This is Curly, a white, 10 month old toy French poodle. Some old lady had Curly kept in a 2 foot long, 3 foot wide box at 3 months old, very cruel. I fell in love with this poor little poodle when I first saw him. If he's not barking for attention, he is swimming in the pool. Curly loves to walk on the walk path with me and his best dog friend, Teddy. He is the best thing that has happened to me since I got my cat, who is Curly's ultimate best friend, animal or human!
This is Teddy, a 4 month old, tan-brown white German Shepherd/Golden Retriever mix. I got Teddy from my neighbor; she found him tick infested. She gave him a bath, and he looked a little bit better. She put "Found" posters up and NO one replied. So, I took Teddy in. Since then, I have taught Teddy to sit, stay, and even "Rescue" Curly in the pool. Teddy likes to play fetch with his old, dirty tennis ball. He absolutely loves to go swimming with his best friend, Curly. I love Teddy with all my heart, and he loves me. He gets along with my cats, birds, and dog... Along with my family. He gives me company when there is no one else to talk to. He is a fun-loving companion."


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People, ideas and actions for a better world
Insight on today's issues
Actions for change
Fighting climate change through our urban forests
By Carolyn Ali
UBC researcher Zhaohua (Cindy) Cheng aims to find win-win solutions for communities that are both green and dense. Photos by Paul Joseph/UBC Brand & Marketing
Change starts locally. Here's how UBC researchers are empowering Metro Vancouver communities to combat the region's rising temperatures.
The heat waves this summer have brought the realities of climate change home for many people in Metro Vancouver. While some have installed air conditioners, UBC research scientist Zhaohua (Cindy) Cheng encourages a greener way to cool our homes and neighbourhoods — urban forests.
Urban forests consist of the vegetation and landscapes found throughout our cities, like public parks, streetscapes, natural areas and yards . Cheng is studying how green spaces like these can help make our cities more resilient to climate change.
The good news? "Individuals can play a big role in protecting and growing our urban forest," she says.
Cheng is part of the UBC team that developed the Citizen's Coolkit on Climate Change and Urban Forestry. It's a free, fun DIY toolkit that offers hands-on activities for people to help fight climate change in their neighbourhoods.
Cheng led the development of the Citizen's Coolkit along with the Faculty of Forestry's Dr. Stephen Sheppard, the project's principal investigator.
"Our research shows that people are overwhelmed by climate change, and they don't know where to start," Cheng says. "The Coolkit helps people break down what climate change means on a local scale. 'What does it look like on my street? In my yard? In my household?' Then we focus on something they can do to take positive action where they live."
Balancing urban density with urban forests
For instance, one simple thing people can do is plant trees in their yards or water nearby trees on public property in their neighbourhoods during dry spells.
"Trees are the most efficient air conditioner we've got," says Dr. Sheppard.
Dr. Stephen Sheppard, who teaches in the urban forestry program at UBC, advocates climate action on a neighbourhood scale.
Trees provide shade for housing, which translates to heat protection for the people within. Trees cool the streets and regulate storm water run-off. They also reduce the need for air conditioning, saving people money.
So besides absorbing carbon and reducing unhealthy air pollution, trees protect people from the potentially devastating consequences of heat waves, flash floods, storms and more.
"Many citizens choose to take down trees, but they don't yet recognize the consequences for their homes and their neighbourhoods."
Dr. Stephen Sheppard, UBC FACULTY OF FORESTRY
British Columbia has warmed up by about 1 degree Celsius over the past century, and it's predicted that daytime summer temperatures will be warmer by 3.7 degrees Celsius by 2050. A resilient urban forest can help offset these effects.
But as Metro Vancouver has become more urbanized, the urban forest tree canopy cover has gradually declined.
"The main reason for that decline is usually loss of trees on private property, whether it's homeowner driven or densification through redevelopment," says Dr. Sheppard. "Many citizens choose to take down trees, but they don't yet recognize the consequences for their homes and their neighbourhoods."
Areas that are developing or densifying rapidly, such as Surrey and New Westminster, are particularly vulnerable.
Surrey's tree canopy cover has decreased from 33 per cent in 2001 to 28 per cent in 2013. New Westminster's tree canopy has decreased at a rate of 1.5 per cent per year since 2004.
Dr. Sheppard notes that many municipalities have enacted policies to plant trees to compensate for this loss.
"Density overall is a good thing for many sustainability issues and for satisfying demand for housing," he says. "Negative side effects on the urban tree canopy can be mitigated and even reversed if mature trees are strongly protected and enough space is left for planting on private property."
Both municipal policy and individual actions can help with that, says Cheng, who is researching such strategies on urban density and urban forests for her doctoral studies at UBC.
"I want to see whether we can find win-win solutions with communities that are both green and dense," says Cheng.
Connecting individuals for community action
UBC's Faculty of Forestry has created the Citizen's Coolkit to help translate research into action and help people cut their carbon footprint in half by 2030 to combat climate change.
Dr. Sheppard's research lab has also partnered with the Vancouver School Board to create resources to help teachers engage high-school students in climate-change education.
"It's a tough fight against climate change, and we're connecting people so that they don't have do it alone."
Cheryl Ng, Cool 'Hood Champs
In partnership with the Vancouver Park Board, the group also offers the Cool 'Hood Champs program, which is based on the Coolkit. It's offered for free through community centres, with workshops running this fall. UBC Forestry graduate Cheryl Ng runs the community outreach for the program, training locals who want to become champions for climate action on how to involve their friends, family and neighbours.
"A big part of it is community building," says Ng. "It's a tough fight against climate change, and we're connecting people so that they don't have do it alone."
UBC's Cheryl Ng trains community members who want to be climate champions on how to involve their friends and neighbours.
Using the Citizen's Coolkit, she helps groups develop a positive action plan to implement in their neighbourhood. The actions start small and ramp up, from simply having a conversation about tree canopies to planning improvements on specific blocks, to installing a rainwater-collection system or planting fruit trees. Renters are encouraged to talk to their landlords, volunteer with the Park Board to plant trees in parks, water older trees on their block during heat waves, build community rain gardens and more.
These local changes can help mitigate the effects of global climate change in our region. They also help tackle the broader issue of environmental inequalities in low-canopy neighbourhoods that are especially vulnerable to heatwaves. "You can cool your house internally with a heat pump, but you can't cool your neighbourhood," Dr. Sheppard notes. "For that, you need enough trees."
Carolyn Ali is a writer for UBC Brand and Marketing.
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Държавният комитет за наука и технически прогрес е държавна институция в България с ранг на министерство, съществувала в периода 1959–1987.

История
Комитетът ръководи научната и развойна дейност в страната в условията на тоталитарния режим, като за тази цел координира дейността на Българската академия на науките, университетите и други организации. В прерогативите му е и поддържането на системата на стандартизация в страната. Между 1971 и 1977 година комитетът отговаря и за системата на висшето образование, преди и след това подчинена на Министерството на народната просвета.

Държавният комитет за наука и технически прогрес ръководи политиката за внедряване на постиженията на научно-техническата революция в икономиката, опит на държавното ръководство да повиши конкурентоспособността на българската икономика чрез масирани държавни инвестиции в технологични изследвания. През 1987 година комитетът е присъединен към новосъздаденото Министерство на културата, науката и просветата.

Ръководители
 Председатели на Комитета по техническия прогрес

 Председатели на Държавния комитет за наука и технически прогрес

 Председатели на Държавния комитет за наука, технически прогрес и висше образование

 Председатели на Комитета за наука, технически прогрес и висше образование

 Председатели на Държавния комитет за наука и технически прогрес

 Председатели на Държавния комитет за изследвания и технологии

Бележки

Наука в България
Исторически държавни институции в България
История на България (1945 – 1989)

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The professional practice seminars will focus on the context of the school, relationships with parents and the broader community and resources for teaching. Discussions and evaluations in seminars will focus on Candidates' developing philosophical stance and emergent teacher identity. Candidates will provide evidence of their holistic development as an interventionist classroom practitioner during the Clinical Praxis Examination.
Have conscious personal and social values base that is evident in their teaching.
A current Working With Children Check (WWCC).
1 preparation day (on campus), 29 days of professional practice in a primary school including 8 hours of school-based seminar.


