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The Gothic Clermont Ferrand Black Cathedral
Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral, Rue Verdier Latour, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Opening hours: from 7.45am to 12pm; and from 14h to 18h (19h from 15 June to 20 September). Visits are possible from 9am.
The Clermont Ferrand Cathedral is distinctive by its charcoal grey colour resulting from the Volvic lava stone used to build…Continue Reading
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pontmain
Basilique Notre-Dame, 53220 Rue Notre Dame, Pontmain, France
Every day: from 7.00 am to 7.00 pm
Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain On January 17th 1871, from 6 p.m.Continue Reading
Our Lady of Rocamadour Black Madonna, France
Sanctuaire de Rocamadour Paroisse, Rocamadour, France
Every day from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm
Rocamadour, was built on a rock wall at a point where the mummified body of an old hermit was discovered.…Continue Reading
Shrine of St Bernadette Soubirous of Nevers France and her incorrupt Body which has not decayed
Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers, Rue Saint-Gildard, Nevers, France
Every day: 8:00 am - 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm - 7:30 pm
City of Nevers with the Convent of St.Continue Reading
Notre Dame Strasbourg Cathedral and famous Astronomical clock
Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Francija
Every day: From 7.00 am to 11.20 am and 12.35 pm to 7.00 pm
Notre Dame Strasbourg Cathedral Notre Dame Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg also known as Strasbourg…Continue Reading
Basilica of Mary Magdalene. Pilgrimage in the footsteps of the one who first saw the Risen One
Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Place de L Hôtel de ville, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Francija
Every day 7 am - 7.30 pm, except Monday opening at 9 am.
St Mary Magdalene Allowing the pilgrims to pay a solemn homage to the one who throughout her life announced the…Continue Reading
Beauvais Cathedral of Saint Peter
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, Rue Saint-Pierre, Beauvais, Francija
Opening hours: 10.00 am to 6:15 pm.
The Beauvais Cathedral St Pierre Cathedral in Beauvais, is a rare example of a Carolingian Cathedral, with surprising and original…Continue Reading
Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral
Notre-Dame of Reims Cathedral, Place du Cardinal Luçon, Reims, Francija
Every day: from 7.30 to 19.30.
Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral, the Gothic art masterpiece where the kings of France were crowned, was one of the…Continue Reading
Cathedral Basilica of St Denis – Necropolis of the kings of France
Basilique Cathédrale de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, Francija
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 10.00-17.15 (18.15 Summer) Sunday: 12.00-17.15
Basilica of St Denis Thanks to the popular veneration of Saint Denis, the Basilica of St Denis very soon linked…Continue Reading
Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe in Le Puy en Velay
Rocher Saint-Michel D'Aiguilhe, Le Puy-en-Velay, Francija
February 1. to March 14: 14.00 to 17.00 March 15 to April 30: 9.30 - 12.00 and 14.00 to 17.30 May 1 to July 9: 9.00 to 18.30 July 10 to September 30: 9.00 to 18.30 October 1 to November 15: 9.30 - 12.00 and 14.00 to 17.30 Christmas time: 14.00 to 17.00
Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe Aiguilhe means "needle", and like many lofty Christian sacred spaces, the chapel atop it is dedicated to…Continue Reading
Paray le Monial and The Sacred Heart Basilica
Sanctuaires de Paray-le-Monial, Place Cardinal Perraud, Paray-le-Monial, Francija
Every day: from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Paray le Monial It was at Paray le Monial that Jesus appeared to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), revealing to…Continue Reading
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Paris
Chapelle Notre Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse, Rue du Bac, Pariz, Francija
Every day: 7:45 am – 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm
It was here in the Chapel that the Blessed Virgin appeared to her several months later, the first time on…Continue Reading
Notre Dame Cathedral Paris with Crown of Thorns
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Parvis Notre Dame - Place Jean-Paul II, Pariz, Francija
The Notre Dame Cathedral Paris is the cathedral of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris. It is one of the best-known symbols…Continue Reading
Our Lady of La Salette shrine – Marian Apparition site
Sanctuaire de Notre-Dame la Salette, Sanctuaire de la Salette, La Salette-Fallavaux, Francija
The message of the visionaries of La Salette focuses on the conversion of all humanity to Christ.Continue Reading
Shrine of Ars – St Jean Marie Vianney – Le Curé d Ars
Sanctuaire d'Ars, Rue Jean Marie Vianney, Ars-sur-Formans, Francija
The Shrine of Ars – St Jean Marie Vianney The Shrine of Ars belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, and…Continue Reading
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laus and the seer Benoite Rencurel – Marian Apparitions
Sanctuaire Notre-Dame du Laus, Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, Francija
Everyday: 24 Hours
Sanctuary Our Lady of Laus The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laus, situated in the Southern Alps, is a Catholic…Continue Reading


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Q: Index Match Large multiple criteria I need some help please.
=INDEX(Data!$L:$L,MATCH(1,INDEX((Data!$O:$O=LARGE(Data!$O:$O,ROWS(Calcs!F$1:F3)))*(COUNTIF(Calcs!F$1:F3,Data!$O:$O)=0),),0))

I have this formula to look through data and pull the top 5 site numbers (SIN) starting with the largest amount of hours.
What I need the formula to do is to search by branch number so that when I select a branch (branch number is updated in cell A1 of "Calcs Tab") it will look in the data table and pull the Site number (SIN) for the largest 5 sites (most hours) by branch (that's in cell A1).
My data tab is below:

This formula is in cell F2 on the "Calcs Tab" and I drag it down to get the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc (Highest Hours).
As requested, this is the data:

Please help, sorry if this is not very clear. My first ever post!
Thank You

A: Data:

Result:

How it works:

*

*Fill 1 to 5 from C22 to C26
to set Order to get Largest Hours in
adjacent Column.

*Fill Branch No in B22.

*Formula in A22:
=IF(B22=6,"Bristol",IF(B22=10,"Glassgow",IF(B22=2,"London",IF(B22=9,"Liverpool",IF(B22=8,"Barmingham","")))))

*Array (CSE) Formula in D22, finish with Ctrl+Shift+Enter and fill down.
{=SUMPRODUCT(LARGE(($A$2:$A$19=$B$22)*($B$2:$B$19=$A$22)*($E$2:$E$19),C22))}
Enter this Array (CSE) Formula in E22, finish with Ctrl+Shift+Enter & fill down:
{=IFERROR(INDEX(C$2:C$19,MATCH(1,($A$22=$B$2:$B$19)*($B$22=$A$2:$A$19)*(D22=$E$2:$E$19),0)),"")}

N.B.

*

*As soon you change Branch No in
B22, you get SIN in E22
downwards.

*Adjust cell references in the Formula as
needed.

