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A summer garden party is being held in the Manse grounds on Saturday 9th July from 11.00 am till 1.00 pm. We are currently looking for donations for the tea room, the summer picnic hamper, home baking stall and tombola and have put up a 'wish list' in both the Village Church and the hall at the Forge Centre, Balloch. So please add your name to that if you can help.
Also, if you are able to help on the day, even for an hour, please speak to Janice Smillie, Ivy Fletcher, Elizabeth Snedden, Mhairi Gilchrist, Anne Morrison or Caroline Edwardson.
A plant cuttings and coffee event is planned for Saturday 8th October (a change from the previously-advertised date), so we're making an early plea to all those gardeners out there to please bring along cuttings from your garden over the summer months for this event.
We'll post further details about both events as their dates get closer, but wanted to let you know about them early in the hope we can enlist your help. Thanks in advance!


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A U.S. City Once Existed South of the Rio Grande
by Ken Jennings
Jeopardy Champ Ken Jennings finds Rio Rico, Mexico, the only town south of the Rio Grande that was once part of the U.S.
Rio Rico, a dusty village on the Texas–Mexico border just 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico might seem like an odd flashpoint for an international incident. But in 1906, an American irrigation company, afraid that flooding might cut off access to one of its pumping plants, dug a new channel for the Rio Grande, cutting off a switchback in the river's course. This moved 413 acres of American territory south of the river, and set off a series of border disputes that lasted almost 80 years.
View Rio Rico in a larger map
If the American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Co. had just spent $200 on boundary markers, there would have been no confusion. Instead, everyone assumed that this 413-acre tract of land was part of Mexico, even though international law specifies that man-made changes to watercourses shouldn't move borders. The town of Rio Rico grew up there in the 1920s—a Mexican town that was, unbeknownst to its residents, on U.S. soil!
Rio Rico became a border boom town, home to all kinds of craziness and vice. Local legend holds that even Al Capone used to party there. But in 1967, an Arizona State researcher discovered that the land was actually part of the United States—the only American soil south of the Rio Grande.
Lots of legal wrangling ensued, and finally an appeals court granted U.S. citizenship to the Mexicans who had settled the area. Most immediately left the now-sleepy town for more hospitable parts of their new homeland, and the United States handed over the land to Mexico in 1977. To this day, Rio Rico is the last piece of U.S. soil ever ceded to a foreign power.
For many years, thousands of Mexican visitors streamed through Rio Rico, hoping local authorities would issue proof that they were born nearby so they could emigrate to the United States. Most left disappointed. Today, Rio Rico is virtually a ghost town, with no one left but those too old to be physically able to move north, or those too young to be legally able.
Explore the world's oddities every week on CondeNastTraveler.com with Ken Jennings. Check out his latest book, Maphead.

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Q: Numpy image slicing returning black patches/ wrong values The end goal is to take an image and slice it up into samples that I save. The problem is that my slices are randomly returning black/ incorrect patches. Bellow is a small sample program.
import scipy.ndimage as ndimage
import scipy.misc as misc
import numpy as np

image32 = misc.imread("work0.png")
patches = np.zeros((36, 8, 8))
for i in range(4):
  for j in range(4):
    patches[i*4 + j] = image32[i:i+8,j:j+8]
    misc.imsave("{0}{1}.png".format(i,j), patches[i*4 + j])

An example of my image would be:

Patch of 0,0 of 8x8 patch yields:

A: Two things:

*

*You are initializing your patch matrix to be the wrong data type.  By default, numpy will make patches matrix a np.float64 type and if you use this with saving, you won't get the results you would expect.  Specifically, if you consult Mr. F's answer, there is actually some scaling performed on floating-point images where the minimum and maximum values of the image get scaled to black and white respectively and so if you have an image that is completely uniform in background, both the minimum and maximum will be the same and will get visualized to black.  As such, the best thing is to respect the original image's data type, namely setting the dtype of your patches matrix to np.uint8.

*Judging from your for loop indexing, you want to extract out 8 x 8 patches that are non-overlapping.  This means that if you have a 32 x 32 image with 8 x 8 patches, you have 16 patches in total arranged in a 4 x 4 grid.
Therefore, you need to change the patches statement so that it has 16 in the first dimension, not 36.  In addition, you'll have to adjust the way you're indexing into your image to extract out the 8 x 8 patches because right now, the patches are overlapping.  Specifically, you want to make the image patch indexing go from 8*i to 8*(i+1) for the rows and 8*j to 8*(j+1) for the columns.  If you substitute sample values of i and j yourself, you'll see that we get unique 8 x 8 patches for each grid in your image.

With both of the above things I noted, the modified code should be:
import scipy.ndimage as ndimage
import scipy.misc as misc
import numpy as np

image32 = misc.imread('work0.png')

patches = np.zeros((16,8,8), dtype=np.uint8) # Change

for i in range(4):
    for j in range(4):
        patches[i*4 + j] = image32[8*i:8*(i+1),8*j:8*(j+1)] # Change
        misc.imsave("{0}{1}.png".format(i,j), patches[i*4 + j])

When I do this and take a look at the output images, I get what I expect.

To be absolutely sure, let's plot the segments using matplotlib.  You've conveniently saved all of the patches in patches so it shouldn't be a problem showing what we need.  However, I'll place some code in comments so that you can read in the images that were saved from disk with your above code so you can verify that it still works, regardless of looking at patches or the images on disk:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure()
for i in range(4):
    for j in range(4):
        plt.subplot(4, 4, 4*i + j + 1)
        img = patches[4*i + j]
        # or you can do this:
        # img = misc.imread('{0}{1}.png'.format(i,j))
        img = np.dstack([img, img, img])
        plt.imshow(img)

plt.show()

The weird thing about matplotlib.pyplot.imshow is that if you have an image that is single channel (such as your case) that has the same intensity all around, it gets visualized to black no matter what the colour map is, much like what we experienced with imsave.  Therefore, I had to artificially make this a RGB image but with all of the channels to be the same so this gets visualized as grayscale before we show the image.
We get:

A: According to this answer the issue is that imsave normalizes the data so that the computed minimum is defined as black (and, if there is a distinct maximum, that is defined as white).
This led me to go digging as to why the suggested use of uint8 did work to create the desired output. As it turns out, in the source there is a function called bytescale that gets called internally.
Actually, imsave itself is a very thin wrapper around toimage followed by save (from the image object). Inside of toimage if mode is None (which it is by default), that's when bytescale gets invoked.
It turns out that bytescale has an if statement that checks for the uint8 data type, and if the data is in that format, it returns the data unaltered. But if not, then the data is scaled according to a max and min transformation (where 0 and 255 are the default low and high pixel values to compare to).
This is the full snippet of code linked above:
if data.dtype == uint8:
    return data

if high < low:
    raise ValueError("`high` should be larger than `low`.")

if cmin is None:
    cmin = data.min()
if cmax is None:
    cmax = data.max()

cscale = cmax - cmin
if cscale < 0:
    raise ValueError("`cmax` should be larger than `cmin`.")
elif cscale == 0:
    cscale = 1

scale = float(high - low) / cscale
bytedata = (data * 1.0 - cmin) * scale + 0.4999
bytedata[bytedata > high] = high
bytedata[bytedata < 0] = 0
return cast[uint8](bytedata) + cast[uint8](low)

For the blocks of your data that are all 255, cscale will be 0, which will be checked for and changed to 1. Then the line
bytedata = (data * 1.0 - cmin) * scale + 0.4999

will result in the whole image block having the float value of 0.4999,  thus set explicitly to 0 in the next chunk of code (when casted to uint8 from float) as for example:
In [102]: np.cast[np.uint8](0.4999)
Out[102]: array(0, dtype=uint8)

You can see in the body of bytescale that there are only two possible ways to return: either your data is type uint8 and it's returned as-is, or else it goes through this kind of silly scaling process. So in the end, it is indeed correct, and good practice, to be using uint8 for the pieces of your code that specifically load from or save to an image format via these functions.
So this cascade of stuff is why you were getting all zeros in the outputted image file and why the other suggestion of using dtype=np.uint8 actually helps you. It's not because you need to avoid floating point data for images, just because of this bizarre convention to check and scale data on the part of imsave.

