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The Blue Stockings Society, an eighteenth century club for clever ladies and their gentlemen friends, was 'the first public female club ever known', according to man of letters Horace Walpole. Two high society ladies started it up together – gregarious coal heiress Elizabeth Montagu, the richest woman in England, and her charming and vivacious friend Elizabeth Vesey. Montagu was nicknamed Fidget as a child for her boundless energy, while her co-hostess Vesey won the pet name Sylph for her girlish figure and flirtatiousness.
The close friends set up a salon where guests would come for a mixture of repartee and intelligent discussion over a cup of tea; a refreshing change from the endless card games and brainless flirtation that was the norm for high society gatherings of the day. They bucked the trend of limiting women to gossip and embroidery while the men hobnobbed about poetry and politics on the other side of the room, and entered the fray with some literary conversation of their own. There were some formidable female brains at those first gatherings, more than equal to matching the men bon mot for bon mot, including linguist and classicist Elizabeth Carter and novelist Fanny Burney – and the men in question were no birdbrains either, with philosopher Edmund Burke and author Dr Samuel Johnson among their number. Courtier and diarist Mary Hamilton described the bluestocking meetings in 1783:
"…one meets with a charming variety of society … the Learned, the witty, the old & young, the grave, gay, wise & unwise, the fine bred Man & the pert coxcomb; The elegant female, the chaste Matron, the severe prude, & the pert Miss, but be it remembered that you can run no risque in Mrs. Vesey's parties of meeting with those who have no claim to respect."
The bluestockings won their affectionate handle because they rather daringly 'enjoyed society in undress' at their parties. Undress to an eighteenth century socialite did not mean what it would suggest in the modern mind, disappointingly: it simply meant informality. Instead of the silk stockings traditional for evening, guests were welcomed in workaday blue woollen legwear, a move which also broke down class barriers, and made soirees more egalitarian. Still, it seems appropriate that London's new incarnation of the society is a gathering for burlesque and cabaret performers not unfamiliar with a state of deshabille themselves – but equally interested in soirees that engage the brain as well as the other social organs.
Fidget and Sylph must have been on to a good thing, because their bluestocking salons started to spawn copycat social gatherings across London and then the country. Poet and playwright Hannah More published her poem Bas Bleu; or, Conversation in 1786, in homage to the soirees, describing the debate as 'electric', an epithet that seems as ahead of its time as the meetings themselves. Her use of bas bleu in the title, the French translation of bluestocking, was a nod to the scholarship of the circle, which was not only about glittering social gatherings, but also a support network for women scholars and artists – effectively an informal university.
Female friendship and mutual support was the lynchpin of the Blue Stockings Society. Four bluestockings commemorated their deep bond with a beautiful little gold and enamel friendship box, painted with their images. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Portland, commissioned the box in 1740, and it depicts her, Elizabeth Montagu, botanical artist Mary Delaney, and amateur artist Mary Howard, Lady Andover, who was left the box in the Duchess's will. The sorority also extended the hand of friendship to struggling women of learning outside their own circle: bluestocking Hannah More became the patron of working class woman writer Ann Yearsley, aka 'the milkmaid poet'. More's charity rescued Bristol-based Yearsley from destitution, and enabled her to publish her first volume of verse, Poems on Several Occasions, in 1785. Less positively for the bluestocking cause, Yearsley and More then fell out publicly over access to the profits, and Yearsley moved on to a male patron, Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol. Perhaps bonds of
trust between women were more difficult to maintain across England's still rigid class barrier.
Luckily, the patrician bluestockings had a gift for PR – they packaged what was effectively female social rebellion as an elegant cultural innovation, striking a delicate balance between fashion and erudition, and the first bluestockings were lauded as national ideals of feminine sophistication and virtue. The paintings of them in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition in 2008, Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings, show them as female celebrities of their time. Richard Samuel's 1778 portrait of eminent members in the guise of the nine muses of classical antiquity cemented the group as figureheads of nationalistic pride after victory in the Seven Years War.
An up-and-coming young artist, Samuel painted the original Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo on spec, in the hope it would capture the public imagination, and so successful was his ploy that it became a popular print, re-titled The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, and depicting the women sacrificing to the goddess Britannia in lieu of Apollo. The print even featured in a pocket diary in 1778, to inspire women to write down their own musings. "Queen of the blues" Elizabeth Montagu quipped, "It is charming to think how our praises will ride about the world in everybody's pocket. I do not see how we could become more universally celebrated." Ironically, since Samuel had no access to his portrait's celebrity subjects in person, he had to take their likenesses at second hand from engravings, and the story goes that none of the women in the painting could recognise themselves. Already the bluestockings were such big names on the Georgian scene that the idea of them was more important than accuracy. Samuel was, if you like, the photoshop-wielding paparazzo of his time.
Mythology soon sprang up around the bluestockings, including the affectionate tale of how the clan first got their name. The story goes that male guest Benjamin Stillingfleet, a botanist, translator and writer, arrived at a gathering without remembering to change out of his blue worsted workwear into formal white silk stockings, but was welcomed with open arms anyway. So, despite the fact that bluestocking came to mean an intellectual women, the first credited blue stocking wearer was a man. It's a charming joke to name a women's group after menswear, symbolising both the informality of the gatherings, and the innovation of women venturing into traditional male territory of scholarship. The lumpen blue woolly legwear of the time is a far cry from the glamorous image that the word "stocking" conjures up in the modern mind, but still had a frisson attached for the Georgians, sparked by the idea of women wearing what they weren't supposed to; metaphysical drag, if you like.
The Benjamin Stillingfleet anecdote is probably apocryphal, however, because bluestocking had already been a nickname for intellectuals for about three hundred years by then. The Venetians started it in the 1400s with an elite salon dubbed "della calza" ("of the stocking") for their elaborate embroidered legwear, and the Parisian "bas bleu" emerged in the 1500s as a bevy of literary women. So the Georgian gang were quoting a heritage of learned gatherings with their name, just as the paintings of the sorority dressed up as Greek or Roman figures used classical references to reinforce their modern standing. All in all, it was a kick-ass publicity campaign, sweeping in the idea of stylish female learning at a time when women had no rights to fortune or property, and were effectively a servant class to men – no, a slave class, because servants were paid. And the campaign seemed to work – at least at first.
Then, as the American War of Independence and the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century made the idea of egalitarian learning more dangerous than sexy, the bluestockings started to come in for some stick. Novelty was one thing, but nobody wanted these women getting above themselves and forgetting their place. Montagu was satirised by Lord Byron as the ridiculous Lady Bluebottle in his Literary Eclogue of 1821, and he had a dig at woman poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans too, suggesting she should 'knit bluestockings instead of wearing them,' possibly motivated by the fact that Hemans was at the time a more popular and better-selling poet than he was. Thomas Rowlandson's 1815 cartoon "Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club" depicts a bunch of screaming harridans attacking each other over the tea-table, grabbing each other's hair and ripping each other's clothes, while the tea cups (traditional tipple of the bluestocking gatherings) go flying around them. Meanwhile French satirical cartoonist Honoré Daumier was having a go across the channel with his series of etchings of grotesque women scholars, Les Bas Bleus, aimed squarely at liberated femmes like novelist George Sand.
But it wasn't only men who put the boot in. Fanny Burney, a bluestocking member herself, wrote her first play The Witlings about pretentious patrons of the arts Mrs Voluble, Mrs Sapient and the regal Lady Smatter. The satire came close to being staged by Sheridan at Drury Lane, until her father persuaded her to pull it before it got her into trouble with Montagu. As the tide turned against the dangerously unfeminine bluestockings, depictions became more sinister, such as the character of mannish feminist Harriet Freke, said to be based on radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft, in Maria Edgeworth's 1811 novel Belinda, who meets her come-uppance in a man-trap.
What started as an innovative party night, conceived to pique the interest of a social circle too clever to be satisfied by a deck of cards and a turn around the dancefloor, had opened Pandora's box. National treasures became dangerous rebels. Within a decade, the bluestocking gatherings had spawned radical political thinkers who spoke out ahead of their time for the equality, liberty and social justice we accept as the norm today. Women who consequently got themselves ostracised and denigrated – historian Catharine Macaulay and literary libertarian Mary Wollstonecraft were the two most scandalous – and fuelled the backlash that transformed the label bluestocking from an affectionate nickname into an insult.
It was sex that did for the bluestockings in the end. Catharine Macaulay's radical eight-volume History of England, arguing for democratic republic to replace monarchy, became a manifesto for American independence campaigners and French revolutionaries – she was a proto Karl Marx in blue stockings, and the establishment had to bring her down. But it wasn't her radical views for which she was pilloried, it was her scandalous private life. First the widowed Macauley shacked up with the Reverend Thomas Wilson, 30 years her senior, probably for access to his library rather than his bed. But he adored her, and put up a statue of her dressed as Clio, the Muse of History, in his Bath church, until a public outcry forced him to remove it. Then Macauley ran away with a sailor. She was 47 and he was 21. It was the death knell for her reputation.
Macauley's scandalous sexual antics weren't innocent – they were as political a statement as her writing. She considered it an outrage that 'virtue' in a woman meant only one thing: chastity. It was okay, apparently, for a woman to be a thief, a liar, a cheat, a coward, or a criminal as long as she stayed a virgin. To Macauley, this absurd double standard was the true scandal. Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, agreed with her, and lived out her own life even further outside the bounds of female propriety. Her widower William Godwin's heartbroken paean to her radical life, detailing her passionate female friendships, her love affairs, her illegitimate child and her suicide attempts, trashed her name so soundly that, far from embracing her as a role model, nineteenth century suffragettes swept her firmly under the carpet, for fear she would damage their cause. In an era when even table legs had to be covered up with curtains, lest their curvaceousness summon up louche thoughts, women fighting for equality had to hide their bluestockings under very long skirts.
Such prudish horror seems absurd to us now, in a time when watching a sassy woman strip down to pasties and a thong is the height of chic dinner entertainment. Surely bluestockings don't have to hide their true colours in this day and age? But now that openly sexual women are everywhere, there's a different tension to play with – between being sexy and being feminist. For some these days it's "feminist" that's the dirty word. For others, the real outrage is that women in sophisticatedLondon think it's okay to take their clothes off on stage while their sisters in Iran are being stoned to death for adultery. The burlesque bluestockings of today have their own wobbly tightrope to tread between intelligent entertainment and social politics.
Burlesque clown Audacity Chutzpah and I started our 21st century incarnation of the Blue Stocking Society in April 2010 as a showcase for women performers whose work has something to say beyond classic cheesecake prettiness. Our Night of the Blue Stockings, for thinking women and the men who love them, happens monthly at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, and our membership is growing. Who knows what might come out of the Pandora's box Ms Chutzpah and I have opened together? What started as an alternative night out for the brainboxes of the burlesque and cabaret world has already started to dip its toe into politics.
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Q: How to programmatically (C#) create and add a default (HTML) signature in Outlook 2013? Sorry for bothering you - but maybe somebody can help me here!?
We are creating an Outlook 2013 VSTO Add-In to manage Corporate Signatures centrally and publish them to every user as a default signature.
We already managed to create the appropriate HTML files and store them in the correct folder.
All the same, there is no problem at all to modify the appropriate Registry keys, e. g.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General

