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love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
— E.E. Cummings <link>
Boredom and Sloth
Habitual boredom, boredom not just with a specific task like chopping wood for ten hours a day but boredom that is like the sky spread over everything, not only leads to sin, but it is in itself a sin. The medievals called it sloth (acedia or akedia), one of the seven deadly sins.
Sloth is not simply laziness. In fact, it does not necessarily imply any physical laziness at all. It means the passivity and inactivity of the will and the passions even in the presence of the true good. In other word, it is the soul's refusal to eat its food. As violence is spiritual junk food, boredom is spiritual anorexia.
— Peter Kreeft, "Shocking Beauty" <link>
When God Forgives Us
The literal truth is that when God forgives us he doesn't change his mind about us. Out of his unconditional, unchanging, eternal love for us he changes our minds about him. It is God's loving gift that we begin to think of repenting for our sin and of asking for his mercy. And that repentance does not earn his forgiveness. It is his forgiveness under another name. The gift, the grace, of contrition just is God's forgiveness. The gift of contrition is, for example, the grace we celebrate in the sacrament of penance. If we go to confession, it is not to plead for forgiveness from God. It is to thank him for it. The gift of contrition is the gift of recognizing God's unswerving love for us. It is the gift of having the confidence to confess our sins, to admit the truth. And if we do that, then, as Jesus told us, the truth will set us free (cf. John 8:32).
— Herbert McCabe, God, Christ and Us <link>
Fads, Trends, and Principles
When looking at the world, you can divide much of it into Fads, Trends or Principles. A little mantra for this is that we should Play with Fads, Work with Trends, and Live by Principles… in modern times, we are too often Seduced by Fads, Ignorant of Trends, and Resistant to Principles.
— David Zach <link>
Hearing God pronounce our names in love is the core of mysticism.
— Ron Rolhheiser, from article "Mystic or Unbeliever" <link>
But if you don't write of things deep in your own heart,
What's the use of churning out so many words?
— Ryokan <link>
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Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
— Peter Gabriel, from "Down to Earth" <link>
You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the Devil bite your ass.
— Tuco, (Movie quote) the "ugly" bandit from the movie The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly <link>
Sin made Hell, divine love made Purgatory.
— Peter Kreeft <link>
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
— G.K. Chesterton <link>
All my life false and real, right and wrong tangled.
Playing with the moon, ridiculing the wind, listening to the birds…
Many years wasted seeing the mountain covered with snow.
This winter I suddenly realize snow makes a mountain.
— Dogen <link>
Do not dwell in the problem, dwell in the solution; the solution is God.
— Emmet Fox <link>
For Whatever Reason
For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—he had the honesty and courage to take his own medicine. Whatever game he is playing with his creation, he has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.
— Dorothy L. Sayers <link>
We must try not to compare our insides to other people's outsides.
— Anne Lamott, All New People <link>
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.
— Ford Madox Ford <link>
It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
— Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier <link>
What the artist wishes to do—as far as you are concerned—is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
— Oscar Wilde <link>
You can see only as far as your headlights…
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E.L. Doctorow <link>
Work Is Love Made Visible
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
— Kahlil Gibran <link>
Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
— Ray Bradbury <link>
There's an old saying, "Life begins at forty." That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
— George Burns <link>
Presence does not happen in the mind.
— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden <link>
Jesus was precisely the "once and for all" sacrifice given to reveal the lie and absurdity of the very notion and necessity of "sacrificial" religion itself.
Jesus Christ is both the medium and the message.
By Some Other Means Than Forgiveness
As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin.
Grief Work
"Grief work" [is] holding the mystery of pain and looking right at it and learning deeply from it.
Overexplanation separates us from astonishment.
— Eugene Ionesco <link>
Most people in my experience are still into fearing God and controlling God instead of loving God.
The Bible will not make transformation dependent on cleverness at all, but in one of God's favorite and most effective hiding places—humility.
God comes to us disguised as our life.
— Paula D'Arcy <link>
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
Do I Seek Relief of My Suffering or My Sin?
The way the world works is that the coin of the realm is relief of suffering: if someone does something that prevents me from suffering, even as minor as letting me in their lane of traffic, I am grateful. I feel the love. But if relief of suffering is the only thing I see as of value, then how can I truly celebrate Christ's love, He who relieves our sins and not our sufferings? Until I truly see sin, and not suffering, as the supreme evil, can I be truly grateful to Christ?
— Unnamed author of weblog, Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor <link>
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in Hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
— Dorothy Sayers <link>
I need to put up with two or three caterpillars
if I want to get to know the butterflies.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince <link>
The Mystery of Personality in God
The Feast of the Sacred Heart was for me a day of grace and seriousness. Twenty years ago I was uncomfortable with this concept. Now I see the real meaning of it (quite apart from the externals). It is the center, the "heart" of the whole Christian mystery.
There is one thing more—I may be interested in Oriental religions, etc., but there can be no obscuring the essential difference—this personal communion with Christ at the center and heart of all reality, as a source of grace and life. "God is love" may perhaps be clarified if one says that "God is void" and if the void one finds absolute indetermination and hence absolute freedom. (With freedom, the void becomes fulness and 0 = infinity). All that is "interesting" but none of it touches on the mystery of personality in God, and His personal love for me. Again, I am void too—and I have freedom, or am a kind of freedom, meaningless unless oriented to Him.
— Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life <link>
The flame of love
grows as it is divided
it increases by being shared
from one, then two, then three
and darkness is transformed into glory
and the walls reflect its light
Share your flame!
— St. John of the Cross <link>
We cannot have compassion without acknowledging the suffering of others.
— Carl Anderson, Civilization of Love <link>
Metaphor is the lifeblood of art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we're experiencing now with what we have experienced before.
— Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit <link>
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'Downton Abbey' review: A family's fortune at risk
Entertainment // TV
David Wiegand, Chronicle Staff Writer
Jan. 7, 2011 Updated: Jan. 11, 2012 9:37 p.m.
Created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), ?'Downton Abbey?" depicts the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them, set at their Edwardian country house in 1912. Featuring an all-star cast, including Hugh Bonnevill(MASTERPIECE CLASSIC ?Miss Austen Regrets?), Dame Maggie Smith (Harry Potter) and Elizabeth McGovern. Pictured: Dame Maggie Smith (Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham)Masterpiece
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The folks at Boston's WGBH couldn't have chosen a better way to mark the start of "Masterpiece's" 40th season than "Downton Abbey," a four-part epic that's also an implicit tip of the hat to one of the most beloved "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries ever, "Upstairs, Downstairs."
With a cast headed by Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and a delicious Dame Maggie Smith at her Dame Maggie Smith-iest, "Downton" is the story of the Crawley family, British nobles whose dynastic hold on their fortune and the stately mansion of the title is encumbered by something called an entail. That is a restriction established in a will that the entire estate of the present Earl of Grantham, Robert Crawley (Bonneville), can only be passed on to his male heir as a package, including all the money his American-born wife, Cora (McGovern), pumped into the family.
All of that would be well and good, had the Crawleys begat a son. Instead, Cora gave birth to three girls, Goneril, Regan ... oh, wait. Sorry, got mixed up there for a second: Make that Mary (Michelle Dockery), Edith (Laura Carmichael) and Sybil (Jessica Brown-Findlay). As the series opens, it's April 1912 and word reaches the Abbey that the Titanic has sunk, taking with it a cousin and his marriageable son, who was destined to wed Mary to keep all the money in the family.
Although Robert's mother, the Dowager Countess Violet (Smith), has never been too keen on his American wife, she's willing to team up with her to fight the entail by nudging Mary, the eldest Crawley daughter, toward marriage with a distant cousin named Matthew (Dan Stevens), who has the temerity to work for a living and is proud to be a member of the middle class. At one point, in conversation with the family, he mentions having spare time on weekends only.
"What is a weekend?" Smith's Dowager Countess hisses.
Yes, writer Julian Fellowes borrows a bit of this and a bit of that to craft his plot. There's also a touch of "Brideshead Revisited," as well as Robert Altman's "Gosford Park," which Fellowes wrote based on an idea by the director and actor Bob Balaban. And there's a whole lot of "Upstairs, Downstairs": At least half the story focuses on the help, including the lovable housekeeper, Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan), the stalwart butler and majordomo, Carson (Jim Carter), and Grantham's old military buddy, John Bates (Brendan Coyle), who is hired as his friend's valet. While the Crawley family squabbles and frets over "the great matter" - how to keep the estate intact - downstairs is aroil in intrigue as the footman Thomas (Rob James-Collier) conspires with a lady's maid, O'Brien (Siobhan Finneran), to get Bates fired.
Actually, there's quite a bit of ambition among the servants of Downton Abbey. Young Gwen (Rose Leslie), a farmer's daughter in service as a maid, is secretly learning to use a typewriter in hopes of becoming a secretary. Lady's maid Anna (Joanne Froggatt) has set her cap for the mysteriously reserved Bates. And the poor kitchen helper, Daisy (Sophie McShera), is desperate to catch the attention of the coldhearted Thomas, never quite getting the fact that, as the cook tries to explain it, Thomas is not a "ladies' man." Not by half: He's already tried to blackmail a former boyfriend, an impoverished duke who descends on the household in hopes of securing Lady Mary's hand in marriage, but quickly exits once he realizes he won't get a ha'penny of the family money.
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It's inevitable that when you craft a plot that includes not only the kitchen sink but a host of additional household fixtures, things get a bit hard to believe here and there. "Downton" dips into out-and-out melodrama at various points, but you barely have time to roll your eyes before it moves on to yet another subplot.
Fellowes does a masterful job keeping all these plates spinning at the same time. But there are a few moments when he sacrifices character consistency for a good line. McGovern's Cora, for example, seems at one moment to be willing to marry her daughters off to livestock if it will keep the estate together, and at the next, is urging Mary to follow her heart. When Mary is caught in a premarital scandal with a swarthy foreigner, Cora is aghast for about a half second before turning her focus on how to contain the scandal long enough to get Mary lucratively wed.
Fellowes does know how to write some tasty dialogue, especially for Maggie Smith. On the other hand, Smith could turn the most mundane assemblage of words into aural poetry. Her Dowager Countess steals every scene she's in with a combination of tightly pursed sneers, half-lidded glares, undulating eyebrows and rippling vocalism.
The other performances are equally winning, but beyond that, you can't help feeling these actors are having a jolly good time with all this overblown fluff. And so will you. Only a few loose ends are actually tied up by the end of the fourth night, but viewers probably won't care that much. For one thing, we can pretty much figure where things are headed for several characters. But, for another, filming begins on a whole new season of "Downton" in March, which bodes well for the party to continue beyond "Masterpiece's" 40th.
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David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and TV critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. A native of Rochester, N.Y., he holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.
He joined The Chronicle in 1992 as a copy editor with the arts section and became entertainment editor in 1995 and executive features editor in 2006. He took on the job of television critic in 2010, writing regular TV reviews and columns not only for The Chronicle but for other papers in the Hearst chain.
Before The Chronicle, he was managing editor of Dole Newspapers in Somerville, Mass., and editor of the Amesbury (Mass.) News.

