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RCEP: More Relevant Now Than Ever
ASEAN , Finance and Macro Economy , Industry and Manufacturing , Investment , Regulation and Governance , Trade
By Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria
When President-elect Donald Trump called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a 'disaster' and vowed to pull out of the Agreement as soon as he took office, the international media almost instantaneously pronounced the TPP dead. And in the next breadth, they shifted their focus to the less controversial Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), calling it 'China-led' and pitching it as the alternative to the TPP. The impression was that as one was US-led and the other China-led, they must necessarily be competing agreements. Not so.
ASEAN member states involved in the negotiations of both the TPP and RCEP were very mindful that these agreements were complementary, albeit at different levels of scope and ambition. What was more important was that both agreements would ultimately contribute to deeper economic integration of the Asia-Pacific that would come under a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).
When the FTAAP was mooted by the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), it was not well received. In fact at their 2006 APEC Economic Leaders' Summit in Ha Noi, the Leaders rejected the proposal. It was only four years later that the APEC Leaders gave their nod for concrete steps to realise the FTAAP. And it gained momentum during China's Chairmanship of APEC in 2014 when it was decided that work on FTAAP would begin in earnest, with the TPP and RCEP serving as building blocks towards this FTAAP goal.
But even as the study on the framework of the FTAAP is progressing, it appears that an anti-globalisation movement is stirring in the face of Brexit. We have to wait and see if Trump will be able to implement his calls to deal with China and pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the TPP.
The TPP signatories should rightly be concerned of any agreement that excludes the US that will limit economic gains. But it is in this environment that ASEAN and its partners must consolidate and work to deepen economic integration in this region. Focus must be on the opportunities that agreements such as RCEP can bring not just to ASEAN but also to the global economy. As such, it would be in ASEAN's interest to step up work on RCEP to ensure its conclusion within the next 12 months.
As this is being done, it would be useful to take on board the valuable outcomes from the TPP. First of all, there are important lessons for public engagement now that the discourse on trade negotiations is under greater scrutiny. Parties must explain RCEP to their publics so that there is an appreciation of its impact and benefits.
Then, there is the issue of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). Post-NAFTA, this has been a major criticism against FTAs because of the apparent 'power transfer' from the sovereign state to big business. The high-profile suits brought against governments made the ISDS one of the strong causes against the TPP while it was being negotiated. As a result, the final text of the TPP included processes and procedures to safeguard against frivolous suits by businesses. This is in itself a major outcome that needs to be preserved, and perhaps even further improved upon, in all FTAs and investment agreements.
Another important inclusion in the TPP is the recognition of the contribution of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This Agreement is perhaps the first to have a dedicated chapter on SME development and cooperation, to ensure that they are integrated into the value and supply chains of the bigger companies.
With the uncertainty around the TPP and an apparent rise in protectionism, ASEAN can lead the way by using RCEP to keep markets open, deepen economic integration and narrow the development gap among the member states. This is because RCEP is an inclusive agreement that takes on board, in true ASEAN spirit, the development concerns of its members. The TPP was an agreement among equals, with no special and differential treatment ala the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Since RCEP is ASEAN-initiated, it must provide the leadership to ensure that negotiations move forward expeditiously. It is important to be reminded of why RCEP was proposed by ASEAN in the first place. Above all else, this agreement between ASEAN and its six FTA partners (China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand) made good business sense. It would create a market that accounts for over 30% of the global economy. More importantly, the potential benefits from ASEAN's demographic dividend and its growing middle-class are reason enough to move ahead with RCEP. By consolidating the five ASEAN+1 FTAs, the noodle-bowl effect of the different rules of origin is reduced, even as the focus is on tariff elimination and streamlining of other trade rules.
The challenge for ASEAN in RCEP is the balancing of different ambition levels among the negotiating parties. The more developed members who are also parties to the TPP set this Agreement as the benchmark. But at the other end of the spectrum are parties whose levels of development limit what they are willing and able to commit. Moreover, while ASEAN has FTAs with each of six partners, not all of these six partners have FTAs among themselves. For example, RCEP may provide the platform for China, Japan and the Republic of Korea to have an indirect FTA just as their trilateral FTA negotiation is stalled.
RCEP is a reflection of ASEAN's thoughtful and deliberate process towards economic integration. ASEAN must lead the way in manoeuvring and navigating through these difficult waters. In succeeding to do so, RCEP could well be the model for integrating the least developed countries with developing and developed economies. This model may not be equivalent to the 'gold standard' that the TPP is espoused to be, but it will provide a clear pathway towards that goal.
Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria is Senior Policy Fellow at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and former Secretary-General of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia. These opinions are her own and do not necessarily represent ERIA. This article was first published in the December issue of ASEANFocus, a publication of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
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The exhaust system, dynamically connecting the boiler and cylinders, is thermodynamically the heart of the locomotive and must therefore be as good as possible, within practical limitations. That the exhaust entrains sufficient combustion air to sustain the combustion rate necessary to match the steam demand throughout the boiler's evaporative range is a cardinal point for good performance from any steam locomotive, and that it does this with the minimum of exhaust steam energy is the key to optimum performance. This point is especially important on the 5AT as the locomotive is to operate mostly at high speed with full throttle and low cut-off, giving high heat conversion to mechanical work in the cylinders and therefore limiting the amount of energy available for draughting work in the exhaust steam (it is common for locomotives to steam adequately at long to medium cut-offs but not at short, for this reason), and this is compounded on the 5AT by the use of piston valves with exhaust lap, delaying release.
Triple exhaust. The number of chimneys is a compromise between maximising the length : diameter ratio of each individual chimney in order to increase ejector efficiency, which multiple chimneys achieve by reducing individual chimney diameter within the available height restriction, and minimising complication within the smokebox. If therefore a triple exhaust gave sufficient increase in blast nozzle tip area, its complication could be justified. The available length would allow triple chimneys 'in line' to be fitted for oil firing only (i.e. no self-cleaning plates or spark arrestor, and allowing for the rearmost part of the back chimney bell mouth and diffuser being set behind the front of the superheater header). The foregoing calculations have therefore been exactly repeated for a triple exhaust, the total primary, secondary and mixture mass flow rates being divided by 3 to get the figures per chimney, and the preliminary data being based on the optimum values calculated for the double exhaust. Note that as the diffuser outlet diameter is smaller for each chimney in a triple exhaust, and also because the chimneys can be set lower down, their length being ~1 800 mm. However the calculated total blast nozzle tip area ~164 cm2, which is only some 2% more than for a double Lempor. This small increase is insufficient to justify the extra complexity of a triple exhaust, which is therefore not considered further, a double exhaust being sufficient for the prevailing conditions.