*For easy identification I've applied Red
& Green colors to Branch No 6 and
10.

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The Dinosaur Tourist
Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean, $40 (312p) ISBN 978-1-59606-882-7
Houses Under the Sea
The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Weight of Words
Dear Sweet Filthy World
This superb collection of 19 genre-bending reprints is distinguished by gorgeous prose, haunting beauty, and visceral imagery. In "The Road of Needles," a creepy, futuristic riff on "Little Red Riding Hood," a sharp-toothed figure follows a woman as she navigates her newly verdant spaceship after the terraforming engines go haywire. The confessional "Untitled Psychiatrist #2" and "Untitled Psychiatrist #3" are subtly creepy, and the road trip tales "Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)" and "The Dinosaur Tourist (Murder Ballad No. 10)" both feature very human killers and low menace. Kiernan puts her exceptional talent for navigating the dark, cold depths of Lovecraftian mythos to excellent use in "Far from Any Shore" and "Excerpts from an Eschatology Quadrille," both featuring artifacts that leave chaos and madness in their wake, and the glorious "The Cats of River Street (1925)," about a ragtag group of cats that are the only thing standing between humanity and the tentacled horrors of the deeps. Kiernan's boundlessly fertile imagination and talent for turning the everyday into the otherworldly are on fine display in one of her most accessible collections yet. Agent: Merrilee Heifetz, Writers House. (Dec.)

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Neophytou: smaller parties ought to have a committee chair (Updated)
By George Psyllides June 16, 2021 June 16, 2021 0338
Disy leader Averof Neophytou
Smaller parties, which include far-right Elam, ought to have a House committee chair in the name of cooperation and consensus, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Wednesday.
"The elections have finished. We have an obligation, a responsibility to cooperate for the good of the country," he said. "Our biggest party, which I personally love more than anything, is the party called Cyprus."
Parties have so far failed to come to an agreement over the chairs of the 16 House committees.
Disy, Akel and Diko as the only parties who have at least seven MPs constitute a parliamentary group, and therefore make up the selection committee.
Under the constitution and House rules, the same requirement applies to committee chairmanships, but previous practice has been to 'cede' three or four of these posts the smaller parties.
Based on the size of the parliamentary groups, Disy and Akel should each get six chairmanships and Diko four.
Elam said it does not fully agree with the way the selection committee is established.
"It makes it seem like the House is made up of three, and not seven, parties," leader Christos Christou said, adding that the party is hoping to lead at least one House committee.
Meanwhile, Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos said that his party will not accept a chairmanship as a favour.
"It is inconceivable that the three largest parties are claiming more committee chairs even after seeing a nine per cent reduction in votes," he said.
Akel says it is willing to cede the chairmanship of the House environment committee to the Greens but made it clear it would not be making any concessions for Elam. Disy could do so, since they were "pals", Akel leader Andros Kyprianou has said.
On Wednesday, Neophytou argued that the constitution did not ban smaller parties from having any chairs and this had been the practice for decades.
"If Akel wants to change a long-standing practice in parliament it is within its rights. I repeat, the constitution does not prohibit it," Neophytou said.
The Disy leader said his party considered it right to continue the practice in the name of cooperation and consensus.
"We are in politics to give solutions to problems and not try to find problems in a solution," he said.
Christou said that Akel's stance "violates every principle of democracy," since Elam has been voted into parliament by public vote.
Disy has been accused of colluding with Elam to win the House presidency. Others believe granting the far-right a House committee chair is part of a growing cooperation between the two parties.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials say regional community forums scheduled this month will allow people to discuss ways to improve outcomes for children and families involved in the foster care system.
State officials say forums are scheduled for Monday in Owensboro and Tuesday in Madisonville in western Kentucky.
Citizen Foster Care Review Boards in the region are hosting the forums. Officials say six regional community forums are scheduled statewide through April 18.
Tom Stevenson, chairman of the Kentucky CFCRB, says the forums are a chance for people to talk about what can be done to make the system better for thousands of children and families.
The forums stem from the enactment of 2018 legislation to address issues with foster care and adoptions.


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Q: Error deploying grails portlet on liferay 6 I want to test a simple liferay portlet with grails.
I am using: Liferay version liferay-portal-6.1.1-ce-ga2 that has tomcat version
   tomcat-7.0.27 embedded , Grails 2.1.0  , IDE  Groovy/Grails Tool Suite Version: 3.0.0.RELEASE  andJDK1.7.0_05
I have instaled plugins.portlets=0.9.2 and plugins.portlets-liferay=0.4
After installing the grails plugins in a project i simply ran the following commands: create-portlet directorio.testLiferay and generate-portlet-views directorio.testLiferay
I have configurated Config.groovy following like http://grails.org/plugin/portlets-liferay
My portlet class looks like follow:
package directorio

import javax.portlet.*
class TestLiferayPortlet {
def title = 'Grails test'
def description = '''Portlet de pruebas.'''
def displayName = 'GrailsTest'
def supports = ['text/html':['view', 'edit', 'help']]

//uncomment to declare events support
//def events = [publish: ["event-1"], process: ["event-2"]]

//uncomment to declare public render parameter support
//def public_render_params = ["prp-1","prp-2"]

// DEFINITIONS FOR liferay-display.xml
def liferay_display_category = 'SCRD'

// DEFINITIONS FOR liferay-portlets.xml
def liferay_portlet_ajaxable = 'true'
def liferay_portlet_header_portlet_css = [
        '/css/protoFlow.css'
]
def liferay_portlet_header_portlet_javascript = [
        '/plugins/richui-0.5/js/flow/lib/prototype.js',
        '/plugins/richui-0.5/js/flow/lib/scriptaculous.js',
        '/plugins/richui-0.5/js/reflection/reflection.js',
        '/plugins/richui-0.5/js/flow/protoFlow.js'
]

def actionView = {
    //TODO Define action phase for 'view' portlet mode
    portletResponse.setRenderParameter("prp-1", "value-1");
}

def eventView = {
    //TODO Define event phase for 'view' portlet mode.
    def eventValue = portletRequest.event.value
}

def renderView = {
    //TODO Define render phase for 'view' portlet mode.
    //Return the map of the variables bound to the view,
    //in this case view.gsp if it exists or render.gsp if not
    ['mykey':'myvalue']
}

def resourceView = {
    //TODO define resource phase for 'view' portlet mode.
    //Render HTML as response
    render {
        html {
            head()
            body {
                "Render me!!"
            }
        }
    }
}

def actionEdit = {
    //TODO Define action phase for 'edit' portlet mode
    portletResponse.setEvent("event-1","event-1")
    portletResponse.setPortletMode(PortletMode.VIEW)
}

def renderHelp = {
    //TODO Define render phase for 'help' portlet mode
    //Return the map of the variables bound to the view,
    //in this case help.gsp if it exists or render.gsp if not
    ['mykey':'myvalue']
}

def doResource = {
    //TODO Define handling for default resource URL handling method, independent of porlet mode
    //Return the map of the variables bound to the view,
    //in this case resource.gsp
    ['mykey':'myvalue']
}

