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The neighborhood boasts a peaceful atmosphere, with an abundance of trees and well-manicured lawns. Most homes sit on a large lot with plenty of space to enjoy the area's natural beauty. Although the neighborhood was developed in the 1950s, several of the homes have been renovated to reflect a newer style. You'll see older, 3-4 bedroom homes with updated interiors alongside larger homes that have been built within the last 20 years.
Along with beautiful views, residents will enjoy plenty of recreational opportunities just minutes from the neighborhood. The Mayfield Park Nature Preserve is on the southern edge of Balcones Park and is an ideal spot for hiking and enjoying the surroundings. The preserve is home to many colorful gardens, palm trees, and even peacocks that wander around.
The Bright Leaf State Natural Area is also in the neighborhood – it spans more than 200 acres and offers guided tours on the second Saturday and Sunday of the month. For even more hiking, Mount Bonnell is just steps away and offers views from what is said to be the highest spot in Austin. On a warm day, residents can also cool off by visiting Lake Austin – a great spot that's known for kayaking and fishing.
The Austin Country Club, one of the oldest clubs in Texas, sits just two miles from Balcones Park. Members of the country club get exclusive access to the 18-hole course, 10 lighted tennis courts, a fitness facility, swimming pool, and more than 50 boat slips. There is also a clubhouse on-site, which has dining areas, meeting room facilities, and a large ballroom.
While enjoying a peaceful atmosphere away from downtown, those living in Balcones Park will still be just a short drive from everything they need. An H.E.B., Randall's Food and Drug, and Central Market are all less than three miles away.
Students in the area are served by the Austin Independent School District. Depending on which part of the neighborhood they're in, they can attend Casis or Highland Park Elementary, O'Henry or Lamar Middle School, and McCallum High School. Many private schools are also within minutes of the neighborhood including Ace Academy, Highland Park Baptist School, The Children's School, St. Theresa's Catholic School, and St. Andrew's Episcopal School.
Date Established: Early 1950s
Location Description: Located in west central Austin near Mount Bonnell, between Lake Austin and MoPac Expressway
MLS Map Location areas: 1B
Zip Codes: 78731
Miles from Downtown: 6 miles
Number of Homes: 215 homes
Size range of homes per square foot: 1,934- 6,955
Neighborhood amenities: Hike and bike trails, swimming pool, tennis courts, fishing, kayaking
Neighborhood builders: Park Place Homes, Mark Canada, Walter Carrington, MEK Residential, Gray and Becker
Situated in the west central region of Austin, the Balcones Park Neighborhood is on a hilltop that overlooks Mount Bonnell and the downtown skyline. It's just west of Camp Mabry, giving residents an easy commute to downtown that's only six miles away
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Enhancing Personal Safety Devices with Wearables
by Harry Wang | Jul. 29, 2016
Personal safety devices that track a user's location and send alerts for emergency assistance stand as a unique opportunity for wearable technologies. Underlying health issues like stroke or conditions requiring multiple medications, the potential for injuries or falls during personal activities, or impaired cognitive capabilities such as Alzheimer's can cause personal safety concerns.
The personal emergency response system (PERS) has a wearable component by default. PERS solutions include a wearable pendant, watch, or belt clip with a panic button that the wearer can press to call for help. PERS providers have incorporated new technologies, such as GPS, fall detection sensors, and mobile apps, which have expanded PERS services from responding to emergency calls to proactively managing personal safety and emergency situations. As a result, the market has expanded from fragile seniors who live alone to schoolchildren, boomers with fragile health conditions, night-shift employees, lone workers, and outdoorsy hikers.
Parks Associates believes that the personal safety market opportunity is much larger than the traditional PERS market. The latter serves about two million users in the U.S. today, and PERS users are concentrated in the much older and fragile demographics that are also economically constrained due to a fixed income. Personal safety monitoring, on the other hand, serves broader demographics and a much larger addressable market.
In a 2013 study, the National Association of State Boards of Education found that more than 15 million students—including approximately 3.7 million middle schoolers—are alone and unsupervised between 3 and 6 p.m., the peak hours for juvenile crime.
Women make up about 47% of the U.S. workforce. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2013 that 12.7% of all violent crimes against women were committed while the victim was working or on duty.
According to Omnilink, about 23 million U.S. employees work alone in a high-risk environment.
Personal safety monitoring can be enhanced through smartphone-connected wearables or wearables with embedded cellular connectivity, creating a promising market. Through these devices, an SOS alert can be sent in a timely and discreet manner to deter crimes or minimize personal injuries.
This wearables-inspired opportunity faces competition from mobile app/service-based business models, such as Life360, a mobile app that allows family members to track other members' whereabouts and alert each other when loved ones leave or arrive at a specified location. Despite this competitive threat, wearables as an always-on, easily-retrievable, and discreetly-usable option have practical value and advantages over solutions tethered to a smartphone that people may not carry with them all the time or are unable to use in an emergency situation.
This article originally appeared on IoT Agenda.
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Harry Wang oversees Parks Associates' mobility and apps research, which covers mobile/wearable devices and services, apps and APIs, and mobile commerce/marketing, payment, and connected car industries. He is also the founder and lead analyst of Parks Associates' digital health research program since its inception in 2006. He and his team cover emerging health technologies, applications, and services in areas such as chronic/preventive care, independent living, wellness and fitness, and virtual/convenience care.
Harry has published more than 40 industry reports and white papers and presented his mobility and digital health research at numerous industry events including CES, Mobile World Congress, CTIA, Open Mobile Summit, World Health Congress, the American Telemedicine Association Annual Trade Show, and Parks Associates' CONNECTIONS™ and Connected Health Summit conferences.
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Trump's coal, nuclear bailout no shield from hackers: cyber experts
Assessing cybersecurity risks per Department of Energy
Monday, June 11, 2018 — Ben Garber, Cybersecurity Applications Engineer for Ultra Electronics, 3eTI, provides insight on protecting energy and utility installations.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bailing out nuclear and coal-fired power plants will not toughen the U.S. power grid against cyber attacks as the Trump administration claims, according to cyber experts, because hackers have a wide array of options for hitting electric infrastructure and nuclear facilities that are high-profile targets.
