Toronto from the perspective of Flickr and Twitter: Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both (image: Eric Fischer at Flickr.com). Move over with mouse to see Google Map overlay to locate yourself.
An interesting (and beautiful) set of maps have been made by Flickr user Eric Fischer showing maps of the locations of Flickr photos and Twitter activity in major urban centres around the world (see the full set called "See something or say something" to compare to other cities). What's interesting is how clearly the downtown street fabric of Toronto (and other cities) is revealed by people's photos and tweets. While it might seem obvious that the streets (being our main public realm) are the places where the most concentrated activity of this kind takes place, it still suggests things about how people use the city and of what and where they choose to take photos. Outside the core, the main photo concentrations appear to be the waterfront and major parks, with a few splotches at major urban nodes which suggests a large preference for taking photos of the natural environment. Meanwhile the Twitter activity is much more evenly spread across the city, although still concentrated enough around the major streets of the city to give a suggestion of the street network. The clarity with which Yonge St, Bloor/Danforth and Queen St stand out shows just how much activity in general in Toronto is concentrated around these three streets that most of us know are the main spines of the city. If only Queen St had a subway line recognizing this to match the other two!
Now that Shanghai's Metro is officially the longest subway network in the world (by track length), I thought it would be interesting to do a comparison between it and the long-time title holder that it displaced, London's Underground.
The first major difference is that Shanghai's Metro is still expanding, very fast. By 2020 it intends to have added over 350km in new lines and extensions, almost doubling its network length, and in China, when the government intends to achieve something within a 10 year timeframe, they generally succeed or come close. With currently 420km of network, Shanghai's Metro earlier this year passed the Underground (which has 402km, although I believe that doesn't include the Overground line or the Docklands Light Railway) after opening 3 new lines and long extensions to 2 other lines (creating a subway link between the city's two airports) in time for the opening of the Shanghai Expo. The shocking thing about the 2020 expansion plan is that it will make the above diagram (created by Kzaral aka FML in the style of the famous Tube map) a reality and not a fantasy. All this from a system that only opened its first subway line (appropriately called Line 1) in 1995. Yes, you read that right, 1995.
The second major difference is that there is no suburban commuter rail system in Shanghai that compares with those in cities like London, Paris and Tokyo, where the railway network is essentially operated as a secondary rapid transit system with longer station intervals than the subway, generally with an interchangeable fare system. In Shanghai there is only the regular railway network which is not run anything like a metro rapid transit system, but clearly prioritizes long-distance and high-speed trains, and largely services only 2 stations within the inner city, the main station and the south station. This is a severe deficiency in a city as large as Shanghai since it is those suburban commuter rail systems that ensure quick and efficient travel into the city centre from the suburbs, and in Shanghai make no mistake, those suburbs are often nearly as high density as the inner city. This is the reason that even with what seems on the surface like a fully implemented subway system, Shanghai actually desperately needs to push ahead with the rest of the subway system expansion program, because most of the new lines and track length will be servicing the vast suburban areas in an attempt to make up for this lack of a commuter rail network. Time will tell whether this model actually services the suburbs with better all-round transit than the commuter rail approach, and at least Shanghai has the density to justify subways in the suburbs. However, as of now, the subway model predetermines extremely long subway rides from the suburbs rather than quicker commuter trains that stop less frequently and dump you in the city centre to jump on the subway to your destination. In contrast to the London commuter rail paradox of someone living in a rural village outside the city potentially having a significantly shorter commute than someone living in the inner city itself, in Shanghai the emerging paradox (fueled by extensive high-speed rail expansion) is someone living in a city 300km away from Shanghai (eg Nanjing) having a shorter commute than someone living in Shanghai's suburbs (the new Shanghai-Nanjing train can do the 300km trip in 73 minutes).
The Shanghai network map is quite a bit less diagrammatic than the iconic Tube map, but a comparison reveals the different biases of each system. In particular, the primary strength of the London Underground has always been in movement around inner London's central areas for which the coverage is excellent. This bias is highly demonstrated in the famous Beck Tube map in the extremely large size of Zones 1 and 2 compared to the suburban zones, although this was no doubt to allow clear reading of the closely spaced stations and line layouts. In Shanghai's case the emphasis is clearly on the radial pattern of suburban lines rather than the central area, and this will only increase with the future expansion plans. In particular, notice in the two maps that Shanghai's circular Line 4 (the purple irregular circle) and London's Circle Line (yellow) appear about the same size in the two diagrams, but Line 4 encloses an area 3.6 times bigger than the Circle Line (62.9km2 vs 17.5km2, by my measurements).
What is most noticeable right away is that London's Circle Line falls entirely inside the Underground's Zone 1 which can easily be taken to represent central London, although anyone who knows London will know that quite a few districts considered "central" fall inside Zone 2 instead. Additionally, the London Congestion Zone (which could also easily by used as a boundary for central London) largely mimics Zone 1 with a few variations but enclosing an area of the same size. This means that the Circle Line directly services numerous important destinations right within central London, while it's tracks are shared with 3 other lines over different parts of the route meaning every station on the Circle Line allows transfers to a different line. There are additionally 18 railway stations and termini within the Underground's Zone 1, 6 of them directly serviced by the Circle Line, allowing direct connections for commuter rail passengers.
For the Shanghai map I have included historic districts of the city which include the Old Chinese City and its port district along the Huangpu River, the French Concession and the International Concession. Note how Line 4 essentially entirely runs outside the central historic districts. In fact the large Western District area of the International Settlement was the least developed part of all the historic districts, and remains a rather distant feeling part of the city. Strangely, Line 4 also avoids directly servicing Shanghai's new financial centre at Lujiazui in Pudong on the east bank of the Huangpu River, although it does service Shanghai's main railway station, although this station itself falls outside of the historic core of the city. The route of Line 4 seems to have largely been decided by the convenience of using old railway right-of-ways and the construction of Shanghai's Inner Ring Road rather than determining what would best service the city's future transportation needs.
In general, central Shanghai today is often considered to be anything within the Inner Ring Road, but this definition does not relate to the historic city in any way (particularly on the Pudong/eastern side), while functionally it might relate to the modern reality. I calculated that the old districts of Shanghai I included on the map above cover about 38km2 which funnily enough is around the same size as London Underground's Zone 1, but nevertheless Line 4 is far bigger than these historic districts, and also misses other new centres at the edge of the historic districts such as Xujiahui and Lujiazui. The real implication of this comes when you examine numbers of stations: London's Circle Line has 27 stations over 21km around the circle (all of them with an available interchange to at least one line, and many of them directly servicing major destinations), while Shanghai's Line 4 has 26 stations over 33.7km with interchanges at 16 stations and servicing relatively few major destinations. All together there are 64 Underground stations in London's Zone 1, but only 34 within Shanghai's Line 4 (not including Line 4 stations themselves, since I consider them to be outside the city centre), even though London's Zone 1 (at 38km2) is almost half the size of the area inside Line 4 (62.9km2).
Now of course in terms of urbanism, Shanghai and London are very difficult cities to compare, so it may not be fair to dismiss the route of Shanghai's Line 4 as inappropriate and inconvenient compared to London's Circle Line. It's certainly true that central Shanghai is not and will not be served as well by its Metro as central London is by the Underground, but in many ways this reflects the evolving functional reality of Shanghai and the decreasing importance of the historic districts in the future development of the city, largely resulting from the budding desire to protect the historic heritage in the inner districts. But given the densities of suburban Shanghai and the far lower car ownership rates and the lack of commuter rail options, Shanghai does desperately need to improve transportation in the suburbs, since in the future Shanghai's suburbs cannot be allowed to rely on automobile transportation to the same degree as London or other western cities because at these densities, congestion will be unavoidable and nightmarish. If you look at the entire cities' networks in a geographically accurate representation (see above), the systems are actually highly comparable, and the area covered also comparable, with the caveat that without showing London's commuter railway network, London's Underground appears to have less coverage than Shanghai's current system (particularly south of the Thames which has always been poorly serviced by the Underground itself but is quite well served by railway). Perhaps the most shocking thing is that London has been benefiting from Underground services since 1863, which given the massive population and size of Shanghai, makes you wonder how on earth Shanghai functioned at all before the first subway line opened in 1995!
Lastly, there are a few things Shanghai could do to help improve the Metro beyond the constant expansions. It's very odd that none of the lines (even the most popular, Lines 1 and 2) operate much beyond 11pm, and in fact many of the lines cannot be relied upon after 9pm or 10pm (although for some of them, running has been extended during the Expo). Additionally the station dwell times seem excessively long compared to most systems I've used in the world – the slow speed of the train arrival, the delay until the doors are opened, the delay before the train leaves after the doors have closed, all add time at every station, which compounds itself on longer rides. I don't know if the introduction of automatic train operation will be able to speed up these times or whether they relate to safety concerns with the sliding glass platform barrier doors at most stations. Lastly, crowding on trains even during off-peak times and late in the evening seems to indicate that Shanghai's Metro should increase operating frequency on many of its lines, and suggests that there is clearly high demand for later, more frequent subway operation.
Credits: The Underground geographically accurate maps are based on the work of London Underground geographic maps group at Wikimedia Commons – station locations are accurate, but line routes between stations have been interpolated.
New half-height metal and glass platform barriers along Shanghai Metro's Line 2 (green line) station platforms prove that you can improve subway station safety without the expense and complications of the full height sliding glass platform doors. What's even more impressive (if you think about the TTC's insistence that any form of platform barrier can't be done without an automatic train driving system) is that these trains are still being manually driven. Admittedly, the trains tend to enter the station quite a bit more slowly than the TTC's subway trains, and getting the alignment quite right manually probably slows down operation a little bit, but apart from that the simplicity and elegance of this solution is quite remarkable. Even though gaps to the track still exist, the feeling of security on the platforms is greatly improved by this solution and you can lean against the barriers comfortably and safely even while a train is entering the station.
However, at People's Square (see below, by far the busiest station on the Shanghai Metro network), because of the crowds always present on the platforms, they opted for half-height sliding glass platform doors which even more effectively address the safety issues, presumably at considerably less expense than the full height doors, and again alignment of the train does not seem to be a significant problem. The only limitations of this half-height solution is the difficulty of providing heating and/or airconditioning in the platform areas.
And of course, even on Shanghai Metro Line 1 (red line, which has full height glass sliding platform doors) they don't always get the alignment quite right, and will occasionally back up a little, or just open the doors slightly misaligned (see below, where the yellow arrow pointing out from the door is at the centre of the platform doors).
A new bike sharing program has been set up in Shanghai's former French Concession by Xuhui District's Tourism Bureau just in time for the Expo, with bicycles and infrastructure provided by Shanghai's own Forever bicycle company. Unlike other such systems already existing around Shanghai (such as in Minhang District, Baoshan, Pudong and Hangzhou) it's apparently aimed at tourists rather than residents. The system supposedly has under 200 bicycles and 7 bike rental points which operate 24 hours a day, and the bikes are tagged with RFIDs so they can be tracked. However, there are only 2 locations where you can buy the cards needed to use the bikes, and then only during business hours, and there is no signage or information whatsoever at the rental points about how to use the system or where you need to go to start using the system. At the above rental point on Wukang Lu, even though one of the administration locations is mere steps away, no signage in chinese or english indicated that. It is a truly mysterious system. Anyways, 300rmb (c. CAD$50) deposit is required plus minimum 100rmb loaded onto card, and then it's 2rmb (CAD 0.30) for the first hour of a rental and 4rmb for each hour after that, and you can get the card at 393 A Wukang Lu (inside Xuhui Tourist Information Center) or 1068 ZhaoJiaBang Lu or check out the official website (chinese only).
Three videos to show the kind of crowd volumes that Shanghai's People's Square metro station (interchange for lines 1, 2 and 8 ) experiences during a typical rush hour – the unending sea of people is slightly mind-boggling, but by keeping with the flow an enormous number of people can peacefully get from A to B (the story on the platforms when the train doors open is a lot less peaceful). Click on the HD button to get higher quality video when viewing fullscreen.
Ohoh... we have to get on this bus to get back to Suzhou (maybe 1.5hr ride!)... to shove or not to shove that is the question!
We prepared this map of the evolution of the TTC subway system in response to a challenge over at spacingtoronto – while this version didn't get shortlisted as a finalist, check out the great maps that did.
One thing I prefer in our map is that the subway lines are shown true to scale, so you can compare the real lengths that have been added over time and gauge how much of the city was being covered by each phase.
Check out a larger version of our map, where you can make out station names.
Also see our reimagining of the TTC transit map from October 2006.
A Mississauga transitway, a bus-only road along Highway 403 and Eastgate Parkway from Burnhamthorpe Rd. to Eglinton Ave. E.
Brampton's $280-million Acceleride project, meant to speed bus service. Ontario has already committed $95 million for the improvements.
An expansion of York Region's Viva bus system. York Region officials want to get buses on to dedicated lanes.
The widening of Highway 7, in the amount of $55 million.
An environmental assessment to extend Highway 407 eastward to link up with Highway 401. This would go through federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's Whitby-Oshawa riding.
A $5 million study of rapid transit in Durham.
For those unfamiliar with the $2 billion Spadina Extension proposal, it continues the Spadina subway line north to York University, then beyond Toronto's boundary at Steeles to connect to (the future) Vaughan Corporate Centre at Highway 7 in Vaughan. I include a map below from the TTC's website on the matter – more information can be had here.
Somewhere someone was asking for someone to come up with a reimagined transit map for Toronto (could it have been Reading Toronto here?), so I thought I'd give it a shot. The one Graeme Stewart posted at Reading Toronto is interesting but I find it too schematic-looking. At the GTA level, scale is grossly distorted, but on the downtown detail map I love how he managed to integrate neighbourhood names into the map. Fantastic.
Apart from supposed "dedicated right-of-way" LRT streetcar lines (such as Spadina's 510 line and the Queen's Quay lines and the western portion of the Queen 501 route along the Queensway), streetcar lines in Toronto are having serious problems moving swiftly through the city. One hears complaints of people being able to walk faster than the Queen cars move through traffic. Even the dedicated right-of-way lines have issues – a report I read indicated that the Spadina car on average is slower at getting its passengers down to Queen than the old pre-1997 buses were – I also have friends who live out near Mimico for whom in most cases taking the subway and getting a bus is quicker than the 501 car. This does beg the question of whether they should be included when some frequent service time-efficient bus routes are not.
On Stewart's GTA map (here), GO Transit's rail network is given heavy prominence next to the subway lines. Indeed on GO's own system map, their train network is given heavy coloured-line subway-like prominence, with the bus network as more generic thinner green lines. I flirted with this idea, but for now have settled for a more toned-back approach to the GO network for the simple reason that until higher frequencies are achieved and more serious urban centre-type development occurs around GO stations, the system currently bears little resemblance (in reality) to an LRT, BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), or subway system since it is heavily skewed towards commuter traffic alone.
VIVA is here – York Region's BRT transit offering is up-and-running (for a year now), and should be given heavier priority at the regional scale. I dream of a day when an integrated fare-structure allows simple and straightforward use of all these systems together with full transfer privileges and no complications – perhaps trying to envision what the system even looks like as a whole is the first step? For now I have only shown full-service routes of VIVA, not peak-only. I don't actually even know whether any of the other GTA municipalities have BRT-equivalent frequent-service routes to add – if they have, I haven't heard of them.
I am also working on a full GTA level map showing all GO lines to their ends. All of these maps are real-scale without distortions in space – the disadvantages are that at smaller sizes, things become harder to read and distinguish. It could be that after I've done these, then a simpler diagram version could be done that distorted distance as most existing transit maps do.
Style – I've tried to stick to the current TTC diagram style. Why? I kind of like it. I am from Toronto though. Others, such as Miguel Syyap's quite wonderful TTC maps, have used London Underground's famous style – which I must say looks good too! For some reason Syyap hasn't shown an as-is system map using his style though. VIVA has adopted this same style for their diagrammatic system maps.
Let me know what you think – any suggestions?
Also see our evolution of the TTC subway animated map from September 2007.