where we set the value of the "Signatures" element to the folder name of the signature file(s)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\MailSettings

where we set the value of the "NewSignature" and "ReplySignature" elements to the name of the default signature file
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676

where - within the appropriate user profile folder - we need to set the values of the "New Signature" and "Reply-Forward Signature" elements to the binary-converted name of the default signature file.
All these operations work perfectly fine and afterwards, we find the correct files in the appropriate folders and the correct entries in the Registry keys.
However, when creating the very first eMail after the Outlook and eMail Signature Add-In setup, users do NOT see the default signature!
Only as soon as they once open the "Signatures" dialog in the mail editor screen - and it is really enough to only open it; no need to click "OK" or so! - then they get the signature!
So my question is: is there any other Registry key or whatever that need(s) to be set so that the signature appears right away - without having to make users open the "Signatures" dialog!? Does anybody know what happens in the background of this dialog!?
What do I overlook!?
Thank you very much everyone - I truly hope you can help me here!
Best regards,
Torsten

A: The "9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676" part is profile and account specific (it is profile section uid). It will be different for different users, profiles, and different accounts within the same profile .
You can see the data in OutlookSpy (I am its author) - click IOlkAccountManager, double click on the account, New and reply signature names will be in properties 0x0016001F and 0x0017001F respectively.
These properties can be set using Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi) on IOlkAccount interface. You can also set them using Redemption (I am also its author - any language) - RDOAccount object exposes NewMessageSignature and Reply properties as well as Fields[] (can be used to set any property).

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Crematorium becomes a rubbish dump. Danger of epidemics!
A huge graveyard in Manjanakarai, Ooty is of service to the people of Ooty city and the surrounding areas. It also has an electrical crematorium. The graveyard which is adjacent to Manjanakarai and R.K.Nagar areas has some private schools also near it. Meanwhile , the graveyard which is ill maintained has become a dumping ground for the people living nearby. There is also a danger of infections for those passing by. The people of that area have petitioned that the concerned authorities should take necessary action against this.


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12/29/08 - German Wine
Today's German Wine Article
Riedel Wineglasses: The Science Inside
For many former students, science was a class where it was hard to get excited. All the talk of human cells, the lectures on atoms, and the discovery that a hypothesis is not a huge, plant-eating African mammal was enough to make someone want to stick their head inside a Bunsen burner. While it may have been a boring subject in youth, in adulthood the science of wine is particularly interesting, making even those of us who hated everything from anatomy to zoology willing to raise our test tubes in a toast.
There are many scientific avenues of wine. From climate to fermentation, from the way wine is stored to the way is it sipped, science is behind nearly every aspect of wine, placing an arm around each grape and urging it forward. One aspect of wine where science is particularly interesting is the area of wineglasses, specifically Riedel wineglasses. It was the Riedel Company that first took the wine glass and made it both a form of science and a form of art.
Claus Riedel lived, worked, and invented by the belief that wine can be emphasized by the shape and design of a glass. With this belief, he set out to invent a line of wine glasses that would unite the wine's personality, its aroma, its taste, and its visual appeal. An avid wine drinker only need to drink out of a Riedel wineglass once to discover that Claus succeeded in his pursuit: he successfully designed wine glasses that would accentuate the best parts of the various types of wine. While it's obvious that his conquest was successful, the reasons why it was successful, the reasons why his way of thinking worked, aren't as clear. For these answers, we turn where all things unclear turn: towards science.
As we all know, there are five senses that drive the human perception: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. When it comes to wine, the sense of smell is as important as the sense of taste. It is with this sense that Claus Riedel began, beating the competition by a nose and so much more.
The sense of smell and the sense of taste in humans and many mammals go hand in hand, the way we smell dictates how we taste. This is because the sense of smell and the sense of taste both have a role in how the brain perceives flavor. This is why a person's sense of taste is hindered when they are plagued with a stuffy nose. While we have five taste sensations - sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness, and umani (a Japanese word that means "Savory" or "Meaty") - we have roughly a thousand genes geared towards odor perception. Because of this, the aroma of the wine - its intensity and its quality - can change the taste of it.
With this knowledge, Claus Riedel began designing glasses with bowls of different shapes. These shapes sent the wine flowing to the tongue while trapping the wine's aroma in a glass, directing them towards the nose.
Wine begins to evaporate when it is poured, quickly filling the glasses with flavorful levels of aroma. The rate at which aroma fills the glass depends on the density and heaviness of the wine. While the lightest vapors rise to the top, the heavier ones remain at the bottom. With this knowledge, Claus Riedel was able to make wine glasses geared towards the aromas and odors of all the different grapes.
Claus realized that the shape of the glass, while dictating emission of aroma, also dictates how a person positions their head while drinking, ultimately altering the way the wine flows into their mouth. Because drinkers of wine all drink with the goal of not spilling a single drop, they willing alter the position in which they sip. Where wide, open glasses force a drinker to lower their head, narrowly designed glasses force a drinker to tilt their head back. This delivers the wine to different zones of the tongue, resulting in the brain perceiving different flavors. The volume of the glass, the diameter of its rim, the thickness of the crystal, and the finish also all play a role in the roll of the wine onto the tongue.
The rim, in particular, controls the flow of wine, with certain rims possessing an open waterway and others building a bit of a damn. A cut rim, for example, allows the wine to flow onto the tongue in a smooth, consistent manner. A rolled rim, conversely, slows the flow of wine, causing acidity and tartness to be enhanced.
In order for this process to work successfully, Claus also maintained that perfect wine glasses needed to be clear, undecorated, thin-walled, polished, shaped like an egg, and made of crystal. In other words, perfect wineglasses needed to be Riedels.
Jennifer Jordan is the senior editor at
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If you've been creating sites with CSS for a while you may be getting frustrated with having to recreate and retest basic layouts on a regular basis. In this article I'm trying to illustrate a simple way of skipping the tedious startup on your average project, letting you get to the interesting stuff as quickly and efficiently as possible. I've not attempted to explain the layouts included here so it may not be suitable if you're a CSS beginner. Sorry about that… Feel free to dissect them yourself if you're interested; I've kept them as simple as possible.
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result; all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they are not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey every again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done around here.
Most of us have, at some sodden point in our lives, learned the hazards of "beer goggles". Indeed, research shows that 68% of men or women who hand out a phone number at a bar regret it the next day – after realizing the hottie they'd met was, in fact, not.