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Two years from now, Apple's new 2.8 million-square-foot headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., will officially open for business. The company hasn't been too open with how the experience of working in the headquarters will be for employees, and essentially all we've been able to gather of the place has come from this aerial view of the campus, that shows the "spaceship" design of the building.
But now, some 20 previously unseen mock-ups of the campus that were hidden in Cupertino's municipal archive have now been revealed, offering us a glimpse into what the day-to-day will be like for Cook and Co. Apple Campus 2 was designed by architect Norman Foster, who previously built the bullet-shaped Gherkin in London. In the video below, Foster remembers getting a call from Steve Jobs back in 2009, asking him for help. The pair met three weeks later. "One of the most memorable things and perhaps vital to the project was Steve saying, 'Don't think of me as a client, think of me as one of your team,'" Foster said.
The new campus will fit 13,000 employees in its four-story, $5 billion-dollar structure. It's not all about gold iPhones and white iPads, though: as you can see from the designs, a great deal of the campus is devoted to green. It's essentially a huge park, and will include plum, apricot, and cherry trees. It'll be the other kind of green, too: the campus is supposed to run entirely on renewable energy.
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Just because I have almost no life outside of drawing.
And Zhao is a slave driver.
Need to rework the last page a bit. Ah well, when and if the time comes.
NEXT: where we see what is happening in those other fire nation ships.
May take a few days to update, as I'll get visit most of the week.
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Your lack of a life is a mixed blessing when it brings us such fun.
Abandoned has one b, lol.
One of his good reports (plural).
GREAT! BTW. Zhao hads no idea of a babysitter. ^_^ Logical, given Zhao's past, of course.
Hehe I kind of figured that he was one of Iroh's men... has a similar vibe about him. It's sweet how loyal most of his crew has been up until now... I'm surprised a mutiny didn't rise before. Perhaps it was out of fear but... i dunno, their plagued expressions are just begging for a hug. Great job as always!
That's a "aw man, I've been f?&$&* for how many months now without knowing it?"
Maybe a bit of both- and Kwon didn't mind admitting it, seeing as he'll be off the boat soon.
Yeah, old plot twist, but at the same time Iroh would never ever had let Zhao out into the wild without someone checking on him.
And well, he was right.
And an interesting plan from Zhao. Will it work? Eh? ...Oh, fine, I know I have to wait and see.
Let's never underestimate Iroh. Zhao just learned that all over again.
As for Zhao's plan...yeah, wait and see.
*cackle* As everyone else said: Kwon is awesome. And Zhao's expression.
What an interesting thing Zhao is doing, getting the crew off the ship. I do wonder what he's planning, and why he's being so... considerate of his crew.
Haha, not that would have been great to sneak in Kwon, but nooo. I would need to be a character designer in order to do that, and get said design approved.
Oh, I don't think he will do such a nasty report after the recent events. It won't be 100% nice and clean though.
As for his crew...let's just say they would get in the way of his plan.
*is cackling like a madwoman* That's my Iroh! Officer kwon, you just got yourself a infinitely more devoted fangirl.
And Zhao just learned again to never underestimate Iroh. His old benefactor is a sly fox.
Hee hee twist! Kwon is teh awesome.
Good eye- I'm actually just playing with the font size, deciding what looks best- slightly smaller or bigger. It's aaaaaallll about experimenting right now.
Love the idea of a fake mutiny! Though I'm sure he's doing it to be self-serving rather than altruistic towards his crew.
You guessed right- nothing altruistic there, they'd just be in his way.
Highly doubtful plan, but if he thinks he can pull it off, no one will change his mind.
Those years of playing Pai Sho paid off for Iroh; he's got interesting strategies.
Now if Zhao had been playing Pai Sho too, he'd be coming up with better plans.
Sly dog, sly fox...sly fox-dog!


