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Taman Bukit Maluri is a township in Segambut constituency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This township is located in Kepong adjacent to Menjalara to the south and Segambut to the east.

Taman Bukit Maluri is a matured estate within the developed township of Kepong. Located just off Kepong–Selayang Highway, this suburb is surrounded by neighboring communities like Menjalara and Kepong Baru, all interconnected. Taman Bukit Maluri was developed by Tun Daim bin Zainuddin and his company, Maluri Syarikat Sdn Bhd in the year 1971. Since then, it has transformed from a small-scale rubber plantation into a flourishing housing estate.

Taman Bukit Maluri consists of a mixed development, from residential to commercial and industrial properties. There has been much development in recent years, including the upgrading and addition of major highways connecting in and out of Kepong. The Damansara–Puchong Expressway (LDP), Jalan Kuching, MRR2 and Jalan Ipoh are amongst the main roads that connect through Kepong and via Jalan Taman Bukit Maluri into the neighborhood. The Kuala Lumpur city centre is only about  away, while Petaling Jaya is less than  away.

There are also primary and secondary schools to be found within walking distance to terrace houses. The Kepong Komuter station is also within walking distance of the schools. The nearest malls are Lotus's Kepong and AEON Metro Prima. Within the Kepong township itself, there are also plenty of recreational places that are frequented by the residents like Taman Rekreasi Bandar Menjalara just five minutes away, the 90-hectares Kepong Metropolitan Park and FRIM slightly further away. Moreover, there is also a wet market in the morning in the streets of Taman Bukit Maluri. Muchuch greenery can be found throughout the area. There is a high school, SMK Taman Bukit Maluri and a primary school adjacent to it, SK Taman Bukit Maluri in Taman Bukit Maluri.

