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package org.collprod.bicingbcn.ingestion;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException;
import org.apache.commons.lang.mutable.MutableLong;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request;
import org.collprod.bicingbcn.ingestion.tsparser.TimeStampParser;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import redis.clients.jedis.Jedis;
import backtype.storm.spout.SpoutOutputCollector;
import backtype.storm.task.TopologyContext;
import backtype.storm.topology.OutputFieldsDeclarer;
import backtype.storm.topology.base.BaseRichSpout;
import backtype.storm.tuple.Fields;
import backtype.storm.tuple.Values;
import backtype.storm.utils.Utils;

import com.atlassian.fugue.Either;
import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.base.Stopwatch;
import com.google.common.math.LongMath;

/**
 *

 * Emits tuples of the following shape:
 *

 *
 DATASOURCE_ID :: String

 *
 TIMESTAMP_FIELD :: Long

 *
 CONTENT_FIELD :: String

 *

 *

 *
 *

 * This spouts parses the timestamp of the data and drops that data which was already downloaded, i.e.,
 * which has a timestamp less or equal to the last timestamp. This parsing is not performed in a
 * separate bolt because we cannot guarantee that the order of emision of tuples is preserved,
 * and we don't want a delayed tuple to be rejected because it arrived to a timestamp control bolt
 * after a tuple which was emited later
 *

 *

 * The mutable state for this spout is stored as a DatasourceState object per data source
 * assigned to this spout. The only mutable state per data source is a Stopwatch object, a
 * TimestampParser and the last timestamp.
 * That mutable state could be persisted in some data store, but that is not needed because
 * if the state is lost and the spout restarted that only affects the first call to nextTuple(),
 * which maybe would download a file twice, but then the later calls would be ok
 *

 *

 * Guaranteed processing strategy:
 *

 *
 each file is stored in Redis as a String when download from the consumed service. Default Redis RDB
 * persistance and the capacity of up to 512 MB per Redis string (http://redis.io/topics/data-types)
 * should be enough: if the service generates files bigger than that then this approach is not sound
 * (another database and several instances of this spout taking turns to consume the service, and also
 * local grouping for connecting components, could be an option)

 *
 a fresh UUID is used for each file to generate a fresh Redis key

 *
in case of processing failure (e.g. in the Spout that stores the file) the tuple is emitted again;
 * in case of ack its key is deleted

 *

 *

 * @author Juan Rodriguez Hortala <juan.rodriguez.hortala@gmail.com>
 * */
public class RestIngestionSpout extends BaseRichSpout {

	public static final String CONTENT_FIELD = "CONTENT_FIELD";
	public static final String TIMESTAMP_FIELD = "TIMESTAMP_FIELD";
	public static final String KEY_FIELD = "KEY_FIELD";
	public static final String DATASOURCE_ID = "DATASOURCE_ID";

	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RestIngestionSpout.class);

	// Auto generated by Eclipse
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -3787506061156020464L;

	/**
	 * Storm collector to emit tuples
	 * */
	private SpoutOutputCollector collector;

	/**
	 * Prefix to use for all the Redis keys, composed by this class
	 * name together with the Storm topology Id
	 * */
	private String redisKeyPrefix;

	/**
	 * Connection to Redis
	 * */
	private Jedis dbConnection;

	/**
	 * Tuples will be emitted with this refresh rate in miliseconds, which corresponds to the
	 * greatest common divisor for the set of refresh rates for all sources
	 *
	 * Using miliseconds as that is the resolution of storm Utils.sleep()
	 * */
	private long refreshRate;

	/**
	 * Configuration for each data source
	 * */
	private DatasourceState[] assignedDatasourcesConfs;

	/**
	 * Class used to store the configuration (inmutable state) and the mutable state
	 * for each data source
	 * */
	/*
	 * AutoValue doesn't support private nested classes
	 *
	 * The documentation says "AutoValue does not and will not support creating mutable value types"
	 * (https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value#restrictions-and-non-features). As can be seen
	 * in the generated code, this means the generated class has no setters, but an attribute may have a
	 * mutable type: this is similar to what happens with Python tuples, once created the tuple components
	 * are fixed, but you are free to mutate a single component (e.g. t = ([], 1); t[0].append(1))
	 * */
	@AutoValue
	static abstract class DatasourceState {
		DatasourceState() {}
		public static DatasourceState create(String datasourceId, Request request,
				float refreshRate, int dowloadRetries, Stopwatch stopwatch,
				Either<String, TimeStampParser> timestampParser, MutableLong lastTimestamp) {
	        return new AutoValue_RestIngestionSpout_DatasourceState(datasourceId, request,
	        														refreshRate, dowloadRetries, stopwatch,
	        														timestampParser, lastTimestamp);
	      }
		/**
		 * Id of the datasource corresponding to this configuration
		 * Kind: inmutable configuration
		 * */
		public abstract String datasourceId();
		/**
		 * Request object to obtain files for this data source
		 * Kind: inmutable configuration
		 * */
	    public abstract Request request();
	    /**
	     * Refresh rate in miliseconds for requesting a new file for this data source
	     *
	     * Kind: inmutable configuration
	     * */
	    public abstract float refreshRate();

	    /**
	     * How many times a download is attempted in case of request failure
	     *
	     * Kind: inmutable configuration
	     * */
	    public abstract int dowloadRetries();
	    /**
	     * Counts the number of miliseconds since the last request to the service associated
	     * to the data source.
	     *
	     * Kind: mutable state
	     * */
	    public abstract Stopwatch stopwatch();

	    /**
		 * Either the class name for a TimeStampParser (left), or a TimeStampParser object (right)
		 *
		 * Kind: mutable state
		 * */
		public abstract Either<String, TimeStampParser> timestampParser();

		/**
		 * Last timestamp found for the data
		 *
		 * Kind: mutable state
		 * */
		public abstract MutableLong lastTimestamp();
	}

	/**
	 * Find out which datasources correspond to this spout get the relevant configuration data
	 *
	 * @return a DatasourceConfig array with the state for each data source. Stopwatches are created stopped
	 * @throws RuntimeException if no datasource is assigned to this spout, which happens when there are more
	 * spout instances than data souces
	 * */
	private static DatasourceState [] getAssignedDatasources(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Map conf, TopologyContext context) {
		// number of spouts
		int spoutSize = context.getComponentTasks(context.getThisComponentId()).size();
		// id for this spout
		int thisTaskIndex = context.getThisTaskIndex();
	    Map<String, String> datasourcesConfigurations = (Map<String, String>) conf.get(IngestionTopology.DATASOURCE_CONF_KEY);

	    List<DatasourceState> assignedDatasourcesConfs = new LinkedList<DatasourceState>();
		int i = 0;
		for (Map.Entry<String, String> datasourceConf : datasourcesConfigurations.entrySet()) {
			if (i % spoutSize == thisTaskIndex) {
				Configuration newProperties;
				try {
					newProperties = IngestionTopology.deserializeConfiguration(datasourceConf.getValue());
				} catch (ConfigurationException ce) {
					LOGGER.error("Error parsing properties for datasource: " + ce.getMessage());
					ce.printStackTrace();
					throw new RuntimeException(ce);
				}
				Either<String, TimeStampParser> newTimestampParser = Either.left(newProperties.getString("timestamp_parser_class"));
				assignedDatasourcesConfs.add(DatasourceState.create(datasourceConf.getKey(),
						Request.Get(newProperties.getString("datasource_url")),
						newProperties.getFloat("refresh_rate"),
						newProperties.getInt("dowload_retries"),
						Stopwatch.createUnstarted(),
						newTimestampParser,
						new MutableLong(-1)
						));
			}
			i++;
		}

		if (assignedDatasourcesConfs.size() == 0) {
			String msg = "An spout instance for class " + RestIngestionSpout.class.getName()
					+ " is not responsible for consuming any service";
			LOGGER.error(msg);
			throw new RuntimeException(msg);
		}

		return assignedDatasourcesConfs.toArray(new DatasourceState[assignedDatasourcesConfs.size()]);
	}