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CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?
RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Well, my question for you is, I've been to three schools: A junior college, I transferred to a Catholic four-year school, and now I'm at the current four-last year institution that I'm at. And this morning was the first day of classes for my senior year and I'm in a government class, and my teacher, everything started off well. She seemed very sweet. She's very nice and she got back into her background and history of teaching and all that and she was saying that she grew up in a very political household and they watched…
She became an activist for anti-war Vietnam stuff and an activist for the civil rights and all that, she said she's not objective at all. She hates Republicans, hates Fox News. And I'm sitting there and she started attacking Donald Trump and illegal immigration. And I kind of stood up for myself, and I feel like I'm the minority in the class. I've felt this for a couple of years now and, quite frankly, I'm sick of it. And my question for you is what can someone like me, other conservative students around the nation do to kind of stick up for the conservative principles?
RUSH: Here's what you do. I'm gonna give you a couple of websites where you can go and find a common bond with students just like yourself who are chronicling this kind of stuff.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: One's called College Reform. The other's called The College Fix.
CALLER: Okay. Perfect.
RUSH: These are people that are on campus like you are who are chronicling all of the examples of madcap, stupid liberalism, and they're just publicizing it. You know what you can do? The best thing you can do is what you're doing, just tell everybody. Don't fight the professor. Just don't believe her. It's not gonna serve you, unless she's the kind that you can have productive disagreements in class that are not gonna harm your grade.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Then have fun at it, but you're not gonna change her. Especially since, you know, she admitted to you who she is.
RUSH: You've gotta take that into account with everything she teaches. You now have a reason to suspect everything she teaches in that class. Do not weaken and do not buckle to this. Just make her think you are, if you have to, for the grade. The grade, that's what you need going forward. I've had people asking me this the entire time I've been doing this program, and I've changed my advice over the years on this.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: I used to advise people to be confrontational, not put up with it, but, you know, I've gotten to the point now where it's so prevalent that it's almost more fun if you just try to take her to be as extreme as she can. Act like you believe it and then come up with the craziest wacko examples you can of things you think she would agree with in the form of questions. Have fun with it, play a game with it. But do not, whatever you do, do not let it have a permanent impact on what you think.
RUSH: Try to laugh at it. I mean, the woman just admitted she's a joke. She just admitted that she is a flawed professorette.
CALLER: Well, I want to thank you, though, because like I said I've been sitting here and I know other listeners, students and like-minded people have been sitting here for years, and it's frustrating 'cause I hate to see this happen —
RUSH: I know. It's the like watching the news every day. It's maddening. It's frustrating as hell. It's an insult to your intelligence to be lied to like she's going to be doing to you.
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: I got fired confronting a boss that was a pathological liar. I let him know that I knew and I was fired in 30 minutes.
CALLER: Wow.
RUSH: I was gone. Now, you won't be fired, you're a student, but —
CALLER: I hope not.
RUSH: — find these two websites. Like I've got something right here from The College Fix today. This is from a North Carolina State University. Get this now, Harry. A women's and gender studies lecturer, North Carolina State, is docking her students' grades for using sexist language in class assignments. You know what sexist language is?
CALLER: No, I don't.
RUSH: Well, you cannot using "he" or "him" or "man."
CALLER: So what are you supposed to say? I don't get it.
RUSH: You are supposed to replace "mankind" with Humans or Humankind.
CALLER: You're kidding me, right?
RUSH: No, no, no, no. Grades will be docked for sexist language and assignments, the section concludes.
CALLER: Oh, my God.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. She'll give you probably some explicit directives like this as the course goes on, language you're not permitted to use.
RUSH: And, you know, just try not to laugh in her face during class. That won't work. But it's ridiculous. There are even worse examples of this that I've come across in the past couple of weeks. There's another university that's having a total makeover of personal pronouns and words. They're making up words to replace "he" and "she."
CALLER: My last question to you is, is there any way going forward, whether it's my generation or generations behind me, to switch the roles and to preach a more conservative agenda, not even that, maybe just an objective agenda to spread ideas.
RUSH: Well, the only way that's gonna happen is if people like you and others want to try to become teachers at these schools and reform —
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: — them from within.
CALLER: You're right. You're absolutely right, Rush.
RUSH: And I don't know if you want to do that or not. If you don't then what you have to do now is figure out a way to survive this and not let it harm you, and the best way I've found is to just find it as entertaining and just be above it.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: It's frustrating as it could be, I know. Nobody escapes. It's like watching the news, like I told you.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
RUSH: But don't forget those two websites, TheCollegeFix.com and CampusReform.org.
CALLER: Got it.
RUSH: You will love them. People just like you who are writing daily of all of these kinds of wacko, silly examples happening on campus. TheCollegeFix.com, CampusReform.org. I think this program inspired both of them, quite frankly. So you'll be right at home there.
RUSH: Now, folks, listen to me, look at me. On that College Fix website, make sure you go www.TheCollegeFix.com. Put "the" in front of College Fix, 'cause if you don't you're gonna end up — well, some of you might want to be there, but most of you won't want to go where you're gonna be taken. Make sure you put TheCollegeFix.com. Now everybody's gonna try it. I know what's gonna happen.
The College Fix: Students Will be Marked Down if They Write 'Mankind' in North Carolina State Women's Studies Class
Campus Reform: University Stops Telling Students to Call 9-1-1 for 'Bias Incidents'


