Angela experienced rejection numerous times, when attempting to have her books published. She learned that she did not need to be given permission to proceed. Instead, she gave herself permission to pursue her passion.
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Angela grew up in the mountains of western Maine. Living in a rural setting, she developed a talent for finding creative ways to play and captivate her imagination.
After graduating with a BA in studio art from The University of Maine, Angela moved to Portland. She was accepted into the Assets for Artists program which focused on business finance for creative entrepreneurs. After completing the required training, Angela received matching grant funds for working capital. She then became a successful painter.
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Australian tax authorities bully Malaysian Timber Tycoon. He Sues Aussie Government
Well, I'll be, mate!
Here's an interesting story. Scary too.
Thick twice, nay, many times, before buying property in Australia. There are some nasty Aussies there.
A Sarawakian timber tycoon is suing the Australian government over their decision to force him to pay taxes amounting to AUD50m.
Daylight robbery and bullying a Malaysian, I say.
Read Rocky's Bru take:
Seeking justice in Malaysia. Wikipedia insists that kangaroo courts did not have its origins in Australia, where kangaroos come from. If that's baffling to me I can't imagine what Sarawak-born Malaysian businessman Hii Yii Ann might be thinking. Hii, 56, is fighting a decision by the Australian courts about his tax residency status that could rob him of AUD50 million!
Hii, a Malaysian passport holder who has never applied to be an Australian resident, says he's submitted to the Australian authorities documented proof that he is a Malaysian taxpayer and has never lived anywhere near long enough in Australia to be deemed the country's "tax resident". Yet, the Australian court deemed that he had denounced his Malaysian tax residency status and, therefore, owed whatever he had earned to the Australian Tax Office.
The rest of the posting HERE
Here's is The Mole report by Zaidi Azmi
KUALA LUMPUR – November 15, 2016: A Malaysian timber tycoon is suing the Australian government for tax assessment amounting to millions of dollars in relation to income earned outside of the country.
Sarawak-born businessman Hii Yii An got into a tangle with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) after the latter changed his tax residency status to that of the country in December 2013.
This consequently led to Hii being accused of tax evasion totalling AUD$49, 774, 128.20 for the assessment years of 2001 to 2009.
Hii's lead counsel, Datuk Alvin John, maintained that his client had never abandoned his Malaysian domicile, adding that Hii had been declaring his tax deductions throughout the said years.
"The ATO should have contacted Malaysian authorities before imposing the decision on him," said John.
He further argued that the ATO had imposed extra-territorial jurisdiction on his client and that Australian taxation laws thus cannot be applied to Hii.
Australian law says that any person who lives in Australia for over six months or has chosen the country as his home needs to pay world tax (based on earnings outside the country).
"But he has never continuously lived that long in Australia," said John, adding that Hii only makes short visits to Australia to see his children and check on his investments.
On why Hii decided to bring the matter to a Malaysian court, John explained that matters concerning Hii's domicile can only be determined by the Malaysian government.
"In its defence, the Australian government is invoking a sovereign state immunity but this immunity is not absolute.
"When you falsely claim revenue from a foreign citizen, that citizen has the right of recourse and can initiate legal action either at the international level or in his home country," said John.
However, if the Australian government refuses to accept a ruling favourable to Hii, Alvin pledged to take the case to the International Court of Justice.
The other defendants are the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the ATO.
Today's case management was before deputy registrar Noorasyikin Sahat. The next will be on December 6.
"Farewell, America"
This is an article from Moyers & Company
Farewell, America
By Neal Gabler
America died on Nov. 8, 2016, not with a bang or a whimper, but at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion, our tolerance, our decency, our sense of common purpose, our very identity — all the things that, however tenuously, made a nation out of a country.
Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they will now look at us differently. We are likely to be a pariah country. And we are lost for it. As I surveyed the ruin of that country this gray Wednesday morning, I found weary consolation in W.H. Auden's poem, September 1, 1939, which concludes:
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
I hunt for that affirming flame.
This generally has been called the "hate election" because everyone professed to hate both candidates. It turned out to be the hate election because, and let's not mince words, of the hatefulness of the electorate. In the years to come, we will brace for the violence, the anger, the racism, the misogyny, the xenophobia, the nativism, the white sense of grievance that will undoubtedly be unleashed now that we have destroyed the values that have bWe all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone. In its absence, we may realize just how imperative that politesse was. It is the way we managed to coexist.
If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: "He says the things I'm thinking." That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool's paradise. Now we aren't.
This country has survived a civil war, two world wars, and a great depression. There are many who say we will survive this, too. Maybe we will, but we won't survive unscathed. We know too much about each other to heal. No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of those things. Nor can we pretend that democracy works and that elections have more or less happy endings. Democracy only functions when its participants abide by certain conventions, certain codes of conduct and a respect for the process.
The virus that kills democracy is extremism because extremism disables those codes. Republicans have disrespected the process for decades. They have regarded any Democratic president as illegitimate. They have proudly boasted of preventing popularly elected Democrats from effecting policy and have asserted that only Republicans have the right to determine the nation's course. They have worked tirelessly to make sure that the government cannot govern and to redefine the purpose of government as prevention rather than effectuation. In short, they haven't believed in democracy for a long time, and the media never called them out on it.
Democracy can't cope with extremism. Only violence and time can defeat it. The first is unacceptable, the second takes too long. Though Trump is an extremist, I have a feeling that he will be a very popular president and one likely to be re-elected by a substantial margin, no matter what he does or fails to do. That's because ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, rhetoric has obviated action, speechifying has superseded governing.
Trump was absolutely correct when he bragged that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn't care. It was a dictator's ugly vaunt, but one that recognized this election never was about policy or economics or the "right path/wrong path," or even values. It was about venting. So long as Trump vented their grievances, his all-white supporters didn't care about anything else. He is smart enough to know that won't change in the presidency. In fact, it is only likely to intensify. White America, Trump's America, just wants to hear its anger bellowed. This is one time when the Bully Pulpit will be literal.
The media can't be let off the hook for enabling an authoritarian to get to the White House. Long before he considered a presidential run, he was a media creation — a regular in the gossip pages, a photo on magazine covers, the bankrupt (morally and otherwise) mogul who hired and fired on The Apprentice. When he ran, the media treated him not as a candidate, but as a celebrity, and so treated him differently from ordinary pols. The media gave him free publicity, trumpeted his shenanigans, blasted out his tweets, allowed him to phone in his interviews, fell into his traps and generally kowtowed until they suddenly discovered that this joke could actually become president.
Just as Trump has shredded our values, our nation and our democracy, he has shredded the media. In this, as in his politics, he is only the latest avatar of a process that began long before his candidacy. Just as the sainted Ronald Reagan created an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor that the Republicans would later exploit against Democrats, conservatives delegitimized mainstream journalism so that they could fill the vacuum.
Retiring conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes complained that after years of bashing from the right wing, the mainstream media no longer could perform their function as reporters, observers, fact dispensers, and even truth tellers, and he said we needed them. Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.
With Trump's election, I think that the ideal of an objective, truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived. Like Nixon and Sarah Palin before him, Trump ran against the media, boomeranging off the public's contempt for the press. He ran against what he regarded as media elitism and bias, and he ran on the idea that the press disdained working-class white America. Among the many now-widening divides in the country, this is a big one, the divide between the media and working-class whites, because it creates a Wild West of information – a media ecology in which nothing can be believed except what you already believe.
With the mainstream media so delegitimized — a delegitimization for which they bear a good deal of blame, not having had the courage to take on lies and expose false equivalencies — they have very little role to play going forward in our politics. I suspect most of them will surrender to Trumpism — if they were able to normalize Trump as a candidate, they will no doubt normalize him as president. Cable news may even welcome him as a continuous entertainment and ratings booster. And in any case, like Reagan, he is bulletproof. The media cannot touch him, even if they wanted to. Presumably, there will be some courageous guerillas in the mainstream press, a kind of Resistance, who will try to fact-check him. But there will be few of them, and they will be whistling in the wind. Trump, like all dictators, is his own truth.
What's more, Trump already has promised to take his war on the press into courtrooms and the halls of Congress. He wants to loosen libel protections, and he has threatened Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of Amazon with an antitrust suit. Individual journalists have reason to fear him as well. He has already singled out NBC's Katy Tur, perhaps the best of the television reporters, so that she needed the Secret Service to escort her from one of his rallies. Jewish journalists who have criticized Trump have been subjected to vicious anti-Semitism and intimidation from the alt-right. For the press, this is likely to be the new normal in an America in which white supremacists, neo-Nazi militias, racists, sexists, homophobes and anti-Semites have been legitimized by a new president who "says what I'm thinking." It will be open season.
This converts the media from reporters to targets, and they have little recourse. Still, if anyone points the way forward, it may be New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks is no paragon. He always had seemed to willfully neglect modern Republicanism's incipient fascism (now no longer incipient), and he was an apologist for conservative self-enrichment and bigotry. But this campaign season, Brooks pretty much dispensed with politics. He seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that no good could possibly come of any of this and retreated into spirituality. What Brooks promoted were values of mutual respect, a bolder sense of civic engagement, an emphasis on community and neighborhood, and overall a belief in trickle-up decency rather than trickle-down economics. He is not hopeful, but he hasn't lost all hope.
For those of us now languishing in despair, this may be a prescription for rejuvenation. We have lost the country, but by refocusing, we may have gained our own little patch of the world and, more granularly, our own family. For journalists, Brooks may show how political reporting, which, as I said, is likely to be irrelevant in the Trump age, might yield to a broader moral context in which one considers the effect that policy, strategy and governance have not only on our physical and economic well-being but also on our spiritual well-being. In a society that is likely to be fractious and odious, we need a national conversation on values. The media could help start it.
But the disempowered media may have one more role to fill: They must bear witness. Many years from now, future generations will need to know what happened to us and how it happened. They will need to know how disgruntled white Americans, full of self-righteous indignation, found a way to take back a country they felt they were entitled to and which they believed had been lost. They will need to know about the ugliness and evil that destroyed us as a nation after great men like Lincoln and Roosevelt guided us through previous crises and kept our values intact. They will need to know, and they will need a vigorous, engaged, moral media to tell them. They will also need us.
We are not living for ourselves anymore in this country. Now we are living for history.
They're Hoarding Cooking Oil, So Report Them
My friend complained on Facebook that a store near her home somewhere in Puchong had run out of cooking oil.
She posted a photo of empty racks & shelves where bottles of cooking are usually placed.
Of course the rants started coming in her comment box.
How could this be happening? Someone demanded an explanation.
The government should do something about it.
Okay. Her's the thing. It should not be happening. And yes the government - the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives & Consumers Ministry should do something, provided YOU report or complain to them so that they can send the enforcement team to that store or supermarket.
The store, mini market or supermarket, you see, must be hoarding their supply.
Jahat!!!
In stores and minimarkets in my neighbourhood, there is NO problem of supply.
So, do your part.
Anyway...talking about complain -- well, here's something from SeaDemon explaining again to whiners what the issue of cooking oil increase is all about.
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It's Terribly Orange in America : President Trump
My previous posting on what to call Bill Clinton is well, overtaken by the fact that the new POTUS is Donald Trump.
Don't know whether I want to laugh or cry. But oh for good reason.
Anyway, this is an article by the New Yorker.
An American Tragedy
By David Remnick
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.
Trump's shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy.
It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.
There are, inevitably, miseries to come: an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court; an emboldened right-wing Congress; a President whose disdain for women and minorities, civil liberties and scientific fact, to say nothing of simple decency, has been repeatedly demonstrated.
Trump is vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader who will not only set markets tumbling but will strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak, and, above all, the many varieties of Other whom he has so deeply insulted. The African-American Other. The Hispanic Other. The female Other. The Jewish and Muslim Other.
The most hopeful way to look at this grievous event—and it's a stretch—is that this election and the years to follow will be a test of the strength, or the fragility, of American institutions. It will be a test of our seriousness and resolve.
Early on Election Day, the polls held out cause for concern, but they provided sufficiently promising news for Democrats in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, and even Florida that there was every reason to think about celebrating the fulfillment of Seneca Falls, the election of the first woman to the White House.
Potential victories in states like Georgia disappeared, little more than a week ago, with the F.B.I. director's heedless and damaging letter to Congress about reopening his investigation and the reappearance of damaging buzzwords like "e-mails," "Anthony Weiner," and "fifteen-year-old girl."
But the odds were still with Hillary Clinton.
First Gentleman Bill Clinton? First Dude, Maybe? Or Just Plain President Clinton?
Now this is intriguing. It still is.
Let's revisit the question - - if Hillary Clinton wins, what should Bill be called.
Okay okay. Let's get serious. I know many women have got the perfect name ,or label for the guy. But, let's keep it civil and clinical.
Popular American late night tv host Jimmy Kimmel posed the question to Hillary when she made an appearance on his show in November last year.
"First dude, first mate, first gentleman — I'm just not sure about it," she replied. She's as stumped as the rest of us.
Kimmel offered up "the first president lady" as an alternative. How's that going to work out remains to be seen.
In January 2015, Bill Clinton himself joked to US talk show host Rachael Ray that he would go by "Adam" — as in the first man.
"We're joking about this, but it's a serious decision "Serious decision for Hillary, serious decision for the country and the world."
The Independent in April had the story HERE .
"Sorry, Bill – there is no template for how to be a First Gentleman. You'll have to make it up as you go along." - says The Independent, in conclusion.
Clearly a dilemma. But it shouldn't be. In fact, it will all be taken care of.
This is probably made easier by the fact that Bill is a former POTUS.
Endless possibilities.
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard had her "domestic partner' Tim Mathieson by her side while she was PM from 2010-1013.
The Aussies -- public & press - referred to him as "First Bloke".
Today, an AFP report revisits the question, as the US is a day away from polling.
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton's possible election next week to America's highest office has raised a sticky question: What's the best way to refer to the president's male spouse? There have only ever been male presidents in the United States with female spouses.
One president, James Buchanan, remained a lifelong bachelor. Bill Clinton poses a special dilemma – not only he would be the first male presidential spouse, but also the first former president to return to the White House as a spouse.
The former Arkansas governor was elected president in 1992 and again in 1996, serving eight years in office.
It is common to use the honorific "president" to anyone who has served in the post, even after they leave office. But if the prognosticators are correct, and Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, then Bill Clinton can no longer be referred to as President Clinton after his wife's inauguration in January without creating massive confusion.
Lisa Grotts, a certified etiquette expert, told AFP that the dilemma of how to address a male spouse has been dealt with at the state level, which may, or may not, provide a roadmap.
"In the US, we have six female governors, and their husbands unofficially go by First Gentleman. But there are no rules for presidential spouses," she said.
"Once a president, always a president and that will always be his title for life," she said.
Allida Black, an expert on first ladies with the White House Historical Association, told AFP that there is no question that, in terms of protocol at least, Bill Clinton's "title will stay the same" when the first couple are presented at formal events – at a state dinner, for example.
"It will be President Clinton and former president Clinton," Black said.
"We went through the same thing with the Bush family," she continued, referring to George H.W. Bush, the 41st US president, and his son, George W. Bush, the 43rd.
"We had President Bush and former president Bush, so when they were together, they were introduced that way, and the Clintons will be introduced the same way as well," she said.
The stickier issue of day-to-day nomenclature will be handled by the in-house experts, Black said.
"The office of presidential protocol, working with the Clintons, will decide how to rename the Office of the First Lady," Black said.
"If she was married to a person who had not been president, he would have been the First Gentleman, but because Bill Clinton had been president, he is former president, and not the First Gentleman."
What is clear, is that Bill Clinton will not revert to the title of governor or former governor, which would be a breach of protocol.
"It would be a lesser title than being former president," Black said.
The first lady traditionally has her own staff and budget in the White House, and typically adopts causes that are more or less non-controversial.
Laura Bush took on the issues of reading and literacy; Michelle Obama tackled obesity, and good nutrition via her White House garden. She also gave greater visibility to support for veterans and their families.
Another issue brewing in political circles is precisely what official role the First Gentleman – if that is what he's called – will play.
Bill Clinton has promised to step away from the family's Clinton Foundation charity if his wife is elected.
He remains relatively fit and active, but has sworn off one of the endeavors that has occupied much of his time in retirement and proved quite lucrative – speech-making – which earned both Clintons millions of dollars once they were no longer in public office.
Officially, Bill Clinton will not be allowed to take paid government employment during his wife's tenure.
"He cannot have an official paid position but he could be an unofficial advisor to her," said Black.
That would reverse the arrangement they reached during Bill Clinton's presidency, when Hillary Clinton headed up his administration's failed efforts to bring about comprehensive health care reform.
Hillary Clinton earlier this year suggested that she might task her husband with spearheading her administration's efforts to revitalize the economy – a nod to his vaunted presidential success in balancing the US budget while creating millions of jobs.
Well, there you go.
Cooking Oil - Subsidies & Daylight Robbery
If you're happy that cooking oil smugglers are reaping in profits at your expense....
From Kapt Rahmat's Blog, SeaDemon Says in his posting "In Hot Oil"
So, why remove cooking oil subsidy?
Every month, the government subsidises 23 cooking oil producers to produce 85,000 tonnes of cooking oil per month. Studies show that Malaysians only use 45,000 tonnes of cooking oil per month. Approximately 40,000 tonnes are accounted for and are believed to have been smuggled to other countries. These producers/companise that smuggle out these cooking oil double their profits through the subsidies received from the government, and also for selling the oil at a higher price abroad!
It is the bottled type of cooking oil that have been found to be smuggled abroad because they have better mobility than those in the 1kg packets. 1kg packet-cooking oil are used mainly by those from the lower income bracket. This is why the government is maintaining subsidies only for the 1kg packets while the bottled ones have theirs removed. This way, the subsidy reaches the intended group, while the subsidies removed from bottled cooking oil could be put to better use to assist those in need through some other means.
I am all for the removal of subsidy and the chanelling of subsidies removed to address the needs of the lower and lower-middle income groups. Why should I complain about it? The 5kg bottled oil that will cost me RM15.25 this month can last my 10-member household three weeks. So that comes to about 71 sen per day! You people spend more on cigarettes yet you complain about cooking oil!
Breaking Down on Cooking Oil
This is from Syahir521 Blog:
Kenaikan harga minyak masak disebabkan pemansuhan subsidi dan pengapungan harga minyak masak mengikut harga pasaran adalah isu yang sangat sensitif di kalangan rakyat Malaysia.
Perkara-perkara yang berkaitan dengan makanan adalah perkara yang tidak boleh dibawa main dan saya percaya perut-perut yang lapar boleh menyebabkan kerajaan sesebuah negara digulingkan dari tampuk kuasa.
Adakah rakyat terbeban dengan keputusan kerajaan untuk memansuhkan subsidi minyak masak untuk minyak masak bukan paket 1kg ke atas?
Saya pasti ada yang terbeban dan tipulah kalau kata tak ada langsung yang terbeban ditambah dengan kenaikan harga minyak petrol dan diesel bagi bulan November.
Banyak yang naik minyak apabila kerajaan memansuhkan subsidi minyak masak tetapi tak banyak yang tahu berapa kerajaan belanjakan setiap tahun untuk menampung subsidi minyak masak tersebut.
Subsidi minyak masak atau lebih dikenali sebagai Skim Penstabilan Harga Minyak Masak/Cooking Oil Stabilisation Scheme (COSS) [1] adalah skim yang diperkenalkan kerajaan untuk membantu mengawal harga minyak masak untuk pengguna di samping untuk menampung kerugian yang dialami pengilang dan pembungkus minyak masak akibat kos minyak sawit mentah yang tinggi.
COSS mula diperkenal dan dilaksanakan pada tahun 2007 sebagai salah satu langkah-langkah untuk mengurangkan beban kos sara hidup rakyat Malaysia.
COSS ditampung oleh kerajaan melalui kenaan cess ke atas syarikat-syarikat pengusaha ladang kelapa sawit dan pengeluar minyak kelapa sawit. [2]
Berikutan dengan itu harga minyak masak di Malaysia lebih rendah jika dibandingkan dengan negara-negara serantau ASEAN [3]: *Data setakat April 2014 kerana itu kali terakhir dikemaskini oleh KPDNKK:
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What exactly is medical malpractice you might ask? Medical malpractice is a result of healthcare providers failing to adhere to the standards of their field. As a result of their negligence, patients are hurt, injured, and in some cases, the consequences are even fatal.
If you suspect that you've been a victim of medical malpractice but aren't sure if your circumstances fit the bill, take a look at some situations which would call for hiring a medical malpractice lawyer. They'll be able to guide you through the legal process and hopefully lead you to a favorable outcome.
If a doctor has misdiagnosed a patient's condition and as a result, the patient's health has worsened, it may be grounds for winning your case. If the doctor neglected to pursue standard procedures which would have led to a correct diagnosis, then the lawyer should be able to prove this to a judge and lead their client to justice.
In addition to a wrong diagnosis, a late diagnosis may also be grounds for going to court. If the doctor's late diagnosis due to failing to do their job correctly resulted in the patient losing out on a window of opportunity to improve their condition, then this is grounds for pursuing legal action.
Anesthesia is an incredibly dangerous process. If an anesthesiologist fails to investigate a patient's health history thoroughly, the results could be detrimental. Some of the potential damages include brain damage, long term injuries, or even death.
Another example of malpractice in this scenario could be failing to check which medications the patient takes, or neglecting to monitor equipment.
Surgical errors happen all of the time as a result of improper execution. If a doctor puts you under the knife, then you are trusting them to use their instruments correctly and accurately.
In some cases, a surgeon may operate on the wrong part of the body, hit a major organ, or even fail to provide proper post-op care.
During pregnancy or childbirth, the physician may cause injury or even death during care. Examples include causing congenital disabilities or disease.
It's imperative that a prenatal care doctor is able to identify anything which could pose a threat to the baby and mother's well-being.
There are millions of cases each year in the United States alone in which patients are seriously harmed by medication. Whether the wrong medication is prescribed and the patient takes it themselves, or they are administered the wrong medication or incorrect dosage at the hospital.
A lawyer is necessary to present the proof of the error in front of a court of law.


