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Romania: No. 1 retail market in Eastern Europe
13 June 2017 Intermodal
Recent data by Eurostat shows the situation of each European country's retail market, with impressive results from the Romanian market.
According to data for April 2017, Romania ranked no. 1 as the country with the best retail trade growth in Eastern Europe. Overall, the Easter European country ranked 5 out of all the countries in the European Union. Compared with 2016's April results, the best progress was made by Luxembourg, with 11,3 points growth, followed by Slovenia (10,4), Ireland (8,4) and Slovakia (7,1). Romania officially did best among Eastern Europe's countries, with a growth of 5,6 points compared to April 2016. Belgium recorded the only decrease (of minus 0,8 points). Overall, the EU recorded a growth of 0,5 among its 28 member-countries.
Also, the European Union benefited from an increase of 0,4 points in non-food products, food, beverages and cigarettes sales increased by 0,6 points and fuel retail by 0,3 points. Romania did better in March than in April of 2017, by 0,2 points. Furthermore, March was an even better month than February, with a 0,8 increase.
On a similar note, Romania could also be the best country in the Balkan region, based on its gross domestic product. Data shows that Romania's GDP, in the first trimester of this year, was 44,2 billion EUR, with an overall 5,7% increase in the country's economy. Statistics also indicate that Romania's GDP could actually surpass those of Greece, Portugal and the Czech Republic. These countries ranked higher than Romania, in 2016, with a GDP of 175,9 billion EUR, 184,9 billion EUR and 174,4 billion EUR, respectively. By the end of 2017, Romania's GDP could reach 182,8 billion EUR, with a further substantial increase by 2020 taking it to around 229,4 billion EUR.
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Growing choice, dropping costs and greater range are just some of the reasons electric vehicles are increasingly popular and a realistic choice for many motorists these days.
If you're considering going electric for your next vehicle, have a look at the pros and cons of electric cars, and how they stack up against conventionally powered vehicles, to help you make a decision.
Electric cars are generally one third cheaper to run than conventionally powered vehicles on a cost-per-mile basis, which could make a welcome difference to annual fuel bills, though keep in mind electricity costs vary across the country. Two Edmunds editors who drove Nissan Leaf EVs for three years both reported saving money on fuel and oil changes compared to the gas-powered cars they replaced, with one writer saving $3,400 in fuel costs over his 30-mpg Honda Fit commuter car. Fewer moving parts to wear out and replace also cut down on maintenance costs.
Buying an electric car doesn't have to mean settling for a bland driving experience. Power is delivered quickly resulting in levels of torque and acceleration that compare favorably to many conventional cars with similar power. At the top end of the market, the Tesla Model S can get from 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds.
As a pedestrian, you may have jumped when noticing an electric car creeping up along a street with just a whisper. Electric-powered engines mean EVs are not only quieter but generally smoother to drive than vehicles with internal combustion engines, which may make for a more relaxing experience on the road.
Getting home from work and plugging your car into your charging unit is easy, and cuts out the need to go to the gas station again, at least for fuel, anyway. Shared charging stations for apartment blocks, as well as public and workplace charging stations, are increasing in number to make recharging more accessible.
While some emissions may be produced to make the electricity on which electric cars run, EVs themselves have no tailpipe emissions (or tailpipes, for that matter). Gas- and diesel-powered cars and trucks, on the other hand, emit fumes harmful to our health and the environment.
EVs generally cost more upfront than similarly sized conventional rides and a consumer survey carried out for RoadLoans showed the high cost of purchase to be the top turn-off for ownership. Prices are falling, though, and federal tax credits up to $7,500 are available to offset the cost, while some states offer incentives, too. It may also be worth considering buying used, after someone else has taken the depreciation hit. In fact, some of the fastest-selling used cars are now EVs.
Range anxiety is a major concern among prospective car buyers and encountering a flat battery was the biggest worry about purchasing an electric vehicle within our RoadLoans survey. There are numerous electric vehicles with ranges over 100 miles, which is fine for the average daily round-trip commute of 30 miles, but not so good if you want the flexibility to go interstate or take a road trip. The longest ranges tend to come with the more expensive models, with the likes of the Tesla Model S, which offers a range of 335 miles, starting at $68,000. Yet the more affordable Chevrolet Bolt (from $37,495) and Tesla Model 3 (from $35,000) come with ranges beyond 200 miles, and other such vehicles are on the way.
It takes a lot longer to recharge a car's battery than to fill up a tank with gas. Times vary depending on the size of the battery and the speed of the charging point, but it typically takes a number of hours to fully charge. Adding 25 miles of range per hour is common with 240-volt sources. DC fast-charging stations speed up the process, providing 90 miles of range in 30 minutes for the new Chevrolet Bolt, for example.
The choice of electric cars is much smaller than the array of gas and diesel vehicles on the market, and it will take a while for that to change. Options are expanding all the time, though, from automakers across the industry. Vehicles expected to arrive this year include SUVs such as the Kia Niro EV, Hyundai Kona EV, Jaguar I-Pace and Audi E-Tron Quattro. If you're not ready for an all-electric model, hybrid cars expand the options further. Hybrids run on a gasoline engine with an electric motor to add power when needed, while plugin hybrids (PHEVs) rely on the electric motor but have a gas engine as a backup power source.
There are relatively few public charging stations across the country, with a University of Michigan report last year counting 16,000 compared to 112,000 gas stations. As you would expect, infrastructure to support electric cars is expanding quickly along with the growth in EV sales. Volkswagen, for example, has agreed to install 2,800 charging stations in 17 U.S. cities, spread over 500 locations, by June 2019, with 75 percent at workplaces and others at multi-family homes like apartment buildings, and in high-traffic areas.
Electric vehicles are not for everyone, and gas-powered cars are certainly not about to disappear overnight, but the numbers show they're tempting more car buyers to part with their money and get behind the wheel. Last year saw a record number of electric cars sold in the U.S., at nearly 200,000, and 2018 sales are expected to surpass that figure. Thinking about the pros and cons of electric cars will help you decide whether you want to plug in, too.