Your color scheme is the staple of your whole design plan. This is where you're going to establish what colors and shades of paint, wallpaper, furniture, etc., you want to use. You may want to maintain a similar color scheme throughout your entire home, or take it room by room; either is fine. Different rooms will reflect your colors in different ways, and the accentual pieces you choose can really add a personal style to each room. You also want to consider the size of each room, and what colors will work best. A best practice for smaller rooms is to use lighter, softer colors, to make the space look bigger than it actually is.
Piggy-backing off of your general color scheme, if you are thinking about a possible pop of color, but don't want to stray too far from your original plan, consider an accent wall. Accent walls are a great way to not only break up your space but add some color or depth to a room that might need it. Keep in mind, and accent wall doesn't need to be a wall of solid color. You can make an accent wall textured with wood panels or wallpaper, or even paint an abstract pattern that still works within your original color scheme.
To keep your design fun and inviting, you may want to mix things up a bit. You can have a more modern look, with a rustic touch, or vice versa. The great thing about design is the ability to customize. If you purchased a brand new couch with matching throw pillows, take a trip to your local home store and find some pillows that aren't necessarily matching, but still go well with your set. Mix up patterns and textures, new and old, and even throw in some fun DIY projects that you can proudly showcase in your space.
Mirrors and plants are a fantastic way to brighten any space within your home. Mirrors can help bring in light, and reflect it nicely throughout a room, especially if it's placed right near a window. If you have a green thumb, different plants can easily brighten your room, and make it much more lively! Depending on your preference, you can add tons of plants throughout your home, or limit it to just a few.


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Songs written by Hank Williams
Move It On Over by Hank Williams
written by Hank Williams
A Mansion on the Hill by Hank Williams
written by Hank Williams & Fred Rose
Honky Tonkin' by Hank Williams
from Honky Tonkin'
I'm a Long Gone Daddy by Hank Williams
Pan American by Hawkshaw Hawkins
Mind Your Own Business by Hank Williams
[MGM 10461]
Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door) by Hank Williams
US B Side to Lovesick Blues
You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) by Hank Williams
I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living by Hank Williams
Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Hank Williams
Moanin' the Blues by Hank Williams
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy by Hank Williams
US B Side to Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Nobody's Lonesome for Me by Hank Williams
US B Side to Moanin' the Blues
Why Don't You Love Me by Hank Williams
Why Should We Try Anymore by Hank Williams
from Sing Me a Blue Song
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle by Hank Williams
from Ramblin' Man
written by Hank Williams & Jimmie Davis
Baby, We're Really in Love by Hank Williams
Cold, Cold Heart by Dinah Washington
[Mercury 5728]
Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams
from The Memorial Album
Hey Good Lookin' by Hank Williams
Howlin' at the Moon by Hank Williams
I Can't Help it (If I'm Still in Love with You) by Hank Williams
US B Side to Howlin' at the Moon
① Cold, Cold Heart by Tony Bennett
Eileen Wilson & the Mellomen
Cold, Cold Heart by Eileen Wilson & the Mellomen
Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine
④ Hey, Good Lookin' by Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine
The Fontane Sisters
Cold, Cold Heart by The Fontane Sisters
[RCA 47-4274]
Tony Fontane
Cold, Cold Heart by Tony Fontane
Guy Mitchell
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) by Guy Mitchell
Honky Tonk Blues by Hank Williams
from Moanin' the Blues
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Hank Williams
written by Fred Rose & Hank Williams
You Win Again by Hank Williams
US B Side to Settin' the Woods on Fire
Jo Stafford
② Jambalaya by Jo Stafford
written by Hank Williams & Moon Mullican (uncredited)
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by Hank Williams
as Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys
Tommy Edwards
You Win Again by Tommy Edwards
I Won't Be Home No More by Hank Williams
Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams
Weary Blues from Waitin' by Hank Williams
Your Cheatin' Heart by Hank Williams
US B Side to Kaw-Liga [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #213]
Joni James
③ Your Cheatin' Heart by Joni James
Your Cheatin' Heart by Frankie Laine
⑤ There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight by Tony Bennett
The Paulette Sisters
You Win Again by The Paulette Sisters
[Capitol 3186]
You Win Again by Jerry Lee Lewis
[Sun 281]
Margaret Whiting
I Can't Help It by Margaret Whiting
[Dot 15680]
George Hamilton IV
Your Cheatin' Heart by George Hamilton IV
from Sing Me a Sad Song
B side to When Will I Know
[ABC 9946]
June Webb
A Mansion on the Hill by June Webb
[Hickory 1086]
Billy Vaughn
Your Cheatin' Heart by Billy Vaughn
Bobby Comstock
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by Bobby Comstock
as Bobby Comstock & the Counts
Adam Wade
I Can't Help It by Adam Wade
[Coed 530]
Cold, Cold Heart by Jerry Lee Lewis
from Jerry Lee's Greatest
Jambalaya by Fats Domino
from Million Sellers by Fats
B side to I Hear You Knocking; hit for hank williams in 1952
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You Win Again by Fats Domino
hit for Hank Williams in 1952
Johnny Tillotson
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) by Johnny Tillotson
from It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'
[Cadence 1432]
Your Cheatin' Heart by Ray Charles
from Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Volume Ywo)
with the Jack Halloran Singers
hit for Hank Williams in 1953; B side to You Are My Sunshine
[ABC-Paramount 10375]
Connie Stevens
Hey, Good Lookin' by Connie Stevens
[Warner 5318]
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Johnny Tillotson
B side to I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight by Adam Wade
[Epic 9557]
Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Hank Williams Jr.
from Songs of Hank Williams
Mind Your Own Business by Jimmy Dean
[Columbia 4-42934]
Your Cheatin' Heart by Fats Domino
[Imperial 66016]
Al Martino
My Heart Would Know by Al Martino
Skeeter Davis
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) by Skeeter Davis
B.J. Thomas
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by B.J. Thomas
from I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
as B.J. Thomas & The Triumphs
[Scepter 12129]
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams
from Legend Lives Anew with Strings
Bill Black's Combo
Hey, Good Lookin' by Bill Black's Combo
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love with You by B.J. Thomas
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love with You by Al Martino
Kaw-Liga by Charley Pride
from Charley Pride in Person
[live]
[RCA Victor 47-9716]
Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
I Saw the Light by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
from The Nashville Sound
as The Nashville Brass featuring Danny Davis
Cajun Baby by Hank Williams Jr.
from Songs My Father Left Me
written by Hank Williams Jr. & Hank Williams
Linda Plowman
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Linda Plowman
[Janus 146]
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle by Don Gibson
from Hank Williams as Sung by Don Gibson
The Dirt Band
I Saw the Light by The Dirt Band
as Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roy Acuff
[United Artists 50849]
Jambalaya by The Dirt Band
from All the Good Times
as Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Charlie McCoy
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Charlie McCoy
from Charlie McCoy
[Monument 8546]
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by John Fogerty
from The Blue Ridge Rangers
as The Blue Ridge Rangers
[Fantasy 689]
Buddy Alan
Move It On Over by Buddy Alan
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by The Carpenters
from Now & Then
charted as Jambalaya (On the Bayou) / Mr Guder in UK charts
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) by Linda Ronstadt
from Heart Like a Wheel
Why Don't You Love Me by Connie Smith
from I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today/I've Got My Baby On My Mind
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Terry Bradshaw
Michael Martin Murphey
A Mansion on the Hill by Michael Martin Murphey
from Swans Against the Sun
as Michael Murphey
[Epic 50184]
from Insight into Hank Williams
A Mansion on the Hill by Ray Price
from Hank 'n Me
[ABC/Dot 17666]
I'm Sorry for You, My Friend by Moe Bandy
from I'm Sorry for You My Friend
Saskia & Serge
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by Saskia & Serge
[ABC/Hickory 54020]
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight by Willie Nelson
from There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
[United Artists 1254]
as Jerry Lee Lewis & Friends
[Sun 1141]
Norman Wade
I'm a Long Gone Daddy by Norman Wade
[NSD 29]
Jeris Ross
You Win Again by Jeris Ross
[Door Knob 117]
Honky Tonk Blues by Charley Pride
from There's a Little Bit of Hank in Me
[RCA 11912]
You Win Again by Charley Pride
Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams Jr.
from Habits, Old and New
[Elektra/Curb 46636]
Vassar Clements
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight by Vassar Clements
[Flying Fish 4004]
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Jerry Lee Lewis
Honky Tonkin' by Hank Williams Jr.
from High Notes
Mind Your Own Business by Hank Williams Jr.
from Montana Cafe
with Reba McEntire and Tom Petty, Reverend Ike, and Willie Nelson
[Warner/Curb 28581]
Dennis Robbins
Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Dennis Robbins
[MCA 52987]
Doug Kershaw & Hank Williams Jr.
Cajun Baby by Doug Kershaw & Hank Williams Jr.
[BGM 81588]
Charley Hager
Men with Broken Hearts by Charley Hager
[Killer 114]
There's a Tear in My Beer by Hank Williams Jr.
from Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
with Hank Williams
Vicki Bird
Moanin' the Blues by Vicki Bird
[16th Avenue 70431]
Pirates of the Mississippi
Honky Tonk Blues by Pirates of the Mississippi
from Pirates of the Mississippi
[Capitol 44579]
Hey Good Lookin' by The Mavericks
from From Hell to Paradise
[MCA]
I Saw the Light by The The
from Hanky Panky
Travis Tritt & George Thorogood
Move It On Over by Travis Tritt & George Thorogood
from King of the Hill: Original Television Soundtrack
[Elektra]
Hey, Good Looking by Alan Jackson
from License to Chill
with Jimmy Buffett & co
Hey Good Lookin' by Jimmy Buffett
with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait
[Mailboat]
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Ramblin' Man by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
from Ballad of the Broken Seas
Lauren Duski & Blake Shelton
There's a Tear in My Beer by Lauren Duski & Blake Shelton
[from The Voice (US), season 12]
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Kleis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 (born 1956), Danish politician
Dave Kleis (born 1964), American politician
Martin Kleis (1850–1908), Danish trader on Nui
, winner of the 2010 Copenhagen Marathon

