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Timberland management
Plantation management
Managing Plantation Operations
Forest Management Planning
Timber procurement
Organziation of Timber Procurement
Timber procurement Operations
Timber procurement policy
Global forest products markets
Forest Owner Associations
Geschichte des Weilhart
Eichen-Aufbau
Jagdsubventionen
Forests and the Kyoto protocol
Wald und Kyoto
Post Kyoto
Fichtenblattwespe
Forstliche Bestandesbewertung
Einführung in die Bewertung
Stammzahlverteilungen
Einheitshöhenkurven
Rotfäule
Holzerntefunktionen
Alterswertfaktor
State forest services
Timber Flow Austria 2004
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An interesting letter written by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
AUSTimber2020 Rescheduled to November
Ence opens its new biomass generation plant in Puertollano, Spain
Softree Technical Systems Releases RoadEng 9
Overcome steep odds
BLOGS blogs BLOGS
The 'virtual economy' of REDD+ projects: does private certification of REDD+ projects ensure their environmental integrity?
Das klimapolitische Instrument REDD - eine kritische Betrachtung
Ireland is considering to sell it's forests
The real drivers of deforestation and forest degradation
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The U.S. will contribute one billion to REDD
A New Direction And Vision For America's Forests
U.S. joins $3.5 bln scheme to fight deforestation
The United States Launches REDD+ Strategy
Scientists call attention to 'forgotten forests'
Financing the Tropical Forest Conservation Act
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I want to thank Avoided Deforestation Partners for holding this event and inviting me to join all of the distinguished speakers here today in urging the adoption of REDD plus as part of a global climate framework.
We are encouraged by the progress being made here in moving REDD forward. The United States believes an agreed outcome in Copenhagen should include REDD. Our negotiating team is working hard to make this happen.
Protecting the world's forests is not a luxury. It is a necessity.
Tropical rainforests, in particular, are of special importance. These forests are vital to the protection and storage of water. The forests of the Amazon alone provide 15%-20% of the water that flows from the world's rivers into our oceans.
Tropical rainforests are also reservoirs of biodiversity, covering 2% of the world's surface but containing half of the world's plants and animals.
And, tropical rainforests are vitally important to the livelihood of many living in the world's rural areas. By creating well-designed policies that value those forests, local people and communities can share in the economic benefits of forest conservation and environmental stewardship.
As evidenced by the gathering here in Copenhagen, protecting the world's climate is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. Forests have a vital role to play in overcoming this challenge. Rainforests store vast amounts of carbon. That's true across the planet, and in America, too. Our Tongass National Forest, a temperate Alaskan rainforest comprises only 2% of America's forest land base, but may hold as much as 8% of all the carbon contained in the forests of the United States.
Beyond the negative consequences of deforestation, it will be very difficult to protect the world's climate, without protecting and restoring our forests. We lose more than 13 million hectares of tropical forests annually, and as we've heard today, the consequences are enormous, approximately 17% of global warming emissions coming from deforestation.
Protecting the world's forests will require significant capital. We believe that valuing carbon in forests through a well-designed carbon market can provide one of the best opportunities we have to dramatically slow down forest loss and degradation in developing countries. Of course, capital alone isn't enough. We must develop accurate forest inventories. We must learn to balance local development with forest conservation. And we must build local capacity so that countries are ready to participate in REDD markets and activities.
The Obama Administration and United States is committed to working with our international partners to protect these forests across the globe. Today the State Department¸ USAID, and USDA's Forest Service are already working with the governments of Ghana, Nepal, Mexico and others to learn how REDD plus can be implemented on the ground and we expect to ramp up these programs in the near future. This includes improvements in carbon inventories, systems for paying for ecosystem services, and assistance in helping forests adapt to a changing climate.
While REDD can make it possible for developing countries to protect their forests, developed countries must also recognize their own responsibility towards their own lands. In the United States, the Obama Administration is taking steps to protect and restore our forests in order to sustain our climate and our water resources. This week, the US Forest Service will formally announce a process for development of a new forest planning rule to govern the way we manage our publicly-owned National Forests, all 193 million acres. Moving forward, forest restoration, climate mitigation and adaption will be central components of how we manage our National Forests.
The Obama Administration has also taken steps to protect roadless areas on our National Forests – these areas not only store carbon, but are critical in conserving water and wildlife. And, we recognize the importance of protecting our privately-owned forests many of which are threatened by suburbanization and fragmentation.
Our domestic efforts are important, but internationally we must move quickly to make it possible for developing countries to address deforestation. We recognize the significant role that international public finance must play in supporting developing countries efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. That's why I'm pleased to announce that the United States is committing one billion dollars over the next three years for fast start of REDD. We regard this as an initial investment to build the capacity in these countries and undertake efforts to slow deforestation. These funds will be available for countries that develop ambitious REDD-plus plans addressing deforestation and forest degradation, according to their respective capabilities. We encourage other donors to join us in supporting forest countries to ensure early action on REDD-plus becomes a reality.
The United States is committed to protecting and restoring its forests as well as helping our international partners do the same. It is imperative that we sustain our forests everywhere so that they, in turn, can sustain us.
Carbon trading under SFM regime
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REDD+: The Doha results
REDD+: The Durban Results
The story of Ecuador's Yasuni Rainforests
REDD+: The Cancun Results
REDD+ for Dummies
REDD - pushing the PLUS (+)
REDD+ and Palm Oil
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REDD+ Governance
REDD+ National Programs
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For everyone else, each month we look into at least one Cloudticity Oxygen service or feature, focusing on how it helps achieve HITRUST controls. This month we are diving into Cloudticity Oxygen alerts. Stay tuned next month for more Cloudticity Oxygen services.
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As we said earlier today, the new Fifa 18 Reveal Trailer is about to come, now it's finally here. The Trailer contains in-game footage, including who else if not the World's Best, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Judging by the trailer, the commentators will remain the same as in previous FIFA series. However, it feels like the crowd interaction and chanting might change by far. Hopefully, we'll get the best FIFA ever.


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Q: App keeps asking for Apple ID after opening view with SKPaymentTransactionObserver So I know the problem is the ViewController with the IAP, but unsure how to fix it.
I add SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().addTransactionObserver(self) in viewDidLoad and have the delegates for the class; SKProductsRequestDelegate, SKPaymentTransactionObserver.
I use the methods to carry out transactions for purchases, restore any purchases and make any changes needed for non consumable purchases.
But regardless what the user does, after loading the IAPViewController the app keeps prompting the user to login. Its mostly when the user exits the app then opens it back up.
I tried adding SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().removeTransactionObserver(self) when dismissing the view however that didn't seem to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions ?? I had to pull my app from review because of this bug :(
Here's the full code;
class IAPViewController: UIViewController, SKProductsRequestDelegate, SKPaymentTransactionObserver {

var productIDs: Array<String!> = []
var productsArray: Array<SKProduct!> = []

var selectedProductIndex: Int!
var transactionInProgress = false

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    productIDs.append("com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY01")
    productIDs.append("com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY02")
    productIDs.append("com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY03")
    productIDs.append("com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY04")

    requestProductInfo()
    SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().addTransactionObserver(self)
 }

@IBAction func purchase04(sender: AnyObject) {

    selectedProductIndex = 0
    transactionAction()

}

@IBAction func restoreAction(sender: AnyObject) {
    SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().addTransactionObserver(self)
    SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().restoreCompletedTransactions()
}

    //StoreKit

    func transactionAction() {
        let payment = SKPayment(product: self.productsArray[self.selectedProductIndex] as SKProduct)
        SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().addPayment(payment)
        self.transactionInProgress = true

