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Project acronym A2F2
Project Beyond Biopolymers: Protein-Sized Aromatic Amide Functional Foldamers
Researcher (PI) Ivan Huc
Summary Nature has evolved ultimate chemical functions based on controlling and altering conformation of its molecular machinery. Prominent examples include enzyme catalysis and information storage/duplication in nucleic acids. These achievements are based on large and complex yet remarkably defined structures obtained through folding of polymeric chains and a subtle interplay of non-covalent forces. Nature uses a limited set of building blocks – e.g. twenty amino-acids and four nucleobases – with specific abilities to impart well-defined folds. In the last decade, chemists have discovered foldamers: non-natural oligomers and polymers also prone to adopt folded structures. The emergence of foldamers has far reaching implications. A new major long term prospect is open to chemistry: the de novo synthesis of artificial objects resembling biopolymers in terms of their size, complexity, and efficiency at achieving defined functions, yet having chemical structures beyond the reach of biopolymers amenable to new properties and functions. The PI of this project has shown internationally recognized leadership in the development of a class of foldamers, aromatic oligoamides, whose features arguably make them the most suitable candidates to systematically explore what folded structures beyond biopolymers give access to. This project aims at developing methods to allow the routine fabrication of 20-40 units long aromatic oligoamide foldamers (6-15 kDa) designed to fold into artificial molecular containers having engineerable cavities and surfaces for molecular recognition of organic substrates, in particular large peptides and saccharides, polymers, and proteins. The methodology rests on modelling based design, multistep organic synthesis of heterocyclic monomers and their assembly into long sequences, structural elucidation using, among other techniques, x-ray crystallography, and the physico-chemical characterization of molecular recognition events.
Nature has evolved ultimate chemical functions based on controlling and altering conformation of its molecular machinery. Prominent examples include enzyme catalysis and information storage/duplication in nucleic acids. These achievements are based on large and complex yet remarkably defined structures obtained through folding of polymeric chains and a subtle interplay of non-covalent forces. Nature uses a limited set of building blocks – e.g. twenty amino-acids and four nucleobases – with specific abilities to impart well-defined folds. In the last decade, chemists have discovered foldamers: non-natural oligomers and polymers also prone to adopt folded structures. The emergence of foldamers has far reaching implications. A new major long term prospect is open to chemistry: the de novo synthesis of artificial objects resembling biopolymers in terms of their size, complexity, and efficiency at achieving defined functions, yet having chemical structures beyond the reach of biopolymers amenable to new properties and functions. The PI of this project has shown internationally recognized leadership in the development of a class of foldamers, aromatic oligoamides, whose features arguably make them the most suitable candidates to systematically explore what folded structures beyond biopolymers give access to. This project aims at developing methods to allow the routine fabrication of 20-40 units long aromatic oligoamide foldamers (6-15 kDa) designed to fold into artificial molecular containers having engineerable cavities and surfaces for molecular recognition of organic substrates, in particular large peptides and saccharides, polymers, and proteins. The methodology rests on modelling based design, multistep organic synthesis of heterocyclic monomers and their assembly into long sequences, structural elucidation using, among other techniques, x-ray crystallography, and the physico-chemical characterization of molecular recognition events.
Project acronym AncNar
Project Experience and Teleology in Ancient Narrative
Researcher (PI) Jonas Grethlein
Summary The last two decades have seen fascinating attempts to establish new narratologies, basing narratology on cognitive science or coupling it with other approaches such as postcolonial studies. While appreciating that these attempts have raised questions beyond the limits of structuralist narratology, critics have noted that by doing so they tend to abandon narratology's strength, that is its analytical tools. In many cases, narratology has become a label that is as empty as it is fashionable. The project as outlined here, on the other hand, develops a new approach that combines the analytical arsenal of structuralist narratology with a phenomenological take on time in order to provide new answers as to the question of narrative's function. By exploring the tension between experience and teleology in ancient literature, it sets out to demonstrate how narrative serves as a mode of coming to grips with time. Besides offering a new narratology that cross-fertilizes the strengths of different disciplines and pioneering a new approach to ancient literature, the project will steer the current debate on experience and presence into a new direction across disciplines in the humanities.
The last two decades have seen fascinating attempts to establish new narratologies, basing narratology on cognitive science or coupling it with other approaches such as postcolonial studies. While appreciating that these attempts have raised questions beyond the limits of structuralist narratology, critics have noted that by doing so they tend to abandon narratology's strength, that is its analytical tools. In many cases, narratology has become a label that is as empty as it is fashionable. The project as outlined here, on the other hand, develops a new approach that combines the analytical arsenal of structuralist narratology with a phenomenological take on time in order to provide new answers as to the question of narrative's function. By exploring the tension between experience and teleology in ancient literature, it sets out to demonstrate how narrative serves as a mode of coming to grips with time. Besides offering a new narratology that cross-fertilizes the strengths of different disciplines and pioneering a new approach to ancient literature, the project will steer the current debate on experience and presence into a new direction across disciplines in the humanities.
Project acronym ANGLE
Project Accelerated design and discovery of novel molecular materials via global lattice energy minimisation
Researcher (PI) Graeme Matthew Day
Summary The goal of crystal engineering is the design of functional crystalline materials in which the arrangement of basic structural building blocks imparts desired properties. The engineering of organic molecular crystals has, to date, relied largely on empirical rules governing the intermolecular association of functional groups in the solid state. However, many materials properties depend intricately on the complete crystal structure, i.e. the unit cell, space group and atomic positions, which cannot be predicted solely using such rules. Therefore, the development of computational methods for crystal structure prediction (CSP) from first principles has been a goal of computational chemistry that could significantly accelerate the design of new materials. It is only recently that the necessary advances in the modelling of intermolecular interactions and developments in algorithms for identifying all relevant crystal structures have come together to provide predictive methods that are becoming reliable and affordable on a timescale that could usefully complement an experimental research programme. The principle aim of the proposed work is to establish the use of state-of-the-art crystal structure prediction methods as a means of guiding the discovery and design of novel molecular materials. This research proposal both continues the development of the computational methods for CSP and, by developing a computational framework for screening of potential molecules, develops the application of these methods for materials design. The areas on which we will focus are organic molecular semiconductors with high charge carrier mobilities and, building on our recently published results in Nature [1], the development of porous organic molecular materials. The project will both deliver novel materials, as well as improvements in the reliability of computational methods that will find widespread applications in materials chemistry. [1] Nature 2011, 474, 367-371.
The goal of crystal engineering is the design of functional crystalline materials in which the arrangement of basic structural building blocks imparts desired properties. The engineering of organic molecular crystals has, to date, relied largely on empirical rules governing the intermolecular association of functional groups in the solid state. However, many materials properties depend intricately on the complete crystal structure, i.e. the unit cell, space group and atomic positions, which cannot be predicted solely using such rules. Therefore, the development of computational methods for crystal structure prediction (CSP) from first principles has been a goal of computational chemistry that could significantly accelerate the design of new materials. It is only recently that the necessary advances in the modelling of intermolecular interactions and developments in algorithms for identifying all relevant crystal structures have come together to provide predictive methods that are becoming reliable and affordable on a timescale that could usefully complement an experimental research programme. The principle aim of the proposed work is to establish the use of state-of-the-art crystal structure prediction methods as a means of guiding the discovery and design of novel molecular materials. This research proposal both continues the development of the computational methods for CSP and, by developing a computational framework for screening of potential molecules, develops the application of these methods for materials design. The areas on which we will focus are organic molecular semiconductors with high charge carrier mobilities and, building on our recently published results in Nature [1], the development of porous organic molecular materials. The project will both deliver novel materials, as well as improvements in the reliability of computational methods that will find widespread applications in materials chemistry. [1] Nature 2011, 474, 367-371.


