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World Bank Meets Phnom Penh Governor, Boeng Kak Evictees
The World Bank on Thursday asked Phnom Penh municipal officials to do more to help the thousands of families the city evicted from the Boeng Kak neighborhood to make way for a CPP senator's private real estate project, and is now waiting for a reply, according to anti-eviction activists.
Twelve representatives of the evicted community met with World Bank country manager Alassane Sow and regional director Ulrich Zachau on Thursday afternoon, shortly after the bank officials met with Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong.
Boeng Kak residents are fighting for land titles for about 40 families who have fought their eviction from the neighborhood, and for better compensation for the roughly 3,000 families who were evicted since 2008 in exchange for a $8,500 payout or alternative housing on the outskirts of the city.
Tep Vanny, one of the community representatives, said the World Bank officials raised their concerns with the governor.
"They told us they raised our issues with the government representatives and the governor, about the families who have not yet gotten their land titles and about those who already had to move out," she said. "They said they would continue to work with the government to find a solution for us and they are waiting for a solution from the government."
City officials declined to comment on their meeting with the World Bank. The meeting comes less than two weeks after, in a meeting with the Boeng Kak representatives, city officials said they expected the World Bank to help compensate the families they had evicted.
Housing rights groups say city officials acted illegally when it sold off most of the Boeng Kak neighborhood to CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin in 2007 for his private real estate venture because it did not give the families a chance to apply for land titles, which they were entitled to.
In 2011 the World Bank admitted that it had botched a land-titling project it was funding by not doing enough to ensure that the rights of families at Boeng Kak were protected. Later that year, the bank imposed a freeze on new lending to the Cambodian government because of the mass evictions from Boeng Kak, but said it could not do more to help the affected families because of a lack of cooperation from the government.
Ms. Vanny said the Boeng Kak representatives were glad the World Bank said the loan freeze was still in place, but added that it was not enough to force the government to take responsibility for its illegal actions.
"The World Bank is not trying enough and is too slow to help us because they only freeze their [the government's] funds…. They should find other strategies to push the government to find a solution for us," she said.
"The freeze has lasted a long time but the government still handles the problem slowly and it has not done much to help us."
Mr. Sow, the World Bank country manager, said the meeting with the Boeng Kak families was only to listen to their concerns. He said he did not discuss his conversation with the Phnom Penh governor earlier that morning, however, and declined to comment on the meeting with Mr. Socheatvong.
(Additional reporting by Zsombor Peter)


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I do live a large life.
I need to remind myself of that some days.
You know the days when you get too busy to notice the small things; I know you know those days. We all have them.
That's when I remember that it's often life's smallest treasures & pleasures that bring the largest joy & gratitude. It's a topsy-turvy world.
We THINK we need some big, booming breakthrough.
We're led to believe it takes a million dollars, an overseas trip or a new flash, fast car to make us feel fulfilled.
Yet, if we stop to live EVERY DAY in some small way, we're furling fulfilment in a lasting way.
When a struggling weed along the cement sidewalk has the most amazingly intricate flower. When a grandchild runs at me with arms open wide for a hug.
When the supermarket has Twisties on sale.
When the tide is low & my beachwalk easy.
When my hubby walks past, but stops a moment to pat my bum.
When Buzz starts first go.
When it's a sunny afternoon to sit on the grass & watch the local footy team win.
When a friend randomly texts to say they're thinking of me. When the room is warm because the log fire is burning bright. When a cloud in the sky is in the shape of a love heart.
When the chai tea is brewed just right.
These tiny things awaken my soul during the day-in,day-outs of my week. It's these small things that break the boredom of an otherwise non-eventful week – or a far too busy week. It's these tiny treats that heal me when I'm so snowed under in the chaos of sickness, deadlines or a full calendar.
There's beauty sent your way every day- it's a matter of training tired eyes to see it.
It might sound insignificant, but don't be fooled, this simple beauty is sent to bring you large & lasting joy.
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Youth identity checks in Paris
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Recently a study has been published about the profile of youths arrested in Paris. The study is based on a survey focusing on young people carried out in 2010 within the framework of the call for defence and the general public [1]. The French Observatory of Drugs and Drug-related Habits (OFDT) always takes advantage of this event to carry out a survey on the consumption of psychoactive substances among the young. In the 2010 edition, the Council of Paris financed a broadening of the survey to discover the rate of police applications for youth identity checks, and also the features common to those who are subjected to these checks.
The first conclusion of the survey revealed a well-known piece of information: the police stop the young for identity purposes more often than the rest of the population (28% of young people compared to 16% of all those interviewed). Most of these young people are male, are not at school, tend to be overweight, have little trust in the police, have consumed drugs or cannabis and have previously been involved in a brawl.
Based on this information, there are two specific groups of youths that the police stop most often:
The first group is known as menacing epicureans. These are youths who occupy public areas twice as much as others. They are mainly men, with mainly male friends, and who go out at least once a week (to all kinds of places). Their parents usually do not know where they are. They usually live in areas with a good standard of living (they are proud of living there) and their parents are usually liberal professionals. They usually smoke a lot (77%) and some also consume alcohol and cannabis. They normally have a police record because of a brawl of some kind of assault. They have little respect for the police and they enjoy confronting them.
The second group is not so commonplace (youngsters who are checked 1.6% more than the average). Most live in more working class neighbourhoods of the city which they are not proud of, as there are usually problems due to drugs, crime and insecurity. Men are once again the most common, but their friends are usually female. They don't usually claim to have many friends. They go out more than the other group and don't consume much alcohol or drugs. Their families know where they are and they tend to be overweight or obese.
The characteristics of groups who are rarely subjected to identity checks: these are mainly female, studying at some level, are proud of their neighbourhood, drink very little and barely consume any drugs. They are given 100 Euros a week as pocket money. They don't like confronting the police. Some live in working class neighbourhoods, but others in more middle class ones. Their parents usually (or at least many) have a liberal profession. They don't tend to have any record for disturbances.
Indeed, the fact of having previously been involved in a fight or consumed drugs are factors which have a significant influence on whether young people are checked by the police for identity purposes.
[1] Obligatory in France for young people of military age.
Controls d'identitat als joves a París
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Q: Broadcast or peer discovery with PeerJS I am evaluating PeerJS in order to implement a simple two-player online game. It seems that once I transfer the id of one player's connection to the other, they can open a channel via PeerJS and are good to go.
But if two players want to play that do not know each other, what is the most elegant way to make a match there? Is there a way to ask the PeerJS broker for a list of all connected clients, possibly with some metadata (such as "status:wants-to-play") attached? Or is ther ea way to broadcast to all clients?

A: Just in case, if this helps someone, if you use PeerJS in conjunction with express server, this would look the following way:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app);
var ExpressPeerServer = require('peer').ExpressPeerServer;
var expressPeerServer = ExpressPeerServer(server, {});
app.use('/peerjs', expressPeerServer);
expressPeerServer.on('connection', function (id) {
  // the rest is the same as accepted answer
});

A: Using PeerServer you can grab two events, connection and disconnect. Using this you can create a internal list, which you can then have your application grab from.
Partial example:
var PeerServer = require('peer').PeerServer;
var server = new PeerServer({port: 9000, path: '/myapp'});
var connected = [];
server.on('connection', function (id) {
  var idx = connected.indexOf(id); // only add id if it's not in the list yet
  if (idx === -1) {connected.push(id);}
});
server.on('disconnect', function (id) {
  var idx = connected.indexOf(id); // only attempt to remove id if it's in the list
  if (idx !== -1) {connected.splice(idx, 1);}
});
someexpressapp.get('/connected-people', function (req, res) {
  return res.json(connected);
});

Then, in your clientside code you can AJAX /connected-people and use that list.
For metadata you could expand on the code above to add a user status and a way of updating that status.
Hope this helps!
EDIT At the time of writing the event was named connect. It is now named connection.
(Also I'm now going to play with PeerJS for like six hours. I hope you realize what you've done.)