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BOA handbook changes how finals performance order is determined
Music For All released the 2016 edition of the Bands of America Official Procedures and Adjudication Handbook today, spelling out a few significant changes to competition procedures that will take effect this fall.
— Updated finals order selection process for Super Regionals and Grand Nationals. Super Regionals and Grand Nationals will mirror regionals in doing a top half and bottom half draw for finals performance slots. However, they will continue to utilize the pre-draw system unlike regionals. Last year, there were many valid complaints that part of the reason Broken Arrow beat Hebron was because of their performance slots, last and first respectively.
— A definition of the point system. The point system is used to determine which groups receive performance slots at competitions that are over their enrollment limits before the enrollment deadline. The point system has never been used before and has only been alluded to in registration documents. Now it's spelled out in the rulebook.
Special Note: If more applications are received by the designated postmark date than spots in a show, a point system is used to determine which bands are eligible for the initial draw. Points are allotted based on a Band's participation in Bands of America events over the previous four years. The point system assigns points using the following criteria: two points per year for attending Grand Nationals, and one point for attending one or more Regional or Super Regional each year, with a total of three possible points per year (12 points maximum for a four year period).
— Adjusted full enrollment numbers. For regionals, full enrollment has been adjusted from 30 bands to 35 bands. For super regionals, full enrollment has been adjusted from 60 bands to 64 bands. For Grand Nationals, full enrollment has been adjusted from 90 (sometimes listed as 94) bands to 100 bands, with 50 bands performing each day.
— Additional field passes for purchase. In the past, each band is given six director name badges and 25 field passes. This year, bands can choose to purchase up to five additional field passes, giving a total of 36 staff members and adult volunteers access to the field.
— Clarification on pre-recorded music and samples.
Tempo-Specific samples and musical loops are not permitted during the performance.
— Reduced minimum performance time. This rule was typically not enforced at early-season regionals, but the minimum performance time has been shortened from seven minutes to six minutes.
For more information or to read the full text, check out the Adjudication Handbook.


