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package com.hazelcast.client.proxy;

import com.hazelcast.client.impl.ClientMessageDecoder;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.ClientMessage;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongAddAndGetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongAlterAndGetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongAlterCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongApplyCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongCompareAndSetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongDecrementAndGetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongGetAndAddCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongGetAndAlterCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongGetAndIncrementCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongGetAndSetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongGetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongIncrementAndGetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.impl.protocol.codec.AtomicLongSetCodec;
import com.hazelcast.client.spi.ClientContext;
import com.hazelcast.core.IAtomicLong;
import com.hazelcast.core.IFunction;
import com.hazelcast.spi.InternalCompletableFuture;

import static com.hazelcast.util.Preconditions.isNotNull;

/**
 * Proxy implementation of {@link IAtomicLong}.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:methodcount")
public class ClientAtomicLongProxy extends PartitionSpecificClientProxy implements IAtomicLong {

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder ADD_AND_GET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongAddAndGetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder COMPARE_AND_SET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Boolean decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongCompareAndSetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder DECREMENT_AND_GET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongDecrementAndGetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder GET_AND_ADD_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongGetAndAddCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder GET_AND_SET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongGetAndSetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder INCREMENT_AND_GET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongIncrementAndGetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder GET_AND_INCREMENT_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongGetAndIncrementCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder SET_ASYNC_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Void decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return null;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder ALTER_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Void decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return null;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder GET_AND_ALTER_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongGetAndAlterCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder ALTER_AND_GET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongAlterAndGetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder APPLY_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public <V> V decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return (V) AtomicLongApplyCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    private static final ClientMessageDecoder GET_DECODER = new ClientMessageDecoder() {
        @Override
        public Long decodeClientMessage(ClientMessage clientMessage) {
            return AtomicLongGetCodec.decodeResponse(clientMessage).response;
        }
    };

    public ClientAtomicLongProxy(String serviceName, String objectId, ClientContext context) {
        super(serviceName, objectId, context);
    }

    @Override
    public <R> R apply(IFunction<Long, R> function) {
        return applyAsync(function).join();
    }

    @Override
    public void alter(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        alterAsync(function).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long alterAndGet(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        return alterAndGetAsync(function).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long getAndAlter(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        return getAndAlterAsync(function).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long addAndGet(long delta) {
        return addAndGetAsync(delta).join();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean compareAndSet(long expect, long update) {
        return compareAndSetAsync(expect, update).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long decrementAndGet() {
        return decrementAndGetAsync().join();
    }

    @Override
    public long get() {
        return getAsync().join();
    }

    @Override
    public long getAndAdd(long delta) {
        return getAndAddAsync(delta).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long getAndSet(long newValue) {
        return getAndSetAsync(newValue).join();
    }

    @Override
    public long incrementAndGet() {
        return incrementAndGetAsync().join();
    }

    @Override
    public long getAndIncrement() {
        return getAndIncrementAsync().join();
    }

    @Override
    public void set(long newValue) {
        setAsync(newValue).join();
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> addAndGetAsync(long delta) {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongAddAndGetCodec.encodeRequest(name, delta);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, ADD_AND_GET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Boolean> compareAndSetAsync(long expect, long update) {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongCompareAndSetCodec.encodeRequest(name, expect, update);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, COMPARE_AND_SET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> decrementAndGetAsync() {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongDecrementAndGetCodec.encodeRequest(name);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, DECREMENT_AND_GET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> getAsync() {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongGetCodec.encodeRequest(name);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, GET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> getAndAddAsync(long delta) {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongGetAndAddCodec.encodeRequest(name, delta);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, GET_AND_ADD_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> getAndSetAsync(long newValue) {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongGetAndSetCodec.encodeRequest(name, newValue);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, GET_AND_SET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> incrementAndGetAsync() {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongIncrementAndGetCodec.encodeRequest(name);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, INCREMENT_AND_GET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> getAndIncrementAsync() {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongGetAndIncrementCodec.encodeRequest(name);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, GET_AND_INCREMENT_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Void> setAsync(long newValue) {
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongSetCodec.encodeRequest(name, newValue);
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, SET_ASYNC_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Void> alterAsync(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        isNotNull(function, "function");
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongAlterCodec.encodeRequest(name, toData(function));
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, ALTER_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> alterAndGetAsync(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        isNotNull(function, "function");
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongAlterAndGetCodec.encodeRequest(name, toData(function));
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, ALTER_AND_GET_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public InternalCompletableFuture<Long> getAndAlterAsync(IFunction<Long, Long> function) {
        isNotNull(function, "function");
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongGetAndAlterCodec.encodeRequest(name, toData(function));
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, GET_AND_ALTER_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public <R> InternalCompletableFuture<R> applyAsync(IFunction<Long, R> function) {
        isNotNull(function, "function");
        ClientMessage request = AtomicLongApplyCodec.encodeRequest(name, toData(function));
        return invokeOnPartitionAsync(request, APPLY_DECODER);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "IAtomicLong{" + "name='" + name + '\'' + '}';
    }
}

