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Distributed Transactions and Saga Patterns
Ayush Prashar
In a Knolx session organized by Knoldus, we discussed the idea of following Saga Patterns. For that to be more accessible, I'd like to share the session with the help of this blog.
Service-oriented architecture has given us enough advantages to be a predominant architecture in our Industry, but it can't be all sunshine and rainbows. There are use cases where monoliths are not only better but technically the only practically possible option. One such case is the feasibility of transactions.
A transaction is a logically atomic unit of work which may span multiple database queries. To say the least about it, they ensure locks over resources (Eg: tables it accesses) they acquire in order to maintain the consistency of the database. All this is done with the help of the famous ACID properties. ACID here stands for:
Atomicity: It means that either a transaction happens in full or doesn't happen at all. At any point, if the transaction feels it can't process, it'll rollback.
Consistency: It means that the state of the database remains consistent before a transaction begins and after the transaction ends.
Isolation: It means that multiple transactions can run in parallel without disrupting the consistency of the database.
Durability: It means that any changes made in the database actually persist.
Apart from the ACID properties, the ability to make transactions serializable increases the throughput.
But all this is guaranteed in a single database. What happens when we start using microservices where each service houses a separate database? Do we have any means of performing anything similar to a distributed transaction? Let's find out.
Distributed Transactions
A distributed transaction would do what a transaction would do but on multiple databases. Think about an e-commerce website. In a monolith design, it would comprise of tables such as CUSTOMER_DETAILS, INVENTORY, PRODUCT_DETAILS, ORDER_DETAILS, PAYMENT_DETAILS, and so on. Thus in order to buy a product, we would select a customer from CUSTOMER_DETAILS, a product from PRODUCT_DETAILS, check it's status in the INVENTORY and make changes in the table if feasible. After which we will add the order in ORDER_DETAILS and record payments in PAYMENT_DETAILS.
In a distributed scenario the architecture would be split into services like user handling service, payment gateway service etc who would house a respective database, and all the aforementioned actions would be performed in the respective databases.
One way of doing it is the Two-Phase Commit. In a two-phase commit, we have a controlling node which houses most of the logic, and we have a few participating nodes on which the actions would be performed. It works in two phases:
Prepare Phase: In this phase, the controlling node would ask all the participating nodes if they are ready to commit. The participating nodes would then respond in yes or no.
Commit Phase: Then, if all the nodes had replied in affirmative, the controlling node would ask them to commit, else even if one node replied in negative, it'll ask them to roll back.
This solves our problem to a decent extent but as you can see, it brings in some faults as well:
Whole logic gets concentrated in a single node, and in case that node goes down, the whole system fails.
The whole system is bound by the slowest resource since any ready node will have to wait for confirmation from a slower node which is yet to confirm its status.
Thus, even though we can kind of implement it, it's not really a feasible option. It's clear from the two-phase commit that atomicity can hamper our performance. Therefore, we make use of a design pattern which trades this atomicity with resource availability. Something like this was published in a paper titles SAGAS from 1987. Which brings us to Saga pattern.
Saga pattern is one of the ways by which we ensure data consistency in a distributed architecture but it doesn't really qualify as a standard transaction. A major reason for that being absence of atomicity. So in order to implement this pattern, we perform the constituent operations one after another. For example, in the e-commerce website, we talked about, we first do the transaction pertaining to the selection of customer. Once that is complete, we start selecting a product and so on. So all these constituent transactions together will be known as a Saga.
So a successful saga looks something like this :
– Start Saga
– Start T1
– End T1
– End Saga
But things rarely go as straight. Sometimes, we might not be in a position to perform a transaction in the middle of the saga. At that point, the previously successful transactions would've already committed. So apart from not continuing with the saga, we also need to undo whatever changes we may have already committed. For this, we apply compensatory transactions. Thus, for each transaction Ti, we implement a compensatory transaction Ci, which tries to semantically nullify Ti. It's not always possible to get back to the exact same state. For example, if Ti involves sending out an email, we can't really undo that. So we send a corrective email which semantically undoes Ti. So a failed saga looks something like this:
– Begin Saga
– Abort Saga
– Start C2
– End C2
There can be various ways for implementation of saga pattern, but to actually implement it in a scalable manner, we can introduce a central process aka Saga Execution Coordinator or SEC. SEC is merely a process that handles the flow of execution of transactions or compensatory transactions. It helps us centrally locate the logic of execution. However, unlike the initiating node in a two-phase commit, we can prevent it from being a single point of failure. This will be explained after we actually understand the full structure and flow.
Another important constituent in order to implement our form of saga pattern in the Saga Log. Just like a database log, it's a basic, durable but distributed source of information. Every event that SEC executes is documented in a saga log. A good example of that could be a Kafka topic.
So a successful saga could be represented something like this.
Here, when we get a hit on the service it marks the start of the saga on the topic where the SEC is listening. Then SEC logs the start of T1 and hits the service 1 for its transaction. The service responds to the SEC who then logs it as the end of T1. After this, SEC similarly logs transaction T2 and moves in an identical manner. When the last transaction has returned success, the SEC logs it and then logs the end of the Saga.
Now let's discuss the failure case as well.
Everything works in the similar fashion as above till the start of T2, where we encounter some issues and service indicates a failure. The SEC after receiving this message logs to abort the saga. It then undoes the changes made by T2 (if at all) by issuing compensatory transaction C2, which is first logged and then hit on service 2. The response marks the end of C2 which is logged and then the SEC tries to undo T1 using C1. The response of C1 marks the end of the saga which is again logged by the SEC.
One question here could be "What if the compensatory transaction fails?"
Well, simply put, we can't afford that. We need to undo any changes made by the canceled transaction in order to maintain data consistency. So we try again repeated till the time it succeeds. We make them idempotent.
Now coming back to the SEC. The SEC is not all that special because we CAN actually afford to lose it. There can be two cases in consideration
1. Safe state: Safe state exists when the SEC failed at the point of time where we were already under abort or when we had logged the end of the last transaction and not started a new one. In abort, since compensatory transactions are idempotent, we are already guaranteed a consistent state so we needn't worry about it. And in the other case, well we can quickly spin up another SEC who could carry on from the point of failure of the previous one.
2. An unsafe state would be when SEC fails at a point of time when we have started the transaction and not yet received any confirmation. It could have persisted with the changes, not even started the execution of the transaction, or even failed the transaction. We could never be certain. Which is why we would spin up another SEC and ask it to abort the current saga.
This probably gives us a fair insight into distributed transactions and saga patterns. Feel free to reach out to us in case of any queries. We appreciate multiple POVs.
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Provides basic root octave microtonal scales
Author: Jonathan Leonard
Version: 1.1 (Updated 1 year ago)
Category: Instrument Synthesizer
A macro for setting the microtonal scale in cents (1/100 semitone). When Values of -100 or 100 are used, notes can be shifted by a semitone to make a tonal scale.
Update Version 1.1: Added Randomization button and amount so all values may be randomized.
Values are in units of cents (1/100 semitone).This function tunes incoming notes up or down in cents depending on the values entered for the notes of the root octave. By default, values of zero or disabling correspond to 12 Tone Equal Temperament. To setup an operator for Just intonation, enter the following series of numbers starting with C:
Just:	[0, 12, 4, 16, -14, -2, -17, 2, 14, -16, 18, -12]
Pythagorean:	[0, 14, 4, -6, 8, -2, 12, 2, 16, 6, -4, 10]
Kirnberger:	[0, -10, -6, -6, -14, -2, -10, -3, -8, -10, -4, -12]
Vallotti&Young	[0, -6, -4, -2, -8, 2, -8, -2, -4, -6, 0, -10]
WerkmeisterIII	[0, -10, -8, -6, -10, -2, -12, -4, -8, -12, -4, -8]
WC Super Just	[0, 5, 4, 16, -14, -2, -49, 2, 41, -16, -31, -12]
WC Harmonic	[0, 5, 4, -2, -14, -29, -49, 2, 41, 6, -31, -12]
Bagpipe	[0, -70, -12, -43, -57, -6, -51, -15, -70, -28, -14, -51]
Chinese Lu	[0, -1, 4, 16, -6, -2, 8, 2, 1, 6, 18, 6]
To enter custom 12 tone microtonal scales, it may be necessary to convert from frequency values or ratios; to cents. A convenient spreadsheet formula for doing so is:
cents "= log(A1,2)*1200"
Where the cell A1 contains the frequency ratio of 5/4 or 1.25 which is the ratio of the major third to the root in Just Intonation. This results in about 386 cents. In Equal Temperament, this ratio would be 400 cents. The difference is -14 cents and why we enter this as the 5th value above for Just Intonation. For more information please refer to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_(music)
To tune notes to a tonic tonal scale, enter -100 or + 100 in roots C#, D#, F#, G#, and A#. The operator scale function can be used to tune all operators to the same scale and key, or when combined with different operator ratio values, be used for harmony.
Tonic/Major:	[0,-100, 0, -100, 0, 0, -100, 0, -100, 0, -100, 0]
Minor:	[0, -100, 0, 0, -100, 0, -100, 0, 0, -100, 0, -100]
Minor Blues:	[0, -100, +100, 0, -100, 0, 0, 0, -100, +100, 0, -100]
Chromatic Blues	[0, -100, 0, 0, 0, 0, -100, 0, -100, 0, 0, 0]
Tonic + Blue Notes	[0, -100, 0, -100, -25, 0, -100, -33, +100, 0, -100, -40]
Arabic Scale	[0, 0, -100, +100, 0, 0, -100, 0, 0, -100, +100, 0]
Arabic with ¼ tones	[0, -50, -100, +100, 0, 0, -100, 0, 0, -100, +100, -50]
The operator scale is also helpful when using the pitch tracker to trigger the instrument with a voice or unfretted input. See the included snapshots for examples.
Scale Trans: This transposes the key of the scale function. This works in a circular fashion and accepts values between 0 ( C ) to 11 ( B ). This parameter allows to change the key in addition to the determined scale. By setting offset values in the roots of multiple operators to create tonic filters, one can further change the key of the operators for polyharmonic arrangement in the instrument.
Jonathan Leonard
I should mention that if all you want to do is 'constrain to scale' you can grab that macro from my Reaktor Toolpack. It will force all incoming midi notes to a scale of your choosing. It won't retune the notes, but push them up or down to the scale you have chosen.
Hey Jed, sorry it doesn't look like MTS is the solution since it involves sysex and reaktor doesn't do sysex. Others have sent pitch bend changes but that affects every note in a channel. SO! How about making that monosynth in Reaktor? Hmmm? ;)
Hi Jed, unfortunately this macro will only work inside of reaktor as it is. I am taking a look at the MIDI Tuning Standard though. If your VST synth supports this standard then it might be possible to use the two together, though not all synths do support it. I'll take a look...
JED LARSON
This is great. I'd like to use this to retune a monophonic vsti synth I'm using in Cubase. Do you know how I would set up the reaktor instrument (to make it act like a midi effect), and how to route it to my vsti?
Sharon Mullins
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

