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Acting out dreams could indicate REM sleep behavior disorder. What you should know about the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
Certain sleep disorders are common in people with Parkinson's disease.
One of them — REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) — is a condition characterized by the acting out of dreams that are vivid, intense and violent. People have been known to yell or talk while asleep, carry on conversations or hit themselves or their bed partner. Even if physical damage does not occur, the condition can be frightening for the bed partner to witness.
REM (rapid eye movement) behavior disorder does not necessarily disrupt the quality or quantity of sleep itself. But it is potentially harmful because of the physical movements involved.
Normally, the body is paralyzed during REM sleep, which is when dreams occur. In certain conditions, such as Parkinson's, the "off" switch doesn't work, so then a person might "act out" dreams without knowledge of doing so. Sleepwalking is almost never involved in RBD. And after waking, the person may remember their dreams.
RBD can precede the symptoms of Parkinson's disease by many years. In fact, the vast majority of people we see in RBD studies will develop Parkinsonism, or any condition that causes a combination of the movement abnormalities seen in Parkinson's disease (such as tremor, slow movement, impaired speech or muscle stiffness), or conditions in which the brain is not functioning properly.
Right now, there is no test to determine whether a person will develop Parkinson's disease. Until such a test is developed, an RBD diagnosis could be an indication of the condition.
If you suspect that you or a loved one might have RBD, a movement disorder neurologist or a sleep physician should conduct an evaluation. The specialist might order a sleep study that would spot abnormal muscle movements during REM sleep. Hallucinations or waking up during a certain stage of sleep is different from REM sleep behavior disorder and might indicate a different condition.
Lower the bed if possible to prevent falls.
Pad the side rails if you're sleeping in a hospital bed.
Pad the floor around the bed.
Move nightstands away from the bed.
Move the bed away from walls or windows.
Sleep in separate beds or rooms if necessary (30 percent of our patients sleep separately from their bed partners).
Use a sleeping bag with a zipper to restrict arm and leg movements.
If the condition doesn't bother the person or his or her bed partner, treatment might not be necessary. But three medications can help if needed.
Melatonin: This natural sleep hormone produced in the brain is the No. 1 over-the-counter medication for RBD. Melatonin suppresses dream enactment, calming down the behaviors. The main side effect is mild drowsiness, which is fine because it's taken right before bed and wears off by morning, though some people can still feel a bit drowsy in the morning.
Clonazepam (Klonopin): This drug is used for many conditions — primarily anxiety, panic attacks and seizures — and is clinically proved to be the most effective prescription medication we have for RBD. Use with caution because it can slow down the brain, causing cognition problems and sometimes falls.
Lorazepam (Ativan): This medication works for a little less time than clonazepam, so people tend to have fewer side effects. But because it's not as strong a drug, it may not be as effective.
While REM sleep behavior disorder may occur in conjunction with, or as a predecessor to, certain neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, it can also result from medication usage.
If you or a loved one is concerned about RBD, contact a movement disorder neurologist or sleep disorders specialist, such as the experts available at Michigan Medicine, for an evaluation.
Learn more about sleep disorders in conjunction with Parkinson's in Dr. Berkowski's full talk at the 2016 University of Michigan Parkinson's Disease & You Symposium.


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early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series?
the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television, preceded by Death Valley Days?
The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
New Writings in SF is the earliest of the notable science fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
Leaving Springfield is a non-fiction anthology of essays analyzing the impact of the television program The Simpsons on society?
A Perfect Vacuum, a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem, is an anthology of imaginary reviews of nonexistent books?
The word derives from the Greek word ἀνθολογία (anthologia; literally "flower-gathering") for garland — or bouquet of flowers — which was the title of the earliest surviving anthology, assembled by Meleager of Gadara. Meleager's Garland became the seed that grew into the Greek Anthology. The term miscellany is also used, but was more common in the past. In medieval Europe the term florilegium, again meaning a collection of flowers, was used for an anthology of Latin proverbs and textual excerpts.
In music, the term refers to a collection of works by an artist with a long and varied career. While the definition would include typical "greatest hits" sets, the term is used as a marketing device to indicate a collection that can include a performer's best-known songs along with lesser known pieces, demos, live recordings, unreleased work, etc., such as The Beatles Anthology in the 1990s, which also had a television series connected to it.
The term is also applied to radio or TV programs, movies, comic books and other such media featuring a variety of different stories. Examples of radio anthologies are Suspense and Escape. Examples of TV anthologies are Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside, Producers' Showcase, the Disney anthology television series, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ford Star Jubilee, The Alcoa Hour, Playhouse 90, and Tales from the Crypt, which was not only an HBO series but also a movie anthology, both based on the EC horror-comic anthology. Other examples of anthology films are Four Rooms, Tales of Manhattan, Flesh and Fantasy, and The Cat o' Nine Tails.
In the twentieth century, anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing, for a number of reasons. For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series  was trend-setting; it showed the potential success of publishing an identifiable group of younger poets marked out as a 'generation'. It was followed by numerous collections from the 'stable' of some literary editor, or collated from a given publication, or labelled in some fashion as 'poems of the year'. Academic publishing also followed suit, with the success of the Quiller-Couch Oxford Book of English Verse encouraging other collections not limited to modern poetry. In fact the concept of 'modern verse' was fostered by the appearance of the phrase in titles such as the Faber & Faber anthology by Michael Roberts , and the very different William Butler Yeats Oxford Book of Modern Verse.
Since publishers generally found anthology publication a more flexible medium than the collection of a single poet's work, and indeed rang innumerable changes on the idea as a way of marketing poetry, publication in an anthology (in the right company) became at times a sought-after form of recognition for poets. The self-definition of movements, dating back at least to Ezra Pound's efforts on behalf of Imagism, could be linked on one front to the production of an anthology of the like-minded. Also, whilst not connected with poetry, publishers have produced collective works of fiction from a number of authors and used the term anthology to describe the collective nature of the text. These have been in a number of subjects, including Erotica as edited by Mitzi Szereto as well as American Gothic Tales edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
More recently, anthologies have appeared on the internet making a collection of works easily accessible. One example would be located at Web Books Publishing which features an anthology of poems  with select works of poets from Emily Bronte to William Yeats. Another web-only anthology  appears on John Fraser's web site, Jottings.
^ / Bridges, James. Georgian Poetry. The Literary Encyclopedia. 31 July 2002.


KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Serena Williams began her bid for a ninth Key Biscayne title Thursday by beating fellow American Christina McHale 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.
Williams, seeded No. 1, earned her 19th consecutive victory in the tournament and hasn't lost since the 2012 quarterfinals.
Facing McHale for the first time, Williams converted only five of 17 break-point chances. She let a match point get away in the second set and had to play for an additional 50 minutes to improve to 12-2 this year.
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Eadweard Muybridge's photography of moving animals captured movement in a way that had never been done before. His work was used by both scientists and artists.
Hollywood couldn't have devised a more titillating scenario. Eadweard Muybridge, an eccentric inventor, was on the verge of a truly revolutionary discovery when his young wife had an affair. Muybridge killed the suitor in cold blood and was later acquitted on a verdict of "justifiable homicide." He resumed his work and developed a miraculous process for capturing movement on film, laying the groundwork for the motion picture industry.
Edward James Muggeridge was born on April 9, 1830, to John and Susan Muggeridge of Kingston upon Thames, England. At age 20, he immigrated to America, first to New York, and then, in 1855, to San Francisco, where he established himself as a successful bookseller. Around this time, he also changed his surname to Muybridge, which he believed to be its original construction.
In 1860, while traveling to the East Coast en route to England, Muybridge received serious head injuries in a stagecoach accident. As a result, he suffered from double vision and confusion, and friends noticed a marked difference in his behavior. Studies by modern neurologists examining the medical records speculate that the injury to his frontal cortex might have led to some emotional and eccentric behavior later in his life.
After his convalescence, Muybridge returned to San Francisco and took up photography full-time. Under the pseudonym "Helios," he set out to record the scenery of the West with his mobile darkroom. He produced a wide array of panoramic landscape photographs, most famously of Yosemite Valley, and traveled to Alaska in 1868 to photograph the Tlingit people.
As Muybridge's reputation as a photographer grew in the late 1800s, former California Governor Leland Stanford contacted him to help settle a bet. Speculation had raged for years over whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground at the same time. Stanford believed they did, but the motion was too fast for the human eye to detect. In 1872, Muybridge began photographing a galloping horse in a sequence of shots. His initial findings appeared to indicate that Stanford was right, but due to imperfections in Muybridge's methods, it could not be confirmed with certainty.
With further funding from Stanford, however, Muybridge eventually devised a more complex method of photographing horses in motion and by 1879 had proven that they do at times have all four hooves off the ground during their running stride.
In 1883, Muybridge was invited to continue his research at the University of Pennsylvania and for the next few years produced thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion. Near the end of his life, he published several books featuring his motion photographs and toured Europe and North America, presenting his photographic methods using a projection device he'd developed called the Zoopraxiscope.
During a break from his photographic research in the 1870s, Muybridge took several photographic expeditions in and around California. On one of these, his wife, Flora, had an affair with Major Harry Larkyns, a drama critic. Believing that Larkyns had fathered the couple's recently born son, Muybridge tracked him down and shot and killed him. At his trial for murder in 1875, several witnesses testified that Muybridge's personality had changed after his stagecoach accident. The jury didn't buy the insanity defense, but acquitted Muybridge on the grounds of "justifiable homicide."
Muybridge died of prostate cancer on May 8, 1904, at his birthplace. His contributions to art and photography spurred the works of other inventors, including Thomas Edison and Étienne-Jules Marey. Muybridge's innovative camera techniques enabled people to see things otherwise too fast to comprehend, and his sequence images continue to inspire artists from other disciplines to this day.
Lord Snowdon was married to Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, from 1960 to 1978. He is also a world-renowned photographer and documentarian.
Man Ray was primarily known for his photography, which spanned both the Dada and Surrealism movements.
Known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
British surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister is best known for spearheading the medical use of antiseptic medicine.
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form.


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Facebook fan pages are a thing of the past -- groups are where the action and engagement is these days, and anyone that is currently active in a group or runs one already, will tell you that Facebook is putting a lot of energy into the feature.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Advocates from across the state gathered at the State Capitol today to push for legislation authored by Senator Ling Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar) that would require local animal control agencies to microchip all recovered cats and dogs. Senator Chang and advocates , including Judie Mancuso Founder and CEO of Social Compassion in Legislation and members of the California Registered Veterinary Technicians Association, hosted a free "Microchip Your Pet Day." Veterinarians and staff implanted nearly 200 microchips today. Experts say microchipping of pets is the easiest and most effective way to help them in the tragic event they become lost or become separated during a natural disaster, but many pets in California have never undergone this simple process.
SB 64 is currently on its way to the Senate Appropriates Committee. If passed, this bill will require all local animal control agencies to implant and register microchips in all recovered cats and dogs. Today's event at the Capitol distributed 600 microchips free of charge.
"I am proud to co-author this compassionate, common sense measure. Microchips ensure that our animal companions are returned home when lost. With this bill, fewer pets will be euthanized and shelters will become less crowded. That is a win for pet owners and tax payers. I thank Senator Chang and Social Compassion in Legislation for their leadership on SB 64," said Assemblymember Patrick O'Donnell (D-Long Beach).
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Q: How to convert the data following into range on excel? I have data like following:

If I want it to convert it into specific ranges like following:

How should I do it on excel?

A: As Foxfire And Burns And Burns has mentioned, it is best to use a PIVOT TABLES and then Group it by intervals of 50. Using Pivot Tables and then Group & Ungroup is pretty easy and highly suggested by all excel experts in this community.
However if you are looking to use a formula to create that range (RAFFLE TICKET) that's how its known, then you may try the formula mentioned below,
Formula used in cell A2
=(ROWS($A$2:A2)-1)*50&"-"&ROWS($A$2:A2)*50

And Fill Down!
For those using Excel 2021 & O365, may try this one as well
=SEQUENCE(11,,0,50)&"-"&SEQUENCE(11,,50,50)

Next to get the total counts you can use SUMPRODUCT FUNCTION, which creates an array of TRUE's & FALSE's & multiplies the same with the corresponding ranges accordingly, so the formula used in cell B2
=SUMPRODUCT(($E$2:$E$16>=--LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1))*($E$2:$E$16<=--RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("-",A2)))*$F$2:$F$16)

And Fill Down!

A: I suggest you to create the Dummy column (C column) which will contain the limits of your ranges. And then you will fill values into the D column thanks to this formula :
=C2 & "-" & C3

So the first value Total Count column can be filled with (in column E) :
=SUMIF(A$2:A$16;"<"& C3;B$2:B$16)-SUMIF(A$2:A$16;"<"&C2;B$2:B$16)

and then you can extend the formula through the other cells of the column.
This SUMIF() formula calculates values for range <50 minus values for range <0 (for Range 0-50). For Range 50-100, this formula will calculate the sum for range <100 minus sum for range <50, and so on..

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Remark : Here the limits of the range are not considered for example if Valeur =50 the formula in Range column doen't count it. If you want to consider them in account, you can modify the values of the Dummy column to 0; 49.999999; or 50.000001 (left for you as an exercice :) ).

A: I would advise you to create a helper column, using a formula like =ROUNDDOWN(A1,0).
Once you have this (let's say in column "C"), you can sum your values using the basic =SUMIF() function, something like:
=SUMIF(C$1:C$8,3,B$1:B$8)

(This will sum the values of the cells from B1 to B8, in case the corresponding values in column "C" are equal to 3, which means that the values in column "A" are between 150 and 199.99....

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Factual error: When the main characters are confronted by the police in London in their 'fun-run' costumes, when they make a run from the police on a metal walkway that leads under a bridge, it is the Five Weirs Walk in Sheffield, not London.
Factual error: The 'Kebabish' shop, where Waj takes hostages and then blows up in, is supposed to be in London but is in fact in an area of Sheffield called The Wicker.
Factual error: When the main characters are stanging outside the van in London putting on their costumes, it is in fact Sheffield because they are parked next to the railway bridge in an area called The Wicker.
Other mistake: When Apollo 13 lifts off, you hear a voice saying something like 'Houston we have cleared the tower at 13:13'. However, when this is said the Saturn V rocket has nowhere near cleared the tower.
Continuity mistake: In the scene after Marty is leaving the school hall after his performance, Lorraine and George bump into him backstage and Lorraine says, 'Marty that was very interesting m... music' with a stutter. However in the first film when she says the same line in the same scene she says it without a stutter. It is meant to be exactly the same line and scene from the previous movie.
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene in Y2K when you see Donny Jones jumping around in front of the TV screens, as the camera slowly moves in past the TVs, you can see the camera man and the camera actually shown on the TV.


