Malviya Nagar is a locality in South Delhi. It is between Saket and Hauz Khas and close to IIT Delhi. It is named after the noted freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya who was also an educator and founded Banaras Hindu University.
Malviya Nagar was initially populated in the 1950s by refugees from Pakistan, after the Partition of India. A large portion of the population were ethnic Rajasthani, U.P., Haryanvi, Punjabis and Sindhis.
Today, Malviya Nagar is bounded by Panchsheel Enclave in the north, Sheikh Sarai in the east, Saket in the south and Sarvapriya Vihar in the west. Enclaves that are part of Malviya Nagar include Geetanjali Enclave, Bhavishya Nidhi Enclave, Khirki Extension, Shivalik colony and Sarvodaya Enclave.
It is serviced by the Malviya Nagar station of the Delhi Metro. Malviya Nagar is also home to Delhi Police's Training School.
Lal Gumbad, Tomb of Shaikh Kaliruuddin, built in 1397, Malviya Nagar.
Malviya Nagar has two major commercial shopping areas and markets and a speciality hospital. There are several neighbourhood parks that are popular jogging and running areas. A number of Mughal era monuments are located in Malviya Nagar and are clustered close to the Corner Market. This includes the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Yusuf Qattal who lived during the reign of Ibrahim Lodhi and died in 1526-27.
16th-century Tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Yusuf Qattal near Khirkee.
Malviya Nagar main market houses several nationalised and public sector banks and ATMs including Axis Bank, Syndicate Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Central Bank of India, Citibank, South Indian Bank, Andhra Bank, IDBI Bank, Indian Bank. Some of the foreign banks are Standard Chartered Bank and Deutsche Bank.
Route 413: Mehrauli to Nizamuddin, via Khel Gaon and Kranti Marg.
Route 500: Saket to Shivaji Stadium.
Route 501: Saket to Mori Gate in North Delhi, via Hauz Khas, Yusuf Sarai and AIIMS.
Route 503: Malviya Nagar to Mori Gate in North Delhi, via the Main Market and Corner Market, Hauz Khas, Yusuf Sarai and AIIMS.
Route 512: Ambedkar Nagar via Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas, etc.
Route 520: Malviya Nagar to Connaught Place, also via the Main Market and Corner Market, Hauz Khas, Yusuf Sarai and AIIMS.
Routes 503 and 520 terminate at Malviya Nagar.
Autorickshaws and taxis are also available for public transportation. There is an auto-rickshaw stand is at the Main Market and the roundabout near Shivalik Gate (which is also the Bus Depot). Saket is a nearby neighbourhood.
The Delhi Metro Yellow Line to Gurgaon is functional and has a station at Malviya Nagar.
Malviya Nagar is a constituency of the Delhi Assembly. Since 2013, the sitting Member of the Assembly has been Somnath Bharti of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Malviya Nagar is part of the New Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) and the current Member of Parliament is Meenakshi Lekhi.
Malviya Nagar has two corporation seats ward no. 161 and 162 .
Malviya Nagar is also residence of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, where he lives for 3 months each year during winter in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani high commissioner to India Abdul Basit also met Geelani at his Malviya Nagar residence in March 2015.
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Hauz Khas is an affluent neighbourhood in South Delhi, its heart being the historic Hauz Khas Complex. It is centrally located and offers both rural and urban environments and its known as tazim ka chota quila. Hauz Khas is surrounded by Green Park, SDA to the west, Gulmohar Park towards the north, Sarvapriya Vihar towards the south and Asiad Village and Siri Fort) to the east. Hauz Khas is home to various missions such as the ones of Albania, Guinea Bissau, Burundi. Some well-known people like cricketer Virender Sehwag live here, Hauz Khas is named after an ancient water reservoir by the same name, now part of the extensive Hauz Khas Complex. In Urdu language, Hauz' means "water tank" and 'Khas' means "royal", the large water tank or reservoir was first built by Allauddin Khilji to supply water to the inhabitants of Siri Fort. It was developed during the 1960s by DLF as Hauz Khas Enclave, it was made a district of South Delhi encompassing some more neighbouring areas. Hauz Khasas known, consists of A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, P, Q, R, X, Y, Z Blocks E block is the Main market here and lies in the middle of the colony.
It includes a parking lot. G block and Aurobindo Market are other close by. Mayfair Gardens is an independent small private colony inside Hauz Khas, Hauz Khas has some of the largest green areas in Delhi, namely Deer Park and Rose Garden. It is near to the two hospitals in Delhi, AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital. Hauz Khas village is a historic habitation around the region of the Hauz Khas Complex and it existed as an urban village at the edge of larger Hauz Khas area, developed by DLF after the 1960s. The village area started getting modernized in mid-1980s when designer boutiques of fashion designer like Bina Ramani, then, in the late 1990s restaurants started coming up in the area, today it has around 40 restaurants, bars and cafes. The success of Hauz Khas village has led to the development of Shahpur Jat and Lado Sarai as fashion, historical Places like the Hauz Khas Complex which consists the Hauz Khas Lake or Royal Tank, a mosque and a tomb, all from the time of the Khilji Dynasty. Neeli Masjid and Chor Minar, where the heads of executed thieves would be put on display in the earlier days, nearby landmarks include Siri Fort Auditorium, Siri Fort Sports Complex, HUDCO Place and Yusuf Sarai Community Centre.
Syndicate Bank is one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India. It was founded by T M A Pai, Upendra Pai, at the time of its establishment, the bank was known as Canara Industrial and Banking Syndicate Limited. The bank, along with 13 major commercial banks of India, was nationalised on 19 July 1969, the Bank is headquartered in Manipal, India. The business with a capital of 8000 rupees, T M A Pai, Upendra Pai and Vaman Kudva strove together to set up the bank. The first branch of the bank started its operations in 1925 at Udupi, by 1937, it had secured its membership as a clearing house at Mumbai. The primary objective of the business was to extend the financial assistance to local weavers, the bank collected as low as two annas from the door steps of the depositors daily through its agents. The name of the bank was changed to Syndicate Bank Limited in 1964, the bank expanded its operations not only on the domestic front but overseas. It has a branch in London and the bank manages National Exchange Co.
in Doha, by 1978, it opened its 1000th branch at Hauz Khas, Delhi. Currently it has over 3500 branches and all branches are offering corebanking-e-banking services under anywhere-anytime-anyhow banking, Syndicate Bank has one branch in London, United Kingdom. Syndicate Bank sponsored the first regional bank in India by name Prathama Bank. The stocks of the Syndicate Bank are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange, Mangalore Stock Exchange, Syndicate Bank made a partnership with UNEP to initiate a successful solar loan programme. It is a four-year $75855.6 million effort, launched in April 2003 to help accelerate the market for financing solar home systems in southern India. Presently, the bank is sponsoring 3 RRBs and all are profit making having total business of Rs.42101 crore with 1348 branches as on 31.03.2015, Prathama Bank Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank. Recently, Syndicate Bank has achieved a feat of opening one million customer accounts in a span of 3 months.
Mehrauli is a neighbourhood in the South West district of Delhi in India. It represents a constituency in the assembly of Delhi. The area is located close to Gurgaon and next to Vasant Kunj, naresh Yadav of Aam Aadmi Party is the current MLA from Mehrauli. Mehrauli is one of the seven ancient cities that make up the present state of Delhi, prithviraj Chauhan further expanded the fort and called it Qila Rai Pithora. He was defeated and killed in 1192 by Mohammed Ghori, who put his general Qutb-ud-din Aybak in charge, subsequently in 1206, after the death of Mohammed Ghori, Qutubuddin enthroned himself as the first Sultan of Delhi. Thus Delhi became the capital of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi, Mehrauli remained the capital of the Mamluk dynasty which ruled until 1290. During the Khilji dynasty, the capital shifted to Siri, Mehrauli lies in the South West district of Delhi at 28°30′57″N 77°10′39″E. To its north lies Hauz Khas, Vasant Kunj lies to its West and Tughlakabad to its south. Like the rest of Delhi, Mehrauli has a climate with high variation between summer and winter temperatures.
While the summer temperatures may go up to 46 °C, the winters can seem freezing to people used to a climate with near 0 °C. The soil of Mehrauli consists of sandy loam to loam texture, the water level has gone down in the recent past hovering between 45 m to 50 m due to rise in population. Though Mehrauli is like any ordinary neighbourhood today, its past is what distinguishes it in terms of architecture, ahinsa Sthal is a Jain temple located in Mehrauli, Delhi. The main deity of the temple is Mahavira, the 24th, a magnificent statue of Tirthankara Mahāvīra is installed here. Even though the capital shifted from Mehrauli after the Slave dynasty rule came to an end, the most visible piece of architecture remains the Qutb complex which was initiated by Qutub ud din Aybak with subsequent additions by Iltutmish and Alauddin Khilji. The Qutb complex is today a UNESCO world heritage site, mausoleum of a 13th century, Sufi saint, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki is situated near the Qutub Minar Complex and the venue for the annual Phoolwalon-ki-sair Festival.
