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Dominion Post Editorial: Striking disagreement over SAS raid is more cause for an inquiry
By Admin	in Our Projects	on 29 March 2017
Last updated 05:00, March 29 2017
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Lieutenant General Tim Keating's press conference marked the first Defence Force acknowledgement that civilians may have died during a 2010 New Zealand-led raid on an Afghanistan village.
OPINION: The question of a bungled and even law-breaking New Zealand-led military raid in Afghanistan is still wide open.
A defiant press conference by Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating has not put the matter to rest. It has raised new questions, and will have left most New Zealanders hopelessly confused.
Both Keating and the journalists who have thrown attention onto the raid, Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson, appear firmly convinced they have its details entirely right.
The crucial disagreement is over the manner and toll of the raid. Hager and Stephenson say six innocent people were killed and 15 wounded, but that no "insurgents" died, in a destructive and careless attack.
Keating, however, says nine insurgents were killed, while conceding only that it is possible a faulty weapon on a US helicopter led to accidental civilian deaths in one building.
"In all respects, the conduct of the New Zealand ground forces was exemplary," he told reporters.
There are other conflicts, too, such as one over the precise location of the village attacked. The Defence Force says it was two kilometres south of the site that Stephenson has identified. It's not clear how material this odd disagreement is.
Still, the two accounts do chime in important ways. Keating and the journalists agree the operation was called "Burnham", that it happened on August 22, 2010, that one SAS soldier was injured by falling debris, and that civilians may have died.
No lay person can have much of an opinion on the important claims as they stand. They need rigorous, independent attention.
Keating cast himself, implausibly, as a source of such oversight. "It is not in our interest to push stuff under the carpet," he said.
Certainly some New Zealanders will happily trust the Defence Force over a pair of freelance journalists. Yet the case is important enough, the gulf in the stories so wide, and the Defence Force's record with information so streaky, that this must be investigated further.
Crucially, the former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp's account of the mission as a "fiasco" is wildly different to Keating's. Mapp has no reason to cause trouble. His remorse over the raid ought to be a decisive spur to the Government to launch an inquiry.
And when Keating said this week that civilians might have been killed in the 2010 raid, it was a blithe reversal of a stance held for years – last week, even – that such allegations were "unfounded".
In truth, the Defence Force took years to reveal its lead role in the raid, even as other countries and media reported on it within days. That, too, was of a piece with its conduct during New Zealand's deployment in Afghanistan – exemplified again this week by its three-year fight to stop a review of the deployment being made public.
So there is a need for a serious official interrogation of this raid. Prime Minister Bill English should order it promptly. Both the journalists and the Defence Force are confident and must welcome it. Both versions of this story can't be right.
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Quintron & Miss Pussycat inject murderous puppets into Roky Erickson classic for 'Dr. Demento Covered in Punk' visual
The bizarre, guest-filled 'Dr. Demento Covered in Punk' has unveiled the new video for the compilation track "Creature With the Atom Brain."
The bizarre, guest-filled Dr. Demento Covered in Punk has unveiled the new video for the compilation track "Creature With the Atom Brain," Quintron & Miss Pussycat's cover of the 1981 Roky Erickson song.
The video, directed by Miss Pussycat, combines puppeteering with Frankenstein's monster to present a gruesome tale of revenge and "creature love." Dr. Demento appears in puppet form as a newscaster, with the legendary radio personality himself providing the voice.
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Created by a team of Indonesians, Kayumanis Jimbaran was originally built for long-term stays and people who wanted to imagine Bali as a home. Eventually, this business model changed to accommodate honeymoon couples and families traveling around Indonesia. Still, even if a guest is just passing by, the long-term ethos is palpable. It's no wonder that about a fifth of hotel guests return to the property.
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Google Inc is replacing the head of its in-house mergers and acquisitions group, David Lawee, with one of its top lawyers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Don Harrison, a high-ranking lawyer at Google, will replace Lawee as head of the Internet search company's corporate development group, which oversees mergers and acquisitions. [Source]
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Panayiotis Agisilaou
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Competition Economist
Panayiotis Agisilaou is the founder and managing director of Trojan Economics. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus. He has extensive consulting experience in advising companies in all fields of competition economics, with particular expertise in the application quantitative techniques to complex antitrust and merger issues. He has advised on competition matters and given expert evidence on almost all high-profile antitrust and merger cases (Phase I and Phase II), covering a wide range of sectors, before the Commission for the Protection of Competition in Cyprus. He has also testified as an expert witness in court and arbitration proceedings involving competition issues in Cyprus. Panayiotis has advised clients on a variety of regulatory issues across a range of network industries, such as telecommunications, energy and water, and in matters relating to state aid. He has extensive experience in providing competition compliance risk assessment and training. He also has experience in providing distilled expert advice on competition-related commercial litigation in Cyprus. Prior to founding Trojan Economics, he has acted as an Economic Advisor to the Chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Competition in Cyprus. Panayiotis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of East Anglia, an M.A. in Economics for Competition Law from King's College London, an M.Sc. in Economics from University College London (with Distinction) and a B.Sc. in Economics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ranked first). Panagiotis has published extensively on competition policy and regulation in Cyprus and the European Union and is a co-author of "Competition Policy in Cyprus: 1989-2009" published by Nomiki Vivliothiki, Athens. He is also an author at Concurrences and a case report contributor to Oxford Competition Law. He speaks at conferences and provides economics training for judges. He has been recommended and recognized in Who's Who Legal 2020 as a leading competition economics expert.
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And when you said I scared you, well I guess you scared me, too :: VOTD
Joey :: Concrete Blonde
from the album, Bloodletting
Joey is a song from Concrete Blonde's third and most successful album Bloodletting. The song was released in 1990 and was sung by Johnette Napolitano.
The song, Joey, has been said to be about being in love with an alcoholic. Concrete Blonde lead singer Johnette Napolitano stated in her book, Rough Mix, that she wrote it about Marc Moreland of the band Wall Of Voodoo – the bands played many of the same Los Angeles venues in the '80's. Moreland died of liver failure in 2002; Napolitano discussed Moreland and writing the song about him in a concert known as the "D.C. Sessions."
The song was written in the cab on the way to the studio, it was the last vocal recorded on the album due to Napolitano's reluctance to record the lyrics, which were hard for her to deal with (see story below).
The lyrics to this song didn't come easy to Johnette Napolitano. In an interview with Songfacts, she told the following story:
"We did a demo with no lyrics. It was just like scratchy vocals, just me making sounds, basically, where I knew the melody would go. And right away everybody reacted to it. There weren't any lyrics, but there was something about the music that everybody really reacted to. And so we went to England to record the record with Chris Tsangarides, our producer. I knew what I wanted to say, but I wasn't looking forward to saying it. And so it was the last vocal that I recorded.
And I remember Chris every day, 'Do we have vocals to 'Joey' yet? Do we have words to 'Joey' yet?' And I'm like, 'Not yet.' So I literally wrote them in a cab. I knew what I was going to say, it's just a matter of like a cloud's forming and then it rains. The lines are forming in my head and they're all in my head, and I know the chorus, and I know what I'm going to say. It's just a matter of fine tuning the details and how I'm going to lug it out. And then it rains. The clouds all formed and it rained. And then it happened. And that was it. And it was just there."
This is by far the biggest hit for Concrete Blonde, and their only one to make the Hot 100 at # 19 (they have placed several songs on the Modern Rock charts).
This was a # 1 hit for 4 weeks on the US Modern Rock charts. It gained popularity as "alternative" music was coming into the mainstream and radio stations were looking for stuff like this to play. Finding female voices was particularly problematic for radio program directors in this era of Pearl Jam, so this song was a welcome addition to many playlists.
Johnette Napolitano has expressed little interest in hit singles or album sales, which led to tensions with the group's label, I.R.S. Records, which signed them in 1986. After five albums with I.R.S., including the gold-certified Bloodletting, the label offered them a deal where the group was sold to Capitol Records.
The group still refused to serve the musical tastes of a wider audience, and they ended up on independent labels. These days, their artistic credibility is unquestioned, but at the time, they took some criticism for daring to have a hit song. Napolitano addressed this in a 1993 interview withHappening when she said:
"People call that song a 'sell-out' only because it sold records. If I could intentionally write a Top 40 song, don't you think I would have done it on the first album?"
The video (see above) continued in the vein of the alcoholic theme. It features Napolitano with the band playing in a small club while one lone patron drinks to excess. It was the only Concrete Blonde song to receive significant airplay on MTV.
Editor's Note: This song strikes a chord in me that is sometimes as painful to listen to, as it seems to have been for Johnette to write. Loving someone who is in the throes of addiction is a kind of addiction in itself, and I have yet to meet anyone who truly understands how it feels unless they themselves have loved an addict. There are scars inside me from it that will never fully heal.
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JOYETECH DECLARATION
Recently, there are some electronic cigarette manufacturer or trade-company poses as the name of our Joyetech or uses the so-called new JOYE510 to publicize products in the markets. They said that our Joyetech has developed new and improved battery, atomizer, cartridge and etc.
Besides, this company is sending emails to our distributors. They try to offer a low price to promote the so-called new JOYE510 electronic cigarette to them.
We do not express our views and opinions to this deed. What we would like to declare is that Joyetech itself does not publicize any new atomizer or technology. But it is normal to improve the technology and quality of products by us, which is basic and necessary for us to live and offer good service to customers. There is no need to advocate it in public as a means to win favor by ostentation. Our Joyetech is developing new products constantly, too. But before throw them into market, Joyetech will not do any propaganda or promotion.
In addition, we won't send emails to those unacquainted electronic cigarette distributors to recommend our products actively. Unless those who write to us and want to cooperate with us, we may start communication with them.
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Q: OpenGL ES texture mapping I need to draw circles in my Android application. Actually it is a Pacman game and I need to draw tablets. Since there are many tablets on field I decided to draw each tablet with a single polygon.
Here is the illustration of my idea:
http://www.advancedigital.ru/ideal_circle_with_only_one_polygon.jpg
Vertex coordrs:
//  (x, y)
0 : -R, R * (Math.sqrt(2) + 1)
1 : -R, -R
2 : R * (Math.sqrt(2) + 1), -R