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Also - Random Fact: Did you know that the gymnasts' leotards run about $1200 A PIECE and have REAL Swarovski crystals sewn onto them?!?
Can we all agree that Ryan Locthe looks MUCH better with his own natural hair color? Not sure he really thought this decision through, right?
The U.S. Olympic Swim Team did their own version of Carpool Karaoke. Love it.
Also - did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio has a twin brother at the Olympics?
Ok not really but doesn't Brady Ellison look JUST LIKE HIM?!? I cannot get over it.
How much do we all LOVE Bob Costas?!?
I kinda wish he were my neighbor.
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Vancouverites set new record in walking, biking and transit use
City survey of 2,600 people shows decrease in vehicle trips
Mike Howell	/ Vancouver Courier
City survey shows more people are walking, biking and taking transit in Vancouver than in previous five years of tracking such data. Photo Dan Toulgoet
Survey results show an uptick in walking, biking and transit use. Image courtesy City of Vancouver
Percentage of survey participants with car share memberships. Image courtesy McElhanney
Commuting trips destined for Vancouver. Image courtesy City of Vancouver
Vancouver has seen the biggest increase in people choosing to walk, cycle or use transit to get around the city than it has in five previous years of tracking such data.
Together, the three modes of transportation accounted for 52.8 per cent of all trips recorded over one day of the week by 2,600 randomly selected participants in a survey last fall.
The increase in more trips made by walking, cycling and taking transit—up from 48.4 per cent the previous year—came despite 2,050 participants having access to a private vehicle.
"We're seeing people drive less and less each year," said Lon LaClaire, the city's director of transportation, in an April 18 briefing at city hall. "It's not that they've given up driving, but on more and more of their trips, they're able to walk, bike or transit."
Upgrades to cycling and pedestrian networks, increases to bus service and a spike in gas prices are some of the factors affecting people's habits of how they get around the city, concluded the report on the survey, which is now posted on the city's website.
LaClaire said congestion and longer commute times for vehicles may also be at play in why people are choosing other modes of transportation.
Vehicle trips are getting slower for motorists because of population growth, he said, noting more people translates to more signal and pedestrian crossing lights needed across arterial roads.
He pointed to the ongoing development in and around the growing Olympic Village neighbourhood as example.
"We can expect to see slower travel times for cars, even though there're fewer cars," said LaClaire, noting the city installs an average of 10 signal lights per year, the most of which are for pedestrians.
The data from the survey showed a four per cent decrease in auto trips (three per cent for a driver, one per cent for a passenger) compared to results of the 2017 survey.
In addition, participants indicated they drove fewer kilometres—2.9 per cent—than the previous year. LaClaire noted the decrease translates to savings in fuel, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and obvious health benefits.
The survey did not include trips of commercial drivers, including those who drive trucks, buses and taxis. No tourists or non-Vancouver residents participated in the survey.
Survey participants living in nine "transportation zones" across the city recorded a personal trip diary on a weekday between Sept. 25 and Dec. 19, 2018.
A trip constitutes, for example, a person walking to the library. A second trip would see that person then walk to the grocery store. A third trip would be that person walking home.
Participants are encouraged to be part of the survey each year so travel behaviour can be tracked from year to year. A total of 1,590 people from the 2017 panel returned for last fall's survey. Only 25 per cent remain from the initial survey in 2013.
The increase in walking, cycling and transit trips comes despite the region's population continuing to grow by 30,000 to 40,000 residents every year.
That growth has come as the Canada Line opened in 2009 and the city allowed bike and car share services to operate in Vancouver. In fact, there are more car sharing vehicles per capita in Vancouver than in any other city in North America.
Car sharing is up, with 34 per cent of residents having a membership and 30 per cent of those surveyed saying they either sold their car or didn't buy one because of the service.
The membership in car sharing is up from 31 per cent in 2017 and 29 per cent in 2016. It was 13 per cent in 2013.
Census data, which the city included in its April 18 briefing to reporters on the survey results, tracked commuters destined for Vancouver.
The data showed 159,250 people used a car in 2016 compared to 170,400 in 2006. That's a decrease of seven per cent.
For the same period, transit ridership increased from 89,200 people in 2006 to 123,920 in 2016.That's an increase of 39 per cent.
Cycling went up 94 per cent and walking by 27 per cent over the same 10-year period. The city didn't immediately have the breakdown of where commuters began their journeys, although the opening of the Canada Line in 2009 and Evergreen Line in 2016 suggest residents from the suburbs are connected to the uptick in transit ridership.
Census data collected for Vancouverites-only showed similar patterns over 10 years in car use (a 11 per cent decrease), transit use (34 per cent increase), cycling (101 per cent increase) and walking (28 per cent increase).
Commuting trips to downtown Vancouver from outside the city saw a three per cent decrease in motorists, a 44 per cent increase in transit, a 52 per cent increase in cycling and no increase in walking.
The city contends downtown parkades are, on average, 65 per cent full.
The survey results were released the same day city staff released a report that recommends city council adopt "six big moves" and 53 "accelerated actions" to fight climate change in Vancouver.
One of the "moves" is to have two-thirds of trips in Vancouver made by walking, biking or transit. LaClaire said the survey results show the city already surpassed its earlier goal for 2020 to have half the trips in Vancouver made by these three modes.
mhowell@vancourier.com
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Software Engineer life
Database Developer vs. Database Administrator
Written by Thais Rodrigues in Career
Data is the lifeblood of a business or company. Therefore, for any institution to run efficiently, you need proper databases and qualified personnel in charge of it. But what exactly are these professionals required to do?
Database developers and database administrators are responsible for ensuring a company's information is organized, secure, and accessible. But more specifically, developers build databases or upgrade existing ones while database administrators are responsible for the systems' daily functioning.
This article seeks to explain in detail the differences between a database administrator (DBA) and a database developer. I will outline their roles and responsibilities, point out the difference in their remuneration, and highlight the skills required to be considered for any of these jobs. Read on.
Difference Between a Database Developer and Administrator
Database developers and administrators are often very similar positions. Their differences are usually more company-specific. That said, each of these jobs has a different focus and, therefore, has varied responsibilities.
Generally speaking, the roles of administrators are mostly to do with maintenance and operations. These are the people who ensure the company's database is working properly. They deal with the customer-facing end of the system to ensure the smooth running of operations.
As for the database developers, they closely work with the development team of a company. Their duties include designing and programming. These roles majorly involve the non-customer-facing end or the back-end of data storage systems.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, these professionals' salaries also vary, further evidencing the fact that these are different positions. Database administrators had a median annual wage of $93,750 in May 2019, with an hourly payment of $45.07, while all software developers had a median wage of $105,590 per year in May 2018 or $50.77 per hour.
For both database administrators and developers, their education and skill set requirements are quite similar. An educational background in computer science is required. Their skills should include knowledge in computer programming, software systems, and a range of programming languages (e.g., SQL, Java, and Python).
Job Title Database Developer Database Administrator
Education Requirements Bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field. Bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field.
Median Annual Pay* $105,590 for all software developers (2018)* $93,750 (2019)*
Job Focus Developing and modifying databases Maintenance and operations of databases
Job Growth (2018-2028)* 21% for all software developers 9%
Source: *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Responsibilities of Database Developers vs. Database Administrators
As we've mentioned earlier, the roles and responsibilities of database developers and DBAs will vary from one company to another and depending on the goals of the particular institution or industry.
The goal of database administrators is to ensure the smooth and secure running of the database. Developers, on the other hand, focus on providing efficient data storage and data management systems.
Let's take a closer look at these specific functions:
Database Developer
Database developers are also known as programmers or engineers. These are software developers who work in the IT department of a company to design or create database systems that enable storage and smooth retrieval of information.
A developer may be tasked to develop new applications for a company's database or upgrade existing ones to make them more efficient. They basically do programming work to create systems that hold data securely and allow it to be accessed by users.
A database developer's position requires high-level working knowledge of software engineering, coding, and fluency in different programming languages.
Apart from technical skills, database developers should be equipped with soft skills, including great communication, problem-solving, and attention to detail skills. Analytical and organizational skills are also necessary.
Here are the duties and responsibilities of database developers:
Developing and Designing Databases
With the huge amounts of data generated in companies and institutions nowadays, it's necessary to organize all this information in an orderly manner and in a secure place. Database developers are tasked with this responsibility in institutions like hospitals, banks, insurance companies, etc.
Testing New Products
Database developers are responsible for carrying out performance-testing procedures. This helps to check for efficiency, ease of use, and to make sure the products adhere to rules on data handling.
Modifying Databases
Another key responsibility of database developers is modifying databases. Developers may find data management systems already set up in a company. Their role in this situation may include identifying the business needs, assessing if the current systems are meeting these needs, and making necessary edits on the database.
Developing Database Documentation
This documentation includes operational manuals for databases that the programmer has created. As more editing and modifications are made, the developer should update the existing information.
