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Q: How to Rename a Database on a SQL Server Amazon RDS Instance? Attempts via SQL Server Management Studio and Transact SQL to rename a database hosted on a SQL Server Amazon RDS instance result in the following error.

User does not have permission to alter database 'Morningstar', the
  database does not exist, or the database is not in a state that allows
  access checks.

Note that this is the Transact SQL statement that I tried.
ALTER DATABASE <OldName> Modify Name = <NewName>;

The best option that I have come up with so far is to restore a copy of the original database with the new name and then delete the original. See my StackOverflow post for details on how to do this.
There are at least the following disadvantages to this approach.

*

*The export and import operations for a bacpac can take a long time.

*Any applications or websites that perform writes to the database will need
to be taken offline during the whole process.

*There are manual steps involved which can result in errors.

*The RDS instance will need to be large enough to host two copies of the database if you want to leave the original there as a rollback strategy until the new one is available.

Can anyone suggest an alternative approach that does not have these disadvantages?
Update: I am interested in renaming a SQL Server database that is hosted within an RDS Instance - not the RDS Instance.

A: RDS has recently added a stored procedure to accomplish this:
EXEC rdsadmin.dbo.rds_modify_db_name N'<OldName>', N'<NewName>'

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.SQLServer.CommonDBATasks.RenamingDB.html

A: AWS provided the following info in the case that I opened (paraphrased).
Although the master user is a member of the db_owner database role, a database rename requires a change in sys.sysdbreg which is in the master database. Membership in the db_owner role does not provide this permission.
The workaround that I described in my question is the method that they would recommend. I have asked for confirmation that there is no easier means of copying databases from and to RDS than the one that I described in my StackOverflow post.

A: *

*Connect to the RDS MSSQL server

*Open New Query window as master.

*Copy and paste the below Query.

EXEC rdsadmin.dbo.rds_modify_db_name N'OLD Database name', N'New Database Name'
GO

*Change the 'OLD database Name' as your existing database name.

*Change the 'New Database Name' as a name you want to give to the database.

Source:
http://mytecksolution.blogspot.com/2017/09/rds-mssql-database-name-change-or-rename.html


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The Cleopatra slot is a game that is created and designed by big gaming developers IGT (International Gaming Technology). The company is known for creating and distributing software for both online and land-based casinos across the globe. It is also one of the world leaders in designing and manufacturing gaming systems and casino games. This particular casino game has become so popular that a sequel was actually created, which is known as the Cleopatra II slot machine.
The Cleopatra Video slots game is based on the traditional slots machine that is found in regular casinos. The major difference between the regular slots and this game is that instead of three reels, the game comes with five reels. Also, the game is created in such a manner that the company has enabled a touch feature which adds to the interactivity of the players with the game. The game has 20 pay lines for players to bet and each coin that is dropped into the slots will activate a particular pay line.
The minimum bet that the player can wager is one penny and the maximum bet can only go up to $10 per pay line. The normal betting range is between $0.10 to $5. There is a chance for the player to win up to 10,000 credits as this is the game's maximum payout amount for every pay line that is activated.
The gameplay is highly unique as it uses many elements from the Egyptian culture such as the music symbols and language. To add to this, a seductive voice which is interpreted to be the voice of Egypt's most beautiful queen will definitely keep players fixated on the game for many hours at a time. The combination of the popularity of Cleopatra among the public with the intense video graphics and animation of IGT has made this particular game one that will never lose its charm in the future.
What the game does best is that it takes a lot of imagery from the Egyptian culture and incorporates it into the regular gameplay. The symbols that are on the different reels are all various elements from the culture such as the beetle, the Sphinx and various hieroglyphics which can be associated with Egypt. The face cards on the reels, however, are represented by the same lettering which is not a drawback or a benefit to the game. It does add to the authenticity of the game by incorporating the elements of regular slots.
As stated earlier, the game is based on regular slots which are generally found in many land-based and online casinos. Players will have to insert coins into the game to activate the pay line. The player then has to bet on each pay line for a particular amount and the game will payout based on the combinations that are matched. There are different other features which help increase the players winnings such as the wild and scatter symbol. The Scatter symbol is represented by the famous Egyptian landmark, the Sphinx and if three or more of this symbol appears on the reels, it will activate the bonus free spin round which includes 15 free spins. There is an opportunity for the player to get up to a maximum of 180 free spins during the bonus round. A winning combination on the free spin bonus round gives the player the chance to triple his/her winnings. During regular gameplay, the scatter symbols help double the wage bet if there are two are more symbols appear on the reels.
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Cleopatra VII Philopator, more commonly known as Cleopatra is the last pharaoh to have ruled Egypt as she ruled over the lands for 21 years. She was one of the more significant members of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which is a family of Greek origin and is a descendant of the famous conqueror, Alexander the Great. What makes Cleopatra one of the more notable figures in history is her beauty. Historians and academic scholars believed that she was one of the most beautiful women to have ever walked the earth. Her charm was known to have control the minds of even the most strong-willed men that crossed her path which added to her long, illustrious legend.