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Q: Single item of list as a multiline string I am working with Python. I want to convert a single item list to a multiline string.
I fetched the email string from a database. All emails are stored as a list item (between ' ').
emails strings are have special-characters and also symbols like[ ' " , @  (  *  &  # ]
When I fetch list items(emails) ONE-BY-ONE at that time my string is stored in ' ' so when 'it comes in a string at that time string is broken into multiple parts.
So, I want to store one list item (email) as a multiline string(''' ''').
string=[]

for row in email_records:
    string.append(row[1])

print(string)

output get like this:-
['d "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj',
 'd "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj',
 'd "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj',
 'd "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj']

I fetch all items one-by-one and find substring at that time it is not working because when ' is comes in string at that time string is broken in to multiple parts.
    for massage in string:
        print(massage)

output get like this:-
'd "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj'

output wont like this:-
'''d "jkssjfdsd<sdsdfg @flkj'dlkj'hcjkhkg d#cgcgcg/jcgj'jjjx dfdffh# \fjhfghjj'''

A: In python, the print command prints the string (or str(obj)) without the 's.
However, you can print them yourself:
for massage in string:
    print(f"'''{massage}'''")


I've written a small console app that I point to a folder containing DBF/FoxPo files.
It then creates a table in SQL based on each dbf table, then does a bulk copy to insert the data into SQL. It works quite well for the most part, except for a few snags..
1) Some of the FoxPro tables contain 5000000+ records and the connection expries before the insert completes..
Error message: "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding."
2) "The provider could not determine the Decimal value. For example, the row was just created, the default for the Decimal column was not available, and the consumer had not yet set a new Decimal value."
3) SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM.
1.) Either increase the connection time, (but i dont think i can increase it any more than i have), or alternatively is it possible to split the OleDbDataReader's results and do in incremental bulk insert?
2.)I was thinking if its possible to have bulk copy to ignore results with errors, or have the records that do error out log to a csv file or something to that extent?
So, "i" keeps track of the overall count, "j" keeps track of the incremental count (ie your max at one time count) and when you have created your 'batch', you create the table and Bulk Copy it.
Does that look like what you would expect?
Imodified the code below as to how it looks in my solution.. It aint pretty.. but it works. I'll def do some refactoring, and update my answer again.


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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
DR Congo: "The deafening silence of the international community angers us."
The attack on the Church occurred during the celebration of many baptisms. Days after a terrorist attack on a Protestant church in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marcelo Oliveira, a Comboni missionary in the African country, denounces the silence of the international community before these terrible acts of violence and highlights […]
ACN: Over 100 priests and religious sisters kidnapped, arrested, or killed in 2022
At least 12 priests and five religious sisters were murdered in 2022 while fulfilling their mission. Nigeria was one of the most dangerous countries in which to serve the Church, but China, and Nicaragua also had many cases of harassment. According to information collected by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Nigeria was the […]
Nun murdered in attack in DR Congo. "The terror continues", says missionary priest
A terrorist attack in Eastern DR Congo left two people dead and a hospital destroyed in the village of Maboya. Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki, of the Little Sisters of the Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple, from Butembo, was one of the victims of an attack that took place last Wednesday, October 19. Responsibility […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo – Pope Francis
Congolese people saddened by cancellation, but sympathetic to pope's pain "Postponed, not cancelled. That's the key word," says Maxime François-Marsal, head of projects for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This massive country was counting on Pope Francis to help heal the wounds of an apparently never-ending war, and to challenge political leaders to stop […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo – "The Pope is coming to tell us: 'People of Congo, be reconciled!'" says Bishop Bodika of Kikwit
Pope Francis will be visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this year, from July 2 to 5. During a visit to the head office of international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in Germany, Bishop Timothée Bodika Manyisai, of Kikwit, in the southwestern part of DRC, spoke about how Catholics are […]
Project of the Week – Technical Equipment for a Catholic Radio Station
Democratic Republic of the Congo For almost 30 years now, the Assumptionist Fathers in the diocese of Butembo-Beni, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have been exercising a fruitful media apostolate. In particular, the Catholic radio station they have set up—Radio Moto Oicha—is proving to be a vital instrument of evangelization, […]
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Success Story: A Vehicle for the Poor Clare Sisters in Mbuji-Mayi "Mamu wa Bupole" – Our Lady of Peace – is the name of the Poor Clare Monastery in Mbuji-Mayi. The Democratic Republic of Congo is in urgent need of peace. Moreover, the Holy See announced on March 3 that Pope Francis will visit the […]
Democratic Republic of Congo—After a Wave of attacks, Bishop denounces Persecution of the Church
In commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the murder of Archbishop Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo of the diocese of Bukavu, the local Church has denounced the persecution the diocese has been suffering recently at the hands of armed groups. In a message sent to the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN […]
Project of the Week—Help for Seminarian in DRC
Helping 59 seminarians in Kinshasa continue their studies The Catholic Church views Africa as a continent of hope. Why? Because one in every five Catholics, one in every eight religious Sisters and one in every nine priests in the world today lives on the African continent. The numbers are even higher when it comes to […]
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Sister Francine, abducted July 8 in Goma, eastern Democratic Province of Congo (DRC), is finally free. This announcement was made by her religious community, the Daughters of the Resurrection, to the international pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). What We Know Thursday, July 8, after a visit to the local market of […]


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package QueryObjectFramework.QueryObjectDBTableStatements;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;

import QueryObjectFramework.CommonClasses.SqlStatementStrings;
import QueryObjectFramework.QueryObjectDBTableColumnConstraint.QueryObjectDBTableConstraintCheck;
import QueryObjectFramework.QueryObjectDBTableColumnConstraint.QueryObjectDBTableConstraintForeignKey;

/**
 * Builder class for column definations.
 * - buildColumnWithNameAndDataTypeAndConstraints()
 * - buildAppendConstraintsForColumns()
 * - buildColumnWithNames()
 * - buildColumnWithNameAndDataType()
 *
 * @author Bohui Axelsson
 */
public class QueryObjectDBTableColumnBuilder {
	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryObjectDBTableColumnBuilder.class.getName());

	protected final @NonNull List<QueryObjectDBTableColumn> fTableColumns = new ArrayList<>();

	/**
	 * Build and initialize DBTableColumnIndex instance with list of
	 * QueryObjectDBTableColumn instances.
	 *
	 * @param tableColumns
	 *            List of QueryObjectDBTableColumn instances.
	 */
	protected void buildDBTableColumnIndex(@NonNull List<QueryObjectDBTableColumn> tableColumns) {
		fTableColumns.addAll(tableColumns);
	}

	/**
	 * Validate there are no NULL item in the table column list.
	 *
	 * @return True if all items in fTableColumns are not NULL.
	 */
	protected boolean validateTableClolumsNotNull() {
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			if (tableColumn == null) {
				LOGGER.severe("Failed to operate table operation, table column item is null.");
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Create columns setting string.
	 *
	 * <example>
	 *  column1 datatype constraint,
	 *  column2 datatype constraint,
	 *  column3 datatype constraint, ....
	 *  UNIQUE(column2),
	 *  PRIMARY KEY (column1),
	 *  FOREIGN KEY (column2) REFERENCE table_name(column0),
	 *  CHECK (filed1 operator1 value1);
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 *            Table name that needs to create column clause.
	 * @return A full columns setting string
	 */
	protected String buildColumnWithNameAndDataTypeAndConstraints(String tableName) {
		StringBuilder tableColumnsClause = new StringBuilder("");

		/*
		 * Build normal column string without appending constraints.
		 */
		tableColumnsClause.append(buildColumnsWithNameAndDataTypeAndNormalConstraints());
		tableColumnsClause.deleteCharAt(tableColumnsClause.length() - 1);

		/*
		 * Build appending constraints
		 */
		tableColumnsClause.append(buildAppendConstraintsForColumns(tableName));

		return tableColumnsClause.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Go through all table columns one by one to create tableColumnsClause
	 * with normal constraints.
	 *
	 * @return Columns definition string
	 */
	private String buildColumnsWithNameAndDataTypeAndNormalConstraints() {
		StringBuilder normalColumnsString = new StringBuilder("");
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			normalColumnsString
					.append(tableColumn.getColumnName() + " " + tableColumn.getColumnDataType().getSqlColumnDataType()
							+ " " + tableColumn.getColumnConstraint().getColumnConstraintsString() + ",");
		}
		return normalColumnsString.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Create an appending constraint string.
	 *
	 * An appending constraint includes,
	 * - UNIQUE
	 * - PRIMARY KEY
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	UNQIUE (column_name0, column_name2, ..),
	 *  PRIMARY KEY(column_name0, column_name2, ..)
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	CONSTRAINT UC_<table_name> UNQIUE (column_name0, column_name2, ..),
	 *  CONSTRAINT PK_<table_name> PRIMARY KEY (column_name0, column_name2, ..)
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * <example>
	 *  FOREIGN KEY (column2) REFERENCE table_name(column0);
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	CHECK (Age>=18)
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	CONSTRAINT CHK_PersonAge CHECK (Age>=18 AND City='Sandnes')
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 *            Table name that needs to create column clause.
	 * @return Appending constraint string.
	 */
	protected String buildAppendConstraintsForColumns(String tableName) {
		StringBuilder appendingClause = new StringBuilder("");
		/*
		 * Build UNIQUE appending constraint
		 */
		appendingClause.append(buildUnqiueAppendingConstraint(tableName));