The Delhi Metro is a metro system serving Delhi and its satellite cities of Faridabad, Gurgaon and Ghaziabad in National Capital Region in India. Delhi Metro is the worlds 12th largest metro system in terms of length and number of stations. A member of Nova Group of Metros, the network consists of five colour-coded regular lines, the system has a mix of underground, at-grade, and elevated stations using both broad-gauge and standard-gauge. The metro has a daily ridership of 2.661 million passengers. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited, a company with equal equity participation from Government of India and Government of Delhi, built. DMRC operates around 2000 trips daily between 05,30 till 00,00 running with a headway varying between 1–2 minutes and 4–10 minutes, the trains are usually of six and eight-coach. The power output is supplied by 25-kilovolt, 50-hertz alternating current through overhead catenary, planning for the metro started in 1984, when the Delhi Development Authority and the Urban Arts Commission came up with a proposal for developing a multi-modal transport system for the city.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was incorporated in May 1995, construction started in 1998, the development of network was divided into phases, Phase I containing 3 lines was completed by 2006, and Phase II in 2011. Phase III is scheduled for completion by 2017, rapid MetroRail Gurgaon which opened in 2013, whilst linked to Delhi Metro by the Yellow Line is a separate metro system, although tokens from the Delhi Metro can be used in its network. The concept of a rapid transit for New Delhi first emerged from a traffic. Over the next years, many official committees by a variety of government departments were commissioned to examine issues related to technology, route alignment. Consequently, traffic congestion and pollution soared, as a number of commuters took to private vehicles with the existing bus system unable to bear the load. Dr. E. Sreedharan handed over the charge as MD, physical construction work on the Delhi Metro started on 1 October 1998. DMRC was given powers to hire people, decide on tenders.
Not to be confused with the Sindi people. Sindhis are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan, Sindhi culture is highly influenced by Sufi doctrines and principles. Some of the cultural icons are Raja Dahir, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sachal Sarmast. After the partition of India in 1947, most Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Sikhs migrated to India, according to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Hindus constituted about 8% of the total population of Sindh province. Most of them live in areas such as Karachi, Sukkur. Hyderabad is the largest centre of Sindhi Hindus in Pakistan with 100, the original inhabitants of ancient Sindh were believed to be aboriginal tribes speaking languages of the Indus Valley Civilization around 3300 BC. Moen-jo-Daro is the symbol of Indus Valley Civilization in World, the Indo-Aryans are believed to have founded the Vedic civilization that existed between the Sarasvati River and Ganges river around 1500 BC.
This civilization helped shape subsequent cultures in South Asia, because of its location at one of the more western edges of South Asia, Sindh was one of the earliest regions to be influenced by Islam after 632 AD. Before this period, it was heavily Hindu, and Buddhist, after 632 AD, it was part of the Islamic empires of the Abbasids and Umayyids. Habbari, Samma, Arghun dynasties ruled Sindh, the region received its name, from the River Sindhu. The people living in the region are referred to as Sindhi, the terms Hindi and Hindu are derived from the word Sindh and Sindhu, as the ancient Persians pronounced s as h. India is known as Hindustan and these tribes belong to the same blood line. Among other Sindhi Rajputs are the Bhachos, Bhattis, Mahendros, Lakha, Lohanas, Dahars, Chachar, Rathores, Langah, etc. The Sindhi-Sipahi of Rajasthan and the Sandhai Muslims of Gujarat are communities of Sindhi Rajputs settled in India, closely related to the Sindhi Rajputs are the Jats of Sindh, who are found mainly in the Indus delta region.
The Rajasthani people are the native inhabitants of Rajasthan region of India. Their language Rajasthani is a part of the group of Indo-Aryan languages. The first mention of word Rajasthan comes from the works of George Thomas, Rajasthan literally means a Land of Kingdoms. However, western Rajasthan with eastern Gujarat were part of Gurjaratra or Gurjarabhumi, the local dialects of the time use the expression Rājwār, the place or land of kings, corrupted by the British to Rajputana. Although history of Rajasthan goes back as far as Indus Valley Civilization, Western Kshatrapas were rulers of the western part of India. They were successors to the Indo-Scythians who invaded the area of Ujjain and established the Saka era, Saka calendar is used by Rajasthani community and adjoining areas such as Punjab and Haryana. With time their social structures got stronger reorganizations giving birth to several martial sub ethnic groups, Rajasthanis emerged as major merchants during medieval India. Rajasthan was among the important centers of trade with Rome, eastern Mediterranean, Romani people Some claim that Romani people originated in parts of the Rajasthan.
Indian origin was suggested on linguistic grounds as early as 200 years ago, the roma ultimately derives from a form ḍōmba, attested in Classical Sanskrit. Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Romanies originated from the Indian subcontinent, contemporary populations sometimes suggested as sharing a close relationship to the Romani are the Dom people of Central Asia and the Banjara of India. The origin of Rajasthanis has largely fallen into oblivion for there are no surviving records from ancient times. Nonetheless. The erstwhile state of Alwar, in north-eastern Rajasthan, is possibly the oldest kingdom in Rajasthan, around 1500 BC, it formed a part of the Matsya territories of Viratnagar encompassing Bharatpur and Karauli. Rajasthani society is a blend of predominantly Hindus with sizable minorities of Muslims and Vaishnavism is followed by majority of the people, Shaktism is followed in the for of Bhavani and her avatars are equally worshiped throughout Rajasthan. Jats are mostly Hindus and Sikhs, Meenas of Rajasthan till date strongly follow Vedic culture which usually includes worship of Bhainroon and Krishna as well as the Durga.
Vijaya Bank is a fastest growing public sector bank with its corporate office in Bangalore, India. It is one of the banks in India. The bank offers a range of financial products and services to the customers through its various delivery channels. The bank has a network of 1900 branches throughout the country, Vijaya Bank was established by a group of farmers led by Shri. Attavar Balakrishna Shetty on 23 October 1931 in Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka State, since it was established on the auspicious Vijayadashami Day, it was named Vijaya Bank. The birth of Vijaya Bank in 1931 was preceded by the chaos created out of the Great Depression of 1927–30. The worldwide economic depression had severe impact on the Indian economy, moved by the pitiable conditions of the agriculturists, Shri Attavara Balakrishna Shetty was determined to devise some institutional remedy to annihilate their sufferings. Accordingly, Shri AB Shetty involved 14 Bunts and established Vijaya Bank on 23 October 1931, in the beginning the bank had an authorised capital of Rs.5 lakh and an issued capital of Rs.2 lakh.
The paid up capital was Rs.8670, the bank grew steadily since its inception. The bank became a bank in 1958. Under the chairmanship of ], Vijaya Bank steadily grew into a large All India Bank with 9 smaller banks merging with it during 1963–1968, in 1965, the bank registered its own logo. The banks head office was shifted to Bengaluru on November 11,1969, the bank was nationalised on 15 April 1980. At the time of nationalization, the bank had 571 branches, with a business of Rs.605.95 crore. The present head office building of the Bank at Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bengaluru was inaugurated by the Hon'ble President of India Shri Pranab Kumar Mukherjee on 26 October 1984. The banks total business is over Rs.2,16,000 crore comprising deposits of Rs.1,25,441 crore, basically being a retail bank, its topline growth owes quite a lot to the retail segments. Retail advances of the bank constitute 26% of the gross credit, as on 31 August 2016, the bank had a wide branch network of 1900 branches comprising nearly 395 metro,474 urban,508 semi-urban and 486 rural branches.
State Bank of India is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company. It is a corporation with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company is ranked 232nd on the Fortune Global 500 list of the worlds biggest corporations as of 2016. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding, in 1806, of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest commercial bank in the Indian subcontinent. Government of India owned the Imperial Bank of India in 1955, with Reserve Bank of India taking a 60% stake, in 2008, the government took over the stake held by the Reserve Bank of India. State Bank of India is a banking behemoth and has 20% market share in deposits and loans among Indian commercial banks. The roots of the State Bank of India lie in the first decade of the 19th century, the Bank of Bengal was one of three Presidency banks, the other two being the Bank of Bombay and the Bank of Madras. All three Presidency banks were incorporated as joint stock companies and were the result of royal charters and these three banks received the exclusive right to issue paper currency till 1861 when, with the Paper Currency Act, the right was taken over by the Government of India.
The Presidency banks amalgamated on 27 January 1921, and the banking entity took as its name Imperial Bank of India. The Imperial Bank of India remained a joint stock company but without Government participation, pursuant to the provisions of the State Bank of India Act of 1955, the Reserve Bank of India, which is Indias central bank, acquired a controlling interest in the Imperial Bank of India. On 1 July 1955, the imperial Bank of India became the State Bank of India, in 2008, the Government of India acquired the Reserve Bank of Indias stake in SBI so as to remove any conflict of interest because the RBI is the countrys banking regulatory authority. In 1959, the government passed the State Bank of India Act and this acquisition was in tune with the first Five Year Plan, which prioritised the development of rural India. The government integrated these banks into the State Bank of India system to expand its rural outreach, in 1963 SBI merged State Bank of Jaipur and State Bank of Bikaner. SBI has acquired local banks in rescues, the first was the Bank of Bihar, which SBI acquired in 1969, together with its 28 branches.
Maharana Pratap, a ruler and great warrior of his time.
Metro station and train entering.
A Phase II broad gauge train, supplied by Bombardier.
Mahatma Gandhi visiting the dargah of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, on his Urs, 27 January 1948.
Ahinsa Sthal : 13 feet 6 inches Mahaveer single rock idol.
The use of elephant-shaped column brackets in buildings of the Lahore Fort reflects Hindu influences on Mughal Architecture during the reign of Akbar.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq's tomb with adjoining Madrasa and the Hauz Khas, the "royal tank".
Abida Parveen is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and an exponent of Sufi music.
Delhi Police pictured on TVS Apache bikes during patrolling.
A Delhi Police All Women PCR vehicle. The car pictured is a Toyota Innova.