By using a mock framework, it allows you to be able to really be able to separate the unit of code that is under test from all other aspects of the system. This allows you to make your tests short and sweet by only focussing on the bare minimum needed to test the unit of code at hand. Some people argue that this is the exact reason that mocks are considered harmful as they don"t bare any relationship to normal operation. To this I would simply point out that the purpose of these unit tests are to check that the function behaves as you expect. If it fails to perform as expected, are the expectations wrong or is it some form of subtle error? These are the sorts of questions that isolated testing can really help with. To cover more realistic usage scenarios, this is where end-to-end/integration/acceptance tests really come to the fore to help exercise the code in a manner consistent with production.
As mentioned before mocks allow you to test very specific scenarios within the code in a completely isolated fashion. As the image to the right shows someone testing a dynamite plunger, would you rather the plunger were attached to real sticks of dynamite when you were first designing and testing the plunger, or would you prefer to use a buzzer/lamp to indicate successful detonation? Certainly the second scenario is important to the product, but for the necessary repeatability required for testing I"d always choose the buzzer otherwise product testing would become very expensive very quickly! If we look at this analogy and bring it into the world of software development you could think of this as a piece of functionality that deletes a whole load of records within a database. If you"re are running tests every time you check-in then surely you don"t want to go through the pain of inserting loads of test data into the database only to delete the data a minute later. more to the point, what if the same test is running at the same time in two separate locations most likely, one test run is going to fail. Mocks allow you to be confident that no matter what the test environment, the tests should always pass.
As we have eluded to before, the time taken to execute a test can be a major factor in it"s success and value. If your CI (Continuous Integration) build took fifty-five minutes to run every time you checked-in a file, then the soonest indication you would have that something was wrong is almost an hour after check-in and by this point you will likely have moved onto another piece of work. This will then cause you to have to drop the current work to refocus on the failing build. Mocks can allow you to skip or trim down the amount of time required to set up for tests as you aren"t reliant on external systems/data in order to get the tests to pass.
Mocks give you complete control of the execution of your code and allow you to be in complete control over what happens to that unit of code during the test. Mocks also allow you to simulate any behaviour you need to in order to see what would happen if one of your dependencies did something unexpected e.g. threw an exception, how does that unit under test handle it? Coupled with the fact that the mocks allow you a degree of safety, this can be an invaluable tool when checking the expected behaviour of a unit of code.
This is probably one of my favourite reasons for looking to mocks to help test a function. The basic premise is this: if a test is too painful to write (e.g. it is taking too long, or it"s difficult to read and understand) then it"s an indication that the function is trying to do too much or your design could be improved. By having the unit test as a mirror held up to your code it allows you to feel the pain of having to test an overly large function, coincidently, this is the exact same pain someone else will have to go through when maintaining the same function. This can be said of unit tests in general but by utilising the mock framework it forces you to think about and analyse the dependencies being used by the function as you need to specifically provide setup code for each dependency.
Like any tool Mocking frameworks can either drastically help or hinder your tests and by extension your code quality, the trick to getting the best out of mocks comes from knowing when and where to reach for the mocking tool. There are those that take a fairly dim view of mocking frameworks (recently To Kill a Mockingtest) and there are those that like to take the time to analyse where and when mocks can add the greatest benefit. There are of course people out there who try and use the same tool for all purposes, but this isn"t an option that I"d recommend!
Hopefully by now I"ve given you the sales pitch and convinced you that mocks have their place within the world of unit testing, but this doesn"t come close to actually talking about what we are testing. FUNCTIONS! More and more these days I find that the code I write falls into two main categories: Orchestration functions and algorithmic functions. By identifying the type of function we are writing and testing, it can help inform what tools and techniques are appropriate for testing. What do these categories actually mean?
These functions manage class dependencies in order to achieve the desired behaviour. What do I mean by this? If you take the extremely contrived example below that orders a product for a customer. This function performs a number of business checks to ensure that the user is registered and that there is sufficient stock for the order to process, then it redirects to the payment section with any payment details auto-filled. As you can see, this function isn"t responsible for actually performing any of the tasks, rather it"s only concern is to manage it"s dependencies and achieve the correct function flow for the required business scenario.
These functions do not manage many (if at all) dependencies and are often concerned with only achieving the correct result. Again, below there is yet another contrived example of what I mean by an algorithmic function. All this function is trying to do is to return the total value of a shopping cart including the applicable tax.
Given these two types of functions I find myself trying to separate my code into these two categories as much as possible with as little overlap as I can get away with. If I find orchestration functions that contain algorithmic sections, I attempt to refactor the code and split up the responsibilities into smaller functions. The same is obviously true in the other direction. So I hear yourself saying that "this is all nice and dandy, but what does it have to do with effective testing with mocks?!". Given the two categories of functions listed above, it shouldn"t be too much of a leap to see that mocks can help more with one category than the other.
By splitting the code as much as you can into its constituent parts, one of the benefits that you get is that you can confine your mock usage to a smaller subsection of the functions under test. You actually get to choose whether you want to use the "classic" test route for algorithmic type functions e.g. "given an input of x I expect the function to return y". This is particularly suited to functions that perform calculations, transformations, or validations as the test criteria are usually black or white e.g. MSDN - Assert.AreEqual Method Assert.AreEqual(expectedTaxValue, result.TotalTax);. This form of unit tests allow the developer to claim that the code produces the expected results, not necessarily that the software behaves correctly or is well designed. Conversely, you also get to choose when you bring in mocks to help test the behaviour and functional flow of you software and gain all the benefits mentioned above. This choice is a powerful thing as it allows you to pick the best method for your particular scenario without always being forced blindly down the same path/testing strategy.
Mocks are a tool, just like any tool you need to learn when it is appropriate to use them and practice your mastery of this tool to improve the quality of your software.