		/*
		 * Build and append PRIMARY KEY constraint
		 */
		appendingClause.append(buildPrimaryKeyAppendingConstraint(tableName));

		/*
		 * Build and append FOREIGN
		 */
		appendingClause.append(buildForeignKeyAppendingConstraint(tableName));

		/*
		 * Build and append CHECK constraint
		 */
		appendingClause.append(buildCheckAppendingConstraint(tableName));

		if (appendingClause.charAt(appendingClause.length() - 1) == ',') {
			appendingClause.deleteCharAt(appendingClause.length() - 1);
		}

		return appendingClause.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Build UNIQUE constraint appending string.
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 * 			Table name
	 * @return UNIQUE constraint appending string
	 */
	private String buildUnqiueAppendingConstraint(String tableName) {
		/*
		 * UUNIQE constraints
		 */
		StringBuilder uniqueColumnNames = new StringBuilder("");
		int uniqueColumnNamesAmount = 0;

		/*
		 * Build constraint string for UNIQUE constraint
		 */
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			if (tableColumn.containUniqueConstraint()) {
				uniqueColumnNamesAmount++;
				uniqueColumnNames.append(tableColumn.getColumnName() + ",");
			}
		}

		/*
		 * Post process table column setting string on UNIQUE constraint.
		 *
		 * If only one column is UNIQUE, creating clause as "UNIQUE (ID)"; Otherwise,
		 * creating clause as CONSTRAINT UC_Person UNIQUE (ID,LastName).
		 *
		 * TODO: Introducing customized multiple UNIQUE columns name.
		 */
		if (uniqueColumnNamesAmount == 1) {
			uniqueColumnNames.deleteCharAt(uniqueColumnNames.length() - 1);
			uniqueColumnNames.insert(0, " " + SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_UNIQUE + "(");
			uniqueColumnNames.append("),");
		} else if (uniqueColumnNamesAmount > 1) {
			uniqueColumnNames.deleteCharAt(uniqueColumnNames.length() - 1);
			uniqueColumnNames.insert(0, SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CONSTRAINT
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_MULTIPLE_UNIQUE_COLUMNS + tableName + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_UNIQUE + "(");
			uniqueColumnNames.append("),");
		}
		return uniqueColumnNames.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Build PRIMARY KEY constraint appending string.
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 * 			Table name
	 * @return PRIMARY KEY constraint appending string
	 */
	private String buildPrimaryKeyAppendingConstraint(String tableName) {
		/*
		 * PRIMARY KEY constraints
		 */
		StringBuilder primaryKeyColumnNames = new StringBuilder("");
		int primaryKeyColumnNamesAmount = 0;

		/*
		 * Go through all table columns one by one and count amounts of
		 * PRIMARY KEY constraints.
		 */
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			if (tableColumn.containPrimaryKeyConstraint()) {
				primaryKeyColumnNamesAmount++;
				primaryKeyColumnNames.append(tableColumn.getColumnName() + ",");
			}
		}

		/*
		 * Post process table column setting string on PRIMARY KEY constraint.
		 *
		 * Primary keys must contain UNIQUE values, and cannot contain NULL values. A
		 * table can have only one primary key, which may consist of single or multiple
		 * fields.
		 */
		if (primaryKeyColumnNamesAmount == 1) {
			primaryKeyColumnNames.deleteCharAt(primaryKeyColumnNames.length() - 1);
			primaryKeyColumnNames.insert(0, " " + SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_PRIMARY_KEY + "(");
			primaryKeyColumnNames.append("),");
		} else if (primaryKeyColumnNamesAmount > 1) {
			primaryKeyColumnNames.deleteCharAt(primaryKeyColumnNames.length() - 1);
			primaryKeyColumnNames.insert(0, " " + SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CONSTRAINT
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_MULTIPLE_PRIMARY_KEY_COLUMNS + tableName + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_PRIMARY_KEY + "(");
			primaryKeyColumnNames.append("),");
		}
		return primaryKeyColumnNames.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Build FOREIGN KEY constraint appending string.
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 * 			Table name
	 * @return FOREIGN KEY constraint appending string
	 */
	private String buildForeignKeyAppendingConstraint(String tableName) {
		/*
		 * FOREIGN KEY constraints
		 */
		StringBuilder foreignKeyColumnClause = new StringBuilder("");
		StringBuilder foreignKeyColumnNames = new StringBuilder("");
		StringBuilder foreignKeyReferencedTableAndColumn = new StringBuilder("");
		int foreignKeyColumnNamesAmount = 0;

		/*
		 * Go through all table columns one by one and count amounts of
		 * FOREIGN KEY constraints.
		 */
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			QueryObjectDBTableConstraintForeignKey foreignKeyConstraint = tableColumn
					.containtAndGetForeignKeyConstraint();
			if (foreignKeyConstraint != null) {
				foreignKeyColumnNamesAmount++;
				foreignKeyColumnNames.append(tableColumn.getColumnName() + " ");
				foreignKeyReferencedTableAndColumn.append(foreignKeyConstraint.getReferencedTableName() + "("
						+ foreignKeyConstraint.getReferencedColumnName() + ")");
			}
		}

		/*
		 * Post process table column setting string on FOREIGN KEY constraint.
		 */
		if (foreignKeyColumnNamesAmount == 1) {
			foreignKeyColumnClause.append(SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CONSTRAINT + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_MULTIPLE_FOREIGN_KEY_COLUMNS + tableName + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_FOREIGN_KEY + "(" + foreignKeyColumnNames.toString() + ") "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_REFERENCES + foreignKeyReferencedTableAndColumn.toString() + ",");
		} else if (foreignKeyColumnNamesAmount > 1) {
			LOGGER.warning("At the moment, multiple FOREIGN KEY columns is not support."
					+ "Only one column can be FOREIGN KEY.");
			return "";
		}
		return foreignKeyColumnClause.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Build CHECK constraint appending string.
	 *
	 * TODO: Add customized CHECK ID name for adding
	 * multiple columns as CHECK constraints.
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 * 			Table name
	 * @return CHECK constraint appending string
	 */
	private String buildCheckAppendingConstraint(String tableName) {
		/*
		 * CHECK constraints
		 */
		StringBuilder checkColumnClause = new StringBuilder("");
		StringBuilder checkColumnNames = new StringBuilder("");
		int checkColumnNamesAmount = 0;

		/*
		 * Go through all table columns one by one and count amounts of
		 * CHECK constraints.
		 */
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			QueryObjectDBTableConstraintCheck checkConstraint = tableColumn
					.containtAndGetCheckConstraint();
			if (checkConstraint != null) {
				checkColumnNamesAmount++;
				checkColumnNames.append(checkConstraint.getCriteriaConditionClause() + " AND ");
			}
		}

		/*
		 * Post process table column setting string on CHECK constraint.
		 */
		if (checkColumnNamesAmount == 1) {
			checkColumnClause.append(SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CHECK + " (" + checkColumnNames.toString() + "),");
		} else if (checkColumnNamesAmount > 1) {
			checkColumnClause.append(SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CONSTRAINT + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_MULTIPLE_CHECK_COLUMNS + tableName + " "
					+ SqlStatementStrings.SQL_DATABASE_CHECK + " (" + checkColumnNames.toString() + "),");
		}
		return checkColumnClause.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Create a string that combining all column names with split
	 * ','.
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	column_name0, column_name1, column_name2, ....
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * @return Combination of all column names
	 */
	protected String buildColumnWithNames() {
		StringBuilder comninationOfColumnNames = new StringBuilder("");
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			comninationOfColumnNames.append(tableColumn.getColumnName() + ",");
		}
		comninationOfColumnNames.deleteCharAt(comninationOfColumnNames.length() - 1);
		return comninationOfColumnNames.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Create a string that contains all columns with columnName and
	 * data types.
	 *
	 * <example>
	 * 	column_name0 data_type0, column_name1 data_type1, ...
	 * </example>
	 *
	 * @return Combination of column definitions
	 */
	protected String buildColumnWithNameAndDataType() {
		StringBuilder columnAndDatatypeClause = new StringBuilder();
		for (QueryObjectDBTableColumn tableColumn : fTableColumns) {
			columnAndDatatypeClause.append(
					tableColumn.getColumnName() + " " + tableColumn.getColumnDataType().getSqlColumnDataType() + ",");
		}
		columnAndDatatypeClause.deleteCharAt(columnAndDatatypeClause.length() - 1);
		return columnAndDatatypeClause.toString();
	}

}

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Q: Unable to view some language fonts in Debian 8.2
They appear as small square boxes.
My distro: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit.

