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    protected $app_id;
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        $this->app_id = Config::get('services.pusher.app_id');
        $this->app_key = Config::get('services.pusher.app_key');
        $this->app_secret = Config::get('services.pusher.app_secret');
    }

    public function postPlay()
    {
        $pusher = new Pusher( $this->app_key, $this->app_secret, $this->app_id );

        $data = [
            'message' => Input::get('songID')
        ];

        $pusher->trigger(Config::get('settings.playerChannel'), 'song-play', $data );

        return Redirect::back();
    }

}

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Listening Bar
August Playlist & New Release Tuesdays
New Releases stephen matteo | July 31, 2009
The following discs provide the perfect soundtrack for a hot August night or day.
Dave Matthews Band—Big Whiskey & The Groo Grux King (RCA)
This awesome new DMB release is very much a tribute to the group's sadly departed saxman LeRoi Moore. Tim Reynolds, who has recorded albums with Matthews and played on the group's Before These Crowded Streets album, is on this album and will tour full-time with the band. Instead of wallowing in misery, the group celebrates its time with him. It is easily the group's most focused album in some time and one that even non jam-band fans will love.
The Black Crowes—Warpaint Live (Eagle)
The Crowes have been flying under the radar screen of late, thanks to a less-than-friendly approach to the press, record company changes, outside projects and personal changes. It's odd that the group has soured on the music press, given how much it has rightly championed the group through the years. This double-live disc is a stone cold killer, with lots of material from the group's near-perfect Warpaint studio disc from last year, which was its best collection of compositions ever. Check out the dead-on covers on disc two of Delaney & Bonnie's "Poor Elijah" and "Don't Know Why" and the Rolling Stones "Torn and Frayed." While another bunch of Crows and the aforementioned DMB are great American bands, these fine feathered friends and brothers must be considered one of the absolute premier American rock bands on the scene today.
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood—Live From Madison Square Garden (Reprise/Duck)
Those who attended both one of the Cream reunion shows at Madison Square Garden in 2005 and one of the three Clapton/Winwood shows said that as great as Cream was, Clapton's re-teaming with Winwood was much better. Having attended one of the three shows they did with the band on this release (which included now departed drummer Ian Thomas), I can attest to the sheer magic of these two ex-Blind Faith mates' performances in February 2008. The double CD includes one track ("Low Down") not on the companion double-DVD, with the DVD set including sound checks, interviews and more.
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August picks for 92.9&96.9 WEHM New Release Tuesdays with Harry Wareing (airing every Tuesday night from 9-10pm) each blend country and rock stylings in differing ratios to come up with their signature sound.
Alt folk singer/songwriter and former Long Islander Mindy Smith shows allegiance to a very current and popular musical feel on her new album Stupid Love and the track "Highs and Lows." It consists of close, angelic harmonies, country instrumentation and a rock cadence.
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Glenn Hughes Revisits Deep Purple
Giving fans what they want
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Home>About Us>Katie Frank
MANAGING PARTNER, ZINGTRAIN
It was Katie's love for food that eventually led her to Zingerman's. As a young girl growing up in Dayton, Ohio, she baked large K-shaped cookies and many cakes. Years later, she went to Vanderbilt for a B.A. in Human and Organizational Development, playing basketball as the team's captain, not just to burn away the K-shaped calories, but to also hone her leadership and teambuilding skills. Katie stayed on at Vanderbilt for a Masters in Human Resource Development.
After leaving Vanderbilt, Katie's education, passion for team building, leadership skills and love of baking all came together at Bread and Company, Nashville's premier bakery. She started at Bread and Company as a retail staffer, eventually working her way up to Director of Retail Operations, and ending her four year tenure there as a General Manager, bringing their fourth store on line.
In 2005, Katie came back to her Midwestern roots and joined Zingerman's Bakehouse as a manager. She led a team of 12 people to create "The Zingerman's Experience" at Zingerman's Bakeshop, a tiny (800 sq. ft.) retail space in the industrial park where Zingerman's Bakehouse bakes all of its artisanal breads and pastries. Undaunted by the challenge of the location and space limitations, Katie responded to the tough economy by growing the annual sales by 40% to $1.6 million during her six years there!
In 2011, Katie jumped at the chance to join the ZingTrain team. As a ZingTrain consultant and presenter, she shares her operational experience as a basis for her teaching on Customer Service, Open Book Management and Servant Leadership. In addition to her work with outside clients, Katie teaches several Zingerman's staff classes including the Art of Giving Great Service, the Art of Giving Great Service Over the Phone and The Art of Successful Performance Reviews.
How many Zingerman's businesses have you worked for?
2, Bakehouse for 6.5 yrs. as the Bakeshop Manager, and ZingTrain
What is your favorite business book?
Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss and Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What is your dream vacation?
Italy, eating my way through each small towns' specialty & taking lots of pictures.
What is your favorite way to learn?
By doing!
What do you like best about working at Zingerman's?
Where to begin?!? The food! The leadership style, entrepreneurial approach and the expectation that as a staff member you are helping run the business through open book management. I love interacting with our customers and connecting around learning and food. I love the many opportunities to learn and teach, and the approachability of all of our Partners.
What is your presentation style?
Interactive, to the point and hopefully relevant to the audience.
What is your "secret" skill - that skill you have that you don't have the ability to show off at work?
I make a mean dessert and I have a sweet jump shot! (guess that's 2...)
Best menu item at any of the ZCoB Businesses?
Hunka Burnin Love Chocolate Cake at Zingerman's Bakehouse
Pacific Rim by Kana
Best piece of advice you've ever received?
"People like to be asked and they like to be thanked."
Hearts and donuts
If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be?
*swelling pink heart*
"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a [JOB/PROFESSION] when I grew up
When I was 11 I wanted to, "own my own business and work with people!"


FC Barcelona's team celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA Super Cup final football match between FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC on August 11, 2015 at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi.
BILISI, Georgia - Barcelona added the Uefa Super Cup to their treble win of trophies last season, despite blowing a 4-1 lead, with a stunning 5-4 win over Sevilla thanks to Pedro Rodriguez's extra-time winner on Tuesday.
Two magnificent free kicks from Lionel Messi, plus goals from Rafinha and Luis Suarez, looked to have Barca well on course to claim their fourth trophy of the year after Ever Banega had given Sevilla a shock early lead.
However, Jose Antonio Reyes reduced the arrears before a Kevin Gameiro penalty and a debut strike from Yevhen Konoplyanka forced the game into an extra 30 minutes.
Barca were not to be denied, though. And, in what could be his last game for the club, Pedro pounced on the rebound after Beto had denied Messi his hat-trick.
Pedro had been controversially left out of the starting line-up, despite the absence of Neymar due to the mumps, as he appears set for a move to Manchester United after Barca technical secretary Robert Fernandez admitted that he has asked to leave the club.
"He deserves it," Messi said of Pedro's match-winning contribution. "The players and the club don't know what he is going to do. It is his decision, but whatever he does, we wish him the best."
The punishment was still to come for the European champions, though, as Banega clinically curled the resulting free kick past the helpless Marc-Andre Ter Stegen with an effort his international teammate Messi would have been proud of.
Unfortunately for Unai Emery's men, the lead lasted only four minutes as Suarez was blocked by Grzegorz Krychowiak and Messi delicately chipped the ball over the wall into the top corner.
The four-time World Player of the Year's next set-piece was even more spectacular as he fired a free kick in off the inside of the post to move level with Cristiano Ronaldo as the all-time leading scorer in European competitions with 80.
Suarez passed up a huge chance for the third when he fired straight at Beto two minutes before half-time, but made amends by collecting the rebound to tee up Rafinha to slot home.
Sevilla's hopes of a comeback appeared to be over after a shocking pass from Benoit Tremoulinas was intercepted by Sergio Busquets and turned home by Suarez.
Yet, they were given a lifeline when Reyes turned home Vitolo's excellent cross at the far post to reduce the arrears.
Jeremy Mathieu then pulled down Vitolo inside the area and was also lucky only to see a yellow card before Gameiro fired home the spot kick.
And a remarkable comeback was complete when two substitutes on their debut combined for the equaliser, as Konoplyanka tapped home Ciro Immobile's low cross.
Pedro was finally introduced three minutes into extra time and, just as in the Super Cup six years ago against Shakhtar Donetsk, he grabbed the winner by firing into the roof of the net after Beto had parried Messi's follow-up effort from another dangerous free kick.
Sevilla still had two great chances to force an incredible match into a penalty shoot-out, but both Coke and Adil Rami fired off-target as a relieved Barca hung on.