In the final days of the 2015 legislative session, Senate budget negotiators fought to include working-family tax relief in the form of a nationally unprecedented college-tuition reduction. Today the governor signed Senate Bill 5954, known as the College Affordability Program, which cuts tuition at state-run colleges and universities by up to 20 percent and caps tuition growth based on a percentage of the state's median wage. The legislation was co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara Bailey, chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, who has worked to make college more affordable for all Washington students.
Two-year savings after the first tuition cut in state history.
Washington college students currently graduate with an average of over $20,000 in student debt; tuition at the state's flagship institution, the University of Washington in Seattle, has nearly doubled in the last decade.


Teton Village, WY – Last winter, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) brought back the Powder 8 competition after a 15-year hiatus as part of the Wyoming ski resort's 50th Anniversary programming. The competition was so well received, JHMR will now once again make the event an annual tradition.
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The Grand National Powder 8 Competition will be held on the Powder 8 face of Cody Bowl on February 4th, with a backup weather day on Sunday, February 5th. There will be a local qualifier competition on Saturday, January 14th planned to run on the Powder 8 face of Cody Bowl. Registration for the local qualifier is open until noon on Monday, January 9th, and up to 22 teams of two people will be drawn at random from the pool of applications. To sign up and for more details on the local qualifier visit: www.jacksonhole.com/events/events_cat/powder-8-s-local-s-qualifier.16721.html.


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Board index Current Television
Still Open All Hours
What's currently on the box
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Post by Richard Charles Skryngestone » Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:33 am
During this Stalinist lockdown I have been working my through Still Open All Hours, having previously only watched the original one-off.
I wondered what others think of this show, that now has more episodes than the original show.
Personally, I find it somewhat funny, though far from great. There are some very good moments, though there are also long periods of boredom as well.
The other issue is that this show never really feels like Open All Hours, but much more like a substandard Last of the Summer Wine. Understandable, given the writer, and the Ronnie Barker-sized hole. But still somewhat jarring, even 5 series in (as I am at time of typing this). I never feel the legacy of Ar-ar-arkwright, but instead expect Howard to come around the corner any moment.
(This is similar to when Blackadder Back and Forth felt much more like Raymond Fowler:Time Traveller, but maybe that's another whole topic...)
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Re: Still Open All Hours
Post by Mark » Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:48 am
I have always liked Roy Clarke's style of writing, and the new series still has that quirky style.
I have the DVD's of the original and also try to catch them on Yesterday channel, and one of the many things I like about the original is the cosy feel to it, with almost all of it revolving around the shop and the two stars, but with the new one, Clarke has done the same as with "LOTW", and turned it into an ensemble piece, with characters in the their own homes and their own storylines.
It's perhaps understandable, as Granville and his son, just don't have the same dynamic as the original twosome, the shop-centric Arkright and the put-upon Granville.
The production is okay, but it's not up to the standard of the original, and the filmed exteriors.
"A cup of Tea....Tea...Tea"
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Location: NSW Australia
Post by murphy1961 » Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:53 am
From the little I've seen of it, it's OK (ie. watchable) for a modern show. I'm amazed they've made so many, I've only seen a couple.
Now there's more episodes than the original I hope we don't hear the somewhat predictable remarks about it being better than the original simply because there's been more episodes made. Some people will use that logic - "hang on, it must be better than the original, there's more of them".
Probably the best thing is just the novelty of seeing David Jason playing Granville again and Lynda Baron turning up as well, although she apparently was only in the first two series. The two episodes I saw, she was in.
Brian F
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Post by Brian F » Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:38 am
I'm just disappointed that (as far as I have seen) Barbara Flynn, the Milk Lady, hasn't been in the new series.
Post by Mark » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:00 am
murphy1961 wrote: ↑
Yes it's a shame she left, I think she just wanted to do other things, although the character wasn't quite the same since she was the object of Arkright's desire.
Brian F wrote: ↑
Mark wrote: ↑
She was a great character, but they have focused on Granville's interest in Mavis instead.
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#ifndef SSDB_IMPL_H_
#define SSDB_IMPL_H_

#include <queue>
#include <atomic>
#include "include.h"
#include "common/context.hpp"

#ifdef USE_LEVELDB
#define SSDB_ENGINE "leveldb"

#include "leveldb/db.h"
#include "leveldb/slice.h"
#include "leveldb/write_batch.h"

#include <memory>
#else
#define SSDB_ENGINE "rocksdb"
#include <rocksdb/db.h>
#include <rocksdb/slice.h>
#include <rocksdb/table.h>
#include <rocksdb/utilities/sim_cache.h>
#include <redis/redis_encoder.h>

#define leveldb rocksdb
#endif

#include "util/log.h"
#include "util/config.h"
#include "util/PTimer.h"
#include "util/thread.h"
#include "util/error.h"

#include "ssdb.h"
#include "iterator.h"

#include "codec/decode.h"
#include "codec/encode.h"

#include "ttl.h"
#include "t_cursor.h"
#include "t_scan.h"

inline
static leveldb::Slice slice(const std::string &b){
	return leveldb::Slice(b.data(), (size_t) b.size());
}
inline
static leveldb::Slice slice(const Bytes &b){
	return leveldb::Slice(b.data(), (size_t) b.size());
}

inline
static leveldb::Slice slice(){
	return leveldb::Slice();
}

const static std::string REPOPID_CF = "repopid";

enum LIST_POSITION{
	HEAD,
	TAIL,
};

enum DIRECTION{
	FORWARD,
	BACKWARD,
};

typedef RecordLock<Mutex> RecordKeyLock;
typedef RecordMutex<Mutex> RecordKeyMutex;

class SSDBImpl : public SSDB
{
private:
	friend class SSDB;
	friend class ExpirationHandler;

	std::string path;

	leveldb::DB* ldb;
	leveldb::Options options;
	leveldb::ReadOptions commonRdOpt = leveldb::ReadOptions();

	RedisCursorService redisCursorService;;

	SSDBImpl();
public:

	rocksdb::SimCache* simCache = nullptr;

	std::vector<leveldb::ColumnFamilyHandle*> handles;

	rocksdb::DB *getLdb() const {
		return ldb;
	}

	const string &getPath() const {
		return path;
	}

	string getDataPath() const {
		return path + "/data/";
	}

	int save(Context &ctx);

	ExpirationHandler *expiration;

	virtual ~SSDBImpl();

	virtual int resetRepopid(Context &ctx);

	virtual int flushdb(Context &ctx);
	virtual int flush(Context &ctx, bool wait = false);
	virtual int filesize(Context &ctx, uint64_t *total_file_size);

	// return (start, end], not include start
	virtual Iterator* iterator(const std::string &start, const std::string &end, uint64_t limit,
							   const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
    virtual Iterator* iterator(const std::string &start, const std::string &end, uint64_t limit,
                                   const leveldb::ReadOptions& options);

	virtual Iterator* rev_iterator(const std::string &start, const std::string &end, uint64_t limit,
								   const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
	virtual const leveldb::Snapshot* GetSnapshotWithLock();
	virtual const leveldb::Snapshot* GetSnapshot();
	virtual void ReleaseSnapshot(const leveldb::Snapshot* snapshot);

	//void flushdb();
	virtual uint64_t size();
	virtual std::vector<std::string> info();
	virtual void compact();
	virtual int digest(std::string *val);
	virtual leveldb::Status CommitBatch(Context &ctx, leveldb::WriteBatch* updates);
	virtual leveldb::Status CommitBatch(Context &ctx, const leveldb::WriteOptions& options, leveldb::WriteBatch* updates);

