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Modern Family: Tonight's Can't-Wait-to-See Show
Modern Family poster
I've been obsessed with this show since it's premiere episode. After one show, I said the unthinkable: this might be in the same realm as Arrested Development. It was a bold statement–and I stand behind it after half a season of episodes. It's not AS GOOD as AD, but it's the closest thing on TV in my opinion.
The writing is very good. VERY Good. Jokes have layers and each episode ties up nicely–usually in unpredictable ways. But the writing is kicked up a few notches by the actors delivering the lines. Man, the cast on this show is good. It's hard to find the weakest link. I love Phil: his cool-dad character is hilarious to watch. I'm also a big fan of Jay, Gloria, and Manny-each are so funny. Manny is just great. I'm constantly trying to pick my favorite character but they are all so good, it's impossible.
Tonight is a new episode and I can't wait. Modern Family is gold.
(In Arrested Development news, Mike Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly broke the news that Felicity star Keri Russell is returning to TV for a new show by AD creator, Mitch Hurwitz. Mitch is bringing another Development writer with him AND it will also star Gob! I mean, Will Arnett… How awesome does this show sound?)
Written by Tracey Posted in TV Tagged with arrested development, modern family, TV
March 11, 2010 - 4:03 pm Gilliebean
Awesome. I love this show! It's so well-written and hilarious and different than typical sitcoms. Thank you for introducing me to it, and I promise I will start watching more.
March 17, 2010 - 2:44 pm Melia
This is one of my favorite shows on TV, too. I love, love, love Cam and was surprised to find out that he was straight in real life. As someone who just started watching Arrested Development on DVD (yes, I KNOW, I'm behind the curve on that one), I can say that Modern Family is in the same vein of awesomeness.
A show with Keri Russell and Will Arnett? I am so there.
March 18, 2010 - 3:00 am traceyharringtonmccoy
I really love this show too. And Melia, I'm so excited you're watching AD. I told Nick the other day that I saw on your facebook that you and Darren were starting to watch and still had a couple seasons left. I then told him how jealous I was — because you still had so many funny moments ahead of you! Seriously, discovering that show was one of my favorite TV moments ever.
March 18, 2010 - 10:42 am Melia
Ha, I know the feeling, when people are just starting to discover my favorite shows. One of the best things about AD is that the episodes are so short, especially without commercials. We tend to work long days and watch episodes during meals and to finish out the day.
Yeah, we do need to do more happy hours. Wish the Kailua crew lived nearby to pull us away from our computers.
To Buy or Not to Buy: Up in the Air
It's Haute: Gold-Plated Cuff by Oscar de la Renta |
News: New Boutique Comedy Festival For Brighton
The first ever Brighton Comedy Garden will take place this summer with five nights of stand-up comedy presented in a boutique festival in the glorious surroundings of Preston Park from 19 - 23 June.
Comedy luminaries such as Alan Davies, multi-award winning Live At The Apollo star Sara Pascoe, the hilariously surreal 8 Out Of 10 Cats team captain Sean Lock and host of Channel 4's groundbreaking The Last Leg Adam Hills plus many more will be taking to the stage each night.
Tickets are on sale now with comedy-lovers from Brighton and beyond able to choose from a series of meticulously curated shows starring the likes of award-hoarder David O'Doherty, riotously funny Tom Allen, The Mash Report's viral sensation Rachel Parris, observational maestro Ed Byrne, laugh-masters Stephen K Amos and Henning When, star of Would I Lie To You. There's also alt-comedy heroes like Rose d'Or winner Bridget Christie and Alan Partridge's side-kick Tim Key plus exciting breakthrough talent including Edinburgh Comedy Award champ Rose Matafeo, Taskmaster's Phil Wang and the brilliantly mischievous Rosie Jones.
These star-studded shows take place inside a giant Big Top tent set in a boutique festival bursting with a delicious range of street-food traders, bars serving craft beer, summer-inspired cocktails and lots more besides, all on the leafy lawns of Preston Park overlooking the thumping heart of Brighton.
This comedy extravaganza is the latest venture from sibling team Will Briggs and Cass Randolph who are behind two hugely popular comedy events: Greenwich Comedy Festival (Time Out's 'favourite London comedy festival') and their equally lauded Bristol Comedy Garden.
Will and Cass grew up steeped in alternative comedy thanks to their notorious stepfather, Malcolm Hardee, the infamous comedy promoter and exhibitionist. With their production outfit, 57 Festivals, Will and Cass have spent the past decade delivering consistently superb line-ups and good times in London and Bristol, and are now looking forward to bringing this new comedy spectacular to Brighton.
"We've always had Brighton in mind as a dream location for what we do and now, with our events in Greenwich and Bristol hitting their stride, we feel it's the right time to bring Brighton a piece of the action." says co-producer Cass Randolph.
"Brighton is famous for its vibrant arts and festivals scene, and we hope to add even more quality to that. Perhaps now more than ever it's good to be reminded of the absurdity and humour in life and our acts have some of the most brilliantly absurd minds in the country."
To book tickets visit www.brightoncomedygarden.co.uk
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Today on the vessel Sans Souci we practiced man overboard drills and had our final diving exam in the morning and a lovely BBQ on the beach with all the boats. We started off the day with an early awakening and eggs for breakfast, and right after we took our diving final exam which most of us passed. After the exam, we practiced tying knots and we all made Turk's Head anklets and bracelets. Afterward, we sailed out to sea and practiced man overboard drills where we threw a fender which we then had to retrieve in a man overboard drill. We all passed even though we had to do some victory laps. Later that day we went to a beach BBQ with all of the other boats. While we were anchoring there was a lot of purple jellyfish that looked really cool. While we were at the beach BBQ it started to rain and it was fun watching the people run and try to protect their food. After that everyone left the beach and our group was the last boat to return to our home and when we did we celebrated Alina's birthday with a yummy cake. Our day will end with a squeeze circle. |
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Sometimes an accident turns into an opportunity.
Muriel had just bought a colorful new wastebasket for her powder room at Fabrica Aurora.
To admire it more, she placed it on the seat beside her. Her husband, not watching what she had done, sat down on the wastebasket, crushing it with his weight. Muriel, horrified at her loss yelled at him to stand up and leave.
As he was leaving Muriel ever the artiste, no longer saw a crushed wastebasket but with a quick turn up of an end – a hat. She popped it on her head. Her husband will return to a very happy woman. A new Hat Gang has been created in San Miguel – the Crushed Wastebasket Gang.
Straw Wastebaskets have been reinvented and another household item has been used in a creative San Miguel Way. Imagine Combat Cocktail Sandals and a Crushed Wastebasket Hat – powerful images.
There will be a learning curve with this gang. This woman thought that any wastebasket would do. Searching her house she found a Talavera Ceramic Wastebasket. On her head it went and out the door she went. It didn't take long before she found that balancing it was too much work.
Here is the first picture of our Crushed Wastebasket Gang in the Jardin.
The pigeons posed a bit of problem at first but walking quickly soon sent them flying.
Be prepared for a shortage of Straw Wastebaskets in San Miguel when this new gang takes off.
Steve Cotton has correctly identified the inspiration for this Gang – Hedda Hopper. She might have died February 1, 1966 but she lives on in San Miguel on the top of some heads.
Several days later, several new members of the gang are sitting in the Jardin dodging waste.
Hats are the easiest way to identify a gang. The first gang in San Miguel was the Classic Gang. They pure would never adorn their hats with anything but a simple black or white band. But it was hard to join this gang. You had to be rich, thin, have taste and own art. The later poorer and fatter arrivals with bad taste and a penchant for taking art classes couldn't get in so they formed their own Hat Gangs.
The Flower Hat gang is mostly British and take their themes from past remembered wallpaper and bedspreads.
This is the Mixed Hat Gang who have captured a widower. Some days there are slim pickens in the Jardin. Well slim might not be the best word.
This Red Hatter has taken a cowboy Theme. |
Bun E. Carlos
from Rockford, IL
June 12, 1951 (age 69)
Bun E. Carlos (born Brad M. Carlson) is the amiable and adroit drummer, archivist, and set list writer for Rockford, Illinois' illustrious Cheap Trick. Leaving behind the oldies circuit, Carlos fine-tuned his avuncular charm and steady beat as Trick became local heroes and then mega-stars, rising to a brief plateau period in the late '70s. (Another obvious high point came working with John Lennon in 1980.) The band weathered some hard times during the '80s until 1988, when "The Flame" became Trick's only number one (all four members hated this factory ballad). Carlos held drum clinics, produced the Blues Hawks, and lent his talents (along with guitarist Rick Nielsen) to Jim Peterik's band World Stage. After a few quiet decades, Carlos returned to the spotlight in 2009 with a new band, Tinted Windows. Joined by Taylor Hanson (Hanson), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), the band released one album and toured briefly. Carlos formed another band in 2011 called Candy Golde, issuing just one EP. After being embroiled in lawsuits with his Cheap Trick bandmates, Carlos and the band eventually settled legal differences in time for their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, where the quartet performed together for the first time in years. Months later, Carlos released Greetings from Bunezuela!, a solo album comprised of covers from acts like the Bee Gees, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Guided by Voices, whose Robert Pollard appeared on a cover of first single "Do Something Real." Tinted Windows bandmate Taylor Hanson also contributed to the album with his brothers, as well as Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) and John Stirratt (Wilco). ~ Doug Stone & Neil Z. Yeung, Rovi
Count on Me (feat. Xeno)
Do Something Real (feat. Robert Pollard)
Him or Me (feat. Hanson)
Greetings from Bunezuela!
Bun E Carlos - A History of Drum Licks - Part 1
Ludwig Fab Face Off featuring Bun E. Carlos
Bun E. Carlos gives a tour of his impressive Ludwig Drum collection
Eddie Trunk on Bun E. Carlos not being in Cheap Trick anymore 10.30.2019
Bun E. Carlos Drum Solo (The Monday Night Band)
Your Moment of Zen E. Carlos (Cheap Trick Bun E. Carlos @ Don Kirshner's Rock Concert)
Bun E Carlos Cheap Trick Interview |
Q: Как извлечь string в textView из ответа сервера json android? У меня в приложении я работаю с сервером, ответы которого приходят в json формате. Я много видел разных вариантов извлечения string из ответа сервера. Мне нужно сделать что-то приблизительно такого - есть куча строк в ответе сервера и в каждой строке есть какая-то переменная и ее значение: например токены, время на сервере или когда истекает ключ. И вот я хочу извлечь все эти переменные с их значениями хотя-бы в textView в лучшем случае. Сначала мне попался вполне рабочий вариант, но там в интерфейсе вместо call использовали observable, у меня такой вариант не прижился, дальше я наткнулся на библиотеку rxjava. Сначала я добавил зависимости в градл а дальше в mainactivity в инициализации retrofit добавил этот конвертер, но дальше у меня дело почему-то не продвинулось.
Возможный дубликат моего вопроса не решил мою проблему, так как я на данный момент не работаю с массивом, а только со строками.
Так-же я пробовал своими костыльными способами, типа:
if (response.isSuccessful()) {
Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this, "Post submitted to API.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Intent intent = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, SecondScreen.class);
findViewById(R.id.btn_submit).getBackground().setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#1cd000"), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
//startActivity(intent);
saveData();
TextView txt = findViewById(R.id.access_token);
try {
Response<Post> rp = call.execute();
txt.setText((CharSequence) rp.body());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
/* Post post = response.body();
txt.append(post.toString()+"\n");*/
//txt.setText("onSuccess" + response.body().toString());
} else {
Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this, "Unable to submit post to API.Error!!!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
findViewById(R.id.btn_submit).getBackground().setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#FF0000"), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
}
они тоже не помогли... Я видел что вроде есть возможность извлечь данные string из json ответа при помощи стандартных методов GsonConverter.
Класс post:
public class Post {
@SerializedName("username")
private String username;
@SerializedName("password")
private String password;
public Post(String username, String password) {
this.username = username;
this.password = password;
}
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
}
На данный момент у меня такая инициализация моего ретрофита и логов:
HttpLoggingInterceptor interceptor = new HttpLoggingInterceptor();
interceptor.setLevel(HttpLoggingInterceptor.Level.BODY);
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder().addInterceptor(interceptor).build();
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl("https://сервер/")
.client(client)
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.addConverterFactory(ScalarsConverterFactory.create())
.build();
APIService mAPIService = retrofit.create(APIService.class);
Каким приходит ответ:
07-30 06:30:26.730 com.example.developer_4.test_login D/OkHttp: --> POST сервер
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 45
07-30 06:30:26.731 com.example.developer_4.test_login D/OkHttp: {"password":"пароль","username":"логин"}
--> END POST (45-byte body)
07-30 06:30:26.948 com.example.developer_4.test_login D/OkHttp: <-- 200 сервер (216ms)
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:03:03 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)
Content-Length: 397
P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOI ADM DEV COM NAV OUR STP"
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/json
{"refresh_token": токен", "access_token": токен", "expires_in": 1532957583}
<-- END HTTP (397-byte body)
Если кто знает как решить мою проблему, буду очень рад вашей помощи и советам.
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06830 Unilimb Breathing Circuit 40" Coaxial "F" style breathing circuit. Inner and outer tube design. Attaches via standard connections.
... smaller patients, this lessens the amount of dead space. Consists of two 30" breathing tubes (5/8"), inhaler "Y" piece and mask elbow. Clear color without 1-liter breathing bag.
Designed for minimum mechanical dead space when used with face masks or nosecones, the Mapleson-D non-rebreathing system is suitable for use with rodents, rabbits, guinea pigs and other small animals. |
Sandalwood fragrance oil ■: Camden-Grey Essential Oils, Inc.
PHTHALATE FREE. Sandalwood: A fragrant blend of patchouli, cedarwood and sandalwood aromas blended with dark musk, a touch of citrus and spiced with cinnamon leaf. This fragrance oil was tested in CP, HP, and M&P and our tester found this particular oil caused no seizing, no discoloration, and didn�t eat plastic. Flash point: 200F.
Smells clean and soapy with spicy under notes. Not very woody, almost floral. I blend mine with vetiver and cedarwood for a more true "sandalwood" smell.
I bought quite a large bottle of this the last time I purchased it, and I have used it in everything. I can't really compare it to sandalwood e.o. as I haven't tried it yet, but this oil is very nice. It's very woodsy and works beautiful in male and female scents. You can pretty much add it in the background of almost anything. I like it best with sweet fruity and floral scents or in colognes. I would buy again.
This is a very nice scent that works well for both men and women. It cures out very nicely, but it does discolor cold process soap.
The fragrance is sweeter than true sandalwood, but the blend is not too cloyingly sweet as other companies I have tried. Don't order it if you are expected something earthy and woodsy like true sandalwood oil because you will be dissapointed; this mild and refreshing blend has more in common with the sweeter resins of copal and myrrh. I like it though, and would consider ordering again. |
Folds in sorrow since Laeta can see them no more!
As we laugh'd at the ripples that twinkle and gleam.
As the silvery strains of my Laeta's sweet voice.
For so pure was my Laeta, they could only love!
Too much aw'd at her sweetness to tumble her hair.
And I knew that my Laeta forever was mine!
That my starry-eyed Laeta would fade with the year!
Mingling hot bitter tears with his cold frozen waste.
And the thrushes that once were so happy are still.
And blows soft o'er the spot where my lov'd Laeta lies.
Shall sing low by my grave and the lov'd Laeta's side.
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Whatever Eugene's occupation was, he was always first and foremost an Oblate. It was in his bonds with the Oblate community that he found the strength to persevere in difficult situations. In Marseille it was the presence of Henri Tempier that helped him to cope with the demands of being Vicar General. Tempier also had other responsibilities to the Oblate communities, and so when he was going to be away for 15 days in Laus, Eugene turned to other Oblates for the support he needed.
for I bear the burden with excessive boredom and distaste. So much so that I need all my reason and also a little help from God, not to say: that is enough and: goodbye to you!
You understand that in this state I need someone of the family at my side to ease the burden. As soon as Father Suzanne returns, send him to Marseilles.
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I must admit to going back and forth this morning, two postings and I guess that I was silently hoping one would be 'easier' than the other. Nope. So I am here – it spoke out to me, the title alone resonating.
"Eugene turned to other Oblates for the support he needed." I sometimes tend to forget that because Eugene was 'larger than life', because he was such a holy man, a great human being, that he was human like you and I and so therefore did not always suffer the same needs and struggles as we do. On a pedestal maybe. But here today I see plain old human need. And I am so glad to see it. Eugene is someone that I look up, who I listen to, who inspires me, who teaches and guides me.
I look at Eugene and am secretly happy that he needed to turn to otherS for support, because I for one sometimes turn to more than one for support. I find myself often asking those around me to pray for me, knowing that they do, but needing/wanting more. Needing/wanting them to be with me in prayer. And as I write this I realise what I am asking for.
I look at what Frank has written: ""We will find our support in friendship and in fraternal life, in apostolic commitment to all, in self-denial and in prayer." CC&RR, Constitution 18" and what Mahatama Gandhi said "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul." For a long time in my life the spiritual part of me was well hidden (at least from me) and the physical part of me was the dominant side "I looked for happiness outside …." and that all has been changing, reversing with the interior becoming more evident, more the leader, the cause, the lifespring. It comes exteriorly too, but even that is seen through the lens, the focus of being filled interiorly. My "being" causing, feeding my "doing". |
The next Lesson
And after being at 3000 feet and spinning and looping and rolling in the sky, I climbed in the car with Kerry for the average, earthbound, boring 2.5 hour drive home.
At least, that's what we thought…until the collision.
The unexpected comes so quickly…it's always in a rush.
Fifteen minutes after my lesson, stopped for the bottleneck of traffic on 405, the Blazer came up behind us way too fast...And didn't stop in time.
Bang (Whoa, ouch my head), BANG (WHOA, ouch my HEAD)! Then the sound of shattered glass and metal pieces hitting the road.
And in that moment, my beloved open-cockpit car was destroyed, both ends crushed.
The back of my head felt hot and my first thought was "What was THAT?"
Wait a minute, I had just been up in the air, triple-belted in and parachute-safe, dancing with the Decathalon alone in the sky, with my instructor guiding me every step of the way. I'd been suspended above all this earth-heavy traffic, where I was diving and spinning and upside down for goodness sake. It was all smooth and free and thousands of feet between me and the next hard object.
Still shaky with disbelief, I saw my husband ask if I was okay, get a nod from me, and steer what remained of our car, creaking and groaning, to the shoulder. Adrenaline-fueled, he had to shove the door to get it to open, and went immediately to the other cars to see if everyone was okay. Meanwhile there was something warm and wet on my face, and my touching it showed red-orange on my hand….am I bleeding already?
Funny color though….and the taste confirmed it:
It was ketchup.
Ketchup, not blood, ketchup from the hamburger I had to have after my lesson because I was starving, and I laughed. What a funny little movie this was, that used ketchup for blood, which was smeared now all over the right side of my face.
Kerry was feeling sore, but still in action talking with the other drivers, looking at the remains of our car, and the damage to the others. Not much to the tank of a pickup in front of us, just a scratch really. But our whole front was mushed, lights smashed, and the bumper pointed strangely down to the pavement. To the car behind us, well, his front did not fare well either, and it dripped radiator fluid yellow green on the ground. The driver was hugely apologetic and I felt so sorry for the despair in his voice. "This has never happened to me before…I can't believe it. I'm so sorry." My heart went out to him. Poor guy.
Being in the middle of all this, literally, is not a good place to be for a car, and the image of an accordion is an accurate one, all crumpled at each end. Our rear doors wouldn't even open anymore. Suddenly uncomfortable with being in the middle of that crushed metal, I got out and tried to do something useful, while Kerry thoughtfully took photographs of the damage.
Kerry came back to check on me…was I sure I was all right? I said I thought I was, but he dabbed at a little red spot near my eye. "It's ketchup," I said, smiling. "No, it won't go away," he said. "I think you've got a cut."
In moments it seemed, a fire truck arrived, blocking the following traffic from running over us and the shattered debris we'd left behind. Strong men with too much equipment on came over to ask if we were feeling dizzy, could we breathe all right, and did we feel we needed any hospital attention.
I said the back of my head hurt, and so did my neck. Kerry said the same, and that he had a bruise and tightness where the shoulder belt went across his chest. He'd seen it all developing in his rear view mirror in that split second, had his foot hard on the brake, and had been bracing for the impact so he got it worse than I did, me being oblivious to what was coming, and not hearing him say "brace yourself". I was actually fairly relaxed during impact, and that might have helped.
Since no one needed the EMT's expert help right then, after a short cleanup they moved on, leaving behind a jovial police officer who was happy to have a case like this: no one drunk, no one yelling, no one seriously hurt.
Next on the list: How do we get home? We're over 100 miles away at this point, and the Seattle rush hour is just beginning!
We decide to barnstorm it. Limp ourselves home. The tune "On a Wing and a Prayer" started playing in both our heads, and I could imagine that WWII B-17 coming in all shot up, but still bringing her boys safe home anyway. I sang the chorus:
Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer
Look below, there's a Field over there.
With a full crew aboard,
And our Trust in the Lord,
Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer.
With phoned-in advice from our Subaru expert friend Chuck, our eyes on the temperature gauge, and our ears tuned to hearing any new grinding sounds, we watched for the best "emergency landing" shoulders all the way back. Hours later, we made it, just as it got dark. Chuck had left a key in one of his dealer cars, so that we could land on his car lot and have a way home too. (What a blessing good friends are!)
It was only when we pulled into our own driveway that we took some deep breaths….and were so very, VERY thankful that we weren't killed, hospitalized, or stranded on the side of the road.
Today's lesson was an unexpected one:
Aerobatic flying is safer than driving a car!
Posted by Gauri at 10:50 PM
Erika Bach Good September 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
This was just so surreal, and for it to happen right after spinning in the air, rolling in the sky, and then wham, the mortal-earth life appears again! Wow, what a story, and to have gratitude at that. So many things could have gone wrong, and it seems it was all just enough to have gratitude eh?
We just got back from camping in the mountains and everything went wrong there, from a blown out tire that of course no one on the planet had in stock, to the temperatures dropping down to the 20's so that even Casey the dog was shivering. Now home, we are full of gratitude as well, but wait until Roger gets a hold of the dealer about that tire, watch out! :) Good job sister, hope you are recovering well.
Lesson One
Passion and Practicality
Before and After (Part Two)
Before and After (Part One) |
The garden is the pearl of the hotel-a beautiful patio under the stars, overlooking breathtaking views of the Church of the Annunciation. The garden is designed with comfortable seating areas where guests can relax and enjoy not only the scenery but also the Armenian wall art, which tells without words the special tory of Nazareth.
Near the garden guests can enjoy hot and cold beverages and a variety of snacks from the bar. |
Speaking at the City Club of Cleveland, Brown said the largest banks in the country have benefited from the government's "too big to fail" policies at the expense of smaller lending institutions. And, he said, they invest in a wide array of products knowing the government could bail them out if the market turns sour.
"If big banks fail, executives and investors should pay the price for that failure," Brown said. "Not the hairdresser in Elyria, not the steelworker at ArcelorMittal, not the teller at PNC. It's about subjecting Wall Street to the same market discipline that all of you in business live with every single day."
Brown is a possible contender to chair the Senate Banking Committee. He says large banks have fought the regulations set forward in the Dodd-Frank banking reform bill.
You can hear the full City Club program Saturday at 3 p.m. on 90.3. You can also watch it Sunday morning at 10 on WVIZ public television. |
La denominación «castillos del Loira» agrupa a un conjunto de castillos situados en el curso medio y bajo del río Loira, en la Francia central. En su mayor parte fueron edificados, o reconstruidos, en la época del Renacimiento francés (siglosXV–XVI), en un momento en que el poder real descansaba en las riberas del río Loira, en las de alguno de sus afluentes (Indre, Cher, Vienne, Maine y Loira), o en sus proximidades.
Se encuentran en la región Centro-Valle de Loira (las antiguas provincias de Turena, Blésois, Orléanais y Berry) y en el País del Loira (la antigua provincia de Anjou). Buena parte de los castillos tienen sus orígenes en la Edad Media, en la que el territorio conocido como el condado de Tours fue duramente disputado entre los siglosX y XI por la casa feudal de Blois y la casa de Anjou; esta guerra será el origen de muchos castillos del Valle del Loira que aún puede apreciarse en las importantes trazas arquitectónicas de tipo defensivo. Mientras que el término palais se refiere a residencias más o menos urbanas, el término francés châteu hace referencia a palacios o residencias señoriales, de campo o rurales, más que a construcciones de carácter defensivo. En general, aunque se conserven murallas y fosos, y su aspecto se asemeje al de fortalezas, estos châteaux perdieron su carácter de lugar de refugio y defensa.
En 2000, los numerosos monumentos de esta región justificaron que la Unesco declarara Patrimonio de la Humanidad al «Valle del Loira» entre las poblaciones de Sully-sur-Loire (Loiret), al este, y Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire), al oeste.
No hay una lista oficial de «castillos del Loira», pero se considera que hay unos cuarenta castillos principales que pueden ser llamados «castillos del Loira». Una relación más amplia incluiría a más de setenta castillos, ya que para algunos la región de los castillos llegaría aguas abajo del Loira hasta la ciudad Nantes y, para otros, también comprendería las antiguas provincias de Maine y del Nivernois.
La asociación «Châteaux de la Loire, Vallée des Rois» (en español, Castillos del Loira, Valle de los Reyes) fue creada en 2008 para reunir la oferta turística relacionada con este patrimonio cultural, que agrupa los monumentos, clasificados o inscritos, a lo largo del río real del Loira: son 71 sitios, en su mayoría castillos, aunque hay también abadías, basílicas y museos (marzo de 2015).
En la región de Centro-Valle de Loira (llamada así desde el 16 de enero de 2015, antes solamente Centro) hay muchísimos más castillos —hasta unos 2500— que a veces erróneamente, dado el nombre de la región, se confunden con los castillos estrictamente del Loira. Es destacable otro conjunto de castillos, situados más al sur, que también se han agrupado bajo una denominación turística conocida como Ruta Jacques-Cœur (antes, «circuito de los castillos del corazón de Francia»).
Castillos del Loira
La lista se ha ordenado siguiendo el río Loira en sentido aguas abajo, desde la localidad de Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire hasta la ciudad de Nantes, y luego agrupando los castillos según el valle del afluente en el que se encuentren, siguiendo el afluente aguas arriba. Los castillos que aunque situados en otro río están tan cerca del cauce principal del Loira que han sido incluidos en el área declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad, se han colocado en el orden geográfico como si estuvieran en el río Loira. La lista presentada aquí no es exhaustiva.
Se emplean varios distintivos para caracterizar los castillos:
: son los castillos localizados dentro del ámbito declarado en 2000 patrimonio de la Humanidad «Valle del Loira entre Sully-sur-Loire y Chalonnes-sur-Loire», en el interior del perímetro de la delimitación del bien o de su zona de protección.
: castillos miembros de la asociación «Châteaux de la Loire, Vallée des Rois» (el icono, usado con fin visual, es propio de Wikipedia no de la asociación).
Se pueden distinguir 3 grupos principales: los castillos reales principales; los castillos nobiliarios de importancia histórica, arquitectónica o museística; y todos los demás castillos (nobiliarios). El sombreado tiene el siguiente significado:
Otros castillos en la región del Loira
Otros castillos en el valle del Loira
Valle arriba, hay otros castillos:
Palacio ducal de Nevers , a veces considerado el primer castillo del Loira
Castillos de la Ruta Jacques-Cœur
Castillos de la Ruta Jacques-Cœur:
Véase también
Anexo:Castillos de Francia
Referencias
Bibliografía
Daniel Schweitz, Châteaux et forteresses du Moyen Âge en Val de Loire, Touraine, Anjou, Berry, Orléanais, Vendômois, marche bretonne, Tours, CLD, 2006.
Enlaces externos
Mapa interactivo con el perímetro delimitado por la UNESCO
Castillos del valle del Loira — Oficina de Turismo de Francia (en español).
Touraine Loire Valley (también en español)
Castillos del Loira, turismo y patrimonio (también en español)
Anuario de los Castillos del Loira (en francés)
Castillos del Loira, turismo y patrimonio (también en español) |
My new backside cost over N3million – Blessing CEO
Self-proclaimed relationship therapist, Blessing Nkiru Okoro aka Blessing CEO has claimed the acquisition of her new backside cost her over N3million.
Blessing CEO stated this during her time on Frankly Speaking' podcast with Nedu, Naomi, Husband Material (Chukwudi) and Adetoun while they discussed the topic: "Is body enhancement a reaction to insecurity?"
The mother of two stated she did her liposuction in Lekki, Lagos State, explaining her reason for coming open with it as well as the amount spent on the procedure.
Before the social media personality began, Naomi one of the hosts disclosed a lot of people always enter her dm just to troll her saying, 'You, you no even get nyash'.
But she swore: "When I fix it….im gonna show show. Im gonna fix nyarsh and tummy. My tummy will be like sandpaper and I'll be wearing only crop tops. Let me see what you people will have to say.'
Sharing people remarks about her backside after the procedure, Blessing CEO said: "It's just like me, after my BBL, people are saying, 'I can't see the nyarsh'. Because their perception about BBL is that you have to get something extra big that looks like spongebob.
"But you know, there are some people that still want, for me as a person, I kept telling my doctor; 'I still want to wear my clothes. I still want to be a size 10. I don't want anything else.'
"But the reason why I spoke out, nobody would have even known I did a liposuction. Because if I stand up right now, you won't know I did a lipo. So, but why I was out with it was because as soon as I got into the hospital, the nurses were already greeting me. Saying, 'Hello! Hi!! Blessing CEO…'
"Then, I knew it was going to leak. I knew it was going to come out. So, I didn't want to give the bloggers content. I decided to give the people the content myself. I did it in Lekki; Lagos. Almost everybody did their bodies in Lagos.
Nedu then inquired: 'How much?'
The self-styled 'intellectual entertainer' responding stated: 'Depending on your body. I paid over N3million. So, even if you are on the plus size, you might even pay more. Because depending on what you want to do and the extent of fat they're taking out."
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Almost a month ago we moved into the Wiedenhof Palace, what is called a German 'hotel' off-base but it really little furnished apartments. When you move here you only get 15 days on-base in TLF, then you have to move off-base. There are several places to choose from but this one was the one that most people recommended and it had free Wi-fi (more about that later). While we heard it was the 'recommended place' we knew very little about it before we moved here, so I wanted to share what we now know with my readers, I also plan on doing a Moving Out post…if we ever find a house and get to move out 😉 It is located in Speicher, about 10 minutes from the back gate, and a few more to the main gate.
First thing to know if you want to stay here and need a bigger room (we are a family of 5) is that you need to make reservations early! When Mr. B came out to make our reservations they told him they put us in a big room, then when he came back to turn in the paperwork he found that they had put is in 2 side by side studio rooms, not what would be ideal for our family. After speaking with them he was able to get us into the 3 bedroom apt that they had just remodeled, I'm pretty sure they told him it's the only 3 bdrm one they have and they don't have any 3 bdrm ones listed on their website. We we are now in a tiny 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment but its better than 2 studio rooms, other than we would've had an extra bathroom but less living space and not enough sleeping space for everyone. I think the apartment is about 850-900 sq feet. Know that the rooms here are small but nice and appear to be kept nice, although we are in a newly remodeled one. This is a pet friendly location and Mac is here with us. There is an elevator which is very helpful since we are on the 3rd floor!
Let's talk money. When you move off base into a German 'hotel' your OHA and utility allowance gets started, I know geek/acronym talk for those of you non-military folks. The apartments here include water and you can add a garage for 50€/month, all which is included in your OHA, and is under the cap amount. You have to pay 100€/month for electricity, which comes out of your utility allowance. Also there is a 90€ one-time cleaning fee when you move in as well as 195€/mo pet fee.
The wi-fi is free BUT there are some stipulations. The free wi-fi is not fast enough to Skype (and they tell you this when you check in) and you can only have 3 log-ons with it. So for instance our laptop, iPad, and 1 phone. For us being a family of 5 we have WAY more than 3 things that need wi-fi. Also if you want the faster internet that allows you to Skype you can pay 20€/month, and that gets you 3 log ons as well. So even with 6 log ons we're still short a few to have everything on wi-fi, like my phone and of course the cell service is slow so I'm really missing the wi-fi on it! Also the wi-fi is hit or miss, it often goes off and on, which can be annoying. Also when we moved in we go wi-fi in our bedroom, now we can no longer get it back there. The front desk didn't really know what to tell us about that. Often if the paid one isn't working the free one still is, and vice versa. We can FaceTime and use the MagicJack here, something that we were NOT able to do in TLF on base, so that has been nice.
Also know that when you sign a contract here you have to stay for at least 15 days, so if you sign a contract and find a house that you can move into right away, you still have to give a 15 day notice. If you move out before the month is up and you've paid for a month, they will pro-rate the fees and charge you only for the days you actually stayed. The other side to this is that once you have an apartment you can stay here as long as you like. While it may not be 'ideal' to stay here for long we are one of a few families who have been here for awhile and may be here awhile while we try to find a house. Right now we've been here 2.5 weeks. Also they are great about letting you pay when we get paid and they let you pay the amount over a few paychecks so you don't have to cough it all up in one huge lump sum right away.
Laundry, which is important when you have a family! I do have to say that I miss the laundry being in the apartment like in TLF on base, but we're managing. There is a laundry room down in the basement, and it's free to wash & dry your clothes. There are 4 small German washers & dryers, so it can be busy some days. They also provide towels here and you just take them down to the front desk and they will give you more clean ones, so that saves on having to wash towels! The worst thing about the laundry here is the other Americans! They move your stuff and that really irks me! I set a timer when I put my clothes in with about a 2 minute 'wiggle room' factor and by the time I got downstairs someone had moved my stuff, how RUDE! They did it to Mr. B yesterday and put our stuff in the dryer, which makes me mad since we don't dry half of our stuff, we hang dry it. So I'm greatly missing being able to do our laundry without people messing with it!
The heating here is from the heaters on the wall, although I've found that living on the 3rd floor we really don't need to use it. Make sure you open your windows WIDE open every morning for 5 minutes, to prevent mold for growing. There is a piece of paper on the back of the door saying to open the windows daily but did not give details, so we had mold growing after the first week. Now that we know to open them wide for the allotted time we haven't had any other major issues, although it does mold around the windows easily and there is mold there.
The apartments are furnished and there is some basic supplies in the kitchen. A set of 6 plates, a few bowls, glasses, some silverware, etc. It's not really enough for a family of 5 without having to constantly rewash but we sent stuff ahead in unaccompanied baggage to take care of that. Linens & huge square pillows are provided as well. Luckily we sent new pillows in UB since we were having a hard time using the large square ones.
Pets are welcomed here and they have a little dog walking area to the right of the parking area. I don't enjoy having to go down 3 flights of stairs (I walk to give him a little extra exercise) and out to the area in the dark & cold in the morning but again we're managing, it could be worse. There is not trash can in the dog walking area so you have to make an extra walk over to the trash area as well.
