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BARUCH, APOCALYPSE OF (Greek) – An apocryphal work, in which Baruch, the disciple of Jeremiah, gives an account of the revelation which he received in heaven. The existence of this work (which is wholly different from the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch published...
BARUCH, APOCALYPSE OF (Syriac) – A pseudepigraphic work in which Baruch narrates his experiences during the periods just before and after the destruction of the Temple, and gives an account of the revelations received by him concerning the future. With the...
BARUCH, BOOK OF – Contents. One of the Apocryphal or so-called deuterocanonic books of the Old Testament. It consists of two parts. The first (i. 1-iii. 8) is in the form of a prose letter with a historical introduction. Baruch, the secretary of...
BASNAGE, JACOB CHRISTIAN – Protestant pastor; born at Rouen, France, Aug. 8, 1653; died in Holland Dec. 22, 1725. At the age of twenty-three he took charge of the Protestant Church of Rouen, succeeding Etienne Le Moine, who had been called to Leyden as...
BATE, JULIUS – English Biblical and Hebraic scholar; born about 1711; died at Arundel Jan. 20, 1771. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he received his master's degree in 1740. He took unusual interest in Old Testament...
BAUER, GEORGE LORENZ – Christian author of a theology of the Old Testament; born at Hippolstein, Bavaria, Aug. 14, 1755; died Jan. 13, 1806. In 1789 he was appointed professor of philosophy and Oriental languages at the University of Altdorf, and in...
BAYNUS (BAYNE), RUDOLPHUS – A Christian Hebraist of Cambridge; professor of the Hebrew language in Paris about the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the author of the work "Compendium Michlol" (also with the Hebrew title, "Ḳiẓẓur ha-Ḥeleḳ Rishon...
BEELEN, THEODORE JOHANN – Professor of Oriental languages at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; born at Amsterdam at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He devoted himself early to the study of Hebrew literature, especially rabbinical, and...
BEL AND THE DRAGON – An Apocryphal tract, placed, in the Septuagint and Theodotion, among the additions to the Book of Daniel (see Apocrypha). It consists of two separate stories: one relating to Bel; the other, to the Dragon. In the former, Daniel,...
BELLERMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM – Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University; born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754; died at Berlin Oct. 25, 1842.On graduating from the University of Göttingen Bellermann accepted a position as teacher at Reval,...
BEN SIRA, ALPHABET OF – A small book containing a double list of proverbs—twenty-two Aramaic and twenty-two Hebrew—alphabetically arranged, and a haggadic commentary on them, enriched with fables and legends. Corresponding to their linguistic...
BERGÈR, PHILIPPE – Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin, September, 1846; brother of Samuel Bergér. Graduating at the University of Strasburg, he settled in Paris,...
BERGÈR, SAMUEL – French professor of Protestant theology; secretary and librarian of the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Paris; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin, May 2, 1843; brother of Philippe Bergèr. He attended the lectures on literature at...
BERRUYER, JOSEPH ISAAC – French Jesuit; born at Rouen Nov. 7, 1681; died at Paris Feb. 1758. He was the author of a work entitled "Histoire du Peuple de Dieu," Paris, 1728, a history of the Jews from the earliest times to the birth of Jesus, according...
BERTHEAU, ERNEST – Biblical and Oriental scholar; born Nov. 23, 1812, in Hamburg; died May 17, 1888, in Göttingen. In 1843 he was appointed ordinary professor in the University of Göttingen, where he lectured on Oriental languages, Biblical...
BERTRAM, CORNEILLE BONAVENTURE – Protestant clergyman and Hebraist; born at Thouars, France, in 1531; died at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1594. He studied at Poitiers, Paris, Toulouse, and Cahors. Learning, in the last-mentioned city, that the authorities had...
BET – The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its numerical value is two, wherefore the bet in the word (Gen. xxi. 12) is interpreted as an allusion to the two worlds Isaac is destined to inherit—this world and the world to come...
BIBLE EDITIONS – The advantages of the newly discovered art of printing were quickly recognized by the Jews. While for the synagogue service written scrolls only were (and are still) used, the printing-press was very soon called into service to...
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS – The Targums. Jewish translations of the Old Testament were made from time to time by Jews, in order to satisfy the needs, both in public service and in private life, of those that had gradually lost the knowledge of the ancient...
BICKELL, GUSTAV WILHELM HUGO – Christian Hebraist and professor in the University of Vienna; born July 7, 1838, at Cassel. After graduating at Marburg, where he studied Semitic languages, he renounced Protestantism and entered the Roman Catholic Church,...
BIESENTHAL, JOACHIM HEINRICH – Theologian and author; born at Lobsens, Posen, 1800; died in Berlin, 1886. He was destined for the rabbinate; but while attending the University of Berlin (1827-35) he made the acquaintance of the Oriental scholar Wilhelm Vatke,...
BLAYNEY, BENJAMIN – English divine and Hebraist; born 1728; died Sept. 20, 1801. He was educated at Oxford, took the master's degree in 1735, and became fellow and vice-principal of Hertford College in 1768. He was employed by the Clarendon Press...
BLEEK, FRIEDRICH – Christian theologian; born July 4, 1793, at Ahrensböck, Holstein; died at Bonn in 1859. After a preparatory course at the gymnasium of Lübeck and two years of philosophical study at Kiel, he entered the University of Berlin,...
BOCHART, SAMUEL – One of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century, and an illustrious representative of the science and theology of the French Reformed Church; born at Rouen in 1599; died in Caen, May 16, 1667. His parents were persons of...
BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GEORG – German Protestant theologian; born at Hof, Germany, May 25, 1717; died Oct. 4, 1797, at Baiersdorf near Erlangen. In his early education at the gymnasium of Gera he became interested in Oriental and Biblical subjects through his...


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The HRW said it confirmed the death by reviewing official documents and on assertions by a family member that she was tortured in custody.
In Damascus, dozens of Syrian students gathered outside the UN offices to protest the US missile attack.
The US attack on the Shayrat base in central Syria was Washington's first military action against the regime in the six-year civil war.
The United States has blamed the chemical attack on Syrian government forces.
However, the Britain-based monitoring group was unable to confirm the nature of the substance.
Israel's UN envoy Danny Danon and Washington's ambassador to the world body, Nikki Haley, welcomed Khalaf's resignation.
Rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from rubble, dozens of residents were still unaccounted for.
The commission said the October 26 attack on the Haas village school complex in the rebel-held province of Idlib constituted a war crime.
Many of those people sought refuge in areas around Manbij, a town controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
It was also the second blow for ISIS group in Syria in a week, after Turkish fighters seized the Syrian town of al-Bab on Feb 23.
ISIS had withdrawn to residential neighbourhoods in the east of the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Most of the victims were civilians believed to be opposed to the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
President Putin has said he would reduce Moscow's military contingent in Syria, which has been fighting for the government since 2016.
The rebel withdrawal from east Aleppo last week marked Assad's biggest victory since Syria's crisis began in 2011.
The final phase of the evacuation ended when a convoy carrying nearly 150 people departed towards rebel-held areas outside the city.
President Assad pursued a policy of siege, truces and forced surrenders, deporting thousands of rebels and opposition to Idlib.
Ambulances carrying the first evacuees from Aleppo left remaining rebel-held territory in the city on Thursday under a fragile exit deal.
Palmyra boasts 2,000-year-old towering Roman-era colonnades and priceless artifacts.
Civilians continued to stream out of the ever-shrinking enclave, residents and opposition groups said.