Vertex coords are calculated relative to circle center to place circles with ease later.
The problem is in texture mapping, according to my calculations UVs should be like this
0 : 0, -(Math.sqrt(2) + 0.5)
1 : 0, 1
2 : 1, (Math.sqrt(2) + 0.5)

But negative V value causes application to show only black screen. That is why I think that I'm missing something or I'm going the wrong way…
My question is: Is it possible to render the texture in that way or not? If it isn't possible, what is the best way to draw small dots?
P.S: I'm working with OpenGL ES 2.0 on Android.
Seems to me, that this guy is trying to do the same.

A: The GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S and GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T texture parameters are set to GL_REPEAT by default. Set them to GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE instead to get the effect you're looking for (see the glTexParameter documentation)

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Norwich drugs den closed
Peter Walsh
Published: 5:25 PM June 17, 2011 Updated: 6:20 PM October 10, 2020
A drugs den which has caused misery to people living in a block of luxury flats in Norwich has been closed.
Police in Norwich applied for the crack house closure order following complaints about anti-social behaviour and suspected illegal drug activity at a flat in Paper Mill Yard, off King Street, Norwich.
The notice was served on Wednesday and presented to magistrates at court today who granted the closure order.
As a result the tenants have been forced to leave the Blue Mill flat which has been boarded up for three months.
PC Angela Youd said: 'This is positive news for the local community and this action couldn't have been taken without their information and support.
'Over the past few months there's been numerous calls to Norfolk Police and Wherry Housing regarding anti-social behaviour and drug usage and dealing on the premises and in the underground car park and pathway leading up to it.'
Officers have carried out surveillance at the property for the past three months and executed a number of warrants, including one last month where Class A drugs were seized.
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PC Youd added: 'Calls have escalated and police worked in partnership with Wherry Housing and with residents who have been very helpful and provided information.'
Closure notices are put up at properties to give the occupants 48 hours' notice that they must attend court.
If magistrates decide there is sufficient evidence to issue a closure order no one will be allowed to enter the premises for three months.
The drugs den closure has been welcomed by neighbours. One man who did not want to be named, but who has lived in the area for three years, said: 'It's just been a nightmare - it has been very difficult - regular visits from a lot of undesirable characters. At times there's been abuse, verbal abuse which has been constant for the past two years. I've seen exchanges take place at the metal gate downstairs of money and items in clear packaging.'
Mark Jones, managing director of Wherry Housing Association, said: 'We are committed to providing safe and vibrant communities for all our residents and only repossess properties as a last resort. However, these residents had ignored all warnings and support from our team and continued to make their neighbours' lives a misery for several months, so we are left with no other option than to take steps to repossess the property'.
The action in Paper Mill Yard follows the successful closures of other crack houses in Norwich.
In the past police have used these powers to close drugs dens at Barnard's Yard, off Coslany Street, Mariners Lane, off Ber Street and Throckmorton Yard, off Magdalen Street.
• Have you got a problem with drugs where you live? Call Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on 01603 772436 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk


First thing we need to do is to install Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
Depending on your environment, there are different ways to install AWS CLI. I'm using Mac OSX, and I prefer to install it via Homebrew brew install awscli.
We are all set. Now, I gonna show you how we copy a specific file and an entire directory from Amazon S3.
The example above, I show you how to copy a file, 'file.png', and an entire directory, 'dir', by specifying --recursive option from Amazon S3 to your local machine or directory where you specify local_path.