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Pre-Final Prang Ends Bray's Euro Title
press release 1 July 2013
A tangle while challenging for second place in his Pre-Final ended Kiwi Daniel Bray's weekend at the second round of the 2013 CIK-FIA European Kart Championships for KZ and KZ2 at Genk in Belgium on Sunday.
After again being quick in practice on Thursday (seventh in one session and second in the other) and qualifying on Friday (fifth in his group and 14th overall) the 26-year-old KZ2 class driver from Auckland won three of his four qualifying heats and finished second in the other to be ranked fifth overall and start his Pre-Final from P3 on the grid.
That's as good as it got, however, for the talented works GP/TM/Bridgestone driver from Auckland.
Above: Kiwi karter Daniel Bray at the first round of this year's CIK-FIA European Championship
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Italian driver Felice Tiene (CRG/Maxster/Bridgestone) went on to win the KZ2 Final from Norway's Emil Antonsen (DR/TM/Bridgestone) and Sweden's Joel Johansson (Energy/TM/Bridgestone).
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The financial statements of the Diocese have been audited by the audit firm of Hood & Strong. A copy of the complete financial statements and the independent auditors' report are available here on the website of the Diocese.
Below this letter I have included a summary of the financial statements of the Diocese for the year ended December 31, 2015.
the Capital Campaign Fund (new in 2015).
The Diocesan Corporation in total experienced a decrease in total net assets of $663,102 during 2015. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease in the market value of the Endowment Fund. As noted in last year's convention reports, at the beginning of 2012 the management of the endowment's invested funds was transferred to The Investment Fund for Foundations ("TIFF"), a nonprofit investment organization that serves only foundations, endowments and other nonprofit entities. Pursuant to the resolution passed by Convention in October 2013 that fifteen percent of the diocesan endowment be invested in socially responsible investments (SRI) over three years, ten percent of the Endowment Fund's invested assets have been transferred to SRI funds managed by Fund X (a San Francisco investment firm) and were invested in 100% socially responsible investments. Another five percent was transferred in early 2016.
The Operating Fund of the Diocese (which reflects the operating income and expenses of the Diocese) had a small surplus for the 2015 year. The primary sources of revenue for the Operating Fund are assessment income, gifts and the annual income distribution from the Endowment Fund.
At the end of 2015 the Diocese had outstanding loans to various parishes, missions and Diocesan organizations of approximately $3.4 million under its program of providing financial assistance for Diocesan organizations seeking assistance for capital improvements to their properties. The Diocese continues to provide both payroll and personnel benefits services to related churches and organizations within the Diocese, a service that is offered in very few other Episcopal dioceses. At the end of 2015 the Diocese had receivables of approximately $1.5 million for payroll/benefit advances under this program.
The Operating Fund is expected to operate at loss in the current 2016 year, primarily as a result of unanticipated litigation expenses.
The proposed assessment rate for 2017 continues to be the lower assessment rate approved by Convention in 2011, with a top rate of 17% (versus a top rate of 20% in previous years).
The Program & Budget Committee and the Executive Council have recommended a 2017 operating budget that will result in a balanced budget for the year with a small surplus. A copy of this proposed 2017 budget is included in the following pages.
Please note that for the duration of the Expanding Horizons capital campaign, the salary and benefits of the director of development have been moved to the capital campaign fund and do not appear in the operating budget presented here. Because of staff focus on the capital campaign, we have likewise discontinued the line item for current gift income for the duration of the capital campaign.
This budget currently reflects a cost of living increase for salaries estimated at 3.0% and an expected increase in the cost of medical and other personnel benefits estimated at 10.0%. The actual cost of living increase as measured by the San Francisco Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the year ending June 30, 2016 was 2.7%, and in keeping with prior years' practice, the actual percentage increase as of June 30 is submitted to Convention for its approval as the recommended COLA for 2017 salaries.
Thanks are due to the members of this year's Program & Budget Committee, who worked diligently to prepare the proposed budget for the coming year. Members of this year's committee were Roulhac Austin, Mike Chambers, Debbie Hawkins, Jim McConnell, Bob Middleton, Doug Roberts, Kathy Trapani, Scott Whitaker, Matthew Woodward, Tom Ferguson and Bob McCaskill.
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No parish or mission shall have an increase over 2016's initial assessment (before appeals) of more than 50% or $17,500, whichever is less.
Resolved, That effective January 1, 2017, the minimum annual compensation for clergy employed full time by the Diocese of California and by any parish or mission thereof shall be increased by 2.7% as reflected in the 2017 Mandatory Minimum Salary Schedule shown below.
Resolved, That Years of Experience be defined as Credited Service with The Church Pension Fund.
3. The Personnel Practices Committee strongly urges all churches, whenever possible, to increase the clergy and lay staff compensation by 2.7% for 2017 to accommodate for inflation.
4. That the minimum transportation allowance be $0.54/mile for congregation-related travel and is to be adjusted in accordance with IRS published rates for 2017.
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Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee
Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he will appoint a new chairman of the Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee. [108366]
Mr. Hill: I have today announced the appointment of Stewart Francis as the new Chairman of the Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee.
LTS Trains Ltd.
Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if there is a further exemption order for the fleet of new trains to be introduced
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into service by LTS Trains Ltd. in respect of any of the provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998; and if he will make a statement. [108367]
Mr. Hill: As my predecessor explained in her answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela Smith) on 26 May 1999, Official Report, column 174W, following an application by LTS Rail Ltd., an Order relating to the exemption of Class 357 trains was laid in Parliament. The Order subsequently came into force on 18 June 1999.
We have received a further application from LTS Trains Ltd. relating to Class 357 trains. This seeks to revoke the original Order and replace it with a new Order to extend the original exemptions to additional vehicles and add new exemptions. This has been discussed with our statutory advisers the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.
An exemption Order relating to the exemption of the Class 357 trains has been laid in Parliament today. Copies are available from the Library.
These further exemptions will not prevent disabled people from using the new trains. Indeed, we believe that their introduction will make a significant contribution to improving mobility opportunities for disabled people.
Government Panel on Sustainable Development
Mr. Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when the response to the Government Panel on Sustainable Development's fifth annual report will be published. [108414]
Mr. Meacher: I am pleased to announce that the Government's Response to the Fifth Annual Report of the Government Panel on Sustainable Development has been published, and that we have been able to respond positively to the Panel's recommendations. The Panel is a valuable source of advice for Government in the achievement of sustainable development. I wish to express my gratitude to the Convenor of the Panel, Sir Crispin Tickell, and his colleagues for their continued commitment to helping to identify new sustainable ways of enhancing the quality of life and prosperity for everyone.
Examples where the Government has been able to respond positively to the Panel's recommendations are:
on sustainable development and employment: we are forging links between employment and sustainable development, through the National Skills Agenda and the Environment Task Force option under the New Deal;
on environmental issues and European Union: the Prime Minister's Step Change Initiative is encouraging closer co-operation in environment policy issues. The Government's continued support for the Cardiff principles is also key to achieving effective integration of sustainable development in policy making;
on land use legislation: we have introduced new draft Planning Policy Guidance demonstrating the Government's commitment to developing positive policies to deliver sustainable development;
also the forthcoming Urban and Rural White Papers will underline our commitment to protecting and enhancing the environment, and building sustainable communities to foster an inclusive society;
finally, on the international front, we continue our efforts to protect and enhance biodiversity.
I am placing copies of the response in the Library.
Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many arms export licence applications for Zimbabwe her Department has examined for each month since August 1997. [106986]
Clare Short: Since August 1997, my Department has examined, for each month, for Zimbabwe the following numbers of applications for Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) and Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) concerning the export of goods listed as subject to control in Part III of Schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994, usually known as the military list:
August 1997: None
September 1997: 2 SIELs
October 1997: 4 SIELs
November 1997: 4 SIELs
December 1997: 4 SIELs, 2 OIELs
January 1998: 2 SIELs, 2 OIELs
February 1998: 4 SIELs, 1 OIEL
March 1998: 5 SIELs, 4 OIELs
April 1998: 4 SIELs, 5 OIELs
May 1998: 5 SIELs, 2 OIELs
June 1998: 1 SIEL, 4 OIELs
July 1998: 2 SIELs, 7 OIELs
August 1998: 2 SIELs, 4 OIELs
September 1998: 4 SIELs, 2 OIELs
October 1998: 3 SIELs, 4 OIELs
November 1998: 3 OIELs
December 1998: 1 SIEL, 3 OIELs
January 1999: 1 SIEL, 5 OIELs
February 1999: 1 SIEL, 5 OIELs
March 1999: 4 OIELs
May 1999: 3 SIELs
June 1999: 7 SIELs
August 1999: 1 SIEL, 3 OIELs
September 1999: 3 OIELs
October 1999: 1 SIEL, 3 OIELs
November 1999: 1 OIEL
December 1999: None
January 2000: 1 SIEL, 4 OIELs.
Serbia (Humanitarian Aid)
Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what her policy is on providing humanitarian aid to towns in Serbia under political control of parties in opposition to the Government. [105362]
Clare Short: My Department's policy on humanitarian assistance is to target the most needy on the basis of verified assessments and full accountability, and not on the basis of political allegiance. We believe it is important that any assistance to Serbia as elsewhere should be based on a proper and reliable assessment of needs, that implementing partners should be carefully selected with an emphasis on reliability, and that scrupulous attention should be paid to accountability and transparency.
Research Contracts
Dr. Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her answer of 6 December 1999, Official Report, columns 337-38W, on departmental research contracts, if she will (a) state total expenditure on research let by her Department since May 1997 and (b) list the titles of all research contracts let by her Department during 1999 and costing £20,000 or more, stating what is the value of each contract, and in each case whether the contract included (i) departmental veto over publication of the research results, (ii) departmental control over the date of publication of the research and (iii) a requirement that the final research results incorporate departmental amendments; and if she will place a copy of the standard research contract in use by her Department in the Library. [107105]
Clare Short: The best estimate of total expenditure on research remains as stated in my answer of 6 December 1999, Official Report, columns 337-38W. No figures are yet available for this financial year.
I have arranged for a list of research projects over £20,000 let in 1999 to be placed in the Library of the House. This covers 254 projects with a total value of nearly £54 million. The list is not necessarily exhaustive (because research contracts are let by several units in DFID) but shows the overwhelming majority of contracts let during that period.
It also remains the case that the Department's contracts do not provide for departmental veto over publication of research results (except, rarely, where intellectual property rights might otherwise be infringed) or for control over the date of publication of the research. There is no requirement that the final research results incorporate departmental amendments.
I have also arranged for a version of the research contract used by DFID to be placed in the Library of the House. There are slight variations in this contract where it has been tailored to meet the particular needs of different research funding units in the Department.
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Mr. Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the average turn-around time to full serviceability in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 for (a) Tornado GR1/4, (b) Tornado F3, (c) Harrier, (d) Jaguar, (e) Nimrod, (g) Sentry, (h) Tristar, (i) Puma, (j) Sea King and (k) Chinook which had been allocated to undergo (i) servicing at 1 Line, (ii) servicing at 2 Line and (iii) servicing at 3/4 Line. [107280]
Mr. Spellar: The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Robathan: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many replacement engines are available for the Tornado aircraft. [107049]
Mr. Spellar: As at Thursday 27 January 2000, there were 30 spare engines available to support the RAF Tornado fleet.