See also
Kleis Site
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Terminology 101: Retrospective cohort study design
Retrospective cohort study design: An observational epidemiologic design in which risk of disease is retrospectively compared between an exposed and a non-exposed group
Source: Gordis, L. (2009). Epidemiology. (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier
Retrospective cohort studies are a type of observational research in which the investigator looks back in time at archived or self-report data to examine whether the risk of disease was different between exposed and non-exposed patients. Like prospective cohort studies retrospective cohort studies classify study participants on the basis of whether or not they were exposed to the factor under investigation. However, in retrospective studies, the research is initiated after both the exposure and the outcome (e.g., disease) have already occurred. Therefore, investigators usually create two groups of people who are known to have been either exposed or not exposed to the factor of interest during a specific time frame, and then they compare the two groups with regard to their disease status.
The interpretation of the findings from retrospective cohort studies is similar to that of findings from prospective cohort studies. If the risk of disease in the two groups was not different, we conclude that there is no association between the exposure and the disease. If the risk of disease was higher (or lower) in the exposed group, we conclude that the exposure is associated with increased (or decreased) risk of the disease.
Retrospective cohort studies are often conducted before prospective cohort studies to validate evidence gathered using weaker study designs (e.g., descriptive studies) concerning the association between the exposure and the outcome. They are also commonly carried out when there is a disease outbreak, at which time investigators may look into data recently collected within the context of public health surveillance of the outbreak to establish an association between possible exposures and disease. Finally, the retrospective cohort design is particularly appealing to investigators who may have insufficient funding to conduct a prospective cohort study: because they use archived data, retrospective cohort studies do not require the long, and potentially expensive, followup that prospective cohort studies often require.
Given the retrospective nature of this study design, investigators will always have prior knowledge of the exposure and disease among participants when they begin their research and thus such studies are especially prone to selection bias. Recall bias is also of concern because all events examined in such studies are past events. In addition, retrospective cohort studies are prone to information or misclassification bias because the investigators may not be able to ascertain the accuracy of the archived data concerning the exposure and/or the outcome. Like other observational studies, retrospective cohort studies may only suggest an association between the exposure and the outcome: it is not possible to infer from such studies whether or not the exposure causes the outcome.
In conclusion, the retrospective cohort study design is popular among investigators who wish to conduct a study quickly at low cost, but readers should keep the limitations of this design in mind when they evaluate the findings from such studies.
NurseONE resources on this topic
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Fitzpatrick, J. J., & Kazer M. W. (Eds.). (2011). Encyclopedia of nursing research (3rd ed.).
Gallin, J. I., & Ognibene, F. P. (Eds.). (2012). Principles and practice of clinical research (3rd ed.).
Supino, P. G., & Borer, J. S. (Eds.). (2012). Principles of research methodology: A guide for clinical investigators.
Maher M. El-Masri, RN, PhD, is a full professor and research chair in the faculty of nursing, University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ont.
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Think it's a bit extreme but each to their own I guess.
EDIT: Tbh.. people do it because staff do not enforce it fully as they should, I saw a bunch of people smoking near the shop at Wicker Man and the staff said nothing.. Today's society doesn't care about other people's well beings so they smoke because they can. Like I said, I had the decency to smoke in the designated sectors, now I've stopped, but my other half still smokes, most times in the designated sectors but if she hasn't had one for a while being 2/3 hours plus she will have one, she will keep out of the way of other guests especially children because that is the sort of people we are. We respect other people's concerns.
As reported earlier on today by TowersTimes Facebook; Like last week, Alton Towers have extended ride close tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, so that they will now open 10am - 6pm. The ride close today was also extended to 6pm.
Opening times for the remainder of the month have also recently been added to the Resort's website, with a return to the off-peak pattern of 10am - 4pm on weekdays and 10am - 5pm during weekends.
I don't think the length of queues is really an excuse. The rules are very clearly laid down, and I'm sure the same people somehow manage to get through a film at their local cinema for nearly 3 hours without lighting up. They smoke because they're outside and that's good enough for them.
Films are a bit different to standing in a line, for one you are distracted by the film, which can easily help to not light up. If you are standing in a queue for 3 hours, that's quite a challenge to do for a smoker.. as I used to be one I understand how it is.
If a queue has been for 3 hours let's just say, and someone sparks up who hasn't the entire 3 hours so far.. would anyone really tell them to stub it out? From my experiences.. I wouldn't dare.
People shouldn't smoke in queue lines, in my opinion. It is unfair to damage the health of others to satisfy a craving. Other people do not wish to have harmful excess tar secreted into their lungs against their own will. If you can't last the queue time without needing to smoke, then don't queue.
I agree, I always tell my other half to have a quick one in the designated area.. this should be enough for a decent queue time.
What gets me is that people who smoke at the start of the queue, and then smoke another almost before they are on the ride.. on average queues are 30 minutes.. or 45 dependant on the area you are in.. so for them to do that is complete disregard for anyone else.. these type of people should be removed.
Just to remind everyone, we do have a topic dedicated to discussing Smoking Outside of the Designated Areas, which can be found here.
While we of course promote healthy discussion on this subject, we ask that it is done so in the correct topic.
Alton Towers have just revealed a new Mini Mission, for guests under the 1.4m height restriction. They are challenging guests to accomplish 22 different tasks throughout the theme park. More details can be found here.
That's such a good idea for the younger guests, well done towers!
We went to AT on Friday (I took my 11 year old daughter and two friends).
Unfortunately, for the first time since my first visit in 1990, it wasn't a great trip. The weather obviously didn't help, but it was a few things which just seemed to add up over the day.
- Smiler wasn't open (I don't think it opened once during the day).
- They need to get a better way of measuring the queue times. They are very rarely accurate.
- We sat a table in the Pizza restaurant for 10 minutes before somebody came over to us (this was after I went to find somebody after 5 minutes). It wasn't massively busy either.
- The photo digipass apparently wasn't loaded on properly when I bought itand we ended up missing 4 photos. That added on to the fact that the photo system wasn't working in Duel meant it was horrible value.
- Why are only a very limited number of rides open at 10am? When Smiler is one of them and that is broken then it's a pretty rubbish start to the day. Especially because once we finally got off Oblivion (haven't waited in a queue as long since the mid-2000s), Enterprise went down too.
I love AT, but for the first time ever, I felt like I had a better experience at Thorpe Park when we went last October. I never thought I'd feel that way.
Honestly, it looks like it's been an appalling day at Towers today. It's just so sad that it's come to this. One month. An entire month of unbelievably poor operations and ride reliability.
Realistically, what hope really is there for any improvement as the season continues? It just seems as though, everyday there is an excuse for this and an excuse for that, and even if there has been problems with power today, what about tomorrow, the next day, and the next... when will they actually get this mess sorted out?
I'm sure Alton don't really want to operate a park which lets down guests. While there have been some questionable decisions (removal of rides for TLC - Twirling Toadstalls, Charlie, SubTerra etc, along with the removal of baggage holds and staggered opening times) I am sure Alton don't go out of their way to close rides. There must be a reason for the closure and if they can minimise these closures to the minimum time possible then they will. Today has been shocking, but at least Alton have revalidated tickets and extended closing, even if just for 30mins.
I was there today and yeah, it was terrible. Huge sections of the park closed, continual breakdowns on Wickerman. I don't think Rita even opened. It's sad to see the park in such a state.
There are some positives though, I've fallen head over heels in love with Wicker Man (even if it did force me to queue in sweltering conditions for over an hour and a half). The Smiler is running really well, not as rough as I had remembered. Duel is looking good, a few more tweaks and it'll be amazing. Hex still impresses. Staff (bar someone from Eastern Express who was rude to me, so not Alton staff) were friendly and chatty. I felt so sorry for the customer services team, the amount of abuse they were getting.
Slightly OT but if you're there as a pass holder on one of the days where they 'revalidated' tickets, head to Guest Services and they'll sort you out a pair of fast tracks. I was also handed a free ticket on the way out, they didn't see my annual pass around my neck.
Well if Merlin aren't going to give their parks a sufficient budget to run them properly, what do we expect?
The park are doing the best they can with the money they have available to them. Unfortunately, as has been proved so many times in the past month, it's nowhere near enough. I firmly believe that this year is make or break for the park, and it saddens me to see the almost daily reports of poor operations, ride availability and customer service.
One can only hope that their KPI's are taking such a battering that Merlin have to increase their budget for next year.
They're not giving the parks any budget because they're spending it on opening more Midway attractions and building hotels. Midway attractions are far more profitable as they can open year round and are so cheap to run in comparison to a theme park. An investment in a new Madame Tussaud's in, say, New York has the potential to interest locals and tourists from across the globe but improving operations and keeping rides open at Alton Towers does what? Maybe improves the TripAdvisor ratings so a few more people travel from inside the UK.
Honestly, in the situation that we're in, I have so much respect for all those at Towers who are trying their very best to make the most out of the budget Merlin are giving them. The money that they are given really isn't enough, and I imagine some very tough decisions have to be made. But when it has such an impact on guest experience, people simply won't come back.
I mean, it's okay giving guests free return tickets to encourage guests to return when your business is having a bad day, in fact, it makes sense from a business perspective, as it in theory should give the resort another chance to show their customers that they can do things right. But when they simply don't have the funds to improve things, what are they even trying to achieve by handing out all these free tickets?? Because people will take up the offer of free tickets, visit again, still be unhappy, and will be left even less willing to make a return visit.
I just want Merlin to stop prioritising their shareholders over their customers.
Keep in mind that Merlin recently dropped out of the FTSE 100, so they will be trying to save money. Nevertheless, this was where I discovered my love of rollercoasters, so it is sad to see what it's going through.
The park was operating moderately OK yesterday. Some degree of Wicker Man downtime which seemed to get resolved quickly, but unfortunately Rita went down around 1pm and after a brief re-opening shut down for the day very quickly. When both rides were down, there were obscene queues on Thirteen, X-sector rides and Nemesis opened it's slightly extended queue for a period which was unexpected. The number of empty seats, empty rows on coasters across the park was stupid, and I've never seen a roller coaster operating worse in my entire life than Oblivion. Two ops trying to manage the queue, manage the disabled entrance, seat riders, check restraints and dispatch meant a train left at one point after a 10 minute dwell in the station without any real reason. Watching it from the queue was maddening. The people I'd brought had no real theme park experience and even they were commenting about how inefficient it was. This has to change.
That doesn't sound good, especially when you had people with you who don't usually visit. Hopefully, the situation is being monitored and feedback to the powers that be.
An enjoyable day can still be had at Alton Towers, although it seems more and more apparent that you need a good knowledge of the park in order to maximise your day. This doesn't just go for Alton, but Thorpe Park and Chessington too. I know on the days we have visited, so far this year, that there have been reports of some guests only riding 2 or 3 rides all day when we have managed 9, 10 or more. Operations certainly play a big part in which rides you choose and that does mean repeat rides on those which are working well and leaving some. As a passholder and frequent visitor, I suppose it doesn't matter as much but then again this is by no means an excuse as you are still being denied an opportunity to ride a well operated attraction.