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Q: Parse CSV/TSV file in Haskell - Unicode Characters I'm trying to parse a tab-delimited file using cassava/Data.Csv in Haskell. However, I get problems if there are  "strange" (Unicode) characters in my CSV file. I'll get a parse error (endOfInput) then.
According to the command-line tool "file", my file has a "UTF-8 Unicode text" decoding. My Haskell code looks like this:
{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.ByteString as C
import qualified System.IO.UTF8 as U
import qualified Data.ByteString.UTF8 as UB
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as DL
import qualified Codec.Binary.UTF8.String as US
import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.Encoding as EL
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L

import Data.Text.Encoding as E

-- Handle CSV / TSV files with ...
import Data.Csv
import qualified Data.Vector as V

import Data.Char -- ord

csvFile :: FilePath
csvFile = "myFile.txt"

-- Set delimiter to \t (tabulator)
myOptions = defaultDecodeOptions {
              decDelimiter = fromIntegral (ord '\t')
            }

main :: IO ()
main = do
  csvData <- L.readFile csvFile
  case EL.decodeUtf8' csvData of
   Left err -> print err
   Right dat ->
     case decodeWith myOptions NoHeader $ EL.encodeUtf8 dat of
       Left err -> putStrLn err
       Right v -> V.forM_ v $ \ (category :: String ,
                               user :: String ,
                               date :: String,
                               time :: String,
                               message :: String) -> do
         print message

I tried using decodingUtf8', preprocessing (filtering) the input with predicates from Data.Char, and much more. However the endOfFile error persists.
My CSV-file looks like this:
a   -   -   -   RT USE " Kenny" • Hahahahahahahahaha. #Emmen #Brandstapel
a   -   -   -   Uhm .. wat dan ook ????!!!!

Or more literally:
a\t-\t-\t-\tRT USE " Kenny" • Hahahahahahahahaha. #Emmen #Brandstapel
a\t-\t-\t-\tUhm .. wat dan ook ????!!!!

The problem chars are the  and • (and in my complete file, there are many more of similar characters). What can I do, so that cassava / Data.Csv can read my file properly?
EDIT:
I've created the following preprocessor for escaping my Text before decoding it with cassava (see tibbe's answer). There's probably a better possibility, but so far, that works fine!
import qualified Data.Text as T

preprocess :: T.Text -> T.Text
preprocess txt = cons '\"' $ T.snoc escaped '\"'
  where escaped = T.concatMap escaper txt

escaper :: Char -> T.Text
escaper c
  | c == '\t' = "\"\t\""
  | c == '\n' = "\"\n\""
  | c == '\"' = "\"\""
  | otherwise = T.singleton c

A: Per the cassava documentation:

*

*Non-escaped fields may contain any characters except double-quotes, commas, carriage returns, and newlines.

*Escaped fields may contain any characters (but double-quotes need to be escaped).

Since the last field in your first record contains double quotes the field needs to be escaped with double quotes and any double quotes need to be escaped, like so:
a   -   -   -   "RT USE "" Kenny"" • Hahahahahahahahaha. #Emmen #Brandstapel"

This code works for me:
import Data.ByteString.Lazy
import Data.Char
import Data.Csv
import Data.Text.Encoding
import Data.Vector

test :: Either String (Vector (String, String, String, String, String))
test = decodeWith
    defaultDecodeOptions {decDelimiter = fromIntegral $ ord '\t' }
    NoHeader
    (fromStrict $ encodeUtf8 "a\t-\t-\t-\t\"RT USE \"\" Kenny\"\" • Hahahahahahahahaha. #Emmen #Brandstapel\"")

(Note that I had to make sure to use encodeUtf8 on a literal of type Text rather than just using a ByteString literal directly. The IsString instance for ByteStrings, which is what's used to convert the literal to a ByteString, truncates each Unicode code point.)

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Surprising your son, daughter, friend, or relative with a pet as a present may seem thoughtful, but it typically doesn't end well for the cat, dog or other critter. Thousands of them are surrendered to animal shelters by March, some as soon as the first of the New Year simply because families or new owners weren't prepared for the care and responsibility.
Here are a few reasons why giving pets as surprise Christmas gifts, or any kind of gift, is a bad idea.
It's pretty well known or accepted that the bond between pet and pet owner needs to be very strong and present right from the beginning. You can't go out and pick just any dog or cat.
It is also tough to build that relationship during such a busy time of year. The surprise pet is already stressed at having been moved, of being introduced to a totally new environment from the pet store or family or shelter that he's been used to, and really needs a quiet, calm environment. This quieter, calmer time is also necessary for pets and pet owners to establish a routine. With the chaos surrounding the whole holiday season, pets are often neglected.
Plus kids can be unreliable; kids change quickly. You know this! The puppy melts their hearts for a few days or weeks only. But then it needs to be walked every day (in the rain). It needs careful attention to its feeding and eliminating if it's going to be housebroken effectively. It needs to be taught not to jump on people. The kids oohing and aahing under the tree will very soon move on to Facebook and texting their friends and ignoring the poor wee creature.
Pets should not be surprise gifts because, particularly for new pet owners, some families are completely unprepared and overwhelmed by the care and expense that a new pet requires. Puppies and kittens especially, but adult dogs, too.
Typically, the larger the dog, the larger the expense for vet care and dog food and the bigger the clean-up both in-house and outside.
Everything that the animal needs to be properly cared for should be discussed and planned well in advance, including the kind and size of dog that best suits families' individual home situations. Preparation includes realizing how decorations, foods and business at Christmas time can be frightening to animals.
Many parents don't consider that 2 weeks later the kids are back to school and the puppy still needs walks and plenty of attention (or else it starts chewing things – all sorts of things!). Realistically, it will be YOU looking after this creature, if you think it will be looked after by the children once Christmas is over, you are fooling yourself.
One alternative is to buy the pet supplies for Christmas and leave choosing the puppy or kitten or whatever, until after things have settled down. If they still want a puppy come the new year, and are willing to take responsibility for it, then maybe it is something that could happen for their birthday.