//invoked by setting 'action' param in resourceURL (as an example) to 'doSomethingAjaxy'
def doSomethingAjaxy =  {
    //render JSON
    render(contentType:"text/json") {
        example(mykey:"myvalue")
    }
}

//invoked by setting 'action' param in eventURL (as an example) to 'handleThisEvent'
def handleThisEvent =  {
    //render thisEvent.gsp
    render(view:"thisEvent")
}

}
If i execute run-app and war, it works fine. However when i put the war into deploy liferay directory and startup tomcat, i get error:
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
18:44:16,665 ERROR [GrailsDispatcherPortlet:276] Context initialization failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.container.AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.getInstance(AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.java:25)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.initPortletContainerAdapter(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:37)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.setPortletContext(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:28)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.createPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:349)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:294)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletBean(FrameworkPortlet.java:268)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.GenericPortletBean.init(GenericPortletBean.java:116)
    at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.init(GenericPortlet.java:107)
    at com.liferay.portlet.InvokerPortletImpl.init(InvokerPortletImpl.java:256)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.init(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:221)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.create(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:140)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.create(PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.java:41)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletBagFactory.create(PortletBagFactory.java:310)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.initPortlet(PortletHotDeployListener.java:546)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.doInvokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:321)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:120)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.doFireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:188)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:96)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:27)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.fireDeployEvent(PluginContextListener.java:151)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.doPortalInit(PluginContextListener.java:141)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.portalInit(BasePortalLifecycle.java:42)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:64)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:56)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.registerPortalLifecycle(BasePortalLifecycle.java:52)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.contextInitialized(PluginContextListener.java:103)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4779)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5273)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
18:44:16,667 ERROR [pool-2-thread-1][PortletBagFactory:313] java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.container.AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.getInstance(AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.java:25)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.initPortletContainerAdapter(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:37)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.setPortletContext(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:28)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.createPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:349)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:294)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletBean(FrameworkPortlet.java:268)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.GenericPortletBean.init(GenericPortletBean.java:116)
    at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.init(GenericPortlet.java:107)
    at com.liferay.portlet.InvokerPortletImpl.init(InvokerPortletImpl.java:256)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.init(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:221)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.create(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:140)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.create(PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.java:41)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletBagFactory.create(PortletBagFactory.java:310)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.initPortlet(PortletHotDeployListener.java:546)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.doInvokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:321)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:120)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.doFireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:188)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:96)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:27)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.fireDeployEvent(PluginContextListener.java:151)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.doPortalInit(PluginContextListener.java:141)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.portalInit(BasePortalLifecycle.java:42)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:64)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:56)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.registerPortalLifecycle(BasePortalLifecycle.java:52)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.contextInitialized(PluginContextListener.java:103)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4779)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5273)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
18:44:16,668 INFO  [GrailsDispatcherPortlet:98] Initializing portlet 'TestLiferay'
18:44:16,671 INFO  [GrailsDispatcherPortlet:263] FrameworkPortlet 'TestLiferay': initialization started
18:44:16,672 ERROR [GrailsDispatcherPortlet:276] Context initialization failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.container.AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.getInstance(AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.java:25)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.initPortletContainerAdapter(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:37)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.setPortletContext(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:28)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.createPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:349)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:294)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletBean(FrameworkPortlet.java:268)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.GenericPortletBean.init(GenericPortletBean.java:116)
    at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.init(GenericPortlet.java:107)
    at com.liferay.portlet.InvokerPortletImpl.init(InvokerPortletImpl.java:256)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.init(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:221)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.create(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:140)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.create(PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.java:41)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.initPortletApp(PortletHotDeployListener.java:598)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.doInvokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:328)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:120)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.doFireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:188)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:96)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:27)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.fireDeployEvent(PluginContextListener.java:151)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.doPortalInit(PluginContextListener.java:141)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.portalInit(BasePortalLifecycle.java:42)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:64)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:56)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.registerPortalLifecycle(BasePortalLifecycle.java:52)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.contextInitialized(PluginContextListener.java:103)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4779)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5273)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
18:44:16,673 ERROR [pool-2-thread-1][HotDeployImpl:191] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployException: Error registering portlets for testLiferayPortlet-0.1
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployException: Error registering portlets for testLiferayPortlet-0.1
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.BaseHotDeployListener.throwHotDeployException(BaseHotDeployListener.java:46)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:123)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.doFireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:188)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.HotDeployImpl.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployImpl.java:96)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.hot.HotDeployUtil.fireDeployEvent(HotDeployUtil.java:27)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.fireDeployEvent(PluginContextListener.java:151)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.doPortalInit(PluginContextListener.java:141)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.portalInit(BasePortalLifecycle.java:42)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:64)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalLifecycleUtil.register(PortalLifecycleUtil.java:56)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.BasePortalLifecycle.registerPortalLifecycle(BasePortalLifecycle.java:52)
    at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.PluginContextListener.contextInitialized(PluginContextListener.java:103)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4779)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5273)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.container.AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.getInstance(AbstractPortletContainerAdapter.java:25)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.initPortletContainerAdapter(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:37)
    at org.codehaus.grails.portlets.GrailsPortletApplicationContext.setPortletContext(GrailsPortletApplicationContext.java:28)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.createPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:349)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletApplicationContext(FrameworkPortlet.java:294)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.FrameworkPortlet.initPortletBean(FrameworkPortlet.java:268)
    at org.springframework.web.portlet.GenericPortletBean.init(GenericPortletBean.java:116)
    at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.init(GenericPortlet.java:107)
    at com.liferay.portlet.InvokerPortletImpl.init(InvokerPortletImpl.java:256)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.init(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:221)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.create(PortletInstanceFactoryImpl.java:140)
    at com.liferay.portlet.PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.create(PortletInstanceFactoryUtil.java:41)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.initPortletApp(PortletHotDeployListener.java:598)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.doInvokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:328)
    at com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.PortletHotDeployListener.invokeDeploy(PortletHotDeployListener.java:120)
    ... 24 more

I really apreciate any help.
Many tx.