Great Books I've Been Reading: January Book Round Up!
Since discovering Goodreads and the yearly book challenge, I've been reading A LOT. For the past two years, I've kept track of what I've been reading and included the list in my goal reflection blog each January, but how does this help you find a new, awesome book to read? Or inspire you to start reading again if you've fallen to Netflix binging in your free time? This year I decided to remedy that by creating a monthly book round up! I want to give you my rating and a few things that struck me about each book. Also, I want to show you how much I read that's owned or borrowed (from the library, usually), and what type of format I'm reading (I've become especially partial to audiobooks which help me stay awake for all the long drives I have!) So with no further ado, let's jump into what I read in January!
You might recognize this title because of the Oscar buzz its film adaptation has been receiving as the lead actress, Brie Larson, has been nominated for Best Actress. I wanted to read the book before watching the movie because I knew it was supposed to have an interesting premise and storytelling mechanism. It's told from the perspective of a precocious 5 year-old boy, Jack, and that narrative voice can be frustrating at times. A 5 year-old can only understand the world so much so I felt limited at times during the story. I wanted to scream at him sometimes! But that frustration translates well when taken in context with the overall narrative (which I won't tell you anything about, because SPOILERS!) It makes every misunderstanding and question from innocent Jack all the more gut-wrenching. All-in-all, a worthy read of human endurance.
This is supposed to be a YA book, but I can't imagine too many teenagers having the patience to follow the somewhat plot-less romp that is In Zanesville. However, as an adult, I was very much able to connect with the angst and confusion of being a teenager that this book so wonderfully captures. It's like a nostalgic time bomb with quirky characters and situations from the serious to the trivial. It felt like a more literary version of Nickelodeon's As Told By Ginger.
The Golem and Jinni was a gift from my dearest boyfriend for Christmas. It's a book I've had on my too-read list for a while if for nothing more than the beautiful cover. Something about it spoke to me, and the book itself didn't disappoint. It was somewhat slow-moving at first. Mostly because I didn't quite know what to expect. There was magic. And the late 1800s. And a lot of Jewish and Syrian mythology that I wasn't aware of. Have you heard of a golem before? A creature made of clay and brought to life to do its master's bidding? And apparently there are some Jewish rabbis who know some pretty dark stuff (like animating clay). But this isn't really a magical story. I mean, magic sets it in motion, but the story is really about two "people" who don't feel like they fit in. It's a not-so-subtle metaphor for immigrants (as they actually are technically immigrants to America), but moreover, a metaphor for feeling detached from the world. I really connected with it because of my struggles with depression, and I imagine there might be something you're struggling with as well that you'll find in the pages of this magnificent novel.
Library of Souls is the third and final book in "Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children" series that began with the bestseller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which found much of it's uniqueness from the use of found vintage photographs. Like the first two books in the series, Library of Souls uses these haunting images (with very little digital manipulation) to build a unique world, and I've always been impressed with how each photograph is used.
I will say though, that it was a little hard to start because it had been so long since I'd read the previous book. But once I got back into the rhythm (and read a plot synopsis on Wikipedia) I found the characters to be just as vibrant and enjoyable as ever. I really enjoyed this journey with Jacob as he came into his own with his "peculiar" talent. He's a true hero, in my opinion.
So if you're considering reading this series, I'd say, "Do it!" It comes to a wonderful and satisfying conclusion so you won't be wasting your time.
Every Last Word felt like your average "discovering yourself" YA novel for three-quarters of the book. But I kept having these nagging questions in the back of my mind while reading (which I can't tell you because SPOILERS!) Then suddenly ALL those questions got answered in a twist I really didn't see coming but was set up perfectly.
I also really enjoyed the author's note about how much research she did on OCD for this book and working closely with a friend's child who was diagnosed with OCD. It felt very authentic in the way it deals with mental illness which as a girl who was diagnosed with OCD at 11 and depression in her 20s, this is really important to me.
Out of all the books, I read in January, I think Every Last Word was my favorite. It was an unexpected favorite at that! I'm used to stories about depression, but not so much OCD and the anxiety disorders that can come along with it. Despite the seemingly overused YA premise, it felt more authentic than many like it I've read in a while.
Well that's January's book round up for you! I hope you'll consider reading something here or even giving me suggestions of books you've read this month that you'd think I'd love! I also really love to point out that 3 out of the 5 books here came from the library! Use your library people! I also use BookBub which is a great email service that sends you a daily round up of discounted books in your interests. This is why I have WAY too many eBooks! My brain's like, "$0.99? Sure! Why not!? This sounds fun!" Anyway, however you get your books, I just hope you enjoy reading!
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It's true! I have an entire collection of "green" bags that ARE very versatile. I know that for weekends at the lake, I can tuck my entire wardrobe into one. I read recently somewhere (was it the NYTimes) that some of these bags actually are collectible, because in some cases they are given out in limited editions.
Anne, I'm still looking for that PERFECT bag! I've always been a "pocketbook" (what it was commonly referred to in my youth) lover. I've enjoyed owning many purses, but now not as much. I tell my daughter all the time that one fabulous Louis Vuitton bag will last you a lifetime and look amazing with everything. Unfortunately, I don't own one! So one of these days, I'm going to scour TJ Maxx for that perfect bag! Love your humble book bag and the story of your attachment to it! Isn't it fun how our accessories can carry their own stories?!
Your bag is indeed magical – it reminds me of the tents in the Harry Potter books that look normal on the outside but hold dozens of people inside. I love your description of your Florida beach days too. Your writing really takes us along with you!
I hope you enjoy a nice warm weather vacation and your magical bag too.
I find that very encouraging. I had hoped that some of these high end bags lived up to their price. It sounds like yours does! I get why bags are expensive, because the perfect one is worth its weight in gold.
I just laughed SO MUCH reading this. You are such a rebel!
All my bags are tote-sized, or they look that way after I shove 20 pounds of books and a huge water bottle in. Sadly, none of them are magic. If they were, they would have prevented all the mishaps, like the not-quite-closed water bottle leakage, the tripping over the straps airport incident, and the bird poop beach episode.
Hee! I think the straps on this bag may have, once, ALMOST tripped my seatmate on an airplane. And I've had many, many water leaking instances. Not yet on the bird poop, but I"m sure it will happen eventually!
I once had a cheap vinyl tote bag that I got free with a subscription to MS. Magazine. No matter how much stuff I had it it, I could reach my hand inside and immediately place my hands on my house keys. Now THAT's magic!
Oh, you are not kidding. THAT is the bag I need.
I love bags! Something I noticed at Christmas, was how many fun shopping bags were for sale! I would have one of each if I was extravagant! It would be fun to have a different one for different shopping experiences. Oh well, I do love my big bags and it is sometimes hard for me to decide which one I will go with…they do have powers!! Fun post!
It's you that makes the bag classy. Great post.
Love it!! I just can not imagine paying $500 for a purse!!! I have trouble shelling out $10!!!
My favorite purse is one I rarely carry–it's a small black wool crepe handbag that my great-grandmother got in the 1930's.
oooooh, that sounds like a keeper. Quite an heirloom, no? Take good care of it!
Our local government just instituted a "bag tax" on shopping bags to push everybody to reusable shoppping bags. I've got a little collection. It's fun to buy one when you're someplace new and then use it at the grocery. I try to keep my daily bag small because it gets heavy if I don't and then my shoulder complains.
When I first started working I saved up my pennies to buy a fancy handbag, and just a few weeks later got mugged. I always blamed that expensive bag for attracting that mugger. It's LeSportsSac for me.
My go to bag is a Burgundy Coach bucket that is older than my kids. I took it to France and felt fine about it. For Spring and Summer, I have a Yellow Coach bag. For totes, I like the Barnes and Noble ones – since they are strong enough for books. The bag I'm giving a rest to is a Dooney and Burke that is also over 30 years old. The funny thing about it is that I was first attracted to it because there was no logo of any kind on the outside, and today they are covered in logos.
I totally agree with you about the two sunscreens. And two towels is always better. This was a fun post!
Oh yes! I have a whole collection of pretty little sequinny clutches in diffrent colours. Some of them have never seen the light of day. I just can't resist them. And for my summer holiday, I always carry a straw basket with a pretty lining. Just seeing it makes me think of long summer days ahead.
lol anne–you always make me laugh! so true too—sometimes its just the novelty of an object that can make chci-itude! Are you enjoying the warm weather now? I will be shortly….can't wait. No more wandering in the dark at 4:30 for me!
Hi Paula — Yes, still enjoying it for a little while longer. Hooray!
I am a bagaholic, I own a few designer bags but also like funny tote bags or just bags that remind me of something ! Yours seems to be very special. I sure take too many things in my bags, they all need to be very resistent and large ! LOL !
I double bag, a cute fashionable but thrifted handbag plus these days an YWCA carry all bag.
My carry all not so pretty bag says that i buy recycled clothing and all profits go to support activities at the Y.