"Ordinarily, if an average man comes face to face with the nagual the shock would be so great that he would die. The goal of a warrior's training is not to teach him to hex or to charm, but to prepare his tonal not to crap out.
"The nagual is not experience or intuition or consciousness. Those terms and everything else you may care to say are only items on the island of the tonal.
"The nagual is the part of us which we do not deal with at all.
At the time of birth, and for a while after, we are all nagual. We sense, then that in order to function we need a counterpart to what we have. The tonal is missing and that gives us, from the very beginning, a feeling of incompleteness. Then the tonal starts to develop and it becomes utterly important to our functioning, so important that it opaques the shine of the nagual, it overwhelms it. From the moment we become all tonal we do nothing else but to increment that old feeling of incompleteness which accompanies us from the moment of our birth and whichs tells us constantly that there is another part to give us completeness".
"The secret of a warrior is that he believes without believing… A warrior, whenever he has to involve himself with believing, does it as a choice, as an expression of his innermost predilection. A warrior doesn't believe, a warrior has to believe.
"A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
"We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us. We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime.
So, in essence, the world that your reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules, which the reason learns to accept and defend.
"Fortunately, it is not reason which puts an ally together. It is the body. You have perceived ally in many degrees and on many occasions. Each of those perceptions was stored in your body. The sum of those pieces is the ally.
"The will develops in a warrior in spite of every opposition of the reason.
"Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
"My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.
"Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude".
"There are 'hidden' meanings – not to be confused with non-understandable things – that must be thought through constantly until you reach an understanding.
"Weapons may have decorations on them to enhance the spirit of the warrior but they should primarily br built for durability.
"A warrior is only a man. A humble man. He cannot change the designs of his death, But his impeccable spirit, which has stored power after stupendous hardships, can certainly hold his death for a moment, a moment long enough to let him rejoice for the last time in recalling his power. We may say that that is a gesture which death has with those who have an impeccable spirit.


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Q: Coherence : weblogic.application.ModuleException: No storage-enabled nodes exist for service DistributedSessions I am trying to use Coherence server (separate from my client to store session data) for my weblogic server (client).  I'm getting the error like
weblogic.application.ModuleException: No storage-enabled nodes exist for service DistributedSessions:com.tangosol.net.RequestPolicyException:No storage-enabled nodes exist for service DistributedSessions

Similar question was asked in past in the forum and i have verified all the threads and not able to find the right solution.
Can someone please help?
1) Config on Coherence Server: Keep tangosol-coherence-override on the Coherence server class path.
2) Sample of xml file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE coherence SYSTEM "coherence.dtd">
<coherence>
    <cluster-config>
        <member-identity>
            <cluster-name>ClusterName</cluster-name>
        </member-identity>
        <unicast-listener>
            <address system-property='tangosol.coherence.localhost' />
            <port system-property='tangosol.coherence.localport'>18088</port>
            <well-known-addresses>
                <socket-address id='1'>
                    <address>830.8.119.55</address>
                    <port>18088</port>
                </socket-address>
            </well-known-addresses>
        </unicast-listener>
        <shutdown-listener>
            <enabled system-property='tangosol.coherence.shutdownhook'>none</enabled>
        </shutdown-listener>
        <logging-config>
            <destination system-property='tangosol.coherence.log'>log4j</destination>
        </logging-config>
    </cluster-config>
</coherence>

3) Start the coherence Server with command
java -server -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -cp ${COHERENCE_HOME}/../lib/coherence.jar:${COHERENCE_HOME}/../lib/coherence-web.jar:${COHERENCE_HOME}/../config/ -Dtangosol.coherence.session.localstorage=true com.tangosol.net.DefaultCacheServer  1> ${COHERENCE_HOME}/../logs/stdlog.log 2>&1 &
4) Output on coherence server startup
2017-10-09 10:20:00.561/1.034 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <Info> **(thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded cache configuration from "jar:file:/home/xy6122/coherence/coherence/lib/coherence.jar!/coherence-cache-config.xml"**
2017-10-09 10:20:01.041/1.514 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D4> (thread=main, member=n/a): TCMP bound to /830.8.119.55:18088 using SystemSocketProvider
2017-10-09 10:20:04.363/4.836 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): **Created a new cluster "<<ClusterName>>"** with Member(**Id=1, Timestamp=2017-10-09 10:20:01.093, Address=830.8.119.55:18088,** MachineId=65067, Location=site:,machine:zldv6413,process:23334, Role=CoherenceServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=12, SocketCount=6) UID=0x820877370000015F0181BEC5FE2B46A8
2017-10-09 10:20:04.370/4.843 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Started cluster Name=<<ClusterName>>

MasterMemberSet(
  ThisMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2017-10-09 10:20:01.093, Address=830.8.119.55:18088, MachineId=65067, Location=site:,machine:abcdv6413,process:23334, Role=CoherenceServer)
  OldestMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2017-10-09 10:20:01.093, Address=130.8.119.55:18088, MachineId=65067, Location=site:,machine:zldv6413,process:23334, Role=CoherenceServer)
  ActualMemberSet=MemberSet(Size=1
    Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2017-10-09 10:20:01.093, Address=130.8.119.55:18088, MachineId=65067, Location=site:,machine:zldv6413,process:23334, Role=CoherenceServer)
    )
  MemberId|ServiceVersion|ServiceJoined|MemberState
    **1|3.7.1|2017-10-09 10:20:04.363|JOINED**
  RecycleMillis=1200000
  RecycleSet=MemberSet(Size=0
    )
  )

TcpRing{Connections=[]}
IpMonitor{Addresses=0, Timeout=15s}

2017-10-09 10:20:04.412/4.885 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=Invocation:Management, member=1): Service Management joined the cluster with senior service member 1
2017-10-09 10:20:04.681/5.154 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=DistributedCache, member=1): Service DistributedCache joined the cluster with senior service member 1
2017-10-09 10:20:04.780/5.253 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=ReplicatedCache, member=1): Service ReplicatedCache joined the cluster with senior service member 1
2017-10-09 10:20:04.795/5.268 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=OptimisticCache, member=1): Service OptimisticCache joined the cluster with senior service member 1
2017-10-09 10:20:04.803/5.276 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=Invocation:InvocationService, member=1): Service InvocationService joined the cluster with senior service member 1
2017-10-09 10:20:04.806/5.280 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <Info> (thread=main, member=1):
Services
  (
  ClusterService{Name=Cluster, State=(SERVICE_STARTED, STATE_JOINED), Id=0, Version=3.7.1, OldestMemberId=1}
  InvocationService{Name=Management, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=1, Version=3.1, OldestMemberId=1}
  PartitionedCache{Name=DistributedCache, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), LocalStorage=enabled, PartitionCount=257, BackupCount=1, AssignedPartitions=257, BackupPartitions=0}
  ReplicatedCache{Name=ReplicatedCache, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=3, Version=3.0, OldestMemberId=1}
  Optimistic{Name=OptimisticCache, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=4, Version=3.0, OldestMemberId=1}
  InvocationService{Name=InvocationService, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=5, Version=3.1, OldestMemberId=1}
  )