U.S. President Donald Trump this month directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take emergency steps to stem a surge in coal and nuclear plant retirements in recent years, arguing that more shutdowns would leave the country less able to bounce back from disruptions caused by storms, physical attacks, and hackers.
The announcement came as the National Security Council debated a Department of Energy (DOE) memo that said cyber and physical threats are "minimized" at nuclear and coal plants because they can store months of fuel on site to survive a supply cut – unlike natural gas facilities that rely on pipeline networks, or wind and solar installations that need the right weather.
While the administration had been arguing for months that "fuel secure" facilities were important to America's ability to rebound from storms and physical attacks, its efforts to link plant closures with protection from cyber attacks appeared to open a new front in its support for the coal and nuclear industries.
Chris Bronk, a professor of computer and information systems at the University of Houston, said he could not endorse the idea.
"I don't see where a policy of keeping open aging infrastructure that would shut unless there was federal markets intervention keeps us any safer from cyber attacks," he said.
Bronk said coal plants, train deliveries and transmission systems are just as susceptible to hackers as gas pipelines, and added that, while nuclear facilities are tough targets, the stakes involved in a successful nuclear cyber attack are enormous - potentially involving an accident that leaks radioactivity and hits surrounding communities.
Nuclear power backers stress that reactors are protected from hackers by so called "air gaps" isolating them from unsecured networks.
But Bronk said air gaps are not impervious to attackers that may seek to gain information such as worker and maintenance schedules from administrative networks over long periods of time.
"Those are the control systems that frighten me to no end," Bronk said.
Sergio Caltagirone, the director of threat intelligence at cyber security company Dragos, agreed that bailing out nuclear and coal plants offers little protection.
"I do not expect this policy shift to deliver any additional cyber security resilience based on the threats we're actively monitoring," Caltagirone said.
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A DOE official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the agency recognizes that cyber security risk permeates every energy source.
But the official said there is concern that natural gas's role has grown too rapidly in the last decade, making the grid vulnerable to hacks on pipelines that could knock out 10 to 15 natural gas plants "in one fell swoop."
While the administration talks about gas pipelines, nuclear plants have also been attacked.
In March, the Trump administration blamed Russia for seeking to penetrate multiple types of infrastructure including nuclear, water and manufacturing.
And last July, news reports said Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp, which runs a nuclear power plant in Kansas, had been targeted by hackers. Wolf Creek said there was no operational damage and sensitive systems were separate from the corporate network.
Ben Garber, a cyber security engineer for Ultra Electronics, 3eTI, said the government should put greater focus on encouraging power utilities to strengthen security against attacks, as it has with the financial and health industries.
The DOE said in February it is forming an office of cyber security to do that. Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget included $96 million to fund it but Trump has not yet nominated a leader to run it.
Cameron Camp, a researcher at Slovakian anti-virus software maker ESET said the push to subsidize coal and nuclear seemed more about saving blue collar energy jobs than boosting resiliency.
"It's trying to kill multiple birds with one stone, rather than take a holistic view of the structural problems with the grid itself," said Camp.
Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Marguerita Choy
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Remastered on 200-gram vinyl at legendary Abbey Road – all from original analogue masters – RUSH's 3rd live album, A Show Of Hands, was released in January, 1989. A Show of Hands was recorded while on tour in Birmingham, U.K., New Orleans, Phoenix and San Diego during the 1988 Hold Your Fire tour, as well as in the Meadowlands in New Jersey during the 1986 Power Windows tour.
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Remastered on 200-gram AUDIOPHILE vinyl at legendary Abbey Road – all from original analogue masters – RUSH's 3rd live album, A Show Of Hands, was released in January, 1989. A Show of Hands was recorded while on tour in Birmingham, U.K., New Orleans, Phoenix and San Diego during the 1988 Hold Your Fire tour, as well as in the Meadowlands in New Jersey during the 1986 Power Windows tour.
A1 Intro 0:53
A2 The Big Money 5:52
A3 Subdivisions 5:19
A4 Marathon 6:43
B1 Turn The Page 4:46
B2 Manhattan Project 5:00
B3 Mission 5:59
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C4 The Rhythm Method (Drum Solo) 4:40
D1 Force Ten 4:57
D2 Time Stand Still 5:10
D3 Red Sector A 5:12
D4 Closer To The Heart 4:53
The album draws almost exclusively from the third chapter of Rush's life, 1982-89, stressing the notion that their newer material was just as important as their classics. By this time they had eschewed the typical guitar trio sound for one that emphasized layers and texture. Amazingly, they were able to reproduce their studio albums live without taking extra musicians on the road or playing along with sequencers. Although they didn't physically play every instrument, every sound heard live was triggered by Geddy, Alex and Neil using whatever appendage was available. A SHOW OF HANDS includes all of Rush's mid-'80s hits: "The Big Money," "Subdivisions," "Distant Early Warning" and "Time Stand Still," which featured 'Til Tuesday's Aimee Mann singing backup on a giant video screen. Also included is "Witch Hunt" from MOVING PICTURES and A FAREWELL TO KINGS' "Closer To the Heart." Of course no Rush concert would be complete without a drum solo, and "The Rhythm Method" shows why Neil Peart is considered one of the best rock drummers ever.
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Q: Java: How to check if a string is a part of any LinkedList element? Okay so I have a LinkedList, and I have a String. I want to check if the String is contained within any of the LinkedList elements.
For example:
String a = "apple";
String listelement = "a bunch of apples";
LinkedList list = new LinkedList();
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Would result in printing "Hooray!"
Obviously list.containsany isn't a real LinkedList method, I'm just using it for this purpose.
So how can I simulate my example?
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A: String a = "apple";
String listelement = "a bunch of apples";
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This should do it, in order to find a node contains a particular string, you need to iterate through all the nodes. You can break the loop, if you want only 1 instance.
Also you want to use Generics. Look at the code. otherwise you will have to cast the node to a String.