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package com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots;

import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.IMPORT_SNAPSHOT_JOBNAME_KEY;
import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.SNAPSHOTNAME_KEY;
import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.SNAPSHOT_RESTOREDIR_KEY;
import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_DEFAULT;
import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_KEY;
import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.mapreduce.hbasesnapshots.ImportJobCommon.TABLENAME_KEY;

import com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableConfiguration;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableOptionsFactory;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Cell;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.MutationSerialization;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.ResultSerialization;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableMapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RegionSplitter.UniformSplit;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counters;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.GenericOptionsParser;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/** A Mapreduce job to import an HBase snapshot to Bigtable. */
public class ImportHBaseSnapshotJob extends Configured implements Tool {

  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(ImportHBaseSnapshotJob.class);

  /*
   * @param errorMsg Error message.  Can be null.
   */
  private static void usage(final String errorMsg) {
    if (errorMsg != null && errorMsg.length() > 0) {
      System.out.println("ERROR: " + errorMsg);
    }
    System.out.println(
        "Usage: hadoop jar <JAR> <CLASS> <properties> <snapshot-name> <snapshot-dir> <tablename> <temp-dir>\n"
            + "Required properties: \n"
            + "  -D"
            + BigtableOptionsFactory.PROJECT_ID_KEY
            + "=<bigtable-project-id>\n"
            + "  -D"
            + BigtableOptionsFactory.INSTANCE_ID_KEY
            + "=<bigtable-instance-id>\n"
            + "Required arguments:\n"
            + "  snapshot-name     - name of hbase snapshot to read\n"
            + "  snapshot-dir      - directory of snapshot, e.g., gs://hbase-migration-table1-bucket/export/table1-snapshot\n"
            + "  tablename         - bigtable table to import into\n"
            + "  temp-dir          - a temporary base directory to restore hlinks of the snapshot into for read, e.g., gs://hbase-migration-table1-bucket/export/table1-restore\n"
            + "Optional properties: \n"
            + "  -D"
            + BigtableOptionsFactory.BIGTABLE_BUFFERED_MUTATOR_ENABLE_THROTTLING
            + "=(true|false)\n"
            + "  -D"
            + BigtableOptionsFactory.BIGTABLE_BUFFERED_MUTATOR_THROTTLING_THRESHOLD_MILLIS
            + "=<throttling-threshold-ms>\n");

    System.exit(1);
  }

  /**
   * Job runner
   *
   * @param args command line input
   * @return job success flag
   * @throws Exception terminal for application failure
   */
  @Override
  public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create(getConf());
    String[] otherArgs = new GenericOptionsParser(conf, args).getRemainingArgs();

    if (setConfFromArgs(conf, otherArgs) != 0) return -1;

    LOG.info(
        "Using Arguments: "
            + "\n"
            + "snapshotName = "
            + conf.get(SNAPSHOTNAME_KEY)
            + "\n"
            + "snapshotDir = "
            + conf.get(HConstants.HBASE_DIR)
            + "\n"
            + "bigtableName = "
            + conf.get(TableOutputFormat.OUTPUT_TABLE)
            + "\n"
            + "tempDir = "
            + conf.get(SNAPSHOT_RESTOREDIR_KEY)
            + "\n"
            + CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY
            + " = "
            + conf.get(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY)
            + "\n");

    Job job = createSubmittableJob(conf);
    int successStatus = (job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);

    Counters counters = job.getCounters();
    long numRows = counters.findCounter(ScanCounter.NUM_ROWS).getValue();
    long numCells = counters.findCounter(ScanCounter.NUM_CELLS).getValue();

    LOG.info("############# Num of ROWS imported= " + numRows);
    LOG.info("############# Num of CELLS imported= " + numCells);

    return successStatus;
  }

  protected static int setConfFromArgs(Configuration conf, String[] args) {
    // basic pre-condition check
    if (args.length < 4) {
      usage("Wrong number of arguments: " + args.length);
      return -1;
    }
    if (conf.get(BigtableOptionsFactory.PROJECT_ID_KEY) == null) {
      usage("Must specify the property " + BigtableOptionsFactory.PROJECT_ID_KEY);
      return -1;
    }
    if (conf.get(BigtableOptionsFactory.INSTANCE_ID_KEY) == null) {
      usage("Must specify the property " + BigtableOptionsFactory.INSTANCE_ID_KEY);
      return -1;
    }

    // set arguments in configuration for ease of use
    conf.set(SNAPSHOTNAME_KEY, args[0]);
    conf.set(HConstants.HBASE_DIR, args[1]);
    conf.set(TABLENAME_KEY, args[2]);
    conf.set(SNAPSHOT_RESTOREDIR_KEY, args[3]);

    // set default fs
    conf.set(CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, conf.get(HConstants.HBASE_DIR));

    // set default splits per region and default if not set (not required, set for consistency)
    conf.setInt(
        SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_KEY,
        conf.getInt(SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_KEY, SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_DEFAULT));

    // default job name
    conf.setIfUnset(
        IMPORT_SNAPSHOT_JOBNAME_KEY,
        ImportHBaseSnapshotJob.class.getName()
            + " - from snapshot "
            + conf.get(SNAPSHOTNAME_KEY)
            + " to "
            + conf.get(TABLENAME_KEY));

    // implicit bigtable configs
    BigtableConfiguration.configure(
        conf,
        conf.get(BigtableOptionsFactory.PROJECT_ID_KEY),
        conf.get(BigtableOptionsFactory.INSTANCE_ID_KEY),
        conf.get(BigtableOptionsFactory.APP_PROFILE_ID_KEY, ""));

    // Set user agent
    conf.set(BigtableOptionsFactory.CUSTOM_USER_AGENT_KEY, "HBaseMRImport");