The staff here is great! They are super friendly and helpful, all speak English well. For Christmas they tried to hand deliver gifts to our room, we weren't home but they gave them to Mr. B when he went to the office ask about something. They gave each of the kids a box of chocolates and Mr. B & I a 15€ voucher to the Pizzaria restaurant on the end of the hotel. It was a nice surprise! The Pizzaria is good, we've ordered food from there twice and they all you on your room phone when it's ready. They are not open on Monday & Tuesday as we found out the hard way.
Unaccompanied baggage lining the hall walls, and this was after I'd opened half!
Also just so you know, because it was something that took me forever to confirm, you CAN get your Unaccompanied Baggage delivered here! While there is not much room for extra stuff, we did get a garage so we have extra room out there. It's been great having linens for the kids bed (that we don't have to worry about them staining theirs), kitchen accessories, clothing, our printer, and such!
And on that note, a bit about voltage! There are no 110 outlets here, everything is 220v. Luckily for us a friend of Mr. B's sent us a TON of transformers so we have what we need to use the xbox, computers, etc. We also own Mac's so that makes it easier as well since they are dual voltage. If you don't have any transformers and need some you are able to get your allotted 2 from TMO when you move into the Wiedenhof.
While the apartments are nice, the walls & floors are a bit thin. We'd heard this before moving in but what can ya do? So far for us we've only heard the neighbors above us with little kids a few times, later at night, they sound like they are running up and down the halls. It's not horrible, but you can hear them. The worst part is that we are next to the elevator and the first night I could NOT for the life of me figure out what sounded like a transformer who was transforming all night long behind my head! The next morning I realized that it was no transformer but instead the elevator which apparently gets used all night now. I can now sleep through it so that is good.
Now for a picture tour of the apartment.
Part of the outside, there is actually 3 of the white sections, one not seen behind the trees. The little pink building is the Pizzaria. There is only 1 elevator and it's located through the red doors you can see in the photo. Great if you live in the 1st or 2nd building, probably not so great if you live on the other end.
When you walk in there is the kitchen immediately on your left, which is great after hauling groceries up 3 stories. The kitchen is tiny but we made it work to make Christmas dinner. The bar around it sits 5 people, so just the right amount for us, not a lot of elbow room but it works.
The fridge is German and TINY! No 2 weeks worth of shopping and meal planning while we are here, that's for sure! The oven and the microwave are tiny as well. American cookie sheets do not fit in the oven. Mr. B was able to cook a tiny turkey in it though, LOL!
On the right is the one and only bathroom. It has a modern sink, a skinny cupboard, toilet, and shower. I also miss having a 2nd bathroom! A MUST for our German house!
This is the kitchen counter/seating area to eat.
Next you walk into the living room. It has 1 couch, 1 chair, and the only TV in the apartment. There is also a tall cupboard which is the majority of the storage in the house, and it's not much at all. This is all the common living area in the house.
Down the hall to the left is Boo & Bub's room. Bunk beds, a tiny desk/chair, and a small wardrobe across from the beds that you can't see.
Next down the hall on the left is Bea's room, one small bed and a bigger wardrobe across from it.
At the end of the hall you'll find our room and this 'interesting' art work. Bea was wondering why this was on the wall, LOL!! As you can see the bed is 2 individual mattresses and 2 blankets, guess it keeps Mr. B from being a blanket hog 😉 2 small end tables, a tall wardrobe and a small dresser and that's it.
Oh. Man. I've been back for six months (how has it been that long already????) and I already forgot about European living. I give you so much credit for dealing with all of that with FIVE of you. Holy cow. I think the internet situation would've already stressed me out by now. I hope you find a place very, very, very soon so you can get out of there and start making your new place your home. One bathroom? YIKES!!! |
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 8:00 PM @ Vinyl
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Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 on the day of the show.
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Featuring Marc Scibilia, Taylor Gray
"Landing in Europe for the first time was one of the coolest moments of my life," says 17-year-old singer-songwriter Jacob Whitesides. "Coming into Copenhagen airport, I was surrounded by all these fans who had been supporting me for so long. There were girls passing out. It was insane!"
Jacob's first overseas trip was a world away from what you'd expect from a common teenage rite-of-passage. But then Jacob is hardly your typical teenager. For this is a young artist with a social media following of over 5 million people, and who went straight to #1 on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart with the release of his debut EP 'A Piece Of Me'. Already in scintillating form, he then topped the charts in the UK, Canada, Portugal, Australia, Brazil and France.
What's more, he's done it all on his own terms. Sure, he could've taken the major route and been molded into the next pop puppet, but this fiercely independent spirit instead opted to become the CEO of his own touring, merchandising and record label Double U Records which recently partnered with BMG. Empowerment is extremely important to Jacob and he's proving how musicians can establish a credible career for themselves by using the available democratic and free media platforms to support their music. Jacob hopes his fans are inspired by this pursuit, and know that they too can have control over their destiny. No wonder Wired Magazine recognised his pioneering spirit and invited him to speak at their flagship London conference, Wired 2015.
And despite all of that, he's still a teenager at heart. He picked up the guitar after being inspired by bluegrass kings The SteelDrivers, yet was too self-conscious to actually sing too. The turning point came when his then-girlfriend was struck with Bieber fever. "It bothered me a little, but it really bothered me when she got a life-size cardboard cut-out of him for her birthday," he laughs. "That's when I drew the line and realised that I had to something!"
Jacob shot his interpretation of Bieber's 'One Time' on his laptop's webcam and uploaded it that same day. "I didn't get a ton of views or anything, but I got some good feedback," he recalls. "Besides, I wasn't trying to get into the YouTube scene at that point. I was just trying to win my girl back!"
Over the coming months, Jacob would play gigs in bars and restaurants - "some of the most raggedy places that I'd ever played" - around his hometown of Sevierville in Tennessee and its nearest city Knoxville with his father. At the same time, he was uploading more covers and taking his first steps as a songwriter. Soon enough he had the roots of a fanbase. And then...
"One of my fans had tweeted me: 'Liam from One Direction has tweeted your version of 'One Thing'. And I thought it was a joke. So I looked at my socials and they were flooded. I was freaking out and calling all of my friends, which was like two people because I didn't have many at the time. From there on I had a lot of drive to post more videos, improve as an artist and really dive into the social media world. Reading all the positive feedback from the One Direction fans was a real motivator, and a sign that I could do something."
Freshly enthused, Jacob took a multi-faceted approach to his career. The uploads continued and he played select shows, but the primary focus was on developing his songwriting (his first original, 'You Are Mine', demonstrated that there was an audience for his originals) and finding a team that could help him progress while also allowing him to maintain creative and commercial independence. Teaming up with producer/songwriter David Spencer and Manncom management company provided the foundations from which his talents could flourish.
The title of Jacob's first EP 'A Piece of Me' was chosen by a fan vote in which he asked fans to pick their favorite hashtag from five different titles - it was such a success that three of the options were trending worldwide. And it was an apt title, for the EP really did present as snapshot of Jacob as a person, most notably in the nakedly honest 'Ohio' which addressed his estranged relationship with his father: "I haven't spoken to him in years now, but I'm thankful for the things I've learned from him, and I'm grateful that I have such a great mom."
The EP was released two days after it was completed and Jacob then hit the road for a short EP release tour ahead of dates with Fifth Harmony. It has only been months since Jacob released his charting debut EP and it didn't take long for him to be chosen as Radio Disney's "Next Big Thing" and MTV's Artist To Watch, among other great moments of recognition by peers and press from Rolling Stone to Cosmopolitan.)
Next on the agenda after his even bigger European tour (including a 3-shows-in-one-day in Paris) is the new EP Faces On Film. Many of the songs on the new EP are clearly inspired by Jacob's coming of age and understanding materialism (having come from a modest background and now running a successful enterprise.) The EP also features a slide guitar guest appearance from Grammy winning blues legend, Keb'Mo, on the EP's title track.
While the second EP continues to deliver his organic musical narrative, Faces On Film reflects a creative coming of age as well. 'Secrets', for example, builds from the rhythmically phrased vocals of its introduction into a soaring folk-pop hook, and the percussive stomp of 'Shame On You' heightens the drama with a climactic crescendo of sound that's intensified by a bluesy guitar break and one of Jacob's most impassioned vocals to date. At the other end of the spectrum, 'Rules of Beautiful' strips Jacob's sound back to an intimate tandem of piano and vocals, with an addition emotional charge courtesy of a surging accompaniment of strings.
It's a collection of songs that allow fans to follow Jacob's creative growth to the next level, and one that will certainly be lapped up by his ever-growing legion of fans, The Whitesiders. "They work for me as hard as I do, and they're also great people to talk to," summarises Jacob with a broad, appreciative smile. "I'll be there for them, they'll be there for me, and they are also there for each other."
Such a stance suggests that those wild scenes in Copenhagen will soon be replicated all over the globe.
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S&P:China Reinsurance (Group) Corp. And Core Subsidiaries Assigned
SINGAPORE (Standard & Poor's) Dec. 22, 2014--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today assigned its 'A+' long-term insurer financial strength and issuer credit ratings to China Reinsurance (Group) Corp. (China Re Corp.) and its core subsidiaries China Property & Casualty Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (China Re P&C) and China Life Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (China Re Life). The outlook is stable. At the same time, we assigned our 'cnAAA' long-term Greater China regional scale rating to the three entities.
The ratings on China Re Corp. and its core subsidiaries reflect their 'a' group credit profile (GCP) and our assessment that there is a "high" likelihood that the insurers will receive extraordinary support from the Chinese government.
We assess the China Re group's business risk profile as very strong and its financial risk profile as upper adequate. We derive our GCP for the insurance group from a combination of these factors.
"We view China Re P&C and China Re Life as core subsidiaries of the group and believe that the potential government support would flow down to the subsidiaries. For that reason, we equalize the ratings on China Re P&C and China Re Life with that on China Re Corp.," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Connie Wong. Meanwhile, we believe that there is no structural subordination of China Re Corp. to the group because China Re Corp. is an operating holding company, with premium income accounting for about 47% of its total revenue in the first half of 2014. Therefore, the ratings on China Re Corp. reflect the group's credit profile without any notching.
We view China Re Corp. as a government-related entity. The Chinese central government owns 100% of the company via the Ministry of Finance and its arm Central Huijin Investment Co. Ltd.
"The China Re group's very strong competitive position reflects its reputation as the largest reinsurer in China, its strong connection with the primary insurers, as well as its good operational diversity. The China Re group's market position is somewhat constrained by its lesser geographical diversity, technical support, and market knowhow outside China than key global reinsurers or reinsurance groups." Ms. Wong said.
We expect the combined ratio of the China Re group's P&C business to be about 100%, which is in line with the market performance. Investment returns support the company's profitability.
The insurance risks in China are relatively short tail (predominantly motor insurance, and other personal lines where claims are settled mostly within a few years of the start of the policy term). However, the potential unexpected or unmodeled catastrophe risks due to continued urbanization and climate changes in China are emerging risks, in our view.
We expect growth in the group's life reinsurance operation to remain strong and stable over the next 12-24 months.
We consider the China Re group's capital and earnings to be moderately strong. In our base case, we anticipate that the group's premiums will grow about 8% on average between 2014 and 2016, with return of equity at 7%-10%. We do not expect significant volatility in performance over the next one to two years. The key risk charges for our capital analysis include market risks, underwriting, and catastrophe risks.
In our view, the China Re group has a moderate risk position, reflecting the potential volatility in capital and earnings due to catastrophe risks, and concentration risk in investments in financial institutions. China Re's lower ratio of catastrophe exposure to adjusted capital than international peers, thanks to its significant volume of motor business, helps it to maintain a moderate risk assessment. High P&C catastrophe risks contribute to the high risk position of a number of the China Re group's international peers.
"The stable outlook reflects our view that the China Re group is likely to maintain its competitive position and government linkages over the next two years," Ms. Wong said. At the same time, Standard & Poor's expects the company's capital and earnings to remain moderately strong and financial risk profile to be upper adequate over the next two years despite potential catastrophe risks.
We may raise the ratings if: (1) the group's capital and earnings strengthen materially to a strong level; and (2) we raise the sovereign credit rating on China (AA-/Stable/A-1+; cnAAA/cnA-1+).
We may lower the ratings if: (1) the group's capitalization and earnings deteriorate to a upper adequate level or lower due to unexpected drop in underwriting performance or profitability because of losses or volatility in the investment portfolio; (2) the group's exposure to catastrophe risks increases significantly amid its overseas development, leading to more volatility in capital and earnings and a higher risk profile; (3) we lower the sovereign credit rating on China; or (4) China Re's relationship or importance to the central government reduces. |
3 bed Flat (for sale) Plot 5, - Square, Minerva Street, Glasgow G3
Savills - Glasgow RDS
163 West George Street, Glasgow
Type: Flat
City apartments in Glasgow's hottest location.
Located between Glasgow city centre and Kelvingrove, G3 Square is ideally positioned to access all that Glasgow has to offer. With the Exhibition centre train station adjacent, access to the M8 in under a mile, and Glasgow International Airport just 8.4 miles away, connectivity couldn't be better.
The rise of Finnieston as a key part of the West End and its proximity to the University of Glasgow, Scottish Power's new HQ building, St Vincent Plaza and the International Financial District, has helped to make it one of the best-performing residential areas in the UK.
Leisure time? You'll be spoiled for choice.
Named as one of the "top 10 coolest neighbourhoods" in Europe by The Independent, Finnieston is well established as the place to be.
Boasting a fantastic selection of boutique shops, bars and restaurants including Porter and Rye, Ox and Finch, The Gannet and Brewdog Glasgow, Finnieston caters to all tastes, and also has the world-class music and entertainment venues of sse Hydro, sec Centre and SWG3 in close proximity.
G3 Square will comprise of three separate buildings, ranging across six to seven storeys and offering a selection of 1,2 and 3 bedroom luxury apartments and penthouses. The architecture will echo the height and feel of nearby traditional sandstone buildings and crescents, with contemporary interiors.
A luxury specification is incorporated in all of the individually designed apartments, including:
Bespoke kitchens by award-winning designers Kitchens International with furniture from Leicht and Siemens appliances.
Luxurious bathrooms with sanitary ware from Laufen and stylish fittings by Hansgrohe.
A selection of flooring throughout.
Lift access to all levels.
At the core of the development, there will be residential parking and a spacious landscaped area, providing an outdoor, green space for all residents to enjoy.
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Every new technology also appears to come with its personal problems of waste which the society finds it troublesome to handle. The better part about technology is, regardless of inventing excellent and exclusive devices for grown-ups, it has additionally molded the size of our toddlers' enjoying domains by introducing eye-catching useful devices, cartoon embedded e-readers and websites that help in learning fundamental kindergarten data. Many fail to understand that it is the societal use of technology that gives rise to those risks. |
I've seen a lot of trailers in my life, both for tv and film and ones hauling cars, but this one blew me away. It was just plain fun, the type of fun you'd expect from Clarkson, Hammond and May, but not as likely this late into their careers. However, here they are as reckless and stupid (see Hammond on the bridge) and downright enjoyable as ever.
It certainly doesn't hurt either that they set it all to that little ditty written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "With a Little Help From My Friends." The newest season of The Grand Tour, the third for those counting, airs on Amazon Prime January 18th.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May return with season 3 of The Grand Tour on 18th January, only on Prime Video. In addition to Hammond once again risking one of his nine lives as he struggles to keep his Jeep on a tiny bridge over a steep canyon in Colombia, the three comrades taking on epic challenges in Detroit and Nevada, visits to Mongolia and China, Jeremy and Abbie attempting an unusual snowy challenge in Sweden, and James May playing the bag pipes in Scotland, along with a tour of the Stansted Airport. |
Looking for consistency
P. V. Sindhu was named the Sportswoman of the Year (Racquet Sport) at the Sportstar Aces Awards supported by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, in association with MRF.
V. V. Subrahmanyam
22 February, 2019 18:59 IST
"The next target is to be the world No. 1 again, which I feel will automatically come if you keep winning titles consistently," the 2016 Olympics silver medallist said. - AFP
"I deem it a great honour and a privilege," said P. V. Sindhu, 2016 Olympics silver medallist and India's best woman shuttler, on receiving the Sportstar Aces Sportswoman of the Year (Racquet Sport) award, supported by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, in association with MRF. "Unfortunately, I could not make it to the function because it clashed with the schedule of the senior nationals in Guwahati," she said, adding: "I have always been a big fan of Sportstar. I remember reading it for a long, long time. I was always curious to glance through the pages to see what pics were published."
"The best part is that the magazine covers all sports with equal importance. That is the beauty of Sportstar," Sindhu said.
The 2018 BWF World Tour Finals champion conveyed her best wishes to the management of the magazine on celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Reflecting on her career, the two-time silver medallist at the World Championships said that 2018 had been very good and she hopes to do better in 2019. "This being the Olympics qualification year, it will be tough as we turn to being selective in picking the tournaments to compete in and I hope to give my best," she said. "The biggest challenge is to focus 100 per cent, stay fit mentally and physically for the standard at the top is very high," said the 23-year-old.
"...injuries are part of any athlete's career. I feel sad for (Carolina) Marin though not really scared of these things. I wish she recovers quickly," she said about the Olympic champion, who suffered an injury in the Indonesian Masters final against Saina Nehwal in the last week of January.
"We have to take care of our ourselves and come back stronger from these kind of setbacks," Sindhu said, adding: "The next target is to be the world No. 1 again, which I feel will automatically come if you keep winning titles consistently. So, effectively, I have to look for consistency at the highest level."
Carolina Marin |
Q: How do you get to Tanned Land? I have just started playing Order and Chaos and reading some beginner guides online, it's a good idea to finish the quests in both starting areas to get a leg up when leveling up.
I started as a human and went to Silence to look for a way to get to the Tanned Land, where two of the other races start. However, the guides are not very helpful in saying how to get there.
Orcs and Undead can go to the Human and Elf starting area by just walking from Silence. How do Humans and Elves go to the other starting area?
A: Teleport to Roar Military School by tapping it's name or icon.(only using teleport and no wings). when you will use teleport tap on choose tanned land and press roar military school icon. how i remember you need to be level 15 or more.
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package me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Set;
import me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.factory.HClientFactory;
import me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.CassandraHost;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
/**
* Implements a RoundRobin balancing policy based off the contents
* of the active {@link HClientPool}. If a pool is shutdown by another
* thread in the midst of the selection process, we return the pool
* at position 0
*
* @author zznate
*/
public class RoundRobinBalancingPolicy implements LoadBalancingPolicy {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1107204068032227079L;
private int counter;
public RoundRobinBalancingPolicy() {
counter = 0;
}
@Override
public HClientPool getPool(Collection<HClientPool> pools,
Set<CassandraHost> excludeHosts) {
HClientPool pool = getPoolSafely(pools);
if ( excludeHosts != null && excludeHosts.size() > 0 ) {
while ( excludeHosts.contains(pool.getCassandraHost()) ) {
pool = getPoolSafely(pools);
if ( excludeHosts.size() >= pools.size() )
break;
}
}
return pool;
}
private HClientPool getPoolSafely(Collection<HClientPool> pools) {
try {
return Iterables.get(pools, getAndIncrement(pools.size()));
} catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
return pools.iterator().next();
}
}
private int getAndIncrement(int size) {
int counterToReturn;
// There should not be that much of contention here as
// the "if" statement plus the increment is executed real fast.
synchronized (this) {
if (counter >= 16384) {
counter = 0;
}
counterToReturn = counter++;
}
return counterToReturn % size;
}
@Override
public HClientPool createConnection(HClientFactory clientFactory, CassandraHost host) {
return new ConcurrentHClientPool(clientFactory, host);
}
}
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Why we deserve $500M
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Home History Fascism will return, and it will be the left's fault.
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Fascism will return, and it will be the left's fault.
David Hiscox
A host of (deliberately named) storm troopers, turn as one to face the camera. Behind them, three tall, red banners bearing a black, strident symbol drape down the facade of a fortress. The scene, reminiscent of a Nuremburg rally, fills barely a second's worth of frames in the trailer for the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, due out on December 17. But it is enough to convey a dark political undertone, and reflects the quite legitimate fear that fascism, and the horrors it brings, could return to the West, like an old nightmare come to life.
Depending on who you speak to, the original three Star Wars movies were analogies for the fight either against communism, or the fight for communism. I am for the former. The three prequels were less ambiguous, referencing the recurring historical trope of a democracy which descends into dictatorship, particularly the way in which the German Weimar Republic was subverted via its own democratic institutions – Emperor Palpatine exploits the fear of war, and then war, to gain power, extend his power, and eliminate all political opposition. Lucas' progressivism infects the three prequels, in which he pushes the false narrative that George W Bush was himself a fascist, who used the War on Terror as a pretext to extend American power, even attempting a clumsy paraphrasing:
Anakin Skywalker: "If you're not with me, you're my enemy."
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
(Moving on from the hypocrisy of Kenobi's own absolutist statement,) this bias is indicative of the false narrative which afflicts much of our education system, our media, tv and film – the idea that the free market economy on which our political and economic system are built, and the way in which America has protected the free world in the years since World War 2, is itself fascist and exploitative; that the parties to the right, or to the more libertarian side, of our political systems, are fascist; that nationalism or patriotism to one's country, or identifying oneself by one's ethnically European or British heritage, is racist, or fascist.
But it is the free market, championed by the USA, which has brought freedom and prosperity to more people in the last 150 years than any other system; it was the Tory Margaret Thatcher and the Republican Ronald Reagan who had the courage to stand up to the totalitarian, Communist USSR, challenge it, and defeat it; and it was the patriotism and nationalism, the belief in the right to national independence, of the people of Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world, which gave them the strength to defeat the Axis powers in World War 2.
Interestingly, National Socialists themselves don't appreciate being called NAZI's – they consider it some kind of slur.. But this suits socialists for several reasons; it helps avoid the uncomfortable reality that Hitler was every bit a socialist (you can't have national socialism without socialism); it helps them spread the false narrative that fascism, despite its strong, centralised state control over the economy and of people's lives, is right-wing rather than left-wing; it helps skew the focus onto the racism of the Nazis as the cause of WW2, when in fact Russia joined Germany in September 1939 in invading Poland; and it helps obscure the fact that in the 20th century, communist/ socialist regimes murdered more people than the national socialists.
Now, the USA is vilified by the left, from its very founding as the dispossession of a people, rather than the creation of a democracy which welcomed the dispossessed from all over the world; for its exploitation of slavery, ignoring the fact that it is the only country in history to have gone to war with itself to end slavery; and for its supposed imperialism throughout the world, rather than its key role in defeating the USSR and saving the world from totalitarian communism, and its role in maintaining peace and stability throughout the world before the current weakling Obama came to power.
Meanwhile, Israel is vilified more and more. The cynical policy of Hamas, which uses the "Palestinian" people as human shields while it constantly bombards Israel with rocket-fire, is working – more and more countries are siding with the "Palestinians" against Israel; the dictator controlled UNHRC passes resolution after resolution condemning it; and the narrative grows on social media and in the "progressive" press that Israel is an illegitimate country, a fascist, apartheid regime which is committing genocide against the "Palestinians," rather than the sole Middle Eastern democracy surrounded by enemies dedicated to its complete destruction.
This is vital, and tragic, because if a majority of people believe that our political and economic system is evil, that the US is evil, that Israel/ the Jews are evil, then the taboo against the evil of Hitler and national socialism will be undermined. If Hitler was racist because he killed all the Jews, but the Jews are themselves an evil race, what sets Hitler and national socialism apart from any other murderous regime? Especially as the living memory of WW2 dies, and its cause and its effects are reinterpreted and revised, Hitler will just become another Napolean.
And if people are told that any hint of pride in their country makes them a fascist, and our political parties on either the left or the right are too scared to display such national pride, then people who want to display pride in their country will identify as fascist.
Thus, Socialists, to hide their own, massive crimes of the 20th century, have tried to project their own evils onto the people and values which served to protect us the most from fascism. In doing so, they have opened the door for fascism to return.
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Here's the big picture.... I have a Tascam DM3200 that I run via FW card to a Macbook Pro. Once ITB, I want to get up to 24 channels (eventually) out via FW to an analogue desk for mixing (Soundtracs CM4400). The Tascam DM3200 is one way in to the Mac, basically. So, my plan is once I've finished tracking through the Tascam (and using some pre's from the CM4400) and ready to mix, I repatch the FW cable and come back out via linked MOTU 828's. I already own one 828 Mk2, so with minimal purchasing, I had hoped to pick up another couple of 828's.
Is there a better solution or would this work?
Anyone linked two Motu 828s together?
Thank you MasterCrab! I also have a MOTU 2408 Mk2, but I think that will require the PCI card and I prefer to just keep it FW friendly to the laptop. Can anyone confirm that the 2408 is useless without the PCI card?
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IHBC features 'Heritage from the doorstep': Judge quashes building permits over 'seriously misled' council
Posted on 06/01/2021 by Joanna Theobald
A High Court judge has quashed planning permission for 73 dwellings in Ash Green because a planning officer's reports 'seriously and materially' misled Guildford Borough Council's planning committee, reports The Guildford Dragon.
… issues were not given the significance they deserve by the planning officer…so a JR was our only option…
… I hope they will take the lessons to be learned from this…
The Guildford Dragon writes:
The judge, Mrs Justice Lang, said: "I am satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the planning committee could have reached a different decision if they had been properly advised."
GBC's decision to approve the major development scheme by developers Bewley Homes had been challenged by Ash Green resident Sue Wyeth-Price.
Mrs Wyeth-Price, a former chair of the Ash Green Residents' Association (Agra), applied for a judicial review (JR) on behalf of the association and the residents of Ash Green to protect the historical Ash Manor and its setting.
She said: "We feel this area was just added into the Local Plan with no consideration of impact on the manor and its surroundings which have remained untouched for 750 years.
"The council has been asked, at least four times, by the lead local Flood Authority and consultants to investigate the drainage, groundwater and flood risk issues but have not done so. We also feel a 250-year-old plus oak tree, the symbol of our village, deserved appropriate protection.
"The issues were not given the significance they deserve by the planning officer, in the planning balance, and the issues were not explained clearly to the councillors so a JR was our only option.
"Obviously, we are delighted with the result, especially as such a respected judge agreed that the appropriate weight wasn't applied.
"This is a victory for the residents, who have been amazingly generous with their time, money and unending support. We are more than grateful to Emma Montlake from the Environmental Law Foundation and John Fitzsimons from Cornerstones who gave their time, effort, guidance and support and helped us achieve this."
The four-hectare Ash Manor is part of one of the strategic development sites included in Guildford's controversial Local Plan, adopted in April 2019, days before the Conservatives lost control of the borough council.
Historic England had said the agricultural and open character of the setting of Ash Manor has remained constant through its history and the proposed development would cause harm to the setting of the heritage assets, assessed at less than substantial harm….
Andy Morris, strategic land director of developers Bewley Homes, said: "It is our view that the very comprehensive planning officer's report, which contained all of the information needed for a determination of the application, including all the technical aspects of the scheme, was clear and understood by members…."
Mrs Wyeth-Price said: "I'm sure GBC are disappointed, as Cllr Bigmore says, but I hope they will take the lessons to be learned from this. I think our result illustrates that the new council's approach to openness and transparency is sorely needed.
"My only concern is that it could so easily happen again, and I hope the council will review how applications are addressed, with a more balanced approach, at the planning committee meetings in future."
This has been part of a long fight for AGRA. There have been seven planning applications around Ash Manor since 2014, all objected to by Ash Green residents.
But the developer has already submitted, what objectors claim is, "an identical application for the same site, with the same problems, even before the hearing"….
But Ms Wyeth-Price said she and her fellow residents were committed to continue the struggle…" |
The public knows Ellen Burstyn as an accomplished actor. What I discovered in reading this exceptional memoir is that she is also an accomplished writer. Without a ghostwriter, using only the diaries, letters, notes and memories she's kept for eighty years, she has put together the story not only of her day-to-day experiences but most importantly of her search for finding her true inward self.
This is the story of her spiritual journey told honestly and without self-pity. It begins with the her childhood promise to herself to leave home on her eighteenth birthday to escape her cold and abusive mother. Her journey takes her to some surprising jobs. I hadn't known, for example, that she had been one of the dancers on "The Jackie Gleason" show or that she had modeled for department store buyers in Texas, or that she had studied with some of the world's religious and mystic leaders.
Readers who have admired her movie and theatre roles will find it interesting to discover some of the ways she captures her characters. We also learn of some of the people who have been most influential in her life.
This is an intelligent memoir which Burstyn admirers and others who are interested in one person's search for truth will find rewarding. |
The Arizona Coyotes head to Staples Center to take on the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday, February 16, 2017. The opening line for this contest has the Coyotes at +188 and the Kings at -210. The over/under has been set at 5.
Arizona comes into this game having played 55 games. They have an overall record of 19-29-7 and away from home they have a record of 7-16-4. The currently are 7th in the Pacific Division. They've scored 131 goals and surrendered 174 goals for a point differential of -43. The Coyotes have an overall record of 6-3-1 in their last 10 games. For the season they have an ATS record of 14-36 and an over/under record of 20-28-7. Los Angeles shows up with a record of 28-23-4 including 15-8-1 at home this season. They are 4th in the Pacific Division. They've scored 138 goals and surrendered 136 for a goal differential of +2. The Kings have a record of 6-4-0 in their last 10 contests. Their record against the spread is 27-27 while their over/under record sits at 16-26-13.
Radim Vrbata has accumulated 38 total points this season for the Coyotes. He has 11 goals this season with 168 shots on goal giving him a shooting percentage of 7%. He has a total of 27 assists on the season and averages 17 minutes played per game. Oliver Ekman-Larsson has averaged 24 minutes of ice time per game this year. In that time he has a shooting percentage of 10% by scoring 10 goals on 102 shots. He has 22 assists giving him a total of 32 points on the season. Mike Smith has 14 wins and 15 losses this season in net for the Coyotes. He has had 1,200 shots against him and has given up 99 goals. He has made 1,101 saves for a save percentage of 92%.
Jeff Carter has accumulated 51 total points this season for the Kings. He has 29 goals this season with 172 shots on goal giving him a shooting percentage of 17%. He has a total of 22 assists on the season and averages 18 minutes played per game. Anze Kopitar has averaged 21 minutes of ice time per game. In that time he has a shooting percentage of 6% by scoring 6 goals on 101 shots. He has 26 assists giving him a total of 32 points on the season. Peter Budaj has 26 wins and 16 losses this season in net for the Kings. He has had 1,163 shots against him and has given up 96 goals. He has made 1,067 saves for a save percentage of 92%.
The Coyotes have 45 total points this season. They have scored 131 goals while giving up 174 goals. They have had 167 power play opportunities and have scored 26 goals on those chances for a percentage of 16%. The Coyotes have allowed 185 power play opportunities and given up 42 goals on those chances for a penalty kill percentage of 77%. They average 28 shots per game and as a team are shooting 8.44% for the season to this point. They allow 34 shots to their opposition per contest and have a team save percentage of 91%.
The Kings have a total of 60 points on the season. They have 27 power play goals on 158 opportunities thus far for a percentage of 17%. They have allowed 172 power play opportunities and have given up 27 goals on those chances for a penalty kill percentage of 84%. As a team, the Coyotes have a total of 138 goals scored while they've given up 136 goals to this point. They average 31 shots per contest and have a team shooting percentage of 8.16%. As a team they give up 26 shots per game and have a save percentage of 91%.
Arizona has a Corsi percentage of 46% as they've attempted 2,958 shots on net at full strength while they've given up 3,475 shots on net in the same situations. Their Fenwick percentage is at 45.2% as they have 2,188 attempts while they've given up 2,655 shots on the defensive end. The Coyotes start possessions in the offensive zone 45.7% of the time while their defensive zone percentage is at 54.3% for the season. They have 1,655 face off wins compared to 1,738 losses, meaning their faceoff win percentage is 48.8%. On defense Arizona has 1,512 hits and they've blocked 820 shots from the opposition.
Los Angeles has attempted 3,302 shots at full strength and they've given up 2,753 attempts, meaning their Corsi percentage is at 54.5% for the season. In terms of Fenwick percentage, they currently are at 54.7% as they have 2,429 shots while they've given up 2,011 attempts on defense. The Kings have an offensive zone percentage of 55.3% and their defensive zone percentage is 44.7% so far this season. They have a faceoff win percentage of 50.4% as they've compiled 1,658 face off wins this season and they have suffered 1,632 face off losses. On defense Los Angeles has blocked 742 shot attempts and they have 1,633 hits as a unit. |
A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
Description:There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. In this photograph the bed has a Venetian-patterned silk damask cover, the headboard and hangings are of a similar type of material.
Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the Pagets, Marquesses of Anglesey. Its core was medieval, with later alterations. James Wyatt and Joseph Potter remodelled the interiors of the original Elizabethan House, built by Lord Paget, in a Regency Gothic style early in the 19th century. A century later, this was out of fashion and following a small fire, Beaudesert was completely remodelled by the 6th Marquess of Anglesey during 1909-1912. Lord Anglesey called in Captain Harry Lindsay to replace the Regency work with a series of rooms intended to represent different periods.
In 1920 a year after Country Life took this photograph and two years after the First World War, Lord Anglesey decided that he could not afford to maintain both Beaudesert and Plas Newydd (on Anglesey). Plas Newydd became the family home and principal seat and many of the paintings and much of the furniture were moved to Plas Newydd, with surplus furniture and furnishings sold by auction around 1921. Beaudesert was put up for sale in 1924 and when no purchaser was found it was finally demolished around 1935. Many of the bricks with which Beaudesert was faced were used to replace the bricks polluted by coal smoke at St James's Palace in London; they were of the similar date as those they replaced. The main staircase, known as the Waterloo staircase, doors, windows and much interior panelling were shipped to Australia and can be seen at a house called Carrick Hill, near Adelaide.
Beaudesert Park is an area of historic parkland, within which are the ruins of Beaudesert Hall, a walled kitchen garden, remains of a stable block, an ice house, ponds and cascades. The parkland is located on the eastern edge of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and comprises part of the country estate owned by generations of the Paget family between 1546 and 1935. The Beaudesert Trust own and manage Beaudesert Park and welcomes Youth organisations, such as Scouts and Guides, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Youth Clubs and Schools, Colleges and University groups. Beaudesert Park is used for various outdoor activities and educational experiences.
Acknowledgement: Thank you to Country Life for providing this image. Please note 'Copyright Country Life' – this image may not be used for resale or commercial purposes without Country Life's express permission.
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A competing member may make one post per question thread to answer** the question and the member's winning entry must have all parts of the question answered completely in that one post. Editing your one answer post allowed will result in disqualification.
Flexible cords immersed or exposed to water in a fountain shall be _______.