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Zhang Xianzhong or Chang Hsien-chung (September 18, 1606 – January 2, 1647), nicknamed Yellow Tiger, was a leader of a peasant revolt from Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. He conquered Sichuan in 1644, and named himself king of the Xi (Da-Xi) dynasty. His rule in Sichuan was brief and he was killed by the invading Manchu army. He is commonly associated with the massacres in Sichuan that depopulated the region. However, the extent of his killings is disputed.
Zhang was born in Dingbian, Shaanxi province, China, into a poor family. He was described as tall in stature, had a yellow complexion and a "tiger chin" (虎颔), and hence was given the nickname "Yellow Tiger". He served in the Ming army, and while in the army he was sentenced to death for violations of military rules, but was reprieved after an intervention by a senior officer who was impressed by his appearance.
Towards the end the Ming dynasty, drought, famines and epidemics broke out in various part of China. In the late 1620s, peasants revolted in Shaanxi, resisting attempts by the Ming government to collect grains and taxes. They coalesced into rebel armies called "roving bandits" (liúkòu 流寇) because of their highly mobile nature, and spread into other parts of China. Zhang escaped from the army, joined the rebel forces in Mizhi County in 1630, and established himself as a rebel leader, styling himself Bada Wang (八大王, Eighth Great King). His mobile forces would conduct raids along the western edge of Shaanxi, plundering swiftly and hiding out in the hills. Later he moved into other provinces, moving from place to place raiding towns and cities. He was defeated at various times by the Ming forces; Zhang would also surrender when it was expedient for him to do so, for example in 1631 and 1638, but would then later regroup and resume rebellion.
In 1635 he joined a larger confederation of bandits that included another rebel leader, Li Zicheng (Li would later capture Beijing and end the Ming rule there). They devastated Henan and pushed into Anhui. After they had burnt the Ming ancestral temple at Zhongdu (Fengyang) in Anhui and ravaged the area, the rebel armies broke up and Zhang headed to Hubei. In 1637, joined by other rebels and with an army now reaching a size of 300,000 men, he again pushed into Anhui, then to Jiangsu, and almost down to Nanjing. But he was defeated there and he retreated back to Hubei. In 1638, he surrendered to Ming supreme commander Xiong Wencan (熊文燦) and was allowed to serve as a regional Ming commander. However, he reneged on the agreement in 1639 and rebelled, and later defeated the Ming forces led by the Ming general Zuo Liangyu (左良玉). In 1640, he suffered defeats at the hand of Zuo and had to flee with few followers into the mountains of Eastern Sichuan. In 1641 he emerged from Sichuan and attacked Xiangyang, capturing and executing the imperial prince there.
In 1643, he took Macheng in Hubei, and his army swelled to some 57,000 after incorporating the city's rebels. He then captured the provincial capital of Wuchang, killed the imperial prince there, and proclaimed himself "Xi Wang" (King of the West). Wuchang however was soon recaptured by Ming forces, and for a while Zhang stayed at Changsha where he controlled much of Hunan and part of Jiangxi.
In 1644, Zhang decided to abandon Hunan and led 100,000 of his troops towards Sichuan. His army converged on Chongqing from two directions and surrounded the city. After several days of fighting, his army managed to blast a hole through the city wall and captured the city on July 25, 1644. He was said to have cut off the hands of the city's defenders and massacred a large number of people.
The conquest of much of the rest of Sichuan was made easier after he announced to the locals that they would not be harmed if they seized their officials, took possession of the storehouse and surrendered without resistance. He took Chengdu in September 9, 1644, and met no real opposition in the rest of Sichuan afterwards. He then set up court in Chengdu, which he renamed Xijing (西京, Western Capital), and declared himself king of the Daxi Dynasty (大西王朝, Great Western Dynasty).
In Sichuan he attempted to set up a civil administration and initially gained considerable support. According to an account by Gabriel de Magalhães, a Portuguese Jesuit who was working in Sichuan with another Jesuit Lodovico Buglio (but both pressed to serve as astronomers to Zhang), "he began his rule with such liberality, justice and magnificence by which he captivated all hearts that many mandarins, famous both in civic as in military affairs whom fear was keeping concealed, left their hideouts and flew to his side."
However, resistance to his rule did not cease, and Chongqing was retaken by Ming loyalists in the spring of 1645. Zhang then embarked on a campaign of terror, which was well under way by the middle of 1645, to stamp out the remaining resistance in Sichuan. In November 1645, according to de Magalhães, Zhang, after hearing that "a huge and powerful army was coming against him", announced that "the people of his kingdom had a secret pact with the enemy and planned an uprising; because of this he was determined to kill all, leaving not one person alive". The Jesuits, who now "understood the evil of this man", reported that while they managed to save a few of their people who were taken, the rest were killed. Zhang's policy of terror increased in intensity, especially in 1646 after he had decided to abandon Sichuan. By then, Zhang's government had virtually disintegrated, all but three of his principal officials had either committed suicide or were executed.
The Manchu Aisin Gioro founded the Qing Dynasty in 1636 and invaded south of the Great Wall after the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644. In 1646 the Qing sent out a force under the leadership of Haoge intending to attack Zhang's domain in Sichuan. In October 1646, Zhang decided to abandon Sichuan, and headed towards his homeland in Shaanxi. However, the Qing army was also approaching from Shaanxi, and in January 1647, Zhang and the Qing forces met in Xichong where Zhang had set up camp, and he was killed in the confrontation. According to one account, he was betrayed by one of his officers, a native of Sichuan named Liu Chin-chung (Liu Jinzhong) who resented his policy of terror in Sichuan. He pointed Zhang out to the Manchus when Zhang rushed out from his tent on learning of the betrayal, and he was then shot and killed by a skilled Manchu archer.
The events surrounding Zhang Xianzhong's rule and afterwards devastated Sichuan, where he was said to have "engaged in one of the most hair-raising genocides in imperial history". Lurid stories of his killings and flayings were given in various accounts. According to Shu Bi (蜀碧), an 18th-century account of the massacre, after every slaughter, the heads were collected and placed in several big piles, while the hands were placed in other big piles, and the ears and noses in more piles, so that Zhang Xianzhong could keep count of his killings. In one incident, he is said to have organized an imperial examination ostensibly to recruit scholars for his administration, only to have all the candidates, which numbered many thousands, killed. In another, to give thanks for his recovery after an illness, he was said to have cut off the feet of many women. The severed feet were heaped in two piles with those of his favorite concubine, whose feet were unusually small, placed on top. These two piles of feet were then doused in oil and set alight to become what he called "heavenly candles".
He was reported to have ordered further massacres before he abandoned Chengdu in advance of the invading Manchus. The massacres, a subsequent famine and epidemic, attacks by tigers, as well as people fleeing from the turmoil and the invasion of the Manchus, resulted in a large-scale depopulation of Sichuan. The worst affected areas are believed to be Chengdu and its surrounding counties, and places on the path of Zhang's retreat from Chengdu to Shaanxi.
There are, however, considerable doubts that this account is accurate. In 1934, a stele thought to be this very one was found by a missionary – its reverse side contains an added inscription by a Ming general commemorating Zhang's numerous victims whose bones he had collected and buried in 1646. While the first two lines of the poem on this stele are similar, the line with the seven kills is absent in this stele. Instead the actual line reads: "The spirits and gods are knowing, so reflect on this and examine yourselves" (鬼神明明,自思自量). Many therefore considered the story to be a distortion from the Qing era.
The actual number of people killed by Zhang is not known and is disputed. Official Ming Dynasty history Ming Shi recorded a figure of 600 million deaths due to Zhang's activities, an obvious exaggeration, since the total population of China at that time was less than 150 million, perhaps much lower. According to an assessment by a modern historian, "the death toll is reputed to have been enormous, possibly one million out of a total provincial population of three million, before he was eventually killed by the Manchus." The combination of deaths from the massacres and other causes as well as flight of people from the province resulted in a sharp drop in the population of Sichuan. The population has been estimated to have dropped by as much as 75%, with fewer than a million people left in Sichuan, most of whom were clustered in the periphery areas. The last Ming census figure for Sichuan in 1578 (more than 60 years before Zhang entered Sichuan) gave a population of 3,102,073. However, by 1661, only 16,096 adult males were registered in Sichuan, and Chengdu was said to have become a virtual ghost town frequented by tigers. A later figure for Sichuan was from the 1720s, which is over 70 years after Zhang's death and long after the resettlement of Sichuan had begun, and it recorded 634,802 households (which one estimate calculated to be around 2.5 million individuals).