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And here we are. The big list. Theoretically the one we've been building toward. But really anticlimactic when you get down to it. You think the list of my 'favorite' films of an entire decade would be the thing you want. But really it's just me going back over a lot of the stuff I covered on the other lists and a broad regurgitation of my top ten lists from the ten years. So, rather than treat this like some big holy set of rankings, I'm just gonna do what I did with all the other lists – try to get you to see some of these you haven't seen before and maybe introduce you to some cool movies.
It's important to note, as it's important to note with all my lists – the rankings don't really matter. The number is only a function of the day I put it together. The only way to truly get a real ranking of my favorite films of the decade is for me to take the pool of films I used and make up this list from scratch at least ten different times and then use some sort of formula to figure out the average position of each movie and then create a ranking. And that's not the goal here. I don't care about the numbers. I care about talking up the films I like and trying to get people to see some of them.
So, if you feel like you want to get upset about where something is ranked, know that it's a broad ranking. For the most part, films are in the general range of the 25-50 where I'd generally rate them next to everything else. Things will change as I revisit stuff and as time goes on. Like I said, this is really just about telling you what I enjoyed most in the hopes that it gets you to check out some of the stuff you either didn't know about before or never bothered to see (or maybe saw and didn't fully appreciate at the time). That's it. It's really just about celebrating movies. Don't get so hung up on the numbers.
So, here are my 500 favorite films of 2010-2019:
90. Bridge of Spies
I love this. I find that with Spielberg, I tend to go back to his films and like them more each time I see them (which we'll get into again shortly). This one is so utterly rewatchable, even though I do agree that it probably doesn't hit the pantheon of 'all time' Spielberg films. Which is the case you can make for most of his output this decade. Still, though, I love this one. Hanks and Rylance are fantastic, and this is the film that really drove home to me just how amazing and nuanced Hanks is on screen and how we take him for granted because of who he is. Go back and watch this (and Private Ryan) for his performance and you'll see that he's doing so much more on screen than you might be giving him credit for. The film is also just really engaging and never lets you down (except maybe in not ending when it clearly should, which is something I've said multiple times about Spielberg's films in recent years). It's just a great filmmaker making a great film.
89. Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik's followup to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I remember watching this and thinking, "Oh, this is amazing. And absolutely no one's gonna agree with me on that." Because you just saw a movie that doesn't fit into any specific boxes, and it was something that was sold a particular way, and it's not that film. So people were gonna come out expecting one thing, getting something different, not knowing how to process that and just saying, "It was weird/I didn't like it." And so now the movie just exists in this weird space where no one seems to consider it as much of anything. Which is ridiculous because it's incredible. It's a movie that exists between the moments you'd see in other movies. It begins with a crime, and an explanation of all the players and what happened. Basically, someone steals money from the mob. And so, the mob brings in a hitman to take care of the people who did the robbing. And that's Brad Pitt. But rather than just showing you all the murder and stuff, it's really about the politics of it all, and it's a metaphor for the economy and capitalism, and the film does everything it can to not show you murder. Which means that a lot of people are/were gonna come out disappointed with it. But I love it. I love everything about it. I think Dominik directs the hell out of it, I think Pitt is great, I love James Gandolfini in this, and I feel like this is a movie that badly needs people to go back and rewatch it to really see what it's about, rather than making that snap judgment about it because it's not some big action thriller with shootouts and car chases.
88. I, Tonya
It's the rewatchability factor that I love about this. It's clearly doing Goodfellas, but then again, so is American Hustle. The crime isn't that it's trying to do Goodfellas, the crime is when films do that and don't pull it off. This one pulls it off. Because the story is great, it draws amazing characters (don't even tell me that Allison Janney isn't one of the best characters you saw on screen this decade) and the story is so bizarre that you can't look away. Plus the film leans into it, with unreliable narratives and contradicting points of view… it's just great. Margot Robbie is fantastic, holding it all together. Sebastian Stan is great. Paul Walter Hauser is so good in this and I'm glad he's got a career because of it. It's just a wonderful movie that you can put on and enjoy no matter what part it's on. That, to me, is so much more valuable than just being a simple 'good' movie.
87. Boyhood
You almost have to. Richard Linklater shot a movie over 12 years. He filmed a little chunk every year and edited it together to essentially show you what it's like to grow up. No one had ever done it before and, while it is a gimmick, is an incredible gimmick. The film is really great because of how he chose to shoot it, and the film wouldn't nearly have the narrative weight it does if you weren't watching these people age over the course of the film. It's an essential film, and a lovely film. I feel like this is one — everyone should respect it. Not everyone has to love it, and not everyone has to constantly go back to it. But I think it does need to be seen and you have to realize… to simply pull off a film like this is one of the most impressive feats we've seen this decade, and only a filmmaker like Linklater can take that conceit and actually make a worthwhile movie out of it.
86. Lincoln
It's not the sexiest Spielberg film ever, but it's a great one. This was really the film that, to be, fully brought him back from those odd years where it didn't feel like he was quite himself. He did Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and then didn't make a movie for 3 years, coming back with Tintin (which is animated and doesn't fully feel like him, even though it's entirely his film) and War Horse, which is so on the nose it's almost too obviously a Spielberg film. This one feels more properly him and is a film that I think everyone was on board with. The key, of course, is the casting of Daniel Day-Lewis, who so embodies Lincoln on screen that — and I've said this a lot because it's truly what happens when I watch it — I take him for granted when I watch it. I watch all these other actors and shout them all out by name, "Oh, Tommy Lee Jones is good, Sally Field is good, James Spader is good," and on down the line. But he's just President Lincoln, because he so embodies the character, as he always does, that he just is the guy. And the film is utterly engrossing, even though it's all just political behind the scenes dealings. Yet, absolutely wonderful, and this ranks, to me, as one of Spielberg's best films.
85. Blade Runner 2046
I had such reservations about this one when they announced it. Because the original Blade Runner, while very good on a lot of levels, isn't my favorite movie. I think people overrate it. You can't overstate its influence, but I think it's really good, but people seem to be about four clicks above me on the scale of how good they think it is. So I was never particularly enamored by the fact that they were making a sequel. And then they brought in Denis Villeneuve, who had this amazing run with Prisoners and Sicario and Arrival, and I got so mad because, "Why are you taking this man from these interesting films and assimilating him into the studio game?" And I just prayed that this was gonna be a worthwhile film. And now… I can't imagine not putting this on my 'best films of the decade' list. It's just incredible. And, I'll be honest… kinda like it better than the original film. But that's a separate discussion. I love the feel of it, I love the look of it (Roger Deakins, man), I love the entire Gosling storyline, I love how they find a way to bring Harrison Ford into it and that whole storyline. I just love all the things this film introduces, even if it doesn't get into them. There's such wealth here that you can think about and chew on long after the movie's done. It's truly wonderful. And it's actually made me appreciate the original even more because of it.
84. Arrival