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I basically know that when I want to use some nouns then I need to consider the proper form of the articles ahead of the nouns and if the noun is countable or uncountable.
Sometimes I see some cases which don't use proper articles like "a/an or the", called "zero article"
I understand when the noun is uncountable then the noun can stand alone without any article (or with zero article), but I see there are some cases "zero article" was used though the noun is countable noun obviously.
Is there some grammatical rule for it?
I hope I could know the grammatical rules precisely because I want to use it properly. Sometimes it is frustrating to use "a/an or the" over and over again. And I know it can be omitted when it is obvious like setting the title or theme of some exhibitions in the leaflet or banner etc.
There are no grammatical rules for which articles should or shouldn't be used with certain nouns.
Don't think that you have to use a particular article, or no article, depending on the noun. This is a case of selecting the article, or leaving articles out completely, depending on what you want to mean when you use the noun. Adding articles (or not) changes the specificity of the article-noun phrase. And there are grammatical rules for that.
The following titles are all grammatically correct.
The first title is like the "telegraphese" Janus mentioned. The others are all grammatically correct.
Who or what is dreaming?
Is someone (or something) dreaming of a thing called Atlantis?
Is Atlantis a person (or thing) that is having dreams?
You have to decide that first. Then you can choose the correct grammar to express your intended meaning.
I agree with what lukejanicke said in his or her answer as far as it goes. However, having done quite a bit of research on this question (see here), I would add this: yes, the writer needs to decide what to say first, then choose the article. But the issue can also be approached from the perspective of the reader: when I read a title, the various choices for the article placement have certain effects on my reading of it. What kinds of effect are these? Indeed, this is actually the more basic question, because presumably the writer's decision will depend on what sort of effects he or she wishes to impart on the readers.
True, the question is complex because much will depend on the context. But the fact that it is a title does provide for certain advantages as far as analysis. After all, the title is presumably the first thing the reader reads of the text, and we can't assume the reader will know anything else about the work except the title at that time. Therefore it seems we should be able to say something about what effect the placement of articles has on the interpretation of the title upon first reading. This initial interpretation is subject to revision once the actual text is read, but the initial reading of the title is still of great interest, since it will affect how we approach the main text, at least in the beginning—not to speak of the fact that it will affect our decision on whether to read the rest of the text at all. A writer will want to take all of this into account: how the title will be read upon first encounter, and how it will be reinterpreted as the reader progresses with the text. Clearly, given the information we are given about Dream of Atlantis, we will only be able to do the former—but that's already pretty interesting.
Here I'll deal with a piece of 'low lying fruit': the effect of adding an article in front of Atlantis in the Dream of Atlantis family of titles.
What makes the analysis a bit easier in this case is that names of individual islands and continents normally don't get an article (except the names of groups of islands like the Scilly Isles or the Orkneys, and except names of islands that have an of-phrase in them, such as the Isle of Man). The mythical continent of Atlantis is not an exception, and its name is used without an article, see e.g. here.
The indefinite article, Dream of an Atlantis, would most naturally cause this to be read as 'Dream of a society with characteristics traditionally attributed to the culture that supposedly inhabited the mythical island of Atlantis'.
And omitting the article altogether leaves it more ambiguous; after all, this is a title, and we can expect the writer to try to do something symbolic. For example, see the discussion of the title of the novel Tropic of Cancer here. The author Henry Miller intended that title to be a wordplay; he does not ultimately intend it to refer to its usual meaning of 'the circle of latitude at 23°26′12.6″ N'. True, it is unlikely any reader would be able to guess the intended meaning of the author's wordplay before reading the book (and, frankly, quite possibly even after reading it). But that was Miller's intention: to make it a bit mysterious, because the literal meaning would be really strange given what the novel is about. And Miller was super-ambitious as far as the literary impact he wished to have (see e.g. here).
So if when we see Dream of Atlantic, we will think that Atlantic probably refers to the mythical continent (and probably more specifically to its utopian civilization). However, we will be ready to revise this opinion if it turns out not to fit the content of the text, and look for some other sort of symbolism.
As far as the word dream, all I'll say is that here opportunities for ambiguity are even greater, since that word can also be interpreted as a verb.


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If a student shows up to class without a pencil, how should the teacher respond?
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Just when did teachers become the enemy?
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import java.util.Scanner;

public class ArrayExercisesTest {
    private static boolean wait = true;
    private static boolean[] tests = {false, false, false, false};
    private static Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

    public static void main(String[] args){
        ArrayExercises arrayExercises = new ArrayExercises();
        parseArgs(args);
        if (!tests[0] || tests[1]){
            System.out.println("Testing the MonthLength method");
            monthLengthTest(arrayExercises);
            waitForNextLine();
        }
        if (!tests[0] || tests[2]){
            System.out.println("Testing the testMarks method");
            testMarksTest(arrayExercises);
            waitForNextLine();
        }
        if (!tests[0] || tests[3]) {
            System.out.println("Testing the numVowels method");
            numVowelsTest(arrayExercises);
            waitForNextLine();
        }
    }

    private static void monthLengthTest(ArrayExercises a){
        final String[] months = {"January (31)", "February (28)", "March (31)", "April (30)", "May (31)", "June (30)", "July (31)", "August (31)", "September (30)", "October (31)", "November (30)", "December (31)"};
        for(int i=1; i<=12; i++){
            System.out.println("Testing for " + months[i-1] + ": " + a.monthLength(i));
        }
        System.out.println("Testing for leap year (29): " + a.monthLength(2, true));
        System.out.println("Testing for non leap year (28): " + a.monthLength(2, false));
        System.out.println("Testing for January in a leap year (31): " + a.monthLength(1, true));
        System.out.println("Testing for out of bounds (13) arguments (-1): " + a.monthLength(13));
        System.out.println("Testing for out of bounds (-2567) arguments (-1): " + a.monthLength(-2567));
        System.out.println("Testing for out of bounds (0) arguments (-1): " + a.monthLength(0));
        System.out.println("Testing for out of bounds (72357) arguments (-1): " + a.monthLength(72357));
        System.out.println("We haven't crashed...");
    }

    private static void testMarksTest(ArrayExercises a){
        System.out.println("Trying with an array including marks 0-100:");
        System.out.println("Expected - 4,5,3,6");
        a.testMarks(new int[]{0,24,25,49,50,74,75,100,13,15,28,58,27,32,78,82,98,79});
        System.out.println("Trying with an array with any positive integers:");
        System.out.println("Expected - 1,2,1,1 (4 elements not counted)");
        a.testMarks(new int[]{1,78,32,25,67, 101, 19999, 2357, 264578});
        System.out.println("Trying with an array with negative integers");
        System.out.println("Expected - 1,2,1,1 (5 elements not counted)");
        a.testMarks(new int[]{1,78,32,25,67,-123, -1, -25, -198726, -100});
        System.out.println("Trying with an empty array");
        a.testMarks(new int[]{});
        System.out.println("We haven't crashed...");
    }

    private static void numVowelsTest(ArrayExercises a){
        String s1 = "\"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog\"";
        String s2 = "\"Ăngström the æthereal\"";
        System.out.println("Trying with the string: " + s1 );
        System.out.println("Expected: A: 1, E: 4 I: 1, O: 4, U: 2");
        a.numVowels(s1);
        System.out.println("Trying with the string: " + s2 );
        System.out.println("Expected: A: 1, E: 3, I: 0, O: 0, U: 0");
        a.numVowels(s2);
        System.out.println("We haven't crashed...");
    }

    private static void waitForNextLine(){
        if (wait){
            System.out.println("Press Enter to continue...");
            scanner.nextLine();
        }
    }

    private static void parseArgs(String[] args){
        for (String s: args) {
            if (s.equals("-y")){
                wait = false;
            }
            else if (s.equals("-t")){
                tests[0] = true;
            }
            else if (s.equals("--months")){
                tests[1] = true;
            }
            else if (s.equals("--marks")){
                tests[2] = true;
            }
            else if (s.equals("--vowels")){
                tests[3] = true;
            }
            else if (s.equals("-h")){
                System.out.println("Usage: java ArrayExercisesTest [OPTIONS]");
                System.out.println("ArrayExercises Test, a set of test routines for the ArrayExercises Class from the 6WCM0001 Module, part of the University of Hertfordshire Computer Science MSc Program");
                System.out.println("The ArrayExercises class file must be in the same directory as this class file");
                System.out.println("Arguments (must be separate):");
                System.out.println("-h          Prints this help and exits");
                System.out.println("-y          Runs through the program without pausing");
                System.out.println("-t          Only runs specified tests");
                System.out.println("--months    Runs the months test (must be used with the -t option)");
                System.out.println("--marks     Runs the marks test (must be used with the -t option)");
                System.out.println("--vowels    Runs the vowels test (must be used with the -t option)");
                System.exit(0);
            }
        }
    }