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Q: Generic Priority Queue java implementation I need to implement a Generic Priority Queue in JAVA. Note that both key and value is Generic. And all the data structures must be user implemented. The use of Java collections or any other data structures library is strictly forbidden. I used an Array to store data inside the Queue. But apparently generic array declaration is not possible. I can not use array list because then I will have to import libraries.
And the code must be inside a single file. That class must implement a interface.
Interface:
    public interface PQK<P extends Comparable<P>, T> {

    // Return the length of the queue
    int length();

    // Enqueue a new element. The queue keeps the k elements with the highest priority. In case of a tie apply FIFO.
    void enqueue(P pr, T e);

    // Serve the element with the highest priority. In case of a tie apply FIFO.
    Pair<P, T> serve();
}

Class I wrote for the priority queue implementing the given interface:
public class PQKImp<P extends Comparable<P>, T> implements PQK<P, T> {

    private int size;
    private int capacity;
    private Pair<P , T>[] heap;

    public PQKImp(int k) {
        heap = new Pair<P,T>[k];
        this.capacity = k;
        this.size = 0;
    }

    public int length(){
        return size;
    }

    public void enqueue(P pr, T e){
        Pair<P ,T> pair = new Pair<P,T>(pr , e);
        heap[++size] = pair;
        int pos = size;
        while(pos!=1 && pair.first.compareTo(heap[pos/2].first)<0){
            heap[pos] = heap[pos/2];
            pos /= 2;
        }
        heap[pos] = pair;
    }

    public Pair<P,T> serve(){
        return heap[0];
    }
}

This is the error i'm getting:
.\PQKImp.java:8: error: generic array creation
                heap = new Pair<P,T>[k];
                       ^
1 error

Can you please suggest me an possible method to store data in my class.
Thank you

A: class Employee implements Comparable<Employee>{
    String name;
    int rollNumber;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int getRollNumber() {
        return rollNumber;
    }

    public void setRollNumber(int rollNumber) {
        this.rollNumber = rollNumber;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Employee [name=" + name + ", rollNumber=" + rollNumber + "]";
    }

    public Employee(String name, int rollNumber) {
        super();
        this.name = name;
        this.rollNumber = rollNumber;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Employee o) {
        return rollNumber - o.getRollNumber();
    }

}

public class PriorityQueueImplementation {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PriorityQueue<Employee> employees = new PriorityQueue<>();

        Employee e1 = new Employee("A", 1);
        Employee e2 = new Employee("B", 3);
        Employee e3 = new Employee("C", 2);
        Employee e4 = new Employee("D", 5);
        Employee e5 = new Employee("E", 6);
        Employee e6 = new Employee("F", 8);
        Employee e7 = new Employee("G", 10);
        Employee e8 = new Employee("H", 4);
        Employee e9 = new Employee("I", 7);
        Employee e10 = new Employee("J", 9);

        employees.add(e1);
        employees.add(e2);
        employees.add(e3);
        employees.add(e4);
        employees.add(e5);
        employees.add(e6);
        employees.add(e7);
        employees.add(e8);
        employees.add(e9);
        employees.add(e10);

        for (Employee employee : employees) {
            System.out.println(employee);
        }

        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Print By Priority Queue");
        while(!employees.isEmpty()) {
            System.out.println(employees.remove());
        }

    }
}

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Tory Minister Admits Link Between Welfare Cuts And Food Banks
Scottish National Party (SNP) Press Release:
After months of denial, a UK [Conservative Party] Minister has finally admitted there is a link between Westminster welfare cuts and the increase in food bank use across Scotland.
Giving evidence to the Welfare Reform Committee in the Scottish Parliament, Under Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell* said there "isn't any doubt" that some people have been forced to go to food banks "because they have been subject, for example, to sanctions or delays in receiving benefits."
The evidence the committee heard today is in stark contrast to evidence given to the committee by DWP director Neil Couling, who said that growing reliance on food banks was a result of the poorest people in society having to "maximise their economic choices". This was later backed up by Employment Minister Esther McVey in a letter to Housing Minister Margaret Burgess.
Work and Pensions Minister Lord Freud has also previously claimed there was no link between Tory welfare cuts and soaring food bank use.
During the committee meeting, David Mundell also said he wanted the UK Government to produce an analysis of the use of food banks – something that has not yet been carried out, despite evidence from the Trussell Trust that reliance on food banks has grown 400 per cent in the past year.
The Trust's figures also show that 22,387 children in Scotland used food banks in 2013/14 alone – an increase of over 1000 per cent since 2011/12.
Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael – who previously described the UK welfare system as "fantastic" – was scheduled to appear at the committee, but cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice.
SNP MSP Annabelle Ewing, who sits on the Welfare Reform Committee, said:
"While it is welcome that a UK Government Minister has finally faced up to the fact that Westminster's attack on welfare is responsible for the growing number of people forced to rely on food banks, this admission is long overdue. For months, Westminster has ducked responsibility and tried to blame the poor for the devastating impact cuts to benefits are having.
"David Mundell has said he would like to see a UK Government analysis on food banks – something that has not yet been produced, despite the fact reliance on food banks has grown 400 per cent. Given we now have 22,387 children in Scotland relying on food banks for a square meal, we desperately need a change of direction.
"Scotland is brimming with resources and talent – and is richer per head than the UK, France and Japan – but while it is tied the Westminster system the most vulnerable people in society are forced to use food banks. Only a Yes vote in September can give Scotland the opportunity to build the fairer country we know we can be."
Commenting on Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael's cancellation of his appearance before the committee with less than 24 hours' notice, Annabelle Ewing said:
"It was very disappointing that Alistair Carmichael did not attend the Welfare Reform Committee today. While everyone understands the importance of the commemoration on World War 1, Alistair Carmichael has a duty to appear before the Scottish Parliament and explain why the UK welfare system is 'fantastic' as he has previously claimed, and it would be good if it could be rescheduled."
*David Mundell is the Conservative Party member of parliament for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (2014).
Source: Minister admits welfare cuts link to food bank use
Source – Welfare News Service, 26 June 2014
http://welfarenewsservice.com/tory-minister-admits-link-welfare-cuts-food-banks/
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I found this through Untyneweare's blog. It gives the Scots Nationalist perspective on the frank admission by David Mundell, one of the government apparatchiks responsible for Scotland, that people are being forced to use food banks because of government policies. This is a straight contradiction to the assertions by Couling, McVey and Fraud that there is no connection between the two.
Why stubborn Iain Duncan Smith is no statesman
'We must do more to teach British values' – Hexham Tory MP

