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Battle for biomass: tackling the food-feed-fuel dilemma
PhD project by Abigail Muscat. The increased demand for biomass will mean that land and other natural resources for food and energy production will become increasingly scarce and that environmental impacts associated with food and energy production can be exacerbated. In this context, it becomes increasingly important to utilise biomass at its highest utility, requiring insight into the competition for biomass between feed for livestock, food for humans and bioenergy.
A growing global population, increased demand for meat, dairy products, and crops for energy will mean that resources from agriculture will become increasingly strained in the future. Feeding the population and meeting consumer demands while also mitigating climate change will, therefore, be a challenge. This is especially a challenge for policy-makers who need to strike a balance between different policy goals such as food security, energy security and climate mitigation.
This problem is encapsulated in competition for food-feed-fuel uses which compete for biomass, land, water and economic resources. In this context, it becomes increasingly important to utilise biomass at its highest utility, requiring insight into the competition for biomass between feed for livestock, food for humans and bioenergy specifically by focusing on these dilemmas within the EU and the EU's influence at a global scale. Within the EU land is limited and bioenergy still represents the largest share (64%) of renewable energy while at a global level, EU demand of products may affect resources elsewhere. This research project will find ways to address these dilemmas by:
conducting a systematic literature review of biomass competition for all three uses
assessing EU energy and agricultural policies for policy coherence, synergies and trade-offs and
by quantifying these synergies and trade-offs within EU case-studies.
Future solutions to address trade-offs and incoherence in policies will be aided by generating scenarios.
The results of this project can, therefore, gain insight into resource competition and inform EU policy-making for more cohesive policies on energy and agriculture.
PhD student A (Abigail) Muscat MSc
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supervisor R (Raimon) Ripoll Bosch PhD
promotor prof.dr.ir. IJM (Imke) de Boer
The battle for biomass: tackling the food-feed-fuel dilemma
Start project:
End project:
Animal Production Systems
Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS)
Other parties involved:
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), James Hutton Institute
> This project is part of MAGIC


It's time to join Landy again for another issue of the Hobby Blog, and this week he's had a bit of a painting slump, but it's all good as he's been getting his hobby on in other ways. So enough with the preamble, let's get down to business!..
It's been quite the long work week, and I couldn't be happier to that I've had the weekend so that I could really work in earnest on some projects I've been puttering along on the last couple of weeks.


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Brave Pants for GriefShare
What a week! I don't what it is that has me so emotionally crazy this week. The obvious answer is, "It's just grief!" But still I feel a lot more up and down than usual. I'm really missing everything about Josh and I've had to do some paperwork clean up lately that means I have to repeat what happened a few months ago. It's a new year, and I want a clean slate but that's not really possible. There's still a lot to figure out.
Tonight, I decided to take a big step and go to GriefShare. I know it's good for me to do. I know being around a community of people also grieving is good, and I know the material will help give me additional support in the process. Knowing all of these things, doesn't make it easy and in lots of ways, I still didn't want to show up. Yet, that is part of the process.
I have so often talked about grief being a community effort that it would be opposite encouragement to recommend avoiding GriefShare - so I won't. But, to provide some more honesty and perspective, here's an perspective of my experience. In bold are my main thoughts, followed by more details.
What do I say when it's my turn to introduce myself and my reason for being there?"
I thought I would be able to say more but only got out the words, "Hi, I'm Jennifer and my husband passed away in September ....." - then I began to cry so I was done talking. I did say more later in the group discussion but that first question really got me!!
People are grieving a lot of different kinds of relationships here (not just spouses)
I knew this would be the case, but I found I wanted to connect with people who have also lost a spouse because that is unique for me right now. Yes, I have walked through the loss of a mother, brother and grandfather and step-grandmother, but the one that's really rooted deep right now is my spouse.
The material was simple, but good
There were several things I connected with in the curriculum and in the video testimonials. But these were also so rapid fire, it was almost too much to soak in. I wrote down phrases that stood out like, "It felt like I was looking at life through jello," and "There's no timeline on grief." One line they used was "do the next right thing!" which immediately had me thinking about Frozen II and the blog post I wrote titled, "Grief on the Big Screen."
I am in this season, step by step. The next right thing for me this week included attending GriefShare.
More people should do GriefShare sooner
In the group, there were people who had fresh grief and grief that has been tucked away for years. That is the hard part of the group. In in some ways want to help the people who are just now dealing with it after many years of business and continued sorrow. The challenge is that I am attending seeing encouragement for my current story. Yes, I can help others in the process but how navigating this is a new kind of tricky.
I need ice cream
Although, I am on a diet. The moment I got in the car, I thought, "I need ice cream." So I went and got some. Maybe not a great choice but it tasted real good! Maybe it was like a reward, maybe it was just a weird way to cope with two hours of sitting in a room of emotion. But I am giving myself permission to not stress over that decision here and now.
I guess, I'll go again
I talked briefly to another lady who lost her husband even more recently. I even gave her a hug - which is not normal for me and said, "See you next week." I'm going to commit to trying this for the next few weeks - at least. It would be easy to not go back but better for me, and others, to keep trying to keep engaging in this grief process.

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Q: Cannot run project from IntelliJ IDEA because of jdwp error I have a project in IntelliJ IDEA I want to run locally. When I click its debug button it says:
ERROR: Cannot load this JVM TI agent twice, check your java command line for duplicate jdwp options.
Disconnected from server
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: jdwp

When I click the run button it works. What is the matter?

A: I guess you already are debugging the server app? In this case it's not possible to connect another instance of debugger.

A: This is probably too late to help you, but maybe it will help somebody else.  The answer is based on a support forum posting by Aleksei Sosnovski.
This can happen when your JAVA_OPTS contains two -Xrunjdwp arguments. E.g., one of these arguments might come from the server start script invoked by IntelliJ to start the container, and another may be added by IntelliJ itself. You can check by looking at JAVA_OPTS in the log when launching the container without debug. If you see an -Xrunjdwp argument, just find where it is set in the container startup script, and remove it.

A: Most likely the problem happens because you have specified the debugging options in the "VM parameters" field of your run configuration. Everything will work if you remove them.

A: I had the same problem in my case -Xrunjdwp was set twice: one in the IDEA debug configuration and again in the system variables in CATAALINA_OPTS.
once I removed it from system variables (inside the IDEA it is read only) problem was fixed

A: Thanks for the tips, it helped me work out the problem too.  Mine was due to having
    set DEBUG_OPTS=-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005
In my catalina.bat

A: *

*check server.xml if you have jvmEntries  get rid of that entry from server.xml
<!-- <jvmEntries xmi:id="JavaVirtualMachine_1" classpath="" bootClasspath="" verboseModeClass="false" verboseModeGarbageCollection="false" verboseModeJNI="false" runHProf="false" hprofArguments="" debugMode="false" debugArgs="-Djava.compiler=NONE -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=7777" genericJvmArguments="">

*Open admin console (http://localhost:9060/ibm/console/login.do)
Application servers > server1 > Debugging service
un-check Enable service at server startup if checked restart server.

A: On Intellij uncheck the 'Pass environment variables' box in Run/Debug configuration

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6. consistency in particle size, and compatibility with the demands of the use of large columns in industry.
In addition some applications demand the ability to exchange a specific ion(s) selectively from high concentrations of other ions. This is particularly true for aqueous nuclear waste treatment and in hydrometal-lurgy. In some of these applications ion exchangers with lower capacities can be effective.


I created this layout for Cord Scrapbook Studio sketch of the week about a month ago or so.....I thought I would share.....The take on this layout is - it doesn't actually have to be a sport picture to use a sport line...Jillibean Soup's line of Game Day Chili is so cute, inspirational, and versatile, you can use it for so many things!
I know he will be a future all - star those cute cheeks and sparkling eyes just say it is so!
Just another bit of inspiration!