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How to 'be Boulder' with climate communications. A webcam session of Paying for predictions
The Climate Centre last Thursday remotely facilitated a session at the University of Colorado-Boulder of Paying for predictions – its popular game illustrating the cost, value and use of early warnings in which players decide whether to invest in forecast-based preparedness for floods.
Nearly 40 students took part in the game, part of the university's "Inside the Greenhouse" course on how to communicate climate issues through interactive arts and media.
The session was led (see photo) from Boston, Massachusetts by the Climate Centre's Associate Director for Research and Innovation, Dr Pablo Suarez, on a simple webcam link via Skype.
It was co-facilitated in Boulder by Professor Max Boykoff of the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy, Beth Osnes of the Department of Theater and Dance, and Scott Gwozdz from the Business School.
"It's not the first time we've done this," said Professor Boykoff, "and link-up technologies now provide great opportunities to connect from afar.
"Pablo was interacting very well with the students on webcam."
Paying for predictions, in which participants play humanitarian workers processing probabilistic information about disasters, was among the selection of educational games run by the Climate Centre at the UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland last November.
Last week's session is one of numerous engagements between the Climate Centre and the University of Colorado-Boulder (home-page strapline: Be Boulder).
In another, the University of Colorado is one of a number of campuses that helps the Climate Centre place interns from a graduate student pool in countries like Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. (More information is here)
Researchers from the two organizations are also working on an assessment of the effectiveness in the field of participatory games.
Professor Beth Osnes, Director of Graduate Studies in CU Boulder's Department of Theatre and Dance, writes: "Inside the Greenhouse: Using Media to Communicate Positive Solutions to Climate Change" leads students into creating multi-modal compositions on issues related to climate change.
They are encouraged to explore multiple outlets for creative expression, from video to dance, generating compelling storylines as they go.
"El Verde", a self-proclaimed environmental voice, for example, raps about how you too can make a difference.
A family that includes an environmentalist and a hunter find they share a reverence for the environment.
A character ironically named Steve Coalburner seeks to impress his attractive co-worker, Stacy Green, by car pooling.
These are just a few of the stories created by students as part of the course, and games are another inspirational format for communicating climate-related content in a fun and engaging way.
Last week's Paying for predictions session at the University of Colorado-Boulder was led remotely through a webcam link. (Photo: Scott Gwozdz/CU Boulder)


The Literary Press Group's new strategic plan outlines four main areas that we are focusing on to help our members publish great Canadian books. These four areas help define the core programs and services that we offer our members.
The LPG's collective marketing activities aim to put a public face on literary publishing in Canada. We connect with readers through several different venues including our website, our webstore AllLitUp.ca, via social media, and in person at trade shows and events, like Word on the Street, the Ontario Library Association's Super Conference, and Congress.
Some of our seasonal collective sales and marketing campaigns in the past include All Lit Up, a holiday online pop-up store; Poetry City for National Poetry Month; and Full of Lit for Short Story Month.
Literary publishers sometimes face problems with scale: some services are simply not available on competitive terms to smaller publishers. By grouping members together, the LPG can make those services available at reasonable rates. The LPG uses this approach to provide its members with trade sales representation through the Canadian Manda Group, distribution through LitDistCo, sales data, digital catalogues, and advertising opportunities.
The LPG considers its advocacy role in broad terms. As the only collective ogranization for literary publishers in English Canada, the LPG educates, informs, and represents its members' interests to the general public, the media, elected officials, and government staff.
The LPG provides professional development and industry intelligence to its members in a number of ways. Using seminars, webinars, discussion tools, and newsletter, the LPG seeks to support both new and established literary publishing professionals.


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Needed Relief For Kentucky Shelters and Families Struggling After Record Cold
LG&E and KU providing support to area shelters and community action agencies, increasing heating assistance program contributions
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – The sub-zero temperatures have moved on and much of the snow has melted, but many area shelters and families are still feeling the chill. With area temperatures averaging more than 40 percent colder than normal, the frigid conditions are straining the resources of some agencies that serve the most vulnerable community members and making it tough for families in need of assistance to make it through the bitterly cold season.
Shelters and Day Centers
In an effort to ease the strain, Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities companies are providing more than $200,000 in outreach to community action groups, shelters and other non-profit organizations within its service territories – specifically to address heightened concerns stemming from the season's extreme conditions. More than a dozen shelters and day centers, as well as 19 community action agencies based in Barbourville, Bowling Green, Frankfort, Harlan, Jamestown, LaGrange, Lexington, Manchester, Owensboro, Pineville, Shelbyville and West Liberty in Kentucky, as well as Norton, Va., are among those receiving the funds. LG&E is also donating funds to the Coalition for the Homeless in Louisville, a nonprofit advocacy organization whose members serve the needs of Louisville's homeless population.
"When temperatures dip like they have in recent weeks, these organizations take on an increased burden to ensure no one is without shelter and some families struggle to make ends meet as they try to keep everyone comfortable," said John P. Malloy, vice president of Customer Services for LG&E and KU. "It's our hope these grant dollars will provide these vital agencies much needed resources to help get them and the families they serve through the remainder of this difficult season."
Heating Assistance Programs
In addition to working with area shelters, LG&E and KU are also stepping up contributions to the utilities' heating assistance programs – doubling the usual year-round $1 for $1 match with customer donations to the programs – retro-actively contributing $2 for every customer dollar donated from February through the end of April. The LG&E Community WinterHelp, KU WinterCare Energy Assistance Fund and WinterShare Fund offered by Old Dominion Power, the name under which KU operates in Virginia, are operated by area third-party nonprofit organizations. The agencies make this financial assistance available to community members who may be struggling this winter to pay their heating bills.
LG&E and KU encourage residential customers anticipating difficulty paying their bills to contact customer service representatives, who will address their individual situation. LG&E residential customers can call (502) 589-1444. KU residential customers can dial (800) 981-0600. Customers can also visit lge-ku.com/helpingyou for information on available resources.


I just learned that Jim Ayson, the founder of Philmusic, died last night. He is a great loss not only to the local music scene, but to Philippine Internet as well. He was one of the pioneers of local Internet and was very active until his death.
RIP Jim Ayson. Thank you for your contributions to Philippine musicians.


Geoffrey Bell Auctions would like to welcome all bidders to their inaugural Paris Sale, in conjunction with the Paris Coin Show (previously known as the South Western Ontario Numismatic Club and Collectibles Show). The live auction kicks off on Saturday February 3rd, 2018 with over 600 lots. This sale includes a wide selection of Canadian coins, banknotes, and tokens, US coins, as well as a fantastic grouping of ancient coins. Absentee bidding is currently being accepted in the online catalog.
Lot 23 is a German historical coin sure to be popular in the bidding. This is a Hesse-Cassel Friedrich II Taler 1778-BR graded MS62 by NGC. This is a mint state example with impressive original lustre. This coin is the infamous "Blood Taler" used to pay the Hessian mercenaries in the Revolutionary War. Bidding opens at $500 and this is estimated in value up to $1250.
A 1924 Canadian One Cent is up for grabs at Lot 96. This piece is valued at up to $5000 and is graded MS-64 from ICCS. The photos are up in the online catalog and it opens for only $1000 looking to be a great buy at auction.
Lot 146 gives the most valuable Canadian coin of this auction in the form of a 1847 Fifty Cent piece. It is a maple leave with a curved left, and graded ICS MS66. Bidding is opening at $2000 and there are a trio of photos for inspection in the online catalog.
This rare piece is valued at up to $20000 and will attract many collectors. There are some great photos for viewing online.
In addition to the highlighted features, there are hundreds of pieces to view. All items, along with photos, are available in the online catalog for full inspection. Geoffrey Bell Auction and iCollector.com are pleased to answer any questions via email or telephone about this auction or any of their other auctions; so contact them and make your bids today. The auction opens for live bidding at 5PM Eastern Time from the Hampton Inn and Brantford, Ontario.


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Q: Pass parameter to service constructor Let's suppose I have this Angular 2 service:
@Injectable()
class Demo {
    constructor(private instanceSpecificString: string) {
    }
}

Notice that its constructor accepts an instance-specific string. What I mean by that is that I want to instantiate this service multiple times and, each time it gets instantiated, I want to pass it a different string based on the context in which the service is instantiated.
How do I do that?
P.S. string is used as an example, but the parameter could easily be of type number, or boolean or even some kind of configuration object.