Røde Ø ("Red Island") is situated in Rødefjord ("Red Bay"), inner Scoresbysund, and both names are storytelling, giving hints about the theme of the day: colours. Colours are one of the big things in Greenland anyway, from the intense yellow and green of the autumn tundra to the shining white blue of the omnipresent ice, the intense blue of the sky, the dark orange-purple of an arctic sunset and finally the mystic green of the aurora borealis. A jawdropping range of colours of immense beauty.
You can see all of it in Rødefjord and even more, as part of the fjord, including Rødeø, consist of sandstone an intense brownish red colour, the so-called New Red. This additional colour spectacle goes back to desert sand of the Permian, near 300 million years ago, when the eroded remnants of the Caledonian mountains where deposited on either side of the mountain range in tectonic depressions. It is both geologically and visually very similar to the Old Red which is well known from parts of Scotland (Orkney Islands) and Spitsbergen (Woodfjord, Dickson Land, to name some important examples). The New Red is just a bit younger than the Devonian Old Red. Well, it takes a while to wear a chain of mountains down. And today, spending a nice arctic summer day in a New Red area in east Greenland such as Rødefjord or in an Old Red area in Spitsbergen is one of the most scenic experiences the arctic has to offer. You will agree if you have seen it, I am sure!
And of course there is still this huge amount of large icebergs which keep stranding in "shallow" waters on the northern side of Rødeø. A zodiac cruise between those icebergs is an immensely impressive experience (but be careful, otherwise it can also be immensely dangerous).
Rødeø itself has some impressive scenic features, such as a short cave under a sandstone arc on its southern coast, which is navigable for Zodiacs. A short distance west of it, there is a rock stack composed of basalt columns, an instrusive sheet weathered out of the softer sandstone, known as "brændestabelen" (pile of firewood), an appropriately descriptive name. And from the hills of Rødeø, you have a beautiful view over one of east Greenland's most scenic fjord.


Sometimes we're asked to become involved with a brand through a singular project. The importance of understanding the brand's strengths along with project specific details is tantamount for success. For one moment in that brand's lifetime, we need to create a communication that propels it forward or even elevates it to a new height.


This vintage necklace is composed of beautiful red branch coral beads that are Italian. The coral is all natural and hasn't been treated or dyed in any way. It has graduated long spiky branches that are over 1¼ inches long in the center.