View the results of your search of the Derwent Chemistry Resource database.
You can copy a chemical structure from this page, and then paste the image in the Structure Details box on the Compound Search page in order to create and modify new chemical structures.
Paste the copied structure in the Structure Details box on the Compound Search page in order to create a new chemical search query.
If no chemical structure displays, then a compound text description taken from the Structure Description field will appear. In some cases, both a structure and a description will appear.
Click this button to go to a Results page that displays all patent records in which the selected compound has been found. The actual number of patent records that match your search criteria is listed on the Results page. Each record on the Results page will include a DCR Number that matches the DCR number on the Compound Results page of the selected chemical structure.
Click this button to go to he Compound Results page that displays up to 500 patent records in which the selected compound has been found.
All records are sorted by Molecular Weight, the default sort option. However, you can also sort compound structures by DCR Number.
You can add compound structures to your Compounds Marked List where you can later print, save, or e-mail those records.
Select the check box of the needed compound record.
Click the Add Selections to Mark List button. The number of the selected records will appear Compound Marked List check box that appears at the top of the Compound Results page.
Click the Compound Marked List link to go to the Compound Marked List page.
You can also click the Add Page to Marked List buttons to mark every record on the Compound Results page.


* Provide enough production capacity. ... cement factories, and automotive assembly plants, ... has decided to move its operations to a more modern plant.
The plant production capabilities were increased in 1987 with the ... Modern Controls. need it, ... Control system for cement production lines 1 and 2.
Coal combustion products (CCPs) are the by-products generated from burning coal in coal-fired power plants. CCPs can play an important role in concrete production.


We have actually collected the listing of parenting hacks that will assist people who are currently parents and also the ones that will certainly experience this in future. So ensure that you grasp as well as find out as many hacks as you could due to the fact that they will make you a expert in handling kids.
1. The need of crayon remover.
One interesting thing that I found regarding children is that they all are great painters (according to them). So, they start painting everywhere. Somehow their painting skills increase the tasks of parents. But not to stress, all you require is WD-40 because it is a great crayon remover.
2. Save kids from locking.
All of us know how smart kids behave, but their smartness at times comes to be problematic for parents. To save kids from locking themselves, you have to utilize this hack.


Sucralose is heat stable, making it ideal for use in baking, canning, pasteurization, aseptic processing and other manufacturing processes that require high temperatures. The American Diabetes Association also supports the stability of sucralose stating, "sucralose is not affected by heat and retains its sweetness in hot beverages, baked goods, and processed food".
Sucralose is one of the most extensively studied ingredients and its safety has been verified by scientific and regulatory authorities around the world including the US Food and Drug Administration2, the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)3, the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF)4 and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)5. Studies tested the safety of sucralose did not find any possible carcinogenic, reproductive and neurological effects, including those that could result from processing at high temperatures.
The current body of evidence continues to show sucralose is a safe and stable ingredient and should continue to be used alongside other sweeteners to reduce sugar and total calories in the diet.
PART 172—FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED FOR DIRECT ADDITION TO FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. USA https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=c0f4112bab74084d5c7489f8fc3f4489&h=L&mc=true&n=pt21.3.172&r=PART&ty=HTML#_top.
Safety evaluation of certain food additives IPCS—International Programme on Chemical Safety. World Heal Organ. 2009.
European Commission Scientific Committee on Food. Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on sucralose. 2000;(September). https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/sci-com_scf_out68_en.pdf.


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Q: Значение таймера из таблицы Нужно взять дату из колонки dt_send_daytime. Т.е 1:1:4:0 каждую неделю,каждый понедельник, в час, 4 минут так должно работать. Можно так сделать?

Где тут поставить дату?

  foreach(DataRow row in dt.Rows) {

    MyTimer myTimer = new MyTimer();

    string dt_str = row["shedule_dt_send_daytime"].ToString();

    string[] dt_str_tmp = dt_str.Split(':');

    switch (row["time_name_ru"].ToString().ToUpper()) {
      case "ЧАС":
        Console.WriteLine(dt_str_tmp[2] + ":" + dt_str_tmp[3]); //мм:сс
        break;

      case "НЕДЕЛЯ":
        Console.WriteLine(dt_str_tmp[0] + ":" + dt_str_tmp[1]); //дд:чч
        break;

      case "ДЕНЬ":
        Console.WriteLine(dt_str_tmp[1] + ":" + dt_str_tmp[2]); //чч:мм
        break;

      case "МИНУТ":
        Console.WriteLine(dt_str_tmp[3]); //сс
        break;

    }

       // вот тут надо что-то вставить

    myTimer.datetime = Convert.ToDateTime(row["shedule_dt_send_daytime"]);

    myTimer.alg = Convert.ToString(row["meta_cod"]);
    // myTimer.Dt_Begin = Convert.ToDateTime(row["shedule_dt_beg"]);
    // myTimer.Dt_Period_End = row["shedule_dt_period_end"];

    myTimer.Interval = Convert.ToInt32(dt_str_tmp);

    myTimer.Elapsed += OnTimeout;
    myTimer.AutoReset = true;
    myTimer.Enabled = true;

  }

A: Конечно можно!

*

*Когда происходит запуск программы/функции ты определяешь день недели сегодня.
 int today = (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;

Подробности: Практическое руководство. Извлечение дня недели из конкретной даты

*Определив день, проходишь по всем строкам таблицы и проверяешь соответствует ли 1-ый символ в колонке dt_send_daytime номеру полученного тобою дня недели. Если да, то запускаешь таймер с нужными параметрами.
if (today == dt_str_tmp[0])
  {
     // создаешь таймер
  }

UPDATE: Вставлять после switch


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import * as React from "react";

export type FormItemProps = {
    className?: string;
    disableStyles?: boolean;
    isHorizontal?: boolean;
    isInline?: boolean;
} & { [x: string]: any };

declare const FormItem: React.FunctionComponent<FormItemProps>;

export default FormItem;

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TelnetParser::TelnetParser()
{
    _buff = nullptr;
    _newbuff = nullptr;
    Reset();
    events.RegisterEvent("OnNegotiation");
    events.RegisterEvent("OnOption");
}
TelnetParser::~TelnetParser()
{
    if (_newbuff != nullptr)
        {
            delete []_newbuff;
        }
}

void TelnetParser::SetBuffer(unsigned char* buff)
{
    _buff = buff;
}
unsigned char* TelnetParser::GetFinalBuffer() const
{
    return _newbuff;
}
unsigned int TelnetParser::GetFinalSize() const
{
    return _newsize;
}
void TelnetParser::Parse()
{
    if (_buff == nullptr)
        {
            return;
        }

    unsigned char* r = _buff;
    unsigned char* w = _newbuff;
    unsigned char cur;
    unsigned char option = 0;
    unsigned char* start = nullptr;
    unsigned char* end = nullptr;
    unsigned int counter = 0;

    for (counter = 0; counter < _size; ++counter)
        {
            cur = _buff[counter];
//possible: iac iac or iac option.
            if (cur == TELNET_IAC)
                {
//beginning of sequence or end of negotiation
                    if (_state == 0)
                        {
                            _state = TELNET_IAC;
                            continue;
                        }
                    if (_state == TELNET_IAC)
                        {
                            *w = TELNET_IAC;
                            ++w;
                            continue;
                        }
                }
//option negotiation
            else if (_state == TELNET_IAC)
                {
                    if (cur == TELNET_DO || cur == TELNET_DONT || cur == TELNET_WILL || cur == TELNET_WONT)
                        {
                            _state = cur;
                            continue;
                        }
//sequence begin
                    else if(cur == TELNET_SB && _state == TELNET_IAC)
                        {
                            _state = TELNET_SB;
                            continue;
                        }
//sequence end
                    else if(cur == TELNET_SE && start != end && option)
                        {
                            NegotiationEventArgs args(option, start, (unsigned int)(end-start)+1);
                            events.CallEvent("OnNegotiation", &args, static_cast<void*>(this));
                            _state = 0;
                            option = 0;
                            start = end = nullptr;
                            continue;
                        }
                }
//option
//we've already seen will|wont|do|dont.
            else if (_state == TELNET_WILL || _state == TELNET_WONT || _state == TELNET_DO || _state == TELNET_DONT)
                {
                    OptionEventArgs args(cur, _state);
                    events.CallEvent("OnOption", &args, static_cast<void*>(this));
                    _state = 0;
                    continue;
                }
            else if (_state == TELNET_SB && !option)
                {
                    option = cur;
                    start = r+counter;
                    end = start;
                    for (; counter < _size; ++ counter, ++end)
                        {
                            cur = _buff[counter];
                            if (cur == TELNET_IAC)
                                {
                                    _state = TELNET_IAC;
                                    break;
                                }
                        }
                    start++; //move it past option.
                    end--; //move it to the last bite of the sequence.
                    continue;
                }
            else
                {
                    *w = cur;
                    w++;
                }
        }
    _newsize = (unsigned int)(w-_newbuff);
}

void TelnetParser::Reset()
{
    _state = 0;
    _size = 0;
    _newsize = 0;
    _buff = nullptr;
    if (_newbuff)
        {
            delete []_newbuff;
        }
    _newbuff = nullptr;
}
void TelnetParser::Initialize(unsigned int size)
{
    if (_newbuff)
        {
            delete []_newbuff;
        }
    _newbuff = new unsigned char[size];
    _size = size;
}