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Centre's Namami Gange Programme helps revive key rivers in UP
Rivers in Uttar Pradesh are now on the way to becoming cleaner, with the state government implementing the Centre's Namami Gange project with full zeal.
The Ganga in Kanpur and Varanasi, the Saryu in Ayodhya, and the Yamuna in Vrindavan are on their way to becoming pollution-free under the Yogi Adityanath-led Government of Uttar Pradesh. The drains falling into these rivers have been tapped and the water of the drains connecting to the Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) is being treated and purified.
As many as 37 drains of these major cities have been prevented from falling into the river. New STPs have been formed on their banks and the sewage of the drains is being purified by tapping. In the last one year, a total of 72 drains have been tapped.
A new STP of 50 Million Litres Daily (MLD) has been prepared in Ramna at a cost of Rs 161.31 crores and three drains falling into the River Ganga have been tapped.
In order to make the river Yamuna in Vrindavan pollution-free, the government has completed the renovation and upgradation of four MLD STPs along with tapping of five drains at a cost of Rs 42.82 crores under the Namami Gange Programme. With the efforts of the government, the water quality of the rivers has also improved a lot.
Anurag Srivastava, Principal Secretary, Namami Gange, and Rural Water Supply Department said, "A campaign is being run on a war footing to make the rivers pollution-free. In particular, the big metropolis from where major rivers like Ganga, Yamuna, and Saryu pass. Along with tapping the drains there, new STPs are being started. Three-tier monitoring is being done for every plan and every work related to the cleanliness of rivers."
Under the Namami Gange Programme, all the drains falling into the river Saryu in the religious and mythological city of Ayodhya are being tapped and contaminated water is being transported to the sewerage treatment plant. This has improved the water quality of the Saryu in Ayodhya. Here, at a cost of Rs 37.67 crores, work has been done to tap five drains. Along with this, the construction work of 12 MLD STP has also been completed.
Also Read: UP Govt establishes 104 STPs for cleaning major rivers under Namami Gange
In Bithoor, seven drains have been tapped at a cost of Rs 13.40 crores. The sewage water is being treated at STP and purified. Due to this, the streams of the river have become uninterrupted and pure.
Under the Namami Gange programme, work has also been done on the sewerage scheme at a rapid pace. The work of laying 106.67 km of sewer lines has been completed with a sewerage plan of Rs 430.49 crores. Along with this, 10350 sewer house connections have been made and the work of desilting 182 km length in river Ganga has been completed.
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A reader of this blog requested the patch for the advapi32 dll of the Vista 64-Bit (pre SP1). So here it is.
Following a request by a reader of this blog, I'm posting the patch for the advapi32 of Windows Vista SP1 64-Bit.
The Service Pack 3 of Windows XP has arrived, so has the patch of its advapi32 dll. As usual, here it is.
Microsoft released a new version of Advapi32 for Windows XP SP3 with version number 5.1.2600.5755. Here is the corresponding patch.
Windows 7 RC has just arrived, so is the patch for CSP development and testing.
Microsoft released a new version of Advapi32 for Windows Server 2003 with version number 5.2.3790.4455. Here is the corresponding patch.
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• BlueFly.com just launched a discount fragrance boutique. [AP]
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import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
import * as React from 'react';
import { MemoryRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import { Api } from 'src/mlmd/library';
import {
  Artifact,
  ArtifactType,
  GetArtifactsResponse,
  GetArtifactTypesResponse,
  Value,
} from 'src/third_party/mlmd';
import { RoutePage } from '../components/Router';
import TestUtils from '../TestUtils';
import { ArtifactList } from './ArtifactList';
import { PageProps } from './Page';

const pipelineName = 'pipeline1';
const artifactName = 'artifact1';
describe('ArtifactList', () => {
  const updateBannerSpy = jest.fn();
  const updateDialogSpy = jest.fn();
  const updateSnackbarSpy = jest.fn();
  const updateToolbarSpy = jest.fn();
  const historyPushSpy = jest.fn();

  const getArtifactsSpy = jest.spyOn(Api.getInstance().metadataStoreService, 'getArtifacts');
  const getArtifactTypesSpy = jest.spyOn(
    Api.getInstance().metadataStoreService,
    'getArtifactTypes',
  );

  beforeEach(() => {
    getArtifactTypesSpy.mockImplementation(() => {
      const map = new Map<number, ArtifactType>();
      const artifactType = new ArtifactType();
      artifactType.setId(6);
      artifactType.setName('String');
      const response = new GetArtifactTypesResponse();
      response.setArtifactTypesList([artifactType]);
      return Promise.resolve(response);
    });
    getArtifactsSpy.mockImplementation(() => {
      const artifact = new Artifact();
      const pipelineValue = new Value();
      pipelineValue.setStringValue(pipelineName);
      artifact.getPropertiesMap().set('pipeline_name', pipelineValue);
      const artifactValue = new Value();
      artifactValue.setStringValue(artifactName);
      artifact.getPropertiesMap().set('name', artifactValue);
      artifact.setName(artifactName);
      const response = new GetArtifactsResponse();
      response.setArtifactsList([artifact]);
      return Promise.resolve(response);
    });
  });

  function generateProps(): PageProps {
    return TestUtils.generatePageProps(
      ArtifactList,
      { pathname: RoutePage.ARTIFACTS } as any,
      '' as any,
      historyPushSpy,
      updateBannerSpy,
      updateDialogSpy,
      updateToolbarSpy,
      updateSnackbarSpy,
    );
  }

  it('renders one artifact', async () => {
    render(
      <MemoryRouter>
        <ArtifactList {...generateProps()} />
      </MemoryRouter>,
    );
    await TestUtils.flushPromises();

    expect(getArtifactTypesSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
    expect(getArtifactsSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);

    screen.getByText(pipelineName);
    screen.getByText(artifactName);
  });

  it('found no artifact', async () => {
    getArtifactsSpy.mockClear();
    getArtifactsSpy.mockImplementation(() => {
      const response = new GetArtifactsResponse();
      response.setArtifactsList([]);
      return Promise.resolve(response);
    });
    render(
      <MemoryRouter>
        <ArtifactList {...generateProps()} />
      </MemoryRouter>,
    );
    await TestUtils.flushPromises();

    screen.getByText('No artifacts found.');
  });
});

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Q: What is the more efficient version control methodology: checkout or merge? I've always used Subversion or CVS for version control, which use a 'merge' methodology.  One of my friends raves about Perforce and how great it is with its change lists and check-out methodology.
While I'm sure a lot of it comes down to experience & personal preference, I was wondering if any research had been done into which method of version control is more efficient to work in?
EDIT: To clarify, I know both Perforce & SVN allow locking & merging, but SVN 'encourages' a liberal edit & merge method, whereas as I understand it, Perforce encourages a checkout-checkin method.