A: The value that gets passed to your service will be determined by the injector that's instantiating it.  You might be able to do this in one of your component definitions:
@Component({
    ...
    providers: [
        provide(string, {useValue: "someSpecificValue"})
    ]
})

However, this has the problem that you're defining a provider for the string token and that could lead to maintainability issues.
It would probably be a better pattern to define some config model for your service:
class DemoConfig {
    instanceSpecificString: string;
}

And then you could create an instance of that to pass to your service.
let config = { instanceSpecificString: "someSpecificValue" }

@Component({
    ...
    providers: [
        provide(DemoConfig, {useExisting: config})
    ]
})

Hope this is helpful.  I haven't tried this myself; the services I use in my application are singletons.  Here is the reference that I was using:
https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/core/index/provide-function.html

A: Because the service is declared a injectable (@Injectable() annotation) it is a singleton. So instead just remove the annotation from the top of your service to remove that restriction.
This is not necessarily best practices but it will work and compile with AOT enabled.
Example:
Change this service:
@Injectable()
export class BaseSocket extends Socket {
  protected constructor(
    private baseConfig:SocketIoConfig
    ...
  ) {
    super();
  }
}

Into this:
export class BaseSocket extends Socket {
  protected constructor(
    private baseConfig:SocketIoConfig
    ...
  ) {
     super();
  }
}


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 * and open the template in the editor.
 */

package com.uxsoft.net.io.socket;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
import java.nio.channels.Selector;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
import java.nio.channels.spi.SelectorProvider;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.common.ByteBuffer;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.common.IoListener;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.common.IoSession;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.common.TrafficMask;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.protocol.DecoderOutput;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.protocol.EncoderOutput;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.protocol.Protocol;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.util.ExceptionMonitor;
import com.uxsoft.net.io.util.NewThreadExecutor;

/**
 *
 * @author David
 */
public class SocketConnector {
	private static final int WriteSpinCount = 256;
	private final Object lock = new Object();
	private boolean connected = false;
	private SocketChannel channel;
	private SelectionKey key;
	private volatile Selector selector;
	private Protocol protocol;
	private IoListener listener;
	private IoWorker worker;
	private SocketIoSession session;
	private Queue<TrafficChange> trafficChangeQueue = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue();
	private Executor executor;

	public SocketConnector() {
		this(new NewThreadExecutor());
	}

	public SocketConnector(Executor executor) {
		if (executor == null) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("EXECUTOR");
		}
		this.executor = executor;
	}

	public void connect(InetSocketAddress remote, Protocol protocol, IoListener listener)
			throws IOException {
		connect(remote, protocol, listener, null);
	}

	public void connect(InetSocketAddress remote, Protocol protocol, IoListener listener, SocketConfiguration configuration)
			throws IOException {
		if (channel != null) {
			throw new RuntimeException("Already connected");
		}
		if (protocol == null || listener == null || remote == null) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException();
		}
		//System.err.println("connecting");
		channel = SocketChannel.open();
		//System.err.println("openchannel");
		if (configuration != null) {
			Socket sock = channel.socket();
			sock.setKeepAlive(configuration.isKeepAlive());
			sock.setOOBInline(configuration.isOOBInline());
			sock.setReceiveBufferSize(configuration.getReceiveBufferSize());
			sock.setReuseAddress(configuration.isReuseAddress());
			sock.setSendBufferSize(configuration.getSendBufferSize());
			sock.setSoLinger(configuration.isLingerOn(), configuration.getLinger());
			sock.setSoTimeout(configuration.getTimeout());
			sock.setTcpNoDelay(configuration.isTcpNoDelay());
		}
		//System.err.println("reuseaddress");
		channel.configureBlocking(false);
		//System.err.println("configureblocking");
		channel.connect(remote);
		//System.err.println("connect");
		/*if (!connected) {
			while (!channel.finishConnect()) {
				try {
					Thread.sleep(1);
				} catch (Throwable t) {}
			}
		}*/
		selector = SelectorProvider.provider().openSelector();
		//System.err.println("openselector");
		//key = channel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT, key);
		//changeRequestQueue.add(new ChangeRequest(ChangeRequest.REGISTER, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT));
		worker = new IoWorker();
		//System.err.println("startworker");
		this.protocol = protocol;
		this.listener = listener;
		//System.err.println("setprotocol/listener");
		session = new SocketIoSession(channel, null) {
			@Override
			public void close() {
				try {
					SocketConnector.this.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}

			@Override
			public void write(Object message) {
				SocketConnector.this.write(message);
			}

			@Override
			public boolean isConnected() {
				return (channel != null && channel.isConnected() && connected);
			}

			@Override
			public void updateTrafficMask() {
				trafficChangeQueue.add(new TrafficChange(getTrafficMask().getInterestOps()));
			}
		};
		//System.err.println("createsession");
		try {
			listener.onSessionCreated(session);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
		}
		key = channel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT, session);
		executor.execute(worker);
	}

	/**
	 * Waits indefinitely until this client is connected
	 */
	public void waitUntilConnected() {
		waitUntilConnected(0);
	}

	/**
	 * Waits timeout milliseconds for this client to be connected
	 * @param timeout
	 */
	public void waitUntilConnected(long timeout) {
		long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
		while (!connected && (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < timeout) || timeout <= 0) {
			synchronized (lock) {
				if (connected) {
					return;
				}
			}
			try {
				Thread.sleep(1);
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {}
		}
	}

	private void fireExceptionOccurred(IoSession session, Throwable t) {
		if (session == null) {
			ExceptionMonitor.Monitor.error("Global Exception", t);
		} else {
			try {
				listener.onExceptionOccurred(session, t);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				ExceptionMonitor.Monitor.error("Error in ExceptionOccurred Handler", e);
			}
		}
	}

	private void finishConnection()
			throws IOException {
		//boolean x = true;
		/*while (x) {
			System.err.println("FinishCon");
		}*/
		//System.err.println("register");
		synchronized (lock) {
			// Finish the connection. If the connection operation failed
			// this will raise an IOException.
			try {
				channel.finishConnect();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
				// Cancel the channel's registration with our selector
				key.cancel();
				return;
			}
			try {
				listener.onSessionOpened(session);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
			}
			//System.err.println("sessionopened");
			session.setKey(key);
			//System.err.println("finishconnection");
			key.interestOps(SelectionKey.OP_READ);
			connected = true;
		}
	}

	public void close()
			throws IOException {
		if ((channel.isConnected() || selector.isOpen()) && session != null){
			synchronized (lock) {
				key.cancel();
				channel.close();
				selector.close();
				try {
					listener.onSessionClosed(session);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
				}
				session = null;
				connected = false;
				channel = null;
			}
		}
	}

	public void write(Object obj) {
		EncoderOutputImpl output = new EncoderOutputImpl();
		protocol.getEncoder().encode(session, obj, output);
		if (output.bb != null) {
			session.getWriteBufferQueue().add(new SocketWriteRequest(obj, output.bb));
			if (!session.getTrafficMask().canWrite()) {
				interestOps(session.getTrafficMask().getInterestOps() | SelectionKey.OP_WRITE);
				selector.wakeup();
				//System.err.println("InterestOpping write");
			}
		}
	}

	private void interestOps(int newOps) {
		trafficChangeQueue.add(new TrafficChange(newOps));
	}

	public Protocol getProtocol() {
		return protocol;
	}

	public SocketIoSession getSession() {
		return session;
	}

	/*private void processChanges()
			throws IOException {
		while (true) {
			ChangeRequest req = changeRequestQueue.poll();
			if (req == null) {
				break;
			}
			switch (req.type) {
				case ChangeRequest.CHANGE_OP:
					key.interestOps(req.val);
					break;
				default:
					throw new RuntimeException("Unknown change: " + req.type + " [" + req.val + "]");
			}
		}
	}*/

	private void process(Set<SelectionKey> keys)
			throws IOException {
		Iterator<SelectionKey> keyItr = keys.iterator();
		while (keyItr.hasNext()) {
			SelectionKey key = keyItr.next();
			keyItr.remove();
			if (!key.isValid()) {
				continue;
			}