	/**
	 * Create an object for connecting to Redis according to conf, and use it to connect to Redis
	 * @param conf Configuration with the parameters to connect to Redis
	 * @return a Jedis object that can be used to talk to Redis
	 * */
	private static Jedis setupDbConnection(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Map conf) {
		Jedis dbConnection = new Jedis(conf.get("redis.host").toString(),
									   Integer.parseInt(conf.get("redis.port").toString()));
		dbConnection.connect();
		return dbConnection;
	}

	@Override
	public void open(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Map conf, TopologyContext context, SpoutOutputCollector collector) {
		// store collector to be able to emit later
		this.collector = collector;

		// Redis stuff
		this.redisKeyPrefix =  this.getClass().getName() + "_" + context.getStormId();
		this.dbConnection = setupDbConnection(conf);

		// Find out which data sources correspond to this spout and store the relevant configuration
		// data at this.assignedDatasourcesConfs
		this.assignedDatasourcesConfs = getAssignedDatasources(conf, context);

		// refreshRate should be the greatest common divisor for the set of refresh rates for all sources
		// source rates are floats in seconds, here we convert to miliseconds and round
		this.refreshRate = Math.round(this.assignedDatasourcesConfs[0].refreshRate() * 1000);
		for (int i = 1; i < this.assignedDatasourcesConfs.length; i++) {
			this.refreshRate = LongMath.gcd(this.refreshRate, Math.round(this.assignedDatasourcesConfs[i].refreshRate() * 1000));
		}

		// reste and start stopwatches
		for (DatasourceState datasourceSt : this.assignedDatasourcesConfs ) {
			datasourceSt.stopwatch().reset();
			datasourceSt.stopwatch().start();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * This method is useless in cluster mode, as stated by Storms documentation
	 *
	 * http://nathanmarz.github.io/storm/doc-0.8.1/backtype/storm/topology/base/BaseRichSpout.html#close()
	 *
	 * "Called when an ISpout is going to be shutdown. There is no guarentee that close will be called,
	 * because the supervisor kill -9's worker processes on the cluster.
	 * The one context where close is guaranteed to be called is a topology is killed when running Storm in local mode."
	 * */
	@Override
	public void close() {
		this.dbConnection.close();
		super.close();
	}

	// TODO: move to independent class, by adding extra arguments
	/**
	 * Store in Redis a tuple as one or more key-value pairs, using an UUID as the
	 * basis for the key.
	 * NOTE: all the tuple components will be stored as the String returned by toString()
	 *
	 * @param tuple Storm tuple to be stored in Redis
	 * @param tupleId will be used to build the Redis key
	 * */
	private void storeInRedis(Values tuple, UUID tupleId) {
		int i = 0;
		for (Object field : tuple) {
			this.dbConnection.set(this.redisKeyPrefix + tupleId + "_" + i, field.toString());
			i++;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Restore a tuple stored by storeInRedis()
	 * @param UUID UUID used to store the tuple in Redis
	 * */
	private Values getFromRedis(Object tupleId) {
		Set<String> keys = this.dbConnection.keys(this.redisKeyPrefix + tupleId + "_" + "*");
		Object [] values = new String[keys.size()];
		int tupleIndex;
		for (String key : keys) {
			// NOTE as keys are returned as a set its order is not preserved, hence we
			// must exploit the definition of storeInRedis, and get the tuple component
			// index from the last character of the key
			tupleIndex = Integer.parseInt(key.substring(key.length() - 1));
			values[tupleIndex] = this.dbConnection.get(key);
		}
		return new Values(values);
	}

	/**
	 * This is basically a test method, that might be called before starting the topology
	 * to delete all the keys written by this spout
	 * @param conf Configuration with the parameters to connect to Redis
	 * */
	public static void clearDb(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Map conf) {
		Jedis dbConnection = setupDbConnection(conf);
		for (String key : dbConnection.keys(RestIngestionSpout.class.getName() + "_" + "*")) {
			dbConnection.del(key);
		}
		dbConnection.close();
	}

	private static void logDownloadError(DatasourceState datasourceState, Exception e) {
		LOGGER.warn("Error downloading file for data source "
						+  datasourceState.datasourceId() + " : "+ e.getMessage());
	}

	private static String downloadFile(DatasourceState datasourceState) {
		String newData = null;
		for (int i = 0; i < datasourceState.dowloadRetries(); i++) {
			try {
				newData = datasourceState.request().execute().returnContent().asString();
				break;
			} catch (ClientProtocolException cpe) {
				// return code different to 200
				logDownloadError(datasourceState, cpe);
			} catch (IOException ioe) {
				// bad URI or similar
				logDownloadError(datasourceState, ioe);
			}
		}
		return newData;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the TimeStampParser for datasourceState, creating a new instance and storing it if necessary
	 * */
	private TimeStampParser getParser(DatasourceState datasourceState) {
		Either<String, TimeStampParser> timestampParser = datasourceState.timestampParser();
		if (timestampParser.isLeft()) {
			try {
				timestampParser =  Either.right((TimeStampParser) Class.forName(timestampParser.left().get()).newInstance());
			} catch (InstantiationException ie) {
				LOGGER.error("Error creating TimeStampParser for data source " + datasourceState.datasourceId()
						+ ": " + ie.getMessage());
				throw new RuntimeException(ie);
			} catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
				LOGGER.error("Error creating TimeStampParser for data source " + datasourceState.datasourceId()
						+ ": " + iae.getMessage());
				throw new RuntimeException(iae);
			} catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
				LOGGER.error("Error creating TimeStampParser for data source " + datasourceState.datasourceId()
						+ ": " + cnfe.getMessage());
				throw new RuntimeException(cnfe);
			}
		}
		return timestampParser.right().get();
	}

	@Override
	public void nextTuple() {
		// Check which datasource/s should be polled
		for (DatasourceState datasourceState : this.assignedDatasourcesConfs) {
			if (datasourceState.stopwatch().elapsed(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) > datasourceState.refreshRate()) {
				// time to download a new file
				datasourceState.stopwatch().reset();

				// try downloading a new file
				String newData = downloadFile(datasourceState);

				// download error: will try later
				if (newData == null) {
					LOGGER.warn("Failed to download file for data source "
							+ datasourceState.datasourceId() + " will retry in "
							+ datasourceState.refreshRate() / 1000 + " seconds");
				} else {
					// successful download
					// Emit tuple only if it's new: if it has a new timestamp
					TimeStampParser timestampParser = getParser(datasourceState);
					Optional<Long> newTimestamp = timestampParser.apply(newData);
					Optional<String> newKey = timestampParser.getKey(newData);
					if (newTimestamp.isPresent() && newKey.isPresent()) {
						// only emit the tuple if we obtain a new timestamp, so the data is new
						MutableLong lastTimestamp = datasourceState.lastTimestamp();
						Long newTimestampValue = newTimestamp.get();
						if (newTimestampValue > lastTimestamp.longValue()) {
							// emit
							UUID tupleId = UUID.randomUUID();
							Values tuple = new Values(datasourceState.datasourceId(), newTimestampValue, newKey.get(), newData);
								// store is Redis
							storeInRedis(tuple, tupleId);
								// emit a tuple with an id
							this.collector.emit(tuple, tupleId);
								// update timestamp
							lastTimestamp.setValue(newTimestampValue);
						} else {
							LOGGER.info("Skipping file with repeated timestamp {}", newTimestampValue);
						}
					}
					else {
						if (! newTimestamp.isPresent()) {
							LOGGER.warn("Could not parse timestamp for data source " + datasourceState.datasourceId());
						}
						if (! newKey.isPresent()) {
							LOGGER.warn("Could not get key for data source " + datasourceState.datasourceId());
						}
					}
				}
				datasourceState.stopwatch().start();
			}
		}
		// sleep until next poll
			// Note Util.sleep accepts milliseconds
		Utils.sleep(this.refreshRate);
	}