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He would always remain in people's hearts.
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Daniel Clerc <mail@clerc.eu> - 2014-09-03
Translates the current date and time to date and time in Calendrier républicain
see: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_r%C3%A9publicain
"""

from datetime import datetime
from datetime import date
import json

def heure_republicain():
    timeobj = datetime.now()
    dec_sec_of_day = (timeobj.hour * 3600 + timeobj.minute * 60 + timeobj.second) / 0.864
    dec_hours = dec_sec_of_day / 10000
    dec_minutes = (dec_sec_of_day - int(dec_hours) * 10000) / 100
    dec_seconds = ((dec_sec_of_day - int(dec_hours) * 10000) - int(dec_minutes) * 100)
    return (int(dec_hours), int(dec_minutes), int(dec_seconds))

def date_republicain():
    today=date.today()
    """
    for reference:
    -Mois d'automne (terminaison en aire)
    Vendémiaire (22 septembre ~ 21 octobre) - Période des vendanges
    Brumaire (22 octobre ~ 20 novembre) - Période des brumes et des brouillards
    Frimaire (21 novembre ~ 20 décembre) - Période des froids (frimas)
    -Mois d'hiver (terminaison en ose à l'origine, abusivement orthographiée ôse par la suite)
    Nivôse (21 décembre ~ 19 janvier) - Période de la neige
    Pluviôse (20 janvier ~ 18 février) - Période des pluies
    Ventôse (19 février ~ 20 mars) - Période des vents
    -Mois du printemps (terminaison en al)
    Germinal (21 mars ~ 19 avril) - Période de la germination
    Floréal (20 avril ~ 19 mai) - Période de l'épanouissement des fleurs
    Prairial (20 mai ~ 18 juin) - Période des récoltes des prairies
    -Mois d'été (terminaison en idor)
    Messidor (19 juin ~ 18 juillet) - Période des moissons
    Thermidor (19 juillet ~ 17 août) - Période des chaleurs
    Fructidor (18 août ~ 16 septembre) - Période des fruits
    """
    mois = ((u"Vendémiaire", (22, 9, 21, 10)),
            (u"Brumaire", (22, 10, 20, 11)),
            (u"Frimaire", (21, 11, 20, 12)),
            (u"Nivôse", (21, 12, 19, 1)),
            (u"Pluviôse", (20, 1, 18, 2)),
            (u"Ventôse", (19, 2, 20, 3)),
            (u"Germinal", (21, 3, 19, 4)),
            (u"Floréal", (20, 4, 19, 5)),
            (u"Prairial", (20, 5, 18, 6)),
            (u"Messidor", (19, 6, 18, 7)),
            (u"Thermidor", (19, 7, 17, 8)),
            (u"Fructidor", (18, 8, 16, 9)),
            (u"complementaire", (17,9,22,9)))

    complementaires = ["Jour de la vertu", "Jour du génie", "Jour du travail", "Jour de l'opinion", "Jour des récompenses", "Jour de la révolution"]

    input_file  = file("jours.json", "r")
    jours = json.loads(input_file.read(), 'utf-8')

    def current_year(today=today):
    # FIXME: the year start on the 22nd of september each year
        year = today.year - 1792
        if today.month >= 9 and today.day >= 22:
            year = year + 1
        return year
    def in_mois((start_day, start_month, end_day, end_month), today=today):