			if (key.isReadable()) {
				read();
				////System.err.println("READ");
			} else if (key.isWritable()) {
				doFlush();
				////System.err.println("WRITE");
			} else if (key.isConnectable()) {
				finishConnection();
			}
		}
	}

	private void read()
			throws IOException {
		//System.err.println("Reading.");
		if (!channel.isConnected()) {
			return;
		}
		int readBytes = 0;
		int read;
		ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(session.getReadBufferSize());
		try {
			while ((read = channel.read(buf.buf())) > 0) {
				readBytes += read;
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
			close();
			return;
		} finally {
			buf.flip();
		}
		if (readBytes > 0) {
			try {
				session.increaseReceivedBytes(readBytes);
				////System.err.println("Data recieved: " + readBytes + " bytes.");
				DecoderOutputImpl decoder = new DecoderOutputImpl();
				protocol.getDecoder().decode(session, buf, decoder);
				List<Object> messages = decoder.oList;
				if (messages != null) {
					Iterator<Object> messageIterator = messages.iterator();
					while (messageIterator.hasNext()) {
						Object msg = messageIterator.next();
						messageIterator.remove();
						if (msg != null) {
							listener.onMessageReceived(session, msg);
							////System.err.println("onMessageReceived() Invoked");
						}
					}
				}
				decoder = null;
				buf = null;
			} catch (Throwable t) {
				fireExceptionOccurred(session, t);
			}
		}
		if (read < 0) {
			close();
		}
		//System.err.println("Read End");
	}

	private boolean doFlush()
			throws IOException {
		SocketChannel chan = session.getSocketChannel();
		Queue<SocketWriteRequest> writeBufferQueue = session.getWriteBufferQueue();
		if (!chan.isConnected() || writeBufferQueue.size() == 0) {
			return false;
		}

		//System.err.println("doFlush");
		// Clear OP_WRITE
		key.interestOps(SelectionKey.OP_READ);
		session.setTrafficMask(TrafficMask.READ);
		int writtenBytes = 0;
		int maxWrittenBytes = session.getWriteBufferSize() << 1;
		try {
			while (true) {
				SocketWriteRequest req = writeBufferQueue.peek();
				if (req == null) {
					break;
				}
				ByteBuffer buf = req.getBuffer();
				if (buf == null) {
					throw new IllegalStateException("Null buffer");
				}
				////System.err.println("Writing: " + buf.toString() + " [" + req.getMessage() + "]");
				if (buf.remaining() == 0) { // Done write
					writeBufferQueue.poll(); // Remove request
					try {
						listener.onMessageSent(session, req.getMessage()); // Notify listener
					} catch (Exception e) {
						fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
					}
					////System.err.println("onMessageSent() Invoked");
					continue;
				}

				int localWrittenBytes = 0;
				try {
					for (int i = WriteSpinCount; i > 0; i --) {
						localWrittenBytes = chan.write(buf.buf());
						if (localWrittenBytes != 0 || !buf.hasRemaining()) {
							break;
						}
					}
				} catch (Throwable t) {
					fireExceptionOccurred(session, t);
					close();
				}

				writtenBytes += localWrittenBytes;

				if (localWrittenBytes == 0 || writtenBytes >= maxWrittenBytes) {
					// Kernel buffer is full or wrote too much.
					key.interestOps(key.interestOps() | SelectionKey.OP_WRITE);
					return false;
				}
			}
		} finally {
			session.increaseSentBytes(writtenBytes);
		}

		//System.err.println("endDoFlush");

		return true;
	}

	private class TrafficChange {
		private int newOps;

		public TrafficChange(int newOps) {
			this.newOps = newOps;
		}
	}

	class IoWorker
			implements Runnable {
		public void run() {
			Selector selector = SocketConnector.this.selector;
			while (selector.isOpen()) {
				if (trafficChangeQueue.size() > 0) {
					while (true) {
						TrafficChange change = trafficChangeQueue.poll();
						if (change == null) {
							break;
						}
						key.interestOps(change.newOps);
						session.setTrafficMask(TrafficMask.getInstance(change.newOps));
					}
				}
				//System.err.println("Select Start");
				try {
					//processChanges();
					int nKeys = selector.select(1000);
					//System.err.println(nKeys + " events");
					if (nKeys > 0) {
						process(selector.selectedKeys());
					}
				} catch (Throwable e) {
					fireExceptionOccurred(session, e);
				}
				//System.err.println("Select End");
			}
			//System.err.println("IoWorker END");
		}
	}

	static class EncoderOutputImpl
			implements EncoderOutput {
		ByteBuffer bb;

		public void write(ByteBuffer out) {
			if (bb != null) {
				throw new IllegalStateException();
			}
			bb = out;
		}
	}

	static class DecoderOutputImpl
			implements DecoderOutput {
		List<Object> oList;

		public void write(Object out) {
			if (oList == null) {
				oList = new LinkedList();
			}
			oList.add(out);
		}
	}

	static class ChangeRequest {
		public static final int
				CHANGE_OP = 0x01
		;
		int type;
		int val;

		public ChangeRequest(int type, int val) {
			this.type = type;
			this.val = val;
		}
	}
}

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Please welcome guest blogger, Melissa Spinner. Melissa is a Digital and Creative Communications Specialist in Philadelphia and loves the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. She made a special trip up to New York just to see the latest Broadway adaptation of one of her favorite movies, and because I know how much she loves the film, I asked her to share her perspective on this stage version.
It takes a brave woman to portray the character of Holly Golightly on stage after Audrey Hepburn's spotless performance in the film version of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Emilia Clarke of HBO's Game of Thrones was just the woman for the job in this new stage adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novel. Starring in the play alongside Clarke as Holly Golightly is Cory Michael Smith (Cock, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World) as Fred, and Cheers star George Wendt as bartender Joe Bell.
If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, allow me to give you a brief synopsis: Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of a country girl-turned-New York City café society woman. The story begins when Fred, a young writer and the narrator of the story, meets Holly Golightly in their brownstone apartment building. Everyone seems to fall in love with Holly, including poor Fred. Holly has no job though, and provides for herself by socializing with wealthy men who give her money for the powder room and cabs. One of these men is the future president of Brazil, Jose Yberra-Jaegar, whom she tries to marry. Another man, Sally Tomato, provides for Holly in exchange for her weekly "weather report," which she gives to him in Sing Sing prison. Even her husband, Doc, whom she married as a teenager, eventually returns to her life.
In October of 2002, the intention to bring Breakfast at Tiffany's to Broadway with an adaptation by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out) was first announced. While Capote's 1958 novel and the 1961 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn were both extremely successful, the story of Breakfast at Tiffany's has not always been such a hit. In 1966, the story was turned into a musical starring Mary Tyler Moore only to fail after a mere four Broadway previews. [It never officially opened.] Three years later, ABC attempted a TV pilot, which was never picked up. In 2009, the story was once again unsuccessfully turned into a West End play. This time, however, director Sean Mathias is determined to make the Broadway play a success.
Unlike the film adaptation, Greenberg's script is based on Capote's novel, which is quite different from the movie. "It's not the movie, it's not Audrey Hepburn, but it is Capote's words and Capote's beautiful characters," said Clarke in a recentEW interview. The play stays true to Capote's novel, which takes place during the war in the 1940s. It is no longer the simple romantic comedy in which a man rescues a woman.
While the return to the characters and narrative of Capote's book is refreshing after the beloved movie, there was one major disappointment. The famous scene from the movie where Holly sits on her fire escape singing the Oscar-winning song "Moon River" did not make the cut in its entirety in this adaptation. The scene itself remained intact, with Clarke sitting on a fire escape, yet it lacks "Moon River." Instead, Clarke sings a different, quite forgettable, song that leaves us missing the beautiful Audrey Hepburn. Whether it was intentional to set both Clarke and the play apart from the movie, or simply a legal issue in obtaining the rights to the song, this was the largest and possibly only let down of the evening, unless of course you have an issue with seeing either Emilia Clarke or Cory Michael Smith nude in a bathtub.
The play, similarly to the novel, is extremely deep and dark. Emilia Clarke portrays Holly Golightly not simply as a fun-loving adorable girl but as a woman who has several pained layers resulting from being abandoned as a child, a teenage bride, her involvement with gangsters and finding herself pregnant and unwed. On stage, Clarke transforms into the scared and lonely Holly Golightly, who refuses to be owned by anyone, just as she projects onto Cat, but is at the same time fearful of being alone. Breakfast at Tiffany's is truly a tragic story, with an ending that feels realistic and entirely possible for either the 1940s or today.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is playing at the Cort Theatre. Visit breakfastattiffanysonbroadway.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
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ADD ./ /urweb
WORKDIR /urweb