A: String a = "apple";
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    Iterator<String> li = list.iterator();
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        if (li.next().contains(a)) {
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A: linkedlist has a contains method in it.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/LinkedList.html#contains(java.lang.Object)

A: You would have to iterate across the list, and check each node's value to see if it was a string. If you can guarantee that all members of the linked list should be strings, using Java's Generics to force them all to be Strings may help.
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One thing about one-pieces bathing suits I've noticed is that no matter how hard you try and no matter how hard you look, they will always make you look "matronly". Unless, of course, you buy the ones with cut-outs in all different places, and then you'll look ridiculous for your age (at best) or sluttish (at worst).
So I'm really shooting for a bikini body this summer because I'm tired of looking matronly.
But enough about me, how was your first week on the Club?!?
I did good on 50% of the things: I gave up soda two days, and I drank a fruit juice instead of a meal. Unfortunately on the exercise camp things were hard to achieve, and I will blame the snow everywhere for my lack of walking, in fact I only achieved 12,664 steps in a week instead of the 28,000 suggested. And I only really exercised one day. Oh well, let's try again!
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On 5th May 2016, the Project attended a meeting at the British Library to discuss the issue of discoverability of creative writing theses. The meeting was organised by Dr Susan L. Greenberg (Senior Lecturer in the University of Roehampton's Department of English and Creative Writing). She acted on behalf of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) whose remit includes supporting the work of creative writing academics in the UK. The meeting brought together leading academics in the field of creative writing, as well as library staff from the British Library and university libraries. Discussions expanded well beyond the initial topic of discoverability, touching upon a wide range of issues. This blog post is a summary of the discussions that took place, and includes some important advice for those submitting creative writing PhD theses.
The title of the thesis is often metaphorical, and may not be explicit.
Often there are no abstracts.
Accompanying metadata is often unclear, or even missing altogether.
The thesis can be in two parts – creative work and critical analysis – but this is not always the case. How are the different parts catalogued and searched for?
At an institutional level, the forms that must be filled in by PhD students are designed for other disciplines, and may not contain the fields required to make creative writing theses discoverable.
Creative theses that incorporate a media element cannot currently be deposited in EThOS.
International barriers exist: for example, a UK researcher faces difficulties finding and accessing theses from Australia.
EThOS does not have an option to catalogue a thesis under 'creative writing', so it must be included in the abstract/keywords if it is to appear.
In the meeting it became clear that there are numerous reasons for the difficulties outlined above, including a lack of clarity about who is responsible for training students in the use of electronic repositories. Should this be the role of specialist subject supervisors, graduate schools, or research training departments? As increasing technical demands are made on researchers, it is an issue that must be resolved.
Although the day was ostensibly about discoverability, it soon emerged that there were several other interconnected issues around creative writing theses in current and emerging academic and publishing contexts, which are described in the rest of this post.
The major issues seemed to hinge on Open Access. UK university institutions now mandate their researchers to deposit their work in Open Access repositories, which has specific implications for creative writing researchers, as outlined below.
There is a major issue with piracy; one academic reported the example of a novel that became available as a free Torrent download within weeks of publication.
Researchers have the option to place their thesis under embargo for a fixed period – usually three to five years. This action can help with some of the issues discussed above, but prompts questions of its own. The first concerns knowledge: do all PhD students know that this option is open to them? If not, whose responsibility is it to make them aware? The second is the fixed-term nature of the embargo: can "never" be an option? And whose responsibility is it to renew embargoes once they expire, the library or the author? Libraries will probably not have current contact details for authors after 5 years, and the authors may forget.
From the non-author point of view, embargoes can have an adverse effect on the dissemination of research, impacting for example on individual scholars who would like to access the thesis to inform their own work. How is this overcome?
Policies on embargoes currently operate on a university-by-university level: perhaps national guidance on policy for creative writing theses is required.
Creative writing theses that involve nonfiction accounts of living subjects raise specific issues. One participant described the case of a PhD supervisee writing a memoir which included anecdotes gathered from family funerals and other events. In the social sciences, the default assumption is that all identities are anonymised before thesis submission, but in the case of creative nonfiction (as with journalism) full anonymity is not always possible or desirable. This can create difficulties with ethics committees, because the projects do not fit into standard models built with other disciplines in mind. A different form and different process is required, but how will this be brought about?
Who should be the gatekeepers for creative writing theses: libraries and institutional repositories, or the authors?
How should this gatekeeping be managed so that creative writing theses are available for research, but not so publicly available that they hinder trade publication?
How are creative writing PhD students being trained in writing abstracts and metadata; using repositories; copyright? Who should deliver and teach this training?
All of the issues boil down to the fact that creative writing is a very distinct discipline with unique requirements. As Greenberg stated: 'Creative writing as a relatively new discipline has had to constantly negotiate its way through the academic system in order to be recognised.' These issues are highlighted anew by the mandate to move towards Open Access. Creative writing academics present at the meeting agree that now is the time to address them.
One immediate practical outcome of the meeting is the launch of a new one-page document, backed by NAWE and the British Library, which gives staff and students advice on how to submit the electronic copy of their PhD thesis. The document has a Creative Commons license, allowing universities and other organisations to share it freely. You can download the document using the link below and share it freely.
The Project would like to extend its thanks to all attendees of the meeting, in particular Dr Susan Greenberg for organising it, and Dr Ros Barber for creating the initial draft of the guidelines document.


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May 6, 2022 / Brantley
In line with industry trends, live music is the greatest draw: one in four publicans reported increases in takings of between 25%-50% on nights when they have live music compared to other nights and seven out of ten reported an increases of typically between 10-25%.
Pubs and other grass roots music venues are a fundamental part of the music industry; a point underlined by Horace Trubridge of the Musicians' Union who said "Pubs play such a vital role in many musicians' careers and provide an essential platform from which talent can grow. Demonstrating how music can really benefit pubs underlines how intertwined the two industries are. "
It's not just live music that is bringing in and retaining customers. After a period in the wilderness some publicans are deciding to reinstall jukeboxes in their venues in order to put the music selection back in the hands of the people.
Named after black American juke (dancing) joints that evolved from coin-slot phonographs, the Jukebox came into being in 1910 with the mass production 달토룸 of 78 records. However, it was after the introduction of the 45 record in 1949 that the jukebox came into its own. Records were expensive during that period and the best way to listen to hard-to-find American imports of the latest Elvis or Bob Dylan hit was to insert a coin into the slot of the local jukebox.
The jukebox held its own all the way through to the late 80s even surviving the arrival of the CD. The fashion during the '90s to control the pub atmosphere and the rise of dance culture led to a severe decline in numbers but the greatest impact came with the advent of the iPod. Why select a track from a limited selection of CDs or 45s when you have the whole library of the world's recorded music at your fingertips?
However, iPods are primarily for private use and do not bring people together or provide the same focus that a jukebox can. The Hawley Arms, a London pub frequented by Amy Winehouse for much of 2007, discovered that its jukebox was just as much of an attraction as its selection of fine wines and ales.
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Assembly stalemate ends with unity
Lee Hahn-koo, left, floor leader of the Saenuri Party, and Park Jie-won, right, floor leader of the Democratic United Party, announce their deal to open the National Assembly yesterday. By Kim Hyung-soo
Ending nearly a month of delay in opening the legislature, the two main political parties yesterday made a rare promise to work together to scrutinize the qualifications of two opposition lawmakers dragged through a rigged primary scandal.
The conservative ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic United Party yesterday reached agreement to open the first session of the 19th National Assembly on Monday.
The 300 newly elected lawmakers were scheduled to open the legislature before June 5, but the rival parties couldn't agree on the formation of key committees as well as other sensitive political issues.
Representative Lee Hahn-koo of the Saenuri Party and Representative Park Jie-won of the DUP met yesterday and finalized the formation of the committees. The two floor leaders also announced a series of agreements on controversial issues that will be addressed by the National Assembly in the coming weeks.
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Over the primary rigging scandal of the minor Unified Progressive Party, the two main parties agreed to jointly sponsor a resolution to review the qualifications of UPP representatives Lee Seok-gi and Kim Jae-yeon, who earned their seats in the March primary. According to the agreement, 15 lawmakers each of the main parties will jointly create the resolution and begin the process of scrutinizing the qualifications of the two lawmakers as soon as possible.
The two lawmakers, who were elected as proportional representatives, were accused of rigging the primary to become the top candidates. The UPP conducted two internal probes and concluded that the primary was manipulated, but scandal continues to deeply split the progressive party between its largest faction and the current emergency leadership. Lee and Kim are members of the largest faction and they have also been criticized for having a pro-Pyongyang ideology.
Under Article 138 of the National Assembly Act, a lawmaker may submit to the speaker a request to examine the qualification of another lawmaker by gathering signatures of 30 or more lawmakers. According to Article 142, a vote at a plenary session will decide the fate of the lawmaker. A resolution to disqualify a lawmaker requires a concurrent vote of two-thirds or more of the 300 National Assembly members.
As the Saenuri Party has 150 members and the DUP has 127 members, they have enough power to remove representatives Lee and Kim.
With pressure snowballing on the two lawmakers to voluntarily give up their seats, they have resisted that demand. The DUP appears to have made a political decision to keep its distance from the UPP in the months leading up to the presidential election.
The UPP yesterday issued a statement expressing regret. "We express serious regret that the two parties made a decision irrelevant to our position," said UPP spokeswoman Lee Jeong-mi. "We hope the two parties respect our self-reform effort."
Representatives Lee and Kim issued criticisms of DUP floor leader Park. "I think Park gave in to the Saenuri Party's ideological offensive," Lee said.
Kim issued a statement to say she had expected more from Park. "Park must withdraw from an agreement that is such an obvious political collusion," she said. "I had no expectations from the Saenuri Party, but it is seriously disappointing that Park agreed with them."
The Saenuri and DUP floor leaders also agreed on other issues, including a plan to elect the new National Assembly speaker on Monday morning. As of now, six-term Representative Kang Chang-hee of the Saenuri Party is nominated as the sole candidate to lead the legislature for the next two years.
The Saenuri Party and DUP also agreed to hold a National Assembly investigation into the scandal over the illegal spying on civilians and government abuse of power.
A special committee will be formed on Thursday and a Saenuri lawmaker will chair the committee.
The two parties also agreed to appoint an independent counsel to look into suspected irregularities involving the purchase of a site to build President Lee Myung-bak's retirement home Naegok-dong, southern Seoul. Shortly after media reported the suspicious land purchase, the project was scrapped, but the lawmakers agreed to look further into the issue. The bill to appoint a special prosecutor will come to vote at the main session on July 23. The DUP will nominate the independent counsel.
The two sides also found compromise on the issue of holding a hearing on media strikes. The Culture, Sports, Tourism, Broadcasting and Communications Committee will hold the hearing.
The two parties will cooperate with the board of directors of the Foundation for Broadcast Culture, to be appointed in early August, to normalize broadcasters, particularly MBC, as soon as possible.
The demands of the labor union and the company will be handled based on reasonable management decisions, law and common sense, the two parties agreed.
The two parties also agreed to form a special committee by Thursday to carry out the confirmation hearings of the four Supreme Court justice nominees as their terms start on July 11.
As for the formation of standing committees, the Saenuri Party will chair 10 committees and the DUP will chair eight. The chairmen of the standing committees will be elected at the main session on July 9.
By Ser Myo-ja [myoja@joongang.co.kr]


