Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome singer-songwriter Stephanie Chin and her band back with her ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC Awaken Creation 2 concert in the 1867 Sanctuary.
Stephanie Chin celebrates the beauty of the art within all of us. This Awaken Creation 2 concert will feature songs written by herself, her bandmates, and other talented songwriter friends in the hopes to inspire the audience to tap in to and nurture the gifts we each have no matter how small they may seem.
She will be accompanied by her friend and songwriting partner, Kristen Blum on guitar (and maybe even keys). She will be joined by Rosalie Chin on vocals. Her new friend, Gabriie Luc Gonzales will be on lead guitar. Her genius friend, Joe Casalino, on drums/percussion and Ajibola Jeremy Rivers will play cello & bass.
A New Jersey native, Kristen Blum is a self-taught guitarist of 26 years & singer/songwriter. Kristen has performed at notable venues in New Jersey such as Mexicali Blues & The Stone Pony. She's a regular favorite at New Hope's Logan Inn, at Asbury Park's "Women's Weekend" & in North Jersey with both Stephanie Chin and her acoustic duo "Strawberry Moon". Kristen is excited to have co-written a few songs on Stephanie Chin's debut EP.
Joe Casalino, drums and percussion, studied with Kenwood Denard, Joe Bonadio, and Pat Petrillo. He has recorded with Ned Farr and the Good Red Road, the Burbans and appears on various film soundtracks and documentaries. He performs locally and in N.Y.C. with various artists and is on the faculty of Music Tech Academy in NJ.
Gabriie Luc Gonzales (lead guitar and bass) is an eclectic guitarist who resides in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Over the past sixteen years, he's dedicated himself to finding his "voice" on his instrument by way of instruction and experimentation — both of which are facilitated by his propensity towards curiosity. Gabriie completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at DeSales University in 2014. During his time at DeSales, he received musical instruction and guidance from Frank Michael Flandorffer of Pennsylvania Guitar Quintet fame. Currently, he's pursuing an advanced degree in mathematics at Lehigh University while striving to maintain his presence in the local, musical community.
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My quick rendering of a BMW i8 race car concept.
The front looks great, but I was hoping to see the C pillar lips/wings (whatever they would be called) really exaggerated.
those seats look a bit cushy for a race car...and theres two of them, totally unacceptable!
Nicely done, i like it!
Thx! Always fun to be featured in Top Gear.
That, sir, is freakin' awesome!


This is what happens when we are sold a bill of goods by the money changers. How can we have this situation in a country as rich in resources as this one? When did we become a third world hell hole?
I watched that episode tonight and it broke my heart. Seeing those poor children out there struggling. Surprisingly, a lot of them had very good attitudes. They were weary and some were scared but it is a testament to their character how some of them behaved. It left me speechless. Some of those kids are going to be the future of this country and they will be shaped by this expereince. I hope that they all make it and I will be on my knees tonight praying for each and every one of them.
We did this to ourselves. WE let it happen!
What are we prepared to do now?
This has been going on since the advent of fire: humans living off others instead of their own labor. It culminated in the United States in 1912 with the election of Woodrow Wilson. In 1913, Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act and subsequently, the 16th Amendment was put in place. Lots of other shenanigans have taken place over time, before but mostly during the last 100 years, especially in the USA. There were a group of bankers on Jekyll Island that had come up with a way to further their own profits by controlling the currency, its volume and its value and most imporantly, production. We all know the story…..but are we going to continue to be part of it?
So yes, we did this to ourselves. And so did our great grand parents and grandparents and parents and we are doing it to our own children and our children to their children. This has been going on for several generations now and continues and only gets worse. We may have already passed the tipping point. While we cannot fix everything overnite (and some things will NEVER be fixed), if we want to rid our society of evil and give folks a fair chance, there is only one idea that comes to mind: WE CAN DO THIS ONE THING: END THE FED.
Who has an idea on how we accomplish this task?
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They're right. When enough states stand up and say NO, we the people can win.
Going to the federal government to fix problems created by the federal government is a failed policy. People are waking up to the fact that they not only CAN stop DC by rejecting their unconstitutional acts in state houses, but as James Madison told us in 1798 – it is their DUTY to do so.
— you will be educated. The establishment doesn't want you to know that Madison and Thomas Jefferson advised us on how to stop an out-of-control federal government. We'll teach you all about our lost constitutional roots. Nullification, stopping the feds at your state line, is what Jefferson told us is the "rightful remedy" to unconstitutional federal acts.
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Commision. No break down on payplan. Alaska
ALASKAWORKER
A part of my wages are paid via commision. I get a percentage of the department gross profit. I have in no way to access to the total $$$ amount that I am paid off of or a breakdown of the accounts that lead to the dollar amount that I am paid off of. I have no way of knowing if profit accounts are being used to absorb expences etc.
I do know my percentage and I can do the math to figure out what the gross profit should be. But I don't know if it is the number or not.
Am I entitled to a breakdown on how I earned my commission? Is there any documentation to support my question?
Last edited by ALASKAWORKER; 01-09-2009, 02:31 PM.
Pattymd
Not to my knowledge, no.
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Betty3
Agree & Alaska has no state law regarding the timely payment of commissions and/or requirements for figuring commissions.
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Assuming that the 7(i) exeption is applicable... Some general information
Among the myriad of exemptions from overtime eligibility is the Section 7(i) exemption (codified at Section 207(i) of the FLSA). For this overtime pay exemption to apply, a three-part test must be satisfied. First, an individual must earn more in commissions than in non-commission income for a pre-determined representative period of not less than one month. Non-commission income includes salary, guaranteed draw and other salary-like payments. Second, there must be proof that, on a workweek-by-workweek basis, the individual receives compensation (commissions, base pay and other compensation) that equals or exceeds time and one-half of the federal minimum wage (currently $6.55) for all hours of work. Finally, the worker must be employed in a "retail or service establishment." The Wage-Hour Administrator's regulations have defined narrowly which businesses qualify as "retail or service establishments". These longstanding regulations were not modified by the Department of Labor's 2004 revision of the regulations covering the white-collar exemptions.
The "representative period" to test an employee's compensation should be of sufficient length to reflect, fairly, as many factors as possible. The period chosen should be long enough to stabilize the measure of the balance between the portions of the employee's compensation that respectively represents commissions and other earnings (bonuses and contest prizes) against purely seasonal or plainly temporary changes.
It is a good policy for retail and service employers to have a written agreement with commission salespersons acknowledging that the compensation plan is based upon Section 7(i) of the FLSA and, therefore, no overtime will be paid. Such an agreement should at least contain these elements:
definition of the pay period (i.e. calendar month),
the pay date for each pay period,
the hourly rate for every hour worked (may not be less than one and one half times the prevailing minimum wage),
definition of the representative period, and statement of the basis of the Section 7(i) exemption from the overtime provisions, and
the signature and date of both parties.
§ 779.413 Methods of compensation of retail store employees.
(a) Retail or service establishment employees are generally compensated (apart from any extra payments for overtime or other additional payments) by one of the following methods:
(1) Straight salary or hourly rate:
(2) Salary plus commission:
(3) Quota bonus:
(4) Straight commission without advances:
(5) Straight commission with ''advances,'' ''guarantees,'' or ''draws.''
At periodic intervals a settlement is made at which time the payments already made are supplemented by any additional amount by which his commission earnings exceed the amounts previously paid.
"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'" (Author unknown)
All of what Army says is correct. However, none of it that I saw requires the employee be provided any backup documentation on the calculations, which was the OP's original question.