    // implicit table outputformat configs that are used in the job to write map output to a table
    conf.set(TableOutputFormat.OUTPUT_TABLE, conf.get(TABLENAME_KEY));
    conf.setStrings(
        "io.serializations",
        conf.get("io.serializations"),
        MutationSerialization.class.getName(),
        ResultSerialization.class.getName());

    return 0;
  }

  /**
   * Sets up the actual job.
   *
   * @param conf The current configuration.
   * @return The newly created job.
   * @throws java.io.IOException When setting up the job fails.
   */
  protected static Job createSubmittableJob(Configuration conf) throws IOException {
    Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, conf.get(IMPORT_SNAPSHOT_JOBNAME_KEY));
    job.setJarByClass(ImportHBaseSnapshotJob.class);
    ShuffledTableMapReduceUtil.initTableSnapshotMapperJob(
        conf.get(SNAPSHOTNAME_KEY),
        new Scan().setMaxVersions(),
        SnapshotMapper.class,
        ImmutableBytesWritable.class,
        Writable.class,
        job,
        true,
        new Path(conf.get(SNAPSHOT_RESTOREDIR_KEY)),
        new UniformSplit(),
        conf.getInt(SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_KEY, SNAPSHOT_SPLITS_PER_REGION_DEFAULT));

    job.setNumReduceTasks(0);
    job.setOutputFormatClass(TableOutputFormat.class);

    return job;
  }

  protected enum ScanCounter {
    NUM_ROWS,
    NUM_CELLS,
  }

  /** MAPPER */
  protected static class SnapshotMapper extends TableMapper<ImmutableBytesWritable, Put> {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SnapshotMapper.class);

    private Boolean isEmptyRowWarned = false;

    protected static final int MAX_CELLS = 100_000 - 1;

    @Override
    protected void setup(Context ctx) {
      // noop
    }

    @Override
    /**
     * convert result to puts. deleted cells are not handled as Scan will not read through
     * tombstones (see {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan#setRaw(boolean)} if required).
     * Additionally @see <a
     * href="https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/reference/data/rpc/google.bigtable.v2#mutaterowrequest">google.bigtable.v2#mutaterowrequest</a>
     * for details on splitting result to MAX_CELLS.
     */
    protected void map(ImmutableBytesWritable key, Result result, Context ctx)
        throws IOException, InterruptedException {

      List<Cell> cells = checkEmptyRow(result);
      if (cells.isEmpty()) {
        return;
      }

      ctx.getCounter(ScanCounter.NUM_ROWS).increment(1);
      ctx.getCounter(ScanCounter.NUM_CELLS).increment(cells.size());

      // Split the row into multiple puts if it exceeds the maximum mutation limit
      Iterator<Cell> cellIt = cells.iterator();

      while (cellIt.hasNext()) {
        Put put = new Put(key.get());

        // splitting the result across puts for atomic mutations is unsafe. careful handling for
        // this scenario may be required when hitting condition.
        for (int i = 0; i < MAX_CELLS && cellIt.hasNext(); i++) {
          put.add(cellIt.next());
        }

        ctx.write(key, put);
      }
    }

    @Override
    protected void cleanup(Context ctx) {
      // noop
    }

    // Warns about empty row on first occurrence only and replaces a null array with 0-length one.
    private List<Cell> checkEmptyRow(Result result) {
      List<Cell> cells = result.listCells();
      if (cells == null) {
        cells = Collections.emptyList();
      }
      if (!isEmptyRowWarned && cells.isEmpty()) {
        LOGGER.warn("Encountered empty row. Was input file serialized by HBase 0.94?");
        isEmptyRowWarned = true;
      }
      return cells;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Call this method to avoid the {@link #main(String[])} System.exit.
   *
   * @param args
   * @return exitCode
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static int innerMain(final Configuration conf, final String[] args) throws Exception {
    return ToolRunner.run(conf, new ImportHBaseSnapshotJob(), args);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    int exitCode = ToolRunner.run(new ImportHBaseSnapshotJob(), args);

    if (exitCode == 0) {
      System.out.println("job appears to have completed successfully.");
    } else {
      System.err.println("job is exiting with exit code='" + exitCode + "'");
    }

