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Silk Road Trade & Travel Encyclopedia
丝绸之路网站(丝路网站)
丝绸之路百科全书—游客、学生和教师的参考资源
İPEK YOLU ve YOLLARI ANSİKLOPEDİSİ
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Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (The Great Ming Amalgamated Map) is a world map produced in China during the Ming Dynasty, and is one of the oldest surviving world maps from East Asia. Scholars believe that the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu was ultimately based on a world map named Shengjiao Guangbei Tu, which was created by Li Zemin during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (a map that is now lost).
Dadu, Daidu (Peking, present-day Beijing) was the capital of the Mongol-Yuan Empire, also known as Mongol China's winter capital (the city of Peking received its present name during the Ming Dynasty). The Mongols had used the old Jin Dynasty capital of Zhongdu as their headquarters for occupied north China, and when Kublai Khan came to power he built a new city named Daidu, after 1265. (see Xanadu)
Dahe The ruins of the ancient city of Dahe are located in Hami Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. To the northeast of Dahe are the Karsan ruins, west lies ruins of the Neolithic Period, to the southwest is the Wubao Ancient Tombs, to the south is the Islamic King Tombs, and to the east one can visit the cliff carvings at Baishan, Qincheng.
Dark Ages of Europe The Dark Ages was a period in European history. The term "Dark Ages" was originally intended to denote the entire period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance (See Middle Ages). In the 19th century scholars began to recognize the accomplishments made during the period, thereby challenging the image of the Middle Ages as a time of darkness and decay in Europe. The term is now never used by scholars to refer to the entire medieval period, but when used, it is generally restricted to the Early Middle Ages.
Daxia The name Daxia is used by the explorer Zhang Qian to designate Bactria. The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West (possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom) and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.
The reports of Zhang Qian were put in writing in the Shiji ("Records of the Grand Historian") by Sima Qian in the 1st century BC. They describe an important urban civilization of about one million people, living in walled cities under small city kings or magistrates. Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming as far as Southern China. By the time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus (Amu Darya). Overall Zhang Qian depicted a rather sophisticated but demoralized people who were afraid of war. Following these reports, the Chinese emperor Wu Di was informed of the level of sophistication of the urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthia, and became interested in developing commercial relationship with them:
"The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana (Dayuan) and the possessions of Bactria (Daxia) and Parthia (Anxi) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China" (Hanshu, Former Han History).
These contacts immediately led to the dispatch of multiple embassies from the Chinese, which helped to develop communications and trade along the the Silk Road.
Dede Korkut (The Book of Dede Korkut) is the most famous epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. These epic stories were orally told and transferred over the generations before published as a book. There are numerous versions collected of the stories. Some scholars believe that the stories and songs have emerged no earlier than the beginning of the 13th century and were written down no later than the beginning of the 15th century. Other scholars maintain the stories originated centuries earlier. The social lifestyles, morals and values of Turkic peoples living in Central Asia is described in the "Book of Dede Korkut." More...
Desert The most well known desert of the Silk Road is the Gobi Desert. This desert is the fifth largest in the world. The Gobi is most notable in history as part of the great Mongol Empire, and as the location of several important cities along the Silk Road. It is a large desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. The Gobi is made up of several distinct ecological and geographic regions based on variations in climate and topography. It is a treasure chest of fossilized dinosaur bones and eggs.
The Taklimakan is another desert in the region of the Silk Road. Merchant caravans on the Silk Road would stop for relief at the thriving oasis towns. The Taklimakan desert in Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, is the world's 17th largest desert. More...
Diplomat (See Emissary) A representative, envoy, or agent, sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another. Often the individual was part of a delegation. Envoys were sent both eastward and westward along the Silk Road to the courts and kingdoms of powerful rulers. More...
Divanü Lügati't-Türk In the 11th century Muhmud Kashgari of Kashgar, compiled the first complete Turkish dictionary known as the Divanü Lügati't-Türk.
Map from the 11th century Divanü Lügati't-Türk
Dunes (Sand Dunes) In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by aeolian processes. Dunes occur in different forms and sizes, formed by interaction with the wind.
Many modern-day travelers wish to experience dunes and Silk Road desert travel. The photo above shows a group of tourists riding two-humped camels in the popular resort area known as the "Singing Sand Dunes" in the suburb of Dunhuang City, northwest China Gansu Province (Xinhua photo). Dunhuang not only offers visitors the chance to relive a journey along the Silk Road, but it also enables them to see the ancient frescoes and carvings of the Mogao grottoes, which are some of China's best preserved examples of Buddhist art.
Dunhuang (Dungunag Caves, Mogao Caves/Grottoes) The Silk Road forked near Dunhuang, an oasis amid the Gobi Desert, in the Chinese province of Gansu, skirting the treacherous Taklimakan Desert and forcing caravans to choose between the northern and southern routes. Fear of the perilous open desert inspired merchants and pilgrims to construct cave shrines to ensure safe passage, or as thanks for a successful journey. Trader's temples to good fortune are located at the Mogao Caves, where murals, manuscripts, and statuary from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries can be found. According to historical records, Buddhist monks first began work on the caves of Mogao in 366 AD.
The travel of Zhang Qian to the West (depected in the Mogao Caves, 618-712 AD).
(In the 2nd century BC, Zhang Qian was an imperial envoy of the Han Emperor Wudi).
The ancient town of Dunhuang (Shazhou) at the head of the ancient trade route the Silk Road, was founded as a prefecture during the early Han Dynasty, some two thousand years ago. This was a period when the Chinese first came into large-scale contact with communities to their west. Over the following centuries, Buddhist grottos were built, which featured exquisite wall paintings and stone sculptures. During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) the site fell into oblivion. It was discovered in about 1900, by Wang Yuanlu, a Daoist monk who was guardian and abbot of the caves. A walled-up library where a great collection of manuscripts were stored was also discovered. More...
The ruins of a Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) Chinese watchtower at Dunhuang, Gansu province on the eastern edge of the Silk Road
See the Dunhuang Project Dunhuang Academy China (The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is a collaborative project which aims to digitize and research all the archaeological artifacts from the Eastern Silk Road. Collaborating institutions and partners seek to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet, and to encourage their use through educational and research programs).
See UNESCO Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for their statues and wall paintings, spanning 1,000 years of Buddhist art. Since they were still occupied by Buddhist monks from the end of the 19th century until 1930, the rock-art of Mogao, now administered by the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute, preserves the example of a traditional monastic settlement.
From Dunhuang in Gansu province, travelers can travel west to visit other sections of the Chinese Silk Road in Xinjiang,
or can travel to other Chinese provinces such as Qinghai, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Henan.
Dynasties in China (Imperial China) Chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is said to be the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. The Dynasties of China are listed below. More...
Ancient era
Xia Dynasty (ca. 2100-1600 BC)
Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700-1046 BC)
Zhou Dynasty (1066-256 BC)
Spring and Autumn Period (722-476 BC)
Warring States Period (476-221 BC)
Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC)
Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220)
Wei and Jin Period (AD 265–420)
Wu Hu Period (AD 304–439)
Southern and Northern Dynasties (AD 420–589)
Sui Dynasty (AD 589–618)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907)
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907–960)
Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia Dynasties (AD 960–1234)
Yuan-Mongol Dynasty (AD 1271–1368)
Ming Dynasty (AD 1368–1644)
Qing Dynasty (AD 1644–1911)
Dynasties (Islamic Empires) Islamic civilization originated in various regional centers stretching from the Middle East into Africa, Europe, and Asia (7th –19th century). The Later Islamic Dynasties and Empires inevitably had a profound impact on life and trade along the Silk Routes.
Later Islamic Dynasties & Empires
The Abbasid Empire covered an area stretching from the tip of the Arabian Peninsula in the south, into Transoxiania, and the entire Maghrib region of Northern Africa (from c. 750 to 1258).
The Seljuks of Central Asia founded an empire in 1055 that included Iran, Iraq and Syria. The Seljuk Dynasty ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to the 14th centuries, which at its height stretched from Anatolia through Persia.
The Khwarazm-Shahs ruled parts of modern Iran, Transoxiania, and much of Afghanistan from the late eleventh century until the arrival of the conquering Mongols in the 1250s.
The Artuqids ruled a large area of northern Iraq from 1098 to 1408. The Artuqids stayed in power for over three centuries, retaining control over much of northern Iraq until they encountered the Timurids, who eventually overcame the Artuqids in 1408.
The Il-Khanids were a governing body appointed by the Mongols to rule the Middle East as their representatives. Their government was composed of a mixture of Mongols and representatives of other Central Asian ethnicities.
The Safavids established a wide-ranging empire in the early sixteenth century. They centered their government in Isfahan, and enjoyed a trading monopoly after they re-routed the remaining western leg of the Silk Road through their capital.
The Ottomans at their height controlled an empire that rivaled that of the Romans. Founded by Othman, the leader of a Turkic peoples who had migrated to Anatolia from the steppes of Central Asian (in advance of Genghiz Khan's Mongol forces). At the height of its power, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.
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Q: Copy from one Access database to another (VBA) I need help to copy data from one Access database to another using VBA. The tables have the same layout and the both have an autonumber Primary Key field.
I tried the following:
strSQL = "INSERT INTO [tbl_items] SELECT * FROM  [tbl_items] IN 'C:\temp\itemsdb.mdb';"
CurrentDb.Execute (strSQL)