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Q: Aggregate data from multiple rows to one and then nest the data I'm relatively new to scala and spark programming.
I have a use case where I need to groupby data based on certain columns and have a count of a certain column (using pivot) and then finally I need to create a nested dataframe out of my flat dataframe.
One major challenge I am facing is I need to retain certain other columns as well (not the one I am pivoting on).
I'm not able to figure out an efficient way to do it.
INPUT
ID ID2 ID3 country items_purchased quantity
1 1    1     UK    apple           1
1 1    1     USA   mango           1
1 2    3     China banana          3
2 1    1     UK    mango           1

Now say, I want to pivot on 'country' and group by on ('ID','ID2','ID3')
But I also want to maintain the other columns as a list.
For instance,
OUTPUT-1 :
ID ID2 ID3 UK USA China items_purchased quantity
1  1   1   1  1    0    [apple,mango]   [1,1]
1  2   3   0  0    1    [banana]        [3]
2  1   1   1  0    0    [mango]         [1]

Once I achieve this,
I want to nest it into a nested structure such that my schema looks like :
{
"ID"  : 1,
"ID2" : 1,
"ID3" : 1,
"countries" :
{
"UK" : 1,
"USA" : 1,
"China" : 0,
},
"items_purchased" : ["apple", "mango"],
"quantity" : [1,1]
}

I believe I can use a case class and then map every row of the dataframe to it. However, I am not sure if that is an efficient way.I would love to know if there is a more optimised way to achieve this.
What I have in mind is something on these lines :
dataframe.map(row => myCaseClass(row.getAs[Long]("ID"),
row.getAs[Long]("ID2"),
row.getAs[Long]("ID3"),
CountriesCaseClass(
row.getAs[String]("UK")
)
)

and so on...

A: I think this should work for your case. The partitions number is calculated from the formula partitions_num = data_size / 500MB.
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.{collect_list, count, col, lit, map}

val data = Seq(
(1, 1, 1, "UK", "apple", 1),
(1, 1, 1, "USA","mango", 1),
(1, 2, 3, "China", "banana", 3),
(2, 1, 1, "UK", "mango", 1))

// e.g: partitions_num = 100GB / 500MB = 200, adjust it according to the size of your data
val partitions_num = 250
val df = data.toDF("ID", "ID2", "ID3", "country", "items_purchased", "quantity")
              .repartition(partitions_num, $"ID", $"ID2", $"ID3") //the partition should remain the same for all the operations
              .persist()

//get countries, we will need it to fill with 0 the null values after pivoting, for the mapping and for the drop
val countries = df.select("country").distinct.collect.map{_.getString(0)}

//creates a sequence of key/value which should be the input for the map function
val countryMapping = countries.flatMap{c => Seq(lit(c), col(c))}
val pivotCountriesDF = df.select("ID", "ID2", "ID3", "country")
                          .groupBy("ID", "ID2", "ID3")
                          .pivot($"country")
                          .count()
                          .na.fill(0, countries)
                          .withColumn("countries", map(countryMapping:_*))//i.e map("UK", col("UK"), "China", col("China")) -> {"UK":0, "China":1}
                          .drop(countries:_*)