    System.exit(exitCode);
  }
}

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In Depth: Can Chris Christie trump Trump?
Christie struggles to "tell it like it is" as Trump steals the spotlight in the GOP race
In Depth: Can Chris Christie trump Trump? Christie struggles to "tell it like it is" as Trump steals the spotlight in the GOP race Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1MIoxjL
Bob Jordan, @BobJordanAPP Published 12:38 p.m. ET July 22, 2015 | Updated 8:52 a.m. ET July 23, 2015
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TRENTON – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his "telling it like it is" campaign might be floundering in the national polls, but he has perhaps the most to gain should firebrand Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign fall off the rails.
There is no clear evidence that the business mogul's sharp criticism of Arizona Sen. John McCain —or any of his recent antics — will hurt Trump's standing in the polls, including an ABC News/Washington Post survey out Monday in which Trump garnered a GOP-leading 24 percent.
But, as Fortune magazine noted, Trump support in that survey fell off considerably in the data collection that followed Trump's weekend attack on McCain, a broadside denounced as over-the-top by many GOP candidates and leaders.
Herein lies opportunity for Christie, who by most surveys languishes in the rear of the GOP field.
The governor and Trump staked out similar ground as self-described truth-tellers, both vowing to shake up the status quo with unflinching candor. Only Trump has delivered on his promise, at least in terms of roiling the crowded GOP field and stealing attention.
Political analysts say Christie, by reputation, would have the brash mantel to himself should the Trump campaign fully implode. But even Christie, whose YouTube moments include admonishing a critic to "sit down and shut up," will have to raise the decibel level to match trump Trump.
Lending new meaning to spotlight-stealing, Trump has been widely criticized for comments Saturday in which he belittled McCain.
"He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said of the Arizona senator, a former prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. "I like people that weren't captured, OK?" The attack followed earlier Trump broadsides against Mexican immigrants — another attention-stealer.
Christie has been careful not to agitate Trump supporters. On the campaign trail Monday in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Christie was pressed for comment by an audience member at a town hall. Christie said: "I am through commenting on things Donald Trump says," according to Philly.com.
"I know John McCain," Christie said, describing the senator as an "American hero, period." McCain spent five and a half years as a POW in North Vietnam.
Others have no compunction against setting Trump straight.
Back in New Jersey, Commander Mark Pawlak of Manasquan VFW Post 1838 said the real estate mogul and reality TV star "attacked the wrong person."
"I'm a 30-year Navy vet myself and I think it's appalling that he attacked him," Pawlak said. "You don't attack somebody's veteran service unless you think they're not worthy."
"Don't make fun of a veteran guy's career who admirably served," he said. "You don't choose to be a POW."
Even as a host of GOP candidates and officials have condemned Trump's McCain remarks, Christie held his fire. A political science professor at Seton Hall University said there may be "a realization by Christie that Trump is eventually going to implode on his own.''
"When that happens, he wants those people attracted to Trump to have a place to go, specifically to Christie'' said Matthew Hale, who is in Seton Hall's Department of Political Science and Public Affairs. But having too much reserve might exact a cost, too.
Christie adopted the presidential campaign slogan "telling it like it is'' to portray himself as a straight-talker. But he has been nothing less than convivial on the campaign trail, perhaps to counteract high disapproval ratings from the voters, as evidenced in months of declining poll numbers. Many GOP voters soured on Christie after the George Washington Bridge scandal, and after he was seen as too cozy with President Barack Obama in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
On the stump, Christie has been one of the few Republicans offering specific policy proposals on such weighty subjects as entitlements, education and treatment for drug-addicted nonviolent offenders. That strategy has attracted far less attention than Trump's antics, which on Tuesday included an attack on GOP rival Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose personal cellphone number Trump read aloud at a campaign stop in South Carolina.
Soon after the Trump attack, the Graham campaign manager Christian Ferry released a statement: "Donald Trump continues to show hourly that he is ill-prepared to be commander in chief . . . . Because of Trump's bombastic and ridiculous campaign, we aren't talking about Obama's horrible deal with Iran or Hillary Clinton's plans to continue Obama's failed national security agenda."
McCain said Monday on MSNBC that Trump "may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving their country."
Those comments were preceded by sharp comments by Trump on border security and Mexican immigrants.
"When Mexico sends its people," Trump said during his presidential announcement, "they're not sending the best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."
While the comments were condemned by many across the political spectrum, they were embraced by many in the GOP camp, including former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who told an interviewer, in words that might resonate with the Christie campaign : "I believe Mr. Trump is kind of telling it like it really, truly is.''
"I think that the people of Arizona realize that we picked up the tab for the majority of the violence that comes across our border," Brewer added.
The attention on Trump hasn't helped Christie's current standing in the polls, a circumstance the Daily Show's Jon Stewart joked about. He said Christie is "second in the Loud Northeastern Egomaniac primary.''
In a USA Today poll last week, Christie came in ninth among GOP candidates for the 2106 nomination, putting him at risk of not being on the stage for the first televised debate. Trump was first. Only the top 10 candidates in an average of five national surveys will make the cut for the Aug. 6 debate in Cleveland.
Several analysts say it doesn't matter for Christie how Trump fares in the race: They think the Christie campaign can't prevail. Indeed, his polls numbers were at a standstill before Trump seized the spotlight.
"Certainly Trump is causing problems for all second- and third-tier candidates in terms of the debates, given he is squeezing air time from all the rest of them," Princeton University's Julian Zelizer said. "But Bridgegate, the state of the New Jersey economy, the challenges (of being another) moderate Republican, these are at the core of Christie's struggles, not Trump.''
Rutgers University's David Greenberg agreed.
"Christie's ticket to the nomination was his ability to straddle the far-right and mainstream conservative wings of the Republican Party," Greenberg said. "He squandered his cachet with the far-right by embracing Obama during Hurricane Sandy and Bridgegate stripped away his luster.''
Trump remarks on immigration caused an additional problem for Christie.
In June, Christie addressed the Latino Coalition's Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C., where he criticized Republicans for "speaking in a way that doesn't sound very welcoming to new members.'' He boasted of winning 51 percent of the Latino vote in the 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial election.
A week later, Trump announced his candidacy and ripped into Mexico and Mexicans.
Several GOP presidential contenders pushed back hard at Trump, but Christie didn't join them.
In a "Fox and Friends'' interview, Christie called Trump's comments "inappropriate,'' but refused to go farther, saying, "That's now the 50th time I've said it. It's going to be the last time I say it."
That response disappointed Bradley Beach resident Mahonrry Hidalgo, an advocate for immigrants.
Hidalgo said Christie is missing a chance to show leadership.
"You cannot be silent and decide the issues you want to talk about and what issues you don't want to talk about. These are issues the candidates need to confront,'' Hidalgo said.
Hidalgo said Trump's comments on immigration "are not only ignorant, they're racist,'' and said the furor nationally "is helping the Latino community to unite and organize itself.''
Hidalgo is Immigration Committee co-chairman for the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, which endorsed Christie's 2103 gubernatorial candidacy.
"Gov. Christie is not defending a constituency, the Latinos, that helped elect him in 2013,'' he said.
Staff writer Andrew Ford contributed.
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No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes are up against No. 3 Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten Championship game this weekend. Who will be the 2017 Big Ten champions?
When: Coverage starts at 7 p.m., kickoff at 8 p.m.
How to watch: You can watch the Big Ten Championship game on FOX 47 (Channel 47.1) starting at 7 p.m.


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I am using XSL to convert to HTML.  What can I do to get the TeX formula to display in a browser in HTML?  I have thought of having something which converts the formula to an image and having an <img> element in the HTML.

A: This would be achieved using Pandoc. It is a command line-based software that can convert .tex into a bunch of other formats. That's your best bet.