Search for the Latest Data Trends and Report
Staying up to date with the latest data trends is vital for database developers. This can help refine their product offering and possibly infuse some more creativity when handling their company's data.
Troubleshoot Problems With the Databases
Making the most efficient database is a continuous process of tweaking the program and improving it bit by bit. A database developer can upscale efficiency by assessing areas of weaknesses, identifying the problem, and working to create a relevant solution.
The main role of a database administrator is ensuring the safety and availability of databases on a daily basis and whenever needed by users. Administrators make sure the institution's data is not lost or corrupted.
Database administrators often communicate with various company departments and data users since they work on the customer-facing end of the system. They, therefore, require very good communication skills.
Here's a detailed list of the roles and responsibilities of DBAs:
Installing and Maintenance of Software
Once the developers have created software for data storage, database administrators are involved in installing and configuring this software. They are also responsible for its maintenance to ensure it's properly functioning for the users.
Performance monitoring is an on-going system maintenance. It involves ensuring the smooth running of the databases and the hardware. Tracking the data, watching out for any slowing down in the system, and making improvements are some of the tasks carried out by DBAs.
Specialized Data Handling
Some of the very large databases and unstructured data such as videos, images, and sound require specialized skills to manage, handle, or monitor. DBAs are well skilled in doing this while maintaining the efficiency of the data.
Ensuring Data Security
Database administrators are responsible for establishing the best practices for the security of the company's database. The point is to minimize the risk of data loss or attacks.
Creating Backups and Recovery Plans
One of the most crucial roles of the DBA is to preserve data and ensure it's available whenever needed. To make this happen, the administrator is required to back up all data. Today, the common practice is to backup data in the cloud as it's more secure that way than when stored in hardware.
In case of data loss or server failure, it's again the database administrator's responsibility to recover the lost data. There are different recovery strategies depending on the type of failure.
As the company grows, the database administrator monitors the growth of the data and makes predictions for future needs. It's his/her role to facilitate an increase in capacity whenever the need arises.
There you have it, a detailed comparison of database administrators vs. database developers. It's clear that these two positions have a lot in common, including some overlapping roles, similar education level requirements, and basic skill set requirements. That said, the roles and responsibilities of the DBA and developer are different.
While the DBA's focus is on the daily running of the software, ensuring its availability and security, the database developer is more focused on the designing and creation of new databases or modifying existing ones.
Thais Rodrigues
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Do not hesitate to contact us and let us know your requirements and priorities, so that we can prepare and put a package together to suit your group.
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* The Paintball can be replaced in the program with Archery, a descent in canoe 8 km or 1 course Extreme Accrobranche (external partnership).
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What is it actually like to live as a Soul? To live your life as if you live forever and that your body is nothing more than a temporary vehicle used to operate in and interact with the manifest world?
As a direct result of no longer taking the slings and arrows of life so seriously, your ego weakens dramatically and your investment in the me-me-me-thing is diminished. With the weakening of the ego, a space opens up within your identity, and vistas—previously unseen—mysteriously open: [WGW Note: Each of the following will be examined in the book] Small miraculous coincidences start to occur; fears are examined and dropped; a more authentic life is lived; the drama of the manifest world is seen as temporary; desire to control and manipulate events ease; the body is viewed as a vehicle to "drive around in;" and the fear of death quiets considerably.
To live as a Soul is to live a relaxed and carefree life—yet a life filled with the miraculous.
The less there is of you, the more there is of the Mystery.
One of the most difficult aspects for many people to accept is the awakening of the siddhis—of new and powerful paranormal events and abilities. As the ego weakens as we shift our identity from human to Soul, synchronistic events and paranormal abilities become common—even expected. For millennia, spiritual teachers have warned that these siddhis should never be "owned" by the spiritual student lest he become identified with them. To identify with the siddhis ("I can read minds!") is to strengthen the ego, not weaken it—to become pompous and proud, not humble and grateful. The healthy way to view siddhis is as if they are fleeting morsels of a delightful and rare fruit—a moment to enjoy and appreciate—and not as possessions to be hoarded and owned.
Though I had been practicing meditation for nearly 30 years, aside from a few fleeting glimpses of the nondual state, I had very little to show for all those years of hard work. Yet in less than three months of living as a Soul, I experienced such an intense shift in my identity as to change my life forever. Living as a Soul weakened my ego (the less there is of you…) to the point that profound spiritual change became inevitable and irreversible (the more there is of the miraculous).
Last night, as I sat in meditation, I suddenly felt a powerful movement of Light slide from above my head and down to the base of my spine. It then slowly moved back upward toward the center of my chest. Gradually it condensed into a ball of spinning white light and slowly drifted over to my upper left pectoral muscle. In my mind's eye, I could see this ball of light swirling and condensing as the skin above the muscle grew warm and taunt. As the light swirled and compressed to about the size of a grape, it suddenly exploded out and away from my skin. What was left was a very distinct hole from which pure white light radiated outward.
This was not an exercise or a visualization. It had started out as my typical meditation: I had been reciting and contemplating my mantra, "Who am I?" as I had done hundreds (thousands, millions) of times before, when the ball of Light appeared out of nowhere, spontaneously and unsought. The Light moved as if it had a consciousness and life all its own.
To this day, I can still feel the original "hole" left by this experience—a deep "well" not in my physical body, but in some sort of psychic energy sheath that feels as close as a second skin. At the time, I called this hole a God Well, and experienced it as a hole in my ego, with a distinctly felt Divine Light shining out of it.
Today, as I was opening a God Well over my right pectoral muscle, I decided to insert an issue into the starting water droplet. Knowing that it would get "blasted" out of my system, I mentally placed the issue, "Financial troubles" into the droplet. Within half an hour after the Opening, I received two phone calls from people from my past. One an old co-worker who wanted to hire me to write a complex software package, and the other from an old employer who wanted me to come back and work for him. Within half an hour after the Opening. Amazing. I would not believe this if it hadn't happened to me. I suspect others won't believe it, the odds of it are just too astronomical.
Down on my luck, a failure as a self-published author, out of work, in debt and with no prospects for future income, yet I was living unconcerned as a Soul. Then, just when I "needed" a miracle to improve my life, multiple miracles occurred. I accepted the freelance software work and slowly rebuilt my finances.
Over the years this lesson would be repeated again and again and again: That the less there was of me—the trying, the resisting, the controlling, the obsessive me-me-me thoughts, …—the more there was of the miraculous.
Live as a Soul—become less ego and more trans-human—and the miraculous will become the everyday.
My spiritual background is totally different from yours, and your phraseology is not comfortable to me, but I agree with your conclusions absolutely!
All my spiritual teachers have been drunks and drug addicts, my mentor (sponsor) had been in and out of many mental hospitals, none of them by choice until he figured out if he signed himself in, he could then sign himself out. It got him out of the cops hair so they were happy to let him go.
I've never been drunk in my life and never used an illegal drug, but I owe my life and everything good in it from what I learned and did at AA and NA (Narcotic Anonymous) meetings. I'm a slow learner, I've been to thousands of them and learned that is where the saints actually live. This is a story I head at an NA meeting from a guy no one in their right mind would consider a guru or even a second look.
And yet I think it fits perfectly with what you are teaching.
He said that all his life he had a hole in his heart and he had tried to fill it with everything he possibly could. He had tried every kind of pleasure and nearly every kind of depravity and nothing helped–the hole remained. Then he came to NA and worked the Steps and the hole was healed and the desire and need for drugs removed. He asked his higher power to explain it to him and he saw a vision.
The hole in his heart was actually the end of a conduit that ran from the top of his head, through his heart and out his belly. The Mystery had placed it there and designed it so that the compassion of the universe could be funneled through it and out of him to others. But early in life his fixation on himself had closed the pipe and kept the love and compassion locked up, not allowing any more in or out. That created the hole he had tied so desperately to fill.
Through the Steps he had found a proper relationship with himself, a higher power and others. The compassion began to flow again and the more it flowed the fuller the hole got. Ultimately it was no longer a hole at all, but a beautiful oasis that fed and refreshed him and others.
The less there was of him, the more their could be compassion. All he had to do was get out of the way and let it flow.
Couldn't have said it better. There's a Greater Intelligence (whatever name we choose to give It/Her/Him) that all of us are capable of hearing and sharing… if only we the me-me-me-thing can get out of the way.
Great story Bob. Thanks for sharing.
Yesterday, I stumbled across a very profound tale of synchronicity on YouTube as told by Dean Radin. Extraordinary and certainly worth a Google.
Yes, the siddhis are tricky. As you can see in my example above, I "owned" the God Wells for awhile (sold them for a couple of months), and only later saw the error of my ways. Sounds like you have a good handle on yours Mark.
Ultimately what's important about the siddhis is their consistency and their implications (meaning of their consistency and the meaning of how they can even occur).
Yes Wayne, I think the the God Wells could be particularly problematic. I had a situation where all my will got focused through my otherwise relaxed spiritual lens and I had a highly improbable wish manifest. This created a life altering sequence of events. I will never do that again.