}

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More than 4,000 migrants reach UK by small boats in 2020
A Border Force vessel brings a group of people thought to be migrants into Dover, Kent, (PA Wire)
13:20pm, Sun 09 Aug 2020
More than 4,000 migrants have now reached the UK in 2020 by crossing the English Channel in small boats.
Families with young children have been among hundreds of people arriving in Dover in the last few days as the political row over the crisis has intensified.
While South East England basked in roasting sunshine on Saturday, another 151 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the dangerous Dover Strait.
The Home Office has officially asked the Royal Navy for help and a former Royal Marine has been appointed "clandestine Channel threat commander".
Migrant Channel crossing incidents (PA Wire)
As numbers of migrants attempting the perilous sea journey continue to rise, the Government has been accused of being "increasingly chaotic" in its handling of the crisis.
More migrants have reached the UK on Sunday, with Border Force cutter Seeker roaming British waters.
Up to 12 people were seen being brought ashore in Dover earlier this morning aboard patrol boat Speedwell.
The coastguard said it is co-ordinating search and rescue efforts in response to "a number of incidents" off the coast of Kent.
French authorities are also active in the English Channel today.
After a surge in crossings in the latter part of this week, the number of migrants who have reached the UK in 2020 in small boats is now more than 4,100, analysis by the PA news agency shows.
So far in August more than 650 have successfully reached British shores via the dangerous Channel route.
Most of that number came between Thursday and Saturday, with at least 532 migrants arriving in the UK.
A Border Force vessel brings a group of people thought to be migrants into Dover, Kent (PA Wire)
This comes despite Home Secretary Priti Patel's vow last year that the crossings would have become an "infrequent phenomenon" by now.
She has recently sought to level blame at her counterparts on the continent as she revealed the UK and French governments were locked in a row over the interpretation of maritime law.
Yesterday it was announced that Ms Patel has tasked former Royal Marine Dan O'Mahoney with delivering her ambition of making the English Channel "unviable" for migrants in small boats.
Bridget Chapman, spokeswoman for the Kent Refugee Action Network, said: "The Government's handling of this issue is becoming increasingly chaotic, with elements of sabre-rattling.
"Nothing they have done so far has worked. They have spent millions of pounds of taxpayers' money fortifying the port at Calais, have increased patrols in the Channel, and are now escalating a failing strategy by calling in the military to deal with a humanitarian situation.
"Priti Patel has said that she wants to make the Channel 'unviable' for people attempting to cross. But what is unviable is her approach."
Ms Chapman called for Ms Patel and her French counterparts to offer people a safe and legal route to the UK.
She added: "That would close this route overnight, would save lives, and we would know exactly who was arriving and when."
Bella Sankey, director of charity Detention Action, told PA: "Behind these record statistics are human beings – men, women and children – with heartbreaking stories of persecution and desperation.
"The Home Secretary's response is one of manufactured outrage and lacks compassion, common sense and competence.
"A safe and legal route would end these dangerous crossings overnight and continue the UK's proud history of doing right by those seeking sanctuary."
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke has been calling for migrants to be returned to France irrespective of whether they are picked up in British or French waters.
She said on Twitter: "With a record number of people illegally crossing this year, all options need to be on the table.
"But whether it's the Navy or whoever, dinghies should be returned to France, and the French need to stop boats leaving French shores in the first place."
Amnesty International UK hit out at plans to deploy the Royal Navy to the English Channel, saying that doing so to prevent people crossing to seek asylum would be "unlawful, reckless and dangerous".
The organisation's refugee and migrant rights programme director Steve Valdez-Symonds said: "What is needed is co-operation with France to share responsibility for providing a place of safety, including the UK Government reuniting families and enabling more people to travel safely to make asylum claims in this country.
"But while ministers beat their chests, the real and immediate needs of women, men and children fleeing war and persecution are being ignored."
Starmer speaks of hope for relations with the US under Joe Biden
MP Helen Grant appointed PM's special envoy for girls' education
Asylum seeker describes 'unbearable' conditions at Kent military barracks
Asylum seekers shout 'freedom' during protest outside Army barracks
Health checks for migrants at Bosnia camp after days in cold
Three children rescued from migrant boat after weekend of Channel crossings
Record year sees more than 8,400 migrants cross English Channel to the UK
Northampton's League One match against Oxford postponed due to waterlogged pitch


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Chuck Todd: Obama hopes Dems don't desert him
Inside Obamacare's very bad week
Nov. 15, 201319:58
Nov. 15, 2013, 12:15 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 15, 2013, 2:00 PM UTC
By Michele Richinick
President Obama is probably hoping the Democratic Party doesn't abandon him in the wake of the bungled health care law rollout, MSNBC's Chuck Todd said on Friday's Morning Joe.
"This clearly is the low of his presidency, politically, right now," The Daily Rundown host said. "Just the way probably he feels as his ability to lead the party, or frankly, hope that the party doesn't abandon him right now in this moment."
"The president seemed to hint that he's not happy with his staff, that he's not happy with the position he's been put in, and that he's going to do an after-action report," he added. "I have to think that made a lot of people in the West Wing and a lot of people at [the Department of Health and Human Services] a little bit nervous."
Obama received another low approval rating from Americans earlier this week in a new Quinnipiac University poll.
Related: Obama hits rock bottom with Bush-level ratings
Democratic unity has been tested in recent weeks amid problems with the signature law. But on Thursday, Obama acknowledged that the fiasco "has put a burden on Democrats, whether they're running or not."
He took responsibility for the botched health law rollout and announced a "fix" to revert the rash of insurance plan cancellations sweeping the country. Individuals who saw their insurance plans cancelled because of the law will be able to re-enroll in similar plans, Obama said at the White House.
"We're going to extend that principle both to people whose plans have changed since the law took effect and people who bought plans since the law took effect," he said during a press conference.
Former White House senior adviser David Axelrod joined the Morning Joe conversation on Friday, saying, "You're never as smart as you look when you're winning, and you're never as dumb as you look when you're losing."
Axelrod added that he is often reminded of those words during moments like this that test the country.
But there will be at least six other defining issues between now and November 2014 that will determine the next presidential election, Axelrod said.
"If they don't get it right," he added, "then we'll be having a different discussion."
Watch more on Morning Joe.