Many, while acknowledging the massacres committed, do not believe that Zhang was responsible for the greater part of the population collapse in Sichuan, and thought that the greatest loss happened after his death due to the continuing turmoil, famine and diseases. Some argued that while a great many died, Sichuan did not become virtually depopulated as recorded. Some modern Chinese historians considered him a proto-revolutionary, maintaining that accounts of the massacres were exaggerated, or were committed by others including the invading Manchus, that his victims were Ming nobles, rich landlords, and other "counter-revolutionary" elements, and that his heinous reputation was the result of "Qing slanders" and "reactionary propaganda".
Before he had abandoned Sichuan, Zhang divided his forces into four divisions, each led by one of his four generals (Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi). These remnants of his army, as well as Ming loyalists, held out in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou after Zhang's death, and most of Sichuan did not come under control of the Manchus until a dozen years or so later, and fighting only finally ended in eastern Sichuan in 1664.
In order to fill up the depopulated regions of Sichuan, a massive resettlement program was initiated during the Qing Dynasty, starting around 1670 or 1671 and lasting more than two centuries. Millions of people from Hubei, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Shaanxi and other provinces were resettled in Sichuan. Some of the early migrants were those who returned after fleeing Sichuan (including the ancestors of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping), but some were also coerced. A large number of the migrants came from Huguang (now Hubei/Hunan), and the migration was therefore described by 19th century scholar Wei Yuan as "Huguang filling Sichuan [zh]". By the 1720s, 70–80% of the population of Sichuan was reportedly non-native, and as much as 85% a century later.
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Although there is an appreciation of the role of both informal waste workers ("waste pickers") and public municipal waste workers, there are also a number of challenges arising, such as the possible loss of jobs due to automation, and the weakening of collective bargaining.
The sector's unions are denouncing the deterioration in equipment that has occurred over recent years, a possible misappropriation of funds, and attempts to dismantle the publicly-owned sanitation companies. In addition to demanding improvements in employment conditions, the unions' programmes of action also include defending the quality of public services and guaranteeing their funding, both key elements for ensuring that municipal waste services remain in public hands.
The Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) systemin Ecuador is set within the 2008 reform of the National Constitution. The Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) has had its own regulatory law texts referring to ISWM since 2010.
More than 95% of the population benefit from cleaning and waste collection services, which are the responsibility of the local public sanitation company, EMASEO. This company carries out general tasks of public cleaning, selective waste collection in the different areas of the city, and the transfer of waste to Environmental Management Centres (sorting, storage and sale) and Transfer Stations. The public integrated waste management company (EMGIRS), for its part, is responsible for removing non-recoverable waste from Transfer Stations for its final disposal and for running the "El Inga" landfill site. These two public companies are currently in the process of merging.
It is estimated that between 10% and 20% of the waste generated in DMQ is recovered. Various actors consider this is of important economic value and, in particular, that it has significantly improved the incomes of informal waste workers.
One of the most notable aspects of the DMQ's ISWM policy is its recognition and greater appreciation of the sector's workers, both formal and informal. The regulations refer specifically to these actors as essential to the good running of the system and recognise the former informal "waste pickers" as "environmental managers". Although they are not formally employed by the municipality, they are now entitled to certain employment rights, along with social security coverage.
Some 1,700 municipal workers (1,339 in EMASEO and 287 in EMGIRS) and 600 'environmental managers' provide this service, whether in selective waste collection, in the Environmental Management Centres or in the Transfer Stations.
It must still be recalled, however, that there remain more than a thousand "waste pickers" on the streets of Quito with no municipal recognition at all. These workers provide an important service to the city but suffer from a serious lack of protection.
While the work of the sector's employees is recognised and valued, and health and safety conditions are largely met thanks, above all, to the constant oversight of the unions, the work force is at the same time worryingly vulnerable, particularly since public sector collective bargaining came to an end in Ecuador. This was denounced by Ecuadorian and international organisations alike, including PSI, and even elicited observations from the ILO's regulatory control bodies.
The weight of waste sector workers within the municipal workforce (28%) is significant, along with their high level of unionisation, currently standing at more than 70%. It is no less important to note that the union also covers some 60% of the DMQ's 'environmental managers', in addition to providing ongoing support for and coordination with this group. This gives the union significant representation and legitimacy vis-à-vis the local authorities.
The sectoral challenges facing PSI affiliate the Federation of Provincial and Municipal Workers (FETMyP) in this context are not inconsequential and encompass far more than the historic struggle to improve workers' employment conditions.
One such challenge is to bring about the inclusion of informal workers. Apart from getting the 'environmental managers' to join FETMyP, the union is also providing them with ongoing support and advice aimed at improving their organisational capacity. This is not forgetting, of course, the enormous number of waste pickers working on the streets without any kind of recognition or employment protection whatsoever.
The FETMyP supported the ISWM from the very beginning and has worked to ensure its success given the opportunity it offers to improve sector workers' employment conditions and safety, and also because of what a good waste management system means in environmental and public health terms generally. There is, however, one issue of concern, and that is the growing mechanisation of the collection service. While the municipality is focused on the improved efficiencies and reduced occupational risks that this will entail, the union is warning of possible job losses without any strategy in place to provide a just transition towards other more qualified jobs in the sector.
As the unions have clearly noted, there may be a contradiction in this apparent concern for service efficiency if it leads to a deterioration in quality due to a lack of resources and inputs: the union is denouncing the deteriorating machinery and tools and obsolescent vehicle fleet, something that is also recognised by EMASEO itself.
Interview with Wilson Álvarez Bedón, President of the FETMyP, on the waste collection crisis in Quito in 2017.
The union is very aware of the need to defend service quality and to ensure its funding so that it can continue to be publicly run. It has thus been a key actor in maintaining payment for the service within the electricity bill, something that had been abolished by law. According to EMASEO, this would have meant a 50% loss in the company's capacity to raise funds.
There is also a contradiction in the recognition to the role of workers and the concern over their working conditions because, for example, they have become far more vulnerable since collective bargaining in the Ecuadorean public sector was ended by the government, and since workers' representatives have been excluded from the Directorio de las Empresas Públicas (Board of Public Companies),creating a barrier to the scrutiny over the use of funds and their possible misappropriation, the union reports.
Although many of these issues are due to changes in national regulations, the union sees these moves as an attempt to dismantle public services, and quite possibly a dangerous step towards justifying the privatisation of the municipal waste service in the future. The union is therefore working constantly to communicate with the public in order to explain and raise awareness of the situation and gain their support and commitment to defending this public service.
*Article written by Laura Maffei, PSI advisor, including an interview with Wilson Álvarez Bedón, President of the FETMyP. It forms part of a series of case studies identified in PSI's municipal waste service sector to coincide with the first meeting of PSI's municipal waste service unions in Latin America, held in Bogota, Colombia, on 28 and 29 July 2017.