	/* raw operates */

	// repl: whether to sync this operation to slaves
	virtual int raw_set(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const Bytes &val);
	virtual int raw_del(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key);
	virtual int raw_get(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::string *val);
	virtual int raw_get(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,leveldb::ColumnFamilyHandle* column_family, std::string *val);

	/* 	General	*/
	virtual int type(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::string *type);
	virtual int dump(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::string *res, int64_t *pttl, bool compress);
	virtual int rdbSaveObject(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, char dtype, const std::string &meta_val,
							  RedisEncoder &encoder, const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot);
	virtual int restore(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t expire, const Bytes &data, bool replace, std::string *res);
	virtual int exists(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key);
	virtual int parse_replic(Context &ctx, const std::vector<Bytes> &kvs);
	virtual int parse_replic(Context &ctx, const std::vector<std::string> &kvs);

	/* key value */

	virtual int set(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const Bytes &val, int flags, int64_t expire_ms, int *added);
	virtual int del(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key);
	virtual int append(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const Bytes &value, uint64_t *llen);

	// -1: error, 1: ok, 0: value is not an integer or out of range
	virtual int incr(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t by, int64_t *new_val);
	virtual int incrbyfloat(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,long double by, long double *new_val);
	virtual int multi_set(Context &ctx, const std::vector<Bytes> &kvs, int offset);
	virtual int multi_del(Context &ctx, const std::set<std::string> &keys, int64_t *count);
	virtual int setbit(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t bitoffset, int on, int *res);
	virtual int getbit(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t bitoffset, int *res);

	virtual int get(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::string *val);
	virtual int getset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::pair<std::string, bool> &val, const Bytes &newval);
	virtual int getrange(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t start, int64_t end, std::pair<std::string, bool> &res);
	// return (start, end]
	virtual int setrange(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t start, const Bytes &value, uint64_t *new_len);

	virtual int scan(const Bytes& cursor, const std::string &pattern, uint64_t limit, std::vector<std::string> &resp);
	/* hash */

	virtual int hmset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::map<Bytes,Bytes> &kvs);
	virtual int hset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, const Bytes &val, int *added);
	virtual int hsetnx(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, const Bytes &val, int *added);
	virtual int hdel(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::set<Bytes>& fields, int *deleted);

	// -1: error, 1: ok, 0: value is not an integer or out of range
	virtual int hincr(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, int64_t by, int64_t *new_val);
	virtual int hincrbyfloat(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, long double by, long double *new_val);
	//int multi_hset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::vector<Bytes> &kvs, int offset=0);
	//int multi_hdel(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::vector<Bytes> &keys, int offset=0);

	virtual int hsize(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,uint64_t *size);
	virtual int hmget(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::vector<std::string> &reqKeys, std::map<std::string, std::string> &val);
	virtual int hgetall(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,std::map<std::string, std::string> &val);
	virtual int hget(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, std::pair<std::string, bool> &val);
//	virtual HIterator* hscan(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &start, const Bytes &end, uint64_t limit);
	virtual int hscan(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes& cursor, const std::string &pattern, uint64_t limit, std::vector<std::string> &resp);

    /*  list  */
    virtual int LIndex(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, int64_t index, std::pair<std::string, bool> &val);
    virtual int LLen(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,uint64_t *llen);
    virtual int LPop(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::pair<std::string, bool> &val);
    virtual int LPush(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::vector<Bytes> &val, int offset, uint64_t *llen);
    virtual int LPushX(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::vector<Bytes> &val, int offset, uint64_t *llen);
	virtual int RPop(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::pair<std::string, bool> &val);
	virtual int RPush(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::vector<Bytes> &val, int offset, uint64_t *llen);
	virtual int RPushX(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::vector<Bytes> &val, int offset, uint64_t *llen);
	virtual int LSet(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t index, const Bytes &val);
	virtual int lrange(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t start, int64_t end, std::vector<std::string> &list);
	virtual int ltrim(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,int64_t start, int64_t end);

    /* set */
    virtual int sadd(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::set<Bytes> &members, int64_t *num);
    virtual int srem(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::vector<Bytes> &members, int64_t *num);
	virtual int scard(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,uint64_t *llen);
    virtual int sismember(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const Bytes &member, bool *ismember);
    virtual int smembers(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::vector<std::string> &members);
	virtual int spop(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::vector<std::string> &members, int64_t popcnt);
	virtual int srandmember(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,std::vector<std::string> &members, int64_t cnt);
	virtual int sscan(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes& cursor, const std::string &pattern, uint64_t limit, std::vector<std::string> &resp);

	/* zset */
	virtual int multi_zset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::map<Bytes ,Bytes> &sortedSet, int flags, int64_t *count);
	virtual int multi_zdel(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::set<Bytes> &keys, int64_t *count);
	// -1: error, 1: ok, 0: value is not an integer or out of range
	virtual int zincr(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, double by, int &flags, double *new_val);
	//int multi_zset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::vector<Bytes> &kvs, int offset=0);
	//int multi_zdel(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::vector<Bytes> &keys, int offset=0);

	int zremrangebyscore(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &score_start, const Bytes &score_end, bool remove, int64_t *count);

	virtual int zsize(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,uint64_t *size);
	/**
	 * @return -1: error; 0: not found; 1: found
	 */
	virtual int zget(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, double *score);
	virtual int zrank(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, int64_t *rank);
	virtual int zrrank(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key, int64_t *rank);
	virtual int zrange(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &begin, const Bytes &limit, std::vector<std::string> &key_score);
	virtual int zrrange(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &begin, const Bytes &limit, std::vector<std::string> &key_score);
    virtual int zrangebyscore(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &start_score, const Bytes &end_score, std::vector<std::string> &key_score,
                int withscores, long offset, long limit);
    virtual int zrevrangebyscore(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &start_score, const Bytes &end_score, std::vector<std::string> &key_score,
                int withscores, long offset, long limit);
	/**
	 * scan by score, but won't return @key if key.score=score_start.
	 * return (score_start, score_end]
	 */
	virtual int zscan(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes& cursor, const std::string &pattern, uint64_t limit, std::vector<std::string> &resp);

	virtual int zlexcount(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end, int64_t *count);
    virtual int zrangebylex(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end, std::vector<std::string> &keys,
							long offset, long limit);
    virtual int zrevrangebylex(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end, std::vector<std::string> &keys,
							   long offset, long limit);
    virtual int zremrangebylex(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end, int64_t *count);

	/* eset */
	virtual int eget(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, int64_t *ts);
	virtual int eset_one(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, int64_t ts_ms);
	virtual int edel_one(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch);

	virtual int check_meta_key(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key);

	virtual int redisCursorCleanup();

private:

	int SetGeneric(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const Bytes &val, int flags, int64_t expire_ms, int *added);
    int GetKvMetaVal(const std::string &meta_key, KvMetaVal &kv);

    int del_key_internal(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch);
    int mark_key_deleted(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const std::string &meta_key, std::string &meta_val);

	int GetHashMetaVal(const std::string &meta_key, HashMetaVal &hv);
    int GetHashItemValInternal(const std::string &item_key, std::string *val);
    HIterator* hscan_internal(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, uint16_t version, const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
    int incr_hsize(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const std::string &size_key, HashMetaVal &hv, int64_t incr);
    int hset_one(leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const HashMetaVal &hv, bool check_exists, const Bytes &name, const Bytes &key, const Bytes &val);
    int GetSetMetaVal(const std::string &meta_key, SetMetaVal &sv);
    int GetSetItemValInternal(const std::string &item_key);
    SIterator* sscan_internal(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, uint16_t version, const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
    int incr_ssize(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const SetMetaVal &sv, const std::string &meta_key,int64_t incr);

	int GetListItemValInternal(const std::string &item_key, std::string *val, const leveldb::ReadOptions &options = leveldb::ReadOptions());
    int GetListMetaVal(const std::string &meta_key, ListMetaVal &lv);
    int doListPop(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, ListMetaVal &lv, std::string &meta_key, LIST_POSITION lp, std::pair<std::string, bool> &val);

	template <typename T>
	int doListPush(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const std::vector<T> &val, int offset, std::string &meta_key, ListMetaVal &meta_val, LIST_POSITION lp);

    int GetZSetMetaVal(const std::string &meta_key, ZSetMetaVal &zv);
	int GetZSetItemVal(const std::string &item_key, double *score);