// pivotCountriesDF.rdd.getNumPartitions == 250, Spark will retain the partition number since we didnt change the partition key

// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+
// |ID |ID2|ID3|countries                      |
// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+
// |1  |2  |3  |[China -> 1, USA -> 0, UK -> 0]|
// |1  |1  |1  |[China -> 0, USA -> 1, UK -> 1]|
// |2  |1  |1  |[China -> 0, USA -> 0, UK -> 1]|
// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+

val listDF = df.select("ID", "ID2", "ID3", "items_purchased", "quantity")
                .groupBy("ID", "ID2", "ID3")
                .agg(
                  collect_list("items_purchased").as("items_purchased"),
                  collect_list("quantity").as("quantity"))

// +---+---+---+---------------+--------+
// |ID |ID2|ID3|items_purchased|quantity|
// +---+---+---+---------------+--------+
// |1  |2  |3  |[banana]       |[3]     |
// |1  |1  |1  |[apple, mango] |[1, 1]  |
// |2  |1  |1  |[mango]        |[1]     |
// +---+---+---+---------------+--------+

// listDF.rdd.getNumPartitions == 250, to validate this try to change the partition key with .groupBy("ID", "ID2") it will fall back to the default 200 value of spark.sql.shuffle.partitions setting

val joinedDF = pivotCountriesDF.join(listDF, Seq("ID", "ID2", "ID3"))

// joinedDF.rdd.getNumPartitions == 250, the same partitions will be used for the join as well.

// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+---------------+--------+
// |ID |ID2|ID3|countries                      |items_purchased|quantity|
// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+---------------+--------+
// |1  |2  |3  |[China -> 1, USA -> 0, UK -> 0]|[banana]       |[3]     |
// |1  |1  |1  |[China -> 0, USA -> 1, UK -> 1]|[apple, mango] |[1, 1]  |
// |2  |1  |1  |[China -> 0, USA -> 0, UK -> 1]|[mango]        |[1]     |
// +---+---+---+-------------------------------+---------------+--------+

joinedDF.toJSON.show(false)

// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
// |value                                                                                |
// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
// |{"ID":1,"ID2":2,"ID3":3,"countries":{"China":1,"USA":0,"UK":0},"items_purchased":["banana"],"quantity":[3]}         |
// |{"ID":1,"ID2":1,"ID3":1,"countries":{"China":0,"USA":1,"UK":1},"items_purchased":["apple","mango"],"quantity":[1,1]}|
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Good luck and let me know if you need any clarification.

A: I don't see any problem, it's a good solution. Anyway, I would create a 'Datasetfor your finaldataframe`. It's easier to work.
val ds: Dataset[myCaseClass] = dataframe.map(row => myCaseClass(row.getAs[Long]("ID"),
  ...

EDIT
You ask for something like this.
input.groupby("ID","ID2","ID3")
  .withColumn("UK", col("country").contains("UK"))
  .withColumn("China", col("country").contains("China"))
  .withColumnRenamed("country","USA", col("country").contains("USA"))