Dear Members of the USIU-Africa Community, Supporters and Friends—Greetings!
The Process of Finding the 5th Vice Chancellor of USIU-Africa The outcome of the search for a new Vice Chancellor at USIU-Africa is successful on many fronts: not only was an outstanding individual—Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza—selected and appointed, we must also note that a celebratory and dignified exit was made for the previous Vice Chancellor, Professor Freida Brown.
The installation of Professor Zeleza as the 5th Vice Chancellor of USIU-A takes place on Thursday, April 7, 2016. This special event marks the culmination of a series of intense activities that effectively began four years ago, in November, 2012, but kicked into high gear during the months between November 2014 and July 2015 when most of the activities and events at the heart of the search took place.
Looking back on that intensive 9-month period, there were some key aspects of the search process that set the foundation for the transition we celebrate on April 7th.
Inclusivity and Transparency: A professional academic recruiter with international experience was retained to seek out the best candidates possible. The Board of Trustees felt very strongly that the university needed someone at the helm who could consolidate our gains and provide the impetus for a marked upward trajectory of achievements. As a result, the Board developed a list of priority issues to guide the recruitment of the best person possible. This was undertaken with the participation and support of the entire campus community. In addition to regular members of the community, the USIU-Africa Alumni Association also made a dedicated effort and took part in campus meetings with the finalists. The strength of an involved and engaged university community resulted in feedback that said, from this perspective: "we got it right." Without a doubt, having an inclusive and transparent process where all members of the USIU-Africa community had a part to play in event leading up to the final selection was the linchpin for a successful search.
Guidelines and Agreed Protocols: The importance of having all members of the Search Committee remain "on message" during telephone interviews as we whittled down the initial 65 applicants to a more manageable 16 and then 8 cannot be understated. The scope of interviews, therefore, was scripted to ensure that all questions were covered during reference calls. Similarly, in scoring the initial applicants: 8 criteria listed in the search profile as "must have" skills, competencies, qualifications, and experience carried the most weight in vetting candidates. These criteria (listed here in random order) were: strategic planning; fundraising and development; financial management and resource development; fostering of community trust; strengthening academic programs and fostering research activity; experience with accreditation; experience working with a board; and leadership and communication skills. Decisions were arrived at by consensus.
Openness and Feedback: Managing campus expectations and maintaining focus on the fact that all the activities were designed to provide the Board of Trustees with sufficient information to make the best decision for USIU-Africa was ongoing. The recognition that the final decision rested with the Board and that role of the committee was not to recommend any particular candidate but to lay out a complete itemization of data arising from the search process did not stifle openness. In fact, feedback to the Search Committee and the Board through the online surveys, at the Barazas and at meetings was thoughtful, frank and often very blunt. Members of the USIU-Africa community minced no words in voicing their concerns, ideas and enthusiasm for one candidate or the other and provided convincing arguments to back up their opinions. All told, we as a community are fortunate to have had the enviable luxury of selecting from among a solid group of applicants and finalists and the Board benefited from the candid feedback in arriving at a decision.
Privacy and Confidentiality: The University Legal Counsel Ms. Helen Ambasa, served as Coordinator to the Search Committee. Her functions included serving as the main point of contact between the search firm and the committee. She also ensured that all forms of data and information were maintained securely and was trouble-shooter for potential legal concerns. Her role was essential in ensuring that the privacy and confidentiality of candidates was maintained at all times throughout the process. That being said, the feedback from all semi-finalists and finalists was real appreciation for the warm welcome they were accorded by USIU-Africa during their campus tours and two-day campus visits, respectively.
Professional Support for an International Search: There was very little room for error in conducting the search and it was important to spread as wide a net as possible in announcing the search. Sourcing in the Consultant's network alone included emails to 400 directors of international education/international programs, private and public. Use of an international search firm and targeted advertising in a substantial number of forums and media outlets both within Kenya and internationally, was crucial for securing wide range of candidates. The outcome was a fine cross-section of 65 applicants hailing from East, West and Southern Africa, Europe, the Americas, and South Asia. Their professional qualifications included expertise in engineering, the medical and social sciences, business and management. While the overall quality of the candidate pool was very strong, however, our efforts yielded far fewer female applicants than hoped for. This speaks to the need to continue to encourage and support high level academic opportunities for advancement by African and African diaspora women.
The search process was an invaluable experience that forged new professional relationships and friendships among all involved. There were also lessons learned. For example, having a clear strategy for public announcements was very important in ensuring that the campus community was updated at key points during the search process. Also, the need for clear and ongoing communication throughout the process both within the Search Committee, from the Committee to the (then) Vice Chancellor and the Board of Trustees, as well as between the Committee and the consultant, was essential, but not always perfect. Some feedback received during discussions evaluating the process included the fact that time allocations for various meetings were either too lengthy or too brief; there were both benefits and disadvantages of having more rather than fewer finalist candidates; and the costs of bringing more semi-finalists to Nairobi rather than interviewing by Skype or in smaller, separate committees had to be evaluated in light of our long-term goals.
Ultimately, the neutral, off-site interviews in Nairobi proved invaluable as those intensive sessions validated the overall excellence of the candidates in person and forced everyone involved to spend the time carefully weighing the merits of each individual against the needs and aspirations of USIU-Africa. Members of the Search Committee deserve credit for a really strong attendance record and a willingness to maintain open communication, even where differences of opinion existed. Having the protocols in place for evaluating the candidates was a great help here as it was tedious and time-consuming to wade through each level of criteria for each candidate while avoiding becoming lost in the detail.
In addition to all this, there were various unanticipated internal and external challenges to the university's morale, not the least of which were the untimely transitions of important people such as ICT Director Ms. Regina Mutoko, and University Trustee Professor Barbara Mahone Brown.
University leadership is often a balancing act between equally important imperatives. But at USIU-Africa we can take pride in the fact that when it comes to being the best, there is no compromise. On that note, it is a pleasure to conclude this summary of the search process with hearty congratulations to Professor Paul Zeleza on the historic occasion of his installation as Vice Chancellor, United States International University-Africa.


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Reports suggest Uber accounts are being traded on the black market to unlicensed drivers
Dutch junior transport minister Steintje Van Van Veldhoven has called for the ministry's inspectors to investigate claims that Uber drivers are trading their accounts to unlicensed drivers to work on the platform. It was highlighted in the Dutch News, the ease of which an unlicensed driver can access an Uber driver's account and pick up customers. Van Veldhoven has said that it is up to Uber to make sure drivers accounts cannot be traded and expects the tech giants to do all they can to prevent unlicensed drivers from gaining access to licensed drivers accounts. A report by AT5 showed that taking over a drivers account simply required a mail address, password and confirmation code which could be passed on easily to unlicensed drivers with their own phone. Earlier in September 2018, NBC reported the same scam which was taking place in the United States which allowed unlicensed drivers to pose as ride-hailing drivers, leaving passengers unable to spot fake drivers. Undercover work by NBC discovered that Uber accounts were being sold on the black market for as much as $200 per week. Clients paid brokers to set up accounts and the renters then linked to their bank accounts. The fake drivers would keep any money they made from driving passengers around.


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Council stops grant to strife-torn Sikh centre
KIRKLEES Council has suspended grant aid to a community group beset by internal wrangles.
It has confirmed that no more money will be paid to the Sikh Leisure Centre until the issue of who runs the organisation is satsfactorily resolved.
Now the town's Sikh community is gearing itself up for important elections next month.
Thousands of people will have the chance to vote for a new management committee at the Prospect Street Leisure Centre.
The elections, on Sunday, September 21, will bring to an end a period of uncertainty following a High Court battle among community elders earlier this summer.
A council spokesman today confirmed the authority had suspended grant aid for the centre, believed to be worth more than £40,000 a year, while waiting for the club to sort out its problems.
It has effectively lacked any leadership since June.
The tenure of both the 31-strong management committee and trustees had expired at the same time following an election mix-up last year.
To get Kirklees to resume their funding, the centre's general secretary, Karnail Singh Chatha, took out an injunction against four committee members: former mayor of Kirklees Mohan Singh Sokhal, centre manager Balbir Singh Uppal, Satnam Singh Khela and former president Sohan Singh Bhullar.
Mr Chatha argued the elections set for June 8 were not being held in accordance with the constitution, drawn up in 1991.
During the High Court fight in Leeds, a further twist revealed the 1991 constitution was invalid and that the one drawn up in 1986 still stands.
The 1991 constitution restricted membership - and thus voter numbers - to 500 people.
However, under the 1986 rules the new voting procedure is open to everyone.
Mr Chatha has been fighting to widen the membership.
He claimed the four men named in the injunction were running the centre undemocratically.
"They had it under their control," he said. "It was a community building but they used it as their own private club."
But the four said numbers had to be limited for practical reasons.
Traffic and TravelUK drivers face £70 fines for breaking rules in controversial changeLocal authorities will be given more powers to fine people for certain driving faults
Teenagers offer free squirts of hand sanitiser to shoppers in Bradford - but it's super glue
AsdaThe group of boys were seen approaching multiple people outside Morrison's supermarket at Five Lane Ends in Bradford


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from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from authlib.oauth2.rfc6749 import list_to_scope
from authlib.oauth2.rfc6749.models import AuthorizationCodeMixin, TokenMixin
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import ARRAY, INET

from indico.core.db import db
from indico.core.db.sqlalchemy import UTCDateTime
from indico.util.date_time import now_utc
from indico.util.passwords import TokenProperty

class TokenModelBase(TokenMixin, db.Model):
    __abstract__ = True

    id = db.Column(
        db.Integer,
        primary_key=True
    )
    access_token_hash = db.Column(
        db.String,
        unique=True,
        index=True,
        nullable=False
    )
    _scopes = db.Column(
        'scopes',
        ARRAY(db.String),
        nullable=False,
        default=[]
    )
    created_dt = db.Column(
        UTCDateTime,
        nullable=False,
        default=now_utc
    )
    last_used_dt = db.Column(
        UTCDateTime,
        nullable=True
    )
    last_used_ip = db.Column(
        INET,
        nullable=True
    )
    use_count = db.Column(
        db.Integer,
        nullable=False,
        default=0
    )

    access_token = TokenProperty('access_token_hash')

    @property
    def locator(self):
        return {'id': self.id}

    @property
    def scopes(self):
        """The set of scopes this token has access to."""
        return set(self._scopes)

    @scopes.setter
    def scopes(self, value):
        self._scopes = sorted(value)

    def get_expires_in(self):
        return 0

    def is_expired(self):
        return False

class OAuthToken(TokenModelBase):
    """OAuth tokens."""