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Security: Rallying to the standard
It may have a low profile now, but could the BS7799 standard finally get the topic of information security out of the closet and...
Alion Classe
It may have a low profile now, but could the BS7799 standard finally get the topic of information security out of the closet and into the boardroom? Alion Classe reports
Apparently British firms don't know a good thing when they see it - or perhaps they just haven't seen it. Though BS7799 has been around since 1995, it isn't exactly a household name. Next week's DTI information breaches survey will reveal that just 6% of information security managers could name the standard.
Kevin Black, director of sales and marketing with Internet Security Systems (ISS), comments, "The main reason the standard doesn't yet have great visibility is that security is still largely seen as the preserve of security specialists and gurus." Even companies with a lot staked on e-commerce projects often pay alarmingly little attention to security issues, Black reports.
On the other hand, there's a high degree of awareness among security professionals, many of whom have greeted the standard as a useful tool for explaining security concepts, and hence the function of their various products and services.
Interest is not limited to the UK: MIS Corporate Defence Solutions, which has been certified under BS7799 itself and also helps other companies to prepare for certification, has received a lot of overseas enquiries, including from the US.
"The current version of the standard is non-UK specific," says MIS-CDS consultancy manager Julie Kenward. She expects it to become an ISO in the near future, although some other consultants are sceptical about whether this will happen.
The value of BS7799
What do its fans like about BS7799? Mostly, that it encourages a coherent approach to information security. Too often, the typical user organisation's approach to security has tended to be ad hoc - a firewall here, a smidgin of encryption there - with no overall strategy for managing risk.
Colin Robbins, product strategist with Nexor, thinks the industry is partly to blame. "As soon as a security fear is mentioned, technologists start talking about PKI or something, and before you know it, you may have spent half a million on technology when an insurance policy might have been more appropriate. The good thing about the standard is that it's pragmatic. It says: 'Let's identify risks and take appropriate measures'."
It's not that anything revolutionary is being attempted here - the contents of BS7799 have much in common with assorted security management guidelines, procedures and methodologies used by consultants for decades. But none of these approaches has achieved industry-wide acceptance. In BS7799, security experts hope companies will eventually recognise a universally applicable model and one endorsed by a bevy of blue-chip organisations along with the DTI and BSI.
Its admirers see BS7799 not just as a certification standard but as a guide for anyone wanting a sensible approach to security. Graham Welch, RSA Security vice-president of the UK, France and Benelux, says, "The standard is extremely good guidance; the articles associated with it are useful for raising awareness of where the risks lie." Kenward agrees, "Even if you don't want to go for the certification, it's worth complying with the standard because it represents best practice in looking after information."
Is it too general?
An earlier BSI effort, BS5750, the quality management standard which became ISO9000, was sometimes accused of bureaucracy. One critic claims that compliance adds a one man-year overhead to even the smallest project. "It guarantees that your quality systems are properly documented, but not that your products are of good quality," said another.
BS7799, on the other hand, is generally considered more practical and less likely to generate gratuitous paperwork. In its current version, advocates feel that it can be applied realistically by even small companies.
Kay Ruddeforth is business manager with BSI Global Quality Services, the commercial wing of BSI which, along with a handful of other bodies like Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, offers to certify organisations for BS7799 compliance. She explains that BS7799 allows each organisation to "pick and mix" the relevant controls. "So a small company can choose only the controls that are relevant, as long as it can justify why it hasn't implemented the others."
Some say the standard still errs on the side of generality. Neil Barrett, technical director of security consultancy Information Risk Management, finds BS7799 useful in many respects, and commends it as "sane and comprehensible". But he says, "The standard asks, for example, if you've got an antivirus policy, but the policy might be to upgrade every week or every year - one of which is clearly adequate and the other not."
Accrediting scheme c:cure fills in some of the gaps, he concedes, by ensuring that auditors have a real-world appreciation of what constitutes an adequate policy, but Barrett would also like to see BS7799-approved procedures that reflect best industry practice - for example, recommending a monthly virus update, assuming that proved to be the optimal frequency.
But ISS's Black argues that its generality is what gives BS7799 a long shelf-life. "Obviously, new types of security breach are always going to need a rethink of security policies. Building security is a well-established discipline, but ram-raiding can catch them on the hop for a few weeks. Implementing BS7799 should mean you have a process in place for dealing with new types of threat."
What's involved in getting a certificate
So what does it take to get certified? Ruddeforth explains there are two stages to an audit. "The first stage is to review the company's risk assessment and how they decided which of the controls from BS7799 were relevant to them. Then, not more than six weeks later, we go back and look at the policies and procedures to see if they're working effectively and in accordance with the standard. That involves interviewing people working at the coal-face to see if, for example, passwords are being used as they're supposed to be."
The upshot is either a statement by the auditors that the requirement is met, perhaps with a recommendation of further work in specific areas, or a statement that the organisation doesn't meet the requirement.
How much work is involved in the audit? Ruddeforth estimates that the first stage takes about two days and the second about four days in a medium-size company. Of course, a lot more work goes on behind the scenes - a typical elapsed time for preparation might be six to nine months, she says, much of which would be devoted to risk-assessment. User organisations may choose to bring in security consultants to help with the preparation.
Insight Consulting is one of a number of firms in the security and IT industries that have decided to take their own medicine and get certified themselves as well as help other companies to do so. Partner Ian Glover says that although the company was already fairly confident about its technical security, this was still a non-trivial exercise. The firm went through a staged process - including scoping, gap analysis, statement of applicability, risk-assessment, improvement plan - and emerged with some worthwhile benefits along with its certification.
"The process clarified our approach and improved our procedures in areas like incident reporting," says Glover. Now the firm will be reassessed by certifying body DNV every six months to ensure continued compliance, and especially to make sure that policies and practice keep pace with any environmental changes.
Gaining a higher profile
Though BS7799 may lack visibility at the moment, that situation looks set to change. The new Data Protection Act, which came into force on 1 March 2000, may help to raise awareness. The Data Protection Registrar's document, Preparing For The New Act, states, "Reference to BS7799 may help data controllers assess the adequacy of their current security regime."
On the other hand, awareness of the Act itself is, at best, patchy, points out MIS-CDS's Kenward, who recently had a letter from a credit company that mentioned the 1984 Data Protection Act rather than the latest 1998 version.
Having implemented BS7799 could be a help in the case of a legal dispute. George Gardiner, a partner in the IT and telecoms group of law firm Tarlo Lyons, says, "In establishing whether a company is accountable for a breach of security, the courts will look to see whether it has employed adequate security methods.
Following BS7799 can at least indicate to the court that you're aware of the problems and are doing something to secure the company, using a recognised reference model." Of course, you would have to show that you'd implemented and were continuing to adhere to the model - official BS7799 certification might help here.
Insight's Glover points out that BS7799 could also be a useful aid to compliance with the corporate governance demands associated with the Turnbull Report. This fact might attract some attention from any directors who realise they can be personally liable if their companies don't give due attention to risk management.
Security issues relating to e-commerce - a new emphasis in the latest version of the standard - could also raise its profile. Smile, the Co-op's online bank, is among the first companies outside the security industry to have been certified under BS7799 (with help from Insight Consulting) and evidently hopes that emblazoning its Web site with the fact will reassure Net-shy customers.
"Smile is safe - it's the only Internet bank in the world to be accredited to BS7799 for information security management by the British Standards Institution," asserts its home page. Announcing the certification in January, Keith Girling, director of technology at The Co-operative Bank, said, "We knew the multi-levelled security surrounding our Internet systems was extremely robust, but it is very satisfying to know we have met all the rigorous requirements laid down by the BSI."
The growth of business-to-business e-commerce could give another fillip to BS7799. Malcolm Skinner, product marketing manager with Axent Technologies, expects to see large companies encouraging, if not forcing, smaller suppliers, partners and agents to get certified. "On the whole, the largest companies appreciate the value of information, and their obligation to look after information about third parties. They will be looking for an indication that other companies they share information with have taken steps to safeguard it. BS7799 is an obvious way of achieving that."
The British Standards Institute (www.bsi.org.uk) has information about both the standard and its own certification service.
Information about BS7799 and c:cure: www.c-cure.org
Den Norske Veritas claims to be the first certification body to get c:cure accreditation.
What are BS7799 and C:CURE?
BS7799 is the British Standard for information security management. It addresses the confidentially, integrity and availability of information and has two parts: a "code of practice" and a "specification".
First published in 1995, the standard appeared in a revised version last year. The 1999 version replaces references to "IT" with "information", and has been revised in other areas to make it clear that the information security issue is not restricted to the IT department but is a corporate responsibility. Controls specifically to address e-commerce have also been introduced.
The standard is looked after by a committee of the BSI's information arm BSI-DISC. Companies like Marks & Spencer and Shell were involved in the consultations that produced the standard, along with IT organisations like the CCTA and BCS.
As with other standards, two separate validation concepts apply: certification of organisations that comply with the standard, and accreditation of those bodies and individuals who audit organisations for compliance.
c:cure is a scheme for accrediting those who intend to audit organisations for compliance with BS7799, with accreditation paths for both certification bodies and individual auditors.
The scheme comes under the aegis of BSI-DISC and involves UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service), the BCS and IRCA (the International Register of Certified Auditors). Just to complicate matters, c:cure accreditation isn't mandatory for BS7799 certification bodies and auditors.
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Bengaluru: Powered by a splendid century by opener Anmolpreet Singh following a fifer by Siddharth Kaul, Punjab trounced Karnataka by six wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Bengaluru on Monday.
After bundling out Karnataka for a stiff 296, courtesy a five-wicket haul by pacer Kaul, it was Anmolpreet who stole the show with a pulverising knock of 138 in the elite group A tie at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Kaul wreaked havoc to return with fine figures of 5-41 and his scalps included Karun Nair, Kaunain Abbas, Shreyas Gopal, Aniruddha and T Pradeep.
The speedster was complimented well by Barinder Singh Sran (3-48), while veteran Yuvraj Singh and young leggie Mayank Markande picked up a wicket each.
For Karnataka, wicket-keeper-batsman B R Sharath top scored with 70, while skipper Manish Pandey (67), R Samarth (54) and Shreyas Gopal (37) also made noteworthy contributions.
But for Punjab, the chase was a walk in the park, with 20-year-old Anmolpreet scoring a blazing 138 off just 106 balls.
He also put on a huge 198-run stand for the opening wicket with Shubman Gill (77).
Anmolpreet, a right-handed batsman, smashed 12 fours and five hits over the fence, while Gill struck seven fours and a six.
The two hammered a listless Karnataka attack led by Abhimanyu Mithun.
After the two openers departed, Yuvraj Singh (38) and skipper Mandeep Singh (30) also played their part to perfection, but fell when the team was crusing towards the victory.
However, Punjab romped home with seven balls to spare.
At the other two Elite Group A games held in neighbouring Alur, in a low-scoring thriller Vidarbha defeated Goa by 1 run, while Maharashtra defeated Baroda by five wickets.
The quarter-finals for the tournament will start on 14 October, with the semi-finals on 17 and 18 October and the final on Saturday 20 October, all scheduled in Bengaluru.
Summarised scores: Karnataka 296 all out in 48.2 overs (B R Sharath 70, Manish Pandey 67, Siddharth Kaul 5-41) lost to Punjab 297/4 in 48.5 overs (Anmolpreet Singh 138, Shubman Gill 77, K Gowtham 1-49) by four wickets.
At Alur: Baroda 206/8 in 50 overs (Yusuf Pathan 64 not out, Krunal Pandya 52, Samad Fallah 3-21) lost to Maharashtra 207/5 in 44.3 overs (Naushad Shaikh 76 not out, Rohit Motwani 59, Atit Sheth 3-36) by five wickets.
Vidarbha 218 all out in 48.2 overs (Faiz Fazal 49, Atharva Taide 48, Darshan Misal 4-52) beat Goa 217/9 in 50 overs (Amit Verma 45, Suyash Prabhudessai 39, Darshan Nalkande 3-37) by one run.
Vadodara: Capping a successful return from an 18-year exile, Bihar stormed into the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinals with a nine-wicket thrashing of Mizoram in Vadodara on Monday.
Bihar concluded the league stage with an unassailable 30 points and grabbed the solitary qualifying berth from the spot from the plate group.
Bihar captain Keshav Kumar (4/21) triggered the collapse before left-arm spinner Ashutosh Aman stole the limelight with scintillating figures of 4-2-2-3, as Mizoram folded for 83 in 27.2 overs after electing to bat at the Motibaug Stadium.
Bihar cruised home in 15.4 overs with opener Vikash Ranjan remaining unbeaten on 59 on the way to registering their seventh win from eight matches with one being a washout.
Bihar who last played Ranji Trophy plate group in the 2003-04 season returned to the domestic fold after a Supreme Court order in January this year.
At Nadiad, Uttarakhand registered a commanding 108-run win over Arunachal Pradesh but it was insufficient as they finished two points behind Bihar, having lost to them in the group league stage.
At Anand: Puducherry 324/5; 50 overs (Paras Dogra 136 not out, Rohit D 55, Abhishek Nayar 50) beat Meghalaya 250/5; 50 overs (Yogesh Nagar 109 not out) by 74 runs.
At Nadiad: Uttarakhand 264; 49.4 overs (Saurabh Rawat 67, Malolan Rangarajan 50; Sams Alam 2/39, Sandeep Thakur 2/41, Kshitiz Sharma 2/45) beat Arunachal Pradesh 156/9; 50 overs (Akhilesh Sahani 41; Rajat Bhatia 3/17, Malolan Rangarajan 2/12, Mayank Mishra 2/26) by 108 runs.
At Vadodara: Mizoram 83; 27.2 overs (Akhil Rajput 43; Keshav Kumar 4/21, Ashutosh Aman 3/2) lost to Bihar 87/1; 15.4 overs (Vikash Ranjan 59 not out) by nine wickets.