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John Whalen
ISBN 978-0-9668612-6-6 $14.95 / $16.95 (Canada) 5.5 x 8.5
80 pp
PUB DATE: Spring 2002 Poetry
Customers:
John Whalen's poems stalk the persona of the monster trapped in ourselves, and in our everyday world, and free the spirit to be lover, singer. These are poems of adroit surprise, of vivid phrase and dramatic voice, celebrating the paradox of the timeless and contemporary.
—Robert Morgan
Caliban is a brand new voice, charged with rage, wit, and a wild, wry sweetness. John Whalen brings us an open ear, a strict eye, and a generous heart.
In John Whalen's quintessentially tempestuous Caliban, the main character is an outcast and a slave to his passions. If Shakespeare had Miranda, Whalen's Caliban has Melanie in his dream world, the working-class and suburban settings that enthrall him. The wonder of this debut book of poems is that its fractured narratives and cris de coeur reconstruct a "brilliant television orchard" of images. Although Whalen revels in disjunction, his vision is starkly focused. Caliban bristles with "pissed bees," station wagons—no it glitters, multifaceted, diamond clear! Pick it up, feel its glacial heat; meet John Whalen!
—James Reiss
John Whalen's Caliban is tempest-, whiskey-, and romance-tossed. It is also mordantly funny, peculiarly moving, and always gorgeous. These poems are as deeply pleasurable to read one at a time as in one great gulp, which is all we should ask of any book.
—Elizabeth McCracken
John Whalen lives in eastern Washington with his two daughters. His poems have appeared in such journals as the Virginia Quarterly Review, Yellow Silk, The Hollins Critic, Willow Springs, and CutBank.


We travel to where our clients need our services stateside or global including auto shows, events, ports to railheads, and plant yards.
Penske Vehicle Services is focused on identifying creative ways to enhance our client's revenue. Our team has experience in vehicle recovery and recycling which entails vehicle dismantling and tear down efforts to resell vehicle components and metals.


The White Baseball LS is clothing in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.
In Splatoon, it is a 1-star item produced by Rockenberg and comes with the primary ability Quick Super Jump. It can be purchased from Jelly Fresh for 800.
In Splatoon 2, it is a 1-star item produced by Rockenberg and comes with the primary ability Quick Super Jump. It can be purchased from Ye Olde Cloth Shoppe for 800 or from SplatNet Gear Shop for 2,000.
The White Baseball LS is a long-sleeve white shirt with black sleeves and a small, white insignia on the front. The back of the shirt features a large Rockenberg logo.
The White Baseball LS comes with Quick Super Jump as a main ability. As a 1-star item, the White Baseball LS has one additional slot for secondary abilities. Since it is made by the Rockenberg brand, it has a higher chance of rolling Run Speed Up and a lower chance of rolling Swim Speed Up to fill its secondary ability slot.
The White Baseball LS comes with Quick Super Jump as a main ability when purchased from shop or ordered from Murch. When purchased from SplatNet 2, it can have any other Ability normally available to Clothing. As a 1-star item, the White Baseball LS has one additional slot for secondary abilities. Since it is made by the Rockenberg brand, it has a higher chance of rolling Run Speed Up and a lower chance of rolling Swim Speed Up to fill its secondary ability slot.
A female Inkling wearing the White Baseball LS.
Another female Inkling wearing the White Baseball LS, holding a Luna Blaster.
Another female Inkling wearing the White Baseball LS.
A male Inkling wearing the White Baseball LS, seen from the side.
Another male Inkling wearing the White Baseball LS, seen from the back.


The 5-star SENTIDO Reef Oasis Senses Resort is located at Hadebet Um El Sid, South Sinai, Egypt in the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh with views of the Sinai Mountains and Tiran Island. Offering an All Inclusive package, the Reef Oasis Senses Resort has a total of 242 smart rooms spread over 1 and 2-storey whitewashed buildings set in gorgeous landscaped gardens. Dining & recreational facilities are shared with the nearby Reef Oasis Beach Resort. Savour delicious food and drink, enjoy the Aqua Park with over 60 water features, sports and water sports at the beach, a great Health Club, and an animation team hosts daily activities and evening entertainment. A Kid's Club and animation programme takes care of younger guests. The 5-star SENTIDO Reef Oasis Senses Resort has something for every member of the family, book now and escape to a world of fun, sun and enviable comfort at Sharm El Sheikh on the Red Sea, Egypt. Getting to the hotel: 14km from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport. Local tips: The hotel is only 7km from Na'ama Bay Centre with numerous shops, restaurants, cafes and leisure options. Private sandy beach (access to the sea is via a jetty to protect the coral). Please note: Rates and conditions are not available to residents of the following countries: Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Israel, U.A.E, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. FACILITIES: Food, drink and entertainment: You can savour breakfast, lunch, dinner and light snacks throughout the day from a variety of venues (6 restaurants and 8 bars in the Beach Resort): onsite: Mo's Restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner, La Terrazza Italian a la carte, Cactus Restaurant & Bar for self-BBQ and interactive chill-out bar, and further Beach Resort cuisines of Italian, Asian fusion, BBQ, grills and Indian menus; onsite café bars: Oasis Senses Arabic Café, and Rendezvous hosts live music with cocktails, Beach Resort bars offer varying themes and refreshments; onsite, a library, and an animation team hosts evening entertainment including live music and different shows every evening including dancing and guest participation, a weekly oriental show and discotheque. Sport, games and activities: An Aqua Park with over 60 water features and several swimming pools, including an adult-only pool and a diving pool with diving courses available at a PADI Diving Centre and on the beach; 2 private pools, 3 heated swimming pools and Jacuzzi (winter season), sun terraces with loungers & parasols; a Health Club (10am-8pm) near the beach provides a Wellness Centre & Spa with Jacuzzi, sauna, steam facilities and a fully equipped gymnasium and a range of facial and body treatments, massages & therapies; a dedicated sports area with floodlit tennis courts (8.30am-12.30pm & 2.30pm-midnight), a range of water sports at the beach, and an animation team organises group sports including table tennis, darts, Boccia, volleyball and aerobics lessons. A free shuttle bus operates to the private beach every 15 minutes during the day. For the kids: A Mini Club for 4-12 years (10am-12.30pm & 3pm-5pm) with equipped play area, 2 children's swimming pools, an Aqua Park with water slides and animation team hosting activities; mini disco at 8pm. Baby cots available on request. Additional: 24 hour Reception Services, housekeeping, 24 hour room service, 24 hour guest services includes taxi & excursion arrangements, 24 hour currency exchange machine, ATM, multilingual staff, Doctor on call, free WiFi internet access in lobby & wired in-room internet, free laundry service (up to 12 pieces per room stay), dry cleaning service, fax & copy service, shopping arcade, barber/beauty shop, safe boxes, luggage storage, complimentary shuttle buses to Na'ama Bay, celebratory occasions organised & hosted, no pets allowed and free parking nearby is possible.