LowBlueLights.com was set up by Photonic Developments LLC, and its parent, the Lighting Innovations Institute of John Carroll University. The trio of highly decorated scientists who first established the corporation at the beginning of 2005 and the website several months later, together enjoy more than a century of experience in high-level physics, and have won more than 100 U.S. patents. Below is a photograph taken of the three soon after they established the website. It is followed by brief descriptions of their backgrounds, together with that of the fourth partner of the corporation who joined them in 2007.
Dr. Hansler spent 42 years as a senior scientist at the world-renowned GE Nela Park lighting laboratory, where he was instrumental in the development of several lighting techniques and applications. Shortly after retiring in 1996, he formed the Lighting Innovations Corporation, where he has drawn on his vast technical knowledge and wide industry contacts to continue to push the boundaries of lighting technology. Since its inception, the corporation has received over $1 million in funding from such federal agencies as the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA, and additional support from private industry. Dr. Hansler holds a doctorate in physics from Ohio State University, and served as an adjunct physics professor at John Carroll University. His work has won 86 U.S. patents, with more currently pending approval. He occasionally serves as an expert witness in legal cases that center on his technical specialty.
Dr. Carome is a retired professor of physics at John Carroll University. During his long and distinguished career, he has consulted widely with industry and governmental agencies, and has published widely in technical journals. He has been awarded 21 U.S.patents. For more than two decades, he conducted leading-edge research on fiber optics. His research has attracted more than $2 million in federal funding from such agencies as NASA, the FBI, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research and the Army Office of Research, among others. The State of Ohio and such leading corporations as British Petroleum, Goodyear Aerospace and Litton Industries have added an additional $1 million or more in support for his research. Dr. Carome holds a doctorate in physics from Case Institute of Technology.
Mr. Kubulins has a masters degree in physics from John Carroll University. Since completing his degree some years ago, he has worked closely with Dr. Carome on the development of fiber optic instrumentation. His work has embraced fiber sensors of several types and fiber optics for illumination. In addition to his work at the university, he has participated in many projects for such leading organizations as GE Lighting, Fiberstars, Gelcore and Optical Research Associates. He holds a number of U.S. patents, one based on his work on a hemispherical optical sensors and several on his work on airport lighting systems.
Dr. Martin Alpert is a retired physician and engineer. After completing his M.D. and M.S. at Case Western Reserve University, he has spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur, identifying previously unknown markets and building first-to-market companies. These companies capitalize on ensuing rapid industry growth using innovative business models that enable them to launch with minimal funding through organic growth. One of his first companies produced the first peripherals for personal computers and, on a $5,000 investment, grew to over $30 million without outside financing. He later started another company that became the fastest growing US high-tech company of the year according to BusinessWeek. He has been involved with eliminating extreme poverty and hunger in the world and addressing trans- and supra-national issues. He holds multiple patents in diverse fields including appliances, sports, automotive and computers/communications and is an IFR multi-engine pilot.