The issue is that if the value of one Primary Key in first database is the same with one in the second database then that record is not copied.
Any ideas?

A: You don't even need VBA for this.  Try it this way.

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*On the External Data tab, in the Export group, click Access.
Tip: You can also start the export process by right-clicking the object in the Navigation Pane and then clicking Export > Access.

*Access opens the Export - Access Database dialog box.

*In the File name box on the Export - Access Database dialog box, specify the name of the destination database and then click OK.

*In the Export dialog box, change the name of the new object if you do not want to overwrite an existing object with the same name in the destination database.

*If the selected object is a table, specify whether you want to export the table's definition and data, or only the definition.

*Click OK to finish the operation.
If you really need a VBA solution, post back, and I'll provide a solution. In this scenario, it seems like VBA is overkill.

A: It is a process that I wanted to automate because it is repeated quite often; so I needed a solution in VBA.
I found the solution that I share below for future reference.
 Public Sub AppendItems()
    Dim strSQL As String
    Dim fDialog As Object
    Dim pickedFile As Boolean

    Set fDialog = Application.FileDialog(3)

    With fDialog

        .AllowMultiSelect = False
        .Title = "Please select a file to import:"
        .Filters.Clear
        .Filters.Add "Access Databases", "*.MDB"

    End With

    pickedFile = fDialog.Show

    If pickedFile Then
        fPath = fDialog.SelectedItems.Item(1)
    End If

    strSQL = "INSERT INTO [tbl_DestinationTable] SELECT [field1], [field2], [etc] FROM [tbl_SourceTable] IN'" & fPath & "';"

    DoCmd.RunSQL (strSQL)

End Sub

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Ricky Bagaskoro (Rizky Nazar), high school student, is in a dilemma: to pursue his dream of becoming teachers for displaced children or to follow the wishes of his father, Bagas Notolegowo (Ray Sahetapy), to continue his study to the highest level. Bagas hopes Ricky will follow in his footsteps of being a politician.
Bagas is struggling to become president of Indonesia 2014-2019 to replace President Jusuf Syahrir (Deddy Sutomo). Preoccupations make his relationship with Ricky tenuous. Ricky does not agree with his father's steps. Ningrum (Donna Harun), a faithful wife and mother, always tries to unify them.
The competition to the presidency between Bagas Notolegowo, Faisal Abdul Hamid (Rudy Salam) and Syamsul Triadi (Akri Patrio) is very tight. Bagas makes a careless step. One simple decision makes all his dreams shattered .
This catastrophy arises Ricky curiosity to explore the case. This effort brings Ricky to Krishna Dorojatun ( Donny Damara ), an idealistic lawyer. Ricky also starts a close relationship to Laras (Maudy Ayundya), Dorojatun's daughter.
Ricky and Laras often bothers the police, especially Inspector Simpson (Atiqah Hasiholan), because of their carelessness in investigation. Their lives are in danger. Apparently there is a third party involves in this case. Krishna predicts that the third party is of a great strength.
Ricky asks Krishna: "If the President do not want Papa to be President, what is the reason?" Or, Bagas is guilty because of his ambition, so he is able to do dirty things? There is one more character: Satria (Rio Dewanto), a young man who is always everywhere.


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Just six countries have ratified anti-harassment treaty: ILO
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22 June, 2021, 10:15 am
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Global jobs recovery delayed by pandemic uncertainty, Omicron, ILO says
BKMEA, ILO sign MoU for knitwear workers' safety
Australia, Japan to sign security cooperation treaty
Govt decides to ratify ILO's minimum age convention for job
Omicron variant detected in more countries as scientists race to find answers
The UN body will launch a campaign to promote ratification and implementation of the agreement
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Only six of the International Labour Organization's 187 member countries have ratified a treaty against violence and harassment in the workplace two years after it was agreed, the UN body said Monday.
Voted through by a huge majority at the ILO, which brings together governments, employers and trade unions from its member states, the Violence and Harassment Convention has so far been approved in Argentina, Ecuador, Fiji, Namibia, Somalia and Uruguay.
The agreement is legally slated to come into force on Friday June 25, two years after the ILO vote.
"I urge countries to ratify the Convention and help build... a dignified, safe and healthy working life for all," ILO director-general Guy Ryder said in a statement.
The UN body will launch a campaign to promote ratification and implementation of the agreement, which calls for passing laws and developing policies to prevent violence and harassment at work and aid victims.
Although work on the convention began well before #MeToo campaigns unmasked powerful sexual abusers like Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the text singles out "violence and harassment directed at persons because of their sex or gender".
More broadly, "violence and harassment in the world of work can constitute a human rights violation or abuse," it adds.
As well as interactions in the workplace, the convention covers other areas linked to the world of work like workers' commute, places for eating, washing and changing and digital communications.
ILO / harrassment / Treaty / countries
Sri Lanka on the edge as debt burden mounts

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Q: Drawer navigator minSwipeDistance property I want to open drawer with touching anywhere on screen.I tried with minSwipeDistance property of drawer navigator.Although I didn't get error It didn't work.How should I implement this process into my code? If anyone knows help me please! Thanks in advance!

A: For React Navigation V5
put this to take the device width
function ProfileDrawer() {
   const dimensions = useWindowDimensions();

and edgeWidth is what you want I think
        <Drawer.Navigator initialRouteName="Profile"
                          edgeWidth={dimensions.width}
                              >

You can check the Official Page to see detail for DrawerNavigator:
https://reactnavigation.org/docs/drawer-navigator#props