	@Override
	public void ack(Object tupleId) {
		LOGGER.info("Finished processing tuple with id {}", tupleId);
		this.dbConnection.del(tupleId.toString());
	}

	@Override
	public void fail(Object tupleId) {
		Values tuple = getFromRedis(tupleId);
		String datasourceId = tuple.get(0).toString();
			// this type conversion is necessary as tuples are serialized in Redis
			// with a String in each component, and the bolts expect a Long value
			// for that field
		tuple.set(1, Long.parseLong(tuple.get(1).toString()));
		LOGGER.warn("Failed to process data for data source {}, will retry", datasourceId);
		this.collector.emit(tuple, tupleId);
	}

	@Override
	public void declareOutputFields(OutputFieldsDeclarer declarer) {
		declarer.declare(new Fields(DATASOURCE_ID, TIMESTAMP_FIELD, KEY_FIELD, CONTENT_FIELD));
	}

}

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One killed, three injured as PDP primaries turn violent
byAgency Report
At least one person was killed in violence that marred a Peoples Democratic Party event.
The Abia Police Command said one person was killed during the violence at Wednesday's chairmanship primaries of the PDP in the state.
The command's spokesman, Ogbonnaya Nta, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the deceased, identified as Onyemaechi, was a member of staff of Isialangwa North Local Government Area venue of the election.
He died in a fire at the chairman's office, the spokesperson said.
The deceased died when the office was allegedly set on fire by aggrieved delegates.
At least three other persons were injured in the fire.
The spokesperson said the police arrested four persons in connection with the mayhem.
A witness said trouble broke out when some delegates who came for the poll at the council headquarters in Okpuala-Ngwa, rejected the list presented by the party officials that came to conduct the exercise.
It was learnt that the group, which threatened to disrupt the exercise, alleged that the list was "doctored" to favour a particular aspirant.
The agitation was said to have caused confusion and tension at the venue.
The witness said that in the midst of the crisis that ensued, "somebody sneaked into the chairman's office with a jerry can of petrol and set the place ablaze".
"The intention was to burn the disputed list," the source said, adding that the fire escalated, killing one person on the spot.
Mr. Nta said that three other occupants of the office sustained serious burns and were rushed to hospital for treatment.
He said that the command had commenced investigation into the matter.
The primaries, which were organised to elect the party's flag bearers for the December 17 local government election in the state, was stalemated in most of the 17 council areas due to violence.
There were also allegations of attempts by some powerful politicians to impose their "anointed'' candidates.
The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Abia, Don Ubani, denied the allegations of violence in a telephone interview, but admitted that there were "minor skirmishes during the exercise in some local government areas."
Mr. Ubani said that the party's leadership was still reviewing the reports of the election committees.
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im 15 years old about to turn 16, I currently live in a children's residential care home. however i'm unsure of my options, but I feel as if im not getting told all the information.
I don't want to be in residential care anymore, when I turn 16 can I withdraw myself from care? because I would like to move near home as id be more comfortable closer to there, I just really need to know my rights.
Being in care means that you don't normally live with your parents and you might live in a care home, with foster carers or with other members of your family. You might be in care for a short amount of time but if you are in care for longer that might mean staying until your 16th birthday or older.
If you have a longer term care arrangement you'll usually leave between the ages of 16 and 18. You don't have to leave when you're 16 and you can stay in care until you're 18 or ask to stay until you're older than 18 if you're in foster care.
You will get support when you're leaving care but when that happens and exactly what support you get depends on your circumstances. It can be difficult to know what your rights are but you can speak to your social worker about what to expect. Coram Voice can give you information and advice about what to do if you don't agree with decisions being made about your future.
Wherever you are living, Children's services should continue to support you when you reach 16 and help you prepare to leave care when you're ready. You should have a personal adviser and a pathway plan which will set out the support you can get. This includes contact with family and friends, skills to live on your own and support with housing, education and employment. The local authority must support you until you are aged 25 as a care leaver and you should receive the support of a personal adviser until then as well.
It's natural to want to be near family and sometimes being in care might mean needing to move away or to move placements which can be difficult when you have a lot of changes all at one time. It can help to remember that decisions about where you live are made to keep you as safe as possible. Even though you might be away from people you care about, you should always be supported to keep in contact as long as that doesn't put you in danger.
Thank you for your letter and remember that you can talk to a counsellor at Childline about anything that's worrying you.


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I like being able to go from "hmm, flying toasters" to "I liked After Dark screensavers!" to getting an emulator and rendering several screenshots to having several large posters on my bedroom wall in a few hours.
"How many are in there?"
I think IKEA has gotten queerer since the last time I was here.
New poster day! Quite happy with these, particularly as my first foray into Processing(.org).
It is now a federated federated crane.
I rather like this photo.
Our office is having visitors.
Really happy with how these turned out, given that they were taken on a whim when I looked out my window.
Atkinson dithering on thermal paper is very my aesthetic, even without color.
It's not uncommon for me to do programming stuff (or answer questions) and listen to electronic music, but this seems a bit of an unusual case. I'm answering questions about state machines and TLS with this going on around me.
Apparently the purple I picked for part of my Halloween lights includes enough ultraviolet to make my dish soap fluoresce. Adds to the mood every time I see it out of the corner of my eye.
This is my mech, THUNDERING HERD.
@gdkar Caught the last train to Braintree, though!
Still got a photo from the vantage point I wanted anyway.
I'm like 40% sure this municipality featured an anarchy symbol firework in their Third of July fireworks display.
Implemented (enough of) `CBLC` and `CBDT` to extract images given a glyph ID. Looks like I need to implement `GSUB` next to be able to actually pull any multi-codepoint glyphs out, and since that's most of what I want, I guess that'll happen... later. When I'm more rested.
You win for tonight, OpenType.