A: Merge is more efficient. For the simple reason that changes to the same file simultaneously tends to be common, and merge allows you to recover from that. In contrast, single checkout prevents that little bit of extra work but it does so at the cost of huge inefficiencies in scheduling. Typically it takes a short amount of time to merge two changes to the same file (e.g. minutes), whereas it takes a significant amount of time to make changes to a file (e.g. many hours or days) so that preventing access to editing a file is a huge inefficiency.
Note that Perforce does not force the checkout methodology, it allows concurrent checkouts (equivalent to merge).

A: Honestly I think it depends on the discipline of the developers.
I use Subversion for my personal work and I've used it at a few jobs.  What I like about Subversion is I don't have to hunt someone down and ask them why they're working on something and if it would be OK for me to do some work.  The problem comes when someone decides to start working on something and doesn't check it in for a while; this can make merging difficult as several changes get made between their check-out and check-in.
I use Perforce right now and for some reason I like SVN better.  Perforce definitely gives me a better indication that there's going to be merge conflicts, and even has built-in tools to help me resolve the merges.  It has the same problem where if someone makes tons of changes over a long time, the merge will be more difficult.
Basically both models require you to check in changes often.  If you make numerous check-ins, then you reduce the likelihood that you'll require a merge.  I'm guilty of keeping stuff checked out for too long way too often.  Personally I feel like SVN's price tag makes up for anything it lacks compared to Perforce; I haven't found a difference between them yet.

A: In our last evaluation, Perforce beat subversion in its support for branching and integrating changes between branches. Work was underway on Subversion to remedy this short-coming, but we haven't been back to check it out.
In Perforce, when you branch a file, Perforce "remembers" where it came from and which revisions have been "integrated" into the two versions. It also has some storage optimizations in the repository so that a branch copy doesn't really materialize until someone makes a change in the branch, and then (if I understand correctly), it uses diffs against the base copy, just like revisions within a branch.
Perforce's tracking of the relationships between branches is a huge asset. If Subversion has implemented this now, please give me a heads up.

A: Perhaps you meant Source Safe rather than Perforce? Perforce supports merging, and in fact had better merge support than SVN until SVN 1.5 where named merges were added (as well as change lists, which Perforce has always had and I mis very much moving to a shop that used SVN, but we won't upgrade until 1.5 has been a bit more time tested.)
It's worth noting that SVN and Perforce both allow you to do a locked checkout, so you can do the "unmerged" model if you want, but aside perhaps from managing binaries with version control, I don't see much use for this.
Anyway, the simple answer to your question is "merge models are far better any time more than one developer is involved."

A: If I understand correctly, Perforce makes all files that are not checked out read-only.  This is similar to the behavior under Microsoft TFS and VSS.  Subversion on the other hand does not set read-only attributes.  IMO, the Subversion method is easier because you don't have to bother with a source control client in order to modify files -- you go ahead and modify with reckless abandon and then compare what has changed on disk with the server when you are ready to check in.
When all files are read-only, I find myself constantly changing a file, attempting to save, discovering it is read-only, then having to hop over to the source control client to check it out.  Its not so bad if the source control client is integrated into your editor, but if you are storing things that are not source code under version control this often isn't an option.

A:
If I understand correctly, Perforce makes all files that are not checked out read-only.

This is only the default behaviour. If required, frequently changing files can be set to be read-write instead. See a full list of file modifiers here.
Also, for my environment, I am using Eclipse with the Perforce Plugin. With this plugin, editing a file immediately opens the file for edit.

A: Not sure about the research, but here's one data point for you:
My team chose PVCS (checkout) mostly because of comfort. Doubts about merge and lack of awareness of tools like Subversion definitely contributed to that.

A: I'm not sure I understand the question here - I'm not aware of any modern source control system (other than Visual SourceSafe) that doesn't fully support merging.

A: I definitely prefer the merge methodology.
I've used Visual Sourcesafe (hopefully never again), CVS, subversion and bzr.  Visual sourcesafe enforces the "checkout before editing" methodology and can be painful.  CVS and subversion haven't been great at accepting merges historically, though I hear subversion 1.5 has improved that.
I would recommend using a VCS that has been designed with frequent merging in mind from the start.  bzr is the one I've used that does this, but the other major distributed vcs systems (git and mercurial) also do.
But ultimately I don't know of any research on this specific area.  In general there is very little research into efficiency of programming, Peopleware being one of the notable exceptions.

A: I don't really get the question, to be honest. But I can vouch for Perforce's efficiency and ability to handle more than one person modifying a file asnychronously, and handling the merging of edits.
In Perforce, if someone checks in a file that you are also modifying, then when you next sync from the server (i.e. get latest files) you get informed that there are some changes that need resolving. The choice on when to do this is up to you. When you "resolve" a file, it does the merge into your local version - and the tools are good for this.
Having a choice on when you do it is important - you may be syncing so you can get some updates not directly related to your task (bugfix, say), and you don't at that stage want to deal with working out if someone else's change to the same files you are working on will affect you. So you carry on, do your build & test, then after that you resolve the files in your own time.
The other case is that you submit your edits without having first synced to the updated file. In this case, Perforce prevents the submission and flags the files to be resolved. Any sensible developer at this stage will do the merge, then recompile and/or test before submitting the change back into Perforce.
What I like about this is that it tries really hard to stop you submitting changes back to the central server that have not been explicitly processed, and hence minimises the chances of breaking the build. The resolve process is easy and very low overhead, so there is not an efficiency issue at all.
Perforce is very explicit in giving you choice and control on how changes are propagated, and backs this up with excellent tools to manage merging of edits. Personally I like choice and the power to exercise choices easily. Doubtless Subversion has its own alternatives too.
I guess it probably comes down to what you are used to - I don't think there is a significant or measurable efficiency issue.

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Gozdowice  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mieszkowice, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border. It lies approximately  west of Mieszkowice,  south of Gryfino, and  south of the regional capital Szczecin.

The sights of Gozdowice include the Museum of Memorabilia of the Engineering Forces of the First Polish Army (Muzeum Pamiątek Wojsk Inżynieryjnych 1 Armii Wojska Polskiego), a monument commemorating Polish sappers who died during World War II in 1945, an observation tower and the Immaculate Conception church, which dates back to the 13th century.