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Early June saw me heading back to Scotland to work on an undergraduate university field course for a week. The usual location for this is the Field Studies Council's Kindrogan Field Centre near Enochdhu in picturesque Strathardle, Perthshire. The field centre is set in an old Victorian estate with a small area of mixed woodland along the banks of the River Ardle at the foot of Kindrogan Hill, largely cloaked in spruce forestry plantation with smaller areas of larch. Strathardle is dominated by pastoral farmland in the glen and moorland on the higher ground. Further to the west lies Glen Brerachan holding some nice heather moorland and small patches of open birch woodland. This trip report details the birds found mainly around the field centre. Glen Brerachan looks like it would be worth some exploration with raptors, grouse and upland birds a probability for those with more time. Around 85 species were noted. Although it rained much of the time this year, the highlight this year was seeing a Scottish Wildcat on the track between Davan and West Lodge at 0510h on the 17th.
Pair with B/2 on Loch Curran on 14/6 (viewed from Kindrogan Hill 2 km distant).
3 prs, inc b/1 on Straloch Loch 16/6.
Probable second heronry found this year. At the heronry in Strathardle, 2 ads + 4 juvs were observed in an adjacent field on 15/6. Actual nests not visible from the road. One over the curling pond on 13/6. Adult and juvenile at Straloch on 16/6.
6 on Straloch Loch 16/6.
Pair noted in riverside pool from the train Pitlochry and Dunkeld on 12/6.
3mm + f on Straloch Loch 16/6.
Single male on Loch a choire on 15/6.
One on Loch Curran on 14/6. 2mm, f + b/1 near Wellwood House, Pitlochry. 3mm and f + b/2 on Straloch Loch 16/6.
5 prs on Straloch on 16/6.
Female on Straloch Loch on 16/6.
Singles seen most days flying up and down Strathardle; pair over Balnald on 18/6. No broods located.
Male observed on the walk up Ben Vrackie on 15/6.
Regular sightings around the field centre.
One regular over the field centre and adjacent fields; regularly mobbed by Jackdaw and Carrion Crow. One mobbed by a Kestrel on Ben Vrackie on 15/6. One in Glen Brerachan on 15/6. Five noted between Ceangline and Enochdhu on 16/6 with one carrying a large frog (and mobbed by a Pied Wagtail).
Up to three territories on walk up Ben Vrackie; one mobbing a Raven on 15/6.
One calling on lower slopes of walk up Ben Vrackie on 15/6. Males heards calling at Straloch Loch, Straloch PS & Enochdhu on 16/6.
One on Straloch Loch on 16/6.
Two well grown juveniles at Wellwood House in Pitlochry on 15/6. One on Straloch Loch on 16/6.
Noted flying low over Moulin and Pitlochry on 15/6 - probably nesting in the area. At least 11 present along the River Ardle between West Balnald and the field centre on 16/6.
Noted on Moulin Moor (from the minibus).
One flushed at Loch a choire on 15/6.
Two birds observed roding along the main drive mosts days at dawn and dusk.
Displaying birds near the curling pond and Straloch Loch on 16/6.
Territorial pair just downstream of Kindrogan Bridge.
17 in a field beside the River Ardle between West Balnald and the field centre on 16/6.
Noted over Moulin and Pitlochry. On 16/6, 52 in a field beside the River Ardle between West Balnald and the field centre; 60 (possibly the same) over Enochdhu; and 27 over West Lodge.
One with Common/Black-headed Gulls in a field beside the River Ardle between West Balnald and the field centre on 16/6.
Fairly common in Pitlochry. One at Tulloch on 16/6.
One singing near the curling pond on several mornings. One singing on the lower slopes of the walk up Ben Vrackie on 15/6. Two heard at the eastern end of Glen Brerachan on 16/6.
Male calling from West Lodge on 17/6; male calling from walled garden area between 0000h and 0035h on 18/6.
Two over the field centre on most days.
Regular at the peanut feeders around the field centre. A male feeding in birch woodland around the curling pond on 13/6. One heard in the woodland around the Ben Vrackie trail car park in Moulin. Male and juvenile at West Balnald on 16/6. Nestlings in Scots Pine at West Lodge on 16/6 - male observed drumming on a metal plate at the top of a telegraph pole. One calling near Tulloch on 16/6 another nearby in a Scots Pine copse at the Bridgend Straloch road end.
One singing on the lower slopes of the walk up Ben Vrackie. Several singing males in Glen Fearnach.
4 along Brerachan Water at West Lodge on 16/6; also 2 at Straloch Loch, 2 at small pool in birch woodland in Glen Brerachan.
Three pairs nesting in the Steading/Ardle Building. Feeding/nesting birds noted around various habitations in Strathardle on 16/6.
Two birds over the field centre on most days. Feeding/nesting birds noted around various habitations in Strathardle on 16/6 with a maximum of 8 at Straloch Loch.
At least 4 displaying mm in the re-stock on Kindrogan Hill, above the field centre. Another singing male on the re-stock SW of the trig point on Kindrogan Hill. Displaying male holding territory in the birch woodland around the curling pond. Displaying male at West Lodge road end on 16/6. Two displaying males on birch woodland in Glen Brerachan (NO 029637) on 16/6. Several displaying males in Glen Fearnach.
At least three pairs around the trig point on Kindrogan Hill; feeding young in the nest on 14/6. Common in Glen Brerachan on 16/6 with birds song-flighting very close to song-flighting Tree Pipits in adjacent birch woodland. Common in Glen Fearnach.
Juvenile on the bridge at West Lodge/Brerachan Water on 16/6.
Pair nesting in the Steading/Ardle Building. Noted in Moulin and Pitlochry. Pairs or singing mm noted at Davan, Glen Brerachan, Straloch PS, Tulloch and Enochdhu on 16/6.
Ad + juv at Kindrogan Bridge, and another heard on the River Ardle nearer the field centre on 13/6. Juv noted at Kindrogan Bridge and an adult on the River Ardle below the field centre on 16/6.
Common. Singing males heard up to 800 metres in thick heather/bracken gullies on Ben Vrackie on 15/6.
Singing birds located in the re-stock on Kindrogan Hill, Enochdhu, Davan, Straloch Loch, Straloch PS, Tulloch, Moulin, and lower Glen Fearnach.
Common. Juveniles noted at various sites.
Two singing males on birch woodland in Glen Brerachan (NO 029637) on 16/6; singing male in lower Glen Fearnach on 18/6.
Pair nesting in juncus rush field at the eastern end of Glen Brerachan (NO 031636) - male singing (26 verses or strophes/min) from the edge of birch woodland and telelgraph wire; female collecting food for nestlings.
Pair with 2 juvs on the lower slope of the walk up Ben Vrackie.
Several birds on the walk up Ben Vrackie on 15/6; two males in lower Glen Fearnach on 18/6.
Singing male in Glen Fearnach on 18/6; male heard in the mist near the usual site on Ben Vrackie.
Very common. B/2 in walled garden on 14/6; b/3 at Davan on 16/6.
Common in Strathardle and Glen Brerachan. Fledgling at Balnald on 16/6.
Singing male in juncus rush field near West Lodge beside Brerachan Water 16/6.
One singing at Enochdhu on 16/6.
Fairly common; around 7 singing males located in Strathardle between Enochdhu and West Lodge.
No singing males heard this year.
Three singing birds noted at Enochdhu, East Lodge and the field centre.
A few singing males noted at various sites with maximum of 4 mm at curling pond on 16/6.
Very common in coniferous forestry. B/5 noted along the River Ardle in the deciduous (alder, hazel, birch, cherry, rowan) riverine strip bordering the conifer plantation.
Pairs or singing males noted at the field centre car park, curling pond, Davan, West Lodge, Glen Brerachan, Straloch PS, Woodend, Enochdhu and East Lodge.
Common in coniferous zones and at peanut feeders around the field centre.
Common and using several nest boxes present. Pairs nesting in brickwork of walled garden. Fledged brood at East Lodge on 16/6.
Common. B/8 at West Balnald on 16/6. Some brief song heard from time to time.
8+ prs nesting in chimneys in Kindrogan house; observed carrying food on 14/6. Common in Moulin, Pitlochry and Kirkmichael. Bird collecting nest material in Moulin on 15/6. Noted around most habitations in Strathardle on 16/6.
Common. B/4 near Straloch PS on 16/6.
One on Ben Vrackie mobbed by a Kestrel on 15/6. One over West Balnald on 16/6.
Flock of 27 (mostly juvs) near Straloch PS on 16/6 though adults still carring food to birds in the nest here.
Birds (or their progeny) with white plumage patches still present at Moulin Hotel on 15/6.
Abundant. Song output much decreased at this point in June, except from unpaired males. Fledglings common.
More common this year. Singing males noted at the field centre, West Balnald, Tulloch, Woodend (2) & Moulin.
Fairly common in coniferous and birch woodland. Regular overhead throughout. Song-flighting best observed around the curling pond. A minimum of 15 on feeders at Tulloch on 16/6.
Pair noted at Tulloch on 16/6.; four in old seeding weed field near Woodend on 16/6.
One in the mist near the summit of Ben Vrackie on 15/6.
Birds heard at Kindrogan Hill, curling pond & Glen Brerachan.
Heard from spruce patch near the curling pond on 13/6.
Three at East Lodge on 13/2; pair at Davan and 3 prs at East Lodge on 16/6 (collecting food for young); pr at curling pond on 18/6.
Singing males noted in Glen Brerachan (3), Straloch Loch, and Straloch PS.