**Started DefaultCacheServer...**

5) Starting the Weblogic server
along with other command line argument provide following
-Dtangosol.coherence.session.localstorage=false
so weblogic will store the session data on coherence server and not the local weblogic heap.
6) Kept the same tangosol-coherence-override.xml file on weblogic class path
7) Able to start the weblogic server
8) When deploying the webapplication I can see weblogic client has joined the cluster but deployment fails
2017-10-09 10:30:48.321/648.794 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=1): Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2017-10-09 10:30:48.149, Address=830.8.119.55:18090, MachineId=65067, Location=site:,machine:abcdv6413,process:28222, Role=WeblogicServer) joined Cluster with senior member 1
2017-10-09 10:30:48.655/649.128 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=1): Member 2 joined Service Management with senior member 1
2017-10-09 10:30:49.077/649.550 Oracle Coherence GE 3.7.1.16 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=1): Member 2 joined Service DistributedSessions with senior member 2
But deployment fails with
weblogic.application.ModuleException: No storage-enabled nodes exist for service DistributedSessions:com.tangosol.net.RequestPolicyException:No storage-enabled nodes exist for service DistributedSessions
On weblogic server i have installed coherence-web-spi.war as library and also specificy lib-ref in weblogic.xml
I'm not sure what I am missing.

A: In your configuration file you have to insert all address of your architecture: weblogic server (datastorage=false) and the coherence server:
<well-known-addresses>
    <socket-address id='1'>
        <address>830.8.119.55</address>
        <port>18088</port>
    </socket-address>
    <socket-address id='2'>
        <address>x.x.x.x</address>
        <port>yyy</port>
    </socket-address>
</well-known-addresses>

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Q: How to disable networking traffic / connections in Nix language in Nixos? Have searched https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#networking for networking options. And I have not found something that may achieve this:
I would like a configuration which ensures that users don't have any network traffic.
As it would be a nix generation, running $ nixos-rebuild switch on a configuration.nix file without this network option, could put the computer network communication back to normal.
I have tried mannually calling $ sudo systemctl stop network-manager, but it had no results.
Similarily, nothing seemed to change when I tried modifying this in configuration.nix and then $ nixos-rebuild switch
networking.networkManager.enable = false

Any idea ?
Should I manually deal with each of the network interfaces ?

A: With everything else at defaults, this may be as simple as:
networking.useDHCP = false;
networking.interfaces = {};

Of course, you could also go more heavy-handed -- putting all your network hardware into the blacklistedKernelModules list, f/e -- and personally, I'd recommend that.


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Q: Tomcat with client certificate and Grails I found the right information on how to configure tomcat with client certificates on stackoverflow, configured my tomcat, deployed a grails application and searched within the grails application for the client certificate. I found it in the property
request.request.request.attributes['javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate']

Is this the right way to access the certificate? Is looks a bit wrong :-)

A: ok. I think I've got it... this looks better:
request['javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate']


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In 2001, Becky Dunning felt she wasn't doing enough to give back. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were fresh in her mind, and she thought to herself, "I can't do anything to really help in New York City, but there has to be something I can do to help in my community."
Cheerioak, an AQHA gelding, was featured in "Special in Every Way" an article about what it takes for a horse to be used in therapeutic riding programs. Read it here.
A lifelong horsewoman, she turned to her horse life to find a sense of purpose. "At the time, I was on AQHA's Foundation committee," Becky shares. "I brainstormed with my friend Peggy Kimes about what we could do. I'd been to a show in Burbank, California; William Shatner's charity reining event. There I saw a therapeutic riding demonstration, and it really moved me. Peggy and I knew that was it! And so we proposed that the Foundation add a branch to support therapeutic riding."
If you've ever worked on a committee for an association, you know that nothing comes easily. Peggy and Becky persevered. They presented their idea to AQHA, and it went through the lengthy approval process, with fine-tuning and input from the organization along the way. Five years later, America's Horse Cares became part of the AQHA Foundation.
"For seven years, Peggy and I hosted the Ranch Bash at our ranch in Scottsdale to raise money for America's Horse Cares," Becky recalls. "It served as our main fundraiser, which provides money for grants to various therapeutic riding centers."
A Powerful Evolution
When Becky and Peggy first thought about therapeutic riding, it focused on riders with physical and/or cognitive special needs. But therapeutic riding evolved to be included as a valued outlet for those dealing with post-traumatic stress disorders, including members of the military.
"Since we started America's Horse Cares, there's been an awakening in what our military is facing," Becky shares. "Therapeutic riding is now instrumental in so many veterans' lives, so we now include those programs when choosing where to award our grants. Veterans have looked me in the eye and said that riding saved their lives. That's pretty powerful."
Continuing the Legacy
This year, the Ranch Bash is making a comeback, thanks to Becky and Peggy's adult children. Matt Kimes and his wife, Amanda, owners of Kimes Ranch Jeans, along with McKenzie Parkinson, Becky's daughter and marketing manager of CR Ranchwear, have joined the forces of their brands, along with the Arizona Cutting Horse Association and Horse&Rider, to host the next generation of Ranch Bash on March 16 at Becky's Almosta Ranch.
"The first thing people think about with therapeutic riding is special-needs children, but the truth is we all can use a little therapy," Matt says. "Therapeutic riding isn't limited to one sector of the population. We all know what horses mean to us, so we're happy to be involved with a program that helps people get to know the animal we all love. Our hope is that we can make the therapeutic value of horses accessible to anyone who needs it."
McKenzie agrees. "Our moms put so much into this charity, so this group coming together to revitalize their vision is very special to them. It's very meaningful to our communities and our families. We want to honor what they did and raise awareness of the cause."
"It's been so exciting to hear the kids talking about it," Becky beams. "This program is necessary, and it's something that should be well-funded and well-exposed. It has tremendous results—it's amazing what therapeutic riding can do. It changes lives—it saves lives. I can't think of any other area to be involved."
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'Earth has 657 more islands than previously thought'
US: Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, announced two geologists, Orrin Pilkey and Matthew Stutz. They conducted a global survey of barrier islands using satellite images, topographical maps and navigational charts. Their study has been published in the current issue of the Journal of Coastal Research.
Pilkey is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Stutz is an assistant professor of geosciences at Meredith College.
Pilkey and Stutz's discovery include islands off the coast of Columbia, Brazil, Siberia, Alaska and Canada's Arctic. A previous survey in 2001 had pegged the number of barrier islands at 1,492. Pilkey pointed out the islands didn't suddenly materialise over the last decade. Rather the islands hadn't been noticed or were too remote to be included in the last count. The previous survey was conducted without the help of satellite images.
The 2,149 barrier islands are found along all continents except for the Antarctica. Seventy-four per cent of them are in the northern hemisphere. They measure a total of 20,783 kilometres in length and make up approximately 10 per cent of the Earth's continental shorelines.
A barrier island often forms as a chain of long, low, narrow offshore deposits of sand and sediment. They run parallel to the coast line but are divided by lagoons, bays and estuaries. They are defined as an unconsolidated body of sand that is surrounded by water and usually has an inlet at either end that lets water in and out of a lagoon.
The islands have a unique role in the ecosystem, protecting low-lying mainland coasts against erosion and storm damage. They are often important wildlife habitats.
Many of the barrier islands in the survey are two to 4,000 years old. But many of the islands will soon be threatened by the rising sea levels that have come with climate change.
Source: www.thestar.com
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The town of Newcastle is located in Lincoln County on the peninsula between the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers. The town was originally called Sheepscot Plantation and settled in 1630 by fishermen. The town was attacked and destroyed in 1676 during the King Philip's War but many residents returned when the War ended. During another French and Indian War in 1688, the town was again destroyed with residents not returning for about 30 years. The name of the town was changed to Newcastle in 1730 and incorporated on 23 August 1775 as the 30th town in Maine. The population of the town increased from the first census in 1790 when there were 787 residents to its high point in 1850 when there were 2,012 residents. After that, it dropped each year to a low point in 1930 of 914, rising in 1940 to 994 residents.
The vital records for the town of Newcastle have been transcribed for this book from the microfilms located in the Maine State Archives as digitized on two CDs available from Picton Press. Also included are Delayed Records of Births and Marriage Intentions which were transcribed from two original volumes located in the Newcastle town office, neither of which have been microfilmed. The quality of the microfilmed records is quite good with only a few pages having sections either too faint or too dark to read but were found to be more readable in the original record volumes found in the Newcastle town office.