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package org.springframework.jca.cci.connection;

import javax.resource.ResourceException;
import javax.resource.cci.Connection;
import javax.resource.cci.ConnectionSpec;

import org.springframework.core.NamedThreadLocal;

/**
 * An adapter for a target CCI {@link javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory},
 * applying the given ConnectionSpec to every standard getConnection()
 * call, that is, implicitly invoking getConnection(ConnectionSpec)
 * on the target. All other methods simply delegate to the corresponding methods
 * of the target ConnectionFactory.
 *
 *
Can be used to proxy a target JNDI ConnectionFactory that does not have a
 * ConnectionSpec configured. Client code can work with the ConnectionFactory
 * without passing in a ConnectionSpec on every getConnection() call.
 *
 *
In the following example, client code can simply transparently work with
 * the preconfigured "myConnectionFactory", implicitly accessing
 * "myTargetConnectionFactory" with the specified user credentials.
 *
 *

 * <bean id="myTargetConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
 *   <property name="jndiName" value="java:comp/env/cci/mycf"/>
 * </bean>
 *
 * <bean id="myConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter">
 *   <property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="myTargetConnectionFactory"/>
 *   <property name="connectionSpec">
 *     <bean class="your.resource.adapter.ConnectionSpecImpl">
 *       <property name="username" value="myusername"/>
 *       <property name="password" value="mypassword"/>
 *     </bean>
 *   </property>
 * </bean>

 *
 *
If the "connectionSpec" is empty, this proxy will simply delegate to the
 * standard getConnection() method of the target ConnectionFactory.
 * This can be used to keep a UserCredentialsConnectionFactoryAdapter bean definition
 * just for the option of implicitly passing in a ConnectionSpec if the
 * particular target ConnectionFactory requires it.
 *
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @since 1.2
 * @see #getConnection
 */
public class ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter extends DelegatingConnectionFactory {

	private ConnectionSpec connectionSpec;

	private final ThreadLocal threadBoundSpec = new NamedThreadLocal("Current CCI ConnectionSpec");

	/**
	 * Set the ConnectionSpec that this adapter should use for retrieving Connections.
	 * Default is none.
	 */
	public void setConnectionSpec(ConnectionSpec connectionSpec) {
		this.connectionSpec = connectionSpec;
	}

	/**
	 * Set a ConnectionSpec for this proxy and the current thread.
	 * The given ConnectionSpec will be applied to all subsequent
	 * getConnection() calls on this ConnectionFactory proxy.
	 *
This will override any statically specified "connectionSpec" property.
	 * @param spec the ConnectionSpec to apply
	 * @see #removeConnectionSpecFromCurrentThread
	 */
	public void setConnectionSpecForCurrentThread(ConnectionSpec spec) {
		this.threadBoundSpec.set(spec);
	}

	/**
	 * Remove any ConnectionSpec for this proxy from the current thread.
	 * A statically specified ConnectionSpec applies again afterwards.
	 * @see #setConnectionSpecForCurrentThread
	 */
	public void removeConnectionSpecFromCurrentThread() {
		this.threadBoundSpec.set(null);
	}

	/**
	 * Determine whether there is currently a thread-bound ConnectionSpec,
	 * using it if available, falling back to the statically specified
	 * "connectionSpec" property else.
	 * @see #doGetConnection
	 */
	public final Connection getConnection() throws ResourceException {
		ConnectionSpec threadSpec = (ConnectionSpec) this.threadBoundSpec.get();
		if (threadSpec != null) {
			return doGetConnection(threadSpec);
		}
		else {
			return doGetConnection(this.connectionSpec);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * This implementation delegates to the getConnection(ConnectionSpec)
	 * method of the target ConnectionFactory, passing in the specified user credentials.
	 * If the specified username is empty, it will simply delegate to the standard
	 * getConnection() method of the target ConnectionFactory.
	 * @param spec the ConnectionSpec to apply
	 * @return the Connection
	 * @see javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory#getConnection(javax.resource.cci.ConnectionSpec)
	 * @see javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory#getConnection()
	 */
	protected Connection doGetConnection(ConnectionSpec spec) throws ResourceException {
		if (getTargetConnectionFactory() == null) {
			throw new IllegalStateException("targetConnectionFactory is required");
		}
		if (spec != null) {
			return getTargetConnectionFactory().getConnection(spec);
		}
		else {
			return getTargetConnectionFactory().getConnection();
		}
	}

}

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HomeThe Key to Bernie Sanders's Appeal Isn't Socialism. It's Yiddish Socialism.
The Key to Bernie Sanders's Appeal Isn't Socialism. It's Yiddish Socialism.
Daniel KatzFebruary 14, 2016Getty Images
At a rally last October, Remaz Abdelgader — a hijab-wearing Muslim, a senior at George Mason University and the daughter of Sudanese immigrants — stood to ask Bernie Sanders a question.
She started by referring to the Islamophobic bigotry of many of the Republican candidates. As she continued, calling herself "an American Muslim student who aspires to change the world," Sanders interrupted her to invite her up to the stage and embrace her, and then, respectfully, he gave her the opportunity to finish her question onstage on equal footing. How would Sanders respond, Abdelgadar asked, to the Islamophobia spouted by the Republicans and amplified by the media? Sanders gently took her hand and stood next to her at the lectern as he responded.
Had this scene been scripted, it would have been a remarkable tableau vivant. It was not rehearsed, but neither was it accidental. Sanders's response to her question gave us a rich insight into the Socialist worldview that underpinned the Jewish and multicultural Brooklyn environment in which he was raised, which goes a good way toward explaining his broad and growing appeal.
Sanders began by equating anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia. He hearkened to his own Jewish heritage and recalled the murders of his father's family in Nazi concentration camps. Racism is not only about pent up hatred and stupidity, he explained; it is also a tool that politicians and the wealthy elite use to keep workers divided and to weaken their efforts to organize. Politicians, he said, told white workers, "Hey, you think you're in trouble, but you're better off than blacks, that can't drink out of water fountains and go to your school." By pitting black against white, men against women and straight against gay, "that's how the rich got richer while everybody else was fighting each other."
In this brief moment, Sanders illustrated the central tenets of Yiddish Socialism, the dominant political and cultural current among the working-class Jews of Brooklyn where Sanders was born at the end of the Great Depression. In New York and elsewhere, Yiddish Socialists in the early 20th century founded and invigorated fraternal societies, newspapers, schools, athletic leagues, summer camps, theaters and, especially, unions. The immigrant generation were inspired by their experiences in the revolutionary movements in Russia, where intellectuals and militants from up to 100 ethnic groups learned to respect their own and one another's cultures to be able to speak with and rally ordinary peasants and workers to fight the oppression of the Czarist State.
In America as in Russia, employers tried to pit one group against the other, and so Jews reached out to their co-workers and neighbors across races, ethnicities and religions. In the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish unionists and their Italian anarchist allies approached the very black and Puerto Rican workers who had been hired as strike breakers to join the union. Then they created organizational structures that encouraged workers of different racial-ethnic backgrounds to explore their cultures in a militant union context. No union did so more successfully than the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, which melded strike preparations and ferocious picket line defense training with multicultural sports tournaments and music, dance and theater festivals.
Why Bernie Sanders Needs a Come-to-Jesus Moment
J.J. GoldbergFebruary 4, 2016
Yiddish Socialists succeeded in organizing the men's and women's garments industries, among others, and created the foundation for economic security for workers of all cultures. The unions they built gained increasing influence in local and national politics and helped pass New Deal, Veterans, and Great Society legislation that established middle class living standards for millions of American workers. Working with the Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson administrations, they fought for and won labor rights, social security, minimum wages and housing subsidy legislation, though not for everyone.
But the McCarthyist Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s suppressed much Jewish Leftist activism, and by the time a radical critique of American and Western society reemerged in the 1960s, many Jewish leaders, intellectuals and activists saw themselves as having a seat at the table.
Following World War II, these Jews — the children and grandchildren of the refugees from Czarist Russia — had begun to transition from Yiddish Socialism to Jewish Liberalism. Their critiques of capitalism softened and their solutions to social problems were more about reforms than radical systemic transformations.
But even many liberal Jews retained a sensibility about the importance of racial-ethnic cultural diversity to a healthy democratic and economically stable society. Radical and liberal Jews alike overwhelmingly supported the Black Freedom Struggle and Johnson's Great Society programs.
It was in this environment in the early 1960s that Sanders joined the Young People's Socialist League and organized for the Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Bernie Sanders Should Embrace His Kibbutz Past — Not Shrink From It
A. Daniel RothFebruary 8, 2016
For some, Sanders's call for revolution is mild. Medicare for all and increased taxes on the top 1% won't change the economic, political and social structures. Perhaps. Sanders has for more than 50 years embraced a form of socialism that is both radical in its critique of social injustice and pragmatic in offering solutions. But his vision is also deeper and more complex than most commentators understand. His "political revolution," steeped in a specific tradition, time and place, does not privilege class warfare over identity politics, or vice versa. This is the key to his growing appeal.
Sanders is giving voice to an emerging current among those who occupied Wall Street, declared they are undocumented and unafraid, and insisted that black lives matter. He understands all oppression as an ecosystem. An injury to one is an injury to all. And the solutions have to be broad and interconnected. Throughout American history, too many movements for social justice have ignored, ridiculed or barred some other group. Sanders's call to unite poor people, people of color, women, LGBT people, students, immigrants, people of all faiths and no faith, and others, is inspired by an emerging movement of inclusion that may prove to be longer lasting, more effective and more powerful than we have seen before in this country.
Daniel Katz is the author of "All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism" (NYU Press, 2013).
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.