    __tablename__ = 'tokens'
    __table_args__ = {'schema': 'oauth'}

    app_user_link_id = db.Column(
        db.ForeignKey('oauth.application_user_links.id', ondelete='CASCADE'),
        nullable=False,
        index=True
    )

    app_user_link = db.relationship(
        'OAuthApplicationUserLink',
        lazy=False,
        backref=db.backref(
            'tokens',
            lazy='dynamic',
            cascade='all, delete-orphan',
            passive_deletes=True
        )
    )

    @property
    def user(self):
        return self.app_user_link.user

    @property
    def application(self):
        return self.app_user_link.application

    def __repr__(self):  # pragma: no cover
        return f'<OAuthToken({self.id}, {self.app_user_link_id}, {self.scopes})>'

    def check_client(self, client):
        return self.application == client

    def get_scope(self):
        # scopes are restricted by what's authorized for the particular user and what's whitelisted for the app
        scopes = self.scopes & set(self.app_user_link.scopes) & set(self.application.allowed_scopes)
        return list_to_scope(sorted(scopes))

    def is_revoked(self):
        return self.user.is_blocked or self.user.is_deleted or not self.application.is_enabled

@dataclass(frozen=True)
class OAuth2AuthorizationCode(AuthorizationCodeMixin):
    code: str
    user_id: int
    client_id: str
    code_challenge: str
    code_challenge_method: str
    redirect_uri: str = ''
    scope: str = ''
    auth_time: datetime = field(default_factory=now_utc)

    def is_expired(self):
        return now_utc() - self.auth_time > timedelta(minutes=5)

    def get_redirect_uri(self):
        return self.redirect_uri

    def get_scope(self):
        return self.scope

    def get_auth_time(self):
        return self.auth_time

    def get_nonce(self):
        # our grant types do not require nonces
        raise NotImplementedError


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Speaking to sherdog.com this week Scott Coker appears to be standing his ground on his belief that Fedor Emelianenko should not be put on the shelf again until Fabricio Werdum recovers from elbow surgery.
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This difference of opinion looked like it was going to be a major obstacle for the two parties to overcome, but it seems Coker has alternative suggestions to help ensure that Fedor gets back into the mix sooner rather than later.
Like Fedor, Silva also holds a loss to Fabricio Werdum in Strikeforce, but he has since bounced back with a win over Andrei Arlovski, taking his record to 14-2.
Russian veteran Kharitonov is a new signing to the Strikeforce heavyweight division. Formerly of PRIDE, K-1 and DREAM fame, he holds wins over both Overeem and Werdum, though he does also have a loss to Fedor's brother Aleksander on his 16-4 career record.
Truth be told neither fighter has the marketability of the other opponents that have previously been discussed, but with M-1 Global likely to play hardball it may end up being the only realistic option left on the table.


Brooklyn, NY -- A fire in Brooklyn left four homes badly damaged.
The blaze broke out at 2:20pm in the Mill Basin neighborhood of Brooklyn. A row of semi-detached homes that back up to a canal were surrounded by thick black plumes of smoke and flames.
The fire went to 4 alarms, bringing 39 units and 175 firefighters to the scene. Six firefighters were injured and three homes were badly damaged.
The cause of the fire is under investgiation. Firefighters were not able to enter the buildings yet.
Neighbors report that the neighborhood was barely visible beyond the smoke. "It was like a black fog. You couldn't see anything," said Adine Hamlin. "All I saw was a young man with his dog, barefooted and sitting outside, and I knew something was wrong. I just asked if he called 911."


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Amagansett House is a Maintenance-Free Home Consists of Two Barn-Like Volumes
Architects: Maziar Behrooz Architecture ( MB Architecture )
Project: Amagansett house / House in the Lanes
Location: Amagansett, New York, United States
Photography: Matthew Carbone
Text by MB Architecture
From the architect: The 'lanes' in Amagansett, New York, offer a nearly idyllic village life: adjacent to Main street, walking distance to ocean, but far enough to feel protected from it, walkable and dotted with a diverse range of houses and styles.
Our challenge with this exceptionally long and narrow lot, with its long axis in east-west direction, was to create a home that would accommodate the owners wish for a maintenance-free structure, inside and outside, that would be a compelling fit in this historic neighborhood.
In a departure from recent additions to the neighborhood, where houses extend from one side-yard setback to the other, we opted to let the house face the south (rather than the street). By doing so, we were able to expose the narrower side of the house to the street view, and allow the house to have a comfortable distance to its southerly and northerly neighbors and be exposed to direct southern light.
Amagansett houses are congenial and often the facades that face the street are in dialogue with it. In this case, the conversation starts with a gable-end raw concrete wall; its profile echoing the familiar shape of a barn; it hides the garage which is entered from the north, and scales the front face of the house down to meet neighboring homes. Quickly, the concrete gives way to a slightly charred cypress; starting a play between these two materials that extends throughout the house — contrasting spaces of recluse (clad with charred cypress) with foundational anchoring walls (raw concrete). While the raw, unfinished, concrete extends from the foundation reaching upward, cypress-clad walls create soft volumes that wrap around, making for living spaces, bedrooms and hallways.
The ground level of the Amagansett house is dedicated to living spaces (living room, dining room, kitchen) and offers a bedroom for guests. In the living room, a raw steel box is inserted into the concrete wall providing an easily accessible area for our clients collection of rare and vintage vinyl records (which can be played on the turn-table in the adjacent vestibule). The connection with the outdoors, size of windows and overhangs, is carefully managed to both address the clients' wish for a 'womb-like', cozy interior, as well as the filtering of natural light.
The second floor holds the parents bedroom, at the far end, which is separated from the children's bedrooms with a second floor porch and roof 'cut-out'. The porch is entered through a south-facing sliding glass door that, together with the north-facing ribbon window, allow natural light to penetrate the house from above and get reflected and drawn into the heart of the house via the concrete stair-wall.
A sunken courtyard on the south side of the house and a generous light-well on the north, break the 'even-ness' of the horizontal site, and allow light to be filtered into the lower level, transforming a basement into a well-lit family room with a private outdoor space.


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Once the album was mixed I took some time off before mastering the record so I could once again come back to the record with fresh perspective. This time off gave me and Brian to shoot the cover art for the album. We both agreed that the album was raw but also accessable, so we were looking for ideas that struck that happy balance.
We were also looking for something iconic.
Brian explained that one of his signatures is having out of place objects in everyday settings, so we spent a lot of time coming up ideas that complimented that approach. As live in East London I'm very familiar with Brick Lane, especially the Truman Brewary. As well as the tower there's also a train bridge crossing the street. I showed Brian some rough photos of the street and he sugggested we do a photoshoot to see if we could capture the tower, bridge and train passing in one photo. To capture the Brian suggested we do the shoot during "Magic Hour", which sounded great to me until he explained that meant waking up at 4.30am on Saturday morning!


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William Stevenson  (26 October 1805–14 June 1873) was a Church of Scotland minister and antiquarian who served as professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh.

Life
He was born at Barford in Lochwinnoch on 26 October 1805 the second son of Hugh Stevenson, a farmer. He was educated at Glasgow University. He trained as a minister for the Church of Scotland and licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Paisley in May 1831. He was ordained as minister of Arbroath in October 1833.

From 1844 to 1861 he was minister of South Leith Parish Church, living then at 14 Hermitage Place facing Leith Links. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (DD) during his time at Leith.

In 1858 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being James Young Simpson. In 1861 he was created Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. He retired in the summer of 1872 and died at home, 37 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill on 14 June 1873.

Family
He married (1) 25/4/1837 Mary Henderson Aberdein of Montrose (d.1843), with issue (2) 10 June 1845 Mrs Isabella (Duncan) Webster, with further issue. She outlived him and continued living at 37 Royal Terrace.