    }

    //Request Products
    func requestProductInfo() {
        if SKPaymentQueue.canMakePayments() {
            let productIdentifiers = NSSet(array: productIDs)
            let productRequest = SKProductsRequest(productIdentifiers: productIdentifiers as! Set<String>)

            productRequest.delegate = self
            productRequest.start()

        }
        else {
            print("Cannot perform In App Purchases.")
        }

    }

    func productsRequest(request: SKProductsRequest, didReceiveResponse response: SKProductsResponse) {
        if response.products.count != 0 {
            for product in response.products {
                print("\(product.localizedTitle)")
                productsArray.append(product)
            }
        }
        else {
            print("There are no products.")
        }

        if response.invalidProductIdentifiers.count != 0 {
            print("\(response.invalidProductIdentifiers.description)")
        }

        print("Number of products in productsArray \(productsArray.count) - Number of products in productIDs \(productIDs.count)")

}

    //Payment Observer
    func paymentQueue(queue: SKPaymentQueue, updatedTransactions transactions: [SKPaymentTransaction]) {
        for transaction in transactions {
            switch transaction.transactionState {
            case SKPaymentTransactionState.Purchased:
                print("Transaction completed successfully.", terminator: "")
                self.deliverProduct(transaction)
                SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().finishTransaction(transaction)
                transactionInProgress = false

            case SKPaymentTransactionState.Failed:
                print("Transaction Failed", terminator: "");
                SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().finishTransaction(transaction)
                transactionInProgress = false

            default:
                print(transaction.transactionState.rawValue, terminator: "")
            }
        }
    }

    func deliverProduct(transaction:SKPaymentTransaction) {

        if transaction.payment.productIdentifier == "com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY01"
        {
            print("Consumable Product 1 Purchased")

        }
        else if transaction.payment.productIdentifier == "com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY02"
        {
            print("Consumable Product 2 Purchased")
        }
        else if transaction.payment.productIdentifier == "com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY03"
        {
            print("Product 3 purchased")
        }
        else if transaction.payment.productIdentifier == "com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY04"
        {
            print("Product 4 purchased")
        }

    }

//Restore Purchases

func paymentQueueRestoreCompletedTransactionsFinished(queue: SKPaymentQueue) {
    print("Transactions Restored")

    let purchasedItemIDS = []

    for transaction:SKPaymentTransaction in queue.transactions {

        if transaction.payment.productIdentifier == "com.COMPANY.NAME.BUY04"
        {
            print("Consumable Product Purchased")

        }

    }

    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Restored Purchases", message: "Your purchases have been restored. ", preferredStyle: .Alert)

    let OKAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Default) { (action) in
        // ...
    }
    alertController.addAction(OKAction)

    self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true) {
        // ...
    }

}

@IBAction func exit(sender: AnyObject) {
    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

        SKPaymentQueue.defaultQueue().removeTransactionObserver(self)

}

}

A: It sounds like you have not called finishTransaction as per the documentation here:

Transactions stay in the payment queue until they are removed.
  StoreKit will call your observer's paymentQueue: updatedTransactions:
  every time that your app launches or resumes from background until
  they are removed. To that effect, your customers may be repeatedly
  asked to authenticate their purchases or be prevented from purchasing
  your products.
Call finishTransaction: on your transaction to remove it from the
  queue. Finished transactions are not recoverable. Therefore, be sure
  to provide your content, to download all Apple-hosted content of a
  product, or complete your purchase process before finishing your
  transaction. See Finishing the Transaction for more information.

Do you know that one of the two calls to finishTransaction is actually running?

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Cycle paths for adventure seekers
Weserradweg: Couple with ferry bikes take a break at the river ©DZT (Jens Wegener)
Countryside, cities, cuisine or culture: every single one of the more than 250 long-distance cycling routes in Germany is packed full of its own unique highlights, with all categories of cycling-friendly accommodation options along the way. It's time to hit the road!
100 Castles and Palaces Route
Meandering mostly through green parks, meadows and pastures with more than 100 castles and palaces along the way, the 100 Castles and Palaces Route majestically lords over the other cycle routes.
Alb Valleys Cycle Route
The Swabian Alb is renowned for its stunning scenery, but not many people realise that it also offers a fascinating insight into a time when mammoths roamed the valleys and people lived in caves.
Aller Cycle Route
The Aller Cycle Route runs alongside the River Weser's largest confluence for around 330 kilometres, with plenty of opportunity for laid-back excursions along the way. Not to mention the areas of undisturbed nature and exceptional museums.
Allgäu Castle Park Cycle Loop
The fairytale castle park of the Allgäu can be explored across five sections covering a total length of 219 kilometres. This promises to be the ultimate experience surrounded by nature and culture.
Allgäu Cycle Loop
There's no better phrase to sum up the Allgäu region than "lush green". Its stunning landscape is filled with water and meadows. It only takes a quick look at the magnificent panoramic view of the Alps to realise why the ADFC awarded this route four stars.
Altmühltal Cycle Path
A Franconian natural spectacle awaits cyclists on this route of 250 kilometers. They cross along the Altmühl river from Rothenburg ob der Tauber to Kehlheim through the Romantic Franconia, the Franconian Lake District and the Altmühltal Nature Park. The route ends, where the River Altmühl conjoins with the mouth of the mighty Danube river.
Explore these places

