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This place is really in the jungle/ tropical setting some people crave. It is definitely rustic. We had rooms in the upper level, they were good. The patio outside was the best part. Definitely is a great place to hang out. The furniture could us an update. Breakfast was good, dinner is overpriced just go to town. I found the downstairs portion to be a little run down, perhaps some renovations wouldnt hurt. The setting is beautiful, so many trees and nature. One morning I came out and saw so many birds! Toucanets included. JOnathon was very nice.
The road there is definitely something you need to know. Have a car is a must, and it's going to be bumpy. Also, it's too far to walk so it could feel confining if you didn't have your own car.
Lastly, there is no hot water. I guess it comes with the atmosphere. Overall, We had a good stay!
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- The Park Princess of the Moon Ecolodge is nestled in a lush tropical plant farm with a great location. This magical place is unusual, with more than 100 types of fruit trees, including many threatened and endangered species. The area is one of the most biodiverse and fertile in the world so wonderful to understand, observe and experience wildlife and nature. The aim is to integrate the principles of permaculture and creating a lifestyle self-sufficient and sustainable in harmony with the local biodiversity. Swimming pools, waterfalls, jacuzzi and many hiking trails on the farm as well as many other activities in the area. This is an interesting place for a honeymoon or a romantic adventure. ... more less
- Also Known As:
- Princesa De La Luna Eco Lodge Costa Rica/Arenal Volcano National Park


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6904?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12935211#action_12935211 ] Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-6904: -------------------------------------- Hairong, to summarize our discussion today: GetProtocolVersion() could return the server method names; we can optimize this if the version numbers match exactly. This would allow the client side to determine what is supported on SS without having a messy switch statement on the V#. The main issue you raised is how do we return this to the caller of getProxy(). The two options we discussed were * when Proxy#getProtocolVersion() is called, the proxy can return the cached info that it obtained when getProtocolVersion() was first called. * let getProxy() return an object that contains the proxy object and also the M#, m# and the method names/signatures. > A baby step towards inter-version communications between dfs client and NameNode > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6904 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6904 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: majorMinorVersion.patch, rpcVersion.patch, rpcVersion1.patch > > > Currently RPC communications in Hadoop is very strict. If a client has a different version from that of the server, a VersionMismatched exception is thrown and the client can not connect to the server. This force us to update both client and server all at once if a RPC protocol is changed. But sometime different versions do not mean the client & server are not compatible. It would be nice if we could relax this restriction and allows us to support inter-version communications. > My idea is that DfsClient catches VersionMismatched exception when it connects to NameNode. It then checks if the client & the server is compatible. If yes, it sets the NameNode version in the dfs client and allows the client to continue talking to NameNode. Otherwise, rethrow the VersionMismatch exception. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Quote of the week: "Mrs. Consuela was the pet name for his genitals." We have Courtney Love to thank for that morsel of wisdom. Posted 4:53 p.m.
Guilty pleasure, part one: OK, so I've been watching P. Diddy's Making the Band for two seasons. And I liked it! Last night's series finale was particularly riveting, and made me wonder if Diddy knew all along how it would end: with a dramatic dissolution of the band. But at least one of the members is still employed; in this story, MTV gets the lowdown on Dylan's new album, Life After Diddy. (With a title like that, I'm not sure how much of a future the guy has, but at least he's more compelling than that Ken doll on The Bachelor.) Posted 4:20 p.m.
Screech would've never done this: Doritos pitchwoman Ali Landry is reportedly seeing an annulment from former Saved by the Bell star Mario Lopez, whom she wed just two weeks ago. "Lopez allegedly went so far as to cheat on his bride-to-be at his bachelor party in Acapulco," says this story on Eonline.com. We can only hope poor Ali, distraught over the breakup, doesn't start downing obscene amounts of caffeine pills and wailing Pointer Sisters songs in her bedroom. Posted 10:58 a.m.
Arty rumors: Did billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen buy that $104 million Picasso? Anyone care? Anyone? Posted 10:10 a.m.
A swig and a puff: I know reviews have been mixed, but I loved Jim Jarmusch's new movie, Coffee and Cigarettes— and clips of the best parts have been posted online. The cast includes Bill Murray, the White Stripes, Cate Blanchett, Iggy Pop and members of the Wu-Tang Clan. Cigs and java also appear in every scene. Posted 10:01 a.m.
Good news for people who love good news: Right now I'm listening to the new Morrissey album online. For free! And if I weren't writing this column, I'd be memorizing the lyrics. Posted 9:51 a.m.
Seriously, dude, I'm moving to Canada: Between La Toya's ouster and news about this scary new show, I've had enough reality torture. If it weren't for Arrested Development and 24, I'd boycott Fox forever. Posted 9:41 a.m.
Get happy: McDonald's has launched its new "Happy Meal for adults," called the "Go Active!" meal. It includes a salad, a bottle of water and a "stepometer," so you can track the number of paces it takes to walk to your car. In related news, Super Size Me is now in theaters. Posted 9:30 a.m.