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Jiří Zajíc (* 1957, Gottwaldov) je bývalý český hokejový obránce.

Hokejová kariéra
V československé lize hrál za TJ Gottwaldov. Nastoupil ve 3 ligových utkáních. Po sezóně 1976/77 byl z Gottwaldova uvolněn.

Klubové statistiky

Externí odkazy

 Historie hokejového Zlína
 Historie světových hokejových turnajů a zlínského hokeje

Českoslovenští hokejoví obránci
Čeští hokejoví obránci
Hráči HC Zlín
Narození v roce 1957
Narození ve Zlíně
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We had a barbecue on Saturday night, and unfortunately, on his way home from our house, Matt Yglesias was attacked on North Capitol. They weren't after his money; they just punched him and kicked him, and then ran away.
To offer a policy observation, higher density helps reduce street crime in an urban environment in two ways. One is that in a higher density city, any given street is less likely to be empty of passersby at any given time. The other is that if a given patch of land has more citizens, that means it can also support a larger base of police officers. And for policing efficacy both the ratio of cops to citzens and of cops to land matters. Therefore, all else being equal a denser city will be a better policed city.
That said, as a matter of personal ethics you really shouldn't run around punching random dudes in the back of the head irrespective of the prevailing level of population density or policing.
Beyond that, while it's intuitively logical that densely populated areas would produce lower rates of crime for the reasons Matt suggests, is it really true? Certainly, one hears about muggings in Manhattan, Boston, and other very dense cities all the time. Surely, the incidence of violent crime per square mile rises rather than falls with population density? Certainly, I'd be less worried about random dudes assaulting me while walking around my subdivision than in downtown DC.
Obviously, it's not a continuous curve. There's a big increase in crime as density rises from rural to urban, because crime thrives on anonymity--you don't rob your neighbors, not necessarily because you like them, but because the likelihood of being identified is very high. In an urban environment, random assaults like Matt's are much easier to get away with.
But within the city, high traffic areas are generally much safer than low-traffic areas. I grew up just west of Broadway, and while there was a fairly high incidence of non-violent crime (prostitutes on the street corner, drug dealing in the SRO hotels down by Riverside), I wasn't very worried about getting mugged or otherwise assaulted. There was a subway stop at our corner and even in the wee small hours of the morning, a steady stream of foot traffic. The more people are walking through your neighborhood, the riskier assault becomes for the assaulter.
But of course, this is not foolproof--in the eighties a classmate of mine was pulled off Park Avenue at 10 am and beaten up by a gang of kids. And while quantity of cops matters, quality of policing also matters. Cops walking on the street are more effective than cops riding around in cars, and cops that are responsible for reducing crime in their area are more effective than cops who are responsible for taking reports of whatever crimes occur. And people have to identify more with the police than with the criminals--it doesn't do you any good to have high traffic if criminals know that bystanders won't bother to assist the police in identifying the culprits, either because they think the police are thugs, or because they think the police are so incompetent that nothing will happen even if they take the time to assist the police investigation. In 1991, when I was eighteen, my parents forbid me to take the train home from my part-time job, which ended at midnight--and they were right. In 2005, after Bill Bratton's policing revolution, neither of us thought anything of my hopping on the train at 3 in the morning.
More foot traffic in DC would definitely help, but even so, in my experience DC policing still looks a lot like the failed models that helped New York descend into chaos in the 1970s--all the police are in cars, and they're more reactive than proactive. That's something that density would definitely help (it's easier to have foot patrols if they don't have to cover several square miles), but so would a change in both the funding and the incentives of the MPD.


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Q: Duplicate value exception in Set It is said that those structures which implement Set interface do not allow duplicate elements. I just want to know, what do they mean by duplicate? Duplicate in terms of the values? Or in terms of objects. for example, I can add two Integer object of same value. I can also add the same object twice. What do they mean by duplicate? When will it throw an exception?

A: Duplicate means as explained in another post a.equals(b), which implies a.hashCode()==b.hashCode().
However, when you add duplicate element, there will be no exception, simply it won't be added twice.

A: The definition of equality depends on the container.  Usually it's the .equals()/.hashCode() relationship, but there are some containers that use identity for equality.

A: In java.util Collections, duplicate means that a.equals(b) and that should imply that a.hashcode()==b.hashcode()

A: As per the Javadocs; it means any two elements wherein e1.equals(e2) returns true are treated as duplicate elements. Different set implementations use different strategies for storing elements; HashSet makes use of the hashCode of objects whereas TreeSet relies on the natural ordering (Comparable interface) or a custom Comparator.

A: Fiver and Alvin gave good answers because "aps" is saying that he can add two of the same integers and objects but not get any compiler error or runtime exception which is true.
If you add these objects like you say and then run some code like
System.out.println(theSetYouMade.size());

and then you will see that it did not add those duplicates you were talking of.

A: obj1 is duplicate of obj2 if obj1.equals(obj2) returns true. So as you can see, the definition of equal really depends on the implementation of equals.
You can write a set say, DistincObjectSet where duplicate means obj1==obj2
Another example is you can have EmployeeSet where duplicate means obj1.employeeNo == obj2.employeeNo, in this case you should overwrite the equals() method in Employee class to compare the employee numbers.
The design of the Set API says you you attempt to add duplicate element, the add() method should return false instead of throwing Exception.

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"Delete for Everyone" feature will let users to recall or unsend texts, images, videos, GIFs, documents, quoted messages and status replies within five minutes.
There were several rumors earlier that there is an update for the group call feature. In their latest surprise for the users, the messenger might introduce a group call feature to the application soon. The WhatsApp has also given an fantastic feature like one can update the 24-hour status apart from the static status. However, it is not yet clear when WhatsApp would roll the features. The feature will be available once WhatsApp enables it for all users. It means WhatsApp to Get Group Voice & Video Calling Feature Soon in its 2.17.70 Beta version. While a lot of hidden references about group voice calls were spotted only one was for group video calls. This is not the first time that we have been hearing about WhatsApp testing group calling feature.
You can download the latest version of WhatsApp version 2.17.70 beta from APK Mirror but we are not sure it has the WhatsApp Group Voice Calling feature.
It's worth pointing out that you can't access 999, 911, or other emergency service numbers through WhatsApp.
According to WABITIMO, the Messaging app is also testing "Delight for Everywhere" feature.
WhatsApp has also announced advanced features for improved group management, including a tool that will prevent the group creator to be deleted from the group by other administrators.
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WhatsApp has been a nerve center for millions of its users with its free encrypted chat and free voice/video calling features. This feature will be called - Delete for Everyone. WaBetaInfo is a website that checks the features of the WhatsApp and the website itself has confirmed that the launch is for real that was kept as a secret for a long time.
"The server finally works and it successfully recalls the message".
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Now lives in Provo, UT.
I'm really a poser in the Super Saber Society. I only flew the F-100 part-time with the Ohio ANG when my real job was at a desk in W-P AFB. They did let me do anything they did and I was qualified in all range events and refueling so you can bet if they got called up, I'd have figured out a way to go to war with them and that old airplane.
Because the F-100 was THE tactical mainstay of the cold war—and the first aircraft I ever saw the Thunderbirds fly, it will always have a certain aurora and place of honor in my memory. Even as a grizzled old Major with 145 combat missions in the Thud, I nearly teared up the first time I got to slide into the slot position in a Hun 4-ship.