Publications
Christianity and Drunkenness (1851)
The Legends and Commemorative Celebrations of St Kentigern (1872)

References

1805 births
1873 deaths
People from Renfrewshire
19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland
Scottish antiquarians
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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HomeVedic AstrologyTime and Astronomy in Vedic System
Time and Astronomy in Vedic System
The Hindu Portal
The Hindu view of time can be broadly referred to as the Vedic Time System. kala (Time) is regarded as not linear or single-directional movement, like an arrow speeding from past to future. The idea of Time itself was quite advanced in Hindu Heritage. The Hindu concept talks of Rhythm or universal order which is manifested as Time. Time Rhythm range from the fast ticking of the atom to the expansion of the entire cosmos — Time unfolding within the geological process of the Earth the change of the season, the life cycle of a fly etc.
Kala (Time) itself is connected to Lord Siva in Indian Heritage. Siva is called Maha Kala — "the great Time". His consort Kali personifies the energy of Time.
Based on Astronomical Science
The Hindu kālagaņanā (chronology) does not depend on any mundane event like the birth of a person, coronation of a king or the military success of an emperor. But it depends only on the movements of various heavenly bodies in the cosmos, or in other words, on astronomical science. Judging from this viewpoint, the Indian chronology alone is scientific since all other current chronologies are based on mundane event like the birth of a person, or the victory of a race over the other, or the rule of a particular dynasty, or running away of a man from one city to another to save his life and so on.
But during the British colonial rule, the foreign rulers could have been successful to inculcate the idea that the entire concept of Hindu chronology is merely a mythological fiction without having any scientific basis. As a matter of fact, those foreign rulers framed the education system of Bharatvarsha (the Indian subcontinent) with the sinister view of turning the people away from their own heritage and culture and to make them respectful to whatever is Western (see Macaulayism). The most unfortunate part of the episode is that, practically nothing has been done to counter this trend during past fifty years after obtaining freedom. As a result, most of the people of this country do not even know how rich and ancient their own culture is and, on the contrary, have developed a mentality to slight whatever is Indian. As a burning example of this trend, we are blindly following the most unscientific Christian chronology and do not even care to know what the Hindu chronology is.
Cyclic Nature of Time
From a keen observation of a number of physical phenomena, it is easy to infer that they are repetitive, cyclic, and follow a definite time duration. The most evident repetitive phenomena are the solar cycle-rotation of the earth on its own axis and the revolution of the earth around the sun.
Another repetitive phenomenon is that of a seed growing into a sapling, then to a plant and finally a tree. Before the tree dies it leaves behind a new seed for another tree and the cycle repeats infinitely. Every potential seed is a subtle form of the future tree having the complete information of the tree genetically encoded within it and every tree carries within it a potential seed for another future tree. Likewise the heat of the sun causes water to evaporate to form clouds, which shed their water over land , forming streams and rivers which ultimately wind their way back to the ocean, to once again repeat the cycle.
Since we are very much accustomed to these phenomena, it is very easy to accept them without raising an eyebrow. Apart form these evident cycles the least understood and less apparent are the Human and Absolute Time cycles. To comprehend the Human cycle with any degree of clarity, it is essential to comprehend that the physical body is a constantly changing mass of material elements, while the soul is eternal. The soul takes a body just before birth and plays its part as a baby, infant, child, adolescent, adult and an elderly person and then leaves the body to take another body to go through a similar cycle once again.
Again everybody is aware of the cyclical nature of time which means that time neither has a beginning nor an end. So logically speaking time is always represented on paper as a circle.
Every second repeats itself every 60 SECONDS. (60seconds = 1 minute).
Every minute repeats itself every 60 MINUTES. (60 minutes = 1 hour).
Every hour repeats itself every 24 HOURS. (24 hours = 1 day).
Every day repeats itself every 365 DAYS. (365 days = 1 year).
Every year repeats itself in: ? ? ? ? YEARS ?
So logically speaking every year should also repeat itself after a certain period of time. Can this answer be given by any human being? Can Science give us a definite answer to this question?
In the Hindu system, Years are named and there are 60 names. Once the 60 names are finished, the next year starts with the first name again. This goes on in a cyclic manner. Beyond this level there are 4 epochs or Yugas, namely, Krita Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali yuga.
The Division of Time
In the Vedas, Time is equated with the Kala (Consciousness Time) is the source of the divisions of time. It unites procession recession and stasis.
"Kalo gatinivrtti sthiti: samdadhati" (Sankhayana Aranyaka 7.20).
Time, according to Surya Siddhanta, has both its virtual and practical divisions; the former is called murta (embodied), the latter amurta (virtual or Unembodied). The Surya Siddhanta delineates that 'what begins with prana (respiration) is called real; that what begins with truti (atoms) is called unreal.
Smallest Unit of Time
Vedic astronomy give a very detailed division of the Time upto the lowest sub division level of prāņa (respiration), a time lapse of four seconds. The lowest sub divisions prāņa is the same part of the day as the minute is of the circle, so that a respiration of time is equivalent to a minute of apparent revolution of the heavenly bodies above the earth. The astronomical division of sidereal time are:
1 paramanu 60,750th of a second
1 truţi = 29.6296 microseconds
1 tatpara = 2.96296 milliseconds
1 nimesha = 88.889 milliseconds
45 nimesha = 1 prāņa 4 seconds
6 prāņa = 1 vinādī 24 seconds
60 vinādīs = 1 nadī 24 minutes
60 nādīs = 1 ahorātra
As, according to modern standards, 24 hours make 1 day and night, one finds that, 1 nādi or daņda is equal to 24 minutes, 1 vinādī is equal to 24 seconds, 1 asu or prāņa is equal to 4 seconds, 1 nimesha is equal to 88.889 milliseconds, 1 tatpara is equal to 2.96296 milliseconds and finally 1 truţi is equal to 29.6296 microseconds or 33,750th part of second. It is really amazing that the Indian astronomers, at such a long time ago, could conceive and obviously could measure such a small interval of time like truţi. It should be mentioned here that, 1 unit of prāņa is the time an average healthy man needs to complete one respiration or to pronounce ten long syllables called guravakşara.
The Puranic division of the day is somewhat different. According to this, Kala (Time) is born out of Sun. The counting starts from nimesha (twinkling of an eye).
100 truti (atoms) = 1 tatpara (speck)
30 tatpara (specks) = 1 nimesha (twinkling)
18 nimesha (twinklings) = 1 kashtha (bit)
30 kashtha (bits) = 1 kala (~minute)
30 kala (minutes) = 1 ghatika (~half-hour)
2 ghatika (half hour) = 1 kshana/muhūrta (~hour)
30 kshana/muhūrta (hour) = 1 ahorātra (~day).
Truti is referred to as a quarter of the time of falling of an eye lid.
1 muhūrta equal to 48 minutes, 1 ghaţi equal to 24 minutes. 1 kalā equal to 48 seconds, 1 kāşţhā equal to 1.6 seconds and 1 nimeşa equal to 88.889 milliseconds as obtained above. In its daily motion, the earth rotates around its axis at a speed of nearly 1660 Km per hour and its illuminated half is called ahh (day) and the dark half is called rātri (night). From the system of units of time given above, one finds that 60 ghaţis or nādīs make 1 day and night.
Vedic astronomical texts divide the above units of time broadly into two categories; (i) mūrttakālah and (ii) amūrtakālah. The units of the former kind are manifested (mūrttah) by the nature while, those of the latter kind are created by man. From this view point, ahorātra, prāņa or asu. nimeşa are mūrttakālah and the rest are amūrttakālah.
Deleting the leading letter 'a' and the trailing 'tra' from 'ahorātra', one is left with the word horā, and from this horā, another system of measuring time, the 'Horā System', introduced in this country by the celebrated Hindu astronomer Varāha Mihira, by dividing a day and night into 24 horās. Many believe that from this Horā System the entire world has adopted the present practice of dividing a day and night into 24 hours and moreover, from Sanskrit horā, English hour, Latin hora and Greek ora (ωρα) have been derived. It is interesting to note here that, one can derive the names of the seven days of a week from this Horā System as well. One has to assume a lord for each horā of the day and Ravivāra is to be accepted as the first day of the week, but counting is to be made in the reverse or descending order and the fourth place gives the name of the following day.