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Heroes and villains invade the Krewe des Ambassadeurs Mardi Gras Grand Bal XX
Henrietta Wildsmith
A good story has a conflict between good and evil. The heroes fight against the villains as the audience cheers then on. And so went The Krewe des Ambassadeurs of Minden's Grand Bal XX: Heroes and Villains. However, there was not much fighting in this story, just a lot of cheering at the Sam's Town Hotel and Casino Friday evening event.
Their title sponsor, Minden Medical Center, enjoyed a moment of applause for the employees. "We applaud you for all your hard work during these unprecedented times, you are truly heroes," said Master of Ceremonies George French III.
Captain Paul Lopez, dressed as Captain America, took command of the stage setting the evening up for all the royals who were to follow.
Prince Rhodes Greer and Princess Madison McCullough gave tribute to the original tribute, Katniss Everdeen, of the Hunger Games. McCullough spun around the room in a black dress, with red flames, that lit up.
Next, the Duke and Duchess of Hospitality, Anthony Kveder and Terri Guin, made a dramatic entrance as Batman and Cat Woman.
The Duke and Duchess of Prosperity, Jason Kirkland and Carol Kirkland, took to the apocalyptic world as Sarah Conner and The Terminator.
The Krewe des Ambassadeurs Queen Kim Lopez dressed as the infamous Evil Queen from Snow White complete with a sparkling red apple.
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It is only fitting that the hero from the kingdom of Tabor, King William, ended the tableau as the King of the Krewe des Ambassadeurs, Kenneth Buford, decked out in a blue suit fit for a Prince Charming, made his way onto the stage and out into the crowd.
Co-captain Sarah Haynes said, "I feel like we are a very friendly krewe, we are small with 125 members, but everybody loves to come to our ball because we make everyone feel welcome".
Henrietta Wildsmith is a photojournalist for the Shreveport Times, part of the USA Today Network. Reach her at hwildsmith@gannett.com, Facebook or Instagram at @hanketta.


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/// <reference path="Shape.ts" />
/// <reference path="ToolSettings.ts" />

interface String {
    format(args: (string|number)[]  ): string;
}

module markit {

    export class Arrow extends Shape {

        protected _line: Line;
        protected _arrowHead: Triangle;

        public get element(): Snap.Element {
            return this._line.element;
        }

        constructor(paper: Snap.Paper, origin: Point, toolSettings: ToolSettings) {
            super(paper, origin, toolSettings);

            this._line = new Line(paper, origin, toolSettings);
            this._arrowHead = new Triangle(paper, origin, toolSettings);

            let rect = {
                x: 0,
                y: 0,
                width: 12,
                height: 12
            };
            this._arrowHead.boundingBox = rect;
            this._arrowHead.useDefaultBoundingBox = true;
        }

        public destroy(): void {
            if (this._selectedHandles.length) {
                this.removeHandles();
                this._arrowHead.destroy();
                this._line.destroy();
                this._element = null;
            }
        }

        draw(coords: Point): void {

            if (typeof coords == "undefined" || coords == null) {
                throw "coords parameter is required.";
            }

            this._line.draw(coords);
            this._arrowHead.origin = coords;
            this._arrowHead.boundingBox.x = coords.x;
            this._arrowHead.boundingBox.y = coords.y - this._arrowHead.boundingBox.height / 2;
            this._arrowHead.draw(coords);

            let angle = this.calculateAngle(coords);
            this._arrowHead.rotateElement(coords, angle);
        }

        private createHandles(): void {
            this._selectedHandles.push(this.paper.ellipse(this._line.origin.x, this._line.origin.y, 5, 5));
            this._selectedHandles.push(this.paper.ellipse(this._line.endpoint.x, this._line.endpoint.y, 5, 5));
            this._selectedHandles.forEach(h => h.attr({
                fill: "#C0C0C0"
            }));
        }

        private setHandleCoords(startCoords?: Point, endCoords?: Point): void {

            let start = startCoords || this._line.origin;
            let end = endCoords || this._line.endpoint;
            console.log("arrow.setHandleCoords called: startCoords: x: " + start.x + ", y: " + start.y +
                ", endCoords: x: " + end.x + ", y: " + end.y);
            this._selectedHandles[0].attr({
                cx: start.x,
                cy: start.y
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            this._selectedHandles[1].attr({
                cx: end.x,
                cy: end.y
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        private removeHandles(): void {
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                let handle = this._selectedHandles.pop();
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                // TODO: remove any event handlers
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        public select(): void {
            console.log("arrow.select called.");
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                this.createHandles();
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        public deselect(): void {
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                this.removeHandles();
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        public drawComplete(selectShape?: boolean) {
            console.log("arrow.drawComplete called.");
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            this._arrowHead.drawComplete(false);
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        public redraw(mode: string, offset: Point, handleIndex?: number): void {
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                this.resize(offset, handleIndex);
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                this.drag(offset);
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        private resize(offset: Point, handleIndex: number): void {

            let startCoords;
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                    x: this._line.origin.x + offset.x,
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                    x: this._line.endpoint.x,
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                    x: this._line.origin.x,
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                    x: this._line.endpoint.x + offset.x,
                    y: this._line.endpoint.y + offset.y
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            let angle = this.calculateAngle(endCoords,startCoords);
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            this._arrowHead.rotateElement(endCoords, angle);
            this.setHandleCoords(startCoords, endCoords);
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        private drag(offset: Point): void {