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By Joseph Czikk Canadian Startup News, Launches June 2, 2014
Toronto's INcubes Accelerator Program Unveils International Exchange Program
Toronto's INcubes accelerator program for startups has unveiled its new International Exchange Program (IIEP).
The IIEP was created to provide additional value for companies that graduate from the INcubes Accelerator Program. INcubes has partnered on a "friendship basis" with numerous hubs, accelerators and incubators from across the globe, in locations such as the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, South America, and the USA. Among INcubes' partners are:
• Level39 – London, UK
· 1776 – Washington, DC, US
· Hatchery – New York, US
· NestGSV – Redwood City, CA, US
· NGIN Workplace – Cambridge, MA, US
· The Dec – Dallas, TX, US
· 1871 – Chicago, IL, US
· Venture Hive – Miami, Florida, US
· Cross Campus – Santa Monica, CA, USA
· 21212 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
· Project One – Sao Paulo, Brazil
· ATP Innovations – Sidney, Australia
· Cyberport – Hong Kong
The IIEP provides the opportunity for each of the INcubes graduate companies to visit any of partner its locations, work from the space or get referrals from partner hubs and accelerators to help the companies access the different local markets. Companies that graduate from any of the other partner locations can come to INcubes.
INcubes said in a release that it "looks for companies with global potential," and many of its graduates are actively conducting business in other countries. The initiative is meant to provide graduates with a soft international landing as they expand globally, while giving international companies with a home base to work out of while they expand into the Canadian and North American markets.
"Being part of the INcubes international exchange program will allow our companies to branch out of our region into other areas of the world," said Donna Harris, cofounder at Washington's 1776.
Meanwhile Level39's Claire Cockerton said the friendship agreement with INcubes "is driven by a shared ambition to enable high growth technology companies to achieve a foothold in local and global markets. It is crucial for accelerators to work cross-border and to create collaborative international networks, so that mentoring, networking events and talent pools that can be mutually drawn on by domestic technology companies as they look to expand internationally."
Since December 2011, INcubes has received almost 2000 applications, built a network of over 120 mentors, and nurtured a portfolio of 20 Companies –over 80 percent of which are still active. INcubes also enjoyed its first exit last December, when Hovr.it, which was acquired by Slyce Inc.
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SCID: (System for Control of Inventory)

This application is on Yii2 Framework and a lot's of Krajee goodies.

Is designe for small business for control the orders and shippins of
the products on sale.

I use krajee's goodies for the GridView, the datepicker, and more.

The backend:
It was made for the manager of the business, in here you can control everything:

* Units of measure us on packing
* Freights
* Products
* Users
* Parameters

The frontend:
It was made only for the costumer, in here you only can order the products and see the state of the shippments.

I use a FIFO to consume the inventory.

For taxes and units it's on construction.

Yii 2 Advanced Project Template
===============================

Yii 2 Advanced Project Template is a skeleton [Yii 2](http://www.yiiframework.com/) application best for
developing complex Web applications with multiple tiers.

The template includes three tiers: front end, back end, and console, each of which
is a separate Yii application.

The template is designed to work in a team development environment. It supports
deploying the application in different environments.

[![Latest Stable Version](https://poser.pugx.org/yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced/v/stable.png)](https://packagist.org/packages/yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced)
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DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
-------------------

```
common
    config/              contains shared configurations
    mail/                contains view files for e-mails
    models/              contains model classes used in both backend and frontend
console
    config/              contains console configurations
    controllers/         contains console controllers (commands)
    migrations/          contains database migrations
    models/              contains console-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
backend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains backend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains backend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
frontend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains frontend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains frontend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
    widgets/             contains frontend widgets
vendor/                  contains dependent 3rd-party packages
environments/            contains environment-based overrides
tests                    contains various tests for the advanced application
    codeception/         contains tests developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework
uploads/                 contains the images used for the products
```


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Q: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'Placeholder' with dtype float and shape [?,48,50] I am trying to implement an LSTM in Tensorflow, but I have problems with the imput shape.
I have a corpus, I tokenize it and remove the punctuation, then I make sequences in this way:
length = 50 + 1
sequences = list()
for i in range(length, len(tokens)):
    # select sequence of tokens
    seq = tokens[i-length:i]
    # convert into a line
    line = ' '.join(seq)
    # store
    sequences.append(line)
print('Total Sequences: %d' % len(sequences))

I then divide the sequences in train and test like this:
sequences = array(sequences)
print(len(sequences))
print(sequences)
sequences_train = sequences[:10000] #17314
sequences_test = sequences[10000:12000]
X_train, y_train = sequences_train[:,:-1], sequences_train[:,-1]
X_test, y_test = sequences_test[:,:-1], sequences_test[:,-1]
y = to_categorical(y_train, num_classes=vocab_size)

Then I create the Neural Network:
num_input = 50
timesteps = 48
num_hidden = 128 # hidden layer num of features
num_classes = 48
num_features = X_train.shape[1]
#num_classes = 1

# tf Graph input
X = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, timesteps, num_input])
Y = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, num_classes])

# Define weights
weights = {
'out': tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([num_hidden, num_classes]))
}
biases = {
'out': tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([num_classes]))
}

def RNN(x, weights, biases):

    # Prepare data shape to match `rnn` function requirements
    # Current data input shape: (batch_size, timesteps, n_input)

    # Unstack to get a list of 'timesteps' tensors of shape (batch_size, n_input)
    x = tf.unstack(x, timesteps, 1)

    # Define a lstm cell with tensorflow
    lstm_cell = rnn.BasicLSTMCell(num_hidden, forget_bias=1.0)

    # Get lstm cell output
    outputs, states = rnn.static_rnn(lstm_cell, x, dtype=tf.float32)

    # Linear activation, using rnn inner loop last output
    return tf.matmul(outputs[-1], weights['out']) + biases['out']
logits = RNN(X, weights, biases)
prediction = tf.nn.softmax(logits)

# Define loss and optimizer
loss_op = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=logits, labels=Y))
optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate)
train_op = optimizer.minimize(loss_op)

# Evaluate model (with test logits, for dropout to be disabled)
correct_pred = tf.equal(tf.argmax(prediction, 1), tf.argmax(Y, 1))
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_pred, tf.float32))

# Initialize the variables (i.e. assign their default value)
init = tf.global_variables_initializer()

# network params
batch_size = 48
max_epochs = 30
display_step = 1
num_epochs = 0
epoch = 0

# batch sampling
np.random.seed(0)
train_indices = np.arange(len(X_train))

# lists
train_cost, val_cost, pred_undrsamp = [],[],[]
y_out_train, train_batch_x, y_batch_idx, y_out_training = [],[],[],[]

# restricting memory usage, TensorFlow is greedy and will use all memory otherwise
gpu_opts = tf.GPUOptions(per_process_gpu_memory_fraction=0.2)

with tf.Session(config=tf.ConfigProto(gpu_options=gpu_opts)) as sess:
    try:
        sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
        print("Starting...\n")
        print(str("---------------")*7)

        # total batches
        total_batch = int(X_train.shape[0]/batch_size)
        for epoch in range(max_epochs):

            # shuffling
            np.random.shuffle(train_indices)

            # loop over all batches
            for i in range(total_batch):

                batch_idx = train_indices[batch_size*i:batch_size*(i+1)]
                batch_xs = X_train[batch_idx]
                batch_ys = y_train[batch_idx]
                batch_xs = batch_xs.reshape((1, timesteps, num_input))
                batch_ys = batch_ys.reshape((1, 48))

                feed_dict_train = {X: batch_xs, Y: batch_ys}
                fetches_train = [train_op, loss_op, prediction]
                #print(X.shape, batch_xs.shape, Y.shape, batch_ys.shape)

                # running the train_op
                res = sess.run(fetches=fetches_train, feed_dict=feed_dict_train)

                train_cost += [res[1]]
                y_out_train = list(res[2])

                # storing for evaluation
                y_batch_idx += list(batch_ys)
                y_out_training += list(y_out_train)

            # compute validation loss and accuracy
            if epoch % display_step == 0:
            num_epochs += 1

                ### VALIDATING ###
                # deciding which parts to fetch
                fetches_test = [loss_op, prediction]

                #X_test = X_test.reshape((1, timesteps, num_input))
                #y_test = y_test.reshape((1, 48))

                # what to feed our accuracy op
                feed_dict_valid = {X: X_test, Y: y_test}
                print(X.shape, X_test.shape, Y.shape, y_test.shape)

                # running the validation
                res_t = sess.run(fetches_test, feed_dict=feed_dict_valid)

                # storing for evaluation
                val_cost += [res_t[0]]
                pred_undrsamp = list(res_t[1]) # y_out validation

                print("Epoch %i, Train cost: %0.3f,\t Val cost: %0.3f, Val ROC curve (area = %0.3f)\t" % ((epoch+1), train_cost[-1],val_cost[-1], roc_auc_score(y_test, pred_undrsamp)))

        print(str("---------------")*7, "\n\n","Optimization Finished!")
        print("\n","Total epochs: %i\t Final validation ROC_AUC: %0.3f\t"% \
              ((epoch+1),roc_auc_score(y_test, pred_undrsamp)),"\n")
        print(get_plot_ROC(y_test, pred_undrsamp, 'Feedforward NN using RandomUnderSampling'))