Where verification marking is requited the electrical vehicle supply equipment shall be clearly field marked that "ventilation is required."
In non-combustible walls or ceilings the front edge of a box, plaster ring, extension ring or listed extender employing a flush type cover shall be set back not more than ____ inches from the finished surface.
Lighting track shall have 2 supports for a single section of _____ or shorter in length and each individual section of not more than 4 ft attached to it shall have one additional support unless the track is identified for supports of greater intervals.
Congratulations John Olson, you are correct.
John Olson is this weeks winner.
Ok Roy, I will send the source of the questions and their answers to the awards committee.
All the questions and answers were copied from Mike Holt.
That is where I got my answers...Unfortunately ! LOL!
I'll try and get this settled. Which question/ answer do you disagree with? |
The following is a list of films produced in the Tamil film industry in India in 1946, in alphabetical order.
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Our lives with our teenage daughter might have taken another turn if I had made a different decision, a decision not to accept an invitation to a weekend retreat called Outback America. And that one weekend changed our lives.
It was fall with cool nights, falling leaves and crisp clear days. Our family was busy with the usual things. We have three kids, and in 2005 our oldest daughter Morgan was just entering high school. For many parents, the first few years of high school can be traumatic and emotional, especially with girls. My wife and I could see the warning signs coming with Morgan – nothing major, but she wanted to be a little more independent and was making some questionable decisions in her social life, especially in the choice of boys she had hanging around the house.
That invitation to Outback America came at a time when I was extremely busy at work. I tried to use that busyness as an excuse to dismiss going because the weekend frankly seemed a little strange, but my friend ended the invitation by saying, '"Jesse, this will be one of the best things you could ever do with your daughter Morgan." That statement stayed in my mind, but the deal was sealed when I came home to find Morgan sitting on the couch. With a boy. And they were only using one cushion! So I accepted the invitation to spend an Outback America weekend in Sylacauga with her.
"Yes, Morgan, that all sounds good, but they are expecting us, and we are going." Once we passed the mall, things got pretty quiet for the next two hours.
The silence continued until we arrived. We were late since I had worked longer than I should have, but isn't that what busy people are supposed to do? They quickly escorted us to a big tent filled with other parent/teen pairs who were all singing and worshipping like I had never seen or experienced before.
At the time, I was an elder at our fairly conservative church. We still played the organ and sang from the old hymnal books, so when we entered this big circus tent with a full-on contemporary worship service, I was taken aback and not sure what Morgan's reaction was going to be. I think she was thinking the same thing, trying to gauge my reaction. Not knowing what else to do, both of us quietly joined in worshipping God through praise and singing.
Throughout the weekend there were talks about life purpose, dating, parenting, wounding and forgiveness. There were practical exercises done as teams and as parent/teen pairs. It was an incredible weekend, a game-changing weekend. It was a weekend that has altered the landscape of my family. God used that weekend to transform me as a man, a husband, a father, a son and a friend. That weekend, Morgan claimed her faith in Christ as her own.
I didn't have a good answer for her. At that point in my life, I went to church, read the Bible when I got in a jam mostly, and served people because that is what I thought being a Christian was all about. I guess I knew a lot about God, but I did not really know God, and there is a huge difference.
So I told her I wasn't sure how we missed something so fundamental and simple as being in relationship with our Creator. We decided to start that very day.
Since that weekend almost 10 years ago, Morgan and I have both continued that relationship journey with the Creator. Let me tell you, it has made all the difference in the way we live and love others.
Since then, I have seen God use the ministry of Outback America to transform lives, save marriages and give new life to God's children. It is a safe place for people to get away in an undistracted environment and evaluate their lives while working on their relationships with God and the loved one they came with – parent, teen or spouse.
Now I leave you with the same invitation that I could not shake: Come to Outback. It will be one of the best things you have ever done with someone you love. It is so worth it. Your adventure awaits! |
Evidence that Charcot-Marie-tooth disease with tremor coincides with the Roussy-Levy syndrome.
Can J Neurol Sci. 1984 Nov; 11(4 Suppl):534-40.CJ
We report data on 3 members of a family affected by a dominantly inherited disorder closely resembling Roussy-Levy syndrome (RLS). Electrophysiological findings showed a marked decrease of motor and sensory conduction velocities and EMG signs of mild neurogenic damage. Light and electron microscopy of sural nerve biopsy showed a hypertrophic neuropathy with diffuse onion-bulb formations and marked decrease of large size fibers. Teased fiber preparations evidenced reduced internodal lengths and segmental demyelination. Other data from the literature on RLS are reviewed and discussed. The hypothesis that RLS is not a disease entity but a hypertrophic-type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with essential tremor (HMSN type 1) is strongly supported.
Barbieri F
Filla A
Ragno M
Crisci C
Santoro L
Corona M
Campanella G
AdultCharcot-Marie-Tooth DiseaseChildFemaleGaitHumansHypertrophyMaleMiddle AgedMovement DisordersMuscular AtrophyPedigreePeripheral NervesReflex, AbnormalSyndromeTremor
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Barbieri F, Filla A, Ragno M, et al. Evidence that Charcot-Marie-tooth disease with tremor coincides with the Roussy-Levy syndrome. Can J Neurol Sci. 1984;11(4 Suppl):534-40.
Barbieri, F., Filla, A., Ragno, M., Crisci, C., Santoro, L., Corona, M., & Campanella, G. (1984). Evidence that Charcot-Marie-tooth disease with tremor coincides with the Roussy-Levy syndrome. The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. Le Journal Canadien Des Sciences Neurologiques, 11(4 Suppl), 534-40.
Barbieri F, et al. Evidence That Charcot-Marie-tooth Disease With Tremor Coincides With the Roussy-Levy Syndrome. Can J Neurol Sci. 1984;11(4 Suppl):534-40. PubMed PMID: 6509399.
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Peripheral Nerves
Reflex, Abnormal
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with "essential tremor": Report of 7 cases and a review of the literature.
The Roussy-Lévy family: from the original description to the gene.
[Morphological studies of peripheral nerves for a better understanding of Charcot-Marie-Tooth atrophy and Roussy-Lévy hereditary areflexic dysstasia].
Non-hypertrophic familial neuropathy associated with intention tremor. A variety of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease?
Roussy-Levy hereditary areflexic dystasis presenting as Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome.
[Hereditary areflexic dysstasia (Roussy-Lévy syndrome)].
Peroneal muscular atrophy with autosomal dominant inheritance.
Roussy-Lévy syndrome is a phenotypic variant of Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome IA associated with a duplication on chromosome 17p11.2.
[Roussy-Levy hereditary areflexic dysstasia. Its historical relation to Friedreich's disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth atrophy and Dejerine-Sottas hypertrophic neuritis; the present status of the original family; the nosologic role of this entity].
The hypertrophic forms of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. A study of hypertrophic Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (HMSN type I) and Dejerine-Sottas disease (HMSN type III) in childhood. |
Genesis is God the creator speaking into existence his will and his plans. He is unimaginably powerful. There is no human construct or thoughts that can contain His infinite scope. God speaks and there is light. Light not like the sun or light that is generated by normal means but simply light that is in place and makes up our reality. In Genesis 1 God creates this light separate from the light of the sun and he places it opposite of the darkness.
The next time this kind of light is spoken of is when God displays his power to Pharaoh.
The darkness that stretched over Egypt was so dark they could not see one another for three days. It was a darkness so thick it could be felt. I am a bit uncomfortable in dark places and this for me conjures up being stuck in a cave underground or a submarine at the bottom of the ocean with the very real threat of losing light and not being able to move. My chest constricts just at the thought. I cannot imagine the depths of hopelessness the Egyptians experienced to lose the light of the world. How much more so to think it is possible to not be in a place where God's light is not available to your soul. I imagine this is just the beginning of what Hell must be like.
David writing a song to God tells us that life is found in God's light and by His light we can see light. It is a redundancy in speech or a truth to grasp about God as experienced firsthand by the Egyptians? Life exists because of the light God spoke into the universe he created. The source and author of the light in Genesis is the source, sustainer, and salvation of any life we would expect to live on this earth. God speaking through Isaiah lays out his plans for the entire world of men and women. He will use the nation of Israel to be a light for all the nations.
How then will God use the Jews as a light for all the nations? God calls from them the savior Jesus and in him God fulfills that promise to be a light for all the nations.
God creator of the world seeks to draw men and women to himself. Men and Women who will be his children and be given life in the light of God himself. There is a problem however and each of us must look into our heart and ask a very serious question. Do we want this light? Or do we prefer to continue in death of darkness?
Be exposed. Give up the death of the darkness and sin and selfishness that you live in today. Turn to Jesus who created you to begin with and find purpose, hope, and life in His light. |
RallyMobil
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The RallyMobil Championship is the most important automobile competition in Chile. After 18 years of life, this show has put its name within the elite of the national sport, being recognized for its spectacular, high competence and level of production throughout the region and the entire world.
This story began in the year 2000 with two categories in its first season, and has achieved sustained growth thanks to its constant innovation in both production and sports. Reflection of this is the realization of the first Night Superprime in the ellipse of O'Higgins Park in 2001, an activity that summoned a thousand people to 25 and that had as an international guest the multiple Argentine champion Federico Villagra.
In 2002 was born the Brand Championship, which encouraged the automotive groups to participate in this sporting event. A year later, 58 crews returned to meet at O'Higgins Park for a new Night Special, which included the four-time world champion of the specialty, the Finnish Tommi Mäkinen.
The milestones would continue with the realization of the first Motorshow in Laguna Carén, an event that brought together more than 1,000 people to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the RallyMobil Championship. Of course it was at 17 when this sporting event took on a relevance at the country level when the Motorshow moved to the front of the Palacio de La Moneda, where more than 1,000 spectators attended.
Achievements that at 2015 were consolidated with the spectacular closing of the championship with a Motorshow in the lung of Santiago de Chile, Cerro San Cristóbal. A scenario that allowed the democratization of the usual sports activity with the most important motor event in the region. An unforgettable postcard of a sport that continues to grow in popularity, becoming after football, the second most important discipline in the country.
After 18 years, RallyMobil has become the most relevant Motorsport event in Chile, a free meeting that uses the infrastructure of cities and routes from different corners of the country. The show has had an unprecedented evolution, which includes the traditional Stellar Presentation, which gathers the crews in a huge stage built in the heart of each city with a spectacular display of skill of the pilots and their machines.
Candidate Event
The nomination of Chile to host a World Rally Championship date for 2019, 2020 and 2021 was the result of an idea that was growing step by step and today is a reality that is in the hands of the executives of the International Federation of Motoring (FIA) and the World Rally Championship (WRC).
On December 8, 2012 debuted in Chile the Renault Clio 3 cars in the Motorshow that took place in front of La Moneda, before more than 20.000 people. There were four cars, to which were added three Citroen DS3 and one Honda Civic Type R, which debuted in Osorno on the first date of the 2013 season.
After that step, it was thought to continue advancing even farther and the next thing was to know the dates of the World Rally and to know what were the requirements to try to apply. The first situation to be solved was to modernize RallyMobil with approved cars, also jump into the sequential gearboxes, look for integral traction and continue perfecting the realization of the local competition.
Another important step was to approach the authorities of the FIA and the WRC, here we had to travel, meet, listen and learn from the experts. After these first approaches, eleven Ford R2 cars are brought to Chile and there is a big jump in sports.
It was at the 2016 when the first official presentation took place with the aim of being able to materialize the intention of making a Chilean application to a WRC date. The production of RallyMobil and Copec showed that it was possible, that there was a commitment with the authorities of the Regional Government and that there was great support from Carabineros de Chile and a constant collaboration of the Fire Department. Chile demonstrated then, that it could do it.
That same year, the WRC continued to follow the dates to continue collecting experience and establishing links with the FIA and the World Rally Championship. Here, for the first time, the real possibility of a formal application for 2017 arises. In sports, the categories R2 and R3 continue to grow, but it was necessary to take the next step. The R5 cars had to get to Chile and it was Pedro Heller who could show the strength of these cars alone.
It was on May 2 that 2017 officially received the executives of the WRC in Chile, the German Olivier Ciesla and the Australian Simon Larkin. It was a great gala to launch the 2017 season and especially to mark the formal start of the presentation of Chile as a candidate to make a date of the World Championship.
Here begins to trace a route, a race with obstacles that RallyMobil had to successfully overcome: Adjudicate a "Candidate Event". Perform this show perfectly and receive a positive report from the FIA. Parallel Chilean ambassadors arise in the WRC, Pedro Heller takes the Chilean flag to the world circuits and 2018 joins Emilio Fernandez, who participates in the Junior category of the WRC.
This is how the 2018 season begins with the "Candidate Event" at the Concepción Grand Prix. Added to this, the arrival of the powerful R5 cars to the championship, which meant an important advance in sports. Nine cars of connoted brands such as Ford, Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Citröen and Sköda began to travel the routes of our country.
The "Candidate Event" in Concepción fulfilled all expectations. It was developed with a large audience, with the presence of important representatives of vehicle manufacturers, as well as under the watchful eye of the observers of FIA and WRC, who did not hesitate to talk about the good work done by RallyMobil in this competition.
In 2018 it has continued to travel to different world dates and that is how the RallyMobil production was in Portugal to learn about and learn about the most important aspects of security. The last date of the WRC was Finland, where representatives of our championship gathered experiences and learned more about the development of emblematic events.
In 2019 the work has not stopped with the aim of producing a world quality date. The production of RallyMobil has visited The Rally of Mexico and the Rally of Montecarlo with the mission to refine all the essential details for the successful completion of a WRC date. The incorporation of Chile to the official calendar of the World Rally Championship is a reality and the Region of Biobío expects a large number of fans between the 9 and 12 in May, days in which it will run for more than 12 communes in the region. |
Biografia
Dopo il biennio presso l'Istituto per la formazione al giornalismo, diviene nel 1986 giornalista professionista, lavorando alla redazione centrale di Palermo del Giornale di Sicilia dove si occupa di giudiziaria e di cronaca.
Ha collaborato con i giornali L'Europeo, Il Sole 24 Ore, L'Espresso, con la rivista Sette e con le trasmissioni televisive Linea diretta, Il Fatto e TV7. É autore dei libri Paolo Borsellino (2003), scritto con Agnese, Lucia, Manfredi e Fiammetta Borsellino e Maledetta mafia. Io, donna, testimone di giustizia con Paolo Borsellino (2012), scritto con Piera Aiello.
Fa parte del comitato di gestione della Fondazione Progetto Legalità. Ha vinto nel 1999 il premio Mario Francese e il premio giornalistico "Giò Marrazzo". |
A prophet is a prophet according to the technical definition of this concept in Islamic law and terminology.
A prophet is, quite obviously, a prophet in the real sense.
1. For a non-prophet (saint), the word 'prophet' is used in its linguistic, literal or dictionary sense, as word of the Arabic language.
2. For a non-prophet the word 'prophet' is also used in a metaphorical sense.
the linguistic, literal or metaphorical use of the word prophet for one who is a saint, not a prophet. |
И́горь Корни́льевич Смо́лич (27 января 1898, Умань, Киевская губерния — 2 ноября 1970, Берлин) — деятель русской эмиграции, церковный историк. Доктор философии и доктор богословия. Брат советского писателя Юрия Смолича.
Биография
В 1916 года окончил гимназию в Жмеринке. В 1916 году по желанию отца, преподававшего физику и математику в гимназии, поступил в Киевский политехнический институт. Но проучился там недолго и поступил на историко-филологический факультет Киевского Университета.
Вступил в Белое движение, сражался боевым офицером в армии Корнилова и Деникина. С остатками разбитой армии барона Врангеля в 1920 году он покинул родину. В Константинополе он перебивался заработками ночного сторожа и помощника повара.
В 1923 году получил стипендию, позволившую ему продолжить образование в Берлине. Поступил на отделение экономики Русском научный институте, где слушал Н. А. Бердяева, Л. П. Карсавина, А. А. Кизеветтера, В. А. Мякотина и В. В. Стратонова.
В 1925 году поступил в Университет Фридриха Вильгельма, где изучал историю России, историю Русской Церкви, и нашёл там себе покровителя и друга, в лице знаменитого учёного-слависта Макса Фасмера, автора «Этимологического словаря русского языка». По замечанию самого Смолича, дружба с Фасмером сильно повлияла на всю его дальнейшую научную деятельность.
Был активным прихожанином Воскресенского собора в Берлине и членом Русского студенческого христианского движения (РСХД), с 1925 года — казначей Германского отделения РСХД. В это же время Смолич активно сотрудничал в религиозно-философских журналах «Путь» и «Вестник РСХД», что принесло ему известность в русских церковных кругах.
В 1936 году была опубликована его первая крупная работа — «Жизнь и учение старцев», посвящённая русскому старчеству. В нём Смолич исследовал аскетический опыт Оптинских старцев, их влияние на различные круги русского общества. Затем он защитил докторскую о жизни и мировоззрении Ивана Васильевича Киреевского, который был тесно связан с оптинскими старцами.
После войны, когда в Германии была безработица, голод, Смолич зарабатывал на жизнь, торгуя книгами. А потом, когда положение в Германии стабилизировалось, он стал сотрудником Восточноевропейского института при Свободном университете в Западном Берлине. Он входил в НИИ этого университета, где продолжал изучать историю.
В это время Смолич являлся прихожанином Воскресенского собора в Западном Берлине, кафедрального собора Германской епархии Московской патриархии.
Целью научных трудов Игоря Смолича было создание монументального свода по Истории Русской Церкви. Сам он писал о том, что, исходя из насущных церковных потребностей, он решил «предпослать истории более раннего периода церковную историю XVIII—XIX веков, то есть периода, начатого глубокими преобразованиями Петра Великого». Именно этот труд по истории Синодального периода стал вершиной его научной деятельности.
За свою научную деятельность историк получил степень доктора философии, а в 1964 году Свято-Сергиевский Богословский институт присудил ему звание доктора богословия honoris causa.
Ему не суждено было осуществить свой всеобъемлющий замысел. В 1970 году историк почувствовал все увеличивавшийся упадок сил и с большим трудом почти сумел завершить второй том своей Истории Синодального периода. Работа над церковной историей России от Крещения до 1700 года так и осталась на подготовительной стадии.
Скончался 2 ноября 1970 года в Берлине. Похоронен на православном кладбище Тегель в Западном Берлине.
Публикации
книги
Leben und Lehre der Starzen. — Vienne, 1936. 226 s. (2-е издание — Koln, 1952; французский перевод — Париж, 1967
Das Alt-Russische Monchtum. — Wurzburg, 1940 (Русский перевод — Русское монашество. — М., 1997).
Russisches Monchtum: 1448—1917. — Wurzburg, 1953. 556 s. (Русский перевод — Русское монашество. — М., 1997).
Die Russische Kirchliche Mission in Jerusalem. 1950.
Geschichte der Russische Kirche. — Leiden, 1964 (Русский перевод — История Русской Церкви: 1700—1917. — М., 1997).
История Русской Церкви: 1700—1917: В 2 частях. — М.: Валаамский монастырь, 1997: Ч. 1. 800 с.; Ч. 2. 798 с. (История Русской Церкви. Кн.8. Ч.1, 2).
Русское монашество: 988—1917; Жизнь и учение старцев. — М.: Православная энциклопедия, 1997. − 608 с. (Приложение к «Истории Русской Церкви»)
статьи
Великий старец Нил Сорский // Путь. 1929. — № 19. — С. 57-69.
И. В. Киреевский // Путь. 1932. — № 33. — С. 52—66
Предсоборное присутствие 1906 года // Путь. 1938. — № 38. — С. 65-75
К столетию освобождения крестьян (19-II-1861 — 19-II-1961) // Вестник РХСД. 1961. — № 60 (I) — С. 13-28
Св. гора Афон (к тысячелетнему участию ее в жизни Православной Церкви) // Вестник РХСД. 1963. — № 70-71 (III—IV). — С. 29-43
Архимандрит Макарий Глухарев просветитель Алтая. // Вестник РСХД. 1967. — № 85 (III). — С. 25-45
Жизнь и учение старцев / пер.: Иоанн (Вендланд), митрополит // Богословские труды. — М., 1993. — № 31. — C. 97-174.
Предсоборное Присутствие 1906 года // Журнал Московской Патриархии. 1996. — № 11. — C. 74-80.
Великий старец Нил Сорский: (К истории русского старчества) // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1998. — № 2 (16). — C. 164—172.
К вопросу периодизации истории Русской Церкви // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1998. — № 3(17). — C. 159—174.
Литература
Попов А. В., Квактун А. Ю. Жизнь и творческое наследие историка Русской Церкви И. К. Смолича // История и архивы. — 2019. — № 4. — С. 60-79
Попов А.В. Смолич Игорь Корнильевич / Попов А.В. // Православная энциклопедия. Т. LXIV / Под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла. – Москва: Православная религиозная организация Церковно-научный центр «Православная энциклопедия», 2021. – С. 513-515.
Смолич Игорь Корнелиевич (Корнилович) // Российское зарубежье во Франции 1919—2000. Биографический словарь в трех томах. Том третий. С-Я. — М.: Наука; Дом Марины Цветаевой, 2010. — С. 145—146.
Выпускники Жмеринской гимназии
Историки Германии
Участники Гражданской войны в России (белые)
Исследователи истории Русской церкви
Русские эмигранты первой волны в Германии
Похороненные на кладбище Тегель |
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Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence from Jacksonville, FL who was prosecuted and threatened with 60 years in prison for defending her life from her abusive husband. After serving a sentence of 3 years behind bars and 2 years in house detention while being forced to wear and pay for a surveillance ankle monitor, Marissa Alexander was finally released on January 27, 2017. This site is an archive of The Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign.
Learn about Marissa's new project, The Marissa Alexander Justice Project, and FMN's ongoing work with our partners at Survived & Punished.
After 3 years behind bars and 2 years of house detention, Marissa Alexander was finally released from state confinement. Marissa Alexander has been punished for over 5 years for defending her life from a domestic violence attack threatening her life nine days after she gave birth. The Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign is thrilled that we have finally made it to the day that we can say Marissa Alexander has her freedom. We are honored to share this statement from Marissa and her family: "We are grateful to God that this chapter of Marissa's life will come to a close on January 27, 2017. We are sincerely thankful and appreciative to all who rallied, supported and prayed for Marissa's release. As she enters a new chapter, with endless possibilities, we ask that you will continue to support Marissa through her non-profit organization that was established to end domestic violence and injustice in the criminal justice system, The Marissa Alexander Justice Project. Without you, today would not be possible. Thank you again and again."
To honor & archive this important activism, we ask all people who did an action to help free Marissa Alexander to PLEASE FILL OUT THIS SURVEY so that organizers and survivors can learn and build from it in future movement building.
NOW AVAILABLE: Our partner, Survived and Punished, has released a downloadable toolkit for organizing defense campaigns for criminalized survivors of violence! #SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis is a collection of tools, tips, lessons and resources developed through grassroots campaigns to free survivors such as Marissa Alexander, Nan-Hui Jo, Kelly Savage, Eisha Love, Bresha Meadows, Ky Peterson, and many others.
Marissa Alexander On The Move(ment)!
After 3 years behind bars and 2 years of house detention, Marissa Alexander was finally released from state confinement!!! Read Free Marissa Now statement.
This project is organized in coalition with the following freedom campaigns and organizations: Stand With Nan Hui, Love & Protect (formerly Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander), and California Coalition for Women Prisoners. We demand the immediate freedom of those who are punished for surviving domestic violence and other forms of gender violence, including Marissa Alexander!
"I wrote this poem because of my support of Marissa Alexander. I wrote this poem one morning because of my outrage that I still live in a country where it seems as though black women are still having to defend themselves about defending themselves."
Organizers from #BlackLivesMatter and Free Marissa Now discuss how black women are targeted by state violence. |
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Frasier: 1x15
You Can't Tell a Crook by His Cover
Frasier and Niles try to protect Daphne's honor when she goes on a date with an ex-con.
The Good Son Sep. 16, 1993
Space Quest Sep. 23, 1993
Dinner at Eight Sep. 30, 1993
I Hate Frasier Crane Oct. 07, 1993
Here's Looking at You Oct. 14, 1993
The Crucible Oct. 21, 1993
Call Me Irresponsible Oct. 28, 1993
Beloved Infidel Nov. 04, 1993
Selling Out Nov. 11, 1993
Oops Nov. 18, 1993
Death Becomes Him Dec. 02, 1993
Miracle on Third or Fourth Street Dec. 16, 1993
Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast? Jan. 06, 1994
Can't Buy Me Love Jan. 20, 1994
You Can't Tell a Crook by His Cover Jan. 27, 1994
The Show Where Lilith Comes Back Feb. 03, 1994
A Midwinter Night's Dream Feb. 10, 1994
And the Whimper is... Feb. 17, 1994
Give Him the Chair! Mar. 17, 1994
Fortysomething Mar. 31, 1994
Travels with Martin Apr. 14, 1994
Author, Author May. 05, 1994
Frasier Crane's Day Off May. 12, 1994
My Coffee with Niles May. 19, 1994 |
/* $Id$ */
#ifndef PHP_LIB_INIFILE_H
#define PHP_LIB_INIFILE_H
typedef struct {
char *group;
char *name;
} key_type;
typedef struct {
char *value;
} val_type;
typedef struct {
key_type key;
val_type val;
size_t pos;
} line_type;
typedef struct {
char *lockfn;
int lockfd;
php_stream *fp;
int readonly;
line_type curr;
line_type next;
} inifile;
val_type inifile_fetch(inifile *dba, const key_type *key, int skip TSRMLS_DC);
int inifile_firstkey(inifile *dba TSRMLS_DC);
int inifile_nextkey(inifile *dba TSRMLS_DC);
int inifile_delete(inifile *dba, const key_type *key TSRMLS_DC);
int inifile_replace(inifile *dba, const key_type *key, const val_type *val TSRMLS_DC);
int inifile_append(inifile *dba, const key_type *key, const val_type *val TSRMLS_DC);
char *inifile_version();
key_type inifile_key_split(const char *group_name);
char * inifile_key_string(const key_type *key);
void inifile_key_free(key_type *key);
void inifile_val_free(val_type *val);
void inifile_line_free(line_type *ln);
inifile * inifile_alloc(php_stream *fp, int readonly, int persistent TSRMLS_DC);
void inifile_free(inifile *dba, int persistent);
#endif
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Q: File not found when application deployed on tomcat This works fine in a unit test. I get the file and can print the content. When I deploy this on a server I get a FilenotFoundExcpetion. What can be the reason for this? I am deploying on a tomcat.
String path = "WebContent/images/image.jpeg";
FileSystemResource resource = new FileSystemResource(path);
File image = resource.getFile();
A: Use context path to bring location to your working project and then you can store your own path like you have mentioned images/image.jpg
String path = request.getSession().getContextPath().getRealPath("/")+"images/image.jpg";
I guess it will help you!!
A: The WebContent folder is implicit, when you deploy web app onto a server.
when executing within context of web server use
String path = "/images/image.jpeg";
also
use Class.getResourceAsStream()
A: String path = "WebContent/images/image.jpeg";
this is a relative path, when deployed in a servlet container like tomcat it will be relative to your deployment directory or tomcat's home directory. and probably you wont have a directory named Webconent. The contents of WebContent will perhaps be inside a war perhaps.
I can think of two solutions
*
*Use getRealPath method if you have access to request or ServletContext
*Use ClassPathResource if you can put your file in WEB-INF\classes
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Q: Updating web app from Zend Framework 1.7 to 1.8 I'm trying to update my current project from 1.7 to 1.8. What do I have to change so that it does not break?
A: most features will still work with legacy code. try it out on your test environment and read the ZF change log. one important thing is that the loader works differently now. especially if you're using autoload.
Until 1.7
require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();
Since 1.8
require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
$loader->registerNamespace('Namespace_');
A: Short answer:
Run your test suite and check the results ;)
Long answer:
I remember two points where backward compatibility was broken:
*
*If your bootstrapping does not set the Zend_Locale correctly, ZF >= 1.7.2 will throw an exception that it cannot detect the browsers Locale if you run a script via console.
*Zend_View changes in 1.7.5
A: In Zend Framework 1.8 the constructor of Zend_Controller_Action was modified.
I have to mention this, because it broke my application until I found this error out after hours of debugging (for some reason xDebug nor PHP itself showed me that the constructor in my custom Controller_Action class was not the same as in Zend_Controller_Action anymore).
So have to change your constructor from
public function __construct(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request, Zend_Controller_Response_Abstract $response, $invokeArgs = array())
to
public function __construct(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request, Zend_Controller_Response_Abstract $response, array $invokeArgs = array())
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'I am well aware of the fact that these terms, Ethnography and Ethnology are applied variously by different continental schools of Anthropology, to which term also dissimilar duties are assigned. ... I put forward the plea that terms such as these should be allowed to mean what they actually do mean etymologically, and that to attempt to restrict their employment to other, arbitrarily selected uses only creates confusion. -Graphy and -logy as terminals, or suffixes, indicating, in the one case, description, and, in the other, comparative or reasoned treatment, have significance-value, as distinguishing the process of recording facts from that of collating and interpreting assembled data.
'In endeavouring to trace the phylogenetic history of material objects it is frequently necessary for Ethnology to combine with Archaeology, in order that each may assist the other. The archaeological record can often offer a progressive or more or less connected sequence of changes, which can be displayed in their true chronological order. But there are usually many 'missing links' in the chain of evidence, and many whole groups of artefacts, which must have existed, are missing from the record, owing partly to the perishable nature of the materials from which they are made, and partly to the fact that they are still underground and undiscovered. The Archaeologist's 'river-system' must necessarily be incomplete and syncopated! |
plans to give you hope and a future." These words must be placed deeply in our hearts and souls as we raise our children. After working with children and families for over 26 years, there are some crucial things we as parents can do to bring out the BEST in our children.
First, Expect the Best: If you think they can or if you think they can't you are both CORRECT! It is important that we always look for the silver lining. Children need to know that we are their number one cheerleader and that we will stick with them through thick and thin. We do that by leading by example. Children will BE what they SEE so show them what kindness, forgiveness, character and humility really look like.
Second, Eliminate Excuses: We live in a country where everyone is so busy that we don't have time for anything including the children we birthed. I will tell you like my mother use to tell me… We make time for what we want to make time for. Children are a gift and no matter how busy we think we are our children should be a top priority when it comes to sowing seeds of success in their lives because LOVE to them is spelled T. I. M. E.
twice before doing it again.
and speak life into our children no matter what they have done and give them the grace that we so needed and perhaps didn't get growing up. When we say, "there is greatness in you; you are a winner; I believe in you; you are enough, you are fearfully and wonderfully made," they will believe in themselves. As they do, they will realize that all things are possible even their opportunity to be their BEST!
Great guidance. I love it, "connect BEFORE you correct." I will be putting this into practice. Thanks Deborah!
Empowering our children is paramount and being responsible for the words we speak... Evaluate Our Words.. wonderful food for thought. Thanks Deborah you are the best!
To God be the Glory! Yes, we don't have to birth a child to love a child. Empowering children is vital to raising the next generation. Thanks Sarah!
Parenting is tough yet rewarding. We can expect the best from our kids and support them in their journeys to become productive adults.
Wow what timing Deborah...I just sent off my 17 year old daughter to study a broad in Thailand for a whole year! Your words are very timely. I know as parents we want the best for our children and expecting the best out of them pushes them to reach their full potential GOD has destined for for them and how they can make a difference in this world. Thank you for your words of wisdom Deborah!!!
Wow, amazing insights! You are so right about excuses. As parents we cannot make any excuses. Just step it up and make it work. Our children's lives depend on it. Great work!
What amazing truths Deborah has shared with us. These are action steps. A reminder that we have to put forth the effort to raise and love on our children. |
I am inspired by Marcel Mauss book "Gift"1923 which notes the expressions of love that helps balances the power of relationships in the tradition of reciprocity and gift exchange. The expression of universal love and gift giving is a part of the unwritten social contract that embodies strong cultural, socio-political, and economic codings.
I am fascinated with the idea of embroidered geometrical designs, thereby, expressing love in matrilineal fashion in the traditional patriarchal society and further exploring the same idea in today's contemporary world with gender equation altering traditional dynamics –familial,societal and cultural. To further explore, the other traditions of gifts , 'give & take' like monetary shagun, as blessings to loved ones in decorative handcrafted envelopes.
Symbolically, the exchange of 'shagun envelopes' occurs during all auspicious family events from illness until the last journey of death. A contemporary dialogue where mothers and grandmas cook home food, sent in Tiffin's across the metropolis ensconcing their loved ones in the warmth of their love and care.
I propose to utilize phulkree chadder (sheet) embroidery and brocade envelopes engaging in the historical and cultural tradition of embroidered textile and shagun envelopes that is given to your loved ones at the time of celebrations. The interconnection of traditional textiles and the contemporary dialogue of Tiffin are engaging in the universality of love and care packaged contrastingly at different periods of time.Taking inspirations from the "shagun envelopes'(sample images below), I propose to create a Mobile- a site specific installation app 7-8 feet high x 5ft wide with101 envelopes 7x4inches each (batuhas) of silk brocade fabric textiles hanging from the ceiling attached with decorative thread(Gota silver and gold)) used for joyous occasions.
My passion for creating textile artwork performs a great sense of preservation/conservation of the technique . I am always striving to document the heritage art which is historically meaningful by giving a contemporary visual interpretations within my art practice. |
Ri Yong-mu (25 January 1925 – 27 January 2022) was a North Korean senior official who was a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea and vice-marshal of the Korean People's Army. He was the oldest member of the central leadership of North Korea.
Biography
Youth
Ri was born in South Pyo'ngan Province, Pyo'ngso'ng in Japanese Korea on 25 January 1925. He attended the second central political school.
Kim Il-sung era (1948–1994)
After the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea he was named military attache to the North Korean embassy in the People's Republic of China.
In 1964 he was made first vice-chairman of the Politburo of the Korean People's Army (not to be confused with the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea) and promoted to lieutenant general.
At the 5th Congress of the Workers' Party in 1970 he was elected to the Central Committee. In 1973 he was promoted to general and made chairman of the Politburo of the Korean People's Army. He was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1974.
Ri was purged in 1977 and demoted to a low administrative position. He was however rehabilitated a decade later and made an alternate member of the 6th Central Committee in 1988, to be finally restored to full central committee member in 1989.
Kim Jong-il era (1994–2011)
Ri was elected to the National Defence Commission in 1998, being also promoted to the second highest military rank of vice-marshal. He was reelected in 2003 and 2009. As the Workers' Party politburo, central military commission and central committee were de facto suspended under Kim Jong-il's "military first" policy from 1994 to 2010, the National Defence Commission became in practice the highest decision-making body in the country and Ri hence part of the innermost circle of power.
When in 2010 Kim Jong-il revived Workers' Party operations after 16 years of dormancy, Ri was also elected to the politburo
Kim Jong-un era (2011–2022)
Upon the death of Kim Jong-il in 2011, Ri was ranked 13th in the funeral committee. This presumably corresponds to his ceremonial rank in the top leadership at that time.