From the High Middle Ages the region was part of the Kingdom of Poland, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Czech Kingdom, Teutonic Order, Brandenburg again, Prussia and Germany from 1871 to 1945, before becoming again part of Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The village has a population of 123 and lies on the Odra River.

References

Villages in Gryfino County

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Santa María del Puerto is one of those towns full of flavour, history and charm, capable of making you fall in love, as it did with Menestheo himself, or with Cristóbal Colón, guest between 1483-1486 of the Dukes of Medinaceli, or Juan de la Cosa, who made in this town, in 1500, the first world map that included America. Or those merchants, "Cargadores a Indias" who built their house-palaces, hence El Puerto is known as the "city of a hundred palaces". This singular town, also fell in love at the end of the 18th century with the young English merchant Thomas Osborne Mann, founder of Bodegas OSBORNE
Once settled in El Puerto, Thomas Osborne married the daughter of the house's proxy Duff Gordon and it was his sons Thomas and John Nicholas who inherited the business upon his death in 1854. The latter will receive the title of Count of Osborne in 1869. Since then; El Puerto, Vinos and Osborne form a beautiful axiom.
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In the Mora wineries, which once belonged to the Moreno Mora family, there is a superb architectural ensemble formed by the so-called "casco de bodega", which is the patron saint of the so-called "bodegas cathedral", and a beautiful mansion, whose nexus is a well-cared-for courtyard, a place for receiving visitors.
In these wineries of Mora, together with the so called Export Wineries, are the ones in charge of receiving in their bosom those hundreds of butts or barrels of American oak, arranged in balanced "andanas", piled up forming "legs" and "castles" where wines of all ages and types rest (finos, amontillados, olorosos, Pedro Ximénez).
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module JackRabbit
  module Logging
    TAG = '[jack_rabbit] '

    def set_logger(logger)
      @logger = logger
      self
    end

    private

    def debug(message)
      log(:debug, message)
    end

    def info(message)
      log(:info, message)
    end

    def log(severity, message)
      @logger.send(severity, TAG + message) if @logger
    end
  end
end


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Jan, Johan or Johannes van Walbeeck (1602 in Amsterdam – after 1649) was a Dutch navigator and cartographer during a 1620s circumnavigation of the earth, an admiral of the Dutch West India Company, and the first governor of the Netherlands Antilles.

Biography
Van Walbeeck is thought to have been born in Amsterdam in 1601 or 1602  and he might be the Jan van Walbeeck, son of the merchant Jacob van Walbeeck and of Weijntgen van Foreest (apparently the only Walbeeck family in town), who was baptized on August 15, 1602, in Amsterdam.

He studied at the University of Leiden before enlisting as navigator and cartographer on the ship De Amsterdam during the three-year circumnavigation of the world from 1623 to 1626 by the Nassau fleet (Nassause vloot) led by Admiral Jacques l'Hermite and Vice Admiral Gheen Huygensz Schapenham. It is thought that the account of this voyage published by Hessel Gerritsz shortly after the expedition's return in 1626 was written and drawn by Van Walbeeck.

In 1627, Van Walbeeck continued his mathematics and physics study in Leiden, but interrupted it again to join Laurens Reael's diplomatic mission to Denmark at the end of the year. Upon his return, he enlisted in a fleet that sailed to the Dutch East Indies.

In 1629, back in the Netherlands, he changed employment from the Dutch East India Company to the Dutch West India Company (WIC).  In April 1630, he arrived on the ship Neptunus in Pernambuco, after Hendrick Cornelisz Loncq had taken Olinda in February and Recife in March from the Portuguese (who between 1580 and 1640 were governed by Habsburg Spain, with which the Dutch Republic was at war). Van Walbeeck immediately was made a member of the Politieke Raad ("Political Council"), the highest level of government in Dutch Brazil. Already in the same year, Loncq sent him (as "Admiral of the Brazilian coast") and Maarten Valck to establish a Dutch base on the Chilean coast from which to explore Terra Australis. However, due to the colonial conflicts between the Dutch Republic and Portugal, the expedition did not get to its destination. Several more expeditions followed, until in 1632 Van Walbeeck was promoted to president of the Politieke Raad.

In 1633, Van Walbeeck and the governor of Dutch Brazil, Dierick van Waerdenburgh, left for the Dutch Republic to meet with the WIC council ("de heren XIX"). The WIC had lost its base in the Antilles when a  Spanish fleet had destroyed its settlement on Sint Maarten in the summer of that year. The council now planned a base in Curaçao and Bonaire, Lesser Antilles under Spanish rule of Province of Venezuela, both for the salt pans (large quantities of salt were needed to preserve fish), and as a strategic location off the South American mainland. The natural harbor of St Anna Bay on Curaçao was the perfect location for this. On April 6, 1634 they assigned Van Walbeeck to the task of taking it from the Spanish, who had colonized the island since the 1520s.  On 4 May 1634, he departed from Holland with four ships, carrying 180 sailors and 250 soldiers, led by the French Huguenot mercenary Pierre Le Grand  who had previously served the Dutch in Brazil. The small fleet arrived at Curaçao on July 6, but through adverse currents and winds could not enter the bay. On July 29, after being joined by a fifth ship and approaching from the north west, the fleet could enter the bay and captured the island from Spain with little resistance and without loss of life on either side. Van Walbeeck wrote in his diary, as transcribed by Johannes de Laet before it was lost, that the 32 Spanish and under 500 remaining (or reintroduced) local Arawaks inhabitants just withdrew to the West end of the island after poisoning their wells and burning their villages. On August 21 the Spanish commander, Lope Lopez de Morla, signed the surrender. The Dutch deported the Spaniards and most West Indians to the Venezuelan port of Coro, keeping about seventy-five of the latter as laborers. Thus, Van Walbeeck became the first director/governor of the Netherlands Antilles. The first task was to build a fortification at the natural harbor, renamed "Schottegat" by the Dutch, which pentagonal structure Fort Amsterdam was finished in 1635, following standard Dutch military engineering practice. During his three years as governor, the beginnings of the town of Willemstad were built next to the fort.

In 1638, he and Le Grand were sent to Brazil, while Jacob Pietersz Tolck took over his position as governor although van Walbeeck remained political director of Curaçao for the next several years. He stayed in Brazil as a member of the Hoge Raad until 1642, after which he returned to Holland again to give advice on the forthcoming expedition under Hendrick Brouwer to establish a trading base in Chile. He went back to Brazil, being mentioned as elder of the Reformed Church there. In 1647 he left Brazil. Maybe he died in the Netherlands, as he lived in Amsterdam when his wife was buried there on 29 April 1649.

Like Peter Stuyvesant, Van Walbeeck was one of the limited number of WIC employees with a university education. The company appears to have valued him at least as highly as Stuyvesant and it has been suggested that he missed being appointed director-general of the New Netherlands merely by not being in the Netherlands at the right time.