	ZIterator* zscan_internal(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &score_start, const Bytes &score_end,
										uint64_t limit, Iterator::Direction direction, uint16_t version,
										const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
    ZIteratorByLex* zscanbylex_internal(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end,
							  uint64_t limit, Iterator::Direction direction, uint16_t version,
							  const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot=nullptr);
	int	zset_one(leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, bool needCheck, const Bytes &name, const Bytes &key, double score, uint16_t cur_version, int *flags, double *newscore);
	int zdel_one(leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const Bytes &name, const Bytes &key, uint16_t version);
	int incr_zsize(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, leveldb::WriteBatch &batch, const ZSetMetaVal &zv,int64_t incr);

	int setNoLock(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const Bytes &val, int flags, int64_t expire_ms, int *added);

    template <typename T>
    int saddNoLock(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key,const std::set<T> &mem_set, int64_t *num);

	template <typename T>
	int hmsetNoLock(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::map<T,T> &kvs, bool check_exists);

	template <typename T>
	int zsetNoLock(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::map<T ,T> &sortedSet, int flags, int64_t *num);

	int zdelNoLock(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const std::set<Bytes> &keys, int64_t *count);

    int zrangeGeneric(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &begin, const Bytes &limit, std::vector<string> &key_score, int reverse);
    int genericZrangebyscore(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &start_score, const Bytes &end_score, std::vector<std::string> &key_score,
                             int withscores, long offset, long limit, int reverse);
    int genericZrangebylex(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name,const Bytes &key_start, const Bytes &key_end, std::vector<string> &keys,
						   long offset, long limit, int save, int64_t *count);

	template <typename L>
	int updateKvCommon(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, L lambda);

	template <typename L>
	int hincrCommon(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, const Bytes &key, L lambda);
    int hsetCommon(Context &ctx, const Bytes &name, const Bytes &key, const Bytes &val, int *added, bool nx);

	int quickKv(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, const Bytes &val, const std::string &meta_key,
				const std::string &old_meta_val, int64_t expire_ms);

	template <typename T>
	int quickSet(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, const std::string &meta_key, const std::string &meta_val, T lambda);

	template <typename T>
	int quickHash(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, const std::string &meta_key, const std::string &meta_val, T lambda);

	template <typename T>
	int quickZset(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, const std::string &meta_key, const std::string &meta_val, T lambda);

	template <typename T>
	int quickList(Context &ctx, const Bytes &key, const std::string &meta_key, const std::string &meta_val, T lambda);

private:
	//    pthread_mutex_t mutex_bgtask_;
	Mutex mutex_bgtask_;
	Mutex mutex_backup_;
	std::atomic<bool> bgtask_quit;
	pthread_t bg_tid_;
    std::queue<std::string> tasks_;

	void load_delete_keys_from_db(int num);
    void delete_key_loop(const std::string& del_key);
    int  delete_meta_key(const DeleteKey& dk, leveldb::WriteBatch& batch);
	void runBGTask();
	static void* thread_func(void *arg);

	RecordKeyMutex mutex_record_;

public:

	void start();
    void stop();
};

uint64_t getSeqByIndex(int64_t index, const ListMetaVal &meta_val);

class SnapshotPtr {
private:

public:
	SnapshotPtr(leveldb::DB *ldb, const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot) : ldb(ldb), snapshot(snapshot) {}

	virtual ~SnapshotPtr() {
		if (snapshot != nullptr) {
			ldb->ReleaseSnapshot(snapshot);
		}
	}

	leveldb::DB *ldb;
	const leveldb::Snapshot *snapshot;

};