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Q: Reading from URL: Error I am trying to read from a URL but my program constantly gives me this error:
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=weather+in+seattle&oq=weather+in+sea&aqs=chrome.0.0l3j69i57j0l2.4686j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1913)
at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1509)
at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:245)
at java.base/java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1117)
at Main.main(Main.java:17)

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
      at Main.main(Main.java:25)

What must I do to fix this?

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Welcome to the elf/hornet register Website!
WHAT IS A ELF OR HORNET?
After the Mini was launched in August 1959, BMC started work on an up market 'booted' saloon version. This was first seen in 1961 as the Wolseley Hornet, and Riley Elf, as in early pre-war models, the Elf was the sporty version.
They are based very much on the mini, but have a higher quality of interior trim and more external chrome than the original mini. They have a larger boot and a distinctive front that is very different from the mini's.
The noticeable difference between the Elf and the Hornet is the front grille.
The Hornet has a badge at the top on the grille, which is illuminated with the lights.
The Elf does NOT have this illuminated badge.
Over its 8 years, it had 2 minor facelifts, the first of which, in 1963, saw the original Mini 850 engine replaced by the Cooper's 998cc. This gave added speed, and better performance. The Mark III, launched in 1966, featured wind-up windows, and integral Door hinges - features not seen on the Mini until 1969.
The car was killed off, in both guises, with the axing of all Riley Models in 1969, and was indirectly replaced by the Mini Clubman Models. In total, 30,912 Riley Elfs were built.
During the same period 28,455 Hornets built.


What symptoms would be observed if the crystal in an ADE7878 circuit is not performing adequately. Would poor crystal performance affect SPI communication, proper initialization, measurement accuracy, etc?
- temp operating: -40 to 85 deg C.
- Frequency tolerance: |50 ppm| or less.
- Frequency stability: |30 ppm |or less.
Thank you for the reply. I have a custom circuit using the ADE7878 and am having some issues with serial communication and am trying to determine the source of the problem. Could the crystal performance affect the serial communication or are they unrelated?
I see, There are two timings or clocking in the chip, one is the crystal clocking which is the clock used by the chip in processing the data from the ADC, etc. The second one is the clock provided to the communications interface whether SPI or I2C, this is where your issue is coming. Regarding the level of how related the two timings are, the crystal circuit is so sensitive that it might affect the communications timing. Have you tried using the recommended crystal circuit and see if the communications work properly by reading default registers like IDs, versions.
Can you also validate by driving using an external oscillator, bypassing your crystal oscillator, and see if this will work fine?
I do not have access to an external oscillator.
I tried reading default registers and when the serial communication (SPI) is working I am able to read default registers. I learned that the die version is 2. However, even when it seems that the serial communication is working and I write to a register, such as COMPMODE and read it back it returns either 0xFFFF or 0x00FF.
When the serial communication is not working at all (which is most of the time) and I try to read the Version register it returns 0xFF.
I am able to get the serial communication with the ADE7878 to work only by powering up the board and resetting the attached micro controller once. On first power up the serial communication with the ADE7878 does not work and if I reset the microcontroller more than once the serial communication stops working. The microcontroller is functioning, there are several other SPI devices that communicate with the microcontoller and all serial communication is reliable except for with the ADE7878.
This behavior makes me think that there may be some issue with how I am initializing the ADE7878. Can you suggest an initialization sequence including pin states and register writes and reads to initialize the ADE7878 in a stable way?


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With less than two months before Husky Rescue KZN finds themselves without a home, this is an urgent appeal for assistance.
We currently have 50 dogs in our care, and with an eviction looming due to financial constraints, the situation has reached dire straits.
You can also support us by swiping your Woolworths My School Card or registering online to join this initiative. Just choose #HuskyRescueKZN as your beneficiary. This will not cost you anything, but the huskies will be extremely grateful and eager to demonstrate with kisses on our Open Days.
Secondly, the other way to assist is in helping us find new premises ASAP. It would need to have sufficient land to accommodate all huskies and the staff needed to care for them. We trust that the new premises will have facilities to promote our vision of using huskies as therapy dogs, for both adults and children alike.
Thirdly, once premises have been located, assistance will definitely be required in moving all the huskies to the new location.
The time to act is now!!!


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2.—(1) In these Regulations:
"the Act" means the Access to Justice Act 1999;
"certificate" means a certificate issued under the Funding Code certifying a decision to fund services for the client and "emergency certificate" means a certificate certifying a decision to fund Legal Representation for the client in a case of emergency;
"client" means an individual who receives funded services;
"Commission" means the Legal Services Commission established under section 1 of the Act;
"costs order" means an order that a party pay all or part of the costs of proceedings;
"cost protection" means the limit on costs awarded against a client set out in section 11(1) of the Act;
"court" includes any tribunal having the power to award costs in favour of, or against, a party;
"full costs" means, where a section 11(1) costs order is made against a client, the amount of costs which that client would, but for section 11(1) of the Act, have been ordered to pay;
"funded proceedings" means proceedings (including prospective proceedings) in relation to which the client receives funded services or, as the case may be, that part of proceedings during which the client receives funded services;
"funded services" means services which are provided directly for a client and funded for that client by the Commission as part of the Community Legal Service under sections 4 to 11 of the Act;
"Funding Code" means the code approved under section 9 of the Act;
"non-funded party" means a party to proceedings who has not received funded services in relation to those proceedings under a certificate, other than a certificate which has been revoked;
"partner" means a person with whom the person concerned lives as a couple, and includes a person with whom the person concerned is not currently living but from whom he is not living separate and apart;
"proceedings" include proceedings in any tribunal which is a court, as defined in this paragraph;
"receiving party" means a party in favour of whom a costs order is made;
"section 11(1) costs order" means a costs order against a client where cost protection applies;
"solicitor" means a solicitor or another person who is an authorised litigator within the meaning of section 119(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(1).
(2) References to the levels of service listed in paragraph (3) shall be construed as references to the receipt or provision of those levels of service granted in accordance with the Funding Code.
(3) The levels of service referred to in paragraph (2) are:
(a)Legal Help;
(b)Help at Court;
(c)Legal Representation;
(d)Approved Family Help;
(e)Investigative Support;
(f)Litigation Support.
1990 c. 41.