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Wedderburn 3449
Duns, Scotland
Wedderburn Castle is surrounded by 18th-century parkland. The structure of a formal terraced layout from the same period survives around the house.
Wedderburn Castle has been associated with the Home family for almost 600 years. The designed landscape at Wedderburn was laid out in the late-18th century, following the alterations to the house by James and Robert Adam between 1770 and 1778. The house is currently available for exclusive rental accommodation and self-catering.
The following is from the Historic Environment Scotland Gardens and Designed Landscapes Inventory. For the most up-to-date Inventory entry, please visit the Historic Environment Scotland website:
http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designations
A late 18th-century estate with striking estate architecture developed on the site of an older tower house.Location and Setting
Wedderburn lies within the agricultural heartland of the Berwickshire Merse. Located less than 2 miles (3km) to the south east of Duns, the designed landscape is bounded by distinctive policy walls and by minor roads to the north and west. Drained by Langton Burn, a tributary of the Blackadder Water, the policies occupy low-lying ground typical of the wider landscape, which is characterised by open views, arable farmland and the undulations of drumlins, (elongated ridges of glacial drift). Wedderburn Castle stands at the centre of the policies and, together with the near-continuous line of the late 18th-century boundary walls, forms a striking landmark from certain local vantage points. Apart from the core area around the house, land use within the policies is primarily arable farming. The designed landscape encompasses a total area of 152ha (376ac).
Landscape Components
Wedderburn Castle is a large, classical-style, 3-storey castellated mansion built on the site of an older tower house in 1770-6. The principal west front, designed by Robert and James Adam, features a 4-storey centrepiece. The house was built around an inner courtyard, with the north and south ranges executed by James Nisbet. Four-storey, octagonal towers project from each corner. Only fragments of the 15th-century tower house, demolished in the early 19th century, survive in the rear walls of the south and west ranges. At the main entrance, the impressive, Neo-classical, round-arched Lion Gate, with pediment and recumbent coade-stone lion, was designed by John Plaw in 1790 and completed by 1794. Ornamental iron gates lead onto the drive, while curving quadrant walls link the archway to sentry-box pavilions. Enclosing the policies over a distance of c.5.6km, the tall, harl-pointed, rubble boundary wall forms an unusual and prominent feature in the landscape. Built in c.1780, the ashlar-coped wall bridges the Langton Burn and dips at certain, strategic points to afford views into, and out of, the policies. The arched west gate, flanked by single-storey lodges constructed between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, provides another point of access. To the north west of the castle, the mostly later 18th century stable block comprises two adjacent, quadrangular courts designed to incorporate stabling, hay barns, cart and coach sheds and a coachman's house. A walled garden enclosure of similar date adjoins the boundary wall by the west gate and features tall coped rubble walls with inner brick lining on the south-facing wall. Sturdy sets of cylindrical stone gatepiers mark former entrance points to parks and fields around Wedderburn Castle, while a deep ha ha separates its immediate grounds from the parkland beyond.
Drives and Approaches
Both drives in use today follow routes established by the late 18th century. Lined by mature hedgerows, the principal drive enters from the north via the Lion gate and follows a direct, straight line towards the stables and woodlands around the castle. At this point, it converges with the west drive, which traverses a slightly more circuitous route from the west gate and lodges, past woods and fields. A short, curving length of drive through mature trees and shrubs provides the final approach to Wedderburn Castle.
A small area of parkland extends to the south and west of the castle. Although now much reduced in extent and quantity of trees compared with the designed landscape of the 19th and earlier 20th century, some attractive veteran broadleaves remain standing. Younger specimens planted in recent years, including Wellingtonia and red oak, will eventually take their place, while two new parallel avenues of lime trees, planted in the 1990s between the castle and Langton Burn to the south east, will prove a significant addition as the trees mature. A small rubble enclosure in a field near the burn, nearly 500m to the south-east of the Castle is the supposed burial ground of George Home (d.1497).
A substantial ha ha, partially re-dug and restored in recent years, encloses the grounds immediately around the castle. Its unusual and irregular circuit includes a rounded protrusion in the south-west corner designed perhaps to mimic the projecting octagonal towers of the castle. If pertaining to a design stage, a pencil outline of this circuit sketched onto an ink and watercolour plan dated 1797, helps to date its conception and indicates that along with the interior decoration and furnishing of the castle, some key landscaping works post-dated the original building project by a couple of decades (NAS RHP14780). Meanwhile, the extension of the terrace area to the west of the house sometime in the second half of the 19th century created a larger area of lawn from where the principal front of the house could be admired. A sole veteran crab apple may be a survivor of the Victorian garden, while photographs of the 1950s and 60s show neat rectangular rose and flower beds lining this area. Today, this space consists of a simple lawn enclosed by two large rectangular circuits of beech hedging, the inner one punctuated by subtle curving flourishes that echo the form of both the castle towers and the ha ha.
There are relatively few woodlands within the policies. Most that do exist were originally planted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for shelter, game-cover and to grace the approaches to the house. Presently, after some years of neglect, the amount of tree cover is gradually increasing as a result of renewed planting and woodland management projects. The principal area of mature woods lies at the centre of the designed landscape. Featuring rhododendron and veteran specimens of oak, beech and Scots pine, the attractive, mixed canopy frames Wedderburn Castle when viewed from the south and east. Via the line of the west drive, these woods connect up with another area of mature trees around the stables that may originally have been planted up as a shrubbery. New triangular plantations and a young shelterbelt of conifer, sycamore and birch will eventually serve to seclude the parkland area around the castle from the surrounding cereal fields. Meanwhile, efforts have also focused on restoring the woods and planted avenue around the west gate and along the drive; features certainly in place by the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of the area (1855-7 OS).
The walled enclosure at the western edge of the policies was built towards the end of the 18th century, and was referred to as the 'New Garden' in contemporary plans and estate memoranda books (NAS GD267/7/26). Occasional references to an 'Old Garden' in these books suggest a former kitchen garden, the site of which is uncertain (although the label 'North Garden Park' on a plan dated 1797 may indicate a possible location somewhere in the vicinity of the Castle and stable block, (NAS RHP14780). The original design featured perimeter and intersecting gravel walks that divided the garden into quadrants. Borders along the walls were meant for kitchen produce, while in 1797 at least, the quadrants were used for hay for the cows and horses (NAS GD267/7/17). Cartographic evidence suggests this original arrangement did not endure. Ordnance Survey maps from 1855-7 onwards reveal no interior detail apart from the northern half of the perimeter walk. Today, the enclosed ground, which slopes gently towards the south, has long been used for grazing, although some fruit trees still grow on the walls.
Description: Wedderburn Castle is a large, classical-style, 3-storey castellated mansion built on the site of an older tower house in 1770-6. The principal west front, designed by Robert and James Adam, features a 4-storey centrepiece.
Reason for Inclusion
Parks and mature woodland form an attractive setting for Wedderburn Castle. The castle, distinctive lion gate and high policy walls, are notable for their architectural merit and form prominent landmarks in the surrounding lowland landscape.Type of Site
A late 18th-century estate with striking estate architecture developed on the site of an older tower house.
Main Phases of Landscape Development
1770s-1790s, 1820s
Wedderburn has remained under the ownership of the Home family since the 15th century. The present designed landscape, however, can be attributed to building and improvement projects of the later 18th century when the period of conflict and loss suffered by previous generations had passed. The participation of George Home in the Jacobite uprising of 1715 had proved one of the last crisis points of that era. Wedderburn, along with other family lands, had suffered forfeiture and was saved only through the intervention of a kinsman, Reverend Ninian Home of Billie. Ninian succeeded in both entailing the property back to George's descendents and, after marrying the eldest daughter, in fathering the next heir, Patrick Home (1728-1809).
Patrick was involved in the construction of two Berwickshire country estates; Paxton (q.v.) and Wedderburn. It is likely that he never possessed a keen interest in the details of building work, but the circumstances behind the development of Paxton almost certainly diminished Patrick's appetite for close involvement even further. Following the failure of his hoped-for marriage, Patrick sold Paxton, instigated the new building project at Wedderburn, delegated its management to nephew and first cousin, George Home, and promptly left for an extended Grand Tour of continental Europe.
Prior to the new work, the long-established family estate of Wedderburn had centred on a fortified tower house, built in the 15th century and which, according to Roy's Military Survey, was surrounded by regular, enclosed fields by the mid-18th century. Initial efforts focused on the construction of a new and more comfortable residence, with Robert and James Adam providing designs for the plan and elevations in 1768-9. George Home was a capable agent for Patrick and sent detailed letters on the minutiae of the works which continued until 1777 when Patrick, following a further unlucky liaison and marriage, returned to Wedderburn alone to oversee the slowly progressing development of his estate and, later, to serve as MP for Berwickshire from 1784-96.
Surviving maps and historical records document successive phases of improvement. By the close of the 18th century, most of the key estate buildings were complete, including the stables, walled garden, an impressive entrance gate and high policy walls. Notes from estate workers folded up in Patrick's pocket-book of memoranda provide brief details on the crops and grazing of the productive estate and the planting of the original Wedderburn woodlands (NAS GD267/7/17). A short memo dated 1797 from one individual, for example, records how he planted 70 beech, 70 oak and 70 elm in the north plantation, but that the south side of the east plantation was very wet, and would do best with oak and ash.
Following Patrick's death in 1808, Wedderburn passed to his younger brother, then sister, and then briefly to his former delegate, George, until 1820, when more distant relations, John and William Foreman Home inherited both Paxton and Wedderburn. The Foreman Homes instigated further architectural changes to the house, including the removal of surviving portions of the tower house, but otherwise, the designed landscape did not undergo any further radical change.
By the start of the 20th century, the original parkland specimens and plantations would have reached an attractive maturity, and were complemented by typical Victorian additions such as rhododendrons, conifer specimens and flower beds. In 1901, diamond-shaped clumps of yellow primroses grew along an avenue of beech (Milne Home 1901: 82). Succeeding decades brought change, however. Wedderburn Castle was commandeered as a naval hospital during the Second World War, while in the latter half of the 20th century, parts of the estate were sold, with some former parkland converted to cereal fields. The core areas, however, remain under the ownership of the Home family and Wedderburn Castle is now promoted as a venue for weddings and conferences, while some former estate buildings have been renovated to provide holiday accommodation. Currently, projects to restore some of the lost trees and woodland are beginning to make an impact in the surrounding grounds.
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
http://www.wedderburn-castle.co.uk/
http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/GDL00383
Historic Scotland, 'Wedderburn Castle', {Gardens and Designed Landscapes}, [accessed 26 November 2007]Historic Environment Scotland Gardens & Designed Landscapes Inventory
Historic Environment Scotland An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland
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Historical Location: Berwickshire
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Author(s): Hoellrigl, T. ; Dinger, J. ; Hartenstein, H.
Collaborations by the use of inter-organizational business processes can help companies to achieve a competitive edge over competing businesses. Typically, these collaborations require an efficient identity management (IdM) that ensures the authorized access to services in different security domains. The successful implementation of an IdM in distributed systems requires to cope with a diversity of systems and to manage the challenges of integration. While integration should not introduce an unnecessary degree of dependence and complexity, various IdM goals should be achieved by integration: in particular, collaboration-wide consistency of identity information. Due to its decentralized and modular design, a federated identity management (FIM) approach is a promising strategy in distributed systems. Our thesis is that the distributed character and heterogeneity of involved systems requires appropriate information-consistency mechanisms that go beyond what is offered by current FIM protocols and software in order to avoid inconsistencies in identity information. In this paper we identify causes leading to inconsistencies in FIM. We present requirements necessary to cope with the consistency issue and analyze research, FIM standards and protocols w.r.t. the stated requirements. An analysis showed that FIM does not consider the consistency issuesufficiently. However, we point out which parts can be used as building blocks to achieve information consistency. Therefore, we design a system - called FedWare - that combines identity-related middleware services with existing FIM technologies. To provide an efficient integration of systems, we reduce development effort by providing reusable services. By decoupling systems, e.g., via a publish/subscribe mechanism, we reduce operation effort.


