative
Caption: Validation Workshop on land disputes
Photo: © David Kujabi, FAO 2020
Land disputes have become a growing problem in The Gambia and have in many instances led to violent conflicts and even loss of lives.
There is growing concern that the prevailing redress mechanisms may be inadequate to resolve land and natural resource related conflicts efficiently.
To help address this issue, FAO in partnership with Action Aid the Gambia (AATG) on Monday 21 December organised a workshop to validate a report on “Empirical Assessment of Grievance Resolution Mechanisms for Land and Natural Resources (LNR) related disputes in The Gambia”.  Due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements 25 participants attended in person, while other stakeholders joined the workshop online to validate the assessment report, that is based on research conducted in three local government administrative Regions, namely Brikama, Janjanbureh and Kuntaur.
The study focuses on issues such as ownership, access, administration, and dispute resolution mechanisms amongst people and communities, and the mechanisms used to address them both formally and informally. The initiative aims at examining complaint processes for LNR related disputes in order to formulate and implement proactive conflict prevention methods.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Ousman Cham, Chairperson AATG Board of Directors said that population growth places huge pressure on land demands for competing needs such as farming, livestock grazing, housing, industry, and roads. He furthered that the increase in natural resource exploitation has led to a rise in land related conflict. “As land dispute cases rise, so also is the need to come up with solutions that are culturally and socially acceptable which are peaceful and sustainable”, he said.
In his remarks, Mustapha Ceesay, Assistant FAO Representative in charge of Programmes said that The Gambia is an agricultural country, with much of its territory devoted to crop production, livestock farming, fisheries, and natural resource exploitation. He posited that it was therefore natural to experience conflicts over land and natural resources. Ceesay said that the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund is an instrument for conflicts resolution which calls for greater national leadership, and a shift from response to prevention. “FAO, being the UN agency mandated with agriculture, livestock, fisheries and natural resources management has been commissioned by the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund, to lead efforts in conflict resolution over land and natural resources”, the FAO representative added.
Presentations were made on the findings and participants commended the consultants that authored the report for an impressive work. They also made observations and recommendations for the consultants to consider. Participants also expressed hope that the initiative will lead to finding lasting solutions to land conflicts in The Gambia. Illassa Sanneh Alkalo of Darsilami Sandu said the initiative was very good and recommendations made will help them a lot in addressing land disputes.
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The money I gave them wasn't enough to take them home. I could sense that it didn't make them happy. But.. what if it was not a true story?Atleast I would be happy that I didn't get royally duped. But.. what if they were really really really in need of help?
Its a tricky one...I've heard stories of either side...genuine ones...and fake ones...
If we had some time in the world...one thing would be to take them to the nearby Police Station, and let them do the explaining to the cops...and help them in front of the cops...But, it would take atleast an hour or two...and some unforseen consequences...if that fellow is a sought after criminal...you might end up running around the court as witness...and what not...there are other umpteen sources of entertainment...
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ROTFL......Didn't know that you could be taken for a ride this way. Anyways i have a simpler theory. Help as much as you want. But do so in any way other than the monetary one. If they are hungry, buy food; if they are lost, guide them to the police station etc....But even in this case you might get the snigger from them. Once during one of my walks, a lady with a child in tow stopped me and started giving me stories about how the kid had not eaten anything for 3 days. While i did have seconds thoughts abt the same, it was difficult to walk away. And so i asked to come along to the bakery on the opposite side. And that's when she changed her story and claimed that she needed money for injection. Anyways I did manage to get her and the child a cold drink. But no cash :-)...Anyways you need to be more smart...


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I would like to implement this concept. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I think we often have problems with giving up because once we get invested in one direction, then whatever we do sort of needs to be consistent with that. But if you can fight with this need and your Ego, you can actually get a lot more productive.
However, if we don’t muster up our courage and give up things that do not really matter to us and search for things that DO matter, we’d just be slaves to our own cowardice. Again, it’s not easy to get out of the comfort zone and try finding a new path in our life again. But if we don’t, we just have to accept our current situations (however good/bad it may be) and not complain about it.
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I had grand intentions. I really did. I was going to keep up my Yogi lifestyle, breaking out my mat for daily asana and pranayama. I felt great with my sequencing and flow post Yandara. I was feelin’ that Yogi-High.