#endif

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UK unofficially participating in Syria airstrikes
By Bill Humphrey July 19, 2015 - 5:47 am September 22, 2016 Arsenal Pulse
The UK government appears to have covered up unauthorized participation in airstrikes in Syria (not just Iraq where it was approved in September 2014).
It did so by assigning personnel to fly under the command and flag of other countries — reportedly most likely the United States, but possibly also Canada. (Canada began participating in "coalition" airstrikes in Syria this past spring.)
Supposedly it's just routinely part of a longstanding (early Cold War era) program to embed UK military observers into allied military forces, but this seems like quite a stretch for the intentions of such programs.
The UK parliament made it pretty damn clear under the last term that they didn't want a Syria bombing campaign, effectively establishing a precedent requiring parliament to sign off on future military actions. Prime Minister David Cameron does have a Conservative majority now (unlike in 2013 or last September), but he hasn't asked the new term's members yet. So it seems fairly illegal to deploy UK armed forces members to participate in combat missions in an active warzone,
– with a hostile government (with air defenses and aircraft it could potentially use),
– and no UN support,
– where parliament had explicitly refused to authorize their actions.
Or at least it seems fairly illegal for now. He is widely expected to seek a new vote in parliament on Syrian airstrikes several months from now.
Aircraft participating in U.S.-led coalition airstrike missions in Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS. (Credit: Dept. of Defense via Wikimedia)
Tagged Conservative Party (Britain), David Cameron, Middle East, Operation Inherent Resolve, Syria, United Kingdom
Exit polls paint bleak picture in UK for anti-Conservative bloc
By Bill Humphrey May 7, 2015 - 10:16 pm May 7, 2015 Arsenal Analysis
According to current exit polling from the UK, the Conservatives surged way ahead of pre-election polling and will finish just 10 seats short of a majority. With Lib Dems, far-right UKIP, and conservative unionist Northern Irish parties supporting, they would be able to form a government. The Lib Dems got crushed but still are kingmakers — which is toxic for them since so many LD voters bailed because of their role in the coalition government last time, which would be even less powerful this time around. In fact, the Conservatives seem well positioned to just form a minority government, though I don't know how long it could last even under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
Labour got all but swept in Scotland by the SNP (i.e. maybe one seat remains) and lost in England to add insult to desperation. They ended up finishing worse than in 2010, contrary to all pre-election polling.
Bottom line from the current exit polling: Conservatives outperformed expectations by quite a lot and will probably lead the next government. Labour screwed up badly on top of their Scotland problems.
Tagged 2015 UK elections, Conservative Party (Britain), David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Labour Party (Britain), Liberal Democrats (Britain), Nick Clegg, SNP, UKIP
The Globalist | Political Courage: Merkel Vs. Cameron
By Bill Humphrey January 2, 2015 - 8:30 pm January 2, 2015 Arsenal Analysis
The following originally appeared in The Globalist.
In politics, doing the right thing should be done for its own sake, not for tactical reasons.
At the start of the New Year, the world leader who deserves praise in this regard is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the face of rising anti-Islamic protests in her country – a Dresden hate rally on December 22, 2014 reached a record 17,500 people – she chose to condemn the protests directly in her New Year's speech.
"There is no place here for stirring up hatred and telling lies about people who have come to us from other countries," she said.
Merkel added that the protest leaders had "prejudice, coldness or even hatred in their hearts" and observed that their clever rhetoric masks an ugly message that "You don't belong, because of the color of your skin, or your religion."
A spokesperson for the Chancellor followed up this pronouncement with the following statement:
"In Germany, there is no place for stirring up hatred against believers, for propaganda against religions of any sort, no place for right-wing extremism, and no place for xenophobia. The entire German government is united in its condemnation of any such thing."
Lest readers believe this was an easy course of action requiring little thought, consider that a new poll by Forsa for Stern magazine. It found that 13% of Germans would attend an anti-Muslim rally in their own community — and 29% believed the rallies were justified.
Cameron's response
Contrast Ms. Merkel's determination in the face of a rising tide of xenophobic hate with Prime Minister David Cameron's positioning. All that he has mustered is a weak rejection, even uncomfortable accommodation, of Britain's mounting xenophobia and anti-immigrant views in the political sphere and general population.
Mr. Cameron has cowered before the growing power of UKIP and his own party's more distasteful right wing, as the anti-outside-world politicians in Britain have surged to victories in the EU elections and parliamentary by-elections.
Chancellor Merkel deserves praise for standing fast against political extremism, anti-immigrant activists and anti-Muslim sentiments. Other elected global leaders would do well to learn from her example in the New Year's speech and actually lead on this issue in 2015.
Pictured: Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama, and Chancellor Angela Merkel, May 2012, watching a Chelsea vs. Munich soccer match during the G8 summit. (White House Photo)
Additional note for clarity, for non-Globalist readers: Read more
Tagged Angela Merkel, Conservative Party (Britain), David Cameron, Germany, immigration, Islamophobia, UKIP, United Kingdom
The Incomprehensible David Cameron
By Bill Humphrey December 6, 2014 - 3:33 pm September 22, 2016 Arsenal Pulse
David Cameron must have actually lost his mind. In the middle of all the sanctions, he just loaned one of the Elgin Marbles to Russia, further infuriating Greece (from whom they were originally, famously stolen) after Greece loyally backed up the rest of the European Union (and NATO) on anti-Russia policies this year.
It's one thing to petulantly insist on keeping the British Museum's stolen artifacts from the Parthenon. It's quite another to loan them out to an active enemy country in a taunt to one's ally.
Surviving figures from the East Pediment of the Parthenon, exhibited as part of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. (Credit: Andrew Dunn)
Tagged David Cameron, Elgin Marbles, Europe, European Union, Greece, NATO, Russia, sanctions, United Kingdom
More anti-EU plans from Cameron after another UKIP win
By Bill Humphrey October 10, 2014 - 8:06 pm September 22, 2016 Arsenal Analysis
Following the earlier first-place nationwide triumph this year by the right-wing/anti-European "UK Independence Party" (UKIP) in the 2014 European Union elections, mainstream British politics suffered another serious blow last night, as the first elected UKIP member of the UK parliament was elected in a special election. As with his response to the EU election result, Prime Minister David Cameron yet again handled the situation by immediately ratcheting up rhetoric and policy plans against the European Union (and immigrants), according to the (pro-Conservative) Telegraph:
David Cameron will unveil tough plans to restrict immigration from the European Union within weeks to stop another Ukip MP being elected following Thursday night's by-election [in Clacton].
Douglas Carswell, a former Conservative, yesterday became the first MP elected to Parliament for Nigel Farage's UK Independence Party following a huge swing in support.
Conservatives warned that the decision by traditional Tory supporters to vote for Ukip would allow Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister if repeated in the general election in 209 days.
Labour narrowly won a second by-election by just 617 votes [over the UKIP candidate] and Mr Miliband is also now facing a major challenge from UKIP in [Labour's] traditional northern heartlands.
The party elite's right-wing also trumpeted the defeat as a sign that the Conservatives must double-down on anti-immigrant, anti-EU policies and even break up the coalition government with the far more moderate and internationalist Liberal Democrats. While not going that far, Cameron and the ruling government did continue to recast the party toward the euroskeptic position:
The Prime Minister said: "If you vote Ukip, you're in danger of getting a Labour government with Ed Miliband as prime minister, Ed Balls as chancellor and you'll get no action on immigration, no European referendum, and obviously – most importantly – you won't get a continuation of the plan that is delivering success for our economy and security for our people."
Brandon Lewis, a communities minister, said that the Tories will put immigration "at the heart" of the renegotiation with the EU to be held before an in-out referendum scheduled for 2017.
He said: "What people are worried about though is migration from the EU, and the Prime Minister made very clear last week that has got to be one of the key things at the heart of renegotiation that we will have before that referendum which we will deliver in 2017."
And after its own close shave in the other by-election, the Labour Party leader also made rumblings of rethinking Labour's immigration policy:
Mr Miliband conceded that Labour now needs to address "specific concerns" about immigration and denied that he was "complacent".
Miliband is undoubtedly keeping in the back of his mind the situation in France and elsewhere, where traditional far-left, working class communities have gradually abandoned the leftist parties in favor of ultra-right-wing nationalist parties that vow to halt immigration and restore protectionist industrial policies that once helped those workers. Labour is significantly more economically centrist than it once was.
Tagged 2014 European elections, 2015 UK elections, Conservative Party (Britain), David Cameron, Europe, European Union, euroskepticism, immigration, Labour Party (Britain), Liberal Democrats (Britain), UKIP, United Kingdom
Russia's grip on the Tories (and London) remains strong
By Bill Humphrey August 13, 2014 - 9:27 pm August 13, 2014 Arsenal Analysis
Former Labour MP and UK Minister for Europe Denis MacShane has a new article in The Globalist blasting the Conservative Party's tightening relationship with top Russians, even as the United Kingdom (officially, at least) grows more cold toward Moscow.
In the latest controversy, the Conservative Party is refusing to give back £160k in campaign funds donated by Russian oligarchs and former Putin insiders, just ahead of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine (which killed UK citizens), but well after the annexation of Crimea. Last year, the Conservative Party accepted almost £900k in campaign cash from Russian high-rollers.
"Russian Gherkin, City of London" by Arsenal for Democracy. Adapted from Colin's photo on Wikimedia
Meanwhile London and the City (the country's financial zone) continue to attract sketchy Russian investors and residents.
Even Vladimir Putin mocks London as the place where "the oligarchs have bought Chelsea," a reference to Roman Abamovich, the owner of the top soccer club. Another oligarch, Evgeny Lebvedev, is the owner of two key newspapers, the Independent, and the respected London Evening Standard, as well as a London TV station.
One in ten of all London homes with a price exceeding $1.5 million was bought by a Russian last year. [Conservative Party donor] Mrs. Chernukin and her husband, Vladimir, a former director of Aeroflot, live in a $12 million dollar apartment.
Another Russian donor to the Conservative Party, Andrei Borodin, has fled to London after accusations of a $370 million fraud in Russia. He lives on a $235 million estate near London and paid $67,000 for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher at a Tory fundraiser last year.
The UK Electoral Commission reports $1.5 million in donations from rich Russians to Conservative funds last year. The UK has given visas to 433 Russians since 2008 who invested more than $1.5 million in Britain.
London courts are also where Russian oligarchs fight out their legal battles. London lawyers earned an estimated $150 million from just one court fight between Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky. Lawyers say that 60% of all the cases now heard by London senior commercial courts are linked to disputes over spoils from the ex-Soviet Union.
Another attractive legal market is divorce fights. Londoners have gaped at the fierce legal fallout as elderly Russian oligarchs trade in their wives for slimmer, younger beauties.
MacShane also noted the hypocritical and increasingly fact-challenged assertions by Prime Minister David Cameron regarding UK arms trade with Russia, a topic I've covered at some length previously.
I was going to note how odd it is that these foreign citizens can make political contributions directly to the parties in the United Kingdom, since that's prohibited in the United States, but I suppose our equivalent is the heavy presence of "consulting" operations in Washington DC, advising — but not officially representing — a multitude of unsavory foreign clients on their relationships with various malleable forces in the U.S. capital.
Tagged Conservative Party (Britain), David Cameron, Russia
UK has a real arms sales problem on its hands
By Bill Humphrey July 24, 2014 - 7:00 am September 22, 2016 Arsenal Analysis
No. 10 Downing St (Credit: Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC – Ministry of Defense via Wikimedia)
A parliamentary report has found that the British government has not revoked arms sale licenses to Russia in compliance with sanctions against the country following its annexation of Crimea, despite bold claims by the Cameron government.
This comes on the heels of detailed allegations that UK firms sold dual-use (military or police) weapons to Turkey immediately following the vicious 2013 crackdown by Turkish police in several cities, and it echoes revelations that, in 2012, the UK government knowingly approved exports of a key ingredient in Sarin gas to the sanctioned regime in Syria during the Civil War (which were only blocked by the EU).
Details on the new Russia report, according to The Guardian:
More than 200 licences to sell British weapons to Russia, including missile-launching equipment, are still in place despite David Cameron's claim in the Commons on Monday that the government had imposed an absolute arms embargo against the country, according to a report by a cross-party group of MPs released on Wednesday.
A large number of British weapons and military components which the MPs say are still approved for Russia are contained in a hard-hitting report by four Commons committees scrutinising arms export controls.
Existing arms export licences for Russia cover equipment for launching and controlling missiles, components for military helicopters and surface-launched rockets, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, body armour, and military communications equipment, the committee says. They also include licences for night sights for weapons, components for operating military aircraft in confined spaces, and surface-to-surface missiles.
Sir John Stanley, former Conservative defence secretary and chairman of the Commons arms control committees, said there was evidence that appeared to directly contradict the prime minister's claim that he had already stopped all arms exports to Russia.
Stanley had already written to Philip Hammond, the new foreign secretary, asking him to explain why, according to official figures given to the MPs, of 285 current licences for Russia, only 34 had been suspended or revoked.
Why can't David Cameron's government get it together to halt British companies from selling weapons to governments they shouldn't be doing business with, by law? Is it intentional negligence to keep the arms and money flowing?
On Syria, the laughable line from the government was that the system had worked. This time:
"We will not a grant a licence where there is a clear risk the equipment might be used for internal repression."
So when exactly does it become clear that Russia or Syria might use weapons for internal repression? Or what about Turkey, literally right after it engaged in internal repression?
And what do we make of this accusation in the Russia report?
It says the most significant change in the government's policy on arms exports over the past year is the dropping of the wording in the arms sales criteria that: "An export licence will not be issued if the arguments for doing so are outweighed … by concern that the goods might be used for internal repression".
You know, in the sense, that that action is exactly the opposite of the supposed policy stated by the government spokesperson.
The United Kingdom is the 7th largest arms exporting country in the world by dollar value annually, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Tagged arms control, Crimea, David Cameron, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, weapons exports
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Q: Excplicit conversion from object to Outlook.AppointmentItem or Outlook.MailItem (VB.NET) I need to send an Outlook appointment using UiPath studio. I've got a VB code creating appointment, but UiPath is not a great IDE unfortunatelly.
My code looks like this:
 Dim app As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application = New
 Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application