Speaking of Denis Villeneuve. This one… I had no idea what to make of this when it was coming out, but knowing that it was Denis Villeneuve, you had to think it would be good. I saw this randomly as part of a double feature with a film that's yet to appear on this list. And I went into it for the other film, and this just happened to be a semi-surprise screening right afterward, so I figured, "Okay, why not." I had no real expectations for this or real desire to see it that badly. But I knew it would be good either way. And man… the highest compliment I can pay this movie is that Denis Villeneuve can take a movie that would be utterly generic or at best sort of interesting and turn it into a movie that gets 8 Oscar nominations. Does anyone even remember that part? This movie was nominated for that many Oscars (and not even for Amy Adams!). It's crazy. But that speaks to how good it is. And yet… not much happens. It's a linguistics professor being brought in by the military to try to communicate with aliens who have arrived. And much of the film is just that. Not much happens, and arguably, when it does (the 'bomb' scene)… it's less interesting than everything else. Which is fascinating to me, and again speaks to Villeneuve as a filmmaker, and how he can make things so much better and more interesting than what's on the page (not to take away from what's on the page in this case) and take what would otherwise be a solid movie and turn it into one of the absolute best of the decade.
Oh, we're really in my favorite part of the list, because now it's just filled with all sorts of things that I love, a lot of which are not necessarily ones that everyone else agrees with me on. But this is one… it's got a TV show now that I think people think is pretty good. So hopefully that leads to people going back and reevaluating this one. Because I loved it from the moment I saw it. Joe Wright is a filmmaker who likes to try things, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. This one I think has been placed in the 'doesn't quite work' category, even though I don't agree with that. I think he crafts a really interesting story and a great action-thriller with a lot of elements to think about, which he doesn't get to fully explore within the film. Which is why it's now a TV show. It's Saoirse Ronan (who has naturally become the greatest actress of her generation, which you saw coming with performances like Atonement and this) as a girl raised entirely deep in the woods by her father. All she knows is how to hunt, fight, survive. She's being trained to one day go out into the world to find a woman who is gonna come after her to try to kill her. And the film is this beautiful 'girl coming of age and seeing the world for the first time' story while also being this complex spy thriller with all this stuff you slowly find out about as the film goes on. It's really great. Saoirse is amazing and Wright really adds a flair to the direction (that subway fight with the revolving camera, for one). It's a wonderful piece of work. And while it's not totally perfect, to me all the stuff it wants to get into that it allows me to think about makes up for that 15% that maybe wasn't fully able to be achieved in it. Go back and watch this one. It's better than you think.
82. The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson. Joaquin Phoenix. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Amy Adams. Perfection. (Also, Rami Malek is in this. Do people remember that?) It's one of my lesser favorites of Anderson's, but that's just because of how much I love Phantom Thread and Inherent Vice and There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love and… you get the point. This one's a bit more difficult a watch for me, which just means I don't go back and rewatch it as much as I watch the others. Obviously its placement on this list shows you how much I love it as a film. It's a masterpiece. Everyone of Anderson's films is a masterpiece. This movie singlehandedly turned Joaquin Phoenix from the weird guy who gave good performances but then went off and did that weird rap thing for a while and just made him one of our greatest actors. That was it. You saw this performance and you knew — that's where he's at, and this is how we look at him from now on. It was that instantaneous. And it's funny, because Hoffman is every bit as good as Phoenix is in this movie, and this is a movie that made you realize how much we took him for granted as an actor because of how good he was every time out. I really adore this movie, and really you can never go wrong with anything Anderson makes, because it's all perfect.
81. Manchester by the Sea
Ah yes, the most uplifting movie of the decade. The movie that will make you so hopeful about life and just let you leave with a huge smile on your face. Man… Ken Lonergan really knows how to put you through the ringer, huh? I wonder how this one would have landed if people were able to truly see Margaret in any real capacity. I suspect the same way, but still. It's… I mean, what do you say about this one? It's a study in grief. And the movie presents you broken people and the aftermath of horrible shit, and then shows you some of the most heartbreaking moments you'll ever see. The police station scene, the scene pictured above, the scene at the end ('I can't beat it')… it's fucking heavy stuff. And yet, everyone in the movie is absolutely stunning and it's just one of the best movies of the decade. It's hard to watch, but you should do it. It's cleansing for the soul to see this movie, as badly as it may hurt to actually watch all of it happen. It's a really beautiful film and no list of essential or greatest films of this decade can be complete without this one.
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Agreed completely with everything you said about Lincoln. Spielberg hadn't felt like Spielberg in quite some time. I would say before Lincoln the last Spielberg movie that felt like him was, gosh, probably War of the Worlds six years earlier? And Daniel Day-Lewis is incredible. It's ridiculous how effortlessly he does what he does, or at least, it comes across that way.
Arrival is probably among my favorite films of the 21st century. Bradford Young's cinematography is exquisite, and Amy Adams is lovely. I'm a sucker for a "thinker" film.
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Major towpath works under way
March 13, 2019 Phil Pickin News
THE Canal & River Trust, the waterways and wellbeing charity, is starting the last phase of major improvements to almost fivemiles of the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal towpath in Greater Manchester. The work will encourage greater use of the towpath with local communities able to use it year-round.
The work is going ahead thanks to £800,000 funding secured by the Canal & River Trust from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) through the Department for Transport Cycle City Ambition Grant (CCAG).
It will see further improvements along the Bolton arm of the canal towpath between Meccano Bridge to Hall Lane in Little Lever. This latest phase of works follows on from upgrades to the towpath from Meccano Bridge to School Lane in Radcliffe, Prestolee Locks to Ringley Road in Salford and Benny's Bridge area close to Elton Reservoir in Bury.
The new towpaths will ensure that the local community will be able to use this beautiful stretch of waterway for walking and cycling all year round. The work is scheduled to last until early summer with some towpath restrictions in place whilst the new improved surface is installed.
Lucy Rogers, enterprise manager at the Canal & River Trust, said: "The Canal & River Trust is delighted to be working with Transport for Greater Manchester on this great project to improve a much-used community resource.
"Not only will the new towpath surface benefit cyclists and joggers but also the everyday user of the towpath including walkers, fishermen and families on a day out. We know from research that people are happier and more relaxed when they are by water, and the improvements to the towpath condition will help contribute to improving people's mental and physical well-being. "
Greater Manchester's Cycling and Walking Commissioner, Chris Boardman, said: "This scheme connects up the communities of Farnworth, Little Lever, Prestolee, Radcliffe and Bury through the green spaces that surround them. The improvements will enable more people to travel locally on foot or by bike to the shops, to school, the railway station and the tram stop.
"By making use of the canal space, we are transforming a 3 ½ mile car trip into a 1 ½ mile walk or cycle."
The Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal is 15 miles long and is a green pathway winding through the urban landscape of north Manchester. It originally ran north from Salford, on the River Irwell near Manchester, to Nob End within the village of Little Lever. Here it split into two: the main line continued to Bury, while a branch headed north-west to Canal Wharf in Bolton. The canal fell out of industrial use in the 1940's after a major breach in 1936 just to the east of Prestolee Locks. Whilst the towpath remains a popular local resource, plans are underway to restore the canal with boats returning to the waterway.
To find out about the work of the Canal & River Trust or to donate or volunteer visit www.canalrivertrust.org.uk.
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As a part of our plan, we have also installed a couple of fire hoses at Cubbins Nelson Bay Kennels.
After discussing our options with NSW Rural Fire, we decided our most effective option was this AS/NZS1221 (Australian standard) tested and licensed external fire hose.
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Your statement that Eric Raymond was "contacted by the perpetrator"
perpetrator and does not have the perpetrator's identity to reveal.
received emailed thanks for his action from Blake Stowell of SCO.
rather than simply posturing for the media, such behavior must cease.
As software developers, intellectual property is our stock in trade.
thieves as a baseless and destructive smear.
ownership. Can SCO or any other closed-source vendor say the same?