        """
        if today is in between start and end date return day of month,
        else return 0
        """
        start_date = date(today.year, start_month, start_day)
        #Afin de prendre en compte un mois à cheval sur deux années
        if(start_month > end_month):
            start_date = date(today.year-1, start_month, start_day)
        end_date = date(today.year, end_month, end_day)
        if today >= start_date and today <= end_date:
            return (today - start_date).days + 1

        return 0
    # just indices to access the tuple of tuples easier, ugly but they do the job:

    date_range = 1
    name = 0

    for m in mois:
        day_of_month = in_mois(m[date_range])
        if day_of_month != 0:
            if m[name] == "complementaire":
                day = complementaires[day_of_month-1]
                numbername = "e"
                if day_of_month == 1:
                    numbername = "er"
                return day_of_month.__str__()+numbername, "jour complémentaire de l'année", current_year(), day
            else:
                day = jours[m[name]][day_of_month-1]
                return day_of_month.__str__(), m[name], current_year(), day.encode('utf8', 'replace')
def main():
    print "%s %s %d, %s" % date_republicain() + " %02d:%02d:%02d" % heure_republicain()

def getStr():
    return "%s %s %d, %s" % date_republicain() + " %02d:%02d:%02d" % heure_republicain()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Windfall for NW areas of neglect
THE North West was a major winner yesterday as the Government pledged £175m to revitalise the country's most deprived areas.
Liverpool will receive £20m over the next two years, Knowsley £7.35m and Halton almost £4m.
Minister for Regeneration Jeff Rooker said the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) money will be targeted on those areas facing the greatest challenge to turn around long-term deprivation.
Mr Rooker said: "Already, we are turning around years of neglect that have blighted our most deprived communities.
"I know there are no quick fixes and we still have a long way to go to eradicate postcode poverty, but the announcement is a positive step to meeting our goal, that no-one should be disadvantaged by where they live."
The NRF was set up in 2001 to help local authorities and partners improve services and regenerate some of England's most decaying areas.
Last night, Liverpool Labour leader Joe Anderson welcomed the Government's commitment - but warned the Liberal Democrat administration that the money must be targeted at the right areas.
Coun Anderson said: "It is absolutely fantastic that the Labour Government has pledged another £20m to Liverpool but we've got to ensure this money is spent in the right way.
"I've been very critical of the way our previous NRF money has been spent.
"This money has to do what it says - renew neighbourhoods."
Extra training for the unemployed, alleygating schemes and graffiti grot spot action squads are some of the projects likely to benefit from the windfall.
Council leader Mike Storey said: "This is very good news for the city.
"We have one of the most successful NRF programmes in the country and it will enable us to build on the success and look at some more imaginative initiatives."
Knowsley Borough Council welcomed the latest allocation which comes on top of £31m already provided over five years to support Neighbour-hood Renewal in Knowsley.
Deputy leader Coun Graham Morgan said: "This is great news. We have used our neighbourhood renewal funding so far to provide dramatic improvements for some of the people who need it most."