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About last night: As expected, at least one prostest over La Toya London's Idol ouster is already in the works. "I'm so upset. This is ridiculous and after trying to get through on Tuesday, I can tell you that this show is totally rigged," one fan complained. Wonder if Kimberly Berg, the "psychic channeler" on last night's show, saw this coming? Posted 12:32 p.m.
Rock 'n' Ross: A pal just informed me of the random Friends tribute on Ryan Adams' Web site. Wonder if he'll do the same for Frasier tomorrow? Posted 12:11 p.m.
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Bring forth the angry e-mails: Sorry, but I can't resist linking to this piece from The Onion. The headline alone made me giggle: "Woman at Farscape convention has dangerously inflated self-image." Posted 12:31 p.m.
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Star Wars meets Disney: Big thanks to a reader named Jared, who informed me of this event. Yeah, I'd pay money to see Wicket the Ewok in person. I'm not ashamed. Posted 11:57 a.m.
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Girly Idol: For a man to win American Idol, "he's got to be a little bit woman," a Baltimore Sun writer says in this commentary. I see some truth to that: Neither Clay Aiken nor Ruben Studdard were Mr. Macho. Then again, few male pop stars are. Poor JPL never had a chance. Posted 3 p.m. ET
Hate baths and intelligent conversation?: Survivor is now taking applications for the next season. Good luck. Posted 10:17 a.m.
More Moore: Director Michael Moore elaborates on his battle with Disney in this essay and several posts on his Web site. Moore's new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, was originally scheduled for a September release, but last week Disney decided not to distribute it. (The company still plans to release the Jackie Chan-helmed version of Around the World in 80 Days, however.) Posted 9:45 a.m.
For people who love famous people: Among this morning's gossip is that Beyonce will play a pop star in the upcoming Pink Panther movie. ... Bianca Jagger is being evicted. ... Don Johnson owes more than $5,000 in grocery bills. ... And finally, asw for Amber and Rob's Survivor engagement, contestant Rupert says, "I called it on Day 15." Posted 9:15 a.m.
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Survivor secrets: On last night's finale, contestant Jenna Lewis revealed that she got married last weekend. This story reveals her new husband is a 21-year-old model she began dating in March. The young lovers got hitched in Vegas. Posted 3:21 p.m.
Smokey and delicious: Ever wish you could eat Smokey Robinson with a spoon? Well, now you can. The tagline for his new line of food products is "the soul is in the bowl." Posted 12:42 p.m.
Pee-wee wannabe: Dan Renzi from The Real World: Miami was busted last week for indecent conduct in a porn theater. Crime aside, that's possibly the best-looking celebrity mug shot I've ever seen. Posted 12:36 p.m.
It doesn't hurt to hope: Andy Kaufman once said that if he ever faked his death, he'd return 20 years later. Just in case he shows up, Bob Zmuda is throwing a party on May 16. Posted 12:31 p.m.
Rings and things: I have a hard time believing Jennifer Lopez is engaged to Marc Anthony (she's been spotted wearing a new, sparkly ring). Then again, stranger things have happened. Like her engagement to Affleck. Posted 12:19 p.m.
Late start: Happy Monday, everybody. Sorry it's been a few days since the last post, but I took Friday off and have been dealing with Tony news all morning. I guess it's no surprise that P. Diddy didn't get nominated, huh? In other news, check out this awesome online library I just found. We can all read 1984 on our lunch breaks! Posted 12:02 p.m.
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HAPLR and the LJ Index
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So, as the author of the HAPLR ratings, I am deeply flattered by the recent publication of the LJ Index. But I am also perplexed. As the author, these past ten years, of HAPLR (Hennen's American Public Library Ratings), I am flattered because some of my chief critics have finally agreed to the need to evaluate public libraries, although they have embraced different methods. I am perplexed because Ray Lyons and Keith Lance, the LJ Index authors, have previously argued that the task of rating, ranking, or evaluating public libraries cannot, indeed, should not, ever be done. Yet now they, and their backers, Library Journal and Baker &Taylor's Bibliostat, have chosen to do so. They have done so without saying much that justifies setting aside their prior objections. Nevertheless, competition is a very good thing. I am sure that having a competing rating system will lead to improvements in both systems.
What are the differences between HAPLR and the LJ Index? They are many but the fundamental difference is that HAPLR includes input measures while the LJ index does not. The LJ Index looks at only one side of the library service equation. HAPLR looks at both sides.
Should we compare libraries?
In his 2000 Library Journal article, "Lies, Damn Lies, and Indexes," Lance asked why "someone had not developed a rating system" before HAPLR. Lance responded then that it was because "the prevailing sentiment in public librarianship since at least the early 1980s is that the public library is a creature of the local community to be defined, managed, and evaluated locally." I responded in the same issue of American Libraries that different restaurants have different menus, but that you expect, and get, a different level of service (and cost) from a five-star restaurant than you do from a fast-food place. I am flattered that Lance liked the idea of using star ratings for the LJ Index, of course. But I am still perplexed about how he knows that the "prevailing attitude" has changed in the intervening 9 years. Where is his evidence? I see none offered, and I wonder if a survey of "public librarianship" would find a sea change on the question has arisen these past few years. Go figure.