Warning! Read The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back before continuing. The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee picks up right where Darth Paper left off.
When we last saw the students at McQuarrie Middle School, Dwight (the "owner and operator" of the famous Origami Yoda) had been suspended. He is now attending Tippett Academy, and his friends (Tommy, Kellen, and the gang) aren't quite sure what to do without him…or Origami Yoda. Who will give them the advice they need? Who will keep them from embarrassment and trouble?
Chewbacca to the rescue!!! Sara has arrived with the Fortune Wookiee! This paper fortune teller, along with his companion Han Foldo, has come to McQuarrie Middle to guide students in the ways of the Force (even though Chewie and Han never used the Force). But why does the Fortune Wookiee's advice seem to get the guys to do exactly what the girls want them to do? This is one mystery that needs to be solved!
Another mystery that is plaguing the students at MMS concerns Dwight. According to reports, ever since he transferred to Tippett, Dwight has become normal (boring). He does his homework, he behaves in class, he's given up origami (even Origami Yoda), and he's just not as lively as he used to be. What's going on here? Can Dwight's friends—and even his arch-nemesis Harvey—discover the truth before both Dwight and Origami Yoda are gone forever?
Just like the other Origami Yoda books, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee combines humor, Star Wars, art, and mystery to create a fun, fast read that everyone will enjoy. And this isn't the last we've heard from the students of McQuarrie Middle! Something horrible is about to happen at their beloved school, and they'll need to harness the power of the Force to fight it!
If you'd like to learn more about this fantastic series (including how to fold your own origami Star Wars characters), visit http://origamiyoda.wordpress.com/. Have fun!
If you'd like more information on the Origami Yoda books, including the next book, Darth Paper Strikes Back, visit http://origamiyoda.wordpress.com/. May the Force be with you!