And then the first trimester sickness hit. And all that intention went to hell. I went to yoga once during my first trimester. And the only real reason I went was because I wanted to sign up for Prenatal classes before they filled up. I signed up for the Wednesday evening class, and then closer it got, the more I dreaded it because of how sick I was. Luckily, I started taking Diclectin the week before class started, and it worked! So I went to my first class, and at 13 weeks, surrounded by all the soon-to-be-mama’s who had beautiful round belly’s, I was suddenly really self conscious. I was just super bloated and fluffy looking. I could barely carry on any type of vinyasa because I got so out of breath, and chaturanga? Haha, think again.
Not to mention the absolute exhaustion I was still feeling. Add on a couple night shifts and teaching spin twice a week and the next week I knew I needed to take an evening of rest instead.
I could make up more excuses. We went to Germany, I had other things planned, I was really tired, I didn’t want to take the drive in to RD from Blackfalds. Yup, I thought of them all. But really, my heart just wasn’t in it.
I signed up for Back to Back sessions, and after only making it twice to the first 8 week session, I was READY to commit to the 7 week session. I set an alarm in my phone to encourage me to go, and when it went off I got dressed up in the only exercise clothes that still fit and I headed into RD on that -25 evening. Only to find out I had the wrong time. And I was 45 minutes late to an hour class.
That was 3 weeks ago and I haven’t attempted to go back.
Why? I mean, it IS easy enough to put on comfy clothes and drive the 20 minutes to the studio. I dutifully did it for months, almost every day, from January until May.
The only GOOD reasoning I have is that my body demanded (and is still demanding) rest. I teach spin classes twice a week, and I have to bring my A-game to those because I am the one leading the class. I can’t, and don’t slack off when I am there. I walk my dogs 4-5 times a week for up to an hour. They need the exercise, and I’d feel guilty if I withheld it from them. So prenatal yoga, and any yoga for that matter, fell to the wayside and dropped down on my list of priorities.
Remember my word of the Year? Flexibility. And while I am still working on all of these goals, the over arching theme is fluidity, being less strict with myself and honoring what my body and my mind truly need.
And that is why I am a currently a shitty Yogi in the Physical Sense, but a very much improved Yogi in the philosophical sense.
Because Yoga to me is to be present, focusing on my family and my dogs and hunkering down rather than being go-go-go, to breathe, even if that means huffing and puffing up 3 flights of stairs to get to the spin bikes, and to find inner peace and harmony, which right now looks like 2 Dark Chocolate Justin’s PB Cups and a Hot Bubble Bath.
One day, hopefully sooner rather than later, my body will crave asana. One day, when I am no longer pregnant, it will be safe for me to practice headstand and handstand. One day, but not today.
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thebexfactor on December 7, 2014 at 7:41 pm said:
Lovely post and well written. So many women these days chase after a fit pregnancy so we can bounce back to our regular selves after labor. I think a lot of people forget to listen to their body and just take the rest that is so needed before your world is thrown upside down. It’s ok to give up the things you enjoy because you’re too sick or too tired.
Hopefully you will feel up to your old yoga ways once the little miss comes. Lisa’s mom and baby classes at Breathing Room are so fun if you decide to go that route


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Writers are always searching for perfect words to paint powerful images. We shade with appropriate adjectives, we color with clauses, we expand our definitions with details; we specify , we clarify, and we bring our images to life by describing what they are, what they have, and what they do.
Another often overlooked way to create powerful images is by telling what something or someone or somewhere is not.
We can approach objects, places, people, situations, and events from the opposite or unlikely side, from a new perspective, by examining what our subject is not, what it does not have, or what it cannot do.
Like looking at the negatives of old photos, we can examine the negative spaces as a means of creating a similar, yet different image- -a shadow image.
An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant contains a powerful and poetic description of a room, considering all that it is not, and all the features it does not have, and all the things Solomon is not allowed to have or do in this room-- all things for which he longs.
Solomon Singer lived in a hotel for men near the corner of Columbus Avenue and Eighty-fifth Street in New York City, and he did not like it. The hotel had none of the things he loved.
His room had no balcony ( he dreamed of beautiful balconies). It had no fireplace (and he knew he would surely think better sitting before a fireplace). It had no porch swing for napping and no picture window for watching the birds. He could not have a cat. He could not have a dog. He could not even paint the walls a different color and, oh, what a difference a yellow wall or purple wall would have made!
With these negative words, we not only see the dismal hotel room in which Soloman dwells, but we also feel his loneliness, his weariness, and his pain. A description of what the room actually contains, what it actually looks like, would not have created an accurate image for us, nor fill us with the same empathy.
Once I noticed the power of this not/no in this passage, I began to see this technique in other texts and to experiment with it in my own writing.
She never planned to be a dancer.