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Q: MySql Count Rework and SUM Rework by Phase i need some help regarding the following query in MYSQL.
I have following SQL Table:
LINK
I need to calculation the following:
1. Query: Count of Rework by phase
For example (based on orderid 749, see the Link)
The order was already three times in phase 01. The first occasion of phase 01 is to be calculated as "productive"(Right First Time). Any other repetition at the phase is "rework" (Process Deviation / Rework).
In case of this orderid (749) the counter for rework is 2.
2. Query: Time (in Seconds) of Rework by phase (Process Deviation / Rework)
In Case of the orderid 749, i calculated already in excel the time (in second) of rework by phase. I need just this also implemented via mysql.
For example:
My Calcualtion in Excel
In the phase "01.1" was three times the order.
The first occasion of the order (in seconds) was
360 second = "Right First Time"
The Sum of any other repetition at the phase is "rework"
Process Deviation / Rework = 12840 seconds
This is what i have to implemented via MYSQL Query.
Please help me.
Thank you für your time and for your support.
BR,
Richard

A: The problem is already solved:
SELECT SH.newphase , SUM(CASE WHEN SH.id = T.minid THEN TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, SH.created, IFNULL(SH5.created, NOW())) ELSE 0 END) AS jo , SUM(CASE WHEN SH.id <> T.minid THEN TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, SH.created, IFNULL(SH5.created, NOW())) ELSE 0 END) AS nemjo FROM Sol_Afo_History SH LEFT JOIN (SELECT SH2.orderid, SH2.newphase, MIN(SH2.id) AS minid FROM Sol_Afo_History SH2 GROUP BY SH2.orderid, SH2.newphase) T ON T.orderid = SH.orderid AND T.newphase = SH.newphase LEFT JOIN (SELECT SH3.id, (SELECT MAX(SH4.id) FROM Sol_Afo_History SH4 WHERE SH3.orderid = SH4.orderid AND SH4.id < SH3.id) AS elozid FROM Sol_Afo_History SH3) SHKOV ON SHKOV.elozid = SH.id LEFT JOIN Sol_Afo_History SH5 ON SHKOV.id = SH5.id WHERE SH.orderid='749' GROUP BY SH.newphase