A: It's a bug in liferay 6.1.1
http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-29103
It appears hot deployment rearranges the listeners in web.xml when it merges it.
Might be better to stick with 6.1.0, or manually fix the web.xml everytime you redeploy

A: Add compile 'javax.portlet:portlet-api:2.0' in your dependencies of BuildConfig.groovy
:D


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Тогенбуршка коза је раса домаће млечне козе, која потиче из швајцарске области Тогенбург. Њој се такође приписује да је једна од најстаријих познати раса млечних коза. Тогенбуршка коза је после Санске расе, најважнија за козарство у Швајцарској јер је врло продуктивна, отпорна, чврста и енергична планинска раса. Често иду на пашу, хране се сеном.

Особине козе

То је раса средње величине. Висина гребена мушких грла износи 75-85, а женских 70-80 cm. Тежина коза је 45-60 килограма, а јарчева преко 65 килограма. Обично је једнобојна, а боја варира – од светлосмеђе до тамночоколадне са уочљивим белим белезима. Иако нијансе смеђе боје могу варирати, бели белези имају устаљен изглед. Виме је јако развијено, а млечност врло добра, па просечно у лактацији од 277 дана, даје 600 килограма млека, са 3,5% масти . Боја длаке је карактеристична срнећа, сивомрка са светлим пругама дуж главе и светлијим длакама по ногама. Правилности распореда белих пега су следеће: беле уши, са тамном пегом у средини, две беле пруге низ лице изнад сваког ока па до њушке, пеге код задњих ногу од скочног зглоба до копита; беле предње ноге од колена надоле са понекад тамним пегама испод колена; бели троугао са обе стране репа,ове козе могу имати у различитом степену крем белеге уместо чисто белих. Уши су усправне и нагнуте ка напред.

Животиње оба пола су шуте (без рогова).

Види још
 Коза
 Домаћа коза

Референце

Литература
Крајиновић, Милан (2006). Овчарство и козарство. Универзитет у Новом Саду, Пољопривредни факултет.
Расе коза
Домаће животиње
Сточарство

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Knocking on Turkmenistan's Door to Hell
Jay Tindall
There is a fiery crater in the desert that has been burning since 1971, and it smells like a gas grill.
While the many dramatic photos and videos of the Darvaza gas crater bring the aberration to life, little can properly portray the sound: a whipping, low, persistent hum from hundreds of flames – almost industrial.
The Door to Hell isn't the most amenable site in Turkmenistan; it's in a desert far from the city, uncomfortably cold at night, and smells, obviously, of gas. But, those who see it never forget.
The isolated crater is around 274 kilometers from Ashgabat on bumpy roads through empty Turkmenistan desert scrub, and the key to a pleasant Door to Hell experience is getting there for sunset. The drive takes only three hours under normal conditions, but we were keen to see a little more of Central Asia's most undiscovered country.
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Turkmenistan is a fascinatingly secluded country. Ruled over by some of the most autocratic dictators in modern history – namely Saparmurat Niyazov who made declarations against, among other things, beards, circuses, and gold teeth – Turkmenistan is largely unexplored by the tourist masses.
Conversations regarding the Door to Hell invariably lead to the question of how there came to be a hellish crater filled with endless nightmarish fire in the middle of the Turkmen desert. The jury is still out in that regard. Most agree it was set on fire by Soviets trying to burn off noxious gas after a drilling rig collapsed, others that it was a local angry shepherd tossing a burning tire into the pit. Whatever the catalyst, the end result is a 70-meter hole of fire, gas, and boiling mud.
There's not much to describe in the way of sights to see along the desert road. Put the Darvaza gas crater into Google Maps and you'll be well into your second scroll before you see so much as a road. Camels occasionally pepper the peaceful, empty wastes.
There is, however, one stop on the way. At a village in the middle of the desert nowhere, we stopped to meet a family. Ushered to their yurt, they were kind enough to allow us to observe their life a little, offering us tea as we got to know their world a little bit better – from their food stuffs to their yarn making.
Noting the friendliness of our hosts and their livestock, we continued on to catch the Door to Hell at its most impressive moment: sunset.
At sunset, when the sky is dark, the crater glows. During the daylight hours, the Door to Hell is still impressive, to be sure, but it's in the stygian black of the desert night that it comes alive. Looking at the crater, it's not just the night that's black, it's the ground too. Nothing seems to exist but pit and fire.
As a photographer and videographer, it was my goal to capture the peculiar crater with every weapon in my arsenal. Sadly, however, my luggage was lost for three days, so I had to make due, sans tripod.
Long exposures and time lapses were less practical so the moment called for a great deal of running around – running up to the crater with the camera on an extension, which, in hindsight was not very safe.
People have been known to fall into the Door to Hell. On my visit, I was told of a Russian who did so, alive though a little worse for wear, and George Kourounis who made his way down on the National Geographic show Die Trying.
As to the experiences in the area, there is little more to do than walk around the crater or go to a nearby desert hill to see it from a distance – both of which are well worth the car journey. On our trip, there were only about 15 people in attendance for sunset. In the dark, people are only really visible when they're right by the crater. If they step back, they disappear.
Some people choose to camp on site, despite the cold. The only warm place is by the crater itself, but sucking in gas all night isn't recommended by most health professionals – or amateurs for that matter. Similarly, there are barbeque options, but the waft of burning gas did little for the appetite.
For us, it was time to return to the civilization of Ashgabat. It's said that the original fire began because the Soviet scientists in 1971 wanted to burn off the excess gas. It burned as I left, and perhaps it will for another 46 years.
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External relations is currently among the most dynamic areas of EU law, its institutional structures profoundly affected by the Lisbon Treaty. This volume gathers leading analysts to assess core recent developments in the field, taking stock of the current law and potential developments in major policy areas. The opening chapters analyse the legal principles that ensure coherence between different strands of the EU's external activity, as well as the legal basis for the EU's activity in shaping international law and the EU's contribution to 'state practice'. These chapters develop a picture of the EU's active international participation as well as the characteristic structural complexity of its external relations. Against this background, the remainder of the book examines key policy areas of EU external action: analysis of the relationship between trade policy and development; discussion of trade in services and the link between external and internal policy issues; and assessment of the EU's contribution to conflict resolution, an important focus of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The complex policy picture that emerges from the different goals, values, and instruments across these areas is examined in the book's final chapter, which focuses on the European Neighbourhood Policy, frequently proclaimed as a strategic priority for the EU. Together, the essays present a clear picture of the complex development of EU external relations, of the struggle for coherence in the increasingly active, visible, and self-conscious role played by the EU as a participant in the international legal order.
This chapter first addresses the question how far it can be said that the second pillar already forms part of the 'new legal order' established by the EC Treaty. It then considers whether the Constitution contained and the Treaty of Lisbon contains proposals that would helpfully move the CFSP in the direction of communitarization, by examining the potential applicability of primacy and direct effect in the second pillar and analysing the role that is proposed for the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HRUFASP). Finally, the origins of the dichotomy between EC external relations and the CFSP are traced, and it considers whether this dichotomy accurately reflects the current legal and political situation of EU foreign policy.
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This chapter explores the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU external action, including the Common, Foreign, and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The discussion begins by considering the approach taken to external action in the Lisbon Treaty, since this is necessary for an understanding of the more detailed provisions analyzed thereafter. It examines the Treaty architecture that informs this area of EU law, the principles that govern EU external action, the main institutional actors, and the changes made that affect the EU's legal personality. The focus in the second part shifts to those aspects of EU external action that are dealt with by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). It addresses each principal head of EU external competence brought together in what is now Part Five TFEU, to outline the pre-existing Treaty provisions and then to indicate the main changes made by the Lisbon Treaty. The final part of the chapter stands back from the detail and considers broader issues of consistency, coherence, and coordination that have been of concern in this area. These issues are addressed from the perspectives of purpose, institutions, and doctrine.
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Three-Pillar System of the European Union. It describes the distinguishing features of the intergovernmental pillars, the evolution of European political cooperation during the formation of the Second Pillar, and the evolution of cooperation in justice and home affairs during the formation of the Third Pillar. The chapter also evaluates the achievements and the weaknesses of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and of the Second and Third Pillars.
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This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It argues that EU law may have an impact on the inward-looking Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) if it accepts its own limitations, shifts its emphasis away from processes, and focuses, instead, on the practical underpinnings of security and defence. Crucial to this is the political will of the Member States to deal with the problems of capabilities and ensure the consolidation and expansion of the internal market. Otherwise, the Union risks dealing with 'what to make of a diminished thing'.
This chapter sheds some light on a number of dimensions of the requirement of consistency and coherence which characterize the position of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) within the EU external relations system. First, it examines the normative dimension of consistency by outlining the effects that the substantive interaction between security policy and external relations law may have on the legal autonomy of the respective sets of rules. It then highlights the political dimension of the need for coherence by focusing on the interactions between development cooperation and conflict prevention. Finally, it identifies certain areas where EU institutions and the Member States have developed practical mechanisms aiming at managing the conduct of ESDP and its interactions with EU external relations in an efficient manner.
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This first series 1955 Chevrolet 3100 is the final year of the iconic Advanced Design, making it one of the rarest around. But you really are just going to love it because the terrific old-school presentation inside & out feels like a time machine. This pickup is truly rolling history at its finest. 1955 was the final year for the Advance Design trucks that got America moving again after WWII. This pickup really symbolizes the attitude that jump... started us back into peacetime. The wood rails surrounding the wood truck bed makes it looks like it could still go to work today. But take a closer look. The extra gloss of the lumber matches nicely with the extra luster of the more modern application of the yellow and brown two-tone paint. In fact, that brown has an extra hint of metallic luster just to deliver more of the nostalgia factor. And if it's shine you like, the bumpers and two-piece wheels really add to this bright presentation. Plus, the way the panels fit on this pickup, let you know someone took the time in restoration to erase its workman past without erasing its historic appearance. It's the perfect balance of period-correct and premium. The interior is still working-class all the way, but that's all part of the vintage truck appeal. The vinyl bench seat shows virtually no wear, and the same can be said for the door panels and rubber flooring. Pickups from the 1950s didn't come adorned with a long feature list, and that actually adds to this 3100's charm. You get to connect to a bygone era every time you grab the three-spoke steering wheel, rest your hand on the tall gearstick, and gaze at the large original gauge package. Under the hood is a 261 cubic-inch inline six. It's an upgrade in displacement over what was available in the 3100 for '55 without losing the iconic Job Master/Stovebolt attitude. In fact, we know you'll love showing off all the details, from the long blue motor, to the silver oil bath air cleaner. While this is not an all-out speed machine, the four-speed manual transmission ensures you are in complete control of the powerband. Besides, you don't buy a truck like this for all-out performance. Sure, a small block fits easily in the engine bay, but your largest enjoyment is watching others see you ride around town in this alluring package. And right now you get to do that with an intoxicating rhythmic chug that comes from true vintage truck motoring. The Advance Design trucks were only in production for less than half of '55 before their successor started coming down the line. So a rare "First Series" pickup from 1955 always is a great distinction to have. And when you look at the rarity, terrific presentation, and affordable price, you realize you need to hurry to grab this deal. Call today!!!