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Уезд Мяоли́ () — один из уездов провинции Тайвань Китайской Республики.

География
Уезд Мяоли расположен в северо-западной части острова Тайвань. На юге горный хребет Сюэшань отделяет его от города центрального подчинения Тайчжун; на севере уезд граничит с уездом Синьчжу и городом провинциального подчинения Синьчжу.

История

С древних времён эти земли населяли таокасы. С XVII века здесь начали селиться китайцы, и в государстве семьи Чжэн эти земли входили в состав уезда Тяньсин (天兴). В 1683 году Тайвань был захвачен Цинской империей.

После того, как остров Тайвань был присоединён к империи Цин, на всей северо-западной трети острова был образован уезд Чжуло (諸羅縣). В 1731 году из уезда Чжуло был выделен Даньшуйский комиссариат (淡水廳), который изначально был подчинён Тайваньской управе (臺湾府). В связи с ростом численности китайского населения Тайваня в 1876 году в северной части острова была образована новая Тайбэйская управа (臺北府), а Даньшуйский комиссариат был упразднён и его территория была разделена по реке Дацзя: северная часть перешла под непосредственное управление властей Тайбэйской управы, а в южной части (где ранее размещались власти комиссариата) был создан уезд Синьчжу (新竹縣). В 1887 году Тайвань был выделен в отдельную провинцию, а из уезда Синьчжу был выделен уезд Мяоли.

В 1895 году Тайвань был передан Японии, и японцы установили свою систему административно-территориального деления, которая по мере освоения ими острова претерпевала изменения. Уезд Синьчжу был поначалу ликвидирован, и эти земли были включены в состав уезда Тайтю (台中縣). В 1901 году остров был разбит на 20 уездов-тё (廳), и эти места вошли в состав уезда Бёрицу (苗栗廳). В 1920 году на Тайвань была распространена структура административного деления собственно японских островов, и были введены префектуры-сю (州) и уезды-гун (郡); эти земли перешли в состав префектуры Синтику (新竹州).

После капитуляции Японии в 1945 году Тайвань был возвращён под юрисдикцию Китая; префектура Синтику стала уездом Синьчжу (新竹县), власти которого разместились в районе Таоюань.

В 1950 году произошла реформа административно-территориального деления, в результате которой на месте уезда Синьчжу и отдельного города Синьчжу были образованы уезды Синьчжу, Таоюань и Мяоли.

Административное деление
В состав уезда Мяоли входят один город уездного подчинения, 6 городских волостей и 11 сельских волостей.

 Города уездного подчинения
 Мяоли (苗栗市)
 Городские волости
 Хоулун (後龍鎮)
 Тунсяо (通霄鎮)
 Тоуфэнь (頭份鎮)
 Юаньли (苑裡鎮)
 Чжунань (竹南鎮)
 Чжолань (卓蘭鎮)
 Сельские волости
 Даху (大湖鄉)
 Гунгуань (公館鄉)
 Наньчжуан (南庄鄉)
 Саньвань (三灣鄉)
 Саньи (三義鄉)
 Шитань (獅潭鄉)
 Тайань (泰安鄉)
 Тунло (銅鑼鄉)
 Тоуу (頭屋鄉)
 Сиху (西湖鄉)
 Цзаоцяо (造橋鄉)

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Q: Configure default exception handler in a Service Fabric stateless service I am trying to add a default exception handler for any unhandled exceptions in a stateless service, but it doesn't seem to be catching any of them. This is the code I am using:
protected override async Task RunAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
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I used AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException before to add an exception handler, but in this case it doesn't seem to ever entering the handler method. I suspect it may be a thread or process related issue. Do you know why it doesn't work? Is there another way to set up an exception handler?

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This guide will help you understand airdrops, learn the powerful weapons, and will teach you the easiest way to get to an airdrop.
The crates themselves will drop every few minutes, but they cannot be perfectly timed due to RNG.
With the RNG it's hard to determine if there's a difference between Erangel and Miramar. But by using the timer for the blue zone in the bottom right the first aidrop will usually start around 2:45 for the very first blue zone.
The best way to find the first plane is to just keep and eye/ear out for the plane, it's hard to miss.
The first airdrop will always land within the first white circle, doesn't matter where but it will 100% guaranteed be within the first play area.
Any airdrop after the first one will land anywhere within the blue circle, making it riskier to loot.
Now that the basics of the plane are down, let's cover an overview of the contents in an airdrop.
"A selective fire Russian bullpup assault rifle chambered for a 7.62mm round"
"Selective fire Designated Marksman Rifle originally built for use with units of USSOC such as Navy SEALS and Delta Force"
Ghillie suits are useful for camoflauging yourself with the terrain, especially in bushes.
They come in two color variants, both can be found on Erangel and Miramar.
Thse have chances of spawning in a drop, loot doesn't always match up with the airdrop's gun.
The 15x is the only airdrop exclusive weapon attachment.
This is the world-spawned level three backpack for comparison.
The adrenaline syringe is the only airdrop exclusive healing item. When used it gives 100% boost, allowing for high healing over time and a running speed boost.
Note: Due to RNG, this does not have a 100% success rate, but is the easiest way to capture an airdrop and practice with the airdrop exclusive weapons. This is also easiest during a 1-Man Squad game.
Step 1: Land Between Georgopol and Rozhok Erangel.
All red dots mark a possible car spawn, the roads on the map above have high density for car spawns.
While there are car garages in the desert, they're extremely uncommon, the only one I could find was at Hacienda del Patron.
If you have confirmed there's a car near you, then begin looting nearby buildings. Try to find a backpack and a primary.
As soon as the white circle appears, begin driving. Place a marker in the middle of the white circle and drive as fast as you can. But be careful if the middle is near a highly populated area, or surrounded by a lot of trees. You need safety and vision for the next step.
Yes it might sound dumb, but early game most people are too busy looting (especially in squads) to go for an airdrop. Most times it will be an easy grab. Just get in, loot, and drive away.
Quick tip: If you have a teammate with you, and the gun is an M249, load the gun in the car as you drive away.
You are now armed with the full knowledge of these special airdrop crates, now go grab that sweet chicken dinner!


I know it's pollution and it'll run off into the waterways, but the random iridescent patch on the wet street is a welcome spot of color as the snow discolors and melts.
Thanks for visiting, and I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to your blog. It looks as if we're doing the same thing in different cities: exploring our world with a camera, writing poetry, commenting on things and people around us. You really have a way with water images. I'm a Pisces, so I'm a little "fishy", too. I hope your blog brings you as much pleasure as mine does me, and I'll be visiting to see more of Reno!