There are many anxiety symptoms that are not well known among individuals who only recently began experiencing anxiety. Most people are familiar with nausea and palpitation of anxiety, but what many don't realize is that there are countless other anxiety symptoms that can affect various part of your body.
This can create a problem, because unusual or unexpected anxiety symptoms can lead to further anxiety and anticipation, and in many cases result in doctor's visits that would otherwise be unnecessary. One such symptom associated with anxiety causes jaw pain.
Obviously, jaw discomfort can be caused by any number of head/neck or dental issues as well. That's why it's always important to speak with a dentist, especially if it's been a while since you've visited one. Jaw pain rarely occurs as a solitary symptom of anxiety.
Facial Tension All forms of facial tension may lead to jaw pain.
Clenching Jaw clenching is perhaps even more common. Many of those with anxiety clench their teeth at night, sometimes with grinding, and when you wake your teeth and gums have experienced so much pressure that they cause you considerable pain.
There are some quick fixes to control jaw pain occurring due to anxiety. The best place to start is with a mouth guard to prevent any clenching during sleep. There are several mouth guards for those who grind their teeth at night, and this can provide some relief for those with persistent anxiety.
Greater mindfulness can also provide some relief. Pay attention to your anxiety. When you feel yourself getting stressed, see how your mouth feels. If you find that you're clenching, stop. Eventually, you can train your brain to stop automatically clenching your jaw during periods of intense anxiety.
Yet there are other options out there that have very high success rates and can be completed in the comfort of your own home.


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Q: Resizing a map implementation in java I am writing my own hashmap. I am able to define put/get methods. When I am trying to resize the array, I am getting null values:
 public void resize() {
        if (100 * size >= 75 * capacity) {
            int oldcap = capacity;
            capacity = capacity * 2;
            Entry[] resizedBuckets = new Entry[capacity];

            for (int i = 0; i < oldcap; i++) {
                resizedBuckets[i] = this.buckets[i];
            }

            this.buckets = resizedBuckets;
        }
    }

My whole code is as below:
package lib;

class Entry<K, V> {
    K key;
    V value;
    Entry<K, V> next;

    Entry(K key, V value, Entry next) {
        this.key = key;
        this.value = value;
    }

}

public class MyMap<K, V> {
    Entry[] buckets;
    int size = 0;
    static int capacity = 2;

    MyMap(int capacity) {
        this.buckets = new Entry[capacity];
    }

    public MyMap() {
        this(capacity);
    }

    public void resize() {
        if (100 * size >= 75 * capacity) {
            int oldcap = capacity;
            capacity = capacity * 2;
            Entry[] resizedBuckets = new Entry[capacity];

            for (int i = 0; i < oldcap; i++) {
                resizedBuckets[i] = this.buckets[i];
            }

            this.buckets = resizedBuckets;
        }
    }

    public void put(K key, V value) {
        int bucket = key.hashCode() % capacity;

        //i have bucket it
        Entry newEntry = new Entry<K, V>(key, value, null);

        if (this.buckets[bucket] == null) {
            this.buckets[bucket] = newEntry;
            size++;
        } else {
            Entry currentNode = this.buckets[bucket];
            Entry prevNode = null;
            while (currentNode.next != null && currentNode.key != key) {
                prevNode = currentNode;
                currentNode = currentNode.next;
            }

            if (currentNode.key == key) {
                if (prevNode == null) {
                    newEntry.next = currentNode.next;
                    this.buckets[bucket] = newEntry;
                } else {
                    newEntry.next = currentNode.next;
                    prevNode.next = newEntry;
                }
            } else {
                currentNode.next = newEntry;
                size++;
            }
        }
        resize();
    }

    public V get(K key) {
        int bucket = key.hashCode() % capacity;
        Entry currentBucket = this.buckets[bucket];
        while (currentBucket != null) {
            if (currentBucket.key == key)
                return (V) currentBucket.value;
            currentBucket = currentBucket.next;
        }
        return null;
    }
}

class MyMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyMap<String, Integer> myMap = new MyMap<>();
        myMap.put("name", 1);
        myMap.put("2name", 2);
        myMap.put("3name", 2);
        myMap.put("4name", 3);
        myMap.put("5name", 2);
        myMap.put("6name", 2);
        myMap.put("3name", 3);

        System.out.println(myMap);

        System.out.println(myMap.get("name"));
        System.out.println(myMap.get("2name"));
        System.out.println(myMap.get("3name"));

    }
}

I am getting following output:
lib.MyMap@30f39991
null
null
3

I should be getting:
1
2
3
What's the reason? I think the issue is with resize method, but I am unable to figure it out.

A: As mentioned in the comments your bucket index changed as capacity was increased during the resize operation. And thus int bucket = key.hashCode() % capacity; inside put and get returns a different bucket index than before.
I haven't tested it, but I think, if you do
resizedBuckets[this.buckets[i].getKey().hashCode() % capacity] = this.buckets[i];

inside the resize method, this might already work.
As @Voo pointed out, the above change only works as long as you don't have any hash collisions before resizing. For a complete solution you will need to recalculate the index for every key!

A: Have a look at your code:
public void put(K key, V value) {
    int bucket = key.hashCode() % capacity;
    ...
    resize(); // this will modify capacity;
}

public void get(K key) {
    int bucket = key.hashCode() % capacity;
    ...
}

You resize() the map, but store the old hashCode() x capacity key bucket. This invalidates the key somewhat for your get()-method. Because if you would put the same value-key-pair again with your modified map size, it would not land in the same bucket as the old key-value-pair.
You have to store the keys in your resized map with the new capacity instead of simply copying them.


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Latin Kings graffiti adorns the wall of a building near the new KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy now under construction in Camden.
Plans for sweeping restructuring of state-run Camden school district, including turning over four schools to charter operators, faced its first open challenge yesterday when lawyers contended that the moves violated state law and regulations on several fronts.
It is these "renaissance school" projects that would expand under the reorganization plan announced by Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard last month.
Four schools would be turned over to Mastery Charter Schools and Uncommon Schools, and a fifth school would be closed outright, with most of its students attending the new KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy now under construction.
The ELC contended that the Urban Hope Act was never intended to have existing schools handed over to the charter operators.
The group said the plans also violate the state's own procedures, under which the targeted school are already operating under improvement plans that preclude such charter conversions.
EVERYTHING'S GOING GREAT FOR CAMDEN'S STATE-RUN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, RIGHT?
Sciarra wouldn't yet commit to a formal legal challenge, noting that the plans still require final approval from the Christie administration."I don't want to get into that at this point," he said last night.
Rouhanifard's office rejected the claim that public input had not been sought or even that the changes could even be defined as conversions. It said that the schools are actually being closed and reopened under the new management, including "substantial reconstruction" of the buildings, as allowed under the law.
District officials said that selling or leasing of the properties to the charter operators is also still being considered.
The challenges to the restructuring were hardly unexpected in light of such sweeping changes and considering that two lawsuits have already been filed since the first of the renaissance-school plans were unveiled.
The first case ended when the state Legislature amended the law to address the complaint. The second lawsuit, lodged by a group of parent advocates, is pending in appellate court.
Rouhanifard is moving ahead with plans for the next school year – including door-to-door canvassing — as the proposals go through the formal review process with state Department of Education.
In each case, the state needs to sign off on the specific applications for each school, and there is also a review process for when a school is closed.