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Same problem here with MKV files (~amd64, kernel 3.5.3, KDE 4.9.1, pulseaudio and gstreamer engine). Very noisy for SMPlayer and VLC. Works very well with a "raw' mplayer.
And same thing with a "stable" system (x86, kernel 3.4.8, KDE 4.8.5, pulseaudio and gstreamer engine).
I've got the same problem. Any solutions so far?
I have not find it. I can use Mplayer to play these video.


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Choose the Only Good Opening Sentence:
An argument cannot be won in the first sentence, but it can be lost.
First sentences are very important.
Most authors of articles of all kinds have trouble writing first sentences.
There are several ways an article can be started.
Some ways of starting essays are better than others.
If you are starting to write an essay, you should be very careful about your first sentence.
Readers are attracted to good opening sentences.
What's so good about it?
It makes two strong paradoxical claims.
It sums up a very strong argument the essay will make.
It is itself an argument.
It makes a challenge to the reader.
It's memorable.
It can be debated, demonstrated, illustrated.
It's a good example of itself.
Notice I didn't say it's true?
It might not be, but it could be, which is what engages readers. If they have any interest in argument at all, they'll want to know whether the essay contains a convincing proof of this premise.
So, which one was it? Start again.
An argument cannot be won in the first sentence, but it can be lost. Success in arguing depends on persuading readers of the truth of a clearly stated premise. Let's break that down:
1. Persuasion. We will not prove anything in our essays. Proofs are for mathematicians, not essay writers. We will persuade our readers by being reasonable but firm. We'll appeal to their logic (logos), their emotions (pathos), and their humanity (ethos). Any hint of illogic, cheap sentimentality, or prejudice, even in the first sentence, can make readers wary of our intentions. We don't want them defensive; we want them receptive. If they dig in to protect a cherished belief before we get them to listen, WE LOSE the argument.
2. Truth. Truth is different than proof. While what we say will probably be provocative, it must always be possible. To be caught in a lie would completely destroy our credibility, without which WE LOSE the argument.
3. Clarity. Because the truth is multifaceted, true declarations can be richly ambiguous, but that's no excuse to be unclear. Even as they describe nuanced opinions, our claims, to persuade, must be clear. The quickest way to lose an argument is to keep the reader wondering what we mean by what we say. If we can't be understood, WE LOSE the argument.
4. Premises. It goes without saying that we need to convince our readers of something in particular. The premises cannot be false, but neither can they be obvious. They are premises because they require evidence and persuasion. Without them, WE LOSE the argument.
Example 1. The Marshmallow Test
a) From a very early age, we are either gobblers or nibblers, and only dire circumstances can change us. b) As psychologist B.J. Casey has demonstrated with an experiment spanning more than 40 years, children who gobbled a single test marshmallow instead of waiting for a promised second marshmallow have continued to suffer from lack of will power throughout their lives. c) Those who managed to delay (and therefore double!) their gratification have been more behaviorally more successful ever since—healthier, less obese, less addictive, even better SAT test-takers by an average of 210 points! d) For years, observers credited the marshmallow abstainers (the nibblers) for their astute and strategic self-denial, but it's perhaps more likely the gobblers just don't trust the game.
Just 4 sentences; many many claims.
a) Makes a provocative claim that is not just bold but also central to the author's argument. We seem to be one type or another, but our experiences and environment can change us.
b) Apparently, nibblers are better at delaying gratification in everything for their entire lives, which makes them less impulsive, and more moderate in their behaviors.
c) The proof is that they're less prone to modern problems (and better on tests!).
d) But a subject who does not trust the authority to deliver a second marshmallow (or who might fear losing the first marshmallow!) will never see the logic of saving the first one. In a rigged game, eating the marshmallow isn't impulsive, it's wise.
Example 2. Nice Work if You Can Get it
a) Vancouver's heroin addicts have been hired by the city to do important work: maintaining a clean addiction. b) Every day, like good employees, they report for duty at one of several safe zones for addicts known as Insites. c) There, in return for staying healthy and refraining from crime, they are paid in drugs—careful doses of heroin in clean needles—all at taxpayer expense. d) And the taxpayers approve because they've been suffering the alternatives for decades.
a) Uses an analogy to make a provocative claim: that the addicts have a job to do and are on the city payroll.
b) Advances the "addicts as employees" analogy while detailing one of their responsibilities: to show up for work.
c) Details the terms of the arrangement: Can't do crime, pay is delivered by professionals to avoid illness.
d) Emphasizes the economics of the deal. Taxpayers who are tired of the crime and the sleaziness of street drug trade are paying for cleaner streets . . . and saving money over the alternatives.
Example 3. Too Old to Die
a) Poor Margaret Bentley wants to die, and her doctors would probably let her if only she could tell them. b) Advance health directives made by healthy young people who want to avoid the torments of a lingering death are usually sufficient to prevent doctors from artificially prolonging life. c) But when a patient such as Bentley is no longer competent to press her case, she can find herself in a legal battle with her younger self. d) 50-year-old Margaret didn't want to turn 90, but 91-year-old Margaret can't confirm that she agrees.