Ri retained his place in the Politburo at the 4th Party Conference in 2012, and was reelected to the National Defence Commission by the 2014 Supreme People's Assembly.
Death
Ri died from a heart attack on 27 January 2022, at the age of 97.
See also
The Father of Korea (The Sun of Juche)
References
1925 births
2022 deaths
North Korean politicians
People from South Pyongan
Members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Alternate members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea |
Q: How get filelist in "npm run
A: I recently encountered a similar requirement to run cleancss across multiple files. Eventually opted for a solution similar to the one discussed in the comments, i.e. using the clean-css-api with a utility node.js.
npm-script
"scripts": {
"cleancss": "glob \"public/css/**/*.css\" | node .scripts/cleancss.js"
},
Note the initial use of cli-glob (added to package.json) for obtaining the paths before piping them to cleancss.js.
cleancss.js
The utitlity node script was as follows (albeit rather rudimentary!):
#!/usr/bin/env node
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var readline = require('readline');
var CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
var mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
var rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: null,
terminal: false
});
var options = {
// ... https://www.npmjs.com/package/clean-css#constructor-options
// ... https://www.npmjs.com/package/clean-css#formatting-options
};
function saveFile(outputPath, minified) {
fs.writeFile(outputPath, minified, function(err) {
if (err) {
return console.log(err);
}
});
}
function pathParts(srcPath) {
var ext = path.extname(srcPath),
name = path.basename(srcPath, ext),
dirPath = path.dirname(srcPath),
pathParts = dirPath.split(path.sep),
pathNoRoot;
pathParts.shift();
pathNoRoot = pathParts.join(path.sep);
return {
ext: ext,
name: name,
pathNoRoot: pathNoRoot
};
}
function minify(srcPath, outputPath) {
var output = new CleanCSS(options).minify([srcPath]);
saveFile(outputPath, output.styles);
}
function processPath(srcPath) {
var outDir = process.env.npm_package_config_css_outdir || path.dirname(srcPath),
p = pathParts(srcPath),
newName = p.name + '.min' + p.ext,
mkDirPath,
outputPath;
if (process.env.npm_package_config_css_outdir) {
mkDirPath = outDir + path.sep + p.pathNoRoot + path.sep;
mkdirp(mkDirPath, function() {
outputPath = mkDirPath + newName;
minify(srcPath, outputPath);
});
} else {
outputPath = outDir + path.sep + newName;
minify(srcPath, outputPath);
}
}
rl.on('line', function(srcPath) {
processPath(srcPath);
});
Additional info
*
*By default the .min.css files are output to the same path as the .css source file.
*However, if you need to change the output destination then you can utilize the config object in package.json. The following example will output all .css.min to the ./dist/ path:
"config": {
"css_outdir": "./dist"
},
"scripts": {
"cleancss": "glob \"public/css/**/*.css\" | node .scripts/cleancss.js"
},
*cleancss.js utilizes mkdirp to replicate/mirror the .css source paths/subfolders in the destination folder when using config.css_outdir.
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By Robert H. Sheinberg, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S., D.A.B.F.A.S.
A procedure that is utilized to visualize tendons in a minimally invasive approach. We are able to see injuries of the tendon and its covering using small instruments. Two incisions 1/6" in length along the tendon allows us to not only visualize the tendon but place small shavers in the sheath to remove abnormal tissue during the procedure.
Inflammation or synovitis of the tendon sheath that occurs due to injury, overuse, abnormal biomechanics or connective tissue disease.
Adhesions of the tendon to its surrounding covering or sheath.
Partial tears of the tendon that can occur through injury or chronic repetitive stress.
The release of the tendon that is tethered and unable to move in its sheath.
Biopsy of the tendon sheath to help with diagnosing an inflammatory condition.
Removal of small bone spurs that may be impinging or irritating a tendon.
Why is it better than traditional open surgery?
Small incisions (2-3) 1/6" in length avoiding long incisions over tendons that may cause adhesions.
Easier to diagnose pathology instead of an open surgical procedure.
What tendons can endoscopy be performed on?
It is an outpatient procedure performed under a local, twilight or general anesthetic according to the patient's needs.
A small tourniquet may be utilized to allow better visualization and minimize bleeding.
Incisions 1/6" are utilized in different areas of the tendon to allow a miniature camera inside the tendon sheath to visualize the tendon and its associated injuries.
Incisions 1/6" are utilized over the tendon to remove any existing abnormal tissue or tendon tears when the tears are small and will not interfere with the long-term tendon function.
2-3 total stitches are used to close the very small incisions.
Patients go home that day and rest with their foot and extremity elevated.
Ice is utilized for 48 hours to reduce inflammation, swelling, and pain.
Bandages are usually removed within 24 hours to allow the foot and ankle to begin to move and prevent adhesions.
Weight bearing is usually allowed within 1-3 days either in a sandal or a walking boot.
Surgery is usually performed on Friday, allowing the patient to return to school or work on Monday.
Physical therapy is necessary in most cases postoperatively to return a range of motion, diminish adhesions, improve muscle strength and coordination.
What is usually the prognosis?
If we are releasing adhesions, the range of motion can be restored very quickly and the prognosis is excellent.
If we are removing a small piece of tendon that has been split or frayed off, the prognosis is excellent.
If the tendon is split in a 50-50 fashion, we usually revert the mini procedure to an open procedure to repair the tendon. The recovery may be longer but the prognosis is still good.
Although advances in tendon scopes have been made, repairing ligaments and deepening the fibular groove for peroneal dislocations may be difficult and open procedures usually provide a much better long-term outcome.
Removing inflamed tissue (synovitis) may be a great long-term benefit as the inflamed tissue can cause a tendon to disease very quickly. If we get to these problems early, the prognosis is much better for the long-term health of the tendon and the extremity. |
Photoshop includes a 3D tools engine that draws on the capabilities of graphics card to perform robustly. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can use this new 3D engine to combine 3D sources and harmonize other light sources, textures and use with 2D photographs.
The Crop tool hasn't really improved since Photoshop CS, but in the latest version of Photoshop, it comes with major changes. This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to use this tool, which has received a modern overhaul.
Adobe has enhanced Photoshop's Layers panel, considering the feedback from users and adding the options popular in other applications like After Effects. For example, it allows changing the blending mode, fill and opacity of different layers simultaneously. Just select the respective layers prior making changes and it is done.
Adobe didn't put Illustrator in Photoshop, but with some new powerful vector tools, designers can now design and shape graphic elements more easily and quickly.
For photographers, focal length, subject distance and aperture are the key elements to identify in-focus and blurred parts of a photograph. Most often, due to some technical limitations, it becomes hard to create an intended effect. |
Hult Center 2021 Favorites
Here in the marketing team our fingers are crossed that 2022 brings us a bit closer to normalcy. With 2021 coming to an end this week we thought it'd be nice to share with you what got us through the past 365 days.
Blake Argotsinger – Marketing Manager
I'll first say that as I reviewed my media history from this last year it became clear that there was SO MUCH good media that it's nearly impossible to select just one or two top favorites. I'm going to hone in on the new music that caught my fancy and hope I don't stretch the limits of this assignment too much. Many of my favorite artists took opportunities aside from touring to create new work and now I can't wait to see these groups perform live.
The music that stood out to me most this last year was from some of my longtime favorite bands, some of which hadn't produced new music for some time. So here are the bands that make up the musical bucket of my best of 2021.
Kings of Convenience – Rocky Trails The top comment on their music video perhaps says it best, "when the world need them most, they returned." I couldn't agree more. This is the first song the Norwegian duo has released in 12 years. And they did it with a beautiful, continuous shot music video. You can learn more about that incredibly lovely Spanish artist studio featured in the video here.
Fruit Bats – Today
Another longtime favorite band led by Eric D. Johnson. He took his downtime in 2020 to cover the song Today from the Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 album Siamese Dream. For me it was a piece of art that came at the exact time I needed it and made me feel all the feels. You can listen to the full album here on Spotify.
To round out my eclectic taste in music I'm going to quickly list off these gems without much commentary. If you want to geek out about any of on the list, I'm happy to do so any time!
Quantic and Nidia Góngora – Adiós Chacón A favorite English producer with excellent taste in highlighting cumbia sounds of Columbia.
Woods – Strange to Explain Recommended for driving to, up or down the coast. It vibes even more if you have a longboard strapped to your roof ready for a session in the water. Again, listen to the full album!
Surf Zombies – In Color This is my all-time favorite instrumental surf rock band from Iowa. It's impossible to stay still (or stay in a bad mood!) when listening.
La Femme – Paradigmes Electro, French-pop that you'll hear at every one of my garage dance parties. This whole album's great. And this release party? Invite me to the next one please, La Femme!
Dan Olbrych – Design and Content Coordinator
Making this list was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I could write about all this stuff for much longer than either of us have time for. So, I'll be quick about it.
Zack Snyder's Justice League – Although Zack was credited as the director of "Justice League" (2017), he was not. You can learn all about here, it's pretty sad and quite the drama. I was elated when HBO Max announced the release of Zack Snyder's Justice League. I even scheduled an 'out of office' for the premiere on my calendar. Yeah…
At four hours long, it's quite a time commitment, but if you enjoyed "Man of Steel" and "Batman v Superman" then you should feel right at home. Now the music, visuals and tone is consistent throughout the three films. I love it like I love eating too many nachos. Watching it left me scratching my head though, puzzled by some Warner Bros. executives decision to cut so much good material just to keep the theatrical run time at 2 hours, including credits. Ugh.
Creeper – Horror punks Creeper released their much-anticipated sophomore album mid-pandemic, and you know how that worked out. Not to be lost to the chaos Creeper released "American Noir" about a year later in July of 2021. And they've never sounded better. This band was essential to my happiness these past 2 years. So rather than a single out their 2021 release, I'm just saying Creeper is my band of 2021.
Check out some of my personal favorite tracks
Or, just listen to all of it.
Universal Audio Apollo Twin – This past year I set out to stay as positive as possible and for me that goes hand and hand with being creative. The Apollo Twin helped me do just that and with a bandmate that lives in Alaska.
Plug in your favorite guitar, piano or microphone and run it through a plethora of plugins ranging from the Avalon VT-737 to an Ampeg SVT-VR bass rig. I'm excited to be able to share the music we've been working on, and the Apollo Twin has been essential to my creative process during these strange days.
Surprise: Guardians of the Galaxy
After the letdown that was "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" I was pretty comfortable saying I'm done with the franchise. Enter a video game in late 2021 that I was uninterested in but ended up picking it up thanks to an extremely enticing Black Friday price point. And now I have no problem admitting that I was wrong, or their marketing was terrible… but Guardians is my game of the year.
Abbey Aronica – Marketing Coordinator
Pig – For the first time since the pandemic began, we decided to go out to the movies to see "Pig" on a whim over the summer and it did not disappoint. The main character Robin (played by Nicholas Cage) plays a reclusive truffle hunter living alone in the Oregon wilderness that must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved, foraging pig after she is kidnapped. The scenery is beyond beautiful (I mean, duh, it's Oregon!) and the film is both breaks and warms your heart. This movie is action-packed, yet also strangely soothing & meditative. I highly recommend this film, but strongly suggest breaking out the Kleenex as well.
Succession – I know, this show first aired in 2018 – HOWEVER, I still need to include it because I just started it last month and Season 3 was just released so I think that counts – right? This show is centered around a family that owns an international media conglomerate and they are all constantly vying for more control in the company. Most of the characters aren't particularly likeable, but the drama this show provides is just too good. I also think this show accurately depicts what overwhelming amounts of wealth and greed can do to a person. This show has so many twists and turns and has captivated me from the start.
Arlo Parks "Collapsed in Sunbeams" – Arlo Parks is a singer-songwriter and poet based out of the UK. When she released her album "Collapsed in Sunbeams" in early 2021, I was really stunned by how emotionally charged her songs were. The lyricism in this album is a pure work of art that cuts straight to your core, and at the time, provided me with a little extra light. Her inspirations include musicians like Phoebe Bridgers & Jimi Hendrix, but also authors like Sylvia Plath. Do yourself a favor and check Arlo out as she continues to gain recognition for her incredible talents.
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Favorite Moment: The return of people and music to the Hult Center
While we are still navigating new things every day, 2021 did see the return of patrons to the venue, and artists and crews to our stages. The most memorable moment so far came during our debut performance of our 10×10 series with guitar phenom and all-around incredible musician, Ron Artis II. With only 50 people in the audience it was truly magical to see him effortlessly hypnotize the entire room with his incredible voice and skill, creating beautiful and percussive melodies with only an acoustic guitar. The sweetest moment of all was when his three daughters also took to the stage to dance and celebrate the moment, and I was lucky to snap a few photos to capture the moment.
Favorite Media Moment – Rainbow (S02E05 Ted Lasso)
Follow along my entries on this blog long enough and you'll be sure to pick up an authentic love for the UK, which is where most of my family resides. Distance is no stranger to any of us, but being forcefully apart for so long really sunk in this year. While others flocked to the stellar comedy hit series, Ted Lasso, for the heart warming positivity, I was able to get a second serving of much needed doses of British wit and charm to soothe my growing homesickness. Of all the amazing episodes of Season 2, it was the rom-com infused wink of "Rainbow", with the silly romantic run montage of Roy Kent returning to the pitch that brought the silliest grin to my face and perhaps a tear or two of joy as well upon the words:
"You had me at Coach."
Absolutely brilliant.
Three Favorite Albums/Releases
I tried to come up with a disappointment, but outside of the premature cancelling of Cowboy Bebop (John Cho was amazing!), I really didn't have a bone to pick with much. So, I'll just include short words on three albums/releases that dominated the scrappy yet eclectic college radio station that lives in my mind:
Phoenix – Big Red Machine
I am and will continue to always be a sucker for super groups, and this indie/folk powerhouse features collaborations from Robin Pecknold, Anais Mitchel (she also wrote a small musical called HADESTOWN!), and Taylor Swift. This only thing to not like is there are only 4 songs on the EP.
Inner Symphonies – Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher
I'm clearly a fanboy for all things created by pianist/composer Hania Rani as I spent 2021 completing a collection of all her releases. I was overjoyed to get a late year bonus in a new project with celloist Dobrawa Czocher on Inner Symphonies which is a gorgeous collection of ethereal compositions of piano and cello that are pulsing with life and beauty throughout.
Gold Diggers Sound – Leon Bridges
Sweet holy moly does this album contain some feels! Leon Bridges should be mandatory staple for any lovers of soulful R&B and his newest release with break and mend your heart multiple times. Ultimate track for me has to go to the drastically heart wrenching. "Why Don't You Touch Me".
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Hola kitties! It's Blooper Day! Who doesn't want to see bloopers? Everybuddy wants to see bloopers. TW didn't take that many photos this month so we don't have many bloopers. BUT … I still have some from the Secret Paws' reveal shoot.
I'm gonna let you in on the conversations TW and I were having while she took these cod-awful bloopers of myself. Note that none of these are The Cat's fault.
TW: CK, why are you on the Biting Bush staring at me while I'm trying to work?
CK: Cos you're on your FB page. You're not working.
TW: I know how to get you off the Biting Bush. Lemme get the flashy box.
CK: I'll just turn my head. I'm alive you know.
CK: What's Pop doing? I hear something in the other room.
CK: I think you've taken enough.
TW: CK pose with Waffles.
By the way, that's not a Christmas tablecloth; it's a Winter tablecloth at least that's what the peeps say. Oh, and the heart was added cos I'm a modest lady cat.
BTW, keep checking my Facebook page to see who did pose with Waffles.
This graphic means it's time for the Friendly Fill-Ins, a feature held once a week at this time. Let's meet our hosts—15andmeowing and Four Legged Furballs. They think up the fill-ins and I fill in the answers. My answers are underlined and in italics with further comments in italics. Each week my image relates to one of the fill-ins. This week it relates to number three and four but more four since this is the menu from the good place.
1. I go to church every week. The Church of Cathy Keisha. More humans need to worship me. I can set you free while granting you three wishes.
2. So far, 2019 is same old, same old. There have been a lot more stuff to write about. I can't even keep up with posting about the stupid human tricks happening around here. The peeps are still going to geriatric bingo and winning useless stuff that seems to make them happy. When I say same "OLD," the emphasis is on the OLD.
3. I will never tire of biting. I also don't think I can tire of Fancy Feast or Chinese food altho I have to talk to the peeps. They've been getting their Chinese food from a new place and it's too spicy for me to have any. They say it's more "authentic" cos it has lots of Chinese vegetables and ginger or something. Bah hiss!
4. Can you believe that (see above)? I want the peeps to go back to the old, bland Chinese food so I can get my cut.
Let's get to art. I created many masterpieces this week; however, when I emailed copies to TW, she never received them so I had to create something on the quick. I used dabs of lots of colors to come up with my Blooming Keisha Flower art.
I think your art came out really great this week, CK! Sparkle used to be really great at staying in one place and turning her head away from the camera. I'm way more cooperative because I enjoy it.
MOL, snowmen are "winter" here too - so dere are still snowmen up in my room. Just not da singing Hallmark ones dat sing Christmas songs.
Doesn't TW know that she only gets a photo of you if you want her too? I love your art!
Those were fun fails CK and your art is mystical! Bite on girl!
Excellent photo fails, CK! And I LURV your artwork; think you should make a jigsaw puzzle out of it!
Love the fails. They have a story all their own.
I love your fill-in answers. You're very snarky and I like that in a kitty.
I love that last fail!
CK, have you started a petition to get back your old, bland Chinese food? Because we'll sign it. This injustice cannot be tolerated!
Love the heart placement to preserve your modesty! Glad to see other kitties as uncooperative as MP when it comes to photos!
Such a hard job - keeping TW in line, being stunning, posing ... and yet you do it with grace and aplomb. I love that flowery effect in your picture!
They should go back to the old Chinese food, I can't believe they won't share. I love your tastefully censored photo. Your art is awesome this week.
Looks like someone went wild with a beautiful paintbrush. Love those colors. So pretty! And the colors remind me Spring will sometime come!
Great post. Your Fill-ins are so entertaining!
CK our Mom started laffing so hard when she saw that heart strategically placed, she couldn't breathe.
Ha. We love that you intentionally caused the bloopers by turning your head, CK! MOL!
Sorry to hear about that "authentic" Chinese food messing with your international cuisine choices. Bring back the bland!
Ooo..we love your flower art! It's so pretty!
BTW, can you believe this stupid human deleted a whole bunch of possible blooper photos this week??!! See, you can't get good help anywhere.
LOVE your Fails, especially your hearts! And I LOVE your fillins! I am not a Chinese Food fan, but I do like it when Mom lets me have some of the meat.
And I LOVE your Caturday Art!
That is a great Caturday art piece.
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[V Report Plus] IU to tour 7 Asian cities for 10th anniversary concert
By Kim Arin
Published : Sept 18, 2018 - 12:23
Updated : Sept 18, 2018 - 12:23
(Loen Entertainment)
IU is set to tour seven cities in Asia from October to December to celebrate her 10th anniversary.
The tour kicks off in South Korea's coastal city of Busan on Oct. 28. For the month of November, IU is visiting Gwangju, a southwestern city, and Seoul. She will take the tour abroad in December with Hong Kong concert on Dec. 8, moving on to Singapore on Dec. 15, to Bangkok on Dec. 16 and finally to Taiwan for Christmas Eve and Christmas.
The singer-songwriter's agency said "the 10th anniversary concert is extra meaningful for the artist herself, which is why she is determined to make this one special."
Tickets for the first concert in Busan will open on Sept. 27 at 8 p.m.
Watch IU's 10th anniversary V Live broadcast at https://www.vlive.tv/video/89312.
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A prehistoric crocodile has been discovered in Colorado. The bones of the 60 million-year-old were found near Walden.
Paleo Solutions was sent in to excavate the crocodile at ranchlands near Walden. The discovery was made during oil and gas surveys.
Not only did Paleo Solutions find the bones of the crocodile they also found bones of other aquatic animals too, according to 9News. The other animals found include fish and even a prehistoric turtle.
This really makes you picture that Colorado didn't always look how it does now. Back in the day, as in 50-60 million years ago, Colorado was a tropical place. IT had an inland sea and vegetation and resembled Florida, according to 9News.
Apparently, these crocodiles were around not too long after the dinosaurs went extinct. whenever I see any kind of crocodiles or alligators it always reminds me of dinosaurs.
The crocodile, fish, and turtle are all incredible discoveries and I look forward to seeing what else there is to learn from these prehistorical animals. |
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Autoglass shifts social media monitoring up a gear with Tracx
Belron, a vehicle glass repair and replacement company, known as Autoglass in the UK, has shifted its social media monitoring up a gear with its use of Tracx software as a service.
Autoglass, a vehicle glass repair and replacement company, has shifted its social media monitoring up a gear with its use of Tracx.
Felix Billson, global social media manager at Belron, which is the international company behind Autoglass, says the firm had been dong social monitoring "to a degree" before, but in a siloed way. "With Tracx, we can take more strategic decisions since we can now quantify how much engagement we get on social channels," he adds.
Belron is using the Tracx platform to help it bring together enterprise social media monitoring management across five continents, 21 countries and 16 languages. It has 60 or so workers who use Tracx.
Belron needed a system that would deliver quick and accurate data aggregation and flexible reporting across geographies and departments. It also wanted to be able to benchmark "share of voice" metrics and sentiment against local competitors in each region.
"We knew there was valuable insight to be gained from the global social landscape we operate in, but we had no ability to scale and leverage this intelligence into tangible strategic actions at a local level," says Billson.
Billson has led Belron's engagement with the Israeli-founded social media analytics company globally. Belron customer care teams have been using Tracx for the past year for social media monitoring streams from services including Instagram, Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Billson is attuned to the sentiments of an audience, as a former child actor. He is used to seeing things from another's point of view, as he did in Woof, a children's television programme about a boy who turned into a dog. He also starred in Bernard's Watch, a programme about a boy who could stop time using a watch given to him by a gipsy. And he auditioned for Harry Potter, getting down to the final 10 before deciding "marketing was the way to go".
From Tracx, he says, Belron has obtained a "unified social platform which allows us to leverage internal social networks and experts to give best service to our customers and business partners, aggregating up to a global level".
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Say What? Jargon Busters Tackle Health Insurance
By Deborah Franklin
Published August 22, 2013 at 12:26 PM EDT
Good luck getting there!
Scared you'll have no idea how to choose the best health plan come fall? Dr. Ruth Parker feels your pain, and she offers a handy solution that may help.
Even a lot of health providers don't know this stuff. And we need to.
One of America's savviest busters of medical jargon, Parker recently worked with several colleagues to create a guide to getting and using health insurance in 2014. It's a guide that you, your grandmother and the seventh-grader next door can understand.
And it only takes a few minutes to read.
"Even a lot of health providers don't know this stuff, and we need to," says Parker, an internist and pediatrician who specializes in health literacy research at Emory University in Atlanta. "Telling patients to 'ask at the front desk,' or 'see if you can find a social worker to get answers' — that's just not enough," she tells Shots.
Wading through insurance jargon has never been easy. A recent study by Carnegie Mellon researchers found that Americans' knowledge of insurance fundamentals is downright dismal. Only 14 percent of people understood basics of their policies, like deductibles and copays — concepts that can make a huge difference in determining how much money you'd have to pay for emergency treatment after a car crash, for example.
With the rollout of the federal health law, things are getting more complicated.
So Parker, a few friends at the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, several young doctors and some Emory students combed through thousands of wonky Web pages and documents so you wouldn't have to. They extracted and translated the stuff they found to help anyone answer these four basic questions:
What are my choices for health insurance?
And what will it cost me?
The result is an online guide, now posted with accompanying materials on the IOM website. It unfolds naturally from those four questions, and reads like a handout from your favorite middle school teacher. It's not fancy — just very clear.
Parker says every state's interpretation of the law is slightly different, so consumers and doctors will still need a bit more information to tailor the info. There are websites listed in each section of the brochure to find follow-up information, and already some state agencies and are incorporating the guide into their own materials.
"It's available for free to anyone who can use it," Parker says. States, doctors, or community college professors, for example, might use it as part of a curriculum in teaching health, or English as a second language. So far, the guide's only in English. "But it needs to be in Spanish," and other languages, too, Parker says.
The volunteers who worked on the guide went out of their way to steer clear of politics, or to favor one type of insurance over another. "Nobody's trying to sell you anything here," she says. "We very intentionally tried to be fact-based, and break this complicated process into pieces — baby steps — so that people would realize they can do this, they have options." Sometimes she says, just to get the right kind of help, you have to know what to ask for.
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5 Things You Should Know About the McNulty Prize
by Johnny McNulty
Every year, the John P. McNulty Prize recognizes the best in impact and leadership from Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellows and their ventures. If you are thinking about applying, here are 5 things you should know:
1. You don't have to quit your day job.
All Fellows of the Aspen Global Leadership Network make a commitment to move from thought to action, and "from success to significance" — in large part through your leadership venture. For your venture to be successful, however, you need not quit your job and move to the Transvaal or the Himalayas (but kudos to you if you do). Many McNulty Laureates seize the opportunity to leverage their professional platform to make a significant contribution to the common good. They recognize how to create impact because of their full time job, not despite it.
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Adam Lowry co-founded Method, a home products company known for their innovation and sustainability. Adam's venture, Ocean Plastic, evolved from a Catto Fellowship joint venture, and created a new process and supply chain for recycling plastic debris found in the ocean and on beaches. This process was adopted by Method, his company. Ocean Plastic demonstrated the feasibility of an innovative new way to combat one of the globe's most pernicious forms of pollution.
Another Laureate who continues in her career while also leveraging it to make an impact is Gisela Sánchez, Director of Corporate Affairs at Florida Ice & Farm Co (FIFCo), a food & beverage company based in Costa Rica. Gisela founded a social business, Nutrivida (a joint effort between herself, her employer and Muhammad Yunus), to combat malnutrition in Central America. Drawing on her expertise as an industrial engineer, and her networks and corporate sustainability experience at FIFCo, Gisela is well-placed to make an impact.
2. You don't have to re-invent the wheel.
The 2016 McNulty Prize Winner, CenteringPregnancy South Carolina, dramatically reduced preterm birth rates (where South Carolina ranked below many developing nations) and virtually eliminated the racial gap in birth outcomes. Helping mothers carry children to a full term has massive lifetime benefits for individuals and society at large.
CenteringPregnancy South Carolina | Amy Crockett
Dr. Amy Crockett did not originate the Centering model — it was developed by the Centering Healthcare Institute and tested at Yale. But after Amy ran a pilot program for her patients, she was so impressed by the results that she has made it her Liberty Fellowship venture to expand and scale the program. What makes Amy's efforts so impactful is her ability to use her demonstrated success to achieve buy-in from major institutional actors — Medicaid and South Carolina's largest insurance companies — making the revolutionary practice available statewide to countless mothers and advancing the model as a public health solution.
3. You don't have to change the entire world (all at once).
Real estate developer KC Hardin created an organization that is serving as a model throughout his region but operates locally. KC has worked to revitalize the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City for years. In order to succeed, this meant dismantling the persistent gang culture. His venture, Esperanza, engages gangs as a whole, rather than trying to pick off members one by one. The gangs served a social purpose, as violent as they could be, giving respect and agency to disenfranchised locals left out of the formal economy. By offering a path to integration, job training and support, entire gangs have begun disbanding, with rivals eager to follow suit now that the benefits are clear.
Esperanza | KC Hardin
Esperanza's model is deep, rather than broad. But the thoroughness of KC's venture makes it eminently replicable — and governments and NGOs throughout Latin America are watching and learning in an attempt to replicate his success.
4. It's not just about the money.
While the Prize's $100,000 in unrestricted funds over two years makes a big difference for many ventures, the non-monetary benefits can have an even bigger multiplier effect.
Through micro-documentary films exploring the human stories behind the ventures, and the series of case studies that shares lessons in leadership for Fellows seeking to make a difference, the McNulty Foundation invests in storytelling to amplify the impact of Laureates and bring visibility and support to their work.
Through coordinated efforts with the Aspen Institute and other partners, the Foundation works to bring Laureates to new audiences far and wide, from featuring them as speakers at the Skoll World Forum, Global Philanthropy Forum, and Aspen Ideas, to generating press and media coverage. Lana Abu-Hijleh and Youth Local Councils were featured on CNN's New Day, and Laureates have published op-eds in TIME Magazine, CNN, the National Geographic, Huffington Post, and more.
Youth Local Councils | Lana Abu-Hijleh
The Foundation also invests in communications coaching for each Laureate, focusing on their specific needs. This is a chance to sharpen your pitch, learn how to be memorable, and seize control of your message during interviews or panels.
An invaluable benefit of the Prize is the opportunity to reach individuals and groups with the commitment and resources to support your cause. For Patrick Awuah's Ashesi University, the Prize has helped Ashesi find new donors to support its amazing success in revolutionizing liberal arts education and ethical leadership in Africa.
5. Winning is just the beginning.
Laureates join a lifelong community, which the McNulty Foundation continually supports and encourages. Whether it is scholarships to the Resnick Aspen Action Forum or other leadership development opportunities, or special moderated seminars where Laureates build community and share learnings, challenges and best practices, becoming a Laureate opens doors to learn more, teach others, and leverage networks and expertise.
The inaugural Prize winner, Jordan Kassalow, has been an enthusiastic member of the community from the beginning. When Jordan won the Prize, he had delivered 200,000 eyeglasses through VisionSpring — now, that number is almost 4.5 million. Since that time, with the help of Secretary Albright, chair of the McNulty Prize jury, and others in the AGLN network, Jordan has gone on to found the EYElliance, a multi-sector coalition to address the world's unmet needs for glasses. Jordan has also been an enthusiastic advocate for the Prize, always willing to share his insights with Laureates who have come after.
Just as Jordan pushed the goals of VisionSpring even further to found EYElliance, the Prize hopes to encourage all Fellows to constantly expand their vision and reach. You don't have to start big, but if you keep following your own path, you may be shocked at what you achieve.
The McNulty Prize celebrates the boldness and impact of Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellows using their exceptional leadership abilities, entrepreneurial spirit and professional platform to address the world's toughest challenges. The winning venture receives $100,000 and is selected by a jury that includes Secretary Madeleine Albright, international development expert Brizio Biondi-Morra, and Ugandan statesman Olara Otunnu. Laureates receive $25,000, and are announced at the Resnick Aspen Action Forum. Ventures (including Action Pledges) that have been running for at least two years are encouraged to apply.
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Appalachian State University LGBT Life
Based in Watauga County, North Carolina, Appalachian State University (Appalachian) dates to the early twentieth century when it was established as a co-educational public institution to improve the quality of mountain teachers. [1] Being a historically conservative teachers college embedded in a progressive town within a traditional, rural Appalachian county has affected the individual expressions of sexual and gender identities.
Appalachian State University's mascot (Credit: Aaron Sperling)
The Appalachian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) experience has evolved from a universal secret to open acknowledgment by many faculty, staff, and students. With its campus members nicknamed the "Appalachian Family" in 1955, the institution at the time maintained social control by acting as a parental substitute and resisting the liberalization of sexual mores until Appalachian followed national trends of retracting in loco parentis policies in the 1970s. Campus members developed a nurturing, congenial atmosphere that at the same time silently frowned upon open expression of sexual and gender diversity – like many families.
The historical stigmatization of non-normative sexualities and genders kept LGBT Appalachian campus members underground, forming clandestine friendship groups for most of the university's history. LGBT-supportive institutional resources gradually developed expanding the toleration of campus members who live openly LGBT lives. Now entering its second century, Appalachian has a lesbian, gay, and bisexual counseling group, a transgender support group, semi-annual drag shows, an annual Queer Film Series, two student organizations that specifically address sexuality and gender identity, an unofficial LGBT faculty/staff organization, a safe zone program, an LGBT Center, LGBT Studies minor, a transgender-friendly housing policy, soft benefits for domestic partners of employees, single-use bathrooms in all newly constructed buildings, and an Equal Employment Opportunity policy which includes sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. As a result, Appalachian stands out as one of the most progressive universities in the University of North Carolina (UNC) System.
Because of the historically conservative nature of the area and college and the larger context of the South, Appalachian's apparent lack of administrative-led, homophobic witch hunts and its state leadership in pro-LGBT policies make Appalachian an excellent sample for a study on organizational reactions to LGBT populations in rural areas. LGBT campus leaders and national trends influenced the school's administrative mitigation between conflicting local traditional sexual mores and the national LGBT movement's goals; thus, how the administration massaged policies affected the community's reaction both to Appalachian's LGBT populations and to the LGBT campus experience.
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Appalachian State University LGBT Life, 1969-1978
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↑ To lessen confusion, the school's contemporary name or the term "Appalachian" will be used when referring to Appalachian State University and its various incarnations. Its various names and respective dates are Watauga Academy (1899-1902), Appalachian Training School for Teachers (1903-1924), Appalachian State Normal School (1925-1928), Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1966), and Appalachian State University (1966-present).
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Anti-Trump Protester 'Eats US President's Heart' While Chanting Hindu Goddess' Name – Video
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© Photo : Al The Great/twitterAntifa burn the US flag and eat a heart symbolic of the President during an anti-democrat violence protest in Boston Massachusetts on 10.18.2020
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Pro- and anti-Trump protesters briefly clashed on Sunday in Boston, even though they were separated by metal barriers and police barricades.
In a symbolic protest, Antifa demonstrators in Boston, Massachusetts were seen eating "the heart of US President Donald Trump" while chanting "Kali Maa", the name of a Hindu goddess.
The video of the bizarre act has been going viral on social media as the protesters burned US flags and symbolically squeezed "blood" out of "the heart" while also chanting "f**k Trump".
Antifa burn the US flag and eat a heart symbolic of the President during an anti-democrat violence protest in #Boston #Massachusetts on 10.18.2020 pic.twitter.com/eLdOW8YNyg
— Al The Great (@realAlTheGreat) October 18, 2020
Several enraged Hindus took to the comment section on Twitter, slamming the act and explained the meaning of Hindu goddess Kali.
Kali Maa Hindu Devi (Goddess) these Agitators taking Our Devi, manipulating the metaphysical symbology, using it for their foolish show. Nothing more then an infantile exhibition to gain attention. Dramatic Cannibalistic Savagery https://t.co/Q4Emmt40wP pic.twitter.com/xvhOyTyGih
— Zee Bhaiyah (@Zee_HumHai) October 19, 2020
What this insane of Calling Hindu Godess!
Why not some other names!@RajivMessage @davidfrawleyved @fgautier26
— Satya1 (@Satya166852607) October 19, 2020
American left should stop using Hindu gods and goddesses for their propaganda. Kaali Maa is destroyer of evil and protector of good like all Hindu gods and goddesses. She is depicted as scary ruthless savage because that's how evil sees her. Maa literally means mother.