A: Try apt-get install fonts-indic.    The package description says:
Description-en: Meta package to install all Indian language fonts. This metapackage merely depends on the various free Indian language font packages available in Debian. Use this if you want fonts for every Indian language.
 .
 The following metapackages will be pulled down as dependency which will inturn pull down real font packages.
   * fonts-beng
   * fonts-deva
   * fonts-gujr
   * fonts-guru
   * fonts-knda
   * fonts-mlym
   * fonts-orya
   * fonts-pagu
   * fonts-taml
   * fonts-telu


Brickman Cities powered by LEGO® CITY is the latest creation from Ryan 'The Brickman' McNaught!
In this interactive LEGO® experience you will discover some of the world's most iconic cities—Dubai, London, New York, Sydney and Tokyo.
With Brickman's trademark cut-away models, each display shows three different stages of history, from 1000AD up to the present. Then with over half a million LEGO® bricks at your disposal you are invited to build the future of that city!
The centrepiece of this experience is a 3 x 4 metre, 1:600 scale model of Lower Manhattan, New York. Built entirely from white LEGO® bricks, UHD 4K projectors illuminates this display with 3D stories of one of the world's most vibrant cities.
This new interactive LEGO® experience is exclusively at the WA Maritime Museum until Sunday 5 May.
The Brickman Cities LEGO® experience is one hour in duration. Please arrive at the WA Maritime Museum 15 minutes before your session is due to begin. Consider arriving slightly earlier during busier school holiday periods.
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Вок (устар. Вок-Ю) — река в России, течёт по территории Койгородского района Республики Коми. Вытекает из озера Вад. Устье реки находится в 269 км по правому берегу реки Сысолы. Длина реки составляет 8 км.

В нижнем течении пересекает старицу Вокты.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Двинско-Печорскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Вычегда от истока до города Сыктывкар, речной подбассейн реки — Вычегда. Речной бассейн реки — Северная Двина.

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 03020200112103000019195.

Примечания

Притоки Сысолы
Реки Койгородского района


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Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain
Proc Biol Sci. 2013 Jun 26;280(1765):20131037. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1037. Print 2013 Aug 22.
Leon Danon 1 , Jonathan M Read, Thomas A House, Matthew C Vernon, Matt J Keeling
1 Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. l.danon@warwick.ac.uk
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1037
A major goal of infectious disease epidemiology is to understand and predict the spread of infections within human populations, with the intention of better informing decisions regarding control and intervention. However, the development of fully mechanistic models of transmission requires a quantitative understanding of social interactions and collective properties of social networks. We performed a cross-sectional study of the social contacts on given days for more than 5000 respondents in England, Scotland and Wales, through postal and online survey methods. The survey was designed to elicit detailed and previously unreported measures of the immediate social network of participants relevant to infection spread. Here, we describe individual-level contact patterns, focusing on the range of heterogeneity observed and discuss the correlations between contact patterns and other socio-demographic factors. We find that the distribution of the number of contacts approximates a power-law distribution, but postulate that total contact time (which has a shorter-tailed distribution) is more epidemiologically relevant. We observe that children, public-sector and healthcare workers have the highest number of total contact hours and are therefore most likely to catch and transmit infectious disease. Our study also quantifies the transitive connections made between an individual's contacts (or clustering); this is a key structural characteristic of social networks with important implications for disease transmission and control efficacy. Respondents' networks exhibit high levels of clustering, which varies across social settings and increases with duration, frequency of contact and distance from home. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for the transmission and control of pathogens spread through close contact.
Keywords: epidemic; infectious disease; network; social contact; survey.
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases / transmission*
Contact Tracing / methods*
Interpersonal Relations*
Models, Biological*
United Kingdom / epidemiology
G0701256/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom


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So today I take on a DIY on how to pimp out earbud and connector cords.
Who hasn't wanted to pimp-out a connector cord or two?
Or at least – who hasn't been frustrated by not being able to find your cord because someone took it because they thought it was theirs because… EVERY CHARGER CORD LOOKS THE SAME.
Use your X-ACTO knife to slice through one side of a bead. With the help of the tine of a fork, open up the bead. Then slip the bead over the cord.
Ooh… Ahhh! Pretty earbud cord!!!
But it's not ALL about having the cutest cords on the block… it can also be about marking your "territory". How many cords are floating around your house? How many times has someone "accidentally" thought your cord was theirs?
You can keep it super simple and just add a few beads. It's like a label, but a label of color.
Do you label your cords?
One note… perler beads can be a little stiff, so it make take a little effort to get them to open up and slip over the cord. Also, if you want to cover the entire cord, I suggest leaving a couple of inches of cord free of beads… otherwise the cord will not bend. Which means if you want to wrap the cord, you need a little flex room for the beads to let that happen.
Wait, I wasn't trying to offend you and say you talking like a Chipmunk. I am talking about the fast part.
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What a great use of melty beads!
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Hmmmmmmm. How about a clever wrapping paper storage system. Cause I just don't have one.
Soooo love this! So does Kiwi!
Howeve's since I'm now an owner of all the time in the world…I may just go with a green sharpie and call it good.
Take something sharp and stab a carton of milk and see what happens.
Ummm remember she is young. And not a momma herself. She doesn't yet get 'messes'.
Oh my! Srsly no concept of messes.
She could do it over her pool.
Ummm, yeah, not an easier clean up sweetie.