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Category Archives: Translocation, Exocytosis & Endocytosis
Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Information 41467_2019_12620_MOESM1_ESM
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Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Information 41467_2019_12620_MOESM1_ESM. via publication of the Solve-RD data collection (http://solve-rd.eu); for the rest of the households consent limitations preclude writing of complete data sets; just specific details (e.g., supplementary variants etc. but not full data units) can be obtained upon request from your corresponding author. The source data underlying the Fig.?1c, e, f, Fig.?2, and Fig.?3 are provided as a Source Data file. Abstract Alterations of Ca2+ homeostasis have been ENAH implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. Ca2+ efflux from your endoplasmic reticulum into the cytoplasm is usually controlled by binding of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate to its receptor. Activated inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors are then rapidly degraded by the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation pathway. Mutations in genes encoding the neuronal isoform of the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (and and cause Hereditary Spastic BIX 02189 Paraplegia (HSP)13C20, a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative motor neuron disorders (MND), primarily affecting the long motor axons of the corticospinal tract motor neurons and leading to the cardinal symptoms of progressive lower limb spasticity and weakness21. In complicated forms of HSP, neuronal systems other than the corticospinal tract are affected and spastic paraplegia is usually accordingly accompanied by additional neurological features such as seizures, cognitive deficits, ataxia, deafness, extrapyramidal involvement, or peripheral neuropathy21,22. More than 100 genes are known to cause autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked forms of HSP; a subset of these genes have been cataloged by OMIM (www.omim.org) as Spastic Paraplegia Genes (SPG1CSPG80). Still, mutations in known HSP genes explain only about two-third of cases21,23,24. Mutations in novel HSP genes as well as novel mutation types that cannot be reliably detected or interpreted by current technology and prediction algorithms are likely to contribute to this BIX 02189 missing heritability in HSPs. A specific founder mutation in has been associated with autosomal dominant afferent ataxia (ADSA) owing to degeneration of central sensory tracts, a phenotype unrelated to HSP, in two Eastern Canadian families25C27. Here, we show that mutations in are associated with autosomal recessive HSP in four unrelated families. Loss of RNF170 in patient-derived fibroblasts and knockout SH-SY5Y neuronal cell lines result in accumulation of the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor that can be rescued upon RNF170 re-expression. In zebrafish, knockdown of prospects to neurodevelopmental defects. Our findings spotlight inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate signaling as a candidate pathway for the development of future therapeutic interventions. Results Biallelic mutations in cause HSP In two siblings of an apparently autosomal recessive German family with early-onset HSP complicated by axonal peripheral neuropathy (family A, Fig.?1a) we performed whole genome sequencing (WGS) to recognize the causative mutation, after extensive genetic assessment for mutations in known HSP genes had didn't confirm the molecular medical diagnosis. We filtered for possibly biallelic uncommon coding and splice area variants and discovered adjustments in five genes (mutations in four households and useful characterization. a Pedigree from the family where genome sequencing discovered a homozygous splice area mutation in segregating with the condition. b Confirmation from the intronic variant c.396+3A>G in genomic DNA. c Gel electrophoresis and d consecutive Sanger sequencing verified the sole appearance of the shorter transcript missing exon 5 (wildtype transcript: 395bp; aberrant transcript: 321bp). e Quantitative real-time PCR from bloodstream and fibroblast produced cDNA from specific A.4 demonstrated significantly reduced RNF170 expression in BIX 02189 comparison to three control examples (Wilcoxon rank sum test, two-sided); f No residual RNF170 appearance could be discovered in individual fibroblasts. Take note the unspecific music group in the RNF170 traditional western blot aswell as the precise 25?kDa music group matching to RNF170, that's abolished upon knockout of in SH-SY5Con cells. g Pedigree of family members B and h variant verification by Sanger sequencing. we Pedigree of family members C and segregation in the grouped family members. j The deletion was verified by visual BIX 02189 evaluation of divide reads in the IGV web browser. k, l Furthermore, primers had been designed flanking the breakpoints aswell as the deletion. m Following Sanger sequencing from the breakpoint fragment was utilized to help expand characterize the variant. n The frameshift version segregating in family members D could possibly be verified by o Sanger sequencing.
New findings about neural regulation of immunity are allowing the design of novel pharmacological strategies to control inflammation and nociception
New findings about neural regulation of immunity are allowing the design of novel pharmacological strategies to control inflammation and nociception. 2006). During swelling/tissue damage, the production of inflammatory factors by leukocytes, such as cytokines [e.g., tumor necrosis element (TNF) and interleukin (IL)-1] and chemokines [e.g., keratinocyte-derived chemokine (CXCL1/KC)], induce hyperalgesia by acting directly on nociceptive neurons (Cunha et al., 2005; Verri et al., 2006). Inflammatory hyperalgesia is usually treated with standard drugs such as the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines (NSAIDs) and/or corticosteroids (Ferreira, 1972). However, these medicines are associated with a broad range of side effects. An alternative strategy includes the use of opioids, which are specific blockers of nociception (Cunha et al., 2010; Ferreira et al., 1991). Again, these neuronal treatments possess deleterious side effects inducing sedation or engine impairment, gastrointestinal dysfunction and addiction. There is a clinical need to determine novel therapeutic strategies for treating inflammatory hyperalgesia. Studies have indicated the activation of either central or peripheral cholinergic pathways attenuates nociception and may provide pharmacological advantages for treating hyperalgesia (Picciotto et al., 2000). Many of these studies focused on the specific cholinergic receptors in the nervous system, which control nociceptors, or in the receptors indicated in leukocytes modulating swelling (Decker et al., 2001; Flores, 2000). Choline is normally a well-known precursor in the biosynthesis of acetylcholine that demonstrated anti-nociceptive results attenuating nociception in sizzling hot dish, formalin and tail-flick lab tests (Damaj et al., 2000; Wang et al., 2005). Mounting data suggest that choline can become a selective agonist of alpha 7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (7nAChRs) (Albuquerque et al., 1997; Alkondon et al., 1997; Papke et al., 1996). Posterior research have uncovered that 7nAChRs are portrayed in neuronal and non-neuronal cells regulating nociception and inflammatory replies (Damaj et al., 2000; Parrish et al., 2008; Vida et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2002, 2005). Nepsilon-Acetyl-L-lysine Despite these scholarly studies, the potential of choline to modulate inflammatory hyperalgesia is under debate still. Here, we initial examined in mice whether choline can avoid the hyperalgesia and inflammatory replies in carrageenan-induced hyperalgesia model. Next, we looked into the result of choline in PGE2-induced mechanised hyperalgesia and whether this impact could be because of the activation from the nitric oxide (Simply no)-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-ATP-sensitive potassium stations (KATP) pathway in primary nociceptive neurons. Nepsilon-Acetyl-L-lysine Finally, the healing potential of choline to regulate nociception in consistent pain was looked into in long-lasting Comprehensive Freunds Adjuvant (CFA) – and Rabbit Polyclonal to PDHA1 incision-induced hyperalgesia. 2.?Outcomes 2.1. Choline inhibits carrageenan-induced hyperalgesia without impacting neutrophil migration or cytokine/chemokine creation We first examined the potential of choline to avoid carrageenan (Cg)-induced inflammatory hyperalgesia, an acute regular experimental model employed for the searching of book anti-hyperalgesic remedies widely. Subcutaneous treatment with choline (s.c.; 3C30 mg/kg) considerably Nepsilon-Acetyl-L-lysine decreased inflammatory hyperalgesia inside a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 1A and ?andB).B). Probably the most consistent and significant effects of choline were observed at 10 and 30 mg/kg, and so we used these doses through this study. We next investigated whether choline modulates inflammatory hyperalgesia by inhibiting the inflammatory response in the paw cells. Choline affected neither neutrophil recruitment nor the production of the nociceptive factors analyzed including TNF, IL-l, or KC/CXCL1 as compared to the control (vehicle-treated mice) (Fig. 1CCF). These results suggest that choline helps prevent inflammatory hyperalgesia without influencing neutrophil migration or chemokine/cytokine production. Open in a separate windowpane Fig. 1. Effect of choline on Cg-induced hyperalgesia is definitely self-employed of chemokine/cytokines production and neutrophil migration. (A) Schematic representation of the experimental protocols. (B) Mice were pretreated with choline (s.c.; 3, 10 and 30 mg/kg) or vehicle 30 min before the intra-plantar injection of carrageenan (Cg; 100 g/paw). The nociceptive reactions were evaluated 1, 3 and 5 h after Cg or saline injection. (C-F) Mice were pretreated with choline (s.c.; 30 mg/kg) or vehicle 30 min before the intra-plantar injection of Cg or saline, and the plantar tissue were collected 1 or 3 h after Cg injection for the analysis of.