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Help us defend it through trustworthy, independent journalism.
'Democratic Wealth': clearing a path to the future
The left must move from sharing spoils to shared control of the economy if they are to clear a path towards the future. We publish the afterword to the free e-book Democratic Wealth: Building a Citizens' Economy, published today by openDemocracy and Politics in Spires (universities of Oxford and Cambridge).
James Meadway
Democratic Wealth: Building a Citizens' Economy is a collection of essays that challenges the poverty of thinking around economic policy, particularly after the 2007 financial crash. It explores the renewed interest in republicanism and suggests this as a framework to shape an economy that serves the common good. It is a selection of articles from a series published by openDemocracy and Politics in Spires, a blog run by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
You can read or download the e-book for free here.
Below is the afterword to the e-book by James Meadway.
The end of history?
It is twenty-five years, this November, since the Berlin Wall fell. Francis Fukuyama, then a US State Department official, gained instant fame – if not notoriety – by moving, with particular haste, to declare this moment the "end of History". Capitalism – specifically, the liberal, democratic capitalism of the west – had defeated all alternative ideological choices. It could supply something that its competitors never could: a means of providing not just material goods – the contrast between the empty shelves of the east and the consumer abundance of the west was glaring – but something far deeper: a means of bringing into reconciliation the immutable conflicts over identity that have shaped humanity's time on earth. By providing the institutional forms in which identities could be shaped, exercised, and prevented from entering self-destructive war, the liberal state of the West was the universal form into which all other states would evolve.
Widely ridiculed, and still more widely misunderstood, Fukuyama was no simple apologist for George W. Bush's "New World Order": his argument drew on a particular reading of Georg W. Hegel, interpreting the struggle for recognition as the motor of progress in history. Allied to the powerful drive to control nature represented in modern science, the shape of the world after Communism (argued Fukuyama) was, in its essentials, already determined.
It is easy, now, to dismiss these arguments. Those few decades since have provided a continual succession of seeming disproofs, from 9/11 to the uprising in Ukraine. Fukuyama himself is today significantly less confident about the future, now seeing in the development of science the potential for civilisational disaster. Climate change, the unintended consequence of unbridled development, threatens to profoundly reshape much of what is taken for granted as stability and prosperity even in the calmest of societies. The failings of liberal capitalism, enumerated but essentially dismissed by Fukuyama at the time, from environmental destruction to ballooning inequality, look sufficient to overwhelm whatever merits may be claimed for it.
And yet the presence of a genuine, systemic alternative to that capitalism still eludes its critics. Protest movements and uprisings have shaken and even toppled regimes in the last few years. The crash of 2008 revealed, in the starkest way possible, that one of Fukuyama's engines of progress, the market mechanism, could catastrophically fail. Societies like Britain have, for the last five years, seen the engine apparently thrown into reverse: year after year, median incomes have fallen and fallen again, the longest sustained decline in living standards for the majority since Queen Victoria was on the throne.
Despite all this, and despite the many confident expectations of the system's critics, the mechanism is still there. There has been no fundamental reshaping, anywhere, of the market machine, however loud its critics have become. The sudden (perhaps shocking) reappearance of the state as an economic actor – after years of denial about its capacities – in the immediate aftermath of the financial crash, bailing out banks to the tune of trillions, did not in any way lead to a change in the fundamentals. The Last Men, Fukuyama's inhabitants of the end of History, who, following Nietzsche, remain serenely unbothered by grand struggles or great drama, appear as unruffled as ever. If the system's supporters lack a certain confidence, they at least remain where they are: in charge. Its opponents seem incapable of formulating a challenge to their rule.
The republican challenge
That a challenge is necessary is, of course, taken as read by the contributors to this volume. But they suggest it needs to be a different sort of challenge, or a challenge mounted on different terrain, to those the left has currently made. The incapacity of the left to overcome the end of History is tied to its own, very specific, historical circumstances. If the current path forwards is blocked – and it would certainly seem that it is – perhaps we need to go back, and think about taking a different one. What the essays here present is a set of arguments about how some routes, otherwise somewhat sidelined by the majority of the progressive movement, can be brought back into the centre of a strategy for the humane transformation of society. "Republicanism", defined here as the traditions of popular sovereignty and civic participation, offers one means to do so. What we have grown used to is just one version of how a left could define itself, based around the role of the state as a guarantor, and a particular type of citizenship associated with that; a new left could draw on different traditions.
Karl Marx, indeed, recognised the immense value of the co-operative movement, as Joe Guinan here notes. Marx's address to the First International in 1864 sings the praises of the co-operative movement, a "victory of the political economy of labour over the political economy of property." Marx looked to a day when these workers' co-operatives and new forms of ownership would spread to cover the whole of society, following this early lead. Alex Gourevitch, in his essay, details how republican themes shaped the early US labour movement; Royden Harrison's Before the Socialists made a similar case for its UK counterpart.
This now constitutes something of a lost tradition, at least for a left that grew up in the happy shadow of what is the left's greatest achievement to date: the post-war welfare states that, in western Europe at least, capped a century of struggle by its labour movements. These were not presented in some act of generosity: "If you do not give the people social reform," noted the future Conservative Cabinet member, Quintin Hogg, in 1943, "they are going to give you social revolution." The British Conservatives, like their conservative and Christian Democratic counterparts across the continent, speedily abandoned their commitment to pristine free market ideals and accepted the new social order.
This is not to argue the order was perfect: far from it. For the UK, the same government that oversaw the introduction of such sweeping changes as the National Health Service, the welfare state, nationalisation of essential industries also oversaw Britain's pursuit of the atomic bomb and a bloody colonial struggle in Malaysia. France embarked on a series of still more desperate wars to retain its former colonies in Indochina and Algeria, the struggles over which poisoned its domestic politics. It took de Gaulle to admit defeat in both.
Conservatism, which had, across much of the content, disgraced itself in supporting fascist regimes, was by no means seen off. It adapted itself to changed circumstances; the drive to transform society was everywhere corralled and rendered as far as possible. The old order in Europe, which had dragged the continent into two exceptionally bloody wars in the space of twenty years, was on its last legs. Its states and its legitimacy were shot to pieces. In the east, a particular form of reordering, grossly skewed to the demands of the Russian state, was imposed. For the west, it took the accommodation of systemic challenges to enable anything like legitimacy to be restored.
No return to the 'Spirit of '45'
What emerged was a compromise with the state by its organised critics: something more than a non-aggression pact, a recognition of mutual rights within a framework that still contained the core elements of capitalism. Welfare provisions, and a deepening of state direction over the economy at the level of the nation were supported by an international order, drawn up, in its essentials, in the Bretton Woods conference of 1944, that strove to restrain capital and regulate its worst excesses.
In the UK, the particular form of state control adopted was developed from earlier experiments in "municipal socialism" – Herbert Morrison's 1930s stewardship of London Transport in particular. This stressed managerial prerogatives as the means to achieve efficiency; it meant, as Ken Loach's recent The Spirit of '45 detailed, both the assumption of passive consumers and a docile, subordinate workforce. Nationalisation in practice changed the title deeds, but did not change who was in control. Welfare provisions were structured on similar lines: the existing state, with its particular set of hierarchies, simply expanded its sphere of operations.
These changes appeared during an unprecedented period of prosperity – Eric Hobsbawm's "Golden Age" in a twentieth century otherwise marked by war and social disaster. Capitalism, in its historic heartlands of western Europe, North America, and Japan, grew as never before – or since. The proceeds of that growth fell more evenly than ever before: real living standards, for the great majority, improved and went on improving. "You've never had it so good," was a slogan on which an election could be won. The mechanisms put in place to drive some redistribution operated effectively.
The institutions established during that period remain with us, as do the organisations most closely associated with their creation – the trade unions and the social democratic parties. But both look dangerously trapped in their own past. Austerity, across the continent, whether imposed by the EU or freely entered into, as the UK's Coalition did, is reshaping states and therefore societies. It is, as David Cameron made clear, only tangentially related to the need to repay state debts – debts themselves very largely the result of the financial crash. "Permanent austerity" is the order of the day: a resetting of the relationship between state and citizens to deal with straitened new circumstances. Competition from the east, rising raw materials and energy costs, an aging population: all have been offered as reasons to close down the brief period of social democratic advance.
From sharing spoils to shared control
The economist Thomas Piketty, analysing two hundred years of raw data, has showed that we are at the end of the great process of restoring and sharing society's spoils. The post-war world lessened capitalism's deeply embedded drivers towards gross inequality – that the returns to the ownership of capital exceed the rate of economic growth. But it did not remove them. The old order of capitalism is being reasserted; worse, this old order is appearing when the motor of capitalism – its ability to produce continual economic growth – seems to be grinding, slowly, to a halt. Robert Barro has speculated on the uniqueness of the previous 250 years of growth – that we lived through an historical aberration, and may now have to look forward to a world in which low-to-zero growth is the norm. The consequences, as he suggests, will be enormous: if capital retains its intense, competitive dynamic, but the system as a whole is not growing, the stage is set for a brutal conflict. Each unit of capital is driven to grow, but can only do so by taking from elsewhere in the system – a zero-sum game that will force a redistribution from the majority to the 1%. Conflicts over the distribution of society's resources, apparently buried (or at least mitigated) by the post-war institutions, will return with a vengeance. Those same institutions, under the pressure of decline, are now being turned from support for society into a brutal form of coercion, whether through the bedroom tax or the disability living allowance.
We need, instead, a different form of ownership – one that breaks with both the failures of the Morrisonian ideal of state control, and of the failures of capitalism. We need to change the form of ownership to break the inegalitarian drive of capital as such – of the competitive need to squeeze the maximum possible monetary return from an asset, irrespective of its consequences. Collective and community ownership of wealth, highlighted by Stuart White in his second essay and by Angela Cummine on the sovereign wealth funds, are one part of that. But we need, too, to recognise that ownership is not enough. If it taught us nothing else, the crash should have revealed this much – owning a bank is not enough to prevent it behaving exactly as badly as it always did. RBS is largely in public hands. It behaves as if the public did not exist. Control matters, and it is here that the themes of the great post-crash protest movements, from Occupy to the indignados, come to the fore. Forms of popular democracy, as experimented with in the occupations of the squares and public spaces, can be extended to society's common resources. The establishment of different priorities, beyond the blind imperative to growth and maximum cash returns, will require mechanisms by which they can be found and built-in. Democratic workplaces, community ownership, popular regulation: all might be suitable. We are not, yet, able to end the end of History. But we might, slowly, begin to clear a path to the future.
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People form long queues outside Bank of China Tower to snap up special-edition HK$20 Olympic banknotes more than a day before their official release in Hong Kong July 15, 2008. [Agencies]
People form long queues outside the Bank of China Tower to snap up special-edition HK$20 Olympic banknotes more than a day before their official release in Hong Kong July 15, 2008. [Agencies]
Combo of handout photos showing a special-edition HK$20 Olympic banknotes to be released by the Bank of China in Hong Kong. Thousands of people form long queues outside the Bank of China branches in the South China city to snap up the special-edition banknotes July 15, 2008, one day before its official release. [Agencies]
HONG KONG - Thousands formed long queues outside Bank of China branches across Hong Kong on July 15, 2008, in a feverish bid to snap up special-edition HK$20 Olympic banknotes more than a day before their official release.
Residents including young children and pensioners flocked to the city's main Bank of China branch in the financial hub of Central at the crack of dawn, some hunkering down inside tents for a lengthy wait behind metal barricades.
"I came with my friends because the Olympic banknotes have commemorative value," said Ken Yip, a 15-year-old who was playing with a Rubik's cube inside a blue tent stacked with snacks and comics.
Four million of the HK$20 ($2.56) Olympic banknotes will be issued, depicting a Greek pillar on the front and Beijing's Olympic "Bird's Nest" stadium on the other side.
China's central bank also issued six million new 10 yuan ($1.46) notes to mark next month's Olympic Games.
Long queues had begun forming early on Monday, more than 48 hours before the banknotes were due to be issued on Wednesday.
But a severe thunderstorm on Monday night drenched thousands, with Hong Kong's Cable Television showing footage of crowds cowering under umbrellas.
The Bank of China was forced to issue banknote purchase vouchers late Monday night to disperse the crowds, given what it said in a statement "the overwhelming response from the public and the continuous unstable weather conditions."
(Agencies)
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Gran Turismo Sport es un videojuego de carreras desarrollado por Polyphony Digital y publicado por Sony Interactive Entertainment para la consola de videojuegos PlayStation 4.