            let startCoords = {
                x: this._line.origin.x + offset.x,
                y: this._line.origin.y + offset.y
            };
            let endCoords = {
                x: this._line.endpoint.x + offset.x,
                y: this._line.endpoint.y + offset.y
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            let angle = this.calculateAngle(endCoords, startCoords);
            this._line.redraw("drag", offset, -1);
            this._arrowHead.origin = endCoords;
            this._arrowHead.boundingBox.x = endCoords.x;
            this._arrowHead.boundingBox.y = endCoords.y - this._arrowHead.boundingBox.height / 2;
            this._arrowHead.draw(endCoords);
            this._arrowHead.rotateElement(endCoords, angle);
            this.setHandleCoords(startCoords, endCoords);
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        public containsElement(element: Element): boolean {
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Before there was Saturday Night Live there were the Farkleberry Follies. Founded in 1967, this performance convened every other year was a time when a collection of Arkansas journalists conducted skits to spoof state politics in general, and Governor Orval Faubus in particular. In a recent editorial, Rex Nelson reported that the main objective of the show was to "skewer the inflated egos of the political class." The show got its name from an editorial by local cartoonist George Fisher who poked fun at the governor over a folksy meeting where Faubus had lectured a brush-clearing highway crew about the native species of shrubs in our region. One of the most obscure of these was the tree blueberry or farkleberry (Vaccinium arboretum) with its amusing name.
There is a direct Ozark Society connection here because the family of current Ozark Society President, David Peterson, received one of the prized farkleberry awards bestowed from the hands of Dale Bumpers some 30 years ago on behalf of a folk music group founded by Fisher in Pulaski County. The shrub itself is especially common in the Ozarks and Ouachitas where it is found growing on the edges of cliffs and around rock ledges. We frequently encounter farkleberry thickets on our outdoor adventures along the Buffalo River Trail and in other popular or scenic areas. The tall shrubs often grow in impossibly contorted forms that are fun to observe. But there's more to the farkleberry story than that.
The shrub is especially relevant for me because it was a big part of the chain of events that caused me to select Arkansas for my retirement home. As an environmental scientist I had the opportunity to work for weeks at a time with colleagues at USEPA's Kerr Lab in Ada, Oklahoma. With time on my hands during weekends, I was able to explore the far western end of the Ouachita Mountains. There I was charmed by what I took for extensive stands of high-bush blueberry. That shrub is a prolific fruit-bearing bush in my native New England, and the original source of many cultivated blueberry varieties.
These blueberry shrubs grew even bigger where I saw them in eastern Oklahoma, and I had visions of bumper crops of wild fruit here in future summers. That observation was part of the ultimate decision to settle in Arkansas where I had access to an academic community and hiking opportunities in the oak-dominated forests that reminded me of my native Connecticut.
After spending time in the Ozarks, I would be profoundly disappointed by farkleberry fruit. Even with its nominal resemblance to eastern blueberry, this shrub was clearly different in so many ways. Farkleberry grows to almost tree status, has leathery and semi-evergreen leaves, and tiny, shiny black fruits that mature in October and are dry, seedy and practically tasteless. Perhaps that's why the birds leave them on the bushes through much of the winter.
There are two other very different blueberry species on the bluffs above the Buffalo River, and they can have some tasty fruit on the rare occasions when conditions allow. This is one of those rare occasions. The most common of these is a low trailing plant known as "huckleberry" (which is actually the name of another fruiting shrub entirely) forming a knee-high ground cover that spreads rampantly by underground "runners" on well-drained, cherty soils (Vaccinium pallidum).
This year the wet spring and sunlight from openings in the forest canopy provided by wind and ice storms in previous years have allowed these shrubs to produce a crop of small, bluish-black berries that have the expected sweet blueberry taste.
The other native blueberry species known as deerberry does not spread so readily underground and forms compact bushes up to three feet tall (Vaccinium stamineum). This little shrub is unlike other blueberries in having attractive flowers that grow as clusters of white dangling bells you can often see where it blooms with pink azalea on rock ledges (see my illustration in Ozark Forest Forensics). This year is the first that I have seen where deerberry is producing fruit in some abundance. In the last week of July or early August, the shrubs had clusters of relatively large berries, maybe four times the size of the low-bush huckleberries, and a deep reddish purple in color where I found them along old logging roads in the Madison County Wildlife Management Area.
The abundance of these three Vaccinium species in the Ozarks shows why blueberry does so well as a crop in our area. Even if the fruit crop produced by the wild blueberries cannot match the flavor and abundance of the crop variety, the farkleberry provides interest for outdoor enthusiasts from both the fun inherent in the name itself and the improbably contorted shape that our "tree blueberry" can take where found ensconced among scenic rock ledges such as at our iconic Hawksbill Crag or adjacent to the Glory Hole.


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Russia to Boost Oil Output, Invited as Observer to OPEC
VIENNA (Sputnik) - Russia is carefully studying proposal the of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to become an observer in the organization, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Saturday.
"There is really such an option, it is being considered, and we are now studying this issue carefully," Novak said, answering a question on whether Russia is ready to become an observer in the OPEC.
The statement refers to the offer by OPEC, voiced by Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Falih earlier in the day:
"We invited them [Russia] to join as an observer and we believe that they are considering it. We are looking forward to getting their formal application. And I can assure you that we will welcome Russia's membership to OPEC formally," Falih said at the press conference after the OPEC and non-OPEC talks.
READ MORE: Russia, Saudi Arabia Seek New Super-OPEC Oil Alliance — Reports
In his speech, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced that Russia would be able to increase its oil output by 170,000-200,000 barrels per day over the second half of the year.
"About 170,000 barrels per day, give or take, it is an approximate [figure] … We will see how much is needed, it will be sufficient for Russia to increase [its production] by up to 200,000 barrels per day over the second half of the year, as part of [its contribution to production] increase by 1 million [barrels per day]," the minister said at a briefing following the 4th OPEC-non-OPEC ministerial meeting, when asked about Russia's contribution to the agreed oil output increase.
When asked when Russian companies could start stepping up oil production, Novak noted that "everything will depend on how quickly companies would be able to prepare" for restoring the previous levels of production.
READ MORE: OPEC Decision on Oil Output Lifts US Energy Sector, Prices
As Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Falih stated, the actual production hike of the countries participating in the oil production cut deal of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producing states will be closer to 1 million barrels per day due to the fact that the deal parties decided to go away from the strict quota principle.
"If we allocated quotas, it has been estimated that only 60 percent of the number that's been allocated will be delivered. So if we took 1.5 [million barrels per day] and allocated it on pro-rata basis among all countries given capacities of countries that can increase, it will give us about 60 percent, about a million out of 1.5 million. Because we went away from allocating quotas, we will be closer to a million than 600,000," Falih explained, asked what the actual output hike of OPEC and non-OPEC would be.
Speaking about the oil output, Oman's Oil and Gas Minister Mohammed Rumhi told journalists on Saturday after OPEC-non-OPEC talks in Vienna countries participating in the oil production cut deal of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers may start increasing output as early as in July.
"I think, the July figures, which will be reported in August, will show some growth … But I don't think, this number – 600,000 or a million, is going to be realized immediately. My suspicion — it is going to take at least six months to achieve the level that was agreed," Rumhi said.
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OPEC Launches Mobile App With Monthly Oil Market Data - UAE Energy Minister
Earlier on Saturday, countries participating in the oil production cut deal of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers agreed on the oil output increase by up to 1 million barrels per day, with the level of collective compliance with the Vienna deal agreed to be kept within the 100-percent target.
READ MORE: Saudi Minister: OPEC Leaves Politics Out of Discussion
OPEC and several non-cartel oil producers, including Russia, reached a deal in Vienna in 2016, agreeing to cut oil output by a total of 1.8 million barrels per day in an effort to stabilize global oil prices. Non-OPEC states pledged to jointly reduce oil output by 558,000 barrels per day. The agreement, which came into effect in 2017, has been extended twice since then and is expected to remain in force until the end of 2018.
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An Egg Is Quiet
By Dianna Hutts Aston ; Illustrated by Sylvia Long
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey fro...
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder.
The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
Size: 9 x 11 V
Sylvia Long is the illustrator of many books for children including the best-selling Sylvia Long's Mother Goose , Hush Little Baby , and Snug As a Bug , all published by Chronicle Books. Ms. Long's detailed paintings are inspired by her love of animals and the outdoors. She lives in Arizona.
Dianna Aston spends a lot of time in her backyard hoping to find new eggs. She often enlists the help of her husband, children, and their assorted pets. She lives in Texas.


With a stay at Hotel Due Giardini, you'll be centrally located in Milan, within a 15-minute drive of Corso Como and Corso Buenos Aires. This hotel is 2.1 mi (3.4 km) from Teatro alla Scala and 2.2 mi (3.6 km) from Pinacoteca di Brera.
Make yourself at home in one of the 10 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones and desks.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access.Pets not allowed Check-in time starts at 2 PM Check-out time is 11 AMFeatured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage.Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.


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Q: Slf4j multiple static binding error with Spark livy server on CDH cluster When I run the job in Intellij I get the desired results in logs. But when I run the same jar in our CDH 5.3 cluster where we have a Livy Server running I get the following error :-
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/data/2/yarn/nm/filecache/164/spark-assembly-1.6.1-hadoop2.6.0.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/hadoop/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.3.3-1.cdh5.3.3.p0.5/jars/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]

Is there a way for me to exclude the hadoop locations slf4j jar only during spark-submit? Or any other suggestions?
We are using YARN as our Cluster Manager for Spark Job.