The Major Championship season is now over and the focus of the golfing world moves onto the Fedex Cup. This week sees the final tournament of the "regular season" with the top 125 players in the Fedex Cup rankings moving into the playoffs series starting next week at The Barclays. Rory McIlroy leads the standings after his PGA Championship win, but perhaps more importantly, players around the top 125 "bubble" include David Toms (120th), Paul Casey 125th), Ben Curtis (131st) and Mike Weir (134th).
The week following a Major normally sees many of the bigger names taking a week off, especially seeing as there are four straight weeks of playoff golf taking place from next week. However, there is still a good line up here with Brandt Snedeker, Webb Simpson, Patrick Reed, Bill Haas and Hideki Matsuyama all teeing off on Thursday.
The Wyndham Championship was previously known as the Greater Greensboro Open and has been played at the Sedgefield Country Club every year since 2008 (and from 1961 to 1976). The Ross Course is played over 7,130 yards and has a par of 70.
Last year Patrick Reed beat Jordan Spieth in a play-off to win the Wyndham Championship with Brian Harman and John Huh two shots back in joint third. Sergio Garcia won the event in 2012, Tim Clark two shots back in second and Bud Cauley a shot further back. Webb Simpson, Arjun Atwal, Ryan Moore and Carl Pettersson are the other winners since the tournament moved back to the venue in 2008. Sam Snead holds the record of eight wins in this championship.
There are no obvious stats that stand out this week – a player doesn't have to be the longest or more most accurate driver to do well here and being one of the tour's best putters doesn't seem a necessity either. Generally players who have a good all round game do well here, as the top finishers in the last couple of years feature well in the overall scoring average for the year. These top finishers also appear to have a solid short game, featuring solidly in the scrambling category for the respective year. Making my picks I'll focus on scoring average, scrambling, overall form, course form and also players who might be more focused being around the bubble.
Hideki Matsuyama – Matsuyama is on a good run of form, having won the Memorial Tournament and having solid finishes in the top 40 at all three of the recent Major Championships, as well a 12th at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational. Currently 22nd in the Fedex Cup rankings, he is a solid pick this week.
Patrick Reed – The winner here last year and two times winner on the PGA tour this year. After his win at the Cadillac Championship in March Reed famously stated "I'm one of the top five players in the world" which led to something of a backlash on social media. This seemed to affect him and his results slumped, however a 4th place at the Bridgestone Invitational and a solid performance at the PGA Championship see a player returning to form.
Tim Clark – Clark came second here in 2012 and followed it up with a solid 26th last year. Clark was having a tough season but followed up a fifth place at the John Deere Classic with a win at the Canadian Open last month. Disappointingly missed the cut at the PGA Championship, but will welcome a return to the Wyndham Championship.
Matt Every – Every won the Arnold Palmer Invitational this year and has very solid form at the Wyndham Championship with a 14th and a 5th in the last two years. His form is not so hot, but shows he is capable of a good week after a bad run, with a 3rd place at the Fedex St Jude Classic after a run of three missed cuts and a withdrawal.
Brooks Koepka – When it comes to scoring average Koepka is 24th on the PGA list (one of the top players in this particular field). This player is on a solid run of form having had a 4th place finish in the US Open and a top 20 in last week's PGA Championship. This is a player who we can expect big things from.
John Huh – Sleeper – Huh is something of a mercurial player in that he can be very good or very bad. In 25 events this year he has missed the cut twelve times which is not encouraging, but he has twice finished third this season the week after a missed cut – the Barracuda championship two weeks ago being his latest third place. Huh has solid form here – 19th and 3rd in the last two years.
Greg Chalmers – Sleeper – Chalmers is on a solid run of form with five straight made cuts. More importantly Chalmers is sitting at 128th in the Fedex Cup rankings so needs a big week to nudge into the top 125 – made the cut here last year.
Billy Hurley III – Sleeper – Hurley has made nine of the last ten cuts and had two top ten finishes at the end of June and early July. He is 23rd in scrambling and 56th in scoring average which shows a player who is suited to the course and is a very solid PGA tour player.
The very early betting lines show that Brandt Snedeker is the favorite for the event, with Webb Simpson and Patrick Reed in a group just behind. Bill Haas, Hideki Matsuyama and Tim Clark complete the top six in the betting markets.


I recently made a short trip to Canada. What struck me was the homogeneity of Ottawa, the capital city, I visited. Everything was organized and structured and clean. It made me extra-sensitive to the heterogeneity of Mumbai: on one side tall fully air-conditioned high rise buildings and on the other side slums and garbage piles. No wonder, in Hindu mythology, we have the idea of many Lokas, or realms, some occupied by various children of Prajapati-Devas, Asuras, Rakshasas, Yakshas, Apsaras- all existing simultaneously and (almost) harmoniously.
There are many Indias that exist simultaneously. There is rich India and poor India. There is Hindu India and Muslim India. There is English India and Hindi India. There is Bengali India and there is Tamil India. The Canadians found it amusing that every Indian needs to know at least two or three languages in order to survive, and not the same two or three languages (Canada has two languages – English and French). In fact, just to help foreigners understand the complexity of India, I tell them to count the many scripts in an Indian hundred Rupee note. That one exercise silences all arguments on diversity. They realize how difficult it is to come up with a single blue print for India.
Diversity of India is most evident in Bollywood films. The world of Karan Johar (KJ) is so different from the world of Ram Gopal Verma (RGV) which in turn is so different from the world of Vishal Bhardwaj (VB). Their stories reveal their respective subjective truth. In the KJ mythosphere, there is no poverty and everything is spotlessly clean, designer labeled and delightfully shallow. In the RGV mythosphere, there are only angry gangsters, and corrupt politicians and policemen. VB's mythosphere is gritty and dirty and feudal. Which is the real India, I wonder?
During the festival of Navaratri, in many parts of South India, there is a ritual when clay and wooden dolls of various gods and goddesses are placed on a many tiered platform. I wonder if the ritual was aimed to sensitize children to the idea of diversity. Gods come in all shapes and sizes – fat, thin, blue, green, male, female, tree or monkey. Were these rituals designed to make Indians more tolerant? It is something to wonder about.
While linguistic, economic and religious diversity is seen in every part of the world, and is rising in first world countries with increasing immigration, what makes Indian diversity unique is the idea of caste. And members of different castes differ remarkably in social habits. Members of one caste may have more in common with members of the same caste in another part of the country than with their neighbors in the same village.
Until the British, no one bothered to unite India. It was not required. Diversity was allowed so long as the taxes were paid. The British needed to unite India and they worked very hard to create this one India – railways, law, police, postal services. We have inherited the British burden to unite India but we also want to be democratic. Democracy necessarily allows diversity. Different people therefore align themselves not to one national party but to regional parties that create vote banks using religion and caste as the lever.
This heterogeneous nature of India, I believe has its roots in the belief in rebirth. When one does not live only one life, there is no right way to live life. Everyone can live different kinds of lives in different lifetimes. So why bother trying to homogenize society? Let diversity prevail. Only the modern mind, conditioned by ideas that have their roots in America and Europe, carries the burden of homogeneity, hence unity.