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Becoming Australian is easy (for me ...)
June 17, 2015 / Paul Dalgarno
[peter davis]
I've arrived a full 35 minutes early for my Citizenship Test – and not just because a new Australia Institute report has provoked rumblings that too many people are coming in to the country too quickly.
The truth is I'm excited. It's the last hurdle of several; if I make this leap it's a sprint finish to the ceremony that will allow me to proclaim, as the official literature has it: "I am Australian."
The test, initiated by the Howard government in 2007 and revamped in 2009 after a too-high failure rate of 20%, is designed to gauge whether those of us who have been here for four years or more have what it takes to pledge loyalty to the country and its people.
The benefits are several: the right to live freely in Australia, the right, and obligation, to vote in state and federal elections, the right to apply to work in the Australian public service and defence force.
The only obvious downside I can see is agreeing to some future – and hopefully hypothetical – military conscription "to defend the nation and its way of life" should the need arise.
Don't get me wrong. In the right context, I'd take up arms, but it's not something you have to actively sign up for in your country of birth.
Sadly, my 11am appointment is an appointment with a ticket machine. I sit, stand, sit, look at my notes. According to the Australia Institute, the population increased by 400,000 people last year. Since 2000, the migrant populace has swollen by nearly 3 million, more than the total number of newbies between 1950 and 1980.
I've been told by several well-wishers I'll be asked who Don Bradman was, but I know I won't be. Sporty questions were dumped under the Rudd government's attempts to make the test fairer and more relevant to migrants of all backgrounds. The current exam is based entirely on the testable section of the Our Common Bond booklet and comprises 20 multiple-choice questions, drawn from a pool of 200, of which 15 need to be answered correctly.
Australia's rights and liberties feature heavily, as do snippets on the government and law. They're precisely the type of questions that might seem fair and relevant if you were a civil servant charged with devising a test.
Where to get the best long black in Fitzroy, how to get off a tram without a fine when the fare inspector grabs you, why you shouldn't use inner-city Melbourne as your blinkered microcosm for an incredibly large and diverse nation – there's no mention of these more pressing issues.
Sitting with my numbered ticket, next to a black woman who tells me in slow, hard-found words she is nervous, makes it difficult to block out how easy my journey has been.
As a prosperous Judeo-Christian whitey immigrant from the country that established Australia's colonies at the expense of those who had been here for 60,000 years I have a distinct advantage. My English proficiency – a key concern of the test – is fine. The culture has never felt alien to me. I am not – thank Christ – on Nauru or Christmas Island.
I've faced transitional poverty, professional uncertainty, the odd barb, as one person put it when I first started working here, that I'm "not even fucking Australian". But the stakes, on the whole, have been low.
When I think about detention centres, then refocus my attention on Our Common Bond, the cynic in me starts to grumble and I feel slightly queasy. But only slightly.
None of the Australians I know works in executive government, nobody I know socially, maritally or professionally supports the mistreatment of refugees. In my experience, Australians have been friendly, stressed, annoyed, helpful, weird, nice, proud, funny and mortified … which is to say, they're people.
At federation there were 4 million souls – a number not including, embarrassingly, the Indigenous populace; by year's end it's estimated there will be 24 million, a quarter of whom started life overseas, and more than 40% of whom have at least one parent from elsewhere. "In this regard," says Our Common Bond, "we are still a young nation". And there is hope – surely – in that. It's a commodity that should be celebrated, and one that's clearly attractive to a growing number of people.
When I'm finally sat in front of a computer I'm informed I'll have 45 minutes to complete the test. I've already warned myself to not be cocky, to read every question at least twice.
After submitting the test 3 minutes and 22 seconds later I get the result: Congratulations. You got 100% right. Even though that's more a reflection on the test than me I can't help grunting like Lleyton Hewitt, standing with the swagger of Nick Kyrgios.
Barring something unforeseen, my next stop will be the citizenship ceremony, at which – yes – I'll pledge my loyalty to the country and its people. After which, excitedly, I'll proclaim: I am Australian.
June 17, 2015 / Paul Dalgarno/ 2 Comments
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For Team
FIS Rollerski World Championship will take place in Latvia
Soon, from 7 to 11 August, FIS Rollerski World Championship will take place in Latvia in Madona, Latvia.
Madona is considered to be the highest city of Latvia – more than 180 meters above sea level. That's why the winter there lasts a month longer and the snow layer is 20 cm higher than in other regions of the country. However, tourists and athletes are attracted not only by the stable snow cover, but also by the hilly terrain of the city, which is perfect for racing on roller skis.
The skiers will determine the strongest one in classic style races – 10 km for women and 20 km for men, mass start – 15 km for women and 20 km for men, a sprint of 200 meters and a team sprint within four days of competition. It should be reminded, that traditionally, both adult athletes and juniors participate in all competitions as part of the Roller ski World Cup and World Championships.
The participant of the Roller ski World Cup, Ugra athlete Euvgeny Dementiev continues to prepare for competitions at home in Khanty-Mansiysk. "The start is very soon, but there is still an opportunity to make changes in order to show a good result. Not everything worked out at the first leg in Beijing. Now the training is very intensive – I run three-hour crosses, I use every path in the city", – the athlete said. It should be reminded, that Evgeny Dementiev finished sixteenth at the first stage, having shown the best result among Russian athletes.
Khanty-Mansiysk will have to host the race in less than two weeks after the end of the competition in Latvia. For the second time, from 22 to 25 August, the third leg of the Roller ski World Cup will be held here. As well as a year earlier, the program of competitions will include three disciplines: individual race, sprint and mass start. It should be mentioned, that just two of the three races, sprint and mass start, will be held in the very center of the okrug (district) capital, and the individual race will be held on the territory of the Alexander Filipenko Winter Sports Center.
The track for the sprint will stretch along Engels street directly to the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, and the start line of the race from a joint start will be located not far from the central square of the city. The track will go by the Gallery-workshop of the artist Gennady Raishev towards the Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas, will pass by the Boris Losev Park and will return back to starting point. It should be reminded, that women have to overcome a distance of 15 km, and men – 20 km.
The season with four races will end in Ziano di Fiemme and Val di Fiemme, which will start in Trento and finish in the Alpe Cermiz, Italy
FIS Roller ski World Cup 2019
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package main;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