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CHRISTINE CHISHA, Lusaka
FIRST Lady Esther Lungu has appealed to global health leaders to emphasise the importance of women's health.
Mrs Lungu said when women are helped to lead healthy lives, they will lift up all of society.
"Reduce health inequities by addressing non-communicable disease prevention (NCDs) for women in lower and middle-income countries. That is indeed the urgent need today as the world begins to implement the new sustainable development goals [SDG]," Mrs Lungu said.
The First Lady said this yesterday when she was among the speakers at the leading health organisations global action to improve women-centred NCDs.
The global health leaders yesterday declared that United Nations' new SDGs must enable the prevention, control and management of NCDs for women and girls to reach their full potential.
"We believe engaging women can help solve this challenge because women often direct their families' choices towards healthy living," said Nancy Brown, chief executive officer of American Heart Association and co-chair of the taskforce.
She said women have the capacity to make a generational impact that will save lives.
NCDs, which predominately include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic lung disease, represent the defining global health crisis of our generation.
According to a World Health Organisation report, NCDs kill 18 million women each year and represent the leading cause of deaths world-wide.
"There is also increasing recognition that maternal and new-born health outcomes are linked to NCDs, including hypertension, obesity and diabetes.
"We want to create a world that values and promotes every woman's health throughout her life, and helps her prevent NCDs for herself and her entire family," Ms Brown said.
Senior advisor to UN Women Gustavo Gonzalez-Canali said "Data from the Arogya World report shows that 25 percent of women spend 25 percent of their family income on NCDs".Dr Gonzalez-Canali said It is critical that every effort is taken to prevent the occurrence of NCDs and help women and countries effectively manage the staggering costs of NCD treatment.
She said universal health coverage and innovative financing mechanisms are a must for the new SDGs to gain traction.
NCDs are among the greatest health and development challenges of the century. Two out of three deaths are caused by NCDs, 80 percent in the developing world.
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Q: FCM custom sound notifications are not working on IOS Xcode I'm developing a Flutter application for both Android and IOS. I'm sending to my users custom sound notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).
On Android everything is just fine, I'm receiving notifications with custom sounds. However, on IOS I'm receiving the notifications, but with default sound.
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Lately, I`ve been working on making a rollfilmholder for my Mamyia SE600 polaroidcamera. It has beautiful optics, and is a joy to use, but the cost of polaroid-film is hilarious. What I`ve done so far, is to remove (destroy) the lens and bellows from an old 6*9, and now I`m trying to figure out how to make the filmplane come in the exact spot where the polaroids used to be. I might have to use a hacksaw to make it fit.
It`ll look ugly, but might work!
Sounds like a fascinating project, and a level of photography I hope to reach some day!