ENV URWEB_VERSION=20160621
ENV COMPILER=/urweb/urweb-build

RUN apt update -yqq && apt install -yqq make wget mlton libssl-dev libpq-dev libmysqlclient-dev

RUN mkdir -p $COMPILER && \
    wget -q http://www.impredicative.com/ur/urweb-$URWEB_VERSION.tgz && \
    tar xf urweb-$URWEB_VERSION.tgz && \
    cd urweb-$URWEB_VERSION && \
    ./configure --prefix=$COMPILER && \
    make && \
    make install

ENV URWEB_HOME=${COMPILER}
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${COMPILER}/lib
ENV PATH=${COMPILER}/bin:${PATH}

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Joyous Work Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy reading and share 23 famous quotes about Joyous Work with everyone.
Top Joyous Work Quotes
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy. — Jason Alexander
There is a lot to be mad about in America today, but we must never forget that our cause is a joyous one. Conservatives should be optimists who believe in people. We champion hope and opportunity. Fighting for people, helping those who need us, and saving the country - this is, and should be, happy work. — Arthur C. Brooks
The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows. Now warm, now chill, next joyous, then despairing, the essence of his nature is to escape the atmosphere about him, no matter how stable, even loving. No ties, no binding chains, save those he forges for himself. Or so he thinks. But escape can be delusion, and what he is running from is not the enclosing world and its inhabitants, but his own inadequate self that fears to meet the demands which life makes upon it. Therefore create. Act God. Fashion men and women as Prometheus fashioned them from clay, and, by doing this, work out the unconscious strife within and be reconciled. While in others, imbued with a desire to mold, to instruct, to spread a message that will inspire the reader and so change his world, though the motive may be humane and even noble
many great works have done just this
the source is the same dissatisfaction, a yearning to escape. — Daphne Du Maurier
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' — James McAvoy
A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good. — Dorothy Day
In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman, and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, each recalling the good things the person in the center of the circle has done in his lifetime. Every incident, every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy, is recounted. All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths, and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length. This tribal ceremony often lasts for several days. At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe. — Jack Kornfield
Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his first treatise on the rainbow; the young Newton's most joyous discovery was the composition of white light; Goethe's great color work, like Newton's, started with a prism; Schopenhauer, Young, Helmholtz, and Maxwell, in the last century, were all tantalized by the problem of color; and Wittgenstein's last work was his Remarks on Colour. And yet most of us, most of the time, overlook its great mystery. — Oliver Sacks
He made me realize that hard work
that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous — Sherman Alexie
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. — Odilon Redon
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last. — Matthew Henry
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. Amen. — Alan W. Jones
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off. — Steven Pressfield
I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment. — Sam Taylor-Wood
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it. — Indira Gandhi
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously. — Lord Byron
My business is not a stepping stone to 'better' things, but a lifestyle choice and a way of work uniquely crafted to fit and finance the way I live. As a result, work is not a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 endeavour. Instead, my weekdays are a joyous mix of family, friends and office time. Ditto my weekends, actually. — Robert Gerrish
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief. — Pat Conroy
A Midsummer Night's Dream remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few would argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does do is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression. — Bill Bryson
Fireworks made of glass. An explosion of dew. Crescendo. Diminuendo. Silence.
There are drugs that work the same, and while I am not suggesting that our founder purchased the glassworks to get more drops, it is clear that she had the seed planted, not once, but twice, and knew already the lovely contradictory nature of glass and she did not have to be told, on the day she saw the works at Darling Harbour, that glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid, that an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at the top, and that even while it is as frail as the ice on a Parramatta puddle, it is stronger under compression than Sydney sandstone, that it is invisible, solid, in short, a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from. — Peter Carey
Regret comes in four tones that operate in unison to shape our lives. First, we regret the life that we lived, the decisions we made, the words we said in anger, and enduring the shame wrought from experiencing painful failures in work and love. Secondly, we regret the life we did not live, the opportunities missed, the adventures postponed indefinitely, and the failure to become someone else other than whom we now are. American author Shannon L. Alder said, 'One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.' Third, we regret that parts of our life are over; we hang onto nostalgic feelings for the past. When we were young and happy, everything was new, and we had not yet encountered hardship. As we age and encounter painful setbacks, we experience disillusionment and can no longer envision a joyous future. Fourth, we experience bitterness because the world did not prove to be what we hoped or expected it would be. — Kilroy J. Oldster
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. — Billie Burke
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun. — Francois Rabelais
Tension fled from me. Tomorrow I would worry about Hugh d'Ambray and Andrea and
Roland, but now I was simply happy. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute.
You!"
Author: Ilona Andrews
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Editors: JOHN COOPER-POOLE (UK) and MAR/ON E DORO (USA)
IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS IN TANZANIA: A FIRST INVENTORY. Neil & Elizabeth Baker. Published by Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania, 2002. ISBN 9987-558-04-6. £30. Available from The RSPB, International Division, The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG 19 2DL
Many years of desk and fieldwork have culminated in the publication of this monumental work -a milestone in the history of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania and for bird conservation in Tanzania. For many years, the spectacular mammal wealth of Tanzania has overshadowed the very rich bird fauna of 1000+ species including some notable ones found nowhere else in the world. Using a clear and concise set of internationally agreed criteria developed by World Conservation Union and BirdLife International, all the known information about birds in Tanzania has been analysed in a systematic way to come up with a set of 80 Important Bird Areas (IBAs). These sites are judged (on the basis of the information currently available) to be the most important places in Tanzania for globally threatened birds i.e. those species that are considered most at risk of extinction in the near future.
The book starts with some introductory sections summarising ornithology in Tanzania, the importance of the country for bird conservation, the IBA process, what conservation activities are currently take place; it describes different types of protected areas and lists the most important conservation issues.
The bulk of the book is of course, the IBA site accounts. A vast amount of information (up to 4 pages per site) is nicely presented. For each IBA, there is a sizeable map, a site description, bird information with key species highlighted in a table, a section on other threatened/endemic wildlife, conservation issues affecting the site, ideas for future action as well as a list references/further reading.
The authors have been helped in their work by many dozens of people both resident in Tanzania (these are acknowledged in the book) and from outside Tanzania who contributed a lot of information to the IBA project. Together, they represent a huge amount of knowledge about Tanzanian birds. This knowledge base is obvious to anyone reading many of the site accounts.
Many of the IBAs in Tanzania are already protected within the existing protected areas network but a few are totally unprotected. Amongst these, perhaps the most important are the Kitulo Plateau and Usangu Floodplain in Southern Tanzania and the Wembere Floodplain/Lake Kitangire/Lake Eyasi complex in the Eastern Rift Valley.
The book will have many uses. It will be used by local, national and international decision makers to guide planning and conservation work. It may be used by bird watching tourists to get information on some of the best sites for birds in Tanzania. It should be used by protected area managers to inform their management plans. It will form the basis of IBA site-protection groups as have already been started in neighbouring Kenya following publication of their own IBA book in 1999.
The authors have done an excellent job of bringing a mass of information together and presenting it to the world, but, as they say, this should be seen as a first step. Tanzania is a vast country and some areas are very poorly studied. The writing of the book (and the Tanzania Bird Atlas project, which the authors have been running for nearly 20 years), has highlighted the gaps. They are also at pains to highlight that if further conservation action does not follow from the publication of the book, their work will have been in vain. Much of the information given in the book is accessible via the BirdLife International website (http://www.birdlife.net) and following the links in the datazone tab.
Zul Bhatia
THE BATTLE OF TANGA 1914. Ross Anderson. Tempus Publishing ISBN 0752423495. Pp. 158. £16.99. p/b.
ARMIES IN EAST AFRICA 1914-18. Peter Abbott. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1 84176 4892. Pp 48. £8.99. Available from PO box 140, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 2FA, U.K. www.ospreypublishing.com
The conflict in German East Africa in the First World War has become widely known from films like The Africa Queen and William Boyd's novel The Ice Cream War. These two paperbacks will be of interest to those who would like to know the real facts behind the legends. Ross Anderson's scholarly publication concentrates on the disastrous British expedition to capture Tanga in November 1914. The plan was not in itself unsound -a seaborne assault by an expeditionary force sent from India, while the King's African Rifles (KAR) diverted the main German forces under the control of Col. Paul von Lettow Vorbeck. Unfortunately, the disembarkation of the inexperienced Indian Army troops at Tanga was a shambles, and morale was further lowered when they met unexpected resistance from a small force of Schutztruppe (the German equivalent of the KAR). Heavily outnumbered, the Germans withdrew from the town under cover of darkness, but the British Force Commander, General Arthur Aitken, failed to send out patrols and did not realise that the town was undefended. Von Lettow now acted swiftly and rushed the bulk of his forces from Moshi to Tanga by rail. The Royal North Lancashire Regiment suffered severe casualties and some of the Indian units panicked and fled to the rear. In the face of stiff German resistance and with unreliable troops, General Aitken decided that the situation was untenable and ordered the expedition's withdrawal. Von Lettow could hardly believe his good fortune -his 1500 men had defeated an Anglo-Indian force of over 9000. Aitken left East Africa in disgrace and was given no further command.