Seven Days of Week
Why seven days make a week? And wherefrom the names of these seven days have come? Every Indian will be pleased to know that it is also a gift of India to the entire world. We have seen earlier that, 60 ghaţis or daņdas make one day and night or ahorātra. Indian astronomers dedicated each ghaţi of the day to a planet as its lord and derived the name of the day as per the lord of the first ghaţi of the day.
surya sunday
soma monday
mangala tuesday
budha wednesday
guru thursday
shukra friday
shani saturday
rahu & ketu eclipse
The sun or Ravi being the most powerful among the planets, as well as the giver and sustainer of life, has been honoured to be the lord of first ghaţi of the first day of the week. Hence it is named Ravivāra or Sunday. In Figure-1, the lords of second and third ghaţis of Ravivāra are Mars and Jupiter respectively. Proceeding in this manner, Saturn is the lord of the 60th ghaţi of Ravivāra and the moon or Soma becomes the lord of the first ghaţi of the following day and hence it is named Somavāra or Monday (Moonday). One may notice here that in counting 60 ghaţis along the circle of Firure-1, one has to make 8 complete revolutions and 4 more planets and hence starting from a particular planet, the 5th place gives the name of the following day. In this manner one finally arrives at Śanivāra or Saturday (Saturnday) and starting from Śanivāra one observes that the next day is Ravivāra and thus the cycle is completed.
It may be recalled that the Horā System is not essential for naming he seven days of a week and primarily it was done by the Vedic astronomers dividing a day and night into 60 ghaţis or 60 daņdas. Hence, we may conclude without doubt that, it is the Vedic astronomers who named the seven days of a week using the original Indian system of dividing a day and night into 60 ghaţis and in their subsequent attempt they have shown that, one can arrive at the same results using 24 horās as well. In a verse (1/296) of Yājňavalkya Samhitā, the names of the planets are given exactly in the order of week days and hence there is every reason to believe that the names of the planets in that verse were mentioned particularly as the lords of the seven days of a week. This makes Professor S. B. Dixit to believe that the names of the seven days of a week were known in the times of Yājňavalkya Samhitā.
Fortnight, Month and Year
Units of time larger than day and week are fortnight and month. The Ŗgveda says, "aruņo māsakŗvikah'' and Ācārya Yāska in his commentary over the verse says. "aruņo arocano māsakŗņmāsānām cārddhamāsānām ca kartā bhavati" or the moon is the creator of months and fortnights. In Sanskrit the moon is called candramas and the word māsa has been derived from the parting syllable 'mas' of candramas. So it appears that, during the Vedic period people counted months and fortnights according to the phases of the moon. According to Professor S. B. Dixit, it was quite natural since one has to ascertain the duration of a solar month by tedious calculations, while lunar months arc visible to the naked eye and he writes, "Therefore it is clear that solar months came into being afterwards".
Samvatsara - The Year Cycles
Samvatsara is a Sanskrit term for "year". In Hindu tradition, there are 60 Samvatsaras, each of which has a name. Once all 60 samvatsaras are over, the cycle starts over again. The sixty Samvatsaras are divided into 3 groups of 20 Samvatsaras each. The first 20 from Prabhava to Vyaya are attributed to Brahma. The next 20 from Sarvajit to Parabhava to Vishnu & the last 20 to Shiva.
The 60 Samvatsaras are:
1. Prabhava 13. Pramāthin 25. Khara 37. Shobhana 49. Rākshasa
2. Vibhava 14. Vikrama 26. Nandana 38. Krodhin 50. Anala
3. Shukla 15. Vrisha 27. Vijaya 39. Vishvāvasu 51. Pingala
4. Pramoda 16. Chitrabhānu 28. Jaya 40. Parābhava 52. Kālayukti
5. Prajāpati 17. Svabhānu 29. Manmatha 41. Plavanga 53. Siddhārthin
6. Āngirasa 18. Tārana 30. Durmukha 42. Kīlaka 54. Raudra
7. Shrīmukha 19. Pārthiva 31. Hemalambin 43. Saumya 55. Durmati
8. Bhāva 20. Vyaya 32. Vilambin 44. Sādhārana 56. Dundubhi
9. Yuvan 21. Sarvajit 33. Vikārin 45. Virodhikrit 57. Rudhirodgārin
10. Dhātri 22. Sarvadhārin 34. Shārvari 46. Paritāpin 58. Raktāksha
11. Īshvara 23. Virodhin 35. Plava 47. Pramādin 59. Krodhana
12. Bahudhānya 24. Vikrita 36. Shubhakrit 48. Ānanda 60. Kshaya
Once the 60 names are finished, the next year starts with the first name again. This goes on in a cyclic manner.
Yuga
The units of time larger than a year are called yugas. The word yuga has been derived from yoga and yoga from samyoga, or conjunction of heavenly bodies. So one finds the origin of every unit of yuga to a specific conjunction of the heavenly bodies in the sky. In Indian astronomy, starting from a mere 5 year yuga to a vast Mahāyuga of 4,320,000 years are in vogue. Every 5 year, a conjunction of the sun and the moon occurs at the asterism Dhanişthā in the zodiacal sign Makara (Capricorn). The sun enters Makara, in the month of Māgha. Hence the conjunction recurs every 5 year on the new-moon day in the month of Māgha and that is the basis of counting a 5 year yuga. The Vedānga Jyotisa provides special names for these five years and they are Samvatsara, Parivatsara, Idāvatsara. Anuvatsara and Idvatvatsara [VS: 26/45, 30/16; TB: 1/4/10;111/4/1-4).
The planet Vŗhaspati (Jupiter) takes 1 year to cover a zodiacal sign and hence takes 12 years to complete its journey through all the 12 signs of the zodiac. This is the basis for counting a 12 year yuga and since it originates from the motion of Vŗhaspati, it is often called the Vrāhaspatya-yuga. It would be relevant to mention here that the Kumbha-Mela is held when Vŗhaspati enters the house of Kumbha (Aquarious) and hence the festival recurs every 12 years.
From the facts narrated above, one observes that a conjunction of the sun and the moon at Dhanişthā, while the Vŗhaspati (Jupiter) at makara (Capricorn), occurs every 60 years and that is the basis for counting a 60 year yuga. Hindu scriptures provide separate names for all the sixty years of a 60 year yuga. The rare occasion when the sun, the moon and Vŗhaspati (Jupiter) meet at dhanişthā repeats at an interval of 865 million years. Such a conjunction occurs five times in a Kalpa.
Mahayuga (Chaturyuga) The Yuga Cycles
Beyond this level there are 4 epochs or yugas, namely, Krita Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. All these four yugas together is called a chatur yuga, which means "four epochs"or also termed maha yuga that means "great epochs". Together a chatur yuga constitutes 4,320,000 human years and the lengths of each chatur yuga follow a ratio of (4:3:2:1:).
human years
krita-yuga 1,728,000 years 4
treta-yuga 1,296,000 years 3
dvapara-yuga 864,000 years 2
kali-yuga 432,000 years 1
1 chatur yuga (mahayuga)
4,320,000 human years
The ages see a gradual decline of dharma, wisdom, knowledge, intellectual capability, life span and emotional and physical strength.
Krita Yuga
Treta Yuga
Dvapara Yuga
other name Golden Age or Satya Yuga (age of Truth) Silver Age Bronze Age Iron Age
human years 1,728,000 1,296,000 864,000 432,000
climate virtue reigns supreme three quarters virtue and one quarter sin one half virtue and one half sin one quarter virtue and three quarters sin
human stature 21 cubits 14 cubits 3.5 cubits
human lifespan lakh of years and death occurs only when willed. lifespan is 10,000 years. lifespan is 1,000 years. lifespan is 100 or 120 years.
Time of the Devas - The Cosmic Years
1 day of the Devas 1 human year
1 month of the Devas 30 days of the Devas
1 year of the Devas (1 divine year) 12 months of the Devas
The lifespan of the Devas is 100 years of the Devas (= 36,000 human years).
Kalpa — A Cosmic Day of Brahmā
In this cyclic process of time, 1000 chaturyuga or mahayuga period is called a Kalpa, and period of time is equal to a daytime for the Brahma, the creator of the universe. A thousand and a thousand (i.e. two thousand) chaturyuga-s are said to be one day and night of Brahmā (the creator).
1 kalpa
1000 chatur yuga (mahayuga)
1 day and 1 night of Brahmā
2 kalpas
At the beginning of creation begins the day of creation. At the end of that goes back all of the creation of the Absolute. This is a Kalpa a cosmic cycle of becoming and either of creation and destruction.
Manvantara
A cosmic days includes 14 Period or Manvantaras to 306 720 000 solar years. The next day, a cosmic unity is a Manvantara, there are fourteen pieces. A Manu mastered such a period. We live in the 7th Manvantara. Manvantara the first 6 have gone, 7 more will come. In particular, their names are:
01. Svaayambhuva — son of the self-born (here began the creation)
02. Svaarochisha — son of the Self Shining
03. Uttama — Son of the Most High
04. Taamasa — Son of Darkness
05. Raivata — son of wealth
06. Chaakshusha — son of the vision (this was the Quirlung instead of the milk ocean)
07. Vaivasvata — Vaivasvata is the son of the Sun God. <—- We currently live here.
08. Arka Saavarni (or Savarnika) — stands with the Sun God in relationship