She was not the ballerina who befriended each neophyte dancer that entered the company. She never immediately smiled as visitors entered the studio to witness, to gawk-- to envy the lithe bodies stretching and bending on the highly polished hardwood floor.
She had none of the easy dancer banter hidden in her mind that fell effortlessly from the mouth of her sisters in pink. She had never been like the current starling darling of the company, a little girl dreaming of elegantly spinning from the time she was three.
She never wore a tutu for Halloween or ran into her yard in ballet slippers before her mother could remind her to change.
Dancing was not what she intended to do and she never intended to stay in this place.
The company was not her family, as the Russian proclaimed, and most of them were not even her friends.
No one applauded her successes and waited with flowers for her after the last performance to take her to a late dinner as Jake’s Café around the corner where the other dancers gathered and stayed long into the night dancing wild unstructured gyrations that were not part of classic ballet.
No-- instead she exited the stage door, caught the train home, riding silently, neither looking out the window or at her fellow riders.
This dancer comes to life as we consider what she is not, how she has none of the expected characteristics of a dancer. Again, her loneliness is tangible and resides in the negative space.
I recently was introduced to two additional and powerful uses of negative space.
As I read the poem Lure by Robin Coste Lewis in the collectionfor Poetry, I was struck by the quiet horror that we feel as the narrator recounts an incident of incest that "did not take place" in her childhood. The negative statements recounting her truth render the images and events all the more disturbing and haunting.
(We are not in that room.
I am not sitting on your lap.
In a recent interview about her work with Nicole Sealey at PEN America, in response to a question about the most daring thing Lewis had ever put into words, interestingly, she responds by discussing Lure and what she was not intending to do with this piece.
... “Lure,” is an exploration of incest and its long-term impact on survivors. That was challenging to write because... I wasn’t interested in being shocking, or even cathartic. If all I can do is to get my poem to go “Boo!” that might be thrilling for a second, but it would be cheap, gimmicky. I’m also disinterested in catharsis as a goal. As a tool, sure, but as a goal I remain suspicious. So what if we all cry. Who cares? A poem is not an Oprah episode. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against crying. I hope my work allows the reader to access sensations that have been locked away or ill-considered. But when we make that the sole mark or goal—“I cried...” —we miss out on poetry’s deeper properties, which can take us far beyond emotional release. And so when thinking about how to write about incest, I knew catharsis was not enough. I wanted more. I assumed my reader was more intelligent than me, so then there was no need to over-explain, or to trick my reader with a gimmick, even a gimmick about abuse. Also, I never want my work to be a sly narcissistic invitation that requires the reader to look at me instead of the poem.
E. Lockhart begins her young adult novel, We Were Liars by having one of her characters tell us about the negative spaces of the family who populates her novel--who they are not.
No one is a failure...
On the first page of this novel we are immediately intrigued as she alternates between what the Sinclairs are and are not, leaving us wanting to know this privileged family, to understand their particular pains and specific situations, as they gather each summer on their private island.
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I smiled as I realized the entire structure of his poem/song is in negative space--- the revolution will not......
I also smiled at how times have changed--- and how not being televised, not being streamed, not being seen instantly, everywhere, is no longer an option.
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The power of no, not and negative spaces.
The underside, the shadow image.
We can use these negative statements and views to look with new eyes at objects, places, people, situations, and events.
Reread the samples and others you may locate.
Describe an object or a place by telling about what it is not.
Write about a person, their circumstances and situation--- tell their story using only negative descriptions and statements.
Write about an event- a trauma, a sadness, regret, or a celebration by detailing what did not happen--either as a technique to describe what actually happened in the manner of Robin Coste Lewis in Lure- -or to examine what truly did not occur.