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A Spider-Man #1 Review – The Rise of Spidey Jr.
TITLE: Spider-Man #1
AUTHOR: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILLER: Sara Pichelli
PUBLISHER: Marvel
RELEASED: February 3, 2016
Editor, Fanboy Wonder
As someone who followed Miles Morales' adventures in the now defunct Ultimate Universe, Spider-Man #1 was an adjustment, and initially confusing. While this issue was mostly enjoyable, it left me wondering if Miles' inclusion in the Marvel Universe proper will be a good thing for him in the long run.
After the events of Secret Wars, Miles and his cast of supporting characters have been retconned into the main Marvel Universe. In terms of backstory, our intro tells us the basics: Miles was bitten by a radioactive spider, became Spider-Man, and has only shared his secret with his father and his best friend Ganke. We see Miles try (unsuccessfully) to balance life as a teenager, and life as a superhero. But when Blackheart terrorizes New York City and leaves the Avengers laying, Miles can't simply sit in class and do nothing…
I found a bit of dark humor in Blackheart's appearance here. He's the son of Mephisto, the demon who warped reality for Peter Parker (for better or worse) back in One More Day, and now that reality has been changed for Miles, Mephisto's son pops up. Maybe that's why Spider-Man has such notorious bad luck. He's always got the devil watching him.
Spider-Man #1 confirms that much of what we enjoyed about Miles in the Ultimate Universe is still intact here. The most important of which are his wit and personality, and his friendship with Ganke. What it doesn't tell us is how things have or have not changed. Miles apparently remembers everything that happened during his time in the Ultimate Universe, and on Battleworld. But this issue doesn't tell us that. I myself had to find that out via an interview with Bendis. So if Miles remembers, does his father remember too? What about Ganke? If not, did he tell them? What about Peter Parker? What does he know about where Miles came from?
This is an instance where an issue #0 might have come in handy. I'm not suggesting one needs to know all of Miles' exposition before reading Spider-Man #1. But it would have helped bridge the gap between this issue and Secret Wars. We wouldn't have had to comb through every inch of Miles' continuity. Just a brief look at what the Ultimate Universe was, and how Miles fits into the primary Marvel Universe. That way, all the nagging questions are answered. Hopefully Bendis is planning on addressing those questions sooner rather than later anyway. But an issue #0 would have been an easy access point.
Despite the confusion, Miles is nicely portrayed as a teenage superhero torn in so many different directions. Parents, grades, girls, not to mention the Avengers-level threat attacking the city. It's classic Spider-Man stuff, really. There's a great scene where Miles tries to talk his way out of class, hears no from his teacher, and then simply walks out. Even if this is your first exposure to him, I imagine it'd be hard not to root for Miles here.
It's difficult to overstate the importance of Ganke to Miles and his world. They've almost got a Frodo/Sam dynamic going on. Miles is obviously the hero, and that's okay with Ganke, who is simply happy to help his friend however he can. He's very endearing that way. Miles and Ganke can also consistently pull off "Bendis Banter," i.e. Bendis' trademark hit-or-miss attempts at witty dialogue, without it grating on the reader. Perhaps that's because coming from two teenage boys, it feels more believable than usual. In any event, readers can be grateful Ganke jumped universes alongside his best bud.
Sara Pichelli is once again drawing Miles in this issue, and that's something fans can be thankful for. As the artist who drew his origin story, there's a special vibe any time she's with the character. To her credit, she's aged him very convincingly. As awkward as it sounds, if you've followed Miles from his first appearance up to Spider-Man #1, it legitimately looks like we've seen this character go through puberty. So often, comic books are like revolving doors when it comes to writers and artists that we don't typically see that happen.
While we don't see much of him in this issue, it looks like we'll soon be diving into how Peter Parker effects Miles' life, and his role as Spider-Man. Quite frankly, I'm nervous about that.
In the Ultimate Marvel line, Miles became Spider-Man after Peter Parker died. That was part of what garnered so much publicity when the character made his debut. He wasn't just some spinoff character. He was the Spider-Man. In this new series, he's a Spider-Man. The tried and true Spidey is still alive and well, and from the get-go, Miles is somewhat redundant. The two characters even share the same home city. Miles may as well be called Spidey Jr. I'm reminded of the brief period when Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson both wore the mantle of Batman before the New 52 launched. That didn't last long, and typically this kind of dichotomy doesn't. So what happens to Miles when it's time for there to be only one Spider-Man?
Furthermore, this whole All-New, All-Different initiative is obviously a hook for new readers. But to what degree does having two Spider-Men cause confusion among those readers?
Still, despite lingering questions Spider-Man #1 delivers. For those of us familiar with Miles, we get the next chapter in his story. New readers are introduced to a young hero, who depending one's perspective, may be the rightful Spider-Man of the 21st century.
Images from author's collection.
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Goose bump symptoms(but not quite)..what do I do next?
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Hello guys I have been attempting to astral project for a while. When I am ready to project(i.e relaxed my body, took deep breaths, etc) I get to a point where I get "chills". I think thats the way of describing it. Its almost like goosebumps but not really. It just happens suddenly. I am not cold or emotionally excited when this happens so its not quite like goosebumps but it feels like it but not exactly(hair not standing up).It starts from my neck and goes all over my body. I do not know if its a sign to project or something of that sort. This has not happened once but a lot of times when I get into this deep trance like state. I basically get stuck in this point. My heartrate increases, my thoughts wander, i get the feeling I am THIS close to projecting(though I have never projected), etc. What should I be doing while this happens? What would be my next few steps to project?
Re: Goose bump symptoms(but not quite)..what do I do next?
Just keep deepening your awareness away from the physical.
Ah I see. So what should be the time to start using an exit technique like the rope method? or do you have to use an exit technique to project..? Is it like deepening your awareness until you have a shift of awareness or something like that?
Well, that's really the main question, isn't it?
There isn't really a specific *time* to use them... as the method/technique you do choose to use *IS* the entire thing you're doing.
For example, using the rope method... you don't just do it for a few seconds and pop out. With the rope method, the rope is your entire focus. Keep climbing the rope, keep focusing more and more on the action of climbing the rope. As you progress "up" the rope, you keep deepening your awareness towards that action. Further removing yourself from this physical reality. Eventually your awareness will be so enthralled with the sensations of climbing the rope that it'll naturally trigger the projection reflex and you'll shift your awareness to elsewhere.
i really thought doing it for a few second when you think you are super relaxed was the idea behind the technique...wow that explains a lot, thank you!
I'll tell you a secret. No it isn't really a secret but it does get overlooked. Most projections are only recognized AFTER the fact.
One minute you are climbing the rope or relaxing or doing whatever it is you do and the next you are back amazed at where you've been and what you did.


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So it's kinda funny that I wrote about stuff last week and then on Saturday Jason and I went to a huge annual rummage sale. I'm pretty proud of us, though, because we walked away from it only about $30 poorer. We only bought things we felt really strongly about (though I almost convinced myself to get a $25 China set that was gorgeous and in great condition) and didn't get overloaded with a bunch of crap. It was so interesting to see all the things that were sold there. We went into one building that just had women's clothing and I was going to look around until I realized that the line was pretty much wrapped around the entire room. Yeah, I was not going to spend time shifting through all those clothes to only buy one item (though I ran into a co-worker who stood in line for over an hour for like, two items). I think we'll go next year because it's a great place to find cheap craft supplies and gifts for birthdays or Christmas. I actually found the perfect gift for my brother, whose birthday is next month.
Anyway, it was pretty fun and I think we did it perfectly. We didn't arrive until about 10am though it opened at 8am. Another co-worker told me that people line up an hour or two before they open the gates and once they're opened, there's a mad rush and people will start shoving things into bags and then sorting through them later. That sounds insane and crazy-making. We pretty leisurely walked through the buildings and didn't have to fight people off for the things we wanted. It was pretty nice, if you ask me.