Index Construction
Back in that 2000 Library Journal article, Lance said that, using valid statistical principles, anyone could and should construct a proper index based on thoughtful deliberation on the things that make for good library service. One should not just use available data, Lance then intoned. What the LJ Index delivers, almost 10 years later, is, well, more of the same it must be said. The LJ Index simply uses available data. There is no looking for new data, no seeking standards of excellence, none of that. The LJ Index just uses the available data. I am perplexed, but as I said back in 2000, go figure!
Arbitrary Categories
The LJ Index authors both use and reject the use of library spending as a measure. Go figure! Although Lyons and Lance would have to agree that spending per capita is highly correlated to the LJ Index's four input measures, the authors reject any spending measures because they are "outputs." So I am perplexed when the LJ Index then turns around and bases the comparison categories on spending! Allow me a direct quote from Lyons and Lance in June of 2008:
That is truly perplexing. Are we to understand that the LJ Index is suppressing valid information? What is the reason again? Is it to protect libraries, taxpayers, or who exactly? Have they suppressed information to protect libraries? Or, have they protected libraries at the expense of information? Shouldn't library professionals respect the free flow of information?
Adding to the perplexity is their decision not to use library expenditures because of problems with differing accounting methods even as they proceed to use expenditures as the basis for defining peer libraries! There are, of course, similar though unacknowledged, problems with some of the measures they chose, of course. For example, a crowded library may have no programming space and inadequate space for public access computers. Yet those measures are included while the LJ Index excludes spending, staffing levels, and materials counts; items less susceptible to building configuration. Go figure!
The LJ Index authors chose to give "stars" only to the output side of the library service equation. HAPLR ratings acknowledge the input side as well. I believe that staffing, funding, and collection size have a major impact on library service and belong in the ratings. Lyons, Lance, Library Journal, and Bibliostat apparently do not.
Spending per Capita and the LJ Index Scores
The LJ Index Scores are highly correlated to total operating expenditure per
capita as the table below demonstrates. All though statisticians
might argue about it, the correlation of 0.57 for the $30 million budget
category means that almost 6 times out of 10, the variation in the score varies along
with the rate of per capita spending. The LJ Index has both used and
rejected spending as a factor in the rating scheme.
LJ Index Spending Categories
I am perplexed that fifty percent the libraries in the over $30 million spending category got stars. That kind of thing happens in Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone -- where all the children are above average-- but why does it happen in the LJ Index? Why did half of the libraries in the "over $30 million spending" category get stars but only 3% of those in the smaller spending categories get them? Go figure.
The LJ Index could, of course, have stayed with the population categories that FSCS established when Lance was involved with the data at the national level. That is something they promised as recently as June of 2008. Lance urged me to stay with the established POPULATION categories for HAPLR. Yet, perplexingly, the LJ Index abandons population categories that are long established and agreed upon in favor of new, arbitrary SPENDING categories. Lyons, Lance, LJ, and Baker and Taylor seem not to have explained that decision. Will they?
Let's ask some questions about these new and arbitrary spending categories that the LJ Index chose. First let's look at the results that come from these new and arbitrary categories.
a) Note that there was a tie in the $5.0M to $9.9M Category.
What have we here? Libraries with budgets that exceed $ 30 million are star rated almost half the time. At $10 million only about a third are star rated by the LJ Index. At $ 5 million the tally is one in five. Below $ 1 million, it is less than 3%. Why did they choose the spending categories that they did? They could have put everyone over $1 million into a single category and arrived at a spending category about the same size as all the others, something they seem to have decided was important for the smaller spending categories. But they did not, why not?
To get about the same number of starred libraries by combining the top four categories the results would look like this. Only 43 libraries in the over $ 1million spending categories would get stars, compared to 106 in the arbitrary method that they chose. Why?
Now it must be said that HAPLR does a bit of the same when listing top ten libraries, of course. The top ten libraries in the over 500 million population category represent a much larger percent of the libraries in the largest population category than those in smaller categories. There are only 83 libraries in the over 500,000 population category and the top ten amount to 12% of the total. That is a lot, but by comparison to the LJ Index amount of 48% of the top category it is relatively mild.
Furthermore, I chose to use the population categories used by the Institute of Museums and Library Services. The LJ Index authors chose their categories arbitrarily, with no explanation of their choice. The LJ Index authors could have chosen to place libraries in spending categories that all contained about the same number of libraries. Why didn't they? You will look vain on their site.
I am sure that others will notice that in the funding categories there are libraries with vastly different populations served. HAPLR has been berated by both LJ Index authors for not comparing "true peers. The 87 libraries in the $10 million to $30 million category range in population size from 60,679 to 1,477,156. That's almost a 24 to 1 ratio. But in the $1 million category the range from smallest population (2,143) to the largest population (365,685) is nearly 200 to one!