The global ocean-going cruise fleet is set to reach 472 ships by 2027, according to the 2018-2019 Cruise Industry News Annual Report.
With 106 new ships on the orderbook slated for deliveries over the next 10 years, the net addition after ship withdrawals is expected to be 86 ships, for a 22 percent increase in the fleet.
With more larger ships, the annual industry passenger capacity will grow from an estimated 26.7 million passengers this year to 39.6 million by 2027, for a 48 percent increase over 10 years.
Based on current ticket rates and onboard spending, the gross revenue generated will grow from an estimated $40 billion in 2018 to $59 billion in 2027. That in turn could generate profits in the range of $9 billion or more based on the 2017 margins of the three largest publicly-traded companies.
In terms of passenger sourcing and deployment, North America is expected to generate about 55 percent of all passengers in 2018, Europe, 27.8 percent, and Asia-Pacific, 17.4 percent. Ten years from now, based on known and expected ship deployment that could change to 51 percent of the passengers coming from North America, 31.5 percent from Europe and 17.5 percent from Asia-Pacific, pending the further development of China.


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TONY CROWN – FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
A compelling talent out of St. Louis, singer/songwriter Tony Crown seems like he's penning a new line to his burgeoning success story with each week. Crown has been turning heads with the release of his debut solo LP Distant from the Universe, a 10-track delicately textured venture into his flavour of atmospheric indie rock. Since dropping in July, the album has met high praise from industry peers and is receiving prominent television placements left and right. This includes the appearance of his single "In the Now" on Showtime's The Affair, as well as his song "Killing Machine" on AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. Among other tracks charted, the latter earned Crown the top spot on Tunefind's weekly Top TV Music chart. Marking his third and most recent placement off of the album, Crown's rendition of the Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle" was featured in the latest episode of Showtime's acclaimed hit series Ray Donovan.
Tony Crown imagines "Fly Like an Eagle" in its rawest form. Crown strips down the original song's bounding rhythms and steadily streamed funk, leaving only his silky vocals and faint acoustic fingerpicking to carry the track's sentiment. With nowhere to hide, he delivers each lyric with contemplation and patience, providing a greater sense of introspection to Miller's grooving classic. Despite the more reflective approach, Crown's dreamy vocal melodies accentuated by Miller's themes of time and space make for a breezy listening experience. Underneath any great recording's layers of production is a great song, and behind any great song is a great performance. With this bare bones cover, Tony Crown reveals the substance at the heart of both Steve Miller's songwriting, and Crown as a performer himself. While his young music career is quickly on the rise, the release of "Fly Like an Eagle," and its subsequent appearance in Ray Donovan, surely takes Tony Crown to new heights.
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The Digital Health Society (DHS) wholeheartedly welcomes the announcement that Finns and Estonians can collect their e-prescriptions in each other's countries as of the 21st of January.
This enabling action is planned to be the first of a number of real services to realize the many announcements and aspirations across Europe.
This Initiative between the two countries will be extended in the upcoming year to a further eight who have agreed on a common terminology and rules.
Even more exciting is the determination to use these actions to achieve the goal of cross border exchange of citizen data, so that the data can follow the citizen and become available to them wherever they go.
The Digital Health Society formed during the Estonian EU Presidency envisaged this sort of progress, which will underpin its Mission of 100m Digitally Connected Healthier Citizens by 2027.


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I wanted to update you on the progress of Senate Joint Resolution 22, which proposes to prevent the implementation of the Clean Water Rule.
The resolution passed the House on January 13, 2016, with a Yea-Nay vote of 253-166.
The resolution was presented to President Obama on January 19, 2016, and he vetoed the resolution on January 20, 2016.
It appears that no further action has been taken by the Senate at this time - "Veto message indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent."
We continue to wait on a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on the limited question of whether the court has jurisdiction to hear the consolidated cases brought by 31 states and others against the EPA challenging the Clean Water Rule. If the court finds that it does have jurisdiction, it will then consider the allegations brought against the Clean Water Rule.
The allegations posed against the Clean Water Rule are: it is not a logical outgrowth of the proposal; the Administrative Procedure Act was not adhered to; the rule is unconstitutional in its regulation of intrastate waters; and parts of the rule are considered arbitrary and capricious. The oral arguments were presented to the court on December 8, 2015.
Since there is a nationwide court-ordered stay on the Clean Water Rule (as of October 9th, 2015), it could be weeks or months before the Sixth Circuit comes to a decision on their jurisdictional issue.