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Q: Integrating Umbraco 7 into an existing MVC 4 Web application This answer suggests that one should create a new project for Umbraco content management alongside the existing MVC application. I have created the new project as suggested, and installed Umbraco into it through NuGet.
So now I have 2 projects, one for my MVC application and one for CMS. Both are working as expected, meaning that I can add contents through the Umbraco UI after building the newly created Umbraco project.
My question is, how can I query the content from inside the MVC application in order to show the manageable content on my views? It seems that it can be done through the Umbraco REST API, but as both databases (for the MVC application and the CMS application) will reside on the same server this seems unefficient.

A: Traditionally one of the problems with Umbraco is that it is not a pure MVC architecture. This means that people are sometimes led to believe they will be able to implement a 100% MVC solution and then just manage their content through Umbraco.
The bad news is that you've found out the main issue with Umbraco so far. Namely that it doesn't render things using the standard MVC rendering engine. It has to use custom controllers to retrieve view-models, such as SurfaceControllers or UmbracoApiControllers (as mentioned by your example of using REST services to return the page data).
The good news is that things are getting better. Version 7.3.0 will be the first version to be bundled with MVC 5 as standard. Check out the beta version here to see if it is more suitable for your needs. Of course you may need to upgrade your MVC project to MVC 5 too.
Hopefully with 7.3.0 you'll be good.


Day 2 of the Ryder Cup gets underway on Saturday morning at 2 a.m. ET.
Joshua Perry analyzes one underdog pairing that's providing value during Saturday's morning session.
Day 1 of the Ryder Cup went about as expected.
The U.S. dominated in fourball, where there bombers and birdie-makers could do the most damage.
But Europe fought back in the alternate shot format. Their knowledge of the course and ability to minimize damage led to one of the most lopsided sessions in history.
We also got a glimpse out how important the captain can be.
European captain Thomas Bjorn expertly handled his rookies and struggling vets, while Jim Furyk didn't put his (particularly Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau) in the best position to succeed.
Let's move on to Day 2, where I have an underdog play I like.


Today, Royal KPN N.V.'s ("KPN") Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders ("EGM") passed the resolutions on the agenda. Subsequently, KPN will make an interim dividend distribution of EUR 0.03 per ordinary share, being approximately one thirds of the intended EUR 0.08 total dividend per ordinary share in respect of 2015.
The interim dividend will become payable as of 18 September 2015 and amounts to a total of EUR 127.8m. As of 15 September 2015 the shares will trade ex-dividend.
Furthermore, the EGM approved an amendment of the articles of association. The agenda, including detailed information about the approved resolutions, is available on the website of KPN (ir.kpn.com).


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Ben Roethlisberger is Patrick Mahomes' biggest MVP threat
Every debate about the NFL's elite starts with Patrick Mahomes. The Kansas City Chiefs are the league's top power-rated team and Super Bowl favorites mostly due to Mahomes, who's this year's MVP and seems destined to become the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.
If he's not sidelined by illness or injury, the only thing that can stop Mahomes is an elite defense.
So this is where the Pittsburgh Steelers enter the picture. The 10-0 Steelers, whose scheduled Thanksgiving night game against the COVID-compromised Baltimore Ravens was postponed until Sunday, fit the profile of a team capable of taking down the reigning champs. They have an experienced quarterback who can trade shots with Mahomes and a defense that can make him appear human and vulnerable. Pittsburgh ranks No. 1 in scoring defense at 17.4 ppg, and Ben Roethlisberger is putting up numbers — 24 touchdown passes and just five interceptions — that make him more than a candidate for Comeback Player of the Year.
"I think Ben looks fantastic, and he should be in the MVP conversation," South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews said. "I do have the Steelers as the second-best team in the NFL."
It's a slim margin between the league's top two teams. Andrews' power ratings show the Chiefs as 1.5 points better than the Steelers. To earn the top seed and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs, Pittsburgh might need to stay perfect or at least go 15-1.
Ben RoethlisbergerAP
Kansas City (9-1) is a 3.5-point favorite Sunday at Tampa Bay and still must play at New Orleans in Week 15. As of today, the Saints look like the strongest team in the NFC.
Andrews has not posted a prop bet on the Steelers to finish 16-0 and scoffed at the idea, saying, "It's almost impossible."
The DraftKings price on the 16-0 prop is "No" -770 and "Yes" +520. At BetMGM, "Yes" is offered at +525.
Turkey Day Tidbits
Washington Football Team at Dallas Cowboys: No player in the NFL has made a better comeback than Alex Smith, who threw for 166 yards and a touchdown in Washington's 20-9 victory over Cincinnati. Smith gives the Football Team some hope in a hopeless division. Suddenly, first place in the NFC East is on the line. The winner in this clash of clumsy 3-7 teams will pass Philadelphia (3-6-1) in the win column.
"The public will bet on Dallas for sure," said John Murray, race and sports director at the Westgate SuperBook. "Obviously, the Washington offense is much better with Smith in there instead of Dwayne Haskins."
While I bet on the Cowboys last week as 7-point underdogs in their 31-28 win at Minnesota, it's tough to trust them to do it again, this time in the favorite's role.
For those into Thanksgiving trends, Dallas is 1-8 ATS in its last nine games on Turkey Day.
Houston Texans at Detroit Lions: The first game of the day will draw the weakest wagering handle, partly due to the early kickoff but mostly because it's a weak game.
The Texans are 2-0 against Jacksonville and 1-7 against all others, but they just upset New England and that should be enough to stir the betting public. It's also easier to back Deshaun Watson as the better quarterback. Matthew Stafford, playing with a bum right thumb, was sacked five times in the Lions' 20-0 loss at Carolina in Week 11. Detroit was without top receiver Kenny Golladay and rookie running back D'Andre Swift. Golladay has a chance to play in this one, but Swift is doubtful.
"I can guarantee you Thursday morning we'll be loaded on Houston, which is playing a Lions team that just got shut out," Murray said. "The public wanted nothing to do with the Texans last week, but the public spins like a top and goes from team to team."
Detroit has won three of its last 16 Thanksgiving games. My tip: Sleep in and tune in for the fourth quarter.
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I just returned home from the Christian Stewardship Association Conference. While I was there listening to many people speak about stewardship and generosity, I got to thinking about what would it take to motivate me to give like the Israelites in Exodus 35 and 36?
I think by this time the children of Israel had finally reached the point where they knew that Moses was speaking what God commanded him to say. They could trust their leader. And so when Moses told them what God wanted them to give, they were ready to hear.
So what does it take? I think it takes a proven leader and a compelling need. But most of all it takes a willing heart – a generous heart. It comes back to being sold out to God, ready to be used, and knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that God will provide the resources for what and where he wants to work in this world.