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Q: Clean output for xargs As part of tunnel script I wan to remove/kill any existing tunnels
So far I managed to get to:

matt@HY731AA:~$ ps aux | grep "ssh -N
  lin1tunnels" | grep -v grep | awk
  '{print $2}' | xargs -0 kill -9 ERROR:
  garbage process ID "5321 5322 ".

It looks as if the output contains " although removing the xargs does not show ", is there a way to clean up output ready for xargs. Or maybe someone knows a better way to accomplish the above

A: Edit:
Use pkill:
 pkill -9 -f "ssh -N lin1tunnels"

Avoid  sending SIGKILL signal to the specified process or process group.  Read the Useless Use of Kill -9

A: @John's suggestion of pkill is the cleaner way of doing this (if you have it), but just for the record: the problem is that you're using xarg's -0 flag (which tells it to look for null-delimited values), but sending newline-delimited values.  Also, rather than using a second grep to remove the first one from your results, search for a pattern that won't match itself:
ps aux | grep "[s]sh -N lin1tunnels" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

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Week in Review|The Riddle of Consciousness
The Riddle of Consciousness
By BENEDICT CAREY FEB. 6, 2010
The assorted mystics, philosophers, theologians and, most recently, neuroscientists who have burned a candle searching for the essence of consciousness all started with a simple presumption: Consciousness must begin where unconsciousness ends.
Theologians have likened this state of pre-awakening to sleep, to darkness, to life underground. Modern scientists study the neural processes of sleep itself, and the transition to waking; they also have analyzed what happens in the brain when people suddenly become consciously aware of an object that was hidden in plain sight.
So far, the precise neural correlates of consciousness — the brain circuits critical to "turning on" conscious awareness — have eluded capture.
One reason is that consciousness itself takes many forms, from the gauzy half-dream state between the alarm clock's bleating and sitting up; and lost stretches of waking life, as when a driver pulls into the driveway with no recollection of the half-hour commute home.
Credit Margaret Riegel
The deeper that investigators dig, the more hidden chambers they find. Last Wednesday, scientists in England and Belgium reported that five people with severe brain injuries who had been identified as "vegetative," beyond reach, showed activity on brain imaging that strongly suggested conscious awareness. One of them, a 29-year-old man thought to be "vegetative" for five years, began to answer yes and no questions by alternately showing brain activity when thinking about tennis (lighting motor areas), then about walking in his house (lighting spatial areas).
A locked door on consciousness had swung open, all right; but on the other side was yet another dark corridor. After five years of being in effect buried alive in its own skull, what kind of consciousness was left for this patient? Who, exactly, lives behind those blank eyes? And, for that matter, what name do we give to this conscious state that looks totally absent, except for the ghostly blinking pixels on a brain imaging machine?
In the study, numerous severely injured patients classified as minimally conscious — that is, who intermittently are able to respond to commands — did not show meaningful activity on brain scans at all when prompted. Are those who did show flares of activity more conscious than they are?
"This scanning technology will allow us to refine diagnosis," said Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell hospital, "but it also creates this never-never land, these paradoxes between what patients are demonstrating clinically and what they manifest on the images."
He added, "You know the person is there, you just don't know how much is still there."
Or how what's there relates to what we call waking consciousness. Findings from modern neuroscience suggest that the brain is a highly social organ; more than enjoying company, it needs interactions to develop, to regulate mood, to solve problems, to responds to threats. When people are in isolation their brainwaves slow down; prisoners can become withdrawn, traumatized. The people out there who have been misidentified as being "vegetative" suffer a kind of solitary confinement unknown to prisoners of war. Their conscious awareness — especially in light of damaged cells in the brain — may be highly variable through the day and distinct from patient to patient.
Before doctors learn how it is that the brain's lights turn on, they may have to know a lot more about what's happening when the lights are off.
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On December 13 We Look At Why The Number 13 Is Considered Unlucky
There is a common belief that number 13 is unlucky. The number is synonymous with bad luck and most people avoid having anything to do with this number. It is considered unlucky to have a 13th guest in a hotel at a dinner party while some buildings don't have the 13th floor. Have you ever wondered why? Is there any statical proof to support superstition? Here are some possible reasons why 13 is considered unlucky by most.
According to Christian belief
Christian belief
According to Christianity, it is believed that Jesus was crucified on Friday. Friday is not a big deal but many of them believe that it was the 13th lore, something like Friday, April 3, 33 A.D. Apart from Jesus been crucified on the same day; many of them believe Cain and Abel's debacle took place on that date.
13 letter bound to have devil's luck
devil's luck
According to traditional belief, if your name has 13 letters than it is considered that you're bound to have the devil's luck. Which in itself is not a bad thing except to have his luck you'd have to have a part of him. History has proved this to be true with names of Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy, Albert De Salvo and Charles Manson containing 13 letters. Well, you know how devil they are.
It is believed that Judas Iscariot, the person who betrayed Jesus was the 13th man to take his place at the table for the last supper.
According to Sikhism
According to the story of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, when he was an accountant at a town of Sultanpur Lodhi, he was distributing groceries to people. When he gave groceries to the 13th person, he stopped because in Gurmukhi and Hindi language the word 13 is called 'Terah', which means 'yours'. Remembering god, Guru Nanak Dev Ji kept saying, "Yours, yours, yours...". People reported to the emperor that Guru Nanak Ji is giving food for free to people and when the treasury was checked, no money was found.
Apollo 13, the unsuccessful moon mission
Apollo 13 was the only unsuccessful moon mission in the history of NASA. Due to an explosion in the oxygen tank it seemed like the astronauts would perish. However, they came back home in the end and we cannot help but wonder if their survival is also owed to the number 13.
A coven has 13 members
Coven Of Witches
Although a coven is now just considered to be any group of witches (if you believe in those with mystical powers who can weild magic of the dark kind) but at a point in the past it was believed that a coven of witches was made up of exactly 13 members.
13th the unluckiest lottery ball
13th the luckiest ball
When the UK National Lottery began in 1994, it was found that the number 13 is the unluckiest ball, as it was drawn a total only 120 times since the beginning of the lottery. Whereas, the number 38 was the luckiest of all as it was drawn a total of 182 times.
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Q: Hi guys, I've been riding mountain bikes for three years now, I only get to Hamsterley Forest once a week which is not enough! I would like to buy a road bike so I can get out more frequently and build up my fitness level. I am looking at the Focus Variado, Felt F70 and Flandria Competition. I am 6'1″, with a 34″ inside leg and 15 stone. My price range is around £800, can you recommend these bikes or any others i've missed?
A: Lee, all those bikes look pretty good bets, we were certainly impressed with the Variado we tested recently – the Expert version now at £699 looks a very good deal if you haven't already, check it out at www.wiggle.co.uk. Another bike worth taking a look at would be the Kinesis RC2, we've got one in for test, and again it's impressive – not least because the RRP has been cut from £979 to £799 – you buy it as a build up kit from a Kinesis dealer you can find the various options at www.kinesisbikes.co.uk to find a dealer email kinesis@upgrade bikes.co.uk.