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An International campaign was launched on 1st March 2006, under the banner of the Year of the Turtle 2006, uniting peoples from Australia to Thailand and Iran to South Africa. The organisers hope to spotlight the threats and encourage even greater public support for these extraordinary marine creatures. Quite frankly they need all the help they can get.
The green turtle is found in scattered areas in both the Andaman and South China Sea coasts, nesting in both areas. They are listed as globally threatened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and are protected by International Law (CITES) and Thai Law.
Hawksbill turtles are found near off-shore islands in the coastal waters of the Andaman Sea, and the northern Gulf of Thailand. They are listed as "Critically Endangered" in IUCN's Red List. It is listed in CITES, and is protected by Thai Law.
The number of nests on three major nesting beaches has declined dramatically between 1985 and 2002.
Olive Ridley's are listed as "Endangered" by IUCN, and are protected by CITES and Thai Law.
The leatherback is only known to nest on the Andaman Coast. The leatherback has been listed as globally endangered since 1970, and was confirmed as "Critically Endangered in Thailand" in 1996. It is listed in CITES, and is also protected by Thai Law.
The sea turtle is a reptile which spends all of its life in water. It obviously needs to go to the surface from time to time, to breathe air. Bear in mind they can actually drown if severly frightened by divers.
The natural longevity of the sea turtles is not entirely known, but they grow very slowly taking about 15 years to reach maturity.
The sea turtle's diet includes sponges, marine worms and molluscs.
Adult Green turtles for example are largely vegetarian, eating underwater grasses and seaweed, whilst the Hawksbill turtle is carnivorous and eats invertebrate animals of the coral reefs.
In the Gulf of Thailand the most important nesting areas for green and hawksbill turtles are Khram and adjacent islands which are located in the inner Gulf, Chonburi Province. There are some islands along the east coast from Chonburi, Rayong and Trat Province and some islands in the middle Gulf of Chumphon and Surattani Province where sea turtles are occasionally found. In the Gulf areas, green and hawksbill turtles lay their eggs all year round with the peak from May to August.
In the Andaman Sea coastal areas of Thailand, the main nesting areas are north-west coast of Phuket, and Phang-nga provinces. In particular these areas include Thai Muang Beach and Phrathong Islands of Phang-nga Province, Maikhao beach Phuket, Tarutao Island and Adang-Rawi Islands of Satun Province . Olive ridley and (occasionally) leatherback turtles are found in these areas. The green and hawksbill are found at the Similan Islands, Surin Islands and Tarutao Islands. The nesting season of sea turtles in the Andaman Sea region occurs only from October to March with a peak from mid-November to mid-January.
Turtles usually lay their eggs between November and March.
The females come ashore after dusk, but they have been observed nesting until just before dawn. They select their nesting site and dig a small pit 18 inches deep using their rear flippers. A clutch of between 40 to 180 eggs will be laid, after which the pit will be carefully concealed by sand before they return to the sea. The whole process usually takes about one hour. During the egg laying, the eyes of the turtle will be covered by a colourless mucus to prevent dehydration and keep out the sand grains.
After an incubation period of 60 days, the hatchlings dig their way up to the surface of the pit, usually at night when the sand is cooler. Hatchlings locate the water's edge by orienting themselves to the horizon, but distant house lights can disorient the youngsters so that they actually crawl away from the sea.
The best diving areas to see turtles are the Similan and Surin Islands National Parks, visited by liveaboards from Khao Lak.
Turtles are most commonly seen in shallow reefs on dive sites such as East of Eden (Ko Payu, Similans) or Ko Torinla (Surin), but you may see them deeper on rocky sites such as Elephant Head Rock or Deep Six (Ko Payu, Similans). The usual sightings are Hawksbill and Green turtles.
At Thai Muang (National Park) beach, Leatherback and Olive Ridley are the two main species of nesting turtles.
There is an annual 7 day event here, usually during the first week of March, to release young turtle hatchlings, which have been raised by the Fisheries Deptartment, back into the sea.
This is designed to heighten people's awareness of the declining numbers of nesting females and promote conservation efforts.
Marine Turtles have been given legal protection in Thailand for many years, and His Majesty King Bhumibhol Adulyade and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit have initiated several specific turtle conservation projects.
The Royal Thai Navy has an active role in the turtle conservation program and regularly patrols beaches in the Similan and Surin Islands in the Andaman Sea, for intruders and poachers. They also protect the green and hawksbill eggs laid on the remote islands and keep them safe from predators such as birds and crabs. Once they are born, the turtles are brought to the Navy's turtle protection centre in Phang-nga province where they are nursed for another six months before being released into the sea.
Thap Lamu (approx 6 km south of Khao Lak) is the location of the Royal Thai Navy's Third Fleet Sea Turtle Nursery. Infant turtles from various areas on the Andaman coastline are brought here, nursed along until they are strong enough to fend for themselves, then released into the sea. It is the country's most important such nursery on the Andaman coast.
There are several NGO's (non-government organisations) and volunteer groups working in Thailand with the aim of protecting sea turtles. Naucrates, for example, have greatly reduced egg poaching on the islands of Ko Phra Thong and Ko Khao, just north of Khao Lak.
This centre takes care of injured turtles and also has some hatchlings. It also has some fish such as the clown fish.
The centre is situated about 1 km from the Thai Muang National Park HQ.
It has sponsors which organise turtle charity events from time to time, in order to raise funds for the project.
The Phang Nga Coastal Fisheries Research and Development Centre is open to visitors daily and is free to enter. There are numerous large concrete saltwater holding tanks where guests can view different hatches of turtles. Through their first few vulnerable months the juvenile turtles stand a much better chance of survival at the sanctuary, as they are safe and away from predators. They are kept at the turtle sanctuary until they reach a minimum age of eight months old. After this point, for a donation to the research centre, visitors can release a turtle into the sea.
There are also breeding age adults, and rehabilitation tanks for sick or injured turtles. As well as turtles, the centre reserves many tanks for their Anemone fish breeding programme. There are many other tropical fish species bred and researched at the centre, all of which can be viewed by the public.
One of the prime objectives of the Park is to offer protection to the visiting nesting turtles and increase the survival rate of the young. Even so it has been estimated that the hatchlings have a one in a thousand chance of making it to adulthood.
They come ashore to lay their eggs on moonlit nights between November and April, at which time the beach is patrolled by Park rangers.
For conservation and protection purposes, most of the eggs are removed by staff to a nursery. Incubation takes 60 days, after which time the youngsters are released naturally back into the Andaman Sea.
At first glance some aspects of the so-called Turtle Releasing Festival, with its associated food and plastic wares market, parades and speeches seem incongruous and excessive.
Baby turtles instinctively heads towards the brightest horizon. To avoid distractions from the on-shore festival, and to ensure the youngsters head in the right direction, the Royal Thai Navy enlists the help of the local squid boat fleet. The squid boats line up a couple of hundred yards off shore and splay their long arms of powerful bulbs. Shortly after dark, and in a dazzling blast of luminescence, the squid boats light up the shoreline, and the hatchlings do in fact make it to the sea.
The Turtle Release is an annual event and takes place on the 1st March, with the accompanying Fair lasting for seven to ten days thereafter. The release takes place at about 6.00 pm on the first day only . It is preceded by a procession at about 5.30 pm down the beach road to the release site.
The following are some photos of the turtle releasing fetsival at Thai Muang on 1st March each year.
Here are some photos of the turtle releasing festival at Thai Muang on 1st March 2015.
And some more photos of the 1st March 2015 event.
The Leatherback species is believed to be on the brink of extinction worldwide. Since the 2004 tsunami, Leatherback turtles are rarely seen laying eggs and the last recorded event was about six years ago. But in mid december 2018 there were two recordings (at Khuk Khak and Thai Muang beaches). The females typically lay about 90 eggs at a time.


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/**
 * Defines the methods that should be implemented by UI controllers. Controllers handle the various
 * aspects of a UI implementation.
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public interface UIController {