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Who hasn't heard about Calabasas? It's wide winding roads, gated complexes and residences of the rich and the affluent are some of the characteristics it is associated with. Even though I am neither rich nor affluent, I consider myself lucky that I was born in a house which never had to face any difficult moments be it financially or otherwise. It is thus a matter of no surprise that we used to have a lot of parties. Most of these parties revolved around pools.
If like me you live in Calabasas then you must be well versed with the concept of pool parties. They are liked by young and old alike and are much more preferred over conventional parties by the young. But these days almost everyone is organizing pool parties and in Calabasas it is even more common what with everyone having their pool. So how does one transform his pool into something that everyone stares at in awe? The answer lies in pool resurfacing. Here are a list of options which make your pool stand out.
Pool resurfacing in Calabasas can offer one more than what someone expects from a renovation. The work is done by highly experienced professionals who do their work according to the needs of their client. This ensures not just complete satisfaction but the client does not end up burning a hole in his pocket.
Almost everyone has a pool lighting these days but these have become mundane with time. Today people need to think differently to make their pools look different from the rest of the pools out there. To do away with the dull and boring lights one can opt for LED or fiber optic lights. These are not only efficient but are cheap as well.
If changing the very design of the pool is what you are looking for then resurfacing is the option that you should be looking at. There are two options in this category – painting and plastering. While painting is cheaper its life is lesser than plastering. Plastering on the other hand, despite being costly lasts nearly double the time when compared to painting. Both the options are equally good but one just needs to look into the amount of money they are willing to invest.
Water-line tiles help the pool to last longer by giving the pool the requisite room to expand. They also prevent the interior part of the pool from discoloration. Apart from these, these tiles help in beautifying the pool.
Everyone adds chlorine but their usage with time has decreased with leaps and bounds. Not only is it a tedious and time consuming process. It has also been shown that chlorine is not safe on the human body. Salt water systems is what the world is heading for as they salt does not have the adverse effects on the body or hair which chlorine does.


Monkeys can do math so let them solve the oily bamboo problem | It's a Miracle!
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That was hilarious stuff. Boy, the pic of the guy actually climbing the bamboo tree was just wickedly funny.
Thanks for reading Sujoy. That picture took a bit of time to Photoshop… 🙂 Hope to follow your blog too!
Thanks for reading. It felt good to finally get the"monkey off my back"!
LOL. The scientists have said that they 'can' calculate, not they 'do' calculate. And yes, maths teachers sucked more than the subject at school. If mine is reading this, I want to tell him that I was the most felt dyslexic in his class.
You know I still have this recurring nightmare that I am sitting for a board-leaving exam and I can't solve a single sum on the paper.
The monkey-maths were interesting in our life.If monkeys can do math and solve the oily bamboo problems, USA may take all deposited oil straight from Iraq.They may solve the global recession problems.So monkeys are welcome to help us.
Thanks for your very interesting suggestion!
They must be better than us at math. I've never seen them using calculators!
Thanks. I liked your recent post on Jake Sully winning a NP for Avatar. Pretty funny stuff too!
This was simply hilarious second you – Impractical problems and self bragging teachers are killers to education.
I have a whole list of issues that I have with how I was taught in school. I could see a psychologist and get on the couch and tell all, but it is more fun to blog!
Usually my nightmare involves the 12th standard exams or the joint entrance exam. The test paper is always in maths for me though.
Even Alzheimer's patients usually remember certain fears from childhood even though they can't recall recent events. More on that some day.
Thanks for reciprocating on the blog. I'll be following your blog too.
I am pathetic at MAths and these bloody ancestors of us are suppposed to be at par if not better…I am off to commit a suicide :).
Thanks for reading Nish! I like your blog too and have added it to my blogroll.


FLORIDA -- A Davie woman who said she loves animals has been ordered to give up her $600 dog, which prosecutors say almost died because of her neglect.
Deborah Ruth Schneider (aka Debbie Schneider), 34, of the 3500 block of Southwest 60th Avenue, pleaded no contest on Wednesday to a charge of animal cruelty. But she denied starving or not caring for Princess, her white female mixed shepherd.
"I didn't think the charge was fair, but if I went to trial and lost, it would have been jail -- no ifs, ands or buts," she said.
Prosecutors, however, said the charge was justified.
"(The dog) needed constant attention and it wasn't given," said Assistant State Attorney Mark E. Berman. "Its ribs were showing through from being severely malnourished, and it [was so full of internal parasites that it] had progressed to the point where it was endangering the dog's life."
Berman said the dog also had a broken right front leg when found on Nov. 25 by Broward sheriff's deputies who followed up a tip.
Facing one year in jail or a fine of up to $5,000, Schneider negotiated a sentence imposed by Broward County Judge Paul L. Backman in Hollywood.
The sentence includes a $100 fine and $91 in court costs and the option of either repaying the Broward County Animal Control Division $250 for boarding the dog or working 50 hours at its shelter. Schneider said she will pay the $250.
Ann Crevasse, a county animal control specialist, said the dog weighed 30 pounds when seized. It weighs 55 pounds today.
Crevasse said the county will give the dog to the Broward Animal Protective League to find a home.
"The dog jumps all over you and licks your face. She's a super dog," she said. "She should go to a home with a lot of children. She's a kids' dog."


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In the last 20 years, the rate of obesity in adults and children has increased. Obesity now affects 1 in 3 adults and one in 6 children and adolescents. Obesity increases the risk for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancer. In addition, obesity-related medical costs are quite excessive. Promoting healthy lifestyles is ideally a family priority, and is best accomplished with teamwork in mind. The following simple tips are useful to prevent a weight problem from emerging, and are instrumental steps in tackling a weight problem that has already presented itself.
Promote portion control. When cooking, try to prepare just enough for everyone to enjoy a single portion at meals. If you have extras, place leftovers in the refrigerator or freezer before you sit down to eat in order to avoid overeating at meals.
Plan ahead for healthy snacks. Work with your children to pack snack bags in advance so that healthy vegetables and fruits are ready and waiting when kids get home from school.
Pay attention to the body's hunger and satiety clues. Help your children learn how to pick up signals the body sends that it is time to eat and that it is time to stop eating when satisfied. Encourage children to avoid extremes of feeling "starving" and "stuffed".
Get active as a family. Plan for fun family time that involves plenty of activity and movement. Go for walks together, ask your children to teach you their favorite sport, and enjoy the outdoors as a family.
Make simple changes to your family's daily routine. This can be as easy as taking the stairs, parking at the furthest spot, or getting off the bus a stop earlier and walking the rest of the way.
Make sure your attitude is positive and supportive. Do your best to avoid power struggles around food and activity. Teach your children how to make healthy choices and control portions as independently as possible.
Avoid using food as a punishment or as a reward. When managing your children's behavior select incentives, rewards, and consequences that do not involve food.


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Nottingham Panthers re-sign defenceman Tom Norton
Last updated on 23 April 201223 April 2012 .From the section Ice hockey
Defenceman Tom Norton has re-signed with Nottingham Panthers for next season following a season with Milton Keynes in the English Hockey League.
Nottingham-born Norton, 21, told the club website:external-link "It's my hometown club. I had some spells on the roster in the past and loved every minute of it.
"When the chance came to return full-time I grabbed it. It's a great club."
Player coach Corey Neilson added: "Notz is a great kid and potentially a great player. He has a big future."