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Kim Kardashian's Robbery Story Doesn't Add Up
Posted by Mary Summers | Oct 3, 2016 | Featured, Opinion | 0 |
Photo credit: DFree / Shutterstock
Around 2:25 a.m. on October 3, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during her stay in Paris. According to NBC News, two masked men posing as police officers forced their way into her residency. They then tied her up, gagged her, and stole over $10 million worth of jewelry.
But here's the thing: if they were posing as police officers, why were they wearing masks?
Supposedly, the armed men gained access to Kardashian's room by forcing the hotel's concierge to disclose which room she was staying in. But here's another thing: why was there only one security officer on duty?
According to The Guardian, this super private estate has been frequented by other famous faces, including: Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Prince, and Russian politican Roman Abramovich. One would think that a place with such eminent clientele would have maximum security.
Some sources speculate that it was an inside job. Someone who worked at the estate knew that security was light on this particular night, and so they staged the entire heist.
But the estate's lack of security is only half the equation. Kim Kardashian, who is constantly surrounded by bodyguards, apparently didn't have any security staying with her on the night of the attack. A little odd, isn't it?
It's long been rumored that Kardashian's husband, Kanye West, has been struggling financially. West, who was performing on stage when the incident took place, promptly cancelled his show early upon learning of the attack. Could it be that both Kanye and Kim staged the entire thing in order to scam their insurance company? Who knows.
We do know, however, that Kim Kardashian (who is known for being extremely active on social media) has been unusually quiet since the incident. So here's another theory: she might have been sexually assaulted in addition to being robbed. Let it be noted that there is no evidence to confirm this theory, but it might explain why she's been so uncharacteristically silent.
While nobody deserves to be robbed, one can't help but to raise an eyebrow when it happens to someone who is notorious for seeking attention.
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You've shown us the packaging for Ice King vs Marceline, but we're still in the dark about new cards. Any chance we can get some sort of preview, maybe displaying the new IcyLands type?
There's also a roomer floating around about Lemongrab vs Gunter (Cornfield/SandyLands vs Blue Plains/IcyLands.) Is there any truth to this?
I think we can muster IKvM up some previews pretty soon.
Yes, there is truth to LvG!
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ART COLOGNE 2018. A sea of art on three levels 0
What did 210 galleries from 33 different countries bring to Cologne? Overview of the participants' opinions of one of the most important European art fairs
Sergej Timofejev, Helmuts Caune
ART COLOGNE 2018 opened the doors of its enormous exhibition complex Koelnmesse for an international array of VIP guests, collectors and the press on Wednesday, April 18, and it turned out that this day had the biggest number of visitors at the art fair. Crowds of people conversing and gesticulating slowly cruised through the "streets" constructed from gallery stands. And the stands were filled with an incredible concentration of art: the first floor mostly had artwork from the Modernist era and post-World-War art, the second floor had the main galleries that work with contemporary art, and the third floor had new galleries, galleries from "far away regions", newcomers who were participating in the fair for the first time, and experimenters. The whole scene was reminiscent of a rough spring sea that had spread all over three floors at once; a sea of images, objects, faces, meetings, options and offers.
The next day, when the art fair opened not only for invited guests, but also for everyone else, was a lot more calm. Of course there were still enough people but the air was no longer bubbling with a volcanic feeling of collective and boisterous insanity, ardour, challenge and competition that prevailed the previous day. Some said it might have been partly due to another art fair opening that day, ART BRUSSELS, and part of the collectors could have moved on to that. The news that the two art fairs had the same dates was discussed at length last year but actually this wasn't the first time it had happened. And the degree of excitement started to rise again in Cologne on the second and third day.
Grayson Perry. Reclining Artist, 2017. Courtesy Gallery Paragon (London)
ART COLOGNE is a contemporary art fair with a long and rich history, and there are galleries that take part in it time after time for many years. That is the case for the gallery EIGEN+ART, working both in Leipzig and Berlin, whose director Christian Ehrentraut tells us, "We've been doing the fair for a very long time now. These are the relations that grow over time and it feels like homecoming every year." When asked about the strong sides and the pluses of ART COLOGNE, he says, "It's a community, it's a collecting culture, it's the density of museums and institutions. It's one of the very few remaining art fairs in Germany that we have on that quality scale. All the German-speaking countries and their museum goers are going to Cologne." And when we asked him what caught his eye in general at this year's ART COLOGNE, he answered "It's getting more physical again, some years had been very over-sexualised, then it was very prudish at some point, now again it's getting more physical. There is a lot of sex at this fair."
To answer our question whether this is related to some changes in the society and in politics, Christian Ehrentraut says that he doesn't want to begin interpreting that. He actually holds the opinion that interpretation is not a gallerist's task: "Forming the context, sure, but not interpreting the works themselves."
Aria Watson. #Signed by Trump. Courtesy Galerie Julian Sander (Cologne)
It has to be said that having met the art fair's art director Daniel Hug on the first floor on Sunday, the last day of the fair, he turned out to be more open to conclusions, including political ones. On that day he slowly walked around the galleries' stands, conversing with everyone, being interested in the gallerists' success and their opinions of this year's art fair. It could be felt how he was carrying five day's worth of weight of the project on his shoulders, and not everyone would be able to endure that. But he found time for us to discuss the "flesh" matter of the fair further, noting, "We are standing outside the Julian Sanders gallery, and on the other side he got this young artist Aria Watson, who is a 19 year old girl from Oregon. And the gallerist discovered her on Facebook and he did a show of her works… Nudity and gender politics are, of course, the themes again with the #MeToo movement, especially with Knight Landesman, one of the publishers of Art Forum, having been exposed… or Benjamin Genocchio, the head of the Armory fair. (Both of them were accused of sexual harassment by female colleagues - editor's note). In the age of Trump and Putin and Kim and the other sort of crazy leaders, it's becoming more important and relevant to stand up against sexism, against racism, against ignorance and exclusionism." Hug was very satisfied in this sense by the doings of young galleries or galleries from new regions on the third floor of ART COLOGNE. He said, "You see that people really put in effort, especially in large scale installations… Like Vartai Gallery from Vilnius which represented the artist couple SetP Stanikas. And they are all like statements!"
Installation by SetP Stanikas at the Vartai Gallery (Vilnius) booth
On the same third floor 36 galleries exhibited under the model of "Collaborations": two galleries shared one stand between them and presented one overall project. Marie-Christine Molitor, the director of the well-known Berlin gallery Galerie Neu (its brilliantly assembled and presented exposition attracted a lot of attention on the second floor of the fair), sees a good sign in the collaborations: "There is one booth where two galleries are just showing one video work of the artist they both represent in their countries. It beautifully shows that there could be another way – not just splitting the booth in two parts, but sharing: sharing the artist and sharing the profit if the work will be sold." To our question, "What, in her opinion, is the point of participating in this kind of art fair for the gallery that she represents, if her gallery's location in Berlin, such an active city, already seems to be the key to success," she replied "Yes, that's a good question. I think that we wouldn't necessarily need it for our business. But it's important for our artists to be continuously represented and art fairs are places where people see more of something than at the gallery."
Fragment of the exposition at the Galerie Neu (Berlin) booth
Of course choosing an artist and their works to show at the fair is not the easiest of tasks, and Elisabeth Thoman, the co-owner of Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, which has been participating in ART COLOGNE since 1980, tells us: "It is always difficult to pick which works to bring to the fair. Walking around, I realise that we have perhaps one of the highest number of works in one booth. Maybe it scares people off – next year we'll consider bringing fewer works, focus on a few established artists."
Compared to other art fairs in other cities, Thoman notes that the public in Cologne is well-educated and appreciative of contemporary art, which is what Cologne really stands out for and is another reason why it has been a pleasure to return here for already almost 40 years. "Here, in Cologne, it is a part of people's everyday life – to know a little bit about art, to go to museums... and to collect. Even for the regular audience. Cologne is a largely Catholic community, and the importance of images and art in Catholic societies is higher than in Protestant societies. I see the same in Austria which is also more Catholic."
She also thinks that the division of the fair into three levels had been a very good idea. "It is a wise decision to have the art dealers in the basement, and then we have the level with galleries that are working with contemporary artists in the present. In Germany and in Europe, there is an important distinction between a gallerist and an art-dealer. I think it is important to maintain this distinction. An art-dealer is someone who constantly seeks new and interesting artists and works to satisfy the public's needs in the present. A gallerist works towards the future: they cooperate with artists in the long term, they preserve their works, they protect the artists..."
Shirazeh Houshiary. Slow Time, 2017. © Shirazeh Houshiary, courtesy Lisson Gallery (London)
Not far from the Thoman gallery there are various bigger and more essential players of the field, such as the London-based galleries Lisson and White Cube. Andreas Leventis, the associate director of Lisson whose booth this year boasts works by Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramovich and other legends, tells us that Lisson has not been in Cologne since 2004. He admits that although this year's fair is "a bit slow", the public included a lot of good collectors, which is also why their gallery can consider this fair a success. Representatives of the White Cube gallery from London, Julia Baumhoff Zaouk and Penny Johanna Beer, admit that this is only the second year of their participation, and they emphasise the high-level organisation and hospitality they have received. "We represent a lot of recognised German and international artists with whom we work very closely, so it was important for us to be here. We have had a very good second year, meeting important collectors from the US and elsewhere who have made the effort to come exactly to Cologne, to the fair."