}

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LIBERIA, Costa Rica–In January 2012, CORIPORT S.A., the company that manages Liberia International Airport (LIR) in the northern province of Guanacaste, inagurated a new state-of-the-art airport terminal. Months after the opening of the terminal, several airlines from the United States and Canada decided to start operations to the airport, well-known as the "gateway" to the Golden Coast of Costa Rica, or often called the Costa Rican Riviera. "We hope new airlines will start services to AIDO (Aeropuerto Internacional Daniel Oduber) in 2015" declared Francisco Cordero, the Commercial Director of CORIPORT S.A. to La Republica newspaper. "We were able to attract British carrier Thomson Airways. The airline will connect London with Liberia in November 2015. Some airlines opperate to Liberia and not to San Jose's Juan Santamaria International Airport, like WestJet and Sun Country". Liberia International Airport is just 30 minutes away from the high end resorts in Papagayo Bay like Foru Seasons, Hilton and Hyatt Andaz and an hour away from Matapalo Beach, Mansita Beach and Conchal Beach where RIU, JW Marriott and Westin are located respectively. "On 2012, when we opened the new terminal, we grew 20% in reference to the years before and we grow 14% each month. Our goal is to close 2014 with 700 thousand passengers using Liberia International Airport as their gateway to Costa Rica", concluded Cordero. CORIPORT S.A. has been already in talks with three airlines and once they reach an agreement they will be disclosed. JetBlue Airways started flights in November from Boston to Guanacaste every Saturday. At the moment the airport has seven positions, 4 with jetways and 3 remote ones. The expansion plans after 2016 include more jetways and ramps. The airport terminal also has been declared by U.S. travel and leisure magazines as one of the most user-friendly terminals in Latin America.
Liberia International Airport is hoping to attract three new airlines in 2015.
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LIBERIA, Guanacaste–British charter airline Thomson Airways announced its first route to Costa Rica. The airline will fly nonstop between London and Liberia, starting November 2015.The Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) said the airline will fly once a week from London's Gatwick Airport. Each airplane will have a capacity for 291 passengers. ICT data indicate that the UK is the fourth largest source of tourists from Europe to Costa Rica. Last year alone the ICT recorded 35,198 tourists from the United Kingdom and Ireland. That's a 10.2 percent increase in arrivals from 2012.British tourists stayed an average of 14.5 nights in Costa Rica and spent $94, ICT stated.Last Friday, Costa Rica's Foreign Minister Manuel González Sanz reported that he held a meeting with the CEO and senior executives of Turkish Airlines and began studying options for opening non-stop flights between Turkey and Costa Rica. The officials met during activities held during the opening of Costa Rica's new embassy in Ankara. The embassy in the Turkish capital is the first new diplomatic office created under the Solís administration.
Thomson Airlines will operate the Dreamliner to Guanacaste.
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I Was Attacked at Game Night
A card game turned violent, and my so-called friends are siding with my assailant.
By Lucinda Rosenfeld
Jan 24, 20126:58 AM
Illustration by Jason Raish.
Dear Friend or Foe,
For the past three years, I was part of a gaming group that met every Friday night at the home of "Theresa" and her significant other, "Ken." During a gathering two months ago, at around 11 p.m., Ken and I got into an argument over a card game. He became verbally abusive, and I walked out. He followed me out onto his quiet and dark residential street, continuing his nasty comments. When it appeared he was going to follow me to my car, I turned around and loudly told him to back the hell away from me. He grabbed my wrists, threw me to the ground, pinned me, then got on top of me. I started screaming rape. He got off. I immediately called 911 and asked for police assistance. On seeing me do this, he also dialed 911 and claimed he had caught an intruder on the property. When the cops showed up and took statements, he lied again, claiming I had "taken a swing at him" and he "had to restrain me until I calmed down." The cops told me they couldn't take him in because it was his word against mine. Although I wasn't seriously injured, I subsequently swore out a complaint against Ken. But while the prosecutor was sympathetic, she told me that, without witnesses, she had no case. And since Ken had recently lost his job and had no assets, there was no point in pursuing a civil claim for damages. So I let the matter go.
What I can't get over is the utter lack of concern shown for me by the other members of the group, three of whom I was friends with before Theresa and Ken ever entered our circle. No one came outside when I screamed for help, or called me later that night to see if I made it home safely. One of my old friends, "Cathy," did call the following day. But when I asked her why no one responded to my screams, she said they didn't want to get involved in case they made things worse. She also seemed oddly lacking in any sense of outrage toward Ken. Three days later, another member contacted me through Gchat to see how I was doing since I'd "seemed pretty upset on Friday." At that point I was still discussing the attack with the prosecutor's office, so I told her that the bureaucratic wheels of the case were turning. There was a long pause. Then she typed, "I don't understand. What case? We thought that since no one was hurt and no one was arrested that it was no big deal." After I explained otherwise, she started discussing how much she hated lima beans.
That was the last I heard from any of them. I assume the Friday sessions have been continuing without me. I have no desire to return to my attacker's home. But none of the members of the group have invited me to any social outings, either. I made tentative inquiries at one point to see if Cathy and her husband would like to come to my place, but they replied that they were too busy with school and work and it was too far. Do I write off these people as bad friends? Do I assume they never really liked me and are glad to see the back of me now? Maybe it was unrealistic of me to have expected that they'd ostracize Ken, but I would have liked to hear someone say, "We think Ken's a total bastard for doing that to you," or, "We understand why you aren't coming to Friday nights anymore, but we're sorry about what happened and we miss you." Instead, the message I've gotten is, "Ken clearly lost his mind that night and we don't know why, but let's all just try to put this unpleasantness behind us—it just wasn't that big a deal." But it was to me! Even so, I could possibly—possibly—even accept an apology from Ken if it was offered. But nothing of that sort has happened, either.
Feeling Victimized on All Fronts
Dear FVOAF,
I hate lima beans too, but that's no excuse for making light of an incident that, while it thankfully didn't result in any hospitalizations, was surely scary and clearly traumatized you. I doubt your "gaming girls" are happy to see the back of you so much as they're utter wimps with a capital W, scared of causing any further disturbances that might offend someone. However, in doing nothing—and demanding nothing of Ken—they've effectively taken his side. I don't blame you for being hurt. Not only were you friends with them before he was. But he's a guy and presumably bigger than you. (Yes, I know women and men can be close platonic friends, but in situations like this a little gender loyalty should be expected!) Instead, it's as if you're being blamed. Not cool at all.
That said, I wish you'd provided a little more detail regarding how a card game deteriorated into fisticuffs. Were you guys playing gin rummy with an accent on the gin? Was a royal flush dangled in another's face with a na-na-na-na-na? Did one of you accuse the other of cheating or not shuffling? Did the charge invoke some earlier disagreement? (My best guess.) Which is to say, is there some kind of back story here? Short of further details, I admit I'm finding the entire incident bizarre, straight down to the failure of your mutual friends to come outside and see what the hell was going on. Moreover, where were the husbands and boyfriends in all this, and why didn't they try to break up the fight? In my experience, grown men love nothing more than "playing cops."
In any case, I recommend you put the incident (and the crowd) behind you. I hate to invoke James Taylor, but good friends are people who, winter spring summer or fall, all you've got to do is call. … And here, your supposed gal pals could barely manage a Gchat about legumes! Sorry, not good enough. My advice: quit the cards and take up tennis.
When I first met "Kate" and "Joplin" in college, I thought that both of them were nice, attentive, wonderful people to be around. Kate and I became such close friends that we were like sisters. The following academic year I met "Irene." We were never friends, but I tolerated her because she was dating Joplin. During the remaining two years of college Kate began constantly to criticize me over the smallest things. (Joplin and Irene would chime like a chorus, backing her up.) I was left second-guessing myself and even believing I was a horrible person. What's more, if Kate saw me on campus, she'd follow me with the pretext that she happened to be going whichever way I was. On one occasion, she claimed I was the reason for her low grades and that professors favored me because I don't have hands. Kate wasn't the only culprit. All three would separately give me the cold shoulder, pretending not to hear me and talking over me. Other friends ("Beth" and "Liz") reported that the trio were also making wild accusations about me and telling them not to speak to me—just as they told me not to speak to Beth and Liz. Sometimes Kate would introduce us both to acquaintances by looping her arm over my shoulder and claiming we were "great friends." (In great discomfort, I'd always reply that we weren't.)
Kate once commented to me that if I took legal action against her bullying that Joplin's sibling would vouch for her legal defense. The abuse—never physical, but deeply humiliating—lasted all the way to graduation.
Thankfully, none of the trio has attempted to contact me since then. But despite the years separating college and the present, I still think I'm afraid of them. My field requires networking and re-meeting old/new acquaintances, and there's a possibility that we'll cross paths again in a convention or expo setting. Any thoughts on how I can overcome my fear?
Scarred by Bullies
Dear SBB,
I'm so sorry for your awful experience. For grown women (and men) to get their kicks terrorizing a person living with such a challenging disability as you have—you say you have no hands, and I'm assuming that you don't mean this metaphorically—is really inexcusable and speaks of an utter lack of humanity on the part of the perpetrators. What a waste of a life this Kate person sounds like. And her co-conspirators (Joplin and Irene) sound almost as bad. Please believe me when I say that, without knowing any more about you, I can tell that you're worth 10 of these people. I only wish you'd realized this back in college—before they played with your head and nearly convinced you otherwise.
As for your fear of future contact, the world is a big place. I doubt you'll see them again. But the very fact that you're thinking (and writing to me) about it makes me think you might be suffering from some kind of post-traumatic stress condition and would benefit from talking to a professional counselor. He or she might help you realize that a) that time in your life is over and b) your fears are irrational. You might also want to do a little reading about bullies. I think you'll find that most are self-loathing individuals who can only feel good about themselves when they're subjugating others. Jesus said to love your enemies. I've never agreed with that statement, but I think there's something to be said for pitying them. Imagine if you could only be happy when you were being cruel!
Oh, and if you ever run into any of these three, you have my permission to tell them they're pathetic losers.
My good girlfriend—"Lenore"—is going through a rough separation with her husband. Under normal circumstances, I'd include her on my bachelorette party list, but now I don't want to upset her or seem callous to her marital situation. However, she lives in a different city, and I don't think I'd get to see her before the wedding otherwise. This bachelorette party is more of a girls' get together than a toilet-paper veil/penis-paraphernalia party. So maybe it won't be too hard on her. Should I invite her, and if so, should I call or email before the invitation is sent out?
Sensitive Bride To Be
Dear SBTB,
If you don't invite Lenore and she finds out, you're only going to succeed in making her feel worse about her life. First her husband disses her—now her old friends? Besides, if she's too down to "get up" for a girly night, she can always decline. Though I'm not sure she will. Just because her own marriage failed doesn't mean she no longer believes in the institution. But even if she is feeling cynical about the concept of True Love Forever, that doesn't mean she's feeling cynical about you. As for warning her by phone or email before the invitation goes out, I don't think either is necessary. Let her open the envelope like everyone else. And now for the important stuff: what exactly happens at a "penis-paraphernalia party"? (I need to know what I've been missing all these years.) Readers?