a) Makes a provocative claim that is not just bold but also central to the author's argument. Margaret Bentley is clearly suffering in a particularly thorny legal limbo. It's probably truer to say that young Margaret Bentley wants to have killed old Margaret Bentley, but that paradox will become clear.
b) This establishes that the legal mechanism is a routine that people exercise to avoid the MB problem, but clearly "usually" isn't helping Margaret.
c) In this case, the older Margaret Bentley continues to accept food although the younger Margaret Bentley had stipulated that she wanted to be allowed to decline food when she was no longer living a meaningful life. Clearly MB created this mess herself with a sloppy directive. But all of that needs to wait. It's too much information for the first paragraph.
d) We need a sentence to clarify that the legal conflict is between the same person at two different ages. Lawyers and bioethicists will have a field day determining whether young Margaret Bentley is "the same person" as old Margaret Bentley, among other wonderful conundrums that make this topic such a rich source of Definition essays.
Example 4. Too Young to Die
a) Some say age is defined by how long we've been alive (our distance from birth), but for terminally ill children, age should be defined as how long they have have to live (their distance from death). b) Here in America, we're struggling to grant euthanasia for adults who have come to the end of their long and meaningful lives. c) Meanwhile, the Belgians are granting children, some as young as six, the legal right to bring their lives to a peaceful, planned conclusion. d) The two groups have something essential in common: they're within a year of dying, and that gives them the right to decide how long to bear the pain.
a) Make a definition claim that has nothing to do with the dictionary definition. For the purposes of this argument, the author claims that our true age is not how long since we've been born but how long before we die. That makes terminally-ill kids old enough to make their own choices.
b) This establishes that Belgium has made its peace with euthanasia, which the US has not, and that the granting of death with dignity laws is indeed a slippery slope. Once it's granted, it will likely be expanded. The author has no problem with that situation.
c) Makes a subtle rhetorical case for the peaceful solution of planning and executing death on the patient's terms; the sentence avoids any gruesome arguments about the suffering the child would otherwise suffer. (That will come later, when we're ready for it.)
d) This is the conclusion of a deductive syllogism.
Patients within a year of death deserve euthanasia.
Children with terminal diagnoses are within a year of death.
Terminally-ill children deserve euthanasia (despite their chronological age).
Classwork for THU FEB 09 (Snowday)
Read the Lecture first.
If you jumped ahead to the exercise out of an excess of enthusiasm, return to the top of the page and carefully study my enthralling material about opening sentences and strong introductions. Examine the examples and understand what makes them so effective. Then proceed.
Consider this Draft.
Homelessness is one of those underlying issues in our country that not many people understand. Homeless people are usually overlooked by most people and viewed very negatively by others. Something that people tend to forget is that the homeless are people too; they bleed like us and share the same air we breathe. In a perfect world this problem would have been solved a long time ago; however, fixing homelessness around the world is not an easy thing to do, but there are many things that can be done to combat this social issue.
Take this advice to heart.
Some suggestions, MyStudent:
THINGS INTRODUCTIONS SHOULDN'T DO.
1. They shouldn't distance readers from the author.
2. They shouldn't scold readers for misunderstanding a situation.
3. They shouldn't express how important the topic is, or how long it's been controversial, or that people often disagree about it, or that it's complicated, or that people have mixed emotions about it.
THINGS INTRODUCTIONS SHOULD DO.
1. They should establish a strong bond with readers, using WE language.
2. They should make provocative claims that DEMONSTRATE our shared misunderstandings.
3. They should DEMONSTRATE the facts that make the topic complex and create disagreement among reasonable people.
Notes to MyStudent.
Your introduction contains perfectly reasonable material, important observations about homelessness and the homeless. But it creates resistance in your readers, who are told that they have not been attentive or generous enough to the homeless. To help them face the uncomfortable truth of their own ignorance or shortsightedness, it's best to crouch down to the sidewalk level and admit that we've all felt helpless.
Draft Revised.
We don't want to look at the homeless. They make us uncomfortable. We walk past them avoiding eye contact, or convince ourselves that they can't be helped because of their own incorrigible behaviors. We know they're humans in pain who share our sidewalks and breathe the same air we breathe, but they've been with us so long we're convinced they're a problem that can't be solved. And for some that might be true. But for others, according to new research, radical solutions might be possible, solutions that start with looking the homeless in the eye and seeing ourselves there.
Snowday "InClass" Exercise THU FEB 09
Complete by 12:15.
1. Open your A03: Blow to the Head in Edit.
2. Revise your Introduction. Update the Post
3. Leave a Reply to your own Post saying: "Classwork Complete."


I'm thinking about the concept of writer's block.
When you're writing a story, I believe the most important thing is how the story is told. If a writer is saying they don't know what to write, they are putting themselves before how the plot develops. They are interjecting themselves into something instead of listening.
It makes me think authors need to be storytellers first.