Bibliography
Johannes van Walbeeck (attributed), Journael vande Nassausche vloot, ofte Beschryvingh vande voyagie om den gantschen aerdt-kloot, gedaen met elf Schepen, onder `t Beleydt van den Admirael Iaques L`Heremite, ende Vice-Admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham, in de Jaren 1623, 1624, 1625 en 1626, Amsterdam 1626

References

Further reading
Eisler, William Lawrence and Bernard Smith, ed. Terra Australis: The Furthest Shore. Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1988.
Goslinga, Cornelis Christiaan. A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.
Hartog, Johannes. History of the Netherlands Antilles. Aruba: DeWitt, 1968.
Henige, David P. Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.
Hoebel, Edward Adamson, ed. The Netherlands East and West Indies. Inter-Allied Publications, 1945.
Klooster, Wim. Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648–1795. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1998.

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Q: fscanf format specifier into structs I have a data format like the following:
22/March/2014
137 8
15 16 34 8 18
17/November/2014
106 8
22 29 30 9 6
20/November/2014
169 10
50 58 38 29 1

I am trying to use fscanf to get the contents of the file and place them into the following struct:
    struct date{

    //This is storing the date dd/month/yyyy.
    char* fullDate;

    // Number of foot and wheelchair passengers.
    int foot;
    int wheelchair;

    //number of infant, child, adult, senior and family tickets sold
    int infant;
    int child;
    int adult;
    int senior;
    int family;
};

So i tried the following:
struct date r[50];
    FILE* der = fopen("C:\\Users\\Def\\Downloads\\annual_sales_data_2014.txt","r");
    int i = 0;
    rewind(der);
    fscanf(der, "%s", r[i].fullDate);
    fscanf(der, "%d %d ", &r[i].foot, &r[i].wheelchair);
    fscanf(der, "%d %d %d %d",&r[i].infant, &r[i].child, &r[i].adult, &r[i].senior, &r[i].family);
    printf("%s\n%d %d\n%d %d %d %d %d\n\n", r[i].fullDate, r[i].foot, r[i].wheelchair, r[i].infant, r[i].child, r[i].adult, r[i].senior, r[i].family);

    fclose(der);

But i believe that fscanf is not being used right and i'm getting a bit confused by the documentation for format specifiers, I have also tried it this way.
    fscanf(der, "%s/%s/%s\n%d %d\n%d %d %d %d %d\n", r[i].day, r[i].month, , r[i].year, &r[i].foot, &r[i].wheelchair, &r[i].infant, &r[i].child, &r[i].adult, &r[i].senior, &r[i].family);

In the above example i also catered the struct to accept 3 char*'s for the day month and year. in the beginning of the format specifiers string. This didn't work either so i broke it down to a smaller format to see if i could diagnose the problem.
Even in the broken down example this
fscanf(der, "%s", r[i].fullDate);

even this breaks in the debugger and cant work out why.
Thanks.

A: fullDate must be initialized before using. The simplest way is:
r[i].fullDate = malloc(whatever_size_you_need);

or you may even declare it as an array to avoid extra initialization:
struct date{

    //This is storing the date dd/month/yyyy.
    char fullDate[proper_size];

    // ...
};

Of course you must ensure somehow that read string will fit into buffer.

A: You cannot parse the date with fscanf(der, "%s", r[i].fullDate); because fulldate is an uninitialized pointer.  You are supposed to pass the address of an array for the %s format. Put an array in the structure instead of a pointer, such as char fullDate[30]; and use fscanf(der, "%29s", r[i].fullDate);
Note that you can parse the date components directly with:
char monthName[16];
int day, year;

if (fscanf("%d/%15[^ /]/%d", &day, monthName, &year) == 3) {
    /* Date parsed correctly */
} else {
    /* At least one field missing, bail out */
    exit(1);
}

A: You say you believe that fscanf is not being used right, and that is true. This line
fscanf(der, "%d %d %d %d", &r[i].infant, &r[i].child, &r[i].adult, &r[i].senior, &r[i].family);

is passing arguments for the 5 fields you want to fill, but it only has 4 format format specifiers. Try this:
fscanf(der, "%d %d %d %d %d", &r[i].infant, &r[i].child, &r[i].adult, &r[i].senior, &r[i].family);

In addition, you should always check the data fields were read properly. The return value from fscanf would have told you that only 4 items were read.


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News: Beatson Clark's bespoke bottles for BrewDog
Rotherham glass manufacturer Beatson Clark has bagged a commission from cutting-edge craft beer pioneers, BrewDog.
BrewDog is based in Aberdeenshire and has been the fastest-growing food and drinks company in the UK for the last four years. It is self-styled as revolutionary, rebellious "punk" brewers championing craft beer and experimentation. Now the number one craft brewery in the UK, BrewDog shipped the equivalent to 41 million bottles of craft beer in 2015.
BrewDog commissioned a bespoke bottle from Beatson Clark - a 375ml embossed Champagne-style amber beer bottle - for its Abstrakt range, described as "boundary pushing beers" which "transcend categories and excite imaginations."
The brewery releases only a very small number of limited edition batches of Abstrakt per year, and each batch is known only by its release code.
Recent Abstrakt brews include AB19, a 13.1% blend of two barrel-aged imperial saisons; AB20, a 14.2% Tiramisu oatmeal milk barley wine; a blend of an English barley wine brewed with coffee, oats and milk and a complex rum cask-aged imperial stout; and AB21, a 12% liquorice and blackcurrant infused imperial stout.
The new bottle has the BrewDog logo embossed on the shoulder and complements the 660ml Vichy beer bottle which Beatson Clark already supplies to the brewery.
Chris Palmer, business development manager at Beatson Clark, said: "We've worked with BrewDog for several years so we're pleased that they have come back to us for this special design.
"Our in-house design service is second to none and something which customers really appreciate. We are also able to manufacture bespoke bottles at small volumes, which almost certainly helped us to win the contract in this case."
BrewDog website