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Colombia: Nicaragua 'pretending to be victim' in border dispute
by Rose Lander September 29, 2015
Colombia accused Nicaragua of "pretending to be the victim" in a maritime dispute between the two nations that previously resulted in the South American country having to give up territorial claims in the Caribbean.
Lawyer and former Prosecutor General of Colombia, Carlos Gustavo Arrieta, told the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Monday that Nicaragua tends to "fabricate a disagreement where there isn't one."
Arrieta made this statement during the first session of hearings held by the ICJ on the subject of the two cases brought to the court by Nicaragua over the Caribbean territorial dispute that has been ongoing for more than a decade.
The first dispute is that Colombia failed to comply with a ruling made by the ICJ in 2012, and has been violating Nicaraguan maritime territory granted in that ruling.
The second case is a call for the definition of the delimitation between the two Caribbean territories.
Arrieta, the main Colombian representative for the case, also claimed that the ICJ did not have the legal basis to make the decision on the border delimitation and that the two countries had been negotiating without any problems.
Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maria Angela Holguin confirmed that "we were preparing the treaty."
Eduardo Valencia Ospina, president of the Latin American Society of International Law, assured that the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, had been very positive about the negotiations and therefore the behavior of Nicaragua, resorting the the ICJ, was contradictory to their president's statements.
This is the latest development in the maritime border dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia over the Caribbean waters surrounding the archipelago of San Andres originally brought to the International Court of Justice by Nicaragua in 2001.
The ICJ ruled in November 2012 that San Andres and the surrounding waters belonged to Colombia based on its historical sovereignty of the area, despite allowing Nicaragua to claim parts of the water as their territory.
San Andres belongs to Colombia: ICJ
At the hearing in the Hague on Monday Arrieta said that this decision had disappointed Colombia and been met with "consternation" by the Colombian fisherman of the Archipelago who make their livelihood from the now Nicaraguan waters.
President Juan Manuel Santos claimed in September 2013 that the decision made by the ICJ to give 30,000 square miles of previously Colombian territory to Nicaragua, consequently isolating San Andres, was inapplicable without a treaty between the two countries.
Nicaragua filed a new lawsuit against Colombia to expand their maritime border 200 nautical miles into Colombia's territory one week after Santos' challenge.
Santos claimed that this lawsuit was declared without jurisdiction and demanded that the ICJ overturn it, filing a counter-suit against Nicaragua in August 2014.
Santos claims lawsuit over border dispute has no jurisdiction
The case will continue before the ICJ with Nicaragua taking the floor on Tuesday and the second round will take place later this week.
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L'isola Stolbovoj (in russo Столбовой остров; in italiano "isola Pilastro") fa parte del gruppo delle Ljachov, nell'arcipelago della Nuova Siberia, situato nell'(Oceano Artico).

Amministrativamente appartiene al Bulunskij ulus della Repubblica autonoma di Sacha-Jacuzia.

Geografia
Stolbovoj è la più occidentale delle Ljachov, 120 km a est del resto del gruppo. È situata 184 km a nord della terraferma e 100 km a sud-ovest dell'isola Kotel'nyj nel gruppo delle Anžu.

L'isola ha una forma allungata che si estende da nord-ovest a sud-est per circa 42 km e una larghezza di 10 km. La sua superficie è di 350,4 km², il punto culminante si situa a 222  nella parte centro-meridionale, e ha uno sviluppo costiero di 104,8 km.Le coste sono regolari, con poche insenature; le scogliere si alzano per 15–70 m, con i rilievi più bassi lungo le spiagge dominati dalle più alte e arretrate strutture rocciose a terrazze. L'estremità settentrionale si chiama capo Skalistyj (мыс Скалистый, mys Skalistyj), quella meridionale capo Povorotnyj (мыс Поворотный, mys Povorotnyj).L'isola è disseminata di zone umide e paludose e di piccoli corsi d'acqua, molti dei quali a carattere stagionale, che nascono dalle alture che formano l'asse centrali e scorrono in tutte le direzioni. Il più lungo è la Stolbovaja (река Столбовая, reka Stolbovaja), che scorre per 12 km e sfocia nella parte centrale della costa orientale.Al contrario, i laghi sono poco numerosi; il più grande, il Melkoe (озеро Мелкое, ozero Melkoe), si trova nella parte nord-occidentale ed è un lago di origine lagunare che misura circa 4 km di lunghezza e 2 km di larghezza.

Geologia
Stolbovoj è costituita da rocce sedimentarie tettonicamente deformate, accumulatesi durante il tardo Giurassico e l'inizio del Cretaceo. Si tratta principalmente di torbiditi contenenti fossili di bivalvi marini, composte da strati di siltite e argillite. Queste rocce sono state piegate in strutture sinclinali, fortemente fagliate, e frapposte a piccoli dicchi di quarzo-diorite.

Flora
Il terreno dell'isola è coperto da distese di erbe crittogame, come muschi, licheni, epatiche e altre erbe senza fiori. Carici, cespugli nani e torbiere coprono invece il territorio per il 2-40%. Spesso tutte queste piante crescono su un suolo a grana grossolana con sedimenti calcarei.

Storia
Nel 1690 Stolbovoj fu visitata dal figlio del nobile Maksim Muchoplëv. Tuttavia, egli non fu il primo a raggiungere l'isola. Muchoplëv
Stolbovoj è stata riesplorata nell'anno 1800 dal navigatore russo Jakov Sannikov.

Note

Voci correlate
 Isole della Nuova Siberia
 Isole russe dell'Artico
 Jakov Sannikov

Altri progetti

Stolbovoj
Stolbovoj

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We are Conny and Dan Dabson. We currently live in Dover, DE. Our joint interest started after Conny gave me a Canon T3 DSLR for Christmas. I started taking photos and we made our first trip to Bombay Hook NWR, Smyrna DE. We were instantly hooked on wildlife photography. It didn't take long and Conny needed an upgrade from her bridge camera. I picked her up a Canon T3 DSLR, there will be no one upping each other on equipment here.
It didn't take long for me to dig out my old Minolta X-570 film SLR and start using it again. I started developing both color and black and white photos. Wow, what a wonderful experience.


