function progressBar($current, $total, $label="Progress: ", $interval=5) {
    if ($current == 0) {
         echo $label;

         // start the bar
         echo "| 0%";
     } else {
         $pos = ($current / $total * 100);
          if( fmod($pos, $interval) == 0 ) {
              if( $pos >= 10 ) echo "\010";
              if( $pos == 100 ) echo "\010";

               echo "\010\010\010";
               echo "| $pos%";
           }
       }

       // end progress with a new line
       if ($current == $total) echo "\n";
}

Reference code: PHP CLI Progress Indicator

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• Go to Settings->General
• Turn Location Services Off
• Go to Home Screen
• Go back to Settings
• Turn Airplane mode on and wait 20 seconds
• Turn Airplane mode off
• Go to Home Screen and then back to Settings->General
• Tap on Reset, and then Reset Network Settings (WARNING: You will lose all your network settings)
• Go to Home and the Settings->General
• Turn Location Services On

Seriously, is this a joke or some wizard at Apple sat and figured this sequence! Here is a suggestion, Settings->General->Reset->Reset GPS Settings, now that would have been an Apple like solution.

Days or weeks later another military doctor came to see him and signed him off to return to the fight.  He can’t hear out of one ear, he is brain damaged, and they are forcing him to go back into the war.  I thought this was horrible, but the article just got worse.  He was supposed to be done with his tour in August, but because he got hurt and had to have months of rehabilitation the government is sending him back, brain damaged and all, to make up for the time he was in the hospital.  Stop-loss is the most ridiculous policy I have ever heard of.  This is just one straw in the bale of corruption that our government lives by everyday.

Mumbai, India

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I felt so excited that I had finally found a doctor. I called my husband to tell him and he was also excited. Later that day I got the call back from Dr. Chaudhari’s receptionist. She was nice as she was taking all of my information. Then she asked “So you going to be paying for the visit with cash?” I explained that I would be paying in cash and that I do hold insurance, but they do not cover the University Hospital. I explained that I felt I would get the service at a research based hospital. She then, after taking all of my information, told me that Dr. Chaudhari does not take patients that pay in cash. She only takes patients that have insurance that cover that hospital.

I cannot explain how I felt at that moment. I sat in silence as I drove home and thought about what had just happened. I had just been discriminated against. They drew the conclusion that since my insurance didn’t cover their practice I wouldn’t be able to pay the bill. My thoughts soon turned into tears. I couldn’t believe it. I have never felt discriminated against, but I am sure that this is what it was and this is what it felt like.

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I have come to realize, in my second year of teaching at a school that is failing the No Child Left Behind requirements, that the students I am teaching now are a lot worse off than I was at there age. My school’s daily schedule is now mandated by the district and consists of math and literacy all day long. They have taken away recess and now only allow elementary-age students to have one ten minute recess. The district has also said that there are to be no more than two field trips a year. This is a sad state in education. We are teaching these students to hate school. We are setting our future leaders up to drop out of school because it doesn’t offer them anything except math and literacy. What will happen when these students reach their twenty’s. Every company will be outsourcing to the better educated, well-rounded individuals. No Child Left Behind is hurting our country more than the politicians realize. I came across this video today. It is a little funny because it is so so true. How sad.

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1. Be Prepared
The most import thing here is not to drink water. Capsaicin is an oil, and drinking water would only make it worse by spreading it around. So, what you need is something which would absorb capsaicin, like: milk, yogurt, rice, or bread. Or you can eat more Habanero till everything is numb, and you have lost all sensation.

2. Do It For Money
For the pain you are about to go through—make it worthwhile. Take it as a challenge, and have people put money on you eating a Habanero.

3. Don’t Over Do It
If you have never tried a Habanero before then don’t over do it, because the chili will get you, and will get you good.

4. Keep Your Composure
Your reaction to the Habanero is going to be severe and one that can easily shatter your toughness. But, this is a challenge you took on, so to save face, the best you can do is to try and keep your composure. With a mouth, esophagus, and stomach on fire, this is going to be a hard one.

5. Expect the Worst
How you react to this hot chili is unpredictable, so go into this challenge expecting the worst. If you have low tolerance to chilies and lack the toughness required for this challenge, then don’t attempt it; just watch it on YouTube!

PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Chamberlain

But, strangely enough yesterday, after watching a video on YouTube about the Taj Mahal, I chanced upon a video about Tipu Sultan, The Tiger of Mysore, and there it was; the answer to the mysterious rockets in The Star Spangled Banner.

The story goes back to the three decade long Anglo-Mysore wars of 1766 to 1799, when first Haidar Ali and later his Son Tipu Sultan kept the invading British and neighboring princely states at bay. The main weapon which gave Tipu Sultan and his father the edge were rockets.

Even though rocket artillery were used by the Chinese, Mongols, Turks—and later found its way in to Europe; its use was limited. It was Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan who took it to the next level. Instead of the traditional bamboo casing, they used iron casings, with sharp blades and iron point attachments, making Tipu’s rockets a lethal and effective weapon.

The British received an unpleasant surprise in 1780 when Hyder Ali brought into action the Guntur iron-cased rockets weighing more than 12 pounds each, mounted a 10-ft bamboo pole, that had a range of nearly half a mile

Eventually, the relentless British defeated Tipu Sultan, seized some of his rockets and shipped them back to Britain for further scrutiny:

These experiences eventually led to the Royal Woolwich Arsenal’s beginning a military rocket R&D program in 1801, their first demonstration of solid-fuel rockets in 1805 and publication of A Concise Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rocket System in 1807 by William Congreve [31], son of the arsenal’s commandant. Congreve rockets were soon systematically used by the British during the Napoleonic Wars and their confrontation with the US during 1812-14. These descendants of Mysore rockets find mention in the Star Spangled Banner.

So there you have it, the story of the rockets in The Star Spangled Banner. A fascinating example of how precisely things had to happen in history to have affected the present and the future, and how a single word in a national anthem could have a story of epic proportions.

Even though I am glad I know this now, I am a little saddened too, for India has forgotten this wonderful part of her history. I remember learning about Tipu Sultan and the Mysore Wars in school, but I have never heard about his rockets and his brigades of rocket men being mentioned. But, the British have kept this history alive, and Tipu’s rockets can be seen on display at the Royal Artillery Museum in London.

PHOTO CREDIT: juvertson | NASA

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