Last month, the Japanese government took a harsh stance against piracy.
A government panel had reportedly adopted a new policy. The proposed bill would expand the country's illegal downloading measures to cover all copyrighted content.
Japan currently prohibits illegal downloads of music and movies. Users who break this law face up to two years of jail time along with a fine of two million yen (around $18,000).
According to the government, online piracy costs the country hundreds of billions of yen. Prior to its closure last year, Mangamura, a local popular piracy site, caused an estimated 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) in damages to publishers.
Following an onslaught of criticism, however, the Japanese government has scuttled its efforts to update its anti-piracy laws.
Artists say no to updating illegal download laws.
If passed, the new bill would make it illegal to download any copyrighted content without permission from copyright holders. Infringing content would now include manga, computer games, and all literary works.
However, academics, manga artist groups, and others spoke out against the new measure. Decrying the proposed bill, they claimed the government's efforts would ultimately limit freedom of expression. Japan would also inadvertently harm legitimate activities, including research.
According to Keiko Takemiya, Head of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics (JSSSCC), the bill would harm fan fiction. People in the country, he said, love creating stories based on existing works.
The criticism forced members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to scrap plans to implement the new anti-downloading measures. Members have now said they need to hear more opinions from copyright holders.
The ruling party had initially planned to put the anti-piracy bill into effect on January 1st, 2019. The bill would've targeted pirating websites, along with blogs and social media posts containing screenshots and downloads.
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Verizon, Qualcomm drive automated cars through IoT
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22 July 2015 @ 12:20
Verizon and Qualcomm are among 15 partners launching Mcity at the University of Michigan this week, a controlled testing environment for connected and automated vehicles that the project participants claim could clear the path for mass-market adoption of driverless cars, reports Business Cloud News.
The facility will allow researchers to simulate environments where connected and automated vehicles will be most challenged – for instance where road signs may be defaced by graffiti, or when traffic lights become faulty or break.
"There are many challenges ahead as automated vehicles are increasingly deployed on real roadways," said Peter Sweatman, director of the University of Michigan Mobility Transformation Center. "Mcity is a safe, controlled, and realistic environment where we are going to figure out how the incredible potential of connected and automated vehicles can be realized quickly, efficiently and safely."
Michigan – particularly the City of Detroit – has a longstanding (and to some extent troubled) history in automotive, but the University said the facility will help the State regain its leadership in the sector. The project builds on a 3,000 vehicle connected car project launched three years ago and co-funded by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation
As part of its participation with the project Verizon will be contributing its telematics technology, In-Drive, and is offering its own research into vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies. It will also help explore various ways to combine mobility, telematics and IoT services.
Other project partners include Iteris, Navistar, Denso, Ford, General Motors, Qualcomm and Xerox; each partner is investing about $1m into the project over the next three years.
Amit Jain, director of corporate strategy, IoT verticals at Verizon said the project will help create new vendor-agnostic and OEM-agnostic services that could improve road and pedestrian safety.
"Placing the onus on OEMs only to deploy technologies such as Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), for example, could take up to 37 years according to the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA). That's why creating opportunities like Mcity to pool research and share best practices to expedite innovation is so important," Jain said.
"Consider the fact that there are more than 30,000 fatalities in the US annually caused by vehicle accidents – of which 14 percent of those fatalities involve pedestrians. As part of our participation in Mcity, we will be involved in tailored research to explore how smart phones can be used to further enhance vehicle-to-pedestrian communications."
Verizon has moved over the past few years to bolster its legacy M2M portfolio (industrial M2M, telematics) with the addition of new IoT services, which according to the telco now constitute a growing portion of its overall revenues – particularly connected cars. In a Q2 2015 earnings call with journalists and analysts this week Verizon's chief financial officer Francis Shammo said that although IoT is still quite a nascent sector it raked in about $165m for the quarter and $320m year-to-date.
"As far as Internet of Things, we think that the transportation, healthcare, and energy industries in particular present great opportunities for us and we are very active fostering innovation in these areas," Shammo said. "We are very well-positioned to capitalize on these new growth opportunities and we will continue to develop business models to monetize usage on our network and at the platform level."
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Q: How to create Custom menu and activity How to create custom menu like image sample?(java-android-android studio)
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The man-made creation and alteration of lifeforms is a complex topic. We broke it down for visitors to the Tech Museum, demystifying one of the least-understood and most controversial topics in modern science.
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At the Living Color Lab, visitors can change the color of real bacteria. Each station has a vial of loose DNA, which can change the color of bacterial colonies over time. By introducing different quantities of color-encoding genes to the bacterial colonies and incubating them, colors begin to emerge. Visitors can insert their Petri dish into a viewer that uses computer vision to analyze the colonies and tell you what color you've made. A projection-based augmented reality experience guides visitors through the process, explaining what's happening at a microscopic level. 1,493 glowing petri dishes visualize results from the experiment in real time.
Resurrecting a 64-Year-Old Algorithm
At the Pattern Design exhibit, visitors take control of the rules behind nature's emergent systems to design new coat patterns on life-size animal sculptures. By tweaking cells using a custom physical interface, visitors can design new patterns and types of camouflage. These are projected onto three animal models we call "the hambears" (short for hamster-bear).
Connecting physical DNA models to create digital Lifeforms
At the Creature Creation Station, visitors create and test new virtual lifeforms by snapping flexible building blocks that represent DNA segments. Sensors in each block sync with the kiosks below to provide real-time feedback on the genetic design in progress. Without explicitly knowing it, visitors are creating a series of biological commands, with the DNA models serving as a proxy for genes. Visitors can manipulate the quantity, function, and timing of how each gene is expressed in their organism, then launch their creations into a 30-foot-wide "bio pool," where digital organisms move and interact with other visitors' lifeforms according to the rules encoded in their DNA.
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October 27, 2017 Kit Kolbegger
Student unions meet with Advanced Education minister as strike ends second week
A student holds up a sign during a support rally for striking college faculty at Humber's Lakeshore Campus on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Student unions met with Minister of Advanced Education Deb Matthews, as well as the chairs for both the faculty union's and the colleges' bargaining teams, to encourage negotiations to resume. (Photo by Kit Kolbegger.)
By Kit Kolbegger
Representatives from eight student unions including Humber's Ignite met with Minister of Advanced Education Deb Matthews on Thursday to discuss the Ontario-wide college strike.
In a post on Facebook, Ignite said student union president Maja Jocson represented Humber. Jocson and other student union presidents also met with the bargaining chairs from the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union and the College Employers Council.
"While we're not satisfied that negotiations are still not taking place, we're happy the parties were willing to hear us," Ignite's statement said.
"We will continue to use these lines of communication to let all parties know how dissatisfied students are that there are still no talks happening."
David Scott, the media contact for the College Employer Council, said that the Council sympathized with student concerns.
"We definitely want the strike resolved, and sooner rather than later but there are clear impediments to that," he said.
A provincially-appointed mediator is involved with the bargaining process. Scott said the mediator felt there was no point calling either the faculty union or the colleges back to the bargaining table.
"We would be in a very similar place to where we were at the start of the strike, on Oct. 15, because the union continues to have proposals on the table that the colleges cannot afford and frankly will not accept," he said.
Scott said it was unfair for the faculty union to say that the colleges were not willing to bargain.
"Our position has been consistent," he said. "We are being consistent in our position and we have been consistent in that position since July."
Scott said the last offer from the faculty union's bargaining team would add $250 million in costs for the colleges.
"The $250 million does not become more affordable in July or in August or September and October," he said.
One of the union's key demands has been more job security for contract faculty. Pam Johnson, a part-time instructor at Humber College, said Wednesday that contract faculty have to apply for their jobs every three months.
Another demand from the union is an increase in the number of full-time faculty employed by the colleges.
"People believe we should have decent work. It is not the norm to have partial load, part-time precarious work that does not allow you to pay your bills," Johnson said.
Scott said that hiring full-time faculty at the "rigid ratio" of 50:50 the union is asking for is unfeasible. He said having more part-time teachers allows the colleges to have more flexibility in their course offerings.
"Quite often, there are programs that will be… adjusted or shifted over time," he said. "That flexibility is a hallmark of the success of the college programs."
On Wednesday, the College Employer Council's direct line phone number and staff phone numbers disappeared from its website. The faculty union tweeted out screenshots of the phone numbers following the disappearance, asking where they had gone.
Scott said he was unaware of the phone numbers' disappearances.
"I'm surprised to hear that," he said. "Obviously we want to make sure that people have access to information."
Warren "Smokey" Thomas, the president of the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union, said during a strike rally Wednesday that he understood students' frustrations with the strike.
"I'd be upset too if I was a student," he said. "But I'm asking the students… direct that anger at management."
The second week of the college strike is ending, and no negotiations have been scheduled so far.
Humber's student union, Ignite, said in a statement on their website that they will continue to reach out to both bargaining teams with other student unions to "ensure that the voice of students are heard."
Ignite also said they are reaching out to Humber's administration to make sure students would be represented in any decisions about how studies will continue once the strike ends.
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I have been backpacking since 2015. I have been to 24 states in India and five countries outside India. After every backpacking trip, I pick up at least one hack that helps me get the true essence of backpacking.
With this article, I will share with you five backpacking hacks that can help you travel better.
One of the best money related tip out there is given by Warren Buffet, who said, "Never put all your money in the same basket". The same should be applied when travelling as well. Split your money and hide them at different places. For starters, think of keeping some inside your fresh socks or sandwich some between your phone and it's back cover. Just refrain from keeping all your money in your wallet. Pickpockets will eye your wallet or purse before anything else.
Travellers do not always have the access to the internet. When it comes to offline navigation, there are quite a few apps on the market available for free. While Google Maps is the most popular choice for GPS navigation, it is not the best one. Maps.me is way more accurate than Google maps, especially when it comes to navigation through a remote location (think of a trekking trail) with or without internet connectivity. Just download the map of the state or the country and you would be set.
Nutella has saved me from the horrors of starvation time and again. Every time I feel hungry but do not have access to food, Nutella comes to my rescue. High in energy, Nutella, or any chocolate (which is high in carbohydrates) for that matter, can provide instant gratification from hunger. It also helps if you are a vegetarian, and do not have access to vegetarian food.
All your important things such as documents, earphones, camera, wallet, snacks, et cetera, should be kept inside your carry-on baggage and not your check-in luggage. Not only does it remove the risk of getting damaged, but also becomes easily accessible when you get bored during the long flight or while waiting at the airport. Having said that, do not stuff your carry-on baggage with excess items.
Whether you want to see the museum, visit the historical site, or just any point of interest, arrive early. If it opens at, say 10:00 hours, be there by 9:55 hours or you will stand a chance to beat the queue - the more popular the site is, the longer the queue would be. In all probability, it would not be crowded at the opening hour and you may also receive special treatment by the officials. The same spot will become overly crowded by noon.
Let us know if these tips helped.
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We need your help! Please click the link below to email the Governor andlegislative leaders to urge them to sign the supportive and affordable housing MOU TODAY.If you have done so before. We still need you to do so again today.
Last week,Governor Cuomo took a big step toward a signed MOU bydirecting the New York State Division of the Budget to execute a memorandum of understanding (MOU)to release $2 billion in funding to advance the creation of more than 100,000 units of affordable and supportive housing over the nextfive years. Theexecuted agreement is now before the New York State Senate and Assembly for their action.
The final budget which passed in April included funding to support the first 6,000 supportive housing units, and 100,000 affordable units but required a separate MOU between the Governor and each legislative leader.Five months later, that agreement has still not been signed.
We need all three parties – the Senate, the Assembly and the Executive - to agree on a final MOU so that $2 billion in already-budgeted funding can be released to start developing desperately needed supportive and affordable housing.
The Governor agreed to sign an MOU. Now we need the NYS Assembly and NYS Senate to also sign the MOU.
It's critical Albany hears our collective voice TODAY!