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HomeNews and ViewsWhen the drugs don't work, could bacteriophages?
When the drugs don't work, could bacteriophages?
Dr Urmi Bajpai
Many would agree that the theme of our research very often appears to us as the most pertinent problem in the world, however, it does not always happen that your chosen subject coincidentally takes centre stage in a real-life situation. A few months ago it did for me when my sister's father-in-law, a poet, and whom she and her daughter lovingly call 'DaduBhai,' was admitted to the ICU of a hospital in Mumbai, India.
DaduBhai was admitted to the hospital for asthma-related lung issues, but was otherwise cheerful. To him and us family members, it was expected to be a short-term hospital visit. However, during a visit a couple of weeks after admission, I learnt that he contracted the multiple drug-resistant bacteria, Klebsiella pneumonia and Acinetobacter baumanii, acquired during his extended stay and attributed to being on a ventilator in the ICU. Since he wasn't responding to most of the antibiotics, broad-spectrum drugs known for their adverse side effects were administered to him, which caused damage to multiple organs. Such progressive deterioration in DaduBhai's condition due to a hospital-acquired infection was extremely disturbing.
Infectious diseases, which were considered conquered in the wake of the discovery of antibiotics in the 1940s, are once again becoming a serious medical emergency across the globe and drug discovery programs have not able to keep pace with the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Bacteriophages are small viruses that are natural killers that target specific bacteria. Unlike antibiotics, they are found in abundance in nature, such as in our body, soil, rivers, ponds and oceans, and in sewage.
Lately, though, I have become fascinated with the translational health benefits of bacteriophage therapy or phage therapy. In fact, prior to antibiotics, phage therapy was given to patients and wounded soldiers and the treatment is still being used in several countries such as Poland, Georgia and Russia with high success. Bacteriophages were first discovered in the Ganga River in India more than a century ago, but regrettably, phage therapy is not even known to most of the medical community.
What are bacteriophages and how do they work?
Bacteriophages are small viruses that are natural killers that target specific bacteria. Unlike antibiotics, they are found in abundance in nature, such as in our body, soil, rivers, ponds and oceans, and in sewage. Being an inexpensive natural resource and safe for humans, as evident by their numerous and benign presence in the environment, phages offer immense potential as an alternative when antibiotics are rendered ineffective due to bacterial resistance. They can be easily isolated by using simple microbiological techniques. It typically takes one to two days of incubation for phages to appear (seen as clear zones on the bacterial lawn of the petri dishes) if the collected sample has phages present in them. The isolated phages are then grown to high numbers in a lab and any impurities are removed. They can be stored under refrigerated conditions and for long-term use, under sub-zero temperatures. Phage preparations are given to patients after testing their ability, in a procedure similar to how antibiotics are routinely tested in clinical laboratories, to kill a specific bacteria present.
A phage enthusiast
Why this therapy is not being considered globally, at least when antibiotics fail to deliver, was intriguing to me. Knowing this, I didn't want to give up on DaduBhai, so I explained phage therapy to my brother-in law and to the doctors to consider as an option, but no one in the hospital had heard of bacteriophages as therapeutics, nor were they inclined to adopt the treatment as they had never heard of it, were unsure of the procedure and seemed unenthusiastic about trying it.
Few control studies and clinical trials have been carried out on phage therapies that meet the stringent regulatory criterion as adopted by the US and Europe. There is more faith placed in well characterised drug molecules, than in complex biological entities (with their own protein and DNA) that once administered in a patient are not well understood and are perceived to cause potential harm to the host, at worst by evoking an immune response. Their pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties are still to be understood, but they have potential to become a mainstream treatment with more validation.
Being a phage enthusiast, however, and having studied them for around 3-4 years, I did some more case study research.
Around the same time as DaduBhai was ill, a case study was published by a team of scientists and doctors in San Diego, USA. The team was treating Tom, a patient suffering from a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumanii. Doctor Schooley, who was attending Tom, decided to try bacteriophages as emergency investigational new drugs (eIDs), approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Tom who had been in a coma for about two months woke up after three days of intravenous phage therapy and eventually recovered completely.
On reading this study, my family members went from being rather tentative about the treatment, to gaining more confidence in it. Time was running short for DaduBhai and we were really hoping that he would be able to survive while we looked into options.
While Tom's was a unique case, where the attending doctor, together with scientists working on phages, tried an alternative therapy as a last resort, I had also read a lot about the Eliava Phage Therapy Centre in Tiblisi, Georgia which has found success treating patients from across the world for decades. We got in touch with the centre and while discussing the procedures, I was given the details for Pranav, a resident of New Delhi who had recently undertaken phage therapy for prostatitis in their centre. Pranav had multiple infections with drug-resistant bacteria and could not be treated with the given antibiotic regimen. Everything I had read and watched online was becoming a reality. Getting to know the first-hand experience of someone from my own town was encouraging and so comforting in those tense moments. Finally, my family saw a ray of hope!
Sadly, just when we were preparing travel and visa formalities, DaduBhai succumbed to his infections. His life came to an abrupt end without being able to complete his unfinished poems and say any goodbyes to the family.
We know DaduBhai is not an isolated case. The WHO's predictions on the impending antibiotic resistance threat are real. Is it really time to submit to the situation, or should we be looking towards alternative options?
What will it take for a wider acceptance of phage therapy?
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Dr Urmi Bajpai is associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Science at Acharya Narendra Dev College in the University of Delhi. Her research efforts are towards finding new inhibitors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes TB, and studying the potential of bacteriophage-derived enzymes as antibacterial agents. You can follow her on Twitter here.
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Do you own a cage-dwelling pocket pet like a hamster, guinea pig, rat, mouse, or gerbil? One of the most important aspects of their care is regular cage-cleanings. Learn how to properly clean and sanitize your pet's cage as a Cumberland County veterinarian gives you advice.
Before beginning, gather your supplies. You'll need rubber gloves to protect your hands, paper towels or cleaning cloths, sponges, brushes, and a putty knife or razor for getting tough spots. You'll also need soap and warm water, and a sanitizing agent if you choose to sanitize your pet's cage when you're finished cleaning.
Move your pet to a back-up cage before you start cleaning. The back-up cage should be stocked with whatever your pet will need in the time it takes for you to clean the main cage. Consider putting your pet's back-up cage in another room to completely avoid any fumes or chemicals reaching your companion.
Of course, how often you clean your pet's cage depends on your pet itself. If you're keeping multiple animals together—for instance, social animals like mice and rats—you'll probably need to clean out the cage more often than if you own a solitary gerbil. Consult your veterinarian for further advice on how often you should clean out your pet's cage. Of course, every pocket pet needs their cage cleaned of uneaten food and soiled bedding daily.
Now you're ready to begin the cleaning process. Remove all objects from the cage, like food and water dishes and toys. Clean them thoroughly with soap and water and let them air-dry.
Remove soiled bedding or litter. Take your sponges, brushes, or cleaning cloths and set about washing the walls and floor of your pet's cage. Use the putty knife or razor blade to loosen tough spots. When you're done washing, rinse everything thoroughly with clean water. Once everything is completely dry, you can use your disinfectant. Always check with your Cumberland County veterinarian to make sure the product you're using is safe.
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Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize is a comic opera written in 1893 by J. M. Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle, with music by Ernest Ford, a conductor and occasional composer.

When the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership disbanded after the production of The Gondoliers in 1889, impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte was forced to find new works to present at the Savoy Theatre.  Barrie was then a journalist and a novelist with a few popular books to his credit.  He had not yet created his classic Peter Pan, and his only stage productions included a biography that closed after one night, a parody of new-to-London Henrik Ibsen, and in 1892 his first real success, Walker, London for Toole's Theatre.

Barrie brought his idea for Jane Annie to D'Oyly Carte, who suggested that Arthur Sullivan collaborate with him, but Sullivan suggested his former pupil Ford, instead.  Ford had composed several operettas, including the one-act Mr. Jericho (premiered at the Savoy in 1893).  Barrie could not finish the libretto.  He persuaded his friend Conan Doyle – already popular for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries – to work on it.  Conan Doyle finished the piece but was constrained by Barrie's work.

Productions
Jane Annie premiered at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 13 May 1893 and was an immediate failure there.  Barrie and Conan Doyle made revisions, but the piece closed after a run of only 50 performances, despite a strong cast that included such Savoy favourites as Rutland Barrington, Walter Passmore, Rosina Brandram, Emmie Owen, and Decima Moore.  The opera was the Savoy Theatre's first real flop.

Jane Annie closed at the Savoy on 1 July 1893 and went on tour to Bradford, Newcastle, Manchester, and Birmingham, until 26 August 1893.  The tour was far more successful than the show had been in London.  Barrington, a lifelong golf enthusiast, speculated that one reason for the failure of Jane Annie in London was that the game of golf was not yet popular there.  Jane Annie has not been professionally revived.

Roles and original cast
The Proctor, in love with Miss Sims (bass-baritone) - Rutland Barrington
Sim, a bulldog (baritone) - Lawrence Grindley
Greg, a bulldog (baritone) - Walter Passmore
Tom, a press student (tenor) - Charles Kenningham
Jack, a soldier (baritone) - R. Scott Fishe
Caddie, a page (treble) - Harry Rignold
First Student (non-singing) - Bowden Haswell
Miss Sims, the headmistress (contralto) - Rosina Brandram
Jane Annie, a good girl (mezzo-soprano) - Dorothy Vane
Bab, a bad girl (soprano) - Decima Moore
Milly, an average girl (soprano) - Florence Perry
Rose, another (mezzo-soprano) - Emmie Owen
Meg, another (non-singing) - José Shalders
Maud, another (non-singing) - May Bell
Chorus of Schoolgirls, Press Students and Lancers

Note on Terminology:

A proctor is a senior member of the university staff responsible for discipline, including assigning fines, as well as general administration. Bulldogs are the nickname of the university police, the officials who act on the proctor's behalf. A page is a young servant, usually in his teens, with responsibility for minor household tasks.

Synopsis
Jane Annie is set at a girls' boarding school near a famous English university town (implied to be Oxford).

Act I: The first floor of "The Seminary for Little Things That Grow Into Women", Night.

The girls are bidding good night to each other when there is a knock at the front door.  Miss Sims, the headmistress, shows three men into her study and plugs up the keyhole.  Bab, a "bad girl", begins to tell the girls about a secret she has, but is interrupted by Jane Annie, the school's "good girl" tattletale, who promptly goes to tell Miss Sims what she heard.  Bab hastily fills the other girls in on her plan to elope that night with Jack, a soldier.  When Jane Annie returns with Miss Sims, Bab pretends her secret was how tired she was, and pretends to go to bed.  Miss Sims introduces her guests as the Proctor and his bulldogs, who are at the school to capture a student who is "carrying on a flirtation".  With the help of Miss Sims, after the girls retire for the night, the Proctor hides inside the grandfather clock, substituting his face for the clock face, and awaits his prey.  Tom, a press (journalism) student from the university, enters through the window.  He is another suitor of Bab's and meets with her, but she breaks off their relationship.  The Proctor emerges from his hiding place and scares Tom back out the window.  A moment later, a note is thrown through the window, and Bab suggests that it is from Miss Sims, who used to be the Proctor's sweetheart.  As he departs, Jane Annie comes downstairs and lowers the lights, when Jack enters, in a cloak.  He discovers he has addressed the wrong girl and drops the cloak as he runs.