Fue anunciado en la Paris Games Week 2015 y es el decimotercer juego en general en la serie de videojuegos de Gran Turismo y el primer juego de la serie que se estrenó en PlayStation 4.

El creador de la serie, Kazunori Yamauchi, en una nueva generación o nueva era de los juegos de Gran Turismo, con los primeros seis lanzamientos principales reconocidos como la primera generación y GT Sport marcando el comienzo de una nueva era en la segunda generación. Su lanzamiento se produjo en octubre de 2017.

Jugabilidad

Gran Turismo Sport incluye 6 modos de juego:

 Campaña
 Escuela de Conducción:
 Prueba de circuitos
 Modo Sport
 Salas Online
 Arcade, que tiene varias opciones
 Carrera rápida
 Carrera personalizada
 Pantalla dividida
 Contrarreloj
 Prueba de derrapes
 Modo VR, con 3 modos
 Escaparate VR
 Contrarreloj VR
 Carrera 1V1 VR

En diferencia de Gran Turismo 5 o Gran Turismo 6, no tiene ciclo dinámico ni ciclo meteorológico, sin embargo, hay circuitos que tienen la lluvia, Tokyo Expressway y Red Bull Ring

Modo Sport
El Modo Sport es un modo Online certificado por la Federación Internacional del Automóvil (FIA) donde se destaca la destreza en la conducción y la deportividad.

Gran Turismo En línea

La FIA tiene como objetivo ratificar formalmente el Gran Turismo En línea Championship en la próxima reunión del World Motorsport Council. Dos campeonatos se celebrarán simultáneamente durante todo el año: la Copa de Naciones, donde los jugadores representan a su país, y la Copa de los fabricantes, donde los jugadores representan a su fabricante de automóviles favorito. Una vez ratificado, la FIA administrará la serie directamente como lo haría con cualquiera de sus otras series de carreras. Los ganadores de los campeonatos serán honrados en la ceremonia anual de premiación de la FIA en París.

Eventos eSports directos

La Copa de las Naciones y la Copa de los Fabricantes tendrán componentes "en vivo" similares a las finales regionales celebradas en la competencia de la Academia GT. Los eventos organizados en línea se planean para ser sostenido sobre una base regular.

Soporte de PlayStation VR

Gran Turismo Sportes compatible con los visores de realidad virtual de Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation VR. La experiencia mientras jugaba fue descrita por el creador de la serie Kazunori Yamauchi como "muy buena y muy natural". Sin embargo, se anunció más adelante que el soporte de VR se limitaría a un modo de VR Tour especial, donde el jugador podrá únicamente hacer carreras contra un competidor de IA o entrar en una galería para apreciar los autos estacionados. Con ello, la totalidad del juego no será compatible con los visores de realidad, sino podrá ser jugada únicamente de forma tradicional, con la sola excepción del modo VR Tour.

Asociación TAG Heuer

Polyphony Digital y TAG Heuer anunciaron una asociación para el juego. TAG Heuer servirá como cronometrador oficial y marca de reloj para Gran Turismo Sport, donde su "Tecnología de Tiempo en Vivo" se utilizará para medir todo el tiempo en el juego. Además, TAG Heuer se integrará en la sección de museos de Gran Turismo Sport, mostrando la historia del relojero suizo.

Desarrollo

En una entrevista con la revista japonesa Famitsu (y traducida por Polygon), el creador de la serie, Kazunori Yamauchi, mencionó que "Gran Turismo Sport estaría llegando a la consola PlayStation 4, posiblemente, en un año o dos desde 2013". Se basará en el mismo motor de física que utiliza Gran Turismo 6. En una entrevista con la revista GamesTM, Kazunori Yamauchi mencionó un lanzamiento para Gran Turismo Sport en algún momento de 2016 o 2017. También habló de cuánto más poderoso será el juego PS4 y lo mucho más fácil de desarrollar en la nueva consola frente a Gran Turismo 6 en la PlayStation 3. Gran Turismo Sport fue anunciado más tarde en la Semana de los Juegos de París. Sony originalmente afirmó que el deporte es una entrada separada, pero Yamauchi más tarde confirmó que es una entrada principal en la serie.

Polyphony Digital espera que Gran Turismo Sport tenga elementos de juego mucho mejor gracias al poder de procesamiento mejorado de PlayStation 4. El juego será el primero de la serie Gran Turismo en apoyar el auricular de realidad virtual de Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation VR. Un beta se programó para tener lugar en el primer y segundo trimestre de 2016 antes de un lanzamiento completo del 15 de noviembre, pero Sony más tarde anunció que la versión beta había sido cancelada para evitar que el juego se retrasa hasta 2017. El 30 de agosto de 2016, se ha retrasado hasta 2017 para seguir puliendo el juego.

A pesar de la cancelación del beta para el juego en 2016, una beta cerrada fue confirmada para el 17 de marzo de 2017 para los usuarios seleccionados en los Estados Unidos y Europa. Los jugadores que estén invitados tendrán la oportunidad de experimentar las características del juego antes de su lanzamiento.

El 11 de abril de 2017, se anunció que será el primer Gran Turismo que incluirá automóviles de la marca Porsche.