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Reimagining the Commons in Santa Cruz with Mark Lakeman
By Melissa Ott Fant May 9, 2019 Blogcommunity, permaculture, permaculture design, placemaking, Santa Cruz
Building a new downtown commons, and so much more!
Instigating creative mischief in downtown Santa Cruz!
Did you know that in the next 10 years, all of the surface parking lots in Downtown Santa Cruz may be redeveloped? What is the best possible future for these places in downtown Santa Cruz, from lot 4 where the farmer's market is, to lot 7 next to New Leaf, and lot 22 at 440 Front Street and the San Lorenzo River? We might be looking at a completely different social and ecological landscape.
Downtown Santa Cruz Farmers Market. Photo credit: DowntownSantaCruz.com
You may have heard that within the last year, a vocal group of Santa Cruz citizens rejected plans to build a new Downtown Santa Cruz Library on the parking lot where the Wednesday farmers' market takes place. This lot where so many of us have purchased fresh produce, flowers, and local goods over the years is named Lot 4.
Photo credit: City of Santa Cruz
The library plan included not only a new library on the ground floor of Lot 4, but also a five-story parking garage above the library.
Efforts to reject this plan were led by the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation, which advocates for alternatives to Highway 1 widening. They gathered downtown business owner critique of the plan on their website, there's Facebook page devoted to the issue here, and there's a website titled Don't Bury the Library with additional resources–including a song!
Residents questioned why the library couldn't be renovated and updated in its current location, with the $27 million already raised from state funding, and the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation and a new group called the Downtown Commons Advocates brought attention to the fact that there isn't a need for more parking in downtown.
The research shows that we actually don't have a shortage of parking for tourism and downtown events. Our biggest parking crunch is during weekdays (Monday – Friday 1pm-5pm), which can be alleviated through innovative strategies with the downtown business community. For instance, Santa Cruz recently implemented an EcoPass program that provides free bus passes to all downtown employees, paid for by parking revenues. Other strategies include encouraging more bicycle and e-bike commuting and carpooling.
In May the City Council plans to consider a resolution offering a permanent home to the Farmers Market at its current location.
If the Council rejects the garage-library plan, many people are asking: "Now that we know what we are against, what are we for? What sorts of functions would we like to see in lots 4, 7 and 21 and throughout our neighborhoods for that matter?"
To delve into this question as a community, the Downtown Commons Advocates and Santa Cruz Permaculture invited our friend and expert on designing community commons, Mr. Mark Lakeman, to visit Santa Cruz at the end of March.
Through a four-day schedule of presentations and workshop, Lakeman spoke with more than 100 people in Santa Cruz about how communities can effectively work together to design and create commons. He drew from his years of experience as an architect and community placemaking advocate through organizations he's cofounded like City Repair Project and Communitecture. Lakeman has participated in the creation of more than 300 new community-generated public spaces in Portland, Oregon, where he is from.
This article highlights the conversations, inspirations, and ideas that emerged during four events that centered on this idea of creating a downtown commons, redesigning the city for urban placemaking, and fostering community resilience. It also explores what some next steps might be as we collectively reimagine Lot 4 and other locations in downtown Santa Cruz.
Friday night presentation and Q+A
On Friday, March 30, Mr. Lakeman spoke to a crowd of 80 people at Louden Nelson Community Center during a public event titled "Imagining the Downtown Commons" hosted by the Downtown Commons Advocates group.
Rick Longinotti, who is also active in the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation, introduced Mark Lakeman.
This presentation was video recorded and is available on YouTube here.
Mr. Lakeman started by telling the story of how the struggle for commons in downtown Santa Cruz is reminiscent to a bedside story from his father. His father had been a city planner in Portland at the time when a new parking garage was going to be created. Instead, the community organized to stop the garage and created a public square in Portland. Supposedly this was the first new public square in a major U.S. city in 60 years!
Photo credit: City of Portland
Present at the event were elected officials, people from the downtown Santa Cruz business community, architects and developers, UCSC students, and concerned citizens.
There was a tremendous sense of hope and motivation from the event. It felt like this night was the start of something!
Saturday workshop at India Joze
The next day a group of 10 people gathered for a workshop with Mr. Lakeman hosted by Santa Cruz Permaculture to dive deeper into the subject. The workshop was titled "Reimagining the City: Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman," and it took place at India Joze in downtown Santa Cruz.
Overall, the workshop explored the idea of creating commons in downtown Santa Cruz as well as throughout Santa Cruz neighborhoods.
Specifically, participants discussed the following areas and ideas:
a central downtown commons at Lot 4 (where the farmers' market is currently held);
a secondary commons at Lot 7, which is the lot behind Kianti's and Assembly;
the new development at lot 22, which will face towards the San Lorenzo River;
turning Cathcart, Cooper, and parts of Pacific Ave into pedestrian corridors; and
ephemeral placemaking projects that we can start working on right now!
A sketch of downtown Santa Cruz that was created during the workshop.
An idea that had immediate buy-in from the group was to get a monthly permit to have outdoor movie nights and community conversations in Lot 4 so that we could start prototyping the idea of a downtown commons in that space.
Some of the themes and ideas that emerged throughout the workshop included:
Through signage and intentional design choices:
Ground the commons with connection to history, honoring those who have lived here before, especially indigenous caretakers. Recognize the changes that have occurred in this place.
Establish and steward connection, inspiration, understanding, and affinity between the human-built environment of the city and the unique ecosystems of natural and marine life around and within it. Remind everyone that nature is not separate. Include habitat and watershed restoration techniques into designs.
Identify projects that can happen right away to build momentum, community support, and have fun, while also holding a long-term vision for the places identified above.
Invite and involve children and all community members in the outcomes. Support intergenerational collaboration and encourage diverse perspectives.
Co-create amenities with and for our houseless neighbors by listening for needs and co-designing resources to address them through this process. (For more on why placemaking work must actively address issues of inequity and accessibility, check out this article, "Placemaking When Black Lives Matter.")
Welcome participation, build common ground among stakeholders, and build momentum through intentional, thoughtful, and strategic design processes.
Use the downtown commons as a catalyst for societal transformation, stronger connections between citizens and local government, a more resilient urban core (economically and socially), and deeper opportunities for human connection and creativity.
Emphasize the San Lorenzo River as a key focal point for reconnecting folks with the natural world and placing our community within the local ecosystem. Spark conversations about health of our river ecosystems and our human ecosystem.
Celebrate our community as a locus for ecological farming and support the connection between local farmers and community.
Create a dynamic and inviting place for festivals and markets that support local farmers, bakers, makers, artists, musicians, and organizations.
Embrace the metaphor of "Santa Cruz" (meaning Holy Cross) as sacred interconnection. We are at a confluence of so many things: land and sea, river and sea, cultures crossing.
Advocate for built environments that center the safety and needs of sustainable, human-powered, and human-scale transportation modes.
Among the abundant ideas and inspirations that emerged throughout the workshop, there was a question about how to organize this effort. Some possibilities including creating a new Santa Cruz City Repair Project to help organize and connect the various projects that can happen around the city.
Another thought was to put our efforts into the newly formed Downtown Commons Advocates group, which defines itself as "a group of business and community members advocating for a permanent home to the Farmers Market at its current location in Downtown Santa Cruz."
A third idea was to bring back Transition Santa Cruz, which was active for a few years as part of the Transition Towns movement but disbanded in 2014.
Fortunately in Santa Cruz we have an abundance of organizations, community groups, and businesses who have experience, areas of focus, and networks of community members that are in alignment with the values of community commons and placemaking. Coming together in some way to co-create a commons in Santa Cruz will offer deeper opportunities for collaboration, partnerships, and relationship.
The workshop was a tremendous success, and everyone left with a sense of hope and motivation.
Tuesday night community conversation at Kresge College's World Cafe
On Tuesday, April 2, Mr. Lakeman spoke at UC Santa Cruz to engage 25 students in conversations about the Lot 4 downtown commons and commons in Santa Cruz in general. The evening was co-hosted by Paul Mojaver, World Cafe Coordinator with the Kresge Common Ground Center.
Question 1 was posed by the World Cafe organizing team: "What might be possible with public squares & reclaiming the commons?"
Question 2, which emerged from the group, was "What would we use the space for besides the market? What can we already prototype right now?"
Some themes and ideas that emerged through these conversations included:
Performances with a stage
Architecture/layout, pop-up parklets
Art, movie nights
Public discourse
One student spoke about having a central park at their home town in the Central Valley. In their community, this park is an integral gathering place and commons.
The conversation brought some diverse perspectives, concerns, and suggestions to the issue. The students seemed to be primarily concerned with who would use the space and for what, relative to what the space will look like. Most everyone agreed that it being a place for political activism and discussion, music and dancing, and performances would be a great addition to downtown, since we're currently lacking a permanent, dedicated gathering space.
Wednesday night community conversation at Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild meeting
Every first Wednesday of the month, the Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild meets at the Live Oak Grange for a community potluck and Open Space Technology session (learn more here). These meetings are open to the public, and you are invited to join us next time!
Melissa Jüllig was inspired by the conversations and learning she experienced at all of these events with Mark Lakeman, so she hosted a 30 minute session during an Open Space at the Guild meeting to share an update about what had happened and get feedback from the group.
In particular, she shared the idea of hosting regular outdoor movie nights in Lot 4. Guild members were excited about the possibilities that were emerging and expressed interest in supporting these efforts.
Going Forth
Downtown Commons
Transportation corridors
Throughout Mark Lakeman's visit, it was acknowledged that the most successful plan for reinvigorating the commons in downtown needs to take into account access. The participants at these events recognize the need for street designs that create safe, accessible, and efficient pathways for sustainable transportation (pedestrians, bicycles, ebikes, and buses).
Rather than build more parking garages, there's a desire to move away from streets designed for the automobile and re-envisioned for human-scale and public transportation options.
The Downtown Commons Advocates and other interested community members are currently researching the feasibility of having a series of events at Lot 4, such as outdoor movie nights. One outcome is to build a deeper community connection to Lot 4 and create opportunities for further discussion about the vision for this place.
In June, the Santa Cruz City Council will be voting on a budget "that includes a garage-library-mixed use structure on the Farmers Market lot," as described in this update by the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation from May 8, 2019. The update describes that "Next Tuesday [May 14] the Council will consider a proposal to authorize a Council subcommittee of Sandy Brown, Justin Cummings, and Donna Meyers to consider the future of the Downtown Library. The Campaign for Sustainable Transportation is proposing that a portion of the $87 million savings from not building the garage go towards filling the gap between the Library's $28 million Measure S funds and the $38 million that the Library's architect estimated would achieve the Library's goals at the existing Library site. This looks like a win-win to us."
You can sign their "Keep Farmers Market on Existing Site Instead of New Garage" petition here.
Neighborhood repair
Conversations have also begun about implementing the City Repair Ordinance in Santa Cruz so that people can utilize the parking strip between the road and the sidewalk for things like covered bike storage, little free libraries, gardens, benches, community composting and so much more!
This Placemaking Packet compiled by City Repair for the Village Building Convergence in Portland serves as a technical assistance packet for communities everywhere. It contains public process guidance, lists of established prototypes, and text for established ordinances for things like intersection repair, mid-block repair, and "Little Community Kiosks" that revolutionize public right of ways.
For more inspirational examples from Portland, visit the City Repair Project website.
Santa Cruz Permaculture will continue to share updates as these projects progress, so if you are not already signed up for our email list, please join today. We typically send two emails a month.
You can also Like the Downtown Commons Advocates on Facebook for future updates. The Campaign for Sustainable Transportation also meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 10am. Contact Rick Longinotti for location: Rick [at] SustainableTransportationSC [dot] org. Another way to receive updates is to sign this petition and opt-in to email updates.
Do you have ideas or examples related to public placemaking and creating a downtown commons? Please share this article along with your ideas and tag us in the post on Facebook!
Come to the Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild meetings to contribute to the conversation.
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Q: Swift 3 - Cannot call value of non-function type '(response: Any, error Any)' I have written the following method in Swift 3
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*Is writing completionHandler(nil, data) to handle errors the best practice?