No matter what name it goes by; Direct Digital Manufacturing , Additive manufacturing , Additive Free-form Fabrication , Solid Free-form Fabrication, Rapid Prototyping , Layered manufacturing or 3D model printing; its hip, cool and the newest thing. This technique physically constructs or manifests 3D geometries directly from 3D CAD models. The history of the process begins in the mid-1980s. It was originally known as Rapid Prototyping because the technology was used exclusively to make Prototypes of parts without having to invest the time or resources to develop tooling or other traditional methods. As the process and quality controls have evolved, the market for additive manufacturing has grown to include production applications and consumer products.
Additive Manufacturing or Direct Digital Manufacturing is an extension of Rapid Prototyping to real parts for use as final products (not prototypes). As of 2010, the equipment has become competitive with traditional manufacturing techniques in terms of price, speed, reliability, and cost of use. This has led to the expansion of its use in industry. There has been explosive growth in the sales and distribution of the hardware. A new industry has emerged to create software to enable more effective use of the technology, one use of which is the customization of products for consumers. The number of materials that the industry uses increased greatly in the decade. Modern equipment can utilize a broad array of Plastics and Metals .
As the speed, reliability, and accuracy of the hardware improves, additive manufacturing may replace or complement traditional manufacturing in creating end-use products. One advantage often cited is that Additive manufacturing eliminates much of the labor associated with traditional manufacturing. With 3D printing, you send the file to the machine and leave while it works. Another often cited example is that production can make any number of complex products simultaneously so long as the parts will fit within the build envelope of the machine.
One of the main technologies used for additive manufacturing is Selective Laser Sintering , a process which uses laser energy to fuses (melts) granular or powdered material to create a solid object. Another technology is called Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which is commonly used for rapid prototyping but is becoming more and more popular in direct digital manufacturing. In total, there are more than 25 different 3D model printing technologies used for a wide variety of processes. Learning all of them is complicated and time consuming, luckily Kraftwurx takes care of the details so you can focus on what you do best!
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GREEN: Only the energy necessary to form the part is expended, and waste is eliminated. This contrasts with conventional Machining , in which energy is used to smelt metal into Ingots , which become Billet Materials . These billet materials are then machined, removing a great deal of the material to produce the final part. The energy used to create the original block of material is wasted.
Low material waste: Since the process only forms the desired part, there is almost no waste formed, again in contrast to conventional machining. The absence of waste enhances energy efficiency, as energy is not used to transport or dispose of waste. With the elimination of traditional parts machining, petroleum-based cooling fluids are no longer a necessary waste byproduct.
Speed: Generally the actual 3D print process is far slower than traditional techniques, however, traditional techniques often require ancillary processes and procedures (intermediate steps) to form the final product. 3D printing technologies eliminate these steps. Considering this, products can be brought to market faster and sometimes cheaper by using 3D printing rather than traditional processes such as castings and forgings. Since no special tooling is required, 3D parts can be built in hours or days.
Complex Geometries: Additive manufacturing technologies allow designing to the process and the creation of more efficient designs without limitations of other processes. Internal passages and features can be created that could not be created with traditional methods.
METALS: A variety of metals are currently available including alloys of 17-4 and 15-5 Stainless Steel, Maraging Steel, Cobalt Chromium, Inconel 625 and 718, and Titanium Ti6AlV4. Almost any alloy metal can be used in this process once fully developed and validated. These materials are not considered to be compliant with ASME specifications for the grades of metals they represent and are generally considered "approximately similar to" the material grades they mimic.
POLYMERS The variety of non-metallic materials used includes an array of photopolymers based on acrylics as well as an assortment of wax-like substances and even ABS Plastic . It is important to note that many of these materials are not considered production-grade as they are brittle, lack good mechanical properties and generally age poorly. Also, the exact compositions of these materials is a closely guarded secret of the manufacturers.
Applications using this technology include direct parts for a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, dental, fashion, military, medical and other industries that use complex parts of small to medium size. The Tooling industry uses it to make direct tooling inserts. In particular production of small batches or one off components. Often products can be optimized by taking complex geometries with multiple components in an assembly and simplifying it to fewer sub components and joints. This is one of the key advantages of the technology. Build volumes of existing equipment continue to grow and as the hardware becomes faster along with larger volumes, new uses become feasible.
There are presently about 25 3D printing technologies (This list is not all inclusive). The oldest is Layered Object Manufacturing . The next oldest is Stereolithography . More recent technologies include selective laser sintering, Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), inkjet technologies, Fused Deposition Modeling , Polyjet Matrix and many variations. All of these technologies take a 3D Model , compute cross-sections of that model, and then deposit the cross-sections sequentially on top of each other until the final geometry is achieved. Overhanging parts are supported by a second material in many cases or by the material in powdered form such as in the case of Selective Laser Sintering.
To visualize how 3D printing works, consider a coffee cup. If you were to slice the coffee cup into wafer-thin layer like you would meat on a slicing machine at a Deli and save each layer and then re-stack them in order, you would re-create the shape of the original object. 3D printing accomplishes this by deposition of very thin layers on top of each other from sliced 3D models or CAD data within a computer system.
Varying the layer thickness affects the model surface finish and other parameters including but not limited to mechanical properties. Many methods have been devised to improve surface finishes; these usually slow down the printing process.
In 2006, I met Terry Wohlers in Chicago at the RAPID convention. According to Terry, at that time there were approximately 50 commercially viewable examples of 3D printing being used for tooling or intermediate parts but very few end-user parts. The technology is still new and its use is directly dependent on users' knowledge of Engineering to design a part and effectively use the printing equipment. The growth of the market is nevertheless fast, and was estimated in 2006 to be as high as 35% annually according to Mr. Wohlers.
The earliest use of the term Direct Digital Manufacturing is a relatively new term. In fact Digital Reality's founder Chris Norman created the Wikipedia Page for Direct Digital Manufacturing.
Digital Manufacturing is The Future!
Digital Reality is the holder of a very complex patent pending process for Direct Digital Manufacturing called Made-To-Order Digital Manufacturing Enterprise. Digital Reality filed non-publication requests on the patent applications however; the company has also notified 4 companies of the patents that are entering the market segment for consumer-driven customization through 3D additive fabrication.
Digital Reality was founded by Chris Norman, a 16 year veteran of the Engineering & Manufacturing segment and expert in product development. Mr. Norman is a 16 year member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Mr. Norman has shard his vision for a future that is digital in public, and print since first exposure to 3D printing in 1995 while earning his BS Manufacturing Engineering at Texas A&M University. Mr. Norman also holds an MBA in Technology Management.
How do we get from where we are today to a future for Digital Manufacturing? That is the "million-dollar question". In 2007 Mr. Norman was pitching a venture to the Texas Emerging Technology fund for just that concept. Mr. Norman was asked "why do we need your solution". The answer was simple: "Consumers are never going to design and ENGINEER their own products. They may embellish them or tweak them but they will never start from the ground up to design a finished good themselves. That drives a need for two things: A Way to embellish products without disturbing the underlying design intent and a way to store product designs efficiently and make quality designs available to the public. Any cad model is just a 3D model until an engineer ensures its going to do whatever it is supposed to do!


FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man".
SECOND SERIES: Two books under the common title of "Meetings with Remarkable Men".
THIRD SERIES: Five Books under the title of "Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am" ".
FIRST SERIES: To destroy, mercilessly and without any compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.
THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, nonfantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.
Mr. Gurdjieff maintained that literature was one of the chief means of the development of the mind of man, but that unfortunately, modern western literature is chiefly, in his opinion, "word prostitution". He appreciated the deep richness of the Oriental oral tradition, with its fine understanding of the human psyche embodied in seemingly fantastic tales, and contrast that with that of modern literature, which, he claimed, "had no soul."
Gurdjieff's own writings have this 'oriental' flavor although the three series have very different style. His first book, 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson,' a 1200+ page magnum opus, is written in such a way that it conceals its secrets from all but the most persistent readers. Yet, the act of reading it can be the very exercise of attention needed to understand it or, for that matter, to live properly one's life. The next book, 'Meetings with Remarkable Men,' reads very well and can be taken by an unsuspecting reader as simply a very interesting travel log. In his last book, Mr. Gurdjieff picks up again some of the attention demanding elements of the style he used in the First Series.
A final book, recently published by Shambala, entitled "The Reality of Being; the Fourth Way of Gurdjieff", an edited compilation from the notebooks of Madame de Salzmann, could also be considered in the category of direct transmission, like the works by Mr. Gurdjieff himself. This extraordinary book has been compiled by members of the Gurdjieff Foundation from the notebooks of Madame de Salzmann after her death. It is widely available including from good independent booksellers, the large book dealers and Amazon (ISBN 1590308158).


To provide a common forum where the members can share their knowledge and experience, facilitating the best practices for implementation and new ways of interworking for those services where SDN/NFV were implemented. The group also explores on the impact of NFV on interconnects.
Analyze how NFV is changing the current services in terms of configuration, implementation, information exchanged, operational process, expertise of the personnel, etc.
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Multiplication table for N = 3544 * 18÷19
3544 * 18 = 63792 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen equals sixty-three thousand seven hundred ninety-two
3544 * 18.01 = 63827.44 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one equals sixty-three thousand eight hundred twenty-seven point four four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two equals sixty-three thousand eight hundred sixty-two point eight eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three equals sixty-three thousand eight hundred ninety-eight point three two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four equals sixty-three thousand nine hundred thirty-three point seven six
3544 * 18.05 = 63969.2 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five equals sixty-three thousand nine hundred sixty-nine point two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six equals sixty-four thousand four point six four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven equals sixty-four thousand forty point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight equals sixty-four thousand seventy-five point five two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine equals sixty-four thousand one hundred ten point nine six
3544 * 18.1 = 64146.4 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one equals sixty-four thousand one hundred forty-six point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one one equals sixty-four thousand one hundred eighty-one point eight four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one two equals sixty-four thousand two hundred seventeen point two eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one three equals sixty-four thousand two hundred fifty-two point seven two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one four equals sixty-four thousand two hundred eighty-eight point one six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one five equals sixty-four thousand three hundred twenty-three point six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one six equals sixty-four thousand three hundred fifty-nine point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one seven equals sixty-four thousand three hundred ninety-four point four eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one eight equals sixty-four thousand four hundred twenty-nine point nine two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point one nine equals sixty-four thousand four hundred sixty-five point three six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two equals sixty-four thousand five hundred point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two one equals sixty-four thousand five hundred thirty-six point two four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two two equals sixty-four thousand five hundred seventy-one point six eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two three equals sixty-four thousand six hundred seven point one two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two four equals sixty-four thousand six hundred forty-two point five six
3544 * 18.25 = 64678 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two five equals sixty-four thousand six hundred seventy-eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two six equals sixty-four thousand seven hundred thirteen point four four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two seven equals sixty-four thousand seven hundred forty-eight point eight eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two eight equals sixty-four thousand seven hundred eighty-four point three two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point two nine equals sixty-four thousand eight hundred nineteen point seven six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three equals sixty-four thousand eight hundred fifty-five point two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three one equals sixty-four thousand eight hundred ninety point six four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three two equals sixty-four thousand nine hundred twenty-six point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three three equals sixty-four thousand nine hundred sixty-one point five two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three four equals sixty-four thousand nine hundred ninety-six point nine six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three five equals sixty-five thousand thirty-two point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three six equals sixty-five thousand sixty-seven point eight four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three seven equals sixty-five thousand one hundred three point two eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three eight equals sixty-five thousand one hundred thirty-eight point seven two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point three nine equals sixty-five thousand one hundred seventy-four point one six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four equals sixty-five thousand two hundred nine point six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four one equals sixty-five thousand two hundred forty-five point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four two equals sixty-five thousand two hundred eighty point four eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four three equals sixty-five thousand three hundred fifteen point nine two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four four equals sixty-five thousand three hundred fifty-one point three six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four five equals sixty-five thousand three hundred eighty-six point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four six equals sixty-five thousand four hundred twenty-two point two four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four seven equals sixty-five thousand four hundred fifty-seven point six eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four eight equals sixty-five thousand four hundred ninety-three point one two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point four nine equals sixty-five thousand five hundred twenty-eight point five six
3544 * 18.5 = 65564 [+]
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five equals sixty-five thousand five hundred sixty-four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five one equals sixty-five thousand five hundred ninety-nine point four four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five two equals sixty-five thousand six hundred thirty-four point eight eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five three equals sixty-five thousand six hundred seventy point three two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five four equals sixty-five thousand seven hundred five point seven six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five five equals sixty-five thousand seven hundred forty-one point two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five six equals sixty-five thousand seven hundred seventy-six point six four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five seven equals sixty-five thousand eight hundred twelve point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five eight equals sixty-five thousand eight hundred forty-seven point five two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point five nine equals sixty-five thousand eight hundred eighty-two point nine six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six equals sixty-five thousand nine hundred eighteen point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six one equals sixty-five thousand nine hundred fifty-three point eight four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six two equals sixty-five thousand nine hundred eighty-nine point two eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six three equals sixty-six thousand twenty-four point seven two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six four equals sixty-six thousand sixty point one six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six five equals sixty-six thousand ninety-five point six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six six equals sixty-six thousand one hundred thirty-one point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six seven equals sixty-six thousand one hundred sixty-six point four eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six eight equals sixty-six thousand two hundred one point nine two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point six nine equals sixty-six thousand two hundred thirty-seven point three six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven equals sixty-six thousand two hundred seventy-two point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven one equals sixty-six thousand three hundred eight point two four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven two equals sixty-six thousand three hundred forty-three point six eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven three equals sixty-six thousand three hundred seventy-nine point one two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven four equals sixty-six thousand four hundred fourteen point five six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven five equals sixty-six thousand four hundred fifty
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven six equals sixty-six thousand four hundred eighty-five point four four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven seven equals sixty-six thousand five hundred twenty point eight eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven eight equals sixty-six thousand five hundred fifty-six point three two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point seven nine equals sixty-six thousand five hundred ninety-one point seven six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight equals sixty-six thousand six hundred twenty-seven point two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight one equals sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-two point six four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight two equals sixty-six thousand six hundred ninety-eight point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight three equals sixty-six thousand seven hundred thirty-three point five two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight four equals sixty-six thousand seven hundred sixty-eight point nine six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight five equals sixty-six thousand eight hundred four point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight six equals sixty-six thousand eight hundred thirty-nine point eight four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight seven equals sixty-six thousand eight hundred seventy-five point two eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight eight equals sixty-six thousand nine hundred ten point seven two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point eight nine equals sixty-six thousand nine hundred forty-six point one six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine equals sixty-six thousand nine hundred eighty-one point six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine one equals sixty-seven thousand seventeen point four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine two equals sixty-seven thousand fifty-two point four eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine three equals sixty-seven thousand eighty-seven point nine two
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine four equals sixty-seven thousand one hundred twenty-three point three six
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine five equals sixty-seven thousand one hundred fifty-eight point eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine six equals sixty-seven thousand one hundred ninety-four point two four
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine seven equals sixty-seven thousand two hundred twenty-nine point six eight
three thousand five hundred forty-four multiplied by eighteen point nine eight equals sixty-seven thousand two hundred sixty-five point one two
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By Rob Cockerill2008-08-19T09:55:25+01:00
Mustang Engineering (Mustang), a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has launched a Synthesis Gas (SynGas) business line within its Midstream Business Unit.
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Q: Merging lists of different sizes in clojure I have 2 lists
s = [1 2 3 4 5]
and
p = [:a :b :c :d :e :f :h :i :j :k :l :m]
I would like to take N elements from p where N is a random number between 1 to K and create a mapping from s to these N elements from p.
the resulting mapping could be something like
((1 :a) (1 :b) (1 :c) (2 :d) (2 :e) (3 :f) (4 :h) (4 :i) (5 :j) (5 :k) (5 :l))
for K=3.
it's fine if not all the elements in p are used but there are enough elements to cover the case where N is max for all elements in s.
I've come up with this but it's missing the take random N elements part and assigns an (almost) equal number of elements to each element in s
(partition 2 (interleave (cycle s) (shuffle p))))
this results in
((1 :d) (2 :f) (3 :h) (4 :e) (5 :l) (1 :b) (2 :k) (3 :a) (4 :j) (5 :g) (1 :i) (2 :c) (3 :m))
UPDATE:
Let me add some more context to the question for a better understanding.
I'm trying to generate a galaxy where each star will have 1 to N planets in it's system. The s list contains the ids of the stars, and the p list contains the ids of planets. I would like to map planet ids to star ids so each system has 1 to N random planets in the system.