Anony Gromley's work "Feeling Material XXXIX" (2008) at the White Cube (London) booth
Baumhoff Zaouk, who serves as one of the directors of the gallery, remarks that they have sold the majority of works that they've picked to bring to the fair. Among the exceptions are a few large signature works by Damien Hirst that White Cube has also brought to Cologne. However, they've also seen a lot of interest, and Baumhoff Zaouk believes that out of the seeds sown in Cologne they might get those works sold in the future. "The size of the work is more substantial than that of the smaller pieces, so this might be something that we don't close at the fair, but afterwards."
However sales are a complicated issue. Erika Deák, the owner of the 20 year old Budapest-based gallery called The Erika Deák Gallery who exhibited her artists on the prestigious second floor of ART COLOGNE says although she was able to attain many new contacts at the fair which could reap benefits in the future, the sold works were mostly going to the same collectors that the gallery has been working with for some time now. She says that she was pleasantly surprised by the level of quality of the gallery-exhibited art, and she liked the respect and the interest shown by the expositions of the new galleries on the third floor. But to answer the question whether anything struck her in the works of the young artists exhibited by them, she replied that unfortunately no and among them "nothing really gave me goosebumps. For me that is the measure. Do I have this tickle feeling in my stomach or not? Good art is also always measured whether it can go wrong at any minute. But if there is a recipe – there is no way of making a mistake. Good art is not afraid of making mistakes. It's a key idea for me, especially today, when things are so calculated in many ways."
Lito Kattou works at the Eleni Koroneu Gallery (Athens) booth
At the same time betting on a young artist helped the Greek Eleni Koroneu Gallery gain recognition and with that a somewhat commercial success. Her exposition of the Cyprus artist Lito Kattou won a special prize at the fair - "New Positions 2018" - for "the combination of mythological references and the digital world". The art work is lines of figures, playing with the relationship between a flat surface and volume, a procession done in a Kafkaesque style, and each one priced at 6000 euros (which is really not a lot judging by the medium level of prices at the fair). As Alexandra Ikonomou, the daughter of the gallery's owner who also works with her mother, says, "It's a special work but commercially it's going well. People are fascinated by the new… Lito Kattou is young, she is 27, she makes art that doesn't remind you of anything. She makes her own language."
"Falling Sleeves" by the artist Max Frisinger at the booth of Galerie Gisela Clement (Bonn)
One of the more conceptual statements on the third floor could be the stand of Galerie Gisela Clement, which took up all its space to present the hanging upside-down piece "Falling Sleeves" by the artist Max Frisinger. The artwork consists of twisted and almost turned inside out objects that have their origins in old plastic tubes that were used for throwing out the garbage during the repairing and reconstruction of buildings. Hung in space they look like wreckage from a crashed spaceship or like falling leaves of a plastic baobab growing somewhere above us. At first it seems that these twisted bits are not something that could be "hung on a wall". But the gallerist Christoph Jaschke says that if a collector has real interest in the work, then the conversation begins at the fair, and only afterwards the question of where to install the work and how to exhibit the newly created installation arises. The fair shows only an example or a prototype of something that in the end could be carried into a private collection. He says, "To be honest we definitely knew in advance that it's hard to sell but we wanted it to be a sort of a statement – to show what the artist can do and to show what we allow in our gallery. It's our second appearance at ART COLOGNE and at the beginning it's more important to leave a mark than to sell something in the first place."
Ēriks Apaļais. Stolichnaya and Snowman, 2018. Courtesy Alma gallery (Riga)
And for Astrīda Riņķe, the owner of Alma gallery in Riga, who brought paintings by Ēriks Apaļais to Cologne, it was only the first participation in ART COLOGNE, before this year she exhibited her artists at ART BRUSSELS for four years in a row, but she decided to try to change this "habit" when the curator Katerina Gregos left ART BRUSSEL'S post of artistic director. She says, "You always have to change something, you always follow interesting fairs and think, which one should I try…"
Not to be afraid to try something, not be afraid to make mistakes, and here once again we go back to the Budapest gallerist Erika Deák's opinion. And it seems that her stand exhibited perhaps one of the most metaphoric works of this year's ART COLOGNE: multicoloured pieces strapped together by colourful ties, not all of one origin and in different outlines, but fitting together in one "frame" (the young Hungarian artist behind the work is Márton Nemes who is studying in London at the moment). These pieces makes one think of the art world of the last hundred years, where the most diverse and dissimilar layers and movements make up one unified picture (and the wonderful proof of that is walking among the three levels of the exhibition). But it also makes you think of the societies in our countries, diversified and consisting of people with different opinions but still holding on together. What is it that pulls us together and holds us close? Perhaps it is the images and our admiration for them, goosebumps from seeing the masterpieces, "butterflies in our stomach" from experiencing these wonders… But we are also held together by meeting each other and sharing information and opportunities. And that is exactly what the art fair is about, to understand that the art world is one whole on all continents and it does not recognise borders that dictate to be closed off from the "others", and, if necessary, to laugh at the stupidity of the ones in power. And that is exactly our "colourful ties".
Works by Márton Nemes at the booth of the Erika Deák Gallery
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Perfect snack during the day time, intake of a ¼th cup of peanuts will get you 20 percent of required vitamin E. These peanuts are also rich in antioxidants called resveratrol and monounsaturated fats. Eating peanuts in daily basis will lower the risk of weight gain and increases the rate of good cholesterol. Make a powder of it and mix it with the fries to add a special flavor.
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Avocado is oil rich and creamiest food which is rich in vitamin E. This is rich in fiber and low in carbohydrates. Adding two to three slices of avocado to your salad, mash up or a sandwich will let you start your day in a healthy way. It is very easy to digest and one avocado in a day gives 20 percent of vitamin E required.
Olive is one of the excellent fruit to get vitamin E that needed for a day. It is easy to eat and the extracted oil is also good for health. Taking a cup of olives will give 20 percent of required vitamin in a day.
Eating just one ounce of hazelnuts in a day will give 21 percent of required vitamin E. It is an excellent source of vitamin E, Vitamin C, and Vitamin A. This perfect snack also includes proteins and rich in folate. Intake of hazelnuts daily will lower LDL cholesterol. This can eat directly or added to cookies, cakes, chocolates and pies. The hazelnuts milk can be a nice alternative for normal milk.
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After my first day of work, baby boy protested my absence by crying. Yes, crying in my hands and then stopping once in the arms of his grandmother. And he continued to look at me and cry in a complaining tone 'How did you leave me and go? How am I supposed to know when you will come back?!" And so on. It continued for five minutes (which is very long when a baby is crying), and then I scooped him up, held him close and whispered in his ears till he calmed down. Luckily for me, he soon forgot all about it and started giving his toothless smiles.
Next day : He knows that I am all dressed up and will go to office after feeding him. So while he is nursing, he tightly clutches my kurta with his little fingers, and starts wailing as soon as I position him for burping. My otherwise cooperative boy, is throwing tantrums now. I start feeding him again and he just wants to suckle, while not hungry. To stop me from going to work. I go, nevertheless, but with a delay.
Everyday now, once I dress up and get ready to go to work and then when I start nursing him, he cries. He may have associated my deodorant smell to me going to office. It feels surreal, but that's the only nursing time when he is crying. It does break my heart and I took a leave one day, but he will have to get used to it. So the next day, I braced myself and went to work.
No, but seriously, baby boy Ar. has definitely noticed that I disappear for most part of the day. He may not know what to make of it, and so he gets cranky. Even when he is extremely fond of his ajji. And my mom thinks he has also lost some weight. But you know she is an advocate of "baby-needs-mom-a-lot-and-then-some-more" and so she may be over-reacting. But baby boy is crankier than before. I admit that.
Strangely, when I was growing up, I was convinced that I would be a stay at home mum for at least first 5 years when my kid(s) is small. I have no idea what that notion was based on, but as time flew by and I actually got married and had a kid, the need to work and have a life beyond home and the baby has become immense. I am sure Ar. will soon get used to it, we will find our new normal, but for now, we have some separation anxiety.
Sometimes when my mom and mom-in-law say that he is very fond of his mother, I think they are saying it to make me feel better. Or perhaps to encourage me to form a closer bond between me and the baby. But may be what they are saying is true. And he does recognise and prefer his mother over the others. It's a double-edged sword though. How guilty it makes me feel to goto the market or even to go for an exercise walk after already being out of the house most day for work. But certain things need to be done. This is life.
But one thing is for sure. When I am at home, I am at the mercy of his smiles, gurgles and coos.
For a long time I wanted to make these Australian finger cakes called Lamingtons. They are basically cubes of yellow cake dipped in chocolate frosting and coated with coconut. When I saw this recipe of HomeBakersGuild, I knew I had to make them. I am very fond of fresh coconut and hence used fresh coconut to coat my lamingtons. It made the cake very soft and juicy, if I may say so. And the pastel color looks super cute.
Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 20 cm cake pan with parchment paper.
Sift flour and baking powder and keep it ready.
In another bowl, beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy with a hand blender.
Add the eggs, one at a time and incorporate.
Add milk and vanilla extract and blend well.
Now fold in the flour and baking powder mixture, one cup at a time.
Pour in prepared pan and bake for 30-40 minutes, till a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Let it cool, then trim off the browned edges and cut the cake into squares.
Make the chocolate icing by heating chopped chocolate, butter, milk in saucepan till they melt.
Take it off the heat and icing sugar.
Add food color as desired.
Roll the cake cubes in the chocolate, one at a time and then in desiccated coconut. Sprinkle with some strawberry jam for decoration.
The browned part of the cake tastes extremely delicious, eat it up straight away.
The icing can get a bit sticky while rolling the cake. You can even hold it with a fork and pour the icing over it.
If you roll it in dry desiccated coconut , the cubes will be drier and easier to handle. But I prefer the crunch of fresh coconut.