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Macur review: lengthy process could deter victims from coming forward
Anyone who's suffered abuse, must have full confidence that their allegation will be dealt with quickly and thoroughly, says Desmond Mannion
Lady Justice Macur has published her two-year review into the 2000 Waterhouse inquiry. The Macur review backed the inquiry's findings of "no evidence" of historical abuse by establishment figures in former north Wales children's homes.
Desmond Mannion, Head of NSPCC Wales has welcomed the publication of the review but fears the length of time it has taken risks deterring victims from coming forward.
"We welcome the long-overdue publication of the Macur review today. It is surprising that, 4 years after the Government launched a review into the Waterhouse report that was so widely criticised, there are so few recommendations.
"The horrors of the north Wales child abuse scandal will haunt our country for many years to come and undoubtedly, many of those who voiced their concern at the time those, including those who have taken the brave step to disclose their experiences will be surprised and disappointed by today's findings.
"The publication of the Macur review has been a lengthy, drawn out process, revealing barely anything and our worry is that this risks deterring victims from coming forward. We hope that, in the future, such reviews will be conducted as swiftly as possible. There is still an ongoing criminal investigation into historic allegations that needs to ensure survivors voices are heard and perpetrators brought to justice.
"Anyone who has suffered abuse, either current or historical, must have full confidence that their allegation will be dealt with as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, we hope that Operation Pallial does not inadvertently suffer from today's publication."
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Etymology /
9 Toe-nailed
v toe touch with the toe
v toe drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club
v toe hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club
v toe drive obliquely "toe a nail"
v toe walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction "She toes inwards"
n toe the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes
n toe (golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft
n toe one of the digits of the foot
n toe forepart of a hoof
Additional illustrations & photos:
"Leather vises and toe-screws."
I stepped on his toe
The Step-Sister Cuts off her Toe
Measuring across the toes
Checking the toe measurement of the last
Lasting the upper at the toe
Interesting fact: Marilyn Monroe had six toes
Toe (Mach) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
Toe (Mach) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
Toe Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
Toe (Anat) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. "Each one, tripping on his toe ."
Toe (Zoöl) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
Toe (Mach) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
v. i Toe To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
v. t Toe To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
Interesting fact: The name of the famous snack "Twinkies" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said "Twinkle Toe Shoes."
n toe In machinery: A form of cam by which the valve-rods are lifted in the Stevens valve-gear for vertical river-boat engines.
n toe In a car-wheel, the outer edge of the flange.— 9. The pointed end of the foot of an organ-pipe.— 10. In golf, the nose of a club. See nose, 5.
toe In golf, to strike (a ball) off the toe of the club.— 4. To drive (nails or heavy steel pins) obliquely through a piece or element of a frame to secure it to another placed at an angle with it. The nails, entering both pieces, fasten them together against light stresses laterally, and the necessity for tenon and mortise is avoided.
n toe A digit of the foot, corresponding to a finger of the hand: as, the great toe; the little toe; the hind toe of a bird.
n toe A digit of either foot, fore or hind, of a quadruped, especially when there are three or more (a large single toe, or a pair of large toes, inclosed in horn, being commonly called hoof). No animal has normally more than flve toes; most quadrupeds have flve, then four, three, two, and one, in decreasing number of instances. No bird has naturally more than four, though some breeds of poultry are regularly flve-toed by perpetuation of an original sport comparable to the sexdigitate polydactylism of man; a few have only three; the African ostrich alone has two. Five toes is the rule in reptiles and batrachians, a lesser number being exceptional among those which have limbs, as lizards, crocodiles, turtles, frogs, newts, etc. In some lizards, as those which scramble over walls and ceilings, the toes function as suckers by means of adhesive pads (see gecko); batrachians which habitually perch on trees are similarly equipped (see tree-toad); in a rare case, toes serve as a sort of parachute (see cut uuder flying-frog). In some mammals, as seals, the toes are united in the common integument of the flippers. Three and sometimes four toes are connected in web-footed birds. The joints or phalanges of toes are typically and usually three apiece, but this number is often reduced to two or one in the case of lateral toes, as the human great toe. In birds a remarkable rule prevails, that the joints of the toes, from flrst to fourth toe, run two, three, four, flve; the exceptions to this rule are comparatively few. The toes of most animals eud in nails or claws, and are often long and movable enough to serve as organs of prehension, like fingers. See cuts under bird, digitigrade, Plantigrada, bicolligate, palmate, semi-palmate, and totipalmate.
n toe The fore part, end, or tip of the hoof of an ungulate, as the horse.
n toe The end of a stocking, shoe, or boot which contains or covers the toes: as, square or round toes; a hole in the toe.
n toe A piece of iron welded under the front of a horseshoe, opposite the heels, to prevent slipping. See cut under shoe.
n toe A projection from the foot-piece of an object to give it a broader bearing and greater stability.
n toe A barb, stud, or projection on a lock-bolt.
n toe In machinery:
n toe The lower end of a vertical shaft, as a mill-spindle, which rests in a step.
n toe An arm on the valve-lifting rod of a steam-engine. A cam strikes the toe and operates the valve. Such toes are known respectively as steam-toes and exhaust-toes. E. H. Knight.
toe To touch or reach with the toes.
toe To furnish or provide a toe to or for; mend the toe of: as, to toe a stocking.
toe To place or move the toes, as in walking or dancing.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact: The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed
n Toe tō one of the five small members at the point of the foot: the corresponding member of a beast's foot: the front of an animal's hoof
v.t Toe to touch or reach with the toes: to furnish with a toe, as a stocking
v.i Toe to place the toes in any particular way
"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk."
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
Mal Pancoast
"My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes."
"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."
"He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry."
Dip your toes in the water - If you dip your toes in the water, you try something tentatively because you are not sure whether it will work or not.
Keep someone on their toes - If you keep someone on their toes, you make sure that they concentrate on what they are supposed to do.
Make your toes curl - If something makes your toes curl, it makes you feel very uncomfortable, shocked or embarrassed.
On your toes - Someone on his or her toes is alert and ready to go.
Step on someone's toes - If you step on someone's toes, you upset them, especially if you do something that they should be in charge of.
Toe the line - If someone toes the line, they follow and respect the rules and regulations.
Tread on someone's toes - If you tread on someone's toes, you upset them, especially if you do something that they should be in charge of.
Turn up one's toes to the daisies - If someone has turned up their toes to the daisies, it means that the person died.
OE. too, taa, AS. tā,; akin to D. teen, G. zehe, OHG. zēha, Icel. tā, Sw. tå, Dan. taa,; of uncertain origin. √60
He hated to be found on the floor at the toe of Big Tom's boot.
"The Rich Little Poor Boy" by Eleanor Gates
Near the footsteps he observed the mark of a single toe, occurring occasionally, and quite isolated from the rest.
"The Western World" by W.H.G. Kingston
Raise himself from this position without the aid of his hands, by springing back on his toes.
"The Book of Sports:" by William Martin
How many toes does a horse have on each foot?
"The Tree-Dwellers" by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
The legs wriggled frantically, the toes scratched at the boards.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde" by Stewart Edward White
The inference is that we should step upon our own toes, which were given us for that purpose.
"Rinkitink in Oz" by L. Frank Baum
The white man was disclosed by his thicker legs and his toes which turned out.
"The Keepers of the Trail" by Joseph A. Altsheler
Casey, McHale, and Sandy seized their nigh stirrups, shot them at their left toes, gripped saddle horns, and went up in an instant.
"Desert Conquest" by A. M. Chisholm
Yet again, starting early in the morning, sometimes a zero temperature nipped toes and fingers and a keen wind cut like a knife.
"The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)" by Hudson Stuck
Rosalee was looking at the toes of her slippers.
"Fairy Prince and Other Stories" by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Mashed nose, an' crooked toes; Dat's de way de Nigger goes.
"Negro Folk Rhymes" by Thomas W. Talley
I once kissed thee on the mouth, and now I have kissed thee from heel to toe; thou art wholly mine.
"Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen
It was not a hand that was caught this time, nor yet a toe, or toes.
"Forest Neighbors" by William Davenport Hulbert
The thing had five toes, like a man, which was a relief.
"IT and Other Stories" by Gouverneur Morris
Like other birds, the parrot has four toes on each foot; but two of these are in front and two behind.
"Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors" by James Johonnot
And he would tread on Gerda's toes and pull her hair, and make faces at her, too.
"Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17)" by Various
He danced smartly on his toes.
"The Mind Master" by Arthur J. Burks
The middle toe is getting constantly more developed, though the smaller toes are evidently still of use.
"The Meaning of Evolution" by Samuel Christian Schmucker
Its paws look like hands, and it has the full number of five fingers or toes on each extremity.
"Boy Scouts Handbook" by Boy Scouts of America
The Queen, subdued, quieter, went on tip-toe round the room.
"The Island Mystery" by George A. Birmingham
Del Cascar, Del Cascar,
Stood upon a flaming star,
Stood, and let his feet hang down
Till in China the toes turned brown.
"Del Cascar" by William Stanley Braithwaite
A Maypole dance.--O, my!
Such sport is all "my eye,"
Just try,
I tried it and I know,
The snow, the blow,
The aching toes, the smarting nose.
"Charming May" by John Hartley
I'd rather have ears than a nose,
I'd rather have fingers than toes,
But as for my hair:
I'm glad it's all there;
I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
"I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes" by Gelett Burgess
The sun went down through crimson bars,
And left his blind face battered with stars--
But the brown toes in China kept
Hot the tears Del Cascar wept.
There was a Young Lady whose nose,
Was so long that it reached to her toes;
So she hired an Old Lady,
Whose conduct was steady,
To carry that wonderful nose.
"Limerick: There was a Young Lady whose nose" by Edward Lear
That set them digging all around,
And 'twasn't long before they found,
A lad whose name they never learned,
Whose face was white, whose toes had turned…
'Uppards'
"Up'ards" by Marriott Edgar
She kissed me again, reaching that place That sends messages to toes and fingertips, Then all the way to something like home.
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Gold Toes, "In San Francisco".
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Powers injured the big toe on his right foot.