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Survey: Ocean City is New Jersey's favorite beach
The Philadelphia Tribune
Ocean City continues to win "best beach" awards.
For the 11th consecutive year, the Cape May County municipality has once again taken top honors in a contest that lets people choose their favorite New Jersey beach.
After thousands of votes were tallied in a public poll, the resort town topped this
"its two-and-a-half-mile-long boardwalk, eight miles of pale sand, and the blue Atlantic (and beautiful bayside as well)."
Ocean City Named New Jersey's Favorite Beach For 11th Consecutive Year
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (CBS) – Ocean City has been voted New Jersey's "Favorite Beach" for the 11th consecutive year. Beachgoers voted on the best beach through an online poll...
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The comparative strength of the 15 South Jersey beach patrols will be tested for the first time this summer Friday at the 27th annual Atlantic City Lifeguard Classic. The...
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Should Jersey Shore towns require beach tags? Pro/con | Opinion
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Fireworks, parades and more add up to big fun on the 4th
Happy Birthday America! As the people of this great nation, you have the freedom and duty to celebrate this momentous occasion with parties, parades, fireworks and more. As...
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Q: how to replace keys from a file with values python I'm learning Python, my task is to replace the IP addresses from traceroute with the hostnames, eg:
from :
  1     8 ms     6 ms     6 ms  203.109.92.1
To:
  1     6 ms    11 ms     7 ms  hyd-core01.youbroadband.in

I wrote the following program, my logic was to save the traceroute in a file, open and find the IP address (I used regex) then in another for loop do the lookup and save the output as a dictionary as {ip:hostname}.
It is successful until here.Now I need to open the file again, find the  IP address (which is the key) and replace it with the value in the dictionary.
import re
import socket

open_host = open('C:/Users/Desktop/traceroute.txt','r' )

#print  traceroute

ip = []
iptoname={}

for line in open_host:
   ipPattern = re.search(r'(?:[\d]{1,3})\.(?:[\d]{1,3})\.(?:[\d]{1,3})\.(?:[\d]{1,3})',line)
   #print ipPattern.group()
   ip.append(ipPattern.group())
#print ip

for i in ip:
    try:
         #print i
         #print type(socket.gethostbyaddr(i))
         name = socket.gethostbyaddr(i)[0]
         #print name

         iptoname[i] = name
         #print iptoname
    except Exception as e:
         print e.message

#print "this is dictionary", iptoname
with open('C:/Users/Desktop/traceroute.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.writelines([v[0] for v in iptoname().itervalues()])


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InterOcean Advisors LLC ("InterOcean") announced today that Magna-Tech Manufacturing Corporation ("Magna-Tech") has been acquired by CapitalWorks, LLC ("CapitalWorks"), a private equity firm focused on control investments in middle-market companies in the United States and Canada. InterOcean served as the exclusive financial advisor to Magna-Tech and its shareholder.
Magna-Tech Manufacturing Corporation is the largest independent provider of vacuum impregnation sealing solutions in North America for both cast metal and electronic components. The Company also offers metal machining, leak testing, chromating, cleaning, shot blasting, sub-assembly and thermal deburring services. Its customers primarily produce components for the automotive, railcar, pleasure boat, electric motor, electronic module and wire/cable industries. Magna-Tech is headquartered in Muncie, Indiana.
"We are very excited to be partnering with the CapitalWorks team. CapitalWorks will provide Magna-Tech with additional financial and management resources to facilitate further penetration into our current markets and entrance to new component sectors and geographic regions," said Dan Irvin, President of Magna-Tech.
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Amid Global Coronavirus Outbreak, What About Refugees?
Sat, 03/21/2020 - 1:02am
As countries try to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the health of displaced persons cannot be overlooked.
Fouad Pervez
With COVID-19 officially labelled a global pandemic, the focus for many countries has turned toward protecting their most vulnerable populations. But what about camps for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)? Many camps lack the resources to maintain their already poor infrastructure, and the threat of a COVID-19 outbreak puts millions of displaced persons in a dangerous position. USIP's Fouad Pervez looks at the unique risks that COVID-19 poses to refugees and IDPs, the impact an outbreak among these groups would have on the global pandemic, and what the international community can do to protect them.
What makes refugees and displaced persons such high-risk populations for outbreaks of contagious diseases?
These populations are at incredibly high risk for outbreaks of contagious diseases for several reasons. Start with their background: refugees and displaced persons likely fled from conflict, so they are starting off in less than ideal health and likely have not had access to adequate health services. Additionally, these populations have possibly dealt with poor nutrition prior to entering the camps.
Then consider their current living conditions: due to overcrowding and poor infrastructure, camps are hardly sanitary places. If you look at the normal ways to prevent an outbreak of an infectious disease like COVID-19—such as washing your hands, engaging in social distancing, ensuring good hygiene, and checking in with health providers the second you are concerned about your condition—none are readily available in these camps.
Finally, even in the best-case scenario, these populations are often not a priority for political leaders. As such, they likely will not get the attention they require. We've seen examples of this already, as countries experiencing outbreaks are temporarily suspending services to refugee camps. This is a very unfortunate and short-sighted response, as these camps need services now more than ever.
Beyond the direct public health implications, what effect can an unmitigated outbreak have on a conflict?
As my colleague Chris Bosley and I have noted before, a poor response to an outbreak like COVID-19 can create additional grievances for populations against governments. It can also severely damage an economy, as countries will have to shut down entirely to stop the spread of the virus. Nonstate actors can prey on these grievances to create discord and conflict, undermine stability, or slow down a peace process. Without adequate government responses, it's not hard to envision an increase in conflict and destabilization in fragile regions. Conversely, we also know that the containment of infectious diseases, such as Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is negatively impacted by already existing political violence.
And beyond those already in camps, we need to also think about those attempting to flee conflict right now. Turkey, for instance, has stopped preventing Syrian refugees from leaving their country and entering neighboring countries. Meanwhile, Syria has closed at least one border crossing, while Greece has tightened security on their side of the Turkish border. We need to pay careful attention to these border politics in this crisis, because it could lead to vulnerable populations shifting between countries very easily or not being allowed in even though they are in extreme danger. It's a balancing act, and the best approach should involve accounting for their safety while finding ways to provide them care.
What's the risk of undue stigma on refugees and IDPs during a global outbreak, such as COVID-19?
If these camps get hit with an outbreak, which is fairly likely given all the conditions present, they become an easy target for political leaders wanting to deflect blame from themselves. Leaders could claim the virus came from refugees, even if untrue or even if a spread is entirely due to camps being poorly resourced, further stigmatizing this population. This can create a vicious feedback loop where refugees and displaced persons are further marginalized, resulting in worsening conditions in the camps and higher susceptibility to outbreaks—which can then be used by political leaders looking to further scapegoat displaced persons.
In addition to refugees, we should be wary of any stigmatization by governments of groups of people over the spread of the virus. There is little doubt leaders could use COVID-19 in an attempt to turn their country's populations against any number of marginalized groups—whether they are refugees, ethnic or religious minorities, or political opponents. Refugees and IDPs are particularly at risk of this, given the conditions they face, but we should be critical of governments partaking in any such actions. This is a global pandemic, and while there were many mistakes made along the way, no particular groups of people should be blamed for its spread.
What can the international community do to prevent it? What are the most effective actors in mitigating or preventing an outbreak?
Ideally, countries would work through multilateral or regional institutions—particularly the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N., the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other NGOs—to formulate a coordinated response to the pandemic and provide services for these camps.
It's in everyone's best interest to protect displaced persons from an outbreak like COVID-19—primarily because it is the right thing to do, but also because it's important for preventing contagious diseases from spreading. These camps have staff that go home every day, and if they are infected, viruses can easily spread. Refugees and IDPs could also seek out work and leave the camps for periods of time, so they are obvious vectors to spread viruses. Simply put, the international community has a responsibility to provide services to these vulnerable populations to slow down the spread of all diseases, not just COVID-19.
We cannot do this alone—every country is affected, and we need to be cautious of looking inwards too much. Given the global nature of COVID-19, our neglect of vulnerable populations risks a greater spread of the virus. The United States and other global powers should not limit their commitments to these camps and should do their best to influence donors to follow their lead. These camps are severely under-resourced, and social distancing and quarantines are not really possible. But better health care and better living conditions would go a long way in preventing infectious diseases from spreading.
Through the WHO and the U.N., we can run education campaigns in the camps to teach refugees and IDPs how to minimize the risks of getting COVID-19. To be clear, this will not be particularly effective unless we improve the camps themselves, as teaching them to wash their hands for 30 seconds does no good if they do not have access to clean water. These same organizations, in conjunction with the host governments, could also run similar programs to educate the public about the risk refugees face from COVID-19 and the need to help them, so as to minimize stigmatization and to encourage support of the camps.
This should be a moment of reflection about refugee camps overall—the terrible conditions make them particularly susceptible to diseases, posing further danger to people who have already fled conflict.
This article is cross-posted here with permission (on agreement) from the United States Institute of Peace.
Fouad Pervez, Ph.D. is a senior program officer and managing director of the RESOLVE Network, where he helps combine research, practice, and policy on violent extremism. He joined the U.S. Institute of Peace after several years as a consultant for international development firms. In that work, he designed monitoring and evaluation procedures for projects focusing on political violence, governance, economics, and trade in multiple countries, including Jordan, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Mozambique.