Jane Annie disguises herself in the cloak and pretends to be Jack when Bab comes downstairs with her luggage.  Bab faints into her arms, Jane Annie screams, and the whole house is alerted.  The press students from the university, who have been following the Proctor to get a story out of him, are near enough to hear the scream, so they join the girls and Miss Sims in finding Bab in Jane Annie's arms, fainted from fright.  Miss Sims sends the girls to their rooms (they remain on the balcony instead), and the Proctor enters furiously.  The press students ambush him with an interview and they repeatedly misinterpret his statements and his attempted corrections, so he invents a story to avoid scandal.  Greg and Sim announce that they caught someone - but he's not the undergraduate they were after.  Jack appears, swearing revenge for false arrest, and Miss Sims decides to reward Jane Annie for foiling Bab's elopement.  Jane Annie requests the Good Conduct Prize, and Miss Sims agrees. While Miss Sims is getting the prize, Jane Annie reveals that she has the powers of hypnotism, and, now that the Good Conduct Prize is safely hers, she is free to be as bad as she likes and will begin the very next day.

Act II: A golf course attached to the school. An arbour and small waterway visible.

The next day, which is the last day of the semester, Caddie, a young servant, is taking Bab out to the golf course to let her see what she is missing, since she is being punished by not being allowed to play.  Jane Annie, in a moment alone with her, tells Bab that she has chosen one of Bab's suitors, Jack, for her lover, although she hasn't told him yet.

The girls enter, playing at the hole, and Miss Sims, hypnotised by Jane Annie, decides that some men may be admitted as part of their end-of-semester celebration.  To liven things up further, she adds that the girls may assume the character of men.  When she's alone with Jane Annie, Miss Sims says that she had the oddest dream of writing several letters that morning, which Caddie delivered.  The result of letter one is quickly realised, when the press students arrive in cap and gown.  They produce Miss Sims' letter, which she identifies as her writing.  When the whiskey and soda arrive (letter number two!), Caddie smells a rat and threatens to tell on Jane Annie if he doesn't get a kiss from her.

The girls meet the press students, and since all the girls have decided to be men, the students become girls to oblige them.  Just when the fun begins, the Proctor appears and scares off the real men.  The girls continue their deception until the Proctor threatens to gate them all, and the girls drop their caps and gowns.  Embarrassed, he fines himself a shilling, which Greg and Sim pay.  Jack and the soldiers appear by Miss Sims' invitation, and more letters are revealed, to her annoyance.  Jane Annie finds Jack and tells him that he will elope with her, something he'd rather not do.  Tom and Jack meet face to face and insult each other's intelligence.  They nonetheless prepare to run off together, but discover that Caddie has hidden the key to the boatshed.  As they formulate their plan, Bab reconciles with Tom, finding Jack arrogant and too idealistic.  The Proctor catches Bab in Tom's arms, but she uses her charms to weaken the Proctor's will.  She eventually ties him up with her boa and locks him in the arbour.

The carriage has arrived to take the lovers away, but they can't cross the river without the boat.  Jane Annie hypnotises Caddie, who has hidden the key in an undisclosed location on his person.  When he gives up the key, Miss Sims catches them.  Jane Annie hypnotizes her into giving her blessing, and then she hypnotizes the Proctor into paying for their expenses.  Jack refuses to accompany Jane Annie, so she hypnotizes him as well, and he agrees to love her.  The happy couples escape, and when the spell is broken, Miss Sims and the Proctor realise that a joke has been played on them, and their reputations are ruined.  The Proctor attempts to get a moral out of it, but since he can't recall it, he suggests "you'd best go home without it".  Caddie would suggest that the moral is "no more Good Conduct prizes", but the others don't allow him get a word in on the matter.

Critical and audience reception
At the opening night performance, the majority of the audience showed their disappointment. During the second act, Barrie and Doyle left their private box.  Ford was applauded for his music, but the audience did not call for the authors. "Towards the end it became more and more apparent that the audience were getting rather bored, and the final verdict... was far from enthusiastic."

The critics generally condemned the opera, calling the authors to task for a boring story and criticising Ford for his highly derivative score.  The Stage wrote that, "Dramatically, Jane Annie is simply a sketch of schoolgirl caprice and persistent waywardness".  The paper lamented that the opera was funnier to read than to see on stage.  The Times had a more favourable view of the piece. The cast and crew were praised by some critics for their efforts at working such unworthy parts.  "However hard [Moore] worked, she remained thoroughly embarrassed by the whole thing.  As curtain-calls were being taken, she refused to come out of her dressing-room, though pit and gallery shouted for her for five minutes; and when at length the piece was taken on tour, she absolutely refused to go with it."

List of musical numbers

Introduction
Act I
"Good night" (Milly and Girls)
"I'm not a sneak for praise or pelf" (Jane Annie and Girls)
"Bright-eyed Bab I used to be" (Bab, Miss Sims, Jane Annie and Girls)
"There was a time when we were not...Name and college!" (Proctor with Bab, Miss Sims, Jane Annie, Sim and Greg)
"Approach her thus" (Miss Sims, Proctor, Sim and Greg)
"When a bulldog I became" (Greg and Sim)
"It was the time of thistledown" (Tom)
"What are the gifts that love may bring?" (Bab, Tom and Proctor)
"Little maiden, pause and ponder" (Voices in the air)
Act 1 Finale
"Madam, do not think us rude in" (Press Students and Girls)
"There once was a man in a seaside town" (Proctor and Chorus)
"An officer I, strolling by" (Jack)
"When I was a little piccaninny" (Jane Annie and Chorus)
"Hail, Jane Annie, hail!" (Milly, Rose, Miss Sims, Caddie, Proctor, Sim, Greg and Chorus)

Act 2
Introduction..."A page boy am I" (Caddie and Bab)
"To golf is staid for bashful maid" (Girls)
"A girl again I seem to be" (Miss Sims)
"Where the willows shade the river" (Press Students)
"When I was a" (Sim and Greg)
"We are conscious that we slightly condescend" (Jack and Soldiers)
"You and I, dear Jack, will show" (Jane Annie, Jack and Chorus)
Ballet
"Last night when we were forced to part" (Bab and Tom)
"I'm a man of erudition" (Proctor and Bab)
"You're now a sentimental maid" (Jane Annie, Miss Sims, Bab, Tom, Jack, Proctor and Chorus)
"The moral of this story is" (Milly, Miss Sims, Proctor and Chorus)

See also
Savoy Opera

Notes

References
 Preface by W. S. Gilbert, accessed March 9, 2008
Home page at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
Article about Barrie, Doyle and the preparation of Jane Annie
Article on Jane Annie focusing on the hypnotism element

External links

Jane Annie at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
Libretto prepared by Ian Bond
Piano/vocal score
Discussion of the collaboration and legacy of Jane Annie
Information about a 2007 amateur performance in Rockford Illinois
Illustration from Jane Annie

English comic operas
Plays by J. M. Barrie
1893 operas
Operas
Works by Arthur Conan Doyle