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La parte buena es que en C# 9 (que viene por defecto con .Net 5) han introducido un nuevo tipo que tiene las características de una clase y se puede declarar *inline*. Sí, me refiero a `record`. Si quisiéramos usarlo en lugar de una clase, tendríamos algo parecido a esto:
  : Get("todos", (req, res) =>
    if(!todos.Any())
      res.Status = 204;
    res.Json(todos);
Para que esto funcionara tendríamos que tener un delegado para representar la función que ejecutamos y un `record` donde almacenarla. Además, este objeto al que llamaremos `RouteRecord` contendrá la ruta y el verbo a usar:
public delegate Task RouteDelegateAsync(HttpRequest req, HttpResponse res);
public abstract record RouteRecord(string Pattern, string Verb, RouteDelegateAsync RouteDelegate);
Para que crear nuestros *endpoints* sea más intuitivo heredaremos de `RouteRecord` y crearemos registros para los verbos que vamos a usar en este ejemplo:
public abstract record Get(string Pattern, RouteDelegateAsync RouteDelegate)
  : RouteRecord(Pattern, HttpMethods.Get, RouteDelegate);
public abstract record PuPut, RouteDelegate);
public abstract record Posost, RouteDelegate);
public abstract record DeleteDelete, RouteDelegate);
Para que Asp.Net core entienda estos objetos que hemos creado vamos a necesitar algo más de código. Lo primero será imaginar cómo nos gustaría usarlo. Por un lado, crearemos la extensión `AddRouteRecords` que nos buscará todos los objetos de tipo `RouteRecord` de nuestro ensamblado. Y por otro crearemos `MapRouteRecords` para registrar todas las rutas en el módulo Asp.Net Core Routing. El `Startup` quedaría así:
    services.AddRouteRecords();
    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => endpoints.MapRouteRecords());
Vamos a implementar el rastreador de objetos tipo `RouteRecord` y lo registraremos dos veces: una como el propio tipo de la ruta y otro como el tipo base, pero referenciando a este primero . La idea es que no si resolviéramos el servicio primero por su tipo y luego por `RouteRecord` se creara solo una instancia del mismo:
  public static IServiceCollection AddRouteRecords(this IServiceCollection services)
        .Where(type => !type.IsAbstract && typeof(RouteRecord).IsAssignableFrom(type))
        .ForEach(type =>
          services.AddScoped(type);
          services.AddScoped(s => (RouteRecord)s.GetService(type));
Para registrar las rutas buscaremos todos los objetos de tipo `RouteRecord` que registramos en el paso anterior y para cada uno de ellos usaremos el método `MapMethods`. Esto hará que se registren sus rutas:
  public static IEndpointRouteBuilder MapRouteRecords(this IEndpointRouteBuilder endpoints)
    using var scope = endpoints.ServiceProvider.CreateScope();
       .ServiceProvider
       .GetServices<RouteRecord>()
       .ForEach(route =>
         var type = route.GetType();
         endpoints.MapMethods(
           pattern: route.Pattern,
           httpMethods:new[] { route.Verb },
           requestDelegate: ctx =>
             var r = (RouteRecord)ctx.RequestServices.GetService(type);
             return r.RouteDelegate(ctx.Request, ctx.Response);
Un pequeño detalle: para conseguir que se cree una instancia de nuestro objeto `record` cada vez que se llame a la ruta, vamos a quedarnos con el tipo y a resolverlo antes de llamar a su delegado. Si usáramos directamente la instancia con la que lo estamos registrando, se comportaría como un *singleton*.
Antes de seguir desarrollando vamos a añadir nuestra `TodoStore` a la colección de servicios. Y además, vamos a añadir 100 tareas de inicio para tener datos de prueba:
      services.AddSingleton<TodoStore>();
      services.AddRouteRecordsodoStore store)
    // seed data
      store.Insert(new Todo(default, $"demo task {i}", false));
Una vez hemos tenemos todos estos artefactos, podríamos escribir una implementación funcional:
  : Get("todos", async (req, res) =>
      var todos = store.GetAll();
          res.StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status204NoContent;
      await JsonSerializer.SerializeAsync(res.Body, todos);
Hay que tener en cuenta dos cosas:
- Por omisión Asp.Net core devolverá el código 200 (Ok).
- Si quieres devolver un código de estado lo más recomendable es que uses la clase `Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.StatusCodes`, que tiene constantes muy descriptivas de código y mensaje, o que uses `System.Net.HttpStatusCode`, que es un enumerado con el descriptivo. En este caso uso la primera opción. Si usamos la segunda y queremos saber cuál es la cifra, tenemos que hacer uso de intelisense. Mientras que en el primer caso lo leemos directamente.
Vamos a probar nuestro código. Para ello lanzaremos la aplicación, abriremos un terminal y llamaremos a la ruta que hemos creado usando `curl`:
[{"Id":100,"Title":"demo task 99","IsDone":false},
{"Id":99,"Title":"demo task 98","IsDone":false},
{"Id":98,"Title":"demo task 97","IsDone":false},
{"Id":97,"Title":"demo task 96","IsDone":false},
Aquí veremos un pequeño defecto y es que estamos usando *Pascal Case* en lugar de *camel Case* para definir las propiedades del *json*. Esto tiene una fácil solución, basta con añadir unas opciones al método de serialización:
await JsonSerializer.SerializeAsync(
  utf8Json: res.Body,
  value: todos,
  options: new JsonSerializerOptions


I was fearing the worst as we pulled out of the gates of Tanjung Priok docks, on the outskirts of Jakarta. It was after midnight, we didn’t have a hotel booked and ports in general are not the best places to be hanging around late at night. I contemplated shoving the bikes in a taxi but decided it was too much hassle to take apart the bikes and we were far more likely to be scammed by a taxi driver than robbed. So the plan was to ride and stop at the first hotel we came to.