Magnets or Outliers
What do these LJ scores mean? The LJ Index eliminates some all libraries with less than 1,000 population and less than a $10,000 budget because this group may contain "outliers." An outlier is a statistical concept that indicates an observation, in this case an output per capita, that is far out of range from the rest of the observations. A library reporting 100 circulations per capita would be an example since it is hard to imagine every person in a community checking out 100 items per year. I seems that when "outliers" appear in other categories, Lyons and Lance rename them "magnet libraries." Go figure.
One of the most perplexing things about the LJ Index is the range of total scores in each spending category. In the $1 million spending category, the top score is over 6,000 while for all the others it never goes above 4,000. But moving just one library out of that $1 million spending category would make the top score fall to 2,700! That will raise some eyebrows. So what does the LJ score mean? Is a score of 6,000 in the $ 1 million spending category better or the same than a score of 3,000 in a different category? If not what does the score mean? I know they they describe the score formula on the star library web site. Where is the explanation of how the scores can change so radically by the influence of a single star? Perhaps the fault lies not in the index but in the stars.
Being "on the cusp" has a major impact. Lyons objected to HAPLR because moving from one population category to the next changes a library's score. Now he helps develop the LJ Index with the same result when moving from one spending category to the next and never a word about it. Go figure.
As just noted, in the $ 1 million spending category, the top score is 6,000. Moving just one library out of that category would make the top score 2,700! Is a score of 6,000 in one spending category better or the same than a score of 2,000 in a different category? If not what does the score mean? I am sure that I am not the only one who will ask such questions about the scores. When libraries are high on a category in HAPLR, the best they can do is the 99th percentile. The total possible HAPLR score is 0 to 1,000 not 0 to infinity as appears to be true for the LJ Index.
Reference queries
Why does the LJ Index not use reference data? Don't we deserve more than the off handed "that's for another article" as they put it in this LJ Index article? We need to be clear. 'Users of Electronic Resources" as a category is included in the LJ Index but not Reference. There should be some very unhappy reference librarians out there. The federal data on which both the LJ Index and HAPLR are based has included Reference queries since it's inception. The "users of electronic resources" number is new this (2006) year, although it has been in the 'testing phase' for a number of years. How can the LJ Index reject, without any real comment a measure that has been around for decades and embrace one that is brand new, also without comment? I have long said that measures of electronic use should be incorporated into the HAPLR rating system. I have been reluctant to do so because the electronic use data as reported by libraries is vastly dissimilar. Until very recently Keith Lance, one of the LJ Index authors agreed, noting that the data were too skewed to justify incorporation into HAPLR. Lance must now believe that the data are no longer too skewed because he has included them in the LJ Index. He has done nothing to justify this change that I can see. The electronic use numbers are still far more skewed than visits, circulation or attendance but the LJ Index uses them without a word of caution. That, it seems is reserved only for small library outliers and reference queries. Go figure, again, please.
Let's consider the output side of the equation a bit further. Lyons and Lance argue that valid statistical theory requires the use of highly correlated factors. They do not argue that input measures such as spending per capita, staffing per capita, and materials owned per capita, are not correlated to the four output measures they have sanctioned. They could not do so because they are highly correlated. The authors provide at least some justification for leaving out spending, but are silent on why staffing levels, hours of service, or collection size should be excluded. I disagree.
Jim Scheppke, State Librarian of Oregon, recently noted his 1999 Library Journal article (The Trouble with Hennen). Back then he said of his ideal rating system: "It ought to measure quality as perceived by library users. That means inputs, not outputs, and that means things like hours, facilities, collections, MLS librarians, children's services, and public access computers."
Back then he wanted to rate using INPUTS. Now he says that the LJ Index gets it right by stressing OUTPUTS. Which is it?
He also said back then: "If high FTE staff per 1000 population is good, why is low "cost/circulation" good as well? Those two statistics may actually work against each other." But there are a lot of libraries that have a high level of staff to serve the public AND a low spending rate per circulation. That, it seems to me, is a measure of efficiency that cannot be captured by looking exclusively at either inputs OR outputs.
Imputation and Premature use of Electronic Resource Use Measures
The LJ Index leaves out a lot of libraries that did not report data for their 2006 annual reports. Out of 9,212 libraries they rate only 7,115. That means that 2,097 libraries are left unrated. Some are unrated because they serve a population of under 1,000. That is too small by LJ standards. Others are rejected because they do not have tax support or definable staff positions. Hundreds of libraries are excluded because they did not report visits, circulation, program attendance, or electronic resource use. For many of these libraries the data were imputed. Imputation means that IMLS, the federal agency that collects library data, has imputed the data for a library based on a series of possible methods. Most frequently that means that they have used prior year data to guess at current year amounts.
A lot of libraries got left out of the LJ Index because they did not report
electronic use sessions in 2006. This was the first year that that the
data were reported nationally in this form. Many libraries did not report
electronic use because of problems with the definition of such use. Almost
a third of the libraries in the largest (Over $30 million) and smallest ($10,000
to $49,999) spending categories were omitted because their electronic use was
either omitted or imputed. When that is rectified, 7 of the 15
libraries in the over $30 million category will probably be supplanted with new comers.