It's no secret I'm a datto man, so I guess it's no surprise that I will be featuring Datsun content wherever possible. This 610 (also known as 180B in some markets) comes from the Ratsun forums. Aaron bought this particular car in 2006 for $300 in pretty bad shape, and as with most datto heads, only he could see its true potential.


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The War on Fun continues in Minnesota, as state health officials nixed a plan that would have allowed families to enjoy a drive-in-movie and a meal at Birch's On the Lake, a popular eatery in Long Lake, Minnesota, from the safety of their cars. The restaurant came up with the innovative idea because their revenues were down by 70 percent while doing only take out orders during Governor Walz's Stay at Home order, according to WCCO. Stir-crazy Minnesotans jumped at the chance to get out of the house and enjoy a movie. "It sold out in a day," said Burton Joseph, the...
If Governor Walz Had "Followed The Science," We Would Have Started Building Line 3 Already
Last week's decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court to deny a round of appeals attempting to further delay the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline was a rare win for energy sanity in the state of Minnesota, and a major loss for the anti-pipeline activists. According to the Duluth News Tribune: "The Supreme Court's decision not to review the opinion sends the crude oil pipeline's environmental impact statement back to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and shrinks what could've been an extended delay if members had agreed to hear the appeals. Public Utilities Commission Chair Katie Sieben in a news release said...
Iron Range Legislators Clap Back At Anti-PolyMet Letter Written by 18 Metro-Area DLF'ers
It didn't take long for a bipartisan group of Iron Range legislators to clap back against the letter written by 18 metro-area DFL lawmakers urging Governor Walz to cancel all permits for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine, releasing this statement yesterday afternoon. I can't say it any better than the Iron Range lawmakers, so I'll leave it up to them to make the points. Iron Range Legislators Respond to Calls to Stop the PolyMet Permit The claims by metro legislators and anti-mining groups about PolyMet Mining are downright fabrications. It is very disappointing that people don't know or don't care what our...
Duluth News Tribune: In Response: Judging Twin Metals Now is Premature, Purely Speculative
Last weekend the Duluth News Tribune ran an editorial from Dean DeBeltz of Twin Metals which argued that anti-mining groups who say Twin Metals cannot operate responsibly are basing these claims on speculation and not science. He could not be more correct. Twin Metals has yet to submit a mining plan, which means anyone who opposes the mine now is not objecting to any potential technical shortcoming in the design of the project, but rather they are opposed to mining in general, and are projecting this opposition onto the Twin Metals project. Unfortunately, this is par for the course. Anti-mining groups like Friends...
Exclusive: Tesla Expects Global Shortage of Electric Vehicle Battery Minerals – Sources
It never ceases to amaze me how special interest groups who push for more renewable energy also oppose mining for copper, nickel, and cobalt in Minnesota. These sources of energy require enormous amounts of materials, but where will they come from if not Minnesota? Countries with few, if any, protections for the environment or miners. Some "environmental justice," eh? The following article originally appeared in Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tesla Inc expects global shortages of nickel, copper and other electric-vehicle battery minerals down the road due to underinvestment in the mining sector, the company's global supply manager for battery metals told an industry conference...
Minnesota Now Fifth-Largest Mining State, It Could Have Been Number Two
According to the United States Geological Survey, Minnesota mined $4.05 billion in non-fuel minerals in 2018, making it the fifth-largest state for mining, in terms of the value of minerals sold (excluding coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium). This is after Minnesota was in sixth place last year. Few people in the Twin Cities metro realize just how important mining is to Minnesota's economy, and to the nation's security. In 2018, mines in Minnesota and Michigan shipped 98% of the usable iron ore products in the United States with an estimated value of $4.1 billion. Minnesota has traditionally accounted for approximately...
Painter's Stance on Mining is a Dumpster Fire
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U.S. Senate candidate Richard Painter, who became famous for his dumpster fire ad, addressed a crowd of about 100 people in Ely, Minnesota on Tuesday, July 17th. Copper-nickel mining was one of the main topics of conversation at the event. Unfortunately, Painter's stance on the issue is, well, a dumpster fire....
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Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.
A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
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Book review: After I Left You by Alison Mercer
My edition: Paperback, published on 30th January 2014 in ebook (and to be published on 31st July 2014 as paperback) by Black Swan, 432 pages.
Description: Anna has not been back to Oxford since her last summer at university, seventeen years ago. She tries not to think about her time there, or the tightly knit group of friends she once thought would be hers forever. She has almost forgotten the fierce sting of betrayal, the heartache, the secret she carries around with her, the last night she spent with them all.
Then a chance meeting on a rainy day in London brings her past tumbling back into her present, and Anna is faced with remembering the events of that summer and the people she left behind. As Anna realises that the events of their past have shaped the people they've all become, hope begins to blossom for what the future could hold . . .
Anna hasn't seen the friends from her days at Oxford since graduating from university nearly two decades before. She has tried her hardest to put that part of her life behind her but when she bumps into old flame Victor, lingering feelings instantly bubble up and the past she so desperately tried to forget about comes tumbling back and crashing into the rather dull but safe life she has build for herself. The unexpected meeting and the emotional impact it has on her leave her with no other choice than to finally face that which made her run away from her old life in the first place.
Through flashbacks and the reconnection of Anna to some of her old friends, author Alison Mercer weaves an intricate web of intrigue and secrets which has the reader gripped from the moment they venture into Anna's past. Even though the major event alluded to throughout the novel was one I saw coming from the very first moment it was mentioned on the page, there were still plenty of unexpected twists and turns to keep the reader on the edge of his or her seat. One in particular took me by surprise but certainly explained Anna's more than hesitant attitude towards one of the people she cut off contact with.
The close knit friends made for an unusual group of people to bond so quickly and so intensely, yet their inseparability also made perfect sense. On their own feet for the first time in their young lives they needed each other to lean on and to make sense of the harder parts of growing up and being independent. This in particular made it so profound that Anna cut all ties straight after graduation and it meant that nearly twenty years later she was still struggling to find her own place in the world.
Even if the reader's own university days weren't quite as tumultuous as Anna's, it isn't difficult to understand the conflicting feelings and other issues she's struggling with. The strong emotions that go hand in hand with first love and the transition from adolescence to adulthood were portrayed very realistically and were easy to identify with, making this a very relatable contemporary novel. Add to that a healthy dose of intrigue and you've got yourself a riveting read which will have any reader hooked until the final page.
You can purchase a copy of the novel from Waterstones, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or your own preferred retailer.
Would you like to know more about the author? You can connect with her online at:
Blog: alisonmercerwriter.com
Twitter: @AlisonLMercer
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlisonMercerwriter
Many thanks to the publisher for a proof copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.
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Q: Roslyn.. getting DescendantNodes I have a problem with roslyn method DescendantNodes()..With this line
var blockNodes = root.DescendantNodes(n => n.IsKind(SyntaxKind.Block))

When I use lambda expression in this case in Debug mode it works..But when I build DLL and connect it to project as analyzer it dont work..It works only when I rewrite it to this:
var nodes = root.DescendantNodes();
var blockNodes = nodes.Where(n => n.IsKind(SyntaxKind.Block));

Where is the problem and how can i fix it ?

A: I don't know why debug mode works differently for you.  However, I think you may be using the method DescendantNodes incorrectly.
The function that is passed to DescendantNodes is a predicate that determines if the algorithm walking down the syntax tree finding descendants continues on to a given node's children or not. If this function returns false, then no additional children down that syntax tree path are returned.
This is very different than using the LINQ Where method, which filters the set to only nodes that match the predicate.
For example, the first one might find all the nested pure blocks in a method body, but not find any blocks that are parts of other kinds of statements, since those will never be considered because other kinds of statements are not themselves blocks. However, using the second form (Where method), the function considers all nodes under the root, and thus finds all blocks.