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print('KeyboardInterrupt')

print('Done')

I have two problems: if I don't test during the trainig, my train_cost is huge, but the program runs, otherwise, if I test the network (so I don't comment out this:
fetches_test = [loss_op, prediction]

#X_test = X_test.reshape((1, timesteps, num_input))
#y_test = y_test.reshape((1, 48))

feed_dict_valid = {X: X_test, Y: y_test}

res_t = sess.run(fetches_test, feed_dict=feed_dict_valid)

# storing for evaluation
val_cost += [res_t[0]]
pred_undrsamp = list(res_t[1]) # y_out validation

I get this error:
InvalidArgumentError                      Traceback (most recent call last)
~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\client\session.py in _do_call(self, fn, *args)
   1326     try:
-> 1327       return fn(*args)
   1328     except errors.OpError as e:

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\client\session.py in _run_fn(session, feed_dict, fetch_list, target_list, options, run_metadata)
   1305                                    feed_dict, fetch_list, target_list,
-> 1306                                    status, run_metadata)
   1307

~\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py in __exit__(self, type, value, traceback)
     65             try:
---> 66                 next(self.gen)
     67             except StopIteration:

 ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\framework\errors_impl.py in raise_exception_on_not_ok_status()
    465           compat.as_text(pywrap_tensorflow.TF_Message(status)),
--> 466           pywrap_tensorflow.TF_GetCode(status))
    467   finally:

InvalidArgumentError: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor
'Placeholder' with dtype float and shape [?,48,50]
     [[Node: Placeholder = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[?,48,50],
_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]()]]

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

InvalidArgumentError                      Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-24-018940a98f31> in <module>()
     50
     51                 # running the train_op
 ---> 52                 res = sess.run(fetches=fetches_train,
feed_dict=feed_dict_train)
     53
     54                 # storing cross entropy, predictions (second fetch
argument, so index=1)

A: You are reshaping the train data batch before training
Shouldn't you do the same for x_test and y_test (you have commented this code).
Move this code outside the loop and uncomment it.