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North Yorkshire's National Nature Reserves
Duncombe Park
Forge Valley Woods
Ingleborough
Ling Gill
Malham Tarn
New House Farm
Scoska Wood
Skipwith Common
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The NNR is in the grounds of the Duncombe Park, a country house built in 1713.
Main habitats: woodland, wood pasture
The gardens and parkland have restricted opening times as part of Duncombe Park Estate. Visit the Duncombe Park Estate website for more details or telephone 01439 770213. Admission charges apply.
Features of interest
This protected parkland is in the River Rye valley and is home to many ancient trees, which provide a home for rare invertebrates and fungi.
Birds found here all year round include 3 species of woodpecker, nuthatch and the elusive hawfinch. In summer they are joined by pied flycatcher and redstart. In spring the woodland floor is covered in sheets of bluebells, primroses and wild garlic.
The River Rye flows through the reserve and this is home to many rare insects, trout, otter and birds such as dipper, grey wagtail, kingfisher, grey heron and sand martin.
See the site visitor leaflet for more details.
The nearest train station is in Malton.
There are bus services from Malton to Helmsley via Hovingham. For details go to the Travel Search website, or Traveline Yorkshire.
Duncombe Park is approximately 25 kilometres to the north west of Malton and 1 kilometre south west of Helmsley on the A170. The site is accessed via a minor road from the town. There is car parking in Helmsley and in Duncombe Park
Helmsley is on the Ebor Way a 112 kilometre trail (76 miles) from Helmsley to Ilkley.
The Cleveland Way is a national trail, covering 177km of footpath from Helmsley to Filey on the North Yorkshire coast. The route travels through part of Duncombe Park Estate and passes Rievaulx Terrace, which was also created by the Duncombe family.
For more information contact Natural England Enquiries, tel. 0300 060 3900 or email enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk.
Located on the slopes of the Derwent river valley, these woods are one of the best examples of mixed deciduous woodland in north-east England. Alder, willow, ash, elm, sycamore, oak and holly are just a few of the species of trees in the woods, which also supports a rich population of breeding birds such as nuthatch, garden and wood warblers, redstarts and black-caps. The river is home to otter, trout and crayfish.
Main habitats: woodland
Area: 63 hectares
For further details on the area's history, its flora and wildlife, directions and information for visitors, see the downloadable brochure on Forge Valley Woods NNR.
To book educational visits call Scarbrough Council's countryside team on 01723 374079.
National Nature Reserves Office
Bank Island
Wheldrake
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Ingleborough is one of the famous Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Together with Pen-y-ghent and Whernside, this mountainous area is renowned and protected for its special wildlife, flora, geology and spectacular scenery. It is part of the larger Ingleborough Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Main habitats: limestone pavement, upland
Area: 1014 hectares
For more information on the history of the area, its wildlife and flora, walks and other activities, visitor access and restrictions, maps, directions and more, see the downloadable brochure on Ingleborough. See the map to find out where you can ride a horse on the reserve.
There are also many seasonal highlights to look out for when you visit.
Ingleborough NNR is situated within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The OS grid reference for this reserve is: SD 773779 (Colt Park Barn).
The Settle-Carlisle railway stations at Ribblehead and Horton in Ribblesdale are within walking distance of the reserve.
Dalesbus operates a service in the area throughout the summer, which includes links to the train stations.
Ingleborough can be reached by road via the B6255 Ingleton to Hawes road and the B6479 Settle to Ribblehead road.
Schools and community groups
The reserve offers a variety of outdoor learning opportunities for Key Stage 1 upwards. These range from seeing geologic processes at work in the limestone landscape to visiting abandoned settlements and old lime kilns.
Ingleborough NNR has an active volunteer group involved in practical habitat management and estate maintenance work, monitoring of habitats and species and assisting with our outreach work.To learn more about these or to book a school visit, contact the reserve at the address or telephone number below.
Ingleborough NNR
Colt Park Barn
Chapel-le-Dale
Nr. Ingleton
LA6 3JF
Area: 5 hectares
This National Nature Reserve is currently closed to the public.This will be because either:
the site is unsafe
our tenure of the land does not allow public access
the site is so fragile that any form of access would damage the wildlife interest
Malham Tarn is a mountain lake surrounded by 6 farms on upland limestone. It includes rugged moorland, exposed limestone pavement (so called because it resembles artificial pavement) and hay meadows rich in wildflowers.
Main habitats: open water
Area: 147 hectares
Management: Malham Tarn is managed by the National Trust
For more information on the reserve, its history, wildlife and flora, as well as information on activities for visitors and how to get there, visit the National Trust's Malham Tarn Estate web page.
Waterhouses
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Telephone: 01729 830416 or email: malhamtarn@nationaltrust.org.uk
The reserve is a small working farm in the Yorkshire Dales.
Main habitats: upland
Management: New House Farm is owned and managed by the National Trust
The hay meadows have a diverse array of flora, with a mix of sweet vernal grass, wood crane's-bill, lady's-mantle, pignut, great burnet, yellow rattle and melancholy thistle. The limestone outcroppings are home to alpine cinquefoil, hoary whitlowgrass and orpine.
The farm is managed traditionally without the use of artificial fertilisers or herbicides. The farm stock is restricted to 10 suckler cows and 35 sheep and only farmyard manure is used to fertilize the meadows. Hay making in late summer provides winter food for the livestock and helps maintain the species-rich grassland.
The best time to view the meadows is mid-June to early July. A public footpath crosses the reserve.
The reserve is less than 0.5 kilometres south west of the village of Bordley, midway between Malham and Threshfield (4 kilometres to the west and east respectively). By car, access to the site is along minor roads from Threshfield and Malham.
The nearest train station is in Skipton, 13 kilometres to the south.
Bus services from Skipton to Threshfield are provided by Pride of the Dales. There are a number of bus services from Skipton to Malham, some of them seasonal. For information on these, see Transport Direct.
Scoska Wood is a strip of ash woodland and pasture on the slopes of Littondale - the valley of the River Skirfare - between the villages of Litton and Arncliffe.
Main habitats: woodland, lowland grassland
Access to the reserve away from public footpaths is by permit only. For more details telephone 015242 42021.
The underlying Carboniferous Limestone has had a major influence on the reserve's plant life. Woodland clings to the limestone scars and rocky slopes and merges into herb-rich neutral pasture below.
The NNR is 1 km north west of the village of Arncliffe and approximately 22 kilometres north of Skipton.
By car, Arncliffe is accessed along a minor road from the B6160, or via minor roads from the B6479.
The nearest train station is Skipton.
Pride of the Dales operates a bus service from Skipton to villages along the B6160. The company also offers an infrequent service from Skipton to Arncliffe.
For more information contact Natural England Enquiries, tel. 0300 060 3900 or email enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk
Skipwith Common is Natural England's newest National Nature Reserve and it has a wide variety of wildlife.
Main habitats: wet and dry heathland and scrub woodland.
Occupying 274 hectares within the Escrick Park Estate.
There is a variety of rare heathland plants and rich collection of dragonflies and other insects. There are also a huge array of birds that can be spotted in and around the reserve.
Many bronze and iron age features are scattered about the reserve. There are also the remains of Riccall airfield where Halifax bomber crews were trained in the Second World War.
See the site visitor leaflet](http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/9529076) for more details.
The nearest stations to Skipwith are Wressle and Selby.
Bus services to and from Skipwith are provided by East Yorkshire Motor Service and York Pullman Bus Company.
There are three main access points to the reserve: Riccall Village along King Rudding Lane, Skipwith Village along Common Lane, Barlby (A163 Market Weighton Road, then up Cornelius Causeway).
There is a car park with two designated disabled parking bays on the site.
Additional travel information for the area is provided by Yorkshire Travel
To discuss school visits or volunteering opportunities contact Craig Ralston on 07917 088021, or e-mail craig.ralston@naturalengland.org.uk.