In the end I needn’t have worried.. There were lots of passengers from the boat walking out to the main road, and plenty of traffic so it never felt dangerous. It proved slightly harder to find a hotel though. The first likely looking place we found said we could have a room but only for 6 hours. What?!?!?! The next place was all locked up, but there were some people inside. Our hopes were dashed when they told us they were guests and there would be no one on reception until the next day. Finally we spotted somewhere much shinier, new and more expensive looking than we were used to. It wasn’t as expensive as I feared and we gladly accepted some comfort after our adventures over the last couple of days.
Cycling out of Jakarta was also much easier than I thought it was going to be. It was a Saturday so there were none of the traffic jams that the city so famous for. The only obstacle we had to overcome was a puncture for me within 5 minutes of setting out. That’s not to say it was pleasant Jakarta is an ugly city with almost nothing I could find to recommend. It can basically be summed up in one word cars. Lines and lines of them belching fumes into the soupy brown air. There is a small old Historical Center with a mercifully traffic-free Square which can be explored in about 15 minutes but apart from that for the two days that we were there I found it deeply unpleasant. Although it was nice to catch up with a friend from my time teaching in Korea.
My impressions of Java didn’t really improve as we rode east along the coast. The roads were busy with nothing to see and the drivers inconsiderate to cyclists. When we did manage to find some small roads to follow they often deteriorated into rough tracks and you were so busy looking out for potholes you couldn’t enjoy the view. It wasn’t that beautiful anyway, the open rice fields and towering volcanoes were pleasant enough, but anywhere with people – which was most places – was blighted by mountains of trash. The people weren’t friendly, staring us like we were aliens piloting a spaceship through the villages rather than the smiles, waves and hellos we were accustomed to on this trip. And it was Ramadan so it was really hard to find food. The first day we were lucky, just as it hit 12, our habitual dining time I spotted a roadside stall and pulled over. The only other customer was a Chinese Indonesian who complained that he’d been looking for 30 kilometers to find somewhere to eat. Our luck didn’t last and over the next few days we were forced to resort to eating whatever we could find in the convenience stores which were about the only things that were open. Thank you Indomaret.
After 3 days of battling the traffic we gave up. There were no easy alternatives to the main road, and there seemed to be no let up in the flow of vehicles since we left Jakarta. After reaching Ceribon we hopped on the train to Yogyakarta. The train was comfortable and fast, although we couldn’t take our bikes on board. We had to send them as freight although that was relatively painless and they were waiting for us at the station next day.
Yogyakarta was infinitely more pleasant than Jakarta, much smaller, much less crowded and more interesting things to see and do. I’m still didn’t really like it though. Like many places in Indonesia it just seemed designed to extract as much money as possible from tourists. I know I’m privileged and very wealthy compared to the vast majority of locals but $25 to see a temple just seems excessive to me. And $40 to see two seems even worse especially when by spending $3 less at Angkor Wat you can see 50 more temples, many of which are far more impressive than Borobudur or Prambanan the two major temple sites nearby, and most peoples reason for visiting the city. I know that Indonesia is a poor country, and tourism is an important source of income, but I would be much happier to see some evidence that my cash was being directed towards the people that actually need it rather than sparkling new ticket offices for rich foreign tourists and the back pockets of government officials.
That’s not to say that the temples are not impressive, just slightly anti climatic after spending the previous 4 months exploring endless temples. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the world and has some striking relief patterns carved along the steps and corridors which depict scenes of local life and tell the stories of Buddhist myths. It is still an important site for pilgrimage and there were groups of monks from as far afield as China exploring the complex. After reaching the top we were rewarded by the sight of the main stupa surrounded by concentric rings of smaller perforated stupas and the equally beautiful views across to the forested hillsides and the smoldering volcano in the background.
Exploring the temples at Prambanan the next day was a marked contrast. The situation was much less spectacular, located as they are in flat parklands next to the main road. They were also slightly less crowded and their Hindu architecture more angular and jagged than the graceful curves of Borobudur.