A: I hope I understood your question correctly:
(def s [1 2 3 4 5])
(def p [:a :b :c :d :e :f :h :i :j :k :l :m])
(def k 3)

;; concatenate corresponding elements from two sequences into 2-element vectors
(map vector
     ;; generate a sequence of elements from s each duplicated 1 to k times
     (mapcat #(repeat (inc (rand-int k)) %) s)
     ;; generate infinite shuffled seq of elements from p
     (cycle (shuffle p)))

Example output:
([1 :f] [2 :j] [2 :b] [3 :m] [3 :a] [4 :i] [5 :l] [5 :c] [5 :e])

A: Each star must have a random number of planets. Here at least 1 but maximum of 3:
(def stars [1 2 3 4 5])
(def planets [:a :b :c :d :e :f :h :i :j :k :l :m])

(let [max-num-planets 3
      solar-systems (mapcat #(repeat (inc (rand-int max-num-planets)) %) stars)]
  (map #(list %1 %2) solar-systems (shuffle planets))

Every time you run it the answer will be different, but each star will be included as each star has between 1 and 3 planets. Example outputs:
;; ((1 :a) (1 :b) (1 :c) (2 :d) (2 :e) (3 :f) (4 :h) (4 :i) (4 :j) (5 :k) (5:l) (5 :m))
;; ((1 :a) (1 :b) (1 :c) (2 :d) (3 :e) (3 :f) (4 :h) (5 :i))

Not all the planets are always used, and a planet is never repeated - because of course a planet can't exist in more than one solar system.


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Monastyr Putna – obronny monastyr z cerkwią pod wezwaniem Zaśnięcia Bogurodzicy znajdujący się w miejscowości Putna w Rumunii, położonej na Bukowinie. Ważne miejsce historyczne dla Rumunów z uwagi na jego znaczenie w rozwoju kultury Mołdawii oraz jako miejsce pochówku Stefana Wielkiego (cel licznych pielgrzymek w dniu święta Stefana – 2 lipca).

Historia
Monastyr był jedną z pierwszych, licznych później fundacji sakralnych hospodara Stefana Wielkiego. W zamierzeniu fundatora miał stanowić najważniejszy ośrodek religijny kraju, a także nekropolię Stefana i jego następców na tronie mołdawskim. W celu osiągnięcia przezeń należytej rangi, został przez władcę bogato uposażony (w 1503 posiadał 24 wsie), a jego dzieło kontynuowali następcy na tronie mołdawskim. Nie zostało zrealizowane jednak zamierzenie ustanowienia tutaj nekropolii hospodarów mołdawskich – po Stefanie pochowani zostali tutaj tylko dwaj jego kolejni następcy (syn Bogdan III Ślepy i wnuk Ştefăniţă), późniejsi władcy często zaś fundowali swoje własne nekropolie.

Inspiratorem hospodara w zamierzeniu budowy cerkwi miał być pustelnik Daniło, mieszkający w pobliskiej jaskini. Według legendy Stefan miał wyznaczyć miejsce na budowę monastyru poprzez strzał z łuku z jednego z pobliskich wzgórz (miejsce, z którego strzelał jest upamiętnione krzyżem). Ta sama legenda wspomina także o wieśniaku, który potrafił strzelić dalej niż władca, za co miał zostać ścięty. Być może jest to zbitka dwóch legend, starszej w której to władca współgrając z niebiosami (poprzez lot strzały) ustanawia święte miejsce monastyru i młodszej, powstałej w środowisku wiejskim, w której słychać elementy burzące średniowieczny ład społeczno-religijny.

Budowę monastyru rozpoczęto w 1466 (być może na miejscu starszego kompleksu sakralnego). Cerkiew ukończono już w 1469, w późniejszym czasie budowano fortyfikacje monastyru ukończone w 1481. Jednak już w 1484 monastyr został zniszczony przez pożar. Stefan niezwłocznie podjął jego odbudowę, ukończoną w 1498. W 1536 ponownie miał miejsce pożar. Zapewne w XVI w. Putna została ozdobiona freskami zewnętrznymi. Monastyr był ważnym centrum kulturalnym i artystycznym (na wysokim poziomie stały tutaj haft, kaligrafia, iluminatorstwo), słynął ze swego bogactwa. Bogactwo to jednak ściągnęło nań kolejne nieszczęście: w 1653 napadli go, obrabowali i zniszczyli Kozacy Tymofieja Chmielnickiego. Monastyr odbudował wówczas hospodar Jerzy Stefan (w latach 1654–1662). W 1691 po raz kolejny dotknął go pożar. Z kolei w 1739 monastyr został zrujnowany wskutek trzęsienia ziemi; odbudowa została wykonana w latach 1757–1760. W XVIII w. działała tu znana szkoła teologiczna.