import miningChanges.CorpusCreation;
import miningChanges.ProduceChangeLevelResults;
import miningChanges.ProduceFileLevelResults;
import preprocess.ExtractCommits;
import utils.FileToLines;

public class Main {

	public static HashMap<String,String> settings;
	public static String task = "";
	public static String repoDir = "";
	public static String workingLoc = "";
	public static String bugReport = "";
	public static String changeOracle = "";
	public static String sourceDir = "";
	public static String projectName = "";
	public static String versionName = "";
	public static double lambda = 5;
	public static double belta1 = 0.1;
	public static double belta2 = 0.2;

	public static void startTask() throws Exception {
		//make outputFile path.
		File dir = new File(workingLoc);
		if (!dir.exists())
			dir.mkdirs();

		if (task.equals("indexHunks")) {
			ExtractCommits.indexHunks();
		}
		else if (task.equals("corpusCreation")) {
			// Create the corpus change logs, hunks, and create the code like term corpus
			CorpusCreation.createCorpus();
		}
		else if (task.equals("produceChangeResults")) {
			ProduceChangeLevelResults rank = new ProduceChangeLevelResults();
			rank.getFinalResults();
		}
		else if (task.equals("produceFileResults")) {
			ProduceFileLevelResults rank = new ProduceFileLevelResults();
			rank.getFinalResults();
		}
		else if (task.equals("all")) {
			ExtractCommits.indexHunks();
			System.out.println("Finish Indexing Files");
			CorpusCreation.createCorpus();
			System.out.println("Finish Creating Corpus");
			ProduceChangeLevelResults rank1 = new ProduceChangeLevelResults();
			rank1.getFinalResults();
			System.out.println("Finish Creating Change Level Results");
			ProduceFileLevelResults rank2 = new ProduceFileLevelResults();
			rank2.getFinalResults();
			System.out.println("Finish Creating File Level Results");
		}
		else if (task.equals("fileall")) {
			ExtractCommits.indexHunks();
			System.out.println("Finish Indexing Files");
			if (CorpusCreation.createCorpus()==false){
				System.err.println("Failed to create corpus!");
				return;
			}
			else
				System.out.println("Finish Creating Corpus");
			ProduceFileLevelResults rank2 = new ProduceFileLevelResults();
			rank2.getFinalResults();
			System.out.println("Finish Creating File Level Results");
		}
	}

	public static boolean loadConfigure(String filename) throws Exception {
		File file = new File(filename);
		settings = new HashMap<String,String>();
        if (!file.exists()) {
			System.out.println("Configuration File Not Found!");
			return false;
		}
		else {
			List<String> lines = FileToLines.fileToLines(filename);
			for (String line : lines) {
				if (!line.startsWith("#") && line.contains("=")) {
					settings.put(line.split("=")[0].trim(), line.split("=")[1].trim());
				}
			}
		}