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Combs doubles up yet again
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 – Luke Combs continues to top the Billboard charts as "This One's For You" was first again on the Top Country Albums chart as was "Beautiful Crazy" on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending April 6.
On the songs chart, Dan + Shay were second with "Tequila," Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line third with "Meant to Be," Brett Young fourth with Here Tonight" and Dan + Shay fifth with "Speechless."
Kane Brown was seventh, up three, with "Good As You." Kelsea Ballerini jumped 6 to eighth with "Miss Me More." Jake Owen jumped eight to ninth with "Down to the Honkytonk." Michael Ray was at 11 with "One That Got Away," up 4. So was Thomas Rhett's "Look What God Gave Her," which was 12th. Maren Morris held the 15th spot with "GIRL," up 3. Jon Pardi was 16th with "Night Shift," up 3 as was "Rumor" from Lee Brice at 17; Florida Georgia Line with "Talk You Out of It" at 18, Cody Johnson with "On My Way to You" at 19 and Carrie Underwood with "Love Win" at 20.
Eli Young Band moved up 4 to 21 with "Love Ain't." The following were up 4: Rodney Atkins featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers with "Caught Up in the Country" at 22; Brett Eldredge with "Love Someone" at 23; Kacey Musgraves with "Rainbow" at 24; George Strait with "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" at 25; Chris Lane with "I Don't Know About You" at 26; Morris' "The Bones" at 27; and Dan + Shay with "All to Myself" at 28.
Eric Church with "Some of It" was at 29, up 5. Chris Young was 30th with "Raised on Country," up 3. Jason Aldean jumped 8 to 31 with "Rearview Town." Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell's "What Happens in a Small Town" moved up 3 to 32. Tenille Townes' "Somebody's Daughter" was at 33 up 3. Cold Swindell was one behind with "Love You Too late," up four. HARDY's "Rednecker" was up 6 to 35.
Female trio Runaway June was up 4 to 36 with "Buy My Own Drinks." Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" was 37th, up 9. Carly Pearce went from 42 to 38 with "Closer to You." LOCASH was 40th with "Feels Like a Party," up 4. Ryan Hurd was 41st with "To A T," up 4. King Calaway was 43rd with "World For Two" in its debut week. Rascal Flatts climbed 5 to 44 with "Back to Life." Blake Shelton debuted at 46 with "God's Country." Russell Dickerson debuted at 50 with "Every Little Thing."
On the albums chart, Morris stayed second with "GIRL," Dan + Shay third with their self-titled disc, Chris Stapleton fourth with "Traveller" and Musgraves fifth with "Golden Hour.
Carrie Underwood jumped 12 to 10th with "Cry Pretty." Ballerini was up 9 to 19 with "Unapologetically." Luke Bryan went from 32 to 29 with "Crash My Party." Mitchell Tenpenny's "Telling All My Secrets" rose from 38 to 34. Chase Rice moved up 3 to 43 with "Lambs & Lions." Brice was at 44, up 3, with his self-titled disc.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman debuted in first with "Deeper Roots: Where the Bluegrass Grows." The Cleverlys debuted in second with "Blue." Mandolin Orange was third with "Tides of a Teardrop." The Tim O'Brien Band was fourth with a self-titled disc and Punch Brothers fifth with "All Ashore."
On the Americana/Folk Albums chart, Hozier again was first with "Wasteland, Baby!" Stapleton was second with "Traveller," Musgraves third with "Golden Hour, Andrew Bird debuted at four with "My Finest Work Yet" and Hozier was fifth with his self-titled debut.
On the top 200 chart, Combs was 15th, Morris 30th, Dan + Shay 35th, Stapleton 49th and Musgraves 52nd.
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CD reviews for Luke Combs
The Prequel EP
The saying, 'Strike while the iron's hot,' applies to many situations, but especially to the music business. The scene moves so fast these days that this last year's star could be this year's 'Where are they now?' Luke Combs moved quickly up the country music popularity ladder, so he's smart to put out this five-song EP between full-lengths. First single, "Beer Never Broke My Heart," is a throwaway tune, built upon a solidly thumping, Waylon Jennings-like groove. »»»
This One's For You Too
Luke Combs has gotten a lot of life out of his album "This One's for You," which includes his breakthrough hit "Hurricane," as well as the popular single "When It Rains It Pours." This deluxe edition includes five new tracks, many of which are just as strong as the original 12. "Houston, We Got a Problem" includes a smart lyric highlighting specific details about that big Texas city. Even though it has all these famous landmarks, it doesn't have »»»
Five years ago, when beer-drinking, truck-driving-in-the-country country songs were en vogue, Luke Combs' full-length debut would have fit right in. In 2017, when pop music rules the country market and male singers are more likely to wear a stylish jacket instead of a flannel shirt, Combs is positively refreshing. "Hurricane," the first single and first top five hit of Combs' career, sounds like a typical Jason Aldean ballad at the onset, but then builds into something more »»»
Carll tells it like it is
A visit with Hayes Carll finds him taking a rare day off at home to discuss new album "What It Is" co-produced by Brad Jones and Carll's girlfriend, Allison Moorer. "This album works around three themes; our relationship (he and Moorer), the world and myself.... »»»


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From Bunk Beds to Five Stars: Jhulan Reflects on Evolution of Women's Cricket
From bunk beds and unreserved train tickets to staying in five-star hotels and flying business class, women's cricket has undergone a "massive" change, feels one of its biggest stars Jhulan Goswami
Dubai: From bunk beds and unreserved train tickets to staying in five-star hotels and flying business class, women's cricket has undergone a "massive" change, feels one of its biggest stars Jhulan Goswami.
Goswami, the only bowler in the women's game with over 200 ODI wickets, reflected on her time in international cricket and also looked ahead to the upcoming ICC Women's World T20 in the West Indies starting November 9.
"I remember staying in an accommodation with bunk beds for my first World Cup, in 2005. For domestic matches, we often travelled unreserved in trains, and played on grounds where getting injured would have been very easy," the 35-year-old wrote in her column for the ICC.
"There were countless junior tournaments where we stayed in dormitories and slept on mattresses on the floor. There's been such a massive change to women's cricket since I started playing."
The World Cup's league matches will be played in Guyana and St Lucia from November 9-18 with the two semifinals and the final in Antigua on November 22 and 24, respectively.
This being the first ever standalone Women's World T20, Jhulan feels it will generate more publicity.
"I was a part of all the previous ICC Women's World T20s right from the first one in 2009...Those were tournaments held alongside the men; yes, people were watching, and there was good publicity for the women's games, but what I found was that by having it simultaneously with the men, the women would be in the shadows."
Jhulan once led the ICC Women's Player Rankings for ODI Bowlers, before announcing her retirement in August from the shortest format ranked 30th after making 68 appearances.
On the previous world events being held simultaneously with the men's tournaments, she added, "Before the semifinals, people would not be aware about the women's games, as only the semifinals and the final were televised. So, we didn't get the publicity that we should have received."
While she called the 2017 World Cup the best in terms of organisation, Jhulan said things started to change with the 2009 edition in Australia.
"I recall so many funny memories when I think about multiple teams sharing one bathroom. Back then, the IWCC (International Women's Cricket Council) and the WCAI (Women's Cricket Association of India) did a very creditable job with the resources they had.
"But we could really see the difference in the 2009 World Cup in Australia, which was the first one organised by the ICC. All of a sudden, we had the best hotels, great grounds, a daily allowance.
"Even for domestic tournaments, the BCCI's entry meant that flights replaced trains. Instead of fighting other passengers for a place to sit, we fought with each other for window seats!"
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My envelope collection has been put to use again. The opportunity came in the form of an exhibition, The Female Aesthetic - Women in the Public Domain, opening this week to coincide with International Women's Day. The exhibition explores the Thamesdown Public Art Archive, choosing work by women from the heyday of public art commissioning in Swindon, or that's how it seemed when we moved to the region in the 1980s. My exhibits are two designs printed on vinyl, one in the windows of the library entrance drum (above) and the other in the Window Gallery nearby (below).
I've been collecting patterns from envelope innards ever since I've had a studio. I used them, enlarging and pulling apart the lines that make up the intricate designs, in my commission for Swindon's new hospital in 2002. From talking to people about this piece - a back lit, full height glass wall (below) - I have come to realise that the envelope pattern story really interests them, maybe because it helps to answer the familiar question "Where do you get your ideas from?"
It seemed a good idea to make a link back to that commission in my new work and to make the envelopes more obvious, celebrating their shapes as they fly along the window strip or around a central point in the Gallery Rose Envelope Window.
My collection isn't growing very fast anymore as letters hardly ever arrive and the envelopes are mostly swaps. In desperation I've started to include company logos and even just repeated words, reinforcing the fact that there are only a certain number of patterns, and their variations, in the world.


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Q: OOP and functional programming together in Kotlin (Design) I recently started with Kotlin for android development. It is object oriented but also supports functional constructs like lamdas, monads, etc..
I am thinking of leveraging the benefits of both the worlds. I'd like to design the layers of my app as follows,
------ OOP ----------- || ----------------- Functional -----------------------------------------------------
View -> ViewModel -> Usecases -> Repositories -> Data layer/DataSources -> Network
Some guidelines I'm thinking to follow:

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*State of my app will be stored in the viewmodel layer and displayed in the view layer.

*Functional layers will be stateless containing only the pure functions.It translates the provided input to the desired output. They need not worry about the environment it is running and also should run context less.

*No Android components should enter the functional layer. It is dedicated only for business logic

*Viewmodel layer contains application logic and presentation logic. State is exposed as Livedata in this layer

*Views subscribe the livedata and updates the view when notified.

*Usecases are business logic units

*Viewmodel will pass the immutable state object copy to the usecase layer.

*The communication from viewmodel to usecases will be offloaded to background thread and reverse communication in UI thread that way I don't have to worry background threads touching my Views.

*UsecaseExecutor should be used to execute any usecase since it is one which takes care of offloading using coroutines

*All pure functions should be unit tested

*Respositories abstract the data sources

*Network layer will contact the rest services and Data layer receives the response JSON/XML , parses and provides back either the corresponding models or Error.

*All functions that can throw errors should have return type as Either< Failure,Success > monad

*Failure should be a sealed class
I'd like to know the flaws in this design or somethings I have not taken care of and Some best approaches to be followed.

A: If you want to use functional features in kotlin you need to add a functional library like arrow because kotlin core does not provide many of the basic functional features like Either monad for example like you say in point 13, optics, and some others.
Other than that I think the design is good


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Our long-standing experience of over 35 years in the sector enables us to supply high quality food products designed, developed and produced to order to meet customers' most demanding requirements. As a result, we are present in over 40 countries on all 5 continents.
VEGENAT's commitment to customer satisfaction has become our hallmark guarantee that builds on stable relationships based on mutual trust and support to provide the best we have, both for our customers and our suppliers.
- Suppliers of ingredients to be used in production processing.
- Manufacturers of customised products at our facilities.
- Development of customised products thanks to our robust R+D+i department.
- National and international sales and marketing agreements.