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As the daughter of a career counselor, the importance of the perfect job interview was pounded into my head since I was 15 and applied for my first job as a night receptionist. We've seen a lot of bad interviewers in the family biz, and more often than not, the best advice provided wasn't a list of things to do or say, but rather a list of faux pas to avoid.
However, today's job landscape barely resembles the one of 10 and even 5 years ago. With unemployment still hovering at 7.8%, the market is literally packed with highly qualified job seekers – i.e., your competition. To stand out from the pack, you must focus on being the best interviewee possible.
Interviewers are as eagle-eyed as ever, charged with the unenviable task of selecting the best of the best from the overcrowded job pool. Make sure you know what you should be doing – but don't forget to remind yourself of what not to do.
"What would you say is your biggest weakness?" It's a common interview question used by the interviewer to both find out where you struggle and check your ego.
Remember, a job interview isn't only about you – it's also about the company you want to work for. Failing to research the company thoroughly can make you seem unprepared. Not only should you be Googling the company and the person interviewing you, you should also read the job description numerous times. Heading into the interview room and talking about your past experience only works if your past experience actually correlates to the job description. The more you know about the job, the less time you waste talking about stuff that doesn't matter.
It's true that offices and workplaces are becoming more and more casual, but that doesn't mean flip-flops will ever be appropriate. As a general rule, it's better to be over-dressed than under-dressed, so gauge the company's level of formality by visiting the company's website. Check it out and click around. Does it seem formal? Is it a little more on the creative side? Chances are, the website design is a reflection of the workplace. However, when in doubt, a suit or formal wear always works. Remember, you can concern yourself with a relaxed dress code after you snag the job.
When an interviewer says, "Do you have any questions?" it's not just a formality. He or she really wants to know if you have questions, and if your answer is no, that might paint you as unprepared or disinterested.
Always come prepared with a few questions – none of which should be about vacation time or holiday pay. Instead, ask about operations, logistics, and anything that can help the interviewer picture you as a team member.
After getting a great job at a recording studio despite having absolutely no work or internship experience, I asked the CEO why he hired me. "You were the only one who seemed actually interested in what we do here," he replied. Showing interest and being inquisitive can go a long way.
Those pictures from your bachelorette party or boys' night booze cruise are pretty fun – but they can be a kiss of death to the job seeker.
Before you even submit your application, scan your social networking profiles and set them all to private or remove any incriminating evidence. You can also have two accounts: one for your friends and family, and one for your job search. Just make sure to set your personal one to "private," and display your educational info and work experience on your public job-seeker profile.
Take care with what you post in the days up to your interview. Don't create a status message about your interview or about the company – it's bad form.
Talking about money can be seriously awkward. However, blushing and fidgeting in your seat when the interviewer asks, "What are your salary expectations?" can make you seem unprofessional.
If you want to make a strong impression, hop online and find the median salary for the job you are competing for. Then, compare that to what you were making at your old job, bringing both numbers to the table. That way, you can say something along the lines of "I was making 'x' amount at my old job, but I know that 'y' amount is typically the norm for this job, so I'd be comfortable in that range." A solid company that wants to hire you for your expertise will respect any reasonable salary expectations much more than a shrug of the shoulders.
It doesn't matter if you left your last company because your boss embezzled money and was put in jail – don't say a bad word. It's never acceptable to go on the war path with your former employer. First, you might need that employer for a reference, and furthermore, it makes you look vindictive and disloyal.
If the interviewer asks why you left your last job, be respectful. Instead of saying, "My boss and I didn't get along," try explaining, "I didn't feel fully utilized, and am looking for a more challenging position." It's much more professional.
Feeling anxious yet? Heading into an interview room can feel a lot like facing a firing squad. The person conducting the interview has limited time to make a snap judgement as to whether you'd be a good employee. By avoiding these mishaps, you can focus on everything you need to do and say to ensure that you make a lasting and positive impression.
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Marconi to modernise rail communications
By System Administrator	 29th January 2003 12:00 am 15th December 2015 4:33 pm
Marconi today announced that it has been awarded a multimillion Euro contract to modernise the communications network at Lübeck, Germany for Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway company.
Marconi today announced that it has been awarded a new, multimillion Euro contract to modernise the communications network at Lübeck, Germany for Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway company.
Marconi will install ESTW (elektronische Stellwerke), a rail communication system at the forefront of Deutsche Bahn's telecommunications infrastructure programme.
As the general contractor on the project, Marconi will also be responsible for the supply, build, installation and commissioning of its own multiplex technology, as well as third party systems and project management.
The contract includes telecommunications equipment, power supply, monitoring and messaging equipment, cabling, radio equipment and public address systems.
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The new network is due to go live by October 2003 with the overall project scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2004.
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As of today, the European Union has established a Registry of Importers for table and kitchen ceramic from China, as well as for certain manufacturers that currently have a reduction in the current antidumping. So from now on the dispatches submitted with the codes related thereto will be subject to possible additional liquidation of major antidumping if the EU can demonstrate fraud of these.
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The process to obtain the license for the health products, personal care, cosmetics and biocides in the Ribarroja and El Oliveral warehouses has been completed, this license has been issued by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) and authorizes the owner, Raminatrans…
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Let's learn IT at Digital Glarus!
Hello dear friends and supporters of ungleich and Digital Glarus!
Today we'd like to introduce our club, Digitale Bildung ungleich. The club was founded some months ago back in April with the support of our team ungleich.
Ever since we started the project Digital Glarus, we've met many people who supported us in various ways. Many of them were already insiders of IT industry such as developers and entrepreneuers, however there were also a lot of people who were not very familiar with IT and digital things, although they were aware of its ever-growing importance in daily life and business. Many people told us that they want to learn how some parts of IT work and want to use them, but are not sure how to.
That's when we realised that it's time to start a learning club in our coworking space. Wouldn't it be great when people can get together regularly and help each other in reaching their goals? This would allow people easier access and more motivation for learning IT.
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A sliver of land five miles long and only a mile wide, Paradise Island is widely viewed as the most spectacular island in all of The Bahamas. When Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren first anchored his yacht off its pristine shores in 1939, he was enthralled by the unspoiled beauty of a place that locals called Hog Island. For more than two decades, he nurtured his private paradise, building a magnificent estate with intricately landscaped gardens inspired by those at the Chateau de Versailles. He christened it Shangri-La.