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A-Gas was founded over twenty years ago and is now a global distributor of refrigeration. They have facilities on five continents and just recently purchased the companies known as CoolGas and RemTec International. CoolGas was founded in 1994 and is now one of the largest distributors in the United States. The new partnership between CoolGas and A-Gas will provide better coverage and service to their customers in 2015. I've dealt with CoolGas in the past and have had nothing but good experiences.
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As you can see there are A LOT of refrigerant distributors throughout the country and I know that I have missed some. If you know of some companies that I missed let me know and I will get them added to this listing. My attempt was to make this as unbiased as possible and to just provide a listing of possible vendors for your company.


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KVNA-FM (100.1 FM, "100.One") is a commercial radio station in Flagstaff, Arizona broadcasting an Adult Album Alternative format.  It is one of six radio stations in the Flagstaff-Prescott region of Northern Arizona owned by the Yavapai Broadcasting Corporation.

History

KLOD
In the Summer of 1999, 100.1 MHz signed on broadcasting the syndicated LoudRadio hard rock format. The original call letters KLOD, were branded to launch the new Active Rock programming. KLOD was the first station in the United States to broadcast an online commercial radio network. LoudRadio was launched by veteran broadcaster Guy Guiliano, via the Napa, California-based eMusic company.

In the Spring of 2001, the format was changed to Smooth Jazz branded as The Cat. The new format was programmed by veteran entertainer Robert Shields.  The format lasted less than one year as programming was changed to Hot Adult Contemporary branded as Star 100.1.

On January 1, 2005, the format was changed to Adult Contemporary and branded as Sunny FM adopting the format that was formerly on 97.5 known as Sunny 97. Prior to changing format to adult contemporary the station was known as The Heat 97.5 a Top 40 Oriented radio station, the frequency 97.5 FM which moved to Dewey-Humboldt to serve the Phoenix area. For more information, see KMVA.

On December 30, 2014, at midnight, the "Sunny" Adult Contemporary format moved to KVNA 600 AM, along with its FM translator station on 104.7, while 100.1 FM flipped to adult album alternative music, branded as "100.One, Arizona's Adult Alternative". The first song on 100.One, according to the online playlist, was I'm Not the Only One by Sam Smith.

KVNA
On May 18, 2005, the KVNA-FM call letters of the original "Sunny FM" on 97.5 FM were adopted.

External links
 100.One KVNA-FM official website

 LoudRadio Debuts | Arizona Daily Sun

VNA
Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Arizona


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Q: Android MediaFormat KEY_REPEAT_PREVIOUS_FRAME_AFTER ignored? I am working on an app that streams the content of the screen and streams it over rtsp. I am using MediaCodec and VirtualDisplay. The problem I am having is that when the screen remains static, no data is sent over the network (new frames are not generated). After 10 seconds, clients disconnects. I have seen some posts in which people say they use KEY_REPEAT_PREVIOUS_FRAME_AFTER to fix this problem, but this values seems to be ignored.
This is the code that I am using:
MediaFormat format = MediaFormat.createVideoFormat(VIDEO_MIME_TYPE, VIDEO_WIDTH, VIDEO_HEIGHT);

format.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_COLOR_FORMAT,
    MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities.COLOR_FormatSurface);
format.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_BIT_RATE, BIT_RATE);
format.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_FRAME_RATE, FRAME_RATE);
format.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_CAPTURE_RATE, FRAME_RATE);
format.setInteger(MediaFormat.KEY_I_FRAME_INTERVAL, 1); // 1 seconds between I-frames
format.setLong(MediaFormat.KEY_REPEAT_PREVIOUS_FRAME_AFTER, 1000000L / (long) FRAME_RATE);

MediaCodec mediaCodec = MediaCodec.createEncoderByType(VIDEO_MIME_TYPE);
mediaCodec.configure(format, null, null, MediaCodec.CONFIGURE_FLAG_ENCODE);
mediaCodecSurface = mediaCodec.createInputSurface();
mediaCodec.start();

FRAME_RATE is 30, VIDEO_MIME_TYPE is video/avc, BIT_RATE is 1800000, VIDEO_WIDTH is 1280 and VIDEO_HEIGHT is 720.
I pass mediaCodecSurface to VirtualDisplay.
Any suggestion?