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The problem for many companies today, according to longtime strategy expert Richard P. Rumelt, is not simply a lack of a good strategy. Because of misconceptions and leadership dysfunctions, companies are pursuing an explicitly bad strategy. In his new book, Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, Rumelt describes the tell-tale signs of bad strategies for which leaders should be on the lookout: fluff, that is "gibberish masquerading as strategic concepts" that uses buzzwords to restate the obvious; failure to face the challenge; mistaking goals for strategies; and bad strategic objectives that fail to address critical issues.
In contrast to bad strategy, writes Rumelt, all good strategy has a basic underlying structure — which he calls the "kernel" — that contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy and a set of coherent actions.
The diagnosis summarizes and simplifies the challenge facing the company or the organization. When Lou Gerstner took over IBM, most observers believed the company's skills in integrated computer services were obsolete; as the industry moved from mainframe to desktop, it had begun to fragment into a myriad of small suppliers of hardware and services. Gerstner turned IBM around by rejecting the conventional wisdom. His diagnosis: The computer industry could still use IBM's unique integrated skills, but IBM had failed to learn how to use these skills effectively in light of the changes in the industry. In other words, his diagnosis was that IBM was not integrated enough.
The guiding policy is the overall approach that will be used to meet the challenge identified in the diagnosis, Rumelt writes. A guiding policy is not a set of goals or a vision for the strategy. It does not say where the company wants to go; instead it gives some general rules or guidelines for helping the company meet the challenge. IBM's guiding policy for its new strategy was to draw on all of IBM's resources to solve customer problems.
Once the diagnosis has been made and a guiding policy established, a set of coherent actions is designed to implement the guiding policy. Too many people, Rumelt writes, mistake the guiding policy for the strategy and forget the action element. Based on the guiding policy, the company must take specific coordinated steps to put the policy in action.
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One of the most striking examples of developing a strategy based on discovering power is provided by the Cold War. Until 1976, Rumelt writes, the military strategy of the U.S. against the Soviet Union was reactive. Every year, the Joint Chiefs of Staff developed an assessment of the Soviet threat and then created a shopping list of weapons based on that threat. In 1976, two military strategists named Andrew Marshall and James Roche proposed a new strategy: Instead of reacting to the Soviets, the U.S. should compete with the Soviets, using its superior technology and economy to force the Soviets to spend their scarce resources on countering the U.S. When the Soviet Union eventually disintegrated in the early 1990s, the country had gone broke economically, politically and militarily. It was overextended, thanks in some part, Rumelt believes, to the "competitive advantage" strategy advocated by Marshall and Roche.
In the second part of the book, Rumelt dedicates a chapter to each source of power: leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, focus, growth, advantage (exemplified above), dynamics, inertia and entropy. Rumelt notes that the list is not exhaustive. These are only a selection of the sources of power available to strategists.
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Google is now allowing their Android Wear wearables to be paired with iPhones
By John Law - on 1 Sep 2015, 11:49am
Page 1 of 1 - Google is now allowing their Android Wear wearables to be paired with iPhones
Yes, you read that title right. As of Monday this week, Google has officially allowed their new Android Wear smartwatches to be paired with Apple's iPhone and, by extension, their iOS.
More specifically and according to The Verge, Google is actually allowing a specific number of Android Wear smartwatches to be paired with the iPhone, and those watches are the Huawei Watch, the Asus ZenWatch 2, and the LG Watch Urbane. As to why there is no support for older Android Wear smartwatches, Jeff Chang, Lead Product Manager for Wear at Google had this to say:
"In order to guarantee a good experience, where out of the box it will work immediately and you don't have to do any fancy footwork, that's why it has to be with the newer watches."
Mind you, this move (on Google's part) to allow cross-platform support for its wearables is another sign that Google is beginning to encroach into the Apple Watch's territory, and quite frankly, there's a lot for Apple to be worried about. Compared to the Apple Watch, Android Wear smartwatches are cheaper and – as you have no doubt deduced from the number of manufacturers of the smartwatches – have more variety in the design and quality department.
In terms of functionality, here is a list of what works when both devices are paired together:
Your notifications from the iPhone are mirrored on Android Wear.
You get Google Now cards on the watch.
There are a bunch of different watch faces — including select third-party watch faces — that you can install and use.
There are a few native apps on the watch you can tap into, like Weather or a clever Translate app.
Voice search works, including various reminders that you might want to send to Google Now.
You can do fitness tracking on the watch with Google Fit.
You can get rich notifications from a small set of Google apps, such as Calendar and Gmail.
Source: The Verge.
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UAE sees 1,209 new virus cases, 680 recoveries; 4 deaths
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The UAE has announced that it conducted 84,154 additional coronavirus tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment.
Biden seeks window on vaccine plans, hopes world returns to normal
India records over 30,000 new coronavirus cases; 435 deaths
As part of its intensified testing campaign, MoHAP announced 1,209 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the UAE to 151,554.
According to the Ministry, the infected individuals are from various nationalities, are in a stable condition, and are receiving the necessary care.
MoHAP also announced 4 deaths due to COVID-19 complications, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 534.
The Ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the family of the deceased and wished COVID-19 patients a speedy and full recovery, calling on all members of the society to cooperate with health authorities, adhere to the instructions and physical distance to ensure the health and safety of all.
MoHAP also noted an additional 680 individuals had fully recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of recoveries to 143,932.
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UAE announces 2,196 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths in 24 hours
The Ministry stressed in a statement on Tuesday that its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment.
UAE announces 3,432 new coronavirus cases, 7 deaths in last 24 hours
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 151,096 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment.
Dubai International Financial Centre welcomes back clients, visitors, retailers and restaurateurs
The health and safety of the DIFC community remains the utmost priority. The Centre will continue to enforce strict pre-cautionary measure as per Dubai and UAE Government guidelines to minimize the spread of COVID-19, including directives on hygiene, sanitisation, and social distancing.
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The majority of MPs voted to enable penalty charges to be imposed where an owner of a skip placed on a London highway "does not secure that" various requirements for permissions, marking and lighting are adhered to rather than "does not take any reasonable steps to secure that" the requirements are complied with.
Amendment 14, Clause 9, page 8, line 18 after 'not', insert 'take any reasonable steps to'.
The clause relates to skips on the highway in London.