 Dim tmpapp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem =
 app.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem)

 tmpapp.Subject = "Testing Appointment"

 tmpapp.Body = "Siema siema"

 tmpapp.Location = "tutej"

 tmpapp.Start = Convert.ToDateTime("10.06.2019 23:33:12")

 tmpapp.End = Convert.ToDateTime("10.06.2019 23:35:13")

 tmpapp.ReminderSet = True

 tmpapp.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 10

But i receive a compiling error:

Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'Object' to 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem'.

At line 3
As much as I would like to, I cannot set Option Strict Off. It is just not possible.
Do you know how can I convert it explicitly?
Thank you in advance!


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Before we visited the service we checked the information we held about this location and the service provider. This included the inspection history, safeguarding notifications and feedback. Before the inspection, the provider completed a Provider Information Return (PIR). This is a form that asks the provider to give some key information about the service, what the service does well and improvements they plan to make. We reviewed all of the information we held about the service including statutory notifications we had received from the service. Notifications are changes, events or incidents that the provider is legally obliged to send us within the required timescale.
Prior to the inspection we contacted the local Healthwatch and commissioners. Healthwatch is the local consumer champion for health and social care services. They give consumers a voice by collecting their views, concerns and compliments through their engagement work. We spoke with three visiting healthcare professionals during the inspection.
During the inspection we spoke with the registered manager, assistant manager and four care staff. We also spoke with six people who used the service and three relatives and visitors. We looked at records that related to the day to day running of the service and the care plans and medicine records for three people.
We spent time observing how staff interacted with people in the home and observed people, for example, taking part in social activities, eating meals and receiving medicines.


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Q: Call to presentViewController modify presenting view's frame? I have a view controller A that is presented like a popup window (screenshot here). This is achieved by leveraging iOS 7 custom transition and applying inset to A's frame.
From A, I present another view controller B using a regular presentViewController method and default transition. B will be displayed in full-screen as expected from a standard view controller behaviour.
The problem is, if I dismiss B, view controller A will be displayed as a full screen instead of being a popup window (screenshot here). It seems that A's frame was modified somewhere by the default view controller transition. I want to keep A to be displayed like popup window. Anyone knows how can I achieve this?
Cheers,
Andree

A: Use another custom transition to present view controller B, so that view controller A's view is not removed, and so you are in charge of what happens to view controller A's view on dismissal of B.
(I believe that this problem will not arise in the first place if you target iOS 8, where B can be set as .OverFullScreen and the existing views will be left undisturbed.)