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Edgy, eclectic and totally playful, this fashion icon in the making keeps us on our toes with her bold ensembles.
Tiny carp nibble your toes in fishy pedicure.
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MERRIMAN VALLEY — Love tip toes into a life at the most inconvenient moment.
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Lunch in the sun with a side of toe shoes.
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I have extra toes on three of my four feet.
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This month Glogover Hosiery is rolling out what it said is the first-ever performance pantyhose with a seamless toe flap, with the product making its debut at Duane Reade.
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William Blasingame, a former Staten Island pastor who allegedly robbed his parish of nearly $85,000 to pay for his pricey head-to-toe (soul not included) makeover.
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The play dates, the trips to the dog park, the occasional grooming or vet appointment and the twice daily walks – they keep me on my toes.
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Can a broken pinkie toe be fixed.
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'Stiletto Surgery' removes pinky toe for better fit.
It is part of a web of ligaments that link toe bones and hold the ball of the foot together.
In this Nov 17, 2011, photo is Daniel, a cat with two extra toes on each of his feet, in Milwaukee.
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Die krag van algoritmes wat van die toeval gebruik maak, soos vir 'n PTM, het aan die wetenskaplike gemeenskap dramaties duidelik geword in 1976 toe die Miller-Rabin-toets vir primaliteit bekend gemaak is.
Quantum computing (Kwantumberekening)
String theory (ST) is the best candidate for a theory of everything (TOE).
D-Brane Actions as Constrained Systems
C((t)) (M F ∞ (A, w), M F ∞ (A, w)) the category of continuous endofunctors in the sense of [To¨e], which we now describe.
Curved String Topology and Tangential Fukaya Categories II
To¨en [To¨e] proved that there is a model structure on the category of dg-categories where weak equivalences are given by quasi-equivalences and the category RH om(C1 , C2 ) is a derived functor with respect to this model structure.
Roulet, The toes of the ultra high energy cosmic ray spectrum, J.
Searching for signals of magnetic lensing in ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Typically we imagine that the state space of a model forms a low-dimensional differentiable manifold within the state space of the toe.
Low-Dimensional Modelling of Dynamical Systems
If the model is to accurately capture the dynamics of the toe, then the manifold must be made of some of the tra jectories of the toe.
The process of analysing the toe and creating a low-dimensional model is sometimes termed coarse graining [117, e.g.] because of the loss of fine detail in forming a model.
Through the rapid exponential decay all neighbouring tra jectories are quickly attracted to these low-dimensional dynamics and so they form an accurate low-dimensional model of the toe.
In application, such as the fluid dynamics problems discussed in §3, we need theory dealing with not only infinite dimensional toe's, but also infinite dimensional centre manifolds.
This theorem is crucial to modelling; it asserts that for a wide variety of initial conditions the dynamics of the toe decays exponentially quickly to a solution which can be predicted by the low-dimensional model.
Nonetheless, the model will be significantly simpler in one or more characteristics than the "infinite dimensional" toe from which it is derived—such models are useful.
Observe that the Taylor model (11), while certainly simpler than the toe (12), is still of "infinite" dimension—there is an infinite freedom in C (x) that is governed by the model.
To analyse the Navier-Stokes equations, the toe, to derive such a model [149], recognise that across the thin fluid film, viscosity acts quickly to damp almost all cross-film structure.
Then horizontal derivatives, ∂x in the Navier-Stokes equations, the toe, become ∂x + ∂X .
toenail
body part, covering, dactyl, digit, drive, extremity, force, hit, part, portion, ram, touch, walk
Hyponyms (*)
big toe, great toe, hallux, hammertoe, little toe
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September 7, 2020 September 7, 2020 bcnn1wp
Justin Bieber Says He Let 'Ego and Power Take Over' During His Teen Years, Promises to 'Walk in the Plans God Has for Me' 'So I Can be a Good Husband and Future Dad'
Justin Bieber. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO/LIONEL CIRONNEAU, FILE
Justin Bieber took a moment to reflect on his past, present and future — and expressed his hope to someday be a father — this weekend.
"I came from a small town in Stratford Ontario Canada. I didn't have material things and was never motivated by money or fame I just loved music. But as I became a teenager I let my insecurities and frustrations dictate what I put my value in," Bieber wrote in a note posted on Instagram Sunday night (Sept. 6).
He continued: "My values slowly started to change. Ego and power started to takeover and my relationships suffered because of it."
"I truly desire healthy relationships," Bieber said. "I want to be motivated by truth and love. I want to be aware of my blind spots and learn from them! I want to walk in the plans God has for me and not try and do it on my own! I want to give up my selfish desires daily so I can be a good husband and future dad!"
Although he brought up the subject of being a parent in his post, the pop star and wife Hailey Baldwin recently said they haven't been making any babies in quarantine, yet.
See his Instagram note below.
A post shared by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on Sep 6, 2020 at 5:38pm PDT
SOURCE: Billboard, Ashley Iasimone
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When we mention Malacca, many Malaysians do not think of much of this little town. However small it may be, it contains a fair share of interesting things to do, some of which you may only find there. Malacca may be a small town located on the West coast of Malaysia, but let us recommend 10 best things to do in Malacca for those who are planning to visit.
To visit one of the oldest church buildings in Malaysia, you are required to walk up a few flights of stairs to the top of St. Paul's Hill. The remains of St. Paul's Church sit at the top of the hill without a roof; only walls and some tombstones are left at the windy place.
Walk down a different flight of stairs and head towards A'Famosa (Porta de Santiago), which was once a fort built by the Portuguese. What remains now is a gatehouse that still bears the Dutch logo "VOC" after they ousted the Portuguese. This gatehouse holds a long history since its establishment in 1511, and is still a popular tourist attraction in Malacca.
When night falls on Friday and Saturday, it's time to eat and shop all you can on the streets of Jonker. Although stall owners start opening in the evening, the crowd only starts buzzing in at night. During the weekends, the Jonker Street Night Market is packed with people, all coming out to look for delicious street food, intricate ornaments or cheap gadgets in the market.
The night market occupies most of the road along Jalan Hang Jebat, with some shops along this stretch opened for business as well. This lively area has managed to attract locals and tourists for many years, hence allowing them to remain in operation after all these while.
The Stadthuys is a concrete example of Dutch influence in Malacca during the 1600's. Built on the remains of a fortress belonging to the Portuguese, this solid red building showcases fine Dutch architecture.
Other than the exterior, the interior has been renovated and transformed into the Museum of History & Ethnography. What was once the office for the Dutch governors is now a keeper of Malacca's rich history. Visitors are also able to get an insight of Malaccan customs and traditions that have existed since decades ago. An admission fee is needed, with free guided tours at specific timings.
It's a good idea to take a walk at the Klebang Beach in the evening with friends or family. The Klebang Beach is very spacious, providing a large recreation area for patrons. If you have a family with children, they'll be having a great time here playing with bubbles, kites or even riding a horse.
Having fun is one thing, but getting hungry is another! Don't you worry because many food trucks are present at Klebang Beach, and you'll be able to fill your tummy with delicious food. The food trucks happen to be one of the attractions too, serving scrumptious local food such as fried noodles, Satay, Rojak, and a Malaccan favourite – coconut shake.
"A'Famosa, there is something for everyone." The slogan truly fits – a safari, water theme park, shopping outlet, golf course, live shows and sports activities are all available at the A'Famosa Resort.
Encompassing a few of the best slides in Malaysia, the water theme park will definitely be very enjoyable for you and your family. Kids are bound to love the interactions with animals at the kid-friendly safari, which includes domestic animals like cows and ponies to wild animals such as elephants and camels. For people who like to shop, the Freeport A'Famosa Outlet is definitely the place to be. Furthermore, golfers can enjoy golf sessions at the award-winning A'Famosa golf course.
Be it day or night, there's always something to see on the Malacca River Cruise. It's nothing fancy, but a relaxing cruise for you to take a look at the town that surrounds this river.
The Malacca River has undergone a great transformation from a stinky canal to a cleaner river over the years. In the day, visitors who take the cruise have the chance to admire the murals behind rows of shops, whereas those who choose the night sessions can take in the beautiful town lights in the darkness.
A round trip of the cruise takes 45 minutes, with a recorded commentary to explain what you're seeing throughout the journey.
A lot of times, traveling around Malacca requires walking under the hot sun. When you're in need of something cold, it's time to sit down at one of the eateries for a bowl of shaved ice dessert – Cendol. You can find this typical dessert almost anywhere in Malacca, and it really is enjoyable when eaten in the hot weather.
Find out where to get some good Cendol here.
The Baba & Nyonya Heritage Museum was once home to a Peranakan family since 1861. However, in 1985, this building was transformed into a museum and it has since open until now.
Located on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lok, this heritage museum offers only guided tours for its visitors at RM16 per adult and RM11 per child. On this informative tour, you'll be able to know a lot about the Baba Nyonya's history and their culture in every part of the two-storey building. Through the furniture, architecture and placement of different objects in the house, visitors can feel what it's like to live in this house as a Baba or Nyonya.
What's better than to indulge in the local culture when you're in a foreign place? In this case, you should try making batik in a boutique in Malacca. During the lesson, professional batik-makers will explain how the batik is made while demonstrating to the students. After that, it would be your turn to give it a try.
The entire lesson is pretty interesting as you get to design your own batik. You can draw, fill it with colours according to what you like, and you'll get to create a piece of your own batik. Of course, you're allowed to bring your batik home as a souvenir.
From afar, the Malacca Straits Mosque looks like a floating structure above the sea when the tide is high. Built on stilts above the sea, it creates a wonderful silhouette against the sunset backdrop. The Malacca Straits Mosque combines Arabian and Malay elements in its architecture, forming a fundamental composition that's present in many Malaysian mosques. The best time to visit is from 6pm to 7pm as the sun is setting. But if you come at night, the mosque stands brightly lit, right above sea level.
Non-Muslim visitors are allowed to enter, but you need to dress appropriately before you go in. However, if visitors aren't dressed accordingly, they'll be given cloaks (for females) or long pants (for males) as cover-ups.
These are the 10 best things to do in Malacca while you're here. Hopefully these recommendations are able to guide you throughout your stay at Malacca. Have a great trip!