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The present day working population in India has seen more job changes over the last 30 years than what our forefathers saw in their 50 years of career lives. The transformation of India Inc. from erstwhile Bharat has been phenomenal. Within a century, we as a nation have evolved from the "I will enter the same line of work as my father" working ideology to "I will choose my own career pursuits" professional ethos. Is it good, is it bad? Well, we are no one to either judge or define that. After all, we are living in "To each one their own" life times. The rise, the fall and then yet again rise of IT and ITES industries has manifested a boom of IT hubs, silicon valleys, SEZ zones across major cities in our nation. The metro cities soon evolved to be called cosmopolitan cities – with the working population in these cities no longer belonging to their native population, rather attracting a major influx of professionals hailing from the length & breadth of the country.
Every few months witnessed a new IT company or an ITES centre come up in one of the IT zones in the country – generating a new breed of HR professionals who were no longer happy to be called "Recruiters". "Headhunting" became a new fashion statement in itself and the street smart, well-networked HR professionals were no longer happy working for conventional recruitment consulting firms. They launched their own Headhunting Honchos and were happy to bite in the mega dollar, mega-pound consulting pies being offered by the esteemed U.S/U.K based parent companies of their clients.
The IT/ITES professionals got spoilt for "that extra bonus/those few lakhs more" and took great pride in telling their peers "I have four competitive offers in my hand at the moment"; while enjoying their notice periods for the nth time with yet another employer.
The ultra-quick job changes came with a price to pay – the inconvenience of transferring that not so fat yet hard-earned money, sitting in their PF accounts with the government. Chasing the previous company HR folks for a reminder on their PF transfers became a nightmare and the delay in receiving correspondence from the government added more fuel to the fire.
Every agony must not end in misery. For someone up there is watching. Same has come true for the Indian working populace as well! The EPFO has come to their rescue as they are right now amidst testing the automation of EPF transfer on changing jobs on a pilot basis. For those of you, who may be new to the world of EPF, let us help you bring upto speed.
Almost all salaried professionals end up not receiving an elusive chunk of their monthly salary towards EPF deduction. Hence the question arises, why this deduction and where does this money get accumulated?
The answer is Employee's Provident Fund. Commonly known as EPF, this is typically a retirement benefit scheme which is available to all salaried employees. EPF is looked after and maintained by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation of India (EPFO) and a registered company with over 20 employees is mandated by law to register with the EPFO.
"I don't receive this money as a part of my take-home, so it is as good as non-existent" is the take of the new generation of millennials entering the workforce. This leaves the HR professionals with a new challenge – Convincing the hair-coloured, denim clothed "Generation of Instant Gratification" employees that Provident Fund is very much a part of their remunerations.
Infact, Employee Provident Fund is a good savings platform that will assist them in forcibly saving a fraction of their salaries every month. This amount can be used in the event that an employee is rendered unable to work, or upon retirement. Well, retirement is a far-off concept for these employees but they will definitely view this new step by the government as a welcome move. After all, employees these days have been spoilt for convenience too.
For starters, the cumbersome manual process of transfer has been replaced by the automated one.
Come next fiscal year employees will have to no longer fill up employee provident fund (EPF) transfer claims on changing jobs.
The facility for all subscribers is expected to be launched any time next year.The EPFO plans to turn into a paperless organisation. At present, even those having a universal account number (UAN) have to fill up a transfer form. The retirement fund body gets about eight lakh EPF transfer claims every year.
As soon as your new employer files the monthly EPF return, the EPF contributions and interest earned on that from your ex-employer would be automatically transferred using UAN.
Once it is implemented over the next six months, organized sector employees moving across locations are unlikely to face any problem in unifying their PF corpus.
Unification of old accounts has two key benefits—the EPF contribution period becomes longer as older accounts are merged and, second, it improves the employee's pension eligibility, Mint had reported. Currently, 10 years of regular contribution is a must to receive pension under EPS.
Well- so much for Savings/PF stability!
Job-stability is a personal choice though and a totally different matter of discussion and we at Kanakkupillai would leave our readers with space and freedom to decide for themselves on that!
Next Incorporation of a Company – Just like a T-20 Cricket Match!