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"With traditional administrative and finance functions increasingly automated, the accountant of the future will need to adapt to higher-value work and take on more strategic roles," Kelly Services said. The hottest jobs under this sector include accounts assistants, finance executives and financial analysts.
Similarly, the recruitment firm noted that statistics by the Ministry of Manpower show that financial services was one of the key drivers of employment growth in the first quarter this year.
"In financial services, the government has set a target of creating 3,000 jobs from 2018 to 2020, with an additional 1,000 jobs per year expected to come from the thriving fintech sector.
"Concurrently, the sector is focusing on the adoption of technologies including blockchain and AI (artificial intelligence) to strengthen the country's digital transformation efforts. The country's blockchain-friendly environment has also drawn numerous foreign startups to Singapore," Kelly Services said.
The hottest jobs under this sector include compliance officer, risk analyst and client relationship manager.
Meanwhile, over at the healthcare and life sciences sector, Singapore will need to almost double its pool of existing long-term care workers by 2020 to support its ageing population, the report stated.
"To meet this urgent need, the sector must overcome several challenges, such as misaligned salary expectations and lack of manpower... when medical records are fully digitised in the next few years, upskilling and reskilling will be imperative for healthcare workers and patient service associates."
Among other professions, jobs that will be in demand under this industry include medical sales representative, radiographer and staff nurse.
In addition, jobs that require a human touch, such as customer service, should continue to see strong demand, the report highlighted. "At Budget 2019, the government introduced several measures to reduce the sector's dependency on foreign manpower, including a reduction in the foreign worker quota to 35 per cent by 2021."
Lastly, the report also pointed out that the manufacturing sector remained the largest contributor to Singapore's economy, primarily supported by the electronics, transport engineering and biomedical manufacturing sectors.
However, many engineering vacancies today go unfulfilled, due to a shortfall in local workforce supply and engineers leaving the profession, Kelly Services said.
To boost workforce training and development for the Built Environment sector, the government has committed S$72 million until 2020, and vocations that will be in demand this year include application engineer, maintenance technician, as well as health & safety engineer, the report stated.
Taken together, the increase in employment opportunities will be driven by stronger demand for services, coupled with a decline in manpower and specific skill sets, Kelly Services said. It added that landing these in-demand roles will require job seekers to possess a combination of hard and soft skills.
"As organisations across various industries accelerate their digital transformation journeys, communication, analytics, digital, and change management skills will help employees take on more strategic roles. Those with blockchain skills and AI expertise will also be highly sought-after, especially in the banking and finance sector," the recruitment firm noted.
Said Foo See Yang, managing director and country head at Kelly Services Singapore: "Digital disruption is impacting all facets of Singapore's economy – right down to the workforce. To find success in the digital age, we need a reskilling and upskilling revolution. This talent will find better wage and employment opportunities, regardless of level or industry."
On the back of heightened global uncertainties, Singapore is expecting a slight decline in overall economic growth this year, Kelly Services said. The firm also noted that labour growth outlook remains modest in the years ahead, due to underlying demographics of an ageing population and low birth rates.
Added Mr Foo: "Amid challenging labour market conditions and the talent crunch, our 2019 Q1 APAC Workforce Insights found several groups of workers that companies may tap into – mature workers, returning mothers, and people with disabilities or special needs.
"These workers can be valuable assets to the workforce, especially for sectors that face challenges in finding local workers."
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Darwin Beer Can Regatta swaps tinnies for milk cartons during coronavirus pandemic
By Henry Zwartz and Nicholas Hynes
Posted SunSunday 2 AugAugust 2020 at 5:47amSunSunday 2 AugAugust 2020 at 5:47am , updated SunSunday 2 AugAugust 2020 at 1:46pmSunSunday 2 AugAugust 2020 at 1:46pm
The family friendly event focused more on relaxed fun this year then a pell-mell race with ships made of beer cans. (ABC News: Nicholas Hynes)
It is a highlight in Darwin's calendar, but the coronavirus pandemic has cast a cloud over this year's Beer Can Regatta.
Darwin's Beer Can Regatta started in 1974 as an event to clean up cans littering the city's streets
The event usually attracts as many as 15,000 visitors, but numbers were down this year because of coronavirus
The race was held at the Darwin Waterfront Precinct this year. In the past it's been held at Mindil Beach
On Sunday, the event went ahead but with a couple of vessels made of milk cartons rather than a flotilla made of beer cans.
The regatta began in June in 1974 as an event designed to clean up empty beer cans littering the city's streets.
It has since attracted crowds of up to 15,000, but only hundreds were present for this year's family-friendly event.
This year, instead of boats made of beer cans manned by heavy-drinking crews, the vessels were made from iced coffee and flavoured milk cartons.
Traditionally held at Mindil Beach, the regatta moved to the much smaller waterfront precinct due to coronavirus restrictions.
A large crowd gathers to watch the Beer Can Regatta during the 1970s. (Supplied: Naomi Field Blewit/Old Darwin Facebook)
Organisers said they had been considering "cancelling the event altogether" because of COVID-19.
Darwin Lions Club organiser Connell Brannelly said the event was still a lot of fun for families and he was glad it could go ahead.
"We don't have any major beer can boats coming down, but when we decided to put this on we decided to put it on with a beach event and that's what it's turned out to be," Mr Brannelly said.
"The coronavirus restrictions have been lifted somewhat here.
"When we decided to run the mini event we had to think of a new location, and we have people from all over here, which is great."
Milk carton boat builder Ollie Miller, 6, said it was nerve wracking sending his cardboard boat into the water.
"I thought it would be a bit heavy," he said.
But all the boats survived their maiden voyage, and Annabelle Miller, 7, said it was a fun day.
"I just went swimming in the water, towing the boat around, looking for fish. It was exciting," Annabelle said.
Ollie Miller (second from left) said he was nervous his milk carton vessel would be too heavy, but it survived its maiden voyage. (ABC News: Nicholas Hynes)
In the 1970s and 1980s the boat designs became increasingly elaborate, to the point where some even had outboard motors and thousands of beer cans were used.
But aluminium cans crush at higher speeds, so the use of outboard motors was phased out.
Over time the regatta became an iconic event, attracting visitors from around the globe, including competitors and spectators from the United States.
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One of the best analysis regarding NAS choosing…I've searched exactly like this! Well done!
I want through this exersize a 8 years ago and went RAID 5 with a (unfortunately too rare) back-up to store offsite. One of the additional concerns was that this is for a smal industrial design firm and the data is worth everything to us, and loss by fire or theft also had to be accounted for.
The end of the story is that the RAID corrupted and we lost everything. The back-up that we stored off site had a lot of the data but not all, and most of the workstations had the CAD system set to store a backup on the workstation, with the main file stored on the server, and that saved us.
We threw the RAID away and figured out how to back the server up to dropbox (which was difficult, dropbox doesn't want to that) and accepted all other limitations that solution presented. This turned out to have a lot of nice features.
My point is that data corruption across multiple drives is a downside of RAID systems that should be considered.
Dropbox is certainly a reasonable approach and I have several sysadmin buddies who've used it with great success. One of my primary concerns was the legality of data security which, in my opinion, is significantly enhanced by keeping the data onsite. You are correct though that there are some data integrity concerns with RAID and I hope to switch to ZFS in the future to help avoid those issues in the future.
Excellent and complete revue, bravo and thanks for sharing.
One question about raid conf you've choosed : software or hardware raid 6 with an independant controller ?
Finally, did you install OMV as OS ? If yes, are you satisfied with it ?
I received my N54L yesterday but I'm waiting to be sure about my hdd config.
The issue with using a hardware RAID controller is that it's a single point of failure, if the card fails your only hope of recovery is to find the exact same type of card.
Yes, hardware RAID is a bit faster, but the extra speed is not a deal breaker for me and not worth the extra risk.
I did install OMV as the OS, and I am very satisfied with it. It's build on Debian, which I also use on my VPS.
Question about your comment about ZFS. Why don't you think it's ready for primetime? I'm not asking because I disagree…I'm trying to build a large NAS for a friend and I'm trying to decide on OMV or FreeNAS. I really like OMV in terms of stability but research had indicated that ZFS was superior to RAID6, so that's where I'm getting my OMV or FreeNAS issue.
Also any thoughts about SnapRAID?
Not really…I let CrashPlan handle at the backups and versioning.
Yes, while ZFS is technically better, RAID 6 still met the requirements I had and was cheaper and easier to implement.
ZFS had its first stable release in May 2013 and one of my goals for this system was to minimize the amount of sysadmin work I would have to do.
FreeBSD does not easily support CrashPlan, which is the off-site backup service I use. Since FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, that drove me to use OMV (Debian does support CrashPlan). Unfortunately, while Debian did support ZFS, OMV did not support ZFS (although I believe the pending 0.6 release will).
I did play around a bit with trying to get CrashPlan to work with FreeBSD and to integrate ZFS with OMV, but it ended up being too "hacky" and ultimately was not inline with wanting to minimize future sysadmin work.
Had a stable release of ZFS been around a year earlier, OMV would have probably had better support, either officially or through a plugin.
Thus, even though a stable release was available at the time I built my NAS, it was still a bit too much on the bleeding edge for the all the other components I was also trying to integrate.
So, minimum of 8GB and I would need at least 12 GB. The N54L officially only supports 8GB, but many have used 16GB successfully…but that still runs $200 or so, which would have increased the budget by 50%.
Again as many other have stated this is a very solid review of pro's and con's and risk assessment.
I am in a similar situation. I have Qnap NAS (SS.439) which will eventually run out of space and it wants to be be fed with expensive 2,5″ drive which do not hold enough data in the long run. It has served me nicely with no errors in almost 6 years including 3 rebuilds (online RAID extension) – pretty good I think.
So in other words I need a new NAS :-).
I do considers FreeNAS and RAIDz but I am still not sure…..
The English equivalent of USV ("unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung" is UPS ("Uninterruptible Power Supply"), and yes, that is a pretty easy way to solve the write hole issue.
The issue I have with hardware RAID controllers is that if the company goes out of business or stops offering the exact same model, then what? I think it's easier to just use software RAID, especially since software RAID still met my requirements.
@AndrewFerguson great write up! digesting… how do you find OpenMediaVault?
Andrew, were you able to implement RAID 6 with the HP G7? In your analysis you indicated you would need five 4 TB drives to achieve 10+ TB of space, but it looks to me like the HP G7 (and G8) only has 4 drive bays.
Darryl: Yup, RAID 6 was implemented in software through mdadm.
I converted the media bay with a 2.5″ and 3.5″ Multi-Function Hot Swap Rack with USB 3.0 to hold the fifth 3.5″ data drive, as well as a 2.5″ system drive. I also had to add a Low Profile SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x1 Card.
I wondered if you had modified the internal 4 bay cage to hold 2.5″ drives, but your solution is better — allows the use of cheaper 3.5″ drives for data and provides room for a boot device. Nice. Lots to think about here. Thanks for the excellent write up.