So u can dream on paying retail price.
Wah sians.. any idea if their ticketing website allows sg credit card?
Yes, but there is no way you can get first hand access to the tickets.
So no point even if you have SG cc.
I tried booking for a fellow forumer some ticket, within one min, gone!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Could be intentional though!
So is buying the 1230 ticket ok ?
Easily to locate those DIY laundry shop over there?
Most of the hotels I been to all got washing machine put money in one. Should be fine right?
No one can give you guarantee if it is good.
How much are u paying for it?
Thus I gave u an option.
But also means spend quite a bit on laundry.
I also do not know which hotels, how to be so sure.
Can wash but may not dry in time of Dec!
How sure you are they not staying in minsu?
Some like alishan and wulai, I highly doubt will have.
Yes email them and check, will report back, "if gotten a reply from them "


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Plaats in Riau

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Q: MySql PDO Prepared Select Statement - Counting Results within Classes via PHP count() I have quite an issue I can not seem to solve. I am trying to get a row count from a select statement.
I should start by saying I have tried most all methods resulting from google searches on this issue.
I am using the result set so I would prefer not to make a second query.
The query uses a prepared select statement which seems to be a main issue if I understand it correctly.
I decided to try a simple approach using PHP's native count() function. Which lead me here because I finally reached the end of the rope on this.
On to the details...within a class of mine, I make the query like this.
    // Create database connection
    $database = DatabaseFactory::getFactory()->getConnection();

    // Set and execute database query
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM `service_orders` WHERE `agency_id` = :agency_id $filter ORDER BY $sort $order $per_page";
    $query = $database->prepare($sql);
    $query->execute($query_array);

    // If results
    if ($query->rowCount() > 0) {
            $results = $query->fetchAll();
            self::$order_count = "Count: " . count($results);
            return $results;
    }

    // Default, return false
    return false;

Findings

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*If I perform count($results) like I did above, I get the total rows in the database (Let's say 50).