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Nashik's most privileged Malayalee Association, NMCA in order to encourage youth empowerment officially inaugurated their sister concern- Youth Wing on 21st January 2017. Well, NMCA Youth Wing successfully pulled off a perfect anniversary celebration captivating it to a grander success altogether with a cultural and entertainment programme held today evening at Mauli Lawns. NMCA (Nasik Malayalee Cultural Association) is a trust which has always been actively involved in promoting the arts, culture, sports, social works and developments in Nashik.
Related: This is how NMCA Youth Wing was launched!
The anniversary event commenced with a national anthem followed by dance performances. Among all the best dances were a tribute to famous actress Sridevi performed by Youth Wing members. It made the audience take pleasure in remembering the good old films and songs of Sridevi. A documentary featurette of Youth Wing's One Year Journey was screened to the public. The A-Class audiovisuals and exceptional presentation graphics powered by Red Wolf Entertainment and Nick's Angels throughout the event were distinguished and first of its kind in Nashik. With the help of Anup Pushpangathan, Youth Wing Secretary, it became possible for NMCA Youth Wing to be the first proud association in Nashik to successfully work out this remarkable level of technological advancement for an event. We will get to see them adopting innovative ideas like YouTube live streaming technologies and more for their events in near future.
NMCA President Shri. Gokulam Gopalakrishna Pillai and NORKA Chief Executive Officer, Thiruvananthapuram, Shri. K. Harikrishnan Namboothiri, IAS with Shri. Unni George (NMCA NORKA Coordinator) made the event more significant to the Malayalees with the subjects pertaining to Pravasi Malayalees and NORKA. Shri. Shanavas Khan, undersecretary to Government and NORKA Development Officer, Mumbai delivered the speech about benefits of NORKA to the public. On behalf of NMCA and NORKA authorities present at the event, NORKA identity card was inaugurated.
Shri. Balakrishnan (Vice President, Malayalam Mission Mumbai Chapter) and Shri. Ramachandran Manchrabat (Secretary, Malayalam Mission Mumbai Chapter) made the Malayalee audience aware of Malayalam Mission and its activities and procedures. Teaching Malayalees their mother tongue and promote its use is what the Malayalam Mission aims at. Malayalam Mission classes are said to come into being in Nashik very soon.
On the occasion, NMCA honoured the Winner of 12 National Awards, 1 International Award and a Presidential Youth Award, Dr Vijitha V. Nair with NMCA Special Achievement Award. Dr Vijitha V Nair, belonging to Dhule, has been an inspiration for many youths across India and did also succeed in motivating the audience present at the event. Mrs Indira Unnikrishna Menon was honoured by NMCA for her best social awareness National Award given by Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival for her short film 'Swatch Bharat'.
Anniversary Cake cutting was done by NMCA and Youthwing members on stage. After a perfect celebration, the anniversary event concluded with a tasty dinner.
25th Feb 2017- Football Tournament at Don Bosco Ground, Nashik.
03rd Dec 2017- Box Cricket League at NIWEC, Satpur.
We somewhat get to see NMCA's certain level of exceptionality and exclusivity in every event they organize always rising for the betterment of society!
Related: This is how NMCA celebrates Onam in Nashik!


Youth Education Series (Y.E.S.) The Y.E.S. programs for youth groups began in 1990 with one program at Disney-MGM Studios—Lights, Camera, Education. From there it grew into almost two dozen programs in all four Walt Disney World parks. Children from kindergarten to 12th grade participate in two to three-and-a-half hour programs taught by professional Disney facillitators using the resources of the Resort and covering topics in the arts and humanities, life management, and physical and natural sciences, with most programs aligned with state and national educational standards. Participants see how principles that they are learning in their classrooms are making exciting things happen every day in and around the Walt Disney World Resort. Y.E.S. programs were also begun at the Disneyland Resort in October 2006, and at Hong Kong Disneyland in January 2007.