09. Daksha-Saavarni — son of the rituals
10. Brahma-Saavarni — son of Brahma
11. Dharma-Saavarni — Son of the Eternal Law
12. Rudra-Saavarni — son of the Destroyer
13. Deva-Saavarni — Son of the Shining
14. Indra-Saavarni — son of the mighty Indra
71 cycles of chatur yuga is called a manvantara. At the end of each manvantara period, there comes a partial devastation period, which is equivalant to the duration of krita yuga. This means after every manvantara period, the world is partially destroyed and recreated.
1 manvantara
71 cycles of chatur yuga
A Manvantara is one of the 14 sub-units of a cosmic creation and lasts for 710 days or 306 720 000 solar years. 306 720 000 years. A Manvantara is divided into a total of 71 Mahayugas ( "big Yugas"). Currently, we live the 28th Mahayuga. Mahayuga of the 7th Manvantara. The Mahayugas close to each other seamlessly, without having a period of twilight to be separated.
Mahakalpa — Brahma's Lifespan
Brahma (the creator) lives for 100 years of 360 such days and at the end, he is said to dissolve, along with his entire Creation, into the Paramātman (Eternal Soul). The scriptures put Brahma's age at 100 years in his unique time scale.
Brahma's life span is equal to 311,040,000,000,000 human years. This period in named as maha kalpa. A universe lasts only for one maha kalpa period. At the end of it the universe is completely destroyed together with the creator Brahma and a new universe would be created with a new Brahma. This cycle goes on endlessly. The Vedic universe passes through repetitive cycles of creation and destruction. During the annihilation of the universe, energy is conserved, to manifest again in the next creation.
1 maha kalpa
100 years of Brahma (311,040,000,000,000 human years)
Present date in Time
How old is the universe on this day of Brahma?
The current Kali Yuga began after the Surya Siddhanta at midnight on a change of 17 at 18 February in the year 3102 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar. Since the beginning of the Kalpa until the year 2005 AD passed:
6 complete Manvantaras: 6 x 710
7-Manvantara twilight before a Manvantara each: 7 x 4
27 complete Mahayugas of the current 7th Manvantara: 27 x 10
3 Elapsed Yugas the current 28th Mahayuga: (4 + 3 + 2) x l
5107 solar years in the current Kali Yuga
Kaliyuga calendar
The Kaliyuga calendar is apparently much older than — and quite out of line with — the other surviving old calendars. It also has a somewhat special standing because of its linkage with the religious account of the history of the world, described with mathematical — if mind-boggling — precision. (It is the last and the shortest of the four yugas, meant to last for 432,000 years, and has been preceded respectively by three other yugas, which were in length — going backwards — two, three and four times as long as the Kaliyuga, making up a total of 4,320,000 years altogether.)
The epoch (starting point or first day of the zeroth year) of the current era of Hindu calendar (both solar and lunisolar) is February 18 3102 BC/BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar or January 23 3102 BC/BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. Both the solar and lunisolar calendars started on this date. After that, each year is labeled by the number of years elapsed since the epoch.
This is a unique feature of the Hindu calendar. All other systems use the current ordinal number of the year as the year label. But just as a person's true age is measured by the number of years that have elapsed starting from the date of the person's birth, the Hindu calendar measures the number of years elapsed. As of May 18, 2005, 5106 years had elapsed in the Hindu calendar, so this is the 5107th Hindu calendar year. Note that the lunisolar calendar year will usually start earlier than the solar calendar year.
Prior to the creation of the universe, Lord Vishnu lies asleep on the ocean of all causes. He rests upon a serpent bed with thousands of cobra-like hoods. While asleep, a lotus sprouts from His navel. Upon this lotus is born Brahma the creator of the universe. Lord Brahma lives for a hundred years and then dies, while Lord Vishnu remains. One year of Brahma consists of three hundred and sixty days. At the beginning of each day Brahma creates the living beings that reside in the universe and at the end of each day the living beings are absorbed into Brahma while he sleeps on the lotus. On day of Brahma is known as a KALPA. Within each KALPA there are fourteen MANUS and within each MANU are seventy one CHATUR-YUGAS. Each CHATUR-YUGA is divided into four parts called YUGAPADAS.
From the first chapter of Surya-Siddhanta, the most revered authoritative source of Hindu astronomy, we have the following passage:
11. That which begins with respirations (prana) is called real…….Six respirations make a vinadi, sixty of these a nadi:
12. And sixty nadis make a sidereal day and night. Of thirty of these sidereal days is composed a month; a civil (savana) month consists of as many sunrises;
13. A lunar month, of as many lunar days (tithi); a solar (saura) month is determined by the entrance of the Sun into a sign of the zodiac; twelve months make a year. This is called a day of the gods.
14. The day and night of the devas are mutually opposed to one another. Six times sixty of them are a year of the devas.
15 & 16. Twelve thousand of these divine years are denominated a chatur-yuga; of ten-thousand times four hundred and thirty two solar years is composed that chatur-yuga, with its dawn and twilight. The difference of the krita-yuga and the other yugas, as measured by the difference in the number of the feet of virtue in each is as follows:
17. The tenth part of a chatur-yuga, multiplied successively by four, three, two, and one, gives the length of the krita and the other yugas: the sixth part of each belongs to its dawn and twilight.
18. One and seventy chatur-yugas make a manu; at its end is a twilight which has the number of years of a krita-yuga, and which is a deluge.
19. In a kalpa are reckoned fourteen manus with their respective twilights; at the commencement of the kalpa is a fifteenth dawn, having the length of a krita-yuga.
20. The kalpa, thus composed of a thousand chatur-yugas, and which brings about the destruction of all that exists, is a day of Brahma; his night is of the same length.
21. His extreme age is a hundred, according to this valuation of a day and a night. The half of his life is past; of the remainder, this is the firsts kalpa.
22. And of this kalpa, six manus are past, with their respective twilights; and of the Manu son of Vivasvat, twenty seven chatur-yugas are past;
23. Of the present, the twenty eighth chatur-yuga, this krita yuga is past……..
Pralaya
ALL THE BEINGS OF THIS UNIVERSE INCLUDING CHATURMUKHA BRAHMA AND OTHER GODS ARE RULED BY TIME. THEY ARE CREATED, LIVE AND ARE DESTROYED BY ONE SUPREME AND POWERFUL BEING , WHO HAS NO BIRTH OR DEATH.
This destruction is of four types:
(1) Nitya Pralaya (2) Naimittika Pralaya (3) Maha Pralaya and (4) Aatyantika Pralaya.
Nitya Pralaya is the sleep or by an extension thereof, Death.
Naimittika Pralaya is the end of a single day of Brahma, when the three worlds (Bhuh:, Bhuvaha: and Suvaha:) disintegrate.
Maha Pralaya is the great deluge at the end of the age of one Brahma ,which consists of 100 Brahmic Years (365 Times 2,000 ChaturYugas).
Aatyantika Pralaya is "the final deliverance or the attainment of Salvation by a Jivan and after that the Jivan is never again in the clutches of Karma nor bound by the tight ropes of Samsara.It is therefore a variable time span conditioned by the practise of the different kind of Yogas or Prapatti.
After these definitions of Units of Kaala and the alloted life spans of the Humans and Gods, we come to the concept of Kaala in the Nitya Vibuthi or Sri Vaikuntam. Since, Kaala is omnipresent, it has to be in Sri Vaikuntam also. However, it does not have the same power as in Leela Vibuthi or the Physical Universe, which serves as the play ground for Sriman Narayana. Kaala in Sri Vaikuntam is powerless and hence does not bring about growth, decay or destruction of any thing. Hence all there have eternal existence. Kaala is helpful there only "to describe one action as taking place before or after another. For instance in the service that the Muktas do to Sriman Narayana , they give a bath (Snana) at a point of time previous to that in which they offer food(Bhojana). It is all day there for ever and there is no division into day and night. Kaala is under the control of Sriman Narayana and he manipulates it as He likes it. It is used as an Instrument by Him in bringing about the modification of the various objects in Lila Vibhuti."
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Actor Chris Pratt posted a video of his three-year-old son Jack dropping his phone into a swimming pool.
The video shows little Jack attempting to take a photo of his dad in the pool, when he drops the phone into the water.
The little one can be heard saying "Say Cheese!" before the whole project goes underwater.
"My son, the budding photographer, may or may not owe me a new phone," Pratt captioned the video.
Pratt is married to actress Anna Faris. The pair tied the knot in 2009.