— Srividya Sharma (@SharmaSrividya) October 20, 2020
According to Hindu religion, goddess Kali is the incarnation of Parvati, wife of the great god Shiva. She is often referred to as a destroyer of evil.
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Do We Know Who Will Win in Cambodia's Upcoming Elections?
P 20.07.2018 U Dmitry Mosyakov
Cambodia is experiencing its hottest season and not in terms of the weather, but because of the final campaign stages leading up to the National Assembly elections scheduled for 28 July 2018. The National Election Committee has initiated the process of registering political parties that will participate in the elections. The first parties to have registered include the League for Democracy Party, the Khmer Democratic Party, the Beehive Social Democratic Party, the New Light Party, the Khmer Economic Development Party, Grassroots Democracy Party, and the FUNCINPEC party, the force behind the royalists that in the past ruled alongside the former communists, but it is now at the periphery of the power struggle.
The list at present does not include the main party in Cambodia that has, de facto, been ruling the country since 1979, with the exception of a few intervals during the 1993-election preparation stage. Today, the former communists are once again poised to win. Saying that all the other parties have at least a chance to win is equivalent to saying nothing at all. Most parties are completely unheard of by the voters, while others represent interests of the few and have no serious ambitions to win. Their participation in the elections is essentially a cover, the entourage of democracy to legitimize the upcoming win by the Cambodian People's Party, headed by the irreplaceable Prime Minister Hun Sen. Before 1991, this party was called the People's Revolutionary Party of Cambodia and was closely linked to Vietnam and the USSR. From 1991 onwards, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia, the party was, as demanded by the new era, renamed and became the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), which along with its undisputed leader Hun Sen, has been ruling the country for almost twenty years. This long-term reign by Hun Sen, who today is seemingly one of the world's champions in uninterrupted long-term rule (after all, he became Prime Minister back in 1985), speaks volumes to the abilities of this individual to not only take power in his hands but also keep it under different circumstances.
Hence, he is yet again poised to embarrass all those observers who predicted that he will lose in the general elections in 2018. Recently, it appeared as though everything was against him, as his political opposition was making substantial gains and performed impressively in the previous elections in 2013,and despite considerable pressure from the CPP and its administrative resources, the opposition managed to win 58 seats in the Assembly and 2,295,000 votes, thereby losing 67 seats and 2,555,000 votes to the CPP.
Hence it appeared to many observers that Hun Sen's star was waning. His authoritarian manner of communicating with his subordinates, who almost on their knees recorded his orders during the so-called period of "on-site government", was in stark contrast to that of the opposition leaders, who highlighted their democratic qualities, and abilities to speak languages other than Vietnamese, unlike Hun Sen. They had promised that on winning they would build a "modern country", which could gain experience and support from the USA.
Only one and a half years ago, the opposition, having united into the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was confident in its success. But today, the situation has completely changed, Cambodia's main opposition party no longer exists. One of its leaders, the perpetual opponent and avid nationalist, Sam Rainsy, is abroad from where he has been forecasting "big problems" in Hun Sen's future. Another leader, a former teacher, Kem Sokha is still in Cambodia but behind bars on charges of treason.
Both of these opposition leaders are trying to remain influential in these elections, for instance, in February 2018, in Australia Sam Rainsy told journalists that Cambodia needed help from other Western nations in order to pressure Hun Sen's government as Cambodians themselves are not capable of bringing democracy back to life in their country. Rainsy criticized Japan for their continuous support of what he had dubbed "an election farce". He also stated that because of the illegal dissolution of the main opposition force in the country, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), and its subsequent ban, the international community should not accept the elections results because the dictator Hun Sen, according to Rainsy, had killed democracy in Cambodia.
Another former leader of CNRP Kem Sokha, sentenced to 5 years in prison, has been appealing to the Khmer electorate "Do not vote if you want us to change our country for the better. By not voting you'll be showing us your whole-hearted support." Kem Sokha also appealed to the international community not to recognize the results of the July elections stating that they will not transparent or lawful. The statement also includes a plea addressed to Japan to stop financing the election committee.
Unfortunately for the opposition, the other parties, who now have a chance to gain something because of the dissolution of the main opposition party, have no intention of doing any favors for or responding to appeals of their former rivals. Hence, the leader of the Khmer National United Party (KNUP) Nhek Bun Chhay, who back in the day had been bailed out of prison, stated "I'm hopeful (that we can be successful in the upcoming elections) but we still don't know how many seats at the National Assembly we can win. We're gaining support from our party members and other voters."
Only those parties, that had and still do not have any chances of success, are prepared to join the boycott. Hence, for example, the former leader of the Khmer Power Party, announced that his party was not going to be taking part in the elections and it will not recognize its results. Another leader of this party, which many former opposition members who were still free joined, Soung Sophorn, appealed to the Supreme Court of Cambodia to repeal its incorrect decision to disband CNRP (in November 2017), as the decision was not supported by any evidence.
All of these struggles surrounding the elections have practically no effect on the position of the chief demiurge of Cambodian politics, Prime Minister Hun Sen. This truly experienced politician always shows confidence in his success and accuses his political opponents of treason. Hence, for instance, on 3 April 2018, in his message to the voters he noted that Cambodia had avoided the threat of a "color revolution", which the opposition party had been meant to organize, and that the opposition had conspired with foreigners to overthrow the legitimate government." He pointed out that in November 2017, based on government recommendations, the Supreme Court had made a decision to disband CNRP thus ensuring that the "color revolution" had failed.
The irreplaceable Khmer Prime Minister's role today is not as much that of an election participant but more of the ultimate arbitrator. So what is the core strength of Hun Sen and his party, with its corrupt practices that allow high-level officials accused of theft to go practically unpunished. Hun Sen's children are also not only millionaires but also hold the ranks of general in the army and the police. The descendants of veteran party members are also in positions of power, while CPP itself is essentially a symbiosis of Chinese business and Khmer administrators, who have played dominant roles in the country for quite some time. Many Cambodians, especially those living in cities, recognize this, as evidenced by the results of the municipal elections in Phnom Penh and Battambang, where the opposition won and the city dwellers are ready for a change in power. In politically active circles of Cambodian communities there is a clear need for new blood. But this existing demand cannot be met because of a people shortage. Naturally, there are suitable candidates, but they are either abroad or in jail.
Hun Sen is waging a war against his political opponents using the rules of any information war. For instance, at the end of 2017, an influential independent newspaper Cambodia Daily was closed apparently because of its "debts" and the chief editor of another weekly newspaper Phnom PenhPost was forced to retire for distorting facts. At least fifteen radio stations were ordered to stop broadcasting programs from Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.
But Hun Sen's artfulness is, in fact, in essence his ability to always state that democracy does actually exist in the country. Thirty six political parties, more than 5000 associations and non-governmental organizations are officially registered in Cambodia. Thus democracy does exist and according to the Prime Minister is even flourishing.
He can even go as far as to claim that the king himself is on his side and that he had already appealed to people to use their right to vote and not follow the opposition by boycotting the elections. Hun Sen's strategy is clear, and based on assessments conducted by the most well-informed Khmer sociologists, the upcoming elections are pointless and are indeed a complete waste of money. This is all just a game. We are already 100 % sure that the ruling party will win the elections.
At the same time, protests against Hun Sen's policies in the West occur periodically, but the ruling party is not under any serious threat from Europe or the USA.
The European Union Ambassador to Cambodia, Christopher George Edgar, said that the elections this year, without a single viable opposition party, will not be legitimate and that the EU has no trust or faith in them. But still no real action followed these words. American senators have threatened Hun Sen with sanctions, but nothing concrete has happened on that front thus far.
As it turns out, Hun Sen holds "many aces in the hole" such as support from China, Vietnam and even Russia, as well as his own will and experience. But, most importantly, under his leadership, the country is enjoying stability and the national economy is developing steadily, growing from 5 to 8 % year-on-year. The country has maintained a steady 7 %-increase in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the last 15 years.
According to the Ministry of Labor, goods valued at 10.79 billion US dollars were produced by more than 20 Cambodian plants last year, and 7-million worth of these goods were exported. Based on the 2016 World Bank report, 45 % of the clothes were exported to the EU and 25 % to the USA.
People see a connection between the growth of the economy and improved living conditions with the People's Party. In certain aspects this party can even be compared to the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of the 1960s and 1970s. LDP was always involved in corruption scandals, its leaders were unpopular, but the Japanese entrusted the reigns of power to this party, which had proven that, despite all the scandals, it was capable of governing the country. Similarly, during the rule by the People's Party, the country has maintained steady economic growth, as well peace as at the borders with its neighbors, and people's living standards are gradually improving. Hence, even if Cambodians do sympathize with the opposition, its appeals will most likely fall on deaf ears and the Khmer people will probably vote for Hun Sen's People's Party.
Dmitry Mosyakov, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Centre for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook." |
El calificativo jineta responde a un tipo de espada de producción genuinamente nazarí, introducida en Al-Ándalus por los zenatas (de los cuales derivaría el nombre). Correspondía a un tipo de espadas rectas, de doble filo con canal hasta la mitad, de empuñadura osiforme y con pomo redondo, de una sola mano, y cuyos arriaces de forma redondeada caían hacia la hoja dejando un mínimo espacio entre sí. Pero sin duda, su característica más importante era el grandioso trabajo y calidades de los materiales con los que se fabricaban las empuñaduras.
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Estas espadas originales de Al-Ándalus, el territorio de la península ibérica que estuvo bajo dominio musulmán, fueron en un principio armas de la caballería de los zenatas, pero a medida que la fama y técnica de monta "a la jineta", y del uso de estas armas por tropas "moras" de los reinos "cristianos" ibéricos -o por botín de guerra-, comenzaron a ser empleadas por los más reputados nobles y guerreros de la proto España de la Reconquista, datándose sus primeras apariciones documentadas no antes del , y cerrándose su uso y fabricación "cristiana" hacia el , y en Toledo.
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Two Tales of a City: Something is Rotten in Baltimore
Lily Dane May 2, 2015 140 Views
The death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore resident who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while in police custody, has been ruled a homicide. State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby has charged all six officers involved in the incident and said Gray's arrest was illegal.
Lies, disinformation, outrageous claims, and propaganda about this case have been spreading around like wildfire, and sometimes it is hard to figure out who to believe.
Here's a roundup of claims, rebuttals, and truths.
1) Claim: The police van carrying Freddie Gray stopped three times.
Last week, Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis said the van made three stops: one to put leg irons on Gray, the second "to deal with Mr. Gray" for an unexplained reason, and the third to pick up another prisoner.
Truth: the van carrying Gray stopped not three times, but four times: evidence of the previously undisclosed stop "was discovered from a privately owned camera," Davis said during a news conference yesterday, and came between the first and second stops. Grocery store owner Jung Hyun Hwang told the Associated Press that police came in to make a copy of the footage his security camera recorded.
What happened during that mystery stop has not been revealed to the public yet.
2) Claim: Police said another passenger in the van said Gray was thrashing around and seemed to be trying to hurt himself.
Donta Allen, interviewed by two TV channels on Thursday, said he was the second prisoner authorities said was inside the vehicle with Gray. According to a police timeline, the second prisoner was placed in the vehicle around 20 minutes after Gray was arrested.
On Thursday, a leaked police document, reported by the Washington Post, stated that the second prisoner believed Gray "was intentionally trying to injure himself" by "banging against the walls."
Rebuttal: Allen denied saying this:
"And they're trying to make it seem like I told them that, I made it like Freddie Gray did that to himself," Allen said. "Why the f*** would he do that to himself?"
Allen also said:
"When I was in the back of that van it did not stop or nothing. All it did was go straight to the station, but I heard a little banging, like he was banging his head," Allen said. " I didn't even know he was in the van until we got to the station."
Saying his words have been distorted by recent reports and that he doesn't think Gray hurt himself intentionally, Allen also told a WJZ reporter, "The only reason I'm doing this is because they put my name in a bad state."
3) Claim: Freddie Gray severed his own spine while intentionally trying to hurt himself during his ride in the police van.
This claim is related to Claim #2. A document written by a Baltimore police investigator, supposedly based on Allen's alleged statements about Gray trying to hurt himself in the police van (which Allen says is a lie), suggests that Gray may have severed his own spine.
Rebuttal: Jason Downs, the Gray family attorney, said, "We disagree with any implication that Freddie Gray severed his own spinal cord. We question the accuracy of the police reports we've seen thus far, including the police report that says Mr. Gray was arrested without force or incident."
Can a person actually break their own spine and crush their own voice box? Experts say it is highly unlikely.
In an article for the Daily News, Dr. David Samadi said the following:
From a medical standpoint, it is unlikely that the 25-year-old Baltimore man injured himself in the back of that van. The severity of his injuries seem too grave for him to have done that to himself simply by thrashing around or banging his head on something.
It is more likely that there was some type of direct blow to either the front or back of his neck, or somewhere along the spinal cord along his back.
As seen in a video taken by a witness who saw Gray being put into the back of the van, Gray was being dragged by the cops into the van, and it seems as though he was unable to walk.
The ability to control your limbs after a spinal cord injury depends on where along the spinal cord the injury took place, and how severe the injury is. If Gray was showing signs of loss of function in his legs before being put in the van, how could the injury have taken place in the van?
Now, let's talk about the crushed larynx. Also known as a laryngotracheal injury, a crushed larynx is pretty rare in adults, except when there is blunt force trauma to the front of the neck, such as strangulation, or blows to the trachea from fists or feet.
This is usually caused by a car accident when the passenger does not have a seatbelt on, in the front seat, or driving, and there are no protective airbags.
In this case, the person in the front seat or driver is thrown forward and the front of the neck either hits the dashboard or steering wheel.
Is it possible that Gray's larynx was crushed first, causing the spinal cord injury? Maybe that caused the spinal cord injury. In order for this to happen, there would have to have been a direct blow to the front of his neck, which is unlikely to have been a self-imposed injury in the back of the van.
It is unclear which injury happened first, or whether one caused the other, but it seems clear that there was nearly no way he caused the fatal injuries himself.
Dr. Anand Veeravagu, Chief Neurosurgery Resident at Stanford University Medical Center who specializes in traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, told The Daily Beast:
"I have never seen it before. I've never seen somebody self-inflict a spinal cord injury in that way. It's hard for me to understand that, unless those terms [like 'intentional' and 'injure himself'] are being used incorrectly. It's hard for me to envision how a person could try to do that. It would require them to basically hang themselves in a car where there isn't anything to hang yourself with."
Dr. Veeravagu went on to explain that there are only a few ways a person's spine can become injured like Gray's was: a direct, penetrating injury (via knife or gunshot), fractured bones, which tear ligaments (via serious force or impact), or by hanging.
He also said most people do not die of spinal cord injuries – if they are given prompt medical care.
Veeravagu also said it is possible Gray's spinal fracture could have occurred before he was put in the van, and that symptoms of his broken vertebrae could have been delayed until he was placed in the van:
"That is possible: It's possible to have an injury to your spinal cord that gets worse over time and eventually progresses to complete paralysis," he says. "Did he have an expanding blood clot in his spine? Did he have an exact fracture to his spine? Both are important to understand."
Another trauma surgeon, who wished to remain anonymous due to the political nature of the case and because he is "surprised time and again by what I previously believed to be impossible," thinks that it's "highly unusual [if not impossible] to deliberately make yourself a quadriplegic while shackled in the back of a police van."
Sources told ABC7 News that "…the medical examiner found Gray's catastrophic injury was caused when he slammed into the back of the police transport van, apparently breaking his neck; a head injury he sustained matches a bolt in the back of the van. Details surrounding exactly what caused Gray to slam into the back of the van were unclear. The officer driving the van has yet to give a statement to authorities."
4) Claim: Rival street gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods made a truce and plan to harm police officers.
A few days ago, the Baltimore police issued the following 7 Comments:
The Baltimore Police Department/Criminal Intelligence Unit has received credible information that members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods, and Crips, have entered into a partnership to "take out" law enforcement officers.
This is a credible threat. Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers. Notifications will be sent via NLETS. Further information will be sent through appropriate channels.
Rebuttal: Members of the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips talked to 11 News and said they did not make a truce to harm police officers:
And, this:
Now, this is obviously a case of "they said" vs. "they said," but at this point, nothing has proven that gang members have actually gone after police. To date, there haven't been any shootings or attacks.
Yesterday, the Baltimore Sun reported the following:
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's spokesman said Thursday that city officials should engage gang members if they are offering "a genuine effort to make peace."
The mayor would examine information they claim to possess that discredits what police described as a "credible threat" that gangs were unifying to target officers, spokesman Kevin Harris added.
Local ministers and City Council members have praised gang members for helping to quell unrest in neighborhoods hit with protests.
That report also states that some gang experts doubted the police department's claim that the gangs were uniting to harm officers. It also states that the mayor's office would look into the police department's claim, if the police would actually share that information with them.
Sources say gang members worked to direct traffic, talked rioters out of damaging property, and saved journalists who were caught in the middle of violent crowds:
When I am inclined to believe gang members over cops, there are huge problems with the world.
5) Claim: Freddie Gray had spinal surgery shortly before he died in police custody, and he received a car accident settlement:
The Fourth Estate has contacted sources who allege that Freddie Gray received spinal and neck surgery a week before we was arrested, and was allegedly receiving a large structured settlement from Allstate Insurance. The surgery is allegedly related to a car accident in which Gray was involved.
Truth: court records examined Wednesday by The Baltimore Sun show the case had nothing to do with a car accident or a spine injury:
Instead, they are connected to a lawsuit alleging that Gray and his sister were injured by exposure to lead paint.
Paperwork was filed in December allowing Gray and his sister, Fredericka to each collect an $18,000 payment from Peachtree Settlement Funding, records show. In exchange, Peachtree would have received a $108,439 annuity that was scheduled to be paid in $602 monthly installments between 2024 and 2039.
Jason Downs, the Gray family's attorney, said, "We have no information or evidence at this point to indicate that there is a prior pre-existing spinal injury. It's a rumor."
It seems more likely that Gray's injuries began before he was even loaded into the police van, and were further exacerbated during a "rough ride" to the police station.
6) Claim: School-aged kids in Baltimore planned a "purge" via social media accounts and were itching for a fight.
After Baltimore police and a crowd of teens clashed near the Mondawmin Mall in northwest Baltimore on Monday afternoon, news reports described the violence as a riot triggered by kids who couldn't wait to get out of school and begin fighting.
Rebuttal: Parents and teachers say the police are the ones who caused tense but stable conditions to erupt into violence.
When school let out that afternoon, police were in the area equipped with full riot gear. According to eyewitnesses in the Mondawmin neighborhood, the police were stopping buses and forcing riders, including many students who were trying to get home, to disembark. Cops shut down the local subway stop. They also blockaded roads near the Mondawmin Mall and Frederick Douglass High School, which is across the street from the mall, and essentially corralled young people in the area. That is, they did not allow the after-school crowd to disperse.
Meghann Harris, a teacher at a nearby school, described on Facebook what happened:
Police were forcing buses to stop and unload all their passengers. Then, [Frederick Douglass High School] students, in huge herds, were trying to leave on various buses but couldn't catch any because they were all shut down. No kids were yet around except about 20, who looked like they were waiting for police to do something. The cops, on the other hand, were in full riot gear, marching toward any small social clique of students…It looked as if there were hundreds of cops.
The kids were "standing around in groups of 3-4," Harris said in a Facebook message to Mother Jones. "They weren't doing anything. No rock throwing, nothing…The cops started marching toward groups of kids who were just milling about." (source)
For additional witness accounts, please see Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think.
Who was actually behind that social media "purge" campaign, anyway? One source says many of the accounts (20 to 50 of them) are linked to those used to spark violence in Ferguson.
Prosecutor Mosby announced that the six officers involved in Gray's death have been charged criminally:
Something is rotten in Baltimore, and hopefully the air will be cleared soon.
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$table = $connection->newTable(
$installer->getTable('theme')
)->addColumn(
'theme_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_INTEGER,
null,
['identity' => true, 'unsigned' => true, 'nullable' => false, 'primary' => true],
'Theme identifier'
)->addColumn(
'parent_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_INTEGER,
null,
['nullable' => true],
'Parent Id'
)->addColumn(
'theme_path',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
['nullable' => true],
'Theme Path'
)->addColumn(
'theme_title',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
['nullable' => false],
'Theme Title'
)->addColumn(
'preview_image',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
['nullable' => true],
'Preview Image'
)->addColumn(
'is_featured',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_BOOLEAN,
null,
['nullable' => false, 'default' => 0],
'Is Theme Featured'
)->addColumn(
'area',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
['nullable' => false],
'Theme Area'
)->addColumn(
'type',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_SMALLINT,
null,
['nullable' => false],
'Theme type: 0:physical, 1:virtual, 2:staging'
)->addColumn(
'code',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
null,
[],
'Full theme code, including package'
)->setComment(
'Core theme'
);
$connection->createTable($table);
/**
* Create table 'theme_file'
*/
$table = $connection->newTable(
$installer->getTable('theme_file')
)->addColumn(
'theme_files_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_INTEGER,
null,
['identity' => true, 'unsigned' => true, 'nullable' => false, 'primary' => true],
'Theme files identifier'
)->addColumn(
'theme_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_INTEGER,
null,
['nullable' => false, 'unsigned' => true],
'Theme Id'
)->addColumn(
'file_path',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
['nullable' => true],
'Relative path to file'
)->addColumn(
'file_type',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
32,
['nullable' => false],
'File Type'
)->addColumn(
'content',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::MAX_TEXT_SIZE,
['nullable' => false],
'File Content'
)->addColumn(
'sort_order',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_SMALLINT,
null,
['nullable' => false, 'default' => 0],
'Sort Order'
)->addColumn(
'is_temporary',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_BOOLEAN,
null,
['nullable' => false, 'default' => 0],
'Is Temporary File'
)->addForeignKey(
$installer->getFkName('theme_file', 'theme_id', 'theme', 'theme_id'),
'theme_id',
$installer->getTable('theme'),
'theme_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::ACTION_CASCADE
)->setComment(
'Core theme files'
);
$connection->createTable($table);
/**
* Create table 'design_change'
*/
$table = $connection->newTable(
$installer->getTable('design_change')
)->addColumn(
'design_change_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_INTEGER,
null,
['identity' => true, 'nullable' => false, 'primary' => true],
'Design Change Id'
)->addColumn(
'store_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_SMALLINT,
null,
['unsigned' => true, 'nullable' => false, 'default' => '0'],
'Store Id'
)->addColumn(
'design',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_TEXT,
255,
[],
'Design'
)->addColumn(
'date_from',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_DATE,
null,
[],
'First Date of Design Activity'
)->addColumn(
'date_to',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::TYPE_DATE,
null,
[],
'Last Date of Design Activity'
)->addIndex(
$installer->getIdxName('design_change', ['store_id']),
['store_id']
)->addForeignKey(
$installer->getFkName('design_change', 'store_id', 'store', 'store_id'),
'store_id',
$installer->getTable('store'),
'store_id',
\Magento\Framework\DB\Ddl\Table::ACTION_CASCADE
)->setComment(
'Design Changes'
);
$connection->createTable($table);
$installer->endSetup();
}
}
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package com.github.ambry.cloud.azure;
import com.azure.core.http.ProxyOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosAsyncClient;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosAsyncContainer;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosAsyncDatabase;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosAsyncStoredProcedure;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosClientBuilder;
import com.azure.cosmos.CosmosException;
import com.azure.cosmos.DirectConnectionConfig;
import com.azure.cosmos.GatewayConnectionConfig;
import com.azure.cosmos.ThrottlingRetryOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.Document;
import com.azure.cosmos.implementation.HttpConstants;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosContainerResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosDatabaseResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosItemRequestOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosItemResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosQueryRequestOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosStoredProcedureResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.FeedRange;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.PartitionKey;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.SqlParameter;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.SqlQuerySpec;
import com.azure.cosmos.util.CosmosPagedFlux;
import com.azure.security.keyvault.secrets.SecretClient;
import com.azure.security.keyvault.secrets.SecretClientBuilder;
import com.codahale.metrics.Timer;
import com.github.ambry.account.Container;
import com.github.ambry.cloud.CloudBlobMetadata;
import com.github.ambry.cloud.CloudRequestAgent;
import com.github.ambry.cloud.CloudStorageException;
import com.github.ambry.cloud.VcrMetrics;
import com.github.ambry.commons.BlobId;
import com.github.ambry.config.CloudConfig;
import com.github.ambry.config.VerifiableProperties;
import com.github.ambry.utils.Utils;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
public class CosmosDataAccessor {
private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CosmosDataAccessor.class);
public static final String COSMOS_LAST_UPDATED_COLUMN = "_ts";
private static final String START_TIME_PARAM = "@startTime";
private static final String END_TIME_PARAM = "@endTime";
private static final String LIMIT_PARAM = "@limit";
private static final String ACCOUNT_ID_PARAM = "@accountId";
private static final String CONTAINER_ID_PARAM = "@containerId";
private static final String EXPIRED_BLOBS_QUERY = constructDeadBlobsQuery(CloudBlobMetadata.FIELD_EXPIRATION_TIME);
private static final String DELETED_BLOBS_QUERY = constructDeadBlobsQuery(CloudBlobMetadata.FIELD_DELETION_TIME);
private static final String CONTAINER_BLOBS_QUERY =
"SELECT TOP " + LIMIT_PARAM + " * FROM c WHERE c.accountId=" + ACCOUNT_ID_PARAM + " and c.containerId="
+ CONTAINER_ID_PARAM;
private static final String BULK_DELETE_QUERY = "SELECT c._self FROM c WHERE c.id IN (%s)";
private static final String DEPRECATED_CONTAINERS_QUERY =
"SELECT TOP " + LIMIT_PARAM + " * from c WHERE c.deleted=false order by c.deleteTriggerTimestamp";
static final String BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID = "bulkDelete";
static final String PROPERTY_CONTINUATION = "continuation";
static final String PROPERTY_DELETED = "deleted";
static final int STATUS_NOT_FOUND = 404;
private final CosmosAsyncClient cosmosAsyncClient;
private CosmosAsyncDatabase cosmosAsyncDatabase;
private CosmosAsyncContainer cosmosAsyncContainer;
private final CloudRequestAgent requestAgent;
private final String cosmosDatabase;
private final String cosmosCollection;
private final String cosmosDeletedContainerCollection;
private final AzureMetrics azureMetrics;
private Callable<?> updateCallback = null;
private final int continuationTokenLimitKb;
private final int requestChargeThreshold;
private final int purgeBatchSize;
private boolean bulkDeleteEnabled = false;
/** Production constructor */
CosmosDataAccessor(CloudConfig cloudConfig, AzureCloudConfig azureCloudConfig, VcrMetrics vcrMetrics,
AzureMetrics azureMetrics) {
// Set up CosmosDB connection, including retry options and any proxy setting
// Note: retry decisions are made at CloudBlobStore level. Configure Cosmos with no retries.
ThrottlingRetryOptions throttlingRetryOptions = new ThrottlingRetryOptions();
throttlingRetryOptions.setMaxRetryAttemptsOnThrottledRequests(0);
CosmosClientBuilder cosmosClientBuilder = new CosmosClientBuilder().endpoint(azureCloudConfig.cosmosEndpoint)
.key(getCosmosKey(azureCloudConfig))
.throttlingRetryOptions(throttlingRetryOptions)
.consistencyLevel(com.azure.cosmos.ConsistencyLevel.SESSION);
// It looks like we can no longer configure request timeouts on GateWayConnection mode
// since cosmos team has hidden them in latest versions. (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/pull/11702).
// Default value seems to be 60 seconds. For DirectConnection (which uses TCP to talk directly to cosmos storage nodes),
// the value can be configured but has lower limit of 5 seconds and upper limit of 10 seconds.
// We can probably reach out to them if we see requests taking longer than these defaults.
// For reference, here is difference between Gateway and direct connection modes -
// https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql/sql-sdk-connection-modes
GatewayConnectionConfig gatewayConnectionConfig = new GatewayConnectionConfig();
if (cloudConfig.vcrProxyHost != null) {
gatewayConnectionConfig.setProxy(new ProxyOptions(ProxyOptions.Type.HTTP,
new InetSocketAddress(cloudConfig.vcrProxyHost, cloudConfig.vcrProxyPort)));
}
if (azureCloudConfig.cosmosDirectHttps) {
logger.info("Using CosmosDB DirectHttps connection mode");
cosmosClientBuilder.directMode(new DirectConnectionConfig(), gatewayConnectionConfig);
} else {
cosmosClientBuilder.gatewayMode(gatewayConnectionConfig);
}
cosmosAsyncClient = cosmosClientBuilder.buildAsyncClient();
requestAgent = new CloudRequestAgent(cloudConfig, vcrMetrics);
this.continuationTokenLimitKb = azureCloudConfig.cosmosContinuationTokenLimitKb;
this.requestChargeThreshold = azureCloudConfig.cosmosRequestChargeThreshold;
this.purgeBatchSize = azureCloudConfig.cosmosPurgeBatchSize;
this.azureMetrics = azureMetrics;
this.cosmosDatabase = azureCloudConfig.cosmosDatabase;
this.cosmosCollection = azureCloudConfig.cosmosCollection;
this.cosmosDeletedContainerCollection = azureCloudConfig.cosmosDeletedContainerCollection;
}
/** Test constructor */
CosmosDataAccessor(CosmosAsyncClient cosmosAsyncClient, CosmosAsyncDatabase cosmosAsyncDatabase,
CosmosAsyncContainer cosmosAsyncContainer, String cosmosDatabase, String cosmosCollection,
String cosmosDeletedContainerCollection, VcrMetrics vcrMetrics, AzureMetrics azureMetrics) {
this.cosmosAsyncClient = cosmosAsyncClient;
this.cosmosAsyncDatabase = cosmosAsyncDatabase;
this.cosmosAsyncContainer = cosmosAsyncContainer;
this.cosmosDatabase = cosmosDatabase;
this.cosmosCollection = cosmosCollection;
this.cosmosDeletedContainerCollection = cosmosDeletedContainerCollection;
this.continuationTokenLimitKb = AzureCloudConfig.DEFAULT_COSMOS_CONTINUATION_TOKEN_LIMIT;
this.requestChargeThreshold = AzureCloudConfig.DEFAULT_COSMOS_REQUEST_CHARGE_THRESHOLD;
this.purgeBatchSize = AzureCloudConfig.DEFAULT_PURGE_BATCH_SIZE;
this.azureMetrics = azureMetrics;
this.bulkDeleteEnabled = true;
CloudConfig testCloudConfig = new CloudConfig(new VerifiableProperties(new Properties()));
requestAgent = new CloudRequestAgent(testCloudConfig, vcrMetrics);
}
/** Visible for testing */
void setUpdateCallback(Callable<?> callback) {
this.updateCallback = callback;
}
/**
* Test connectivity to Azure CosmosDB
*/
void testConnectivity() {
// Check if database and container exists
try {
cosmosAsyncDatabase = cosmosAsyncClient.getDatabase(cosmosDatabase);
CosmosDatabaseResponse cosmosDatabaseResponse = cosmosAsyncDatabase.read().block();
if (cosmosDatabaseResponse == null || cosmosDatabaseResponse.getStatusCode() == STATUS_NOT_FOUND) {
throw new IllegalStateException("CosmosDB Database not found: " + cosmosDatabase);
}
cosmosAsyncContainer = cosmosAsyncDatabase.getContainer(cosmosCollection);
CosmosContainerResponse cosmosContainerResponse = cosmosAsyncContainer.read().block();
if (cosmosContainerResponse == null || cosmosContainerResponse.getStatusCode() == STATUS_NOT_FOUND) {
throw new IllegalStateException("CosmosDB container not found: " + cosmosCollection);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException && ((CosmosException) ex).getStatusCode() == STATUS_NOT_FOUND) {
//Client-specific errors
throw new IllegalStateException(
"CosmosDB database " + cosmosDatabase + "or container " + cosmosCollection + " not found", ex);
}
throw new RuntimeException(
"Error connecting to cosmos database " + cosmosDatabase + "or container " + cosmosCollection, ex);
}
logger.info("CosmosDB connection test succeeded.");
if (purgeBatchSize > 1) {
// Check for existence of BulkDelete stored procedure.
// Source: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmosdb-js-server/blob/master/samples/stored-procedures/bulkDelete.js
try {
CosmosAsyncStoredProcedure cosmosAsyncStoredProcedure =
cosmosAsyncContainer.getScripts().getStoredProcedure(BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID);
CosmosStoredProcedureResponse cosmosStoredProcedureResponse = cosmosAsyncStoredProcedure.read().block();
if (cosmosStoredProcedureResponse == null
|| cosmosStoredProcedureResponse.getStatusCode() == STATUS_NOT_FOUND) {
logger.error("Did not find stored procedure {}, falling back to individual record deletions",
BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID);
} else {
logger.info("Found stored procedure {}, will use it with batch size {}.", BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID,
purgeBatchSize);
bulkDeleteEnabled = true;
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error("Did not find stored procedure {}, falling back to individual record deletions",
BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID, ex);
}
} else {
logger.info("Cosmos purge batch size = 1 ==> disabling bulk deletes.");
bulkDeleteEnabled = false;
}
}
/**
* Upsert the blob metadata document in the CosmosDB collection.
* @param blobMetadata the blob metadata document.
* @return the {@link CosmosItemResponse} containing {@link CloudBlobMetadata} returned by the operation, if successful.
* @throws CosmosException if the operation failed.
*/
CosmosItemResponse<CloudBlobMetadata> upsertMetadata(CloudBlobMetadata blobMetadata) throws CosmosException {
return executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.upsertItem(blobMetadata, new PartitionKey(blobMetadata.getPartitionId()),
new CosmosItemRequestOptions()).block(), azureMetrics.documentCreateTime);
}
/**
* Delete the blob metadata document in the CosmosDB collection, if it exists.
* @param blobMetadata the blob metadata document to delete.
* @return {@code true} if the record was deleted, {@code false} if it was not found.
* @throws CosmosException if the operation failed.
*/
boolean deleteMetadata(CloudBlobMetadata blobMetadata) throws CosmosException {
// Note: not timing here since bulk deletions are timed.
try {
executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.deleteItem(blobMetadata.getId(), new PartitionKey(blobMetadata.getPartitionId()))
.block(), null);
return true;
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
if (cex.getStatusCode() == HttpConstants.StatusCodes.NOTFOUND) {
// Can happen on retry
logger.debug("Could not find metadata for blob {} to delete", blobMetadata.getId());
return false;
}
throw cex;
}
}
/**
* Delete the blob metadata documents in the CosmosDB collection.
* @param blobMetadataList the list of blob metadata documents to delete.
* @throws CosmosException if the operation failed.