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Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018; (cited in BAE 2015, 2016); PUSHCART poetry finalist
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Issue: Summer 2016 » Fiction
by Gregory Wolos
Cat Calls
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When Tyler drifted into consciousness, eyes still closed, there was a peaceful, dark moment before the stab of what he mistook for a hangover headache. A list of questions piled up: Where had he been and with whom? How did he get to his bed—or was this his couch—or somebody else's? As if he were tuning an old radio, voices rose and fell.
"Two hundred pounds at least, maybe twice that. An old eagle's nest. If he'd been hit a bull's eye, it would have killed him. But there was a big limb just over his head and the nest hit that first and broke up. He got hit by a pretty big chunk. He's not in a coma, is he? We're insured—J and J Tree Removal is insured. Shouldn't he be up by now?"
A clipped, professional voice: "He's sleeping. He's been in and out. No damage to the skull or spinal cord. Just a concussion and the broken arm, which we've set. We'll do more precautionary tests when he wakes up. An eagle's nest?"
"It was the size of a kiddie pool, Doc, maybe bigger."
These were answers, but not to Tyler's questions—they only raised new ones. He'd been "in" before this? Broken arm—which one? He couldn't bring himself to move. Eagle's nest?
Gizmo was a Siamese. She spit and scratched. The kids hated her, but they cried when she ran off. They hung up signs on telephone poles. My kids have kids of their own now. No cats, though.
Mr. J of J and J Tree Removal, insured or not, was obviously relieved when Tyler woke up for good. The tree-boss stood just inside his employee's peripheral vision. Tyler had worked for J and J for only a day. The company was contracted to clear the land by the river for the new casino that was going to save the city. Tyler remembered staring up into the canopy of a huge oak on the bank of the river, the only substantial tree on acreage overrun with scrub brush. He didn't remember getting hit.
"What part of 'Stand back!' didn't you get?" Mr. J asked.
"All I heard was 'Whoa,' so I came to look."
"Jerry yelled 'Stand back'—that's standard safety procedure. I heard him myself, even over the chainsaws and wood chipper. But you're lucky. The doctor says so, too. Of course, it would have been luckier if you'd stood back."
Mr. J shook a plastic grocery bag. "So guess what was in that nest—cat collars. When it hit the limb over your head it broke apart, and these cat collars went flying all over. We collected them to show you. The eagles were feeding cats to their babies. Cat food—that's Jerry's joke."
A nurse fussed around Tyler's bed. "Cat collars? Yuck. Poor little kitties."
"Law of nature," Mr. J said. He tugged a strip of blue cloth from his pocket and swung it over Tyler's bed. "This one is special." A rusty tag dangled from the filthy collar. "This guy's name was 'Mr. Lucky.' Just like you."
Mr. J might have been presenting the Medal of Honor or the key to the city. Tyler reached for the collar with his left hand—his right arm turned out to be the broken one—and he squinted at the tag crusted with dirt and rust. "'Mr. Licky,'" he read. "Not Lucky. It says 'Mr. Licky.'"
"What?" Mr. J snatched back the collar, "Licky? They spelled their own pet's name wrong?"
"That's a silly name for a cat," the nurse said. "Mr. Licky" sounds more like a dog's name."
My first wife hated Fluffy. He left mice on her pillow. Another time he left a dead hummingbird —can you believe he actually caught one? It looked like a flower, the way it lay on the satin pillowcase with its wings spread.
The day Tyler left the hospital, he decided to wear Mr. Licky's collar as a bracelet. The nurse made a face as she buckled it over his ID band. "Not very sanitary," she said. The home he returned to was the cottage where he grew up. He inherited it from his mom when she passed, and he'd moved back because the things he'd tried in other places—jobs, women—hadn't worked out. The house stood about two miles up the same river where he'd been clearing land for the casino with J and J when his accident happened.
His arm healed quickly, though after the cast came off it was pale and withered and not up to heavy lifting. Tyler got enough of a settlement from J and J's insurance company so that he didn't have to worry about a job for a few months. Soon he noticed that the collar, which he never took off, had a definite taint. He thought at first that it was his food that smelled bad when he lifted his fork to his mouth. His showering had rinsed off most of the collar's visible crud, but who knew how long the thing had been stewing in cat blood and eagle shit? He decided that his Mr. Licky bracelet and the whole bag of collars he'd brought home from the hospital needed a thorough cleaning. Sprucing them up could be a hobby, something to do while he listened to The Price is Right and sports.
When Tyler unknotted the plastic bag, the rotten-meat stench nearly floored him, and he almost trashed his new hobby then and there. But he opened his window for some fresh air, and through the tree branches caught a glimpse of the river. It sparkled like somebody had scattered jewels across a black mirror—so beautiful he wondered that he'd never really noticed it growing up, even when he'd paddled on it or fished in it.
A fresh breeze blew into his room, and the sun through the maple trees tossed dancing leaf shadows on the uncut grass. By now the casino site would have been cleared and construction started. The big tree would be long gone. Tyler pictured an eagle soaring in the blue sky over his stretch of river, heading upstream toward a nest it wouldn't find. Maybe a cat, still thinking of the mouse it had been about to pounce on, swung under the bird like someone riding a parasail.
He sniffed his Mr. Licky bracelet, then peeked back into the grocery bag and the tangle of filthy collars and tags. He could tolerate the odor. A person can get used to anything. His bedroom walls were bare after years of moving out and back. If he cleaned up all the collars and hung them on a big board it might lessen the emptiness and make an interesting conversation piece.
A few of the collars disintegrated in his fingers, but fifty-two were salvageable— forty-four cloth, eight chain. Thirty of the collars had tags. He soaked the cloth collars in a bucket of detergent, then rinsed them under the bathroom sink faucet, one at a time, gently wringing out the soapy water. White vinegar loosened up the rust on the tags, chain collars, and buckles, which he scrubbed with an old toothbrush. He picked the dirt out of the engraved letters and numbers with a pin, then shined up each tag with some Brasso metal polish. He found a piece of plywood the size of a movie poster in the basement and hammered rows of nails into it for hooks.
After a week, his project was finished. He hung all the collars on their nail hooks, propped the board on his desk, and looked at it—the cloth collars were bright stripes of color, like exclamation points, and the tags and chains gleamed. The neat rows of collars reminded him of the rows of tombstones in a military cemetery, but, as far as he could tell, he'd gotten rid of the smell of death. He felt a little like he'd memorialized the cats and resurrected them at the same time.
No, you're wrong. My husband buried Mittens in the backyard. He marked her grave with a little stone. It's still there. Who is this?
The casino wasn't due to open for months yet, but the community college had started a six-week certificate program in "Hospitality and Casino Management." The cost was three hundred dollars, plus another fifty for books. Tyler's arm was still not strong enough for manual work, so he signed up. The half dozen required courses had names like "Casino Operations Management," "Security and Surveillance," and "Gaming Rules and Regulations." Each class met for an hour, five days a week. Mostly the classes were packed with kids ten or fifteen years younger than he was, all of them shimmery with hope, although the rumor was that the lion's share of casino jobs would go to experienced workers brought in from other sites around the country.
The instructor in charge of "Gaming Rules and Regulations" lectured in a goose-honking monotone that made Tyler's eyes water, and, assuming that everything would be in the textbook, he sat at his back-row desk, laced his fingers together like he was praying, and faded off into dreamland. His gaze dropped to his wrists. He looked at Mr. Licky's tag, then at the arm he'd broken, and thought of his father, who he'd last seen when he was fourteen. His dad had been about to leave on a sales tour—he booked hotel conference rooms where he motivated smokers and the obese to buy self-hypnosis CDs he recorded at home.
Tyler's dad's last words to his son had to do with the boy's wrists. His old man was lounging in his recliner, wincing at the TV news after a dinner no one but he knew would be the last he'd share with his family. As Tyler passed by, his father reached for him.
"Shake, buddy," he said. He gave Tyler's hand a quick, hard squeeze to let him know who was boss. He didn't let go. He inspected Tyler's arm.
"You know," his father said, "it's a well known fact that guys with skinny wrists have little dicks." Then, with a frown of condolence and disappointment, he released his son's hand. Tyler spent the rest of the night eyeballing his forearm under his desk lamp instead of finishing his homework. By morning, his dad was gone forever.
A voice from the next seat startled him.
"That's a cool wristband. Is that your dog tag or something? Are you an Iraq vet? Afghanistan? Thank you for your service."
The instructor stopped mid-sentence and peered between turning heads at the rainbow-haired woman who'd spoken to Tyler. She blinked big, pale-blue eyes. Tyler slid down in his seat and shook his head. "Shh," he whispered. "Not a vet. It's a cat tag, not a dog tag."
"A what? 'Cat tag?'"
"After class," he hissed.
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Nadine was her name, and she picked a bar instead of Starbucks, where they sat on stools and drank beer and ate peanuts for lunch and decided to skip the afternoon sessions. Like Tyler, she was no kid, but in the bar's amber light, she had a pretty enough face. Pastel shades of blue and green and pink streaked her blonde hair. While he told her about the eagle's nest and the cat collars, she flipped the tag of his collar-bracelet back and forth, and he got goose bumps from her slim fingers being so near his skin. He told her that some people thought Mr. Licky was a dog's name.
"Definitely cat," she said. "Did you ever wonder if your Mr. Licky was trying to tell you something?" She leaned over and put her ear on the collar. Her cheek was cool and soft on his wrist. Tyler resisted an urge to pet her rainbow hair. "Your cat says, 'Watch out for hungry eagles.'" She straightened up on her stool. There were faint crow's feet around her eyes.
"I've got fifty-two collars," Tyler said.
"Cool. That's a lot of voices—cats have nine lives, right? Do they keep you up at night?"
Did they? Not really. "Nope. What I did is string up all the collars on a board. Like a collection."
When Tyler told Nadine he lived close by, she asked if she could see the collars, and she followed his pickup in her rusted-out Sentra, waving whenever she saw him check his mirror. He felt excited, like he had once when a stray pup had trailed him home from school. But his father said they didn't need a dog and had taken it to the animal shelter.
Mom's blind. When Sebastian disappeared we bought her a substitute cat. She doesn't know she's on her third Sebastian. She thinks he's forty and wants us to call Guinness's Book of Records.
They sat at Tyler's kitchen table, his display board of cat collars laid out flat between them. He opened fresh beers. It turned out he and Nadine had gone to the same high school, way back when, even been there at the same time. She told him he looked familiar.
"You too," he lied. The bright afternoon sun lit up the kitchen. Nadine remarked on the view through the window; the glare from the river was as sharp as a knife and showed lines and hollows in her face then he hadn't seen in the bar. He supposed his face looked more beat up to her, too. They swapped a few stories of their failures, the usual top layer of things. She'd gone out west to college, flunked out, waitressed, danced a little. Every few years she'd wind up back in the place she'd grown up, just like Tyler.
"Can I touch them?" Nadine asked about the collars. Some had come loose on the board.
"Sure. If you see one you like, you can keep it."
"Really?" Her long eyelashes fluttered as she bent forward. He looked at her cotton candy hair, half-wishing to taste it. Her hand passed over the collars like she was working a Ouija board, then her fingers dove to a tag. "'Peanut,'" she read. "What if one of the baby eagles had food allergies?"
"Survival of the fittest. I've got a few others with food names. 'Cupcake'— the pink one with the bell. It doesn't jingle anymore, too rusty. And 'Oreo,' over to the left—the blue with rhinestones."
Nadine made a little sound. She gave Tyler a quick smile and flashed her pale eyes. "It's hard to choose." She handled several collars and read their polished tags. The lines in her forehead deepened with concentration: "Mittens, Gizmo. . . Angel—that's appropriate." She blinked at Tyler. "Do you ever think about what they looked like?"
"The cats? I guess. I match them up with their names. Like Oreo is white and black, and Mittens has white paws, and Tiger has stripes—had stripes."
Nadine shook her head, her eyes fluorescent slashes. "No—I mean what the scene looked like—when they got to the nest."
"Oh—sometimes. But I try not to. It seems disrespectful."
One of the chain collars hung from Nadine's fingers, and she thumbed it like a rosary as she read the name on its tag: "'Oliver—'" She swung the glittery collar back and forth like she was a hypnotist, and he thought of the CDs his father sold on the road. He recorded them late at night, right at this kitchen table, while Tyler tried to sleep in his bedroom down the hall. "Listen to the sounds of your body," his father said into his microphone, and Tyler would pretend his father sat on his bed, telling him a story.
"I'm taking this one, okay?" Nadine asked.
Tyler shrugged. "Sure. That's a nice one."
As she fastened the collar around her wrist, Tyler noticed a pair of raised red lines on its under-flesh that stood out like an "equal" sign. She drew the tag close to her face. "Oliver," she whispered to it. "Ollie—I bet you put up one hell of a fight, didn't you? I bet Papa Eagle was sorry he brought you home."
Eagle? Yup. My brother and I were traumatized when it plucked Chauncey off the lawn, right under our noses. Then it rose up a mile high with him and disappeared. . .
Their hips touched under Tyler's sheets, just a reminder, nothing more, of the comfortable sex they'd shared. While they talked after, his eyes roamed the collar display he'd set back up on his desk. His gaze kept slipping back to Oliver's vacated spot the way a tongue pokes into the hole left by a missing tooth. Just to hear Nadine talk— because it was nice to have a voice so close while his head was on his pillow—he asked her if she was worried that there might not be any casino jobs.
"There's no point in worrying," she said. "I don't get my hopes up about anything. There are other jobs in other places. There's always Vegas. There are lots of things you can do there." She shifted, and her hip pushed away from his, and when he lost contact he was suddenly afraid to move, as if he'd just woken up and found himself lying on a diving board above an empty pool.
"There's a story my mother told me," Nadine said, "or maybe I read it in school. It was a about a guy who got a magic piece of donkey skin— he could make wishes on it, and they came true—he wished for fame and for riches and for women, and he got them all. But every time the magic skin granted a wish, it shrank. He wished and wished, got more and more stuff, and the magic skin got smaller and smaller. And when it disappeared, he died. So you don't wish, and you don't hope."
Tyler lay quietly, wanting to feel her against him again, to reassure him that he wasn't hanging out in space alone.
"Hey," she said sharply, and he stiffened. Nadine was looking at the Oliver tag on her wrist. "Did you ever call any of these phone numbers on the tags? Maybe the people who owned the cats would want closure. Then again, all these collars are really old. They don't make pet collars with metal buckles anymore. Now they've all got plastic clasps."
Despite the time and care Tyler had given to cleaning the collars and tags, he hadn't thought of either of those things. Of course Nadine was right about the collars being old—there was no plastic on any of them. The eagle's nest might have been abandoned for decades. But calling the cat owners? Wouldn't they have made peace with their losses after so much time had passed?
"I never thought to call."
"Mmm," Nadine sounded tired, as if her own thoughts bored her. "Probably you wouldn't get in touch with too many people. Those phone numbers are probably all old landlines. Nobody has those anymore." She yawned. "And people move. And they die."