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Tag: Gopuram
ART OF MEDIEVAL INDIA – Monumental gateways and the style of Mysore
The monumental gateways of the temple complex
In the 12th and 13th centuries the gopuram* (or tower gateways) began to be an important element of the temple complex up to the XV-XVII centuries where they reached its apogee, a situation that was reflected in the heights these portals reached. On the contrary, the height of the vimana* was gradually diminishing until it was insignificant (for example in the temple of Ranganathaswamy in Srirangam, Tiruchirapalli, from the XV century). This phenomenon corresponded to a religious and mystical conception that intended for the devotee to be attracted from afar by the temple enclosure and its access gateways so that he/she walked towards the center of the temple in order to reach the reduced and dark area where the god resided in his meager and secret cell which was indicated outside only by the golden and modest vimana covering it. Thus, with the passing of the time it was customary to open four gopuram in the enclosure's wall and then to multiply the number of the concentric precincts each provided with four gopurams. The dimensions of these gopurams decreased as they were closest to the sanctuary located in the center of the innermost courtyard.
The Ranganathaswamy Temple is dedicated to Ranganatha, a reclining form of the Hindu deity Maha Vishnu. It is located in Srirangam, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Constructed in the Dravidian Architecture, the temple occupies an area of 63 ha with 81 shrines, 21 towers, 39 pavilions and many water tanks integrated into the complex making it the world's largest functioning Hindu temple. Below, an aerial view of the temple complex.
The exterior reliefs of the northern side of the Sesharaya mandapa include 40 leaping animals with riders on their back, all carved out of monolithic pillars. (Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam).
This multiplication of precincts and, as a consequence, of gopurams were often a consequence of the prosperity of the temple and the increasing numbers of its purposes: that is why the oldest part of the temple was located at the center and the most recent additions were located towards its exterior walls. The most characteristic gopuram of the Pandyan style is perhaps the eastern gopuram of the Chidambaram temple which was built around 1250. This is already a tall structure: 41 m in height. Like the temples of older styles it also has a rectangular floor plan. This temple includes a high and wide opening that allows access to the patio and a pyramidal roof with rectilinear edges that comprises seven "levels" similar to those of the vimana already described in previous essays. This pyramidal roof is crowned by a semi-cylinder whose existence was also documented before in the 8th century (in the Kailasanathar temple in Kanchipuram).
The Chidambaram Nataraja temple dedicated to Nataraja (Shiva as the lord of dance) is located in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The present temple was built in the 10th century when Chidambaram was the capital of the Chola dynasty, making it one of the oldest surviving active temple complexes in South India. Most of the temple's surviving plan, architecture and structure is from the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The temple has nine major gopuram gateways connecting the various courtyards. Four of these facing the East, South, West and North are huge and colorful, visible from afar, thus serving as a symbolic and convenient landmark for pilgrims. Pictured here is the eastern gopuram of the temple complex.
One of the last temples of the Pandyan style is that of Darasuram (District of Thanjavur, first half of the 14th century) which presents, on a smaller scale, a very similar layout compared to that of the great temples of the Chola period but whose distribution and architectural decoration shows a transition between the Chola style and the following period called Vijayanagara (around 1336-1646). The shape of the columns, their capitals, and their bases clearly show this, as well as the presence of beautiful statues adorning the spaces between the pilasters of the exterior wall of the vimana. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the mandapa which gives access to the rows of meeting rooms, vestibules, etc., is decorated above the base with cart wheels and rearing horses suggesting that this hypostyle building symbolizes a processional carriage.
The temple of Darasuram (District of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India) includes a vimana 26 m high and a front mandapa in the form of a huge chariot drawn by horses.
The style of Mysore
Parallel to the emergence of the Chola style and its expansion under the Pandyan dynasty numerous regional styles developed more or less everywhere in India. The most notable of these flourished in Mysore which produced a kind of synthesis between the vimana and the temple with shikhara. Dominated by the Hoysala (between 10th and 14th centuries) whose power reached its height in the 12th and 13th centuries, this region has beautiful temples typical of the medieval period especially in Halebidu (the ancient Dorasamudra, capital of the Hoysala), Belur, Somanathapura, Arasikere, etc. As heir to the late Calukya style (Hyderabad), the Hoysala style undoubtedly reflected the benefits of a stable policy. The floor plans of these temples, their composition, and their roofs together represent original attempts that borrowed elements from both the North and the South. The floor plans followed the general rule of a square or rectangular enclosure surrounding the buildings. The latter are composed of three essential elements: mandapa, vestibule, and sanctuary, but it is common for each to be doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and even be present in a number of five.
The Hoysaleswara temple or Halebidu temple, is a 12th-century temple dedicated to Shiva (Halebidu, state of Karnataka, India).
Frontal view of the Ishvara Temple in Arasikere (Hassan district, Karnataka state, India) dedicated to Shiva from ca. 1220 AD. The temple though modest in size and figure sculpture compared to others of the same period, is considered the most complex one in architecture among surviving Hoysala monuments because of its ground plan: a 16-point star-shaped mandapa, in addition to an asymmetrical star-shaped shrine, whose star points are of three different types.
These buildings together in a single group were usually erected on a common high and wide platform occupying the center of a courtyard whose inner walls were surrounded by an uninterrupted series of chapels (of a ritual number of 64 in the Chennakesava temple in Somanathapura ) each of which contained the statue of a divinity. Their floor plans have the shape of a cross and the bases of the sanctuary and of the lateral buildings (which together form a kind of transept) are rounded by a series of regular protrusions forming a star-like floor plan (astabhadra*). In several temples the base is provided with an unmolded plinth covered by long superimposed registers decorated with animal friezes and historiated scenes such as, for example, the temple of Lakshmi Narasimha in Nuggehalli (1246). These temples with a star-like floor plan have a main body covered by thick recessed pillars that vertically repeat the projections and support a cornice. Above it rises the roof whose horizontal lines extend (all the way up to the top) the rounded projections that have started in the lower levels on the pillars. The roof is topped by a semicircular and convex slab crowned by a pinnacle in the shape of a vase. The whole temple is covered with sculptures with the most important being those of great divine characters placed under arches or niches located around the outer walls at the junction point between the base and the body of the temple. Their decorated interiors are provided with beautiful sculpted ceilings adorned with geometric motifs and a central pendent.
The Chennakeshava Temple from the 12th-century (Hassan district of Karnataka state, India) took 103 years to finish. Chennakesava literally means "handsome Kesava", a form of the god Vishnu. Its artwork depicts scenes of secular life in the 12th century, dancers and musicians, as well as a pictorial narration of Hindu texts such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas through numerous friezes.
The interior of the mandapa of the Chennakeshava temple with its lathe turned pillars.
An interior view of one of the domed ceilings of the Chennakeshava temple.
North-western view of the Lakshmi Narasimha temple built in 1246 AD (Nuggehalli, Hassan district, Karnataka, India).
A close up picture of the decorated molding frieze located in the base of the shrine's outer wall of the Lakshmi Narasimha temple.
The Hoysala-style temples are a kind of synthesis of the fundamental roofs used in medieval India: the shikhara and the pyramidal roofs.
To conclude this quick review of the Indian medieval architecture it is necessary to mention a few vestiges of civil and military architecture, such as some city gates (for example in Dabhoi, Vadodara, from the 11th century) whose style differs little from that of the temples.
The ancient Dabhoi gates at Vadodara (Gujarat state, India).
It must also be mentioned the appearance (mainly in the western provinces) of the Muslim architecture. In the 12th century the architects initially used Hindu and Jain temples to barely convert them into mosques; then they built using materials from ruined temples particularly columns which were often overlapped using two consecutive shafts (for example at the Qutb mosque in Delhi). Finally from the first half of the 13th century the Muslim architects were innovative and created an Indo-Muslim style that varied according to the region but whose decorative repertoire comes from Indian traditions. One of the most famous monuments of this era is the Qutb Minar in Delhi (1226) whose slashed exterior body recalls the exterior appearance of the Hindu temples. However, only under the impetus of the Mongol emperors (15th-18th centuries) India was endowed with grandiose Muslim architecture.
The Qutub Minar is a minaret that forms part of the Qutab complex (Mehrauli, Delhi, India). It is a 73 mt tall tapering tower of five storeys. The tower's style is patterned on Afghanistan's (Minaret of Jam) and adapted to local artistic styles by the incorporation of looped bells and garlands and lotus borders into the decorative carvings.
The intricate stone carvings in the cloister of Quwwat ul-Islam mosque near Qutub Minar (Qutab complex, Mehrauli, Delhi, India).
Astabhadra: In medieval Indian architecture, a temple with star-like floor plan.
Gopuram: A monumental entrance tower, usually ornate, located at the entrance of a Hindu temple, in the Dravidian architecture of Southern India. They function as gateways through the walls that surround the temple complex.
Vimana: The structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India. In these temples, the Vimana is the tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the shikhara towers of temples in West and North India. By contrast, in large South Indian temples, it is typically smaller than the great gatehouses or gopuram, which are the most immediately striking architectural elements in a temple complex.
Posted on February 18, 2019 by carolinarhPosted in Art of IndiaTagged Art of India, Art of Medieval India, Gopuram, Style of Mysore, vimana. Leave a comment
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Q: Java Calendar. After function is not returning expected result I have written the below code
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar expiry = Calendar.getInstance();
expiry.set(2014, 1, 15, 0, 0);
now.after(expiry);