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Doing business in Ireland
The Companies Act 2014
Impact of a "No-deal" Brexit on Irish registered companies
Requirement to have an EEA-Resident Director
Under the Companies Act 2014 (the Act) a company registered in Ireland is required to have at least one director who is resident in a member state of the European Economic Area (EEA). This requirement does not apply where the company:
has a statutory bond (Bond) in place which acts as a guarantee in the event the company is unable to pay a fine or charge resulting from breaches of the Act or tax legislation; or
has obtained a certificate from the Registrar of Companies stating that the company has a real and continuous link with one or more economic activities that are being carried on in the State (Certificate).
If the UK leaves the EU without a deal it will no longer be a member of the EEA. As a result, Irish companies relying on a UK-resident director as their EEA-resident director will need to take action to ensure that they continue to comply with this requirement by doing one of the following:
appointing another EEA-resident director
putting a Bond in place
obtaining a Certificate from the Registrar of Companies
It is a criminal offence for an Irish registered company not to have at least one EEA-resident director unless it satisfies one of the exemption requirements.
Cross-Border Mergers
A legal framework for cross-border mergers between two or more limited liability companies within the EEA was brought into EU law by Directive 2005/56/EC (the Directive). Since May 2008 the Directive, as transposed by Irish and UK implementing legislation, has enabled mergers between Irish and UK companies through a prescribed procedure which involves obtaining authorisation by the High Court in Ireland and the High Court in the UK.
In October 2018 the UK government published draft legislation which would revoke the UK implementing legislation in the event the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement and transition period in place. This would mean that on exit day there would no longer be a legal framework in the UK to facilitate cross-border mergers. In Ireland, as the Irish legislation only applies to mergers between an Irish company and at least one EEA-registered company, it will not be possible for the High Court in Ireland to sanction a merger of a UK company into an Irish company.
While in any case it will still be possible to effect a cross-border merger by way of a traditional business transfer whereby all of the assets and liabilities of the transferor company are acquired by the acquiring company, this method would not have the benefits of the procedure under the Directive, which involves the automatic transfer of assets and liabilities and the dissolution of the transferor company without going into liquidation.
Irish Subsidiaries of EEA Holding Companies: Exemption from Filing Statutory Accounts
Where an Irish registered company is a subsidiary undertaking of a holding undertaking established in an EEA Member State, the company can, instead of filing its own accounts, file the consolidated accounts of the holding undertaking which are drawn up and audited in accordance with the Seventh Council Directive or in accordance with IFRS and audited in accordance with Article 37 of the Seventh Council Directive. To avail of this exemption, the company's shareholders must consent and there must be in force, in respect of the relevant financial year, an irrevocable guarantee by the holding undertaking of all amounts shown as liabilities in the statutory financial statements of the company in respect of that financial year.
If the UK ceases to be a member of the EEA, it will no longer be possible for Irish subsidiaries of UK holding companies to avail of this exemption and such companies will be required, under the Act, to annex their statutory financial statements to their annual return for the relevant financial year.
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Build and decorate three mini pi±atas with foldable cardboard shapes and tissue paper. Book includes ideas for 10 trendy designs, like a unicorn, emoji, watermelon, robot and more! It also includes ideas on how to use the pi±atas for gifting, smashing or stashing small treasures.


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Norcross es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Grant en el estado estadounidense de Minnesota. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 70 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 17,36 personas por km².

Geografía
Norcross se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Norcross tiene una superficie total de 4.03 km², de la cual 4.03 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 70 personas residiendo en Norcross. La densidad de población era de 17,36 hab./km². De los 70 habitantes, Norcross estaba compuesto por el 74.29% blancos, el 0% eran afroamericanos, el 1.43% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 20% eran de otras razas y el 4.29% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 25.71% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Evolución demográfica

Localidades adyacentes
El diagrama siguiente presenta las localidades en un  radio de 24 km alrededor de Norcross.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ciudades de Minnesota
Localidades del condado de Grant (Minnesota)

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HORSHAM, Pa. – The Cottman Man has done it again: The consumer technical blog for Cottman Transmission and Total Auto Care has been named as one of the Top 100 Auto Repair and Maintenance Blogs for Mechanics and Car Owners by the Feedspot online blog spot.
This is just the latest in an ongoing series of awards that the Cottman Man has received for his blog in the short time it's been online. It was named one of the Top 50 Automotive and Mechanics Blogs by Direct Capital after being online for just five months. And it was recognized by Website Magazine as an example of how to reach out to consumers in your community.
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If you think Smith can't lead Australia again, we've got news for you
Australian cricket
By Neil Breen
Steve Smith will captain Australia again. Maybe as soon as March. And so he should. People need to get over it.
Yes, sandpaper-gate was a stain on the game. It has also stained the reputations of Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft forever. But you don't get life for murder, so there's no way Smith should be banned for life from captaining Australia.
And here's a few good reasons why.
First, he's the best man for the job.
Second, he stuck his hand high in the air and acknowledged he'd done the wrong thing.
And third, there's no doubt whatsoever he's learnt from the experience.
Show me anyone who's stuffed up in a job first time around who won't do things much better the second time. People learn from mistakes. If they don't, they're mugs.
It's quite astonishing to hear the vitriol from some supporters who think life bans were appropriate. Big bans were appropriate. A year out of Test cricket and a two-year leadership ban are big sanctions in the world of cricket. Huge in fact. But life is ridiculous.
Steve Smith was the difference between the two sides in the Ashes, and his return as captain is not far off. Credit:Getty
And in Australian cricket you need look no further than Greg Chappell for an example. After the infamous underarm incident in 1981, Chappell had a further 38 years in the game at the highest levels. He retired only last month, at the age of 71.
He was a national selector and national talent manager for the past nine years. He made a shocking error of judgement when he ordered brother Trevor to deliver the underarm ball and subsequently admitted he was completely burnt out at the time. Burnt out people in all walks of life are prone to making poor decisions.
Smith revealed in the wake of the Cape Town scandal that he was suffering from similar issues.
Cameron Bancroft and Steve Smith admit to ball-tampering at that now infamous press conference in Cape Town. Credit:YouTube
Chappell was forgiven and had another four decades in the game, including periods as captain of the national team, before handing over to Kim Hughes. People may argue the underarm ball was a legal tactic at the time, while using sandpaper on a ball was not, but the shame brought on our national game was of similar measure.
There is only one thing that may get in Smith's way: Pat Cummins. Don't underestimate how much Cricket Australia loves him.
He's the clean skin; the fresh-faced boy next door everybody loves, with an infectious smile and a will to win, who bowls all day. What more could you want?
Cummins has one thing going against him though: he's a fast bowler.
The last fast bowler to captain Australia was Ray Lindwall, who steered the ship for one Test in the summer of 1956-57. Richie Benaud, a leggie, was the last bowler to run the team and he captained his last Test 55 years ago, in 1964.
Since then there have been 18 skippers, all batsmen, with the exception of a keeper here and there.
Cummins said it was doable for a fast bowler to be skipper, but ...
"I think they could ... I think it'd be tough," he said. "Fortunately we've got Painey doing a great job at the moment and plenty of state captains in the side. Smithy's an ex-captain."
Everest climbs to new heights
The Everest isn't bigger than the Melbourne Cup. But it is bigger than the Caulfield Cup. And that's remarkable after only three years.
The Melbourne Racing Club, which staged the Caulfield Cup on Saturday, knows the revolution is on in racing and decided to get on board. That's why they bought a slot in the Everest and entered Trekking in the race.
While the MRC knows tradition isn't enough for the new generation of sports fans, the Victoria Race Club (aka Flemington) has no idea. It always believed the Melbourne Cup would be huge no matter what. But times change.
Jockey Kerrin McEvoy celebrates his second Everest success last year on Redzel in front of a packed Randwick. Credit:AAP
The VRC opened space for a serious competitor by indulging too many overseas entrants over the past two decades. It allowed the average person, and even seasoned racegoers, to become disenfranchised with the race that stops a nation. Our race.
In the Bart Cummings era, we could follow horses for a year, or years, into a Melbourne Cup. We knew their form and the form of others.
Now, it's a roulette wheel of Europeans with weight and entry advantages.
The Everest, on the other hand, is a race with horses people know, who they have followed and can recognise. There's no Makybe Divas in Australia any more. But there's Redzel.
The powerbrokers at Flemington need to work out fast how to give ownership back to the people who will skive off work and have their one bet of the year. They need to work out how to get the race back on TVs around the country.
In my day, we used to watch the Melbourne Cup at school. I never missed one.
Neil Breen
Neil Breen is a sports reporter on the Sydney News Team for 9News Australia