        if (settings.containsKey("Project"))
			projectName = settings.get("Project");
		if (settings.containsKey("Version"))
			versionName = settings.get("Version");

		if (settings.containsKey("task"))
			task = settings.get("task");
		if (settings.containsKey("repoDir"))
			repoDir = settings.get("repoDir");
		if (settings.containsKey("workingLoc"))
			workingLoc = settings.get("workingLoc");
		if (settings.containsKey("bugReport"))
			bugReport = settings.get("bugReport");
		if (settings.containsKey("changeOracle"))
			changeOracle = settings.get("changeOracle");
		if (settings.containsKey("lambda"))
			lambda = Double.parseDouble(settings.get("lambda"));
		if (settings.containsKey("belta1"))
			belta1 = Double.parseDouble(settings.get("belta1"));
		if (settings.containsKey("belta2"))
			belta2 = Double.parseDouble(settings.get("belta2"));
		if (settings.containsKey("sourceDir"))
			sourceDir = settings.get("sourceDir");

		//setting change
		String outputFile = workingLoc + File.separator + "Locus_" + projectName + "_" + versionName + "_output.txt";
		workingLoc = workingLoc + "Locus_" + projectName + "_" + versionName + "/";
		settings.put("workingLoc", workingLoc);
		settings.put("outputFile", outputFile);

		if (task.equals("") || repoDir.equals("") || workingLoc.equals("")
				|| bugReport.equals("") || changeOracle.equals("") || projectName.equals("") || versionName.equals("")) {
			System.out.println("Missing Required Configuration");
			return false;
		}
		return true;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		boolean flag = false;
		if (args.length > 0) {
			flag = loadConfigure(args[0]);
		} else {
			System.out.println("Using default configuration file");
			flag = loadConfigure("./config.txt");
		}

		if (flag == true){
			System.out.println("working with " + projectName + " / " + versionName);
			startTask();
		}
		else
			System.err.println("Error!, stop program..");

	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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References getAprPool(), m_aMutex, m_pSerfBucket_Alloc, and m_pSerfContext.
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References http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetHost(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetPort(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetScheme(), and m_aUri.
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References createReqProc(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetPath(), HandleError(), Init(), and m_aMutex.
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Referenced by COPY(), DESTROY(), GET(), HEAD(), LOCK(), MKCOL(), MOVE(), PROPFIND(), PROPPATCH(), PUT(), and UNLOCK().
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References createReqProc(), HandleError(), Init(), and m_aMutex.
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References createReqProc(), HandleError(), Init(), m_aMutex, http_dav_ucp::DAVResource::properties, and http_dav_ucp::DAVResource::uri.
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Referenced by Init(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processCopy(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processMove(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processPost(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::runProcessor(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::SerfRequestProcessor(), SerfSession(), and verifySerfCertificateChain().
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Referenced by isDomainMatch(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::postprocessProcessor(), provideSerfCredentials(), and verifySerfCertificateChain().
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References http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetHost(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetPort(), ucbhelper::InternetProxyDecider::getProxy(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetScheme(), m_aUri, and m_rProxyDecider.
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Referenced by http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processCopy(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processDelete(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processGet(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processHead(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processLock(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processMkCol(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processMove(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processPost(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processPropFind(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processPropPatch(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processPut(), http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::processUnlock(), provideSerfCredentials(), and verifySerfCertificateChain().
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Referenced by HandleError(), and http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::runProcessor().
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Referenced by http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::runProcessor(), and setupSerfConnection().
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References http_dav_ucp::DAVException::getData(), http_dav_ucp::DAVException::getError(), getSerfConnection(), http_dav_ucp::DAVException::getStatus(), m_aEnv, m_bNoOfTransferEncodingSwitches, and m_bUseChunkedEncoding.
Definition at line 673 of file SerfSession.cxx.
References createReqProc(), HandleError(), Init(), m_aMutex, m_bIsHeadRequestInProgress, http_dav_ucp::DAVResource::properties, and http_dav_ucp::DAVResource::uri.
Definition at line 104 of file SerfSession.cxx.
References ucbhelper::InternetProxyServer::aName, http_dav_ucp::DAVException::DAV_SESSION_CREATE, getAprPool(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::getAprUri(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetHost(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetPort(), getProxySettings(), isSSLNeeded(), m_aMutex, m_aProxyName, m_aUri, m_bUseChunkedEncoding, m_nProxyPort, m_pSerfConnection, m_pSerfContext, http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::makeConnectionEndPointString(), ucbhelper::InternetProxyServer::nPort, OUStringToOString(), Serf_ConnectSetup(), and Serf_Credentials().
Referenced by COPY(), DESTROY(), GET(), HEAD(), Init(), MKCOL(), MOVE(), PROPFIND(), PROPPATCH(), PUT(), UNLOCK(), and UsesProxy().
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Referenced by acceptSerfResponse(), and http_dav_ucp::SerfRequestProcessor::handleSerfResponse().
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Referenced by Init(), and setupSerfConnection().
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References createReqProc(), HandleError(), m_aMutex, and SAL_INFO.
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References createReqProc(), http_dav_ucp::DAVException::DAV_HTTP_ERROR, HandleError(), Init(), m_aEnv, and m_aMutex.
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References http_dav_ucp::DAVAuthListener::authenticate(), getHostName(), getRequestEnvironment(), http_dav_ucp::SerfUri::GetUserInfo(), http_dav_ucp::DAVRequestEnvironment::m_xAuthListener, nPos, and OUStringToOString().
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References createReqProc(), http_dav_ucp::DAVException::DAV_INVALID_ARG, getDataFromInputStream(), HandleError(), Init(), and m_aMutex.
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Set the callback that is called to authenticate the certificate (chain).
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References getHostinfo(), getSerfBktAlloc(), getSerfContext(), isSSLNeeded(), and Serf_CertificateChainValidation().
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References createReqProc(), apr_environment::AprEnv::getAprEnv(), apr_environment::AprEnv::getSerfLockStore(), HandleError(), Init(), m_aMutex, http_dav_ucp::SerfLockStore::removeLock(), and SAL_INFO.
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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday imposed a ban on washing of cars with hosepipes and directed that vehicles be washed with buckets of water instead.
LHC judge Justice Shahid Karim issued a written order on a petition filed by Haroon Farooq to conserve water and stop its wastage.In its written order, the LHC directed the Lahore Development Authority and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) to impose a ban on service stations from using hosepipes to wash cars.
The LHC has also directed households to wash cars using buckets of water. Further, it has called for an awareness campaign on the ban on using hosepipes to wash cars and for the Punjab government to apprise the court regarding measures to conserve water and stop its wastage.The court has also sought a detailed report from all housing societies in this regard during the next hearing.