this is giving me false, today is 19th it should give true
Am I missing anything?

A: (1) Month 1 is February, not January as you thought. Month 0 is for January.
(2) Also, I would call getTime() right before calling after() just to be on the safe side.
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar expiry = Calendar.getInstance();
expiry.set(2014, 0, 15, 0, 0);
expiry.getTime();
now.after(expiry);

Not sure if calling getTime() here is strictly needed though.
I am referring to this part of the JavaDoc.
set(f, value) changes calendar field f to value. In addition, it sets an
internal member variable to indicate that calendar field f has been changed.
Although calendar field f is changed immediately, the calendar's time value
in milliseconds is not recomputed until the next call to get(), getTime(),getTimeInMillis(), add(), or roll() is made. Thus, multiple calls to set()
do not trigger multiple, unnecessary computations. As a result of changing
a calendar field using set(), other calendar fields may also change, depending
on the calendar field, the calendar field value, and the calendar system.
In addition, get(f) will not necessarily return value set by the call to
the set method after the calendar fields have been recomputed.
The specifics are determined by the concrete calendar class.


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An Evaluation of Diffusion Effects in Miscible Displacement
L.L. Handy (California Research Corp.)
4.1.2 Separation and Treating, 5.6.5 Tracers, 5.3.2 Multiphase Flow, 4.3.4 Scale, 5.4.7 Chemical Flooding Methods (e.g., Polymer, Solvent, Nitrogen, Immiscible CO2, Surfactant, Vapex), 4.1.5 Processing Equipment, 5.1 Reservoir Characterisation
The development of a theory for miscible liquid displacement requires evaluation of the variables which affect growth of the mixing zone between solvent and displaced oil. Factors which appear to be important are individual fluid viscosities, viscosity ratios, flood rate, fluid densities, flow characteristics of the porous medium and molecular diffusion coefficients of the fluid components. The primary purpose of this paper is to evaluate diffusion effects.
Theoretical treatments to date have been limited to floods for which the viscosity ratio is one. Two principal theories have been proposed. Von Rosenberg adapted for porous media a theory derived for capillary tubes by G. Taylor. In this theory molecular diffusion perpendicular to the direction of flow is a primary factor in sharpening the flood front. Slow floods give sharper fronts for a given distance traveled than fast floods.
An alternative theory considers miscible liquid displacement as a statistical problem. Diffusion is not an important factor in this theory, but it leads to the same general type of equation as von Rosenberg's. Both theories predict S-shaped concentration profiles with the same dependence on distance traveled. The statistical or "dispersion" theory predicts rate independence, however. To supplement rate studies a direct measurement of a diffusion effect would be helpful in evaluating which of the two proposed mechanisms best describes miscible liquid displacement for one-to-one viscosity ratio systems.
No quantitative theory has been proposed for floods in which a low-viscosity fluid displaces a high-viscosity fluid. It might be anticipated, however, that the extensive fingering observed in floods with adverse viscosity ratios would increase opportunities for an exchange of components between displaced and displacing liquids by a diffusional process. Even if molecular diffusion were not an important mixing mechanism for one-to-one viscosity ratio systems, it could be significant in systems with adverse viscosity ratios.