Cuyahoga will probably zoom to the head of the five star class; the same place
it is in HAPLR. Toledo and Seattle
will supplant 4 star libraries. Cincinnati and King County will supplant
libraries in the three star category.
BIX, the German Version of Public Library Ratings
In 1999, the same year that HAPLR was introduced, BIX, the German rating system was introduced. It was sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Library Association. Over 260 libraries of all sizes have decided to participate in the project. Since July 2005, the BIX is organized by a network of partners within the Library Network of Expertise. Funding is provided by the participating libraries via an annual fee of 170 Euros per library.
Lance and Lyons reject the use of input measures in a rating system, but not so the BIX. As the graph below demonstrates, the BIX is just under half input measures while HAPLR is just over half and the LJ Index relies on inputs not at all.
Weighting of the Measures
Lyons and Lance object to that HAPLR gives more weight to some measures than to others. Yet by not weighting their factors, they are making a value judgment as well. Not weighting the factors makes them equal in importance in the LJ Index ratings. This begs the question; is a library visit truly equal in value to a circulation, an electronic resource session, or attendance at a program? They need to address this perplexing question and they have not done so. Leaving the factors un-weighted makes them equal in the index. Do they mean to say so? The table below indicates the relative weights to possible measures assigned by HAPLR, BIX, and the LJ Index. HAPLR assigns 38% of the values to input measures, BIX assigns 56%, the LJ index assigns 0%.
To those like Lyons and Lance, among others, that argue that the measures in a rating system ought neither to be weighted nor include output measures, I point to BIX, the German public library rating system that does both. Their success may be measured by the fact that hundreds of libraries pay annually to be rated using the BIX methodology. I long ago conceded that HAPLR is not an index but a rating system of my own design. The HAPLR system does not simply develop scores for libraries. It offers a variety of reports to libraries that compare their performance to comparably sized libraries in their state and in the nation. Over the years, thousands of libraries have used standard or specialized reports to evaluate current operations and chart future courses of action. I am pleased that many libraries have improved their funding and service profiles with these reports. What about the LJ Index will inspire anyone to provide better financial support for libraries?
In the end I believe that competition will make both our endeavors better and welcome the LJ Index.
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For three years, Julia Kay drew herself every day. This book documents the first year of self-portraits.
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One immediate need is hiring more Service Canada personnel which Liberal government is committed to doing
ALBERTON – The new Member of Parliament for Egmont says he is impressed that the first throne speech of the new Liberal government referenced changing the Employment Insurance program to make it more socially responsible.
"I was pleased to be there as an MP hearing about that because, often, EI was something that was swept under the rug; it was something that people didn't talk about," Bobby Morrissey said in a year-end interview.
He's expecting further mention of EI changes in the spring budget.
"We do have a seasonal economy; we do have a very well-trained seasonal workforce, and we need an insurance program that allows them to maintain a livelihood when they are between their normal jobs; that we don't look at it as people who are lazy and want to use the system to avoid work," Morrissey commented.
"That's a priority of mine going forward, to make sure our government fulfills its election commitments on the EI file," he said.
He said the changes made by the former Conservative government, including the clawback provisions, made it difficult for employers to find part-time help.
Besides impacting both the employer and the employee, he said, it took revenue out of the local economy.
"We have a seasonal economy. It's just the nature of where we are," he stressed.
Morrissey acknowledged that one of the biggest demands on his constituency office over the past two months has been constituents with frustrations about difficulties and delays in getting their EI claims started.
He believes improvements are coming but, in saying so, he shared his own frustrations.
"Federal politics is not provincial," he said. "It moves a lot slower; decision-making - and I am going to be candid - can be frustratingly slow."
The solution, he suggested, involves hiring more Service Canada personnel, and he said, the Liberal government is committed to doing so.


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Conservative Ketubah Text
The Conservative Ketubah text is written in Aramaic, but couples often choose to accompany the traditional Aramaic ketubah text with a short passage in English. This passage is usually not a translation of the Aramaic, but an interpretive passage that expresses the couple's love and commitment in modern language. Ketuv will often use our "Reform" English text for couples that would like an English accompaniment, as shown below. The traditional Orthodox text does not require a groom to give a bride a divorce, and therefore, could lead to the unfortunate situation of iggun, where the wife becomes an agunah, which literally means "one who is chained." The Conservative text is identical to the Orthodox text, but includes the Lieberman clause, which is a special provision in which the groom promises to give the bride a divorce should she ask for one. Though many Conservative rabbis will advise couples to use the Lieberman clause, many will prefer the traditional Aramaic text in conjunction with a rabbinic prenuptial agreement such as the one endorsed by the Rabbinical Council of America. Please make sure to consult your rabbi as to which option is best before purchase.
As mentioned, we have included the above Conservative text with the Lieberman clause along with an interpretive English text– a translation of Ketuv's Reform text. Below is the actual translation of the Aramaic text with the Lieberman clause.