There are fidgety encounters, like there are uncomplicated goodbyes. All Yuan Zhinan left behind on the morning of her departure from the world was a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally ran into Yin Chuan, her crush of her youth. As old memories are evoked to a present time of reshuffled relationships, as correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story among the trio.


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25 Year Old Artist Rocks America With His Music
Artist Jordan Benjamin poses at his Philadelphia show. He traveled around the United States for his end of the beginning tour. "Everyone here has every right just as much as you do to enjoy themselves, to let loose, and do whatever is they want to do," Benjamin said.
Lauren Gaylor, Staff Writer
Controversial issues in society such as gun control, police brutality, climate change, and more, have inspired artists to use their music as a way to fight for what they believe in. Professionally known as grandson, Jordan Benjamin is a musician, activist, and a fighter. He began making music in late 2015. In early 2016, he released several singles including "Bills" and "Bury Me Face Down." Both songs put him on the charts and he started receiving millions of streams. He continued making music and was signed to RCA Records in 2017. In 2018, he released the first part of his EP trilogy titled A Modern Tragedy Vol. 1. The EP addresses current issues like police brutality and heavy use of drugs. In 2019, he received the SOCA Songwriting prize for his single "Blood//Water," a song that deals with corporate greed and political corruption.
Benjamin was born in New Jersey but promptly moved to Toronto, Canada when he was three years old. He grew up in the Eglinton West area of Toronto and attended Northern Secondary School. After he graduated, he went to McGill University in Montreal.
In April of 2018, Benjamin released a single called "Thoughts and Prayers," which made the listener aware of American gun laws after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Through incorporating lyrics such as "bulletproof backpacks. They wanna arm the teachers," and "no thoughts, no prayers. Can't bring back what's no longer there," it addresses real events that have happened after mass shootings.
"When I saw kids who looked just like me, who could've been my friends, dealing with loss, dealing with trauma, dealing with grief," he said when explaining the next chapter of his XX Resistance campaign, XX Rock Bottom, "It was when I realized by visiting everytown.org that 100 people every single day in America are dying from gun violence. That was when I knew it was time for a change. That was when I knew I needed to use my voice." XX Resistance is a way for Benjamin to connect his fans to empower one another and get involved with causes they care about. XX Rock Bottom is a way for him to encourage his fans to say what their rock bottom moment was pertaining to gun violence.
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Lest we forget doesn't seem to apply to interpreters
Lest we forget? But we have forgotten.
True, we'll never forget the sacrifice of our 158 fallen troops in Afghanistan, or the wounded, or those who suffer from PTSD. We also don't forget the dozens who committed suicide following their missions.
All of our Canadian men and women who served in Afghanistan deserve the same tributes offered on Remembrance Day to veterans of all wars.
When it comes to Afghanistan, the Canadians' valour and courage is respected by Canadians.
But something was missing Friday.
Clearly, when it comes to the remaining Afghan interpreters who risked all working with the Canadian Armed Forces, we are prepared to leave many of them behind.
Nov. 11 was their Remembrance Day too — the ones that we did get out in a special program that ended in 2012, and those who remain.
Shame on us for not giving a damn about them. Or shame on those who could change this.
I now have a list of more than 100 interpreters struggling to stay alive under constant threat from the Taliban and ISIS for helping the infidels. They can prove they served with our people in Canada's decade there.
But I can't find anybody in government interested in accepting it — or to even call me back.
Meanwhile, these same Liberals are talking about increasing annual immigration to as much as 450,000, while not having a second to talk about the lives of people who stood up for our men and women in a war they entered us into.
I credit Immigration Minister John McCallum for helping get James Akam over here from a refugee camp in Germany, but it has been silence ever since.
Ralf Lemster, president of Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Ubersetzer e.V. (BDU) linguistics., says interpreter Mohammad Omar is facing deportation but "unfortunately, Vienna immigration doesn't seem to take any action."
And the 'terps are running into the same closed door at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul.
"Would it be possible to do an article with a focus on how Canadian embassies don't answer interpreter requests/inquiries?" asks Maya Hess, of Red T in New York. "Since the interpreters in Afghanistan did not get answers from the Canadian Embassy in Kabul during a peaceful rally, and Ralf is not getting any answers from Vienna, stonewalling appears to be their strategy."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in front of teens at WE Day boasting about Canada's leadership on the world stage. He didn't mention the interpreters we left behind.
Now he's sending peacekeepers to Africa, where local linguists will learn something shocking about Trudeau's Canada: How soon we forget!
Hats off to B'nai Brith Canada for an incredible celebration at the Mattamy Centre Thursday that saw its Award of Merit presented to none other than Canadian music legend David Foster, who is a very good friend to Israel.
Sports writing legend Marty York is chief media officer for B'nai Brith these days and tells me Mayor John Tory, U.S. philanthropist Haim Saban, B'nai Brith CEO Michael Mostyn and national chair Jay Harris, Postmedia president Paul Godfrey, and MLSE chair Larry Tanenbaum were all in the house to pay tribute to Foster but also to enjoy incredible entertainment from Sinbad and Ruben Studdard. Well done to all.
The $100 payout on a $20 bet I won on Donald Trump winning the presidential election was easy money.
Everybody was so shocked, it seems. Of course, you, my readers, were not. As I reported, the signs in the Rust Belt were everywhere. It was not a surprise to us that Trump won. It was merely a case of the media, polling companies and smug elites shifting the narrative through deception, dishonesty and shun, shame and shut-up tactics — the same culprits who picked on former mayor Rob Ford when he was down.
Truth is, most people I know felt Trump would win. Ross McLean, George Bigliardi, Steve Brown, Ezra Levant, David Menzies, Charles McVety, Louise Gray, and Don Cherry all told me that for months. Like me, they were not following the Hillary Clinton media.
By the way, the tweet of the week following Trump's win came from Grapes himself:
"The left wing kook entertainers and the left wing weirdo's (sic) in the media in the US have said if Trump wins the presidency they will move to Canada. Please, we have enough of these type here now."
Classic. Turns out it was called tweet of the week in a newspaper in Florida.
"Imagine a Canadian having the top tweet following the American election," Cherry said Friday on his way to church to remember the fallen.
Turns out straight talk is in again south of the border — fly-over states and non-media party members too.
Have a terrific weekend, everybody. Scrawler out.