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Larry Luttinger is eclectically employed as arts administrator, percussionist, and music educator throughout Upstate New York.
He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit performing organization that presents jazz in concert, cabaret, scholastic, and festival settings across the region, to an annual audience of 58,000 in public and in schools.
Luttinger has served as Chairman of the Syracuse University Music Industry Department and Director of SU Jazz Ensembles. He has also chaired the Music Departments of the Summerfame High School for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan School for the Arts, and he was Executive Treasurer of the International Association for Jazz Education-NYS Chapter. He is recipient of the 2008 Updowntowner Award for Excellence, the 2010 Civic Morning Musicals Ruth Edson Award, the 2010 Cazenovia College Jazz 'N' Caz award, and is a member of the SAMMYS Hall of Fame and the Liverpool Fine Arts Hall of Fame.
As a performing artist, he has been a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra since 1986, he is currently a member of Symphoria, and he plays drum set for the CNY Jazz Orchestra. He recorded and toured extensively for the award-winning Society for New Music during his 14-year tenure as their percussionist. He has performed with many well known jazz artists, including Rob McConnell, Clark Terry, Grady Tate, Frank Foster, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Buddy DeFranco, Doc Severinson, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden, Lorne Lofsky, Lena Horne, Maxine Sullivan, The Four Freshmen, Phil Woods and Antonio Hart, among many others.
He has more than 50 touring show credits including Sugar Babies, Grand Hotel, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies, The Producers, Frank Sinatra Jr, Aretha Franklin, Ben Vereen, Suzanne Somers, and Johnny Mathis. He has toured or performed with dozens of rock personalities, including Chuck Berry, Del Shannon, Chubby Checker, Petula Clark, and the Moody Blues.
Luttinger lives in Liverpool, NY with his wife Margaret, an organizational performance consultant, and their sons Jake and Max.


Figs are a versatile fruit, eaten fresh, glazed, dried, poached and cooked, and they are a very healthy option as well.
As a sub tropical tree, the fig prefers a Mediterranean climate with warm to hot summers and cooler winters so it is very suited to most areas of Australia.
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Figs are high in fibre and vitamin C and the sap of fig trees is reportedly useful in getting rid of warts! (Some people are allergic to the sap though use caution when handling it for the first time.) Figs are said to be an aphrodisiac too!


We are having a huge sale this weekend in Lake Oswego – the house and garage are overflowing with stuff!
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Graham "Buckers" Buckingham won the mug by a single stroke over three other players, saving a rather difficult countback.
Time again for the popular Tropical Golf Monthly Medal Mug! Playing "modified medal" (max double par), course strategy and risk/reward top the decision list. Medal play also forces a bit of self-honesty "Can I really pull of that 200 yard shot through the trees and over the water"? Better to get a double bogey than double par to stay in contention.
Pattavia was the destination. The course was in fine condition, and the greens mercifully a little slower. One reason why became apparent just after the turn when the rain came down, and how! With at times heavy rain and waiting for the course to drain we lost about an hour of time, but the course drained rather well and play continued without much difficulty, and the greens became a bit more friendly than Pattavia is known for. With thirteen winners out of twenty five players there is much to report, so on to the results!
Mug Winner: Graham "Buckers" Buckingham won the mug by a single stroke over three other players, saving a rather difficult countback. Graham shot a net 71 off his 23 handicap. This is Graham's third mug and he's building up a nice collection. Congrats!
As to the rest of the winners, the scores were a bit high in some cases, but some said the rain delay upset their winning rhythm. All scored net.
A-Flight (0-15): Mashi Kaneta (72), Rob Brown (73), Tom Herrington (76).
Much thanks to Lek and Bill of BJ's Holiday Lodge (Soi 3) for sponsoring the mug!
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Occupy Protesters Clash at Berkeley
Updated Apr. 24, 2017 1:01PM ET / Published Nov. 10, 2011 12:15PM ET
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Campus police in riot gear descended on UC Berkeley student protestors Wednesday, resulting in seven arrests and several violent confrontations. Around 3:40 p.m., campus police pushed their way through a human chain and began dismantling tents, leading led to scuffles with students. "It really, really hurt—I got the wind knocked out of me," said doctoral student Shane Boyle, who added that he was "lucky I only I got hit twice." Campus officials later told students they could protest "24/7" for this week but that tents were forbidden. In total, six students and one professor were arrested for resisting arrest and delaying police officers. Students said their protest is in preparation for a confrontation at next week's San Francisco meeting of the California Board of Regents, who many students blame for the state tuition increases. Meanwhile, in neighboring Oakland, Occupy protesters hijacked a news conference calling for the end of their tent city.
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Ori is the youngest brother to Dori and Nori. He was also the apprentice scribe to Balin. He went on the quest and later went with Balin and Oin to try and retake Moria. Which they were able to occupy it for a few years and then all three were killed in an attack on Moria.
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It's so sad when gimli finds out what happens. Every time you mention it, the scene when they find the book pops into my head.
Yes, it is. I feel so bad for Gimli when he finds out. That scene and others kept popping into my head while I was getting my topics for each letter together.


Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley has announced dates for a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
The April/May run marks Frehley's first Australian shows since 2010 and his first-ever New Zealand solo shows!
"I can't wait to get down to New Zealand and Australia with this new lineup," says Frehley. "I'll be performing Ace classics as well as songs off my new CD 'Space Invader' for the enjoyment of the fans. Let There Be Rock!"
Frehley is touring with guitarist Richie Scarlett, bassist Chris Wyse and drummer Scot Coogan.
Tickets for the shows go on sale Wednesday, January 28 at 9 AM local time here.
Last year, Frehley and the original lineup of KISS were inducted into the 2014 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame at a ceremony in New York, alongside Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt, and The E Street Band.


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Seaside, wcześniej East Monterey – miasto w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w stanie Kalifornia, w hrabstwie Monterey. Jest siedzibą California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) i Monterey College of Law, które znajdują się na terenie dawnej bazy wojskowej Fort Ord.

Geografia
Według United States Census Bureau, miasto ma łączną powierzchnię 9,4 mil kwadratowych (24 km²), z czego 9,2 mil kwadratowych (24 km²) to ląd, a 0,1 mil kwadratowych (0,26 km²) (1,48%). to woda.

Historia
Seaside, zwane wówczas East Monterey, zostało założone w 1888 roku przez dr J.L.D. Robertsa. Poczta Seaside została otwarta w 1891 roku.

Edukacja
California State University, Monterey Bay znajduje się w Seaside w pobliżu Fort Ord i jest drugim najnowszym kampusem po CSU Channel Islands. Seaside jest także domem dla Monterey College of Law, prywatnej szkoły prawniczej. Monterey Peninsula College ma centrum szkoleniowe bezpieczeństwa publicznego w Seaside, które obejmuje akademię straży pożarnej i policji.

Scribble Hill
Scribble Hill (znane również jako "Message Mountain") jest częścią popkultury Seaside. Jest to duża wydma w pobliżu skrzyżowania Fremont Blvd i State Route 1, technicznie w Sand City, ale w sąsiedztwie Seaside High School. Jest to popularne miejsce na pisanie wiadomości urodzinowych, oświadczyn i gratulacji. Wiele osób wspina się na niego 4 lipca, aby obejrzeć fajerwerki. Jest również znany jako "The Big Dune", "The Dune", "The Big Sand Hill" lub "The Sand Board"

Znani ludzie

 Tony Curtis - zawodowy piłkarz,
 Herman Edwards - trener piłki nożnej,
 Mason Foster - zawodowy piłkarz,
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 Melvin T.Mason - radny miejski i kandydat na prezydenta z 1984 r. (SPR)

Przypisy

Miasta w hrabstwie Monterey

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NYPL, Benetech Partner to Offer 370,000 Accessible Ebooks to Print Disabled
By Matt Enis on January 19, 2016
The New York Public Library in December announced a new partnership with nonprofit Benetech, and the organization's Bookshare solution, to provide print disabled patrons with access to more than 370,000 accessible ebooks through NYPL and the Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Although Bookshare provides free access to its collection for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities through an award by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs, access to the collection for qualifying adults, seniors, and other non-students generally requires payment of a $25 setup fee and a $50 annual subscription fee. The partnership to provide free access to library patrons through NYPL is Bookshare's first such partnership with a U.S. library, and Benetech officials have stated that the organization is hoping to establish similar agreements with public libraries throughout the U.S.
Filed Under: Ebooks, Publishing Tagged With: accessibility, digital content, EPUB 3, NYPL, technology
Publishers Must Embrace EPUB 3's Accessibility Features | BEA 2012
By Matt Enis on June 8, 2012
The new EPUB 3 distribution and interchange format standard for digital publications will include a wealth of features that can be used to enhance ebook accessibility. But, publishers need to begin incorporating those features into production workflows during the digital publication process, rather than expecting other organizations to retrofit accessibility features, Matt Garrish, chief editor of the EPUB 3 specification and author of Accessible EPUB 3, said during the "Ebooks for Everyone: LIA Project, Accessible Publishing Guidelines, EpubCheck and More" session at BookExpo America held this week in New York City.
Filed Under: Digital Libraries, Digitization, Ebooks, Publishing, Standards Tagged With: accessibility, BEA, DAISY, EPUB, EPUB 3, HTML 5, LJ, Text To Speech


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package org.apache.openwhisk.core.controller

import akka.http.scaladsl.model.StatusCodes._
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.{Directive1, Directives}
import akka.http.scaladsl.marshallers.sprayjson.SprayJsonSupport.sprayJsonMarshaller
import org.apache.openwhisk.common.TransactionId
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.WhiskConfig
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entitlement.{Collection, Privilege, Resource}
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entitlement.Privilege.READ
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entity.Identity

trait WhiskLimitsApi extends Directives with AuthenticatedRouteProvider with AuthorizedRouteProvider {

  protected val whiskConfig: WhiskConfig

  protected override val collection = Collection(Collection.LIMITS)

  protected val invocationsPerMinuteSystemDefault = whiskConfig.actionInvokePerMinuteLimit.toInt
  protected val concurrentInvocationsSystemDefault = whiskConfig.actionInvokeConcurrentLimit.toInt
  protected val firePerMinuteSystemDefault = whiskConfig.triggerFirePerMinuteLimit.toInt

  override protected lazy val entityOps = get

  /** JSON response formatter. */
  import RestApiCommons.jsonDefaultResponsePrinter