Peter Abbot's Armies in East Africa 1914-18 is primarily intended for those interested in regimental history, uniform and equipment. There are eight attractive full-page colour plates showing the British, Indian, South African, Belgian, Portuguese and German units involved in the fighting. The book has a useful potted history of the whole East Africa campaign, covering the allied offensives in 1915116 and the incredible trek by von Lettow through Tanganyika and Mozambique until his final surrender in Northern Rhodesia.
John Sankey
RITUALS OF VERIFICATION: INDIGENOUS AND IMPORTED ACCOUNTABILITY IN NORTHERN TANZANIA. Tim Kelsall, "Africa" 73 (2) 2003.
The author examines two different means of holding people to account, namely:
(1) The practice of ritual 'breaking a pot' which is a powerful form of curse in the Mount Meru area of northen Tanzania, and (2) Local government audit, a practice that is currently being reinforced as part of local government reform under foreign donor support of 'good governance', at both local and central government levels. Superficially, the two practices appear to have little similarity, but the author suggests that the two accounting systems have more in common than might be supposed. He asserts that both practices are forms of verification, aimed at disclosing truth and bringing retribution for misconduct in order to attain accountability on the part of those responsible.
The author attempts to compare the indigenous (pot breaking) and imported (rational) mechanisms for holding people to account, both of which are currently in use in Arumeru District, and concludes that the two systems neither fit neatly into an 'irrational/rational' scheme nor could they conceptually be seen to complement or substitute each other in local government audit. He has also cited several field cases based on interviews of informants' testimonies of people who, after ritual breaking of pots, had suffered some calamity (usually death) as a result of being linked, by action or by kin, with some kind of social transgression. Further evidence is presented of people who had confessed to transgressions and paid compensation to plaintiffs for fear of the effects of the pot, which can be construed as empirical evidence that the procedure of breaking pots is successful in holding people to account for their actions. Whether it is successful solely because of its pyschological impact upon individuals who believe in its efficacy is difficult to say. However, the author has not been able to rationalise the mystical powers of the pot.
Before a pot is broken, a notice of intent must be posted some weeks prior to the actual ceremony. Clan elders will normally give their consent to break a pot only if they are satisfied that other channels of dispute resolution, e.g. normal clan fora, the police and the courts, have been exhausted. In other words, pot breaking is undertaken as a last resort. Given that the pot is believed to be so powerful, elders are reluctant to allow it to be used without good cause. To break a pot, it is also necessary to obtain a permit from ward or village government. When a threat is made to break a pot, there is an opportunity for reparations to be made. Fearing the pot's lethal effects, which may affect an individual culprit or the culprit's clan, many offenders either expose themselves or are exposed by kinsmen. Confession is followed by appropriate reparation as may be decided by the village authority, after which the dispute is resolved.
Then the author analyses the procedures of local government audit and suggests the idea behind audit is scientifically familiar in so far as it relies on sampling techniques to provide a picture of reality. However, accounting remains vulnerable to error, or subversion. At present, auditors are not highly trusted, not only because the methods they use are not understood by most Tanzanians but because it is rightly or wrongly assumed that auditors can be, and are frequently bribed. Arumeru people interviewed by the author showed more faith in the pot than they did in modem systems of financial accountability. They mistrusted accountants and auditors, just as they did the entire system of government. The second reason for mistrust relates to shortage of competent accountants. Until this situation changes, some audits are likely to lack thoroughness and credibility. Thirdly, more often than not, annual audit reports by the Government Comptroller and Auditor General in Tanzania point out serious irregularities which are the responsibility of others to investigate, e.g. police, anti-corruption bureau, and Parliament. Sadly no serious effort has been taken to find out the culprits and punish them. Observers of this indifference to deal with suspected cases of theft, embezzlement and corruption have cynically attributed such inaction to lack of will on the part of politicians, some of whom may be implicated in corruption. Some adverse audit reports resulted in court prosecutions (with few convictions), some transfers or retirements and some no action at all.
In view of this, the way in which modem audit technology, when combined with other institutions of government, leads to accountable outcomes is in some ways more mysterious than the ritual of pot breaking. Modern audit technology does not instil the same fear in suspected culprits, given that the consequent punishment is by far less severe than that associated with pot breaking. Whereas pot breaking is directed at specific individuals and their kin who believe in the mystical powers of the pot, modern audit technology is far less feared by culprits, given the relatively benign consequences of being found guilty. Besides, it is against Government of Tanzania Law to condone mystical powers/witchcraft as a means of extracting confession from suspected citizens. On the other hand, it is unlikely that many auditors and accountants outside of Arumeru District believe in the power of the pot even if they were subjected to it. In the final analysis modern accounting technology has to be adopted at all levels of government. Irrational folklore should have no place in accounting of public funds.
Augustine Macha
THE LANGUAGES OF TANZANIA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (Orientalia et Africana Gothoburgenisa No.17). Jouni Filip Maho & Bonny Sands. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, G6teborg, 2002. ix & 428pp (paperback). ISBN 91-7346-454-6. Swedish Krona 300 (approx. £23.20: information on ordering can be found at www.african.gu.se/research/lot.html).
Tanzania is blessed with an abundance and variety of languages. It is the only country in Africa which can claim to host all four of the continent's major language families -Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan. The Niger-Congo phylum is represented by more than 100 Bantu languages (as commonly defined), including the national language and lingua franca Swahili. Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan are represented by a small number of Cushitic and Nilotic languages respectively: the most widely spoken of these is Eastern Nilotic Maa, the language of the Maasai. One click language, Sandawe, is generally thought to be related to the Khoisan languages of southern Africa. Tanzania's other click language, Hadza, is a fascinating isolate whose genetic affiliation remains undetermined.
For many years the best guide to the literature on Tanzania's indigenous languages was the second edition of W. H. Whiteley and A. E. Gutkind's A
Linguistic Bibliography of East Africa, published in 1958. This practical volume was produced with screws holding the cover boards in place, a looseleaf format intended to facilitate the insertion of supplementary material. If this didn't get across the message that there was still linguistic work to be done, then the many pages in the Tanganyika section with little more than a language name printed on them should have done so. It wasn't until the 1970s that researchers began to make significant progress in filling in some of the gaps. Edgar Polome's overview of 'The Languages of Tanzania' (1980) provided a bibliographic update and record of obscure manuscripts and other items that Whiteley and Gutkind had missed. And there matters largely stood still, though researchers continued to gather and (less frequently) publish material on Tanzania's languages and dialects.
Maho and Sands' book, has finally provided us with the rich bibliographic resource that Tanzanian languages deserve. An explanatory 'Introduction' is followed by a section listing 'General Reference Works'. This is followed by sections headed 'Asian Languages', 'Bantu Languages (Excluding Swahili)', '(South) Cushitic Languages', 'Khoesan Languages' (= Khoisan, including both Sandawe and Hadza for convenience), 'Nilotic Languages' and finally 'Other Languages', a residual category which includes English and Tanzanian Sign Language. Each language heading includes some general information (a map showing its location, the estimated number of speakers, and alternative language or dialect names), followed by the references themselves, which are split into two categories, primary descriptive works and other, assorted, materials. There are two indexes at the end of the book: one listing language names and the other listing authors. The volume as a whole is well produced, though many libraries will want to bind their copies with hard covers.
The only major omission from the bibliography is Swahili: as the authors explain the literature on this language is so voluminous that it would require a volume of its own. No attempt has been made to include literature in local languages, for example vernacular religious and educational texts: to do this properly would require specialised research in libraries and institutions both within and outside of Tanzania. These omissions are well justified. To make up for them the bibliography provides a number of bonuses. As should be evident from the summary of its contents, The Languages of Tanzania includes both indigenous and introduced languages. It also includes many references which are non-linguistic, but provide general historical and ethnographic information.
This makes it an excellent resource for anyone interested in Tanzania's different linguistic communities, as well as providing specialised linguists with the opportunity to gain a wider perspective on the peoples they are studying. And the references themselves are both thorough (including, for example, page counts where these are known) and in some cases helpfully annotated. The authors have also set up a web appendix to the bibliography, listing relevant web links (at www.african.gu.se/tanzania/weblinks.html).