*/
void deleteMetadata(List<CloudBlobMetadata> blobMetadataList) throws CosmosException {
String partitionPath = blobMetadataList.get(0).getPartitionId();
if (bulkDeleteEnabled) {
for (List<CloudBlobMetadata> batchOfBlobs : Utils.partitionList(blobMetadataList, purgeBatchSize)) {
// Retry each batch since there may be many of them.
try {
requestAgent.doWithRetries(() -> {
try {
return bulkDeleteMetadata(batchOfBlobs);
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
throw new CloudStorageException("BulkDelete failed", cex, cex.getStatusCode(), true,
cex.getRetryAfterDuration().toMillis());
}
}, "BulkDelete", partitionPath);
} catch (CloudStorageException cse) {
if (cse.getCause() != null && cse.getCause() instanceof CosmosException) {
throw (CosmosException) cse.getCause();
} else {
throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected error in BulkDelete partition " + partitionPath,
cse.getCause());
}
}
}
} else {
for (CloudBlobMetadata metadata : blobMetadataList) {
deleteMetadata(metadata);
}
}
}
/**
* Delete the blob metadata documents from CosmosDB using the BulkDelete stored procedure.
* @param blobMetadataList the list of blob metadata documents to delete.
* @return the number of documents deleted.
* @throws CosmosException if the operation failed.
*/
private int bulkDeleteMetadata(List<CloudBlobMetadata> blobMetadataList) throws CosmosException {
String partitionPath = blobMetadataList.get(0).getPartitionId();
// stored proc link provided in config. Test for it at startup and use if available.
String quotedBlobIds =
blobMetadataList.stream().map(metadata -> '"' + metadata.getId() + '"').collect(Collectors.joining(","));
String query = String.format(BULK_DELETE_QUERY, quotedBlobIds);
boolean more = true;
int deleteCount = 0;
double requestCharge = 0;
CosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions cosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions = new CosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions();
cosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions.setPartitionKey(new PartitionKey(partitionPath));
try {
while (more) {
CosmosStoredProcedureResponse cosmosStoredProcedureResponse = cosmosAsyncContainer.getScripts()
.getStoredProcedure(BULK_DELETE_SPROC_ID)
.execute(Collections.singletonList(query), cosmosStoredProcedureRequestOptions)
.block();
Document document;
if (cosmosStoredProcedureResponse != null) {
document = new Document(cosmosStoredProcedureResponse.getResponseAsString());
more = document.getBoolean(PROPERTY_CONTINUATION);
deleteCount += document.getInt(PROPERTY_DELETED);
requestCharge += cosmosStoredProcedureResponse.getRequestCharge();
} else {
more = false;
}
}
if (requestCharge >= requestChargeThreshold) {
logger.info("Bulk delete partition {} request charge {} for {} records", partitionPath, requestCharge,
deleteCount);
}
return deleteCount;
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
throw (CosmosException) ex;
}
throw ex;
}
}
/**
* Get the metadata record for a single blob.
* @param blobId the blob to read.
* @return the {@link CloudBlobMetadata} for the blob if it is found, otherwise null.
* @throws CosmosException on any other error.
*/
CloudBlobMetadata getMetadataOrNull(BlobId blobId) throws CosmosException {
try {
CosmosItemResponse<CloudBlobMetadata> readResponse = executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.readItem(blobId.getID(), new PartitionKey(blobId.getPartition().toPathString()),
CloudBlobMetadata.class).block(), azureMetrics.documentReadTime);
return readResponse.getItem();
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
if (cex.getStatusCode() == HttpConstants.StatusCodes.NOTFOUND) {
return null;
}
throw cex;
}
}
/**
* Update the blob metadata document in the CosmosDB collection.
* @param blobId the {@link BlobId} for which metadata is replaced.
* @param updateFields Map of field names and new values to update.
* @return the {@link CosmosItemResponse} containing {@link CloudBlobMetadata} object returned by the operation, if successful.
* Returns Null if the field already has the specified value.
* @throws CosmosException if the record was not found or if the operation failed.
*/
CosmosItemResponse<CloudBlobMetadata> updateMetadata(BlobId blobId, Map<String, String> updateFields)
throws CosmosException {
// Read the existing record
CosmosItemResponse<CloudBlobMetadata> cosmosItemResponse = executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.readItem(blobId.getID(), new PartitionKey(blobId.getPartition().toPathString()),
CloudBlobMetadata.class).block(), azureMetrics.documentReadTime);
CloudBlobMetadata receivedMetadata = cosmosItemResponse.getItem();
// Update only if value has changed
Map<String, String> receivedFields = receivedMetadata.toMap();
Map<String, String> fieldsToUpdate = updateFields.entrySet()
.stream()
.filter(map -> !String.valueOf(updateFields.get(map.getKey())).equals(receivedFields.get(map.getKey())))
.collect(Collectors.toMap(Map.Entry::getKey, map -> String.valueOf(map.getValue())));
if (fieldsToUpdate.size() == 0) {
logger.debug("No change in value for {} in blob {}", updateFields.keySet(), blobId.getID());
return null;
}
// For testing conflict handling
if (updateCallback != null) {
try {
updateCallback.call();
} catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error("Error in update callback", ex);
}
}
// Update the modified fields
fieldsToUpdate.forEach(receivedFields::put);
// Set condition to ensure we don't clobber a concurrent update
CosmosItemRequestOptions requestOptions = new CosmosItemRequestOptions();
requestOptions.setIfMatchETag(cosmosItemResponse.getETag());
// Replace the record
try {
return executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.replaceItem(CloudBlobMetadata.fromMap(receivedFields), blobId.getID(),
new PartitionKey(blobId.getPartition().toPathString()), requestOptions).block(),
azureMetrics.documentUpdateTime);
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
if (cex.getStatusCode() == HttpConstants.StatusCodes.PRECONDITION_FAILED) {
azureMetrics.blobUpdateConflictCount.inc();
}
throw cex;
}
}
/**
* Get the list of blobs in the specified partition that have been deleted or expired for at least the
* configured retention period.
* @param partitionPath the partition to query.
* @param fieldName the field name to query on. Allowed values are {@link CloudBlobMetadata#FIELD_DELETION_TIME} and
* {@link CloudBlobMetadata#FIELD_EXPIRATION_TIME}.
* @param startTime the start of the query time range.
* @param endTime the end of the query time range.
* @param maxEntries the max number of metadata records to return.
* @return a List of {@link CloudBlobMetadata} objects referencing the dead blobs found.
* @throws CosmosException if the operation failed.
*/
List<CloudBlobMetadata> getDeadBlobs(String partitionPath, String fieldName, long startTime, long endTime,
int maxEntries) throws CosmosException {
String deadBlobsQuery;
if (fieldName.equals(CloudBlobMetadata.FIELD_DELETION_TIME)) {
deadBlobsQuery = DELETED_BLOBS_QUERY;
} else if (fieldName.equals(CloudBlobMetadata.FIELD_EXPIRATION_TIME)) {
deadBlobsQuery = EXPIRED_BLOBS_QUERY;
} else {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid field: " + fieldName);
}
SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec = new SqlQuerySpec(deadBlobsQuery, new SqlParameter(LIMIT_PARAM, maxEntries),
new SqlParameter(START_TIME_PARAM, startTime), new SqlParameter(END_TIME_PARAM, endTime));
CosmosQueryRequestOptions queryRequestOptions = new CosmosQueryRequestOptions();
queryRequestOptions.setPartitionKey(new PartitionKey(partitionPath));
queryRequestOptions.setResponseContinuationTokenLimitInKb(continuationTokenLimitKb);
try {
List<CloudBlobMetadata> deadBlobsList = new ArrayList<>();
AtomicReference<Double> requestCharge = new AtomicReference<>(0.0);
// Execute cosmos query
CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> pagedFluxResponse =
executeCosmosQuery(sqlQuerySpec, queryRequestOptions, azureMetrics.deadBlobsQueryTime);
//Set the maximum entries to be as returned in each page. There seems to be no way to set maximum number of entries across all pages.
pagedFluxResponse.byPage(maxEntries).flatMapSequential(fluxResponse -> {
requestCharge.updateAndGet(v -> v + fluxResponse.getRequestCharge());
deadBlobsList.addAll(fluxResponse.getResults());
return Flux.empty();
}).blockLast();
if (requestCharge.get() >= requestChargeThreshold) {
logger.info("Dead blobs query partition {} endTime {} request charge {} for {} records", partitionPath,
new Date(endTime), requestCharge.get(), deadBlobsList.size());
}
return deadBlobsList;
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
//Client-specific errors
CosmosException cex = (CosmosException) ex;
logger.warn("Dead blobs query {} partition {} got {}", deadBlobsQuery, partitionPath, cex.getStatusCode());
throw cex;
}
throw ex;
}
}
/**
* Get the list of blobs in the specified partition that belong to the specified container.
* @param partitionPath the partition to query.
* @param accountId account id of the container.
* @param containerId container id of the container.
* @param queryLimit max number of blobs to return.
* @return a List of {@link CloudBlobMetadata} objects referencing the blobs belonging to the deprecated containers.
* @throws CosmosException in case of any error.
*/
List<CloudBlobMetadata> getContainerBlobs(String partitionPath, short accountId, short containerId, int queryLimit)
throws CosmosException {
SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec = new SqlQuerySpec(CONTAINER_BLOBS_QUERY, new SqlParameter(LIMIT_PARAM, queryLimit),
new SqlParameter(ACCOUNT_ID_PARAM, accountId), new SqlParameter(CONTAINER_ID_PARAM, containerId));
CosmosQueryRequestOptions queryRequestOptions = new CosmosQueryRequestOptions();
queryRequestOptions.setPartitionKey(new PartitionKey(partitionPath));
queryRequestOptions.setResponseContinuationTokenLimitInKb(continuationTokenLimitKb);
try {
List<CloudBlobMetadata> containerBlobsList = new ArrayList<>();
AtomicReference<Double> requestCharge = new AtomicReference<>(0.0);
// Execute cosmos query
CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> pagedFluxResponse =
executeCosmosQuery(sqlQuerySpec, queryRequestOptions, azureMetrics.deletedContainerBlobsQueryTime);
//Set the queryLimit as preferred number of items to be fetched in each page. There seems to be no way to set limit across all pages.
pagedFluxResponse.byPage(queryLimit).flatMapSequential(fluxResponse -> {
requestCharge.updateAndGet(v -> v + fluxResponse.getRequestCharge());
containerBlobsList.addAll(fluxResponse.getResults());
return Flux.empty();
}).blockLast();
if (requestCharge.get() >= requestChargeThreshold) {
logger.info("Container blobs query partition {} containerId {} accountId {} request charge {} for {} records",
partitionPath, containerId, accountId, requestCharge, containerBlobsList.size());
}
return containerBlobsList;
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
//Client-specific errors
CosmosException cex = (CosmosException) ex;
logger.warn("Container blobs query {} partition {} got {}", sqlQuerySpec.getQueryText(), partitionPath,
cex.getStatusCode());
throw cex;
}
throw ex;
}
}
/**
* Returns a query like:
* SELECT TOP 500 * FROM c WHERE c.deletionTime BETWEEN 1 AND <7 days ago> ORDER BY c.deletionTime ASC
* @param fieldName the field to use in the filter condition. Must be deletionTime or expirationTime.
* @return the query text.
*/
private static String constructDeadBlobsQuery(String fieldName) {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("SELECT TOP " + LIMIT_PARAM + " * FROM c WHERE c.").append(fieldName)
.append(" BETWEEN " + START_TIME_PARAM + " AND " + END_TIME_PARAM)
.append(" ORDER BY c.")
.append(fieldName)
.append(" ASC");
return builder.toString();
}
/**
* Get the list of blobs in the specified partition matching the specified DocumentDB query.
* @param partitionPath the partition to query.
* @param queryText the DocumentDB query to execute.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return a List of {@link CloudBlobMetadata} referencing the matching blobs.
*/
List<CloudBlobMetadata> queryMetadata(String partitionPath, String queryText, Timer timer) throws CosmosException {
return queryMetadata(partitionPath, new SqlQuerySpec(queryText), timer);
}
/**
* Get the list of blobs in the specified partition matching the specified DocumentDB query spec.
* @param partitionPath the partition to query.
* @param sqlQuerySpec representing the sql query.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return a List of {@link CloudBlobMetadata} referencing the matching blobs.
*/
List<CloudBlobMetadata> queryMetadata(String partitionPath, SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec, Timer timer)
throws CosmosException {
CosmosQueryRequestOptions queryRequestOptions = new CosmosQueryRequestOptions();
queryRequestOptions.setPartitionKey(new PartitionKey(partitionPath));
queryRequestOptions.setResponseContinuationTokenLimitInKb(continuationTokenLimitKb);
try {
List<CloudBlobMetadata> metadataList = new ArrayList<>();
// Since the requestCharge is being used inside lambda expression below, it needs to be atomic.
AtomicReference<Double> requestCharge = new AtomicReference<>(0.0);
// Execute cosmos query
CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> pagedFluxResponse =
executeCosmosQuery(sqlQuerySpec, queryRequestOptions, timer);
pagedFluxResponse.byPage().flatMapSequential(fluxResponse -> {
requestCharge.updateAndGet(v -> v + fluxResponse.getRequestCharge());
metadataList.addAll(fluxResponse.getResults());
return Flux.empty();
}).blockLast();
if (requestCharge.get() >= requestChargeThreshold) {
logger.info("Query partition {} request charge {} for {} records", partitionPath, requestCharge,
metadataList.size());
}
return metadataList;
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
//Client-specific errors
CosmosException cex = (CosmosException) ex;
logger.warn("Query {} on partition {} got {}", sqlQuerySpec.getQueryText(), partitionPath, cex.getStatusCode());
throw cex;
}
throw ex;
}
}
/**
* Query Cosmos change feed to get the next set of {@code CloudBlobMetadata} objects in specified {@code partitionPath}
* after {@code requestContinationToken}, capped by specified {@code maxFeedSize} representing the max number of items to
* be queried from the change feed.
* @param requestContinuationToken Continuation token after which change feed is requested.
* @param maxFeedSize max item count to be requested in the feed query.
* @param changeFeed {@link CloudBlobMetadata} {@code List} to be populated with the next set of entries returned by change feed query.
* @param partitionPath partition for which the change feed is requested.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return next continuation token.
* @throws CosmosException in case of any error.
*/
public String queryChangeFeed(String requestContinuationToken, int maxFeedSize, List<CloudBlobMetadata> changeFeed,
String partitionPath, Timer timer) throws CosmosException {
CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions;
if (Utils.isNullOrEmpty(requestContinuationToken)) {
cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions =
CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions.createForProcessingFromBeginning(FeedRange.forFullRange());
} else {
cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions =
CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions.createForProcessingFromContinuation(requestContinuationToken);
}
// Set the maximum number of items to be returned in this change feed request.
cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions.setMaxItemCount(maxFeedSize);
return queryChangeFeed(cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions, changeFeed, timer);
}
/**
* Query Cosmos change feed to get the next set of {@code CloudBlobMetadata} objects.
* @param cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions {@link CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions} containing the options for the change feed request.
* @param changeFeed {@link CloudBlobMetadata} {@code List} to be populated with the next set of entries returned by change feed query.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
*/
String queryChangeFeed(CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions,
List<CloudBlobMetadata> changeFeed, Timer timer) {
azureMetrics.changeFeedQueryCount.inc();
// Since the requestCharge is being used inside lambda expression below, it needs to be atomic.
AtomicReference<String> continuationToken = new AtomicReference<>();
try {
CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> pagedFluxResponse =
executeCosmosChangeFeedQuery(cosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions, timer);
pagedFluxResponse.byPage().flatMapSequential(fluxResponse -> {
changeFeed.addAll(fluxResponse.getResults());
continuationToken.set(fluxResponse.getContinuationToken());
return Flux.empty();
}).blockLast();
return continuationToken.get();
} catch (Exception ex) {
azureMetrics.changeFeedQueryFailureCount.inc();
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
throw (CosmosException) ex;
}
throw ex;
}
}
/**
* Add the {@link CosmosContainerDeletionEntry} for newly deprecated {@link Container}s to cosmos table.
* @param deprecatedContainers {@link Set} of deleted {@link CosmosContainerDeletionEntry}s.
* @return the max deletion trigger time of all the added containers to serve as checkpoint for future update.
* @throws CosmosException in case of any error.
*/
public long deprecateContainers(Set<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry> deprecatedContainers) throws CosmosException {
long latestContainerDeletionTimestamp = -1;
CosmosAsyncContainer cosmosContainer = cosmosAsyncDatabase.getContainer(cosmosDeletedContainerCollection);
CosmosContainerResponse cosmosContainerResponse = cosmosContainer.read().block();
if (cosmosContainerResponse == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException(
"CosmosDB container for storing deprecated Ambry containers not found: " + cosmosDeletedContainerCollection);
}
for (CosmosContainerDeletionEntry containerDeletionEntry : deprecatedContainers) {
try {
executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosContainer.createItem(containerDeletionEntry, new PartitionKey(containerDeletionEntry.getId()),
new CosmosItemRequestOptions()).block(), azureMetrics.containerDeprecationDocumentCreateTime);
if (containerDeletionEntry.getDeleteTriggerTimestamp() > latestContainerDeletionTimestamp) {
latestContainerDeletionTimestamp = containerDeletionEntry.getDeleteTriggerTimestamp();
}
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
if (cex.getStatusCode() == HttpConstants.StatusCodes.CONFLICT) {
// If the cosmos exception is due to container being already deprecated, continue.
logger.info("Container with accountid {} and containerid {} already deprecated. Skipping.",
containerDeletionEntry.getAccountId(), containerDeletionEntry.getContainerId());
} else {
throw cex;
}
}
}
return latestContainerDeletionTimestamp;
}
/**
* Fetch a {@link Set} of {@link CosmosContainerDeletionEntry} objects from cosmos db that are not marked as deleted.
* @param maxEntries Max number of entries to fetch on one query.
* @return {@link Set} of {@link CosmosContainerDeletionEntry} objects.
* @throws CosmosException in case of any error.
*/
public Set<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry> getDeprecatedContainers(int maxEntries) throws CosmosException {
SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec =
new SqlQuerySpec(DEPRECATED_CONTAINERS_QUERY, new SqlParameter(LIMIT_PARAM, maxEntries));
Timer timer = new Timer();
Set<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry> containerDeletionEntries = new HashSet<>();
try {
// Execute cosmos query
CosmosPagedFlux<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry> pagedFluxResponse =
executeCosmosQuery(cosmosDeletedContainerCollection, sqlQuerySpec, new CosmosQueryRequestOptions(),
CosmosContainerDeletionEntry.class, timer);
pagedFluxResponse.byPage().flatMapSequential(fluxResponse -> {
containerDeletionEntries.addAll(fluxResponse.getResults());
return Flux.empty();
}).blockLast();
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
//Client-specific errors
CosmosException cex = (CosmosException) ex;
logger.warn("Get deprecated containers query {} got {}", sqlQuerySpec.getQueryText(), cex.getStatusCode());
throw cex;
}
throw ex;
}
return containerDeletionEntries;
}
/**
* Update the container deletion entry document in the CosmosDB collection.
* @param containerId the container id for which document is replaced.
* @param accountId the account id for which document is replaced.
* @param updateFields {@link BiConsumer} object to use as callback to update the required fields.
* @return the {@link CosmosContainerDeletionEntry} entry if successful.
* Returns {@Null} if the field already has the specified value.
* @throws CosmosException if the record was not found or if the operation failed.
*/
CosmosContainerDeletionEntry updateContainerDeletionEntry(short containerId, short accountId,
BiConsumer<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry, AtomicBoolean> updateFields) throws CosmosException {
CosmosAsyncContainer cosmosContainer = cosmosAsyncDatabase.getContainer(cosmosDeletedContainerCollection);
CosmosContainerResponse cosmosContainerResponse = cosmosContainer.read().block();
if (cosmosContainerResponse == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException(
"CosmosDB container for storing deprecated Ambry containers not found: " + cosmosDeletedContainerCollection);
}
// Read the existing record
String id = CosmosContainerDeletionEntry.generateContainerDeletionEntryId(accountId, containerId);
CosmosItemResponse<CosmosContainerDeletionEntry> cosmosItemResponse = executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosContainer.readItem(id, new PartitionKey(id), CosmosContainerDeletionEntry.class).block(),
azureMetrics.continerDeletionEntryReadTime);
CosmosContainerDeletionEntry containerDeletionEntry = cosmosItemResponse.getItem();
// Update the record
AtomicBoolean fieldsChanged = new AtomicBoolean(false);
updateFields.accept(containerDeletionEntry, fieldsChanged);
if (!fieldsChanged.get()) {
logger.debug("No change in value for container deletion entry {}", containerDeletionEntry.toJson());
return null;
}
// For testing conflict handling
if (updateCallback != null) {
try {
updateCallback.call();
} catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error("Error in update callback", ex);
}
}
// Set condition to ensure we don't clobber a concurrent update and replace the record.
CosmosItemRequestOptions requestOptions = new CosmosItemRequestOptions();
requestOptions.setIfMatchETag(cosmosItemResponse.getETag());
try {
return executeCosmosAction(
() -> cosmosAsyncContainer.replaceItem(containerDeletionEntry, id, new PartitionKey(id), requestOptions)
.block(), azureMetrics.documentUpdateTime).getItem();
} catch (CosmosException cex) {
if (cex.getStatusCode() == HttpConstants.StatusCodes.PRECONDITION_FAILED) {
// Keep track of failures due to conflicts.
azureMetrics.blobUpdateConflictCount.inc();
}
throw cex;
}
}
/**
* Utility method to call a Cosmos method.
* @param action the action to call.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to time the action. May be null.
* @return the result of the action.
* @throws CosmosException in case of any error while executing the Cosmos method.
*/
static <T> CosmosItemResponse<T> executeCosmosAction(Callable<? extends CosmosItemResponse<T>> action, Timer timer)
throws CosmosException {
CosmosItemResponse<T> cosmosItemResponse;
Timer.Context operationTimer = null;
try {
if (timer != null) {
operationTimer = timer.time();
}
cosmosItemResponse = action.call();
} catch (Exception ex) {
if (ex instanceof CosmosException) {
throw (CosmosException) ex;
}
throw new RuntimeException("Exception calling action " + action, ex);
} finally {
if (operationTimer != null) {
operationTimer.stop();
}
}
return cosmosItemResponse;
}
/**
* Utility method to call Cosmos document query method and record the query time.
* @param sqlQuerySpec the DocumentDB query to execute.
* @param cosmosQueryRequestOptions {@link CosmosQueryRequestOptions} object specifying the options associated with the method.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return {@link CosmosPagedFlux} containing the query response.
*/
private CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> executeCosmosQuery(SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec,
CosmosQueryRequestOptions cosmosQueryRequestOptions, Timer timer) {
return executeCosmosQuery(cosmosCollection, sqlQuerySpec, cosmosQueryRequestOptions, CloudBlobMetadata.class,
timer);
}
/**
* Utility method to call Cosmos document query method and record the query time.
* @param containerName collection link of the collection to execute query on.
* @param sqlQuerySpec the DocumentDB query to execute.
* @param cosmosQueryRequestOptions {@link CosmosQueryRequestOptions} object specifying the options associated with the method.
* @param classType type of Class.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return {@link CosmosPagedFlux} containing the query response.
*/
<T> CosmosPagedFlux<T> executeCosmosQuery(String containerName, SqlQuerySpec sqlQuerySpec,
CosmosQueryRequestOptions cosmosQueryRequestOptions, Class<T> classType, Timer timer) {
azureMetrics.documentQueryCount.inc();
if (!Utils.isNullOrEmpty(cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getPartitionKey().toString())) {
logger.debug("Running query on partition {}: {}", cosmosQueryRequestOptions.getPartitionKey().toString(),
sqlQuerySpec.getQueryText());
} else {
logger.debug("Running query on partition {}", sqlQuerySpec.getQueryText());
}
Timer.Context operationTimer = timer.time();
try {
return cosmosAsyncDatabase.getContainer(containerName)
.queryItems(sqlQuerySpec, cosmosQueryRequestOptions, classType);
} finally {
operationTimer.stop();
}
}
/**
* Utility method to call Cosmos change feed query method and record the query time.
* @param changeFeedOptions {@link CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions} object specifying the options associated with the method.
* @param timer the {@link Timer} to use to record query time (excluding waiting).
* @return {@link CosmosPagedFlux} object representing the query response in the form of pages.
*/
private CosmosPagedFlux<CloudBlobMetadata> executeCosmosChangeFeedQuery(
CosmosChangeFeedRequestOptions changeFeedOptions, Timer timer) {
Timer.Context operationTimer = timer.time();
try {
// FIXME: Using single() for the observable returned by toBlocking() works for now. But if a high enough maxFeedSize
// is passed, to result in multiple feed pages, single() will throw an exception.
return cosmosAsyncContainer.queryChangeFeed(changeFeedOptions, CloudBlobMetadata.class);
} finally {
operationTimer.stop();
}
}
/**
* Fetch the key either directly from configs, or indirectly by looking for it in an Azure KeyVault.
* @param azureCloudConfig the config
* @return the CosmosDB key.
*/
private static String getCosmosKey(AzureCloudConfig azureCloudConfig) {
if (!azureCloudConfig.cosmosKey.isEmpty()) {
return azureCloudConfig.cosmosKey;
}
if (azureCloudConfig.cosmosKeySecretName.isEmpty() || azureCloudConfig.cosmosVaultUrl.isEmpty()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
String.format("One of the required configs for fetching the cosmos key from a keyvault (%s, %s) missing",
AzureCloudConfig.COSMOS_KEY_SECRET_NAME, AzureCloudConfig.COSMOS_VAULT_URL));
}
// check that all required azure identity configs are present if keyvault lookup is used.
AzureUtils.validateAzureIdentityConfigs(azureCloudConfig);
SecretClient secretClient = new SecretClientBuilder().vaultUrl(azureCloudConfig.cosmosVaultUrl)
.credential(AzureUtils.getClientSecretCredential(azureCloudConfig))
.buildClient();
return secretClient.getSecret(azureCloudConfig.cosmosKeySecretName).getValue();
}
}
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This is my checkBox:
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A: press and hold is the long press gesture, if I have not misunderstood you. You can try to attach OnLongClickListener on it, through
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2. Relics on parade
HomeStoriesGiovanni: Neighbourhood World2. Relics on parade
The "Miracle" in Sant' Ambrogio, which dates to around 1230, is one of the earliest documented eucharistic cults in Europe. What it celebrated was the idea of transubstantiation, the transformation of wine into blood during mass, and as such it underscored a basic plank of Church doctrine. However for parishioners like Giovanni, it was about much more than that. The vial of warm blood, reputedly found after mass, was a kind of relic. Like the bones of a saint, it was an object where, to borrow from Peter Brown, heaven meets earth. These objects supercharged churches with holiness and prestige. They helped to define community – when they were displayed and especially when they were carried through the streets. They effectively sanctified urban space. In fact the Miracle relic became not only the focus of a neighbourhood cult but the centrepiece of the civic Corpus Christi parade, drawing in support from the powerful Guild of Judges and Notaries and, after 1425, from the government.
Given this, it's no wonder the Benedictine nuns of Sant' Ambrogio kept commissioning new chapels to house the relic. The one you see was finished in 1486. Is the figure at the door in Cosimo Rosselli's fresco the bishop of Florence, as Giovanni says? Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian, certainly thought so 70 years later. But Vasari often winged it. If you ask the parish priest today, he'll tell you the cleric with the relic is his fifteenth-century predecessor. It's a more straightforward matter to explain the absence of the upper marker stone of the Red City potenza – that wasn't put up until 1577.
As Giovanni says, his confraternity (of San Michele, with its oratory across the Piazza) had a key role in the Miracle procession. Confraternities were the ubiquitous face of lay associational life in Renaissance cities. They usually had tombs, sometimes a chapel, in a church for their brothers and sisters, and this allowed the commemoration of the dead. In the fifteenth century there was a big rise in the number of artisan confraternities. They provided a form of spiritual and social insurance: burial, dowries, sometimes subsidies in sickness and old age. They offered poorer Florentines a degree of agency, over both their lives and deaths. Apart from that, confraternities were seen – especially by the archbishop who approved their statutes – to play a role in instructing men in good Christian conduct. Gambling, taverns, and sodomy were usually banned. However, these kinds of prohibitions were often ignored.
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David Rosenthal, 'Relics on parade' published online 2013, in 'Hidden Florence', The University of Exeter, https://hiddenflorence.org/stories/giovanni/2-relics-on-parade/
Eve Borsook, 'Cults and Imagery at Sant'Ambrogio in Florence', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 25 (1981), 147-202
Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
Ronald Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence (New York: Academic Press, 1982) |
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Camden: Number of debates declines
By Jim Camden
Published: October 26, 2022, 6:01am
Jim Camden is a columnist with the Spokesman-Review in Spokane. Photo
Before the public has a chance to see candidates debate in a major political race, a series of private debates has taken place behind the scenes by the campaigns.
They've debated where the debates will be held, who should sponsor them and what the format should be. And all of those debates come after the most important one: Should we debate at all and, if so, how many times?
The answers vary among candidates, campaigns and years. By some estimates, 2022 is a year in which debates for some major offices like Congress and governorships are down significantly.
"The 2022 cycle has seen fewer debates between candidates for Senate and governors than previous years," Monica Potts wrote last week for the political website FiveThirtyEight.
Among the reasons she listed was the decision by the Republican National Committee to leave the Commission on Presidential Debates, claiming it was biased against GOP candidates, which may have set the tone for races down the ballot. In some states, Democrats running for statewide office are refusing to debate opponents who deny the validity of the 2020 election or question the current one.
Another study by the Brookings Institute shows that U.S. Senate candidates in the most competitive races have debated less over the past decade. The number of debates varies with each campaign cycle because of differences in those years, research analyst Cory Galliher wrote in a recent report. But even when those variations are taken into account, the trend since 2010 has been a sharp decline in debates.
"The simplest explanation for this trend is that campaigns are more frequently deciding that debates do not benefit candidates," Galliher wrote. "Debates can be more of a liability than a boon."
If not a liability, debates may be a wash in terms of moving voters.
Every political science major can point to the first Richard Nixon-John Kennedy debate in 1960, where a tanned, youthful JFK bested a pale, sweaty Nixon to win over the television audience, despite the fact that most people who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon won on the issues.
The real impact of that first Nixon-Kennedy debate might have been that it convinced incumbents or candidates who were in the lead not to debate because it isn't really in their best interests.
Incumbents typically see less advantage in debating and are likely to try to limit their participation, said Cornell Clayton, a Washington State University political science professor and director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy.
"Challengers want as many as they can get," he added.
In Washington, debates have been sponsored by a range of entities, including The Spokesman-Review and other newspapers, commercial and public television stations, the League of Women Voters and the Washington Debate Coalition, which is an arm of the Seattle City Club.
The modern record for U.S. Senate debates in Washington was set in 1992, when Brock Adams retired. Democrat Patty Murray, then a state senator, and U.S. Rep. Rod Chandler, a Republican, debated five times — in Vancouver, Seattle, Olympia and twice in Spokane — plus did a joint radio session after their first Spokane debate. Since that first campaign, Murray has usually done two debates or, like this year, a debate and a joint town hall session.
One exception to the rule that incumbents usually try to duck debates was U.S. Rep. Tom Foley, who usually agreed to as many debates as he could fit into the schedule after the primary and the House recessed for campaigning. When he first ran in 1964, Foley had trouble getting U.S. Rep. Walt Horan to agree to a debate and contended an incumbent always has a duty to debate their record. Some Foley challengers declined to debate, but others took up the challenge. In his final campaign against Republican George Nethercutt, the two debated nine times in the seven weeks between the primary and the general election.
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When I get frustrated, I make a quick project that I can finish in one evening as I watch TV. A quick, easy project would be a simple dishcloth.
After supper when hubby and I sit down to watch our shows is when I pull out my hook and yarn. Rarely do I crochet during the day unless it is a project I have in my purse and I'm waiting for a doctors appointment.
My friend came to visit me once and she liked a minion hat I had in my gift drawer. She had to have it for her grandchild who lived with her. She told me her husband threw it away. No more crocheted things for her.
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Thank you very much. I appreciate all your kind comments.
Just thought I'd show you a hat and scarf set I recently finished. I love these patterns and I've made the hat several times. They're easy to whip up when I'm sitting down at night watching a little television. Pattern information is on my blog. Thanks for looking.
We became snowbirds this year and came down to Florida to get away from cold winters and snow. I bought some cheap microfiber dishcloths and dishrags at Dollar Tree to start us out. Husband usually does the dishes so when he complained about microfiber not doing the job, I went to Walmart (my stash is in Kentucky) and got some cotton yarn and made some new dishcloths. Patterns are all free and if you want them the information is on my blog.
There are a bunch of links for pet clothes here.
Great job and what a nice idea. Don't feel bad about being late. Just sent my mil gift off. I ordered it right after Thanksgiving and I just got it and then I had to mail it because I forgot to change the shipping address on Amazon.
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Is the Federal Budget's $2b Geelong to Melbourne fast rail pledge too good to be true?
By state political reporter Richard Willingham
Posted WedWednesday 3 AprApril 2019 at 7:09pmWedWednesday 3 AprApril 2019 at 7:09pm , updated WedWednesday 3 AprApril 2019 at 10:38pmWedWednesday 3 AprApril 2019 at 10:38pm
$2b or not $2b? That is the question. (ABC News: Paul Sellenger)
Everyone hates sitting in traffic or catching a jam-packed train.
Cue Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledging to halve train travel times between Melbourne and Geelong.
But that project, and the money needed to build it, are off in the distance.
This is the difficulty with political budgets for the public.
The pledge and headline figures are bellowed by politicians, but details about when the money starts flowing and when the workers start digging are spoken about more quietly.
Let's look at this bipartisan plan for fast rail from Melbourne to Geelong.
The Morrison Government has committed $2 billion of cash towards the fast-train project, while the Andrews Government is spending $150 million on a feasibility study.
When the Prime Minister announced the commitment, which he wanted matched by Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews, voters were told work on the project could start in two years.
But government documents seen by the ABC paint a different picture.
The Prime Minister says work on the fast rail will start "as soon as we can get it moving". (Supplied: Victorian Coalition)
The documents, discussing state and federal collaborations on infrastructure, show the Commonwealth's contribution to the Geelong fast rail project begins with $20 million in 2021-22, with another $30 million the year after.
The remaining $1.95 billion is to be delivered beyond 2023-24, when the next state and federal elections are due.
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When grilled by Jon Faine on ABC Melbourne radio, Mr Morrison stood by the strategy and said money would flow once the Victorian Government had completed a feasibility study.
"As soon as we can get it moving, we will be getting moving. And that's exactly what we are doing, we will do it with all these projects,'' Mr Morrison said.
"If we are in a position to start early we will."
Mr Morrison said voters did not "expect these projects to be built overnight".