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Ethical spectacle
This mashup of two iconic images captures the tensions and contradictions of the ethical spectacle.
Contributed by Stephen Duncombe
"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."
In Sum
To be politically effective, activists need to engage in spectacle. By keeping to certain principles, our spectacles can be ethical, emancipatory, and faithful to reality.
Stephen Duncombe
The concept of ethical spectacle offers a way of thinking about the tactical and strategic use of signs, symbols, myths, and fantasies to advance progressive, democratic goals. First introduced in a 2004 article by Andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncombe and later expanded in Duncombe's 2007 book Dream, the theory's premises are: (1) that politics is as much an affair of desire and fantasy as it is reason and rationality, (2) that we live in an intensely mediated age (what Situationist Guy Debord called the Society of the Spectacle), (3) that in order to be politically effective, activists need to enter the realm of spectacle, and (4) that spectacular interventions have the potential to be both ethical and emancipatory.
An ethical spectacle is a symbolic action that seeks to shift the political culture toward more progressive values. An ethical spectacle should strive to be:
Participatory: Seeking to empower participants and spectators alike, with organizers acting as facilitators.
Open: Responsive and adaptive to shifting contexts and the ideas of participants.
Transparent: Engaging the imagination of spectators with out seeking to trick or deceive.
Realistic: Using fantasy to illuminate and dramatize real-world power dynamics and social relations that otherwise tend to remain hidden in plain sight.
Utopian: Celebrating the impossible — and therefore helping to make the impossible possible.
Progressives tend to distrust anything that smacks of propaganda or marketing — that's what the other side does. We tend to believe that proclaiming the naked Truth is enough: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." But waiting for the truth to set us free is lazy politics. The truth does not reveal itself by virtue of being the truth: it must be told, and told well. It must have stories woven around it, works of art made about it; it must be communicated in new and compelling ways that can be passed from person to person, even if this requires flights of fancy and new mythologies. The argument here is not for a progressive movement that deceives or cheapens its message but rather for a propaganda of the truth. This is the work of ethical spectacle.
Stephen Duncombe teaches the history and politics of media at New York University. He is the author or editor of six books, including Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and the Cultural Resistance Reader. Duncombe is a life-long political activist, co-founding a community based advocacy group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and working as an organizer for the NYC chapter of the international direct action group, Reclaim the Streets. He co-created the School for Creative Activism in 2011 and is presently co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism www.artisticactivism.org.
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Duncombe, Stephen. Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. New York: New Press, 2007.
Boyd, Andrew, and Stephen Duncombe. "The Manufacture of Dissent: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas." Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 1, no. 3 (2004).
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As a pitch from an incumbent government seeking re-election, they don't come much more desperate.
Any doubts, any doubts at all?
It was the feeble, last-gasp denouement of a relentlessly negative campaign from Labor.
This, from a Prime Minister who promised the end of ''wall-to-wall negativity''.
''One thing I know for certain is that the old politics of the past just won't work for the future,'' he said in the first news conference of the campaign.
Staring at a likely heavy defeat on Saturday, Rudd may reflect that he should have taken his own advice.
After framing the election as a contest of new politics over old, and over who was best to manage the economy now that the ''boom is over'', Rudd has failed on both counts.
He dumped the positive politics within days, culminating in a blunt assertion that Abbott risked tipping the economy into recession. Tony Abbott has claimed the mantle as the superior custodian of the economy, despite Australia having one of the best performing economies in the world.
Abbott has steadily increased his ratings in the opinion polls throughout the five-week campaign on the issue voters rank the most important.
The final act in the economic debate of the campaign came this week, when the Coalition, finally, revealed its complete savings and costings.
Released on Thursday by Joe Hockey, sweating like Richard Nixon under the TV lights in a news conference so excruciating that Labor posted the video on its website, they proved a fitting finale to a debate dominated by deceit and lies.
For Labor, its claim of a $70 billion black hole was shown to be the wild exaggeration it had always been.
The Coalition's final budget numbers also highlighted what some may call brilliant political strategising, but that may rank as an even grander deceit.
Labor has been banging on about the Coalition's $70 billion black hole near hourly for 40 days. Early on, the Fairfax and Politifact fact-checking unit found the claim false. Then one of the nation's most respected economists, Saul Eslake, published a 34-page analysis concluding that the figure was $30 billion. Still Labor persisted, along the way claiming it had discovered a $10 billion miscalculation by the Coalition (which wasn't) and that the Coalition planned to cut health spending and cut the public service by 20,000 (which it doesn't).
The Coalition could have reassured voters that it didn't plan big cuts by bringing out its final costings document some time before the final 42 hours of the campaign. But it enjoyed watching Labor jump at shadows. Its technique of letting journalists see its Parliamentary Budget Office costings (you can look and make notes before I whisk it out of your hands) meant Labor was suckered into making claims those reporting them knew to be wrong. It was fighting an opponent it couldn't see.
The Coalition was tricking Labor, but also deceiving the electorate. Deep down the Coalition did not believe there was a ''budget emergency''.
The costings showed the Coalition's measures will blow out the budget by $33.2 billion before reigning it in by cuts and savings totalling $42 billion. The net impact, $8.8 billion over four years, is so small as to be a rounding error. It amounts to 0.1 per cent of GDP.
In essence, the Coalition has no gripe with Labor's current budget stance. The measures it proposes axe some of the burdens on business but replaces them with others. It can afford to get rid of the mining tax by axing the measures it funded and funds a generous paid parental leave scheme by slashing Australia's projected foreign aid and refugee intake.
It is housekeeping of the kind we expect political parties to make, but it's inexcusable the Coalition waited until the very end to reveal its bottom line.
Several of the measures don't seem to add up. The saving attributed to removing the low income super rebate could only be achieved if it was effectively retrospective, that is by not paying out money due this year. The money booked from the 1.5 per cent levy on big businesses to fund the paid parental leave scheme appears to take no account of the lower company tax revenues likely as businesses claim it as a business expense.
Hiring Geoff Carmody, the co-founder of Access Economics, Len Scanlan a former Queensland auditor-general, and Peter Shergold, a former head of the prime minister's department to ''review'' the costings seems like a political masterstroke. The Coalition released none of the detailed Parliamentary Budget Office costing documents that explained how the totals were arrived at, merely the totals themselves and a one-page letter from the chosen three saying they agreed with it.
Labor has had few policies to cost. Few of its announcements in the campaign are expensive. None approached $1 billion. Like most governments, it made its big announcements before the campaign.
And, as it happens, most have been adopted by the Coalition. They are no longer in contention. The National Disability Insurance Scheme, the four-year budgeted commitment to the Gonski education reforms, the four successive hikes in tobacco excise, the bank deposit levy to fund bailouts, the emptying of inactive super accounts, they are all now Coalition policy, despite what it may have said in the past.
Andrew Robb, the Coalition's finance spokesman, says the economy was always the Coalition's strength and Rudd defied orthodoxy by challenging it. ''Rudd is the guy who squandered the boom. That's the sentiment out there,'' he said. The former Liberal Party director who oversaw John Hewson's disastrous 1993 campaign says Rudd's has been the worst he has seen.
Robb is, of course, an adversary but there are plenty in Labor ranks who express even stronger denunciations in private, including some who backed Rudd back into the leadership.
''I mean you have a Noble Prize-winning economist who says we have the best economy in the world, that it's a miracle economy. Why aren't we telling that story?'' said one senior Labor figure.
The story is that real incomes have risen for Australians over the past six years, by more than $5000 per year for the average family. Interest rates are at record lows; unemployment and economic growth at impressive levels compared to other countries and the current account deficit well in hand.
Public debt is low as a percentage of GDP. Its rise was largely the result of the stimulus package during the global financial crisis and - says Joseph Stiglitz, the economist cited by the Labor figure - protected 200,000 jobs and probably saved the budget bottom line as well, given how it would have been ravaged by a recession.
''The obsession with public debt continues to be a distraction from the more fundamental question of how to establish long-term growth,'' Stiglitz wrote this week.
By attacking the Coalition's savings and budget management, Rudd played up to these overblown fears of debt and deficit. It was a continuation of the political missteps of the Gillard government, and its untenable vows to keep the budget in surplus.
And where Rudd did talk of the government's economic record during the campaign, it was more often about AAA credit ratings, not bread-and-butter issues, such as rising living standards.
Then there were the tactical howlers, including the verballing of the departments of Treasury and Finance last week over the alleged $10 billion hole in their costings and the public servants' extraordinary decision to release a public statement to clarify their position.
Add to that the $70 billion black hole that Labor knew did not bear scrutiny; the anti-GST scare; the on-the-fly policy of tax concessions for booming Northern Territory; the anti-foreign-investment rhetoric, and it made for a confusing campaign.
As the policies came thick and fast and from all directions, it seems to have left voters suspicious and unsure about what Labor stands for.
Abbott leads Rudd on who was best to ''handle the economy'' by 56 per cent to 36 per cent, according to the latest Nielsen survey. On trustworthiness, always the Opposition Leader's weak suit, Abbott leads by 44 per cent to 37 per cent, and the Prime Minister has slid 8 percentage points since July.
Rudd's communication has been as manic as his policy pronouncements: filled with jargon, delivered at rapid-fire speed and at great length.
For Rudd and his colleagues, his erratic campaign must be sobering. It was his much vaunted campaigning skills and popularity that underpinned his return to the leadership.
Now, plenty are asking if his predecessor, Julia Gillard, would have done better.
But the problem with Labor's economic narrative goes back years. Former treasurer Wayne Swan was a poor communicator, and Gillard had little impact in countering the opposition's cost-of-living scare over the carbon tax.
Australians have never taken kindly to broken promises on taxation, as Paul Keating learnt in 1996, so Gillard provided her opponent with a potent weapon.
Most tellingly, in the past two elections, Labor has been led by recently installed leaders, unable to run on the government's record. Rudd's destabilisation of Julia Gillard hurt her government and made it difficult to sell her economic competence. He reaped what he sowed.
In the end, the ultimate source of Labor's inability to sell its economic credentials - and its likely electoral defeat on Saturday - is the party's indulgent in-fighting and defective political culture.
. Costings. Who'd want to be Hockey?