Specialists will find plenty to quibble about: language names misspelled, dialects omitted, references missing … But this is inevitable with an undertaking of this size and complexity, and the authors are to be congratulated on the work they have done. Research currently underway on Tanzanian languages -for example by SIL Tanzania teams in the field, and by the Goteborg-supported Languages of Tanzania (LOT) project in the University of Dar es Salaam means that the new bibliography will soon need updating anyway. Let's hope then that this is only the first edition of many, and that Maho and Sands can be persuaded to periodically update and improve their bibliography. In 1958 Whiteley and Gutkind gave us loose leaves and detachable boards and plenty of blank spaces: now we have their electronic equivalents and better technology to process an admittedly greater volume of information. Meanwhile, the paper edition that is currently available can be highly recommended.
Martin Walsh
HIGHER EDUCATION IN TANZANIA: A Case Study. Daniel Mkude, Brian Cooksey & Lisbeth Levey. lames Currey: Oxford, Mkuki wa Nyota: Dar es Salaam 2003. 114pp. £9.95 (pb).
This book, part of a series on 'The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa', sponsored by four V.S. foundations, is designed to share information about higher education in Africa and promote supportive measures in research and collaboration. It offers historical background, extensive evidence about the goals and accomplishments of Institutional Transformation Programmes, the financial strategies, economic trends and legal policies that affect the system. In view of the broad generalizations -and minimal attention to the early influence of socialism and current political-economic realities –the goals it envisions seem quite ambitious.
Perhaps more realistic is a recent Oxfam report: Debt for Poverty Reduction: The case of education in Tanzania.
http://www.caa.org.au/oxfam/advocacy/tanzdbet/education.html which, among other things, explores the country's Basic Education Master Plan (BEMP). An equally realistic account can be found in America, January 2003, vI88, Of Many Things, George M. Anderson's interview with officials of the St. Augustine University near Mwanza. The clergy note the extent to which poverty and the H.I.V.-AIDS factor adversely affect access to education, and the minimal advantages produced by recent World Bank and IMF debt reduction policies.
Frances Katherine Vavrus, Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania. New York: P. Lang, 168 p., 2003. Claire Mercer, Performing Partnership: Civil Society and the Illusions of Good Governance in Tanzania, Political Geography, v. 22, no. 7 (September 2003), p. 741-63. Explores consequences of recent efforts by the IMF, World Bank, and international donors to promote "good governance" in the face of debt problems.
Jyotika Ramaprasad, The Private and Government Sides of Tanzanian Journalists. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, v. 8., no. 1 Winter 2003. p 8-26.
Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania. Milton Makongoro Mahanga. Dar es Salaam University Press. ISBN 9976603436. P/b. £18.95. Distributed by African Books Collective, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OXl IHU. A study based on research in unplanned and planned areas of Yombo Vituka, Dar es Salaam. It argues that adequate housing for the urban poor is a source of income generation and therefore a means of improving livelihoods. It emphasises that the urban poor are able and willing to contribute to better social services and housing, but that the land allocation system and lack of access to credit are major constraints. The author is Member of Parliament for Ukonga Constituency, Dar es Salaam.
African Music for Schools. Mbati-Katana. Fountain Publishers. ISBN 9970022946. ppl90. £20.95. Available from African Book Collective, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OXl IHU.
This songbook for children brings together East African songs from many heritages. It includes children's play songs, dance and story songs and some patriotic party songs, from the ethnic or language groups of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and related groups in neighbouring countries. The songs bear witness to centuries of African life, and their transcription aims to make music accessible to children from their own cultural traditions. The book includes the musical scores and song texts, translations of the texts, notes on the structure of the music, and suggestions for story telling, poetry, drama, art or dance which teachers or other adults may introduce to bring the songs alive and use them creatively, allowing the children to participate fully in their performance.
EASTERN AFRICA VISUAL TRADITONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES. Horniman Museum Day Conference, 24 October 2003
This first Colloquium in the UK about visual culture in eastern Africa provided a platform for a wide range of scholarly presentations by ten researchers from museum anthropology and other relevant fields. The scholars introduced and explored the actuality and to a lesser extent the theory of the region's Visual 'Traditions'. The purview was inclusive, both in terms of the region's geography and its myriad visual practices. The wide scope of these small scale, ongoing traditions –such as the use of sticks for communication, many kinds of personal adornment and portable sculpture, several systems of drawing and 'ready-mades' ranging from debes to cattle –reinforced the notion that the big question is not what is art, but rather "when is art". Aesthetic values make the connexion between ideas and things.
Larger than the conventional East Africa of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the eastern herein is flexible in order to engage aspects of the shared cultures and histories of the peoples of the Nile and Rift Valleys, the Great Lakes, Indian Ocean and to a lesser extent eastern Congo and Zambezia. Most of the presentations offered some evidence of regional interaction: for sculpture and masquerade (Kingdon, Israel), concerning pastoralist aesthetics and artifacts (Arero, Ostberg, Oteyo), concerning styles of drawing (Court, Marner, Neiderstadt) and about the kanga (Spring, Clarke). For example, the 'frame' and slogan format of the kanga has been consistent along the eastern Africa littoral for nearly one hundred years, while its use and imagery differ somewhat in time and by place. Research has been carried out about the kanga's social uses and slogans, but as yet there is scant systematic study of its visual content of motifs and imagery. Perhaps, this will be stimulated by the upcoming, 2005 kanga exhibition at the Sainsbury African Galleries of the British Museum. Indeed, the curator is seeking evidence of hand-printed kanga, which were still for sale in Zanzibar town in the late 1960′ s; it seems only the printing blocks are available nowadays.
The Horniman Colloquium was an opportunity to view Tanzania's visual practices in a larger context. In fact, no effort was made to extract what is specifically Tanzanian, although nationality was considered in the presentations based upon evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia. One reason is that systematic scholarship by Tanzanians about their visual art practices is slight to the point of underdevelopment, apart from the early 1960's efforts of Prof S J Ntiro and current undertakings of archaeologist Prof Felix Chami and Waiter Bgoya of Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. Critical research has yet to catch up with the plurality of art practices, apparent in the renewal of the Dar-es-Salaam and Zanzibar Museums, innovations in 'Tinga Tinga' and other kinds of modern practice including fashion, local patronage [cut Chami] -all are part of the visual arts discourse in Tanzania and all have regional resonance. Please note the term 'tribe' was not employed to discuss this unit of ethnic, local, community practice; consider that kabila whether in Swahili or Arabic does not have the colonial, historical connotation of its English translation.
One theoretical 'tradition' that requires fresh unpacking is the assertion that there is no art in eastern Africa. Belief that there is/was 'no art' was due to a basic assumption, inscribed in western art historical scholarship and commerce in the late 1930's that focused solely upon the traditions of figurative sculpture in west and central Africa. This construction was/is grossly inaccurate, even for its exclusions of west Africa's traditions (C Steiner, J Picton). In the past two decades, western scholarship in African archaeology and contemporary art have interrogated and extended the canon to include eastern Africa and its array of art forms (Coote, S Hassan, Mack, Visona et al).
The sessions were attended by forty-five people including the presenters. The Colloquium, hosted graciously by the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, was co-convened by Hassan Arero the Horniman's Keeper of Anthropology and Zachary Kingdon, Curator of the Africa Collections, Liverpool Museum, who intend to publish the proceedings. We are thankful for this first cultural harvest. Uushukuru.
Elsbeth Court
'BWANA SHAMBA' by Peter Wilson. Following the demise of the Pentland Press, Peter Wilson has acquired the remaining copies of his illustrated autobiography. His book contains a forward by Vice-President and Prime Minister of Tanganyika Rashidi Kawawa. Autographed copies may be ordered @£15 plus £2.50 p&p (double p&p for overseas) from Peter Wilson, PO Box 304, Horley, RH6 7NE. (cheques payable to P M Wilson please).
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NORRISTOWN — A Pottstown man remains free on bail while awaiting his fate from a judge on charges he illegally possessed a handgun in the borough.
Ivan Beneditch, 38, most recently of the first block of Myrtle Street, was convicted in Montgomery County Court during a non-jury trial of charges of persons not to possess firearms and false identification to law enforcement authorities in connection with a November 2017 incident in the borough.
Judge Steven T. O'Neill convicted Beneditch of the charges during a one-day trial. The judge allowed Beneditch, formerly of the first block of East Second Street, to remain free on bail pending a sentencing hearing later this year.
Beneditch faces a possible maximum sentence of 5-to-10-years in prison on the charge. However, state sentencing guidelines could allow for a lesser sentence.
According to trial testimony and court documents, an investigation began about 10:30 a.m. Nov. 7, 2017, when borough police received a report of an alleged domestic incident at the East Second Street residence and a report that the man involved in the dispute left the scene and was in possession of a firearm.
While heading to the residence, police saw a man on Beech Street who matched the description of the man allegedly involved in the domestic dispute and questioned him. At that time, the man, later determined to be Beneditch, gave police a false name, according to the criminal complaint filed by Pottstown Police Officer Timothy Coffland.
Beneditch was found to be in possession of a pocket knife but no firearm, court papers indicate.
But when police went to the East Second Street residence and questioned a woman who reported the alleged domestic incident, they found a 9 mm pistol inside a closet of an upstairs bedroom. A witness told police that Beneditch "always carries it on his person," according to the arrest affidavit.
Police alleged they also recovered a magazine that contained 23 rounds of 9 mm ammunition.
Beneditch, according to the criminal complaint, was prohibited from possessing a firearm as a result of a previous criminal conviction.
Originally, Beneditch also faced charges of simple assault and strangulation in connection with the alleged domestic dispute. However, prosecutors did not move forward with those charges during the trial.
The judge acquitted Beneditch of another charge of harassment in connection with the alleged domestic dispute.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Richard Bradbury. Defense lawyer Frank Flick represented Beneditch during the trial.