On the ______day of the week, the _________day of the month ______ in the year five thousand seven hundred and ______ since the creation of the world, the era according to which we reckon here in the city of _________________ that ________ son of _________ said to this (virgin) _________daughter of _____. "Be my wife according to the practice of Moses and Israel, and I will cherish, honor, support and maintain you in accordance with the custom of Jewish husbands who cherish, honor, support and maintain their wives faithfully. And I here present you with the marriage gift of (virgins), (two hundred) silver zuzim, which belongs to you, according the the law of Moses and Israel; and I will also give you your food, clothing and necessities, and live with you as husband and wife according to universal custom." And Miss_____, this (virgin) consented and became his wife. The trousseau that she brought to him from her (father's) house in silver, gold, valuables, clothing, furniture and bedclothes, all this ________, the said bridegroom accepted in the sum of (one hundred ) silver pieces, and ______ the bridegroom, consented to increase this amount from his own property with the sum of (one hundred) silver pieces, making in all (two hundred) silver pieces. And thus said __________, the bridegroom: "The responsibility of this marriage contract, of this trousseau, and of this additional sum, I take upon myself and my heirs after me, so that they shall be paid from the best part of my property and possession that I have beneath the whole heaven, that which I now possess or may hereafter acquire. All my property, real and personal, even the shirt from my back, shall be mortgaged to secure the payment of this marriage contract, of the trousseau, and of the addition made to it, during my lifetime and after my death, from the present day and forever." _______, the bridegroom, has taken upon himself the responsibility of this marriage contract, of the trousseau and the additon made to it, according to the restrictive usages of all marriage contracts and the additons to them made for the daughters of Israel, according to the institution of our sages of blessed memory. It is not to be regarded as a mere forfeiture without consideration or as a mere formula of a document. We have followed the legal formality of symbolic delivery (kinyan) between ______the son of _______, the bridegroom and _______ the daughter of _______ this (virgin), and we have used a garment legally fit for the purpose, to strengthen all that is stated above. And both together agreed that if this marriage shall ever be dissolved under civil law, then either husband or wife may invoke the authority of the Beth Din of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America or its duly authorized representatives, to decide what action by either spouse is then appropriate under Jewish matrimonial law; and if either spouse shall fail to honor the demand of the other or to carry out the decision of the Beth Din or its representative, then the other spouse may invoke any and all remedies available in civil law and equity to enforce compliance with the Beth Din's decision and this solemn abligaton. Everything is valid and confirmed. Attested to________________________ Witness Attested to________________________ Witness
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Hearing Notice: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled "Where Have All the Patients Gone? Examining the Psychiatric Bed Shortage." Witnesses to be announced.
In the fifty years since the passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act, the number of dedicated psychiatric beds available at hospitals for psychiatric patients has decreased from 559,000 to 43,000, putting patients with serious mental illnesses at risk. Significantly diminished capacity for inpatient treatment contributed to a phenomenon known as "psychiatric boarding," meaning patients are left to wait in hospital emergency departments until space becomes available for inpatient psychiatric care. This increases wait times in emergency rooms, sends ambulances to different hospitals, consumes significant hospital resources, and negatively impacts access for all patients requiring emergency care.
"Families are being torn apart because loved ones with serious mental illness cannot find the acute medical help they so desperately need due to a severe inpatient psychiatric bed shortage," said Murphy. "At this hearing, witnesses will share their first-hand experiences on how this crisis has resulted in hundreds of thousands with mental illness in jails, on the streets, or most tragically, dying because appropriate care was not available."
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Robert Rizzo Hog-Tied to E-mails Where Other High-Salaried Bell Officials Admit to Being Piggies
Court documents released today show disgraced former officials in the tiny city of Bell talked of "pigs" and "hogs" when referring to the "salaries" they paid themselves, with a special snout out to the fattest piggy at the public trough, Huntington Beach resident and ex-city administratorRobert Rizzo
Jabba the Corrupt, meet Arnold the Pig.
Better yet, just look in the mirror.
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"[H]oly shit at the released e-mails between the city of Bell 8. what a bunch of thieving motherfuckers!" tweeted "textdrivebys" this afternoon.
Orange County city editor Steve Marble also got in on the tweet action, posting on the Los Angeles Times metro staffers' Twitter page, "Lots of hog and pig imagery in e-mails between Bell admin and incoming police chiefs."
Marbs was referring to the court documents released earlier that showed an e-mail exchange between Bell's assistant city administrator, Angela Spaccia, and the city's then-candidate for police chief, Randy Adams.
"I am looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell's money," Adams wrote in the 2009 e-mail to Spaccia. "Okay . . . just a share of it!!" Adams later added.
"LOL . . . well you can take your share of the pie . . . just like us!!!" Spaccia e-mailed back. "We will all get fat together . . . Bob [Rizzo] has an expression he likes to use on occassion . . . Pigs get Fat . . . Hogs get slaughtered!!!! So long as we're not Hogs . . . All is well!?"