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Damon Lindelof: If You Were Frustrated By Lost, Don't Watch The Leftovers
Thursday, 26 June 2014 - 12:50PM
"All I have to say is, if ever there was a case of buyer beware... If you were frustrated the last time, don't watch 'The Leftovers.' That would certainly be my prescription."
This is the offending quotation from Damon Lindelof's interview with Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall, but it may be somewhat misleading. This statement implies that The Leftovers will be a hot mess of a sci-fi show that stubbornly refuses to solve its mystery, very much like Lost. But early reviews indicate that Lindelof's new show is not a mystery at all.
The pilot, which airs on Sunday night, has received flat-out raves from Hitfix ("a tour de force of devastation and grief"), AV Club ("bleak, brutal, brilliant television," some alliterative praise), and Time ("hurts so good"). These reviews, and others, tell us that the show is relatively unconcerned with the cause of the central Rapture-like event, but is rather a very human drama that focuses on the psychological emptiness that follows a widespread trauma. Indeed, it's been described as "designed to not offer any answers to a cosmic mystery," as opposed to being designed to give answers but deciding not to.
In the context of these reviews, as well as the rest of the interview, it doesn't seem that Lindelof is actively planning to make the same mistakes all over again. Lindelof himself stated: "It felt to me about 50 pages in[to Perrotta's novel of the same name], 'Oh, he's not interested at all in answering what the Departure was. This is just all about the condition of living in a post-Departure world.' ... That, to me, was very fascinating - to be unapologetic about saying, 'This book is about characters living in an ambiguous space where the mystery is not going to be resolved.'"
Here are a few more highlights from a fascinating interview with both Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, who wrote the novel on which the HBO show is based.
Lindelof on his initial reaction to Perrotta's novel:
"I just started... crying, multiple times... I can't really explain to you why."
On The Leftovers as a genre bender:
Damon Lindelof: "Many of the characters on the show, even if they didn't lose someone in their inner circle, they would have to start perceiving the world in a way where you start looking for signs. People need to be searching metaphysically. If there's not direct genre in the show, there needs to be the specter of genre, or the characters need to be grafting genre onto the show. The idea is that you could watch 'The Leftovers' with the sound off, you'd think 'This is a non-genre show,' but if you watched it with the sound on, you would have to realize that it is... The idea is that if 2 percent of the population disappeared, then there always has to be a 2 percent chance that you're watching a genre show. There's a 2 percent chance that Kevin's father is actually communing with some other-worldly entity, and a 98 percent chance that he just lost his mind because he was chief of police at the time the Departure happened."
On drawing inspiration from the national response to Newtown:
Damon Lindelof: "When Pete[r Berg] became available, he really responded to the material, and when he began talking about both the book and the script he had read, he was really processing it through Newtown. It was maybe four or five months after Newtown, and he said, 'I'm really interested in how you move through life when an existential crisis that completely and totally destabilizes your sense of safety has happened. Like, how is the pizza parlor open the next day?' That's how he articulated it."
On the range of psychological reactions to a cultural trauma such as Newtown, 9/11, or the Rapture:
Tom Perrotta: "Some people want to move on, and some people want to stop and ponder what happened, and to say that a new world started that day, and here's what that new world is. And other people want to say, 'Our lives are this ongoing flow of events, and that was just one event in it, but that story I was in before it is still the story of my life.'"
On the death of the author:
Damon Lindelof: "I found it fascinating to go down the rabbit hole as a fan on "True Detective," and then for me to be disappointed by Nic [Pizzolatto] talking about 'True Detective.' I really didn't want him to say, while I was watching the show, 'You're getting way too into this Yellow King stuff.' It was sort of like, at a kid's birthday party, giving the kids cake and soda, and then yelling at them for going nuts in the bounce house."
On living in an age in which fans interact with writers much more frequently and with much more hostility:
Damon Lindelof: "As a writer, when people are picking up something you're not putting down, you feel the impulse to say, 'Guys, don't focus on that, focus on this! This is about Rust and Marty." Again, I would have done and have done exactly the same thing Nic did, because there's nothing else to do. But I also feel like this culture now of, 'Well, Nic, how do you respond to allegations of misogyny? Will there be more female characters?' And I don't want him to write the show for us. I want Nic to write the show for him... The more that we enter into these conversations about being afraid people will have some reaction, it's like, if we're going to write this show from a place of fear, I can guarantee you it's not going to be any good."
On The Leftovers as an existential work:
Tom Perrotta: "The fact is, tens of thousands of Americans believe that the Rapture is going to happen in their lifetime. Because I'm not especially religious, my first impulse is to think that's really odd, or even quaint. But then over time, I started to think, 'Well, what if it did happen?' That to me is the better writerly question: not to satirize the Rapture or people who believe in it, but just to imagine how would I respond to that? ... And then I tweaked it by making it random, rather than the Christian Rapture, so that it was as much of a challenge to Christians as it was to non-believers. And once I did that in my own mind, it started to seem like a really interesting existential allegory."
On The Leftovers as an nihilistic work:
Damon Lindelof: "I think the tonal conversation of 'Do we want it to be dark and bleak and sad?' never happened consciously. I think the tonal conversation was, 'We want the show to feel real, and give a real presentation of what it feels like to be in a world where this thing happened and how characters are dealing with it.' I'd always thought of the show feeling like 'Friday Night Lights' in terms of the way it was visually presented... When he started talking about what he wanted the (debauched teenage) party scene in the pilot to be in the pilot, 'nihilism' is one word that you can use to describe it, but I do feel like the idea of... bringing the actors to a place where tears could slide out of them at any given time, wasn't on the page. It just started happening."
Bonus- On Bieber's hat vs. Pharrell's hat:
Damon Lindelof: "I felt like there was an awareness on Pharrell's part on what the hat was that Bieber completely lacked, which made it much more engaging to become obsessed with Bieber's hat."
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Raytheon Technologies Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
WALTHAM, Mass., June 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX) announced today that its board of directors declared a dividend of 51 cents per outstanding share of RTX common stock. The dividend will be payable on Sept. 9, 2021 to shareowners of record at the close of business on Aug. 20, 2021.
Raytheon Technologies has paid cash dividends on its common stock every year since 1936.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
This release includes statements related to dividends that constitute "forward-looking statements" under the securities laws. All forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Past dividends provide no assurance as to future dividends. The timing, payment and amount of future dividends, if any, could vary significantly from past dividends due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These factors include those described under the caption "Risk Factors" in our reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with the SEC from time to time.
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Nordmøre udgør sammen med Romsdal og Sunnmøre de tre tidligere fogderier som i dag udgør fylket Møre og Romsdal.

Dialekten i Nordmøre hører til den trøndske dialektgruppe af østnorske dialekter.