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On January 31st the Prince William Chapter of CBN was blessed to hear a fascinating presentation from Kathleen Pablo of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. We learned of the sacrifices of women whose efforts resulted in the 19th amendment securing the women's right to vote in the US. Much of the action happened right nearby at what is now Lorton.
Kathleen is a historian and parishioner at St. Mary of Sorrows in Fairfax.
Turning Point is working for fundraising to complete the memorial For more information go to www.suffragistmemorial.org.


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With its Centera storage system, EMC was the standard-bearer for content-addressable storage; but the proprietary nature of the product is wearing thin.
nature of the product is wearing thin.
Around 2003, we seemed to be on the threshold of a new storage era that had the potential to revolutionize how we stored data and could use it more effectively in our businesses. The optimism was encouraged by a new concept called content-addressable storage (CAS) and EMC was its key proponent with its Centera system. Centera was an object-based storage system that provided extended metadata attributes to give users more control over and insight into data.
EMC successfully recruited independent software vendors (ISVs) to support Centera's application programming interfaces (APIs), which required more work but provided deeper integration between the applications and hardware.
It was a powerful vision: a storage system that removed the complexities and many of the limitations of storage-area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS). You could scale Centera to any size without increasing the amount of administration. You could leverage the extended metadata to enforce policies on content. The most prominent example of this is its write-once read-many (WORM) capability that prevents stored documents from being altered so they can be used as evidence in litigation or for audits.
EMC took a very smart and practical approach to the Centera go-to-market, knocking on the doors of those industries that had relied heavily on optical disks. The ROI calculations suggested that even though there would be an increase in infrastructure spending, the operational cost reductions could save users hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars over time. And with the backing of the ISVs that supported Centera, it was relatively easy to sell hardware/software solutions. Those efforts were bolstered by EMC's great reputation and excitement around the new storage platform that seemed to present a great vision for the future of storage.
And then the government passed a number of regulations, including SEC Rule 17a-4, Sarbanes-Oxley, the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 and new HIPAA rules, propelling Centera into a billion dollar business. The timing was perfect.
Other storage vendors and startups joined the fray. NetApp added WORM functionality and Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun all made efforts but ultimately failed in this space. Hitachi acquired a startup called Archivas but missed the market. Other startups, including Caringo and Permabit, found this was a big vendor's game. In fact, it was only EMC's game and everyone else either did OK (NetApp) or terribly (pretty much everyone else).
But trouble began to brew in paradise. Some people questioned the viability of Centera, while others said it was slow and expensive, proprietary, corrupted data and wasn't that easy to manage.
Over time, Centera went from being the hottest (and coolest) storage system in the market (and often one of its most controversial), to almost being just an afterthought. It became yesterday's news.
Today there appears to be little to no continued engineering for Centera, even though there's an estimated 600 petabytes of it in the market. One Centera user told me he believes the latest release of it will never come out. EMC is going to replace this particular user's Centera with Atmos, and provide the same functionality with the exception of WORM and immutability, which this user's environment doesn't require. However, depending on when or if Atmos ever supports WORM, the customers using the Compliance Editions of Centera may be stuck.
Some of the objections to Centera may have been right. However, the main problem is Centera's proprietary APIs. Both EMC and ISVs locked-in customers, so they've avoided price erosion or competitive threats. Some users told me that unlike other storage systems, Centera has actually gone up in price.
It's tough to migrate data from a Centera to a competitive platform. I spoke to another user whose firm took 18 months to migrate off Centera, an effort that included custom development and pressuring its ISV to support the move.
There should be some outrage about this situation. Centera is a proprietary system, which should be unacceptable in today's data center. It's true that Centera users made their choices voluntarily, but it now looks like they're locked into a platform that has no long-term future.
EMC should offer a way to make Centera non-proprietary and provide free migration services to a more sustainable and open platform. Meanwhile, the storage vendors that missed the boat when Centera was on the rise (all of them) will get a second chance as Centera's star fades.


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By Garland Gillen | October 26, 2018 at 2:22 PM CDT - Updated October 26 at 2:48 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Rummel and John Curtis will meet up tomorrow with the Catholic League title on the line. The Patriots and their veer offense have been unstoppable this season. On the other sideline, the Raiders are riding a six-game winning streak.
Curtis and Rummel meet up with a Catholic League title on the line
"They lost a really tough game to Escambia early in the season, but since that time they've been on a roll. They've played really well defensively. Their offense seems to be getting really into shape. They got some guys back they were out and injured. They've gotten back healthy. I expect them to be an explosive team. Obviously they have speed with the (Koy) Moore kid. The (Chandler) Fields boy can throw the ball around pretty good," said Curtis Head Coach J.T. Curtis.
"You can imagine in college. Teams that play Army and Navy spend one week defending that defense a year. They'll start in spring, start in the summer. They'll have one period a week for ten weeks until they play them. Here in high school, you get four weeks, and it's hard to replicate," said Rummel Head Coach Jay Roth.
Curtis and Rummel's campuses are separated by only six miles. They place each other ever year, so there's no secrets with these squads.
"We're not far from each other. All the kids know each other. Competed against one another either at recreational level, junior high school. There's going to be a lot of hype for the ballgame. They're going to come ready to play. That's what high school should be about," said Curtis.
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