W końcu XVIII w. tutejsze zgromadzenie mnichów prawosławnych uniknęło rozwiązania (co dotknęło wiele innych monastyrów bukowińskich pod rządami austriackimi). W miarę rodzenia się rumuńskiej świadomości narodowej, coraz mocniejsza była jego rola symbolu narodowego, często był odwiedzany. W XIX w. rozbudowano zabudowania klasztorne.

Cerkiew

Wolno stojąca w centrum monastyru cerkiew zbudowana jest na planie trójkonchowym. Jest bardzo wydłużona (37 m długości, a tylko 15 m szerokości w najszerszym miejscu, tj. na wysokości apsyd lateralnych) i wysoka (33 m wysokości z wieżą). Składa się z czterech pomieszczeń: nawy, komory grobowej, przednawia oraz przedsionka.

Wskutek licznych katastrof, które dotykały cerkiew, nie zachowały się freski zewnętrzne cerkwi – elewacje są ozdobione dwoma rzędami nisz przedzielonych zdobionym kamiennym sznurem (nawiązującym do dekoracji cerkwi monastyru Dragomirna). Wieża cerkwi ozdobiona jest kręconymi kolumnami, świadczącymi o wpływach wołoskich.

Nawa jest sklepiona mołdawskim sposobem kopułą wspartą na pendentywach, z której centrum wznosi się smukła wieża-latarnia. Komora grobowa oddzielająca nawę od przednawia (przy czym zamiast ściany oddzielającej komorę od nawy z niewielkim tylko otworem drzwiowym, jak to zwykle bywa w dawnych cerkwiach mołdawskich, znajduje się tutaj arkada wsparta na dwóch kolumnach) mieści w sobie marmurowy grobowiec fundatora – uznanego za świętego przez Rumuńską Cerkiew Prawosławną Stefana Wielkiego, a także groby dwóch jego żon, syna i następcy Bogdana, oraz wnuka Stefana. Przedsionek, zamykający cerkiew od zachodu, jest zapewne później dodany do świątyni i wyróżnia się dużymi oknami o gotyckiej kamieniarce.

Zabudowania klasztorne
Zabudowania klasztorne przylegają do czworoboku murów obronnych otaczających cerkiew. Nie zachował się zbudowany tu jeszcze w XV w. dom książęcy. Z pierwotnych zabudowań zachowała się tylko wieża skarbca, przy zachodnim murze. Znajduje się tutaj tablica z inskrypcją o treści: "Pełen wiary wojewoda Stefan, syn Bogdana, ufundował i zbudował ten monastyr poświęcony Maryi w czasach opata Ioasafa w roku 6989 (1481)".

W monastyrze (w jego północno-zachodniej części) znajduje się także druga, mniejsza cerkiew pod wezwaniem Świętych Piotra i Pawła, służąca na co dzień tutejszej wspólnocie zakonnej, zbudowana w XVIII w.

W muzeum klasztornym znajduje się przede wszystkim bardzo cenna kolekcja wyrobów miejscowych artystów, hafciarzy i miniaturzystów, którzy słynęli ze swej biegłości. Można odnaleźć tutaj także dary licznych hospodarów (m.in. Stefana Wielkiego), wśród których znajduje się piękny ewangeliarz z Humor z XV w. Do Stefana miał także należeć piękny krzyż. Kolekcję uzupełniają liczne manuskrypty, szaty liturgiczne i inne tkaniny, tryptyk z XV w., a także arcydzieła złotnictwa. Za szczególnie cenne uznaje się przechowywane tutaj zasłony grobowe i ołtarzowe z XV i XVI w.

Wejście na teren monastyru prowadzi przez wysoką bramę klasztorną z 1760, zwaną wieżą Eminescu (od nazwiska rumuńskiego wieszcza narodowego Mihai Eminescu, który przebywał tutaj podczas obchodów 400-lecia monastyru), pełniącą także funkcję dzwonnicy, na której widnieje płaskorzeźba z łbem żubra – herbem Mołdawii.

Zobacz też
 Malowane cerkwie północnej Mołdawii

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne
 Zabytki rumuńskiej Bukowiny
 Zdjęcia z Putnej

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#ifndef PANGOLIN_SIGSTATE_H
#define PANGOLIN_SIGSTATE_H

#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <pangolin/platform.h>
#include <pangolin/utils/file_utils.h>
#include <csignal>

namespace pangolin
{

typedef void (*SigCallbackFn)(int);

struct PANGOLIN_EXPORT SigCallback
{
    SigCallback(const int & sig, SigCallbackFn fn, void* data)
     : sig(sig), fn(fn), data(data), value(false)
    {
        std::signal(sig, fn);
    }

    int sig;
    SigCallbackFn fn;
    void * data;
    volatile sig_atomic_t value;
};

class PANGOLIN_EXPORT SigState
{
public:
    static SigState& I();

    SigState();
    ~SigState();

    void Clear();

    std::map<int, SigCallback> sig_callbacks;
};

PANGOLIN_EXPORT
void RegisterNewSigCallback(SigCallbackFn callback, void* data, const int signal);

}

#endif // PANGOLIN_SIGSTATE_H


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Q: Stripe firebase extension, listen to invoices collection in collection group Regarding stripe extension for firebase: https://firebase.google.com/products/extensions/firestore-stripe-invoices
I haven't found anything related in the documentation yet, and source code didn't reveal much to me (at least to my understanding).
In the configuration of the extension it asks for a collection to listen for invoices. Is it possible to use a collection group instead? So instead of listening for invoices at invoices I want it to listen at users/{uid}/invoices

A: From the extension code,
let invoicesInFirestore = await admin
  .firestore()
  .collection(config.invoicesCollectionPath)
  .where('stripeInvoiceId', '==', invoice.id)
  .get();

it appears that, at the time of writing, it is not foreseen to handle multi subcollections.
I can see two solutions:
1. Adapt the extension code to create your own Cloud Functions
You copy the extension code and modify it in such a way it handles multi subcollections, in order to create your own Cloud Functions.
Note that the extension code declares the Cloud Function with export const sendInvoice = functions.handler.firestore.document.onCreate(...). As explained in the doc "The HandlerBuilder class facilitates the writing of functions by developers building Firebase Extensions... Do not use HandlerBuilder when writing normal functions for deployment via the Firebase CLI."
So you should adapt it as follows:
export const sendInvoice = functions.firestore
    .document('users/{uid}/invoices')
    .onCreate((snap, context) => {...}

However, note that by writing your own Cloud Function, you will loose potential future improvements to the extension.
2. Create a Cloud Function that copies/pastes the invoices from the subcollections
The idea is to have a Cloud Function listening to all the users/{uid}/invoices subcollections (see above) that copies the new doc and creates a copy in the "central" Extension collection. Nothing prevent you to add some extra fields in the copied doc, like the user's uid.
Note that, if you want to get the feedback from Stripe, you may need another Cloud Function (which listens to the "central" Extension collection) to copy/paste the results of the Stripe webhook calls to the original documents in the users/{uid}/invoices subcollection.
Personally I would go for this second approach.