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Бібліоте́чний коле́ктор — спеціалізована книготорговельна організація.

Основні функції:
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 методична й консультаційно-бібліографічна допомога у комплектуванні книжк. фондів;
 постачання бібліотекам предметів бібліотечної техніки.

Початок діяльності Б. к. було покладено декретом Раднаркому (1920), підписаним В. І. Леніном.

В Україні перший бібліотечний колектор створено 1926.

Постачання великим науковим бібліотекам республіки платного обов'язкового примірника друк. видань рос. мовою здійснює Центральний Б. к. наукових бібліотек (Москва), а платного обов'язкового примірника друк. видань УРСР — Київський обласний бібліотечний колектор.

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Almost half of Roman Catholics in England and Wales no longer feel obliged to confess their sins, a new survey claims.
The poll of 1,500 churchgoers also found that one in three do not feel the need to attend Mass every week.
In addition, one in 10 said they did not believe in the devil or hell, while almost four in 10 said they believed in reincarnation even though it has never been part of the church's teaching.
The Tablet, the weekly magazine which commissioned the survey, said it disclosed "surprising" results about the core beliefs of modern practising Catholics.
Its accompanying article said: "Those who do attend Mass often perceive themselves as highly committed Catholics, yet they clearly have a lower sense of the obligation their parents and grandparents felt about attending Mass on Sundays.
"The majority of Catholics today like to receive Communion frequently while confession, now often called the Sacrament of Reconciliation, has little place in many people's lives."
The survey, carried out by the Von Hugel Institute at Cambridge University, found that two-thirds of Catholics from parishes across England and Wales go to Mass every week and a similar number pray every day.
But it also discovered that "the link between confession and Communion appears to have been severed".
A total of 89 per cent of respondents said they received Communion at every Mass they went to but just 3 per cent said they received Communion only after confessing their sins.
Asked if it is possible to be a "good Catholic" without going to confession, 47 per cent agreed while only 34 per cent disagreed.
In addition, a third said it was possible to be a good Catholic without going to weekly Mass or marrying in the church.
Asked about their beliefs, 1 per cent said they did not believe in life after death or heaven, while 3 per cent said they did not believe in the doctrine of the virgin birth.
One in 10 said they did not believe in the devil, and 9 per cent did not believe in hell despite its importance in traditional church teaching.
But a "surprisingly large" 38 per cent said they believed in reincarnation, the idea that the soul is reborn in another body after death which is a central tenet of Hinduism.


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Anyone who either forgets or consciously chooses to forgo their appointment for whatever reason will be considered a "no-show" and will be charged the Full Amount for their missed session. This amount must be paid prior to scheduling your next appointment. If you have prepaid sessions/gift certificates, the amount you are responsible for will be deducted from your available credit.
If you arrive late to your scheduled appointment, your session time may need to be shortened in order to keep on schedule with the appointment after yours. Regardless of the length of the treatment received, you will be responsible for the full session fee. It is recommended that you arrive 5-10 minutes early so that you have time to fill out any necessary paperwork, chat with your therapist, and begin the relaxation process.
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A massage should never be painful! Massages involving therapeutic techniques can use more pressure than a relaxation massage, but is usually referred to as a "good hurt" as muscle tension is released. If at any time you are experiencing pain, please let your therapist know so that the level of pressure can be adjusted.
For those who use massage as preventative care or to manage daily stress, one massage a month is common. Weekly sessions may be necessary to receive a desirable outcome in dealing with pain management and restricted range of motion. There are many people who incorporate massage therapy at least twice a month for optimal therapeutic relief.


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My dad has kidney problems. Dr wants him to go on dialysis, but he does not want to. Kidney working at 7%. Not sure what that means. What can he do?
Question: My dad has kidney problems. Dr wants him to go on dialysis, but he does not want to. Kidney working at 7%. Not sure what that means. What can he do?
Answer: Now your father's kidneys are so severely damaged that only 7% of kidneys are working. Generally speaking, if the patients do not have any discomforts, dialysis can be started when their kidney function is lower than 5%. If they have a lot of symptoms and complications, they have to start dialysis earlier. If your father does not want to do dialysis, what he should do now is to cleanse the blood. Because of the compromised kidney function, a lot of waste products build up in the blood, leading to polluted blood. It can affect almost all body systems so as to threaten life.
Besides kidney, there are also organs to help you remove waste products out, such as skin and intestinal tract. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, Toxin-Removing Treatment is usually applied in this case. It takes advantage of various Chinese medicine therapies such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Medicated Bath, Foot Bath, Enema Therapy, Cycle Therapy, Steam Therapy and oral Chinese medicine to increase your urine output, improve bowel movement and make you sweat so as to increase waste product output. It can also dilate blood vessels and remove stasis to improve blood circulation and increase blood flow into damaged kidneys so as to supply them with enough essential elements to speed up kidney recovery. After about one week's treatment, your urine volume will increase. It will smell bad. And there will be floccules in it, which are those wastes. After about half month's treatment, your high creatinine level, high BUN and high uric acid level will go down gradually. After about one month's treatment, your kidney function will start to increase. With treatment going on, his kidney condition will be better and better, and then your father can put off dialysis as long as possible.
If your kidneys are also working at 7%, but you do not want to start dialysis, you can take Toxin-Removing Treatment into consideration, but it requires you come to China for treatment. For more information on our hospital and our treatment, please leave a message below or contact online doctor.


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Facundo Bagnis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.

Andrea Collarini won the title after defeating Andrej Martin 6–3, 6–1 in the final.

Seeds
All seeds receive a bye into the second round.

Draw

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'Harold & Kumar' Star Becomes a Dad Again
By Raphael Chestang 5:30 PM PST, February 11, 2013
Harold & Kumar star John Cho has welcomed his second child with wife Kerri Higuchi, People reports.
PICS: Celebs and Their Cute Kids
A rep for Cho confirmed to the news source that the couple now has a baby girl in addition to their infant son, but no further details were immediately available.
Cho, who currently stars on NBC's Go On, wed Higuchi in 2006. They announced that they were expecting their first child two years later.
The 40-year-old actor can also be seen on the big screen in the Jason Bateman starrer, Identity Thief.


Our PSL historian Bill Hoover has compiled an exhaustive, if not complete, list of top scorers in PSL history. The two links below will take you to what you're looking for. The first link takes you to a list of the top single-game performances in league history. The second link takes you to a list of each school's 40-point performances. Enjoy!