*If I print_r($results), it shows the array with the proper number of entries (Let's say 10) that of course differs from the total rows in the database.

How can these two differ? It's as if the count($results) is misreading the result array.
More Findings
Within my actual php page, I call the class to retrieve the data like this.
$results = OrderModel::getServiceOrders();
echo count($results);

Strangely enough, if I then perform count($results) it gives me the correct reading of the result array (which in my example here would be 10).
I am perplexed by this as the count function is being performed on the exact same array. The only difference is one is called on the array within the class, and the other is called on the array returned from the class.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this or why there is the discrepancy when using count() in this instance?
Thank you all in advance!
James
Additional Info
This is another mind numbing scenario. If I return the count along with the actual results, I can access it on the page with the correct value (10 rows). Yet, if I set it into a session variable, and access it that way, the count is the whole data set (50 rows). How is it even possible these two values are not the same?!
$results = $query->fetchAll();
Session::set("order_count", $total[0]); // Yields 50 (incorrect)
return [
    "results"=> $results,
    "count"=> $total[0], // Yields 10 (correct)
];


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All collections / Single Species Packets / Fireweed Seeds (C...
Fireweed Seeds (Chamaenerion angustifolium)
There's much that could be said about humble yet glorious fireweed. The classic colonizer of wildfire scarred landscapes (hence the name), recently logged and clear cut forests, and roadside ditches. Fireweed functions as nature's response to trauma. From the tiniest of seeds, this majestic plant can form rhizomatous colonies, with plant stems many feet in height, crowned by brilliantly magenta flowers.
The nectar of those flowers produces what is widely considered to be some of the best single varietal honey in the world. The flower petals and leaves are dried and fermented in Russia and Slavic countries to produce the famous ivanchai tea. Vitamin-rich young shoots have been used as a cooked vegetable by people on multiple continents for centuries. And, the strong stems can be processed into tough cordage.
Deer occasionally browse fireweed (especially young shoots), but bears are some of the most voracious consumers of shoots and flowers in wilderness areas. Numerous bumble bees are attracted to the showy flowers including the now rare and imperiled Western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis), and it is the caterpillar host plant for the interesting wasp-mimicking fireweed clearwing moth (Albuna pyramidalis).
This excellent plant thrives in full sun to slight shade, and prefers damp, peaty soils. Fireweed has an unfair reputation for being an aggressive colonizer. Yet, once established, it is easy to trim back if it encroaches beyond its desired space. And, because it can form robust colonies, it has some potential to help suppress noxious weeds such as blackberry and scotch broom seedlings. We allow this plant to grow in our farm hedgerows, where it intermixes with Nootka rose, snowberry, and spirea, forming a beautiful and functional screen and wildlife corridor.
Approximately 2,000 - 5,000 very tiny seeds (0.1 gram).


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Date: 10th April 2013
European Data Centre Association Announce Launch Of 4 New Working Groups
The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has announced the formation of the first Working Groups setup to address specific issues relating to the data centre industry at a European level
Brussels, Belgium - April 10th, 2013. The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has announced the formation of the first Working Groups setup to address specific issues relating to the data centre industry at a European level. The Working Groups are open to all members of the EUDCA to both join and contribute:
The Regulation and Policy Working Group is looking at the Digital Agenda for Europe and issues relating to power and/or data centres in general. There is a large amount of legislation being proposed that may affect data centres or the wider industry and the EUDCA will consider where it can best apply its influence.
The Data Protection Working Group is established and contributing to the new ISO standard ISO 27018, the 'Code of practice for Data Protection controls for public cloud computing services'. The Working Group is also looking to establish contact with other associations that are working on the same topic. The working group from the EUDCA has already been accepted as an external partner by the ISO JTC1/S27 working group responsible for the development of the new ISO 27018 standard.
The Standards Working Group will be looking at the various standards that either exist, or are proposed. There are existing standards from the Uptime Institute, TIA, The Green Grid, the EU Code of Conduct, (of which the EUDCA is an Endorser), the proposed ISO 56000 and many more organisations. Many of these standards are widely abused and many were, or are, created by commercial organisations. If they are not independent, it is difficult to see their relevance however, at the present time, they may be the best known and therefore most widely referred to. The Standards Working Group is looking across all of these to see if there is common ground and identifying how it might be possible to bring together a European standard that is applicable to all.
The Energy Working Group will be working to enable the EUDCA to guide, influence, and support, the European data centre industry in relation to Energy Policy in addition to supporting country specific energy policy. The group aims to build a common understanding of Europe Grid Status and future plans, to build a common understanding of data centre industry consumption and map the two together. The group will seek to provide innovative proposals to secure future needs and to ensure easy access to energy for the future of the digital economy.
Organisations wishing to join and contribute to the Working Groups should contact secretariat[at]eudca[dot]org or enquire via the website at www.eudca.org
About the EUDCA:
As the data centre industry comes to maturity it faces new and ever increasingly difficult challenges. There are lots of organisations and associations that represent data centres either locally, or sometimes nationally, but this is often just not enough. Over the last few years it has become apparent that there is no one association that represents the industry at a European level and no association that represents all aspects of the industry from data centre operators to data centre users, suppliers, consultants and manufacturers.
The objective of the EUDCA is simple:
•	To create a professional and sustainable association that provides a collective voice for the industry with respect to regulation and policy issues that may affect it.
•	To provide a platform for members to contribute to the establishment of best practice, education, industry leadership and technical standards to which the data centre industry adheres.
•	To provide a European voice in the forward development of data centres internationally
The EUDCA also proactively generates ideas that influence debate at technical, environmental and political level. It is easier for external bodies at a European, national and local level to be able to deal with one association, representing a number of interests. www.eudca.org
Alex Rabbetts,
alex.rabbetts[at]eudca[dot]org


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Q: Difference between this->field and Class::field? I'm wondering something in C++.
Admitting the following code:
int bar;
class Foo
{
public:
    Foo();
private:
    int bar;
};

Inside my class, is there any difference between this->bar and Foo::bar? Are there cases where one is invalid?