Cycling out of Yogyakarta couldn’t have been more different than cycling out of Jakarta. The first part was busy but we soon left the crowds behind and got to enjoy quiet roads, beautiful views, friendly people and there were a couple of restaurants open in every town we passed through. The landscape was beautiful, green fertile fields of rice, some forest as we climbed the lower slopes of a volcano and all around towering volcanic peaks, some of them issuing small puffs of smoke from their craters, others wreathed in cloud.
But 4 months on a bicycle was catching up on Kim. Having never been a real fan of unmotorised 2 wheeled transport she had had enough. And after following my sweaty arse around South East Asia for a third of a year who could blame her. Bali was beckoning so at Madiun we broke our journey and hopped on the train to Bunyuwangi. It was another beautiful journey and I gazed somewhat wistfully over what looked like perfect cycling country. There was a lot more forest, and a lot less people and what roads we did see seemed to have far less traffic.
Before catching the ferry to Bali we decided to climb the nearby volcano Mount Ijen with it’s famous blue flame. The flame can only be viewed at night so we spent the day exploring some beautiful nearby waterfalls and then got a few hours sleep before heading to the mountain just after midnight. We decided to save some cash and hire a motorbike rather then fork out for an expensive tour with jeep ride to the mountain. Not long after we set out the heavens opened, and we sheltered in the doorway of a dwelling as the road turned into a river, looking on jealously as the jeeps of warm and dry tourists trundled past. Fortunately a few minutes later the storm passed. It turned out to be very localised, as we climbed higher the moon appeared through the ragged clouds and the road became dry. Which was good because the path was incredibly steep in places. The engine on the battered scooter we’d rented from our guesthouse laboured away with the throttle fully open and I was very thankful that Kim Ngan is not much more than half my weight. Finally after about an hour twisting through the forest we spotted lights up ahead. We’d reached the start of the climb.
After hiring some gas masks, checking our torch batteries and being hit by the customary Indonesian tourist rort – $8 to climb a mountain is taking the piss if you ask me – we set off up the mountain. The climb was pretty easy, the path was well maintained as it is used to haul sulphur out of the volcano. Already although it was still a couple of hours before dawn there was a steady stream of men descending with trolleys piled high with the mineral and others lugging the empties back up the path. They’ll also drag the fat and unhealthy up to the top for a fee, and not a very large fee at that. One chubby wheezing Korean kid availed them of their services when we were about halfway up. I guess they make far more than from their usual cargo but I would be too ashamed to have a gang of tiny guys hauling my fat lazy arse up a mountain no matter how much I was paying them.
It was a beautiful night. The bright moon and starry sky lighting up the surrounding mountains. But we couldn’t pause for too long to enjoy the view if we wanted to see the blue flames in all their glory. As we neared the summit we donned our gas masks to counter the affects of the sulphurous fumes wafting from the mountain. Whilst the climb to the top was simple enough the descent into the crater wasn’t. It was incredibly steep, and very rough, with no real formed path and it was dark. It was simply a case of clambering down the rock face, following the crowds and pausing to allow the guys lugging huge lumps of sulphur to edge slowly past on their way to the top. I was relieved to reach our destination after what seemed like a torturous age. Sadly the flames didn’t have much glory this time. There had been an eruption of poisonous gas a few weeks earlier which had killed one of the miners so we weren’t allowed to get too close. There were also apparently more clouds of gas and smoke than usual which obscured the flame. Kim was dissapointed. I thought it was still pretty impressive like the giant bunsen burner of some mad scientist with a devilish plan for world domination.
Leaving the crowds we scrambled back to the top in time for the sunrise. Which was another disappointment. It was cloudy. At least the crucial part of the sky was. However the view into the crater was anything but. First of all the billowing clouds of smoke lit up in the sun as it cleared the clouds that had spoiled the sunrise. And then the bright turquoise waters of the lake. As it grew lighter I became more and more relieved we had gone into the crater in the dark. If Kim could have see quite how dangerous it looked I don’t think her vertigo would have allowed her to go down and I would have found it pretty challenging. I was also happy we’d come by motorbike so we could linger at the top and enjoy the spectacle rather than having to rush to catch our transport back down.
It certainly was a memorable way to end our time on Java.
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Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fired warning by Karen Khachanov
RAFAEL NADAL and Roger Federer have been told their stronghold on Grand Slam tournaments will soon be brought to an end, by Karen Khachanov.
Nadal and Federer have won 37 major tournaments between them as they continue to dominate tennis over a decade after they first reached the top of the world rankings.
Federer, 37, is expected to hang up his racket in the next few years while Nadal, five years his junior, will try to beat the Swiss star’s records.
But NextGen ace Khachanov is hoping to be one of the highly-rated youngsters to step into the shoes of the current top two.