  /** Dispatches resource to the proper handler depending on context. */
  protected override def dispatchOp(user: Identity, op: Privilege, resource: Resource)(
    implicit transid: TransactionId) = {

    resource.entity match {
      case Some(_) =>
        //TODO: Process entity level requests for an individual limit here
        reject //should never get here
      case None =>
        op match {
          case READ =>
            val limits = user.limits.copy(
              Some(user.limits.invocationsPerMinute.getOrElse(invocationsPerMinuteSystemDefault)),
              Some(user.limits.concurrentInvocations.getOrElse(concurrentInvocationsSystemDefault)),
              Some(user.limits.firesPerMinute.getOrElse(firePerMinuteSystemDefault)))
            pathEndOrSingleSlash { complete(OK, limits) }
          case _ => reject //should never get here
        }
    }
  }

  protected override def entityname(n: String): Directive1[String] = {
    validate(false, "Inner entity level routes for limits are not yet implemented.") & extract(_ => n)
  }
}

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In several decades of living in Washington, D.C., I've met my share of scamps and scalawags, fabulists and outright liars. It would take a modern Dante to determine which circle of Inferno each type of misbehavior merited. But of one thing, I am certain: at least in my own experience, I've never encountered more brazen and manipulative liars than Communist Chinese officials responsible for relations with religious believers.
Cardinal Zen has been energetic in warning about the unreliability of agreements with the Communists. (Rumors of an imminent agreement between China and the Vatican have been floating around for a couple of years now, without anything definite being revealed.) Asia News, a publication of the Vatican, itself reacted to last week's news with a warning about substituting "illegitimate" bishops for "legitimate" ones. The ChiComs (as we used to call them during the Cold War) are smart and shrewd. They know how to manipulate Western values, in this case, "unifying" the churches, i.e., the religious inclination to think we can fix all problems with dialogue, building bridges, diplomatic arrangements.
Meanwhile, China continues to cut crosses off church buildings, close some, dynamite still others. The New York Times reported just two weeks ago that China had destroyed the Golden Lampstand church – with 60,000 worshippers the largest evangelical community in the country. The reason: the large, conspicuous edifice had been "secretly" constructed, had failed to get official building permits, etc. These are the usual fig leaves of tyrannical regimes all over the world when they attack religion. I've heard top Chinese leaders blame local authorities for "excesses and errors," but these seem to recur with a suspect regularity that no one seems to take steps to stop.
The Chinese Communists studied the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the liberation of the nations behind the Iron Curtain thanks to St. John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and many others in the West who kept the pressure on Moscow. They appreciate the power of religion and clearly believe they can prevent Christianity from doing in China what it did in Poland and elsewhere. The tools are familiar: co-opt when you can, persecute and destroy when you can as well, and control information to make it appear you are simply asking for reasonable law and order within your borders.
From the regime's point of view, there's great need for all that. Most Chinese have a vague attachment to old folk religions. Maybe 15 percent are Buddhist and generally quiet – except in Tibet where resistance to Beijing remains alive. And then there are Christians, lots of them, if not a large percentage – yet. Reliable figures are hard to get, but 60 million (at a minimum) is a reasonable estimate. It's safe to say that more Christians are in church on a Sunday morning in China than in all of Europe. And that despite potentially serious consequences for worshipping in "unapproved" congregations.
Protestants probably make up around two-thirds of that number, but the Catholic Church, of course, has a stronger institutional structure. The Chinese are used to playing a long game. Given that Christianity is growing rapidly there, the regime will have a hard time if there are tens of millions more Christians who believe every human being is made in the image and likeness of God, meaning they possess human dignity and freedom.
One of the common foreign-policy questions about China is precisely how Communist it is – and therefore whether it has in its very DNA the old Marxist drive to stamp out the "opium of the people," i.e., religion. The economy is managed, but not wrecked along ideologically Marxist lines, as in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It's not exactly capitalist, of course, but there's some very serious innovation and entrepreneurship all the same. The heavy hand of the state is nonetheless quite evident, not least in the population control measures that even the Chinese now know will bring decades – at least – of trouble as their population ages. But is it a hard atheist system?
I wrote about the history of Chinese persecution of religious believers in my book The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century. At the time, the Falun Gong, about 10 million people, were being ruthlessly persecuted by the Chinese because that basically traditional spiritual movement was "a threat to social stability." And yet it was said then and now that there were numbers of Christians in the Chinese Communist Party as well.
Whatever China's ideological composition, the independence of the Church is something that many Christians fought and died for over centuries in the Christian countries of Europe. Independence from political regimes is crucial so that the Church can be free to carry out its spiritual mission, not only evangelizing people but working and speaking out, whatever regime it lives under, about justice and right order in society.
The Vatican seems to be stumbling in its relations with a regime that we can be sure will not respect the freedom of the Church since it doesn't respect the freedom and dignity of its own people. Vatican negotiators would do well to remember the lessons of the Communist Era in Europe, particularly Solzhenitsyn's warning that we must fully understand the nature of Communist regimes and not give in to the illusion that the split between us and them "may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations." Because the split is spiritual, deeply so, not political.