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Q: Topology of the Malcev-Neumann group ring For a ring $R$ and a group $G$ the group ring $R[G]$ consist of maps from $G$ to $R$ with finite support.
It was shown that if the group is fully ordered them this ring can be embedded in a division ring $R[[G]]$ that generalises the previous construction by allowing infinite but well-founded support.
I would like to construct a topology on $R[[G]]$ that is compatible with the ring structure such that $R[G]$ is a dense subring. Intuitively this makes sense as a well-founded infinite set can be approximated by an infinite series of finite sets.
Consider as a fundamental neighborhood of zero the following family of sets:
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B_x = \{ r \in R[[G]] \mid \forall y \in \textrm{supp}(r).\, x
\leq y \}
$$
i.e. sets where there is a minimum possible element in the support.
Clearly $R[G]$ is a dense subset for this topology as it will intersect each set in the basis. But is this topology compatible with the ring structure?

A: It is unclear to me whether you are working with commutative or non-commutative objects, but I will take $G$ to be Abelian and linearly ordered, and $R$ to be possibly non-commutative.
The topology you are considering is compatible with the ring structure, and is often called the valuation topology (at least in the case when $R$ is a field, so $R[[G]]$ has a standard valuation $v \ r:= \min \operatorname{supp} r$ for non-zero $r \in R[[G]]$).
But the group ring $R[G]$ is not dense in $R[[G]]$ in general. For instance, take $G$ to be the ordered additive group of rational numbers. Consider the neighborhood $r+B_1$ of the series $r$ which as a function $\mathbb{Q} \rightarrow R$ is the indicator function of the well-ordered set $X:=\{\frac{n}{n+1} \ : \ n \in \mathbb{N}\}$. In other words $r=1+t^{\frac{1}{2}}+t^{\frac{2}{3}}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot$ in the series representation with variable $t$.
Then $r+B_1$ contains no element of $R[G]$. Indeed the support of any element in the intersection would have to contain $X$.
The only group for which this couterexample (or similar ones) fails is that of the integers.
I don't know a natural ring topology which makes the inclusion $R[G] \subseteq R[[G]]$ dense.


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Q: Is it possible to change Outlook 2016 default search Is it possible to change the default search behaviour in Outlook
Change outlook default search behavior is for Mac, this question is about Windows
For example, the default search appears to be a contains search. For example, if I searched for sand, then sandwhiches would also be a match.
I am aware I can use quote marks and search for "sand" but my question is can I change the default search behaviour?

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Michigan State University, MSU, är ett amerikanskt offentligt forskningsuniversitet som ligger i East Lansing, Michigan och har totalt cirka 50 085 studenter (38 786 undergraduate students och 11 299 postgraduate students) för hösten 2015.

Universitetet räknas som ett av USA:s Public Ivy universititet, det vill säga ett universitet med erkänt hög kvalitet på forskningen. Det rankades på 83:e plats i världen i Times Higher Educations ranking av världens främsta lärosäten 2018.

De tävlar med 25 universitetslag i olika idrotter via deras idrottsförening Michigan State Spartans.

Historik

Jordbruksskolan
Michigans konstitution från år 1850 talade om att en jordbruksskola skulle bildas och den 12 februari 1855 skrev Michigans guvernör Kinsley S. Bingham på dokumentet som tillkännagav etableringen av USA:s första jordbrukscollege, the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

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Middle East aviation and travel retail set for huge boost after Qatar blockade is rescinded
MIDDLE EAST. A total of 20 Middle East routes and more than 1,400 weekly flights could eventually return to airline schedules, following the news that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to restore full ties with Qatar.
The blockade of Qatar commenced in 2017 and often required circuitous detours, which added significantly to travel times, fuel burn and competitiveness.
Qatar Airways stands to gain most from the restoration of Qatar's ties with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE
Analysing full-year 2016 flight data, the airline network news agency anna.aero noted that Qatar Airways is set to be the greatest beneficiary in this huge fillip for Middle East aviation and a development which is also set to have very positive implications for travel retail.
The blockade had a particularly severe impact on Qatar Airways as its neighbours closed their airspace. However, the airline continued to prosper during the crisis, extending its global route network and during the height of the pandemic flying more miles than any other international carrier.
During 2016, 16 airlines operated between Doha and these four countries. They had 13.9 million seats and over one-quarter of Doha's total capacity, research from flight analyst OAG shows.
The UAE was top with over 7.7 million seats, followed by Saudi Arabia (3.2 million), Bahrain (1.7 million), and Egypt (1.2 million).
Airports such as DXB could see retail revenues boosted as flights increase following the end of the blockade
Qatar Airways dominates capacity share to these countries. In 2016, it had 8.4 million, or about six in ten of the total seats, representing about 19% of the network carrier's total capacity that year.
The other carriers occupying the top five slots were Emirates (1.6 million seats), flydubai (1.3 million), Gulf Air (576,000), and Etihad (509,000).
In 2016, anna.aero noted that there were 19 scheduled routes from Doha to these four countries, with 14 having more than 200,000 seats. A 20th route, Yanbu, began in May 2017.
DXB (Dubai International) was the top destination across all carriers in 2016 with nearly 4.9 million seats, almost three times more than second-placed Bahrain.
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var fse = require('fs-extra');
var pathUtil = require('path');
var expect = require('chai').expect;
var path = require('./assert_path');
var helper = require('./helper');
var jetpack = require('..');

describe('dir', function () {
  beforeEach(helper.setCleanTestCwd);
  afterEach(helper.switchBackToCorrectCwd);

  describe("creates directory if it doesn't exist", function () {
    var expectations = function () {
      path('x').shouldBeDirectory();
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      jetpack.dir('x');
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      jetpack.dirAsync('x')
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('does nothing if directory already exists', function () {
    var preparations = function () {
      fse.mkdirsSync('x');
    };

    var expectations = function () {
      path('x').shouldBeDirectory();
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dir('x');
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dirAsync('x')
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('creates nested directories if necessary', function () {
    var expectations = function () {
      path('a/b/c').shouldBeDirectory();
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      jetpack.dir('a/b/c');
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      jetpack.dirAsync('a/b/c')
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe("doesn't touch directory content by default", function () {
    var preparations = function () {
      fse.mkdirsSync('a/b');
      fse.outputFileSync('a/c.txt', 'abc');
    };

    var expectations = function () {
      path('a/b').shouldBeDirectory();
      path('a/c.txt').shouldBeFileWithContent('abc');
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dir('a');
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dirAsync('a')
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('makes directory empty if that option specified', function () {
    var preparations = function () {
      fse.outputFileSync('a/b/file.txt', 'abc');
    };

    var expectations = function () {
      path('a/b/file.txt').shouldNotExist();
      path('a').shouldBeDirectory();
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dir('a', { empty: true });
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dirAsync('a', { empty: true })
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('throws if given path is something other than directory', function () {
    var preparations = function () {
      fse.outputFileSync('a', 'abc');
    };

    var expectations = function (err) {
      expect(err.message).to.have.string('exists but is not a directory');
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      preparations();
      try {
        jetpack.dir('a');
        throw new Error('Expected error to be thrown');
      } catch (err) {
        expectations(err);
      }
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      preparations();
      jetpack.dirAsync('a')
      .catch(function (err) {
        expectations(err);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('respects internal CWD of jetpack instance', function () {
    var expectations = function () {
      path('a/b').shouldBeDirectory();
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      var jetContext = jetpack.cwd('a');
      jetContext.dir('b');
      expectations();
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      var jetContext = jetpack.cwd('a');
      jetContext.dirAsync('b')
      .then(function () {
        expectations();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('returns jetack instance pointing on this directory', function () {
    var expectations = function (jetpackContext) {
      expect(jetpackContext.cwd()).to.equal(pathUtil.resolve('a'));
    };

    it('sync', function () {
      expectations(jetpack.dir('a'));
    });

    it('async', function (done) {
      jetpack.dirAsync('a')
      .then(function (jetpackContext) {
        expectations(jetpackContext);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  if (process.platform !== 'win32') {
    describe('sets mode to newly created directory (unix only)', function () {
      var expectations = function () {
        path('a').shouldHaveMode('511');
      };