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Doncaster will have its first ever representation at Europe's largest amateur boxing event this weekend.
Cantley fighter Ryan Boyle will take part in the Haringey Box Cup at London's Alexandra Palace.
More than 300 boxers will descend on the capital on Friday for the first stages of tournament.
And 16-year-old Boyle will be among them, flying the flag for Doncaster South Amateur Boxing Club.
Coach Col Boyle believes his young charge has a chance of making an impression against the country's elite youth fighters.
"It's going to be a real test for Ryan but I think he will do well this weekend," Boyle told the Free Press.
"He's a very nice boxer and if he boxes at his best, he'll cause plenty of problems.
"This is a fantastic experience for him, boxing at a great venue against some of the best kids in the country, and it'll bring him on.
"It's the final event of the season for Ryan so he'll be determined to finish on a high.
Boyle's presence at the Box Cup is a big boost for the profile of the Doncaster South club.
Formerly housed in Rossington and run by the late David Croft, the club switched to Cantley two years ago, taking Wilby Carr Community Centre on Aldesworth Road as its home.
Boyle said: "Not many people know where we are but we're doing well.
"We're open three nights a week and we're getting 20 to 25 through the door each night.
"And we regularly have professionals Jason Cunningham and Dave Allen popping in.
"Things like Ryan taking part in this really help raise our profile.
Doncaster South ABC runs sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Anyone interested in attending should contact Col Boyle on 07972253927.


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You may never think twice about the orange peel you throw out after enjoying a delicious, sweet orange, but it's about time you did. The orange peel is more than just a protective covering for the orange, it is your lifestyle's best friend! The following 5 tips introduce you to ways you can use the orange peel to your advantage in the most practical of manners.
Word on the street is that insects and mosquitoes dislike the scent of oranges. Rub orange peels all over your skin to keep mosquitoes at bay. To get rid of insects, such as ants, puree orange peels with water and pour the solution in and around the areas you'd like to protect to send a clear message to ants.
Bring 2-3 cups of white vinegar to a boil. While it prepares to boil, take the peels of 3-4 oranges and stuff them into a quart-sized mason jar. Pour the boiled vinegar into the jar over the orange peels. The vinegar will nearly reach the top of the jar. Seal the jar and let it set in a dark place for a few weeks (2-4) to allow enough time for the peels to infuse the vinegar with its fragrance and oils. After a few weeks, strain the mixture. Fill half an empty spray bottle with the orange vinegar and the other half with water. Use as an all-purpose surface cleaner. Enjoy!
Place an orange peel in your brown sugar and seal in an air-tight container. The orange skin keeps moisture in the container, preventing brown sugar from clumping together.
Place a few orange peels at the bottom of trash bags to reduce odors as well as the infestation of insects.
Orange peels are full of vitamin C and other enzymes and antioxidants that your skin loves, so they make for a great face mask. Grate orange peel and mix with water or milk until a paste forms. Apply to face and let sit for 20 minutes before rinsing clean.
Orange You Glad There Are so Many Benefits to Oranges?


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Is there a way to simplify your message in order to convert more visitors?
Does your messaging appeal to your target audience?
To learn about specific audience segments. There are several ways you can use your landing page to test how a specific segment of your audience responds to different messages. You can take an alternative approach to your core offering or A/B pricing options or special offers. These special offers can include seasonal tests like holiday campaigns or short-term offerings attached to a targeted ad campaign. You can take the data from your test and use it to create user personas and compare your customer segments with the persona comparison template.
Below are tips and tricks for filling in the Landing Page Creator.
The first thing people should see when arriving at your landing page is a clear headline describing your offer. What phrase succinctly conveys your unique value proposition? Does it answer to your visitor's need? Try to keep your headline under 10 words.
The visuals you choose to include on your landing page are also important. Stock or original photographs, graphics and visual cues will set the mood for visitors and may help keep people engaged on your page longer. But be careful: visuals can also distract people from your core offering. The key is to test your landing page's performance with different optimizations to determine what proves most effective for you.
Directly below the headline, include a call to action where visitors can submit their email address to stay informed about your company, products or services, or participate in a campaign or promotion. Your call to action text should ring true to both the tone established by your company and to what visitors will receive in exchange for sharing their email address.
Pro tip: Check out out the brand positioning canvas and lean canvas to align your team, pinpoint your value proposition and brainstorm on a catchy headline.
You should briefly describe your company or service so visitors understand who your company is. Remember that this description should be as concise as possible; there are other places and opportunities for you to elaborate on all the benefits of your product or service, and you don't want to detract from the call to action.
You don't need a domain to create your own Xtensio landing page.
List the top features of your product/service that will benefit your potential customers in order to learn more about them. For example, if the purpose of your landing page is to target a specific user segment by describing the product offering, then this is an opportunity to test what value proposition resonates most with that particular audience. By testing certain benefits over others, you can gain valuable insights to guide your marketing efforts.
Include quotes from real customers or users that illustrate how your product or service has helped them or improved their lives. Try to include testimonials from individuals that align with your target audience. For example, if your product or service is for educators, include testimonials from professors and other reputable figures in the industry. Photos of the people being quoted will also help you convey credibility.
Include the logos of some companies that already use your product or service. Again, include the most reputable and relevant brands to validate your company. This is also another opportunity to link to publications or referral sites where your products have been featured. If you don't have any references yet it's better to forego this section than make it up.
Careful! Don't use fake testimonials or stock photos of people providing them. Potential customers have an excellent gauge for what's genuine and what isn't. If you don't have testimonials to provide, leave them off your page until you do get some.
Make it convenient for your visitors to sign up. Including a second call to action is an opportunity to use a different version of the first one and gives you a chance to end the landing page with an appropriate closing statement.
Make sure the contents of your footer don't detract from your primary call to action. Making your footer too large or including multiple links here might complicate the purpose of your landing page, risking that visitors will navigate away from the landing page without answering your call to action.
It's important to consider what metrics are most important when creating your landing page. You can embed your landing page into a separate web page to measure its performance using your website's analytics capabilities.
The Landing Page Creator is not set in stone. Like other Xtensio tools, the landing page should be repurposed, revisited, and revised. Test, optimize and retest to reach the ultimate goal of the landing page, getting visitors to answer your call to action, whatever it may be.


North Saanich students perform in the Greater Victoria Festival of the Performing Arts.
Dancers with Deep Cove Elementary School were invited back to this week's Highlight event out of the recent Greater Victoria Festival of the Performing Arts.
Chosen by a Festival adjudicator following their initial performances April 29, members of Deep Cove's Dance Club for students in Grades 3, 4 and 5 were called back to be on stage at the University of Victoria on Thursday, May 7 (after the News Review's press deadline). They will perform their dance, called Timber.
Nicole Irwin, a teacher at the school and who helps run the Dance Club alongside parent volunteer Anette Martens, says the Grade 1-2 class (led by teacher Veronica Laeuner) was also invited to the Highlight performance, to showcase their number, Shell Shocked, from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
"They had a wonderful time," Irwin said of the students' performances during the Festival, adding this is the third straight year Deep Cove's dancers have been invited back.
Irwin said there are 49 students in the Deep Cove Dance Club.