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package com.gilt.aws.escalator

import com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.model.{Record, Shard}
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterAll, FlatSpec, Matchers}

import scala.concurrent.{Await, Future}
import scala.util.{Success, Try}

class EscalatorSpec extends FlatSpec with Matchers with BeforeAndAfterAll {

  import Util._

  import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
  val client = new Escalator()
  val streamNames = (1 to 3) map (_ => s"EscalatorSpec_${util.Random.alphanumeric.take(10).mkString}")

  def blockUntilNoneMatch(status: String): Unit = {
    var waiting = true
    while (waiting) {
      val streams = Future.sequence(client.listStreams()).toResult.flatten
      waiting = streams.exists { stream =>
        Try(client.describeStream(stream).toResult) match {
          case Success((StreamDescription(_, _, `status`), _, _)) => true
          case _ => false
        }
      }
      if (waiting) Thread.sleep(1000)
    }

  }

  override def beforeAll() {
    // create 3 streams, with 1, 2, & 3 shards each
    blockUntilNoneMatch("DELETING")
    Future.sequence(streamNames.zipWithIndex.map(ni => client.createStream(ni._1, ni._2 + 1))).toResult
    blockUntilNoneMatch("CREATING")
  }

  override def afterAll() {
    Future.sequence(streamNames.map(client.deleteStream)).toResult
  }

  "An Escalator" should "page through multiple streams" in {
    val streams = Future.sequence(client.listStreams(2)).map(_.flatten).toResult
    streamNames.foreach(name => streams should contain(name))
    streamNames.foreach(name => client.containsStream(name, 1).toResult should be(true))
    client.containsStream(util.Random.alphanumeric.take(10).mkString, 1).toResult should be(false)
  }

  it should "support paging through and finding shards" in {
    val shards: Seq[Shard] = Future.sequence(client.shards(streamNames.last, 1)).toResult.flatten
    shards.size should equal(3)

    client.findShard(streamNames.last, shards.head.getShardId, 1).toResult should equal(Some(shards.head))
    client.findShard(streamNames.last, "", 1).toResult should equal(None)
  }

  it should "describe streams correctly" in {
    val toResult: (StreamDescription, Seq[Shard], Stream[Future[Seq[Shard]]]) =
      client.describeStream(streamNames.last, 1).toResult
    toResult._1.name should equal(streamNames.last)
    toResult._1.status should equal("ACTIVE")

    val shards = Seq(toResult._2, Future.sequence(toResult._3).toResult.flatten).flatten.toSeq
    shards.size should be (3)
  }

  it should "support ordered queuing and unqueuing records" in {
    val records = Seq("record1", "record2", "record3").map(_.getBytes)

    val firstPut = client.putRecord(streamNames.head, records(0), "partKey").toResult
    val secondPut = client.putRecord(streamNames.head, records(1), "partKey", firstPut._2).toResult
    val thirdPut = client.putRecord(streamNames.head, records(2), "partKey", secondPut._2).toResult

    val shard = Future.sequence(client.shards(streamNames.head)).toResult.flatten.head

    val toResult: Stream[Future[Seq[Record]]] = client.getRecords(streamNames.head, shard, TrimHorizon, records.size).toResult

    // note order is guaranteed
    toResult.map(_.toResult).flatten.take(3).map(_.getData.array()).map(_.toIndexedSeq) should equal(records.map(_.toIndexedSeq))

    // read the first two, then read the second again, then pick up after the second
    {
      val toResult: Stream[Future[Seq[Record]]] = client.getRecords(streamNames.head, shard, TrimHorizon, records.size).toResult
      val firstTwo: Stream[Record] = toResult.map(_.toResult).flatten

      val secondRecord = firstTwo.drop(1).head
      val secondCall: Record = client.getRecords(streamNames.head, shard, AtSequenceNumber(secondRecord.getSequenceNumber), records.size).toResult.head.toResult.head
      secondCall.getData.array().toSeq should equal(records(1).toSeq)
      val thirdCall: Record = client.getRecords(streamNames.head, shard, AfterSequenceNumber(secondRecord.getSequenceNumber), records.size).toResult.head.toResult.head
      thirdCall.getData.array().toSeq should equal(records(2).toSeq)
    }
  }
}


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Home » Language » English Language » Literature » What is the Difference Between Flash Forward and Foreshadowing
What is the Difference Between Flash Forward and Foreshadowing
by Hasa
The main difference between flash forward and foreshadowing is that in flash forward, the plot jumps ahead to the future of the narrative whereas, in foreshadowing, the author drops subtle hints and clues about the plot developments to come later in the story.
Both flash forward and foreshadowing are literary devices that indicate what is going to happen in a story. However, flash forward directly takes the readers or viewers to an action that happens in the future while foreshadowing includes subtle clues about what's going to happen in the story.
Key Areas Covered
1. What is Flash Forward
– Definition, Characteristics, Examples
2. What is Foreshadowing
3. What is the Difference Between Flash Forward and Foreshadowing
– Comparison of Key Differences
Flash Forward, Foreshadowing
What is Flash Forward
Flash forward, also known as prolepsis, is a literary device in which the action or plot jumps ahead to the future of the narrative. What happens here is that a scene interrupts the narrative and takes the narrative forward in time from the current time. Generally, a flash-forward depicts an imagined or expected events in the future, connected to the main plot. However, these events may not necessarily take place in the future. Flash forward is the opposite of flashback, which jumps back to the past events.
A famous example of flash-forward is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, where the protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge sees the future following his death. Although not as common as a flashback, authors use flash forward to grab the interest of the readers. Readers especially show an interest in the current events of the narrative in order to see how the plot develops towards the future that has already been shown through the flash forward.
What is Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the writer gives subtle hints about the events that are going to take place in the story. Authors often use indicative words and phrases as hints without spoiling the suspense or revealing the story. However, they may be subtle, and the readers won't be able to grasp them in the first reading itself.
Generally, foreshadowing is used by writers to prepare the readers for some shocking twist in the story and to shift the mood of the story. Mystery and suspense writers also use foreshadowing to strengthen the sense of mystery in their story.
The following phrases and clauses are some examples of foreshadowing from literature.
"Go ask his name.—If he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
– Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Just as this dialogue indicates, Juliet's wedding bed turns out to be her grave since she falls in love with her family's enemy, Romeo and die with him.
Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' words to Tiresius "You've lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf – senses, eyes blind as stone!" turns out to be an example of foreshadowing as Oedipus loses all his power and becomes blind and deaf at the end.
Difference Between Flash Forward and Foreshadowing
Flash forward is a literary device in which the action or plot jumps ahead to the future of the narrative. But, foreshadowing is a literary device in which the writer gives subtle hints about the events that are going to take place in the story.
While flash forward directly takes the readers or viewers to an action that happens in the future, foreshadowing includes subtle clues about what's going to happen in the story.
Ability to Detect
It's possible to detect flash forward in the first reading itself; however, it's not possible to detect techniques of foreshadowing in the first reading.
In brief, flash forward and foreshadowing are literary devices that indicate what is going to happen in a story. The main difference between flash forward and foreshadowing is that in flash forward, the plot jumps ahead to the future of the narrative whereas, in foreshadowing, the author drops subtle hints and clues about the plot developments to come later in the story.
1. "Flash-Forward – Examples and Definition of Flash-Forward." Literary Devices, 12 Jan. 2018, Available here.
2, "Foreshadowing." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Sept. 2019, Available here.
1. "Tales from Shakspeare (1831) p289 Romeo and Juliet" By William Harvey – Internet Archive identifier (Public Domain) via Commons Wikimedia
2. "Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol-Title page-First edition 1843" By John Leech – (Public Domain) via Commons Wikimedia
About the Author: Hasa
Hasa has a BA degree in English, French and Translation studies. She is currently reading for a Masters degree in English. Her areas of interests include literature, language, linguistics and also food.
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