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Q: GraphQL Subscriptions: Max Listeners Exceeded Warning We are using GraphQL Subscriptions and pubsub to subscribe to posts.
When more than 10 subscriptions occur we get the the node warning "MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected."
Is it possible to raise the max listeners in the pubsub class?
The pubsub class is inside a separate module and looks like this:

import { PubSub } from 'graphql-subscriptions';

const pubsub = new PubSub();

export { pubsub };

The subscription server looks like this:

import { SubscriptionManager } from 'graphql-subscriptions';
import { createServer } from 'http';
import { SubscriptionServer } from 'subscriptions-transport-ws';

import { pubsub } from './subscriptions';
import executableSchema from './executableSchema';

const WS_PORT = 8080;

const websocketServer = createServer((request, response) => {
  response.writeHead(404);
  response.end();
});

websocketServer.listen(WS_PORT, () => console.log(
  `Websocket Server is now running on http://localhost:${WS_PORT}`
));

const subscriptionManager = new SubscriptionManager({
  schema: executableSchema,
  pubsub: pubsub,
  setupFunctions: {
        newPost: (options, args) => {
         return {
            newPostChannel: {
               filter: (post) => {
                  return args.publicationId === post.relatedPublication.id;
               }
            },
         };
      },
  },
});

const subscriptionServer = new SubscriptionServer({
  subscriptionManager: subscriptionManager
}, {
  server: websocketServer,
  path: '/',
});

export {
  subscriptionServer,
};

A: ee is a protected member of PubSub, so setting it directly will cause errors in a TypeScript project. However, you can pass an EventEmitter with an adjusted MaxListener count to the PubSub constructor:
import { PubSub } from 'apollo-server-express';
import { EventEmitter } from 'events';

const biggerEventEmitter = new EventEmitter();
biggerEventEmitter.setMaxListeners(30);
const pubSub = new PubSub({eventEmitter: biggerEventEmitter});

A: Found out that you can change the max listeners in the event emitter of the pubsub instance, like so:

import { PubSub } from 'graphql-subscriptions';

const pubsub = new PubSub();
pubsub.ee.setMaxListeners(30); // raise max listeners in event emitter

export { pubsub };

A: I wrote the original implementation of the graphql-subscriptions package you're using, so I can provide some context here.
The simple EventEmitter pubsub library included in graphql-subscriptions is only intended for demo purposes. EventEmitters don't really scale to large numbers, they're in-memory, and they'll only work as long as you have no more than a single server.
For anyone trying to run GraphQL subscriptions in production, I strongly recommend using a different system, for example Redis or MQTT through graphql-redis-subscriptions or graphql-mqtt-subscriptions. This will have the advantage of keeping the GraphQL server stateless (apart from the websockets) and thus easy to scale horizontally.


Having a destination wedding puts you in more control of where you want to get married. You can say I DO anywhere you want, instead of being bound within your hometown, making the whole occasion extra special and a lot more memorable!
You Can Cut Down On the Guest List!
Why should one choose to be wed among a bunch of old colleagues, neighborhood acquaintances, and extended family members to be a part of their magical experience? When a couple is on board for the idea of a wedding away from home, they become less obliged to invite people they do not really care about. It becomes an exclusive invite only event! And even if they do invite too many people, it is much less likely that they would attend. Without the odd uncle and the grumpy boss, the celebrations would become more intimate.
Quality Time with Your Faves!
A destination wedding is just a fancy word for an awesome vacation with the people you love the most! If you have loved ones who live far away, it's the perfect excuse for all of them to come together to a vacation spot and finally spend some quality time away from home. You can party hard and get some great pictures for your wedding album!
Leave Your Worries Far Away!
With a wedding far from home, you leave it to your wedding planners to manage everything. There's a lot less for you to do, saving time for you to relax and really enjoy the experience instead of stressing out about it. Usually such locations provide a complete package, making it a whole lot easier for you.
Jamaica: It has a lively atmosphere, the locals are too kind, and the beaches are beautiful. It has resorts that offer all-inclusive wedding packages. To top it off, it is also a great honeymoon spot.
Costa Rica: This is a very adventurous place to have a wedding. You could do all sorts of fun activities like zip lining with your loved ones at affordable rates.
Sedona, Arizona: This location will give your wedding a rustic feel and is an amazing place to exchange your vows!
Hawaii: This is a popular place for a destination wedding. Since it's so beautiful and romantic, there are many affordable packages for people on a budget.
Las Vegas: This is one of the most entertaining cities in the world. There is no chance that you or your guests would get bored. Imagine the parties and fashionable outfits!
These are just few of the locations, but the world is full of many more exciting places to host your wedding. It all depends on your preference. Don't let anything hold you back from having the wedding of your lifetime!


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Posted byJohnny P	 December 2, 2012 June 24, 2017 Leave a comment on How often should you replace your helmet?
About 15 minutes later Matt did a face plant on a rock. Not much help from the helmet and lots of blood, I've got to find that photo, but I digress. I mailed the helmet back to Bell and they sent me a new one with a certificate that said, "Saved by the Bell". The replacement helmet got broken on a trail called Amasa Back also in Moab. If you impact your helmet in a crash they are designed to protect you by compressing so after the crash the helmet has compromised and you need to replace it. If you've done anything else with it that could give it a significant impact like dropping a suitcase on it or your tool box, you should replace it.
But back to the question at hand, how often should you replace your helmet?
Some helmet manufacturers recommend replacing your helmet every three years. Now the helmet manufacturers aren't particularly without bias in this situation. Heck, if they can get you to fork out another $75 or more for a Styrofoam bucket covered in a thin shell, that's some serious profit. I'm not saying that they don't have your best interest from a safety stand point in mind but there is definitely a profit motive at work here. So how do we find an unbiased third party that at least has the goal of keeping my melon in one piece as their primary mission? We look-up the highly factual, yet visually boring, Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute (BHSI) website. http://www.helmets.org and see what they have to say about it.
An Italian helmet manufacturer called MET notes that their testing shows that their helmets should last 8 years. Use good judgment, if the helmet is old technology, has any damage or no longer can be secured to your head correctly replace it. Hopefully you never have to use your helmet but if you do, you'll be glad you had it.