“We have to try to change it, the younger guys,” Khachanov said.
“I agree that the previous generation, they were like winning Grand Slam at a younger age, but it was different time, different game, different speed of the courts, so different game in general.
“It’s tough really to compare the past time and right now.
“Right now the top guys – I’m saying top four for example, the Big Four – they play really good tennis, and they manage [to be] still beating us.
“So I think hopefully matter of time that we can approach and slowly going deeper in the big tournaments, in Grand Slams.”
Karen Khachanov has fired a warning to Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer (Image: GETTY)
Khachanov took the opening set when he faced Nadal in the US Open last month.
However, the Russian fell to a four-set defeat but won a lot of plaudits for also taking the final two sets to tiebreaks.
“All matches that I played on the big tournaments against top guys and I had a good level,” Khachanov reflected.
“So I’m really happy with that. The next thing I think is to win these kinds of matches.
Federer is expected to retire over the coming years (Image: GETTY)
“I think the main thing is to maintain the level, the intensity, the mental aspect – mentally that I stay there, I try, I’m pushing myself and I believe that I can win these matches.
“I think one of the main things is of course to believe and that the belief can give you the game.
“But of course, you need to practice – practice makes perfect right? So you need to practice in the right way and to improve the things and then when you go on court you have to believe that you can win.
“So that’s how I see the confidence inside yourself.”


1. What would you like to change on the web?
I would like the web to be more robust. It is much too fragile. The transport (TCP/IP) is quite robust, standards compliant, etc. The stuff coming into browsers is beyond broken. It is most annoying that sites depend upon all kinds of arcane plugins and invasive client side scripting. I am constantly given the choice of either not viewing the site or allowing it to do what it likes in my browser. To work around these problems, we need a trust system (PKI or similar) that is inexpensive enough to be practical for use by everyone. We could then simply allow sites we can trust to go on about their business while blocking sites that cannot be trusted.
The web is crazy-slow. So are all the components. I have a 5Mbit connection and should see pages instantly appear. Instead, I can count five seconds between clicks half the time. The obvious thing to do is to create a dense programming language that server and client understand. This has been done a few times (Rebol comes to mind), but the purveyors all want to 'own' that network. The marketplace has rightly rejected that.
Once upon a time, people used 'handles' with wild abandon. They could post anonymously. I liked that. Sure, we had to put up with nonsense at times, but we would see stuff that could only be posted under a 'handle'. People could keep their privacy. The mechanisms (or at least the underlying technology) exist to allow people to both keep their privacy and still be 'known valid'. The people resisting this are mostly motivated by self-interest. They use your information for their personal gain. If they made it possible for you to withhold that information, they would lose money. They will not do it voluntarily. Informed 'netizens' should insist upon it.
I also 'rilly rilly', want to keep the robust nature of the transport and network 'ethos'. If we continue on that path, I expect we will have a virtually indestructible network.
Opportunities The network could converge completely so that all forms of EM bandwidth such as radio, television, IR, etc and all forms of transport such as wire, network cabling, fiber-optic, etc. carry IP traffic. Breaking the EM spectrum into small enough cells could make transparent, ubiquitous, robust, high-speed transport possible. It would eventually mean you do not even have to carry a phone if you wish. You could just speak your request into the air and the network would make it happen.
If the question means, "what are the odds it will go away"; I would say zero. Within a decade or two, the entire world will be so integrated with the network that shutting the network down would shut everything else down as well.
Unless the first part of this section did not make it clear, there is a very real physical threat to health and safety if control of networks fall into the wrong hands. Eventually, everything will be tied into the network. Something as mundane as a light switch could become deadly.
There is also a rather odd negative effect happening that will be accelerated with the converging network. People are losing their literacy. It is happening piece-meal, so it does not seem so alarming. Widespread literacy in languages such as Latin and ancient Greek is vanishing. Artisan skills are vanishing. The generations born in the 20th century are dying off. As they do, their skills, and much of their knowledge will go with them. In a world where computer interaction is done with spoken languages, gestures and even implicitly without communication at all, what will happen to keyboarding, handwriting or reading?