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Market structure is big news this year - both in the marketplace and academia.
James Angel, Associate Professor of Finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and a highly respected authority on market structure recently completed a study of the current market data situation. Angel shared with Traders Magazine his conclusions - primarily that market data businesses run by the exchanges are a benefit to individual investors.
SIP data are extremely valuable and reduce investors transactions costs.
The price of SIP data is extremely low compared to the benefits to investors. Without access to the data disseminated by the SIP, transaction costs would jump by billions of dollars.
The cost of a SIP of data to the individual investor, 17 cents a month, is about the same as a sip of Starbucks.
The real nonprofessional price of real-time professional trade and quote data has fallen 96.3% since 1987.
Cost allocation is difficult due to the problem of allocating high fixed costs to the jointly produced services of trading, regulation, and market data.
The SIPs are the low-cost producers of consolidated data.
Individual investors pay a miniscule small fraction of SIP costs.
SIP capacity has increased sharply while latency has dropped 99.7% since 2010.
SIP revenues allocated to the exchanges have fallen 23.7% since 2007.
SIP costs are a very small fraction of overall brokerage costs and profits.


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NGC 675 ist eine Spiralgalaxie vom Hubble-Typ S im Sternbild Widder auf der Ekliptik. Sie ist schätzungsweise 242 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt und hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 70.000 Lichtjahren.
Im selben Himmelsareal befinden sich u. a. die Galaxien NGC 671 und NGC 677.