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Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia with an area of 9,251 sq. kilometres of which 1,733 are forested. It has a maximum length of 240 kms from east to west and a maximum width of 100 kms from north to south.
It is situated at the north-eastern end of the East Mediterranean basin at a distance of 380 kms north of Egypt, 105 kms west of Syria and 75kms south of Turkey. The Greek mainland is some 800 kms to the west. The nearest Greek islands are Rhodes and Carpathos, 380 kms to the west.
The latitude of Cyprus is 34 33' – 35 34' north and its longitude 32 16' – 34 37' east.
Notwithstanding its small size, Cyprus has a variety of natural vegetation. This includes forests of hardwood, evergreen and broadleaved trees such as pinus latepensis, cedar, cypressus and oak. According to Eratosthenes (3rd Century BC), a Greek botanist, most of Cyprus, even Messaoria, was heavily forested in antiquity, and considerable remnants of these forests survive on the Troodos and Keryneia (Kyrenia) ranges, and locally at lower altitudes. About 17% of the whole island is being classified as woodland. Where the forest has been destroyed, tall shrub communities of arbutus and rachne, pistacia terebinthus, olea europea, quercus coccifera and styrax officinalis may survive, but such maquis is uncommon. Over most of the island untilled ground bears a grazed covering of garigue, largely composed of low bushes of cistus, genista sphacelata calycotoime villosa, lithospermum hispidulum, phaganalon rupestre and, locally, pistacia lentiscus. Where grazing is excessive this covering is soon reduced, and an impoverished batha remains, consisting principally of thymus capitatus, sarcopoterium spinosum, and a few stunted herbs.
Cyprus has been endowed with a rich fauna including a large number of endemic birds, reptiles and animals. Because of its position, Cyprus is also a vital stop-over for thousands of migratory birds which find the island an ideal place for both feeding and refuge. Among the animals the moufflon occupies an outstanding position and is considered as one of the natural treasures of the island. The moufflon belongs to the sheep family but this species is unique in the world. This animal, which is the symbol of the Cyprus Republic and is used on its coins, has long been in danger of extinction, but today is a fully protected species.
Cyprus has an intense Mediterranean climate with the typical seasonal rhythm strongly marked in respect of temperature, rainfall and weather generally. Hot, dry summers from mid-May to mid-September and rainy, rather changeable winters from November to mid-March are separated by short autumn and spring seasons.
In summer the island is mainly under the influence of a shallow trough of low pressure extending from the great continental depression centred over southwest Asia. It is a season of high temperatures with almost cloudless skies.
In winter Cyprus is near the track of fairly frequent small depressions which cross the Mediterranean Sea from west to east between the continental anticyclone of Eurasia and the generally low pressure belt of North Africa. These depressions give periods of disturbed weather usually lasting for a day or so and produce most of the annual precipitation, the average rainfall from December to February being about 60% of the average annual total precipitation for the island as a whole, which is 500 mm.
Precipitation increases from 450 millimetres up the south-western windward slopes to nearly 1.100 millimetres at the top of the Troodos massif. On the leeward slopes amounts decrease steadily northwards and eastwards to between 300 and 400 millimetres in the central plain and the flat south-eastern parts of the island. The narrow ridge of the Kyrenia range, stretching 160kms from west to east along the extreme north of the island produces a relatively small increase in rainfall of around 550 millimetres along its ridge at an elevation of 1.000 metres. Statistical analysis of rainfall in Cyprus reveals a decreasing trend of rainfall amounts in the last 30 years.
Rainfall in the warmer months contributes little or nothing to water resources and agriculture. Autumn and winter rainfall, on which agriculture and water supply generally depend, is somewhat variable from year to year.
The average annual rainfall as a whole over the part of the island under government control, is about 500 millimetres but it was as low as 213 millimetres in 1972/73 and as high as 800 millimetres in 1968/69. Statistical analysis of rainfall in Cyprus reveals a decreasing trend of rainfall amounts in the last decades.
Snow occurs rarely in the lowland and on the Northern Range but falls every winter on ground above 1,000 metres usually occurring by the first week in December and ending by the middle of April. Although snow cover is not continuous, during the coldest months it may lie to considerable depths for several weeks especially on the northern slopes of Troodos.
Temperatures are high in summer and the mean daily temperature in July and August ranges between 29 C on the central plain to 22 C on the Troodos mountains, while the average maximum temperature for these months ranges between 36 C and 27 C respectively. Winters are mild with a mean January temperature of 10 C on the central plain and 3 C on the higher parts of the Troodos mountains and with an average minimum temperature of 5 C and 0 C respectively.
Relative humidity of the air is on average between 60% and 80% in winter and between 40% and 60% in summer with even lower values over inland areas around midday. Fog is infrequent and visibility is generally very good. Sunshine is abundant during the whole year and particularly from April to September when the average duration of bright sunshine exceeds 11 hours per day.
Winds are generally light to moderate and variable in direction. Strong winds may occur sometimes, but gales are infrequent over Cyprus and are mainly confined to exposed coastal areas as well as areas at high elevation.
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What's on the mind of bank innovators?
What business problems and opportunities are their highest priorities? What customer segments represent the biggest opportunities for new innovation?
These are some of the questions the Bank Innovators Council asked in its first member survey. The Bank Innovators Council (BIC) is a membership organization that helps support, promote and facilitate innovation within and amongst its member banks.
Respondents ranked "Channel Strategies (online, mobile, other)" as their highest business priority, with 83% ranking their interest in this topic as 8 or higher on a scale of 0-10. This was followed by "Customer Retention/Customer Engagement", with 77% ranking it 8 or higher.
The priorities of BIC members are spread a little more evenly evenly when it comes to the business lines and customer segments where they plan to focus their efforts. The top priority was "Consumer Payments", followed by "Affluent Consumers" and "Small Businesses", with 68%, 67% and 63% of respondents ranking those as 8 or higher, respectively.
Members were also asked where in the innovation process they felt the Council could add the most value, and the answers were heavily oriented towards the front end of the process. "Identifying New Opportunities", "Generating New Ideas/Solutions" and "Market Intelligence/Opportunity Discovery" were the top three priorities in this section, at 81%, 79% and 71% ranking those as 8 or higher, respectively.
"It's great that our members see the value in generating new ideas, we love to work on ideation." says BIC co-founder JP Nicols, "We are also prepared to help them test and implement those ideas".
The Bank Innovators Council was launched in New York during Finovate Fall in September, and has quickly grown to nearly 300 members from 34 states and 29 countries on 6 continents. The council provides provide opportunities for members to pool their resources to develop and test new ideas outside of the day-to-day demands of their existing businesses, and in ways they could not do alone.
The Council held a free innovators workshop in Boston on October 23, and is returning there by popular demand on December 3 to continue the conversation. The Council is also planning a comprehensive full-day workshop in London on February 13, 2014 after Finovate Europe. "Our members love attending cutting edge events like Finovate, and they tell us that they would like some help them putting all of those great ideas into context and begin putting them into action." said Nicols.
Click here to register for our Boston Innovators Workshop on December 3.
Leveraging best practices from other industries have been very undervalued in the past years, while there are some industries leading the innovative curve. An interesting first exercise could be to identify a leading industry for every business priority we defined.
Security/Privacy for example is top of mind within Telco's while banks could learn a lot from (some) retail segments in channel strategy definition. Such an approach is important to understand the how 2 make it happen.
Looking forward meeting BIC members in person!
Thanks for sharing your insights Boudewijn, and I agree. Hopefully I will see you in Sydney soon.