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Officials Finally Reveal Who Stole Tom Brady's Super Bowl Uniform
By: Mackenzie Wright | February 10, 2017
The fiasco that stirred up when Tom Brady reported his jersey missing either demonstrates that no crime is too small to be considered insignificant, or that people have way too much time on their hands. After the uproar over the missing jersey, an anonymous law enforcement official reported that the jersey might have simply been misplaced by the star quarterback.
What could have been the caper of the century is quickly fizzling out. It all started when New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady couldn't find his Super Bowl LI jersey. He swears he stuffed it into his carry-on bag in the locker room.
"I went in to take my eye black off and they had opened up [the locker room] to, I don't know, the media," Brady reported. "And I walked back to my bag and it was gone. Same thing happened two years ago [in the Super Bowl against Seattle]. That sucks, but, oh well."
Unfortunately, a lack of video cameras in the locker room means there's no way to verify if someone crept into the room and plucked the pricey jersey out of Brady's bag, or if the player simply put it in the wrong bag. Another bag of Patriots equipment was reportedly on the scene at the time. That bag was loaded on a truck, which was headed for Gillette Stadium.
The truck hasn't been searched, but some law enforcement agents on the case suspect that Brady's jersey might be in there among the other items. But the investigation continues.
While a jersey might not seem like a big enough deal to waste taxpayer resources, a Super Bowl quarterback's jersey is. Brady's jersey is valued at approximately $500,000. Police say that there would be no point in selling the notorious garment — no legitimate sports dealer or auction house would touch such an easily identifiable stolen object.
"The Houston Police Department is the lead agency in the search for the missing Tom Brady jersey. We're working in connection with the Texas Rangers [of the Texas Department of Public Safety], the NFL security department and NRG park security," Houston Police Department Executive Assistant Chief G.T. Buenik said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The world can rest easy.
Source: The Washington Post
Photo: Sporting News
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Madurai Bench court complex beautiful and remarkable:HC
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"Attack" Pandi brought to Madurai from Mumbai
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HC posts case for hearing to October 6
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RIP industry: Lack of incentives from the Centre and failure of local entrepreneurs to add value to their products have forced the closure of nearly 19,000 factories across Punjab
More than a third of the units in Mandi Gobindgarh's industrial cluster-between 150 and 170 steel factories have shut down.
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After the politicking, Indian cricket team gears up for a hectic season
The Indian cricket team under a new captain but comprising mostly old faces is ready to face a challenging season. The team has to live down the trauma of the battering at the hands of the West Indians and the searing controversy with the board that followed.
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New turf at Palam Ground but Karnail Singh Stadium lags
The Palam Ground and the Karnail Singh Stadium have for years been backwaters where cricketers have bemoaned the lack of facilities.
Boxers leave for Ireland to feel London weather
Six boxers who have qualified for the Olympics and five others will be in Dublin, Ireland, for a 15-day training-cum-competition.
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Auditing The Auditors
In the early years of this century, a number of large public firms, including Enron and WorldCom, collapsed in spite of consistently receiving clean bills of health from their auditor, Arthur Andersen.
Andersen disappeared and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was born.
Outgoing PCAOB chairman, James Doty, recently gave the remaining Big Four accounting firms, and others who audit public companies, even more power - and responsibility.
Beginning in 2019, auditors must do more than simply give a "pass or fail" opinion regarding whether their client's record keeping follows generally accepted accounting practices.
They must now also disclose "critical audit matters," which include confrontations they've had with management regarding the veracity of data provided.
Auditors help investors trust the numbers published by public companies. Unfortunately, investors don't hire the auditors.
As long as public firms are the auditors' clients, there will always be inherent conflicts of interest - and opinion - regarding financial reports.
Let's hope that the significant decline of accounting scandals in recent years indicates a heightened level of fiduciary responsibility by all parties.
How to Account for Happiness
For more than six decades, the mountainous South Asian nation of Bhutan has followed a development policy inspired by the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH).
Now, prime minister Tshering Tobgay wants to see whether fostering and measuring a higher level of happiness can help business as well.
As he wrote in the special report, The World in 2018:
"The idea is to make businesses simultaneously accountable to their shareholders, customers,
employees, the community and the environment."
While these goals are lofty, and laudable, the question for accountants is one of measurement. How to hold Bhutanese businesses, as the prime minister suggests, accountable?
The government has created a certification process which will collect data on "nine domains of Gross National Happiness," including employee well-being, community vitality and ecological diversity.
They have their work cut out for them. Hopefully the results will show an ever-increasing level of happiness, and perhaps even create a model for businesses worldwide to follow.
Nurturing Afghan Accountancy
The important role played by accountants can often be undervalued in advanced economies.
But, in developing nations like Afghanistan, the accurate and honest recording and reporting of financial data is a revelation. More important, it is a critical foundational component for economic growth and prosperity.
Dried fruit and nuts seller in the old city bazaar of Kabul | Credit: Christophe Cerisier, iStock
As reported by The Economist, as recently as 2009, Kabul (a city of 4 million residents) had less than 20 accountants. And few of them were locals.
But, if this battle weary country is to grow its economy and improve its citizens' standard of living, an expanding population of accountants is critical.
As the Economist notes in its article:
Boring old accountancy might not seem a priority for a war-torn country. But in business it
can foster trust and transparency—scarce commodities in a country where corruption is
systemic.
Given the often benighted situation in the country, how cool is it to read that 1,000 people have begun to qualify as accountants, and especially that a third of those are women.
A large marketplace abuts the polluted Kabul River in Afghanistan | Credit: Christophe Cerisier, iStock
What Value Transparency?
Mostly I write about good stuff in this blog posts. But occasionally about things that rile.
When writing, I can look out over beautiful lake Geneva and see in the distance the flight path to the international airport. With the United Nations and myriad other large organizations in this Swiss town, there are plenty of airplanes coming and going.
Unfortunately, some of those planes are less welcome than others.
According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Paul Biya, President For Life of Cameroon, has spent more than 5 of his 35 years in office out of his country.
Much of that time has been spent in Geneva with a large entourage, visiting a favorite five-star hotel. The OCCRP estimates his hotel bills alone add up to $65 million. The flights, $182 million.
A quarter of Cameroon's population earns less than $2 per day. Need I say more?
And what has all this to do with a Color Accounting blog, you may ask? In a word: transparency.
Imagine if all the world could demand, read and understand the numbers that explain their living conditions, their businesses and their government.
Transparency is a good that makes the world a better place for all. Except, that is, despots.
Do they know how their President sleeps? Baka Pygmy Village, Dja National Park, Cameroon
In Praise of Obsession
In the nearly 20 years we've been working on better explaining financial statements, I have to admit, I've had my moments of doubt.
Does it make any sense to spend two decades trying to improve the design of just one 8-hour workshop? Isn't perfect the enemy of good?
Not vertical! Click here to see the animated gif.
Will anyone actually learn better if we define a concept using this word or that? Who will really notice if I set up the room with the flip chart to the left of the whiteboard instead of the right?
Just when I was feeling a bout of doubt coming on, I read Brad Ellis's article on the design of the corners of the iPhone X.
I gazed at the moving diagram that was switching between the shape of a theoretical rounded corner and the shape of the actual iPhone corner.
At first I couldn't see any difference. But slowly I noticed a slight variation in shapes that the toggling gif was revealing. And as I kept looking, the disparity became more and more apparent. Eventually it loomed large.
In pursuit of excellence, detail isn't detail at all.
Channeling the obsession of the world's most valuable company, I know there are learners out there who will have their lightbulb learning moment, precisely because we set the classroom up just right.
Here's to your obsessions.
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Backpacking trips into Grand Canyon are a special and wild experience. Choose from trips to the popular South Rim, the wild and beautiful North Rim, the remote western part of the Canyon and little-visited Grand Canyon-Parashant National Moument, or the breathtaking Havasu Falls. Feel free to contact us with any questions, or to create your own Grand Canyon BackPack adventure. Check out our Trip Calendar to see all of our great trips!
For first-time canyoneers, this trip is a wonderful introduction to the Grandest. Down South Kaibab and up Bright Angel, with a night at Phanton Ranch and a night at Indian Gardens. Experience the quintessential granduer, geology and sweeping views of these wonderful South Rim routes on well-maintained trails, and enjoy campsites with restrooms and amentities.
Louis Boucher, better known as "The Hermit of the Grand Canyon", built this trail from his homestead in the late 1800's. This trail offers tremendous scenery, an excellent trail, and is set slightly away from the bustle of the corridor trails.
Rim-to-Rim at Grand Canyon is consistently ranked as one of the top adventures in the Grand Canyon, the American Southwest, and the world. This trip should be on every backpacker's list. Sparkling pools, thundering falls, spectacular scenery, and geology very unique to the Canyon are just a small sampling of what this adventure has to offer.
This route has been rated as one of the top backpacking experiences in the world. Adding a geologist/guide only enhances its draw, as you trek through some of the most wild, spectacular, and inspiring wilderness on the face of the planet.
Thunder River begins as a groundwater trickle on the Kaibab Plateau, then explodes forth as a thundering deluge from the sheer cliffs above this adventurous trail. This trip will suit anyone looking for a classic North Rim adventure, and is great for geology wanderers looking to step up their Grand Canyon game.
This trail was used for thousands of years by the Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited this area, hunting, growing crops, and trading. Ruins can be observed near the trail, as well as petroglyphs. Nankoweap is a wonderful challenge, a geologic majesty, and a remote and wild adventure from the North Rim.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument offers a decidedly different, but no less spectacular, and intensely adventurous Grand Canyon experience. Kanab Creek is a spectacular tributary to the Colorado River, and has carved a colorful and whimsical route down through the soft sediments of the Colorado Plateau.
Tuckup Canyon is quite possibly the premier hike in the Grand Canyon. Remote, wild, intensely scenic, and geologically astounding, one of the best parts of this adventure is that our group might have this area all to ourselves. Recommended for serious backpackers and backcountry travelers only.