Soon she was breathing easily. Tyler kept still. He thought of Mr. Licky: he'd always pictured him as fat and yellow. What had the cat's first moments in the eagle's nest been like? When did he realize he was in trouble? Did he feel the beat of Papa Eagle's wings behind him? Did cold-eyed Mama Eagle look him over while her giant chicks squawked for dinner? Maybe Mr. Licky glimpsed a few empty collars lying around the nest and checked in vain for an escape route. Tyler thought of the marks on Nadine's wrist. Maybe she'd been fooling around with a chainsaw, accidentally lopped off her hand, and a brilliant surgeon had reattached it. And maybe Mr. Licky put up the kind of fight Nadine had imagined for her Oliver. More likely, the fat yellow tomcat just gave up, staking his hopes on the old wives' tale about extra lives.
Tyler fell asleep. He dreamed he was sailing through the air, so high the river below looked like a thin black vein, the farmland like the old patchwork quilt on his bed. Wind rushed through his ears. Something held him by the shoulders, and he kicked his feet in space. A polished disc that shone like a mirror slapped his chest—a big tag. Its smooth surface reflected his frightened eyes. The tag was clipped to a tight band around his neck—a collar.
"Your collar is made of donkey skin," a deep voice warned. "Don't you dare wish for anything, or it will shrink!"
He woke up. Sunlight poured through the bedroom window. Nadine was gone. Tyler listened, hoping she was in the kitchen, but heard nothing. His hand rose to his throat.
. . . Did I say an eagle? No, the thing that got Chauncey was even bigger, more like a pterodactyl . . .
Nadine didn't show up for any of their classes the next day, or the day after that. There was a rule about not missing too many sessions, and Tyler asked the instructors, one after the other, if they knew what happened to her. He didn't know her last name. The instructors consulted their class lists and shook their heads. "No Nadines here," they said.
. . . Come to think, that giant bird must have been a Phoenix, because it burst into flames, way up in the air. Chauncey burned up with it. There was a fireball, like a second sun, then it rained ashes.
The Eagle's View Casino opened on schedule. Its impact on the city was yet to be determined, but Tyler's certificate from the community college program had landed him a job with security surveillance. He wore a tie and a blazer with the casino's name and logo on the pocket. When he walked the red carpet with his headset, he scanned the faces of the patrons milling around the gaming table, ready to report anything suspicious.
Most of the time, he sat in an office watching a bank of monitors blink from shot to shot, exposing a hundred different interior angles: tables, slot machines, restrooms, bars, entrances and exits. He looked at a thousand faces a day. He'd been trained to ignore the hopefulness painted on them, to stare through it for something darker. But he knew that the patrons' hope was really the thing that could strangle them.
Every ninety seconds one of the monitors flashed to the casino's exterior. It captured the gigantic sign for Eagle's Crest Casino perched atop a tower that loomed over the interstate almost a half mile away. On the sign the eagle wings of the casino's logo flapped slowly in shifting colors. When they flashed yellow, they looked to Tyler like cat's eyes, and often he would think of the big tree the casino replaced, of the nest, of the collar he never removed. On certain nights he watched the cars on the interstate pass under the casino sign—headlights approaching from the east, taillights burning red on their way west. Because he wanted to keep breathing, he tried hard not to think of Vegas.
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More than likely, you have plenty of work-related issues that keep you stressed, including profitability, efficiency, staffing, and the company's overall viability. But it appears that there's a larger nightmare that has emerged as the No. 1 threat business officials fear.
A recent survey revealed that the threat of a cyber attack is among the top worries faced by business and IT leaders in 79 countries, according to a report by the Business Continuity Institute and the British Standards Institution. Also, for the first time, significant political changes made the list of top 10 threats.
"Cyber attacks and data breaches continue to cost organizations billions of dollars annually, a sum that is only likely to go up with the increasing integration of new pieces of technology into daily operations," said BCI Executive Director David Thorp.
Businesses are not equipped for protection
Although the damage caused by cyber attacks is mounting to the tune of $400 billion a year worldwide, a survey revealed that businesses aren't aggressively investing in effective security measures.
The study by Accenture found that ineffective security efforts have led to breaches going undetected, causing significant problems with many company operations. More than 50% of the respondents said that it had taken months, in some cases, for officials to determine that the company had been victimized.
The problem is expected to worsen, with SAP projecting that cyber attacks will cost companies $90 trillion in damages by 2030.
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London, 2012 – Lucidream Design is proud to announce their assistance to students from Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences who have won the prestigious final in Financial Times MBA Challenge 2012.
From the left: Sir Michael Barber (chief education advisor to Pearson), Caroline Harper (CEO of Sightsavers), Dev Bhargava (member of Team RiteSight and Sustaianable Full-time MBA alumnus, AU), Lionel Barber (editor of the FT), Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit (Team leader – RiteSight and Sustaianable Full-time MBA alumnus, AU) and Della Bradshaw (FT Business Education Editor). Foto: Chris Jelf
A group of students from Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences have won the final in Financial Times MBA Challenge 2012 with their idea to change the mindset of people in northeast India to wearring glasses through campaigns that use games, loyalty schemes and versatile glasses.
Team leader for the RiteSight team Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit, MBA from Aarhus University, is both happy and humble:
– We are very happy to be joint winners of this noble challenge. To be a winner is of course always a very special feeling – but the icing on the cake here is not that we are winners but that our ideas and proposed solutions will be used in some form or another to bring about positive impact in the world we live & share in.
Two teams were announced winners, the other was a team called the Glass Strangers. In the final, the team from Aarhus battled against five other teams from all over the world about who could come up with the best business plan for marketing glasses for children and teenagers in developing countries. The six finalists were chosen among hundreds of MBA teams.
Poor eyesight stops progress
For school children with poor eyesight, the outcome is often a poor school performance and frustrating school years. Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit explains the problem:
– The importance of good eyesight is an often overlooked problem in light of bigger problems out there such as social inequality, poverty and lack of access to education. However, if one does not have access to good eyesight – how can he/she have access to education? How can they fight their way out of poverty? Thus, basic access to quality eyecare is a necessity in the world that we live in and more so it is important to overcome barriers – like the social stigmatization of glasses in the developing world – so that they can no longer be held back to the progress they deserve.
Even though the problem could often be easily solved by a pair of glasses, the children are not given glasses because it is not socially acceptable. Ultimately, it makes more young people drop out of school because they cannot complete it without having vision correction surgery, but on the other hand don't wish to wear glasses either.
Board and computer games to pave the way
In their efforts to change attitudes to glasses among Indians, the team from Aarhus has decided to focus on a special computer game where all participants must wear glasses.
– India has a caste system … The only time people don't think about their strata is when they are playing games. A game is something that brings everyone together – creating a level playing field that breaks boundaries, says Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit.
A board version of the game will be developed for schools with no access to computers. The goal is that the special glasses which you have to wear to play the game will help increase the players' empathy with spectacle wearers.
In addition to the special games, the team will also introduce a wide range of designer glasses to help challenge the taboo of wearing glasses. To this end, the award-winning Canadian designer Ramak Radmard has lent the team a hand. And, finally, designs should be made available with plain glass so people with good eyesight can wear them as fashion items or for solidarity, like friendship bracelets.
Team RiteSight
The group from Aarhus, consisting of students from the US, Europe and Asia, calls themselves RiteSight. To start with, they have decided to focus their business plan on north-east India.
Five members of the seven-strong team are current or former students at Aarhus University:
Dev Bhargava, Sustainable Full Time MBA alumnus, Aarhus University, Business and Social Science, Denmark
Kathleen Wagner, MSc Innovation Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit, Sustainable Full Time MBA alumnus, Aarhus University, Business and Social Science, Denmark
Enoch Yeboah Agyepong, Sustainable Full Time MBA alumnus, Aarhus University, Business and Social Science, Denmark
Anders Laursen, Sustainable Full Time MBA, Aarhus University, Business and Social Science, Denmark
Aaron Basaiawmoit, Young India Fellowship Programme, an IFRE Initiative in collaboration with UPenn, India
Ishanie Niyogi, Master of City and Regional Planning, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
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Read more about the team's business plan here
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Rajiv Basaiawmoit, Sustainability MBA Alumnus
Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences
Skype-iD: r.v.bmoit
Email: rvbmoit@gmail.com
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On behalf of Lucidream Design,
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The IDS
Amelanchier denticulata (Kunth) K. Koch
Modern name
Malacomeles denticulata (Kunth) G.N.Jones
Cotoneaster denticulata Kunth; Malacomeles denticulata (Kunth) G. N. Jones; Nagelia denticulata Lindl.
It is disputable whether this species should be retained in Amelanchier or placed in the related, probably monotypic, genus Malacomeles. A native of Mexico, Guatemala and south-west Texas, it might not succeed in the open ground in Britain; eastern England rather than the milder parts would perhaps be the best area in which to try it. It is portrayed in Bot. Mag., n.s., t.753, from a plant then growing in the Temperate House at Kew, which was raised from seeds collected by Lord Talbot de Malahide and D. Clarke in 1965 at Boone Hallberg's ranch near Oaxaca, Mexico, at about 7,000 ft.
Amelanchier
Other species in the genus
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
Amelanchier arborea (Michx. f.) Fern.
Amelanchier asiatica (Sieb. & Zucc.) Walp.
Amelanchier bartramiana (Tausch) Roem.
Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Med.
Amelanchier florida Lindl.
Amelanchier laevis Wieg.
Amelanchier lamarckii F.-N. Schroeder
Amelanchier ovalis Med.
Amelanchier rotundifolia (Lam.) Dum.-Cours.
Amelanchier sanguinea (Pursh) DC.
Amelanchier × Spicata (Lam.) K. Koch
Amelanchier stolonifera Wieg.
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Celebrating Europe Day... but virtually
Ambassador of the European Union to Korea Michael Reiterer speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily on Wednesday about European Union-Korea cooperation on the Covid-19 outbreak and celebrations planned for Europe Day, which falls on Saturday. [PARK SANG-MOON]
EU ambassador talks about the response to the Covid-19 pandemic
The best weapon against a virus with no borders may be acting just like it.
"It's not like the virus has a passport and needs a visa to get in," said Michael Reiterer, ambassador of the European Union to Korea. "This is no time to return to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies that countries resorted to after World War I. We saw how that turned out. It is time to call for more multilateralism and international cooperation, not less."
Reiterer spoke to the Korea JoongAng Daily Wednesday, just two days before Europe Day. The day, which falls on May 9 every year, celebrates peace and unity in Europe. This year's celebration marks the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, a statement made between France and Germany on coal and steel production that became the foundation for what the EU is today.
"The importance was to know what were the main ingredients for making war, and then to leave them to the control of multilateral authority, out of the hands of the six member states at the time," Reiterer said. "This idea has been with the European Union for 70 years, that we need institutions, the commission, the council, the parliament, the court based on law and the single market as the backbone of the European Union."
Leaders of member states of the European Union participate in a video conference on April 23. [REUTERS/YONHAP]
The Covid-19 outbreak has posed a challenge to the union on how they will share the costs of the health crisis. EU leaders held a video conference on April 23 to discuss what next year's budget will look like.
"We are in the middle of negotiations and the original plan was that the spending of EU for the next five years will be about 1 percent of European accumulated GDP," said Reiterer. "But now with the need for money for liquidity, there is an argument that it will not be enough. There are two possibilities. One is to decide on 2 percent of GDP instead and have a much bigger European budget. The other is to keep the budget at the 1 percent mark and create additional funds."
Disruptions to daily lives due to the outbreak have not fazed some leaders in Europe who continue to meet over video conferences, including with their counterparts in Korea.
"A science diplomacy platform has been in place between the EU and Korea long before the outbreak," Reiterer said.
"This year marks the 10th anniversary of strategic partnership between the EU and Korea," Reiterer said. "A summit among European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President Moon Jae-in is being scheduled at the moment."
Earlier in May, the EU garnered a 7.5 billion euro ($8 billion) pledge for research on vaccines. Korea participated with a $46 million pledge. The European Commission has also recently organized purchases of test kits and other medical equipment from Korea.
Europe Day celebrations in Korea will also move to a virtual space.
Cellist Yang Sung-won, flutist Jasmine Choi, violinist Han Soo-jin and pianist Kim Tae-hyung will be performing for audiences in both Korea and Europe, which will be streamed online on May 9.
"The theme of the concert is peace and unity," Reiterer said. "Peace is a topic of high relevance in Korea, which is technically still in the state of war. The artists have chosen the location of their performances and the music to fit the theme. It will be interesting to look out for where they have selected to perform."
Artists who are to perform for the Europe Day online concert on May 9, organized by the EU Delegation in Seoul. [SCREEN CAPTURE OF MICHAEL REITERER'S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT]
There is still more room for cooperation between the EU and Korea, the ambassador said.
"This is the fourth virus outbreak in the 21st century," he said. "We have to think about some of the causal factors behind that. People only talk about the virus because it's here and now, and the discussions about climate change have all but disappeared. We have to think about what we are doing in the long run that has lasting impacts on the environment and climate, the factors that may be behind these outbreaks."
BY ESTHER CHUNG [chung.juhee@joongang.co.kr]
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                        //Access
                        //TravelAgent.Tool.DbHelperOleDb.ExecuteSql(strsql);
                        //SQL
                        TravelAgent.Tool.DbHelperSQL.ExecuteSql(strsql);
                    }
                    catch
                    {
                        Response.Redirect("/Opr.aspx?t=error&msg=opr");
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    Response.Redirect("/Opr.aspx?t=error&msg=opr");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