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My family and I recently checked out the Sand Safari (Australian Sand Sculpting Championships) - sand sculptures by the sea in Surfers Paradise.
A lovely free afternoon out with my lil family.
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News | Local Marketing | Google Features
Google My Business Spotted Displaying Competitor Ads on Local Business Profiles
Iris Hearn
September 9th, 2019 min read
For local businesses, Google My Business is a great tool that can help customers discover your business and learn more about your services.
However, it may also soon be a place where they can also learn about your competitors' offerings.
Google has been spotted running ads for competitors in the same area as local business profiles.
This was first discovered by Twitter user Ben Fisher:
GMB Ad In-Listing Spotted in the Wild. Check this out! There is an ad for a Honda dealership on a Doge dealerships GMB Listing.
The Honda dealer does have local extensions enabled in Google Ads. #localSEO pic.twitter.com/tGk3lrtAj1
— Ben Fisher (@TheSocialDude) August 21, 2019
Here's a closer look at the photo Fisher shared:
As you can see, the business listing is for a car dealership in California. If you look closely, you'll see an ad featured for a Toyota dealer located approximately an hour away, according to Search Engine Land.
Due to the close proximity of these businesses, it's likely that Google is using location-specific data to serve up the most relevant business ad to the user.
This feature offers marketers opportunities to get in front of more customers, but it also has potential to take away business if people click on a competitor's ad on your profile.
What we know about Google My Business' competitor ads
I wasn't able to recreate this feature myself, so it's likely that this is still in the testing phase — or just being rolled out slowly.
However, it appears Google has confirmed that this ad placement is at least a possibility for businesses taking out "Local Campaign" ads.
According to Google, Local Campaign ads are designed to drive visits to local businesses and retail locations. Google states that Local Campaign ads appear within Google Maps, Google Search Network, YouTube, or Google Display Network.
It seems that these "competitor" ads are not considered their own ad type, but rather part of the Google Search Network ad placement, based on the photo Google shared below:
On Google's Local Campaign guide, it states that search network placement "matches your ad to search terms that are relevant to your business and its location."
So, these ads aren't necessarily aimed at landing on competitors pages, but rather matched to similar keywords. Because competitors are likely using the same relevant terms, it's clear why this is a side effect.
When the news first broke on this feature, many assumed that this was an attempt by Google to get businesses to pay for "premium" profiles to remove competitor ads. Google has tossed around the idea of creating paid Google My Business features — but confirmed that businesses can not pay to remove competitor ads.
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Many digital marketers, especially those with local businesses, aren't happy about this new feature.
For one, many feel it's an attempt to drive more ad revenue. After all, if your competitor's ads are showing up on your profile, wouldn't that motivate you to run ads on theirs?
While this can certainly help boost brand awareness, businesses can't tailor ads to a specific placement — meaning you can't create an ad speaking to how your business is different from a specific competitor that will appear only on their profile.
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Good-bye, 2020
A month-by-month reflection on 2020
Anthony Young
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2020 has been a historical year, and presented the entire MHS community with unprecedented challenges and struggles. Through it all, students, staff and families have come together and carried on. With the year now coming to a close, it is time to reflect on the trials and tribulations brought on by 2020, as well as some of its brighter moments.
January – Going into the new year, students returned to school, prepared for competitions and shared memes about World War III. Best Buddies played the football team, DECA was unable to induct new members and sports teams geared up to start or continue their seasons. While January offered Munster both highs and lows, it seemed as if this year would bring with it no more adversity than the last. As the month carried on, however, Munster residents began hearing troubling reports of a dangerous new virus originating in Wuhan, China, with the federal government placing a ban on almost all travel to and from the country by its end.
February – From Career Day to Turnabout, Battle of the Bands to Munster's Got Talent, February seemed to give everyone something to be excited about. Crier tackled stall doors and sanitary product dispensers, Debate prepared for nationals and Girls' Basketball became sectional champs.