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Inside Triple J newsreader Nas Campanella's idyllic Point Piper wedding
DANIELLE GAY
Nas Campanella married Thomas Oriti in a picture-perfect wedding she organised without vision. Here's how she did it.
Wedding photographer: Elize Strydom
The love story of Nas Campanella and Thomas Oriti all began in an ABC newsroom–quite fitting when you think about it. Both journalists for the broadcaster, Oriti was finishing up in the ABC's Bega newsroom on the far south coast of NSW when Campanella was sent to replace him. "He had to train me up and so we spent a couple of months getting to know each other before he moved back to Sydney," explains Campanella. "We then continued our relationship long distance." She says she fell in love with Oriti's humour and how easy it was to be around him, Oriti says he knew she was "the one" the very first day they met. Six years later they marked an anniversary with a trip back to the south coast. "We spent the weekend catching up with all our old friends, eating at our favourite restaurants and visiting the places we loved when we first met," says Campanella. "One special spot was this amazing park surrounded by the ocean in Merimbula. It was a little chilly and I remember asking Tom if we could leave because I was cold. He responded by getting down on one knee, placing my hand on a ring box and asking me to marry him." Together, they cried tears of happiness, listening to the waves and drinking champagne to celebrate. "It was perfect!" she adds.
Campanella, who joined the ABC in 2011 as the broadcaster's first cadet journalist who is blind, quickly set about planning her wedding and started with the date. "The wedding was very much planned around our honeymoon," she says. "We desperately wanted to holiday during the European summer, so May seemed perfect with its warm Sydney days and cool evenings." To plan a wedding without vision, she called on aspects of other people's weddings that she liked, and then put her own twist on them. "Unlike most brides I didn't have the luxury of being able to look through wedding magazines or Instagram," she explains. "I liked the taste of one friend's wedding cake so used the same company. The band that played at our wedding was also one I fell in love with at a cousin's reception a few years back. Using friends and family to help with the finer details like making bridesmaids gowns was a dream because they knew my style and I trusted them to do a beautiful job."
"I wanted my accessories and make-up to look quite simple because I wanted the gown to do most of the talking," says the bride of her personal styling on the day. "I wore some gorgeous Swarovski earrings Tom had given me as an anniversary present." The wedding rings were by Gary Thyregod.
On the morning of her wedding, the bride's parents arranged a decadent breakfast complete with champagne, while Campanella had her hair and make-up done by EllaBella Hair and Makeup. "The thing that really made my morning was the call from my Triple J colleagues who wanted to wish us a happy wedding day on the radio. They absolutely took my breath away by singing their own version of Bruno Mars's Just the Way You Are. It was such a wonderful way to kick off the day and one of the most beautiful things anyone's ever done for me."
The couple wed in a charming church ceremony. Here, the bride is walked down the aisle by her mother and father to an acoustic guitar version of Glasgow Love Theme from the film Love Actually, played by Matthew Luciano. "Hearing Tom cry as I walked down the aisle is something I'll never forget," says Campanella.
The couple were married by a family friend. "I had four bridesmaids–three best friends and Tom's sister," said the bride, who dressed them in gowns by Tiziana Ferella-Pace. "Tom also had three close mates as well as my brother [as his groomsmen]." Bridesmaids hair by Kay's House Of Hair.
Campanella wore a custom Leah Da Gloria dress. "I visited four designers but fell in love with Leah's ideas right away," says the bride. "She didn't care that I wanted to do away with a traditional veil and the colour white, and she understood that I didn't just want the dress to look good, it had to feel beautiful as well." To pick the dress, Campanella spent time feeling the fabric and her dress designer described it in detail. "The gown was very textured, with material flowers and pearls that I could trace my fingers around as well as a mix of lace and organza which made it feel floaty rather than stiff. Leah took the time to really describe colours to me, always picking feelings like warm or cold to help me understand the shade of pink I was wearing. I adored it. It was so easy to put on, and I made sure I had enough room to eat, drink and dance in it."
Just married!
"The next morning, we were still on such a high and couldn't stop talking about how magical everything was," says Campanella. "Really though, we never wanted marriage to change us. We wanted to celebrate what we have with all our friends and family, but we felt the same that morning as we've always felt–like two best friends travelling through all that life has to offer together."
The bride accessorised with a custom Leah Da Gloria headpiece that matched her dress.
The groom wore Prada.
Despite the challenge of planning a wedding without vision, for Campanella, the most difficult part was one that plagues every bride. "Settling on a final guest list when you have a huge family and circle of friends was so difficult!"
For their evening reception, guests dined at waterfront restaurant Zest. "We fell in love with Zest Point Piper as soon as we saw it. Tom loved the view, while the oyster shell feature wall reminded me of the south coast and I loved the warm vibe I got when walking through the place. We had a very clear idea for how we wanted the night to flow and even though it was a little out of the ordinary the team were flexible and excited from the beginning."
For entertainment, music on the night was by Evoke Entertainment and the bride's ABC colleagues had a few more surprises up their sleeves. "Our colleagues surprised everyone by doing a live news bulletin containing fake news stories about various aspects of the wedding," says the bride. "Two beautiful Triple J colleagues also spontaneously got up and treated guests to a live version of the Bruno Mars cover they'd written for me."
Campanella didn't adhere to a specific wedding theme but described the day as "edgy, soft and elegant." To decorate the venue, she enlisted florist Maggie May who created stylish table centrepieces using greenery and a mixture of white and pastel pink blooms. The tables were dotted with gilded candles which completed the look.
Stationery by Handmade by Mee.
The bride's father hand-carved both the wishing well and these flower boxes which were used as part of the tablescapes.
As they share a passion for fine food and wine, the bride and groom focussed on this when planning their reception. "Guests arrived to an array of entrees which reflected places we'd visited around the world including a dumpling bar, a live oyster shucker, sushi and antipasto stations. We then moved downstairs for a sit down main meal followed by cake and desserts served canapé style. The coffee and tea bar opened at dessert time and had people mingling under lanterns by the water."
"Tom and I also donated to The Guide Dogs Association (a charity that's been a huge part of my life), and handed out little puppy pins as bonbonniere."
Cake by Sugar Pot.
The couple took their first dance to L.O.V.E by Nat King Cole. "I know everyone says this, but the day does really go so quickly. The best thing Tom and I did was step away from the crowd in the middle of the night to just listen and look at our friends and family having a ball and take it all in. I'd also recommend doing away with as many formalities as possible. We did, and it meant we could relax and just have fun."
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TEEN.COM – The big-screen adaptation of Veronica Roth's YA novel, Divergent, might not be hitting theaters until next March, but that hasn't stopped millions from obsessing over it — present company included! Recently, Teen was able to catch up with the book's author at the Lionsgate offices in Santa Monica (umm, no big deal), to talk about not only the film, but the book series' third offering, Allegiant, which will be released in October.
Veronica also sang Theo's praises in another way, mentioning that he was the one actor who matched her vision of the book character the closest.
Veronica also opened up about Kate Winslet, who will play the movie's villain, and how she was in disbelief that the Oscar winner was even interested in the project.