It has taken 90 accepted submissions but i finally had one make it on the editors choice list.. yay!.. its this image of a sleeping sea lion with a crab on the rock nearby.. does this mean its on a fast track to the cover of National Geographic? Hopefully, this means its going places!
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Interview with Carlos R. Mauricio
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Interview is in Spanish. Carlos Mauricio, Director of the Stop Impunity Project, discusses the two-week period he was held and tortured by the Salvadoran military and his activism in El Salvador and the United States. In this interview, Mauricio recounts his childhood and education in El Salvador, his involvement with the student union, his eventual imprisonment and torture by the Salvadoran government, and his current work as Director of the Stop Impunity Project. This interview was conducted in Austin, Texas as part of the 2014 Lozano Long Conference Micro Oral History Project. | 00:15-11:04 Introductions; 00:36-17:48 Childhood, Education, and Initial Activism; 05:13-11:04 Move to San Salvador, Friendship with Roberto Armijo and University Education; 11:04-17:48 Involvement in the Student Union and the 1971 Teacher's Strike; 17:48-33:23 the Prelude to the Civil War and Carlos Mauricio's studies in Mexico; 37:32-43:15 Return to El Salvador in 1983; 43:16-01:02:08 Disappearance and Torture in July 1983; 43:16-47:40 Attack and Disappearance; 47:40-01:00:28 Detention, Torture and Interrogation; 01:00:28-01:02:08 Release and Notifying the Red Cross; 01:02:08-01:11:26 Court Case against Garcia and Vides Casanova; 01:11:26-01:19:22 Ongoing Work to Stop Impunity and Repression in El Salvador; 01:19:22-01:29:04 Concluding Thoughts
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Jock Palfreeman: Call for Justice
Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian citizen who, before his arrest in Bulgaria, was a trainee soldier in the British Army.
Jock was arrested following an incident in which he had attempted to defend two Roma people who were being attacked by a group of men in an alleged racist attack, late at night near a metro station in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, shortly before Christmas 2007.
As a result of the incident in which one of the attackers was stabbed to death, Jock has been tried and convicted for murder. For this, he has been given a twenty years prison sentence but has leave to appeal.
The full details of the case remain unclear because the entire procedure of the trial has lacked transparency and the denial of witness testimony has been to such an extent that not only Bulgarian law but also natural law appear to have been violated.
According to the basic principle of most legal systems in the democratic world, that one is innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, both the prosecution of Jock's case and the resulting verdict appear to have been unsafe and unfair. Justice has neither been done nor, even more importantly, been seen to be done. Jock has been denied the elementary requirements of a proper legal defence and, thus, a fair trial.
As human rights activists from thirty-three European countries, we call for a retrial of Jock's case in which he will be given the full right to judicial transparency and a full and proper legal representation, including the right to subpoena witnesses both friendly and hostile to face the normal practice of cross-examination. Additionally, we call upon the Bulgarian justice authorities to grant Jock the right to full bail so that he can properly prepare a case for his defence.
Until Jock is provided with these elementary legal and human rights, his trial and conviction cannot be seen in any way as an expression of justice of any kind.
UNITED for Intercultural Action, meeting in Budapest from 11 May to 16 May 2010 expresses its full solidarity with Jock and his family and their efforts to prove his innocence and secure his early release.
For more information see: http://www.freejock.net


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Morning Update: And The Winner Isn't ...
Recapping the Oscars, R. Kelly's bond is set at $1 million, and YouTube demonetized anti-vax channels. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, February 25.
By Brandon Hardin
Brandon Hardin BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on February 25, 2019, at 7:44 a.m. ET
And The Oscar Goes To The Oscar Bait
This year's Oscars will probably be remembered for having no host (which was fine!) and having one of the worst Best Pictures (which was not!).
Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody led the night with four awards, followed by three each for Black Panther, Roma, and Green Book. The last of those took home Best Picture (despite a number of controversies), rankling people at home and at least one newly minted Oscar-winner:
"I thought I was courtside at [Madison Square] Garden," Spike Lee told reporters. "The ref made a bad call." Earlier, Lee won his first-ever Oscar — Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman.
Mahershala Ali is the first black man to win two Best Supporting Actor Oscars. He took home the award last night for Green Book after winning for Moonlight in 2016.
Ruth Carter won Best Costume Design for Black Panther, becoming the first black person to earn the award.
Lady Gaga is officially an Oscar winner now that "Shallow" from A Star Is Born won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards Sunday night.
Speaking of Gaga, she and Bradley Cooper shared a tender moment during their Oscars performance and people loved it.
Period. End of Sentence, an Indian film about the taboo surrounding periods, won for Best Documentary Short and everyone was ecstatic.
Here are all the winners from last night's ceremony.
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Spike Lee and Mahershala Ali.
YouTube Has Demonetized Anti-Vax channels
YouTube is now preventing channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising, saying explicitly that such videos fall under its policy prohibiting the monetization of videos with "dangerous and harmful" content.
Last week, BuzzFeed News found that while YouTube usually returns a top search result for queries like "are vaccines safe" from an authorized source such as a children's hospital, its Up Next algorithm frequently suggested follow up recommendations for anti-vaccination videos.
US schools have put a patchwork of defenses into place against a singular threat: guns. Officials aren't waiting for gun control, and have begun hardening classrooms and outfitting students and teachers with their own weapons — including small bats and buckets of rocks.
R. Kelly allegedly met one of his underage sex abuse victims at his 2008 trial. A court heard new details of the aggravated criminal sexual assault charges against R. Kelly during a bond hearing Saturday, where bond was set at $1 million.
Most tech industry workers think Trump has a point about the media creating fake news. BuzzFeed News and Lucid surveyed them on their attitudes toward the media, and the results show deep skepticism toward the press and concerns about the role of identity politics in coverage.
A dad was found dead with a dog leash around his neck, and his son has been charged with murder. The 16-year-old allegedly told first responders "he wasn't going to be upset about his father dying" because "his father verbally abused him and his mom for a number of years."
The gender reveal has become A Thing. And Jill Filipovic argues that the Instagram-friendly explosions of pink and blue aren't just annoying – they further ingrain what we've spent centuries trying to root out.
Brandon Hardin is the Outside Your Bubble editor and curation editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Brandon Hardin at brandon.hardin@buzzfeed.com.