PS : I am new to iOS and Swift 3

A: You´re missing the return for your completionHandler -> Void and the parameter names, I added the defaults _ here:
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For the error part, I would have added an onError as , onError: (NSError) -> Void) and returned onError if an error occurs. So like this:
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A gathering of army intelligence came to the conclusion that the VC were not a genuine danger and that "the general security circumstance in the South Vietnamese farmlands is on the road to improvement.
John McNaughton brings a suggestion to his superior Robert McNamara. It states that given the disorderly state of South Vietnam, the U.S. should think about sending a large number of troops to S Vietnam and incite activities to legitimize an air war against N Vietnam. Different advisors of President Johnson were making comparable recommendations.


within the SOPERA system environment, with the focus on CEP.
For evaluating the capabilities of the components, a business process regarding to shipment, investigation and claim was modelled and implemented.
Different approaches were discussed, evaluated and implemented as prototypes.
The focus of the implementation was to use events for the purpose of monitoring a business process.
Joe McKendrick, in Taking the 'complex' out of complex event processing, makes a case for renaming CEP, BEP.
Joe references IBM's Sandy Carter, as I did in my post earlier today, IBM Says Business Event Processing is Not CEP.
Joe wants to change the world "complex" to "business" in CEP because he believes the word "complex" is not good for marketing.
The problem with Joe's approach, as I see it, is that CEP is different than BEP. However, I remain open-minded on the topic.
There is quite a difference in event-driven orchestration-oriented processing, BEP. and situation detection-oriented event processing, CEP.
BEP is, for the most part, about orchestrating event-driven business processes.
CEP is about detecting opportunities and threats (situations) in real-time.
It is not clear to me that simply renaming BEP CEP touches the core technical and business differences.
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Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle- income countries
Economic analysis of producing vital statistics using civil registration data in Lao People's Democratic Republic
Samuel Mills ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6819-118X1 &
Daniel Amponsah ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-878X1
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition volume 38, Article number: 20 (2019) Cite this article
The government of Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) is currently in the preparation stage of a 5-year project that will establish an electronic civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system. The authors of this paper adapted a framework for economic analysis developed by Jimenez-Soto et al. (Jimenez-Soto et al., PLoS ONE 9(8): e106234, 2014) to assess the cost-effectiveness of producing vital statistics in Lao PDR using data from a complete electronic CRVS system, compared to using data from other sources, such as the 2015 Population and Housing Census and the 2017 Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS). Of 20 types of vital statistics (including birth statistics, fertility rates, and death statistics), a complete and accurate CRVS system can produce all 20 of these vital statistics, while the 2015 Census can produce 17, and the 2017 LSIS and the current civil registration system can produce 4 each. A cost-effectiveness analysis of different data sources for producing vital statistics over a 20-year projection showed that a complete and accurate CRVS system ranked best, followed by population census and population-based survey. In addition to enabling vital statistics to be produced cost-effectively, a robust civil registration system would also support improving the efficiency of public service delivery, leading to further cost savings for the country.
As data are mined to inform evidence-based decision-making in both the private and public sectors, one data source with untapped development potential in low- and middle-income countries has been civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS). Data collected through civil registration -- the universal, continuous, permanent, and compulsory recording of vital events occurring in a country's population according to the legal requirements of each country [1]-- are used to compile vital statistics defined as the collection of statistics on vital events in a lifetime of a person as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and of the person and persons concerned [2]. Besides civil registration, other data sources for generating vital statistics are population census, population-based survey, demographic surveillance system, and sample registration system. Nonetheless, civil registration, when it is complete and accurate, is considered the most valuable and least expensive data source for vital statistics [3].
Efforts are being made to improve CRVS in low- and middle-income countries, which has legal and administrative benefits beyond supporting the production of vital statistics [4,5,6,7]. Nevertheless, as Jimenez-Soto et al. [8] pointed out, a systematic framework for assessing the costs and benefits of the various data sources for producing vital statistics had been lacking. Accordingly, they proposed a systematic framework for such an assessment to inform investment decisions on the instruments for collecting data. To our knowledge, the framework has not been tested in a real country.
Rationale and objective
The Global CRVS Scaling up Investment Plan 2015–2024 published by the World Bank in 2014 estimated that an average of US$1.5 per capita (which could be higher for countries with rudimentary CRVS systems) is required to strengthen CRVS systems in 73 low- and middle-income countries. However, the cost for producing vital statistics was not estimated [9]. Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a UN global initiative to mobilize scientific and technological expertise to promote practical development solutions, estimated that it would cost US$1 billion annually for 77 International Development Association [10] countries to improve national statistics systems to adequately monitor the Sustainable Development Goals but did not provide a breakdown of the cost specifically for vital statistics due to the paucity of detailed national costing data [11]. Further, in March 2019, the University of Melbourne published a CRVS Costing Tool which can be employed to estimate the cost for strengthening CRVS systems [12].
The Government of Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) requested financing from the World Bank to establish a CRVS system. As part of the project appraisal, economic and financial analyses were required to be carried out to inform the government's decision to invest in improving the CRVS system. The project's interventions are expected to generate direct, indirect, and above all, intangible benefits to target beneficiaries (children, women, men) by establishing a functional electronic Civil Management Information System and thereby improving coverage of civil registration of life events, including births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and migration, in Lao PDR. Improving a CRVS system has three main advantages: (i) it provides legal status and documentation for accessing social services such as education, health, social welfare, and financial services; (ii) it helps to improve governance and administrative functions such as helping to identify the poor to provide them with target services and serves as a critical source of information for the effective and efficient delivery of public services including civil service, social registry, pensions, social security, passport, transportation or driver's license, taxes, health care, finance, education, voter rolls, immigration; and (iii) it provides data for generating vital statistics for the monitoring of national development plans at national and subnational level. A cost-benefit analysis (i.e., determining whether dollar benefits of the Project is likely to outweigh dollar costs) could not be carried out since it is difficult to monetize the direct, indirect, and intangible benefits of civil registration for the legal and administrative advantages noted above. However, analyzing the cost-effectiveness of producing vital statistics from civil registration data compared to other data sources is possible.
This paper seeks to apply Jimenez-Soto et al.'s [8] proposed framework to assess the cost-effectiveness of producing vital statistics in Lao PDR using data from a complete electronic CRVS system, compared to using data from other sources, such as the 2015 Population and Housing Census and the 2017 Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS). The lower the cost per quality-adjusted capita of a data collection instrument, the more cost-effective the instrument.
The authors of this paper adapted Jimenez-Soto et al.'s framework, using real data from Lao PDR to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of the sources of data for generating vital statistics in the country. The four elements of the framework are (1) identifying the alternative sources of data to be evaluated, (2) identifying and measuring the outcomes of the alternatives to be evaluated, (3) identifying and measuring the costs of the alternatives to be evaluated, and (4) conducting an economic assessment of the alternatives to be evaluated.