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Sleep With The Fishes At This Underwater Hotel: The Muraka
By: LATF Staff | Nov. 6, 2018, 11:19 a.m.
Filed in: Lifestyle > Travel
Photo Credits: Hilton
Sleep with the fishes...
THE MURAKA at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island is a new innovative luxury resort situated on pristine Rangali Island.
The first-of-its-kind undersea residence... THE MURAKA offers a transformative journey in one of the world's most breathtaking natural environments as guests are fully immersed in the wonders of the abundant marine eco-system above and below the Indian Ocean. While pushing the boundaries of engineering, THE MURAKA is not only defined by its physical structure, but even more so by the wholly unique offerings globally connected guests can enjoy while staying in the innovative residence.
"As the first-of-its-kind residence with dynamic accommodations both above and below the surface of the water, THE MURAKA is an extraordinary vehicle for a truly immersive journey into nature which cannot be found anywhere else in the world," said Stefano Ruzza, General Manager of Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. "Through a variety of curated and captivating offerings, we will maximize the potential of this incredible residence to bring unique travel experiences to our valued guests."
Supporting the resort's philosophy of innovation and its dedication to creating extraordinary moments in the heart of the Maldives, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island will offer a collection of four experience menus available exclusively to those staying at THE MURAKA. Tailored to the unique desires of different travelers with experiences ranging from adventure, food and entertainment to wellness, culture and sustainability, the menus are titled The Wanderers, The Flavors, The Soul and The Thrill. Guests who book THE MURAKA will work with a dedicated Reservations Team to curate their own journey, borrowing inspiration from the four menus to ultimately create a meaningful and personalized journey in the Maldives and immerse themselves in a variety of transcendent experiences above and below the surface of the ocean.
The Wanderers
"The Wanderers" experiences are those that provide an authentic and fresh perspective for intrepid individuals wishing to explore unchartered Maldivian territory and engage with local culture without sacrificing comfort or luxury. Culture-seekers thrive in the parts unknown and relish the opportunity to expand their horizons through authentic exploration. "The Wanderers" captures the desires of the traveler who wants to immerse themselves in a destination to gain a fresh perspective. One possible outlet for this ambitious discoverer is to act out their best Discovery Channel narration as they achieve their dream of exploring the depths on an ocean dive or snorkel complete with a film crew to capture the experience. Documenting the vibrant reef ecosystem beyond the glass walls of their MURAKA bedroom, guests will have the opportunity to direct and star in their own undersea film.
The Flavors
"The Flavors" experiences reveal an exciting world of culinary possibilities with a personal chef available 24 hours a day who can satisfy any craving with tailor-made menus. For those who truly want to savor their journey, "The Flavors" experiences include a variety of opportunities to forage, learn, and most importantly taste. Celebrity Chef Jereme Leung is counted among the best Chinese chefs and while his world-renowned Xiao long bao dumplings, handmade pulled noodles and perfectly balanced shumai are available daily at the resort's Ufaa restaurant, the chance to learn the techniques behind these delicacies are not. In this one of a kind cooking class, guests can enter Ufaa's open sided kitchen and receive instruction from one of Leung's expertly trained chefs. These culinary masters will guide guests in the timeless art of folding dim sum wrappers, blending ingredients and of course, slurping noodles.
"The Soul" consists of transformative wellness experiences that encourage spiritual discovery and focus on enriching guests; connections to their natural surroundings. Visitors flock to the Maldives not only for its spectacular natural beauty, but also for its restorative energy and peaceful solitude. "The Soul" allows travelers to connect with this spirit through a variety of experiences including meditation, yoga and more. There may be no better place to get in touch with oneself than THE MURAKA, lending itself to a deeper practice with two decks – one facing sunrise and the other facing sunset – to soak up the healing powers of sunlight or bask in the peace of dusk.
The Thrill
"The Thrill" experiences are a collection of adventures with opportunities for fascinating exploration on land and at sea. Adrenaline-seeking explorers will be spoilt for choice when including items from "The Thrill" into their MURAKA adventure. While the Maldivian environment around the MURAKA is magnificent at any angle, it may be most magical from below. For an experience under the sea, guests can spark their senses and discover the reefs by night alongside highly-trained professionals that guide explorers through the enigmatic dark blue waters. On this journey, guests will discover the peculiar glows of planktons lurking the ocean, corals blooming out into stunning colors and witness the rare phenomenon of shy underwater residents of the South Ari Atoll coming out to play.
Young travelers who stay at THE MURAKA will find that most experiences from across all four core menus are easily customizable to suit their interests as well as the opportunity to create entirely new experiences through the MURAKA kids Edu-tainment menu designed to captivate their imaginations.
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island offers the popular Conrad Concierge mobile app, which gives global luxury travelers the ability to customize details of their hotel stay before, during, and after each visit via a smartphone or tablet. Whether it's pre-selecting bath amenities or checking-in while in-transit from the airport, guests can access a variety of features by using the app.
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island participates in Hilton Honors, the award-winning guest-loyalty program for Hilton's 14 distinct hotel brands. Members who book directly have access to instant benefits, including a flexible payment slider that allows members to choose nearly any combination of Points and money to book a stay, an exclusive member discount, free standard Wi-Fi and the Hilton Honors mobile app.
Additional "off-the-menu" experiences have been crafted for inspirited MURAKA guests and more information or reservations are available by phone at +960 668 0629 or email at [email protected]. Details on the resort and overall reservation queries can be directed to www.conradmaldives.com.
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Samsung 'Protection Plus Mobile Elite' Device Replacement Plan Now Available Starting At $99.99 Plus Service Fees
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9:48am PDT Oct 9, 2014
For some of us, breaking a smartphone is unimaginable. For others, it's only a matter of time. Either way, it could pay to have your ducks in a row. Samsung has introduced a new device replacement plan, and since no less than 107% of the world's phones were made by the manufacturer, a good number of people could benefit from this. But it won't come cheap.
Samsung's "Protection Plus Mobile Elite" plan costs $99.99 and provides coverage for two years. This price doesn't mean you get a replacement device as soon as yours breaks. Instead, you will have to pay a service fee each time you issue a claim. For general Galaxy devices, this fee is an additional $75 per device. For the Note series, this fee is $95. You can replace up to three devices within a three year period. Samsung will get a replacement out to you in two business days or less, and you're not expected to mail in your damaged unit until after you receive the goods.
Technically, yes, paying around $200 for a replacement phone is several hundred dollars less than buying a new one outright, but it's also the amount you would pay for just about any device with a new two-year contract. You really have to ask yourself how much keeping your current phone is worth. Here's our guide from last year to help determine if phone insurance is compelling in the first place.
Plan Benefits:
Covers accidental damage from handling – drops, spills and cracked screens
Covers electrical and mechanical failures
Advanced exchange – replacement within 2 business days or less
24/7/364 customer support (Closed Christmas Day)
Up to three (3) claims allowed during coverage period
Right now the plan is limited to the Galaxy S4, S5, Note 3, and Note 4. It is available for purchase directly from Samsung, and it goes into effect fifteen days after you place the purchase. Be sure not to break your phone before then, or you're out of luck.
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Cloncurry water supplies safe: minister
By AAP – Wednesday 5 February, 2014
Cloncurry is not currently at risk of running out of water, says Queensland Water Supply Minister Mark McArdle, but it's council is planning for the worst.
The outback Queensland town of Cloncurry is planning to evacuate as a last resort amid the worsening drought, but the state government says water supplies are secure for now.
While water from Chinaman Creek Dam can no longer be used, Water Supply Minister Mark McArdle says two riverbed bores are operating well and water can be piped from Lake Julius Dam which is at 62 per cent capacity and increasing.
"Full marks to the Council for planning for the worst, but it is important to note the Cloncurry area is not currently at risk of running out of water, with sufficient water supply from Lake Julius."
From Monday residents will be on severe level six water restrictions after two years with no significant rain.
Mayor Andrew Daniels says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
"It (evacuation) is an extreme move. It's the final straw. But people are really thinking about the dire position we're in," he told the ABC on Wednesday.
"It's a scary thought but I'm hoping and praying that rain comes before we have to get to that."
Mr Daniels said he'd recently spoken with federal government representatives who were drawing up a White Paper for the development of Australia's north.
They'd asked for his thoughts on opportunities to build the economy in the north.
"I said to them … we're not in a planning mode, we're in a survival mode," he said.
"There's been no vision in the past to try and build another water source, so we don't get into these sorts of situations."
In 2008, the town was forced to bring water in by rail from Mt Isa, but that's not an option amid the current drought.
Despite good recent falls in Mt Isa, local MP Robbie Katter said the mining city was also looking at evacuation as a worst case scenario.
He said local water supply at Lake Moondarra was just above 20 per cent and the weekend rain may have lifted that by 3 per cent, but that was nowhere near enough.
"We have to talk about the worst case scenarios," had told The Courier-Mail.
Mr Daniels said the Cloncurry contributed much to government coffers through mining royalties, and the beef and transport industries and it was time for some that money to start flowing back to the community in the form of better infrastructure.
"Somewhere along the line, someone's going to have to invest back in this area to make it sustainable and make it grow," he said.


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Q: Good practices for refactoring initialization of a lot of variables in one method I am writing a rest controller along with crud service, which will use legacy code, which is still used in different places in application. Its purpose is to export an Excel file.
I am refactoring a bit, in order to have cleaner code (as clean as it is possible in this situation, I don't want to re-write the whole app) and for easier unit testing.
So, let's say, I have a method which calls a lot of services with parameters based on filter (input) and then uses it to generate excel file. What would be a good practice to clean it?
I would appreciate some tips and tricks, as well as, good discussion ;)
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    public Downloadable<Workbook> getExcel(ExcelFilterTO filter) {

    List<String> someList= someService.getString(filter.getParam1(), filter.getParam2()).stream().collect(toList());

    List<Integer> someList2 = someService.getInt(filter.getParam1(), filter.getParam2(), filter.getParam3(), filter.getParam4());

       TranslationSet translationsSet = translationService.getTranslationsSet(filter.getParam4(),
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       SomeClass classObject = someService.doSomething(filter.getParam1());

    ...
    ...
    String fileSuffix = ExcelUtils.EXCEL_EXPORT_FILE_NAME_SUFFIX;

    ResourceBundle resourceBundle = ResourceBundle  .getBundle(BundleNames.getBundle(filter.getParam2()).getName());

    Workbook workbook = excelExport.exportExcel(someList, someList2 , fileSuffix, translationsSet, filter.getParam3());

    String fileName = excelExport.getExcelFileName(resourceBundle, someList3, filter.param6(), classObject);

    return new DownloadableResource<>(fileName, XLS.getContentType(), workbook);
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A: I guess you could wrap all of List<Sting> objects into a single line with commas and the initialize them on the preceding lines. For example List<String> obj1, obj2, obj3, ...;

A: You can shorten your initialization by adding utility methods, but I guess it's a matter of taste.
// utility method
List<Integer> intList(Supplier<String> param1, Supplier<String> param2) {
    return someService.getString(param1.apply(filter), param2.apply(filter)).stream().collect(toList());
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// utility method
List<String> stringList(Supplier<String> param1, Supplier<String> param2) {
    return someService.getString(filter.getParam1(), filter.getParam2()).stream().collect(toList());
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so you can have
List<Integer> someList2 = intList(filter::getParam1, filter::getParam2);
List<Integer> someList4 = intList(filter::getParam4, filter::getParam3);

and
List<String> someList = stringList(filter::getParam1, filter::getParam2);
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in your constructor.