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> Aythar : astronautica
Aythar : astronautica
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Beautiful collection of modern, yet nostalgic Space Ambient, all excellently produced.Aythar's stellar debut on Carpe Sonum represents one of the more obvious distillations of the late Pete Namlook's ambient space music mantras. With its expansive, irising synths and vast waves of interstellar sequences yawning out into the void, Astronautica recalls nothing less than many numerous classic 70s sides of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Neuronium, et al., yet the preening atmospheres, fraught with both palpable tension and a sense of wonder, sound fresh and consistently inviting. Such pedigree means that contemporary space music artists have quite a large stylistic well to draw from, simultaneously aware of the rich heritage of sounds behind them while being mindful to avoid the kind of hackneyed clichés that tend to run rampant in the field. Aythar has no such problem. Though the pads and multitudinous sequencer tools have familiar rings to them, the artist's obvious love for, and fascination with, his machine-made fantasias demonstrate a passion for the kinds of twinkling deep-space noises that synth aficionados have embraced for decades. Nowhere are the above ideas more evident than during the two-part, twenty-minute suite comprising "Alien Worlds", where Aythar's silicon ooze, curling, shifting, and creeping along a colorful firmament of delightfully obtuse electronic textures, indeed conjures images of the kinds of environments dreamed up in the literary works of writers such as Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury. Aythar has a keen understanding of how to manipulate the sound field as well: where the first part of "Alien Worlds" sets up the biosphere itself, the second chapter populates that planet with intelligent fauna and inimical flora, the sounds made by civilizations completely unlike our own. Later tracks such as "Mystical Clouds" and "Reactor", with their endlessly swirling pulsations and ghostly patinas, bring those civilizations to quivering, fervent life, all thanks to Aythar's command of his machine age voodoo.
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Family & Law
International Institute of Space Law
ITU Instruments under the Perspective of General International Law
Journal International Institute of Space Law, Issue 3 2013
Authors Mahulena Hofmann
Mahulena Hofmann
Prof. Dr., SES Chair in Satellite Communications and Media Law, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, mahulena.hofmann@uni.lu.
The PCA's Optional Rules for the Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Outer Space Activities and Dispute Resolution in the ITU Regulatory System
Authors Juliana Macedo Scavuzzi dos Santos
Juliana Macedo Scavuzzi dos Santos
LLM Thesis Candidate, McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, Montreal, Canada, juliana.scavuzzi@mail.mcgill.ca.
Binding Arbitration as an Effective Means of Dispute Settlement for Accidents in Outer Space
Authors Henry R. Hertzfeld and Timothy G. Nelson
Henry R. Hertzfeld
Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA, HHertzfeld@law.gwu.edu.
Timothy G. Nelson
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, USA, Timothy.G.Nelson@skadden.com.
Bringing Space Law in the 21st Century: The Permanent Court of Arbitration Adopts Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Outer Space Activities
Authors Fabio Tronchetti
Fabio Tronchetti
Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Adjunct Professor of Comparative National Space Law, School of Law, University of Mississippi, United States, Fabio.tronchetti@yahoo.com.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Treaty-Based Settlement of Terrorism-Related Disputes in the Era of Active United Nations Security Council Involvement
Keywords Terrorism, inter-state dispute, international treaties, the United Nations Security Council, the International Court of Justice
Authors Nathanael Tilahun Ali LL.M.
The United Nations Security Council has become a crucial actor in international counterterrorism by not only spurring the taking of preventive and suppressive measures against terrorist individuals and groups, but also by taking actions against states that are said to stand in the way. The Security Council's actions against such states invariably arise from accusations by other states, such as accusations of refusal to extradite suspects of terrorism or responsibility for supporting terrorists. Meanwhile, most such issues of dispute are covered under international treaties relating to terrorism, which provide for political (negotiation) and judicial (arbitration and adjudication) mechanisms of dispute settlement. The Security Council's actions against states in connection with terrorism, therefore, involve (explicit or implicit) factual and legal determinations that affect the legal positions of the disputing states under the applicable international treaties relating to terrorism. The point of departure of this paper is that, in this respect, the Security Council effectively becomes an alternative to the treaty-based dispute-settlement mechanisms. The article centrally contends that the Security Council effectively acts as a more attractive alternative to treaty-based dispute-settlement mechanisms for pursuing terrorism-related (legal) disputes between states, without providing a meaningful platform of disputation that is based on equality of the parties. And the Security Council's relative attractiveness, arising from the discursive and legal superiority its decisions enjoy and the relative convenience and expediency with which those decisions are delivered, entails the rendering of resort to treaty-based dispute-settlement mechanisms of little legal consequence. The point of concern the article aims to highlight is the lack of platform of disputation some states are faced with, trapped between a hostile Security Council that makes determinations and decisions of legal consequence and an unhelpful treaty-based dispute-settlement mechanism.
Nathanael Tilahun Ali LL.M.
PhD Candidate in public international law, Erasmus School of Law. E: ali@law.eur.nl. I would like to thank Prof. Xandra Kramer and Prof. Ellen Hey for their valuable comments on an earlier draft of this article. The usual disclaimer applies.
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Beyonce & Daughter Blue Ivy Show Off Matching Red Manis — So Cute
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Hank Baskett's Alleged Transgender Lover: How I Became A Woman
Courtesy of Facebook, Getty
Andrew Gruttadaro
After claiming that she had a tryst with Kendra Wilkinson's husband, Ava Sabrina London revealed on July 2 the grueling, expensive process she went through to become the woman who caught Hank's wandering eye.
Going from a boy named "Paul" to Ava Sabrina London — the transexual who's at the center of Hank Baskett's alleged cheating scandal — was not easy. The transgender model opened up on July 2 and broke down the grueling process, from deciding to become a woman to dropping a whopping $50,000 on a shocking amount of surgeries.
Ava Sabrina London: Hank Baskett's Alleged Hookup's Transformation
"I always wished I was born a girl," Ava told Radar Online. "Everything I did to my sister, I did to myself. I did her makeup, her hair, styled her. I wished I was my sister. But I never thought I'd transition."
After growing up as a boy named "Paul" in Modesto, Calif., Ava finally decided, with some hesitation, to start undergoing hormone therapy in 2011 as the first step to transition from a man to a woman. After that, Ava racked up a shocking 18 surgeries to complete the transformation. She started with DD breast implants, then two rhinoplasty surgeries, a chin shave and a facelift.
Then in May 2012, Ava continued to get work done to fully feminize her face, including a brow bone contour, a hairline reduction, pulling back of her eyes, and a third nose job. She also had liposuction in her abs and her lower back. And a year after that, she underwent eight sessions of silicon injections in her hips and butt to give her that now-curvy look. She then got a full-body laser treatment to further soften her masculine features.
In all, Ava's laundry list of surgeries totaled $50,000, a cost which her ex-boyfriend covered. "When I had all the money I was able to do it all at once," Ava said. "I've been very fortunate. I was with a group of best friends and they were doing it. I was lost and my friend wanted me to move to L.A. in 2011. And we all transitioned together."
Somewhat surprisingly, Ava says she has not faced much persecution as a transgendered model: "With all the stories you hear with gay bashing or beating up, my transition has been easy." And though she does get Botox treatments and Juvaderm injections in her lips once every six months, there is one big surgery that Ava has not had yet — genital reconstruction. "I've thought about it," Ava said, before indicating that it may be a long way off. "It's not on my to-do list anytime soon. But not to say I'd never do it. I think I'm pretty much done for now. I don't want to go overboard."
Kendra Wilkinson & Hank Baskett's Marriage On The Rocks
Ava Sabrina London has been thrust into the public eye after she alleged that Hank Baskett cheated on his wife, Kendra Wilkinson, with her. According to Ava, her relationship with Hank started as an online flirtation, but that eventually they met in person, and he paid her for sexual acts.
Now Kendra is reeling — she's been spotted out without her wedding band — and her marriage with Hank is definitely in doubt. "Between the baby hormones and this, friends worry she could be in a dangerous place," a source told Us Weekly.
What do you think about all this, HollywoodLifers? Let us know.
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Kendra Wilkinson: You Should Leave Hank Baskett If He Had An Affair
Ava Sabrina London Hank Baskett Kendra Wilkinson


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Extension will allow Highmark-insured patients access to UPMC facilities
Rep. William C. Kortz June 24, 2019 | 3:13 PM
HARRISBURG, June 24 – State Rep. Bill Kortz, D-Allegheny, has released the following statement regarding the announcement of a contract extension between UPMC and Highmark, which will extend UPMC facility access to Highmark-insured patients.
"First off, I want to thank state Attorney General Josh Shapiro for his hard work to ensure health care access for all Pennsylvanians. I am pleased to learn of the new contract extension between UPMC and Highmark, which will extend UPMC facility access to Highmark-insured patients in western Pennsylvania for 10 years. Today's announcement eases the concerns and anxieties of thousands of Pennsylvanians, who were left wondering about their health care access, as well as the coordination and management of that care, including those who are undergoing significant medical treatment. They can breathe a much-needed sigh of relief.
"Moving forward, I still believe that much more needs to be done to protect consumers, and I will continue to advocate for legislation to require charity hospital-insurance company hybrids to behave in the public interest and stop from taking advantage of sick and vulnerable Pennsylvanians.
"I hope that over the next 10 years that these non-profits will do the right thing. As a public charity, these entities should be focused less on profits and more about patient care.
"Let me be clear – while this is certainly great news, keep in mind that contracts have to be worked out between UPMC and Highmark, and this will take some time. Please make sure to contact your insurer before making any important decisions or changes regarding your health insurance policy."
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Крок () — кантон во Франции, находится в регионе Лимузен. Департамент кантона — Крёз. Входит в состав округа Обюссон. Население кантона на 2006 год составляло 3042 человек.

Код INSEE кантона — 2313. Всего в кантон Крок входят 14 коммун, из них главной коммуной является Крок.

Коммуны кантона

Бавиль — население 181 чел.
Крок (Крёз) — население 506 чел.
Флейя — население 349 чел.
Ла-Мазьер-о-Бонз-Омм — население 63 чел.
Ла-Вильнёв — население 73 чел.
Ла-Вильтель — население 165 чел.
Мереншаль — население 762 чел.
Поншарро — население 88 чел.
Сент-Аньян-пре-Крок — население 202 чел.
Сен-Бар — население 104 чел.
Сен-Жорж-Нигремон — население 155 чел.
Сен-Морис-пре-Крок — население 118 чел.
Сент-Ораду-пре-Крок — население 119 чел.
Сен-Парду-д'Арне — население 157 чел.