      it('sync, mode passed as string', function () {
        jetpack.dir('a', { mode: '511' });
        expectations();
      });

      it('sync, mode passed as number', function () {
        jetpack.dir('a', { mode: parseInt('511', 8) });
        expectations();
      });

      it('async, mode passed as string', function (done) {
        jetpack.dirAsync('a', { mode: '511' })
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });

      it('async, mode passed as number', function (done) {
        jetpack.dirAsync('a', { mode: parseInt('511', 8) })
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });
    });

    describe('sets desired mode to every created directory (unix only)', function () {
      var expectations = function () {
        path('a').shouldHaveMode('711');
        path('a/b').shouldHaveMode('711');
      };

      it('sync', function () {
        jetpack.dir('a/b', { mode: '711' });
        expectations();
      });

      it('async', function (done) {
        jetpack.dirAsync('a/b', { mode: '711' })
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });
    });

    describe('changes mode of existing directory to desired (unix only)', function () {
      var preparations = function () {
        fse.mkdirSync('a', '777');
      };
      var expectations = function () {
        path('a').shouldHaveMode('511');
      };

      it('sync', function () {
        preparations();
        jetpack.dir('a', { mode: '511' });
        expectations();
      });

      it('async', function (done) {
        preparations();
        jetpack.dirAsync('a', { mode: '511' })
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });
    });

    describe('leaves mode of directory intact by default (unix only)', function () {
      var preparations = function () {
        fse.mkdirSync('a', '700');
      };

      var expectations = function () {
        path('a').shouldHaveMode('700');
      };

      it('sync', function () {
        preparations();
        jetpack.dir('a');
        expectations();
      });

      it('async', function (done) {
        preparations();
        jetpack.dirAsync('a')
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });
    });
  } else {
    describe('specyfying mode have no effect and throws no error (windows only)', function () {
      var expectations = function () {
        path('x').shouldBeDirectory();
      };

      it('sync', function () {
        jetpack.dir('x', { mode: '511' });
        expectations();
      });

      it('async', function (done) {
        jetpack.dirAsync('x', { mode: '511' })
        .then(function () {
          expectations();
          done();
        });
      });
    });
  }
});


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The etymology of a word is the word's origin. It illustrates how the word's spelling and meaning have changed over time.
Weddings have been around for as long as society has. Weddings were originally used as a way to secure alliances between families, but they've now transformed into celebrations of love and togetherness.
We looked up the etymology of the most common wedding words because we were curious about their origins and how they've come to be used in the way they're used today.
"Wedding" stems from the Old English "weddung", and its alternative word being "bridelope" (which literally means "bridal run"). "Wed", the root for "wedding", is Old English for "to pledge oneself", which alludes to both the older and contemporary meanings of weddings.
A wedding has been and always will be a pledge to somebody— whether it be to a family to create an alliance or to your beloved to love them forever. Nothing's changed there.
"Bride" comes from the Old English "bryd" or Proto-Germanic "bruthiz" meaning "woman being married". Pretty self-explanatory there.
"Groom" comes from the 11th century word "grome" meaning "male child/boy". Which doesn't exactly translate into what we know groom to mean today. The only similarity is that there is a male— not much else.
However, a 17th century word "bridegroom" gives us the groom we know and love today. It means "husband-to-be at a wedding". The "groom" part comes from the Old English word "guma" meaning "man". "Bridegroom" is the ultimate wedding combo word because it combines "man getting married" and "woman getting married". Sweeeeet.
Ah, eloping. The most frowned-upon kind of marriage. But it still counts! It's spontaneous and romantic.
"Elope" steals the word "lope" from the Middle Dutch word for "run away". So this runaway kind of marriage plays into its old-world meaning. It's runaway love, both now and then.
It seems that most wedding words have Old English roots. Maybe it's because weddings were really pushed in Old English times to secure bonds between high ranking families, and with so many weddings going on, they needed specific words for what was going on.
Etymology of Wedding Words >
Etymology of Wedding Words - Lighthouse Photography


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Q: Template.tf and user_data.yaml.tpl- loop through a variable of type list I am new to templates, I am trying to change terraform modules to flex as many "nameservers" as needed.
How can iterate through the values of variable?
Right now I am doing:
template.tf
variable "nameserver" {
  type = list(string)
}

nameservers = [
  "174.15.22.20",
  "174.15.12.21"
]

nameserver_1 = element(var.nameservers, 0) #nameserver_1=174.15.22.20
nameserver_2 = element(var.nameservers, 1) #nameserver_2=174.15.12.21

user_data.yaml.tpl
nameserver ${nameserver_1}
nameserver ${nameserver_2}

I want to do something like:
template.tf
vars = {
   count = length(var.nameserver)
   for nameserver in nameservers:
   nameserver_$(count.index)= ${element(var.nameserver, count.index)}
}

user_data.yaml.tpl
for nameserver in nameservers:
  nameserver  ${nameserver_[count.index]}

But I am unable to figure out the right way to do this in template.tf and user_data.yaml.tpl
Any help would be appreciated !

A: From what you've shown of template.tf I'm guessing that vars = { ... } declaration is inside a data "template_file" block. The template_file data source is primarily there for Terraform 0.11 compatibility and it only supports string values for the template variables, but since you are using Terraform 0.12 you can use the new templatefile function instead, which makes this easier by supporting values of any type.
From the template name you used I'm guessing that you intend to use this result to assign to user_data, in which case the syntax for doing that in templatefile would look something like this:
  user_data = templatefile("${path.module}/user_data.yaml.tpl", {
    nameservers = var.nameservers
  })

In your user_data.yaml.tpl file:
%{ for s in nameservers ~}
nameserver ${s}
%{ endfor ~}

The %{ ... } sequences here are Terraform template syntax. That same syntax is also available directly in the main configuration file, so for a template this small you might prefer to just write the template inline to keep things simpler:
  user_data = <<-EOT
    %{ for s in var.nameservers ~}
    nameserver ${s}
    %{ endfor ~}
  EOT

The template syntax is the same here, but because this is in the main .tf configuration file rather than in a separate template file we can just refer directly to var.nameservers here, rather than building a separate map of template variables.

The name you gave your template file seems to suggest that you are generating YAML, though the template you showed doesn't actually generate valid YAML. If you are intending the result to be YAML, you have some other options in Terraform that might be better depending on your goals:
Firstly, JSON is a subset of YAML, so you could ask Terraform to JSON-encode your data instead, and then the YAML parser in your instance (if it is YAML-spec-compliant) should be able to parse it:
  user_data = jsonencode({
    nameservers = var.nameservers
  })

An advantage of this approach is that you can let Terraform's jsonencode function worry about the JSON syntax, escaping, etc and you can just pass it the data structure you want to represent. Using templates instead might require you to handle quoting or escaping of values if they might contain significant punctuation.
Recent versions of Terraform also have a yamlencode function, but at the time of writing it's experimental and the exact details of how it formats its output might change in future releases. I would not recommend to use it as user_data right now because if the syntax details do change in a future version then that would cause your instance to be planned for replacement. In a future version of Terraform that output should be stabilized, once the team has enough feedback from real-world use to be confident that its YAML formatting decisions are acceptable for a broad set of use-cases.