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using System;

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/// <para>The <see cref="T:Xsharp.CrossingDetail"/> enumeration specifies
/// notification details for Enter and Leave events on a widget.
/// </para>
/// </summary>
public enum CrossingDetail
{
	NotifyAncestor         = 0,
	NotifyVirtual          = 1,
	NotifyInferior         = 2,
	NotifyNonlinear        = 3,
	NotifyNonlinearVirtual = 4,
	NotifyPointer          = 5,
	NotifyPointerRoot      = 6,
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Our next Scholarship Day will be scheduled for March 2020.
Children may be assessed for a Scholarship in the academic year prior to them entering Year 3 (7+) or Year 7 (11+). Only academic assessments may be undertaken at 7+.
Where a child falls just short of the ability levels required, an Exhibition may be awarded.
Expected levels of performance are high and there is likely to be considerable competition for Awards e.g. Academic Scholarships are likely to be awarded to children achieving standardised scores of 135+.
Scholarships and Exhibitions are available to both prospective and current pupils and a percentage of Scholarships or Exhibitions will be awarded to internal candidates each year.
The Governors of Holmewood House are committed to broadening access to the school by offering means-tested financial support with school fees to eligible parents. This support is known as a Bursarial Award and such an award may be offered to parents of children who have been awarded a Scholarship or Exhibition following evidence of outstanding ability or potential in various areas of school life but for whom, in the absence of financial support, would not be in a position to access a Holmewood education.
Children who are awarded a Scholarship or Exhibition, but whose parents have sufficient means to pay full fees, will receive a one-off financial award in recognition of their achievement – £2000 for a Scholarship and £1000 for an Exhibition, which will be deducted from their child's first term of fees. In order to meet the requirements of the Charity Commission, bursaries are means-tested. The assessment of need is undertaken by an external company to ensure transparency and fairness. This company will, following their assessment, make a recommendation to the school for their consideration. Bursaries are offered for twelve months at a time after which time the family is required to provide fresh information about their circumstances for every year that their child attends the school. Levels of support may vary with fluctuations in income.


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Пещера Баскунчакская — крупнейшая пещера Северного Прикаспия. Она находится в Астраханской области на северо-западном берегу озера Баскунчак в балке Пещерная и имеет три основных входа, которые долгое время считались самостоятельными пещерами: Большая Баскунчакская, Малая Баскунчакская и Сухая. Пещера уже долгое время активно посещается людьми и является одной из достопримечательностей Ахтубинского района. Власти и церковь регулярно устраивают экскурсии.

История
На стенах пещеры имеются различные надписи, самые старые из которых датируются 1874, 1909, 1911 г.г. То есть, известна уже более 100 лет. Первым пещеру на протяжении 350 м обследовал и описал в 40-х годах прошлого века преподаватель Саратовского университета А. Д. Гедеонов. С 1979 года в течение более 20 лет изучением пещеры занимались члены Саратовской спелеологической секции [Белонович, Цой 2004: 21]. Ими были впервые связаны между собой три пещеры, считавшиеся ранее самостоятельными, проведён большой объём исследовательских работ, выполнена подробная топографическая съёмка пещеры. В 1986 году к наблюдениям за пещерой подключилась секция спелеологии и карстоведения Астраханского отделения Русского географического общества, которая продолжает свои исследования по настоящее время [Головачёв 2010: 27] .

Геологическая характеристика
Пещера Баскунчакская заложена в пермских гипсах кунгурского яруса, поднятых на поверхность процессами соляной тектоники. Пещера относится к коррозионно-эрозионному типу карстовых пещер. Она разработана по вертикальной трещине субмеридионального направления. Пещера имеет разнообразный подземный рельеф и состоит из участков различной сложности прохождения. В пещере имеются, помимо узостей, широкие доступные для массового посещения участки. По данным А. В. Белоновича [Белонович, Цой 2004: 21] пещера имеет следующие основные морфометрические параметры: протяжённость — 1480 м, глубина от уровня дневной поверхности — 32 м, объём — около 9400 м³. В целом пещера сухая и представляет сухо-галерейную стадию своего развития. В пещере имеется пресноводное подземное озеро площадью около 10 м².

Пещера Баскунчакская имеет три основных входа и один труднопроходимый. Она относится к типу горизонтальных сквозных (проходных) пещер.
С 1993 года пещера входит в состав регионального государственного природного заказника Богдинско-Баскунчакский. В настоящее время экологическое состояние пещеры удовлетворительное, несмотря на её активное посещение.

Литература
 Головачёв И. В. Пещера Баскунчакская / И. В. Головачёв // Спелеология и спелестология. Сборник материалов 2-ой международной научной заочной конференции. — Набережные Челны: НИСПТР, 2011. — С. 9-13.

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Letter to the editor: Colorado shows readiness…
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Letter to the editor: Colorado shows readiness for climate policy
In response to the Nov. 6 article on the defeat of Proposition 112 and Amendment 74:
I'm a lifelong environmentalist, and I voted against Proposition 112. The health risks struck me as real, but the economic and jobs concerns did as well. What tipped it for me was that this proposition was not likely to even be particularly carbon-negative. In a nation where the lion's share of our energy usage is divided between natural gas and coal, the diminishment of one is often to the direct benefit of the other, and coal emits carbon at about twice the rate of its competitor. Meanwhile, non-emitting sources such as nuclear and renewables lag behind.
In discussing 112 with numerous friends — many environmentalists, and some in disagreement with my position — one theme rang loud throughout the conversations: There is a very high appetite for our state to do something — anything — to combat climate change. In my opinion, Proposition 112 was not that thing, but part of me was nonetheless heartened to see the fervency with which it drove people to passionate positions.
The measure, for all its flaws, received 43 percent of the vote. That begs the question: What would happen if we had some truly revolutionary environmental policy on the ballot? Smarter regulations would be an improvement, but let's dare to dream big.
Washington voters just rejected a statewide carbon fee initiative. Could Colorado succeed where they failed? A carbon fee places a price on the extraction of fossil fuels. It is widely accepted among economists, including recent Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, as the least economically intrusive, hence most efficient, way to fight climate change. If the money raised is returned to voters as a dividend on a per-capita basis, it builds into the economy a natural reward for good carbon behavior that rich and poor alike can benefit from. Best of all, it does what Proposition 112 did not: It disincentivizes fuels in exact proportion to their carbon content. Coal, having twice the carbon content of natural gas, is taxed twice as much.
Proposition 112 drew massive support despite its economic and environmental shortcomings. We just elected a governor in Jared Polis who supports a carbon tax at the national level and is open to one for the state. Looking already toward our next election, I sincerely hope to see Colorado take the reins of leadership on statewide environmental policy.
Dan Palken, Boulder
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Q: Is there a unity-like "Sticky edges" option to prevent the cursor from hopping across displays so easily? When moving the cursor towards a clickable item near the middle edge of a multi-monitor display, it is easy to move "too far", causing the cursor to jump to the other display. This is disorienting.
Does OS X (I'm on El Capitan if it matters) have a similar feature?
More info: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/display-dual-monitors.html#Sticky_Edges


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Q: User Input in OpenGL So I'm creating a simple game (in this case it's a asteroid clone game) and while i press "Start Game" in my Menu section I get to this window:

Now I want to put my nick in that frame but I have no clue how to do it since std::cin doesnt work... I also heard that there is no user input handling in OpenGL... so in such case how to deal with it? So basicaly I want a blinking bar on the left of that frame which indicates where the writting begins (like in MS Word for example) and a user input handling like cin in console application (the blinking bar is not THAT important :P ). Is there a simple way to do it? For the "please enter your nick" I have used glutBitmapCharacter.

A: If you are using GLUT, you can create callback functions to handle device/user input.
For this, I would suggest glutKeyboardFunc, glutKeyboardUpFunc, glutSpecialFunc, and glutSpecialUpFunc. The two keyboard functions handle anything that can be represented by an ascii character. The two special functions handle things like shift, control, and alt. I think that you will find this tutorial helpful.
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