A: They do the same thing members.
However, you wont be able to use this-> to distinguish members of the same name in the class hierarchy. You will need to use the ClassName:: version to do that.

A: Inside class Foo (specifically) there is no difference between the two given that bar is not static.
Foo::bar is called the fully qualified name of the member bar, and this form is useful in scenarios where there may be several types in the hierarchy defining a member with the same name. For example, you would need to write Foo::bar here:
class Foo
{
  public: Foo();
  protected: int bar;
};

class Baz : public Foo
{
  public: Baz();
  protected: int bar;

  void Test()
  {
      this->bar = 0; // Baz::bar
      Foo::bar = 0; // the only way to refer to Foo::bar
  }
};

A: For what I have learned fiddling around with C/C++, using the -> on something is mainly for a pointer object, and using :: is used for the classes that are part of a namespace or super class that is the general class of whatever you're including

A: It also allows you you to reference variable of another class (base class in most cases) with the same name. For me it's obvious from this example, hope it'll helps you.
#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

class Base {
public:
    int bar;
    Base() : bar(1){}
};

class Derived : public Base {
public:
    int bar;

    Derived() : Base(), bar(2) {}

    void Test() {
        cout << "#1: " << bar << endl; // 2
        cout << "#2: " << this->bar << endl; // 2
        cout << "#3: " << Base::bar << endl; // 1
        cout << "#4: " << this->Base::bar << endl; // 1
        cout << "#5: " << this->Derived::bar << endl; // 2
    }
};

int main()
{
    Derived test;
    test.Test();
}

This is because the real data stored in class is like this:
struct {
    Base::bar = 1;
    Derived::bar = 2; // The same as using bar
}


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Perhaps there's hope for Germany after all
Finally, a German politician gets it. Granted, it's the leader of the opposition, rather than Merkel's team, but perhaps things are finally changing.
From A fistful of Euros:
THE AUSTERITY measures being imposed on Greece are "mad", and indicate that Europe learned no lesson from the rise of the Nazi Party, Germany's main opposition leader said yesterday. Sigmar Gabriel, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party and potential future chancellor, said the measures were "mad" and amounted to an "evil circle"….At a seminar organised by the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin yesterday, Mr Gabriel cited the example of Weimar Republic chancellor Heinrich Brüning, who cut successive budgets during the Great Depression. Germany ended up with six million people unemployed. Brüning's cutbacks contributed to a rise in support for the Nazi Party, which grabbed power in 1933.
He went there. Wham.
Finally someone German is talking about the real history of the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, which really had nothing to do with massive inflation of the Weimar Republic (that was done with ten years earlier).
Germany really needs to understand that the Euro is it's golden goose, and much of the economic growth of the last ten years has been due to the Euro currencies being misaligned from the beginning, giving Germany a huge competitive advantage. In fact, if you look at the ten years prior to the introduction of the Euro around 2000, it's quite amazing how "spend thrift" countries such as Italy were running surpluses, and supposedly thrifty Germany was running big current account deficits:
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Thomas Herttell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1819
From Thomas Herttell
New York Novr 11th 1819—
Respected Sir—
Though I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you, my knowledge of your exalted character leads me to believe you will pardon the freedom I have taken to request your [acce]ptance of the accompanying pamphlet, entitled An "expose1 of the causes of intemperate drinking and the means by which it may be obviated." Should it hereafter be deemed worthy of a second edition, I will avail myself of the benefit of any observations you may think proper to make on the subject of which it treats—
That you may be blessed with long life and perfect health and happiness is the sincere wish
Venerable Sir of your's respectfully
Thos Herttell
RC (DLC); mutilated; at foot of text: "The Honble Thomas Jefferson"; endorsed by TJ as received 18 Nov. 1819 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Herttell, Expose of the Causes of Intemperate Drinking and the Means by which It May be Obviated (New York, 1819).
Thomas Herttell (ca. 1771–1849), attorney, public official, and reformer, began practicing law in New York City by 1794. He represented New York County in the lower house of the state legislature, 1833–37 and 1840. Herttell authored numerous pamphlets and speeches advocating such reforms as temperance, an end to imprisonment for debt, and property rights for married women. A proponent of free thought and a leader of the "infidel" movement, he held religion in contempt, particularly where he saw it interfering with political rights. Herttell died in New York City (William Duncan, The New-York Directory, and Register, for the year 1794 [New York, 1794]; Franklin B. Hough, The New-York Civil List [1858], 280; Herttell, The Demurrer: or, Proofs of Error in the Decision of the Supreme Court of the State of New-York, requiring Faith in Particular Religious Doctrines as a Legal Qualification of Witnesses, thence Establishing by Law a Religious Test, and a Religious Creed [1828]; James S. Kabala, "'Theocrats' vs. 'Infidels': Marginalized Worldviews and Legislative Prayer in 1830s New York," Journal of Church and State 51 [2009]: 78–101; New York Weekly Herald, 6 Oct. 1849).
On this day Herttell sent similar letters and copies of the above enclosure to John Adams and James Madison (MHi: Adams Papers; Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 1:548).
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"Thomas Herttell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1819," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0173. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 203.]
From Jefferson to Herttell [22 November 1819]
All correspondence between Jefferson and Herttell