Studies of the mechanisms leading to the consolidation of memory during sleep.
Sleep consists of several phases that form cycles that are repeated several times during the night. These phases are characterized by distinct electrical activity patterns. Certain phases, especially slow wave sleep, allow the consolidation of memory. The strengthening of connections between neurons, called synapses, underlie this consolidation, and thus, learning. Professor Igor Timofeev's research aims to understand how brain activity waves are generated, propagate and contribute to this important reorganization of connections. A better understanding of the dynamics of brainwaves, the factors that influence them and the neurons that participate in them, will thus help to better understand the neurological bases of memory and learning.
Dr. Timofeev's team is also interested in the physiological bases of states of consciousness. Their research has shown that some neurons in the deep brain regions, the thalamus, help to synchronize the activity of neurons on the surface of the brain, the cortex. These interactions are essential for controlling sleep and waking states.
Dr. Timofeev is also interested in the effects of direct damage to the brain, and the process that leads to epileptogenesis, the development of epilepsy. Epilepsy is a dysfunction of the brain that is characterized by excessive and synchronized activity of neurons. Timofeev's studies are aimed at explaining how a brain injury leads to epilepsy to identify intervention targets for preventing epilepsy.
Corticothalamic oscillations during sleep and waking behavioral states, from sleep-dependent plasticity to memory consolidation.
All animals sleep; but formally speaking the functions of sleep are unknown. Correlative studies indicate that sleep, in particular slow-wave sleep is responsible for memory consolidation. Long-term synaptic plasticity plays a key role in memory. In this project supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, we will test a hypothesis that differences in slow-wave sleep activities in different cortical areas would incur different extent of synaptic plasticity.
Immediate response to brain damage is a generation of seizure activities. The process between brain damage and the onset of epilepsy is called epileptogenesis. The mechanisms of epileptogenesis are largely unknown and therefore, there are no effective therapies against epileptogenesis. What do we want to do? Basically two things: (1) To describe physiological processes taking place during epileptogenesis and (2) Based on our understanding of changes in the network activity and starting from the moment of the trauma, to stimulate the traumatized cortex aiming to increase excitability and to prevent epileptogenesis.
Thalamic gating during sleep oscillations.
We are interested in the understanding of physiological basis of conscious states. In this study supported by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, we investigate how thalamic neurons from different nuclei contribute to long-range synchronization of cortical activities.
Sylvain Chauvette, Sara Soltani, Josée Seigneur, Igor Timofeev. In vivo models of cortical acquired epilepsy. J Neurosci Meth (2016) 260, p. 185-201.
Chauvette, S., Seigneur, J., and Timofeev, I. (2012). Sleep Oscillations in the Thalamocortical System Induce Long-Term Neuronal Plasticity. Neuron 75, 1105-1113. (Neuron featured article).
Chauvette S, Volgushev M, and Timofeev I. Origin of Active States in Local Neocortical Networks during Slow Sleep Oscillation. Cereb Cortex 20: 2660-2674, 2010.
Avramescu S., Timofeev I. (2008) Synaptic strength modulation following cortical trauma: a role in epileptogenesis J Neurosci 28:27, 6760–6772.
Volgushev M., Chauvette S., Mukovski M., Timofeev I. (2006) Precise long-range synchronization of activity and silence in neocortical neurons during slow wave sleep. J Neurosci. 26: 21, 5665-5672.
Houweling A., Bazhenov A., Timofeev I., Steriade M., Sejnowski T. (2005) Homeostatic synaptic plasticity can explain posttraumatic epileptogenesis. Cereb Cortex, 15: 834-845.
Timofeev I., Steriade M. 2004 Neocortical seizures: initiation, development and cessation. Neurosci 123: 299-336.
Topolnik L., Steriade M., Timofeev I. (2003) Partial cortical deafferentation promotes development of paroxysmal activity. Cerebral Cortex, 13: 883-893.
Steriade M., Timofeev I. (2003) Neuronal plasticity in thalamocortical networks during sleep and waking oscillations. Neuron 2003 Feb 20;37(4):563-76.
Steriade M., Timofeev I., Grenier F. 2001 Natural waking and sleep states: a view from inside neocortical cells. J Neurophysiol. 85(5):1969-85.
Timofeev I., Grenier F., Steriade M. 2001 Disfacilitation and active inhibition in the neocortex during the natural sleep-wake cycle: an intracellular study. PNAS 98(4): 1924-1929.
Igor Timofeev was educated in USSR and received his PhD from Bogomolets Institute of Physiology (Kiev, Ukraine) in 1993. He was employed as Lecturer in the Department of Human and Animals Physiology at Odessa State University (Odessa, Ukraine). From 1994 till 2000 he was postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Mircea Steriade laboratory at Laval University (Quebec, Canada). Since 2000 till now Dr. Timofeev has faculty position in the School of Medicine at Université Laval (Canada). His current research activities are located in the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec (CRIUSMQ). His laboratory investigates cellular mechanisms of sleep and epilepsy within thalamocortical system.
Awards: 1996-1997 Postdoctorate scholarship. Savoy Foundation for Epilepsy.
1997-1998 Postdoctorate scholarship. Savoy Foundation for Epilepsy.
2005 – Certificate d'appréciation (Fonde de la Recherche en Santé, Québec).
2006 – Prix d'excellence Jacques-Leblanc/ACCEM, Meilleur Directeur de Recherche. (Price Jacques Leblanc/ACCME, Best Director of Research (School of Medicine, Laval University) (first nomination).
2009 – Program of European Neuroscience Societies (PENS). Program: Training in Sleep research and sleep Medicine.