Identifying the alternative sources of data to be evaluated
The current sources of data for producing vital statistics in Lao PDR are population census and population-based survey. These two data sources are selected as alternatives to be evaluated since Lao PDR has recently conducted the last two in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Moreover, the current coverage of civil registration is low. For instance, birth registration is only paper-based, with no electronic system in place. As such, in the calendar year 2017 for example, 61,416 births were registered compared to an expected 183,000 births based on the crude birth rate in the 2015 population census. Hence, the government of Lao PDR is preparing to invest in improving CRVS in the country. Accordingly, this analysis employed the following data sources as main sources for producing vital statistics: the 2015 Population and Housing Census [13], the 2017 Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) [14], and civil registration. Other data sources, such as the demographic surveillance system and sample registration with verbal autopsy, are nonexistent, and health facility data on the notification of births and deaths are patchy since Lao PDR's legal framework prior to the 2018 Family Registration Law precluded health facilities from providing notification of births and deaths to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is responsible for civil registration. The advantages and limitations of each of the selected data sources are shown in Table 1, while Table 2 shows a comprehensive list of the types of vital statistics and their corresponding data sources. There are two columns for civil registration data in Table 2: one (labeled "2018 Civil Registration") for the types of vital statistics that can be generated based on the current system and another (labeled "Functional Civil Registration") for what can be generated when the CRVS system is fully established in Lao PDR in the next 5–20 years.
Table 1 Pros and cons of data sources for vital statistics
Table 2 Types of vital statistics and sources of data
Identifying and measuring the outcomes of the alternatives to be evaluated
Jimenez-Soto et al. [8] suggested that for the "quantity of data," the units of records should be used for each data source as an outcome measure when the country has plans to improve CRVS, but that if there are no plans to improve CRVS, then the number of people captured in each data source should be used. Lao PDR belongs to the former category. Thus, the number of units of records in each of the three data sources was used for this analysis. The estimated total population of 6.7 million was considered the number of units for census and civil registration, but the total respondents of 52,460 in the 2017 LSIS was used as the number of units.
Regarding the quality of data, instead of using the five quality attributes of vital statistics (accuracy, relevance, comparability, timeliness, and accessibility) that Jimenez-Soto et al. [8] adapted from Mahapatra et al. [5], this analysis employed the attributes in the definition of quality of vital statistics in the United Nations (UN) Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System [15]: completeness (or coverage), correctness or accuracy, availability, and timeliness. In addition to these attributes, this analysis included the ability to provide disaggregated data, that is, by sex, age, nationality, ethnicity, geographical area, and urban versus rural in line with Sustainable Development Goal Target 17.18 (by 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing states, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely, and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location, and other characteristics relevant in national contexts). We scored these attributes on a scale of 0–1. The definitions of these attributes and scoring of the data sources for each of these attributes are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Data quality scores
Identifying and measuring the costs of the alternatives to be evaluated
The actual costs obtained by the World Bank for the 2015 Census and 2017 LSIS were US$9.3 million and US$1.2 million, respectively. The Ministry of Home Affairs' 5-year estimated cost for the proposed Lao PDR CRVS project for building a functional electronic CRVS system is US$20 million. However, it is anticipated that after the initial major investments, such as establishing a civil management information system and generating demand for civil registration services, the recurrent costs in the subsequent years would be lower. Thus, the estimated cost for each data source over a 20-year period (equivalent of two cycles of population censuses) was computed, and the average cost per year was used in the analysis (Table 4). It is assumed that a 20-year period would be reasonable enough for the long-term benefits of a functioning CRVS system to accrue to the government and people of Lao PDR.
Table 4 Costs of data sources for vital statistics over a 20-year period
Conduct an economic assessment of the alternatives to be evaluated
For the CEA, the number of units/records, the quality scores (Table 3), and the cost per unit (or capita) (Table 4) were used to compute the cost per quality-adjusted capita (Table 5).
Of the 20 types of vital statistics, a complete and accurate CRVS system can produce all of them, the 2015 census can produce 17 of them, and the 2017 LSIS and current civil registration system can each produce 4 of them (Table 2). Regarding the average annual cost for each of the data sources over a 20-year period, CRVS was the most expensive at US$1,973,000, followed closely by population census (US$1,860,000), while population survey was much lower (US$240,000) (Table 4). Nevertheless, based on the CEA, civil registration data ranked first, followed secondly by population census, and population survey which placed third (Table 5).
Leaving aside the cost-effectiveness of CRVS as a data collection method, Lao PDR could also derive other economic benefits and enormous development impact from a functioning CRVS system.
Evidence suggests that countries such as Norway and Slovenia, which have well-functioning CRVS systems, do not conduct a 10-yearly population census but rather use the electronic CRVS system to carry out more frequent register-based censuses. Slovenia is reported to save about 14 million Euros by using the register-based census, which does not require enumerators going house-to-house to collect data [16]. Thus, with an improved electronic CRVS system, Lao PDR could potentially save the costs of conducting population censuses in the future.
Civil registration systems improve efficient public service delivery leading to cost savings. For example, having children's births registered can facilitate immunization programs, especially those that require high levels of coverage to be effective. Cost can be reduced, and immunization process can be accelerated, if immunization workers can easily locate and vaccinate children when their identities and residences are known. One study in rural Mali found that the cost of immunization without an effective birth registration system was about US$2.79 per child, while the cost with registration was US$1.47 per child [17].
An effective CRVS system contributes to improving public sector governance, thereby reducing inefficiencies and waste, and could also result in cost savings. It establishes an individual's legal identity to help determine eligibility and reduce fraud for social safety net programs. For instance, with proper identification, pensions and other social benefits will not continue to be provided to the deceased [18]. Finally, a fully functional CRVS electronic system will most likely reduce the total costs for identification systems within the public sector [18]. One of the main limitations of this study is that it assumes countries generate vital statistics from a single data source, but in reality, countries without complete and accurate CRVS systems tend to use multiple sources of data for producing vital statistics and for assessing the completeness of civil registration data.
This study has shown that in the long term, improving the CRVS system in Lao PDR is more cost-effective than relying on population surveys or population censuses for producing vital statistics. The framework for economic analysis developed by Jimenez-Soto et al. [8] was adapted for the analysis using data from Lao PDR. Although the framework is not perfect, over time, as it is applied in different settings, it may be refined further and, in the future, could result in cross-country analysis.
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The interpretations and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank Group, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent.
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This article has been published as part of Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Volume 38 Supplement 1, 2019: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle- income countries. The full contents of the supplement are available online at https://jhpn.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-38-supplement-1.
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Mills, S., Amponsah, D. Economic analysis of producing vital statistics using civil registration data in Lao People's Democratic Republic. J Health Popul Nutr 38, 20 (2019) doi:10.1186/s41043-019-0184-2