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Montco sheriff's office ready to tee off for education 14 hours ago
Montgomery Bar Association announces judicial recommendations 14 hours ago
Free "Touch a Truck" event in Norristown to feature 25 working vehicles 16 hours ago
Free "Touch a Truck" event in Norristown to feature 25 working vehicles
As beer has supplanted steel, Phoenixville reaps economic rewards
Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna raises towering Big Top
Jeffrey Epstein case moving forward thanks to journalist with local ties
Home Commerce Awards and honors Ursinus College's entrepreneur in residence receives 2019 Leavey Award
Ursinus College's entrepreneur in residence receives 2019 Leavey Award
Maureen Cumpstone, a restaurateur and caterer who was Ursinus College's first entrepreneur in residence, has been named one of eight recipients of the 2019 Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education.(MONTCO.today file photo)
Posted By: MONTCO.Today StaffPosted date: June 17, 2019 In: Awards and honors, Collegeville
Maureen Cumpstone, a restaurateur and caterer who was Ursinus College's first entrepreneur in residence, has been named one of eight recipients of the 2019 Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education.
Cumpstone, who received the Ursinus appointment in 2016, is being honored for her leadership of the college's U-Imagine Center for Integrative and Entrepreneurial Studies.
The Leavey Awards, administered by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation and Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, were created in 1977 to reward educators across the country who develop innovative ways of teaching students about the free enterprise system and entrepreneurship. Each winner receives a $7,500 award. In four decades, more than 600 teachers – from elementary school to college level – have received over $4 million in prize money.
The U-Imagine Center is a crucial part of Ursinus College's mission to develop a campus-wide entrepreneurial spirit. The Center's interdisciplinary programs encourage collaboration, boldness, thinking big, and acting responsibly and ethically, all while students pursue transformative ideas that provide value for the community. Through the center, students at the Montgomery County, liberal arts college have access to funding, resources, and outside expertise to support their initiatives. Alumni report that U-Imagine experiences contribute to professional success after graduation.
Cumpstone, a 1979 graduate of Ursinus, began Sorella Rose Bar & Grille, a restaurant and catering business in Flourtown, PA, in 1995. The business grew to include event planning and a second location in Avalon, NJ.
"More than ever, our nation and its economy need entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and business visionaries," said David Harmer, president and CEO of Freedoms Foundation. "These leaders are coming from the classrooms of Leavey Award recipients. People are now realizing what Thomas and Dorothy Leavey knew 42 years ago – teaching future generations to develop an appreciation, knowledge and enthusiasm for the American free enterprise system is essential to ensuring our nation's continued success."
This year's class of Leavey Award recipients will be honored at a dinner and award ceremony from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 18, on the campus of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, 1601 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville, PA 19460. While on campus they will also make a presentation about their award-winning program to business educators attending the graduate seminar "Innovative Entrepreneurs, Dynamic Economy."
For more information, contact Carolyn Santangelo, senior director of chapter and partner relations, at 610-933-8825, ext. 234, or csantangelo@ffvf.org.
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Driverless Cars Will Hit UK Roads in January 2015
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Business Secretary Vince Cable and the UK Department for Transport have just announced a "fast track" initiative for driverless cars, saying that the autonomous vehicles will hit public roads in about six months.
As the BBC reports, The Department for Transport is a little late on its own projections. The technology was supposed to hit roads in 2013, but up until now the cars have just been legal for tests on private roads.
"The excellence of our scientists and engineers has established the UK as a pioneer in the development of driverless vehicles through pilot projects. Today's announcement will see driverless cars take to our streets in less than 6 months, putting us at the forefront of this transformational technology and opening up new opportunities for our economy and society, said Cable.
The Department is allowing this through a pilot program, in which cities in the UK can bid for a piece of a £10 million pool to host the driverless cars. In January of 2015, the Department will select up to three cities for the trials. Each trials will go for a year and a half to three years.
"Driverless cars have huge potential to transform the UK's transport network – they could improve safety, reduce congestion and lower emissions, particularly CO2. We are determined to ensure driverless cars can fulfil this potential which is why we are actively reviewing regulatory obstacles to create the right framework for trialling these vehicles on British roads," said Transport Minister Claire Perry.
Another part of this "fast track" initiative is the launch of a new review "to look at current road regulations to establish how the UK can remain at the forefront of driverless car technology and ensure there is an appropriate regime for testing driverless cars in the UK."
Despite some reservations from law enforcement officials, lawmakers, and the general population, driverless cars are pushing forward in the States as well. The most notable push is from Google, whose cars have logged over 700,000 total miles. Some states have already put the wheels in motion on updating current regulations to facilitate autonomous vehicles.
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Warmer spring weather can end up leading to pole fires, Manitoba Hydro has warned.
The public utility says humidity is created as temperatures rise and then mix with built up winter grime on power line insulators to create electrical short circuits on wood poles.
If a fire should burn through a pole, power lines may drop and create a safety hazard for anyone nearby.
Those who spot a pole fire or downed line should call Manitoba Hydro at 1-888-624-9376.


A very small palm, look like those smaller Butias-Syagrus, of subterranean and clustered stem. Leaves are light grey/blue. Fruits are edible and delicious, like orange. Leaves are utilised by local people.
This is one of the Gulliver`s country (Lilliput) palms. Paraguay, where most of the palms are without visible trunk, e.g. Acrocomias, Attaleas, Butias, Syagrus, all with subterranean stem, a likely adaptation to fire and organically poor soils.
Unknown in cultivation, probably have good tolerance to freezes and would build a small trunk and longer leaves if good conditions of growth and semi-shade. Is one of the southermost Syagrus after S. romanzoffiana. The species is endangered. Reproduction is by seeds or bulbs.
Figure 3. Typical habitat of S. campylospatha.


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Q: Securing a web service that updates user details The web service(using POST) allows the requester to update details of a user.
The web service accepts the id of the user to be updated.
I think accpeting the id of the request as a parameter is risky. Someone could create a post request and
insert the id of any user and update the details of that user.
To ensure to an acceptable level that user details cannot be updated what are the options. Here is
what I think :
There is currently no security framework in place.

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*encrypt the request at the transport layer user SSL

*encrypt just the id itself

A: To use https for secure transport is a good start.
Since you have tagged your question with "spring" and there is no security framework in place, I would suggest you take a look at Spring Security, which integrates nicely with Spring.

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Илжа ()  —  город  в Польше, входит в Мазовецкое воеводство,  Радомский повят.  Имеет статус городско-сельской гмины. Занимает площадь 15,83 км². Население — 4832 человека (на 2018 год).

История

В российской военной истории город Илжа стал известен после произошедшего здесь, в ходе Ноябрьского восстания 1830—1831 годов, ожесточённого боя, между польскими повстанческими отрядами под началом Самуэля Ружицкого и частями русской императорской армии под командованием генерала Ксенофонта Фёдоровича Квитницкого.

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Города Мазовецкого воеводства