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Q: Android Facebook SDK cancel a Photo upload request I am trying to create an Android application to Post a Photo with some description to a facebook fan page.
Here is the code I used for posting.
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Here I used Request and RequestAsyncTask Classes from Facebook SDK.
Upload progress will be shown in notification bar, taping on it will allow users to cancel upload,
I tried
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But it's not working because it allows AsyncTask's doInBackground() (photo upload task done inside doInBackground()) to finish execution, so photo will be posted even after cancelling. Is there a way to terminate from doInBackground() or any Facebook API methods to cancel a Request?


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Princess Cruise Ships Will Relaunch With "Land-Like" Wi-Fi Strong Enough to WFC
Work from home < Work from cruise
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The pandemic has redefined cruises and our work-from-home status, so it's only fitting that Princess Cruises recently announced it would be upgrading the onboard Wi-Fi on its global fleet of ships. According to the cruise line, the new MedallionNet will bring "land-like" internet speeds to the seas, which, if you've ever tried to do anything substantial online on a cruise ship, is a pretty dang big deal.
Forget working from home. If Princess's new MedallionNet lives up to the hype, you'll be able to work from ship—and participate in distance learning or conduct a secure transaction—while you travel from one exotic location to the next.
"Each Princess MedallionClass ship transmits enough bandwidth per vessel to guarantee a superior connection for each guest and the personal device they are using," Princess said in a statement. "MedallionNet's seamless integration ensures guests can work from their deck chairs as efficiently and effectively as in their office, with access to their cloud-based enterprise applications such as storage, videoconferencing, and email. And because there is an access point in every stateroom, as well as all public areas, guests can move freely around the ship as they work without any frustrating signal drops."
Cruises have always been a dead zone when it comes to internet connectivity and reliability, and with more than 40 percent of the workforce still working from home, Princess is betting big that upping the internet ante will be a boon for the 36 million employees expected to be working from come 2025.
Princess's MedallionNet is made possible through its connectivity partner, SES, who will be adding new constellations of satellites to "super-charge" the ships' onboard internet. This is the same service that executes Princess Cruises' OceanMedallion touchless service on its Medallion-class ships.
Somehow the continuation of Zoom calls and virtual classrooms doesn't seem as unbearable if we're able to log in from enviable remote locations. At the very least, you won't have to fiddle with finding the perfect wanderlust background—you'll be living it.
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Why Cuban/American Relations Matter Most in NJ
By Jay Lassiter • 02/04/16 11:49am
"One of the largest population of Cubans outside of Cuba lives right here in New Jersey. There are issues important to New Jersey that the Cuban government must address."
— Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi (R-Bergen.)
(Cherry Hill, NJ) — Much ink was spilled over a recent trip to Cuba by 10 New Jersey state legislators. That's not surprising since few geo-political issues are as fraught as US-Cuba relations. In short, we've an island neighbor just off Key West with whom we've buried our heads these past 5 decades in the name of Cold War politics. Whether you think the US-led embargo of Cuba is a good idea or not, here we are, 50+ years later, still clinging to it. Some of us still cling to it anyway.
When Barack Obama first ran for president he wasn't shy about a possible rapprochement with Cuba. The logic: our embargo is a sad, obsolete vestige of a rivalry with a nation which no longer exists (the Soviet Union.) So why on earth do we keep doing that same thing that never worked to begin with? Many Americans, indeed many Cuban Americans voted for Obama because of his expressed desire to stop ignoring nations and heads of state with which we have profound differences. Cuba is a perfect example. Yes we can, Obama told us. Hope and change. Remember?
But Cuba proves change ain't easy, especially for the pro-embargo hard-liners whose families were truly harmed by an undeniably repressive Cuban government. So when a bipartisan group of NJ legislators set off to Cuba late last month there was bound to be strong reaction, especially from the old guard (which includes New Jersey's senior senator Bob Menendez and our assembly speaker Vinnie Prieto both Cuban-Americans with compelling backstories and unique [albeit dated] perspectives.)
Senator Menendez: "Of all the places in the world to try and create good relations and business opportunities, Cuba is just not one at this time because you have a regime that is unrepentant, unwilling to open up, unwilling to permit basic human rights and democracy, and one that if you want to do business with, you're going to do business with an oppressive regime."
But that's precisely the point, according to Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) who made the trip and later told PolitickerNJ, "Fifty years of isolating them has done nothing! Bob Menendez should go do there and face off with those communist party officials eyeball-to-eyeball!" Instead of, one presumes, pushing that tired old embargo frame.
Despite Menendez' protestations, business ties between Cuba and America are already taking root. For example, IDT is a Newark-based telecom company whose chief legal council emigrated from Cuba to NJ and didn't see his family for decades. Now IDT is perfectly positioned to help America re-establish phone ties with our island neighbor. These changes will happen. Shouldn't New Jersey, home to many in the Cuban diaspora, lead the way? Those were the kinds of questions assembly our assembly members asked down there. I know this. They told me so.
"Cuba is a very passionate issue for most Cuban-Americans, many of whom fled Cuba with the shirts on their backs never to return," Assemblywoman Schepisi told PolitickerNJ. "But like it our not, we're at a juncture of history where President Obama managed to soften the (decades long) embargo."
Schepisi pointed out that global support for ending the ban is nearly universal. It is, she said, "an effort supported by 188 of 192 members of the United Nations."
Reaction from Menendez' fellow hardliners came swiftly:
"I don't think they know enough about what's going on in Cuba," said Albio Sires, Cuban-born member of Congress whose Hudson County district is enriched with a large Cuban-American community. "The thing is they legitimize the government and, quite frankly, the economy, 85 percent of the economy is run by the military in Cuba."
"The whole trip was a very unfortunate thing," West New York mayor Felix Roque told NJ101.5. "They're like Boy Scouts going in and fighting in a battlefield. They didn't know what they were going into. And the Castro regime has a very good propaganda machine. And they were misquoted. I feel bad for them. The whole trip was unfortunate."
First of all, notice both Sires and Roque make a point to highlight that the rest of us are just a bunch of rubes. Secondly, why do hard-liners seems to believe that only Cuban exiles are permitted to have strong opinions about this? Maybe that's not the way it really is, but when you listen to Menendez and his ilk, it sure seems it.
Speaker Prieto, himself a Cuban exile, was more circumspect about the whole affair: "I would not authorize them going as an [official] delegation but I cannot say anything about them going as U.S. citizens. That is one of the freedoms we have here that is not available to the Cubans in Cuba."
As for the thorny issue of convicted cop-killer Joanne Chesimard's extradition back to NJ to face justice? "It was raised constantly," Schepisi told PolitickerNJ.
"Constantly. At every meeting we had," added Gusciora, including a sit down with Josefina Vidal, Cuba's deputy Foreign Minister
"The wants of the Cuban government were passionately articulated by the Cuban government — ending the embargo, closing Guantanamo," said Schepisi. "But I didn't hear much, and I needed to hear, about what does the US get in return. Specifically, how does the Cuban government plan to restore relations with Cuban Americans?"
Healing the wounds between our nations won't be quick or easy. There remain righteous bitter grievances on both sides. So whatever steps taken by our assembly members on this trip will, in retrospect, mark the first tentative baby steps on a long path towards anything like a normal relationship with Cuba. But at least one New Jersey legislator's optimistic.
"You know what will change Cuba for the better?" asked Assemblyman Gusciora somewhat jocularly, before answering his own question. "Gays! They have money and they love to travel! That sort of human-to-human contact, it warms the heart to make these connections!"
"But first Cuba has to improve treatment of its own LGBT community."
Jay Lassiter started covering New Jersey politics in 2005 as a blogger for BlueJersey.com. After a stint as America's first State House blogger, Jay did communication for Congressman Rob Andrews and Congressman John Adler. Jay's best known for his work legalizing medical marijuana and gay marriage and for working to end N.J.'s death penalty. He's on Twitter @Jay_Lass.
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If you want to know how Budapest looked like during WWII, do not miss this out!
Discover Budapest during World War II by the actual sights, archive photos and relating stories. Hop in our time machine and make the comparison of the past and the present with your own eyes.
As we were liberated by the Soviet army, the end of the war brought a different life to Hungary, a beginning of something new – Communism. So, you"ll get more than just fading memories of the war.
We start from Szechenyi square to visit the Parliament building, the Jewish Shoes Memorial and the non-permanent, now non-existent Kossuth bridge, which was the only link between the two sides of the city after all the other bridges were bombed. What happened to the iconic sights of Budapest, such as the Chain Bridge, the Castle Hill area, the Gellert Hill with the statue on the top? We'll see, when we run back in time 70 years.