May 16 mp3 premiere + interview: "South Philadelphia" - Bootsy Spankins, P.I.
Bootsy Spankins, P.I. is teaming with Future Oak Record Co. to release South Philadelphia - a two-track, hand-lathed vinyl coming in June (preorder it here). Below, you can stream the title track, which is one of the most beautiful and sincere pieces of music we've heard this year. From the wondrous, soft falsetto of Spankins to an entry of synths that are all at once magical and moving, "South Philadelphia" is a heart-rending secret. If you've ever driven through a city or past a place that's lit up and alive against a darkened, still night sky and wondered of the stories and happenings occurring in that midnight glow - this is your answer. The single is a story we're now privileged to know and hold tight to. Below you'll find the single and an interview that details the music, inspirations and the best answer to a Pop Quiz question ever.
The Grey Estates: How long have you been making music, and what drew you to writing and performing? Did you perform when you were younger, too? I played French Horn in middle school but I was bad at it.
Bootsy Spankins, P.I.: I got a guitar when I was 15, but I didn't really start making music until years later. Performing in front of others can be frightening because you're open to humiliation if you fail, and what's worse than humiliation at that age? I grew a little more courageous and confident in college and just learned to embrace the thrill. My performances at open mics would consist of covers and comedic songs, so that if I sucked, at least I didn't appear to be taking myself seriously. As my confidence grew, though, I started performing my original songs. The positive reaction to my own songs was what pushed me forward into refining my singing, songwriting, and arrangements.
Where did you learn to sing and play? What other artists and genres inspire you in your music making?
I'm a self-taught musician, with the exception of 8th grade chorus where we all had to sing songs from the Lion King soundtrack. There are fewer things more emasculating to a 14 year-old than to stand on stage with a clip-on tie and sing "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", especially when you've spent the last year discovering indie rock (during it's golden age, no less).
Even though I'm older now, I'm still inspired by many other artists. Off of the top of my head, Harry Nilsson and Bruce Springsteen are probably the musicians who I look up to the most. Both were (and are) true innovators without straying far from the pop song structure. I appreciate all genres, but I grew up on top-40 radio and MTV as a child in the 80s, and so no matter what I listen to, catchy melodies always seem to take precedence. Also, as an Ernest Hemingway fan, I admire his unadorned style of writing in which he was able to evoke deep emotions with very few words. Expressing what you want to say without repeatedly hitting anyone over the head is a true art, and I'm very interested in musicians who push the boundaries of music in a similar fashion.
What inspired these tracks and how long have you been working on them and writing? What's the writing and creative process like for you? Do you have a particular spot or place you like to write and brainstorm in?
The writing process, for me, can be a very long one. Lyrics don't often come easy, as I find it hard to articulate exactly what I'm trying to say. To make things even harder on myself, I've started to include a lot of double entendres in my songs. "South Philadelphia" is full of them. I think that's the Harry Nilsson/Randy Newman influence on me. Clever lyrics can give a song a second identity, and I think it's fun to create something that a listener might take differently by the third or fourth time that they hear it. It's just not easy for me to accomplish that, admittedly.
Almost everything that has come to me, melodically and lyrically, has been either in the shower or while I'm driving alone in my car. I brainstorm better in therapeutic environments than when I'm sitting down with my guitar and trying to write something. I'm too self-conscious.
What would the theme of this 2-track release be? What in particular are the tracks about and what do they represent for you? Also can we talk about how great the synths are in "South Philadelphia"? What was it like including those in the material? I saw the setup on Facebook and it is insane.
I recorded these two songs knowing that they'd appear on vinyl. I've been collecting and listening to vinyl for about 17 years, and as everyone always says, there's a special warmth to it. I have several new songs written, but these are the two that I chose to record because I felt that they were the best "vinyl" songs. Lyrically, they both touch on the stages of grief when dealt with a loss - denial and acceptance in particular. The bookends.
For the synthesizers, I spent two days recording with my friend Tom Lebeau in his South Philly home where he has a wild modular synth setup. Around that time, I was listening to a ton of Minnie Riperton, Billy Paul, and basically anything that Gamble & Huff produced - soul from the 70s that was synth-heavy. And so those were the types of tones that I was shooting for. I'd basically try to describe what sound I wanted, and Tom would work to come up with the tones. He'd be telling me about the technical stuff like oscillators and patches, and I'd put my fingers on my chin, nod, and try to hide the fact that I had no idea what he was talking about. I knew from the start that the synths would be the most crucial aspect of the recording, and so his help was invaluable.
I wanna ask about the artwork for this release. Does it play any significance into the music and what's the story behind it?
The cover photograph was taken in Philadelphia at my favorite diner, Little Pete's, by my friend Laura Ferrara. Sadly, the diner is closing for good at the end of May, and we took the photo knowing this. I went to college in Philly and lived a few blocks away, so if I needed to get my mind off of anything, that's where I'd go (often by myself). I'm emotionally attached to it. If there is any significance to the songs, it's that solitude is an emotional resource when you need it, but it's frightening when you don't.
How does this material if any differ from what you previously have worked on, and is there anything you've changed or learned about what you want for the direction of your music since you first started?
I've learned to trust myself a little more since my last album. A few years ago, I'd probably be afraid that these songs don't sound urgent enough. I'd be afraid that the listener might not fully appreciate them because they wouldn't want to go back and pay closer attention to the details. I wanted all of my songs to grab you immediately on first listen. But that's an ill-conceived mentality. I don't waste my time worry about something like that anymore.
What's next for you as far as musical releases and work?
The two songs that I'm releasing were written for a larger album that I plan on recording called One Nation Under Medication. Right now, I'm trying to save up money to move forward with it. Recording can be very expensive, especially when the songs are intended to be fully arranged. But that's the plan for now.
If you were to create the dream Bootsy Spankins, P.I. merch item, what would it be? I wanna make Grey Estates nail polish or lava lamps.
I was in the store the other day and saw that Guy Fieri has his own line of bag clips, like the things that you use to keep bags of potato chips shut. I don't feel like anyone is really challenging him there, and I'd like to be the one to make him reassess his presence in the lucrative bag clip arena.
Since you have a track called "South Philadelphia," if you were gonna take us for the perfect day in Philly what would it include?
Tough question. There are so many different variables. If during the daytime on a weekend, I'd suggest checking out the Mütter Museum, which is a fun and creepy science museum full of medical oddities. For lunch, a cheesesteak at Little Pete's before it closes for good (voted best cheesesteak in Philadelphia - 1981!). Assuming the weather is nice, a baseball game would be great because Citizen's Bank Park is beautiful. I'm a big NY Mets fan, so if they're in town, there's a 99% chance I'd be there anyway. Dinner and drinks at Monk's Cafe, and then after-hour rambunctiousness at a blue collar dive bar like Top's, where I once had the high score on the Demolition Man pinball machine before the owner's son unplugged it and reset the scores out of envy.
If you could duet or collaborate with any musician who would it be?
I didn't even have to think about this answer. I would love to cowrite a song with Burt Bacharach and then perform a duet of it with Dionne Warwick. In my opinion, those two formed the greatest songwriter/performer combination in recorded music, and to be a part of the process would be a dream scenario. I have a slight obsession with that duo, and I definitely think that Bacharach & Warwick could beat Batman & Robin in a fight.
If you were curating a Bootsy Spankins, P.I. music festival what bands would be on it?
If I were to curate my own festival, it would be a luxury event that takes place in the Bahamas. I'd have bands like Blink-182 and Major Lazer perform, and I'd offer a financially impressionable celebrity like Kendall Jenner $250k to promote it through social media. It would be an exclusive event for rich kids who are more attracted to the concept of attending an exclusive event for rich kids than the music itself. It would definitely be a success and would not, in any way, expose the comedic vulnerability and entitlement of young, wealthy consumers (should things go terribly wrong).
Say a restaurant is going to name a sandwich after you, what would be on the sandwich and what would it look like?
I'm a hot dog enthusiast, and so there'd be no greater honor than for a restaurant to name one after me. I'd suggest a standard Italian-style hot dog with a Schickhaus frank, peppers, onions, and fried potatoes in a pizza bread roll, but with cheeseballs from Steaks Unlimited in Seaside Heights, NJ added on top. Totally esoteric to anyone from the Jersey Shore where I grew up, but you'll have to believe me, it would be a hot dog that you'd tell your grandkids about.
Give us a Bootsy Spankins, P.I. fun fact.
I do a really good impersonation of Willy Tanner, the father from ALF.