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Q: Query GAE Datastore on Transformed Property Values I'm working on a Python NDB model on app engine that looks like:
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So I can save writing the directory as a property and just use it in the query?

A: AFAIK, yes. They will end up doing the same and it will save you on write time and cost. Although it will make your query run slower (because of the added computation), so be wary of possible timeouts.


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Tonnau Duw ('God's waves') Fr Tim Ardouin
poetic, prayerful words – perhaps, sometimes – from a man attempting to ride in the waves of God
The Inner Voice
as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leapt for joy.
There are moments in all our lives when something kicks inside us and just seems to say, "Pay attention here, this is the truth." We might pay attention or we might rationalize and/or ignore it. We have free choice, that most gracious gift from the One who Is.
Mahatma Gandhi spoke about the inner voice, a sacred place within each human being – some Christians call it conscience – but an inner sanctuary in which God calls to and speaks to each human being – every human being. Free will is to hear this voice and to follow its call. We can sense it when something is right, a call into the light, a call to work for peace in the world, in our lives, in the lives of others.
But we live in a world that values competition, material wealth, displays of power and strength. It respects and rewards the arrogant, the self – promoting, the successful. The inner voice is not promoted and it can easily be drowned out and forgotten. This begins early in people's lives. Depending on where and when we are born, the social programming begins, unconsciously, consciously, nurses, doctors, parents, nursery school, school and so it continues through work, the media, the company we keep. People forget the voice, the call, the peace at the centre of human being. Spiritual stirrings are set aside and rational, material perception more readily trusted. The inner voice is drowned in the noise of the world and people get fat and tired and depressed. It's like you try and do what everyone seems to tell you have to do. You follow the programme. You succeed or you fail or both. But just nothing makes sense and nothing seems to make you happy. The more you get, the less you feel. And it pulls you down till you just don't even want to get out of bed anymore. So you might take drugs or drink or find some other way to blot out the pain. Some turn to violence and lash out in a desperate attempt to change things. For terrorists, for example, there is an instinctive realization that things are not fair and the world is off course but they think they can force change by destroying the structures of oppression through the bombing of its lifestyle. This is not the inner voice. It is desperation and madness. It is dualistic thinking. Wrong thinking. Similarly, the social programming is dualistic thinking and wrong.
But the gospel news, good news, is that the inner voice is in every single human being. And it is the voice of salvation. It is the voice of God. The voice offers life inside each human being. Each human being is made in God's image and is of the deepest value. Jean Vanier told me a few weeks ago, even just days after the Paris bombings, "People are beautiful." We each have the capacity, because we are made in the image of God, to live in communion with God – the Father in me, I in you, you in the Father at – one with the creator, one with the created. The inner voice tells us this is true. The inner voice leads us to work for peace. Free will allows us to listen. Free will allows us to respond. But it needs work and nurturing. Our free will is easily seduced by the noise of politics, education, social programming, advertising, consumerism, competition…
Gandhi again: "The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly."
Surely, part of our calling in this time, in this place, is to nurture our own listening to the inner voice, to give witness to it and so enable others to perceive the voice within them. This morning we said together Mary's song recorded by Luke, Magnificat. Why not use it in your own prayer rhythm this Christmas and on into the New Year. Recite it when you wake up, giving thanks for your waking, and again before sleep, giving thanks for the day gone and asking blessing through the night ahead. Let the words descend into your heart and then observe them as they flow from your heart and out through your lips. Be conscious of the prayer of a young girl in the heat and the dust who heard the voice of an angel 2000 years ago and said, "Yes, your will be done." 2000 years on, her "Yes" remains and it has the power to heal and to give us hope. Pray the words. Be conscious as Mary's prayer becomes your prayer and then listen, as the voice within you whispers your name.
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We've been hearing a lot about how Katherine Bigelow's movie, Zero Dark Thirty, is being seen by some as an endorsement of torture. Which is, you know, generally frowned upon. What most people don't realize is that the late Plymouth Motor Company, part of Chrysler, once openly endorsed torture in their mid-1930s era film, "Trial By Torture."
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The idea of doing this stuff in these cars with no helmet is pretty incredible, and so is watching them beat the crap out of these cars. If this is how car testing still looked, car companies could defray costs by selling tickets.
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