"The Howard government lost many ministers but continued to have electoral success because, whether you liked it or not, you knew what the Howard government stood for.
I suppose with the NSW Liberals decision to oppose privatisation and school league tables, the question at a state level has been answered at least.
So, as a humble expatriate, I ask you – my readers – to fill me in. Tell me, a poor ignorant foreigner, what, exactly, does the Turnbull opposition stand for?
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Classified, it's hard to give that argument merit, when we have a Machiavellian, conniving Rudd and his narcassistic mistress of spin Gillard running the country.
I agree, that at the moment the opposition's stance on some issues is unclear. However so is the government's and to commit to a concrete policy platform, to in fact, outline policies which will be taken to the election already, would be to concede any chance of a Liberal victory come election time.
Turnbull stands for the pragmatism and efficiency. which are often overlooked by the complacent Rudd government. One has to look no further than the cash hand-outs and infrastructure projects to seek evidence of this (including the National Broadband Network and Rebuilding the Education Revolution).
They're for winning and against someone else winning.
If he's still Leader at the next election, unless he picks up his game, I won't be voting for him. And my electorate was won by a margin of fewer than 20 votes last time around, so it actually means something!
Hope senior Liberals actually read this.
I read it Cathy and I'm a pretty big cheese down at the cracker factory!
The NSW Coalition opposed school league tables? WTF this is insane.
He stands for cheap populism, big government, environmentalism, symbolism, republicanism and political correctness. In other words, he is Labor-lite and this is evident in not only his utter disregard for Liberal values and the people that support them, but also in the fact he promotes Pyne, Hockey et al.
See: ETS, apology, lack of opposition to Keynesianism, sin taxes, alcopops backflip, etc. etc. etc.
He'd rather play political games than actually develop policy or rebuild the party into a credible alternative.
I think Turnbull does believe in some things, and would run a government based on these principles.
I think he believes in reducing income taxes. I think he believes in putting in carbon-trading and strong environmental regulations. I think he believes in efficiently running a social-democratic welfare state.
Seeing as Turnbull is ex Goldman Sachs big money, That is what he stands for. Any Opposition to the Rudd govt's civil liberty infringing policies is for show only as he used to be in business with two of Australia's well known labor people (thus Turnbull has zero integrity). In essence, Rudd needn't worry about not getting anything passed, the libs tow the Rudd Govt line and have shown they are willing to take a bribe – or I'll vote for your rudd crudd as long as you slip a few million to my pet cause.
Internet filtering? There you go, we tried and failed but don't worry we'll support that too despite the overwhelming vast majority of Australians are against it – screw them!
Work choices? Nice one Kevin 07. Promise to remove it then stall. No argument from us and our big business big $$$ masters.
This entire UteGate thing comes across more and more like an Act – a charade- to draw attention away from something else. They needn't worry about that now as Wacko Jacko is now dead and the media will have something else to Present to the masses to distract them for a few more days.
If Turnbull is leader next election the ALP will win – actually, the ALP will win anyway. The swing was too big and so they will be in for 2 terms. The libs know this and anything in the meantime is just pantomime for the masses. A dog and pony show.
If Turnbull is leader after the next election and when the ALP goes for a third term the ALP will win – Turnbull just isn't likable enough for the swing voters (and it is They who determine the outcome in this Mob Rules system we call Democracy). But that won't bother Turnbull, as the libs and ALP are striving for the same thing – only the difference of their respective paypackets being It.
Yes, I am cynical – if that's what you call honest truth.
Bee — I'm not sure Costello would be much better. The problem isn't the person. The problem is the nature of the game. A major party is always going to try and appeal to the swinging voters in the middle of the spectrum. Even Reagan and Thatcher didn't cut the size of government… and Howard ran the highest-taxing government in Australia's history.
And to give Turnbull some credit, the Liberals did vote against the second stimulus package. That was the right move, and they deserve some credit for it. They also voted against Rudd-bank, and are opposing internet censorship.
The main problem is there is no momentum. I'm certain Costello would have provided the required momentum and been more amenable to a small government approach as Leader.
My bet is if Turnbull is still leader at the next election, it will be replay of 1999. He'll probably come out with a concession speech similar in tone to the post referendum "broke Australia's heart" line.
Despite his demonstrable skills, success and connections, the Australia I know usually goes for someone that speaks to them. Turnbull is no-where near this.
Howard did that successfully for a long time, regardless of my philosophical disagreements with his approach at times, Howard embodied Australia as P.M.
If Costello isn't tapped on the shoulder, either Turnbull or Hockey will be asked to take one for the team.
How would Australia be different if he were Prime Minister? What are his most closely held policy convictions? I asked dozens of Malcolm Turnbull's political colleagues this question, asking them to name three. Many of them had to pause before responding.
"He's very much what I would call a sort of British liberal," offers … Read MoreAlexander Donwer. "He's sort of a "live and let be" sort of person. John Howard was much more conservative in that respect. He was more of the view that the state had a special role to paly in protecting people from themselves." Donwer also mentions the liberal market model and climate change as central policy interests for Turnbull.
Malcolm Turnbull believes in a style of leadership which devolves more power and responsibility to his colleagues and the cause in general than any of his predecessors.
He does this because he realises that after the '07 defeat the party doesn't need to be redefined but rather should seek to redefine itself and I suspect he sees his role as leader of the party to facilitate that outcome.
This whole question of ideology and belief is being answered over time – MPs are crossing the floor on different legislation and this process will sought itself out.
It is actually the sort of leadership we needed in NSW a few years back. I don't even see the POLITICAL merit in opposition to school performance tables – and it is something I generally do.
Bee – why does environmentalism automatically equal leftism?
Our leaders Malcolm Turnbull; and Barry O'Farrell simply represent what the Alex Hawke and Scott Farlow Ambition Faction also want. Politics before policy. They both have turned on the conservative underpinnings of our party to curry favours in their state and federal leaders.
But the problem with all four, because they all don't believe in anything but themselves, they can't draw support to themselves except through promises of personal favours.
The crisis is the success these careerists over ideologues. That is why Alex Hawke got there and not Tim Andrews.
"A Liberal" – can you please provide a link specifically for these things as none of them are mentioned in the policy section of the website you quote.
All great policies. I was a bit concerned about gay marriage at first but the LDP supports the abolition of State marriage which is as it should be. Marriage should only be a matter of societal interaction and institutional determination.
And the same goes for not wearing a seatbelt in a car. LOL. And this is what Scott Farlow and Alex Hawke want Australia to be?
It's gets more disturbing all the time.
And is the LDP goign to continue preferencing Labour like they did in 2007 Federal election.
Joe, why do you want to force me, a full grown fully minded adult, to wear a seatbelt?
The LDP preferenced differently in different seats. For example, they preferenced Liberal in the ACT, getting the ACT Liberal Senator over the line on preferences. In Victoria, they preferenced away from Liberal Senate candidate (now Senator) Scott Ryan.
Apparently, they didn't realise Scott's awesomeness at the time.


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Euchlaenidia elegans är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Erich Martin Hering 1925. Euchlaenidia elegans ingår i släktet Euchlaenidia och familjen björnspinnare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Björnspinnare
elegans


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Hyltinge landskommun var en tidigare kommun i Södermanlands län.

Administrativ historik
Den 1 januari 1863, när kommunalförordningarna började tillämpas, inrättades i Hyltinge socken i Villåttinge härad i Södermanland denna kommun.

I kommunen inrättades 23 mars 1918 Sparreholms municipalsamhälle

1952 genomfördes den första av 1900-talets två genomgripande kommunreformer i Sverige. Landskommunen med municipalsamhället gick då upp i Sparreholms landskommun som 1965 gick upp i Flens stad som 1971 ombildades till Flens kommun.

Politik

Mandatfördelning i Hyltinge landskommun 1946

Källor

Indelningar i Flens kommun

Sveriges kommuner 1863-1951

Tidigare kommuner i Södermanlands län


There is 0 tim_txcrd_z on port 19.
tim_txcrd_z increasing tells you don't have enough buffer credits configured to go the distance on the ISL at 8G.
you need to config more credit buffers on your ISL.
I will check with HP about the fillword tomorrow.
I will reboot the switch tomorrow and see if it changes. Just checked sw 1,2,5,6 and all the ISL's is set to the same thing.
Well if the length of the ISL is 300 meters or so, a long distance setting set to OFF (is the default L0 setting for a port) is not wrong perse.
L0 (or off) reserves 20 buffer credits for a port. This should be enough for a 1KM link @ 8G, BUT thats only true if you send FC Frames with the largest payload possible (=2112 bytes) .
If you're average payload is half of the maximum you'll need double the buffer credits to fully utilize the link.
If you have the counter increasing that means to me that to default 20 buffers are not enough to fully utilize the 8G 300M link .
I will look into it tomorrow and give it a try.. should I just double the value? or do some calculation? read a bit about some calculations, thats other uses.
I have set all the bottleneck ports from 8 to 24 bbc. and for now, no bottleneck have been detected..yet.. I will let it run the next 24 hours.
I have only changed it on one of our fabrics, if there is still no bottlenecks errors from this tomorrow, I will continue with the next fabric.
The "default" value was Max/Resv: 8, buffer usage: 17, buffer needed 17.
The TX BB_credit, is still raising, but not as much as before.. only about 10% af is was before.. I read a bit about it sould be less than 15% of the total blocks transfered, but is that the tx/rx count, or frame count?
oh.. also.. after setting the buffers up, all paths came back in the current fabric.. it may be because of fabric relogins, but we will see tomorrow.
The problem have been located.
It turns out that our ISL fiber between the two serverrooms cant handle more than 4Gbit.
After switching the ports from N8 to 4, we gained a stable connection, and can use the entire fiber. Before you could only use about 100-150 MB/s, now we are up at 450MB/s.
I'm curious though about why the fibers between your DC's can't support 8G?
Is this because they're Mutlimode cables instead of Singlemode?