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Tamil Nadu Beaten by Karnataka as Top Renewable and Solar Energy Hub
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Aug 8, 2018 | Home, News, Solar, Tech | 0 comments
The Indian State of Karnataka has left behind another South Indian state Tamil Nadu as far as renewable energy capacity addition is concerned. It has left behind the other by 1.7 Giga Watt by the end of March 2018. This disclosure has been made in a new report by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Karnataka's renewable energy capacity also exceeded its coal capacity by 2.5 GW.
As per the report, Karnataka has added around 4 GW of solar power generation capacity in the period 2017–2018. This has taken its cumulative solar energy capacity to 5 GW. By March end, its total renewable energy capacity was standing at 12.3 GW.
"Tamil Nadu was frontrunner till this year in the renewable energy race and it still leads in wind energy capacity. Karnataka, on other hand, has rapidly expanded its solar capacity through adopting industry-friendly policies. It is good that a healthy competition is coming up between these 2 progressive states. But both of them can do more in harnessing wind energy potential," says director of energy finance studies Tim Buckley, Australasia, IEEFA.
As per the IEEFA report, which is titled "Karnataka Electricity Sector Transformation," the financial problems for the coal energy sector in essence reflects overall situation of the stranded assets in India, including Tamil Nadu. The coal power plants in the state of Karnataka work at financially unviable capacity factor of only 35 per cent. IEEFA estimates that 2 projects, those in the planning phase, are quite unlikely to happen in the short term as the uncertainties on fuel supply cost as well as agreements and poor utilization factors together with increased stranded assets.
"Karnataka doesn't need new coal fired capacity, except replacing the 1.7-GW Raichur Thermal Power Station which should be retired by the year 2022 as suggested by the National Electricity Draft 2018," says the coauthor of the report Kashish Shah.
The energy report highlights failure of Karnataka's ambition to build gas import terminal as well as generation facilities. The report says that gas-fired base-load generation is unviable as well as poses major stranded asset risks. The under-construction gas-based 370-MW Yelahanka power plant can be converted into a capacity supported by time differentiated tariffs, adds the report. Karnataka's aggressive posture on renewable energy is a result of economically unviable coal sector. This is what is happening largely across India, including Tamil Nadu.
This article is also a tribute to Tamil icon and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi who passed away at the ripe age of 94 at Kauvery Hospital in Chennai.
About Urmi Bhattacharjee
Associate editor at greenubuntu.com. Urmi Bhattacharjee has worked with several mainstream media houses such as NDTV and others. She is a committed environmentalist and feels very connected to nature. The Northeast Woman Journo has been conferred with the Prestigious Red Ink award
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The Steve Reid Foundation is headed by a Board of Trustees that steers and administers the charitable objectives of the foundation.
"Having worked closely with Steve between 2005 and his death in 2010 I got to know him personally and professionally. Often witness to his warm, generous spirit and to his wonderful drumming and work as a musician. The Foundation seems like a perfect way to keep that spirit alive, remember the man and his work, continue to share that work with others whilst educating and supporting musicians to prevent them from suffering un-necessarily like Steve did.
"The reason i'm happy to be involved in the SRF is that I like the idea of contributing to a cause that I believe in and can get excited about without any reservations due to the fact that those already involved also have heartfelt sincere intentions for it. Be it to help struggling old jazzers who have devoted their lives to their art, or new emerging talent in need of a break, I think that any artist who's done anything worthwhile, has been through some hard times. These are the people we should help.
I'd like to see us supporting these people worldwide, but I'd also like to see how possible it is to educate present and future artists about their long term health, as well as any other information about the industry in general that you need to survive it better without as much pain or confusion, stuff that nobody ever tells you properly. A simple body of knowledge archived in one common source.


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Jonathan Grimes: From undrafted to new contract
Four years ago, Jonathan Grimes sat in his New Jersey kitchen waiting for a phone call that would never come during the 2012 NFL Draft. Born and raised in Palmyra, Grimes recalls being with his family, not as surprised about being undrafted as he was about what would happen next.
"I was kind of getting the gist that I'd probably be undrafted so I was ready for that, but that day my phone started blowing up," Grimes said Tuesday on Texans Radio. "As soon as the draft was over, teams were calling because they wanted me to come out there. You go from wanting to be picked to alright, you've got to pick a team to go to and it was stressful."
It was a surreal experience, getting a barrage of phone calls from teams wanting to sign him as an undrafted free agent. Grimes did his homework, evaluating rosters and how he'd fit in, but ultimately, the decision came down to his gut feeling about the Texans.
Jonathan Grimes can tickle the ivories. 🎹 #TexansRadio https://t.co/Aub4crRyaI
— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) April 12, 2016
"Houston seemed like the most patient with me," Grimes said. "Because a lot of teams were like, alright this is our offer, take it or leave it. We're going to the next guy. Houston was like, hey we're still waiting for you but we've got to move on if you don't make a decision."
To go from undrafted to his second contract isn't an accomplishment that Grimes takes lightly. He's had two keys to success during his NFL career: his mental preparation and staying healthy.
"All I needed was an opportunity," Grimes said. "If I got on the team, if I get in that meeting room, I'm going to know the plays, I'm going to be in shape."
Fast forward four years later.
Houston has chosen Grimes, re-signing the 25-year-old running back to his second contract with the team on March 18. Grimes, a free agent this offseason, admitted the few weeks before signing were stressful but the end result was worth it.
"It's always good to have a job and it's good to be in Houston," Grimes said. "I like Houston a lot so it's a win-win."
Grimes rushed for a career-high 282 yards and one touchdown on 56 carries (5.0 avg.) last season for the Texans. He also caught a career-high 26 passes for 173 yards (6.7 avg.) and a receiving touchdown in his 14 games played.
PHOTOS: RB Jonathan Grimes
RB Jonathan Grimes' career as a Texan is chronicled here in photos.
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To begin with the development, just make sure that you have the latest node,yeoman, gulp and yeoman SharePoint generator are installed in your machine. These are needed to ensure your machine's suitability for the development of SharePoint framework offered by Microsoft.
If you are in Windows, you can use the msi installers in this link for the easiest way to set up NodeJS.
If you have NodeJS already installed, check if you have the latest version by using node -v. It should return the current LTS version.
Yeoman helps you kick-start new projects, and prescribes best practices and tools to help you stay productive. SharePoint client-side development tools include a Yeoman generator for creating new web parts. The generator provides common build tools, common boilerplate code, and a common playground website to host web parts for testing.
Once you are done with the installation, you will be able to create new webparts using SharePoint framework.
The steps and examples in this documentation use Visual Studio Code, but you can equally use any editor of your choice.
4. Call yeoman SharePoint generator and create project.
5. This will request a couple of details, enter all of those, and that will create the new project for you.
c. Select if the admin should have the option to deploy this app to all site or not.
d. Select the type of client side component.
After the configuration, there is a confirmation message like the following.
6. Once you are done with that, enter the following powershell command to open the code in visual studio code.