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History of the Scheib Center
The Scheib Center was started as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation in 1971 with money bequeathed by Dr. and Mrs. Scheib for the purpose of providing services to the developmentally disabled and emotionally disturbed individuals in the San Marcos/Hays County area. The service programs were in partnership with the Texas Department of MHMR. The Scheib Center provided the buildings and the Texas Department of MHMR provided the money and staff for the services.
The Scheib Center began offering services for persons with what was then termed mental retardation (now called Developmental Disabilities) out of an old one family house scheduled for demolition in San Marcos. Renovation of the facility was made possible through contributions of funds and labor by various community organizations and individuals. The mental illness program operated out of a separate small office in the Hays County Courthouse.
In 1973 the Center acquired a second house to accommodate the rapidly growing community need for services. A local contractor donated a plot of land in San Marcos and the two houses were moved to this property and combined to allow the Center to offer both the mental health program and the developmental disabilities program from one location. Again, the community came forward with the necessary funds and in-kind services to do the required renovation. The Center operated both programs out of this facility until 1976, when the mental health clinic was moved to a separate location due to the expanded space needs of the program.
In 1977 the Board of Directors, with widespread community support, launched a capital campaign to build a new facility to meet the space needs for the Center's growing programs. The Board raised a total of $258,000 in individual donations, federal, state, and local matching funds.
Then, in 1982, the Center added another 5,000 square foot building enabling the Center's sheltered workshop to expand the training and work available to clients.
In 1998 the Board of Directors launched another capital campaign, again with widespread community support, to add another building to handle the ever growing needs of the mental health program. With grants and donations from the Meadows Foundation of Dallas, Texas, the McCoy family, the Ingram family, and the wide spread community the 3,600 square foot mental health facility was completed in 1999.
As services grew and the Texas Legislature enacted changes, the Scheib Center partnered with Hill Country MHDD. Thus, the Scheib Center provides facilities, utilities, maintenance, additions, repairs, janitorial and more so that Hill Country MHDD can contract with the Texas Department of Human Services to provide the services delivered at the Scheib Center.
2012 was an amazing year at Scheib as the Board of Directors tackled two huge projects. The first was a complete remodel of the workshop building for the Developmentally Disabled clients. By early summer the Workshop remodel was complete and everyone at the Scheib Center anxiously awaited news of a possible grant application award from Mueller Helping Hand for a new mental health building. The lack of space for the growing mental health services was intolerable and way beyond capacity. In July Mueller, in conjunction with Texas Country Reporter, awarded Scheib a new 4,000 square foot building. BY Christmas the building was completed and occupied! Yes, 2012 was an incredible year!
Not resting on 2012 successes, the Board of Directors continued fund raising and public relations activities, as well as manage the 2013-2014 project. This project remodeled a 5000 square foot warehouse into David's Activity Hall. Thanks to the tremendous support of the community and individual donations the project was completed in 2014.
The Board also held its first major fundraising event, Scheib Music Fest, on March 1, 2014. Amazing musicians like Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines, Chris Salinas and the Wildgrass Band, and the Fossils Band were in concert for Scheib at the 1943 wooden airport hangar at the San Marcos Airport.
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Bad weather could be behind a fall in Great Britain's construction output as it continued its recent decline, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) with its March 2018 figures.
The ONS said it had received some anecdotal information from a small number of survey respondents about the effect of adverse weather on their businesses in February and March 2018.
It said the adverse weather conditions across Great Britain could have contributed to the decline in construction output, although it added that it was difficult to quantify the exact impact on the industry.
The figures for construction output in Great Britain for March fell by 2.7% in the three-month on three-month series, and it was the biggest fall seen in this series since August 2012.
The ONS found that the three-month on three-month decrease in construction output had been driven by falls in both repair and maintenance, which fell 2.8%, and new work, with a drop of 2.6%.
Following several months of consistently strong growth, private housing also experienced a slowdown in March 2018, contracting in the three-month on three-month series by 1.6%.
ONS figures showed that construction output also fell when compared to the previous month, by 2.3% in March, 2018. The March figures were 4.9% lower than the same month a year ago, and the total for all new work was down 5.2% on 12 months ago.
The UK's Construction Products Association (CPA) said the ONS figures showed a fall that was broad-based but had been led by an 8.8% decline in public house building activity and a 5.9% reduction in public non-housing work. Private housing output recorded a fall of 1.6% over the quarter.
Rebecca Larkin, senior economist at the CPA, said, "This release confirms what was reported in preliminary GDP (gross domestic product) data – construction had a poor opener to 2018.
She said that output had declined in each month of the first quarter, "undoubtedly capturing the pauses in work relating to Carillion's liquidation in January and the snow disruption in February and March".
However, there was better news from the UK equipment statistics exchange, which has found that retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market grew by 5.7% in the first quarter of 2018, compared with the same period in 2017.
Last year, the construction equipment statistics exchange was taken over by Systematics International, a specialist data processing company. This scheme is run in partnership with the UK's Construction Equipment Association (CEA).
The CEA's Paul Lyons said first quarter figures were encouraging, against the background of a weak construction market in the first quarter of the year.
However, he warned that while equipment sales remained on an upward trend on a quarterly basis, the levels of growth were showing a slowing of momentum. For example, growth in the first quarter of last year exceeded 10%.
The figures showed that the most popular machines in the UK market were mini and midi excavators (up to 10 tonnes), and they showed 8% growth in the first quarter. However, the strongest growth was for telehandlers, the second most popular equipment type, where sales grew by more than 27% compared with the first quarter in 2017.
The CEA said that in spite of facing some difficulties from the bad weather, the housebuilding market remained strong, and continued to stimulate demand for these smaller types of equipment.
Sales of the other major types of construction equipment showed a range of growth rates, the CEA found. Compaction rollers continued to see the weakest sales in the first quarter, continuing the trend seen in 2017. It said a significant factor remained the emphasis by Highways England to spend on smart motorways, which involved less work on carriageways, in favour of safety barriers, drainage and other structures.
The CEA said that fleet replenishment within the rental industry had been a factor, continuing to boost demand in the early months of the year. In the UK market, the rental industry is estimated to account for over 60% of equipment supply, and is more significant than in other European markets.


The Relished Roost: Monday Obsession- Kravet Nomad Chic!
Monday Obsession- Kravet Nomad Chic!
My Samples.. and more to come!
I am approaching the finish line with a nice ethnic eclectic apartment project. I love when it's time to place the finishing touches such as pillows, throws and accessories! When I saw the line of ethnic inspired fabric from Kravet I knew I had to grab some samples. They mix well with other textural fabrics, and are quite dense in construction yet soft to the touch. They may be used for upholstery and pillows so I decided to throw these into my mix of fabrics for this cool apartment. I am posting also a few of my other favorites in the this collection because they are just too good not to share! Enjoy, and have a happy Monday!
Fabulous, Karolyn! The trims are a s great as the fabrics!
There will be some happy clients!
Cant wait to see the finishing touches...the fabric and trim look wonderful!
I'm obsessed with the neutrals in all of this - such great texture in the next to the last image!!


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The Death of Mr. Grumble: A Clown who said no to the Circus
Andrew-Henry Bowie
Brief Description: The Death of Mr. Grumble is a poignant, funny and deeply moving new novel by Andrew-Henry Bowie.
Mr. Grumble is one very messed-up TV clown. The most popular act on children's satellite channel Cbabes, he should be basking in the popularity of his on-screen alter-ego, Mr. Stumble, loved by kids and parents alike. Yet away from camera, Mr Grumble is a tortured man, searching for answers to his haunted past.
To make matters worse, Mr. Grumble's popularity is threatened by two adversaries; rising star Trevor Marlow, who is out to steal his celebrity crown and by the mysterious and charismatic circus owner, Dr Uri Shevanko. Mr. Grumble is a sad and lonely man and worse is yet to come as he heads for a fall so great he will become a national hate figure! Will he be able to overcome these setbacks and find happiness and inner peace?
The Death of Mr. Grumble is a shocking story where the star of the show is also the underdog. This is a must-read book for anyone who enjoys black humour.
About the Author: Andrew-Henry Bowie was born in Edinburgh in 1973. He had a difficult early life and adolescence in which football always played a major part.
In 2008 he published his first book, Two Miles to Tynecastle, an autobiographical account of his troubled childhood, hapless personal life and unerring passion for Heart of Midlothian Football Club, which received critical praise.
The Death of Mr. Grumble is Andrew-Henry's third published work but his first novel.
Today, Andrew-Henry lives in East Lothian with his wife Lesley, and his children, Jude-Lauren and Theodore.
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