The e-mails are contained in a memorandum in which Los Angeles County prosecutors lay out their cases against eight current and former Bell city leaders accused of misappropriating city money and trying to cover up their fat salaries.
The case is currently in the preliminary-hearing phase. In previous testimony, City ClerkRebecca Valdez
testified those officials were paid for serving on boards that seldom met and that Rizzo ordered her to give false salary figures to a resident who filed a record request for the public information.
Roger Ramirez was told City Council members received $673 per month (or about $8,000 per year), instead of the $92,000 they took yearly when adding in salaries from city boards and commissions, and that Rizzo was paid $15,478 per month ($185,736 per year), though he was actually earning $632,700 per year, not counting the benies and numerous weeks of vacation and sick pay he cashed out.
Rizzo, who is estimated to have made more than $800,000 annually when adding up all that was cashed in--or $1.5 million total when also factoring in benies--faces more than 50 corruption charges.
Adams, who once applied to become Orange County's sheriff, was paid more than $400,000 as tiny Bell's police chief--more than the police chief and police commissioner of Los Angeles and New York City, respectively.
However, Adams is not among the officials targeted by prosecutors.
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Imagine "End of Watch" but with orcs and fairies and magic. That's the vibe of Will Smith's big budget Netflix film "Bright," which unveiled its first full trailer Thursday in a presentation at Comic-Con.
Comic-Con visitors are getting more than an early look at anticipated movies and shows. They're going inside them with virtual reality.
The water off our coastline is teeming with life and that includes one of the fiercest predators in the ocean - the great white shark. Some boaters got an up-close look at one of the sharks off Mission Bay. News 8's Marcella Lee reports on the incredible video.
A 20-year-old woman who had consumed alcohol before she struck and killed a teenage boy in Tierrasanta, then fled the scene, was sentenced Thursday to four years in state prison.
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The HTC One X9, which has been in the news for a couple of months, has finally got its launch date – Christmas Eve, Thursday.
A teaser image was posted on the company's Weibo account which indicates the same.
HTC One X9 is Set to Launch Today, Teaser Tips
The poster bears a phone icon with a letter 'X' in the center of the phone, clearly tipping the model, 'HTC One X9' and the image caption reads "A superior Christmas gift on December 24". No more details required to guess the launch of the smartphone. The Chinese script was translated by Android Headlines.
Specs wise, the handset packs a 2.2 GHz octa-core processor (should be MediaTek MT6795 SoC), 5.5-inch 1080p display 2GB RAM and an expandable 16GB inbuilt storage. The device equips a 13-megapixel camera and a 5-meagapixel front snapper.
It runs Android 5.0.2 Lollipop and packs a 3000mAh battery. There's no word about the price, but it is expected to cost around $400, which will be revealed today.


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Saturday, Day 2
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After breakfast and the morning briefing start of our Ireland photo tour. Highlights are the Carrickfergus Castle, Kinbane Head and the worldfamous Dunluce Castle. We will spend the night in Donegal where you can enjoy an Irish pub in the evening.
Sunday, Day 3
Donegal > Clifden
We will travel pass the impressive table mountain Ben Bulbin and visit Kylemore Abbey and its elaborately designed gardens. Our overnight stay is in the Connemara National Park in Clifden.
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Today on the agenda is a dream tour along the world famous Ring of Kerry, the Ring of Beara and the overwhelming Healy Pass - what a day!
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Cork > Dublin
Starting from Cork, we will reach early in the morning the Heritage Center in Queenstown, which gives us an insight on the migration of several million Irish to the New World. Queenstown was also the last port of call of the Titanic on its sad maiden voyage. A visit to the more than 800 year old Hook Lighthouse, the oldest still operating lighthouse in the world! and Kilkenny Castle on our way to Dublin will round off this eventful day.
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Our last day with a cultural highlight at its best - the famous Hill of Tara, where once hundreds of kings reigned. In the evening we meet for our traditional Farewell Dinner and finish this wonderful photo tour of Ireland.
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snappyHexMesh add-layers issues, warped cells
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Dear cfd-users,
I'm trying to create a mesh inside a 3d-channel with a hill on the bottom. All channel walls in except of the lower wall I created with BlockMesh. The bottom geometry including the bump I put in the constant/triSurface directory as a .stl file.
Although it seems to be a relatively simple geometry I get some considerable issues during the layers adding. The boundary layers on the bump (but solely on the bump, see attached pict.) are highly warped, at many places overgrown itself or even don't exist. In all probability the problem is causes by inadequately quality of the bump surface.
First I thought I should in the snappyHexMeshDict file just increase the level of surface refinement and the number of smoothing iterations before finding a correspondence to the surface. In except of computation time nothing changes xD
My 2nd presumption was that the bad surface quality is caused by incorrect facet normals orientation. I checked the normals in the .stl file with a self-made matlab code and yes, a lot of normals wasn't vertical on the triangular faces, as should be. Then I wrote a code to reorient the normals but the issue still occur... Below I attached a few pictures showing my problem, an the complete foam run directory with all dictionaries.