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Vol 27 No 9
Putting a face to the effects of Australia's aid freeze
David Holdcroft
Alain is five years old. He is just beginning school. Like every kid, it is both a big adventure but one marked with mixed feelings about leaving home for so long and being no longer free to play with his younger siblings.
On the way to school he passes near a small building whose purpose it is to house the two child protection officers who hear and deal with complaints that arise in his refugee camp community. He of course has no idea what that entails, nor to what the badge attached to the wall, 'Donated by the Australian Government', refers.
Alain is one of around 11,000 people living in this particular camp in the south of Zimbabwe. More than half of these are children. It seems an unlikely location to talk of the freeze on funding for Australian foreign aid announced in the budget, but it is in places like these, unseen and therefore unknown by the Australian population, that the effects are often felt.
Alain is lucky: the camp where he lives has good education. Worldwide however, only 50 per cent of children in forced migrant situations will attend primary school, 22 per cent secondary and a paltry 1 per cent any institution of higher learning. It is not accurately known how many school aged children in forced migrant situations are missing out, but it is estimated to be in the order of 25 million.
That is equivalent to almost the entire population of Australia.
Research now tells us that these uneducated children are more likely to become the foot soldiers of violent ideologies that hold the promise of giving their lives meaning. They are more likely to be depressed or chemically dependent, and are almost certain to remain poor. But this is the negative view of looking at it: imagine, for a minute, what 25 million people could contribute to the human community if they had the chance.
I had two encounters with Australian overseas aid while working in southern Africa. There was a small grants program overseen by the Australian embassy under which presumably the child protection facility was built. I approached them but was told that they did not do any personnel costs or administration or project support — only the project itself. The American equivalent was much more expansive and allowed, for instance, someone to follow up to see whether the facility is indeed useful.
My second was to try to elicit, under a volunteer program, the services of a skilled professional for a year to help us to build our capacity in a particular area of the operation. The program has a good reputation. When the two representatives came to our office, however, I was told that the suburb in which our office was sited was not good, but nevertheless, 'we don't do refugees — it is not a priority area'.
"To get the 25 million forced migrant children currently not being educated into school, US$4.3 billion is needed. In an ever more precarious, changing and interconnected world, this would be a most wise investment."
On the first point, we had done our homework and had had the UN agencies' security consultant assess a number of potential sites for our office. The current location came up trumps on risk of vehicular crime and overall street and risk-of-home-invasion safety. The second is likewise hard to fathom: 65.3 million forced migrants currently, the highest on record, and yet the issue is not a priority, especially nearer the source of the areas which generate refugee flows? Presumably the Australian government would laud and support efforts to prevent people making for wealthier countries? Sadly, it seems, on this evidence at least, not.
Australia's freeze on overseas aid at AUD$3.9 billion per annum is part of a trend in western governments, led by the current US president who has slashed such funding, shifting much of it to the military. It is also a theme since the present Coalition government came to power in 2013, with $11.3 billion slashed since then. It's a continued punch in the guts for soft power approaches to resolve some of the world's more difficult issues, and makes the operations of some of the essential UN agencies such as UNHCR and UNICEF, funded under such programs, more precarious. The implications of this simply do not bear entertainment.
Globally less than 2 per cent of humanitarian funding goes to education. Right now, to get the 25 million forced migrant children of the world currently not being educated into school, an estimated US$4.3 billion is needed. It's not a lot. In an ever more precarious, changing and interconnected world, this, I suggest, would be a most wise investment.
One may say that the government's actions represent a softly, softly approach, measured and prudent and in line with community expectations. But well directed aid unfortunately rarely lies within 'community expectations', simply because its actions and effects are mostly unseen. I can attest that well directed and supported foreign aid, particularly in education, which is a facet of a development (not primarily emergency) response, builds lives, and gives people the chance at life they seek. In the long term it builds solid links between nations and gives the Alains of this world the ability to contribute positively to the community in which they eventually find themselves. Not only he, but we, deserve at least that.
Australian Jesuit David Holdcroft is currently conducting a strategic review of post-secondary education in forced migrant settings for the global Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). David worked for seven years as director of JRS operations in Southern Africa.
Recent articles by David Holdcroft.
Don't be the Australia Dutton wants us to be
A fine line between tolerance and freedom
Refugee inventors prove the power of education
How forced migration defined Francis' papacy
Xenophobia threatens Mandela's vision for a diverse South Africa
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The freeze on foreign aid is poor policy . our international profile has been severely tarnished by our offshore detention centres and our actions towards governments of our neigbours east timor and indonesia ..We need to be engaged in our neigbourhood Well directed and managed aid can not just benfit the recipients but Australia in tangible ways military spending cannot
david cornwell | 15 May 2017
I totally agree David. However I don't think governments should be the sole aid providers out of taxation. Education creates value and should be seen as investment by private enterprise. Governments need to show leadership though and set the pace instead of being winnows
David Holdcroft | 15 May 2017
Thank you very much, David, for highlighting the specific ways Australian Aid can be used to help improve people's lives. I agree with you completely when you write, 'well directed and supported foreign aid, particularly in education, ... builds lives, and gives people the chance at life they seek.' Thank you also for bringing to our attention the huge numbers of forced migrants in the world and the immediate educational needs of millions of forced migrant children. Please keep speaking out, David. Pleas to increase Australian aid just seem to fall on deaf ears at present and it makes me extremely sad and angry. I hope and pray that sometime very soon compassionate Australian leaders will start turning this tide around again. Until they do we need people like you to show us how significant and life-changing aid funding can be.
robert van zetten | 15 May 2017
There is and always will be a crying need somewhere in the world for overseas aid. The JRS obviously has feet on the ground and thus knows where aid can be most effectively channelled. I suspect many requests for overseas aid come through UN agencies but originate with requesting countries. There are real problems with the skimming off of aid in certain countries requesting it. This has led to several scandals and the querying of whether we should give aid at all in certain situations where corruption appears to be endemic. Several African, Asian and Latin American dictators are said to have lined their pockets at least partly with overseas aid. Government to government aid is the vast majority of overseas aid. Private aid is much smaller. There are so many agencies asking for money that people are really confused. I think we need to sort out and simplify the system, both public and private, and, as you suggest, audit well. We have to.
Edward Fido | 17 May 2017
Anti-Muslim laptop ban won't make us more secure
Catherine Marshall
Australia should think carefully about adopting a ban that singles out Muslim majority countries under the guise of keeping its citizens safe. While it might make sense to ban potential bomb-carrying devices on flights from those countries where terrorist groups tend to be based, in reality it negatively profiles these countries and, more oppressively, the people who come from them. This is precisely the kind of dog whistle politics the likes of Trump and Hanson have engaged in.
Ahok is innocent and Indonesia needs him
Did he denounce Islam as 'evil' like the American evangelist Franklin Graham? Did he publicly denounce God as 'stupid' like Stephen Fry? On the contrary. Ahok is deeply respectful of Islam and has many Muslim supporters. The affair has done a serious disservice to Indonesia, presenting it as fanatical, racist and sectarian. While these perceptions are unfair, the affair also reveals some aspects of contemporary Indonesia that are obscured by Canberra's often lavish praise of our important neighbour.


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Generalized Sparling–Thirring form in the Brans–Dicke theory
Ahmet Baykal1 and Özgür Delice2*
1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde University, Bor Yolu, 51240, Niğde, Turkey
2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Marmara University, 34722, Istanbul, Turkey
* e-mail: ozgur.delice@marmara.edu.tr
Published online: 17 February 2015
The definition of the Sparling–Thirring form is extended to Brans–Dicke theory. By writing the Brans–Dicke field equations in a formally Maxwell-like form, a superpotential and a corresponding pseudo-energy-momentum form are defined. The general energy expression provided by the superpotential in the Jordan frame is discussed in relation to the corresponding expression in the Einstein frame. In order to substantiate its formal definition, the generalized Sparling–Thirring form is used to calculate the energy for the spherically symmetric vacuum solution in Brans–Dicke theory.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE & TECH: JYOTSNA KAKI
By Kamla / Oct 11, 2018 / 1 Comment
Jyotsna Kaki is a program manager at Google, where she works with the central accessibility testing team. Kaki shares her journey on how she lost her eyesight while she was doing her undergraduate studies. She had to relearn a lot of things and also got interested in how technology can be made accessible for differently abled people. Kaki left no stone unturned in order to achieve her goal and makes a strong case for having faith and determination in one's ability to succeed. You have to keep trying she says. "Unless you believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you," says Kaki.
This is a highlight of a longer interview with Kaki from our Women in Science and Technology series. This episode is sponsored by Genentech.
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Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2 was the sequel to Konami's smash hit Silent Scope. Since both games can be played out of the same cabinet, I didn't really care which game I picked up. I used to play this game a lot when it first came out, and it's one of those games that really requires its own dedicated cabinet to enjoy (sorry MAME).
In the game, you play a sniper who is constantly being being assigned missions (ie who to shoot next). The controller is a large sniper rifle, but the scope contains a small LCD screen to give you the feeling of actually magnifying what is on the much larger screen. Take aim and take out the bad guys!
I bought the original Silent Scope boardset as well and have them both hooked up. I can switch between the two games with the flick of a switch.