What is meant by Government's Budget?
What is Government's Budget Deficit?
A government needs to spend money in order to provide basic necessities to its citizens, provide developmental needs such as infrastructure to its citizens. In order to spend the funds, the government in return collects money from the citizens in the form of taxes. Thus, the government's budget is a financial charter or a plan that provides the expenditure and revenue details of the government during a specified period such as a year.
The Government Budget includes the estimates for the coming year and not the actual figures. Thus, the actual figures of the budget may differ from the proposed ones. However, the government strives to strike a balance between the actual and proposed estimates of the revenues and expenditures incurred during that period.
Budget Deficit: It is the situation when the government expenditure exceeds the government revenue. In other words, the government budget is in deficit if government budget is in negative or less than zero.
Budget Surplus: It is the situation when the government revenue exceeds the government expenditure. In other words, the government budget is in deficit if government budget is positive or more than zero.
Balanced Budget: It is a situation when the revenue incurred by the government is exactly equal to the government expenditure. In other words, the government budget is in balance if the government budget is zero.
The Government Budget Deficit is the excess of expenditure incurred by the government over its receipts. This may not be a positive indicator about the overall health of the economy. It signifies the flaws in the working of the government of the particular economy. One of the major types of budget deficit is revenue deficit which indicates the burden for the government in the future.
In order to reduce the budget deficit, the government can either reduce certain expenditures or it can increase the revenues or it can do both reducing the expenditure and increasing the revenue. There should be an increase in the promotion of economic growth in order to reduce the deficit. Revenues can increase if the government reduces the number of stringent laws related to taxes, thereby boosting business confidence.
It is the case when the government's revenues are exactly equal to the government's expenditure. This term is sometimes used in conjunction with the term "budget surplus". However, in the modern era, this is hardly the situation of any economy.
Under the scenario of balanced budget, there is a hindrance in the economic growth of the country and also, the welfare activities are restricted. However, it does ensure financial stability and helps in avoiding wasteful expenditure.
This type of budget is suitable for bringing an economy which is almost near to the full employment level.
The Budget Surplus is the case when the government's revenues from its operations exceed the total amount spent by the government. It is ideally suited in the cases where there is inflation in the economy. This will reduce the aggregate demand as the government revenues are greater than the government expenditure. However, in the case of deflation, this type of budget is the most inappropriate kind of budget to follow. As far as the history of the budget surplus is concerned, United States did incur a budget surplus starting in the year 1947. This was the first time when the United States incurred a budget surplus which lasted till the year 1949.
Then again in the year 1951, there was a budget surplus which returned back in the year 1956 and 1957. In 1969, there was a very small amount of budget surplus after which there was a budget deficit for a period of three decades. In the year 1998 till the year 2001, the United States enjoyed the period of budget surplus. Till date, the United States is in the period of budget deficit only.
The example can be taken from the United States of America. The last time that the United States of America incurred the budget surplus is only in the year 2001. In the year 2001, the United States of America incurred a budget surplus of $128 billion.
Bill Clinton increased the tax on the upper sections of the society. This lead to increase in the revenue receipts by the federal government. The tax rates that were increased during his time are recorded as the largest increase in the tax rates in the entire history of the United States.
Bill Clinton has put lot of restraints on the expenditure made by the federal government.
An increase in the tax revenue and decrease in the expenditure during Clinton's reign led to the budget surplus in the year 1998-2001.
George W. Bush took over the presidential office in the year 2002 just when Bill Clinton term was over. At that time, there was a budget surplus. However, when he left the office in the year 2009, he had created a budget deficit. This included huge amount of expenditure on social security welfare scheme due to 9/11 attacks.
It is the difference between the total expenditure incurred by the government and the total receipts collected by the government exclusive of the borrowings. Though it is somewhat similar to the government budget, the only difference is that the borrowings are excluded from the receipts while calculating the fiscal deficit. Fiscal deficit is the sum of all the budget deficits over the years.


Over the four-year construction period, the addition of hundreds of mature trees and countless flowering shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers, brought in a flood of nesting birds and insect pollinators. ASLA 2016 Professional Residential Design Honor Award. Kronish House, Beverly Hills, California / Marmol Radziner.
Plants are central to a functioning global ecosystem. Plants oxygenate the atmosphere and reduce atmospheric pollutants. Ecological restoration in both developed and developing countries is a primary strategy for mitigating the impacts of climate change. Native plant communities are not only key to the global ecosystem, but also crucial to environmental and human health at the residential and neighborhood scales.
Urbanization has fragmented what were ecologically-productive landscapes. According to the Audubon Society, the continental U.S. has lost 150 million acres of wildlife habitat and farmland to urban sprawl over the last century. Sustainable residential landscape architecture practices can help build a network of productive landscapes. Native plants can be used to regenerate sustainable plant communities and reconnect fragmented ecosystems in residential areas. Creating a network of productive ecosystems expands wildlife habitat areas and boosts human health and well-being by bringing nature's benefits right to residential yards and outdoor spaces.
ASLA has created a new guide to applying ecological design at home, which contains research, projects, and resources on residential landscapes. Developed for homeowners and landscape architects and designers alike, the guide is designed to help spread more sustainable and resilient practices.
Homeowners can use native plants to reduce the use of excess water, energy, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides that damage natural ecosystems, as well as support pollinators.
Residential landscapes can also be used to grow food at home and in communities. When growing food, gardeners should apply principles of ecological design and permacultural practices to ensure food production and garden systems are integrated with the natural environment and avoid contaminating local watersheds with runoff. Homeowners and communities can create composting systems for efficient waste removal and to increase organic matter in the soil.
And plants can also be used inside the home to improve air quality and human productivity.
Homeowners should be mindful of the quality of the soil on their property. Healthy soils are essential to plant and tree health and enable the infiltration of stormwater into the ground. Years of development and construction can lead to layers of compacted soil that restrict movement of water and air, and limit root growth. Homeowners can achieve credit from The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES®) by using techniques like subsoiling and adding soil amendments to help rebuild ecological function in soils.
Landscape architects partner with communities, non-profit organizations, and local governments to increase public awareness about using sustainable residential design practices that yield productive plant systems and reduce the negative ecological impacts of typical residential development.


A major piece of last year's landmark Pennsylvania legislation affecting daily fantasy sports became active recently.
Oversight of DFS contests by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board took effect, beginning taxation and regulation of daily fantasy. FanDuel and DraftKings led operators signing up to pay the $50,000 fee for five years of licensure. They also would be taxed at 15 percent of gross revenue.
"Pennsylvanians who already participate in Fantasy Sports Contests with any of these firms will see no difference in game play nor need to re-register," said Kevin O'Toole, executive director of the PGCB.
Operators had served the state and continued to do so before and after the 2017 law was enacted.
These provisions came online via a 2017 law that made Pennsylvania the 17th state to legalize DFS at the time. It includes consumer protections for problem gambling and a provision requiring sites to segregate player funds and operational funds. The sweeping law also covered PA online gambling, as well as online lottery and PA mini casinos.
"This roll-out also marks the beginning for Pennsylvania to create new revenue through the taxation of entry fees from players registered in Pennsylvania to participate in fantasy sports contests," O'Toole said.
Yahoo DFS was not among the operators listed. FantasyDraft was not listed, but told Legal Sports Report it had applied in PA. Fantasy kiosk operator EagleStrike, which had operated in PA, was not on the initial list, either.
FastPick only operated in New Jersey previously but recently announced its expansion into PA.
Not many new DFS laws in 2018?
The rapid expansion of DFS legalization saw nearly 20 states pass laws in recent years. This year has not brought the same frenzied pace, though some states remain in session.
A bill legalizing DFS in Louisiana just passed the state House and moved in Senate committee this week. Even if passed, the law still goes to Louisiana voters for a parish-by-parish referendum. Operators would be responsible for tracking whether players reside in an approved parish. DFS contests remain illegal in the state for the time being.