I will be very grateful for some helpful advices. :)
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pict0: whole channel geometry created with blockMesh and sHM, without edges
cut1: x normal, cut in the middle of the bump: as You can recognize in the middle of the hill the surface is relatively smooth, then on the sides strongly warped...
cut2: z normal
cut3: z normal & x normal: as You can easily recognize on the ragged sides of the bump no layers have been added... :confused:
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looks like your mesh isn't snapped?
can't tell.
check if it SHM says "did not successfully snap mesh".
If the mesh is not snapped, I recommend you disable layers and focus on the snapping problem first.
I've got it :-)
the mesh looks like snapped in just one direction (because of the smooth string in the middle of the bump) In the blockMeshDict I had set the frondAndBack patch as "empty". As soon as I set them as "patches", everything worked out. Could be that the snapping direction depend on the patch definition in the BlockMeshDict? Why?
@mihaipruna Thanks for the reply! :):)
I've used empty patches to make "2D" flows. I think if you set them as empty SHM won't bother in that direction.
snappyHexMesh has some issues when it tries to add layers on a surface that isn't aligned with the coordinate plane sometimes. i suggest
Hope that helps.
How could we use distance refinement to produce unifromly refined cells near the surface to make layer addition easier?
would you explain it more..
Thank you very much:)
An example of what I was referring to is in a presentation from the last workshop located here. Look at slides 67-69 and maybe a few before to explain what i was trying to achieve. An example of this is also provided here in section 5.4.5, where
One could also disable relative layer size. In that case, refinement level doesn't have to be uniform on the surface.
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@ Miro: This is true but then you would have to know the physical size of the cells you would like as your boundary layer. I myself prefer to use relative size since it is a little easier to add layer cells...but this is a good point you've made and definitely an option :)
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After a 24 hour race at the track, the guys sent me home with a ton of eggs, milk and bagels. I whipped up this recipe to use up some of the stuff they sent me home with. I substituted the bagels for the french bread. This recipe could have stood for a little more sugar. And the praline sauce could have stood for half the butter. I used more spices than the recipe called for. Overall it was a hit but I think it could be better.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 5 large eggs
- 1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt, I use sea salt
- 1 tablespoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 loaf French bread, cut into 1-inch cubes about 10 cups
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- 1 cup pecans
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- 1⁄2 cup butter
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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British drivers and onboard staff on Eurostar trains will strike on Friday and Saturday in a pay dispute, train drivers' union ASLEF announced on Wednesday.
LONDON - will strike on Friday and Saturday in a pay dispute, train drivers' union ASLEF announced on Wednesday.
"Talks between ASLEF and Eurostar concerning international allowances have broken down this afternoon and industrial action will be taking place on Friday and Saturday," ASLEF said in a statement.
"The problem has arisen because the real value of drivers' international allowances has declined as the value of the pound sterling has dropped compared with the euro."
The union added that allowances had increased in line with British inflation but had not mirrored exchange rate changes.
About 70 drivers and 20 onboard staff will stage a walkout that threatens disruption on train services between Brussels, London and Paris.
However, Eurostar expressed confidence that it would run a normal service despite the strike, adding it had made a "fair and reasonable" offer over staff allowances.
"We are confident that we will cover the trains with our French and Belgian drivers and will operate a normal service," a Eurostar spokesman said.
ASLEF and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) have meanwhile warned of further industrial action on December 26 and 27 -- which are also very popular dates for holiday travellers.
"We know this will cause huge disappointment to travellers who are planning Christmas shopping trips to Lille and Paris and I wish to apologise in advance for the inconvenience this will cause," added TSSA general secretary Gerry Doherty.
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Switzerland posted a record trade surplus and the country's economic momentum is expected to continue through the third quarter. Risk aversion in the global markets has pushed up the Swiss franc, along with related exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The Swiss Federal Customs Office stated that exports increased by 2.2%, reports Catherine Bosley for Reuters. Additionally, Switzerland's economic outlook is improving, with the ZEW investor sentiment index surging to 9.1 points in August, compared to 2.2 in July. Latest manufacturing PMI report increased to 66.9, a new record.
The Swiss franc has appreciated more than 10% against the euro in the wake of the eurozone problems, which has raised fears about export numbers but so far hasn't noticeably diminished export numbers.
The Swiss National Bank currently has no exchange rate target and is currently focusing on price stability, report Sven Egenter and Silke Koltrowitz for Reuters. Switzerland's economy is expected to expand by around 2.2% this year. There is currently no risk of inflation or deflation in Switzerland's economy. The markets largely expect the Central Bank to hold interest rates at current low levels.
With its strong fundamentals, Switzerland is looking like an appealing place to park assets if you're on the hunt for Europe exposure, according to ActionForex. The Swiss franc rallied against the dollar and the euro in August as a result of greater uncertainty in the U.S. and another round of sovereign debt risks in peripheral European economies. [Switzerland ETFs: A Safe Haven In Europe?]
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