text:
using System;
using NetMQ;
using NetMQ.Sockets;

namespace IdentPlusLib
{
    public class NetMQServer : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly IdentPlusServer _backend;
        private readonly ResponseSocket _server;
        private readonly NetMQPoller _poller;

        public NetMQServer(string tcpaddress, IdentPlusServer backend)
        {
            _backend = backend;
            _server = new ResponseSocket();
            _server.ReceiveReady += OnReceiveReady;
            _server.Bind(tcpaddress);
            _poller = new NetMQPoller();
            _poller.Add(_server);
            _poller.RunAsync();
        }

        private void OnReceiveReady(object sender, NetMQSocketEventArgs e)
        {
            var data = e.Socket.ReceiveFrameBytes();
            var reply = _backend.RequestResponse(data).Result;
            e.Socket.SendFrame(reply);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _poller.Dispose();
            _server.Dispose();
        }
    }
}


text:
II 3430 to II 3441 (eleven years)
Elves and Men1
Alphabetical: L
Updated 6 August 2002
Last Alliance of Elves and Men
The mighty alliance between Gil-galad and Elendil
The alliance of Gil-galad of the Elves and Elendil the Exile of Númenor at the end of the Second Age, whose forces marched on Mordor, besieged Barad-dûr, and defeated Sauron.
The entire alliance that marched on Mordor seems to have consisted of more than merely Elves and Men. There is a record of at least some of the Dwarves of Durin's Folk fighting with the Alliance, and indeed Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, in its description of the Alliance and its enemies at the Battle of Dagorlad, tells us: 'All living things were divided that day, and some of every kind, even beasts and birds, were found in either host, save the Elves only.' (Taken literally, this would seem to mean that Gil-galad and Elendil even had Orcs at their command, though that is unlikely to be Tolkien's intention!) Despite this, it is clear that the Alliance was primarily one between the races of Elves and of Men.
Barad-dûr, Battle of Dagorlad, Downfall of Barad-dûr, Elendil, Elvish World, Ereinion Gil-galad, Gates of Mordor, Great Battle, High King of the Noldor, House of Fingolfin, King of Arnor, King of Gondor, King of Lórien, Lord of Lórien, Lord of Rivendell, [See the full list...]Lord of the Dark Tower, Lord of the Earth, Middle Days, Mordor, Old Forest Road, Second Age, Siege of Barad-dûr, Third Age, War of the Alliance, War of the Last Alliance, Woodland Realm
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