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Press Articles about the Wymondham Heritage Museum
How prison went from 'vilest jail in England' to the gold standard for lock-ups around the globe
by Bethany Wales, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 5th March 2019
For the hundreds of incarcerated men, women and children serving prison time in the 1700s, life was a hellish experience. But in the summer of 1779, one of the world's best known prison reformers took a trip to Wymondham for a prison visit which would lead to an international revolution.
Read the Eastern Daily Press article >
Wymondham museum's tea room packed for 1940s music performance
by Luke Powell, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 29th August 2018
The Bridewell tea room at Wymondham Heritage Museum was packed for a performance of music from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Open gardens another blooming success for town
by Sophie Smith, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 12th June 2018
An Open Gardens event has achieved another successful year in a market town.
A Victorian piano used in town's silent cinema donated to museum
by Sophie Smith, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 23rd May 2018
A historic piano used in a Norfolk town's earliest cinema has been donated to a heritage museum.
Women's crucial role in First World War marked by popular museum
by Andrew Papworth, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 6th March 2018
The role of "our boys" in the First World War is often much celebrated. But now a popular town museum is set to reopen for its 2018 season with a new exhibition marking the equally important role women played in the conflict.
Heritage Society launches new season of events
Eastern Daily Press, Published: 24th January 2018
On Thursday, January 25 from 7.30pm Wymondham Heritage Society will launch its new season with a social evening at the Fairland Hall.
Prisoners' lot brought back to life in mural at Wymondham Heritage Museum
by Stuart Anderson, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 1st September 2017
Women once laboured there for hours on end, washing and drying clothes in conditions that can truly be called 'Victorian'.
New exhibition at Wymondham Heritage Museum to throw spotlight on women in the First World War
by Stuart Anderson, Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury, Published: 3rd July 2017
Researchers have appealed for help to build a picture of the role women played in the First World War for an upcoming exhibition.
Read the Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury article >
The plague, a hanging and a great fire - timeline traces Wymondham's fascinating history
by Stuart Anderson, Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury, Published: 29th June 2017
The newest addition to Wymondham Heritage Museum traces the story of the market town alongside major events in British history.
Hilary's mural means the washing is still done at local museum
by Neil Haverson, Let's Talk, Published: June 2017
Standing at an easel to paint is straightforward, but when your canvass is a large wall, where do you start? To find out, Neil Haverson meets a local artist.
Read the Let's Talk article >
Call for volunteers to join team at Wymondham Heritage Museum
by Stuart Anderson, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 11th May 2017
The team behind the Wymondham Heritage Museum has put out a call for volunteers to help out in the museum's tearoom.
Reader letter: Wymondham Heritage Museum's lost pubs exhibit is worth a visit
by Stuart Anderson, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 5th April 2017
I recently paid a visit to view the new displays for 2017 at the Wymondham Heritage Museum called 'The Lost Pubs of Wymondham'.
Wymondham Heritage Museum reopens for new season
by Andrew Papworth, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 26th March 2017
Wymondham Heritage Museum will hold its official opening for its new season on Monday, March 27.
Take a look inside what a jail used to look like at museum's stunning display
It is a building steeped in a Norfolk town's deepest and darkest history.
Lost pubs of Wymondham to feature in museum's new season
by Stuart Anderson, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 27th February 2017
Could you imagine if a town like Wymondham had 33 pubs? It may seem far-fetched for a Norfolk market town to have so many watering holes, but Wymondham actually had that many back in 1622.
Call for more volunteers at Wymondham Heritage Museum
by Stuart Anderson, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 30th January 2017
A call has been made for more people to volunteer at one of the area's biggest drawcards - the Wymondham Heritage Museum.
Eric is honoured for years of service at Wymondham museum opening
by Lauren Cope, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 26th March 2015
When he was just a teenager, a schoolmaster told Eric Thorburn he would almost certainly flunk his history exam.
What are your picks? The Seven Wonders of Wymondham - councillor celebrates town by choosing top highlights
For many, wonders of the world might conjure up images of Egypt's colossal pyramids, or the romantic tale behind India's striking Taj Mahal.
Maps showing Wymondham in the 1800s to be published into a book
by Lauren Cope, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 19th February 2015
A collection of maps showing Wymondham in the 1800s has been published into a book by the town's heritage society.
Former head of the British Army commemorates WW1 at Wymondham Heritage Museum opening
A former head of the British Army has helped Wymondham commemorate its local connections to the First World War.
Wymondham to tell the story of its role in First World War
Planning for 2014, the Wymondham Heritage Group at Wymondham Heritage Museum. Pip Woodward with part of a new 1st world war exhibition being installed.
Wymondham war heroes to be remembered at museum
by Lucy Wright, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 6th January 2014
War heroes from Wymondham will be at the heart of a new exhibit in the town's museum this year.
Flying the flag to commemorate Kett's Rebellion in Wymondham
Eastern Daily Press, Published: 12th August 2012
A stream of flags or banners will be created in Wymondham to tell the story of Kett's Rebellion in 1549.
Wymondham Heritage Museum to host special exhibition on the 'friendly invasion'
Eastern Daily Press, Published: 21st June 2012
Wymondham Heritage Museum is set to host a special exhibition of photographs and memorabilia to mark the 70th anniversary of the 'Friendly invasion' in Norfolk.
Loss-making Wymondham Heritage Museum could close this summer, chairman warns
by Dominic Bareham, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 17th April 2012
A decision to close a Norfolk museum could be made as soon as July or August following a poor response from the public to an appeal to save the heritage facility.
'Use it or lose it' plea to save Wymondham Heritage Museum from closure
by Dominic Bareham, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 3rd April 2012
A Norfolk museum's committee is warning that the facility, which boasts artefacts dating back to Kett's Rebellion in the 16th century, could have to close unless it can attract more visitors to boost income.
Wymondham Heritage Museum reopens after winter break
Eastern Daily Press, Published: 2nd March 2012
Wymondham Heritage Museum has reopened following the winter break with a host of new exhibitions.
New exhibition at Wymondham Heritage Museum
By Stephanie Brooks, Eastern Daily Press, Published: 26th February 2011
The story of Wymondham College, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, is commemorated with a new exhibition at Wymondham Heritage Museum.