Alright all, below the break you will find the first part of the new Post-Apocalyptic story as well as the voting for what happens next. A few of the categories setting up the story ended up being ties, so I rolled a dice to decide between them. And so you know what the results were: the story will be a series of one offs like the Rings of Corruptions series, centering on a string of Wasteland Rangers all destined to meet a bad and perverse end someone in the post apocalyptic wasteland.
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Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy
Edited by Rosalind Warner
This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians, linking abstract analytical and philosophical questions to the critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice in Canadian foreign policy.
Invisible and Inaudible in Washington
American Policies towards Canada during the Cold War
By Edelgard Mahant and Graeme S. Mount
This book investigates the gap between Canadian perceptions of American policy toward Canada and actual US policy.
Objects of Concern
Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan F. Vance
Jonathan Vance examines Canada's role in the formation of an important aspect of international law, traces the growth and activities of a number of national and local philanthropic agencies, and recounts the efforts of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity.
Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes
Edited by A. Claire Cutler
This volume is an important and timely analysis of past and current Canadian policies toward both the formal and less formal arrangements which regulate such areas as international trade and financial transactions, international service industries, fisheries resources, and the environment.
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Blackburn To Join CES Panel Featuring Women Senators To Discuss Key Tech Policy Issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) announced that she will attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the world's biggest tech conference. On January 7, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. PT, Senator Blackburn will join a panel featuring women senators for a discussion on key tech issues facing the nation and challenges that federal lawmakers expect to tackle in the year ahead. The bipartisan panel will include Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D- Wash.), Senator Shelley Moore-Capito (R-W.Va.), and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine).
"At the Consumer Electronics Show, we will discuss what we can do to make the internet safer for children and teens," said Blackburn. "I look forward to collaborating with tech leaders and a bipartisan group of my colleagues on key issues in the tech environment, including the current lack of accountability eroding the relationship between platforms and users."
"We are thrilled to welcome such a distinguished group of U.S. senators to CES,"?said Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, CTA. "We look forward to hearing their thoughts on maintaining U.S. leadership in technology and how government and industry leaders can collaborate on the most pressing policy issues facing our country."?
CES is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The event hosts presentations of new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2022/1/blackburn-to-join-ces-panel-featuring-women-senators-to-discuss-key-tech-policy-issues


CEBU CITY, Jan. 28, 2016 – Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle narrated a heart warming and thought-provoking story of a sampaguita vendor in his parish who was a polio victim and whom he admitted in the Washing of the Feet during one Holy Thursday as he gave a Catechesis on the topic "The Eucharist and Dialogue with Cultures" in the 51st International Eucharistic Congress here in the Pavilion, Cebu City, Philippines..
The Cardinal said he finally understood what Jesus meant when Peter rejected Jesus to wash his feet. The polio victim with her broken body found her proper place in the Church.
The 51st IEC was the third Eucharistic Congress that the Cardinal attended and gave a talk. Now that it is held in the Philippines, he addressed the foreign delegates with a sincere thanks for bringing the warmth of their countries to the Philippines.
He tackled his topic in two parts: first is the culture and dialogue and the second is the attempt to bring the Eucharist in the center of dialogue.
On Culture and Dialogue, Cardinal Chito defined culture as the complex realities of feeling, acting, and thinking which allow all members to survive, to provide identity and give meaning to lives.
"Jesus also dealt with his own culture but he offered a new way of living, thinking, acting, and speaking," said Cardinal Tagle.
He proposed cultural intelligence to counter the harm comes from disconnectedness and clashes of cultures. There are three parts of cultural intelligence: how we know our culture and how it affects our priorities; and secondly, to study and know the culture of others; and third, to determine the path for the cultures to challenge and purify each other. The result is beauty of each culture, walking towards the common good.
"The Church need cultural intelligence if it wants to dialogue … I propose that even in the seminary or training in the formation of religious life, we should be aware to develop cultural intelligence. We have developed an ecclesiastical culture, but we don't know how to dialogue. Dialogue grows with discernment," explained the Cardinal.
The second part of his talk deals with how to merge cultures and how to dialogue with cultures. Cardinal Tagle proposed convocation and sharing to counter the situation of alienating individualism affecting persons and countries.
According to the Cardinal, persons recognize a fellow sinner, a brother, a sister.
"I also see myself. I discover myself, sinful but loved, undeserving but involved, shamed but embraced, lost but found," said the Cardinal.
"If our parishes welcome the poor, persons with disabilities, and the despised find a family in our communities, then our individual gifts and talents allow to grow in our communities," the Cardinal said.
He exhorted everyone not to throw away gifts – husbands, wives, parents, students, teachers, and politicians, religious sisters, bishops, and priests. These are the gifts of human hands, the gifts of the earth, and the gift of the Eucharistic presence of Jesus.
"On the night Jesus was betrayed, he gave himself as a gift of love. He said, 'No one takes my life. I lay it down on my own.' Beware, what you throw away will come back as God's gift to us," warned the Cardinal.
He concluded his catechesis with the culture of gift sharing.


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Megacyllene melanaspis är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat 1861.  Megacyllene melanaspis ingår i släktet Megacyllene och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Internet Florists: Same Day Flower Delivery - Listing of internet florists offering internet flowers. Links to the premier florists offering same day flower delivery, fresh flower delivery and a florist coupon. Site lists international florists.
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Beyond Blossoms Fresh Flowers - Send European style farm fresh flower bouquets nationwide. Flowers such as roses, lilies, carnations and sunflowers are hand-tied and the order is packaged in a gift box for overnight delivery.
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Rely on the innovative features of the 1300 Series to cut a wide swath through grass hay, pasture or alfalfa with equal ease.
RazorGuard: All new 1300 Series mower conditioners have a standard 3-year cutterbar warranty covering the cast iron module and all internal parts.
Preserving leaf quality: Our herringbone design, steel on steel condition rolls, feed the crop evenly and gently crimp it every 3 inches for a faster drying time.
For a clean, close cut and efficient conditioning, choose the Series 1300 model that fits your farming needs.


Season outlook: The Patriots have won back-to-back East Division titles and are picked by league coaches to make it three in a row. They return many key players on both sides of the ball but will be replacing three-year starting QB Kyle King with sophomore Jay Bright. Much of the offensive line returns, which should help in the transition. The Patriots' defense is speedy, especially in the secondary. Bland said he's relying on team depth to help win games this season.
Sept. 5	KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN	1:30 p.m.
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Sept. 19	BETHEL	1:30 p.m.
Sept. 26	at Cumberland	2:30 p.m.
Oct. 3	at Pikeville	1:30 p.m.
Oct. 10	UNION	1:30 p.m.
Oct. 17	at Georgetown	1:30 p.m.
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MONTREAL — The federal government is heeding Quebec's request for its assistance — including help from the Canadian Forces — as many parts of province brace for heavy flooding this weekend.
While the risk level hasn't changed in recent days, authorities now expect the brunt of flooding will begin on Sunday and last longer than expected, Quebec Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault told a news conference in Quebec City on Friday.
Guilbault made the formal request for federal help earlier in the day as residents across the province scrambled to protect their homes. Officials in several communities say the flooding could be even worse than the record flooding of 2017 that forced thousands from their homes.
Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale confirmed in a tweet that assistance would be provided, not long after he and Guilbault spoke.
"The provincial government is requesting federal assistance to combat flooding. Federal reply is, of course, yes," he wrote.
Guilbault said Canadian Forces brass are discussing with provincial officials where to deploy resources and that she spoke directly with Brig.-Gen. Jennie Carignan earlier Friday.
The province will also allow stores — usually closed on Easter Sunday — to remain open this weekend so that residents can stock up on any supplies they need.
Water levels are already quite high and are expected to rise sharply with warm temperatures, snowmelt runoff and the heavy rainfall in the forecast.
Thomas Blanchet, a spokesman for the province's public safety department, said residents should be ready for a sharp spike in water levels that could come quickly, and implored them to follow the instructions of local officials.
Blanchet says while there are no official evacuation orders currently in the province, some municipalities have issued preventative orders, such as Rigaud and Pointe-Fortune in southwestern Quebec.
Meanwhile in Saint-Raymond-de-Portneuf, about 60-kilometres northwest of the provincial capital, seniors have been moved to higher ground as the Ste-Anne River levels continue to rise.