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Brian Hyland (New York, 12 november 1943) is een Amerikaans popmusicus. Hyland scoorde in de jaren 60 van de 20e eeuw internationale hits met onder meer Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini en Sealed with a Kiss. Nadat Hylands status als tieneridool minder werd nam hij in zijn latere carrière meer materiaal op met invloeden van countrymuziek.

Biografie
Als kind studeerde Hyland gitaar en klarinet en zong hij in een kerkkoor.
Op 14-jarige leeftijd was Hyland mede-oprichter van de muziekgroep The Delfis. Ze namen een demo op maar wisten geen contract bij een platenlabel af te sluiten. Hyland kwam als solo-artiest onder contract te staan bij Kapp Records en nam bij dit label zijn debuutsingle, Rosemary, eind 1959 op.

In augustus 1960 scoorde Hyland op 16-jarige leeftijd zijn eerste en enige nummer 1-hit in de Verenigde Staten, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Deze novelty haalde daarnaast de achtste positie in de UK Singles Chart en werd binnen twee maanden een miljoen keer verkocht.

Bij het label ABC Records bracht Hyland vervolgens de singles Let me belong to You en I'll never stop wanting You uit.

Hyland scoorde zijn tweede top 10-hit in de Verenigde Staten met Sealed with a Kiss in 1962. Het nummer behaalde in zowel de Verenigde Staten als het Verenigd Koninkrijk de derde positie in de nationale hitlijst. Jaren later, in 1975, werd het nummer opnieuw uitgebracht in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en haalde het de zevende positie. Met Ginny come lately scoorde Hyland in 1962 ook een hit (nummer 21 in de Verenigde Staten en nummer vijf in het Verenigd Koninkrijk).

In de Verenigde Staten verscheen Hyland in shows als American Bandstand en The Jackie Gleason Show. Van 1963 tot 1969 scoorde Hyland verschillende kleine hits in de Verenigde Staten, waarvan The joker went wild het hoogst scoorde met een twintigste positie in de Amerikaanse hitlijst. Aan het begin van de jaren 70 wist Hyland een top 10-notering te bereiken met Gypsy Woman, een nummer geschreven door Curtis Mayfield dat uiteindelijk tot de derde positie reikte in de Verenigde Staten. Dit was daarnaast zijn enige notering in de Nederlandse top 40, hierin bereikte het de 27e positie.

Discografie

Singles

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Radio 2 Top 2000

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Svetoslav Elenkov's Theft Is Legal is a handsome book that provides a short and easy read, although it promises much more. With an expressive cover photo by JupiterImages Corporation, a promising blurb on the back cover, and an expansive array of distribution channels, the book seems to have the potential for commercial success.
In thirteen short chapters, Elenkov shares a couple of composed snapshots of life in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) during the 1990s, leading to his family's decision to immigrate to the USA; he presents his opinion about the works of different political systems, including classic socialism and capitalism, focusing on the deeds of the general institution of government; and he offers his ideas about "fixing" the problems that arise in the world of economics and politics regardless of geographical or political borders. Each of the thirteen chapters in the book is introduced by a simple, cartoon-like drawing. The stylish and artistic illustration lends a breezy undertone to the paperback, and definitely enhances its content. The chapter titles are clever and provocative.
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Because of the lack of cohesion in style, topic, genre, or theme, the short opinion pieces published in Theft Is Legal represent content more appropriate for a blog site than a book. On the other hand, with in-depth research, any one of the chapters could be developed into a powerful nonfiction book that fits in or even create a specific niche, especially considering the author's radical slant.
The most heartfelt pieces, the ones Elenkov calls "memory recollections", depict life in his old country in Eastern Europe during the 1990s. Chapters 1, 7, and 13 retell the experiences of one family in a time of political and, consequently, fiscal turmoil, when the improvement of economy lags behind drastic political changes, thus crashing the dreams of millions who expect instant prosperity. Although I wanted to read more of this type of information and writing, even these chapters lack depth and clarity. What was the purpose of the road blocks the author participated in building? What were the political rallies about? What did the crowd chant? Elenkov keeps me hanging: "I don't remember a word of what the speakers said during those times. It was boring,…" (Rock Pile City – A Recollection, p. 81).
Nonetheless, I consider Elenkov a very brave man. He is courageous enough to go out on a limb and shout his personal truth into the wind. Agreeing or disagreeing is the reader's choice. I wish he used at least some of the devices of persuasive, expository, or general nonfiction writing, such as research, analysis, supporting details, references, and so forth in order to back up his ideas and convince the reader of his truth. Otherwise his words remain just that: a cry in the wind.


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"I had this placid mind, like a mirror lake, and all that appeared was just mirages, as there was nothing but the observing itself. Beautiful appearances of non-persons, no labels, no distinctions. Perfect discernment. A question is asked, and a response is self-logical, self-evident, is said, comes and goes … nothing to it or any it. No objects.
The operative word is "seem". The sense-mind is all about change.
Be the observer, the seeing of the change.
Maybe you are. How would you know?
The props look all right to me.


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Eleven banks develop trade finance app on R3's Corda DLT platform
Eleven banks have passed a major milestone in the digitisation of documentary trade finance.
They have developed a prototype application on R3's distributed ledger platform, Corda, that has the potential to significantly reduce inefficiencies and costs by streamlining the processing of sight letters of credit.
Bangkok Bank, BBVA, BNP Paribas, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Mizuho, RBS, Scotiabank, SEB and U.S. Bank have been collaborating with R3 and technology partner CGI over the last year on numerous trade finance projects, building and testing applications. Using lessons learnt from these projects, the group has now developed a trade finance application on Corda that incorporates shippers and carriers. Several R3 member institutions now intend to pilot the platform with the goal of making it widely available in 2018.
David Rutter, CEO of R3, comments: "Like so many of the processes and systems banks are forced to use today, the infrastructure that supports trade financing is extremely outdated and prone to risk and error. The work we have been doing with our members over the last year has shown that this challenge no longer needs to stand in the way of giving businesses access to the services they need to trade across borders. The application we have built is the first of its kind and we look forward to rolling it out to our Corda users across the world."
Marguerite Burghardt, Global Head of the Trade Competence Center at BNP Paribas, comments: "While LCs have not progressed as much as the open account business in recent years, they remain a good way to finance trade and mitigate risks. If the industry manages to make the whole process fully digital, transparent and STP, this could mean renewed development and wider access to this financing technique."
Vivek Ramachandran, Head of Growth and Innovation, Commercial Banking at HSBC said: "The prototype integrates a standardised user interface that allows carriers and shipping companies to prepare and validate shipping details when they onboard goods and deliver them to the buyer - even if they are on a different technology platform. We believe that offering optionality in terms of the systems and technologies participants use, and ensuring interoperability between these technologies, will significantly advance efforts to digitise trade. To further enhance the prototype, we'll continue to work with established and emerging title registry providers to ensure this solution can provide a secure and legal title transfer of goods in a live environment, and anticipate piloting the app on the R3 network before the end of the year."
Ivar Wiersma, Head of Innovation Wholesale Banking at ING said: "This application has the capacity to make the overall trade flow, currently hampered by outdated processes, faster and more cost effective. This is a great step forward in the process of digitalising and standardising the documentary trade finance process from start to finish, connecting multiple parties in the trade finance chain with the feature of interoperability of the different technologies these parties use."
Jim Bidwell, Head of Trade Services Product Management at RBS, said: "Distributed ledger technology has huge potential to improve customer experience and reduce costs across Trade Finance, which has remained largely unchanged for many years. This initiative is a great demonstration of how we can collaborate to develop innovative solutions for our customers."
Craig Weeks, Senior Vice President and Manager of U.S. Bank's International Banking Group, said: "We're excited about the potential of distributed ledger technology to increase transparency and efficiency across the trade finance lifecycle. This work has proven the viability of the technology to effectively manage the process and we're very much looking forward to testing this in an operational setting."
R3's distributed ledger platform, Corda, has been built specifically for the financial services industry. The technology offers the ability to simplify the complex links and networks involved in the trade and trade finance market by providing a shared and synchronised database of transactions between businesses across geographies.
Despite the growth of open account business, traditional trade finance remains vitally important, particularly to facilitate international trade. According to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), commercial letters of credit still account for 38% of the trade finance product mix. In an effort to meet customer demand and address growing margin pressures, banks have been collaboratively developing a solution to drive greater efficiencies, reduce cost and simplify today's existing processes.
Source: Finextra


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A Gorgeous Beacon of … Meters?
Those parking meters are gorgeous.
It's not a phrase one hears often, but it's happening in Santa Rosa, Calif., where 80 old and discarded parking meters were used to create a giant sculpture that lights up at night in changing patterns.
The sculpture was born out of a contest hosted by the city to find an artistic use for the old meters. Lead artist Dana Woodman led a team that conceptualized and later built the piece of art, which is a big hit so far–people stare, comment, and come back to see it again.
Need to see it? You really do (we kind of want one for the plaza outside our office). Check out the story, photos, and a video here.