There is a danger that as machinery (amplified to ungodly heights by network effects) begins to take everything over that our skills will atrophy. There is, in turn, a danger that people will become more specialized to the detriment of general knowledge and skills. How much social cohesion is afforded by common understanding of language,
you have described what the problem is - yet have not outlined possible solutions. i've been thinking about - and discussing - exactly the issues you describe, for quite some time. i'll see if i can get permission to post a recent discussion from the person who initiated it. also i'll write up a reply later.
after some discussion and thought, i'll write up a separate article. in the mean-time, top 10 linux desktop hurdles again "states a problem" but does not offer any answers.
this is extremely common in the free software world - problems are stated again and again and, whilst people "get on with their project", there's nobody outlining a cohesive strategic direction which makes their project worthwhile - useful - to _real_ people and i mean to people as a "whole" not "individuals".
by that, i mean that it's all very well that apache serves up web pages: it does this extremely well. however, that still leaves the problem of creating a single-point-of-failure server which, if it's up - and accessible - that's fine, but if there's any failures along the way, some people don't get "served".
I think separate articles would be productive. It *is* a rule of thumb not to go whimpering to management about problems without suggested solutions.
2) In some cases, the solution is implied by the problem. Like the old joke -- "It hurts when I do that. Well, then stop doing that." For instance, I say that we will have problems and have had problems flowing from a lack of vigilance. Well, it's a little glib, but I guess you could say the prescriptive is to 'get vigilant'.
I have TONS to say about possible solutions. Unfortunately, my time is limited and there really is a lot to say. I had the stuff above already written and thought it might be 'of interest' to some members of the Advogato community.
I hope I'm not sounding defensive. I don't mean to, but the lack of time is making my response clumsy. I appreciate the comments, honest.
I think there is ample room for others to write articles addressing various of the issues raised. I, for one, would read whatever material people have with interest. If and when I have the time, I will address certain particulars where I feel my input would be helpful.
The "Web" as what? as in HTTP? or as in the idea of the International IP network?
From my point of view, certain applications for the Web where developed by academics who couldn't see them being misused. For example, SMTP gateways blindly forwarding on mail in the correct direction, on the surface looks like a fantastic idea, but then lead to the "workingness" of Spam relays.
Wouldn't mail be fantastic if mail from a particular domain could only be sent from certain IP addresses listed on that domain's Record? Wouldn't it be fantastic if the rules about domain name registration where tightened? When domains expire, they should be available for re-use.. Why can *anyone* register *any* domain anyways? Why is it possible to fake the origin of packets? (Yes I am aware of the performance impact I am suggesting here).
Why was there the invention of the .com domain name? I mean, if you're a company in the UK, it should be enough to have a .co.uk and not get looked down upon because there's some other company, five thousand miles away who do nothing to do with area of specialty has taken the .com.
I am also beginning to opt-out of Email. I fully understand the <user>DeepNorth</user> for not wanting to have to provide email addresses for signing up to web pages. Oh Don't get me wrong, I'm not a privacy nut. I fully subscribe to the idea that when you do something (visit a website) that the thing you're doing it to has the right to know "who" you are (be that an semi-traceable identifier of some kind)... so I'm saying using things like OpenId, and MS Passport etc to allow cross-site authentication of WHO you are without everyone having the possibility of contacting you.
Should this be P2P? Should this be centrally controlled? I don't know.
No, I don't have the technical answers for any of what I've suggested. But this was a hypothetical bordering on sci-fi question, and we're all friends right?
p.s. I also call for the destruction of Google. I don't believe their "Do No Evil". They're just biding their till 100% of the population can not do their job without them before suddenly all the TV's in the world show a bald man stroking a cat demanding Antarctica and 100 million dollars..e to buy up all the free software talent that they can possibly get their hands on - so that nobody else can use that valuable resource.
i don't call for the destruction of google (yet). what i _would_ call for is their transformation - into a company that helps takes on the next global challenge: organising the world's knowledge. (preferably without shoving advertising at people, but there you go...)
organising the world's information is easy: it's a matter of scaling up some simple algorithms. but organising _information_ doesn't help: we're _deluged_ with "information", thank you. organising _knowledge_ is a much more interesting - and useful - task.
i'm so sorry, everybody, my cat came in and wandered across the keyboard - god knows how it knew how to type such complete crap, there ho hum, never mind the monkeys typing shakespeare, be afraid, be very afraid of your white cat!
i have some ideas - i'd prefer to hear from people who'd like to make this happen.
Somewhat ironically, I had to stop my own work into related stuff to do so.
For the record, I like the fact that you really put your should into it. This stuff (reporting the news) is a thankless task and you usually get punished for it. I'm glad you stepped up to the plate.
Now, off to comment on YOUR article. I confess I have a few nits to complain about, but I have some extremely important agreements with you. In fact, I feel so strongly about these issues I have written about them and am building software for them.
we could really do with a formal structure - a "social business" (see prof. yunus "creating a world without poverty") - to take care of these things. a charter etc.!


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