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Blood Alcohol Tests Deemed Unconstitutional by Kansas Supreme Court
By The Law Office of John Harvell
In a reversal of older policy, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on February 26 that those drivers who are stopped on suspicion of drunk driving cannot be punished for declining to submit to a breath or blood test of their blood alcohol content, and law enforcement can no longer warn drivers that refusal can result in harsher penalties.
Justice ruled 6-1 that asking for a breath or blood sample without a warrant constitutes a "search" and violation of the Fourth Amendment.
This ruling, according to the court, will force police to obtain a warrant before forcing someone to such a search.
Refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test was charged as a misdemeanor and carried up to six months in jail with up to $1,000 in fines for the first such offense, on top of those penalties related to a DUI conviction.
Under the implied consent law which Kansas used to employ, and which most other stats currently use, the act of driving on Kansas roads was considered consent enough to force drivers to submit to a chemical test. The court instead argued that the Federal and State Constitution provide for drivers to withhold consent, and Kansas cannot punish a driver for withdrawing consent.
How much of an effect the ruling will have remains to be seen since officers may have the ability to electronically apply for a warrant during the stop and move forward once one is given.
If you or a loved one have been arrested for drunk driving, retain an Olathe criminal defense attorney from my firm to challenge your arrest.
Initial Consultations Are Free & Confidential