См. также
 Список округов Франции

Ссылки
 Национальный институт статистики

Кантоны департамента Крёз


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Q: Renditioned images seem to load slower than the full size version I've created search result templates which display an image gallery (30-40 images per page) based on images uploaded to a picture library.
To avoid problems with end users uploading huge files, I'm initially displaying a 100x100 image rendition of each picture. This works great for reducing the file size of each image, ~300 kb to 5 kb.
The problem is that these renditioned images take longer overall to load than the full 300 kb versions. Checking the network tab in dev tools I can that some of the images have 3-4s initial response time. I wouldn't expect this as the files sizes are much larger. Does anyone know why this might be the case or of another way around this problem?
I'm on SharePoint Online, so cant configure anything to do with renditions in the background.
Thanks


A young woman in custody at a large urban jail has continuing abdominal pain over a 14 hour period. She is found unresponsive in her cell and rushed to the hospital where she is pronounced dead on arrival. Autopsy reveals a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Was this death avoidable?
Ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized ovum implants somewhere outside the uterus, is an emergency event every correctional nurse should consider when confronted with abdominal pain in a female inmate of reproductive age. Indeed, this condition is particularly common among women with a history of genital infections or infertility. Smoking also increases risk. Therefore, the female inmate population is at increased risk for ectopic pregnancy.
Abdomenal pain caused by ectopic pregnancy can include vaginal bleeding. If pregnancy status is unknown, obtain a urine pregnancy test while contacting the physician. Patients with this condition can become unstable quickly. If a tubal rupture takes place, the pain will intensify and signs of shock such as low blood pressure and rapid thread pulse will be evident. Intraperitoneal hemorrhage can cause referred pain to the shoulder area and a very tender abdomen.
This is a medical emergency requiring fast action and immediate transport to acute care. Initiate emergency protocols which can include establishing an intravenous access and fluid loading. Seek immediate medical evaluation for any potentially pregnant patient with unexplained abdominal pain. Ruptured ectopic pregnancies is a leading cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester resulting in 10-15% of all maternal deaths. Shock and death can follow quickly and immediate stabilization and transport to emergency treatment is necessary.
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Shortly after the start at the bus station there is a steep climb through the streets. The walk then follows farm tracks before joining the Pennine Bridleway at The Shepherd's Rest Inn. The Bridleway uses an old packhorse trail where the original stones are, for the most part, still firmly in place. A last climb reaches Rake End from which the Trail is followed down to the canal. This winds gently through trees and fields until the town is reached and is left a few minutes from the start.


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#include "main_widget.h"
#include "util.h"
#include <QtWidgets/QApplication>
#include <QDesktopWidget>

MainWidget::MainWidget(QWidget *parent)
	: QWidget(parent)
{
	setMinimumSize(900, 600);
	setWindowIcon(QIcon(":/img/safe.ico"));
	setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
	location = this->geometry();

	bool is_read = Util::readInit(QString("./user.ini"), QString("skin"), skin_name);
	if (is_read)
	{
		if (skin_name.isEmpty())
		{
			skin_name = QString(":/skin/17_big");
		}
	}
	else
	{
		skin_name = QString(":/skin/17_big");
	}

	title_widget = new TitleWidget();
	content_widget = new ContentWidget();
	main_menu = new MainMenu();
	character_widget = new CharacterWidget();
	about_us_dialog = new AboutUsDialog(this);
	setting_dialog = new SettingDialog(this);
	skin_widget = new SkinWidget(this);
	system_tray = new SystemTray(this);

	QVBoxLayout *center_layout = new QVBoxLayout();
	center_layout->addWidget(content_widget);
	center_layout->setSpacing(0);
	center_layout->setContentsMargins(1, 0, 1, 1);

	QVBoxLayout *main_layout = new QVBoxLayout();
	main_layout->addWidget(title_widget);
	main_layout->addLayout(center_layout);
	main_layout->setSpacing(0);
	main_layout->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

	setLayout(main_layout);

	connect(title_widget, SIGNAL(showSkin()), this, SLOT(showSkinWidget()));
	connect(title_widget, SIGNAL(showMainMenu()), this, SLOT(showMainMenu()));
	connect(title_widget, SIGNAL(showMax()), this, SLOT(showMax()));
	connect(title_widget, SIGNAL(showMin()), this, SLOT(showMinimized()));
	connect(title_widget, SIGNAL(closeWidget()), this, SLOT(hide()));

	connect(main_menu, SIGNAL(showSettingDialog()), this, SLOT(showSettingDialog()));
	connect(main_menu, SIGNAL(showNewCharacter()), this, SLOT(showNewCharacter()));
	connect(main_menu, SIGNAL(showAboutUs()), this, SLOT(showAboutUs()));

	connect(skin_widget, SIGNAL(changeSkin(QString)), this, SLOT(changeSkin(QString)));

	connect(system_tray, SIGNAL(activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)), this, SLOT(iconIsActived(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)));

	system_tray->show();
}

MainWidget::~MainWidget()
{

}

void MainWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
{
	/*QPainter painter(this);
	QPixmap pixmap;
	pixmap.load(skin_name);
	painter.drawPixmap(rect(), pixmap);*/

	/*QPainter painter(this);
	QPixmap pixmap(this->size());
	pixmap.fill();
	painter.end();
	painter.begin(&pixmap);
	QBrush brush;
	brush.setTextureImage(QImage(skin_name));
	painter.setBrush(brush);
	painter.setPen(Qt::gray);
	painter.drawRect(0, 0, this->width()-1, this->height()-1);
	painter.end();
	painter.begin(this);
	painter.drawPixmap(this->rect(),pixmap);*/

	QPainter painter(this);
	painter.drawPixmap(rect(), QPixmap(skin_name));

	QPainter painter2(this);
	painter2.setPen(Qt::gray);
	static const QPointF points[4] = { QPointF(0, 100), QPointF(0, this->height() - 1), QPointF(this->width() - 1, this->height() - 1), QPointF(this->width() - 1, 100) };
	painter2.drawPolyline(points, 4);
}

void MainWidget::showMax()
{
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	{
		this->setGeometry(location);
	}
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		location = this->geometry();
		this->setGeometry(QApplication::desktop()->availableGeometry());
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void MainWidget::showSkinWidget()
{
	skin_widget->show();
}

void MainWidget::showMainMenu()
{
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	QPoint p = rect().topRight();
	p.setX(p.x() - 150);
	p.setY(p.y() + 22);
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}

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{
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	{
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	case QSystemTrayIcon::DoubleClick:
	{
		showWidget();
		break;
	}
	default:
		break;
	}
}

void MainWidget::showWidget()
{
	this->showNormal();
	this->raise();
	this->activateWindow();
	title_widget->turnPage(0);
}

void MainWidget::showAboutUs()
{
	about_us_dialog->exec();
}

void MainWidget::showNewCharacter()
{
	character_widget->show();
}

void MainWidget::showSettingDialog()
{
	setting_dialog->exec();
}

void MainWidget::changeSkin(QString skin_name)
{
	Util::writeInit(QString("./user.ini"), QString("skin"), skin_name);
	this->skin_name = skin_name;
	update();
}


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Antropologia
 Cassi – una delle cinque tribù incontrate da Gaio Giulio Cesare durante la seconda spedizione in Britannia nel 55 a.C.

Persone
 Antonio Cassi Ramelli (1905-1980) – architetto italiano
 Enrico Cassi (1863-1913) – scultore italiano
 Francesco Cassi (1778-1846) – scrittore italiano
 Igino Cassi (1895-1963) – dirigente sportivo e imprenditore italiano
 Mario Cassi (1973) – baritono italiano

Variante Cassì
 Giuseppe Cassì (1963) – ex cestista, dirigente sportivo e politico italiano

Altro
 Scalae Cassi (scale di Cassio) – scalinata dell'antica Roma


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HUNDREDS of Costa customers have been kicking-off after the coffee shop chain removed its white hot chocolate from the Christmas menu.
Despite adding Honeycomb Latte, a Lindt Hot Chocolate and the infamous Gingerbread latte to its list, an army of festive drink fans have spotted a sacrilegious omission.
Some sugary beverage fans have been claiming that Christmas is "ruined" and that they are "heartbroken" over the menu overhaul.
A third said: "Heartbroken that costa don't sell the white hot chocolate at Christmas anymore".
Alongside the festive treats Costa has launched its range of Christmas cups. The designs include a penguin, gingerbread man, snowman, robin and Santa Claus.
Last week The Sun Online revealed that employees at rival Starbucks had already been showing off their range of festive cups - despite the iconic red cups being under wraps.
The cups, which were labelled "No peeking until November 10", will launch later this week.
A spokesperson from Costa Coffee said: "At Costa we are always looking to innovate and expand our Christmas menu. This year we have launched some brand news drinks, including our exclusive Lindt Hot Chocolate.
"Whilst our White Hot Chocolate is not on this year's menu a number of favourites are back and even better, including our Mint Hot Chocolate and Gingerbread Latte."