For about twenty-years now, I have tried every socially acceptable way possible at these moments to try to explain that yoga isn't about being flexible, that anyone and everyone can benefit, that one may or may not become more flexible through yoga, that flexibility is, truly….besides the point entirely. As soon as I start talking, I see the recipient's eyes glaze over. They are no longer paying attention to me, mostly because they only asked what I did for a living as a social pleasantry in the first place. Now, they are filled with regret for having ever made eye contact in the first place. I can almost see the thoughts of escape to the cheese platter or, even better, the bar, cross their mind.
A couple weeks ago I was on a walk with a friend when t he concept of "tensegrity" came up in conversation. (As an aside, you know you have a pretty wonderful friend when "tensegrity" just pops up in casual conversation.) It made me think about the relationship between tension and flexibility. Every once in a while I will have a naturally flexible student. Believe it or not, it is the most flexible students who struggle the most in yoga poses. The lack of tension or pull to push against makes them feel floppy and un-centered. It's hard to focus when there is a lack of effort. These students need to learn to engage muscles in a different way in order to feel into the shape of the pose and create sensation, effort, and release. For the least flexible student, the evolution of a posture, simply by holding, exploring, and breathing, appears profound.
When I organize a yoga class plan, or a practice for myself, I try to make sure that, during the practice, we take our spines in all the directions it can go in: forward-back, forward fold, backbend, side bends, and twists. It feels really beautiful to release tension around the spine and to unwind the habitual movements of the day through the practice of asana. So many of us start to get stuck through our daily lives as we hunch over desks, lean into the back seats of cars to insert children (sometimes not willingly) into their car seats, and fail to remain curious and open to all the movements that are possible, even when they aren't probable. If you watch a 6-month old baby, just put them down on the floor in front of you and see, for even five-minutes, you will see that they practice about five to ten recognizable asana during that time. Yoga poses (asana) are natural for the human body. These shapes and movements reflect our inherent desire to take ourselves in all the directions we can move in. We can slither, slide, press, release, squease, lift, drop, shimmy, shake, hum, reach, collapse…….there are infinite movements available to us. Just watch a video of Michael Jackson dancing and you will realize that it is likely you are only using about 20% or so of your human body capacity for movement. Yoga asana are the natural movements and shapes of the human body. Me, hunched over a desk all day? There is absolutely nothing natural about that.
In nature, there are many examples of trees and plants that bend. Most obvious, of course, is heliotropism–movement towards the light. But, if we look closely, we see that the cellular structures of plants and trees organize in circles, spirals, twists and forward folds and back bends in response to tension, gravity, and other forces. Take, for example, the pattern on the trunk of this tree. This intricate mapping of circles, swirls, and criss-crossings, is only possible because of the tension inherent in those spaces. The inside of each enclosure maintains the integrity of the inside, while, at the same time, defining the space that is outside.
Any potter or architect will tell you that space is an important element of design. Space is not synonymous with empty. When you pick up a bowl, the space inside the curve represents the potential for holding. It may, at that moment, be empty, but there is still space there. Let's say we fill that bowl with peppermint candies. The space is filled with the candies, but it is still space. When we practice yoga asana with this perspective in mind, we can get curious about the space that exists in our bodies and how to create more space. What are the spaces that are empty? Where are the crowded spaces? What can be moved or re-distributed? What are the solids providing something to push against? Where are the natural bends and folds? Look at the women in extreme back-bending postures. These are extreme examples being used here not to suggest that your back-bend should look like this, but because these images invite us to examine the space around the body more easily. Where is the space? The space is actually beneath the spine. While many of us refer to back bends as "heart-openers", the anatomic reality of these shapes are that our hearts are pressed up into the chest cavity with the spine rising up to meet it. The space underneath the spine is expanded and opened.
In a forward fold, the space for the heart expands and the spine rises above as it pulls back and away from the heart. To give the heart the most room, we allow the spine to round, creating the space at the heart center. We can breathe there, into the space, and feel the opening from the heart to our legs, and even further into the earth. Experiment with this space you create in front of and behind the spine. Where does the space go when you release the yoga pose? Actually, it is always there, but your shifting the contents of the space allows you to play with what is the container and what is contained.
I invite you to not only think about the shape that your fold or bend takes you in, but how the space around you shifts. Explore these images of bends and folds in nature, not just the way that the shapes appear, but how the shape both creates and consumes space. Whenever I guide students through savasana, the final relaxation at the close of most yoga classes, I always suggest that students release any tension that they might be holding in the space directly around their body. It's amazing how much release happens after that suggestion!
Written by Sharon Fennimore, a rogue anthropologist, yogini, and global doula based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


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Mehlville School District » News » 2019-2020 News » Students chart their own course in MyPath
High school students enrolled in the MyPath course are able to develop their own curriculum and pursue topics they're passionate about.
"MyPath allows students to design what they want to learn about based on their strengths, passions, interests and what they want to do after they graduate high school," Director of College and Career Readiness John Dewalle said.
The course was designed as a means for students who have exhausted course offerings in a particular subject area at Mehlville High School or Oakville High School. By developing their own courses, students are able to further their education in a way that's relevant to their own interests and goals.
"My freshman year, I took sewing fundamentals and sewing intermediate, then took the final stage of sewing my sophomore year," Oakville High School junior Megan Blanchard said. "I wanted something else since I couldn't retake it, and I discovered MyPath."
All MyPath students are tasked with seeking out mentors to help them in the development of their curriculum.
"It's great that it allows them to see adults working in the real world," Mehlville High School MyPath facilitator Jennifer Sikich said. "It shows how important those little things -- like being on time and being a team player -- are. All of those things you learn in school, but to see adults interacting in the real world really helps."
Sikich has had some students realize through MyPath that they aren't interested in their area of study as a career. For others, like former Mehlville High School student Edi Mahmutovic, it helped reaffirm their passion.
"I was excited that it could be my chance to understand and answer all of the questions that I had about engineering," Mahmutovic, who now studies engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, said. "I learned a lot not just in terms of engineering, but in terms of being a professional."
Students track their own progress and share their work at a public presentation at the end of the school year. Mahmutovic and Blanchard believe that their work in MyPath has set them apart from their peers as they begin life after graduation.
"You'll run into things that are new, and it's a really good time to fail at those new things, so you'll be more prepared in the future," Mahmutovic said.
"The earlier you know where you want to go, the easier it is," Blanchard said. "All of my classes in high school now are geared toward the fashion industry. Having that freedom has made me more accountable for myself."
Students should speak to their counselor if they're interested in enrolling in MyPath for the 2020-2021 school year.
Student Choice Program Night
Parents and students can learn more about MyPath and our other choice programs at our Student Choice Program Night. The event will be held Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. in Nottelmann Auditorium (3200 Lemay Ferry Rd).


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Vijay Mallya Not Returning to India Anytime Soon
On 3rd June, news about Vijay Mallya being extradited to India from United Kingdom was all over social media. The news spread like fire after a news agency published it on its verified twitter handle that Vijay Mallya was going to be extradited to India and the plane carrying him was going to land in Mumbai late night.
On May 14, the High Court of Justice, London, UK rejected the application of Indian fugitive and former liquor baron Vijay Mallya against his extradition to face trial in India. Since then there has been rumours of his extradition to India. However, on Wednesday, 3rd June, the main stream media and social media was flooded with news of him being flown to India. Few of the media agencies went a step ahead and reported that the fugitive businessman was being accompanied by CBI and ED officials on his way to India. They even reported that he was going to be examined by a medical team at Mumbai airport and then lodged in Mumbai's Arthur Road jail.
Mallya is wanted in India for 9000 crores loan default case involving 17 banks. Since the Government of India has started attaching his property and tightening their grip over the fugitive businessman, Mallya on several occasions have offered to repay all the dues. He has appealed to Government of India to take all the due money from him through his official social media account. However, he even accused the current Indian government ignored his offer and are instead interested in playing a vendetta politics.
Extradition of Mallya to India will be confirmed once the UK Home Secretary Prity Patel signs on the extradition paper. There are rumors of Mallya seeking an asylum in United Kingdom after he lost the right to appeal in UK Supreme Court against his extradition to India. It must be remembered that India and UK had signed an extradition treaty in November 1993. After no option being left for Mallya, he may be extradited to India anytime soon.


This Country Fair in Rhinebeck, NY is presented by Country Living Magazine.
More than 200 vendors will gather at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley.
Great shopping for antiques, furniture, handcrafted goods, art and artisans, vintage and upcycled goods, home and garden decor, plants, and more. Attend seminars and how-tos, see artisan demonstrations, shop the Specialty Food Market, and the Country Living General Store.
Children under 16, free if accompanied by an adult.