I'm using the TrueKey Chrome Extension (v2.8.5711) and my safe notes are not sorting alphabetically. The sort order (on the Safe Note Title) is: X, T, B, S, P, N, L, M, C, 0-9, U.
This has been a long standing issue for me (since McAfee switched its users to TrueKey) and I haven't figured out a way to correct it. Please let me know what I need to do to correct this issue.
Let me see what I can do to get this fixed, unfortunately there's nothing you can do on your end to correct this issue, I appreciate you reporting it to us.
Four weeks ago, marcd, McAfee employe, wrote to s011jan: "Let me see what I can do to ge tthis fixed, unfortunately there's nothing you can do on yourt end to correct this issue, I appreciate you reporting it to us". Today the problem still exists. I have it. What´s going on? McAfee in unable to alphabetically order our safe notes.
"1 person had this problem" is not correct. 1person has this problem!
Let me explain, to be more accurate 1 person has/had this issue but potentially other customers might see the same issue. Please let assure you, I dont not need several customers reporting this to me to understand the severity of the issue, as soon as you brought out to my attention I reproduced it right away, I have pushed the issue to our developpment team for a fix for hopefully the upcoming release.
Marc D, I originally reported the incorrect or lack of alphabetial sorting in the Safe Notes six months ago (02/2018). As of today, my safe notes are still not sorting correctly and, quite honestly, it is very frustrating that a resolution has not been pushed out in over six months. It does not provide much faith that the software team can protect my sensative information/passwords when a basic sort function cannot be correctly implemented. Please provide an update on when the alphabetical sort in the safe notes will be corrected.
Sort functions also not working for logins, they always stay a-z, no matter the option.
Safe notes order in the order they are created.
Let me try to find out an approximate date where this can be tackle, obviously other more priority issues had to be fixed on our previous releases, let me get back to you when I have a better idea of the ETA for this.


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Q: Comma before "except for?" I am wondering if there should be a comma before the word "except" in this sentence. The research I have done reveals that commas usually aren't used, but I think that it depends on the sentence. I cannot find a significant explanation as to when commas would be used or not. My instinct is that this situation would be the same as a comma before "because:" add a comma if necessary to avoid confusion. Is the sentence below correct?
"I have been the judge of hundreds of card tournaments, and I do not have any disciplinary actions on my record, except for two warnings that were given years ago."

A: The word except in the sentence is a conjunction, therefore a comma is required before except, as stipulated in Comma Usage Rule 3b.


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All aspects of the framing process is done on our premises in Southport on the Gold Coast.
The glass has broken in my picture, can it be replaced?
Answer: Yes this a very common request! Just bring your artwork in and the broken glass will be removed, and a new piece will be measured and placed.


We are delighted to announce that we have now secured the long term future of 2nd Bengeo Scout Group at Watermill Lane. East Herts Council has agreed to lease the land to the Group for 40 years, and it is now with the legal department of the Scout Association for signing off.
This will mean that we can make detailed plans on how to best improve the facilities your children use. A key benefit of a long term lease is that we can start fund raising for a major capital investment project either rebuilding the Scout hut, or a comprehensive refurbishment.
However, Scouting is entirely volunteer led – none of the leaders, or the young, and less young, helpers get paid – and we therefore need your support, time, energy and commitment, to help raise funds.
We need committed supporters/parents/carers to join a small fundraising committee to lead and manage raising money for these capital projects. Without your help, we will not be able to deliver on these great ambitions.
Please contact your child's Scout Leader to put your name forward; if you have direct working knowledge of fund raising or of grant giving bodies, so much the better, but experience is not necessary. We will be talking about this more at the forthcoming Group AGM in early March (details to follow).
Lastly, we also need volunteers to come forward to help run our Scouting activities – particularly the Beaver colonies – so, when you next drop your child off please see Jenny or Melanie for information on how you can help.


Can you believe it!? Summer is here, which means it's time for SLOSHBALL!
We've already had 2 teams pre-pay and commit to play this summer. You DON'T need to put together a team. It is simply optional.
We will be capping this event for safety reasons.
Contact My Big Day with any questions.