March – As Choir eagerly awaited their Nashville trip and the Dance Team prepared to set out to Indianapolis for State, they, along with many others, were faced with daunting news. In the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all extracurricular events were cancelled, and before long, so was school itself. On March 13, MHS closed its doors.
"I remember being both relieved and excited when school closed," Reena Alsakaji, sophomore, said. "Everyone wants to be out of school, right? I originally saw it as a nice break, but as the time went on, and I realized that I was unable to interact with others, I began to miss being back at school."
April – Following a brief district-wide sabbatical, the school year resumed virtually. Mask wearing and social distancing quickly became the norm, leaving many unable to see their friends and families as they adapted to their new lives. Some had even lost loved ones, or had themselves suffered from the disease as it continued to spread. Many students took to social media as a means of finding and maintaining social connections during these trying and unprecedented times.
May – After both online finals and AP exams, the school year finally came to an end. Yet, it would not bring about the respite many students and community members had hoped for. COVID-19 was still an ever present threat, and the recent killing of George Floyd had sparked outrage across the nation.
June – As protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement broke out all over the country, students and community members alike took to the streets and public gathering places in order to protest police brutality. Colombia Avenue, city hall and even the grounds of MHS itself experienced demonstrations.
"One of my friends told me about the protest, and I just wanted to share my support and noncompliance," Anushka Majety, junior, said. "It was a really meaningful experience to witness the common protest of so many people, most of whom I didn't know, and the speeches given were honestly both very eye opening and moving. In one word, it was profound."
July – With large Independence Day gatherings deemed too great a health risk, many families took it upon themselves to hold celebrations and to shoot off fireworks. These acts in many ways served as a reminder of our ability to endure hardship without losing our shared identity and traditions.
"While it was less normal than usual, of course, it actually felt nicer because it was less chaotic without all the people coming over," Ayush Arora, sophomore, said. "We ended up going out to see fireworks from neighboring towns, so that was pretty normal."
August – Accompanied by the beginning of the new school year, August marked the start of the School Town of Munsters's hybrid learning model. Families were given the choice between in-school learning with disease prevention measures or at-home online learning through school laptops.
"Breaking out of the traditional school life was a little hard," Ana Dimopoulos, junior, said. "Coming to terms with not seeing my friends was a huge downside, but slowly understanding that I can still text them at any time helped me to realize that it doesn't have to be that bad."
September – Fall sports began with precautions, and many new faces joined the staff and student body. All MHS members began adjusting to the circumstances brought on by the pandemic. Many new clubs were added to MHS's roster: Film Club, Cultural Cuisine Club and African American Culture Club all gave students a new opportunity to take part in their school community, and importantly during these trying times, offered students a new avenue with which to meet and socialize with their peers.
October – Students, teachers, teams and clubs all continued to adapt to new and evolving safety regulations, and the district saw its first ever Minority Committee meeting. Halloween served as a welcome, if temporary, return to normalcy for many STM families, while others refrained from the festivities due to safety concerns.
"Halloween was different than how it usually is, just because I couldn't do the things I usually do," Maddi Bell, junior, said. "But I was able to do a bonfire outside with a few friends, so that made things feel a bit more normal for a night, even though we had to be distanced."
November – Between school board elections and the Girls' Volleyball Team reaching State for the very first time in the team's history, early November proved an exciting time for MHS. As the month went on, Lake County COVID-19 rates continued rising, prompting the school to temporarily suspend in-person learning until Dec. 2
December – With students cramming for finals and looking forward to winter break, MHS is preparing for yet another school year. While many of the challenges this year has presented will continue on into 2021, 2020 has proven that students, staff and families are more than capable of coming together and facing any challenge they may be presented with.
"This year has given me the chance to focus on myself and what I want to accomplish in life, not living up to others expectations," Trinity Malave, junior, said. "I'm excited to take this new mindset into the new year."
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Industry es un pueblo ubicado en el condado de Franklin en el estado estadounidense de Maine. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 929 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 11,58 personas por km².