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Palm Desert softball can't overcome early miscues in CIF second-round loss to St. Paul
Shad Powers
There is a sliding scale in the world of playoff softball. The deeper into the tournament you go, the fewer mistakes you can make.
The Palm Desert High School softball team made a few too many mistakes early in their Division 3 second-round game against St. Paul (Santa Fe Springs), and ran out of time on their rally, falling 6-3 to put an end to the season.
The Aztecs didn't go down without a fight. They trailed 6-1 entering the bottom of the seventh inning, but plated two runs and then had two runners on and the tying run at home plate with their No. 3 and No. 4 hitters up. But they couldn't get the big hit they needed against talented St. Paul hurler Jordin King.
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The loss was followed by plenty of tears and hugs as one of the best seasons in Palm Desert history came to an end. It was a season that included the school's first trip to the second round of the softball playoffs in at least a decade, and a second straight DVL title.
Nia Carter, St. Paul junior: The talented center fielder and leadoff hitter, who will be heading to Louisville in two years, was pesky at the plate. She had two singles, a double, a walk, scored a run and knocked in two.
Jordin King, St. Paul freshman: The tall hard-throwing freshman, who committed to Cal as an eighth-grader, kept the Aztecs off balance most of the night. She didn't yield a hit until the fourth inning. And even when Palm Desert started to get to her, she came up with the big pitches when she needed to, including a game-ending strikeout. She also scored twice at the plate.
Trinity Villa, Palm Desert senior: Villa had a single, a double and an RBI in the game.
Jasmine Perezchica, Palm Desert sophomore: Perezhica had a single in the seventh inning, but it was her defense at second base that helped keep the Aztecs in the game. She made two diving catches on line drives, one of which she turned into a double play, and also ranged into foul territory to make another sprawling catch.
The sun: Well, the sun is always technically a star, but it played a big factor in this game. Both teams received a boost when the opposing right-fielder had trouble seeing a fly ball in the sun. The Aztecs' first run and the Swordsmen's third run scored that way.
It didn't feel like there was going to be a dramatic finish, but the bottom of the seventh delivered a lot of drama.
With one out and nobody on, senior pinch-hitter Cece Luna led off with a single. She was replaced by pinch-runner Kalyn Lopez. The next batter was Ivana Gottwald who hit a hard ground ball to third. The St. Paul third baseman picked it, but her throw to second to start a game-ending double play whizzed past the second baseman and rolled to the wall. Lopez and Gottwald both scored to make it 6-3. All of a sudden those rally caps being worn in the Aztec dugout felt like they might be working.
Leadoff hitter Perezchica followed with a beautiful slap-chop single to third. Karli Mannie then hit a hot shot to third that was bobbled for a split second, long enough for Mannie to reach first.
Now all of a sudden, the tying run was at the plate with senior captain Sydney Sprinkle up. She sent a short fly ball to right field. The ball clanked off the right-fielder's glove, but they were still able to get the force out at second as the runner at first had no choice but to stay close to the bag on the play.
With two outs and runners on first and third for Bayley Gonzalez, she battled and fouled off a few pitches, but in the end it was a swing and a miss at a King fastball and that touched off a celebration for the Swordsmen.
The chatter
Jim Serven, Palm Desert coach: "I don't think it was jitters, it's just miscues happen. Most of their runs were defensive mistakes and a couple of walks, but we've overcome that before. They're just a solid team and you make too many mistakes they're going to cash in on them."
Serven on seventh-inning rally: "I just told the girls after the game. You can take that with you the rest of your life. Fight until the end. Never give up and you'll never have any regrets."
Syndey Sprinkle, senior catcher: "We fought to the very end. We gave it all we got, and that's all you can ask for. I'm upset but I can't be that upset because we gave it our all."
Bayley Gonzalez, senior first baseman: "We ended strong. We gave it our all and losses happen. I mean I'm going to look back and be like 'that was us that got something started here.'"
Trinity Villa, senior DH: "I'm very happy with this team and how hard we worked during the season. And I think we ended strong and it could have been stronger, but I'm really proud of all these girls and all the underclassmen that are going to keep excelling in the sport and continuing to make the school better known. I'm just glad we were able to turn this program around. We're leaving, but I think we're leaving the program in good terms."
Serven on the senior group: "They've gotten us to a point where we expect to win every game. Legitimately, they expect to win every game, and that's a tough thing to instill, a winning culture like that. And we're going to try to keep that going for those seniors. Trying to get Palm Desert on the map, and I think we did a little bit of that this year."
In this game, the Aztecs didn't do the little things that it takes to win tough games. But they showed their character by fighting to the end against a very talented St. Paul team. While this is the farthest Palm Desert has gone in more than 10 years, making the playoffs is par for the course for the Swordsmen.
St. Paul actually won the Division 3 CIF title in 2014 and has made the playoffs every year since. However, this is the first time they've advanced past the second round since that title season. They have four players committed to Division I colleges and none of those four players are seniors, so the Swordsmen will be a tough out for a while.
And as the five Palm Desert seniors depart -- starters Sprinkle, Gonzalez and Villa as well as reserves Luna and Aleyna Velasquez -- they can do so knowing that they have helped get the Aztecs to a stage where they expect to win DVL titles, expect to win playoff games and expect to advance deep into the postseason. That wasn't the case before they got there.
St. Paul (19-8) advances to the Division 3 quarterfinals and will be on the road again, this time against West Torrance. The Aztecs finish the year at 18-6 and will return a squad that includes six starters from this year's team, including ace pitcher Carlie Williams.


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Didrik Marksten (ur. 1 marca 1971) – norweski narciarz alpejski. Najlepsze wyniki w Pucharze Świata osiągnął w sezonie 1991/1992, kiedy to zajął 25. miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej. Najlepszym wynikiem Markstena na mistrzostwach świata było 8. miejsce w gigancie i kombinacji na mistrzostwach w Saalbach. Nie startował na żadnych Igrzyskach Olimpijskich.

Sukcesy

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej
 1990/1991 – 59.
 1991/1992 – 25.
 1992/1993 – 51.
 1993/1994 – 105.

Miejsca na podium
  St. Gervais – 2 lutego 1992 (gigant) – 1. miejsce
  Crans-Montana 20 marca 1992 (gigant) – 3. miejsce

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie FIS

Norwescy narciarze alpejscy
Urodzeni w 1971
Ludzie urodzeni w Oslo


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More than 3,000 people evacuated due to 'Samuel'
by Roel Tibay
By Aaron Recuenco
Authorities have evacuated almost 3,000 people in Central Visayas and the Caraga region as preemptive measures against landslides and flashfloods over the threat of tropical depression 'Samuel' which is expected to hit the Visayas and Mindanao.
A total of 2,503 people were moved to evacuation centers in Surigao del Sur, Surigao del Norte and the Dinagat Island following the advice of local disaster management officials which were implemented by the local government units, according to the local police.
In Dinagat Island, the evacuees are from nine barangays of the towns of Loreto, San Jose, Dinagat and Basilica. They were moved to schools which are the usual evacuation centers.
In Surigao del Norte, eight barangays were projected to be directly affected by the weather disturbance which prompted local officials to implement the preemptive evacuation.
The biggest number of evacuees at the Caraga region is from Surigao del Sur with 262 families or 1,346 individuals coming from six barangays from the towns of Cagwait, Hinatuan and Carrascal.
In Bohol, 472 people were evacuated while 16 other persons were moved to safer grounds in Cebu.
Tropical depression 'Samuel' was spotted some 960 kilometers east of Hinatuan town of Surigao del Sur and is expected to unleash strong winds and heavy downpour.
The weather disturbance is expected to hit the land mass near the Dinagat Island, Samar and Leyte areas.
As another preemptive measure, passenger ships and other seacrafts were no longer allowed to sail.
A total of 68 persons were stranded in the Caraga region while almost 1,500 other passengers in the seaports of Cebu, Bohol and Negros Oriental.
Authorities are eyeing a zero casualty goal amid the series of deaths, mostly due to landslides, from the two recent weather disturbances that hit the northern part of the country in the past few months.