Das Objekt wurde am 25. September 1886 von dem US-amerikanischen Astronomen Lewis A. Swift entdeckt.

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Scientists Just Solved The Mystery Of Why Zebras Have Stripes By Making Horses Wear Zebra Costumes
Jamie Carter Contributor
I write about science and nature, stargazing and eclipses.
Jamie Carter
Why do zebras have stripes? To hide from predators? To stay cool? To attract a mate? These are questions that have long baffled zoologists, but researchers at the University of Bristol and UC Davis, California, USA think they have the answer.
The zebra's stripes confuse parasites.
All 11 species of zebra are subtly different, but what unites these African equids is that they have a two-tone coat that, according to the latest research, helps avoid blood-sucking parasites such as horse flies.
To set-up the experiment, researchers at the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences used video analysis on tabanid horse flies and captive zebras and domestic horses at a livery in North Somerset, UK.
Researchers think zebra stripes are to help confuse flies and other parasites.
At a distance, the zebra's stripes made no difference, and the horse flies began circling the zebras and horses alike. However, when the horse flies got closer to the zebras, they failed to slow down, so couldn't land. "Horse flies just seem to fly over zebra stripes or bump into them, but this didn't happen with horses," said Professor Tim Caro, Honorary Research Fellow from the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences. "Consequently, far fewer successful landings were experienced by zebras compared to horses."
Professor Tim Caro observing zebra behavior in response to biting fly annoyance.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
This research paper, published on PLOS ONE, builds on Caro's previous research into zebras, which revealed that zebras in parts of Africa with more biting flies have greater striping.
Dr Martin How, Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, added: "This reduced ability to land on the zebra's coat may be due to stripes disrupting the visual system of the horse flies during their final moments of approach."
"Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes."
There are 11 types of zebras.
Why zebras evolved anti-fly stripes is to avoid horse flies, which in Africa often carry dangerous diseases such as trypanosomiasis and African horse sickness.
However, zebras are also skilled at dealing with horse flies by their behavior. During the experiment, researchers observed zebras running away and tail swishing at a far higher rate than horses, so any horse flies that didn't get slowed down by the stripes were dispatched quickly.
Joren Bruggink (left) and Jai Lake (right) investigating how horse flies behave around horses wearing different colored coats.
If zebra stripes are so good at getting rid of parasites, why not dress-up horses as zebras? In a second experiment, horses were dressed in different colored cloth coats: black, white and zebra-striped livery. The horses wearing coats with striped patterns experienced fewer horse fly landings compared to when they wore single-color coats.
The research could make 'zebra coats' common for horses, which is more ethical than when a zoo in Egypt was accused of painting a donkey to look like a zebra. Either way, there's now more evidence to back-up the theory that zebras have stripes to battle parasites, and not to disguise themselves from predators.
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