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Sami Halabi
Policy | Research | Media
Politics over people
Even if they dont really care, the Lebanese government allow did children from Ivory Coast finish their exams (Photo: Sam Tarling)
When people are preoccupied with your own business they hardly give much thought to those that have left for greener and more lucrative pastures. Governments on the other hand have a responsibility that extends to all their citizens, both inside and outside the country. So with Lebanon attempting and failing to form a cabinet for months, it seems evident that the government has shirked its responsibility to it citizens abroad who left because of such behavior in the first place.
In late March alarm bells should have started going off in the halls of government after the Lebanese embassy in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, announced that it began to receive messages from "invisible commandos," warning the Lebanese not to interfere in the country's political affairs. In fact, the government was already aware of the problem having sent a message to Lebanese expats living in the country over 4 months previous to the announcement telling them to "at least send the women and children," according the to a government source close to the proceedings who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "But because 4 months passed without major incidents they sent them back."
On April fools day, the Lebanese ambassador Ali al-Ajami attended the "swearing in" ceremony of Laurent Gbagbo, the controversial Ivory Coast president who refused to step down after he was defeated in an election by the internationally recognized Alassane Ouattara, now president of the country. Tensions in Ivory Coast had been running high since December 2 when Ouattara was declared president after a second round of voting was completed.
At the time, the Lebanese government was unapologetic about having attended the ceremony as Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Shami stated that there was "no mistake," and that the ceremony was "within protocol" in an interview with Hezbollah's Manar TV on April 2. According the to the government source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, the protocol was apparently to attend the mock swearing in ceremony and sent a letter to Ouattara stating that the gesture was purely to "protect the interests of the Lebanese" and not an affront to Ouattara. It does not seem to have worked.
Almost immediately reports emerged that pro-Ouattara forces were targeting the Lebanese in Abidjian putting those interests into serious question. "All of a sudden things flared up quickly and we could not respond fast enough," said the source who disputed widespread claims that Lebanese were being targeted mentioning that the only incident was a man who had been shot in the neck by a "stray bullet."
"In principle there are no problems [with Ouattara], quite the opposite, he was understanding and welcomed the idea and they are insisting on the presence of the Lebanese," he said. "There are over 80,000 Lebanese in the Ivory Coast, they are a pillar of the economy there, so it is not in the interest of anybody that they be harmed."
Lebanon to date has no national policy for evacuating its citizens in such emergencies. In principle, a request for evacuation needs to be sent to the cabinet by the foreign ministry where it is voted on and action is taken. Of course, when the situation became an emergency, there was no cabinet to make a decision. As a result, a series of ad hoc measures were taken to attempt to bandage up the situation.
"You are in a country where municipalities don't pick up their garbage and there is no electricity so how do you expect them to have an evacuation policy or proper international relations," said Hilal Khashan, professor of political studies at the American University of Beirut
Thus instead of going to a cabinet which refuses to sit in the same room together to solve the evertday problems of the Lebanese, the request for an evacuation was sent to the Higher Council for Defense (HCD)—a council for national defense that can be called upon by the president or one third of its members and made up of the president, the prime minister, and ministers of defense, foreign affairs, finance, economics and trade, transport, and the commander of the army. The HCD met for the first time on April 5 while the Lebanese in Abidjain were still holed up in their homes trying to avoid the violence and many without power and water for days as violence flarred between pro-Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara forces.
In the meantime an operations room was requested to be setup in the airport of Abidjan by the Ambassador by Minister Shami, but it was apparently put to little use. "Even though Abidjan airport has not been shut down, flights to Beirut are impossible because the airport road is unsafe as snipers are spread across nearby buildings and they are targeting passing cars," Ambassador Ajami said to the Al-Mustaqbal newspaper owned by the caretaker prime minister on April 3.
According to the government source, the HCD eventually sent a delegation first to Accra, Ghana, to setup a logistics "headquarters," to evacuate the Lebanese expats in Ivory Coast. There the delegation ran into even more problems as French forces controlling the airport and pounding pro-Gbagbo locations across the city made it "very complicated," to get permission to land in Abidjan. After they had received permission they ran into even more problems related to the lack of a national evacuation policy when they found that planes that had arranged to be sent by the national carrier Middle East Airlines (MEA) would not have insurance cover. Planes were then chartered and the insurance issue eventually resolved. The first plane touched down in Abidjian on April 9, over a week after the intense fighting in the Ivory Coast had begun. Gbabbo was captured by pro-Ouattara and French forces on April 11, meaning official relief from Lebanon only lasted two whole days.
Even during this post-conflict period the different regional and local influences on the lack of a cohesive Lebanese evacuation policy were evident as Iranian airplanes began to fly out evacuees along with MEA who announced on April 14 that 7,401 Lebanese expatriates since the start of the conflict on board a total of 17 flights. A total of 3,172 passengers had to pay for their own flights and with the rest being covered by the "Lebanese government," which also owns the airline; thus in essence it will need to pay itself back at some point.
"MEA is not a private company, it is owned by tax payers," quipped Nasib Ghobril, head of economic research and analysis at Byblos bank. MEA also stated that it would operate two flights a day from Abidjan airport to bring back the remaining Lebanese evacuees.
"You cannot talk about an electoral law to allow expat to vote and go through all of those arguments and not protect them when they are abroad," said Karim Makdisi, associate director of the Issam Fares institute for Public Policy, a Beirut-based policy think tank. "There should be a policy and there is no coherent policy."
The government source said that as a result of the debacle a request has been sent to the defunct cabinet requesting that a national plan for evacuations be devised and a special allocated budget be allocated to fund such activities. "There were money issues during the rental and approval of planes," they said without elaborating. "The Lebanese government is going to have to pay for it."
As Executive went to press, Lebanese expats from Ivory Coast were still arriving from Ivory Coast. But they were not the only ones. On March 19 Hezbollah's Iran-backed secretary general Hassan Nasrallah made a speech voicing his support for the mainly Shiite Bahriani opposition and criticizing the Saudi-lead troops for entering the country to help. By the end of the month the Bahraini interior minister was accusing the protestors of being liked to Hezbollah. "We cannot remain silent as concerns accusations about training (regime opponents)," the party said in a statement. "The accusations are aimed at undermining the peaceful demonstrations of the oppressed people."
By early April Lebanese expats, most of which were reportedly of the Shitte faith, were being sent back from the Gulf Cooperation Council in as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates which had also sent troops to help the security forces of Bahrain's embattled Sunni king.
"The Bahraini government is scared as is the GCC who believe that there is an Iranian conspiracy against them whether their fears are genuine or not," said Khashan. "Hassan Nasrallah is a rational calculator and he doesn't want the Lebanese to be harmed but perhaps it was a slip of the tongue. "