Geografía
Industry se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Industry tiene una superficie total de 80.23 km², de la cual 77.04 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (3.97%) 3.19 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 929 personas residiendo en Industry. La densidad de población era de 11,58 hab./km². De los 929 habitantes, Industry estaba compuesto por el 97.2% blancos, el 0.11% eran afroamericanos, el 0.22% eran amerindios, el 0.11% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0% eran de otras razas y el 2.37% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 0.43% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Pueblos de Maine
Localidades del condado de Franklin (Maine)


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Q: Creating a .wav file in Node.js with fs.writeFile() I'm attempting to create a .wav file from a blob of data in Node JS, using fs.writeFile(). Firstly, is this even possible?
I'm currently trying with this...
fs.writeFile(filename + '.wav', blob.recording, function (err) {

    // On completing writeFile, transfer file via scp
    var options = {...};
    var target_path = "the/path"

    if (err)
        return logger.error(err);

    else{

        scp2.scp(options, target_path, function (err) {

            // scp2 callback: always gets here
        });
    }
});

The scp of the written file "completes" OK, as I can see the file in the target location, however, it just shows a file size of 0, see below.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Jan 21 01:11 1437629575-00220000.wav

Console output for blob.recording is...
<Buffer 52 49 46 46 4d b9 00 00 57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20 14 00 00 00 31 00 01 00 40 1f 00 00 59 06 00 00 41 00 00 00 02 00 40 01 66 61 63 74 04 00 00 00 40 8f 03 ...>

scp2: https://github.com/spmjs/node-scp2
I'm thinking I need to encode blob.recording or something. Can anyone point me in the right direction? :-)
Thanks


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#region License

#endregion

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Gremlin.Net.Process.Traversal.Strategy;

namespace Gremlin.Net.Structure.IO.GraphBinary.Types
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A serializer for .NET types represented as Class in GraphBinary. Currently only
    /// <see cref="AbstractTraversalStrategy"/> types are supported.
    /// </summary>
    public class TypeSerializer : SimpleTypeSerializer<Type>
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="TypeSerializer" /> class.
        /// </summary>
        public TypeSerializer() : base(DataType.Class)
        {
        }

        /// <inheritdoc />
        protected override async Task WriteValueAsync(Type value, Stream stream, GraphBinaryWriter writer,
            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            if (typeof(AbstractTraversalStrategy).IsAssignableFrom(value))
            {
                var strategyInstance = (AbstractTraversalStrategy?)Activator.CreateInstance(value) ??
                                       throw new IOException(
                                           $"Cannot write the strategy {value} because an instance of that strategy could not be created");
                await writer.WriteNonNullableValueAsync(strategyInstance.Fqcn, stream, cancellationToken)
                    .ConfigureAwait(false);
            }
            else
            {
                throw new IOException("Currently, writing of Types is only supported for traversal strategies.");
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Currently not supported.
        /// </summary>
        protected override Task<Type> ReadValueAsync(Stream stream, GraphBinaryReader reader,
            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException("Reading a Type is not supported");
        }
    }
}


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