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GOING, GOING ... GLACIER NATIONAL PARK'S ICONIC GLACIERS ARE MELTING AWAY...
Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers as global temperatures rise. When the park was founded in 1910, it had about 150 glaciers. Today, only 26 still meet the 25-acre threshold to be called a glacier. Credit: Jinrui Qu/CC-BY-SA-2.0
Rising temperatures over the past 50 years have not been kind to the glaciers. With climate change continuing, the once-giant ice slabs could soon disappear...
The ruggedly stunning landscape of Montana's Glacier National Park will still be stunning and rugged in 50 years, but the glaciers the park was named for will be harder to spot—if they exist at all.
As global temperatures have warmed over the past half-century, the park's major "named" glaciers have receded, shrinking by an average of 39 percent since 1966, according a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Portland State University.
"Over the past 50 years, some of the glaciers have shrunk about 82 percent, so they won't be with us soon," said Daniel Fagre, the lead USGS scientist on the project. "For others, shrinkage has been more modest — about 13 percent. But the amount of ice in all cases is diminished, so the long-term prospects for our glaciers are not good."
Fagre and his colleagues analyzed measurements, taken over the past five decades, of the park's 37 major glaciers and two others on adjacent U.S. Forest Service land. They found that of those 39 glaciers, only 26 still meet a 25-acre threshold. Glaciologists consider that amount of mass a convenient cut-off point to distinguish between a glacier (a perennial wedge of ice and snow that moves) and stagnant ice or a perennial snowfield (a wedge of ice and snow that doesn't).
Before its founding in 1910, Glacier National Park was home to about 150 glaciers.
"The glaciers were not shrinking very much from the end of the Little Ice Age to the park's founding," Fagre said, referring to the global cooling period that ended around 1715. "Most of the loss has occurred since then."
Geologists with the USGS and at universities have found similar glacial downsizing across the West, where they're trying to understand the impact of larger climate patterns on different mountain environments.
"We've been working in the Sierra of California. We've been working up in the Olympics. We're going to start on the North Cascades this summer. This is emblematic of what's happening all over the West," said Andrew Fountain, a professor of geology and geography at Portland State University and co-author of the study.
The impacts of climate change on glaciers could be especially potent in the Rocky Mountains, where warming trends are 1.8 times the global average. The region is increasingly prone to drought and wildfires, a scenario that's both a symptom of glacier loss and a cause.
"Locally speaking, smaller glaciers don't produce as much meltwater, which threatens local ecosystems, especially in the late summer. They have less capacity to buffer droughts or contribute water during droughts," Fountain said. "But all this water is going someplace, and it's going to oceans, so even though it's happening in the mountains, Florida is feeling the effects."
Within Glacier National Park, the impacts go beyond the scenery, too. Some aquatic species, including an insect called the meltwater stonefly, are threatened by the changing conditions.
"These glaciers are instrumental in maintaining cold water for certain aquatic organisms. The safety net will be gone for those organisms," Fagre said. "It's an early warning signal of broader ecosystem change."
A record 2.9 million visitors were drawn to the nearly 1,600-square mile park last summer, Fagre said.
"Clearly the park is not going to have these glaciers past a few more decades," Fagre added. "But it's a beautiful landscape, and it will continue to be so after the glaciers are gone."
By Georgina Gustin
Georgina Gustin is a Washington-based reporter who has covered food policy, farming and the environment for more than a decade. She started her journalism career at The Day in New London, Conn., then moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she launched the "food beat," covering agriculture, biotech giant Monsanto and the growing "good food" movement. At CQ Roll Call, she covered food, farm and drug policy and the intersections between federal regulatory agencies and Congress. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic's The Plate, among others.
source: https://insideclimatenews.org/


The primary role of an ad agency is to create ads, so it stands to reason that advertising is often scripted. A brand is paying large sums of money to control a specific, tailored message to a mass audience.
Sometimes these scripts are handed to celebrities who have the professional training to convince you they really use and love a particular product. Other times scripts are handed to seemingly ordinary, everyday people who are heavily coached to sound like, well, ordinary, everyday people.
But sometimes, there's no script at all, just everyday people being themselves, speaking from the heart about their passion for a product. They sound so convincing because they actually are. Of all the testimonial marketing you could employ, social proof from consumers like these is the best option.
In a CRN International poll of brand marketers and ad agency decision-makers, 93 percent said they were very pleased with the results of radio campaigns that employed testimonials from regular people. That came as no surprise to us. Our CRN consumer research report confirmed consumers' interest in listening to real people and an increased consideration and likelihood to buy the sponsored product.
Smart broadcast advertisers understand that when real people talk about their real use of products, their stories and recommendations are more likely to motivate and persuade. Yet too often, well-intentioned ad people will source, manage, edit, and shape real people like clay until they sound like ceramic voiceover talents in overproduced spots, basically defeating the purpose and turning consumers off.
So keep it real, folks. The spotlight in marketing should be on the power of human influence, and that radio is an ideal real-person medium.
Be real. No celebrities or hired talent here. Authenticity matters – big time.
Comfortable and natural. With radio, there are no distracting stage sets, makeup artists, wardrobe racks, lights or cameras. Comfortable settings with people in their own environment and clothes combined with unobtrusive microphones will yield a more natural story or conversation.
Make sure they are consumers. The people delivering a testimonial need to experience the product, preferably at their homes and for an extended period, long enough to seed real stories. Encourage them to share.
No scripts or "copy points." You want real people to use their own words, pauses, "you knows," bungled grammar, and all. This is how people speak. They need to be the ones telling their stories – not the copywriters.
Choose a very competent interviewer. You'll need a guide who is truly skilled in interviewing, listening, and drawing out the best story. Try a focus-group moderator, reporter or a talk show host.
Think local. Your friends, family and neighbors wield a great deal of influence. Local people reflect the entire community in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. It may be a regional accent or turn of phrase or a local reference, but it creates true authenticity that translates to influence.
Extend stories to other media. Repurposing real-people testimonials is a must, particularly since the work to generate these stories has already been done. Extend them to the web, social media and product brochures, as well as to radio stations' own digital and social assets.
We were able to put the concept to work not long ago when the Affordable Care Act had enrollment numbers well below expectations. The CT Exchange simply wanted a campaign that would blanket the state with advertising. But we asked real people of all ages and all walks of life to tell personal stories about their health and express their comfort in knowing they had coverage. We wanted to deliver the benefits of joining the healthcare exchange through natural, relatable storytelling.
And it worked. The CT Exchange received more calls, more website visits, and more signups than ever.
Proof of the power of people.
Learn more about real-people testimonials by viewing our Access Health video case study and more about influencer marketing here.


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Q: How to take a range of elements from JavaPairRDD I am trying to get data from HBase using Spark.
JavaPairRDD<ImmutableBytesWritable, Result> javaPairRdd =
sc.newAPIHadoopRDD(hbaseConf,
TableInputFormat.class,ImmutableBytesWritable.class, Result.class);

But I need to get elements from a range. ex: 1000th record to 2000th record.


News shows ignore the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
Millions of American citizens are without power, shelter, or clean water after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory last week. Yet, if you watched the news on Sunday, you would have heard hardly anything about it.
Five major political talk shows on Sunday spent less than a minute total covering the urgent crisis, according to a new report from Media Matters. Shows on ABC, CBS, and Fox all failed to touch on the situation. CNN and NBC mentioned Puerto Rico in passing, asking President Trump and viewers to help.
Meanwhile, Trump was picking fights with football and basketball players over their protests of police brutality and racism — a controversy that faced no shortage of media attention.
Over the past month, TV news shows have had trouble linking climate change to this year's intense hurricane season, even while scientists had little problem connecting the dots.
Congress is working on a hurricane aid package for Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, and the Virgin Islands, but House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn't anticipate its arrival until sometime in October. Though some short-term aid has already arrived, October may be too late for many Puerto Ricans, who are suffering through heat and lacking modern essentials like gas, food, and cash. Officials expect that people will have to wait months for the return of power and basic services.
Hurricanes have made Caribbeans the world's latest climate refugees.


This dissertation investigates the claim that "The truest poetry is the most feigning" by examining ekphrasis and its relation to skepticism in Shakespeare. Two fundamental claims comprise my argument: first, Shakespeare uses ekphrasis to acknowledge doubt in order that his poetry might become most true; second, ekphrasis is the unique means by which the spectators–at times both within and outside of the play– may question their own skepticism and additionally consider their role and place as audience.
In the introduction, after discussing key characteristics of ekphrasis conveyed in the Shield of Achilles, I argue that the spatial focus of Horace's ut pictura poesis results in a distancing effect that allows for an ethical dimension within ekphrastic expression: in short, ekphrasis invites, and perhaps demands, the spectator's recognition of her own consciousness as spectator, resulting in heightened self-knowledge. In the chapters that follow, I discuss ekphraseis that are centered around questions of language: in Chapter 2, I argue that the Mouse-trap allows Hamlet to test the representational fidelity of words; in Chapter 3, I assert that the wonder and momentary cessation of speech produced by viewing the statue of Hermione repairs tragedy; last, in Chapter 4, I argue that the Sonnets present framed moments of the failure of epideictic speech, and that these moments are inextricably linked with the development of a wholly novel poetic.Throughout I observe dramatic and poetic prototypes from antiquity in light of the many overlapping characteristics shared by ekphrastic and intertextual approaches.