Mr Andrews, who has built a reputation on the back of funding and building roads and rail, jumped on this detail in the wake of the budget.
"The money they have promised, it is all off on the never never, it is in five years, maybe even longer," Mr Andrews said.
"As if Victorians are foolishly going to buy that, no, six years, six years of cuts and chaos, instead of action and delivery."
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Grattan Institute transport expert Marion Terrill said Mr Andrews was right in his analysis that the money promised was a long way off.
She urged voters to look at what money is allocated over the forward estimates — the four years each budget accounts for.
"As what to promises that are going to happen eight years out, 10 years out, take them with a very big dose of salt," she told the ABC.
It's not unusual for governments to make big budget promises beyond the forward estimates, and it is a growing trend, Ms Terrill said.
For voters it just adds to the complexity of cutting through the election promises and what is actually being paid for in the short term.
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package com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model;
import static com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model.Util.addToIntersection;
import static com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model.Util.addToSupertypes;
import static com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model.Util.addToUnion;
import static com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model.Util.getTypeArgumentMap;
import static com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.model.Util.principalInstantiation;
import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;
import com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.context.ProducedTypeCache;
import com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.typechecker.util.ProducedTypeNamePrinter;
/**
* A produced type with actual type arguments.
* This represents something that is actually
* considered a "type" in the language
* specification.
*
* @author Gavin King
*/
public class ProducedType extends ProducedReference {
private String underlyingType;
private boolean isRaw;
private ProducedType resolvedAliases;
// cache
private int hashCode;
private List<ProducedType> typeArgumentList;
ProducedType() {}
@Override
public TypeDeclaration getDeclaration() {
return (TypeDeclaration) super.getDeclaration();
}
/**
* Is this type exactly the same type as the
* given type?
*/
public boolean isExactly(ProducedType type) {
return resolveAliases().isExactlyInternal(type.resolveAliases());
}
public boolean isExactlyInternal(ProducedType type) {
if (getDeclaration() instanceof NothingType) {
return type.isNothing();
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> cases = getCaseTypes();
if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> otherCases = type.getCaseTypes();
if (cases.size()!=otherCases.size()) {
return false;
}
else {
for (ProducedType c: cases) {
boolean found = false;
for (ProducedType oc: otherCases) {
if (c.isExactlyInternal(oc)) {
found = true;
break;
}
}
if (!found) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
else if (cases.size()==1) {
ProducedType st = cases.get(0);
return st.isExactlyInternal(type);
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
List<ProducedType> types = getSatisfiedTypes();
if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
List<ProducedType> otherTypes = type.getSatisfiedTypes();
if (types.size()!=otherTypes.size()) {
return false;
}
else {
for (ProducedType c: types) {
boolean found = false;
for (ProducedType oc: otherTypes) {
if (c.getDeclaration().equals(oc.getDeclaration())) {
if (c.isExactlyInternal(oc)) {
found = true;
break;
}
//given a covariant type Co, and interfaces
//A satisfies Co<B&Co<A>> and
//B satisfies Co<A&Co<B>>, then
//A&Co<B> is equivalent A&Co<B&Co<A>> as a
//consequence of principal instantiation
//inheritance
ProducedType cst =
getSupertypeInternal(c.getDeclaration());
ProducedType ocst =
type.getSupertypeInternal(oc.getDeclaration());
if (cst.isExactlyInternal(ocst)) {
found = true;
break;
}
}
}
if (!found) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
else if (types.size()==1) {
ProducedType st = types.get(0);
return st.isExactlyInternal(type);
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> otherCases = type.getCaseTypes();
if (otherCases.size()==1) {
ProducedType st = otherCases.get(0);
return this.isExactlyInternal(st);
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
List<ProducedType> otherTypes = type.getSatisfiedTypes();
if (otherTypes.size()==1) {
ProducedType st = otherTypes.get(0);
return this.isExactlyInternal(st);
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else {
if (!type.getDeclaration().equals(getDeclaration())) {
return false;
}
else {
ProducedType qt =
getDeclaration().isStaticallyImportable() ?
null : getQualifyingType();
ProducedType tqt =
type.getDeclaration().isStaticallyImportable() ?
null : type.getQualifyingType();
if (qt==null) {
if (tqt!=null) {
return false;
}
}
else {
if (tqt==null) {
return false;
}
else {
TypeDeclaration totd =
(TypeDeclaration) type.getDeclaration().getContainer();
ProducedType tqts = tqt.getSupertypeInternal(totd);
TypeDeclaration otd =
(TypeDeclaration) getDeclaration().getContainer();
ProducedType qts = qt.getSupertypeInternal(otd);
if (!qts.isExactlyInternal(tqts)) {
return false;
}
}
}
for (TypeParameter p: getDeclaration().getTypeParameters()) {
ProducedType arg = getTypeArguments().get(p);
ProducedType otherArg = type.getTypeArguments().get(p);
if (arg==null || otherArg==null) {
return false;
/*throw new RuntimeException(
"Missing type argument for: " +
p.getName() + " of " +
getDeclaration().getName());*/
}
else if (!arg.isExactlyInternal(otherArg)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
}
/**
* Is this type a supertype of the given type?
*/
public boolean isSupertypeOf(ProducedType type) {
return type.isSubtypeOf(this);
}
/**
* Is this type a subtype of the given type?
*/
public boolean isSubtypeOf(ProducedType type) {
return type!=null && resolveAliases()
.isSubtypeOfInternal(type.resolveAliases());
}
/**
* Is this type a subtype of the given type? Ignore
* a certain self type constraint.
*/
public boolean isSubtypeOfInternal(ProducedType type) {
if (depth.get()>30) {
throw new RuntimeException("undecidable subtyping");
}
depth.set(depth.get()+1);
try {
if (isNothing()) {
return true;
}
else if (type.isNothing()) {
return false;
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getInternalCaseTypes()) {
if (ct==null || !ct.isSubtypeOfInternal(type)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
else if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: type.getInternalCaseTypes()) {
if (ct!=null && isSubtypeOfInternal(ct)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
else if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: type.getInternalSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (ct!=null && !isSubtypeOfInternal(ct)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
if (type.getDeclaration() instanceof ClassOrInterface) {
ProducedType pst =
getSupertypeInternal(type.getDeclaration());
if (pst!=null && pst.isSubtypeOfInternal(type)) {
return true;
}
}
for (ProducedType ct: getInternalSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (ct==null || ct.isSubtypeOfInternal(type)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
else {
ProducedType st =
getSupertypeInternal(type.getDeclaration());
if (st==null) {
return false;
}
else {
st = st.resolveAliases();
ProducedType stqt =
st.getDeclaration().isStaticallyImportable() ?
null : st.getQualifyingType();
ProducedType tqt =
type.getDeclaration().isStaticallyImportable() ?
null : type.getQualifyingType();
if (stqt==null) {
if (tqt!=null) {
//probably extraneous!
return false;
}
}
else {
if (tqt==null) {
//probably extraneous!
return false;
}
else if (!type.getDeclaration().isMember()) {
//local types with a qualifying typed declaration do not need to obtain the
//qualifying type's supertype
if (!stqt.isSubtypeOf(tqt)) {
return false;
}
}
else {
//note that the qualifying type of the
//given type may be an invariant subtype
//of the type that declares the member
//type, as long as it doesn't refine the
//member type
TypeDeclaration totd =
(TypeDeclaration) type.getDeclaration().getContainer();
ProducedType tqts = tqt.getSupertypeInternal(totd);
if (!stqt.isSubtypeOf(tqts)) {
return false;
}
}
}
for (TypeParameter p: type.getDeclaration().getTypeParameters()) {
ProducedType arg = st.getTypeArguments().get(p);
ProducedType otherArg = type.getTypeArguments().get(p);
if (arg==null || otherArg==null) {
/*throw new RuntimeException("Missing type argument for type parameter: " +
p.getName() + " of " +
type.getDeclaration().getName());*/
return false;
}
else if (p.isCovariant()) {
if (!arg.isSubtypeOfInternal(otherArg)) {
return false;
}
}
else if (p.isContravariant()) {
if (!otherArg.isSubtypeOfInternal(arg)) {
return false;
}
}
else {
if (!arg.isExactlyInternal(otherArg)) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
}
}
finally { depth.set(depth.get()-1); }
}
/**
* Eliminate the given type from the union type.
* (Performs a set complement operation.) Note
* that this operation is not robust and only
* works if this is a union of the given type
* with some other types that don't involve the
* given type.
*/
public ProducedType minus(ProducedType pt) {
//canonicalize and then remove the type
//from the resulting union
return resolveAliases().minusInternal(pt.resolveAliases());
}
/**
* Eliminates unioned Null from a type in a
* very special way that the backend prefers
*/
public ProducedType eliminateNull() {
TypeDeclaration dec = getDeclaration();
Unit unit = dec.getUnit();
Class nd = unit.getNullDeclaration();
if (getSupertype(nd)!=null) {
return unit.getNothingDeclaration().getType();
}
else if (dec instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> caseTypes = getCaseTypes();
List<ProducedType> types =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(caseTypes.size());
for (ProducedType ct: caseTypes) {
// if (ct.getSupertype(nd)==null) {
addToUnion(types, ct.eliminateNull());
// }
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(unit);
ut.setCaseTypes(types);
return ut.getType();
}
else {
return this;
}
}
public ProducedType shallowMinus(ProducedType pt) {
TypeDeclaration dec = getDeclaration();
Unit unit = dec.getUnit();
if (isSubtypeOf(pt)) {
return unit.getNothingDeclaration().getType();
}
else if (dec instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> caseTypes = getCaseTypes();
List<ProducedType> types =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(caseTypes.size());
for (ProducedType ct: caseTypes) {
// if (ct.getSupertype(nd)==null) {
addToUnion(types, ct.shallowMinus(pt));
// }
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(unit);
ut.setCaseTypes(types);
return ut.getType();
}
else {
return this;
}
}
private ProducedType minusInternal(ProducedType pt) {
Unit unit = getDeclaration().getUnit();
if (pt.coversInternal(this)) { //note: coversInternal() already calls getUnionOfCases()
return unit.getNothingDeclaration().getType();
}
else {
ProducedType ucts = getUnionOfCases();
if (ucts.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> cts = ucts.getCaseTypes();
List<ProducedType> types =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(cts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
addToUnion(types, ct.minus(pt));
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(unit);
ut.setCaseTypes(types);
return ut.getType();
}
else {
return this;
}
}
}
/**
* Substitute the given types for the corresponding
* given type parameters wherever they appear in the
* type.
*/
public ProducedType substitute(Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions) {
return new Substitution().substitute(this, substitutions).simple();
}
private ProducedType substituteInternal(Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions) {
return new InternalSubstitution().substitute(this, substitutions);
}
/**
* A member or member type of the type with actual type
* arguments to the receiving type and invocation.
*/
public ProducedReference getTypedReference(Declaration member,
List<ProducedType> typeArguments) {
if (member instanceof TypeDeclaration) {
return getTypeMember((TypeDeclaration) member, typeArguments);
}
else {
return getTypedMember((TypedDeclaration) member, typeArguments);
}
}
/**
* A member of the type with actual type arguments
* to the receiving type and invocation.
*
* @param member the declaration of a member of
* this type
* @param typeArguments the type arguments of the
* invocation
*/
public ProducedTypedReference getTypedMember(TypedDeclaration member,
List<ProducedType> typeArguments) {
ProducedType declaringType =
getSupertype((TypeDeclaration) member.getContainer());
/*if (declaringType==null) {
return null;
}
else {*/
ProducedTypedReference ptr = new ProducedTypedReference();
ptr.setDeclaration(member);
ptr.setQualifyingType(declaringType);
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> map =
getTypeArgumentMap(member, declaringType, typeArguments);
//map.putAll(sub(map));
ptr.setTypeArguments(map);
return ptr;
//}
}
/**
* A member type of the type with actual type arguments
* to the receiving type and invocation.
*
* @param member the declaration of a member type of
* this type
* @param typeArguments the type arguments of the
* invocation
*/
public ProducedType getTypeMember(TypeDeclaration member,
List<ProducedType> typeArguments) {
ProducedType declaringType =
getSupertype((TypeDeclaration) member.getContainer());
return member.getProducedType(declaringType, typeArguments);
/*ProducedType pt = new ProducedType();
pt.setDeclaration(member);
pt.setQualifyingType(declaringType);
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> map = arguments(member, declaringType, typeArguments);
//map.putAll(sub(map));
pt.setTypeArguments(map);
return pt;*/
}
/**
* Substitute invocation type arguments into an upper bound
* on a type parameter of the invocation, where this type
* represents an upper bound.
*
* @param receiver the type that receives the invocation
* @param member the invoked member
* @param typeArguments the explicit or inferred type
* arguments of the invocation
*
* @return the upper bound of a type parameter, after
* performing all type argument substitution
*/
public ProducedType getProducedType(ProducedType receiver,
Declaration member, List<ProducedType> typeArguments) {
ProducedType rst = (receiver==null) ? null :
receiver.getSupertype((TypeDeclaration) member.getContainer());
return new Substitution().substitute(this,
getTypeArgumentMap(member, rst, typeArguments));
}
public ProducedType getType() {
return this;
}
/**
* Get all supertypes of the type by traversing the whole
* type hierarchy. Avoid using this!
*/
public List<ProducedType> getSupertypes() {
return getSupertypes(new ArrayList<ProducedType>(5));
}
private List<ProducedType> getSupertypes(List<ProducedType> list) {
if ( isWellDefined() && (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType ||
getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType ||
addToSupertypes(list, this)) ) {
ProducedType extendedType = getExtendedType();
if (extendedType!=null) {
extendedType.getSupertypes(list);
}
List<ProducedType> satisfiedTypes = getSatisfiedTypes();
for (int i=0, l=satisfiedTypes.size(); i<l; i++) {
satisfiedTypes.get(i).getSupertypes(list);
}
if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
//trying to infer supertypes of algebraic
//types from their cases was resulting in
//stack overflows and is not currently
//required by the spec
List<ProducedType> caseTypes = getCaseTypes();
if (caseTypes!=null) {
for (int caseTypeIndex=0,
caseTypeCount = caseTypes.size();
caseTypeIndex<caseTypeCount;
caseTypeIndex++) {
ProducedType t = caseTypes.get(caseTypeIndex);
if (!alreadyInList(list, t)) {
List<ProducedType> candidates = t.getSupertypes();
for (int candidateIndex=0,
candidateCount=candidates.size();
candidateIndex<candidateCount;
candidateIndex++) {
ProducedType st = candidates.get(candidateIndex);
boolean include = true;
List<ProducedType> caseTypes2 =
getDeclaration().getCaseTypes();
for (int caseTypeIndex2=0,
caseTypeCount2 = caseTypes2.size();
caseTypeIndex2<caseTypeCount2;
caseTypeIndex2++) {
ProducedType ct = caseTypes2.get(caseTypeIndex2);
if (!ct.isSubtypeOf(st)) {
include = false;
break;
}
}
if (include) {
addToSupertypes(list, st);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
return list;
}
private boolean alreadyInList(List<ProducedType> list, ProducedType t) {
for (ProducedType pt: list) {
if (t.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType ||
t.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType ||
(t.getDeclaration().equals(pt.getDeclaration()) &&
t.isExactlyInternal(pt))) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
/**
* Given a type declaration, return a produced type of
* which this type is an invariant subtype.
*
* @param dec a type declaration
*
* @return a produced type of the given type declaration
* which is a supertype of this type, or null if
* there is no such supertype
*/
public ProducedType getSupertype(TypeDeclaration dec) {
//TODO: do I need to call resolveAliases() here?
return /*resolveAliases().*/getSupertypeInternal(dec);
}
private ProducedType getSupertypeInternal(TypeDeclaration dec) {
boolean complexType =
dec instanceof UnionType ||
dec instanceof IntersectionType;
boolean canCache = !complexType &&
!hasUnderlyingType() &&
ProducedTypeCache.isEnabled();
ProducedTypeCache cache = dec.getUnit().getCache();
if (canCache &&
cache.containsKey(this, dec)) {
return cache.get(this, dec);
}
SupertypeCheck check =
checkSupertype(getDeclaration(), dec);
ProducedType superType;
if (check == SupertypeCheck.NO) {
superType = null;
}
else if (check == SupertypeCheck.YES &&
dec instanceof ClassOrInterface &&
dec.isToplevel() &&
dec.getTypeParameters().isEmpty()) {
superType = dec.getType();
}
else if (check == SupertypeCheck.YES &&
dec == getDeclaration() &&
dec.isToplevel()) {
superType = this;
}
else {
superType = getSupertype(new SupertypeCriteria(dec));
}
if (canCache) {
cache.put(this, dec, superType);
}
return superType;
}
private boolean hasUnderlyingType() {
if (getUnderlyingType() != null) {
return true;
}
List<ProducedType> tal = getTypeArgumentList();
for (int i=0,l=tal.size();i<l;i++) {
ProducedType ta = tal.get(i);
if (ta != null && ta.hasUnderlyingType()) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
enum SupertypeCheck {
YES, NO, MAYBE;
}
private static SupertypeCheck checkSupertype(TypeDeclaration declaration, TypeDeclaration supertype) {
// fail-fast: there are only two classes that can be supertypes of an interface
if(declaration instanceof Interface &&
supertype instanceof Class) {
String supertypeName = supertype.getQualifiedNameString();
if (supertypeName.equals("ceylon.language::Object") ||
supertypeName.equals("ceylon.language::Anything")) {
return SupertypeCheck.YES;
}
else {
return SupertypeCheck.NO;
}
}
// we don't know how to look for non-simple supertypes
if (!(supertype instanceof Class) &&
!(supertype instanceof Interface)) {
return SupertypeCheck.MAYBE;
}
if (declaration instanceof Class ||
declaration instanceof Interface) {
if (declaration.equals(supertype)) {
return SupertypeCheck.YES;
}
if (declaration.getExtendedTypeDeclaration() != null) {
SupertypeCheck extended =
checkSupertype(declaration.getExtendedTypeDeclaration(),
supertype);
if (extended == SupertypeCheck.YES) {
return extended;
}
// keep looking
}
for (ProducedType satisfiedType:
declaration.getSatisfiedTypes()) {
SupertypeCheck satisfied =
checkSupertype(satisfiedType.getDeclaration(), supertype);
if (satisfied == SupertypeCheck.YES) {
return satisfied;
}
// keep looking
}
// not in the interfaces, not in the extended type
return SupertypeCheck.NO;
}
if (declaration instanceof UnionType) {
if (declaration.getCaseTypes().isEmpty()) {
return SupertypeCheck.NO;
}
// every case must have that supertype
for (ProducedType caseType:
declaration.getCaseTypes()) {
SupertypeCheck satisfied =
checkSupertype(caseType.getDeclaration(), supertype);
if (satisfied != SupertypeCheck.YES) {
return satisfied;
}
// keep looking
}
// in every case
return SupertypeCheck.YES;
}
if (declaration instanceof IntersectionType) {
if (declaration.getSatisfiedTypes().isEmpty()) {
return SupertypeCheck.NO;
}
boolean perhaps = false;
// any satisfied type will do
for (ProducedType satisfiedType:
declaration.getSatisfiedTypes()) {
SupertypeCheck satisfied =
checkSupertype(satisfiedType.getDeclaration(), supertype);
if (satisfied == SupertypeCheck.YES) {
return satisfied;
}
else if (satisfied == SupertypeCheck.MAYBE) {
perhaps = true;
}
// keep looking
}
// did not find it, but perhaps it's in there?
return perhaps ? SupertypeCheck.MAYBE : SupertypeCheck.NO;
}
return SupertypeCheck.MAYBE;
}
private static final class SupertypeCriteria implements Criteria {
private TypeDeclaration dec;
private SupertypeCriteria(TypeDeclaration dec) {
this.dec = dec;
}
@Override
public boolean satisfies(TypeDeclaration type) {
return !(type instanceof UnionType) &&
!(type instanceof IntersectionType) &&
type.equals(dec);
}
@Override
public boolean isMemberLookup() {
return false;
}
};
/**
* Given a predicate, return a produced type for a
* declaration satisfying the predicate, of which
* this type is an invariant subtype.
*/
static interface Criteria {
boolean satisfies(TypeDeclaration type);
boolean isMemberLookup();
}
/**
* Search for the most-specialized supertype
* satisfying the given predicate.
*/
public ProducedType getSupertype(Criteria c) {
if (depth.get()>30) {
throw new RuntimeException("undecidable canonicalization");
}
depth.set(depth.get()+1);
try {
if (c.satisfies(getDeclaration())) {
return qualifiedByDeclaringType();
}
if ( isWellDefined() ) {
//now let's call the two most difficult methods
//in the whole code base:
ProducedType result = getPrincipalInstantiation(c);
result = getPrincipalInstantiationFromCases(c, result);
return result;
}
else {
return null;
}
}
finally { depth.set(depth.get()-1); }
}
private ProducedType getPrincipalInstantiationFromCases(Criteria c,
ProducedType result) {
if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
//trying to infer supertypes of algebraic
//types from their cases was resulting in
//stack overflows and is not currently
//required by the spec
final List<ProducedType> caseTypes = getInternalCaseTypes();
if (caseTypes!=null && !caseTypes.isEmpty()) {
//first find a common superclass or superinterface
//declaration that satisfies the criteria, ignoring
//type arguments for now
ProducedType stc = findCommonSuperclass(c, caseTypes);
if (stc!=null) {
//we found the declaration, now try to construct a
//produced type that is a true common supertype
ProducedType candidateResult =
getCommonSupertype(caseTypes,
stc.getDeclaration());
if (candidateResult!=null && (result==null ||
candidateResult.isSubtypeOfInternal(result))) {
result = candidateResult;
}
}
}
}
return result;
}
private ProducedType findCommonSuperclass(Criteria c,
List<ProducedType> types) {
ProducedType stc = null;
for (ProducedType pt: types.get(0).getSupertypes()) {
TypeDeclaration ptd = pt.getDeclaration();
if (ptd instanceof ClassOrInterface && c.satisfies(ptd)) {
for (ProducedType ct: types) {
if (!ct.getDeclaration().inherits(ptd)) {
pt = null;
break;
}
}
if (pt!=null) {
if (stc==null) {
stc = pt;
}
else if (ptd.inherits(stc.getDeclaration())) {
stc = pt;
}
else if (stc.getDeclaration().inherits(ptd)) {
}
else {
stc = null;
break;
}
}
}
}
return stc;
}
public static ThreadLocal<Integer> depth =
new ThreadLocal<Integer>(){
protected Integer initialValue() {
return 0;
}
};
private ProducedType getPrincipalInstantiation(Criteria c) {
//search for the most-specific supertype
//for the given declaration
ProducedType result = null;
ProducedType extendedType = getInternalExtendedType();
if (extendedType!=null) {
ProducedType possibleResult =
extendedType.getSupertype(c);
if (possibleResult!=null) {
result = possibleResult;
}
}
List<ProducedType> satisfiedTypes =
getInternalSatisfiedTypes();
// cheaper iteration
for (int i=0,l=satisfiedTypes.size();i<l;i++) {
ProducedType dst = satisfiedTypes.get(i);
ProducedType possibleResult = dst.getSupertype(c);
if (possibleResult!=null) {
if (result==null ||
possibleResult.isSubtypeOf(result)) {
result = possibleResult;
}
else if ( !result.isSubtypeOf(possibleResult) ) {
//TODO: this is still needed even though we keep intersections
// in canonical form because you can have stuff like
// empty of Iterable<String>&Sized
TypeDeclaration rd = result.getDeclaration();
TypeDeclaration prd = possibleResult.getDeclaration();
//Resolve ambiguities in favor of
//the most-refined declaration
/*if (rd.equals(prd)) {
List<ProducedType> args = constructPrincipalInstantiation(
rd, result, possibleResult);
//TODO: broken for member types! ugh :-(
result = rd.getProducedType(result.getQualifyingType(), args);
}
else if (rd.inherits(prd)) {
}
else if (prd.inherits(rd)) {
result = possibleResult;
}*/
TypeDeclaration d = null;
if (rd.equals(prd)) {
d = rd;
}
//Resolve ambiguities in favor of
//least-refined declaration (in
//order to take advantage of most
//specific type arguments)
/*else if (rd.inherits(prd)) {
d=prd;
result=result.getSupertype(d);
}
else if (prd.inherits(rd)) {
d=rd;
possibleResult=possibleResult.getSupertype(d);
}*/
Unit unit = getDeclaration().getUnit();
if (d!=null) {
result = principalInstantiation(d, possibleResult,
result, unit);
}
else {
//ambiguous! we can't decide between the two
//supertypes which both satisfy the criteria
if (c.isMemberLookup() && !satisfiedTypes.isEmpty()) {
//for the case of a member lookup, try to find
//a common supertype by forming the union of
//the two possible results (since A|B is always
//a supertype of A&B)
UnionType ut = new UnionType(unit);
List<ProducedType> caseTypes =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(2);
//if (extendedType!=null) caseTypes.add(extendedType);
//caseTypes.addAll(satisfiedTypes);
caseTypes.add(result);
caseTypes.add(possibleResult);
ut.setCaseTypes(caseTypes);
result = ut.getType().getSupertype(c);
if (result==null) {
return new UnknownType(unit).getType();
}
}
else {
return new UnknownType(unit).getType();
}
}
}
}
}
return result;
}
private ProducedType qualifiedByDeclaringType() {
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt==null) {
return this;
}
else if (!getDeclaration().isMember()) {
// local types can't have qualifying types that differ
return this;
}
else{
ProducedType pt = new ProducedType();
pt.setDeclaration(getDeclaration());
pt.setTypeArguments(getTypeArguments());
//replace the qualifying type with
//the supertype of the qualifying
//type that declares this nested
//type, substituting type arguments
TypeDeclaration dtd =
(TypeDeclaration) getDeclaration().getContainer();
ProducedType declaringType =
qt.getSupertypeInternal(dtd);
pt.setQualifyingType(declaringType);
return pt;
}
}
private ProducedType getCommonSupertype(final List<ProducedType> caseTypes,
TypeDeclaration dec) {
//now try to construct a common produced
//type that is a common supertype by taking
//the type args and unioning them
List<ProducedType> args =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(dec.getTypeParameters().size());
for (TypeParameter tp: dec.getTypeParameters()) {
List<ProducedType> list2 =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(caseTypes.size());
ProducedType result;
if (tp.isContravariant()) {
for (ProducedType pt: caseTypes) {
if (pt==null) {
return null;
}
ProducedType st = pt.getSupertypeInternal(dec);
if (st==null) {
return null;
}
addToIntersection(list2,
st.getTypeArguments().get(tp),
getDeclaration().getUnit());
}
IntersectionType it =
new IntersectionType(getDeclaration().getUnit());
it.setSatisfiedTypes(list2);
result = it.canonicalize().getType();
}
else {
for (ProducedType pt: caseTypes) {
if (pt==null) {
return null;
}
ProducedType st = pt.getSupertypeInternal(dec);
if (st==null) {
return null;
}
addToUnion(list2, st.getTypeArguments().get(tp));
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(getDeclaration().getUnit());
ut.setCaseTypes(list2);
result = ut.getType();
}
args.add(result);
}
//check that the unioned type args
//satisfy the type constraints
//disabled this according to #52
/*for (int i=0; i<args.size(); i++) {
TypeParameter tp = dec.getTypeParameters().get(i);
for (ProducedType ub: tp.getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (!args.get(i).isSubtypeOf(ub)) {
return null;
}
}
}*/
//recurse to the qualifying type
ProducedType outerType;
if (dec.isMember() && !dec.isStaticallyImportable()) {
TypeDeclaration outer = (TypeDeclaration) dec.getContainer();
List<ProducedType> list =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(caseTypes.size());
for (ProducedType ct: caseTypes) {
if (ct==null) {
return null;
}
List<ProducedType> intersectedTypes;
if (ct.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
intersectedTypes = ct.getSatisfiedTypes();
}
else {
intersectedTypes = singletonList(ct);
}
for (ProducedType it: intersectedTypes) {
if (it.getDeclaration().isMember()) {
ProducedType st =
it.getQualifyingType().getSupertypeInternal(outer);
list.add(st);
}
}
}
outerType = getCommonSupertype(list, outer);
}
else {
outerType = null;
}
//make the resulting type
ProducedType candidateResult =
dec.getProducedType(outerType, args);
//check the the resulting type is *really*
//a subtype (take variance into account)
for (ProducedType pt: caseTypes) {
if (!pt.isSubtypeOf(candidateResult)) {
return null;
}
}
return candidateResult;
}
/**
* Get the type arguments as a tuple.
*/
public List<ProducedType> getTypeArgumentList() {
if (typeArgumentList==null ||
!ProducedTypeCache.isEnabled()) {
List<TypeParameter> tps =
getDeclaration().getTypeParameters();
if (tps.isEmpty()) {
return Collections.emptyList();
}
else {
List<ProducedType> argList =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(tps.size());
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
// cheaper c-for than foreach
for (int i=0,l=tps.size();i<l;i++) {
TypeParameter tp = tps.get(i);
argList.add(args.get(tp));
}
typeArgumentList = argList;
return argList;
}
}
else {
return typeArgumentList;
}
}
/**
* Determine if this is a decidable supertype, i.e. if it
* obeys the restriction that types with contravariant
* type parameters may only appear in covariant positions.
*
* @return a list of type parameters which appear in illegal
* positions
*/
public List<TypeDeclaration> checkDecidability() {
List<TypeDeclaration> errors =
new ArrayList<TypeDeclaration>();
for (TypeParameter tp:
getDeclaration().getTypeParameters()) {
ProducedType pt = getTypeArguments().get(tp);
if (pt!=null) {
pt.checkDecidability(tp.isCovariant(),
tp.isContravariant(), errors);
}
}
return errors;
}
private void checkDecidability(boolean covariant,
boolean contravariant, List<TypeDeclaration> errors) {
if (getDeclaration() instanceof TypeParameter) {
//nothing to do
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
ct.checkDecidability(covariant, contravariant,
errors);
}
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
ct.checkDecidability(covariant, contravariant,
errors);
}
}
else {
for (TypeParameter tp:
getDeclaration().getTypeParameters()) {
if (!covariant && tp.isContravariant()) {
//a type with contravariant parameters appears at
//a contravariant location in satisfies / extends
errors.add(getDeclaration());
}
ProducedType pt = getTypeArguments().get(tp);
if (pt!=null) {
if (tp.isCovariant()) {
pt.checkDecidability(covariant,
contravariant, errors);
}
else if (tp.isContravariant()) {
if (covariant|contravariant) {
pt.checkDecidability(!covariant,
!contravariant, errors);
}
else {
//else if we are in a nonvariant position, it stays nonvariant
pt.checkDecidability(covariant,
contravariant, errors);
}
}
else {
pt.checkDecidability(false, false, errors);
}
}
}
}
}
/**
* Check that this type can appear at a position,
* given the variance of the position (covariant,
* contravariant, or invariant.)
*
* @param covariant true for a covariant position
* @param contravariant true for a contravariant
* position
* @param declaration TODO!
*
* @return a list of type parameters which appear
* in illegal positions
*/
public List<TypeParameter> checkVariance(boolean covariant,
boolean contravariant, Declaration declaration) {
List<TypeParameter> errors = new ArrayList<TypeParameter>();
checkVariance(covariant, contravariant, declaration, errors);
return errors;
}
private void checkVariance(boolean covariant, boolean contravariant,
Declaration declaration, List<TypeParameter> errors) {
if (getDeclaration() instanceof TypeParameter) {
TypeParameter tp = (TypeParameter) getDeclaration();
boolean ok = tp.getDeclaration().equals(declaration) ||
((covariant || !tp.isCovariant()) &&
(contravariant || !tp.isContravariant()));
if (!ok) {
//a covariant type parameter appears in a contravariant location, or
//a contravariant type parameter appears in a covariant location.
errors.add(tp);
}
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
ct.checkVariance(covariant, contravariant,
declaration, errors);
}
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
ct.checkVariance(covariant, contravariant,
declaration, errors);
}
}
else {
if (getQualifyingType()!=null) {
getQualifyingType().checkVariance(covariant,
contravariant, declaration, errors);
}
for (TypeParameter tp: getDeclaration().getTypeParameters()) {
ProducedType pt = getTypeArguments().get(tp);
if (pt!=null) {
if (tp.isCovariant()) {
pt.checkVariance(covariant, contravariant,
declaration, errors);
}
else if (tp.isContravariant()) {
if (covariant|contravariant) {
pt.checkVariance(!covariant, !contravariant,
declaration, errors);
}
else {
//else if we are in a nonvariant position, it stays nonvariant
pt.checkVariance(covariant, contravariant,
declaration, errors);
}
}
else {
pt.checkVariance(false, false, declaration,
errors);
}
}
}
}
}
/**
* Is the type well-defined? Are any of its arguments
* garbage nulls?
*/
public boolean isWellDefined() {
List<TypeParameter> tps =
getDeclaration().getTypeParameters();
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && !qt.isWellDefined()) {
return false;
}
List<ProducedType> tas = getTypeArgumentList();
for (int i=0; i<tps.size(); i++) {
ProducedType at=tas.get(i);
if ((!tps.get(i).isDefaulted() && at==null) ||
(at!=null && !at.isWellDefined())) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
/**
* Is the type fully-known? Are any of its arguments
* unknowns?
*/
public boolean containsUnknowns() {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof UnknownType) {
return true;
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct:
getDeclaration().getCaseTypes()) {
if (ct.containsUnknowns()) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st:
getDeclaration().getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (st.containsUnknowns()) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof NothingType) {
return false;
}
else {
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && qt.containsUnknowns()) {
return true;
}
List<ProducedType> tas = getTypeArgumentList();
for (ProducedType at: tas) {
if (at==null || at.containsUnknowns()) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
public boolean containsDeclaration(Declaration td) {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof UnknownType) {
return false;
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct:
getDeclaration().getCaseTypes()) {
if (ct.containsDeclaration(td)) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st:
getDeclaration().getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (st.containsDeclaration(td)) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof NothingType) {
return false;
}
else {
if (d.equals(td)) {
return true;
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && qt.containsDeclaration(td)) {
return true;
}
List<ProducedType> tas = getTypeArgumentList();
for (ProducedType at: tas) {
if (at==null || at.containsDeclaration(td)) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
private List<ProducedType> getInternalSatisfiedTypes() {
List<ProducedType> sts =
getDeclaration().getSatisfiedTypes();
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
if (args.isEmpty()) {
return sts;
}
List<ProducedType> satisfiedTypes =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(sts.size());
for (ProducedType st: sts) {
satisfiedTypes.add(st.substituteInternal(args));
}
return satisfiedTypes;
}
private ProducedType getInternalExtendedType() {
ProducedType extendedType =
getDeclaration().getExtendedType();
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
if (args.isEmpty()) {
return extendedType;
}
return extendedType==null ?
null:extendedType.substituteInternal(args);
}
private List<ProducedType> getInternalCaseTypes() {
List<ProducedType> cts =
getDeclaration().getCaseTypes();
if (cts==null) {
return null;
}
else {
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
if (args.isEmpty()) {
return cts;
}
List<ProducedType> caseTypes =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(cts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
caseTypes.add(ct.substituteInternal(args));
}
return caseTypes;
}
}
public List<ProducedType> getSatisfiedTypes() {
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
List<ProducedType> sts =
getDeclaration().getSatisfiedTypes();
if (args.isEmpty()) {
return sts;
}
List<ProducedType> satisfiedTypes =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(sts.size());
for (int i=0,l=sts.size();i<l;i++) {
ProducedType st = sts.get(i);
satisfiedTypes.add(st.substitute(args));
}
return satisfiedTypes;
}
private ProducedType getExtendedType() {
ProducedType extendedType =
getDeclaration().getExtendedType();
if (extendedType==null) {
return null;
}
else {
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
return args.isEmpty() ?
extendedType :
extendedType.substitute(args);
}
}
public List<ProducedType> getCaseTypes() {
List<ProducedType> cts =
getDeclaration().getCaseTypes();
if (cts==null) {
return null;
}
else {
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
getTypeArguments();
if (args.isEmpty()) return cts;
List<ProducedType> caseTypes =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(cts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
caseTypes.add(ct.substitute(args));
}
return caseTypes;
}
}
/**
* Substitutes type arguments for type parameters.