The Joint puts the leg in abduction and external rotation when the patient is susceptible to dislocation (during hip flexion), yet leaves the leg in a neutral position when the patient is not in danger of dislocation (while the hip is extended). Since ambulation of a postoperative hip patient involves a very small range of motion at the hip, the patient feels no uncomfortable abduction forces while ambulating.
When the patient is at extension the abduction angle can be set to zero (or if desired at any angle between 0 - 15 degrees.) As the patient flexes his hip, the joint moves the leg into abduction reaching 20 degrees abduction when the hip is flexed to 90 degrees. The patient's leg is also externally rotated as he flexes.
Adjustment wedges allow the practitioner to set the abduction angle at extension anywhere from 0 - 15 degrees. Some practitioners may choose to set the "standing" angle of abduction to15 degrees at the initial fitting (meaning the joint will start at 15 degrees abduction at full hip extension and increase to 20 degrees at 90 degrees flexion). As the patient progresses the practitioner has the option to reduce the "standing" angle of abduction to lets say 5 degrees (meaning the joint will start at 5 degrees abduction at full hip extension and increase to 20 degrees at 90 degrees flexion) increasing the patient's comfort during ambulation while maintaining abduction control of the hip in flexion.
The Genesis also has multiple flexion and extension stops to limit the range of motion of flexion and extension if desired.
The Genesis, representing the latest in hip joint technology, is a completely new approach in hip abduction bracing.


In an attempt to reduce the total PSO tax, which goes to supporting sustainable energy, the government wants to scupper plans to establish wind turbines along the Danish coastline.
The government is aiming to cut the PSO tax by 8 billion kroner by axing the coastal wind turbines, which were agreed to during an energy agreement in 2012.
In total, the PSO tax is expected to cost companies and private energy consumers in Denmark some 70 billion kroner over the next decade.
But with the wind turbine plan now blowing in the wind, the government expects the lofty energy bill of the average Dane will decrease. It will also satisfy the EU, which contends that the PSO tax goes against EU legislation and must be changed by the end of 2016.
The coastal wind turbines were supposed to be ready by 2020 and were expected to produce 350 MW of sustainable energy.


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package com.ynswet.system.sc.util;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.shiro.authc.credential.HashedCredentialsMatcher;
import org.apache.shiro.cache.Cache;
import org.apache.shiro.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManager;
import org.apache.shiro.subject.PrincipalCollection;
import org.apache.shiro.subject.SimplePrincipalCollection;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.ynswet.system.sc.model.CommonVariableModel;
import com.ynswet.system.sc.realm.JdbcAuthenticationRealm;

/**
 * @author elfmatian
 * @time 2014年9月14日
 */
@Component
public class AuthorizationCacheHelper {

	@Autowired
	private JdbcAuthenticationRealm jdbcAuthenticationRealm;

	private static Logger log = LoggerFactory
			.getLogger(AuthorizationCacheHelper.class);

	/**
	 * 清除用户的授权信息
	 *
	 * @param username
	 */
	public void clearAuthorizationInfo(String username, String realmName) {
		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
			log.debug("clear the " + username + " authorizationInfo");
		}

		if(null==realmName)
			realmName="shiroAuthorizationCache";
		PrincipalCollection principals = new SimplePrincipalCollection(username,realmName);

		jdbcAuthenticationRealm.clearCachedAuthorizationInfo(principals);

	}

	/**
	 * 清除用户的认证信息
	 *
	 * @param username
	 */
	public void clearAuthenticationInfo(String username, String realmName) {
		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
			log.debug("clear the " + username + " authorizationInfo");
		}

		if(null==realmName)
			realmName="shiroAuthenticationCache";
		PrincipalCollection principals = new SimplePrincipalCollection(username,realmName);

		jdbcAuthenticationRealm.clearCachedAuthenticationInfo(principals);

	}

	/**
	 * 清除当前用户的授权信息
	 */
	public void clearAuthorizationInfo(String realmName) {

		if (SystemVariableUtils.isAuthenticated()) {
			clearAuthorizationInfo(SystemVariableUtils.getCommonVariableModel()
					.getUserlogin().getLoginString(), realmName);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 清除所有授权信息
	 */
	public void clearAllAuthorizationInfo() {

		jdbcAuthenticationRealm.clearAllCachedAuthorizationInfo();
	}

	/**
	 * 清除所有认证信息
	 */
	public void clearAllAuthenticationInfo() {

		jdbcAuthenticationRealm.clearAllCachedAuthenticationInfo();
	}

	/**
	 * 清除所有认证和授权缓存
	 */
	public void clearAllCache() {

		jdbcAuthenticationRealm.clearAllCache();
	}

//	/**
//	 * 清除session(认证信息)
//	 *
//	 * @param JSESSIONID
//	 */
//	public void clearAuthenticationInfo(Serializable JSESSIONID,
//			String cacheName) {
//		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
//			log.debug("clear the session " + JSESSIONID);
//		}
//
//		Cache<Object, Object> cache = cacheManager.getCache(cacheName);
//		cache.remove(JSESSIONID);
//	}

}

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