Ep 127 Thor The Dark World : Do You Expect Us To Talk?
Do You Expect Us To Talk? returns with the second Thor movie. Thor has been battling to bring peace to the five realms as the Dark Elves from the accent past return to seek dominance. Meanwhile, Jane finds a mysterious matter that infuses her DNA making her a Target.
Join Becca, Chris and Dave as we struggle to come up with anything in depth to say, Christopher Eccelstone a **** or not, how big Stone Henge and is it overrated or not, how this movie rips off Austin Powers and why the Asgardians should never look after stuff.
Ep 124 The Avengers: Do You Expect Us To Talk?
So as we reach the end of phase one of the Marvel cinematic universe, Do You Expect Us To Talk? hit the big team-up The Avengers. When Loki shows up and steals the tesseract to summon an alien invasion. SHIELD must summon Tony Stark and Bruce Banner to join with Captian America and Black Widow and later Hawkeye after he's recovered from his concussion, to join forces and fight an epic battle in the centre of Manhattan.
Join Becca, Chris and Dave as we don't discuss the 1960's TV show, Sean Connery in a teddy bear outfit, the length of time Thor looks at his hammer, blue beams of light in the sky and why Chris Hemsworth should be Bond.
Ep 122 Thor : Do You Expect Us To Talk?
Do You Expect Us to talk? is back as Marvel dips its toe into the magical realm with Thor. Starring Chris Hemsworth as the god of thunder who is cast out and banished without his powers, while his brother Loki manipulates to take his place. Thor must prove himself worthy to return and save his home, Asgard.
Join Becca, Chris and Dave as we discuss how cheap everything is, why Loki is the best villain, how great Chris Hemsworth is, Anonathy Hopkins is actually acting, is this film one of the worst or best in the series, how hot Rene Russo is and Chris Hemsworth's buffet.


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The Lion and The Jackal
Two sparrows, husband and wife, built a nest on a banyan tree where the female sparrow laid eggs. One afternoon a wild elephant came to the tree seeking shelter from the sun. Unable to bear the heat, the tusker suddenly went berserk and snapped a big branch of the tree, crushing the sparrow's eggs in the nest. The sparrow pair somehow escaped the fury of the elephant but the wife began crying for her eggs.
A woodpecker, a close friend of the sparrow, heard her crying and moved by her grief asked her, "Why are you crying, my friend? Wise men do not grieve what is lost or what is dead or what is past. That is the difference between a learned person and an unlettered man."
The female sparrow said, "The wicked elephant has destroyed my off spring. If you are a true friend of mine suggest a way to kill him. In my view, he who harms a person in trouble or he who ridicules a person in sorrow deserves to be punished and he who punishes such a person has no rebirth."
"What you say is right," said the woodpecker. "He is a friend who comes to your aid when you are in need. Everyone tries to be friendly when you are prospering. You will see how resourceful I am. I have a friend who is a fly. With his help we can kill the elephant."
Taking the female sparrow with him, the woodpecker called on the fly and told him, "This is my dearest friend. A wild elephant has squashed her eggs. You must somehow find a way to kill that elephant. We need your help."
The fly said, "I have a friend who is a frog. Let us go to him and seek his help also." The female sparrow, the woodpecker and the fly went to the frog and narrated the entire story of the sparrow's grief.
The frog said, "What is an elephant before a united crowd like us? Do as I tell you. O' fly, go to the elephant when the sun is high in the sky and hum a sweet tune into his ears. When he closes his eyes in ecstasy, the woodpecker will scoop his eyes out. He becomes blind and thirsty and will look for water. I will go to a quicksand and begin croaking there. Thinking that there is water, the elephant will come there and sink into the quicksand and die."
All the four played out their roles according to the frog's plan and caused the death of the elephant."
At the end of the story, the female pheasant told her husband, "That is how together the four friends killed the elephant."
Impressed by his wife's wisdom, the husband said, "Okay, we will call our friends and with their help crush the Sea.' As their friends, the cranes, the peacocks, the cuckoos and other birds, gathered, the male pheasant told them the story of how the Sea had killed their offspring and how necessary it was to drain him out. At the end, he said, "We cannot do this job. Let us go to Garuda, Lord Vishnu's vehicle, and tell him all that has happened. He will be angry over what the Sea has done to his species. He will surely take revenge on the Sea."
Wailing and weeping, all the birds went to meet Garuda and told him, "O lord, we need your help. The Sea has destroyed the eggs of the pheasant pair. This is a blow to all the bird community. If you do not intervene, he will destroy our entire tribe. Wise men have always said that one wicked person will be an inspiration to all others with evil intentions."
The wolf then looked at the jackal suggesting that the jackal should convince the lion of his innocence. But the cunning jackal said, "You did not heed my warning and ate the meat. Why do you now expect me to help you?' Realizing the danger, the wolf fled the scene to save his life.
Meanwhile, a caravan of camels passing by stopped where the lion and the jackal were planning the next move. The lead camel had a big bell tied to his neck. Frightened by the sound of the bell, the lion asked the jackal to find out what the sound was all about. He had not heard such sounds in his life. Pretending to find out, the jackal went out of the lion's sight and shouted from there, "O lord, run for your life."
"What's the matter," the lion asked him. "Why are you frightening me? Let me know clearly what's happening."
The jackal said, "My lord, the Lord of Death is angry that you have killed the camel before its death was due. He is upset and vowed that he would get from you one thousand times more than the value of the camel we have killed. It is the Lord of Death who hung a bell in the lead camel's neck. He also brought with him all the ancestors of the camel."
The jackal thus tricked the lion into hurriedly fleeing the place, leaving the camel's body all to himself to feast upon.
Damanaka continued, "That is why I told you that a wise man protects his interest even if it is to torment others and never shares his secrets with others as Chaturaka, the jackal did in the above story."
Sanjeevaka began pondering, "Why did I do like this. A vegetarian serving a meat eater! What shall I do and where shall I go? Perhaps, Pingalaka may spare me because he had given me assurance. Trouble may sometimes come to people who walk the path of ethical conduct. Every living being does good and sometimes bad deeds. He will reap the consequences in the next birth. So, we cannot escape what fate has in store for us."
With these thoughts on his mind Sanjeevaka went to see Pingalaka, the lion, and sat down without greeting him. The lion also was surprised at the bullock's arrogance and, believing what Damanaka had told him about Sanjeevaka, pounced on him tearing him with his claws. Sanjeevaka too began goring the lion with his horns.
Seeing that the jackal and the lion were determined to fight to the end, Karataka admonished Damanaka, "You fool! You have created a rift between the two friends. If the lord dies, how can you be a minister? How do you aspire to be a minister when you do not know the principles of diplomacy? War mongers like you can never reach their goals. You should not use force where there is still room for peace. One of the two is bound to die. Save the situation if you can. No, it is my folly to tell you what is good and what is bad. Elders have said that one should not preach to one who is not a disciple. You have the example of the bird Suchimukha."
"I am eager to know what it is," said Damanaka.
The Lion and The Jackal Reviewed by Rahul Venkateshan on Friday, April 05, 2019 Rating: 5


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Education | Health
University of Alaska Anchorage receives federal funds to expand state health care workforce
May 23, 2022 by Katie Anastas, Alaska Public Media
The grant will fund construction of new laboratories and classrooms, which will allow the university to graduate an additional 100 healthcare workers annually.
The University of Alaska Anchorage College of Health has received $4 million in federal funds to help expand Alaska's health care workforce.
The grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration will fund the construction of new laboratories and classrooms. That expansion will allow the university to graduate an additional 100 health care workers annually.
Kendra Sticka is an Associate Dean at the college. At a press conference on the UAA campus on Thursday, she said the funding is aimed at health care professions that support doctors and nurses.
"This project would expand the learning facilities for certified nursing assistants, surgical technologists, and diagnostic medical sonographers, allowing us to nearly double the capacity for graduates in these programs over the next several years," she said.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Alejandra Castillo speaks to students and staff at the University of Alaska Anchorage College of Health. (Photo by Katie Anastas/Alaska Public Media)
University president Pat Pitney said the funding will help grow the state's workforce from within and reduce out-of-state recruitment costs.
"This investment will address gaps in the state training and improve equity and diversity in our health care workforce," Pitney said. "It will also enhance distance delivery to bring education and training opportunities."
The university was one of 60 applicants for the grant, which is funded through the American Rescue Plan. Alejandra Castillo is the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development.
"Here in Alaska, you were experiencing significant staff shortages in the health care sector before the pandemic hit, which exacerbated the departure of many health care workers to the lower 48 states," Castillo said.
According to the project proposal, the new construction and renovations could be completed as soon as fall 2023.
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