* This default strategy eliminates duplicate types
* from unions after substituting arguments.
* @author Gavin King
*/
static class Substitution {
ProducedType substitute(ProducedType pt,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions) {
Declaration dec;
if (pt.getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
UnionType ut =
new UnionType(pt.getDeclaration().getUnit());
List<ProducedType> cts =
pt.getDeclaration().getCaseTypes();
List<ProducedType> types =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(cts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
addTypeToUnion(ct, substitutions, types);
}
ut.setCaseTypes(types);
dec = ut;
}
else if (pt.getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
IntersectionType it =
new IntersectionType(pt.getDeclaration().getUnit());
List<ProducedType> sts =
pt.getDeclaration().getSatisfiedTypes();
List<ProducedType> types =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(sts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: sts) {
addTypeToIntersection(ct, substitutions, types);
}
it.setSatisfiedTypes(types);
dec = it.canonicalize();
}
else {
if (pt.getDeclaration() instanceof TypeParameter) {
ProducedType sub =
substitutions.get(pt.getDeclaration());
if (sub!=null) {
return sub;
}
}
dec = pt.getDeclaration();
}
return substitutedType(dec, pt, substitutions);
}
void addTypeToUnion(ProducedType ct, Map<TypeParameter,
ProducedType> substitutions, List<ProducedType> types) {
if (ct==null) {
types.add(null);
}
else {
addToUnion(types, substitute(ct, substitutions));
}
}
void addTypeToIntersection(ProducedType ct, Map<TypeParameter,
ProducedType> substitutions, List<ProducedType> types) {
if (ct==null) {
types.add(null);
}
else {
addToIntersection(types,
substitute(ct, substitutions),
ct.getDeclaration().getUnit());
}
}
private Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutedTypeArguments(ProducedType pt,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions) {
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> typeArguments =
pt.getTypeArguments();
if (substitutions.isEmpty() && typeArguments.isEmpty()) {
return Collections.emptyMap();
}
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> map =
new HashMap<TypeParameter, ProducedType>(typeArguments.size());
for (Map.Entry<TypeParameter, ProducedType> e: typeArguments.entrySet()) {
if (e.getValue()!=null) {
map.put(e.getKey(), substitute(e.getValue(), substitutions));
}
}
/*ProducedType dt = pt.getDeclaringType();
if (dt!=null) {
map.putAll(substituted(dt, substitutions));
}*/
return map;
}
private ProducedType substitutedType(Declaration dec, ProducedType pt,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions) {
ProducedType type = new ProducedType();
type.setDeclaration(dec);
type.setUnderlyingType(pt.getUnderlyingType());
ProducedType qt = pt.getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null) {
type.setQualifyingType(substitute(qt, substitutions));
}
type.setTypeArguments(substitutedTypeArguments(pt, substitutions));
return type;
}
}
/**
* This special strategy for internal use by the
* containing class does not eliminate duplicate
* types from unions after substituting arguments.
* This is to avoid a stack overflow that otherwise
* results! (Determining if a union contains
* duplicates requires recursion to the argument
* substitution code via some very difficult-to-
* understand flow.)
* @author Gavin King
*/
static class InternalSubstitution extends Substitution {
private void addType(ProducedType ct,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions,
List<ProducedType> types) {
if (ct!=null) {
types.add(substitute(ct, substitutions));
}
}
@Override void addTypeToUnion(ProducedType ct,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions,
List<ProducedType> types) {
addType(ct, substitutions, types);
}
@Override void addTypeToIntersection(ProducedType ct,
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> substitutions,
List<ProducedType> types) {
addType(ct, substitutions, types);
}
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Type[" + getProducedTypeName() + "]";
}
public String getProducedTypeName() {
return getProducedTypeName(null);
}
public String getProducedTypeName(Unit unit) {
return ProducedTypeNamePrinter.DEFAULT.getProducedTypeName(this, unit);
}
public String getProducedTypeName(boolean abbreviate) {
return getProducedTypeName(abbreviate, null);
}
public String getProducedTypeName(boolean abbreviate, Unit unit) {
return new ProducedTypeNamePrinter(abbreviate).getProducedTypeName(this, unit);
}
private String getSimpleProducedTypeQualifiedName() {
StringBuilder ptn = new StringBuilder();
//if (getDeclaration().isMember()) {
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null) {
ptn.append(qt.getProducedTypeQualifiedName())
.append(".").append(getDeclaration().getName());
}
//}
else {
ptn.append(getDeclaration().getQualifiedNameString());
}
if (!getTypeArgumentList().isEmpty()) {
ptn.append("<");
boolean first = true;
for (ProducedType t: getTypeArgumentList()) {
if (first) {
first = false;
}
else {
ptn.append(",");
}
if (t==null) {
ptn.append("?");
}
else {
ptn.append(t.getProducedTypeQualifiedName());
}
}
ptn.append(">");
}
return ptn.toString();
}
public String getProducedTypeQualifiedName() {
if (getDeclaration()==null) {
//unknown type
return null;
}
if (getDeclaration() instanceof UnionType) {
StringBuilder name = new StringBuilder();
for (ProducedType pt: getCaseTypes()) {
if (pt==null) {
name.append("unknown");
}
else {
name.append(pt.getProducedTypeQualifiedName());
}
name.append("|");
}
return name.substring(0,name.length()>0?name.length()-1:0);
}
else if (getDeclaration() instanceof IntersectionType) {
StringBuilder name = new StringBuilder();
for (ProducedType pt: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (pt==null) {
name.append("unknown");
}
else {
name.append(pt.getProducedTypeQualifiedName());
}
name.append("&");
}
return name.substring(0,name.length()>0?name.length()-1:0);
}
else {
return getSimpleProducedTypeQualifiedName();
}
}
/**
* Form a union type of all cases of the type,
* recursively reducing cases to their cases
*/
public ProducedType getUnionOfCases() {
TypeDeclaration sdt = getDeclaration();
Unit unit = getDeclaration().getUnit();
//if X is an intersection type A&B, and A is an
//enumerated type with cases U and V, then the cases
//of X are the intersection (U|V)&B canonicalized to
//the union U&B|V&B
if (sdt instanceof IntersectionType) {
List<ProducedType> sts = sdt.getSatisfiedTypes();
List<ProducedType> list =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(sts.size());
for (ProducedType st: sts) {
addToIntersection(list, st.getUnionOfCases()
.substitute(getTypeArguments()),
unit); //argument substitution is unnecessary
}
IntersectionType it = new IntersectionType(unit);
it.setSatisfiedTypes(list);
return it.canonicalize().getType();
}
else {
List<ProducedType> cts = sdt.getCaseTypes();
if (cts==null) {
return this;
}
//otherwise, if X is a union A|B, or an enumerated
//type, with cases A and B, and A is an enumerated
//type with cases U and V, then the cases of X are
//the union U|V|B
else {
//build a union of all the cases
List<ProducedType> list =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(cts.size());
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
addToUnion(list, ct.substitute(getTypeArguments())
.getUnionOfCases()); //note recursion
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(unit);
ut.setCaseTypes(list);
return ut.getType();
}
}
}
public void setUnderlyingType(String underlyingType) {
this.underlyingType = underlyingType;
// if we have a resolvedAliases cache, update it too
if (resolvedAliases != null && resolvedAliases != this) {
resolvedAliases.setUnderlyingType(underlyingType);
}
}
public String getUnderlyingType() {
return underlyingType;
}
/**
* Does this type cover the given type?
*/
public boolean covers(ProducedType st) {
return resolveAliases().coversInternal(st.resolveAliases());
}
/*public boolean coversInternal(ProducedType t, Stack<TypeDeclaration> stack) {
ProducedType uoc = t.getUnionOfCases();
//X covers Y if the union of cases of Y is
//a subtype of X
if (uoc.isSubtypeOfInternal(this)) {
return true;
}
TypeDeclaration dec = t.getDeclaration();
boolean decHasEquals =
dec instanceof ClassOrInterface ||
dec instanceof TypeParameter;
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args = t.getTypeArguments();
List<ProducedType> cts = uoc.getCaseTypes();
if (cts!=null && !(decHasEquals && stack.contains(dec))) {
//X covers Y if Y has the cases A|B|C and
//X covers all of A, B, and C
for (ProducedType ct: cts) {
if (decHasEquals) stack.push(dec);
if (!coversInternal(ct.substituteInternal(args), stack)) {
if (decHasEquals) stack.pop();
return false;
}
else {
if (decHasEquals) stack.pop();
}
}
return true;
}
else {
//X covers Y if Y extends Z and X covers Z
ProducedType et = dec.getExtendedType();
if (et!=null && coversInternal(et.substituteInternal(args), stack)) {
return true;
}
//X covers Y if Y satisfies Z and X covers Z
for (ProducedType st: dec.getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (coversInternal(st.substituteInternal(args), stack)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}*/
//This alternative algorithm, without the stack
//fails in one tiny little corner case which we
//might be able to disallow - Algebraic.ceylon:345
private boolean coversInternal(ProducedType t) {
ProducedType uoc = t.getUnionOfCases();
//X covers Y if the union of cases of Y is
//a subtype of X
if (uoc.isSubtypeOfInternal(this)) {
return true;
}
TypeDeclaration dec = t.getDeclaration();
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> args =
t.getTypeArguments();
if (dec instanceof UnionType) {
//X covers Y if Y has the cases A|B|C and
//X covers all of A, B, and C
for (ProducedType ct: uoc.getCaseTypes()) {
if (!coversInternal(ct.substituteInternal(args))) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
else {
//X covers Y if Y extends Z and X covers Z
ProducedType et = dec.getExtendedType();
if (et!=null &&
coversInternal(et.substituteInternal(args))) {
return true;
}
//X covers Y if Y satisfies Z and X covers Z
for (ProducedType st: dec.getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (coversInternal(st.substituteInternal(args))) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
public ProducedType withoutUnderlyingType() {
ProducedType pt = new ProducedType();
pt.setDeclaration(getDeclaration());
pt.setQualifyingType(getQualifyingType());
pt.setTypeArguments(getTypeArguments());
return pt;
}
public boolean isRaw() {
return isRaw;
}
public void setRaw(boolean isRaw) {
this.isRaw = isRaw;
// if we have a resolvedAliases cache, update it too
if(resolvedAliases != null && resolvedAliases != this)
resolvedAliases.setRaw(isRaw);
}
public ProducedType resolveAliases() {
// cache the resolved version
if(resolvedAliases == null){
// really compute it
if (depth.get()>50) {
throw new RuntimeException("undecidable canonicalization");
}
depth.set(depth.get()+1);
try {
resolvedAliases = curriedResolveAliases();
}
finally { depth.set(depth.get()-1); }
// mark it as resolved so it doesn't get resolved again
resolvedAliases.resolvedAliases = resolvedAliases;
if(resolvedAliases != this){
// inherit whatever underlying type we had
resolvedAliases.underlyingType = underlyingType;
resolvedAliases.isRaw = isRaw;
}
}
return resolvedAliases;
//return curriedResolveAliases();
}
private ProducedType curriedResolveAliases() {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof UnionType) {
List<ProducedType> caseTypes = d.getCaseTypes();
List<ProducedType> list =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(caseTypes.size());
for (ProducedType pt: caseTypes) {
addToUnion(list, pt.resolveAliases());
}
UnionType ut = new UnionType(d.getUnit());
ut.setCaseTypes(list);
return ut.getType();
}
if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
List<ProducedType> satisfiedTypes = d.getSatisfiedTypes();
List<ProducedType> list =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(satisfiedTypes.size());
for (ProducedType pt: satisfiedTypes) {
addToIntersection(list, pt.resolveAliases(), d.getUnit());
}
IntersectionType ut = new IntersectionType(d.getUnit());
ut.setSatisfiedTypes(list);
return ut.canonicalize().getType();
}
List<ProducedType> args = getTypeArgumentList();
List<ProducedType> aliasedArgs = args.isEmpty() ?
Collections.<ProducedType>emptyList() :
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(args.size());
for (ProducedType arg: args) {
aliasedArgs.add(arg==null ? null : arg.resolveAliases());
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
ProducedType aliasedQualifyingType = qt==null ?
null : qt.resolveAliases();
if (d.isAlias()) {
ProducedType et = d.getExtendedType();
if (et == null) {
return new UnknownType(d.getUnit()).getType();
}
return et.resolveAliases()
.substitute(getTypeArgumentMap(d,
aliasedQualifyingType, aliasedArgs));
}
else {
return d.getProducedType(aliasedQualifyingType, aliasedArgs);
}
}
private ProducedType simple() {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof UnionType &&
d.getCaseTypes().size()==1) {
return d.getCaseTypes().get(0);
}
if (d instanceof IntersectionType &&
d.getSatisfiedTypes().size()==1) {
return d.getSatisfiedTypes().get(0);
}
List<ProducedType> args = getTypeArgumentList();
List<ProducedType> simpleArgs;
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (args.isEmpty()) {
if(qt == null)
return this;// we have nothing to simplify
simpleArgs = Collections.<ProducedType>emptyList();
}
else{
simpleArgs =
new ArrayList<ProducedType>(args.size());
for (ProducedType arg: args) {
simpleArgs.add(arg==null ? null : arg.simple());
}
}
ProducedType simpleQualifyingType = qt==null ?
null : qt.simple();
ProducedType ret =
d.getProducedType(simpleQualifyingType, simpleArgs);
ret.setUnderlyingType(underlyingType);
ret.setRaw(isRaw);
return ret;
}
public boolean containsTypeParameters() {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof TypeParameter) {
return true;
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
if (ct.containsTypeParameters()) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (st.containsTypeParameters()) {
return true;
}
}
}
else {
for (ProducedType at: getTypeArgumentList()) {
if (at!=null && at.containsTypeParameters()) {
return true;
}
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && qt.containsTypeParameters()) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
public boolean containsTypeParameters(List<TypeParameter> params) {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof TypeParameter) {
if (params.contains(d)) return true;
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
if (ct.containsTypeParameters(params)) {
return true;
}
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (st.containsTypeParameters(params)) {
return true;
}
}
}
else {
for (ProducedType at: getTypeArgumentList()) {
if (at!=null && at.containsTypeParameters(params)) {
return true;
}
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && qt.containsTypeParameters(params)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
/*public boolean containsTypeAliases() {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof TypeAlias||
d instanceof ClassAlias||
d instanceof InterfaceAlias) {
return true;
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
if (ct.containsTypeAliases()) return true;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
if (st.containsTypeAliases()) return true;
}
}
else {
for (ProducedType at: getTypeArgumentList()) {
if (at!=null && at.containsTypeAliases()) return true;
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null && qt.containsTypeAliases()) return true;
}
return false;
}*/
private Set<TypeDeclaration> extend(TypeDeclaration td,
Set<TypeDeclaration> visited) {
HashSet<TypeDeclaration> set =
new HashSet<TypeDeclaration>(visited);
set.add(td);
return set;
}
private List<TypeDeclaration> extend(TypeDeclaration td,
List<TypeDeclaration> results) {
if (!results.contains(td)) {
results.add(td);
}
return results;
}
public List<TypeDeclaration> isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(Set<TypeDeclaration> visited) {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof TypeAlias||
d instanceof ClassAlias||
d instanceof InterfaceAlias) {
if (visited.contains(d)) {
return new ArrayList<TypeDeclaration>(singletonList(d));
}
if (d.getExtendedType()!=null) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l = d.getExtendedType()
.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
for (ProducedType bt: d.getBrokenSupertypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
bt.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
ct.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
st.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
else {
for (ProducedType at: getTypeArgumentList()) {
if (at!=null) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
at.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
ProducedType qt = getQualifyingType();
if (qt!=null) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
qt.isRecursiveTypeAliasDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
return emptyList();
}
public List<TypeDeclaration> isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(Set<TypeDeclaration> visited) {
TypeDeclaration d = getDeclaration();
if (d instanceof TypeAlias||
d instanceof ClassAlias||
d instanceof InterfaceAlias) {
if (visited.contains(d)) {
return new ArrayList<TypeDeclaration>(singletonList(d));
}
if (d.getExtendedType()!=null) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l = d.getExtendedType()
.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
for (ProducedType bt: d.getBrokenSupertypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
bt.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
}
else if (d instanceof UnionType) {
for (ProducedType ct: getCaseTypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
ct.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
else if (d instanceof IntersectionType) {
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
st.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(visited);
if (!l.isEmpty()) return l;
}
}
else {
if (visited.contains(d)) {
return new ArrayList<TypeDeclaration>(singletonList(d));
}
if (d.getExtendedType()!=null) {
List<TypeDeclaration> i = d.getExtendedType()
.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!i.isEmpty()) {
i.add(0, d);
return i;
}
}
for (ProducedType bt: d.getBrokenSupertypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
bt.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
for (ProducedType st: getSatisfiedTypes()) {
List<TypeDeclaration> l =
st.isRecursiveRawTypeDefinition(extend(d, visited));
if (!l.isEmpty()) {
return extend(d, l);
}
}
}
return emptyList();
}
public boolean isUnknown() {
return getDeclaration() instanceof UnknownType;
}
public boolean isNothing() {
return getDeclaration() instanceof NothingType;
}
public int getMemoisedHashCode(){
if (hashCode == 0) {
int ret = 17;
ProducedType qualifyingType = getQualifyingType();
ret = (37 * ret) + (qualifyingType != null ? qualifyingType.hashCode() : 0);
TypeDeclaration declaration = getDeclaration();
ret = (37 * ret) + declaration.hashCodeForCache();
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> typeArguments = getTypeArguments();
if(!typeArguments.isEmpty()){
List<TypeParameter> typeParameters = declaration.getTypeParameters();
for(int i=0,l=typeParameters.size();i<l;i++){
TypeParameter typeParameter = typeParameters.get(i);
ProducedType typeArgument = typeArguments.get(typeParameter);
ret = (37 * ret) + (typeArgument != null ? typeArgument.hashCode() : 0);
}
}
hashCode = ret;
}
return hashCode;
}
@Override
public int hashCode() {
return getMemoisedHashCode();
}
@Override
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if (obj == null ||
!(obj instanceof ProducedType)) {
return false;
}
ProducedType other = (ProducedType) obj;
ProducedType qA = getQualifyingType();
ProducedType qB = other.getQualifyingType();
if (!Objects.equals(qA, qB)) {
return false;
}
TypeDeclaration aDecl = getDeclaration();
TypeDeclaration bDecl = other.getDeclaration();
if (!aDecl.equalsForCache(bDecl)) {
return false;
}
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> typeArgumentsA =
getTypeArguments();
Map<TypeParameter, ProducedType> typeArgumentsB =
other.getTypeArguments();
if (typeArgumentsA.size() != typeArgumentsB.size()) {
return false;
}
if (!typeArgumentsA.isEmpty()) {
List<TypeParameter> typeParametersA =
aDecl.getTypeParameters();
for (int i=0,l=typeParametersA.size();i<l;i++){
TypeParameter typeParameter =
typeParametersA.get(i);
ProducedType typeArgumentA =
typeArgumentsA.get(typeParameter);
ProducedType typeArgumentB =
typeArgumentsB.get(typeParameter);
if (typeArgumentA!=typeArgumentB &&
(typeArgumentA==null ||
typeArgumentB==null ||
!typeArgumentA.equals(typeArgumentB))) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
}
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Hinckley French Country Estate
This majestic estate has all the characteristics of the French Country style, drawing inspiration from its natural surroundings. The owners and design team compiled natural materials and simple color palettes, with inspiration from the surrounding landscape of Hinckley Township. Natural, full bed stone clads the exterior of the home and wraps the tall, rectangular and arched top windows. The tall, sloping hip roof is covered with slate-looking asphalt shingles which is another distinct feature of French Country style. Inside, a sweeping staircase with concrete treads at the base, is a focal point of the open foyer. Refined details of the cabinetry combines with metal elements creating a modern mix of materials. EGH is always looking to repurpose items, so a distressed barn that was on the property was salvaged to create the home's shutters and timber beams below the Porte cochere adding to the layered life of this home.
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Anthropologist Wade Davis Speaks at Amherst College April 18
Amherst in the News
Campus Community Events
AMHERST, Mass.—Explorer and anthropologist Wade Davis will speak on "One River: Recent Exploration and Discovery in the Amazon Rain Forest" at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Amherst, Davis's talk is free and open to the public.
Wade Davis has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." An ethnographer, writer, photographer and filmmaker, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology, and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, and to Borneo, where he lived among the nomadic Penan in the forests of Sarawak.
In recent years his research efforts have taken him to East Africa, Tibet, Polynesia, Mali, Equatorial West Africa, New Guinea, Vanuatu and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland. Author of 10 books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987), One River (1996) and Light at the Edge of the World (2001), he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lowell Thomas Medal (Explorer's Club) and the Lannan Foundation $125,000 prize for literary nonfiction. In 2004 he was made an honorary member of the Explorer's Club, one of 20 in the 100-year history of the club.
His film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, a four-hour series shot in Rapanui, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Nunuvut, Greenland and Peru, that will air internationally on the National Geographic Channel in the spring of 2007. Phantastica, a two-hour special inspired by his books One River and The Lost Amazon, will air this spring on The History Channel. Davis recently completed a third film project, a 3-D IMAX film, Water Planet: A Grand Canyon Adventure, which will appear in the spring of 2008.
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South and Southeast Asia Rise in uniRank Social Media Rankings
uniRank is a directory and search engine that currently includes over 14,000 recognised or accredited higher education institutions that offer mainly in person courses for undergraduate or postgraduate degrees. It is essentially a measure of web activity rather than teaching or research and provides insights into global trends.
The world ranking is based on an algorithm that combines the following web metrics: Moz Domain Authority, SimilarWeb Global Rank, Majestic Referring Domains, and Majestic Trust Flow.
The general ranking holds few surprises. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the world, followed by Harvard and Stanford, while the University of Cape Town leads for Africa, the University of Tokyo for Asia, the University of Oxford for Europe, Universidade de São Paulo for Latin America, and the University of Melbourne in Australia.
uniRank also includes social media rankings. Harvard again takes the lead for Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, while Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México leads for Twitter.
The social media rankings show that South and Southeast Asian universities are making a big impact through various platforms. The top ten for Facebook include Daffodil International University, Bangladesh, Amity University, India, and Universiti Teknologi Kreatif Limkokwing, Malaysia. Four Indonesian universities are in the Twitter top ten and in the YouTube University Ranking Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University holds fifth place, ahead of Cambridge and just behind MIT.
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SEO (search engine optimization) is a critical part of any online strategy. While it seems like building your site was a lot of work, to be found amongst to millions of sites, a concerted SEO effort must be employed.
But SEO may seem like a deep, dark black whole of "what the heck am I suppose to do?" While there are a lot of reputable companies helping with excellent search engine optimization campaigns, many small businesses do not have the funds to hire an SEO expert.
A lot can be done with search engine optimizing methods, but if you do not pay attention to your keywords, then your efforts may be for naught. Choosing keywords is the first step towards optimizing your website. Once you've chosen your keywords, analyzing your pages to determine if you have the right keyword density will help you make certain you are on target for SEO.
Keyword density indicates the percentage of frequency a word appears on a page and in the meta data. For example, if you have 100 words on your page, and you have the keyword "design" 10 times on that page, then the keyword density for design would be 10%. SEO experts say you shouldn't go over 15% keyword density on a page because then it appears to be keyword stuffing. The search engines will see this as a negative, and may not index your page.
Word clouds are a graphic representation of keywords on a specific site or page. Words that appear more frequently are larger within the word cloud, while words that are less frequent are smaller. A word cloud gives you a quick, visual snapshot of the keywords on your site, and dense they are in comparison to each other.
The following tools we have found do an excellent job of analyzing keyword density on your site. They are all free and simple to use. You just have to input your URL, and the site does the rest. You do not have to sign up for anything, or even tell them your name, so you can use the tools anonymously and as often as you like.
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Highline MFG
High-End Farm Technology
Canadian cattlemen have long looked to Highline manufacturing to provide them with advanced technology that helps them turn a larger profit. The Saskatchewan-based company has never disappointed. With over 50 years of experience in design and manufacturing of industry leading machinery, Highline embodies the spirit of innovation, Dan Harvey reports.
A longstanding figure in the Saskatchewan landscape, Highline Manufacturing Ltd. offers products that serve its region's cattlemen, cereal and pulse growers, and hay producers. Customers rightfully insist on a big bang out of their buck, and Highline has always responded with high-quality, innovative offerings that increase users' efficiency and, in turn, their profitability.
Signature products include bale processors, rock pickers, a feed chopper and a bale mover. But as it evolved, the company added mowing, haying and forage tools to its versatile product line.
Established by Raymond Bussiere, the Vonda-based Highline was acquired by Bourgault Industries Ltd. in May 2006, a transaction that serves both sides well. Bourgault was attracted to Highline because of its reputation for innovation and its robust product line, and Bussiere sought to couple his company with a purchaser that would provide the necessary marketing strength and financial stability to help his organization achieve full growth potential within and beyond the community it serves.
"The acquisition presented us with new growth opportunities, both domestically and internationally, and subsequently increased our customer base, which positively impacted both production and sales," reports Gina Redl, Highline's sales and marketing and international sales coordinator.
BACK FROM THE BSE BRINK
Recently, Highline's sales suffered a hard hit from the Canadian bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak that hurt the country's cattlemen, but Bourgault firmly believed that Highline would rebound from the disaster. In this regard, the parent company wasn't wrong. Highline engineered a strong recovery, bolstered by new models in its bale processing line.
Throughout its history, bale processors have anchored the Highline product line and, true to its legacy, the company continued new development, most recently introducing two new bale processing equipment models comprised of industry leading elements. The Bale Pro 8100, which handles round bales up to six feet in diameter, includes unique features designed to make bale handling more efficient and cost effective. These include interchangeable left- and right-hand discharge, a patented twine cutter, standard extendable axles, hydraulic discharge door, standard adjustable loading forks, and adjustable aggression settings.
The Bale Mover 1400 model can haul up to 14 bales in double rows of seven bales, a capability that provides users with fast handling with non-stop picking and transporting. Capable of loading from either side, it provides the power to pick up bales on the fly. Further, users can unload without having to exit the unit's cab.
"Also on the bale processor side, we introduced a feed chopper in 2006, which is something that no one else in the industry offers," reports Blake Neudorf, Highline's engineering team leader. "It allows the user to process a bale and turn it into feed, cutting it into very palatable lengths for the cows."
This chopper is a significant industry advancement, adds Neudorf. "Previously, producers were forced to use a tub grinder and accumulate large batches of chopped-up hay for their TMR [total mixed ration] mixer, but our technology allows them to cut on demand, so that they aren't left with a large pile of hay that could spoil or waste," he explains.
EXPANSION VIA INNOVATION
Within the past year, Highline has also expanded into the industrial arena with its high-powered, RCH-equipped movers, designed for roadside cutting. "The mowers represent a big leap in technology," states Neudorf.
RCH allows operators mower control from the tractor seat. Its patented hitch offers the ability to drive a tractor on safe footing while mowing difficult areas. "For instance, RCH technology allows the mower to operate within a ditch while the tractor is up on a road, which is something that no other company can do without applying attachments or lengthening an entire machine," he describes. "It's not only a big boost as far as safety, but it also makes the equipment much easier to operate – and it provided us entrance into the industrial market, opening up a whole new side of our business."
For its mower technology, Highline has either applied for or already received as many as 10 patents. "The mower has some nice technology included within its structure, such as a advanced blade bolt for attaching mower blades," adds Neudorf. "It also includes features such as gearbox temperature sensing and independent wing lift. The mower and the feed chopper represent Highline's most important recent developments."
FACILITIES ACCOMMODATE GROWTH
The Bourgault purchase also has promoted increased production capacity. Highline recently expanded its 75,000-square-foot, Vonda-based facility – a site that has provided jobs for the surrounding community – with a 12,000-square-foot expansion. "The addition will provide space for the fabrication side of production, as well as support new manufacturing for the parent company," informs Neudorf. "Because of this addition, we've increased our staff and now have about 130 employees."
Production facilities have always included space for research and development, an ongoing process that involves year-round prototyping and extensive testing for all products. "All R&D is done on site within facility staffed by an eight-member team that employs finite element analysis, data acquisition and 3D CAD software for modeling," says Neudorf.
Current activities include expansion of the mower product line and development of new products for cattle feeding that will supply markets in North America and Europe.
"Also, within our plant, we are pursuing a lean manufacturing approach, to deal with the high prices of energy, steel and grain," adds Neudorf.
Even more, the Highline facility adheres to the highest quality standards to ensure that products are free of any defects or faulty processes. An in-place quality system, an integral component of Highline's "Customer Driven Quality" philosophy, focuses on advancing optimal levels of service and satisfaction.
DEALERSHIP NETWORK
One of Highline's greatest strengths has been its substantial distribution system. "On the agricultural side, we sell products through dealerships," says Redl. "But on the industrial side, we sell factory direct. So we have a mixture. Our client base includes customers in the U.S., Australia, Russia, Ukraine, France, Norway and the Baltic's."
On the agricultural side, the company currently serves more than 150 dealers throughout Canada, and it operates throughout the United States in 180 dealerships via two dealer networks. Also, in Canada, Highline is the exclusive distributor for the Vermeer-branded haying equipment. Association with the Pella, Iowa-based Vermeer Agricultural Division enables Highline to provide Vermeer's full product line of haying products including balers, hydraulic basket rakes, mower conditioners, wheel rakes, mowers and tedders.
Whether through innovative design, acquisition or strategic partnerships, Highline strongly focuses on offering clients the most advanced technology with industry exclusive features. As farmers reap the benefits, Highline continues sowing the fertile fields of imagination with seeds that blossom into full-blown innovations.
www.highlinemfg.com
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namespace boost {
namespace interprocess {
namespace ipcdetail {
template< class SegmentManager
, std::size_t NodeSize
, std::size_t NodesPerBlock
, std::size_t MaxFreeBlocks
, unsigned char OverheadPercent
>
class private_adaptive_node_pool
: public boost::container::container_detail::private_adaptive_node_pool_impl
< typename SegmentManager::segment_manager_base_type
, ::boost::container::adaptive_pool_flag::size_ordered |
::boost::container::adaptive_pool_flag::address_ordered
>
{
typedef boost::container::container_detail::private_adaptive_node_pool_impl
< typename SegmentManager::segment_manager_base_type
, ::boost::container::adaptive_pool_flag::size_ordered |
::boost::container::adaptive_pool_flag::address_ordered
> base_t;
//Non-copyable
private_adaptive_node_pool();
private_adaptive_node_pool(const private_adaptive_node_pool &);
private_adaptive_node_pool &operator=(const private_adaptive_node_pool &);
public:
typedef SegmentManager segment_manager;
typedef typename base_t::size_type size_type;
static const size_type nodes_per_block = NodesPerBlock;
//Deprecated, use node_per_block
static const size_type nodes_per_chunk = NodesPerBlock;
//!Constructor from a segment manager. Never throws
private_adaptive_node_pool(segment_manager *segment_mngr)
: base_t(segment_mngr, NodeSize, NodesPerBlock, MaxFreeBlocks, OverheadPercent)
{}
//!Returns the segment manager. Never throws
segment_manager* get_segment_manager() const
{ return static_cast<segment_manager*>(base_t::get_segment_manager_base()); }
};
//!Pooled shared memory allocator using adaptive pool. Includes
//!a reference count but the class does not delete itself, this is
//!responsibility of user classes. Node size (NodeSize) and the number of
//!nodes allocated per block (NodesPerBlock) are known at compile time
template< class SegmentManager
, std::size_t NodeSize
, std::size_t NodesPerBlock
, std::size_t MaxFreeBlocks
, unsigned char OverheadPercent
>
class shared_adaptive_node_pool
: public ipcdetail::shared_pool_impl
< private_adaptive_node_pool
<SegmentManager, NodeSize, NodesPerBlock, MaxFreeBlocks, OverheadPercent>
>
{
typedef ipcdetail::shared_pool_impl
< private_adaptive_node_pool
<SegmentManager, NodeSize, NodesPerBlock, MaxFreeBlocks, OverheadPercent>
> base_t;
public:
shared_adaptive_node_pool(SegmentManager *segment_mgnr)
: base_t(segment_mgnr)
{}
};
} //namespace ipcdetail {
} //namespace interprocess {
} //namespace boost {
#include <boost/interprocess/detail/config_end.hpp>
#endif //#ifndef BOOST_INTERPROCESS_DETAIL_ADAPTIVE_NODE_POOL_HPP
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Q: Prototype inheritance I have done a simple prototype inheritance in java script, here I am passing two parameters title and pays (true or false) if i pass true i am getting "Angular Yes" result but if pass a pays value false i am getting "NaN no" result instead of "HTMl no" i want to print HTMl no
//Base Class creation
var job = function () {
this.pays = true
}
job.prototype.print = function () {
console.log(this.pays ? 'yse' : 'no')
}
//Sub Class creation
var techjob = function (title, pays) {
job.call(this);
this.title = title;
this.pays = pays;
}
techjob.prototype = Object.create(job.prototype);
techjob.prototype.constructor = techjob;
job.prototype.print = function () {
console.log(this.pays ? this.title + " " + 'yes' : + this.title + " " + 'no')
}
var subject1 = new techjob("Angular", true);
var subject2 = new techjob("HTMl", false);
console.log(subject1.print())
console.log(subject2.print())
Result
Angular yes
NaN no
A: You have a stray plus-sign in your print method. Try this:
job.prototype.print = function () {
console.log(this.pays ? this.title + " " + 'yes' : this.title + " " + 'no')
}
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