Companion planting is a technique used especially in organic gardening in which different crops are cultivated together because they aid their fellow plants in some way. Classic companions include carrots and onions because they repel each other's pest insects, or basil and tomatoes, with the basil acting as a pest repellent and flavor enhancer for the tomatoes. Another one of the classic companion collections is corn, beans, and squash.
For those who paid attention in history class, this combination might be familiar because it was used by agriculture-oriented Native Americans who called it "the three sisters." In this arrangement, each member of the trio does work for the others. Beans fix fertilizing nitrogen into the soil. The corn stalks supply stakes for the beans to climb up. Squash plants have big leaves that cover the soil to protect it from the scorching sun, eroding rain, and troublesome weeds, and they have spiky leaves and stems to deter pesky animals like raccoons.
In other words, planting these companions together helps each of them thrive and cuts down on the work a gardener has to do.
While we generally picture rows upon rows in fields when growing corn, that's not often what we are going to do in the home garden, particularly a small suburban plot. Instead, we want to grow something more like a couple dozen stalks. That's no problem.
To prep a smaller garden for the three sisters, create a bed that's at least four feet long by four feet wide and about one foot high. A fairly standard raised bed might be four by eight feet, which would accommodate for two plantings.
If the soil isn't especially good, it can be amended with some wood ash from the fireplace to enrich it. It's important to be aware that wood ash raises the pH of the soil, but it does add quality nutrients like calcium, phosphorus, and potassium. If the soil is mildly acidic, a couple of pounds of ash worked into each four-by-four-foot square should be good.
After any threat of frost is gone, at the center of the four by four square, the corn should be planted in a circle with a two-foot diameter, leaving roughly a foot of planting space around the circle. The corn seed should be planted an inch deep and 10-12 inches apart, equaling around six or seven stalks for each planting circle.
After the corn has been given a couple of weeks to grow and the stalks have reached about half a foot tall, three or four beans should be planted around each stalk. These can be green beans, but traditionally, these would be beans for drying and storing.
Roughly a week after the beans have been planted, it's time to sow the squash. Typically, these will be autumn squashes, with the hard shell, and like the beans, they can be stored for winter nutrition. Squash plantings should be just a few inches outside the circle of corn, and there should be one squash plant per corn stalk.
In general, corn takes about three months to reach maturity and provide some food. The ears will develop a little wispy, often colorful, tuft of "silk" at the outer ends. After about twenty days, the silk will turn brown, but the husk around the corn will still be green. It should be ready. The final test would be to prick a kernel of corn with a pin: milky liquid means its ready, clear liquid means it's too soon, and no liquid means it's a bit later than optimal.
As for the other crops, when growing dried beans for storage, the process is different than green beans. The entire bean should be allowed to remain on the plant until the beans rattle audibly inside of the pod. The plants should be pulled up, held upside down, and rattled inside a large container so that the hulls open up. Then, the debris should be blown away from the beans with a hairdryer, fan or air compressor. Then they should be stored in an airtight container out of the sunlight.
Lastly, autumn or winter squash should be allowed to fully mature and be picked right around the first frost. The fruits should feel solid, but when tapped, they should sound hollow. To store them for winter, the squashes should be cured and stored at roughly 50 degrees Fahrenheit if possible, with butternut and Hubbard lasting around six months this way.
Growing a double-reach row of the three sisters is a fantastic use of garden space, and it fits right into a small suburban vegetable patch, providing an abundance of food for the square footage and lots of organic matter for composting.


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Connect your displays in your establishment with SCOOPS and get going. A digital menu? New prices or a seasonal product? New opening hours or a statement? Signage in your hotel? Or a nice review from a customer?
Engage your customers in your way. Anticipate in the festival season and show the best festival snaps of your customers. Join in the madness of big competiitions like the European Championships or Olympic Games. Show pictures of men with mustache who come to you during Movember. Current themes will pass unnoticed if not longer. Increase customer loyalty and build a solid clientele by creating interaction via your displays.
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China has seen Bitcoin-related lawsuits rise by 11 fold in four years, with a majority involving in electricity theft for bitcoin mining, according to China Judgements Online, a website publishing court documents of the whole country.
Bitcoin has been ruled out as currency by the country's central bank, but its tight connection to money has given rise to quite a number of disputes these years.
As per the search result on China Judgement Online, the number of bitcoin-related cases has been on the rise year by year. 142 bitcoin filings have been made in 2018, rising by 11 fold from 12 filed in 2014. With 2018 still having one month to go, that number is likely to continue rising.
Specifically, bitcoin-related theft and fraud are the main criminal cases, with up to 80 and 30 filings respectively, accounting for 77% of the total number of bitcoin filings.
Among those theft cases, 8btc noticed that less than 30% pertained to actual theft of bitcoins or mining machines, most of the defendants, however, were prosecuted for stealing state power for bitcoin mining without authorization.
These disputes mainly centered in traditional mines – places with abundant oilfield gas or coal resources and mining-favored climates, such as Anhui, Heilongjiang, Henan and Hebei. To mine bitcoins at low cost, criminals mostly use the convenient facility of oil fields and coal mines to steal state electric power.
According to incomplete statistics from a local media report, nearly one-fifth of the world's bitcoin mining rigs were sold into Daqing, home to Daqing Oil Field (China's largest oil field). Due to the huge power consumption of bitcoin mining, mine operators opt to eye on oil well electricity in remote places, which could greatly reduce their mining cost, but brings immeasurable economic losses to oilfield enterprises and risk factors to the place.
From Jan 15 to Apr 25, 37 illegal bitcoin mines stealing electricity from oil had been detected and 23 cases were busted, with 36 suspects arrested and 3,768 mining machines confiscated in the region of Daqing alone.


When you head out the door for your first appointment, there are a few items we ask you bring along – your insurance card as well as your driver's license or photo ID. Also, if you were referred to us by a physician, please remember your prescription.
No one likes filling out form after form at a doctor's office. So why not finish them ahead of time? Print these documents out, then either bring the completed forms with you to your first appointment, or simply fax them to our office.


I moved from New Zealand to Saarbrücken to work at Saarland University in 2015. I had been warned by friends that if I wanted to learn German in Germany, I would have to be persistent and pushy to get people to converse with me in German, as most Germans speak excellent English. But fairly soon after arriving, I realised that being in an area so close to the French border would place me in a good environment for learning German.
Snow outside my work building, Saarland University, a novelty! | © Carolyn Wu Once shop assistants could see I didn't speak German, they asked if I could speak French – "Französisch?" – and then shook their heads at my "Englisch?".
I had been told that the working language in my research unit would be English, but I could see the advantage of being able to communicate in German in order to integrate with my team. It took some time to be confident enough to use my German at work. With the encouragement of friends and colleagues, I persisted!
By the time I moved to my current post in Bielefeld, after almost two years in Germany, I was confident enough to participate from the get-go in conversations at the university canteen, mistakes and all.
© Carolyn Wu This helped establish quickly that I want to keep learning and speaking German, and my colleagues are used to me using German, however bad it may be!
One thing I really love about language learning in Germany is Language Tandem. I'm not talking about learning vocab on a two-seater bicycle, as one my friends assumed. No, this kind of tandem involves pairing up with someone who speaks another language and meeting regularly to converse in both. My tandem partner and I agreed to meet for breakfast and if the language tandem-ing didn't work out, well, it's nice to meet up for freshly baked rolls and other treats anyway!
In the beginning, as I expected, it was tough. Really tough. Sometimes we battled away for five hours (and five coffees and five hundred laughs – we had fun!) with my contribution to the German part, to begin with, consisting only of basic grammar structures and sometimes bringing something to read out aloud. My tandem's English is of course much more advanced and in the English half we were already discussing similes and turns of phrase.
Being able to cycle across the border and back after work, along the Saar River was still a novelty after two years of living in Saarbrücken. Now I am more accustomed to crossing borders between languages as well as places! | © Carolyn Wu Having some knowledge of German has also meant that I am able to take part in extracurricular activities that I enjoy. Recently I joined the University Choir to take part in the classical music scene. The first couple of rehearsals were still intense in a language sense! We sing German texts - naturally a pronunciation challenge - and it was such a scramble just keeping up with the fast pace of the instructions in German. By the third rehearsal, though, things were much clearer. The intensity did not drop, but I kept up and could focus more on singing.
I am ever so grateful and respectful that learning German has opened up these types of opportunities which make me feel settled in Germany and keep a well-rounded lifestyle so that everything stays – as the Germans say – "in the green range".
Joining a choir is a great way to meet people, practise German, and have fun! Some choirs don't have an audition requirement – anyone is welcome, as long as you enjoy singing!