Lebanese politics naturally came into play once again as the current Saudi-backed Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri criticized Nasrallah for his statements and threw his political weight behind Bahrain's decisions to suppress the pro-democracy protests and allow foreign troops to enter its territory as a sovereign state.
"Before anything else, (Lebanese expatriates) respect the laws of host states and they do not interfere into these states' domestic affairs under any circumstance," Hariri told Bahrian's King Khalifah over the phone according to a statement issue by his media office.
"This is a structural indication that foreign policy is not based on a national understanding or political culture of protecting citizens," says Makdisi. "If you are a state that is unwilling or unable to protect its people and then uses citizens abroad for political purposes then all this discourse of national entities and democratization is non-sensical. The proof is in the pudding.
As a result of both the ongoing crises in the GCC and Ivory Coast coupled with uprisings in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere have peaked fears that repatriation to Lebanon will swell of citizens coming back to the country. That has led many to fear that there will be extra demand on the already inadequate number of jobs in the country. Jad Chaaban, acting president of the Lebanese Economics Association believes that technically it will take a year to ascertain if this happens and puts the maximum number of people coming back at some 100,000.
"I am very worried about it and we are taking measures," said Neamat Frem, president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists and of Indevco, one of Lebanon's largest industrial employers. "We stopped hiring to make space for returnees," he says in reference to his company's operations in Egypt. "This is why we have to work very hard to help them stay where they are. Keeping expatriates' jobs abroad must be part of our foreign policy and decision-making process. It is a big factor of our economy."
Officially the unemployment rate stands at 9.2 percent. However, that rate is from 2007 and is based on an International Labor Organization standard which means if someone has worked a regular job for more than one hour a week they are assumed to be employed. Moreover, the country's last comprehensive labor survey was conducted in 1970, meaning current statistics are based on household survey's and not a census which is the international standard. Byblos's Ghobril adds that many companies do not tell the government how many employees they have to avoid paying taxes and social security on them further skewing the figure. "It's a political decision," said Chaaban in relation to the official methodology for calculating unemployment in order to lower it.
"I don't know how they calculate these figures, they do not reflect the reality of the market," said economist and advisor to the Parliamentary Budget Committee Ghazi Wazni who and puts the figure at around 15 percent with youth unemployment at around 25 percent.
Because the Lebanese economy relies heavily on remittances which made up a total of 22.4 percent of GDP last year according to the World Bank (including compensation of employees from abroad.) If this figure begins to fall the country could see the various effects of the repatriation crisis hitting this essential element of the economy could be hit hard. "Assuming that things do not stabilize and this is long term process, the Lebanese will lose their income, and the remittance swill not be sent back home or be substantially reduced." says Chaaban.
The ramifications of that happening are far from certain as there is little consensus on where this money is going and if it will have a large effect on job creation. Wazni says that most remittances go to deposits in the banking sector and real estate so there decrease would have much effect on the economy anyhow. The former accounts for around only 20,000 jobs in the country and the latter is not a productive sector nor does it create many jobs in construction because most workers in the industry are foreign laborers from neighboring Syria. Chaaban on the other hand, says that most remittances go to consumption, a direct contributor to GDP. So if remittances fall, and consumption goes down, so does GDP, not to mention the domino effects that will have. "A big part of the remittance funds schooling and I expect that more people will join the public schools," he said. "The same thing happened after the July war. A lot of people lost their businesses and had to send their children to public schools."
One day they will leave as well (Photo: Sam Tarling)
As for jobs, there is little hope that Lebanon's economy can produce anymore in the near future. According to a study conducted by the European Commission last year, 15,000 jobs need to be created every year to absorb new market entrants. Wazni belives that figure lies even higher between 30,000 and 35,000 jobs. "The problem is government policy; the question of employment is not a priority for the government," he says. In addition to the lack of a national evacuation policy the country also does not have a national labor policy.
What makes matters even worse is, despite the fact that recent growth has been more or less "jobless" according to statements made by Lebanon's finance minister, the age of relying on that growth to make official figures like Debt-to-GDP look better or create some knock-on effects in the job market looks like it is coming to a close. According to statistics released last month by the International Monetary Fund, Lebanon's estimated GDP growth predicted to drop from 7.5 percent last year to 2.5 percent this year with inflation trending upwards at 6.5 percent for the year.
"When there was political instability [in Lebanon] there was an economic boom across the region and world which Lebanon benefitted from," said Ghobril in reference to the period before the global economic downturn. "Political stability in Lebanon, economic instability elsewhere meant an increase in Lebanese investment [during the crisis]. This is the first time these two factors converging together," he says implying that Lebanese economy will be caught in the middle.
That already seems to be happening just as the tourism season picks up with numbers already down in the first quarter. Room yields at hotels are have plunged some 50 percent in the first two months of 2011, according to Ernst and Young indicating that high-end tourists are not looking to Lebanon this year. Airport passengers and tourist numbers were also trending downwards in the first quarter.
"The entire region has been written off by Western tourists, the top spenders are going elsewhere, they have options," said Ghobril. "Lebanese expatriates are big spenders in Lebanon. But, will they spend that much this year?" he questions pessimistically.
That could be given that some of them are already here. But whether they will stay is quite another issue. All of the experts interviewed by Executive predicted that most expatriates from the Ivory Coast will return and by the end of April the flow of those being booted out of the GCC had stemmed significantly. Moreover, even if there is increased competition from high-paying jobs in the Gulf and
"The Lebanese go to conflicting areas because job opportunities are available there, it is worth is and once you're mobile, you stay mobile. You're not used to living among your family anymore as a middle aged professional and if you hear a Kalashnikov you are not scared, where as a Frenchman immediately runs away," said Chaaban.
At the time of this writing the assets of Lebanese in the Ivory Coast had not been liquidated, which was one of the principal concerns of several economists Executive spoke to. Neither had a government been formed that could have taken decisions to try and gain from many of the returning and qualified expats. And the reforms that could have provided an alternative market to countries experiencing unrest such as efficient telecommunications and electricity had yet to be implemented.
So when Lebanon's citizens who have come for an unexpected visit leave again, it seems that those who stay behind will do so having missed another golden opportunity to change their lives and their economy. Perhaps then they may realize that their current economic and political course is untenable and change tact, or they may just make another trip to the airport just like all those who have come, and gone, before them.
Author: Sami Halabi
Sami Halabi is a policy consultant who covers a range of policy issues and analyses development programmes, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Sami specialises in analysing policies and programmes in order to provide evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers and international development agencies. Sami holds a Master of Public Policy with Distinction from The University of Edinburgh.	View all posts by Sami Halabi
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