Glan y Morfa offers a choice of cosy, traditionally built stone pet-friendly holiday cottage, tastefully converted to the comfort of modern living.
Kitchen - Fitted kitchen with electric oven, halogen hob, dishwasher, fridge with freezer compartment double sink unit, kitchen table with seating for eight.
Living Room - Large 'L' shaped settee, 2 seater settee, large inglenook fireplace with solid fuel fire, LCD TV, DVD player, radio and window seats.
Downstairs Bathroom - Bath with overhead shower, toilet and sink unit.
Utility/Games room - Washing machine, sink unit, storage for coats & shoes. Table football, electronic dart board, badminton set for outside and BBQ.
Bedroom 1 - Front double bedroom, built in wardrobe, large bureau and views across the Dovey Estuary.
Bedroom 2 - Front bunk bedroom (beds are 3ft) and double freestanding wardrobe.
Wi-Fi - Free Wi-Fi is available however, the owner cannot guarantee the availability or speed of the service as this is dependant on third-party suppliers.
Outside area - Parking area (right of way for the local farmer to access nearby fields). Enclosed gardens with beautiful views and seating area.
The rear garden has a small stream, stone steps and there are steep drops to the local farm track. Children and pets are to be supervised at all times.
There are lots of sheep, cattle and wildlife in fields surrounding Glan y Morfa. Please keep your pet on a lead and under control at all times.
Glan y Morfa is an isolated farmhouse and accessed along a farm track in a very rural area. When driving to the property please ensure that all three farm gates are closed securely after you have passed through them.
Table football, electronic dartboard. Badminton set for outside.
"Relaxed and rejuvenated!" I felt instantly at home I met my parents here and we had an amazing stay, and I would highly recommend. Stunning views in a wonderful location to explore this area of Wales. The house was really relaxed with excellent facilities! I felt as soon as I hit the first gate excited and when I got to the house I was blown away. Aberdovey is beautiful and was so friendly- perfect dog walking on the beach. Machynlleth was also lovely to visit to explore some antique shops. Although it was hard to tear us away from the house. We had every intention to eat out sometimes, but the weather was so glorious that we felt we had to take advantage of eating in the garden and watching the stars go down with wine. This farmhouse is very special! I cannot wait to visit again!
A beautifully appointed traditional farmhouse cottage in a truly remote rural location. A lovely property with plenty of space. Our party was made up of 8 adults and one 18 months old. The bunk beds are comfortable enough for adults of medium build. The property has plenty of equipment to cater for all situations. A good BBQ in the garden was great as the weather was kind to us. WiFi is available which was not initially evident in the online literature! We were also able to get a phone signal. There is a fairly easy walk to the village where the pub serves reasonable food. For the more active, walks in the surrounding area can be challenging. An ideal get away from it spot which we would recommend to anyone. The owners are very helpful and have to commended for making our stay ideal.
Amazing location.. Didn't want to leave! My family and I have just got home from an incredible week staying in this beautiful house. It was so cosy, a real home from home! Waking up to see Buzzards and Ospreys flying around was amazing! A bird lovers paradise! We couldn't have asked for a better location. When we arrived, we were greeted with a wonderful welcome pack including cake, wine, eggs, jam and bread! We will definitely be returning in the next couple of years.. hopefully, next year! WE LOVED IT!!!!
I wanted to write to say thank you so much!
Fantastic location, outstanding views and fabulous cottage!
This cottage has been renovated to top quality. It is a brilliant place to go with either family, friends or couples. There are lovely walks around and only 15 minute drive to Aberdovey beach, which is great for parking too. We had fantastic weather but even if we hadn't of, we wouldn't of minded just staying in the cottage and chilling as it was so beautiful inside and around. Its home from home but with fab scenery around. The cottage is well equipped for everyone, we cooked in wonderful kitchen and also had a BBQ outside and everything was to hand. We will defiantly be booking to stay here again, as a family we all enjoyed it so much. We really didn't want to leave. Yes, I would defiantly recommend this fabulous cottage to stay.
If you are looking for the perfect holiday retreat in peaceful and tranquil surroundings then this is the farmhouse to book. The owners have put an enormous amount of thought and effort into making this farmhouse a place that you will want to revisit year after year. The views from every window are breath taking overlooking the River Dyfi. I stayed with my wife, our two children and my parents and two dogs and there was something to appeal to everyone. The children especially enjoyed the football table in the games room. There is no need to worry about forgetting to take items with you as this farmhouse is well equipped and there is nothing you could ask for that they haven't already supplied. We enjoyed our long weekend stay immensely and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others as we were reluctant to leave. We will definitely be booking to go back. We would like to thank the owners for sharing their beautiful farmhouse with us.
What a lovely few days we had at Glan-y-morfa!
Having looked at the website (which itself is extremely good) my expectations were high, and yet I was still completely delighted by the cottage when we arrived. The map, with description and photographs were the best and most useful set of directions that I have had when locating a property - thank you. The location is stunning, the property itself is charming and the way in which it has been renovated and decorated is sensitive, tasteful and wholly appropriate. It felt loved.
It was also kitted out really thoughtfully; every time we thought of something we needed we were able to find it. The only time we needed to improvise was in sweeping out the ashes from the fire (which we put in a coal scuttle). We didn't use any additional logs other than those provided in the basket. The beds were extremely comfortable (mercifully!) and the whole cottage felt clean and well-looked after. Attention to detail was easily spotted throughout.
I really cannot fault any aspect of our experience or offer any suggestions for improvement. I do hope Glan-y-morfa is somewhere the children and I will be able to visit for years to come.


17ct Genuine Diamond 14K Yellow Gold Engagement Ring 1.5g. For sale here is an antique art deco solid 14K yellow gold genuine diamond engagement ring!! This antique ring has one sparkling. 17ct H SI2 genuine diamond prong set with excellent craftsmanship in the center of this fantastic art deco ring design! Hand engraved detailing grace both sides of this ring and cut out filigree design are the perfect accents in the art deco masterpiece! This is a classic and timeless art deco design that holds its beauty and will never go out of style! Piece does contain some original patina. Made from solid hallmarked 14K yellow gold; ring measures 5.8 mm at the front and tapers down to 0.9 mm at the shank. This ring sits 6.5 mm off the finger to the top of the diamond to let light in!
Gleaming high polish shine is the perfect backdrop for this glistening diamond! A true treasure that will be passed down from generation to generation and a favorite to wear to every occasion. Thank you for shopping with us!
The item "Antique Estate Art Deco. 17ct Genuine Diamond 14K Yellow Gold Engagement Ring" is in sale since Saturday, April 1, 2017.


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#ifndef OPENGL_LAB_CONTEXTMANAGER_H
#define OPENGL_LAB_CONTEXTMANAGER_H

// GLEW
#define GLEW_STATIC
#include <GL/glew.h>

// GLFW
#include <GLFW\glfw3.h>
#include <iostream>

#define WIDTH 800
#define HEIGHT 600

using namespace std;

typedef void(*keyCallback) (GLFWwindow* window, int key, int scancode, int action, int mode);
typedef void(*MouseButtonCallback) (GLFWwindow* window, double xpos, double ypos);

class ContextManager
{
public:
	ContextManager() {}

	virtual ~ContextManager() {}

	void initGLFW(GLuint minor = 3, GLuint major = 3, GLboolean resizer = GL_FALSE) {
		glfwInit();
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, major);
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, minor);
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE);
		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_RESIZABLE, resizer);

		glfwWindowHint(GLFW_SAMPLES, 4);

		glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
		glEnable(GL_MULTISAMPLE);
	}
	void initWindow(GLuint width = WIDTH, GLuint height = HEIGHT) {
		window = glfwCreateWindow(width, height, "LearnOpenGL", NULL, NULL);
		//window = glfwCreateWindow(width, height, "LearnOpenGL", glfwGetPrimaryMonitor(), nullptr);
		if (window == NULL)
		{
			std::cout << "Failed to create GLFW window" << std::endl;
			glfwTerminate();
			return;
		}
		glfwMakeContextCurrent(window);
	}
	GLFWwindow* getWindow() {
		return window;
	}

	void initGLEW() {
		glewExperimental = GL_TRUE;
		if (glewInit() != GLEW_OK)
		{
			std::cout << "Failed to initialize GLEW" << std::endl;
			return;
		}
	}
	void setKeyCallback(keyCallback cb) {
		glfwSetKeyCallback(getWindow(), cb);
	}

	void setMouseButtonCallback(MouseButtonCallback mc) {
		glfwSetInputMode(getWindow(), GLFW_CURSOR, GLFW_CURSOR_DISABLED);
		glfwSetCursorPosCallback(getWindow(), mc);
	}

	void exitContext() {
		glfwTerminate();
	}

private:
	GLFWwindow* window;
};

#endif //OPENGL_LAB_CONTEXTMANAGER_H

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